The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-02 00:00:00

A telegram from Adelaide announces that the
English cricketers have played and won their first match
there against the Eleven of the town.

The Moody and Sankey guarantee fund of ?.0,000
dole. in Boston is nearly fall, and work on the new taberLucle
In that city Li to commence at once.

The Edinburgh School Board have resolved to begin
a conkery class for girls in one of their schools, as an experl•
meat.

The Home Secretary has intimatA his willingness
to receive a national deputation on the Ell jeer, of c:aeap
labour in prisons and reformatories, especially in the mat
making trade.

A:2aillamehlary iettum just issued shqvrs that the
local dues, duties, and taxes levied on the importation of coal
and coke into the ports of Scotland increased from £1,239 in
1863 to A 3,695 in 1878.
"The Queen has ordered that the men of the Alert,
Discovery, and Pand.ra, are each to have a medal. Of
frosted silver of course. "—Fun.
Preaching at Widnes on Sanday, the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Dverpool complained of the a..)4by of
the Catholics of the locality, who number in all 7,000; and,
in referring to its causes. spoke against marriages bat wean
members of diff,rent religious sects.

General di Cesnola's collection of Cypriot Antiqui-
ties has been definitively sold to the New York Museum,
which has obtained not only the treasure of Kurium, the
180 tons of other antiquities for £12,000, or, including but
freight to New York something less than £14,000 in all.
Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode will publish about
Christmas an edition of the authorized version of the Bible,
with footnotes comprising the best readings and renderings of
the Hebrew and Greek text, and specifying the authorities (in
each case) from which they have bison taken.
Mr. Rove, the Englishman who was captured by
Italian brigands and set at liberty on Friday, had been a
prisoner ever since the 4th inst. For seven days he lived
with his captors in a cave. After that the brigands, knowing
they were pursued, moved from place to place every
night, and concealed themselves In a wood by day. Accord-
ing to one account the ransom of Mr. Rose is said to have
cost him £4,000.

A letter from Prince Lubomirski has been published
hi Paris, which maintains that the Poles have nothing toes-
pact frOm the different foreign Powers. The writer con.
dooms the formation of a Polish Legion at Constantinople,
and advises his countrymen to throw themselves frankly
and sincerely into the arms of Russia, if they do not wish to
see the name of their nation disappear trcm the map of the
glowe.

In answer to a letter forwarded, on behalf of a
number of Liberal working men, to Mr. Bright asking him
whether it would be patriotic in them to engace in a demon-
stration on behalf of the Christian population of Turkey, that
gentleman has written to advise them that they need not
tear being unpatriotic in objecting to war for Turkey against
Russia on account of Turkey. In every city and town, he
tells them, the working men should denounce the idea of
this threatened war, and should "condemn the Meister
whose loose and reckless tongue makes peace more difficult
to secure.'
Prince Nicholaq of Montenegro, In a letter to Mr.
Digby, acting honorary se Irrtiry of tho Cambridge relief com-
mittee, says the refugees in Monteneg,o are neatly 90,000 in
number, and but for Russian chari:y Montenegrins and
Herzgovinians woul,l have been starved, lie begs the
assistance of the Camnridge C,nninittee in calling the atten-
tion of the British public to this stai,e of things, teeing sure
tfieir boundless generosity will not be appealed to in vain.
The winter threatens to be long and severe.

A yacht which has lately arrived at Marseilles has
attracted great attention from the splendour of its fittings.
It belongs to a young Russian nobleman, and has four
cannons on board, with a crew of thirty-two men, twenty-
five of whom are armed with five-barrelled revolvers, in
addition to rifled musket:. The owner of the yacht, who
Is only4wenty-three years old, and is married to an American . v
lady, eves on board with his wife. The yacht, which is fitted .`
up in the most magnificent and splendid style, was built at '
Havre, and is said to have cost no less than 4160,000.
It is noted in the Registrar-General's return thatthe
deaths from small-pox in London, which had been 21, 48, and
52 in the three preceding weeks, declined to 43 last week, of
which 9 were certified as vaccinated and 20 as auvaccineted ;
in 14 cases the medical certificates did not furnish any in-
formation as to vaccination. One ot the unvaccinated cases
was of a man aged 72 years, described as having been inocu-
lated in early life.
Dr. Schliemann, the well-known discoverer of King
Prism's treasures in the late excavations at the ruins of '
Troy has been pursuing his researches at Mytelene, in_
Greece. The workmen employed by the Doctor have recently
brought to light what are generally believed to bathe tombs
of the Attrides, viz, those of Atreus, Cassandra, Earymedon,
Agamemnon. and of several of his companions in arms. A
telegram to The Times, dated Argos, Nov. 25, says that "Dr.
Schliemann has found in the same tomb already referred to
another great quantity of women's jewelry In gold, and
handsomely worked. Immediately after commencing excava-
tions at an adjoining tomb a large head of a cow in silver. • •
with immense horns of pure gold, was found. A large girdle 1.
of gold, five gold vases, and immense golden buttons were - -
also found. All these objects were marvellously worked. I.A-11
Among other discoveries are nine silver vases and numerous e 4 1
swords of bror.ze, but no trace of ironwork." L Lt
An inquest has been held on the body of Mr. aa.aa
Saunders, exaibitiouer of Roble College, Oxford, who was. he
accidentally drowned on slonday by the upsetting of his
canoe on the CherwelL He was in company with a friend,
also in a canoe, who was himself capsizsd just before the
deceased, and was assisted to the shore by Mr. Morris, of
New College, and a friend who happened to be passing at
the time, and who were also in canoes. The deceased had
scarcely thanked Mr. Morris for saving his friend, when he
himself was suddenly overturned in his canoe. Mr. Morris
at once plunged in the water with the intention of saving the
deceased, but the latter sank at once and did not again come
to the surface, Assistance was procured and the river was
dragged, but the body was not recovered until more than an
hour had elapsed. Mr. Morris wet much complimented by the
Coroner and the jury on his gallant conduct. A verdict was
returned that the deceased was accidentally drowned through
the upsetting of his canoe. Neither the deceased nor his
friend was able to swim, and one of the jury, Mr. W. Bacon,
suggested that precautions should be taken by the Uoiver- .
sity to prevent undergraduates who could not swim from aee:i
venturing on the water in boats. Jae?,