The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-03-26 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF EXETER ON EDUCATION.
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Bishop Temple preached at the Church t•f Mary Major,
Exeter, last Sunday, on behalf of the national schools
I of that city. His lordship, in the course of his sheer-
vationa, explained why it was a Christian duty at this
period to provide instruction for every one in the king-
item without exception. In former days, Dr. Temple
said, fifty years ago for example, the upper clo,ssea
were much less educated than they are now. There
was a sort of gradation, and the difficulty of sympathy
and intercourse between them and those who were not
educated at all was not so great as it is now. It was
possible in those days for the poor man to feel that he
was very close on the heels of his betters, but now he
was left a long way behind, and those above him have
Peru educated so as scarcely to be able to understond
bil feelings or his thoughts. It is for this reason, his
lordship added, that I urge on yon the fact that what
was not formerly considered a Christian duty must
certainly be considered one now.
AN OLD GRUDGE-- AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Two brothers—Benjamin and William Booth—have
been convicted, at Londonderry of the manslaughter
of a young man named Lyle. As the parties were in
rather a respectable sphere of life the case excited
great interest, and the court was densely crowded dur-
ing the two days which the trial lasted. The crime
was perpetrated on the 13th September last. Some
old grudge had existed between the Booths and Lyle's
family. They met in the house of the latter—an
I innkeeper—on a fair day, and an altercation occurred,
in which the Booths need fearful threats against the
Lyles. No violence ensued, but some hours afterwards
the Booths and the deceased—a mere lad—met in the
stable yard. Wm. Booth struck him with &stick, and
Benjamin fired five shots at him with a revolver, two
at least of which took effect, and he died in a few
minutes. For the defence it was alleged that there
was a general mch'e, almost rising to the dignity of a
faction tight, in which the Booths were set upon by
overpowering numbers, and that Benjamin fired in
defence of his brother's life and his own. They were
found guilty of mitigated manslaughter, and sentenced
to five years' penal servitude.
LIGHTING UP THE HUMAN BODY !—Dr. Milio,
the celebrated surgeon of Kb IT, has recently been at
St. Petersburg explaining a means he has invented of
illuminating the body by means of the electric light to
such an extent that the working of the human machine
may be observed, almost as if skin and flesh were trans-
parent. The Ab,srota Glzette asserts that, to demon-
strate the feasibility of his process, Dr. Milio placed
a bullet inside his mouth and then lighted up his face,
upon which the bullet became distinctly visible through
his cheek. Dr. Milio does not propose to lay bare all
the secrete of the flesh, to explore the recesses of the
heart, or to perform any miracle., physical or meta-
physical. But he claims to have discovered a new and
effective way of dealing with gun-shot wounds; first,
by means of electric illumination he discovers the pre-
cise situation of the bullet; next, by means of mag-
netism, he proposes to extract the bullet—provided
always that the bullet contain some portion of steel.
Against leaden bullets his systena is powerless, and he
therefore intends to represent to the International
Committee, which lately met at Geneva, the desira-
bility of recommending an admixture of steel in the
manufacture of all future bullets. Dr. Milio's experi-
ments with bullets containing only a slight admixture
of steel are said to have been thoroughly successful.

ECCLESIASTICAL MEDICINE.JA -medical man
professing extremely High Anglican views, and enjoy-
ing a large practice among the candle and vestment
party in the Established Church, being consulted by a
Ritualist parson affected with hypochondriasis, recom-
mended him a change of diocese.—Punch.
SERV& Him RIGHT !—An American lady laaa
proved worthy of her country this last week in Paris.
Hanging about the Grand Hotel are always dukes,
marquises, princes, &c., with not a sou in their pocket,
all in the expectation of catching an American heiress,
who have a weakness, pretty democrats as they are,
for titles. Well, one of our American cousins was
followed, and positively annoyed, by a French count.
She begged him to desist; but he opened fire in the
Romeo style, which she told him was all bosh. Next
day, on leaving the Grand Hotel to go shopping, the
count followed. The weather is now disagreeable in
Paris, and the young lady had brought with her her
Palm's stout umbrella, and, turning to the count, broke
t on his head.

THE HERD AND THE N F.TTLE3.—Mr. Lowe
(remarks the Scotsman) regards the whole religious
difficulty in the Education Bill as a whim or a trifle,
saying that the controversies about it remind him of a
flock of cattle in a rich pasture quarrelling about a bed
of nettles in a corner of the field. Perhaps it is not
very respectful or reverential in the Chancellor of the
Exchequer to describe religious education as bearing
the same relation to general education as nettles to
pasture ; but be that as it may, there is no perhaps
about the fact, absurd as it may seem to 111 r. Lowe,
that these nettles have i all sires and countries been
a cause of fierce contemion, nil thlt at this moment
there ix just se little prospect as ever there was of ouch
contention, ceasing. Mr. L we's simile is destnictive,
if not of his argumerl, at if his measure, unless
he can show that the flock have c, me to a resolution to
quarrel no more about the nettles—an aswertion the
reverse of which is proved by every speech he hears
and every petition which is laid on the table. Our
a is that it would be a reasonable thing to remove
the fo,ties with all t, ndo.rfo.ss into an.ther &11, each
kiouiLt. of Lettiv I ca,„ ktpir within its own fence, and
then there would be peace in the common pasture, and
each member of the herd could help itself elsewhere to
Whatever kind of nettle It liked beef.