The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

rHE STOTTEBRIDGE OBSERVER-

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

On S door lay afternoon, about four o'clock, a lady,
who lived at Weighton-road, Anerley, South Penge,
and who wee supposed to he the wife of Mr. Fowler.
a stockbroker, who rented the house, was soddenly
missed. An oneff.ctual search was made for her dur.
tog Saturtiry night, but she was not found until twenty
minutes past eleven on Sunday morning, when her dead
body was discovered on a balcony which can be reached
from a bedroom window of the house. Close to the
body lay a email bottle which it is believed contained
poison. The window of the bedroom from which the
balcony is reached was said to have been closed and
fastened on the inside and the funds were drawn down,
and this circumstance has given rime to various rumours,
as to the probable mode of the death of the deceased.
As soon aa she was missed ~n Saturday her mother,
whose address was known, was telegraphed for to dis-
cover if she could throw any light upon her daughter's
disappearouice. The deceased was last seen by her
cook at half-past three o'clock on Saturday. Some
short time alter that the cook said to a railway porter
at Anerley that her mistress had told her that she
either had taken or would take poison that day, but the
cook added that she took no notice of the remark, as
six months ago, when Mr. Fowler and the deceased
had been quarrelling, the latter said she would leave
Mr. Fowler, and make away with her life by poison.
ecordongly, when the deceased was missed on Satur-
day it was conjectured by her household that she had
left the place altogether, as she had threatened to do,
and her mother was first communicated with. It was
not considered suspicious that the window of the bed-
room communicating with the balcony where the body
was found should have been eluded and fastened inside,
and the blinds drawn down, as a person approaching
the window for the purpose of closing and fattening it
could not see the body from the position in which it
lay. It is stated that the deceased sent a mesaage to
her mother on Saturday morning, to the effect that
she would never see her more.
The mother of deceased, accompanied by a gentle-
man, arrived at Anerley some hours after being tele-
graphed for, on Saturday, and almost during the whole
of the night she directed a search for her missing
daughter, between whom and herself there existed a
strong affection.
The police authorities are, of course, investigating all
the ciicumstanees of the case. How or where the
poison, snpposed to be contained in the phial found
close to the body of the deceased, was obtained has not
as yet been discovered.

Derby for his nominal chief, he has never eduested
his party to follow Lord Stanley. Moreover, Lord Stanley
is far less dexterous and far more scrupulous than
Mr. Disraeli ; he woull be almost sure to expose
Lilt. points of difference between himself and his
colleagues to hostile attack, and w.mld he incapable
the daring strokes which alone maks it possible to dis-
peese with political consiatency if lord Stanley assume.
Po Conservative leadership In the Home of Lords at the
present time he will inevitably be placed in a false position.
He cannot hope to persuade those who v.lll ea behind Idol
into adopting his own convictions, and he will inevitably
reroute the spoiled of convictions which are not his own.
Last Session he was able to keep silence on the Irish Church
question, but no leader can thus avoid committing himself,
and he would lose in the estimation of the nation for the
sake of an unprofitable party distinction.
But it does lint follow that he should choose the opposite
course, and forthwith cast In his lot, as many expect, with
the Linerahe. That he would be welcomed by the Liberal
Peers is certain, and that 1,1, accession would materially
strengthen Mr. Gladstone's Ministry is the FIPPer Mum is
sins to be disguised. It was soon after the reakination of
Lord Derby's Ministry in 1,r,2 that he first showed his
superiority to old Conservative prejudices, In occasional
speeches chiefly delivered in the country. Front that period
his enlistment into the Liberal ranks has been discussed
as no improbable event, and the sentiment "Cast folio
minium nester ewe had been often applied to him
before Lord Palmerston I 'tiered him the Colonial Secretary-
ship. We do not, however, anticipate that he will openly
Se•Ylie from his perty for the present. Not only would so
rapid a transition be a public admission that his previous con-
duct has been determined by personal motives, but his Liberal-
ism, as hitherto manifested, is scarcely of the political order.
M any people were surprised that he opposed Reforill in Md.
bat perhem the wonder rather was that he supported it in 1867«
instead of taking much the same ground as Mr. Lowe. It is
with the intellectual section of Liberals, and not with the
geuernl body of the party, that he really holds much in
common, and it is more than probable that if he joined it
now he would break off from Stan the next oritical question.
Lord Stanley will, therefore, act wisely in taking up for a
while an independent and 'muted attitude. It will be an
attitude altogether congenial to hLs nature, and one in which
he may render important service. Lird Grey is at pre-
sent almost the only politican who professes to act the
part of an impartial critic, and ho criticism in too often
marred by a petulanee, impartial, so doubt, in its choice
of objects but ill-calculated to persuade. There is abun-
dant room for Lord Stanley's moderetion and experience
itt strengthening the House of Lords in Its 'ayaisity of
a revising assembly. This function, which is so often magni-
fied as the chief justification of our hereditary Chamber, is,
in fact, rarely exercised with effect, and still more rarely
with good effect. Lord Stauley will here be a far more
valuable member of the Peerage Own d Derby, mei
will establish a claim to public confidence of which
he may reap the fruits hereafter; for however im-
posing may be the spectacle of a great party
united under a great leader in support of a policy
which purports to aim at the general wellbeing of
inaukind, history warns us In every page that it cannot last
nemy years. A time will come when the Gimlet:4nm Ad-
ministration, after having its day, will prove, lik«, others, to
be vanity of vanities. But, however lobe it may Le destined
to endure, whatever may he substituted for It, and whether
or not the party names of Liberal and Conservative are to be
preserved under the new order of things, we maysafely venture
on oneprediction. For more than a generation the party of pro-
gress has been chiefly engaged its pulling down Mending
abuses and reocsvia&t obstacles to improvemed. Hence-
forth the great efforts of legislation will be unduly con-
structive, end the name of statesman will belong to him
who can build up institutions for a society which
is even now organising itself afresh. There are few
among living politicians more highly gifted than Lord
Stanley for a work of this nature, demanding, as it
does, a rare combination of patient industry, intellieed
sympathy with the age in which we live, and foregight of
that which is immediately to follow it. Any one can take
" a leap in the ,lark," but sir one can look back to such feats
with mush satisfaetioe at the end «d along public life. Lord
Stanley is capable of better things it remains to be seen
hether he has the energy to form a party for himself and
put forth that capacity.

As beads are pure, sown trust your life will be an honour to :
the tribe to which we belong, as the clear sky proves a hap-
piness to many. Your name amongst us as a Chief in the
Tribe of the Six Nations shall he K arakondye—that is, the
'Progress of the San.' You are from the east, where the
sun rises to fight the world, aml travelleth to the west.
Your name will represent the Flying Sun, flying from east to
west, the great sun which travels from morning till night on
Use vast dominions of your great mother. In giving you
this same, we trust your path may be bright and clear as the
sales brightest rays throngh life. It will represent the pro-
gress of the sun in its daily course, under the guidance of
the Great Spirit, and put us in memory of your journey from
the far east to see us. You have travelled with the sun
towards us, and as the sun does, flying and lighting the
world in Its course. Our people are devoted to her Majesty's
throne. (Loud indications of assent.) We shall always rely
on the kindness of Great Britain. and believe in her and in
her people. Our devoted loyal people vend greeting to your
Royal mother, and we shall always inlet in Great Britain.
We hope thatyour path may be prosper..."
At the conclusion, the Prince replied
I am much touched by the kind speech which you have
just delivered, and I feel particularly happy to be made one
of your tribe Most sincerely do I thank you for the kind
anti affectionate mention of my mother, and for all your
loyal expressions towards her."
A war dance on the green was the novel feature. At its
close the chief brought forward a red cloth, and the Prince
Was led forward and back twice by the chiefs. The braves
were asked if they assented to the acceptance of the
Prince, and growled a responsive "Yes," lie AU then
invested with a woollen scarf, worked with red beads, and
received the plaudits of his tribe. By his decoration the
Prince became a member of the Grand Council, with the
rank among the first fifty chiefs. After the ceremony was
concluded, he was made acquainted with some at his gushy
admirers. One named William Bill, who carried very large
bone rings hi hia nose, desired his Royal Highness to be
particular in roneathering him to his brother, the Prince of
' Wales.