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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE IMPORTANCE OF NEEDLEWORK
IN SCHOOLS.

In London, last Saturday, Lord Hatherley presided
at a meeting of the Westminster Teachers' Association,
held at the Grosvenor-hall, Pimlico. There were pre-
sent Lady Burdett-Coutts, Canon Barry, the Rev. Dr.
Rigg, and the representatives of the division on the
London School Board. After the annual ieport had
been read, Lady Burdett-Coutts presented the
numerous mizes to the successful competing teachers,
and in addressing the meeting said that she was a little
doubtful whether needlework yet held the place it
ought to hold in the work of the schools. A recent
minute had placed it with the science and domestic
economy; but it was so very important to every girl
to learn it early that something more ought to be
done to make needlework an essential part of school
teaching. For girls and women it was the one thing
which they could really learn thoroughly during the
years they were at school, and it was the one thing
which tended if learnt to make them comfortable in
life, whatever their condition might be. She thought
she might be excused in saying that gentlemen had a
dense comprehension of the value of needlework, and
she did not think they had the slightest idea of the
qualities which were required to make a good needle-
woman. Needlework had not at all taken its proper
place among the things which constituted the for-
mation of character, as it ought to do, and she will
still hope and persevere, according to her means, to
try and make it hold a yet more important position
than it at present held. The value of needlework
had been well illustrated in connexion with the
war in the East. Mrs. Layard, who was an
admirable needlewoman, and her maid, n their
respective positions at Constantinople, had done
an immense amount of good in making clothing
for the refugees. A portion of a letter from
that lady was read by the Baroness, in which it
was stated by the writer that herself and maid had cut
out from 150 to 200 garments, and, with the aid of
other ladies, in one week 976 garments had been made
for the poor sufferers. But for the valuable aid thus
given, a great portion of the population of Turkey
must have remained unclothed. Her ladyship then in-
sisted upon the great value of a knowledge of cutting
out, and said that, although sewing machines were
doubtless of great value, they could not supersede
handwork where discrimination and judgment were
required. She wished particularly to insist upon the
value of learning needlework as a moral agent. The
Baroness also advocated Scriptural teaching.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

RUSSIA AND THE BRITISH FLEET.

The Novoie Vremla comments on the hope which
has been expressed by a London journal that Russia
would not maintain conditions which England could
not sanction. Russia, it says, has spoilt her adver-
saries by her condescensions. It is ridiculous to sup-
pose that the conditions imposed upon Turkey have
need of the sanction of England. " Once for all," it
continues, "the conviction must be obtained that the
famous British interests will have no other limit than
that which will be assigned to them by Russia." The
Austrian government has in its turn declared the Rus-
sian conditions unacceptable, and requested the sup-
port of the government of Berlin, which ha 3 been
refused, "Now what," asks the above-mentioned
journal, "will be the result of all this? " Simply
nothing, if Russia assumes at once and with firmness
the attitude which she ought to take towards Eng-
land, who has been the instigator of all the trouble;
and, first of all, she should ask what the British Fleet
is doing in the Sea of Mamora if it does not intend to
take possession of Gallipoli and of the Straits."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

CRADLEY,

DEATII BY DROWINO OF Mn. BENJAMIN MARIII.—On
Saturday evening last Mr. R Watts held an inquest atthe
Castle and Falcon Inn,Wolverhampton Street, Dudley on
the body of Mr. Benjamin Marsh, surveyor and arcbiteet
of the same street. The deceased was well known in
the district. He was fifty-three years of age.—After the
evidence of identification, Benjamin Billingham, of
Cradley Heath, publican, stated that the deceased called
at his father's house on Monday evening He left at
10.16 after being in the house several hours. When he
left witness believed he was sober, but ae it was dor*
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

WEEKLY REVIEW of the CORN TRADE.

Bell's Weekly Messenger says :—"During the past
week buyers have been operating with great caution
in wheat, and although holders have been willing to
sell on reduced terms, a very moderate amount of
business has been transacted. The expert movement
in grain at South Russian ports has already been very
active, and although there are doubts as to the actual
quantity to come forward, yet it is understood that
there are ample supplies, and sufficient to prevent,
to say the least, any upward movement in the
British markets. Obviously, therefore, millers be-
lieve that to buy for the purpose of meeting necessary
wants is the correct policy to pursue. More than one
country will now be inclined to realise freely, and this
disposition will become each week more distinct
sleauld the weather continue to be favourable for
agricultural work. Not only in this country, but in
most of the producing countries abroad, the weather
has been favourable to winter-sown wheat, an it is
now all that could be desired for planting spring
wheat and Lenten corn. The prospect, as far as
the crops are concerned, has not been so satisfactory
for some seasons past. The deliveries of the English
farmers are still very limited, and although the
prevailing dry winds are calculated to do good, the
condition and quality of the produce are far from
satisfactory. There has, however, been a liberal pro-
portion of good foreign wheat, and it is expected that
all the better qualities of Russian wheat will find a
ready market. A fair quantity of. Russian wheat is,
however, likely to be directed to Marseilles, and that
trade which has been so much impeded by the war will
now be resumed. On the Continent the trade for
wheat during the week has baen dull. Buyers have
been operating with much caution, and prices have
tended in their favour. The supplies of produce offer-
ing have been very moderate; but the weather has
been favourable, and crop prospects are regarded as
very satisfactory."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

NOVEL RAILWAY TRAVELLING.

A velocipede for railways is the latest novelty in
the locomotive way, and one that seems well adapted
to add a little further complication and variety to
railway accidents. America, of course, is the birth-
place of the new machine, and it seems just possible
that on the long stretches of rails and with the sparse
service of trains characteristic of some of the Western
systems a limited number of velocipedists may run
about the country for a considerable time without
getting smashed or upsetting trains. "Mr. Johnson,
a travelling musician," is the genius who has immor-
talised himself by rigging up the first machine of the
kind. He is said to he creating a sensation wherever
he goes on his new hobby-horse, which seems to be an
affair of two wheels, one for each rail that is, with a
seat between them, and gear by which hands and feet
may both be utilised. it weighs 401 b., and is so con-
structed that it can readily be adjusted to any gauge.
He has not attained railway speed as yet, but can, it is
said, maintain a good fifteen miles an hour, and soon
leaves a competitor on horseback behind him. "Mr.
Johnson," before he became a " travelling musi-
cian," was employed on the railway, and may,
therefore, be supposed to be familiar with railway
eccentricities. By keeping a bright look out he has
hitherto managed to avoid any accident, and has
travelled over considerable tracts of country. His
successful example will, no doubt, speedily be fol-
lowed by tourists in America, where we may soon
expect to hear of velocipedists and trains getting
somewhat "mixed,,, as Brother Jonathan says. The
inventor
can, we are told, dismount and remove his
i vehicle nan instant. It evidently is a valuable
contrivance, but, on the whole, it
,might perhaps be
i
safer and better f "Mr. Johnson were to stick to
the old-fashioned plan of taking a ticket and travelling
under the companies' care instead of his own.—Globe.

With reference to the recent attempt to induce the
volunteers to assemble in Hyde-park to pass a resolution on
the Eastern Question, the following district order has been
issued from the Horse Guards: "The major-general (com-
manding home district) desires that commanding officers of
volunteer regiments will explain clearly to their men that
volunteers, equally with her Majesty's other troops, are
forbidden to take part in any meetings, demonstrations or
processions for party or political purposes.—By order.
(Signed) H. Blundell, Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant Ad-
utant-A eneral."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

A CURIOUS PHENOMENON.

The Westinghouse Automatic Brake Company are
exhibiting, at their office in St. Stephen's Palace-
chambers, Westminster, a working apparatus which
displays the action of the brake upon a train. The
apparatus consists of the platform of a single carriage,
with the brake levers fitted to the wheels; and upon
the platform are the brake cylinders of the other
carriages of a long train, placed side by side,
but yet separated by the same lengths of tubing
which would intervene between them in a train.
The whole action of the brake, the means of
putting it on and off and of graduating its
force, may thus be conveniently studied, and tne in-
stantaneous character of its working is beautifully
shown. Appended to the brake gear is a nozzle,
arranged for the exhibition of a curious phenomenon
which was first observed at Philadelphia. By turn-
iieg, a tap, a jet of air, released from great com-
pression, issues from the nozzle; and this jet will
support two or three bells, as balls are often sup-
ported by a fountAin. The peculiarity of the effect,
however, is that the jet need not be vertical, but
that it will support the balls when the course of
the air is at an angle of 45 deg. with the horizon. If
the force of the jet, in these circumstances, is dimi-
nished, the balls do not fall vertically, but backwards
along the oblique line of the stream of air, so as to
come nearer to the nozzle. The balls may be of any
material, as glass, wood, or india-rubber ; but a
hollow india-rubber ball, which is of equal thickness
throughout, displays some curious phenomena of rota-
tion. When placed in the net it soon begins to spin ;
and as the speed of its rotation increases its shape gra-
dually changes, and it becomes first an oblate spheroid
and ultimately an almost flattened disc. As it flattens
its axis of rotation gradually turns round; and
when this axis comes to be at right angles I o its original
position, the speed of the rotation diminishes, and the
ball ultimately comes to rest. For a moment it re-
mains motionless, supported by the jet, and then it
begins t) again upon an axis, and repeats the
formereg e( p
h asngiia
es
of pmitiOfl and
of speed ad infinitum.
At the International Exhibition at Philadelphia these
rotating, balls attracted great attention, and some of
the most eminent mathematicians in the United States
were occupied in formulating the laws which governed
their movements.— The Times.

THE TREATY OF PEACE.---RUSSia : "Now, mind you
tell them at: the Qwlitallet) that 3-.9u're wrfeclly
sa,tisfied and • very fund oi ;•andlali
you'll catch it."—Fun.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE MEETING IN HYDE-PARK ON
SUNDAY.

The attempt to hold a meeting in Hyde-park on Sun-
day, in favour of "Peace" proved totally unsuccessful
(says The Times). The promoters of the meeting sum-
moned their followers to attend at 4 o'clock in the after-
noon, and about half an hour before that time as
many 30,000 persons were present on the open space
between the Marble-arch and the south end of the
paTk. The Hon. Auberon Herbert, surrounded by a
small number of followers—about 500—attempted,
with Mr. Bradlaugh, to form a ring, but bodies of
men bearing colours, and singing " Rule Britalnia "
pushed and hustled the " Peace " party from
their positioLs. The latter, or some of them,
refu.sed to give way and a free fight ensued. The
peace party had provided themselves with cards on
which were printed " Peace " and " War," but these
were torn away, and while those with " War " on
were paiaded about with the flags, the "Peace" cnes
were torn and thrown about. In a few minutes, be-
fore the meeting could be got together, the heads of it
were hustled across the park to the gates, and were,
in fact, turned out, while those who wore peace
emblems were glad to escape. There was not the least
considetation shown to any by those taking an
active part in the proceedings, whether on
the " Peace "or "War" side. Persons were trampled
under foot, heads were indiscriminately punched,
hats and umbrellas were snatched from their owners
and thrown about, and one of the missiles used was a
dead cat, which was tossed everywhere, but chiefly
into the midst of respectable people who came to be on-
lookers. Red ochre, too, was thrown. The park being
cleared of the peace party, the people with flags paraded
about in parties. Some carried with them a flag
with four colours, bearing upon it the crescent
and star. Lads displayed handkerchief Union Jacks,
and another flag carried about bore the inscription
"Anti-Russian Patriotic League." These people
made up various processions; one went to the
Turkish Ambassador's house to cheer, while another
started off for Mr. Gladstone's house. Large bodies
of police, however, were in charge of the skeet, and
took care that none of the party should get to the
house. _ . .

At the Park station were Sir Henry Selwin
Ibbetson, M.P., the Under Secretary of State for
the Home Department; Colonel Sir E. Henderson,
K. C. B.; Colonel Pearson, Captain Harris; and the divi-
sions of police were under Superintendents Gernon,
Eccles, Fisher, Williamson, and Harris, and Inspectors
Horseley and Bradley. Horse patrols were in the
neighbourhood. indeed, every preparation had been
made to quell any disturbance. Towards six o'clock
the crowd diminished rapidly. The numbers present
on the ground did not exceed 40,000, about half the
number present a fortnight since; but the damage
done to the young trees and grass was as great as that
at the other meeting.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

SEED.

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ttarakel,
negf omr
most
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so
uwm, Monday,iig
11.—The
rhse importance,
more activity, and the season may now be said to have com-
menced well, good qualities of English commanding a steady
sale, whilst the best samples of French have sold ra her more
freely at enhanced values. Americans have mostly been
shipped from the United States to the Continent, and but
few parcels arrive here. Since last Monday large sales of
fine Trefoil have been effected at enhanced values; the
average improvement is fully 2s. per cwt. Foreign Tares
have realised quite 2s. per qr. more money, with a better
demand. White and brown Mustardseeds have been
offered on former terms, but the quality does not suit the
buyers, and few sales could be effected ; prices were nomi-
nally the same as last week. Canaryseed was in limited
demand at very moderate prices. Dutch llempseed was
steady in value. Low Grass seeds are offering at less
money.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

ROWLEY.

SCHOOL Y. Bassani) presided at the
meeting on Monday afternoon at Rowiey.--Mr. Hadley
moved that the Board should take into consideration
I.te deficiency in school accommodation at Blackheath.
--Captain Lancaster (school officer) reported that in the
district of Rowley and Blackheath there were at present
unprovided for 639 children between the ages of three
and thirteen, and in tie Koowl 1 strict aceoinmed,i-
ti)d was needed for 157. —Mr. liadiey sail fro .ntbse
kiures the necessity oi further setio)l acconitu tdation
at Bleckheath was apparent.--i,Nr further tlisiussion
M. Hadley moved, " hat a Bin rd school be provided
fw the accommodation of eltlidcen at and around Blsek-
lteaih, and that Messrs. Bassaito, Hadley, Ker, and
Green be appointed a commitee to select a stlitabii site
for that purpoie, and report thereon at the neat meeting
of be Board."—This was secoaded by Mr. Green, and
c triled ucanimonsly.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE RUSSIAN TERMS OF PEACE

"The Tatler," in Piclorial World, writes
"Being naturally curious concerning the terms of a
Russo-Turkish peace, I have lately been studying the
daily newspapers with the object of clearly ascertaining
what these terms were to be, and have at length suc-
ceeded in thoroughly muddling my brains. Bessarabia
and imdemnity, ironclads and roubles, Egyptian tri-
butes and sinking funds, haunt me in my dreams, and
to end the matter I have looked through the papers
and compiled a kind of little almanack of reported
terms of peace, _

February 25th. Indemnity 1,400,000,000 roubles.
Six ironclads, to be ceded to Russia; £40,C00,000, to
be paid in bonds, the interest and sinking fund to be
guaranteed by the Bulgarian and Egyptian tributes,
and the revenues of Anatolia and the mines of Heraclea.

(Another account.) 2,000,000,000 roubles and six
ironclads.

February 26th. A large part of R,oumelia and
Macedonia and the six ironclads to be taken as part
psyment of 1,400,000,000 roubles—£224,ooo,ooo.
February, 28th. We were upon this day informed
that the reports already published wer„e entirely incor-
rect. The ironclads were not to be demanded. The
Mussulma,us were not to be expelled from Bulgaria,
but only the Turkish troops and officials.
Another account stated that £40,000,000 were to be
paid in bonds bearing interest at 5 per cent, and per
cent, sinkiNg fund, to be secured by the Egyptian
tribute, &c. An indemnity of ten millions of roubles
to be paid in oash for the loss of Russian administration
in Constantinople (whatever this may mean). A con-
siderable territory in Asia and six ironclads to be given
to Russia.

Another version stated that the indemnity was fixed
at £260,000,000 sterling. £40,000,000 to be raised on
the security of the Egyptian and other tributes. The
Armenian territory to be handed over in lieu of the
remainder.

March 2nd.—Again we are told that the ironclads
would not be asked for.

March 4th.—The idea of a claim on the Egyptian
and Bulgarian tributes abandoned. The indemnity
fixed at £300,000,000, of which £260,000,000 was to be
defrayed by the cession of territory in Armenia;
£40,000,000 t,) be raised in Consolidated Bonds, the
interest to be secured by-1, Egyptian tribute; 2,
the produce of the Turkish coal mines; 3, taxes in
Asiatic provinces; 4, the Custom duties of Con-
stantinople.
March sth.—No cession of tbe fleet. Egyptian
tribute not to be touched. Kars, Batoum, &c., and
the Dabrudscha on ac:•ount of the indemnity, the
amount of which was 1,000,000,000 roubles in round
numbers.

Upon the same day we were informed that the
£40,000,000 sterling was to be reduced to 212,000,000.
When the terms upon which peace has been based
are published we may be able to ascertain something
concerning Russian demands. Until then, chaos."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHINA

The China papers publish long %counts of the disastrous
fire at Tientsin on the 6th of January, when 1,400 famine
refugees were burned to death. The Hong Kong Daily
Press says :

The fire broke out among the matsheds in one of the
relief yards, where some four thousand refugees from
the famine-stricken districts were collected. This
yard was enclosed by a strong fence, and, as it was
occupied by women and children exclusively, the gates
were kept locked except at certain times, in order
that the inmates might be protected from interference.
A strong wind prevailed at the time of ignition, and
the fire spread among the inflammable erections with
such frightful rapidity that upwards of 1,400 persons
were burned to death before the fence could be torn
down by the frantic onlookers. Had the gates not
been locked, most of the inmates of the yard would
doubtless have escaped, but as it was, they were
caught like rats in a trap. The horrors of the disaster
were increased by the fact that the victims were all
women and children. Their male relatives, who were
gathered in other yards, soon flocked to the scene, but
were unable to render much assistance, the furious
element did its work so quickly and effectually.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

AN EXTRAORDINARY BLUNDER.

A correspondent, writing from Am4lia les Bains
says :—A very singular blunder was committed the
other day by the officials of a railway station between
Prepignan and Toulon. A gentleman who had been
spending the winter here with his family, left last
week for Marseilles, taking with him the body of his
mother-in-law, who died six weeks ago, and who had
expressed a wish to be buried in the family vault at
Marseilles. When he reached Marseilles and went
with the commissioner of police whose presence
is required upon these occasions —to receive the
body from the railway officials, he noticed to his
great surprise that the coffin was of a different
shape and construction from that which he
had brought away from here. It turned out
upon further inquiry that a mistake had been com-
mitted by the officials, who had sent on to Toulon the
coffin containing his mother-in•law's body, believing
that it held the remains of a deceased admiral, which
were to be embarked for interment in Algeria, while
the coffin awaiting delivery was the one which should
have been sent on. The gentleman who was placed in
this awkward predicament, having requested the
railway officials to communicate at once with Toulon
by telegraph, proceeded thither himself with the coffin
of the admiral, but the intimation had arrived too
late. He ascertained when he got there that the first
coffin had been duly received, taken on board, amid
"the thunder of fort and of fleet," the State vessel
which was waiting for it, and despatched to Algeria.
He at once called upon the maritime prefect of
Toulon and explained the circumstances of the case,
but though. a despatch-boat was sent in pursuit, the
other -vessel was not overtaken. He is now at Toulon
awaiting her return, and I believe that he declines to
give up the coffin containing the deceased admiral
until he regains possession of his mother-in-law's
remains.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

POTATOES.

Moderate supplies of potatoes are on sale, and the trade is
steady at the following currencies :—Kent regents, 190 s. to
200 s. ; Essex ditto, 170 s. to 190 s. ; rocks, 100 s. to 1305.; flukes,
190 s. to 2Cs. ; Vietorias, 180 s. to 210 s. ; and champions,
120 s. to 150 s. per ton.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

PATENT GD-EITE.

This admirable little article is the size of an ordinary
Watch, warraLte3 a correct time indicator, has steel
balance, plass dome, strongly made, and handsome case,
nod in fact no one, either mate or female, should want
for a Watch, when such an opportunity as this offers.—
a chance that,will never occur again.

THE GENEVE
Is Warranted for Twelve Months.

To secure one of these little articles the sum of 2s 6d
must be forwarded either in P. 0.0. or stsuipt:, with the
full name and address filled iu form below, aud enclosed

F. CALDER, MANAGER.

Al! Orders will be attended to in rotation, but in evcry
case a printed receipt wilt be sent to each applicant per
return of post, with a complete Wholesa:e ' be.scriptive
Price List of Watches, Jewellery, Electro-i'lato, &c ,
consisting of 16 pages dvu. closely printed letter press.
This little Handbook is presented post free to every
reader.

The West of England Watch and Jewellery Asaocia•
tion cannot guarantee the t xecution of all the Under, eis
they possess wily a certain quantity, but tu all casec
where they are unable to supp:y tilt, article the Ca:.•11
will be returned without de..)uctAon.

Name in Ii

Street and No.

Town ••••

County

pOSIING- -ESTABLISHMENT,
MITRE HOTEL, HIGH STREET

srounBRIDGE.

ARTHUR T. BROOKS,

(Son,' the late ale. B. Brooks, of the Taiebot Bute?),

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Begs rusp,cifuly to ii.form he Nobility, Gentry, awl
Inhabitituts of 6totirbriiige and NeigLbourhood, that he

Lu;laken the
YARD AND STABLES AT IRE ABOVE HOTEL;
And hopes, tlh,t by strict attention to all Orders that
he may be favoured with, to receive a fair share of
public patrouage.

N.B.—OrJers may I;e left at the Cai, Office, iu the
Yard; or at the Bar of .the Hotel.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE FAMINE IN CHINA.

A report on the famine in the northern provinces
of China, with a map, has been laid before Parliament.
The report has been drawn up by Mr. Mayers, the
Chinese Secretary of the Legislation at Peking, and is
dated Oct. 30, 1877. He describes the calamity as equal
if not greater in extent than that which has been
experienced in Southern India, and as being due to
the same cause a disturbance in the regularity
of the summer monsoons in two successive years.
In some provinces there was an excessive
rainfall, which caused most disastrous floods, and
much destruction of crops. In others an unusual
drought was experienced, which ruined the harvest,
and in some parts actually prevented the crops from
being sown. The suffering thus caused was increased
by a plague of locusts which ravaged a large tract of
country. Measures of relief were adopted by the
Government, and assistance was given by the foreign
communities, but the people in many places neverthe-
less became absolutely destitute, and they were driven
to sell their wives and children to obtain the means of
living, while th.msands died of starvation. Mr.
Mayers estimates that millions would depend upon
official charity during the winter.

THE ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND.
"Sir, attitude is everything."—Dn. JOHNSON.
LEO BRITANNICUS locluitur—
To ramp, or not to ramp that is the question!
These posture-masters plague me. Not a pose
From sprawl to spring they would not put me
through,
As though I were a mere heraldic beast.
There's one would have me Couchaut, langued, and
fanged,
Iliant and hanriant ; while another swears
That Passant-Gardant better fits my port.
A third would have me Rampant as in act
Of Leonine Bonbastes Furioso.
Velligerent to end of my least whisker,
And furthest tip of my all-threatening tail.
It likes me not ! Am I a sign-board sham,
Or stuffed-out simulacrum—scarecrow set
To frighten Europe's choughs and daws and pies,
With a few sticks and straw, and some old clothes ?
Nay, then, best paint me blue or red at once,
Give me a stiff pump-handle tail, and claws
: Like nails at teupence—curl up close my mane
In Gorgon knots; and write up underneath,
"Good entertainment here for man and horse,
, And ship and sailor. Come one, and come all!"
That I may bluster if I cannot bully,
And give the measure of my force by fuss,
And empty attitudinising ! No !
Leo Britannicus is not a beast
, Who needs to roar in proof of Lion-blood:
Warrant thereof is in his deeds of old;
' Strong in which warranty, and well assured,
His muzzle resting on his mighty arms,
Conchant and calm he lies, and for reproof
Of fume and fret, looks from his steady eyes,
And growls from his deep weasand, "Watch, and
wait ! " —Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

S. PETERSBURG, March 10.
England, France, and Italy have now assented to the pro-
posal that a Congress should be held in Berlin, and the Ger-
man Government consequently issues the official invita-
tions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

DUDLEY.

I CABE OF DAOWNING.—Ou Saturday last an inquest
was held, before Mr. H. J. Watts, at the Old Bush Inn,
Wndwiil End, on the body of Rose Bella Willetts (16),
.tound on Ihuis,.lay morning in the Birmingham Canal,
0:d Hill, a few hundred yards distant from her late resi•
dence.-1 girl named Priest was cslied, who stitel that.
WtiLetts had frequently told her Hitt she shald make
away with herself, in cowequence of quarrels with her
inotner. On the morning on which it is suppos:d the
girl got into the caaal sue declared in the nail shop in
which she was employed with witness, that she should
go and drown herself.—The Coroner summed up, and
tire jury, for want of direct evidence as to how %Valetta
got into the water, returned an open verdict of "Found
drowned."

SURIOUS CIIARGE AGAINST AN AltTliT.—Richard Hick-
' liu Wiliiam Freeston, 16, Flood Street, Dudley,
described as an artist, was charged before Alderintih
Russell and Mr. Cochrane, at the Police Court, on
rue, lay, with having obtained by false pretences a copy-
ing press end a quantity of stationery from Mr. Wid-
more Hyatt, of Newhall Street.—Mr. Stokes appeared
for the prosecutor.—The prisoner obtained the goods
by stating to the prosecutor that Messrs Chance had
appointed him as nianagcr of the Bradley Wire Mills,
of which they had recently become proprietors.
Su pima was, however, aroused by prison,r ordering
s ;me memo notes, which were to be print,d
in his name. The prosecutor at once wrote to
Messrs. • chance, aud found the whole story to
be a fabrication.--Freestou applied for a remand
and asked that he might be bailed out, in
order to prepare his case.—When it was stated that he
lately returned from " doing " eighteen months'
imprisonment, the Bench declined to allow bail but
agreed to a remand,
ELacrioN oN CLERN.—On Wednesday night
tbare was a special meeting of the Dudley Town Council
to e.ect a Town Clerk in the place of Mr. W. Li, Brooke,
deceased. At six o'clock there was a meeting of the
ijeuacil in committee, and at that meeting it was agreed
to recommend to the public meeting of it's Council that
Mr. E. M. Waruaington should be the rown Clerk in
the future. The recommendation was 4imuniniuusly
adopted. The proceedings in committee were of course
private, but it may be stated witnout breach of confi-
dence that the candidates were Mr. IL C. Bretteil and
Mr. Wariningtun. Fourteen voted for the former aul
twenty-two the latter.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

CREMATION AT WASHINGTON.

The body of the late Mrs. Pitman, of Cincinnati,
was cremated at Washington, Pennsylvania, on the
afternoon of the 15th of February. The memoranda
of the superintendent of the ceremonies, Mr. Black-
hurst, are as follows :

"1.53, body put in retort; 2.15, colour of heat pale orange,
temperature 2,000 deg. ; 2.45, colour bright orange, tempera-
ture 2,300 deg. ; 3.10, colour bright green, most of the bones
fallen ; 3.45, colour bright green, pelvic bones gave way."

The burning was then considered complete, and the
fire was drawn from the furnace. Mr. Pitman says
that he intends to put the remains at the roots
of a rose bush, that the blooming and fragrant
rose may bring brightly before his mind the
memory of his loved and faithful wife. She was
an Englishwoman—Miss Jane Bragge—and was mar
ried tb Mr. B. Pitman at Birmingham. In 1850, soon
after their marriage, they came to the United States.
Mrs. Pitman was also as expert a shorthand-writer as
her husband, and assisted him greatly in transcribing
his notes. He was engsged in many of the leading
cases in the country, one of them being the trial of
the Lincoln assassinators. The Pitmans settled in
Cincinnati, and soon after their arrival both learnt
the art of engraving on wood to assist them in their
phonographic publications, as there was at that time
no means of transferring phonographic characters to
print. They both soon 'became proficient in the art,
and a few years ago Mr. Pitman was appointed Pro-
fessor of Wood Carving in the McMicken School of
Design in Cincinnati. He taught classes in phonography.
reported many trials and speeches, and published his
works, and out of them all made a good income and
prospered. Mrs. Pitman was peculiarly apt in transcrib-
ing her husband's shorthand notes. He says that
sometimes when they were taken in a great hurry, he
could hardly decipher the characters himself, but she
always read them easily. When he had a long politi-
cal speech or lecture to report in Cincinnati or else-
where, his wife engaged a r..)om near the hall,
employed six or seven of the young ladies composing
the phonographic classes, and dictated her husband's
notes to the seven, giving each her proper part with-
out confusion or error. Messengers were employed to
take the copy thus prepared to 'the newspaper offices,
and by this arrangement more than half of the speech
was in type by the time the speaker was done.—Neis
York • Tones.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE DEATH OF A VETERAN.

The Evening Standard in noticing the recent death of a
‘renimular Veteran" remarks

"Another of the patriarchal remnants of the great
war has passed away—one of those sturdy old fellows
whose reminiscences carry us back to events in our an-
nals which seam to have receded for ever into the
mists of history. When one meets a man who had
heard the thunder of Trafalgar the tendency is to rub
one's eyes and to ask is this earth or the Elysian
Fields? When one reads of the death of 'another
Peninsular veteran,' the surprise is that there was
another left to die. Such a one has just answered to
the final roll call in Boston, in Lincolnshire, (not the
American Boston) James Brooks. He was born in
Yorkshire, in 1788, and enlisted in 1805. He first
saw active service at the blocade of Macho, in
China, in 1807; was present at Corunna two
years later • took part in the siege and capture of
13adajoz and in the battles of Salamanca,, Vittoria,
and Toulon ; was at Quatre-Bras, on the 16th of June,
1815, and two days later was wounded by a shot at
Waterloo. Subsequently, as servant to Sir Robert
Wilson at Paris,he assisted in the escape of the Marquis
Lavalette (who was to have been shot next morning),
and folk this performance Brooks lay for three months
in a French prison. He was at the taking of Rangoon
in 1826, and here it was that he earned his most highly
treasured distinction, a gold medal, which was con-
ferred upon him by Lord Combermere. On this
medal there was an inscription which deserves
to be read in every camp and barrack in tbe
kingdom, to wit For patience, perseverance,
and bravery, the best traits of a soldier.' The
youngster, inspired with martial instincts, who
takes the Queen's shilling, should remember that
bravery is not the first or only quality in a soldier;
patience, which means docility and fortitude and per-
severance, which means stubborn do-or-die resolution
on a march or in a siege, are as necessary now as in
the days of Brown Bess. The patient and preserving
regiment will go farther, hold out longer, bear more,
and complain less than that which simply possesses
brute courage. It is satisfactory to learn that Brooks
did not die as too many old soldiers do in a state of
destituthin."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

LYE.

MlxEns' MExrxso.—A m etiag was hd on Tues,iay
nigiit. at the 6wan Inn, when iho loesl agent
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,seckliog
a deputation to the Home 6ecretary aA to itule 30 of
the Mines Regulation Act relating to the insp:!ctioii.oi
ccititries.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

THE COLORADA BEETLE.

The Colorado beetle is still an object of apprehen-
sion in Germany. A committee has been for some
time sitting at the Ministry of Agriculture in Berlin
to discuss the measures to be taken to prevent the in-
sect from devastating the potato fields. The cost of
providing for closely watching all the potato grounds
in the empire during the whole summer would, it was
found, be very great, amounting to several million
marks-; and therefore it has been determined to con-
fine ofliaal supervision to the districts in which the
beetle appeared last year, the police authorities being
charged with the task of seeing the work properly car
ried out. Placards are also to be posted up through-
out the empire, and advertisements are to be inserted
in the local and agricultural journals, reminding ate
proprietors of potato fields and patches of the order
which makes it incumbent upon them to at once
report the appearance of the beetle on their ground.
If the area infected proves net to be very large, all
plants and foliage on it are to be burned, the ground
covered with benzine, and this latter set on fire. The
cost of carrying out this measure will amount to from
10,000 to 12,000 marks per hectare. Where, therefore,
the plague is found to be too widely spread to allow
of the adoption ot this expensive method of treatment,
the beetles, larvw, and eggs are to be carefully
gathered, and the plants sprinkled thickly with
arsenic. The patches of ground which were visited
by the beetle last year are to be again planted with
potatoes, in order that should any of the insects have
Wintered in the places where they first appeared, they
may not be forced to travel further afield in search of
food and nourishment; but may, on the contrary, be
captured on the spot as they emerge from the ground
to feed.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

DEATH OF COUNT SCLOPIS.

We (Times) have to announce the death of Count
Sclopis, which occurred at Turin on Friday in last
week. 1 his accomplished politician, who represented
the King of Italy in the Alabama Arbitration at
Geneva in 1872, was born at Turin as far back as
1793, and, having distinguished himself at the Uni-
versity in his native town, was appointed to a post
under the Minister of the Interior. This was in 1825,
and from that time until 1837 he filled more than one im-
portant office. In 1848, though not without great hesita-
tion, he accepted office as a Minister as Justice and
of Ecclesiastical Affairs, and presided over a com-
mission charged with the duty of revising the Press
Laws. At the general election which followed, he
was chosen as Deputy for one of the colleges of Turin.
During his ministry he procured the passing of the
General Amnesty Bill, and the law respecting the
liberty of the Press. In 1849 he was called to the
Senate, of which he became 'Vice-President. He was
a member of the Turin Academy, and at the head of
the Committee for Studies in National History. In the
course of his long and laborious life, of which the pre-
ceding is but a brief ske ch, he wrote many books,
including, "A History of the Ancient Legislation of
Piedmont," "A History of Italian Leg!slation,"
"An Essay on the Councils-General, and other
Institutions Politiques in Piedmont and Savoy," and
"Historical Researches as to the Political Relations
between the Sav,)y Dynasty and the British Govern-
ment." He was a Knight of the Order of the
Annunziate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

HAY.

WHITECIIAPEL, Saturday, Ala:•eli 9.—There was a rather
short supply of Hay and Straw on offer. Prime qualities
were scarce and dear. Prime glover, UFOs. to 1.855., Inferior
85s. to 955., PrinieNreadow Hay 85,!. to 100 s., Interior 76e, to
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16

EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE.

The Erening Standard remarks :—" It is more than
a century since the lighthouse on the Eddystone reef
has been considered as anything else than part of the
rock upon which it was built. Every one knows how
Mr. Winstanley's rather fantastic structure, which
first gave out its warning light in the time of King
William 111., vanished in the "greatest tempest that
ever blew," whilst its designer was within it, on the
night of November 27, 11703. The Act of Parla-
ment structure which succeeded it had a brief life ot
forty-seven years; mid, by the irony of fate, being ex-
posed to dangers by water, was destroyed by fire.
Sineaton's lighthouse, which followed immediately,
is the one which we have all been taught to admire
as the model of what a lighthouse should be. Since
October, 1759, it has done its duty nobly. Built upon
stone dovetailed and cemented into the native rock,
and into one another, it has defied all storms; whilst
its warning light has saved hundreds and thousands of
lives from destruction on the perilous reef it guards.
But now Smeaton's great work has to give way. Time
and the waves combined have eaten away the most
solid creation of man, as they eat away and under-
mine the cliffs of Nature's creation. Part of the struc-
ture has been washed away, and the rest is pronounced
insecure. It is honour and glory to Sineaton to have
kept his candle alight for a hundred and twenty years;
and no disgrace to him that the beet stone and the
best cement will not for ever withstand the attacks
of waves' wind, and frost. In ages long gone by,
no doubt the winds, waves, and frosts brought
to something less than sea level the rock on which he
built his great beacon. But now his work Must go,
and we shall have to see whether the nineteenth
century 'can beat it. The present generation must at
all events make the attempt, for it would cost ten times
as much to blow up the reef as to build another light-
house, and the present age is nothing if not economical.
Besides, as Sir C. Adderley sass, if we took away the
reef we should have to station a light ship at the place,
and a light ship, with its double crew, and cables, and
mushroom anchors, and liability to go 'adrift, would
more
more than outweigh the sinking of capital in a light-
house. But the task of building a new 'Eddystone'
will not be an easy one."