The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-04 00:00:00

PRAYER FOR THE POPE AND HIS
COUNCIL. _ _

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On Weelner day morning the first of a series of meet-
legs in reference to the approaching General Council at
Rome was held in the large room of Freemasons'
ravers, London, which was well filled long before
eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for the commence-
ment of the proceedings. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird,
M.P., presided, and on the platform were the Hon.
and Rev. Baptist Noel, Mr. R. Baxter, the Rev. Dr.
Cumming, Dr. Davis, the Rev. Prebendary Arnot,
General Walker, the Rev. Donald Fraser, and other
gentlemen.
The chairman said he thought 4 would he quite
unnecessary for him to dwell at any length on the
object of their meeting. All present were aware of
the object for which they had met, at the instance of
their respected brother Dr. Merle d'AubigneL the his-
toeian of the Reformation, into whose heart it was put
to invite Christians to observe this month in prayer.
Any one who was at all cognizant with this movement
would not be surprised when it was announced that
from almost the farthest ends of the habitable globe
answers had been received moat cordially entering into
the objects of the invitation, and the responses had
been such that one could not but see the hand of
God in so uniting His Church in every part of
the earth, not only by readiness hut by earnest-
ness. He had received a letter from Dr. Revel,
from Florence, stating that days of prayer had
been appointed in connection with the forthcoming
Council, and the arrangements had been publidled in
the Echo di Verita. Surh meetings would be held in
Catania, Palermo, Messina, Naples, the island if
Elba, Leghorn, Genoa, Turin, Verona, Venice, and in
ether towns, as well as through the Waldensian
Valleys. A letter had also been received from the
mission house at Bangalore, stating that all congrega-
tions there would unite in this movement, commencing
their meetings on the sth of December. The native
pastors there had also agreed to bring the matter
before their respective congregations. He had also a
letter from Dr. Kirk, who was here some years ago,
and was a most excellent minister, at Boston,
and gave an account of the days which had
been fixed in connection with this movement in
the United States of America. But it would take
two hours if he read all the interesting accounts of
the different dsre and hours fixed for the purposes of
these meetings in various parts of the world. He
could not but think that they might see rather the
hand. of God than that of man in the favour with
which Dr. Merle D'Aubignd's appeal had been re-
ceived throughout the world. It was proposed to hold
another meeting this (Wednesday) evening, and they
would be continued morning and evening on the fol-
lowing flays of the present month, 6th, Bth, 10th, 15th,
22nd, 29th.
The HOD. and Rev. Baptist NoeFread passages from
the Holy Scriptures. The Rev. Prebendary Auriol,
rector of St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street, next prayed that
all the machinations of Rome might produce confusion,
that truth might be brought out, and many people
rescued.
The Rev. Dr. Cummingjprayed that mercy might be
shown to the victims of o great and anci-nt delusion,
that people might he led to contrast the Church in
Rome planted by St. Paul with that presided over by
eta present chief, and that the days of Rome's antich
meted triumph might prove that of her predicted
wren ; that many might be brought out of darkness
into light.
An ieddress or two more, prayers, and some singing
ollowed.

rho Morning Advertiser says that, encouraged by the
success of O'Donovan Ressa at the Tipperary election, the
Irish electors of the borough of S mthwark (London) have de-
termined to start the Formai convict Burke as their candidate
on the occasion of the approaching election. It was to obtain
the release of this intereating captive that so many houses
were blown up in ClerkenwelL
An accident occurred the other day, at Glynn, the
seat of the Right Hon. Lard Vivian, near Bodmin, by which
General Sir Robert Hussey Vivian, brother of his lordship,
lost the sight of 000 01 his eyes. Whilst out pheasant shoot
ing, the General was shot by the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boa-
cawen. It is almost needless to all that the occurrence has
caused great sorrow in Lord Viviau's household.
The ttart,rs which reverted to the Crown on the
death of the Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Westminster
have been conferred on Viscount Stratford de Redclifle and
Earl De Grey and Ripon.
The Italian Charg6 d'Affaires in London, apropos of
the Duke of Genoa and the Spanish crown controversy, writes
to The Dimes to state that the Italian Government do not •
recognise the right of the Marquis Rapollo to interineddle
with matters which concern the princes of the royal house ,
of Savoy.
Seventeen thousand copies of the Poet Laureate's I
new work were suescribed for at his new publishers' trade
sale. Retail publishers are said to luive filed orders for thirty
thousand copies.
At Cavan petty sessions, on Monday, two men were
remanded on a charge of conspirieg to murder the Rev. Mr.
Jebb, Protestant rector of the parish of Stradone. Constable
Griffith has beea fired at M the same locality. The ball
passed through his cap without injuring him.
The North British Daily Mail states that the Rev.
Mr. Sterne, the Abyssinian missionary, recently identified
Prince Bouha Workey, a Ben of King Theodore, exhibitiug in
Wombwell's Menagerie at Dundee.
At Leeds John Hickersgill, tanner, Burley, has been
summoned on a charge of having neglected to vaccinate his
child The defendant read front a paper seven reasons why
he objected to have the operation performed. Whereupon
the ma.gistrates seutenced him to pay a fine of 203. and costs,
or seven days. The defendant elected to go to prison.
The Tower-Subway of London willshortly be opened
for traffic. The permanent way is laid, and according to
recent experiments the journey of the carriage from shaft
to shaft will not exceed one minute. Working only twelve
hours a day the line, ills stated, will be able to convey with
facility 2,000,000 persons per annual.
Eight Roman Citholic prelates have been appointed
scrutatori—or " tellers "—at the (Ecumenical Council. Their
office is to collect, arrange, present, and register the votes
on every subject. The Pope will appoint four cardinals to
replace him at those sittings of the council over which he
may be unable to prefabs in person.
The late Earl of Derby has left to all the male and I
female servants at Knowsley-hall legacies in the proportion
of two months wages for each year of service. In the case '
of the old servants the legacies will ameuet to very hsulsome
sums. Ile has also left annuities to Mr. Forshaw, stud groom,
abd Mr. Jibe Show' keeper of the deer, and others who had
been for lengthened periods in his service.
We learn from an American journal, the North
Wectern Christian Advocate, that there are at present 203
German newspaper. or periodicals of various kinds in the
United States, exclusive of journals melt as the Agriculturist,
which, though appearing isi &relish, publish au edition at
the same time in the German language.
An inquest was hell, on Monday, at Horingham, in
the No,th Riding, ens y.ung girl of nineteen, named Jane
Atkinson, the daughter of a bosom maker. Deceased lived
with her parents, and was in bad health, and under medical
treatment. Oa Fri lay bight she swallowed a quantity of
vermin killing powder which the had purchased at a ahop in
the village. The jary returned a verdict of Felo-de Se. The
funeral took place, without any religious service at ton
o'clock on Monday night.
The Secretary to the Board of Trade, Mr. Shaw
Le.evre, expressed his opinion at a meeting of the leading
commercial men of Liverpool on Monday, that the repeal of
the French treaty would boa great misfortune to &gland.
But there was no fear of suer a course being taken. France
had treaties similar to that with this country with almost
every European Government, audit would be almost against
the comity of listens to abrogate the treaty with us while
some of the treaties with other countries had floe or six years
to run.
The whole of the epeech of the Emperor of the
French was transmitted from Paris on Monday to the offices
of the Submarine Telegraph in Threadneedle-street. London,
in fourteen minutes. Five wires were used.
A religious journal, .Le Monde, says it is well known
that the Papacy has tient the originator of the greatest
undertakings and the leader of every movement beat calcu-
lated to ensure the progress of chelisation. fleece, dirig to
this journal it was a Pope, Sietus Quintue, who first conceived
the idea of the Suez Canal.
The Birmingham annual cattle and poultry show
we's opened at Bingley-hall, on Monday. There were 2,879
entries, a number which represenis the average of the tour
preceding years. The Council offer prizes to the value of
nearly e 52,300.
A munificent gift was made on Wednesday in laa
week, by an anonymous benefactor, who deposited at the
bank of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co. the sum of £l,oeo for
the Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis, Charles-street,
Fur. mairsquare Loudon.
There are rumours of a misunderstanding in the
Irish Executive, with refereece to the Fenian difficulty. The
LerceLleuteuant and the Attorney-General are, it is said, in
favour of the adoption of rigorous measures, while the Lord
Chancellor and the Cote Secretary thiuk it the wiser policy
to let matters take their course. It is added that, should the
counsels of the Chancellor and Secretary prevail, Earl Spencer
will resign.
A shocking accident occurred last Friday morning
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, at Blackburn. A
weaver named Isebjerein Asian left his home to proceed to
his work at Messrs. Swabs's mill, Livesey, and on the way
he had to cross the line. The train to Preston was passing
at the time, mid the deceased was knocked down, rue over,
and killed.
At a recent meeting of the Scientific and Literary
Institute of Mari, Dr. BIM presented the heart of a lunatic,
the left ventricular cavity of winch contained & needle six
eentrimetres (nearly two and a half inches) long. The point,
after perforating the valve, prejected for a centritnetre into
the left auricle. From inquiry it appeared that the man
had introduced the needle into his heart about twenty-two
months before his death, &yid that the act was not followed by
the least inconvenience —British Medical Journal.
Considerable excitemetiL was( mcm4i.n4c a in Kirkcaldy
last week by the anneuncement that, during the process of
flooring the celebrated Longuiddry whale, a ) oung whale had
been found in it. The youne animal, which was perfect in
form, measured 20ft. in length and about Oft across the tail.
It won exhibited for a short time at the beiliughouse on Leith-
head Sands, at a charge of 3d, per head, and it was after-
wards removed to Edinleirgh. is is now in the anatomical
deperement of the University there Ihe skeleton, it is un-
derstood, will be preserved in the museum.
Oa Monday night a man mounted the parapet of
Patrick's Bridge, Cork, and Hung himself into the river. A
heavy current was naming at the time, and no trace of the
unforturiate man could be t und. It was inibileqUently dis-
covered that his name was Francis Croker, a carrier, about
twenty-six learn oh age. It is supposed that great mental
EPITOINIE OF NEWS depression drove him to the deed. Fr hours his mother
, stopped on Patrick's Bridge wailing piteously, and the police
Is vain seerched the river in all directimis for him.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Among the presents brought to the Pope by the
Archbishop of New York Is a gold fish, with the mouth
A Minnesota church haa hung a big triangle in place formed ot rubies. This rarity only opens Its mouth to throw
of a bell, out pieces of gold, anal the coin is both of the best quality
During the past week 46 wrecks have been reported, and appears to he almost inexhaustible in quantity.
making for the present year 2,378. The celebrated artist Kaulbach is said to be engaged
The Record says that Lord Cairns has resigned his in the composition of a picture representing oar :Saviour
positieu of leader of the Conservative Opposition in the driving the speculetersand self-seekers ousof the (Ecumenical
House of Lords, and does not credit the rumour that he ie to Council, as mobey chatigera were driven out of the temple
have the late lord Stanley no his successor. Althnugh as Jerusalem. Great interest is excited in Germany by. the
fifteenth E (re of Derby, his polities and principles would subject of the ',Muting
never suit those who have been dissatisfied with the first
It is early in the day to sosak of next year's budget,
Lord Climes. but it is said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Inlenda
The Bombay Gazette says that some of the " edu- mating ab d for popular favour liy introducing certain fiscal
cated " Pattie. at Moratlabsil recently addressed Lord MeYO veteran calculated to snake Mr. heights free breakfast table
In Englishns follows t—" Brilliant as the sun which enlivens somewhat of a r crafty. The duties on tea, [sugar, and coffee
the world with its ,ight, Iteirelaent as the moon which sec- are to be reaojusted and materially lessened before next
ceeds the dal kuess of the night." 'She Viceroy replied, "I April.
am ranch obliged to you. It is estimated that by the end of the year 1869
The death is announced at Paris of Dr. Henry East- there will lie laid In the United States, in round numbers,
lake, nephew of the late Sir Charles E ,streee, who formerly 110,000 tens of steel rails, equal to 1,100 miles of. steel road
held several medical appointments in London. and of this kmauut about 35 000 tons (equal to 300 miles) will
In the To:usury department at Washington, in he laid during the prerent season. These rails are in use on
which 3,000 clerks were employed at the commencement of more than filty differ cot roads, and are partly of American,
the ye is over OA have bet n disch•trged, causing a saving of principally of &relish, and to a small extout vi Pr uselan
70,000 dollars per month. In the War department 200 clerks manufacture.
have been discharged this year, and Very few new appoint- An alarming number of cases of rick burning by in.
merits have been mode In the Post office department, also, canailles have lately taken place in the rural districts
great changes have been effected. erounil Nantes. During the last few days two fires have
Sir S. C. Dacres, the senior sea Lord of the Ad. eceurred at Chlteauhriant ; one at St Joseph, one at Carque-
°Arany, has received intelligence of the death of his eldest fon, three others at Peale or SA ou.ell, and an eighth near the
son, Commander Leonard Dames, at the Island of St. chateau of La Seilleraye, belonging to the Marquise de
Thomas. The deceased officer was waiting to be relieved Courtavel. The prefect has given orders for the exercise of
gunboat hero at the from oft his groat vigilance by the local police, and the farmers and
from the command of the peasants are arming themselves and forming patrols for the
death.
An information was been sworn before a resident protection of their property.
magistrate in Bray, by Mrs. Penneteather, owner to I eon- The Marquis of Bute has bold Loudoun Castle, with
siderable extent, of landed property in the county at lippe- the extensive estates attached to it, to the Countess of Lou-
rary, tollthe effect that she had received an anonymous thous. deem. His Imdship receives the same price for it that he
Lennie letter from the locality in which her property woo gave to the late Marquis of Hastings. This acquisition
situated, declaring that "If her agent " residing there " did renders the Ciihnteas of Loudonn, who is already possessed
not degrease the rents on the estate, he would get an in- of considerable estates adjoluing, rme of the largest pre-
miums, not of money, but of Milieus" prietors in the northern diviaion of Ayrshire.

PIINCH-LAIIREATS'.
Nov. 26, 1869.
We wanted something pleasant,
Never times like those at present—
:Mans, Spain in muddle, Napoleon in a mesa:
Let us smile at least a minnte,
TAke a glass w ith something in It,
cry Bless the Nation's Darling and her little new
• PrIRCESII." —Punch.

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