The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-04 00:00:00

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A MAN OF BUSINESS.—Mr. Cowles, of the
Chicago Tribune, was on his way to Chicago when he
heard of his office having been destroyed by the fire.
Instead or proceeding, he instantly retraced his steps,
returned to New York, and purchased type and other
material for resuming the publication of his paper.
CAREER OF A COMMUNIST.—A Communist of
the name of Marigot, who appears to have played a
very varied r6le during the insurrection, has just been
condemned to death at Versailles. Marigot, who was
formerly a corporal in the army, was in prison when
the revolt broke out ; he wAs instrumental in saving
the Bank, the Thatre Francais, and several private
houses from destruction, and yet he fought with such
obstinacy against the regulars that out of the SOO men
he commanded 700 were killed or wounded.

THE COST OF AN EFIDEMIC.—Dr. Lankester,
the London coroner, in his report to the vestry pf St.
James's, Westminster, says :---
" The small-pox is now slowly departing from the metro-
polis after slaying 5,000 persons, and manning, disilguring,
awl pauperising about 100,000 more, it must have cost the
metropolis at least £lOO,OOO, a tenth part of which sum puli-
clously expended would have cut short this epidemic at its
very commencement."

A MEMORABLE DAT !—The First of November,
IE7I, will be a memorable date in the British Army
(remarks the Doily Nswa). The system of appoint-
ment and promotion by Purchase expires to-day; and
a system of appointment by the test of capseity, and
of promotion according; to degrees of merit, takes its
place. To many worthy veterans, of whom we should
be the last to speak with disrespect, the change will
appear as revolutionary and as subversive of all that
constituted the honour, the renown, and the charm of
tvilitary service, as if by the decree of sonic English
Gambetta all the noncommissioned officers had been
raised to the command of regiments, or the choice of
colonels had been submitted to the universal suffrage of
the rank and tile. Perhaps even to the average Con-
servative mind of the country this admimetrative
innovation will present itself as one of those violent
disturbances of filo order f nature and of Pruvidence
which are to be witnessed and endured with a shudder-
ing resignation.

M. ROCHEFORT'S LAST SHAFT OF SATIRE.-f-
The Paris JOO real publishes the following letter, I
addressed by Henri 'Rochefort to the counsel- who
defended him before the court-martial
Allow Inc. my dear defender, to offer you a collection of
that Laufer,. which is supposed to have brought me so
much formerly, and which costs me so dear to-day. That
which troubles me in the calumnies of all de.scripthTs that
. .

ale hurled, not =13.,.4-.7-.1...;;;ZZ:t also against my family,
even to my children, is that in them I imagine that I per-
ceive the vague hopes of that ',Mine w' kit was believed to
be dead, and which I have the nputution of having hinted.
Everywhere may be seen peeping forth those political and
literary ninshroonis which a Bonapartist dunghill alone can
produce. I expect every' day to hear that Napoleon 111,
haviag resurned his domain, has pr"elainied all amnesty.
and, r haviutt been condemned hy the It public. I .11
How In D.eit with the fee wore tcrriblr Elleul tulle of bring
pardoned by the Enipire."

TAX ON
_SERVAN TS. -TIIC duty on male bee.

rants, fixed by the Budget of iBtifiat 15s. ahead, pro-
duced only £301,844 in the financial yesr 1870 71, In
the year 1869-70, the year in which the time of collect-
irg the duty was changed, it produced £244,310; in
1868-69 the then duty (a guinea or a half-guinea &card-
ing to age) produced 4=3,533. We must go back 16
years to find the duty on servants producing less than
£200,000. It is nearly 100 yeacs since (in 1777) duties
on male servants were,imposed. From 1785 to 1701
there was a tax on female servants, and from 1785 to
1854 bachelors keeping male servants were charges! at
a higher rate than other persons.
DIFFICULTIES OF LIFE.—The Philadelphia
• Medical Tim., gives the following as interesting to
many readers :—"Half of all who live die before 17.
Only one person in 10,000 lives to be 100 years old, and
but once in 100 reaches 60. The married live longer
than the single ; and out of every 1,000 born only !
95 weddings take place. Of 1,000 persons who
have reached 70, there are of clergymen, orators, and
public speakers, 43 ; farmers, 40 ; workmen, 33 ; sol-
diers, 32 ; lawyers, 29 ; professors, 17 ; doctors, 24.
Farmers and workmen do not arrive at good old age
as often as clergymen and others who perform no
manual labour; but this owing to the neglect of the
laws of health, inattention to proper habits of life in
eating, thinking, sleeping, dress, and the proper
care of themselves after the work of the day is
done. These farmers or workmen eat a heavy supper
i
on a summer's day, and sit around the doors n their
shirt-sleeves, and, in their tired condition and
weakened circulation, are easily chilled, laying the
foundation for diarilliva, bilious colic, pneumonia, or
consumption."— Bra irk Malice Journal.
"THEM THERE CADGERS."—The Republican
\Working Men, and others who meet to conspire against
the Monarchy, have as yet approached no nearer to
high Treason than by spouting something like it in
Trafalgar-square and Hyde Park. Guilty, however,
as they are of murdering the Queen's language, they
may be described as "The Bad English Party."
—Punch.

No CHANGE.—The Paris papers mention a
new trick devised by some schemers, who hme
managed to turn to account the scarcity of small
money now so severely felt in that capital. A number
of men have been severally in the habit lately of
visting in turn various cafes, and after partaking of re-
freshments to the amount of 40 centimes, presented in
payment a 100 franc bank note—the same note passing
from hand to hand for the purpose. The caf6 pro-
prietors being unwilling to cash the note for so small a
payment have allowed their customers to depart soot
free. In order to meet this trick, the waiters at the
cafes now inform visitors that if they have nothing but
bank notes their orders cannot be complied with.

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ELOQUENT SCAVENGERS.—The scavengers of
Carlisle (says the Liesrpool Mowry) have been agitat-
ing for an advance of wages. They have laid their
case betore the local board of health, and base their
claims on such high principles of humanity and philan-
thropy that it is not to be wondered at that they were
at once granted. The scavengers stated that, having
always hada "share of freedom '' in the board's esteem,
they "tissue a sort of a right to apply to your respec-
tive board upon any occasion wherein our earthly wel-
fare are particularly interested." Nothing could oblige
the scavengers more at present than the entertainment
of their application. "As all kind of necessaris to
keep our mental existences in niotien is getting so
morally high in priceies that our welly wages will
scarce meet the demands of our ontlaies ; therefore,
I your industrial scavengers most humbly petition your
respective board, and solicits your philanthropy exer-
tions in our behalf to add a little more to our weekly
wages to meet the standard pri,es of our vitals." The
petition concluded by stating that whatever might be
the answer to this earnest application, it would be
"received without a murmur," and their undersigned
humble servants would ever pray.
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ECONOMY AND EXTRA;.-iM:ANCE. —The Calcu-
lating Machine invented by Mr. Babbage was long
ago left unfinished for want of pecuniary help from
Goveriunent. To secure the completion of that mar-
vellous instrument would have sufficed how small a
proportion of the money, which, since the progress of
the Calculating Machine's constiuction was stopped,
has been squandered through Admiralty mismanage-
ment ?—Punch.

OUTRAGE BY SOLDIER/4.—A serious outrage
has just been committed at Antwerp by some eptil-
lery men of the garrison. A slistuslidice had occurred
in a tuft' c lied the l'ipe de Tabac between them and
some boatmen, in which they got the worst, and were
expelled. About eleven at night, after the house was
shut up, they returned, burst open a window, got in,
and commenced smashing everything in the place.
The proprietor fled in terror, leaving his wife and
daughter behind. The woman was greatly Mused and
robbed of 1501., but the girl contrived to get hold of
the till containing 000 f., and fled Samosa the fields. She
was seen-and chased, but managed to escape. Six of
the aggressors have been arrested and handed over to
the legal authorities.
THE RED Caoss.—Among the most active of
the Red Cross Knights during the late war none will
deny the claims of Mr. Furley to stand in the front
rank. He was the first to enter Paris uith provisions,
and long before the capitulation had made himself
conspicuous by his devotion to the sick and wounded
of both armies. As the French suffered most, his
services were, perhaps, more needed by them than by
the Germans, to whom they were consequently less
known, but in due time no doubt he will receive from
their generous and just Administration some mark of
their sense of his work as a benevolent neutral."
In the meanwhile Mr. Furley has been presented with
a bronze cross of the National Society of France, with 1
a diploma stating that it has been awarded to him "en
sourenir du yene'reux ct infatiyoble davilment dont it a
fait preset en secourant ha flees& aric hod de courage
pendant Nate la &free de is guerre." The diploma is
signed by the President, Be Flavigny, the Vice-Pre-
sident, Semirier, and the Secretary, the Comte de
Beaumont. Sir. Furley has also received a handsome
gold medal from Versailles, with the arms of the city
on one side, and on the reverse, " &Mete de &tours
aux Biome's. 1870." In the contre a wreath of laurel
and oak, with the words" Le Comile de Versatile a M.
Farley."
THREE YEARS AGO.-011 the morning of
Saturday, the 17th of October, 1868, William Sumner,
a man in the employ of the National Provincial Bank
of England at Newcastle-under-Lyme, was carrying
£lOO in silver to Lougport, to be paid in wages at
Mr. Davenport's china and glass works. The silver
was in a leathern bag strapped to his shoulder. He
ha 1 to Isaac along a road where there were few houses
and fewer passengers, and on arriving at this part of
his journey he was suddenly assailed from behind by a
man who put his arms round his neck, gripped his
thro st, gave him a heavy blssw in the mouth, and held
him while another man cut the strap and took the
bag. The two men then ran off, and at a little dis-
tance got into a dog-cart waiting for them, and driven
by a third man, and the horse was whipped into a
gallop. The men drove rapidly through a by-mad
towards Newcastle; but an accident to one of the
wheels obliged them to leave the horse and cart and
continue their flight on foot. They succeeded in
getting out of the way, and escaping the vigilant efforts
of the police to trace them. On Saturday last, how-
ever, one of the suspected men fell into the hands of
the police at Liverpool, and was charged at Hanley
Police court on Monday with the robbery. sad re-
manded for further evidence.
ENTRENCHED CAMPS IN FILINCE.—The Paris
correspondent of The Times telegraph :-- The entrenches'
camp which will be formed near Rouen is connected
with a general system of what may be styled "
centric defence," and which consists in increasing the
power of resistance in proportion SIS the attack ap-
proaches the centre. With this view a complete series
of entrenched camps will be formed at Rouen, Havre,
Chalons, Bourges, Tours. Langres, and Dijsm, and in
other places where the' formation of these camps may
be necessary to carry out the system. Tbe formation
of these camps being conceived in a purely defensive
apirit, will not give rise to any difficulties, and will in
no way interfere with peaceful relations.
TIIE MURDER AT CLOCESTER.-011 Monday the
coroner's jury in the case of Millicent Dawes returned
a verdict sit "Wilful murder against some person un-
known." The deceased, who was 25 years old, and
unmarried, but the mother of two chill en, was found
in the canal lock at Glocester, her skull being
fractured, and having received other wounds, which
the surgeons considereal were the cause of death, and
not drowning. She was last seen alive by a merchant
captain, who parted with her about eleven o'clock on
the previous night, to whom she said she has' twice
been disappointed in marriage, and if it happened
again she would destroy herself.
THE TRADE IN CIRCASSIAN Gums.—The trade
in Circassian girls (says the Lerant Herald of Oct. le) is
carried on with a perseverance worthy of a better
cause, but it is only just tee the authorities to state that
they appear to be making a steady effort to lot a stop
to it. Two additional " parcels " arri met on Wednes-
day last on board a vessel from the Black Sea, in care
of an old countrywoman of their own, who was sus-
pected by the police. Her store was that her young
charges belonged to the Circassian colony at Pyrgos,
and had come to Constantinople to visit relatives
living in Stamboul. This statement, however, was
found to be false, and the Prefect of Police has
ordered the girls to be declared free, and to be suitably
provided for.
ANCIENT CEREMONY.—In London, on Tuesday,
the City Remembraucer, the City Solicitor, and Mr.
Under-Sheriff Crosley attended at the office of the
Queen's Remembrancer, ss, Chancery-lane, to perform
certain rent services due from the Corporation of the
City of London to the Crown. The ceremony con-
sisted of proclamation being made—" Tenants and
occupiers of apiece of waste ground called 'the Moors,'
in the county of Salop, come forth and do your service."
Mr. City Solicitor then cut one fagot in half with a
hatchet and another with a billhook. Proclamation
was next masts thus Tenants and occupiers of a
certain tenement called ' The Forge,' in the parish of
St. (lenient Danes, in the county of Middlesex, come
forth and do your service." Mr. City Solicitor there-
upon counted six horse-shoes and 61 nails., and an-
nounced the numbers to the Queen's Remembrancer,
who said, "Good numbers.". This ceremony, which
dates from many centuries back, was formerly per.
formed in the Court of Exchequer before the CUrsitor
Baron, and more recently before the Barons of the
Exchequer on the occasion of the presentation of the
Sheriffs of the City of London and the Slieriif of
Middlesex, elect for the approval of the Crown, but it
is now performed before the Queen's Esanembrancer,
pursuant to the Cid oaten of tbeè,ct tiZ,l Vic-
toria, cap. 21.

A MARRIAGE AT CHICAGO Anna THE FIRE.
—The Philadelphia Ledger says
. . .

"It is stated that the Rev. Robert Collyer's son was to have
been married in Chicago on Tuesday week, but house, church,
furniture, and all were burned the day before. On Wednes-
day the wedding took place, the young bride bring dressed hi
a calico gown, the only dress saved."

AMERICAN SCII(X)L STATIKTICS.—AII American
Paler btat,s that the population of Brooklyn, N.ew
York, between the ages 5 years and 21, is 136,769 ;
1,572 coloured children, 84,842 whites between 5 and
14, and 48,353 between 14 and 21. The whole number
of pupils on the rolls last year was OS.:):15, but the
average attendance was only 35.568, or little mole three
a third of the nun•ber registered. The public schisihr
were toughs by 823 teaches, I ,f whom 789 41V fendre;
and ti,, stipends of the teaches in the day schools
amounted to 450,547 tiull4r, The total expense of
mantailung ti schools xclus,e oi new %alibiing.)
WAS 0:lors, or als,ve 18 dollars iur each pepil
in average daily attend:wee.

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-
a cosig-Tax.—Tltu Finance Accounts state
the following as an approximate appropriation, under
the different schedules, of the net produce of the income-
tax in the financial year 1070.71 :—Schedule A,
£,237,G0; schedule B, £201,104; schedule ( I, £620,320;
schedule I), £2,751,613 ; seholule E, £397,074; making
a total of £6,290,611. The ratebf the tax for the year
was 40. in the pound. In the last few years the income-
tax has run in two series. In the four years, 1864-65
to 1667-68, it was 40., and 50. respectively ; it
rose again to 6d. for the year 1661.69, amid then descended
w„ in n the next two years, so that those three years
,
show rates of CA., 541., and fil. respectively. Having
Inow leaped up to 6d. again it may be contended that
a descent to 4d. or tal. indicated.

SHORT THEME.—Great -;;I:e the marvels of
Electricity, wonderful are the triumphs of Telegraphy
The magic wire that encircles theglebe, that stretches
beneath the sea, that crowns the lofty summit and
spans the airy void, carrying its chequered messages to
every home and every clime, and influencing the
destinies of Empires and the price of stocks in a single
instant of time, has achieved another victory over the
Impossible, has berm, a golden burden across the Wild
Sea Waters—" £lO,OOO was remitted to New York on
Wednesday by Atlantic Cable." Who now can doubt
that this generation, or at the latest, the next, will
travel by Telegraph ? -PunA

THE INVENToIt OF LCCIFER MATCHES.—The
invention of our present Writer match was great because
it was so small, am! it now turns out that the produc-
tion of this most useful, but at the same time most
dangerous firework, was due to a happy thought which
flailed through the brain of Mr. Isaac Holden, who RO
terms the idea in his evidence before the Patent Com-
mittee. Mr. Holden had to rise at four in the morning
to pursue his studies M chemistry, and experienced
the gravest inconvenience from his tedious efforts
to obtain a light from flint and steel. He was
giving lectures at this time to a very large aca-
demy. He goes on to say :—" Of worse I knew
1103 other chemists did, the explosive material that wag
necessary in order to produce in4antaneous light;
but it VV.,o very difficult to obtain a light on wood by
that explosive material, and the idea occurred to me to
put under the explosive mixture sulphur. I did that,
and published it in my. next lecture, and showed it.
There was a young man m the room whose father was
a chemist in London, and be immediately wrote to his
father about it, and shortly afterwards lucifer matches
were issued to the world."
' POLITICAL FEELINGS IN PRUSSIA.--The fol-
lowing is an extract from a private letter by a German
in Posen :
" our political situation looks better to foreigners than I
really is, and all the satiefoetion we hod by the scion of Ger-
many and our lietmies ii,enibittered by internal emitters.

So long as we have such bad neighbours, and must keep
such an army, no Parliamentary government is possible. We
are governed by two or three men, and that is good for
Russians, but not for Germans. After such a mar, where
everybody did what he could, our Kaiser raises fifty lieu-
tenants to noMity, and gives four million thalers &dation
to a few generals, and the same sum for re,stablirliment of
400,000 landwehrmen who returned bankrupt to their busi-
nesses, and when the Parliament declared that insufficient,
Bismarck said we cannot give more for this purpose. During
the war we paid all what we call kriegs stoner „war taxes).
Now, after such a levy, our other duties are net lowered in
the least, and nobody receives back a thaler. Our army
consumes all, and we have no money to expend on other
objects. And, besides all that, we are expected to be thank-
ful to have such men over us like Bismarck and 3lohke.
Berlin m growing like a boy of fifteen, and money aliounds
as in London; but the provinces do net prosper foot, and
you know we are a hard-working nation, especially the
North-tierrnani We blwtll,l like to have the sea round us
like poor beautiful 61and. There is no doubt you are the
happiest nation in the world."

WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE MORMON
WOMEN ?—Brigham alone has seventeen wives, and,
on a rough calculation of his own, about sixty-one
children, and of these, sixteen wives and probably fifty
children will have to be torn from his paternal and cons
jugal bosom and sent out into the world in an abso-
lutely unsettled state, not knowing whether they are
married and legitimate, concubines and bastards, or
WitiOWS and orphans. The other elders, although not
so immensely mated as lhigham, each presents an
array of superfluous women and children that makes
the aggregate to be provides! for absolute appalling.
THE BOOK OF NATURE.—AUEUMH Leaves.--
Pooch.

AN ASTRONOMICAL PREDRTICN FROM THE
FAR EAST.—The Urdu Aklthur says that Maulvf
Mohammed Sallmnz-yaman, the famous astronomer
of Ramptir, whose deductions have generally turned
out right, has foretold that in the coming year a blaze
of light resembling a shooting star, the like of which
no mortal has yet seen, will be visible in the sky. "It
wiii dazzle the eyes of the people of particular places
with lustre, and after remaining for a (Aar( (i.e., 24
minutes), will vanish. The direction in which it will
make its appearance will be the north pole, and accor-
dingly the people of northern countries will see it
distinctly. Probably, the natives if China and
Persia will likewise have a sight of it. The effect of •
this meteor will be that the extent of the globe over
which its light will fall will be visited by famine
during the year, and a large number of the people in-
habiting it will be destroyed, while vegitation will also
be scanty."
DIFFICULTIEg OF LIFE.—The Philddelphia
Medical Times gives the following as interesting to
many readers :
"Ilalf of all who live die before 17. Only one person in
10,000 lives to be 100 years old, and but one in 100 reaches
00. The married live longer than the single ; and Out of
every 'As° born only 92 weddings take place. Of 1,000 per.
who have reached 70, there are of clergymen, orators,
and public speakers, 43; farmers, 40 workmen, 33 ; soldiers,
32; lawyers, 191 ; professors, 27 ; doctors, 24. Farmers and
workmen do not arrive at goml old age its often as clergymen
and others who perform nu manual labor ; but this is owing
to the neglect of the laws of health, inattention to proper
habits of life in eating, drinking; sleeping, dress, anti the
proper care of themselves after the work of the day is done.
These fanners or workmen eat a heavy supper on a summer's
day, and sit around the doors in their shirt-sleeves, and, in
their (fresh condition and weakened circulation. are easily
chillel, laying the foundation for diarrhma, bilious °elle,
pneumonia, or consumption."
CLERICAL AND THEATRICAL.—The Judge in
Divorce would like to resign, 'tia said, and the Att arney
General would like to succeed him. But each learned
person has a learned clerk, who has aided him long and
well, and each wishes his clerk to be in place. Quite
theatrical. Our Clerks is played before the School for
Scandal, or Hoye She Loco Him—PUNCH.
THE ALBERT MEMORIAL CHAPEL, WINDSOR
eASTLE.—Owing to the cessation of the Franco-
Prussian war Baron Triqueti has just been able to for-
ward to Windsor Castle two of the magnificent marble
tableaux executed for her Majesty the Queen and in-
tended for the partial decoration of the walls at the
east end of the interior of the Albert Memorial Char:el,
once known as the Wolsey Chapel, or Tomb-house.
These beautiful marble pictures, for such they really
are, were locked up in Paris during the late siege, and
as some of the rich and costly marbles and stones
used in their embellishment were only procurable
from Germany, the works were to a certain extent
necessarily impeded till the conclusion of peace. One
of the tatilsaux is now being placed in position on
the north wall at the east end of the interior. The
subject is the entombment of the Saviour. The picture
is surrounded by an inlaid framework of costly coloured
marbles, and adorned with white marble medal-
lions containing scenes from the life of the Saviour.
The picture for the opposite panel on the south side in
"Christ Entombed," and represents the dead body of
the Saviour lying in the tomb, with an angel in a half-
kneeling posture, and with face buried in clasped hands
at the edge of the grave. Above, on the frame, is a
bas-relief of St. John, and below are the wonls, " And
they shall mourn for him, al one mourneth for his only
WlC—Zechariah, 12, 10. The other texts attached to
these pictures are taken from Luke 23, 53, "lie took
it down, anal wrapped it in linen," and Zechariah
12, 10, "And they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced." When these two tableaux are in position
there will be only one vacant panel on the wall, that
in the middle at the east end next the Deanery-. :The
flooring of the chapel has yet to be laid.
DISGRACEFUL IGNORANCE.—AD inquest has
been bald at Wapping (London), respecting the death
of Charles Jones, aged 27 years. The deceased was a
labourer eniployed at the Hermitage Steam Wharf,
Wapping. On last Friday morning, at twenty minutes
past one, he fainted while helping to unload a steam-
ship. He then, to use the words of one of the witnesses,
"tumbled head over heels into the water." Ile was
dragged out in a few minutes. Ile hail complained of
want of rest. Dr. Wood said a hat when he was called
to see the deceased he found that several men had
stripped him naked on the open wharf anal were rolling
hint on a barrel backwards and forwards. Ile was quite
dead. The men said they were trying to rail the water
out of his stomach. The treatment, which was most
improper, did not give the man a oliani•e ad recovery.
The men, if courre, only erred through ignorance. The
' deceased had died front asphyxia. Ile must have been
quite insensible when be fell into the water. The jury
returned a verdiceof "Accidental Death."
LEOLL STATIesTICB.—The return for the pro-
ceedings in Her Majesty's Court for Divorce and Matri-
morual Causes shows that in 1870, 362 petitions were
filed, being seven more than in 1869. Besides these
there were six petitions for protection of property and
80 far alimony, as against 17 anal 85 in 1869. There
were 835 motions, 828 summonses, anal 2SI cause. tried.
Judgment was given in 274 cases. During the 13 years
the jurisdiction of the Court has been in exist9ce the
total number of petitions filed has been 4,155. There
were four applications during the year 1870 fora new
feur appeals to the Full Court, 41 petitions to
vary settlements, 220 decrees niai and 154 abaci. lute, 22
decrees for judicial separation, five for restitution of
conjugal rights, and nine for nullity of marriage. In
the ai ',met of Probst,. the nu ruber of probates granted wag
10,177, and of administrations 5,031; M 1869 there were
9.570 probates and 4,504 administrations. The total
amount of stamps
I ill London for probates anal
administrations was 1.934,078, as against 1:937,101 in
the pievious sear. In the district registers, of which
these are 40 there were in 1270, 16,639 probates and
7,075 adrninlatrations granted, and in 1609 there were
16,279 probates and 7,057 adminisnations. The amount
of fees received ie the district registers was E71,5a0
in
1870, and £69,492 in 1869. The amount of stamp duty
was £712,933 in 1870, and 1."02..0,210 in the preceding
year. Tire bushman of the Court of Probate continues
to increase according to the increase of the property of
the country. In the Ecclesiastical Courts there were
13 suits in'ls7o, an against as in 11)69,21 in 1567, and
16 in 1866. Further, there were 169 suits for faculties,
of which 165 were decided and one refueed ; three ware
still pending.