The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-29 00:00:00

REMOVAL OF FISH.

Fish was removed quietly from Blackburn to Kirkdale
Gaol early on Saturday morning, in charge of Chief Constable
Potts aid Superintendent Etat wood. At Walton Junction
Station, Liverpool, which is within a short walking distance
of the gaol, he was recognised and hooted by a small crowd
of people, who followed him. Fish is treated as an ordinary
prisoner awaiting trial on a grave charge. He is simply
placed in a cell by himself and is subjected to no unusual
surveillance.

Finding that the dog "Morgan" was being exhibited at
Blackburn, Mr. Parkinson, its owner, went thereon SAturday
afternoon, and took possession of it. Several extraordinary
offers have been made for the dog. On Tuesday a Person
from Blackburn offered £2OO for it, and on Friday the pro-
prietor of a music-nail in a suburb of London, made a special
journey to Preston to buy it. lie first offered £.250 for the
animal, and afterwards proposed to write out a check at once
for £5OO. Mr. Parkinson refused even this odor, and then
the mus!c-hall proprietor offered to give him £4OO and all
expenses if he and Taylor would exhibit the animal at the
music-hall for a fortnight This offer was also refused, Mr.
Parkinson intending that WI dog shall be exhibited a certain
time in the Trainees, and the money be given to the family
of Emily Holland, and the wife of the unhappy man, Fish.

QUEEN -VICTORIA AT - COBURG.
The Berlin Correspondent of the Pali Mali Gazette, writing
on the 21st inst., says :
Queen Victoria after a stay of Oise weeks in der-
many, has again taken her departure. Her Majesty is
said to be very much satisfied with her visit, which was
attended the whole time with the most favourable
weather. At her special desire every official reception.
was omitted. The citizens of Coburg, however,
among whom the Queen enjoys great 'popularity ever
since her former almost annual visits to Castle Rosenau
with the I/duce Consort, paid their homage to her.
•.MErjesty in the form of a torchlight procession. The
Queen seemed much touched At this mark of attention.
Through the medium of the reigning Duke, at whose
side she witnessed the procession, she returned thanks
to the inhabitants for their courtesy, and expressed her
pleasure at baing again able to sojourn some little time
in the country of her deceased husband. Her Majesty
lived, if possible, more retired at, Coburg than at
Baden• Baden. She resided during her visit in the
palace of her son, the Duke of Edinburgh, the acknow-
ledge heir to the ducal throne. Her eldest daughter,
the. !Orman Princess, hurried to her Royal mother the
day:after. her ; arrival at Coburg. Accompanied by
her daughters, and frequently by the Duke and
Duchess Queen Victoria made several excursions in
the- neighbourhood, visited Rosenau, the favourite
resort of Prince Consort, and appeased to experience
great delight in renewiee old reminiscences. Dinner
was generally taken en famine, only the Duke and
Duchess and several intimate friends of the late Prince
Consort being invited. On E later Eve the Queen's
eldest grandson, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, arrived On
a visit. The young Prince is pursuing his studies in
the gymnasium at Cassel, like the son of the humblest
citizen. On Easter Tuesday the Emperor, accom-
panied by his WO, the Crown Prince, visited the Queen.
His Majesty, at the advice of his physicians, had re-
frained, owing to a severe cold, from going to Baden-
Baden. The great a imiration felt by the Emperor
fir Queen Victoria- is shown in !many ways, eat.
peciaiiy by his great preference for all presents
coming from her hand. His study in his
Berlin palace is adorned with a life-siz, portrait of the
Queen, and even Babelsberg, his favourite castle, con.
talus many recollections of England, such as pictures
of parades and reviews in which he participated at
the side of the Queen. With gratitude the Em-
peror also remembers the time when he, in 1848,
then an exile, was so hospitably received at Windsor.
Immediately after his arrival at Coburg, the Emperor,
the Crows). Prince and Princess and their son drove in
an open carriage to the palace to pay their respects to
the Queen. The greoting of the two monarchs was a
very hearty one. The Queen awaited her august
guest nt the foot of the staircase and escorted him to
her apartments. After a stay of nearly half an
hour the Emperor went to the ducal castle, where
rooms were prepared for him. Dinner was served
at the Queen's residence; at the termination of which
the distinguished personages went to the theatre
and were present at the performance of "Santa
Chiaria," an opera composed by Duke Ernest,
after a libretto of Mrs. Birch-Pfeiffer. The
Queen stayed at home. The Emperor and the other
R,yal guests returned to tea at the palace; from
whence they saw another torchlight procession, but
this time arranged in honour of the German Emperor.
The enthusiasm of the crowd assembled on the large
square before the palace WM unbounded when the
Emperor at the side of the Q teen appeared in the bal-
cony to witness the illumination. After taking a hearty
leave of the Queen, the Emperor departed nex', morn-
ing for Wiesbaden, where he intends staying till the
arrival of the Emperor of Russia. On the following
day the Queen also left Coburg to return to England,
by way co Baden-Baden, where she once more visited
the grave of her late step-sister. On her departure
from Coburg she presented to the mayor 1,001 thaleis
for the poor; a like sum was given by her in Baden-
Baden. . ,