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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

SONETHING NEW!

Far excelling any previous Entertainment that has
been given in this town before. Spi,ci:.l Notico.—The
Proprietor having received a consignment of 100.000
Japanese Curiosities, and as a memento of this Troupe.
the Manager will give to each person who visits the

Ware, 'Glow) Boxes, Umbrellas, Fishing Rods, Ivories,
Fans; and many other Novelties too numerous to men-
tion, all the handicraft of the most exerienced workmen
in Japan.
£2O WORTH OF PRESENTS GIVEN AWAY
NIGHTLY AT 9 P.M.

Prices-35, 2s, IP. and 6d. Children Half-price to Si.
2s, and is Seats. Doors open at 7.15; to commenee at 8,
Remember :—Every person receives a Present of a
Japanese Curiosity. Tannalter—lmporter of Japanese
Goods, Watdour street, London W.

FREE EMIGRATION TO QUEEN STAND.

Free Passages are granted by the Government et
Queensland as under—
To General Servants, Cooks, Housemaids, Nurses, Dairy
Maids, &e.
Wages £25 to £5O a-year all found.
To Married and Single Farm Labourers.
Wages no to £5O a-year Nrith hoard and lodging.
Assisted Passages on payment of £4 to
Artizans (all kinds) Saddlers
Blacksmiths ' Plasterers
Carpenters and Joiners Plumbers alai Painters
Butchers Quarrymen
Bookbinders Rope Makers
Bakers • .i4lioetni..kers
Bricklayers . .Shipwriklita
Cabinet Makers Shepherds
Gardners Tailors and others •
Grooms

At Wa;es about double "Englisb Rates.

Each Ship carras an experienced Surgeon & Matron.
Families have separate sleeping cGmpartment.
Work can be carried on in the opentir all the year round
Beef and Mutton 3d a-lb.; Tea 23 Gd a-lb; Flour 15a
_ _

a-cwt. ; Fn.gar a-lb

Apply personally or by letter to Agent-General for
Queensland, 32, Charing Cross, Landon, S.W.; or to
A. W. BEALE, Commercial Sile itooras,
Kidderminster.

FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."--.
Deutk.,ronotny, iii., verse 23.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

FRANKLEY.

HARVEST TusmcsaiwNo.—On Sunday last thanks-
giving services were held in the church of this little
parish, and the occasion was one of special interest,
owing to the fact that an east window has just been
erected to the memory of the late Lord Lytleltou. The
window which consists oil 3 lights, represents the Good
Shepherd, the Good Samaritan, and Abraham's Sacrifice,
and has been executed by Mr. S. Bourne, of Birming-
ham, who has displayed much care and judgment in the
designing and execution of the work. The cost—be-
tween £6O and I:7o—has been defrayed by the parish-
ioners and a few friends, who were anxious to set up this
mark af their love and esteem for the deceased noble-
man in the beautiful little church which he had been
mainly instrumental in restoring.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

. [From Punch.]
"HOW TO DRESS ON FIFTEEN POUNDS

A YEAR."
By one who has Done It—Once.

Get all your clothes made at the best tailor's. Be
careful to order a sufficient number of pairs of trousers,
and once a month (at least) have a new frock-coat. By
these means your bill will not be sent in to you for
eighteen months.
Pursue the same plan with your hats. Whenever
you pass your hatter' go in anA get a new chapeau.
Three pairs of boots a month should be your standing
order at the boot. maker's. Keep half a dozen pairs on
trees waiting for you all the year round in his custody.
Get your linen from France. When the collector
makes his annual round, go to Paris. You will find
the trip less costly than his bill, and the change of air
should do you good.
Always have a large supply of fancy walking•sticks.
Each suit should have its own cane.

And, lastly, pay ready money (fifteen pounds should
really be enough) for your umbrellas.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

THE REVENUE RETURNS.

The Globe, in remarking upon the Revenue Returns Issued
on September 30, says :

The Chancellor of the Exchequer must feel fairly
-ettisfied with his recelptilifOr the first half of the
Jiiirent financial year. • elba increase of more than
half a million on the six months as compared with
last year is a rather surprising result in the face of
the depression under which almost all branches of
industry have been labouring. Nor is this incre-
ment due to the addition of a penny to the
income-tax. Odd to say, that impost shows a
small decrease, the time having not yet arrived for
the added penny to tell on receipts. But those sources
of revenue which are accepted as tests of the national
prosperity show con.iderable buoyancy. Customs
figure with an increase of £128,000 and Excise with
307,000 making a total gain of £435,000 on the
six months, without any alteration in the basis of
taxation. Had there been a falling off to the same:
amount, an easy explanation would have offered,
itself in the prevailing commercial stagnation.
Lower wages mean, to the working classes, so much
the less money to spend on superfluities, which
again form the main sources of revenue under the heads
of Customs and Excise. The present return, therefore,
goes far to prove that the humbler ranks of the cora-
- y I. u vla 1 'rev v
.omi-paralysis of tuaustry In spite of largely
,retinced incomes, they still -continue to find the
' wherewithal to pay for the comforts as well as the
necessaries of life. Whether the same satisfactory
state of things will continue during the winter re-
mains to be seen. As a rule, that is the season when
commercial depression tells most severely on the
wzking classes, their expenses for fuel and light
being increased at the very time when the demand for
unskilled labour is more languid than during the rest
of the year. So far, however, as the revenue is con-
cerned, Sir Stafford Northeote may now congratu'ate
himself on being in a safe position. It seems scarcely
possible that the increment already earned will be
reduced to any material extent before the end of the
financial year.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.

A noisy meeting of the shareholders of the
Great Eastern Railway was held on Thursday, to
consider a proposal that the directors should
resign. Mr. Parkes, who took the chair, was,
upon entering the room with Lord Claud
Hamilton, M.P., and other directors, received with
great cheering and clapping of hands. Sir E.
Watkin received a similar demonstration in his
favour, mingled with a few hisses.--• The Chairman
announced that for the directors there had been
sent in 3,832 proxies, representing 47,033,854
stock ; for Mr. Bass and others there were 2,277
proxies, representing 454,967. The figures were
subject to some variation because 117 shareholders
had sent in proxies for both parties. (Laughter.)
Mr. Bass denounced the directors as incompetent.
and said the whole Board held only £23,100 stock
out of eight or nine millions. He moved a reso-
lution that the directors should resign.—After a
protracted and noisy discussion the resolution
was declared to be rejected by upwards of 200 to
37. A poll was demanded, and was fixed for to-
day and following days, the result to be announced
on the 13th bast, to which date the meeting was
adjourned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.

[THROUGH MR. REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE.

Ruus, October G.

Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambassador, at a
dinner at the Russian Embassy, last night, in
proposing "Prosperity to France," dwelt upon the
efforts Russia was making, and would continue to
make, for the maintenance of European peace.
VIENNA, October 5.

According to most reliable information not the
slightest idea is entertained by the Austrian Gov-
ernment of breaking off friendly relations with
Russia,.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, October 5 (evening).

Sir Henry Elliot. British Ambassador, was— re-
ceived to-day in formal audience by the Sultan to
deliver his new credentials. He afterwards had a
.private audience of his Majesty in the presence of
the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil called yes-
terday upon the Sultan, who immediately returned
their visit.
Riza, Pasha, who was recently appointed Minister
of Commerce, has now been made Minister with-
out portfolio.
It is stated that Austria has declined the pro-
posals tic ado by Russia for the occupation of the
Christian Provinces of Turkey.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07

before, except, indeed, the ingenuous advice to Turks
to be wise and 'good. There was from the first an
unjust desire to see the Christian insurrection sup-
pressed at any price. Then everything done subse-
quently was either wrong, or done in a wrong way.
There was no foresight—no timely action. The one
thing done heartily has been to help the Turks. The
Government were dragged into the "Consular Mis-
sion." They were dragged into the " Andrassy Note."
They were impelled to refuse the "Berlin Memo-
reedum " mainly from fear of that which was
above all things to be desired—European intervention
in the internal affairs of Turkey. This they confessed
In writing to Sir H, Elliot on the very same
day on which, in writing to Lord Odo
Russell, they founded their objections to the
Berlin Note mainly on difficulties of detail.
They were perhaps right in sending the fleet to save
life. But when it was sent they traded on a false in-
terpretation of their object in doing so. A confession
of Turkish incompetence, and a precaution against
Turkish fanaticism—they allowed it to pass for a sup-
port to Turkey and a threat to Europe. They post-
poned further action after the Berlin Memorandum,
to see whether the "Eastern Question " would settle
itself by the substitution on the Turkish throne of one
idiot for another. These are the main counts of an
indictment which seemed to me to justify and to call
for the most active public agitation. Lord Beacons-
field says that the Government bas had to deal not
only with other Cabinets, but with populations and
secret societies. But could not this have been fore-
seen ? Is it not one of the necessary and notorious
conditions which arise out of the rottenness of Tur-
key, and which must become aggravated in direct pro-
portion as the Cabinets of Europe fail in their solemn
duty of intervention. At the moment at which I
write it seems not improbable that events may have
passed out of the hands of the Cabinets of Europe,
mainly because our Government for months and
months together "deprecated and thwarted their
united action." Even Austria, selfish and reluctant as
she has been, told Lord Derby in January that she did
not intend the Andrassy Note "to be regarded as
mere good advice." But Lord Derby's reply was that
England was not prepared to do more than simply
advise the Turks! On the other hand, the present
Government are as capable as any other men of carry-
ing into effect that new policy which is in accordance
with the new convictions of the country. Nor do I
think it would be wise to impose on them conditions
which it might not be possible to obtain. The whole
"Eastern Question" is certainly not yet ripe for settle-
ment. Enough if the steps now taken be firm steps,
and in the right direction. It is sad to think that if
the same steps, or even some of them had been taken
In January, which (it is reported) are being taken now,
the rising in Bulgaria would probably have been pre-
vented altogether, and Europe would have been spared
the greatest horror of modern times.