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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-01-22

PIECE-WORK.

" Manufacturer " writes to The Times :
Sir,—A practical experience of nearly thirty years
as an employer of about 1,000 workmen in the.southern,
midland, and northern districts of England enables me
to speak with borne authority on this subject.
In some departments of my works piecework has
always prevailed. Observing the quicker and more
intelligent methods of the piece-work artizan, I was
early led to see the importance of adopting the system
wherever practicable, and I have succeeded in intro-
dueing it generally, to the mutual advantage ofimaster
and workman.
No workman knows what he can do unless he has
the incentive of payment by results. Did your space
permit, I could give many striking instances in con-
firmation. Two may suffice.
Fifteen years ago a branch of comparatively un-
skilled work was paid for at the rate of 200. per week.
I altered to piece-work; fixing what I considered fair
remunerative prices. They were refused by the day
workmen as inadequate. Convinced of their fairness,
and even liberality, I declined to alter them. In the
c . FourA ft
then state of the'labour market, it was easy to obtain
new hands. in succession
and he n ssiondseocolinedthe
offered prices.
es workmen
tried themore
than doubled the former wages, working less time, and
his average earnings have since been from 50s to 60s.
per week. He is a good and quick
workman, but the
prices I fixed are now adopted at all our works, and
are admitted to be liberal.

_
Three years ago, in a department paid by the day,
extra help was required, and two men were to be
engaged, when I determined to try the application of
piece-work, convinced from my former experience that
the three men who were already engaged, if working
piece-work, would do as much as five at day-work, and
have the advantage of receiving the wages of five. The
men were opposed to the change. I offered prices
which they complained of as insufficient to secure
them their usual rate of
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nion, they were free to make the attempt,
and I, with some difficulty, succeeded in inducing
them them to do so. Their average wages are now
60s. per week.
Without multiplying instances, I may state that I
have never known a case of change from day.work
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

DUDLEY.

Two COLLIERS SUTFOCATED. -- Yesterday week S.
heavy fall of coal and slack occurred in the Barrack Pit,
at Primrose Hill, Netherton, near Dudley. now being
worked by Messrs. Noah Hingley and Sons. Two
colliers named Samuel Ettle and Joseph Neale were at
work near the place in the roof from which the coal and
slack fell and they were unable to escape. As many
men as could work comfortably were set on to clear
away the debris in the hope that the men might be
alive, but after two or three hours labour their dead
bodies only were found. Their appearance indicated
that the men had escaped injury by the falling coal.
but had been suffocated by the heavy fall of slack and
waste. Ettle was twenty-two years of age, and resided
in, St. Giles' Netherton; Neale was thirty-four years
of age, and he lived in the Buffery Road, Darby End.
This is the second fatal fall of coal within the borough
during the week.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

SALES BY AUCTION.

DUDLEY AND WALSALL.
14.5 1000 PIANOFORTES & HARMONI-
UMS have been TUNED by G.F. GREEN
_Ol • . _
essional wuner, 260, CASTLE-STREET, DUDLEY, and
259 Q
oTASFORD-STREBT, WALSALL. Pianofortes Re-
ed, Re strung, the Hammet a Re-covered with Patent
' eat as used by the most eminent firm,,

THE ECLIPSE
SAUCE
IT ECLIPSES ALL THE CHEAP SAUCES.
TRY IT.
In bottles at 6d., is. and 2s each.

MANUFACTURED BY
CHARLES MORRIS, READING
and sold retail by all Grocers and Oilmen.

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Blackrod near Chorley and elsewhere.
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John Snowden, Paint Manufacturer and Oil Merchant,
South Shields, Your Telegram received, and very
much obliged to you for your prompt reply—They won't
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Swann, J. E. and Brothers, Ironmasters, Middlesboro'
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

DUDLEY AND WALSALL.
G. F. GREEN,
pTANOFORTE

ARCHER C LARKE'S

TU NER

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DECORATIONS FOR CHURCHES AND HOMES.

260, Castle-street, Dudley,
CHRISTMAS CARDS
And 250, Stafford-street, Walsall, From 4 a Id. to ss. each.
HAS GREAT PLEASURE IN PUBLISHING THE HOLLOWING RICE PAPER CHRISTMA.S CARDS
Painted by Hand, from 6d. each.
TESTIMONIALS : Scrap Books especially made to hold Christmas Cards,
rrom Mr. C. Potter, Professor of Music from the from 114 d.
Institution for the Blind, St. John's Wood:London:— Scrap Books, from 6d to 21s, for Scraps, Newspaper
"I can confidently recommend Mr. Green as a Piano Cuttings, Comic Cuttings, and Cuttings from the
forte Tuner He tunes by equal temperament, and ob. illustrated Papers.
tains an exact scale. (Signed) C. POTTER." STAMP ALBUMS.
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Terms for Yearly Tuning, including minor re- Goodali's Playing Cards.
pairs— Glass Letter Weights for Cartes or Cabinets.
Cottages, per annum ~. ... 1 1 0 An Elegant Edition of the new Hymns, Ancient anl
Grands do .
Single Tunings (in Town). Swiss Wood Goods. .
s. d. s. d. $ d s. d. Cartes and Cabinet Frames.
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Semi-Grands 5 0& 6 0 Concert Iron Brackets with 1,2, or 3 Shelves.
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Please observe the Address-260, Castle Street, Dadle3
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Schools and Private or Public Parties.

71, HIGH-ST., STOURBBID GE
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

HOPS.

The trade for hops has been very quiet, and previous
quotations have been with difficulty supported. Buyers
have been operating with great caution since our last report
The t)reign markets are reported quiet, but ch,ica des;rip-
tions of produce are held at full rates. Prices :—Eist Kent
goldings, 1876, £6 to 4101b5.; Autism 46 to £8; Farnhams,
£8 to £lO 10s. ; ditto country, £8 to ; Wnrcesters, £9 to
£ll ; Belgian,'46 to £6 104. : English, 1575, £3 to 46; foreign,
£3 15s. to £6; old hops, all kinds, 185. to £3 104

SEED.
the iine.t qualities commanded very
seed was moderate;
LONDON, Monday, Dec. 4.—The supply of English Clover
hii.l prices, with a fair sale. German at.d American descrip-
tions were quite as dear, and in steady telhest. All White
Seeds realised previous enhanced values, with a fair demand.
Choice Trefoil brought the full prices of last week, with a
moderate sale. Canaryseed sold at irregular prices, gene-
stwtse•eariedeeydc.
rally in favour of the buyers. WhaittiellMheulsdtatrodostheigdhwfaosr
out any quotable change in value for the best samples.
Brown Dutch as well as English,
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rat i"newgd :ha
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csdherrellaatieelmspepral:et prices,
previousbn ue st
s.s sales rwaedetvgr en.
rl Stem: all a kinds mi
brought former prices to a moderate extent.

HAY.
WHITRCHAPEL, Saturday, Dec. 2.—There was a fair supply
of hay and straw it market to-day. Trade was quiet, and
prices remained unchanged, RS follows: Prime clover. 100 s.
to 13E0. ; inferior,
5511. to 9 Prime meadow bay, 90s. to
130 s. ; inferior, 655. to 755. Straw, 40s. to 48s. per load.
ss.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

NEW MATERIAL FOR SUGAR.

Mankind is always making failures the stepping-
stones to success. One of the latest examples is to be
found in the manufacture of sugar. The Farmer tells
UR that since the partial failure of the crop of beetroot,
;he people of California have been experimenting
on the production of sugar from the water-melon.
Up ,to the present time the experiments seem
to have given most promising results, and to
hold out a fair prospect of remunerative re-
turns on a large scale, Dr. Hiller, the
originator of the idea, having succeeded in obtaining
"a sugar of dazzling whiteness, perfectly susceptible
of crs etallisation." A few months ago the scheme was
taken up in earnest by a company who have purchased
large tracts of land, in the neighbourhood of Rio Vista,
In tbe delta formed by the rivers Sacramento and San
JOE Chin. The details of the process, which has been
patented in the United States and most European
countries, are kept secret, but the inventor &attires
the world that the fruit yields at least
14 per cent, of sugar, far superior to that of the
beet, and that it can be treated at less cost, owing
to the greater purity of the jaice. The raw
material, that is to say, the melon itself, grows in pro-
fusion, and attains an enormous size, the warm
climate and rich light soil being specially favourable
to their production. There is all that is plausible
about the scheme, and if the prodific water-rnelon can
be turned to the• good use cf producing really good
sugar the world will be the gainer. The residuary
pulp will, of course, do well as food for cattle so that
the process ought to be a cheap one. At As, same
time we must remember that plausibility is not proof,
and that the stage of mere experiment has hardly yet
been passed—The Standard.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

BURIAL BOARD.

A meeting of this Board was held on Wednesday
last.
Mr. F. Evers in the chair. There were also
present Messrs. Platt, Stringer, and King.
'no minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
The Architect produced plans of the building,
and the further discussion was adjourned.
k The Architect reported that he had made a con-
tract with Mr. Price, of Hasbury, to erect the
wall round the Cemetery for 3s 9d per yard.
Cheques to the amount of £lO3 weresigned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE
EVOLUTION THEORY.

In London, on Sionday afternoon, an interesting lectur
was given at the opening of the session of the Loudon Insti-
tution, Fitnburi-Arcus, by Professor Huxley, on "Some re-
cent additions to our knowledge of the pedigree of the
horse."
Mr. Huxley began with a comparison of the skele-
tons of the horse and polar bear, pointing out the
similarity in the regions of the skull, the corre-
spondence of the number of joints in the neck
(irrespective of the engths of the joints), the number
of joints in the vertebim and tail, and the points
of agreement and those of divergence in the teeth.
Dwelling chiefly on the marked differences in the
bones of the legs of the two animals, and still more
particularly on the distinction between the foot of
the bear and that of the horse, the Professor pro-
ceeded to illustrate the gradual changes which fitted
the horse for running over fields and,roads, and left the
bear suited for climbing and making his way over ice.
Laying down the general proposition that it belonged
to the general plan of mammon& to have five toes on
each foot, these became reduced •to four in the pig,
three in the rhincc, roe and tapir, two in the cow and
one in the horse, sheathed and protected similarly to
the claws of the bear. Whatever notions might be held
with regard to the origin of animals, the facts of a
cornuriou ground plan in the horse and the bear were
just as true as that an architect hied a common
ground plan for various structures. The aim of
science was to go back re far as possible and trace the
various modifications. Shocking as might be the idea
that the bear and the horse had a common origin it was
not more ludicrous than that of the earth moving
instead of the Mn r.sing must have appeared to
common-sense business men a few centuries ago.
Paleontology furnished traces cf such a transition as
must have taken place in the how if the doctrine of
evolution were true. Remain et f the horse in the
later tertiary period were like those of the existing
horse. In the remains Of the upper miocents there was
a lit, le dlffarence in the tenth, aud an extra small toe
like a dew-claw. The horse of that period, ancestor of
the present horse, was called "hipparion." Working
back into the old 4 r miocene there had been discovered
in Fiance, Germany, and the United States remains
of an &limal first described by Cuvier under the name
of tlie paleotherium, a creature differing from the
hippation as much as the hipparion differed from
the horse. Instead of a mere dew .claw the animal
had three toes, the ffiula was complete throughout,
and the ulva was quite a distinct bone. From this Mr,
Huxley passed to the great area eastward of the
Rocky Mountains, where a large inland basin received
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

PROVISION.

LONDON, Monday, Dec. 4.—The arrivals last week from
Ireland were 350 lirhtl.a Butter, and 5,198 bales Baron ; and
from foreign ports 26,553 packages of Butter, and 1,667 bales
Bacon. In the Butter market there was but little alteration
to notice last week, with the exception of Du ch, which de.
clined about 10s. per cwt, in cons, quence of the quality
beirg so inferior. In Bacon there was a fair amount of
business transacted at little chance in prices, and at the close
of the week the market was decidedly firmer.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

STOURBIZIDGE UNION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Guardians of the Stourbridge Union will, at their
Ailetaing On FRIDAY, the 22nd DECEMBER INSTANT, at the
Workhouse, at Kingswinford, receive TENDERS from
persons willing to contract for supplying the Workhouse
with the undermentioned Articles for a period of 13
weeks, from the '2Bth DEMURER just, to the 211th day of
Dienca next, who are requested to send Tenders, ad-
dressed "To the Clerk ot the Guardians of the Stour-
bridge Union, at the Workhouse, Kingswinford," pro-
perly sealed, Free of Expense, and endorsed, "TEN -
DER," on or before the 21st just, viz. :
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

CRADLEY HEATH. HALESOWEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

SALES BY AUCTION.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1876.

Auctioneers' Catalogues, Sermons, Concert, and
other Posters.
Handbills, Circulars, Cards, Programmes, Bill
Heads.
Club Articles, Address Cards, Post Cards,
And ALL KINDS of PRINTING, in Black or
Coloured Inks.

Envelopes, Note Paper, and ALL KINDS of

PLAIN and FANCY STATIONERY.
Large Stock of PLAYING CARDS, New
Designs and Patterns.
BILL PAPER, PENS, INK, tto.
POCKET BOOKS, CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
Toy Books, Spelling and Reading Books, ate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

before Colonel Fletcher and C. Cochrane, Esq.,
the following transfers took place :—The Beef-
eaters' Arms, Lye, from John Gainer to John
Taylor; the Anchor, Waste Bank, from Charles
Hartle to Elias Savage.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—AIfred Miachin was
charged with being drunk, at Clent.—Police-con-
stable Wallace proved the case.—Fined 2s Gd and
costs.—Henry Wright, of the Lye, was charged
with being drunk and disorderly, on the 2nd inst.
—Police-constable Smith proved the case.—Fined
5s and costs.

BREACH or TH.E PEACE.—Benjamin Gardner and
John Thomas Loyd were charged with committing
a breach of the peace by fighting, on the 2nd inst.
As this was the first charge against the defendants
they were discharged on payment of costs.
DRUNKENNESS.—John Kendrick was charged
with being drunk, at the Lye, on the 3rd inst.—
Police-constable Smith proved the case.—Fined
2s 6d and costs; in default 7 iays.—Jeremiah
Phipson was chargA with being drunk, at the Lye,
on the 2nd inst.—Police-sergeant Rea, proved the
case.—Defendant did not appear and was fined 5s
and costs; in default 14 days.
NEGLECTING TO SUPPORT A MOTHER.—Enoch
Golding, was summoned by Mr. G. P. Chapman,
relieving officer, of Halegowen, for allowing his
mother -to become chargeable to the Stourbridge
Union.—Mr. Chapman said that defendant's
mother wa3 in the Union at a cost of 4s per week.
Defendant's brother Alfred pays 2s per week.—De-
fendant was ordered to pay 2s per week and costs,
8s 6d.

DRUNK AND REFUSING TO QUIT.—John Baker,
Rowland. Billingham, and Benjamin Gardner were
charged with refusing to quit the Prince of Wales
Inn, Hagley, on the 3rd inst, when requested.
Billingharn was further charged with assaulting
Thomas Tomkins, the landlord, at the same time,
and John Baker was further charged with assault-
inc, Henry Newma,n, son-in-law, of complainant, at
the same time and place. Complainant said that
about ten minutes to nine the three defendants
came in and called for a pint of ale. The ale was
served when the defendants began to make a noise
and he went and told them to be quiet or they
would have to go out. All the defendants began
to inf.ke a noise and he had to put them out.
They refused to go out and Baker struck him a
blow on the forehead. Defendants were very
violent.—Henry Newman gave corroborative evi-
dence and said that Rowland Billingham struck
him with a stone on the face, and in holding up his
hand to protect his face it injured his hand and
caught him on the nose. Had he not award off
the blow it must have smashed his nose.—For
refnsinh to quit each of the defendants were fined
5s and costs. Baker for the assault on Tomkins
was fined 5s and costs. Billingharn for the assault
on Newman was fined 5s and costs; in default 14
days in each case.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Benjamin Cartwright
was charged with being drunk and disorderly, on
the 27th ult.—Police-constable Roe proved the
case and two previous convictions against him.—
Fined 5s and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

OLD HILL.

WILFUL INJOSY TO A FOWL —At the Police Court,.
on Wednesday, before N. Ringley,- Esq , George
Moore was charged •with. injuring a •fowl, on the Ist
just, the property of Alfred Wright.—Complainant said
he saw the defendant pick up a piece of tile, throw it at
a fowl and injured its leg. He had to havellm fowl.
killed.—Complainant's wife gave corroborative evidence.
—lie denied the charge and said Mary Ann Rose injured
the.foWl with a line prop and h. was •from, home at the-
time.—Mary Ann Rose said that the line prop 'dropped
from the eaothes and fell upon the fowl's leg and injared
it.— Mr. Ilingley said there was a doubt in the case and
gave the • defendant the benefit of the doubt and die-
-
missed the case. • • • •

APPLICATION MR SIIIIETIES.—Phcebe Plant, Elizabeth
Baker, and Ann Williams were ciarged with using threat
ening language to Mary Briddesford, on the 29th tilt.—
Mr. Hayes appears I for complainant and ;Ali(' that on the
previous Wednesday the complainant swore a bastard
child, and when she left the court all three of the de-
fendants used most abusive language to her and
threatened her life so that she was obliged to come to the
court for protection. In fact he heard the threats him.
self.—Complainant saia that the defendants threatened
h:r life and she was afraid to go about her business.—
Tee defendants were ordered to find one surety of £5,
and themselves in £lO to keep the peace for six
months.

AN OLD ONFMNDEL—SaratIeI Willetts, alias Lawyer,
was charged with being drunk and disorderly, on the
29th ult.—Police-constable Sylvester and Inspector
Price proved the case.—Defendant denied the charge
and said he did not have any ale that day and all he
had was a bottle of ginger beer No publican in Old
Hill would fill hi-in any ale and he had signed the pledge.
—lt was proved that defendant had been fined 18 times.
As the defendant had signed the pledge he was fined is
and costs.

There were a number of cases that had to be adjourned
in consequence of there being only one magistrate
present,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

ST'OURBRIDGE OBSERVE&

c3me, and I trust it is not very remote, when they may be
some kind of free institutions established in that country.
The lovers of freedom everywhere look to us. The oppressed
everywhere turn their eyes to us and ask for sympathy and
wish for help. They feel that they may make this claim
upon us, and we, a free people,. not only do not deny
It, but we freely acknowledge it. Well, then, I put
to you a solemn question—a question which you must
answer to Heaven and which you must answer to your
calldren and posterity Shall England, shall the
might of England, again be put forth to sustain so foul
a tyranny (shouts of " No") as that which rules in Constan-
tlnople—a tyranny which has dried up realms to deserts, a
tyranny which, throughout all its wide range of influences
has blasted for centuries past with its withering breath all
that is lovely and beautiful in nature and all that la noble
and exalted in man? I ask you. Mr. Chairman, I ask th's
meeting cf my countrymen, I ask every man in the three
kingdoms—and in tt.is case may I not ask every woman?—
what shall be the answer given to this question; and I dive
undertake to say there can be only one universal answer from
the generous heart of the English people. (Lmd and long
continued shears)

"Atglicus " writes to the Daily Telegraph :—"Mr. Bright
labours under a nal.take of such a kind that I think it
necessary to correct him He imagines that Russia wants to
have the Bosphorus and the DArdanelles open to all men-of-
War; but the actual truth is that, although she naturally
desires to have the key of the Straits, she would be horror-
struck at the notion of any arrangement which .ff-ctually
opened them to all other fleets. Mr. Bright says that Nature
meant to have the Straits open, but it is precisely 'because
Nature did not take toe requisite steps fot „the purpose—by
causing them to be some six miles wider than they are—that
the whole difficulty. exists."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

TOURBRIDGE

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GOUT AND RHEUMATISM.—Tho
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removed aod c i!ed iu a few days by that celebratdd
Medicine, BLAILt'S UOUT and UREMIA:IIC PILLS.
They rcrtire no restraint of diet or confinement during
their use, mod are certain to prevent the disease attack-
ng any vital part.
ead by all Chemists at is. ild.aa 2s. 9d. per box.

Haltnoays Ointment and Pills.—ln all sores, wonnds,
bad legs, and sprains of any kind this Ointment is the
most efficient application. It at once gives ease by al-
laying inflammation and moderating the flow of blood to
the part. Whenever the malady has been of long stand-
ing the Ointment should be assisted by Holloway's puri-
fying Pills, whicn act upon the Stomach and liver, guard-
digestion from falling into that disordered state
which the pain, restlessness, and fever attending these
i ailments s apt to produce, and which much retards re-
novel, and sometimes even makes seiious the slightest
case. No m ther or nurse should be without these
noble remedi_t3 ; they are equally applicable to all ages
aad cunstitu Luna. Ihey purify the tilciod. regulate tits
circulation, renew diseasedi structures, and nvigorate the
system,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

13! TRIM ARE ANT LADIRB who have not yet used the
GLRNYIBLD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited to
give it a wait and carefully follow out the directions
printed on every package, and if this is done, they will
say, like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch
they ever used. When you ask for GLRNFIELD STARCH
see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted
or the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spur-
ns imitations.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

RUSSIA'S NEW CUSTOMS REGULA-
TIONS.
The Times a Tuesday, in their City Artitle, said :

"Trio object of the new Russian Customs regula-
tions (4 translation of which was given in The Times of
to-day) is simple in the extreme. They are merely de-
signed to furnish Russia with the means of paying her
foreign debt charges without having to draw on her
bullion stores. Hence the resolution to accept coupons
either already due or next falling due on account of
tht se loans in lieu of gold; hence also the readiness to
accept foreign bank notes the exchange of which
against gold is assured. Whatever Russia hes to pay
gold upon abroad or whatever will command gold
abroad will, it may be said, be accepted in payment of
Cast( ms duties, but payment is not to be taken in
paper roubles, "except on condition that they are
doubled '—i e., the Russian Government will only take
its own paper at half its nominal value. That is itself
a most Bigni6cant fact, but to the foreign creditor it is
of even more importance to know what the result of
this Decree is likely to be in the way of producing the
money necessary tor his OlVt,lentleo. O. thin point hat
is known is not encouraging. The Russian tariff is
already almost prohibitory in many instances, and this
new regulation will make it so absolutely to such an
extent as will nearly stop trade. Russians cannot, in
any caee, afford to buy largely of us unless we are pre-
pared to lend them mor 3 money, and they are not
in the least likely to be p.ble without that to
much abroad from anybody if 20 to 100 per cent.
is added to the, import tariff. We should say,
thorefore,. that Russia will not succeed in finding the
money she requires by this means, but for a time a
pr ohibitory m, asure of the kind may have the effect of
throwing the balance of her exchange of merchandise
sufficiently on V,e right side to permit the Government
to buy at no ruinous loss a certain amount of bills
payable in gold abroad with wh:ch to make good its
deficiency. The worst of prohibitory tariffs, however,
is that they always in the long run cat both ways.
Countries that are hindered from selling to a neighbour
by reason of such a barrier cease in time to be buyers,
and the tariff is thus an agent of isolation and a cause
of poverty."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

PUBLIC FEELING IN RUSSIA.

The Eastern Budget's correspondent at St. Peters-
burg, writing on the 30th ult., says :—" There seem to
be still a good many people in Russia who, notwith-
standing the mobilization of the army and the national
loan, believe in peace. They hope that the Porte will
give way at the last moment; they point to the finan-
cial difficulties of the Russian Treasury ; but above all
they assert that even the war party is beginning
to lose confidence. The Russian people, they say, are
beginning to remember the sacrifices which had to be
made after the Crimean War, the loss of valuable
territory on the Danube, the destruction of their
Black Sea fleet, and the demolition of Sebasto-
pol, to say nothing of the humiliating position
imposed upon them by the Treaty of Paris. For
the first fifteen years after the Crimean War, Russia
WLS kept in constant anxiety by the consciousness of
her own impotence, and of the superior power of Eng-
land, and even now she is not sure that she is much
stronger than she was. On the other hand, the national
loan has been a great success; many have offered to
pay double taxes in the event of war; others are
volunteering to give up horses and carts for the army,
and great preparations have been made by private
benefactors for improving the food and lodging of the
troops in the field.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

THE "DAILY NEWS" COMMISSIONER

IN BULGARIA.
The Daily News of Tuesday published the following
letter :

Sir,—l wish to express my grateful acknowledg-
ments to the English public for the numerous resolu-
tions of thanks that were voted me in the many public
meetings held throughout England to protest against
the Bulgarian massacres. Such a recognition of
services performed in the simple discharge of my pro-
fessional duties is an honour I had no right to hope,
and it is all the more gratifying that it WAR quite unex-
pected. Indeed, I feel that the honour thus done me
is beyond all proportion to the modest part I took in
exposing the atrocities committed in Bulgaria. To
Mr. Pears, Mr. Schuyler, and Mr. Baring is due the
izincipal share of the glory, and to them should be
awarded the principal praise.
I would like to add that I have been pained to learn
that some people have objected to my letters as sensa-
tional, and that others have reproached me with re-
lating facts that were too shocking for the contempla-
tion of civilized people.

As I should be sorry to have the ill-opinion of any-
body, I would like to defend myself against these re- '
proaches. I have always thought it the duty of every-
body, and especially of every journalist, to denounce
crime and iniquity wherever found, and to defend
and protect as far as possible the weak and the suffer-
ing.
In expressing a little of the indignation I felt at what
had been committed here, I was Actuated by no other
motive, and having performed what appeared to me
so simple a duty, I was very tench surprised to learn
that such cour,e3 was "sensational." I was, I may
say, extremely astonished to be told that the exposure
of the crimes committed here was as bad as the crimes
themselves. That is a view of the matter which I con-
fess I had never taken.
As to the people whose nerves were shocked by the
mere recital of what occurred here, I would beg them
to remember that these Bulgarian women and children
have nerves also; that these atrocities were committed
upon them; and that the people who were responsible
for them, whose business it was to prevent them and to
punish the perpetrators—the Turkish authorities—re-
fused to act, and denied, as they still deny, that
any atrocities were committed. There was abso-
lutely nothing we could do but appeal to
the great-hearted English nation ; to give the facts
to the world in all their naked horror, so that
the people of England might know the acts
perpetrated on these helpless women, children, and
young girls, and take measures to put a stop to them—
acts which one cannot think of yet without a feeling
of indignation and anger. The appeal has not been in
vain. Both moral and material aid have been given
the Bulgarians—material aid to the amount of over
£50,000, and moral aid to an extent which cannot yet
be estimated, but which we may hope will not be with-
out results on the future of this suffering people,—l
am, &c., J. A. MACGAHAN,
Daily News Sim cial Commissioner.
Constantinople, Nov. ie.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

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POTATOES.

There were fatr supplies, and trade was steady for the
better descriptions. The following were the quotations :
Kent regents, 1101. to 130 e. ; Essex ditto, 90s. to 110. c. ; rocks,
60s. to 80s ; finks, M.?. to 170 s. ; Victorian, 130 s. to Ms. ;
kidneys, 90s. to 130 s.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

HALESOWEN.

TRANEFERB.-At lhe Police Court, on Tuesday, before
Messrs. Gem and Phillips, the follQwing transfers took
place :—The Hare and Hounds, Hasbury, from Samuel
Newey to Henry Luck; the Nelson Arms, Hasbury,
from William Bailey to George Cox.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.— CD/111,2S Hacket was
charged with being drunk and disorderly, on the 25th
ult.—Police-constable Oakey proved the case —Defend-
ant was fined 5s and costs.—Edward Lowe was charged
with being drunk and disorderly, on the 27th ult.—
Police-serg, ant Chapman proved the case.—Fined 5s and
costs.

----
There were several other eases of assaults but they
were withdrawn by permission of the Bench.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

LYE.

ISQUEPT.-itfl inquest was he:d on Thursday, at the
Vine Inn, Lye, before Mr. R. Docker, coroner, on the
body of Eliza Jones, daughter of John Jones, of the
Heath Lane, Oldswinford, who received such injuries
from being burnt, on the 2nd mat, that she died on the
sth inst.—The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

Robinson, Repton, and Robinson, Longton, Selves, v.
—Beg to acknowledge receipt of cheque, £2O Ha 2,
and are exceedingly obliged for your care and attention.
Belfast Ropeworks Co., Belfast, Selves, v.—Beg to
acknowledge receipt of cheque, £75 17s id.
Rogetson, M. and Co., Bradford. Selves, T.—Beg to
acknowledge receipt of cheque, £27 lls Od.
Leedham, Binns and Co., Bradford, Selves, T.—Beg to
acknowledge reoeipt of cheque, £2l 7s id.
Barnes, H. Three Cranes Lane, Upper Thames Street,
B.C. Selves v.—Beg to acknowledge receipt; of cheque.
£34 6s 2d.

J. and W. Taylor, Tanners, Ste., Bermondsey, S.E.
Selves, v.—Beg to acknowledge receipt of cheque, £5O
Os:Od.
Wilkie, J. and A. Musselburgg, Selves, v.—Beg to ac-
knowledge receipt of cheque, £SO 4s 6d.
Ismay, J, and Co.. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Selves, v.--
Beg to acknowledge receipt of cheque £67 10s 6d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

WRECK OF A TRANSPORT.

The Times of Tuesday published the following from a
correspondent
MADEIRA Dec. 5.
The transport St. Lawrence has been totally wrecked
at Patt-rnosters, 90 miles north of Table Illy.
No lives have been lost. The 3rd Bnffp, who were
on boari, have been brought to Capetown by ships of
war. Tne rifles and baggage have been mostly saved,
but all the Government stores are lost.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

MONEY TO LEND, in large or small sums,
on personal or other security, interest from 4
per cent. Also upon Freehold or Leasehold Security :at
3 per cent, per annum. The utmost secrecy maybe re-
lied upon, and no commission or charges made. Apply
in the first instiu3ce by letter, containing full particulars,
0 101Y0 unnecessary trouble, to FREBK. HAWKIXI, Esq.,
91 Great Russell Street, Bloomebury, London, W.O .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this board was held
yesterday. Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were present :—Messrs. H. Billingham, Rhodes,
Kelly, Parkes, Guest, Parkes, Guest, Baker,Hal'„
Haskew' Fiddian, Brooks, J. Billingh am,
Homer, Wood, Giles, Plant, Barr, Penzer. Ad-
mitted into the house during the week 20 ;
discharged 11 ' • died 1; born 0 ; remaining
371; corresponding week last year 305. Out-
door relief Kingswinford district .221 17 Od ;
Stourbridge district Xl4 2s 10d ; Halesowen
district £l5 4s. 8d; non-resident paupers 9s 4d ;
total £5l Bs. 8d; corresponding week last year,
X 55 2s Bd.

A Staffordshire County Rate was paid
amounting to £982 9s 9d., being a decrease of
£l7 9s 10d., was paid.
Mr. Plant, pursuant to a notice given, moved
" that the resolution of the Board authorising
the Clerk to permit the minutes of the proceed-
ings of the Board to be inspected by reporters
of newspapers, be recinded." This was seconded
by Mr. Penzer. On a division 2 voted for the
resolution, and 16 against.
Mr. Plant then moved "That the Clerk do,
,after the close of each meeting, send a circular
to each Member of the Board stating the special
or ordinary business of the next Board meeting'
As there was no seconder the p roposition fell to
the ground.
The Sanitary report showed the death rate
be 27 per 1,000 for Worcestershire, and 28 per
1,000 for Staffordshire.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

ROWLEY.

LOCAL Pooean.—On Monday the monthly meeting of
this Board was held at the offices, Mr. J. Plant pre-
siding.—The Medical Officer reported that the number
of deaths daring the past minus showed a considerable
increase as compared with those -.luring the previous
month. The chief source of the increase had been
measles, from which cause no less than 16 out of a total
of 59 had died. The deaths averaged 14 per week, the
death-rate being 30 per 1,000. To prevent the spread of
measles, he suggested that over-crowding be prevented
to as great an extent as possible, and that school
masters be requested not to admit any children from
families where that disease was prevalent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

LORD SALISBURY'S MISSION,

It is encouraging to have learnt, by various special
telegrams, that Lord Salisbury's Mission has prospered
hitherto to the extent of his Lordship's partaking of six-
teen grand dinners, private and official, during his
progress to the Est.
The postprandial result appears to have been equally
satisfactory ; for a very special sub-marine telegram
from Rome declares that his Lordship's journey has
"increased his hopes of the peaceful result of the Con-
ference."
It is almost superfluous to add that the telegram
concludes by stating that our noble Representative at
the proposed Conference was to " DINE" at eight
o'clock with Sir Augustus Paget at the Embassy at
Porta Pia.—Eunch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-09

THE ADVANTAGES OF FREE TRADE

An address has been forwarded by the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce to similar bodits and to the
people of France, in which attention is drawn to the
fact that the time is approaching when the Govern-
ments of France and of the United Kingdom will be
cane,a t t 1 Tractty of Commerce of 1860,
which was made for a limited number of years. That
the Treaty has been of great benefit to the two countries
is, it is contended, beyond dispute. The Chamber
seeks not to meddle with the commercial policy of
any other country beyond attempting to show by
precept and example that Great Britain relies on
the policy of free trade, and %ill ever adhere to the
principle of openitg her ports to the ships of all
nations, and of subjecting her industries to the
widest competition. The French people are reminded
that Manchester was tbe centre of the movement
which emancipated the commerce of France from the
fiscal burdens which this country formerly placed on
French productions; and after a trial of fifteen years
of sounder principles of international trade, the
Chamber ventures to hope that the time has now come
for France to take another step in the path which has
led to the growth of her industries, to the employment
of her population, and to the strengthening of the
bonds of amity and peace between the two countries.

HINTS FOR NEW SCHOOL BOARDS,
To remember that the tongue is a dangerous mem-
ber.
Not to set down opponents, and those who differ
from you in opinion, as sceptics and atheists, or narrow-
minded and intolerant bigots.
To expect opposition, and to meet it with fairness
and good humour.
Not to ride hobbies too far or too fast.
To use the organ of hearing rather than the organ of
speech.
If there are any defects in your own education, to
endeavour to remedy them.
To read all the best works on Education, and to
master the Acts of Parliament, blue books and statis-
tics that have been published on the same important
subject.
Never to speak except in a cool, calm, quiet, com-
posed, and unrvilled frame of mind.
Always to waik to the place of meeting—exercise
being favourable to deliberation and rtfisetion, and
adverse to haste and impetuosity.
To dine together occasionally (not, of course, at the
expense of the ratepapers),__

Before everything and everybody else—rates, rate-
payers, creeds, churches; sects, ,narties, and parer.ts—
to think of the children,—Punch.