The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-08-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Up to the present time 36 public and 196 local Acts
have received the Royal aastnt.

The Ottoman Embassy in London is authorised to
engage twenty or thirty English surgeons for service with
the Turkish armies in the lield.

The heat was greater in the metropolis on Wednes-
day mornins, than on any day this year, the thermometer
standing at 70 in the shade at 8.45 a.m.

The sudden death at Paris from the rupture of a
blood-venael is aimounced of M. Durnof, the well-known
aironant, at the age of 34. In all he had made seventy-five
aerial voyages.

The National Society for the Promotion of the
Klucation of the Poor in the Principles of the Established
Cnurch has received a donation of 600 guineas from the
Corporation of the City of London.

A girl, named Louisa Fenton, aged twelve years,
was crossing the line at the Sutton R tilway Station, near
Retford, on Monday eveuitig, waen the York express rushed
up at great speed, knocked her down, and cut her body
literally into pieces.
On Monday the High Court of Foresters opened its
41s1 SULII3I meeting in Edinburgh There were 613 delegates
present !tom various parts of the kingdom. In the course of
the proceedings it was stated that the Order now numbers
600,t00 members.
An exciting scene occurred at Blackpool on Monday,
when tit() of a par'y of prufessiuual awnnwers, isho were
about to perform feats in the sea, were carried out by the
tide, the sea being rough, and one of the swimmers named
Levett was drowLed.
The Ottoman G,)vernment has pail the sum of
£4),0o0 as an indemui y to the famillea of the German and
French consuls who were murdered at Sahnica.
A General Exhibition of insects is to take place in
Paris, at the Orangery in the Tuileries Gardens, from the
25111 of August to the 25th of September.
Mondey (146) has been fixed for the execution of
Fish of Blackburn, who was condemned to death at the
Liverpool Atevs for the murder or the little girl Emily
Holland. No efforts are being made to obtain a commuta-
tion of the sentence.
In London, on Saturday afternoon, a well-dressed
man suddenly leaped over the parapet of Blackfriars-bridge
An alarm was immediately raised, and the pier master at
Blacktriars Pier launched his boat and endeavoured to
rescue the drowning man but he sank after struggling for life
for upwards of flee minutes. Several other boats put off, and
the Thames police dragged for the body, but did not succeed
in recovering it.

The French National Library has j ast been enriched
by a very curious legacy. It is the v thinainaus corres-
pondence exchanged between Napoleon 111 and his tester.
sister, Madame Corm. Tne first letter svLs written by the
Emperor when he was ten }ears old, and the last two months
before his death. Accortung to the will of Madame roma
the correppondet,ce is sot to be published betore 1885, and
she desires M. Reuan or M. Daruy to edit it.

A return of petitions to Pailiatnent up to the sth
hist sLows that 2 807 petit!ons witn 219,7 2 ziguicui es hive
been presented in favour of the S-de f itxeUtig L'quors
on Sunday Bill, and 31 petiti me with 41,101 iignatures agatust
probi!lition ; whtist 2.112 ttetltions, beariog 317.004 signa-
tures, were prestoted in iavour of toe Irish Stiodiy Clotog
Bill, and 83 petitions with 66,19 signature's against it. Very
few petitions have been preeented respecting the Education
Bill.

On Monday night the eteamer Snaefcll, belonging to
the Isle of Man Steam Packet Cempan), left D uglas for
Liverpool about eleven o'cleck, having cm board a Labe num-
ber of passengers, who had spent the bank holiday in the
Island. There was a somewhat heavy sea running, and after
the boat had proceeded several miles to sea a man fell over-
board and was drowned. Shortly before the aced,' eat he was
seen sitting on the rail of the steamer near one of the
peddle-boxes, arid the suppee i ion is that he overbalanced
himself and fell into the water.
In the Wesleyan Co;Aerence at Nottingham the
following resoiuttivi was carried by 3E 9 votes ageinst 49
That is is expediont that lay represekttatives shall be
admitted into and take part in the proceedings of the Con-
ference durieg fhe time when such matters shall be con-
sidered and decided as are hereafter declared to be within
the province of ministers and laymeriscbteinegut,conlieudtiteue
hat
that the details of the scheme shall
the
district meeting' when the laymen are present, and their
report shell be submitted to the next Coefereece."
The Melbourne Argus of June 12 says :_some
Interest has been excited ey the Exhibitlen iii the wied_ew en'
Messar. Ashton sine Brown, of Colleis-strcet. Melbourne, of
articles cf ci thing manufactured from Australian-gro vn
a Pr. Autralian tine is considered by matmfec'urers to be
Much superior to telian or Cnineee silk, and it is expected
that ;de-growing will become a most importent industry in
the Australian c,lonies.
Mr. Fawcett has given notice that next s€-esion he
will call attention to the Inadequate provisie it which has
been made in recent legislation fur the educatioa of agreirciunlg-
tura! children ; and will move—That t,lti os d
t
Opinion t it is
u
that education is as important to agricultural labourers as to
when
altogether
years a
elast of and i
others
g a
si sectioneezppeoer
if
mitred
iiitiertepdtobptao
ut
leaveact li i
i o ni3
school
e owl
h yairf they
are are employed in agriculture, whereas riseular school attend-
ance is enforced upon all children until they have reaehed the
age of thirte:ll or fourteen who ate employed' 'n the various
industries which come under the laetin
and Workshop
Act.

An inquest has been held at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, London, on tile body of George Lee, a tili-escape
man, who died from iLj :ries sustained whilst endeavouring
to rescue several persons troll' a tire in S. John'a•street,
Clerkenwell Captain Shaw said deceased when at the hos-
pital, describing his efforts to save the 'woman Franklin,
said tle picked her up in his areas, but owing to the smoke
and flames he dropped her. He picked her up again, seven
or eight timer. He never lost his hold of her, awl at the
last threw her sad then hitasell into the escape Ha never
knew a more heroic—act ethau-tbatot.the ec F, a ed. - Tse
coroner, in eulogising the conduct of the Fire Brigade gene-
rally, said he felt proud to pay his tribute to so brave !trusl.l.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.. A saw
scription was tel on toot for the distressed eafforers.

The statue of Dr. Livingstone, the site or which is a
few yards to the east ( f the Scntt Monument, Edinburgh, is
to be unveiled on Tuesday, the 15th inst. It is expected that
the Rev. Dr. Moffatt, the missionary, will take part in the
proceedings.

There is in Machinery Hall, Phi!aelelphia, a ma-
chine widen reizos vino 1, ingkes PtSVP-leS,rB (af it, places them
tato position, puts Iron b.ndi around them, Lased' e had at
each end, and a barrel or keg in the middle h tLi r s

The Porte is making snob great h I,;re to issue its
State psper that it.. notes ar., to be put In circulation without
being nurnbered. The o,v,runsenr. has no numbering ma-
ch in el, and cannot afford to wait until it geta them
Notice has been given at several of the collieries in
the Wrexham distnc, that there will be a mit:talon in the
wages of the colliers of 10 per cent., from and after the 12th
Inst.

The Literpool Post says that a largely attended
meting, hal at Blackoarn, of delegates from all the card-
room aspo3iations in Lanc,shlre, abort this, was dech.red to
be necessary A. tesolution to oppose reduc,in of wages, In
dead was ~.assed
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There was a large gathering of Freemasons in York
from all parts of the country on Monday. for the consecra-
tion of a new M ,sonic Loge by the Earl of Zitland. The
Lidgo F t and s 1 611 on the Grand R,gister of Eagland, and is
designated "The Eboractim Lodge"
Joseph Fitousn, of Borden, died a few dais since at
Kemerton. near Tewkesbury, in the 93rd year of his age. He
was the last survivor of the veterans who had charge of
1s apoleon at St. Helena, and had been a pensioner for 10
pears.
At the Leeds assiz3s, Mr. Jonathan Taylor, a
tradesman carrying on business at Sheffield, recovered £750
from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company as
compensation for personal injuries.
It is stated that the Porte intends, on the urgent -
remonstrances of various ana,:assadors and consuls, to pro-
ceed vigorously against the perpetrators of the atrocities in
Bulgaria. A number of cfficials implicated have been dis-
charged, and sevcral villages have been obliged to give up
their arms. Toe Sultan, it is added, has subscribed £lO,OOO
towards the relief of the sufferers.
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In sentencing a prisoner at Gloucester Assizes, Mr
Justice Grove said that intemperance had destroyed large
numbers of people, and at its present rate of increase wontd
In time destroy the country itself. He charaAerised as rub-
bish the cry of 'robbing a poor man of his beer," and held
that intoxicating drink was totally unnecessary.
The following are the words which the Emperor of
Russia is said to hive recently addressed to the new Turkish
Ambassador at S. Petersbarg :—" The atrocities in Bulgaria
have deprived Turkey of the sympathy of Europe. I shalt
however, act in a friendly manner towards Turkey if she
treats the Christians better."

On Saturday, by direction of the Secretary of State
for War, a Royal Warrant was promulgated to the Army,
increasing for a period of twelve nasuths, from the 10th st
May, 1876, to the 9th of May, 1877, the levy-money payable
to the recruiting party (tucluding the bringer) from £1 to
4.1 ss. for cacti gunner recruit passed into the Royal
Artillery.
The labourers employed in the BrTstol building trades
struck work on Monday for an advance of three farthings per
hear. Seven hundred lahotirera are foie, and their action
has stopped all building work within a radius of four Lures
from the centre of the city. Both society and non society
men are out, and a determined struggle is expected.
The nnyoher and dishibution of the Jews in the
world are diffisult to ascertain, exact statistics not having
been collected A recent writer estimates the aggregate to
be 7 074.85 g. Of this number, five and a halt millions are
found in Europe, a half million in Anis, three-quarters of a
million In Africa, and a quarter of a natllioi in America.
England contains 70,000 (some Fay 50,000), mostly in London.
The Dumber of Hebrews in .N ew York is placed at 80,000,
and the number in Chicago at 30,000.

At a banquet given in honour of Mr. W. Fisher,
chairman of the Free Libraries Committee, at Sheffield, Mr
Roebuck, M.P , in expressing his hope that \tr. Fisher would
not carry out what Mr. Roebuck supposed to be his
intention, to retire almost from Dublic life, said :—" I hoof
he may not do so. I hope that be may continue his efforts
to which age will lend a force; for I feel that as I grow older
and daily am before the public, every wrd that [utter Is
thought more of because l am older (laughter and "Hear,
hear ")—dot because it is better, but because it is uttered by
an older man."

The fol,owing en-arrant vessels were despatched by
the Agent-G.neral for New Z-aland during the month of
July ;—Tne Waimea, for Wellington, with 290 emigrants ; the
Orari, for Auckland, with 270 emigrants; tne Invsruess, for
ke's Bay, with 190 emigre'. s ; the Timaiu, fur Otago,
with 3,5 emigrants; and the Hctorah, for Nelson, Marl.
borough, Westland, and Wellington, with 29a tmigriultii—
being a total for the month of 1,400 souls.

0 , Saturday (sth) the list of fatalities reiulting from
the Thunderer exploslon was Increased by the death of Oliver
Greenfield, a stoker', whose recovery had been despaired of
from the tint, aloof who had been its a "very dangerous" con-
dition without showing any signs of improvement since the
24th of July. This death brings the number up to 43. About
£6 000 has been subscribed for the relief of the familte4 of the
sufferers.

"We stated a short time since that an ofrer nad
been made to the Aclmlralty for the purchase of the Van-
guard as she lies. At that time, we believe, their Lordships
were hot prepared to entertain the proposal, but we have
since heard that the advisability of putting her up for sale
by tender is being seriously conaldereci,"--Ariny and Navy
Gazette.

A petition was presented on Saturday in tbe Chancery
Division for a reference to Chambers to settle a final scheme
for the application of the Indian Mutiny Scfferers' Fond,
wh'ch amounts to e£1;20,000 At present the income is in-
sufficient to meet the annual cl Am upon it ; but as lives fall
off there will be a gradually increasing surplus, the adminis-
tration of which the trustees desire tJ have determined.
The proposed reference was granted by the Master of the
Rolle.

The Whitehall Review says :—" From letters which
have been received lrcm Fiji we learn that the health of the
place h exceedingly bad, and that there have been numerous
deaths among the white people. The men of the Royal
Eagineers hive suffered very much, and four of them have
died. Typhoid fever has been the prevalent disease, and,
with the sultry weather, the sick list when the mail left was
very large."
One of the objects of Queen Isabella's visit to Madrid
is understood to be to promote the marriage of her son the
King The lady whose suit the gieen mother is to press is
the condo of the King—the Infanta Mercedes, daughter of
the Due de Isiontpensier, a former claimant of the throne.—
Court Journal.

The Direction of the Bureau Veritas has just pub-
lished the following statistics ot maritime disasters, reported
during the mouth of June. 1878. concErnhig all if rgis.:—Saillng
vestals repoved lost-24 Eng .1,1,1 12 Fretroq, 0 I.T.rwrgle.n, 6
Garman. '2 Ital'an, 1 Spaui,h, 1 G-eek, 1 Dutch. 1 Portuguese,
1 Ru:s,an, 1 Argentine, 13 of which the nationality Is un-
known—t ,tal, 76. Iu tus irumla-r are included 9 vessels re-
ported inis.ing Steamers renorted lost-3 American 3 Rag
lish, 2 French, 2 Dutch, 2 of wilich the natioukity is
unknown—total, 12.

The C ,mmittee of the Hope Grant Memorial have
paid to the funds of this institution the sum of 500 guineas for
the purchase of a perpetual proentation In Memoriam of
the late General Sir James Hope'Grant, K.O B, President of
the Home, the right of presentation to be exercised by Lady
Grant during her lifetime, and at her decease, by the offi3er
in actual cJinmand of the 9th Qieen'e Royal Lancers for the
time being. _ - -

Among the maw attractions at the Alexandria
Palace on Monday was a match wherein J Keen, the well.
known bicyclist, essayed to give Mr. Macdonald's pony Tom
Tit. stan,ting twelve hands high, two miles start in one
hour's ride for £25 a side. The attendance was immense and
the weather excessively hot; but this had, no effect on the
pony, who maintained an even pace, and although Keen
made up one mile of the given start, he eventually lost by
three-quartets of a mile Keen rode on to the finish, and
after pas.im4 the post appeared to be seized with sunstroke,
he falling heavily from his mactiine and cutting his face
severely.
In London, on Sunday afternoon, the members of
various temperance organisations, to the number of about
2,000, held a meeting on Cleikenwell-green. presided over by
Cardinal Manning, woo was accompanied by the Rev Father
L ckhart and many web-known temperance advocatts. His
Eminence dwelt upon the home bleszings and comforts
which the spread of temperance was in inging to the people
of t'ne metropolis and of the country. He extiorted all present
—men and women, but especially women—to shun the pub-
lic-house, and to net an examplo which would tend to erecti
cate the drinking habits which were t'e social curse of the
country. Father Lockhart, Mr. Heneasy, and others
addressed the meeting, aad at its close some hundreds took
the total ab.,tinence p:edge.

New collieries ;re h-eing opened and old collieries
are being extended to such an extent in tha Sheffield. Rother-
ham, and Barnsley nistricts Mat, the Sheffield Telegraph says
it is estimated that, in a short tints, there will he an increase
in the production of coal at the rate of fully 3 '250 000 tons per
year. The effects of this _extraordinary increase of
production must be a farther decrease in the price of coal;
and it rou..t also seriously affect the miner's wages question.
At present the production considerably exceeds the demand,
difficulty is experienced in finding markets for the large out-
put, and several thousand colliers are working short time.
The Birmingham Gazette says :—" We announced
some time ago that a niuuiticent friend to the School f Art
had offered to give £lO,OOO to the school on couditim that a
scheme should be prepared by the committee for the appro.
priatlon of the endowment to specified oljects, and that it
should be approved by the donor. We are now informed
that although this scheme is not yet finally completed; suffi-
cient progress has been ria.cle to enable the committee to
announce that a cerise of free admissions and scholarships
have been endowed and that they are now prepared to re-
ceive the names of candidates for the first flit,ean free admis-
sions to the school under this endowment."