The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-06-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A National Temperance Festival, under the auspices
of all the leading temparance organisations throughout
the kingdom, will take place at the Crystal Palace, on
Tuesday, July 10,

Mr. Justice Barry, one of the judges of the Queen's
Bench Dividnn, has accepted the appointment of
Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland, ren-
dered vacant by the death of the late Lord Justice
Deasy.

Lord Rosebery has postponed the recond reading of
the Criminal Law Amendment Bill (for the better
protection oE young girls) to Thursday, the 14th.
The Grand Prix de Paris was won by the Duke de
Castrie's Frontin, Sir F. johnstone's St. Blaise being
second, and Count Lagrange's Farfardet third.

The trial of the six pritoners charged with con.
spiracy in connection with the Bei:Jure of explosives
in London and Birmingham has been fixed to take
place on Monday, the 11th inst., at the Central
Criminal Court in London,

A fire occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the worsted
cloth manufactory of Messrs. Wilford and Johnson at
Dewsbury. The entire mill was destroyed despite the
efforts of numerous fire brigades. The damage is esti-
mated at from £12,000 to £14,000.

The annual distribution of prizes in connection with
the London School of Medicine for Women was made
on. Tuesday evening by Countess Granville, to whom
a vote of thanks was proposed by Mrs. Fawcett.

Divine service was conducted at Balmoral Ca,tle on
Sunday morning by the Rev. A. Campbell, of Crathie,
in the presence of the Queen, the Royal family, and
the Household.

A National Horse Show Association of America has
been organised under distinguished auspices. The
first exhibition will be held at New York in the
autumn.

The Queen of Roumania, writing under the name of
Carmen Silvia, has invited the Swedish composer
Hallstroem, to compose the music for a new opera
written by her, and of which the action is laid in
Roumania.

The City of London includes 112 parishes, and the
rateable value is £3,533,738; but when to this is added
£13,311 for the Middle Temple and £22,321 for the
Inner Temple, the total rateable value is £3,569,570.
The Due de Chartres has telegr4pLed to the Dun de
montpensier, the special Ambassador from Spain, that
he was winked in the Caspian Sea, and ne.rcly
escaped with his life

The Government of Bengal has resolved to offez
two prizes, one of 250 and the other of £2o, for Isom.
petition by holders of agricultural scholarships from
Bengal studying in the Royal Agiieultural College,
Oirencestm
A Berlin telegram says that the celebrated Tivoli
Brewery, one of the most popular holiday resort g of
the Berliners, has been burnt to the grotwid, rftlere
was fortunately no loss of life.

On Friflay eyeping in last week a terrific fall of rain
occurred at Council Bluffs, lowa, The creek traversing
the heart of the town overflowed and caused great
damage to property,
The Detroit Free Trade Conference has issued an
address to the American people, advocating free trade,
reciprocity treaties, and a repeal cf the navigation
laws, so that the people can have free ships.

On Saturday night a collision took place on the §t.
ret9reburg-Waraaw line near Serebriank between a
passenger train and a luggage train from Pliusay. Tha
guard of the former was killed and the stoker severely
injured. Several of the passengere were bruised;

In London, on Saturday afternoon, the twentieth
annual athletic gathering in connection with her
Majesty's Civil Service took place at Lillie Bridge
Grounds, the weather being gloriously fine and the
attendance immense. The prizes were presented at
the conclusion of the sports by the Earl and Countess
Granville.

A very sad accident occurred on Monday at Kilkee,
county Clare. Miss Pearson, of Manchester, was
accidently blown into the sea off the cliffs, from a
height of nearly two hundred feet. Any attempt at
rescue, owing to the nature oi the wild sea coast, was
impossible. Thp body was not recovered.

On Tuesday the Standing Committee on Law com-
menced the consideration of the Criminal Procedure
Bill, which contains one hundred and thirty oh:buses.
The Attorney-General expressed a desire to pass as
many of them as pot,siblc,

As one means of celebrating the 200th anniversary
of the defence and relief of Vienna in September,
1683, the Austrian Director of the War Archives,
General BaNn Saoken, has published the history of
ti-0 war In the year 1683, giving an account of thp
military operations as recorded in old domnanta pre.
served in the military °toe!,

telegvaw, 'tow Toronto, published by the New
York ilerald, reports that fires broke out in eight
differeLt places in that city on Sunday night, but were
all distinguishtvd.

On Monday the "fourth of June" was celebrated
at Eton with the usual festivities. The speeches
were delivered at noon in the Upper School, in the
presence of the college authorities. In the evening
there was the custonaary procession of boats on the
Thames, followed by a display of fireworks at the river
side.

On Saturday, while a man named Brassington was
engaged sinking a well on the Earl of Harrington's
estate at Gawaworth, near Macclesfield, the soil sub-
sided, and he was buried alive. He had been digging
into sandy soil for 271 t. The bc‘dy was extricated in
an erect position after abeat eight hours' digging.
The iuiports of Spanish wines by Face have been
larger for the first four months of the current year
than in any similar•perlod. In 1881 the quantity of
common Spanish wine so imported reached 2,181,096
hectolitres; last year it was 2,083,822 hectolitres;
and this year the total attained was 2,768,722 hecto.
litres.

A. Vienna telegvana saye that last Saturday night
Baron Rothschild's carri,ge WWI lighted by electricity.
The accumulators were placed under the coachman.s
seat. The electric lights were inside the usual lamps,
and will burn for a hundred burs.

At Brighton, on Saturday, an inquest was held on
the Lody of Mum Bums, who fell over the cliff near
13eachy Head, a distance of 70 feet. A. verdict of
" Accidental death" was retuned,

In London, the he evening, the Prim* of Wales
preaided at the Seventieth Anniversary Festival of the
Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Obest, and sp.
pealed for aii to its funds. His lz,oyal Highness con-
tributed one hundred guineas, and the total amount
subscribed V7LICI stated to be four thousand three
hundred and fifty-five pounds,

The ship Cardigan Castle, of 1,200 toms, Captain D,
Jones, chartered by Sr Gaul Samuel, K.C.M.G.,
A.gent-General for New South Wake, sailed from Ply-
mouth for Sydney on June Ist, with 384 emigrants,

Last week's receipts of cotton at all 'United States
ports were 30,000 bales; since Ist September, 5,806,000
bales. Week's eTtporta to Great Britain, 43,000 bales;
weelfa exports to the Continent, 12,000 bales. Total
since let September, 4,360,000 bales. Stock all
ports, 506,000 bales.

Mr. Jesse Coßingo, IvLl. addressing a gathering of
about 10,020 agricultural labourers, at Canterbury, on
Monday afternoon, on the occasion of the annual da•
monstration of the Kent and Sussex Labourers' Union,
affirmed that the present position of the agricultural
labourer was little better than what it was 25 years
ago. He referred with pleasure to the passing of the
Allotment Bill, and spoke highly in favour of peasant
proprtetorahip ; but declared that, until the county
franchise came into operation, and those who tilled
the soil had a voice in the matter, no atitifactory
system of land laws could bg dgoided upon.

Thar() are in the lour universities of Switzerland
(Basle, Berne, Geneva, and Zurich) a total of 543.
medical students, of whom 51 are women. Tha largest
class is at Zurich, where the number is 180. At Berne
the number is 164. Tnere are women medical students
at all the univer,,ities except Basle. At Berne there
ere 20, at Z irich 17, and at Geneva 8.

There were 2,622 births and 1,405 deaths regatered
in London last weeir. Allowing for increase of popu-
lation the births exceeded by 68, whereas the deaths
were 69 below, the average numbers in the corre-
sponding weeks of the last ten years. The annual
rate of mortality ;row all causes, which in the three
preceding weeks had been equal to 2PB, 202 and
20.0 per 1,000, further declined to 185. Oily two
deaths from small-pox took place throughout the
whole of the metropolis,