The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26 00:00:00

Mr. Henry Donlion, cf the Lambetll. rpttery,
London, having been awarded the Albert Medal of the
Society of Arts, for this year, in recognitioniof the
impulse he has given to the production of art pottery
in England, the Prince of Wales, who is President of the
Society, on Monday proceeded to. the works, in order
to present the medal to Mr. Doulton in the presence of
his fellow-workers. The recipient, in acknowledging
the gift, said a great deal of their success was due to
the impetus given to art manufacture by the late Prince
Consort; and the Lambeth School of Art, of which the
Prince of Wales laid the feiindation stone twenty-five
years ago, had largely contributed to the proswityk bf
the Pottery Works. . .
Mr. John Morley, M.P., addressed a meeting at New-
castle on Monday evening. He Said thererwas talk of
the Government soliciting- .a vote of ctinfidence mho),
Parliament met; he, at arty rate, was not sent to the
House of Commons to say he had any confidence in
Lord Salisbury. He dwelt on the question of Home
Rule for Ireland, likening the indignation which was
now heard concerning Mr. Gladstoneli attitude ox. the
subject to the simulated fury of actors On the stage.
They had now to face the Irish difficulty Manfully. If
they wanted to create in the Irish. a fitness for aelf.
government they must first teach them responsibility,
and that could not be done without giving them power.
The problem was how to do that•safely, and he believed
a solution would be found. •
The electors of the 25 Wardmotes into which the
City ot London is divided assembled on Monday in their
several wards to choose their representatives. In many
cases the old members were re-elected without opposi-
tion, in others new candidates were chosen without a
poll, and in six or eight instances a poll was de-
manded.

Lord Justie? Lopes on Monday gave judgment in.the
-case in which the point at issue was whether rats on
board ship are "perils of the sea," as corning within the
exceptions of a bill of lading. His lordship consiclered
the damage done by rats to the cargo of the ship Abyal
came under the head of sea damage, and was not due
to any fault of the defendants, who were the ship.
owners, and gave judgment in their favour, . but
stayed execution with a view to :tr. ?rneal by •tbe
plaintiff.
In the Queen's Bench Division on Monday connirei
applied for an ordor that the chairman of Mr. Pottet's -
committee in the Darwen Division of Lancashire
should be allowed to inspect the ballot papers,
.the
object being to question the validity of Lord Wan-
bone's election. Mr. Justice Denman remarked that
Lord Cranborne's opponents were fishing for a ease,
instead of proceeding in the regular way by petition.
With the concurrence of Justices Field and Day the
application was refused.

The question of the liability of the London Schoo/
Board to be rated by the parishes in respect to .their
schools was on Monday decided in the affirmative by
Justices Cave and Will, who pointed out that the
Board was in the same position ts to rating ivliethcx
they rented or built their own schools. -
At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, George
Mollisey, who had pleaded guilty to sending a threaten-
jog letter to Lord Clifden, demanding money, was
sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

The owner of some houses in Kinghorn-strect, in the
City of London, a man named Digby, was on Monday
ordered by the magistrate at the Guildhall to have the
buildings pulled down within 21 days. The medical
officer of health said the houses were saturated with
disease germs, and a death had occurred in one 'of the
houses since these proceedings were commenced.
William Toole, the young man .from Hull, recently
arrested at Windsor Castle, where he wanted to see the
Queen, as he tliought he might get into the Royal ser-
vice, has just been released by the authoritieS. On hie
first appearance, on the 11th inst., at the Palace his fare
was paid to London, and he was seen off by
,the
but returning next night to Windsor, and perSisting in
his application, he was handed over to the -Borough.
Police, who, after communicating with his friends, have
sent hini back to Hull.

Evidence-in support of the claim for compensation to
the extent of £21,665, at the instr.nce of the Greenock'
School Board, against the Caledonian Railway Com-
pany, for the Highlanders' Academy and ground, at
Greenock, which is to be taken over in connectien with
the construction of the new railway to Gourock, was
commenced before •She.iff Moncrieff and a Special Jury-
at Greenock on Monday.
-
At Sheffield, Mr. 3. W. Blake, who holds the degree
of Doctor of Dental Surgery from an American'colletre;
was summoned by the British Dental Association for,
practising as a dentist in Sheffield without being
registered under the Dentists Act. The defence was
that the defeadant did not held himself out as being'
registered, but as being a doctor of, dental surgery with
an American degree. He was fined £5 and costs.
The chapel of the BiFbcp of Ripon's Palace has been
extensively altered and improved, and marble i3teps,
white, black, and red, now form the approach to-the
communion-table. A reredos of richly carved old oak ,
has also been erected, the panels of which are to be
embellished with figures of cur Saviour.
The Corporation of Southampton resolved on
Monday, under the powers of an Act obtained last
session to consolidate all their public loans by the
issue of stock for £360,000, redeemable by yearly
drawings.
The King of Portugal has conferred the dignity of
Commendator of the Order of Christ on the Rev.
Alex. J. D. D'Orsey, Professor in King's
London, in recognition of services rendered to the in-
habitants of Madeira during a pestilence and Eubse
qnent famine.
William Witbey and Louisa Withey, who had been
charged with the murder of a child and acquitted, and
had pleaded guilty to having neglected to register the
death of the child, were sentenced at the Central
Criminal Court to two months' imprisonment.
The Religious Tract Society has commemorated tiler
jubilee of the introduction of Christianity into the
Fiji Islands by sending out for distribution among the
people an edition of 3000 " Bible Pictures." The work
has been prepared for the society by the Rev. J..
Calvert, for nearly 40 years a missionary in Fiji.
The last monthly mortuary statistics show the
death-rate in the nine leading cities of the Dominion
to be as follows: Montreal, 1220; Toronto, 187;'
Quebec, 193; Hamilton, 58; Halifax, 67; Ottawa,
52; St. John, N. 8., 59; Winnipeg, 37; Kingston 33.
Population considered, Winnipeg occupies decidedly,
the best position, a fact which proves that while the
climate of Manitoba may be open to some objections
an easy off-set is found in its health-giving properties.
A strange discovery was made at Torquay on Satiar-
day. The assistants of an auctioneer were making Itni
inventory of the furniture at Springfield House,
occupied by a Mr. and Mrs. Sutton, when they dis-
covered a packing-case in a cellar. On the case being
opened they found a coffin within, and on forcing this,
open the body of a boy, about three years obi, was- .
disclosed. It appears that the child died whilst Mr.
and Mrs. Sutton were on a visit to America.
At the Oxford City Court on Saturday, the Mayor, '
Alderman Buclrell, said he had received a letter calling •
attention to the large number of public-house raffles
announced to take place, which raffles the writer de-
clared to be illegal. The Mayor added that as his
attention had been publicly called to the matter, he had
asked the clerk to the magistrates his opinion, who'
stated that under the Acts of Parliainent such raffles '
were illegal, the only exception being the distribution,
by lottery of works of art, and these were only allowed •
when there was a Royal charter, as in the case of the
Art 'Union of England. . • •
,
Seven well-known anarchists have been arrested in
Paris for attempting to organise a demonstration'
against the ball ha the Tribunal of Commerce.
One of the heroes of the Franco-German War has '
lust died, General Bonnemains, who commanded the
Cuirassiers in the famous cavalry charge at Reich.'
shoffen.
A lady travelling by the Cornish mail down train,
who had not been aware that it did not stop at Frayle,
jumped from the train just after it had passed that
station. She was found to have received some bruises
and cuts.
Administering laudanum for soothing purposes is not •
uncommon, and is dangerous. A jury at Liverpool •
have censured the mother and a midwife for the •
practice, through which a child
,twelve days .old haa.
died.