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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-25

NO YEW.

A new eort of famine is growing up here. We have no
food, no fuel, and no Government ; but these three dearth
are supplemented by a fourth—lll can so speak of a negative
—there is no news. The emptiness of the newspapers pro-
vokes lealtimate Indignation In the nand. of the people
who are forced to read them To wade through the Free
Elector, the A v enge r , the Word of Order, the Frenchman,
the toting Drum—to dud four sides of &sure of ever 3 body,
Intermixeo nth a report from General Milhoutine on the
malachite mines in the Oural Mountains, and a detailed
list of the Imports and exports of Tahiti during not
at all a soothing process, at a moment like the present,
when one wants to have yeeterday's facts from Versailles
and Bordeaux. The commercial affairs of the world at large
are useful to study In ordinary times; the quarrel. between
Rochefort and 3I !Were, or between Felix Pyist and Jules
Vane, are never useful to study at all but both classes ef
matter become outrageously offensive Just Low—they are
thrust under your eyes, whether you like It or not.—Corre-
spomleut of Daily Telegraph. •

DELIGHTING FIN AUDIENCE!

"Tact night I visited • raft concert in the tl culler
Lstin, coiled the Foiles Dauphines,' but better known
among to. students of the neighhourneod ee the 'Café
Deuglant; (writes the correspondent of the Da Uy Telegraph )
The chief attraction there at present is an actor who bear..
striking resemblance to the fares Emperor Napoleon lIL
Dressed in a General's uniform, he sings a song, amid roars
of laughter ad shouts of applause, in which the late Ern-
peror's manner, gesture, twirling of the moustache, and so
forth, are imitated with most marvellous fidelity. Between
every tin,, verses of the song, which embodies witticisms and
allusions In their nature anything but complimentary to the
prisoner of Wilhelinsh,he, the singer gallops round the stage
with a long sword dangling between his legs, to the Intense
delight of the audience, which unanimously shouts In up-
roarious churns, " liadingnet Banditiguet " Viva PEm-
perenr 1' 'Encore' Encore'' And the Emperor who so
lately ruled the destinies of France Is anew held up for
ridicule by his caricaturist. The actor of whom of speak
has excited the sentiment of the Qaartier Latin to such an
extent, that the Prefect of Police has ordered the pertdmance
to be iPscontinued."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-25

GARIBALDI'S DEPARTURE Fltoll
MARSEILLES.

An Occasional Correspondent of the Doily New, writing
from Marseilles, Feb. 15, thus describes Liaribaltirs depar-
ture from that City :

It is finished—Garibaldi hag quitted the soil of
France. Who rejoice moat, the Prussians or the
peace•at•any-yrice Frenchmen? 1 think the entire
population of Marseille s was on foot at dawn.
Garibaldi's rooms have been full to suffocation
ever since the doors were opened. I saw him at
a very early hour; he was writing, signing, and
rejoioing at the idea of seeing Caprera to-morrow.
Ile gave me special commissions for the wounded,
"Greeks, Spaniards, Itali was." "We may meet
again in fifteen days, you know," be said. "Yep,
if I come to Caprera," I answered. At nine we
entered the carriages, which had to proceed at a
walking pace, Fo crowded were these wide streets of
Marseilles. The National Guard and the soldiers
tried to make a line round the carrlage, but the ranks
were broken continually. " There,' cried a a orking
man, 'there goes our last hope! Ah ! and glad enough
they are," iaid another. '.%h, were designed, he did
not nay. "Viva Garibaldi ! " eclio-d from a
thousand voices blended with one " Vive la Ittl•
publiqne !" "Vine la France Itepublicaine ! " was
Garibaldi's reply. As we neared the quay the
earriakes were separated. We deecended for
a triumphal procession • none of us would has e
cared (era crush; but the la,t moments were near.
we felt him specially cur Oar. As we went on board
the orders were given to keep back the croa d ; a wise
precaution, as rev, rtl tillers I thought the plank woad
Love g,ven way. Ile embraced us one by one, and of
the tough red shirts—he own Genoese- -not one can
boast that he did not weep. Some sobbed aloud.
Garibaldi's own eyes were full. We watched him from
the pier an the steamer booked—then slowly steamed
out of eight.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-25

CHILD MURDER AT STOURBRIDGE.

On Tuesday morning, just before twelve o'clock, two
little girls were walking along the towing-path of the
Stourbridge branch of the Staffordshire and Worcester-
shire Canal, when, between the Coalbourubrook Bridge
and the Platts Works, they observed something on the
carfare of the water, near to the side. Their curoisity
was excited, and they took it out of the water and laid
it on the towing-path. They saw at once that it was
the body of a dead child, and were very much fright-
ened. An alarm was raised, when a man engaged at
Mr. \V. Walker's coal wharf, near to the spot, went to
them. Information was at once sent to Police-constable
Freeman, who went and took possession of the child.
He then took it to Mr. E. Turner, surgeon, Wordsley,
who examined the body, which is that of a male child.
He name to the e moluaion that it Was a full-grown
child, and that it had been ia the water at least aloft-
night, as decomposition had het in. There were no
marks of violence on the body, as it was wrapped in a
diaper towel and some dark glazed lining, and it is sup-
posed to have been destroyed soon after birth. An in-
quest was held on the body, at the Holly Bush Inn, yes-
terday, before Mr. W. H. Phillips, Coroner, and after
!wader the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of
"Wilful murder against some person or persona un-
known."

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.—In
the list of successful candidates, jast issued, we are
pleased to observe the names of the following young
ladies, J. E. Perry, F. J. Short, and S. /k. Southall, pupils
of Miss Moorbouse, Oreenhill House School, Stour-
bridge._ . .

Copy MKETINO.—The half-yearly meeting of
the shareholders was held yesterday, Mr. K. Thurstan
in the chair. After the reading of the report of the
directors, the receipts and disbursements for the past
half-year, and a general statement of the affairs of the
company, a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per an.
new wai declared.

WATER WORE, COMPANY.—The half.yearly meeting of
the shareholders of this Company, was held at the ofti,e
)esterday, Mr. J. Cochrane in the chair. The report of
the directors showed a surp.us in the revenue account,
of 1:109 Os 114 , available for division, which will pay 3
per neut, per annum, for the half•year, leaving a balance
of £132 Hs 54, for the expenses of management. Ex.
tenawns have been made during the past half.)car to the
amount of £55 6s ed. A new arrangement was entered
into with Mr E. B. Marten to manage the wnrka at a
salary of 1:100 per annum, 1:75 to be allowed for making
out and collecting the rates, until the secretary is willing
to undertake these duties. .

ik,sacurriso THE POLWE.—Patriak Kilcoyne, an oid
offender, was charged with assaulting P.C. Spooner, on
the ltith lust, and was further charged with preveuthig
his lawful apprecension. Fined 108 and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-25

Toss' truly,
JUSTICIA.

THE PROPOSED SCHOOL BOARD.
To the Elitur 01 the " Observer."

Sza,—Will you kindly allow me, through the medium
of your columns, to point out one or two of the hard-
ships that will be indicted on myself and others of my
class. if the compulsory clauses of the Elementary Edu-
cation Act are put into operation by a School Board in
this town. lam a working man, earning but moderate
stipend, and have a wife and four ehillren to support. I
send two of (he latter to schoolt bat my eldest, • girl
nine years old, is kept at home to nurse the baby, go on
errand., and do little jobs of housework for her mother.
In her leisure time her mother gives her lessons to learn,
and by this mean, her education is quite as forward as
that of most girls of her age and position who attend
school daily. Now, lam told that when the above Act
comes into operation I shall be compelled to send her to
school, and thus her mother will be deprived of her as-
sistance whilst she is performing her household dutiee.
This will necessitate my employing a woman to do oar
washing, and other odd jobs, for how is it possible for
my wife to do it with a baby in her arms. Now my wa-
ges will not permit of my doing this, and consequently,
I suppose, it will have to be done at night after the little
girl comes from school, making the house when I return
from work and wish to enjoy • quiet pipe, in a regular
mess, and horribly uncomfortable.
There is a worse case than mine, however, in thst of •
poor widow whose house is not far from my own. This
' poor woman has a large family to support; but by her
own unwearied exertions at washing from morning till
night, and that of two of her boys (aged respectively 10
and 10) who go to work, she has hitherto managed to else
out a precarious livelihood without troubling the parish.
If she is compelled to send these two lads ti school,
however, she will be obliged to apply to the Union for
relief at once, as it will be utterly impossible for her to
support herself and her children on the misersble pit-
trnee she is able to earn by her own unaided exertions.
I could cite numerous other instances showing that this
Act instead of being a Loon to the working classes as its
promoters would have us to believe will be a panties
injury, but that I do not wish to trespass further upon
Your spare. I only hope that the working men will not
allow themselves to be earned sway by the as, speeches
and fair promises of those who, for Unarm& of their
own, wish to force this obnoxious Act upon us; but that
they will attend the meeting on Monday next in. lap
numbers, and protest strongly against this unjostillable
invasion of our rights-
I am Sir, yours respeetfellf.
A WORKIN4I MAN.

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Saturday, February de, 1161.