The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWB,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The charter for the incorporation of the diseeta-
Wished Irish Church hue paned the Great Seal
No fewer than 100 wrecks have been recorded during
the past week The total number recorded for the current
year amounts to 1,643,

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In the London Court of Bankruptcy on Monday
there iraa a first aitting in the bent:raptor of Lord de Man-
ley. Debts to Um amount of £15.000 were proved. The aura
of £400,000 la mentioned as the probable llabilltine

The heart of Ireland stuf besta n 'warmest ern.
'Why with France. livery plum of the war is anxiously
watched, and the slighted success, as any circumstance
which teems to afford a chance of deliverance for the belea-
guered city, ls hailed with pleasure. The prints which ex-
prem the popular sentiment look with apprehension to the
fall of Iles, and speculate alto the prospects of peace.

Strange to say, the war la found to have but little
effect upon the German emigration to the United BIMINI.
The e show that, contrary to ail expeeftMoas, the
umber oi German inunigrauta rim Laded WI New York
&ulna the smooth of August was but WIN IS thau the
atueber landed In She oorresveadler mouth ha rear.
A romantic story is told that If. Juba Awn, wish-
's' to set an sample of tregehtr Is S
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mew 4llmw mu% at which he est dews a tee he
mallet daps SINK- As Wahl have hers ere
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bat lernsr borseamb hewed of the repot at the
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Parliament has been prorogued to December 13411.
at the two Houma of Convocation to the following day.
Madame lihriott, the wife of the laVaggiellt
overnor of Straaburg, was the famous gaseous.
A reply recently made to an inquiry at a London
enk as to whether the Bank thought Mr. go-sed-so $ man
abe trusted was, Trnsied—yea, truatad tot wee
It le dated that a large order for the printing of
bank note. has, during the ima few days, been received by a
Loudon firm from the itou Government
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At the Durbar at Ajmer ca Saturday, Lord Mayo
fld the chiefs that the BeilisliCloverninant bat determined
uphold those who governed with Puttee end wtedom.
A gentleman tarmac, named Doyle, who lived in
Sawbones, county Kilkenny, has been gored to death in one
of his Seidl by a bulL
The Scotsman understands that the Government
has resolyed to introduce used seaslon an Education Bill tor
Scotland.
The writer of the deerriptions of the German only
before Metz, that have appeared In the Daay New. is Er
Archibald Forbes, proprietor of the London &Oman news-
paper.
The Chester Colorant states that the Marquis of
Westminster has given his tenants fall liberty to destroy the
rabbits on their firma

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The body of Mary Slattery wife of a farmer at
Danharrow. near Nensgh, was on Saturday found ha a ditch
dead, her skull having been soughed.
A Java grandee is coming to this country with his
elghty-one clalldren, and wants to secure board in some quiet
family.
A schoolboy, in • communication to one of MN
friends, described a new bad-master.. 'an an.heitaiolifire.
giving•looking beggar."
A small miniature photographic apparatus has been
invented which gentlemen can carry around in their pocket's
and take the likeness of their lady blends at a moment's
warning.
A newspaper correspondent at Barcelona dates that
the death, from yellow fever have again increased, and that
the daily average has gone up from seven to sixteen. Every-
thing is at • standstill, and great poverty and destitution
prevail.
Speculators are going to France with large sums of
money to buy up gooda at • nominal figure, so the French
will almost give away their goods, which thr/ cannot now
sell In the ordinary way, at leant dispose Of them at "a
ruinous Nelinoo " tor a little gold.
The Army and Navy Gametic hag roman to believe
that the Government have under* anadOseilles • scheme
for national demo, dissimilar Le 466 db ID lIISS proposed
by lard Hicho, bat to a carts& extent resembling it in
principle.

On Friday morning in last week, • young man
named Simpson Morris, murdered hie mother, at Ihotte. In
Scotland. He went to her bedidde while she was deeplng,
and dealt her a severe blow upon the head with a hatchet,
killing her at MOO He is supposed to be rune. After
oommitting the terrible act he gave himself up to the polices.
We (says the Record) are informed that the New
Testament Seraionists have voted that the true translation
of our Lord'. Prayer is, "Deliver us from the evil re ;" and
hare also agreed to expunge the Doxology at the end, r
absent from all the earlier manuocripts.
With the very laudable view of providing literature
which will counteract "the Infidel teaching and publications
now prevalent," the Society for the Promotion of Christian
Knowledge have made a grant of /11,000 for the remuneration
of "sound' authors.
The Chaplain-General of the Forces hag thought It
necessary to Isar • circular on the enbjeat of tedious church
serrate to all military chaplains; and many civilians who
read the document will think that it might, ver7 ad
ously, be circulated among the clergy of Mr Britt=
generally.
It is announced that Mr. Childers hie
undertaken to institute a searching thretkration =ti e
circumstances attendft the loss of the Captain : and with
that object in view he will, no doubt, consult the antaffeeliiie
authorities who have been airing Moir hag.= opinions In
the public journals for the hat few wear
The prospect= of the new French loan for
£10,000,000 was issued in London on Monday. It is to be
taken tip In redeemable 6 per ant, bond. of ESO, £lOO, £6OO,
and £l,OOO each. The pdoe of issue is £56 for 6.100, at which
the return to the rarcribers, reckoning allowances, will be
75 per cent. per annum, irrespective of the advantage of the
sinldng fund.
A letter from Frankfort describes the irritation
against England in Germany, and adds It would not be
very agreeable if some line day we found that the people of
Datchland proper were incorporated in the Deutschland of
to-day, and the month of the Scheldt and ropers of Holland
held by a hostile people. The friend/kip between the United
States and Germany is remarkable."
On and after the Ist of November, the French
postage stamp bowing the Emperor's head, with which all
Englishmen travellieg abroad have larm familiar torso many
years, will no longer be accepted at the post ogler In any
part of Prance. From that day there will be new Mainr,
on whir will be a Here of the Rapubllo. with Ma eiti
legend, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," engraved beneath.
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It is said to; lumina as a positive fact in Berlin
that Napoleon during the Crimean War stopped short at the
capture of Sebastopol, contrary to the whh of Engbutd, and
refused to continue the war, because he required sa co=
nation a rectification of frontiers on the side of the
and of Belgium, which England naturally objected to.
We (davit:rum) hear that there will appear shortly
a series of twelve brief poems by the Poet Leureate, which
are coenected by • love-story, and will be illuistrated by as
many desi•us by Mr. Arthur Hughes. This vise, will he
accompanied by music, the composition of Mr. Sullivan, and
Issued in • handsome manner as a table-book of the ilre6
clue in square octava
A young man who was suspected of murder was tried
and acquitted at Fremont, lowa, the other day. Before the
trial it was in much as the officers could do to prevent the
people from lynching him; but after the speech of the
counsel there was an entire change of feeling. The aloe of
execration nave place to deafening cheers, in the course of
which the liberated man was carried off In triumph bztig
very men who had threatened to murder him twoo
previously.
At a special meeting of the Dublin Town Council on
Monday, it was resolved to present • memorial to the
Government praying it to use its influence in the promonon
of an honourable peace between Germany end frame.
Alderman tiliwiney wee of opinion that England's inter-
ference should be an active one on behalf of her faithful
ally, and moved an amendment that the subject should be
adjourned for a month, as be was sure the French In the
meantime would be stiocindul, and able to insist on their
own term. On being put to the vote the amendment was
loot, only four being In Gs favour, while twenty voted in
oppoeition to Its adoption.
The chief aim of the policy of Turkey jut now (ac-
cording to the Bittern Budget) is to conciliate Russia. she
has raised the camp at buttorina, on the lioatexteren
frontier, removed at the request of Rushes
1
the Prince of Montenegro, the wwneweet eee 48:°
commandant at Scutari, and has paid 130,000 florins
to the Prince as compensation for the disputed die-
hints of Vett and Maio Brea The proposal to Pro-
vide the whole of the able-bodied male population of Albania
with arms, has also been abandoned by the Turin& Govern-
ment. for fear of rousing the suaceptilfilitles of Russia
The oldest member of the Hones of Lords is dead.
The Earl of Onslow expired on Monday at his residence,
Gloucester-villa, Richmond, within a day of completing the
93rd year of his age. lie was born October 115th, 1777, within
sixteen months of the declaration of American independ-
ence, and twelve year, before the outbreak of the first
French Revolution. The vast range of events which have
been crowded into the lifetime of the venerable earl may be
intimated from in, mention of the simple fact test at the
date of his birth the greet Dabs of Wellington and the Mese
Napoleon were respectively eight and ten years of age. The
latter hsa now been dead within seven months of half a
century. Lord Onalow Is succeeded by his grfcatinepluw, a
lad 16 years of age.