The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cardinal Cullen bits left Rome, and is expected in
Dublin on the tat ,4 next month. Before leaving Home he
was presented with an address from the lrlsh bishops.

A imw English paper ills been started at Sanghae
In China and celled the Cyete. It is charged with represent-
ing the antiprogressive party.

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The verelon supplied to the French journals of the
speeches of Mr. Gladstone and others at the Cohoen Club is
simply that " the speakers avoided at much as possible allu-
sion to political complications and the war."

The di.content with which the French press in general
regarded the exclusion of their correspondents from the
actual scene of war has not diminished. Government, how.
ever, seems determined to persevere in its resolution.

"Loot Sunday morning, at one of the City churches,
the rector omitted the e.rmon, 89 the congregation ern-
MAO solely of the monbera of hie own family.”—Courf
Journal.

At Alperton, near Ealing, on Monday, a cottage
took tire and was burned down. The only person In the
house at the time, an old man named Dickens, was dis-
covered amor g the ruins very badly buried, but ill, thought
possible that his life may be saved.

A French paper announces the death of Von Graefe,
the most distinguished oculist in Europe. Iridectomy, the
contribution to ophthalmic surgery with which his name is
chit Hy associated, was hut one out of a multitude of opera-
tions which made h.s clinfome at Berlin the resort of persons
labouring under eye-diseases from all parts of the world.

The King and- Queen of the Belgians accompanied
by the Count and Countess de Fiend re, were present on Satur-
day (the 23rd) at a Te Delon celebr.ited at the Church of Sts
Michel cud Gudide for the thirty-ninth anniversary of the
proclamation 1,1 King Leopold I. The solemnity attracted a
large portion of the population.

" There is a rumour that James Stephens has left
Faris for America, with a view to raise an Irish-American
brigade for France. There is considerable talk in Paris
about the advisihtlity of forming a foreign legion. That
France has no aversion to the service of foreigners is proved
by the fact that she is organising a Hanoverian Legion"—
Cork Iltraid.

George Everett, a soldier In the Guards, has com-
mitted suicide in London, ins sir golsr manner. Ceing in
an advanced stage of consumption, he was kept in his bed-
room at his mother's house. With the sharp edges of a
broken glass bottle he sawed away at his windpipe until it
was severed. His mother found him deluged in blood,
but too late to be of any use, and he sank from exhaustion.
A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy rain,
passed over the metropolis on Tuesday, lasting for several
hours During the prevalence of the storm the lightning
strock and carried away from its position nearly the whole
of the southeast pinnacle of St. Saviour's Church, which
fell across the choir and south transept, carrying with it In
Its descent the whole of the "flying buttresa " of the choir,
and finally sliding to the ground beneath—a distance of
nearly .2uo feet

The American papers of the 13th of July give
accounts of the life of Admiral Dahlgren, who died at Wash-
ington on the 12th, in the geth year of his age. The most
Important incidents of his career occurred between 1847 and
1,57, when he was employed on ordnance duty, and was en-
gaged in experimenting at the Washiegton Navy Yard upon
cannon and projectiles. During this time he perfected the
gen whichbesrs his name, and being commissioned as com-
mander on Sept. 14, 1855, was sent to sea in the ordnance
ship Plymouth to test the practical value of his invention..
A letter from Hanover, in the Si!`ele, states that the
Prussian Government has removed all the male population
from the Isles of Norderney, Borkurn. and Junit, to pre-
vent the French from finding native pilots. The port of
Ileppens is defended by the famous Krupp guns which
were in the Paris Exhibition of 1867. Throughout all Han-
over every one between 19 ant 50 is called to arms.

At the Enni,killen assizes, D,nis Grayson was in.
dieted on a charge of writing and sending a letter to Mr.
Bloomfield, a magistrate, threatening to murder him The
jury bound the prisoner guilty, and the judge (the Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas) sentenced him to
seven years' penal servitude. This was the second time the
prisoner was put on his trial for the offence, the jury not
being able to agree at the last assizes.
A priest was drowned the other day at Bundoran
whilst bathing: the other bathers rushed ofit of the water,
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leaving him to his fate. An inquest was held, on the body
being recovered. As it was proceeding, some tourists came
up, and the people took offence, it is 381,1, at the blue veil one
of them wore. But for the parish priest he would have been
roughly handled, the people being for hours about the house
where he took refuge.

The select committeee to whom the Factories and
Workdiops Bill was referred, have agreed to a special report,
stating that their attention has been called to the aeration
of the Factory Extension Act and the Workshops Regulation
Act, iSbl, on persons professing the Jewish Religion, and
thst they are of opinion that the existing regulations bear
hardly on that class of persona The committee, however,
while recommending this sui,ject to the consideration of the
Government and Parliament, are not prepared to deal with
this question in the Bill referred to them.

A severe thunderstorm passed over Leicestershire,
en Tuesday night At Woodhouse Eaves two men, George
Wright and Thomas Simpson were in a field cutting oats,
when the storm came so, and they took shelter under an
oak-tree. Wright was struck by lightning, and he Instantly
fell dead at Simpson's feet. Simpson went for his master,
who returned to move the body, and found that the poor
follow's head v-as badly cut, being split nearly in two ; some
of his hair was singed, and his body was much blackened. A
sheep was killed by lightning In the adjoining held.

The grand review and sham tight at Wimbledon
which on Saturday concluded the great volunteer encamp-
ment for 1870 was, from a military point of view, highly
satisfactory. The sad calamity, however, which had on he
previous day befallen the chief of chiefs, Lord Moho, brew
a gloom over the proceeding.. The muster of volunteers
was nearly 10 000 men of all arms, and a Hying column from
Aldershot of various regiments added about 2,400 men to the
force ; so that. as a military spectacle, nothing was wanting
to make it admirable and noteworthy.

At the Royal Oehoprelie Hospital, Oxford-street,
London, a by, named Adam Leonard. was sent up to the
top floor of the building with a teapot for one of the patients.
Is returning downstairs he climbed upon the bannisters
on the top staircase, and was In the not cf sliding down the
woodwork when he overbalanced, and fell with a loud crash
to the basement below—a great depth Mr. Adams, one of
the surgeons, ran to the spot, when the p,or boy was found
lying in • pool of blood luilds dead, his brains being dashed
out, besides other injuries.

The French ambassador in London has sent a corn.
innoication to Lrrd Granville, stating that the Emperor Na-
poleon has given orders to his commanders by land and sea to
observe towards nentral Powers the principles laid down in
the Declaration of the Congress of Paris of 1056. which are as
follows :—lot. Privateering is abolished. 2nd. A neutral
flag coy. rs enemy's merchandise, except contraband of war.
2r4. Merchandise of neutrals, except contraband of war,
sailing under an enemy's flag is not seizatile. 4 Blockades
to be binding must be effectual.

The elebrated London prison, " Whiteeross-street,"
has now ceased to be a prison and the inmates are turned over
to the convict prison at Holloway. Amongst the few who
were within its walls were Mr. Leonard Edmunds, who is •
prerogative crown prisoner, and whs, sinless the sum of
'0,904, and also sheriffs' poundage, officers' fees, costalof
levying, and all other legal proceeding be paid in the Court
of Exchequer," Is likely to end his days inside a prison, and
Mr Fennell of Bridgewater notoriety, who is a Crown pri-
soner, hut trot a prerogative Crown prisoner, who is also
undergoing a term of twelve months' imprisonment, nine of
which are unexpired. RI, understood that this prison, long
known in the metropolis as the "Queen'. Hotel," has been
disposed of to a brewery establishnient.

it being desirable to have all kinds of stores and
materials tor warlike purposes in a stale of readiness, efforts
for that purpose are being made at the Royal Arsenal and
other Government estalilishments at Woolwich. The scene
lathe Pquare facing the main gates of the Arsenal, at Wool-
wich, on Monday, was one that hod not been witnessed since
the close of the Crimean War. The square was literaPy tiled
with worknien anxious to gain employment, many of whom
had come from along distance for that purpose. At nine o'clock
they were allowed to go down to the departments with the
other workmen, and the authorities selected those they
required. Cho greater part of the day was occupied by the
medical oftle,rs in passing those engaged.
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The Canvente Committee met again on Monday, and
decided merely to report the evidence this session. Mr.
Lynn. the father of Brother lgnatins, was called aa a witness.
Mr. Lyne maid that he did not approve of the efforts made by
his son to foun‘i monasteries, hut that in all other reripects
he was a most admirable son. All the bishops with whom he
had been brought into contact admired hb.zeal and devotion,

but disapproved of his practices and his costume. Mani
private persons were, on the other hand, giving him con-
tributions to enable him to found a monastic institution
similar to that commenced at Norwich, near Abergele, in
Wales.
Intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope informs
us startling news had been received of extensive diamord
discoveries on the Vaal. Some of the rumours were believed
to be exaggerated, hat considerable numbers of diamonds
had been discovered—some of them very fine gems—and a
rush was being continued to the diggings There a mutual
protection society had been formed, to which every one who
wished to search for diamonds must subscribe hie name. A
diggings committee was also formed to adjust all disputed
claims. Etch digger was alLitted 20 square feet of ground,
and must either work that out or abandon It before taking
up new ground.
There is no doubt (the New York Correspondent of
the Daily News telegraphs that if Provost-Paradol was
driven insane hy political anxiety, overexertion, and the in-
tense heat, of which he complained bitterly. F rtwo or three
days his letters and conversation showed that his minl was
affected. War was not ai,ticipated when he ieft Prance, and
it is curre,,tlv no•Ti vi •' , w'o' e' .1 •