The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-08-15 00:00:00

HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

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CORM AVERAGES.—The following are the average'
prices of British corn for last week, as received froze.
the inspectors and officers of Excise: Wheat, 335. 6.3.;-
barley, am. 1.1 d.; oats, 235. 6d. per imperial qr. Corre-
sponding week last year: Wheat, 378. 6d.; barleh
28s. 3d.; oats, 235. id.

A HOST OF OANDIDATES.—In answer to an adve....
ment for a first-class clerk in the Chambers of hit'
Justice Pearson, rendered vacant by the death of gr.
Lovell, over 500 applications have been sent in, among
the candidates being both barristers and solicitors-
The salary for this appointment commences at ,E5OO
a year, and rises to £6OO.
ADDITIVNS TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM—Among the
interesting additions to the British Museum is a large
new hall adapted for the delivery of lectures in relation
to art, arehteology, and science, to be illustrated hill
examples supplied by the departments. This lam'
occupies a portion of the building devoted to the
departments of Prints and Drawings and Manuscripts.
THE Scams GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—The recentir
founded Scottish Geographical Society purpose to forra
a ban collection of maps, plans, itineraries or guide
books and views relating to Scotland, for exhibition at
the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association nest .
month The address of the secretary is 80e, Princes'
street, Edinburgh.
LAST WEEK'S WeEcars.—Seven British and far,
foreign vessels were reported last week as actum
wrecks, making the total for the year 668. Four colds
sion cases (three off England) took place, resulting IS
two actual losses, one of the vessels being a British
steamer (off England). Four British vessels went down
off British Isles during the week. A Glasgow sailer
was reported with all hands, and a new Bedford whaler
with 22. Corresponding week of last year —Wrech'sr
16; total for year, 909.
THE FASTEST ATLANTIC PASSAGE.—The Cunard Line
Royal Mail steamer Eturia, left New York on Saturday,
the Ist inst., at 10.30 a.m., and arrived at Queenstown,
at 12.30 a.m. on Saturday morning last. She land
her passengers on Sunday afternoon, thus not oar
making the fastest passage on record, but landing her
passengers in less time than ever before accomplished.
Running till noon on the Ist inst., she did 50 miles; 211 as,
410; 3rd, 425 ; 4th, 418; sth, 423; 6th, 430; 7th, 41.4
and till her arrival at Queenstown 232.
OLIVIER PAIN.—The Chairman of the Internationsl,
Arbitration and Peace Association has received the
lowing: "Foreign Office, Aug. 1, 1885. Sir,—l am ne
rected by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 23rd ult., inquiring whetbef
there is any truth in the report that a price was Pli"
upon the head of Mons. Olivier Pain; and I am t°
state that, so far as her Majesty's Government arse
aware, no such proclamation was ever issued by Britis,'
military officers in the Soudan or in Egypt.—l am, sir'
your most obedient humble servant, J. PeutscEsoTS'
Hodgson Pratt, Esq."
ORNITHOLOGY.—The Indian "Civil and Milital
Gazette," writing of the ornithological collection Prei
sented by Mr. Allan Hume, of the Civil Service oci
India, to the British Museum, says that its value snit
extent are only now beginning to be realised. 't
amounts to 62,000 skins ot all kinds, and it has nee4.
Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, of the Natural History DePar'i
ment of the British Museum, mere than three weeks
uninterrupted labour to pack and send it away. El
now the work is not at an end, for the collection
eggs, which is no insignificant one, remains to be
despatshed. The gift, which represents the labotn
and learning of a lifetime, is described by Dft;
Sharpe as "the grandest collection of birds eve
made."
DISCOVERIES AT BATFL Bath
.—The Corporation O. ,
have commenced uncovering a second Roman batD, ;
contiguous to the large bath previously brought tO
light. It is very massive in construction and circulat
in shape, a series of curves forming the circle. °I3
Thursday morning a singular discovery was made hi_
the workmen. At the bottom of the bath they found°
human skull with the brains inside in a petrified state
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Unfortunately, it was fractured by a blow from
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axe, but the fragments are in the possession of the ca
architect.
THACKERAY'S LETTERS.—The letters of Thackergi
which are about to be published, are reported to be :9
more than ordinary interest. It is stated that," BS V!tis
his wont, Thackeray enriched those letters vg!
numberless little pen-and-ink sketches all of wkii,°o
will be faithfully reproduced." Further, that "
letters are published with the full authorisation of tie,
surviving members of Thackeray'! family. The gent
man to whom they were written was a very old friena
of Thackeray, and also of Lord Tennyson, and on.° to
the best of the Poet Laureate's sonnets is addressed

his memory."
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FALAEOZOICCLASSIFICATION.—Dr.Hicks has pro, 0,
a new classification of the Palaeozoic series. lie ;ter
poses to arrange the Palaeozoic strata in three Mr
groups—the Cambrian, the Devonian, and the Caru°t-er
ferous. The Cambrian, which thus receives a grea.b,
extension than is commonly assigned to it, is sl'ea
divided into three series. The lowest is to be designaL,,,,
the Georgian group—a new name suggested by th'to
velopment of the lower Cambrian beds in the distl,laie
bordering on St. George's Channel. For the rai",
Cambrian, Prof. Lanworth's term Ordovician is
ployed ; while for the upper Cambrian the old 01'
Siluzian will be retained. are
RELEASE OF SCOTCH CEOFTERS.-011 Saturday
cottars from South Uist were released from Ornyt.
Prison Edinburgh, after serving one month's iraPrsy
merit for breach of interdict, they having held 9°Bo
sion of land from which they had been warned.
cottars seem to have improved physically during l'st.
imprisonment; they speak gratefully of the kind tq
merit they have received during their incarceratl°ol
They were supplied with special fare at the expe°B:oo
the Highland Land Law Reform Association, 811 001
Saturday morning they were also supplied with
to pay the cost of the journey to their distant
home. let"
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The additions to tli.-
ft
logical Society's Gardens during the past week inekSt
a bonnet monkey, from India, presented by Dlr.
Stevens; two turtle doves, European, presented h 9
J. Hare; four Martinican doves, a moustache gr°,..f' o
doves, four Dominican kestrels, and a green bitw-s:
from the West Indies presented by Dr. A. ‘t)ed
M.R.C.S. ; a golden eagle, from Perthshire, presB;ol
by Mr. Chas. J. Wertheimer; two larger hill nlY°
from India, presented by Mr. Thomas Hudson; IT
Indian python, from India, presented by Mr. 11°1110
ton Laing; four proteus, European, presented 139,..0
Cook; a red-headed cardinal, a yellow hangnest,
South America, deposited; a vulpine phalange, to
snow birds, a Northern mocking-bird, bred I°
gardens.
AMERICAN LIVE STOCK AND FRESH MEAT "" 4,4
the past week eleven steamers arrived at LiverPe°,' gag
live stock and fresh meat on board from the v. 1320
States and Canada, bringing a collective supplY c
cattle, 1238 sheep, 8779 quarters of beef, and 1° rri
cases of mutton, whilst the preceding week's ~t 1
amounted to 2693 cattle, 2158 sheep, 8420 ciea,7,ebtil
beef; and 300 carcases of mutton, showing a 6" bee"
crease in the imports of cattle and fresh O.
but a falling off in the shipments of sheeP• 65).
conveying steamers were as follows:—Palestine,o„;
cattle and 728 quarters of beef: Oxenholme, 622°5 67,
Mississippi, 355 cattle and 366 sheep; Vene it
cattle and 1211 quarters of beef; Lake NePigleel •
cattle, 872 sheep, and about 648 quarters of rs '
Baltimore, 700 cattle; Lord Gough, 920 rluallte:
beef; Samaria, 1036 quarters of beef; City 0, f o
400 quarters of beef; Britannic, 800 quarters °srto
and 55 carcases of mutton; and Nevada, 2036 tll
of beef and 125 carcases of mutton. actor°
GRINDER. TEE-rn.--Carlvle, writing in his ot'
well" of the fight of Naseby, quaintly rnentical°o4
ancient grinder teeth, dug lately from that gr°
. . . Sound effectual grinders, one of thrjteoø.
large, which ate a:air breakfast on the fourteenait to Ai
ing of June, two hundred years ago, and e%eeP„ to uif
clenched once in grim battle, had never vier'',oer°
more in this world !" One of these " ancient grl cote;
is now in the cabinet of Mr. S. C. Tite, of VI pogo
a well-known local antiquary. He has ids° -erelly
from the same field. Cards are attached to t"a
bearing the following inscriptions in otlYl° (P
writing: "Jaw-tooth dug from a burial-nl°ga Se.?
Cloisterwell) on Naseby battle-field, on the
1842, by Ed. Fd., and sent to me 4 days aft' r.,,
to Mr. Wake 23d Jan.,1854.—T. C." (865'4 c•
found on Naseby battle-field. Has been in i
sion above 10 years. 23d Jan., 1854. TN."
Notes and Queries." he folilett
Mn. RUSKIN'S ADVICE.—MT. Ruskin
ing advice to an Edinburgh student in "0 ag
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August 6, 1864, which has just been priao".•;„ tO,
sure I never said anything to dissuade you frrcrs,oot°
to excel, or to do great things. I only wantieja ba ttl
sure your efforts were made with a substanto..,,...n. oats
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that just in the moment of push your f5Ol
not give way beneath you; and also I vranwsortte„° ,
feel that long and steady effort made in croon
way does more than violent effort made fronl:sBe. Alive
motive or under some enthusiastic irnP' ,t tbs 1
repeat—for this I am perfectly sure—t"- It
things are only to be done in this waY• Oar
difficult thoroughly to understand the, stroll,'
between indolence and reserye
between apathy and severity, between ;3 ii
patience; but there is all the diff_en by ifoad„
world, and nearly as many men are 11;1,c7rlo aSo
siderate exertion as by idleness itself..
as you can healthily and happily do ea, eh. °;"reetdry
determined direction, with a view to far.7-is tue
with present enjoyraeut of ono,B wors
proper, the only esaentially profitable 'MY,
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