The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-15 00:00:00

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The marvellous success of the French loan, proving
as it did the increasing sense of confidence which per-
vades the country and the vitality and energy of the
nation, has had a beneficial effect on the internal condi-
tion of France, as well semi her relations with foreign
powers. We may 11.,W look forward to our neighbours
devotingthemselves to the arts of peace and to commerce,
to the developnient of her resources, and to the estab-
lishment of settled political institutions It is by no
means pleasing, on the other hand, to find France re-
verting to Pmtection, while the principle of Free Trade
is expanding everywhere else ; but the unanimity of
feeling in this respect in the Assembly is certainly re-
inarkable. The proposal to impose taxes OA sugar,
coffee, tea; and other colonial preluee, WM actually
carried by 453 to 5. When Frenchmen of all parties
and :ihades iif polities thus agree to return to Protec-
tion— if that be the correct word- it must be admitted

have been interwoven with The Time., But to write
the history of the paper from the Reform Bill to the
present time It, I should say, absolutely
. . . .iiniuossible—
.

It least unless the proprietors of the Thutskrer chose
to place all the records of Printing nonce Square at the
service of the historian. VIC Tillla people keep their
secrets wonderfully well.

SKETCHES FROM THE WIMBLEDON
CAMP.
The first Sunday of the Wimbledon meeting is
always an unsettl.l slay. The (dficial statement in-
dicated that tlwre were then already 1,411 men in
camp, including the regular troops. it is not on.
amusing to watch for a while ths advent of the pro-
meomens (says the bOil,, Nevi ('orrespondent,
front whom we arc quoting). The habitm,s of Wim-
bledon van he toll at a glance. They know vs hat is to
be done as to billets, and how to go about it. They
have the map if the associated camp in their heads,
and require no guidance to Tent W O9OC Z 01, as the
case may be. Some set about at once making every-
thing snug, looking to the gye ropes and th, trueness of
the pitch of the tent-pole with the eye of MI adept, and
I.ns:ceding without delay to indieate their whereabouts
. . . . .

ei:unary by writing their :vanes and regiments that there is a probability of their knowing their ;we to all an
;
on the number placard in fof the tent. Others,
affairs best. But the fact is that thls is not Protection,
pure and Ample, but merely taxation and self-sacrifice again, take seisin of their temprontorary property in a less
eneigetie manner. One sergeant of a provincial corps was
to raise money. We may feel that it is wrong in prin. to have been seen on Sunday forenoon march to the
elide, but must admit that it is probably quite right as tent assigned to him, unroll a waterproof sheet, and
jie tint fexpaliency. May the eXpedient, epee,Hly ealteltilhaeirltwey Imantzlinintkeei t2lorls tte sttkoin,iirert
answer its intended purpose, SO that France may again he simply lay. there, and let world take rare of
enjoy the pleasnree of what Mr. Bright calls a " free Sonic anxious to find a reason for
breakfast table." es erything, was heard to speculate that the worthy
Those who are desirous that the Elections (Ballot) sergeant might be of an entomological turn of minil,
Bill and the Army Bill shaul l as eT who are anthills and hail ITin 11111 tl:fted statel
small
that either one should become law, must have wattles' 11,,,7aws 71,'0ta.1,6„ extol
finil it
with anxiety the rouneof eventsin Parliament recently, ilitheult to disguise their rawness. They find no
and must have had serious misgivings whether both or difficulty, indeed, in discovering the tent wherein they
either would be carried through their several stages. have quarters allocated to them-- the camp quarter
Without torther reference to these particular bills, I irue.satt,irt meniatt havethreityat, !nuts trouble Tone:
may mention that the opinion ix growing that the anti- gehle,sas soon after as pi!i.strie,•teWil ni3eSenlirgatiet inn
quated forms of the House of Commons are mmilapted dreary hunt after the number of their mess, a search
to the pressure of business nowadays. We cannot which is apt to be complicated by the fact that the
biggest landmark in tie vicinity is the Refreshment
expect that mei-awns of the Howie will refrain from
Pavilion .1t s er the s
taking advantage td them to further their owls paid- tin litt
as yet .-.l new arrangementhave
eiltiv as amply. Co justify the
cal purpeses, and if this is done merely to a moderate ' daring id the Exeenti i iii biking its management into
extent, parliamentary business is seriously retarded. ! their own hands. While the eatables and drinkablee,
The Premier has thrown out a hint that it may become I both as served at the bar and in the several dining
a iowetion whether these forms should red be altered,
ztinrooms, arle Tx' mak pfrint, ter. alaerrintinetrimi:
and I should not be at all surprised if an attempt is There 'are ta; 'nesrusaTea 'first-class aqingil a second-class
made next session in this direction. The tenacity, ! room, in the former of whit-h an excellent and
however, with which the House of Commons adheres varied dinner is iupplicil fur 3ie ed., in the bittern good
substantial feed fur 2+. its in previons years, the system
to form and precedent is marvellous. The reader,
perhaps, will scarcely credit the assertion, and it would ,iisutpattit,,he m out, ii),-niistrii:ll4ditwheittast et
reus-isuriug ntering
be tedious to prove it, but it is true, nevertheless—that least coildiVerthat they may with full safety " part"
the Commons are far more tenacious to their forms and in advance. The assurance might seem superfluous, but
precedents than are the Lords, for what was witnessed of the dire misgivings of a
Much has been said and something done inside and 'o.'nnt'LitlealeiSiteatit‘nridtaliaYteh'eeiTensigil belftorli:mentnetiv;irthi--
outside the House of Commons in regard to Sunday ceiving a ticket in return. Bat when the waiter asked
trading, all if which may be summed up briefly as him to surrender his ticket as preliminary to the sere.-
leading to two conclusions—first, that Charles the big of the meal, the north-countryman flatly refused.
Second's Act may be made subservient to a good deal tt.ana,vs,
means ihad to
art show
till
his
smawontai.,hari,ulllvieme,isalgt,l
of petty persecution ; and, secondly, that the Act is fi3ir his disbursement. With much argument at length
totally unadapted to the present times. 'While there the waiter succeeded in proving that he could not draw
is so much difference of opinion with regard to the the food without delivenng the ticket. The Scot sat
advisability of legislative interference with the liberty on
,thorns till the waiter faithfully returned, food in
of the subject in this respect, it is pleasant to see that bself -gratulation isnig•tcutwte,rachearled iuto
exuberant
a voluntary movement is acq airing strength. I refer loaf, sir—into which he was informed he might cut at
to the proposed abolition of Sunday funerals. The discretion.
undertakers' men, or rather a goodly number of them, The Oxford-street of the Camp. " Windmill-street,"
are maintaining that there is net necessity for their promises to be as well stocked with shops as in years
working on a Sunday so often as they are called upon
pa
-setrre‘t.eseenifs tit of
thae vtaritultientgeerinitialt to
to do ; and I think they are decidedly right. It is arrive in canqi in the same eomlition of "nothiinig on"
well known that among the upper and the middle as that in which lie came into the world, and should
classes Sunday funerals are very rare, while among the inunediately betake himself to the thoroughfare of
working, class they are very frequent. Now, King emporiums, for the purpose of obtaining a complete rig-
Death is no respecter of persons. Panic& Mors alp° cpai1t..1,1,,.:1.16,,:0w1,ifi1iii,11
firstinvestin iitense r irons the
pulsar perk pauperom taternos regostque torres—or, a supply of flowers, then thatuseful article a shirt would
plain English, "Death spares neither the palace northe obtrude itself on his notice, to be followed in successien
hovel," and the practical conclusion from this truism is by a hat, a pair of boots, a binocular, ands ramp chair.
that Sunday funends ought not to be peculiar to any "privateind" of Windmill-street, in the dins:tees
of the class, as they now are; the fact being that too many trehesieleinetZia'as'contains as iniuly cccvii-
of the working class prefer this day far a funeral, be- men can it be whits dwell in a bower if bliss which
cause it is more convenient to them in respect to their aeroigates unto itself the portenbms appellation of
employment. But the undertakers' men have much to " Raadisepsinavoisioh Bungalow " ? The Eastern I°-
say and his satraps who inhabit "'('he Sultan's
say on the other side, and they are beginning to say
this rather demenstratively. For one, I heartily wish toßetmt,''beoennthz.eisithteraei:tikt,le e,f the way, cities not. seem
t y the ASSOttatrott m the
them success. matter of sufficient accommodation for the zenana,
which the During the progress of the remarkable Tichborne,tn ers,..7.l2sait
rofntiltrZtalis)tiostet.i,:v,Aiellkarscot-,
case the publk have mauifested unflagging interest. " Pork l'ie Villa' mean to suggest to an iniething
Day by day the proceedings have afforded ample inffilie that thee subsist wholly on that toothsome, but
material for convenation among all chooses if the cont. occasionally ffillonolOt viand ; and what wise man shall
the meaning of the single Mysterious word
namity, and the ladies have taken an u penetrate nwonted M-
i'uSirtzte,u'lvritten upin the placard td a tent at the
terest in the lengthy records eif the trial. But quid.
fumes and speculators must now live upon what has
been stored up, for nothing will be legitimately added
to the ease for four mouths, xt—t, of its perhaps will
forget nearly all about the trial before it is re-
sumed, while those of us who feel particidar in-
terest in it, and are extremely anxious about the
probable or possible result, will base to exercise a
patience hitherto chiefly manifested by suitors only,
who know and feel how minfully lung is the tilting
Yacation." It is highly polable, however, that coiner
or later we shall have a legislative alteration of this
tremendous hiatus in legal proceedings. This long
vac:Wins is really a very serious hardship to that por-
tion of the public who have the misfortune to be at law.
The advaittages of adjourning or of continuing the
Tichborue case have been elaborately discussed, and I
shall not enter on the arguments. To many of us the
adjournment will undoubtedly be a great relief. Many
people had become quite tired of the case, and yet
somehow Cr other they felt compelled to keep them-
selves acquainted with its latest facts.
The life, activity, and animation of London just now
are marvellous and noteworthy, awl sunshine has done
it all The amount of money now spent in travelling
to and from, in anil ahead the metropolis must be
enormous, anti is beyond all calculation. Railway
trains and river steamers, omnibuses awl tramway
cars, all are loaded ; the pavements are thronged ;
places of entertainmeot are well filled ; anih, in fact,
there is an humenee deal of holiday making all around
us. The baAl weather that we have hail till recently,
and the happy change to brighter skies, balmier
winds, and more genial weather altogether have had
the natural effect of bringing its multitudes of pro-
vincial visitors, and sending multitudes of Londoners
to the seaside and to holiday resorts. lam glad to
see that the International Exhibitien is at last
having its fair share of patronage from the middle and
working classes, for really it well deserves it. Every day
it becomes more attractive, and the last affilitii ins, the
French and Indian lepartments, deservedly attract daily
crowds. Having frequently visited this International
Exhibition, one conclusion at which I have arrived
may be stated for what an individual opinion is worth
—that the success of this annual series of exhibitions
may be considered as assured. One very important
element of success is, perhaps, not sufficiently noticed,
and that is what I will call the voluntary and inde-
pendent supplements to the Exhibition. The Cum-
mis.eioners let pirtions of land for the erection of
annexes or independent exhibitions where the rigid
rules of the International Exhibition proper are re-
laxed, and wlitere the exhibition are allowed to sell their
exhibits, Cr articles like them, and thus the element
of commercial enterprise has full scope. In the main
buildings an intending purclutser must negotiate with
the official agents, direct dealings with exhibitors being
prohibited ; but in the independent buildings (the
French annexe is 011 e: of them) buying and selling go
on briskly, and our friends, the French, show that we
are not the only nation of shopkeepers. Now, I feel
certain, that this kind of thing will become more and
more developed every year, and that in this way,
amongst others, the annual series of exhibitions will be-
come a thoroughly successful institution.
Parliament has given its sanction to a scheme which,
when carried out, will quite transform one part of
London, the waste howling wilderness around that
splendid engineering work, the Holborn Viaduct. There
is to be constructed a great central railway terminus
which will accomnoxlate the traffic of several railways,
Bo that the new terminal station, or whatever else it
may be called, will lessens. aimed the most imp,rtant
in London. A brief extract relative to the plans still
be of general intere4 : " The new steam will have a
register office, MO that foreign luggage can be booked
through -Bay from London to Paris—booking-officee,
waiting-rooms, general-offices, three platforms for local
traffic, 330 feet long, and for long traffic there will be
two arrival platforms, each 500 feet long, and an in-
dependent departure platform, also 500 feet long, as
well at extensive cellarage for the storing of ale, stout,
and other merchandise. There will also be a cab rank
long enough to stand at least twenty calms; whilst the
entrances anil exits upon the level of the Viaduct will
be so constructed as to facilitate arrivals and
departures without confusion. In a word, this station
will fiem a kind of feeler to every railway conveming
to this centre." Simultaneously with this announce-
ment we find that the market-gardeners, nurserymen,
farmer-u, Zte., whit have atm heig been endeavouring to
obtain the enlargement and improvement of Covent
Garden Market, have to-own weary of their non-
success, &Rd, With the aid of the Cerporation of
Londen, are about to enlarge and improve Farringilon
Market -which, in fact, bids fair to become such a
market as London ought long since to have hail. These
facts are of no little importance to that nemermoi
class in the provinces who have commercial dealings
with the great metropolis, and especially to those who
are concerned in supplying its three million mouths
with fruits and vegetables.
" H ietory of The Timex Newspaper," fn itefournia-
tion, in 1785, to the passing of the Reform Bill, in 1832,
is Bahl to lie in progress. If the work couhl be fully
written, doubtless it would be a most interest-
ing one; but who could write it? Of course,
sketches of some of the great men who have
been connected with the leading journal could be given;
but what a little can be known of all the facts that

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's prize was
won by Private Harris, of the 2nd Oxon Volunteers.
Corporal Edwards of the Ist Oxon, made the highest
score (20) for the Snider Nursery Prizes; and Serjeant
Worthant, of the London Rifle Brigade ; and Serjeant
MI, of the Sth Lancashire, tied with 19 for the first
prize in the first series of Enfield extra prizes. For the
Duke 1 Cambridge's prize, Captain Malcolm, 11th
Argyleshire, scored 36 in ten shots with a Martini
Henry rifle. For Messrs. Eley's prize, Captain H.
Turner, 40th Lancashire, scored 47 in fifteen shots with
a Snider rifle. For Messaw. Curtis and Harvey's prize,
Corporal Andrews, of the 26th Kent, seoixxl 49 in
thirteen shots, with a Martini-Henry rifle; and Captain
Bell, a Canadian volunteer, made 11 in fifteen shots
with a Snider. Fla. the Snider Association Cup, seven
eompetitors tied at 19.