The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-08 00:00:00

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The eon of the Shah of Persia is to spend a month of
the approaching snmnier in Paris.

A sum of £lO,OOO has been recovered from the wreck
of the Schiller, which was lost upon the rocks of Scilly on
the 7th May last.
A portion_of the presents made to the Prince of
Wales in India will, it is understood, be exhibited at the new
Indian Museum. South Kensington, and the remainder in the
B‘tthnal-green 3luseum.

Two new skating rinks were opened in London on
Saturday, viz, at Sanger's Amphitheatre in the Westminster
Bridge-road, and at the Agricultural (SL Mary's) Hall,
Islington.
A. curious case is about to be brought before a French
Tribunal. A landlord has seized his lodger's wooden leg as
security for the payment of rent overdue. The lodger con-
tests his landlord's right to deprive him of his ligneous means
of locomotion.

Smuggling of European goods into the United States
'el carried on so ingeniously, that by the aid of a pressing
machine, forty yards of ribbon, worth some £l2, can be car-
ried in an ordinary watch case.

It is estimated that in order to maintain the public
schools of San Francisco during the year 1E46 778,085 dole,
ill have to be raised. With an average daily attendance of
22,231 pupils, the cost of each pupil is 35 dole, a sear. In
accittion, it is thought that about 200,000 dole, will be needed
for building purposes. The Board of education is now in
debt over 100,000 dole., and the teachers are to be asked to
submit to a reduction of salaries.

The Eastern of France Railway Company is about to
place upon the line some carriages made with such improved
springs that on a trial recently made it was found there was
so little oscillation that per-ons in the carriage could read
and write with perfect comfort. A glass full to the brim
was placed on the floor of the carriage, and though the train
was travelling at the rate of fifty miles an hour, it Is alleged
that not a drop was spilled.
Tnere was an improvement in the takes of salmon in -
the Tweed last week, particularly during the latter half, when
the river was partially flooded, and a better run of fish was
Induced from the sea. Prices have fallen considerably. On
Saturday they were—salmon, 2s. id., and trout, is. 9d. per lb.
The Tyne salmon fishing was extremely good last week. A
quantity of very fine fish were caught, and there is a prospect
of a good season.
For the purpc,se of reviewing the work done at the
recent conferences on temperance held in connexion with
the Church of England Temperance Society, a number of the
clergy of the East-end of London met on Saturday afternoon
at the Town Hall, Shoreditch, when addresses were de-
livered by Bishop Claughton and other reverend speakers,
the chairman (the Rev. John Oakley) announcing that upon
the whole, the conferences had been successfuL

Speaking at the opening of a new Board School at
Brighton, Sir Charles Reed said 'ait was only by high moral
training, based on religious principles, that the torrent of
crime in the country could be stemmed and pauperism de-
creased. In 1869 there was school accommodation for 1i
million of children, leaving a deficiency of 11 million. Now
one million of thatdeficiency had been overcome by the work
of voluntary bodies side by side with school boards."
On Saturday the City of London Commissioners of
Sewers notified to.farmers, graziers, and butchers by printed
circulars that all young veal (known in the trade as "bobby"
calves) exhibited for sale in the Metropolitan and other dead
meat markets would be seized and condemned as being unfit
for human food, and that no calf under three weeks old or
weighing less than 431 b. would be exempt from the prohibitory
orders of the City authorities. Recently the markets have
been glutted with Bucklers from three to ten days old.
In reference to the select committee on the Railway
Passenger Duty, a conference of the executive committee of
the Railway Passengers' Association was held on Saturday.
It was urged that the Government should first bring for-
ward their evidence, that the Repeal Association should
then point out what the 'companies are prepared to
do in the event of the abolition of the duty, and that wit-
nesses should also be called on the part of the travellers to
show how heavily the duty fell upon them. Resolutions in
accordance with these views were agreed to.

According to the annual report of the Charity Coin
missioners, during last year drafts of schemes were published
for eighty-two endowments, with a gross eggregate income
of about £54,037 a year. In most of these cases proceedings
had already been initiated by the late Endowed Schools
Commhstobers, and some of them have now become law by
the formal sanction 01 her Majesty in Council. The total
number of schemes approved by her Majesty during the year
1875 deal with endowments having an aggregate annual in-
come of about £52,296.

At a meet:rig held at Exeter on Saturday the
bishop stated that the Home Secretary was so far satisfied
with the progress of funds for establishing a bishopric for
Cornwall that he had instructed him to get materials for
drafting a bill, and he had no doubt it would be drawn before
Easter. One lady had promised an endowment of £1,200 a
year to the bishopric. At the saute meeting, in opposition to
the wishes of the promoters of the meeting, a resolution was
passed affirming that this was a fitting opportunity for as-
serting the right of the Church in Cornwall to some real voice it
In the appointment of the proposed new bishop ...a ins suc-
cessors.
The Berlin correspondent of the Post says that
Prince Bismarck has resumed his horse exercise in the park,
the doctors considering him sufficiently recovered. The
Prince's Birthday was kept on Saturday, and "perfect heaps
of congratulatory telegrams' are • aid to have been delivered
at the Chaucellnes residence. lie bands of two household
regiments played in the morning. Later the diplomatic
body, the Cabinet Ministers, and the high officers of State s
called. The Empress sent one of her ladies in waiting,
Countess Haache, to present her congratulations- The
Emperor William and the Crown Princie presented theirs In
person.
On Monday Lord Carnarvon received a deputation on
the subject of marriage with a:deceased wife's sister in Vic-
toria. it was represented to his lordship that in all the
Australian colonies, with the exception of Queensland, Acts
sanctioning such unions had been passed, and had duly
received the assent of her Majesty. The colonists, therefore,
felt aggrieved that there was a conflict of opinion in this
country in respect of the legitimacy ot the offspring of such
marriage His lordship said that If a clear case of hardship
could be made out, it might be submitted to the law officers
of the Crown to say whether any doubt existed as to the
legitimacy of such offspring.