The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-29 00:00:00

Tii ESTOURBMDGF OBSEEVFE.

DRUNKENNESS.—At the Police Court, yesterday,
before Colonel Fletcher, Messrs. H. 0. Firmstone
and C. P. Noel, Sarah Brett was charged with be- '
ing drunk and disorderly, and was fined 2s 6d and
costs. Thomas Smith, Qldswinsord, was fined
2s 6d and costs for being drunk and disorderly.—
Charles Thomas was fined 5s and costs for a like
offence. Defendant did not appear. Charles
Herrin, of the Lye, was fined 5s and costs for be-
ing drunk and creating a disturbance.
DAMAGING WATERCRESS.—EIizabeth Morris was
charged with damaging watercress the property of
Charles Evers Swifdell, on the 29th inst. The
case was not proved to the satisfaction of the
I Bench, and defendant was discharged.
a STEALING A KNIFE. Patrick Gibbons was
charged with stealing a knife, the property of
Henry Rowcliffe, on the 20th inst. Police-con-
stable Philpot said he was at the Chequers Inn,
when he saw a knife fall from prisoner's pocket as
he was going across the yard.—Prosecutor identi-
fied the knife as his property and valued it at is.
—Prisoner admitted that the knife fell from his
pocket, put it was put in his pocket for a lark.
Sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.
CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.—Mary Ulett, manager-
ess at the Talbot Hotel, was charged with keeping
her house open during prohibited hours, on the
night of the 21st inst. Mr. Perry defended.—
Richara North was charged with being found on
licensed premises during prohibited hours.—P.S.
Jones said he visited the Talbot at 20 minutes
past eleven o'clock, and saw a man named North
drinking in the bar. On calling the attention of
Mrs. Ulett to it, she said he was waiting for a cab.
The cab was at the door. Mr. Perry, for the de-
fence, said that an infringement of the act :.had
been committed. North was waiting for a cab.—
Mr. Freeman said he did not wish to press the
case, and the house was well conducted.—Colonel
Fletcher said smaller houses were fined, and they
could not let the case be withdrawn, but should
only inflict a small penalty. Fined is and costs
in each case.

A WIFE BEATER.—Joseph Hughes was charged
with assaulting his wife, on the 23rd inst.—From
the evidence of complainant, who appeared very
reluctant to give her evidence, it appears that de-
fendant went home, commenced to beat her, and
blackened her eyes. He also bruised her body.
He had often beaten her, and he was in the habit
of sleeping at his mother's house three nights a
week.—Colonel Fletcher said they were determined
to stop wife beating and should convict under the
Aggravated Assault Act, and sentenced defendant
to two months' hard labour.
DRUNK AND REFUSING TO QUIT. Noah Hill
was charged with being drunk and refusing to
quit the Greyhound Inn, on the 21st July, 1875.—
William Mann proved the case, and said that de-
fendant used very bad language. Defendant was
further charged with being drunk and disorderly
at Ohlswinford, on the 10th May last.—Police-con-
stable Woodhall proved the case. Fined 5s and
costs in each case.

CHARGE OF VAGRANCY.—John Kendrick, Thoina a

Wood, and Frederick Field, three boys, were
charged with being found on premises at Clent,
on the 24th inst, for an unlawful purpose. Edwin ,
Waldron proved that hs saw them about the pre-
mises.—Mr. Addison defended. Kendrick was
discharged and the Bench also discharged the
other two as they had been locked up since Mon-
day last.
STEALING MONEY.—George Stock was charged
with stealing on the 25th mat, two half-crowns,
the property of Messrs. Garlick and Downes. Mr.
‘Vall prosecuted and Mr. Perry defended.—
Superintendent Freeman said from information
received he marked three half-crowns, a two
shilling piece and a sixpence. He afterwards
sent to purchase some goods at the shop and paid
lOs the marked money away. He then searched
the prisoner and found two of the half-crowns
upon him that he had previously marked, and he
then charged him with stealing it and prisoner
said it was the first time.—Police-constable Smith
proved that he went to prosecutor's shop and pur-
chased goods amounting to 108 and he gave
prisoner three half-crowns,itwo shillings and a six-
pence.—Thomas Downes said he went into the
shop in the morning and saw prisoner there and he
said "Master' I think we shall have a good:day to-
day for there has been s gentleman in the shop and
he spent five shillings." He handed the money to
Superintendent Freeman. William Latham,
police-inspector of the Birmingham Town Hall,
proved that the prisoner had stolen 10s of Frederick
Pope and was sentenced to 4 months hard labour.
Prisoner was then committed to take his trial at
the next Worcestershire Sessions.

husband's debts, which she honourably did to a very
great amount; but her good actions extended beyond the
views of thi,l word, for, by breeding up her childrin in
the Protestant religion, their ancestors having been
Papists from ye Reformation, she conferred on her
posterity the most inestimable of blessings, which
should render her memory ever dear to them."
On another slab is the following inscription to George,
the first Lord Lyttelton, who was memorable in the poli-
tical and literary life of the last century, and one of the
forenneit among the opponents of Sir Robert Walpole:
" ibis unadorned stone was placed here by the parti
cular desire and express directions of the late Right
Honourable George, Lord Lyttellton, who died August
21, 1773, aged 64.
A flattering tribute was paid to his first wife in the an-
nexed lines :
" To the memory of Lucy Lyttelton, daughter of Hugh
Fortescue, of Filleigh, in the county, Eeq , father to the
present Earl of Clinton, by Lucy, his wife, the daughter
of Matthew Lord Aylmer, who departed this life the 19th
January, 1746-7, aged twenty-nine, having employed the
short time assigned to her here in the uniform proetfce
of religion and virtue."
" Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes.
Tho' meek, megnanimous, the witty, wise;
Polite, as all her life in courts had been,
Yet good, as she the world had never seen;
The noble fire of an exalted mind,
N\ ith gentlest female tenderness combie'd ;
Her speech was the melodious voice of love,
Her song the warbling of the vernal
_reve ;
Her eloquence was sweeter than her song,
Such as her heart, and as her reason strong;
Her form each beauty of her mind express,
Her mind was beauty by the graces dre-it."
The son of the foregoing was Thomas Lord Lyttelton.
the circumstances of whose death, in 1779, were of the
most extraordinary kind, the day and hour of his dissolu-
tion having, it is said, been foretold to him ; and though
his friends altered all the clocks in his house to dispel
his g.oom, die he did at the time named. There is such
autueutication of this story that the eqplainieg of it away
has never been satisfactory achieved, and it was a ghost
story which even Dr. Johnson was willing to believe.
The title became extinct with the death of this noble-
man, to whom a curt inscription in the church is devoted
but it was revived again in 1794, in the person of Wil-
liam Henry, Gov, rnor of Carolina County, Jamaica.
His eldest son. George Falke, a man of very peculiar
manners, succeeded to the title in 1808, and, as an in-
scription, shows. died 1828. He was unmarried. The
title then devolved on his h it-brother, who previous to
this, had sat in Parliament for the cOanV (1807 to 1820)
had warmly supported Liberal measures, and succeeded
in obtaining the extinction of state lotteries. He is said
to have warmly befriended the educational institution.
of Worcestershire' and was a man of useful
parts, and possessed great oratorical fluency. A tablet
records his death on the 30th of April, 1837, aged 53,aud
that of Sarah his wife, on April 13th, aged 82. To him
succeeded his son George William, the late peer, and to
him how succeeds his son Charles George, whose absence
on the Continent has prevented tidings being sent to him
of the sad death ef his father. Andwith the exception of
him sad his brother, the Hon.NevilleLyttelton,wLe is n
luuia, all the members of the family were present at the
sad gathering at Hagley. Mr. Gladstone, whose close
friendship with his lordship dates over at least half the
space of their lives, reached the hall in the middle of the
day, and the pale cast of thought on his face shows the
sorrowful feelings which he, in common with so many
others, shares.
The funeral was fixed for two o'clock, and in front of
the hall, and within it, assembled public representatives
from the surroundieg district. Among the magistracy
of the county were Colonel FlAcher and the Rev. G.
Gray, two of the list whom Lord Lyttelton first appointed
when he became Lord-Lieutenaut of Worcestershire,
and there were many others long familiar with him in
connection with Saltley College, the South Staffordshire
Educational Institution, and other institutions in which
he was a primer mover. Lord Beauchamp, Lord Hemp.
ton, and other distinguished friends of the deceased
were unable to be present, owing to unavoidable circue.-
stances, and, large as was the gathering, to-day, the at-
tendance would have been much larger had it been
generally known that the funeral would be of a public
character. In a little recess in the front of the hell,
flanked with azaleas, einerarias, camellias, bignouias,
and other bright-tinted flowers, the coffin rests upon a
bier, and, with uncovered bead, those who come to follow
him to the grave step with wistful look to where what is
mortal of Lord Lyttelton is encased.
The coffin is of polished oak, with massive brass
mountings, and on the lid is the coronet and the iuscrips
tion— •

----
GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON,
Fourth Baron;
Born 1817 ; Died 1876.
A. beautiful floral cross of lilies of the Nile, camellia;,
bignoniaa, spirasas, and ferns was laid upon it.
The bell of the church began to toll at half-past one,
and at two Lady Lyttelton and the other mourners lett
the hall, and wended their way in sad procession to the
churchyard, round which a large throng of spectators
were grouped. The procession was in the following
order :

Rev. E. S. Talbot read the lesson in an impressive man-
ner, and this was followed by the singing of tke 548th
hymn, from 6' Church Hymns," commencing with the
words,
'When our heads are bowed with woe,"

the tune being" St. Philip." The Coffin was then re-
moved to the grave, preceeded by the choir, the Bishop
and clergy, followed by the mourners, while the solemn
strains of the "Dead March "in "Saul" were played up-
on the organ. At the grave the service was read by the
bishop, and the concluding collect by the Rev. E. S.
Talbot After the collect the 405th hymn (tune St.
Albinus) was sung.
"Jesus lives; no longer now
Can thy terrors, death, appal us."
The Bishop of Oxford pronounced the blessing, and the
ceremony, simple and impressive from beginning to end
concluded. The scene in the churchyard was very affect-
ing. Perfect silence was observed as the several members
of the deceesd nobleman's family end relatives stepped
to the edge of the grave to take a farewell glance at the
coffin, and many persons appeared much moved. One of
the last of the mourners to look into the grave, and one
towards whom many eyes were directed, was Mr. Glad-
stone. Looking rather pale, and deeply troubled, he
sto3cl for several moments wita his eyes fixed upon the
s)tfin, and then suddenly he turned round and walked
, with the other mourners to the Hall. For a long time
afterwards the grave was surrounded with people anxious
to see the coffin and read the inscription thereon. The
large crowd of persons who previously could not gain the
entrance to the church were permitted to pass through
andlview the floral decorations.
The funeral arrangements were under the direction of
Messrs. J. and W. Cooper, of Stourbridge.