The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The pernonal,y of the late Mr. Richard Tatteraall
Ina been sworn mider £40,. 00. _

At least 60 young men of provefl attainments and
qualifications are now waiting for empl Inieut as cifilare in
her Ilsjes!y's service.

Acecr hog to an official announcement the subscrip-
tions to the new French loan amount to mum than eight bun.
dred millions of francs, seven hundred and filly
being the sum asked for.
At Portsmouth, a man nomad James haw been sen-
tenced to a month's imprtsosment, with hard lahaur, for
having falsely stated Man attedation paper that he had never
been refused for the army, thereby obtaining till shilling as a
recruit.

I'hebarvt in Hui:wary thili year is eatimaied as
being about 64 million imiheis of wheat and ttq million of
oatr, r a tow of 824 million bushels of bread stuffs. The
annual con.timp'ion Whiz estimated at 70 million, there is
a surplus of 12 million for exportation.

A writer in The Times 'Aye it is reported that when
the author of the '.ll'.lett am Rhein," Ceti Svtlhehu, 11r.t
heard hie composition sung by the multitu,e, he went out of
hls mind. lie Is now well, and Quota Augusta sent Mos •
gold model, with an autograph letter.
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The Emraror of Roads hut eigned the new law
giving free municipal governments on a very liberal iystem
to all the large towns and citlts in the empire, exclusive of
Poland and the Baltic Provinces. for whili wher laws are in
Contemplation. Tole is the greatest reform 'awe that of the
Judiciary and the Tribanala-
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M. Katauth live@ in small wine tavern in Turin.
When offered an et g tgement to lecture In Amerlce the other
day, he Wrl: lam no', the man I wan; I have had heavy
4, !nettle Ahab.: I want nerve, and I have alruoat forgotten
What public speakhor was lum it. troth a cha• g, ling. I
hava very little maney, but I have very few want!, and I am

The Maneheskr Courier E tate,' thot a fe«ling of un-
sedum Is said to have been Inured In Lancashire by the
movements of the Irish. Many of them, who have resided In
England fir years, have drawn their deposits from the
ear+ gs hanks, and departed for Ireland. The event Is re-
garded with suspicion, and communications have beau made
to the Home Socrotazi on the subject,

The Congregational Union of Eogland and Wales
hold. Its autumnal semi m at PI, moutg In the second week of
October, corn nencicg on the 10th, lOnd lasting four days._

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A party of young men from London arcended Ben
Nevi. the other day without s guide, got log lo the mist, and
one of them fell over a cry; and broke his arm.

A huge Prusaian chooner, bound from Brazil to
Run burg, ha. put Into L ugh Seim:ley, county Donegal. A
French frigate, nupposed to he watching her movement., Is
reported off luniallowat Head.
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We have to announce the fatal termination of the
Illness of Vumount Mtl.lton, who died at his teat, Peper
flarrow-park, Hear Godalming, hurray, on Monday. In th
734 year of hie age.
The foot and month dir-esse hav br, ken out in the
north of Devon. Superir.temleut Miner It a dedirlld two
heifer. cfh the farm of lir. I:lintel:4e, of ChaLlaoombe, In
fee tai

"By a really merciful, thru2ll seemingly cruel
Policy, the King of Prussia haa abeolotely prdsibited tho in-
fliction et any punishment for disobedience except death."—
Spectator.
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The Clutrirari (the French Pundt) cmstains an en-
Fraying representing Count Bismarck asleep on a couch
Death stands at his side, awl pointing to a pl sin stressed with
dead bodies, whisper' in Ms ear, "Thank. Y'
The '' Nationaliot " party in Ireland are organizing
collection. In a number of country towns for the wounded,
but they are confining their benevolence strictly to the
woundel of the French army.

Mr. Well., an a,ronnut, of E linburgb, bag offered
114 gamier. in :hat capacity to the PennsJae Goverbment. It
is stated that I h.), have beon accepted, and that %In Wells la
now on his we) with hls balloon to the seat of war.
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"No one randeny that to wound France no that her
morbidly susceptible vanity would cry out perpetually for
revenge would be to extinguish for another generation Owl
best hopes of French progress."—Spertator.
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Letters from Lima and Callao, received by the West
India mail, descrilla a sort of railway mania Vern, widen
some of them say is almost a "second edition c/ 'he great
railway mania m England. . . . .

Mr. Henry, a London merchant, avlsrlit bathing at%
Saltburn, on Saturday, w. drowned. He had, just before.
going into tie sea, been playing at cricket with two of hie
rephews, and was In a som.whist heated State. It Is sup-
posed he was melted with cramp.
At the Liverpool Aavizen. on Saturday, before Mr.
Baron Cleasby and a COI9IIIOII jury, Martha Burst ootainert
1204 damages from the Bridgewater Trust for the loas of her
lar.band, who was killed in • collision on the Mersey between
• Bat, of which the deceased was captain, and the defendants'
steamer Wyoern.
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The wr..:ck of the Golden Fleece, the vessel which has
cooled nteh endless litigation, continua as great a danger to
the navigation of the Bristol Channel sa ever. It seems if
will neither break up nor allo• Itself to be blown or, and the
coneequesce Hi that she exhibition of a warning light eVell
night inn matter of necessity. _ . .

The London Correspondent of the Mane/tato'
greardian writes that great perturhati a einds in the
German c mimeo-lents of Swit,rland in consequence of the
'segue& e Iceman to he he Id among the Pressier,s regarding
the posaibillty at their betng annexed to Wurtemburg, or to
the new Grand Duchy of Alsace The remooelled map o:
Earope, It Is salt, will b cotta rooted in wicordance with the
limits of the language as indlcattre of hose of race. The
poor Swiss are full of suspicion and maid, from Basle to
Neuchatel.

Before the outbreak of the war hfreere. Gammen
and Co. (Limit.), of Sheffield, obtained provisionally an
order for reverei hundred tons of Bessemer cast :steel rails
for the Belgian State railways. The IWO. GOVelllMellit
has now cancelled the order, as It is deemed wlvisable to
keep the contract n, Belgium, so as to employ Belgian work-
men, toe Belgian 'roil trade being advenely affected by the
war, while if will probably feel its effects still more seri-
The Dutch Government hal laid a project of law
bet, no Ins Chambers htroducing an income-tax ou all
revenues above £33 in smaller and £5O in larger towns. The
amount levied Is to be fiat d annually by the legislative
power., and for 1870 Is to be 4 per cent, on all incomes ex-
ceeding the above-on nloried bums. Oa the other hand, all
r lessional sod trade licences are to be done away with.
These latter p-oduced In 1860 about £280,000 of the £6,500,0.A
the amount of all the taxes,

Lady Franklin, who had been ab,ent from England
for several months on a tour through the United States, in-
cMdli g Sun Francisco and some of the Ptcific ports, with the
object of obtal,ing if possible a clue ta the rap 'vied existence
in the State. ad relics of the late Sir J eho Franklin, arrived in
the Mersey on Saturday from New Vora in the Cunard
steamer Tripoli. Though over seventy years of age, Lady
1r ranklio aimtared In the euj-ymeut of good !"ealih.

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The late Lord Hertford (according to the Paris Cor•
respondent of the Telegraph ;leaves to his successor, General
Seymour, but £2lOO a year. The rest of his large property,
amounting to s6),000 a year, has been bequeathed to his
natant son, who is commonly known in Paris as' Monsieur
Ri,hard," but who Is called I y Englubmen lr. Wallace."
It is said that another mill lett a c )nstlersule Moles to Sir
flamidon Seymour, and thtt a lawsuit between him and
".11.u. stew Richard "Is not improbable.

Whether Prince Nopoleon has or has not returned
from Foresee is left unceriaUt by the accounts published in
the Paris newspaper. 0: e purest states that the tricolor
is fl meting over the Pilate K,al, and that the Prince l• once
nrwe hi the Fitch capital ; another describes him as driving
ablut loaret Le, and makes mery over the eivilhoi attire
which his Imperial Highness is supposed to have dinned.
But, in any caies there appears to be no doubt that the
Princes rolesion has been a failure.

The mineral wealth of Qdeensland, ePpecially ite
richness in gold and copper, am etrs in more astonishing pro-
portions troy day. Numerous rteis of great richness have
lately Coen ducoveie I near Ravenswood It is anticipated
by come that the diggings at this plsca will rival those of the
famous rfitiMell diming. in New Zealand. At the (tympie
dlgairice recently 140 tone of stone [row the Neer Zeeland
red )telde.l 1,042 ounces of gold. The stone was taken from
• level of 150 het from the surface. The cotton crop this
year is expected to be ii.differetd, but a sucCesaf id experiment
has been made In cotton-growing.

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Lord Shafteebory. speakurg at Ryde on behalf of the,
Lonhon City Mission, drew a gloomy picture of the state of
the metropolis. Ile baieved that the next mans would
show a population in London of nearly four millions, a verbal
proportion of whom were in a mate Of social and morel de-
gradation so great that, in his opinion, unseal something was
done to improve them, the Brithh Constitution would not
be worth a quarter of • century's purchase. Ito thought a
good deal m'g't be dose by showing n mpathy with tee
masses, and teaching them that, their intermus lie to order,
cleaul:ness, and propriety.

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The &soh% herring b.hery is ell but ruined. Stettin,
which last year took 1-2 :1.551 barrels ~f hen-nem is ch,sed.
Sot. Limburg, which last )ear consumed 82
do are Dentate, lid dgeberg, Geeptemuule, liam,mrg, and
Bremen, whither were sent in 18440 nearly 100.04 0 barrels of
fish Last year there ports purchased over 3,10,000 barre's of
Scotch herrings; this year not • sh gin order has been exe-
cuted for them. Thus the principal markets ate 10 longer
open, the curer is idle, the fl hermen are in • state ot tor-
pioity 5,000 fishing-boats are unengmed, and over 20,000
il.hernien are throe n out ui employ went.
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A meeting of the executive of the Labour Repro.
mutation Lenue was held ii. ',mien, on Moakley, to discuss
the qm-stion of the war. The general tone of the speeches
was trot the tem khg classes of thin country ought to protect
Widmer any Wernemberment of France, not b came FreLce
wa. the Power so threatened, but becatre if each a course
were allowed now, it would lead to interndnable ccniplica-
Mons and troubles, from which Eoglaiid, In con mon with
other nations Interested, wou d ultimately suffer. Were
Prussia to be threatened with diem, mOerment by France, the
speakers said, they should Wel equally bound to pretest In
treir opinion this was nothing mere than • war of dynastle.,
and England should have nothing to say or do with it. The
result of the discussion was the drawing up of a draft addreis
to the working cla.ses of England, which is to be subnitited
to the comideration of a general meeting of the coned".