The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-18 00:00:00

LOUIS BLANC ON MR. PEABODY.
The following letter by Louis Llane, has been pub.

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" Loudon, Dec. 9, 1369.
"The death of no good a man as George Peabody proved
himself to re Is a public calamity in widen the whole civitised
world ought to share. I feel, therefore, in duty bound to
express, how deeply I mourn, as a Freetelenan and as a man,
ter the illustrious American whose Ide was of such value to
the most needy of his fellow men.
"ft was but natural that in a country like this, where so
much is thought of long lineage and Etatton in fife, George
Peabody should receive, as the only flt token of public grati-
tude, the same kind of rlipect which to pal-1 to kings,
priuces, and men of noble birth as well as men of noble
deeds, awl that his mortal remains ehould be committed to
a temporary resting-place beneath the nave of VC estninster
Abbey, to Ite sent afterwardl in a ship of war to his entire
land—the land of freedom Nor is Glow anything to corn-
plain of in this national mode of teetifyieg to the high esti-
. platten in which the British nett di held the enaieent
i philanthropist. Yet. I cannot help lamenting that there
: should be for men of that stamp no particular sort of homage
in the Sheriffs' Court in London, the cause of "Darnel v. • better calculated to show how little, conipsred to them, are
Lady Rolle," has been tried and was consequent upon an m let of kings, sritices, noblemen, renowned diplomatists,
cction for libel in the Queen's Bench, in which the defendant, world-famed conquerot a. It was not the kind hearted Ito'
Lady Lonisa It De, had &Hoe el judgment to go by default, publican trader abs was honoured by the fact of being con-
tent a writ of inquiry was executed to assess the amount of slAned to reat in Westminster Abbey, but rather those who
compensation to be awarded. The damages were laid at £lOO. , were considered to be worthy of sleeping there their last
The plaintiff had been head gardener to Lord and 1 stpihoennauceoTritnctitntitirrnra...rikaeontoltdhewir;;Tue.
i the p
Lady Rolle for nearly 30 years at Beet in, Devonahire, ' of the sarreTt ethflce, their silent sorrow, the tea recinctsrs shed by so
and, according to his testimony, and that of otner wit- many, and, In several parts of London, the readiness of the
nesses, he had bestowed great care on the management • shopkeepers to give expression ti their grt et by closing their
ot 1,...e gardens, and they were repreeented as the finest shops and lowering. their Militia—these were the homages
in England. One gentleman, Er. Robinson, the horti- , really in keeping with the affeetioLate admiration due to one
cultural editor of the Field, Pala they were second to i whose title, in history, will be this— the highest a rich Man
n o—the friend of the poo r.
none in England. Mr. Barnes said be had worked 18 I can a' t
ll" o he i• 1
LOUIS BLANC.
hours a day, and wan obliged to resign the iiitriation tt Colonel Berton, chairman American Committee."
thronglt serious illness, which he had contracted in his
avocet' me as head gardener. After he had left Lady _---_
Rode tail written two letters, and the libel now cone. ABISSIN lAN GOLD.
Vain-'1 of was contained in there. Hie attorney bad
asked for an apology, and, on being refused, the action 1 In the Court of Common Pleas, the canoe of " Pyke
was hronzht, cod Lady Rolle had not pleaded. Mr. and another v. Bolt" has been tried.
Barnett had obtainei prizes for horticulture, and said • The plaintiffs or.' manufacturers of articles made of
the expenses were abont equal to the prizes. i what they call Abyssinian gold, of whioh they are the
The letters were put iti as evidence, and the pas- • inventors. The defendant to a dealer in jewelry aud
sages containing the libel read to the jury, and were newspit,ers, and the plaintiffs sleight to reeover N. stun
let forth in the proceedings. The first letter wan ad- alleged to be due for Abyssinian gold goods gold and
dreaaod to a lady named Catleish, who hail purchased . delivered.
some of Lady R. 'he'd surplus pines. Toe first note The defendant paid £3 lf/s, into court, and said that
was in the following teruix:— the plaintiffs had warranted the goods to wear as well
Upper Grosvenor.place 1111
M 27 gold and to keep their colour, and that chains and
it , ay . •
"Lady Rolls received the 30e Mrs. Catleigh sent her She 1 other articles supplied to him had lost their colour,
thinks tt would have been more to hers and her friend ' and worn very differently from gold. He was
Wanes' credit had they told her Reenter that Mrs. C. did not 1 at newspaper dealer near Portman.square, London,
lab-ail to take any more of Ludy Rolle 'e aurplus pines, die ,
end not left It until the verivlast moment—a pa net thing, 1 and he had been induced by the plaintiffs to purchase
no doubt, of Barnes to cause Lady Role great los% her new . a '''''‘'
i v d many articles—chains, pendants, ace. ; some of
i• these he had sold, but many of them hail been re-
gardener great in,onvenience arid anxiety. ' I turned by hie customers tarnished and looking like
The second letter woe dated the 18th of June, 1869, i c,,
and addressed to a gentleman named M anthers, , th)l,;P'!•
' or brass. S nme of these bad been changed by
plaintiffs,but thoae which were subotituted proved
who had applied to see the gardens at Ilicton,
which her ladyship made the foilowing atatement:— 1
in ' vere;smenasboil as the first. Specimens of the chains,
but good and had, were produced in court, and the
" Lady Rolle certainly haa a new gardener at Eldon 1 • .
most amusing portion of the case was the examination
during the last three weeks, but everything in her gartlen t
anti hothouses and greenhouses and arboretum are left in • .
of Mrs. Bull, who gave her evidence in a very decided
such a neglected state that the does not think it right to 1 nut good-humonred ',Lyle, inapowtible to reproduce.
take up the time of her new gardener or his men." Custom, re who hail bought chains and returned them
The plaintiff was now sixty-four years of age. He were called, and their smrie3, given in a ludicrously
said when he left Iticton a service of plate was pre- piteous manner, caused a good deal of laughter. For
Rented to him, and when he resigned the gardens wore i a few weeks the chains looked very handsome, but then
in a perfect state. He had nothing to do with Mrs„ 1 they turned all colours, eventually aubBiding to a dui:
Catleigh'e refusal to take any more of the eurplas copper or braes colour.