The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

direction, had passed through an adjoining seat, then
through the woman's leg, and lodged at the back of the I
compartment. A litter was obtained, and Mrs. Davis
was removed to the Royal Infirmary, Manchester,
whore she was attended to by Dr. }Wallower. Au
operation has mince been performed on the injured
limb, mkt it is stated that the Mjury is of a very serious
nature. The poor woman has only been married a
fortnight.
MAKINO THE MOST OF IT !—A Brussels Col7eS-
pondeat, writing on Monday, says : The armaments
of Antwerp are all but completed. The Grand Duke
\Vladimir, eon of the Emperor of Russia, is here at
present. In spite of the war and a general election the
Brussels kermess is progressing. Yesterday we had
great fun as the cavalcade went out for the first time.
It was unspeakably ludicrous to see the big figures
Janneken and Micke, moved by men hidden underneath,
dancing before the cavalcade and lookirg in at all the
first floor windows. The popular enthudasm arid per-
spiratan were tremendous. All Belgian celebrities,
past and present, were represented in the cavalcade,
from Lambert Baldrris, Count of Louvain, and his
wife Ode, who made Brussels a city in 1046, down to
the Pr nos do Lions. Toe eight groups of which the
cavalcade consisted were—(l) The town of Brussels,
represented by a young on a car, surrounded by the
Induitriee Evid Arts ; (:!) Brussels in 1046 ; (3) The
Alliance of the town 44 Br thant in 1372; (1) Belgium
under the Rouse of Butgun.iv ; (5) in spite of the Due
de Gramont, Charles V., with all his princes and prn
cesees, awl all the nations of Belgium, as in MA
the trades of the different townships were called ; (6)
Fine Belgistt nobility of the sixteenth century, with,
of course, Egmont and Horn; (7) Tne renaissance of
industry and arts; and (8) Modern Belgium, repre-
sented 0, a bust of the King, surrounded by represen-
tations of the four constitummal liberties. A number
of binds arid choral societi,s, each playing and singing
tunes of i, s own, accompanied the cavalcade.
WHAT MR. SPURGEON THINIO3 OF IT !—The
Morning Advertiser prints part of a speech on the war
delivered by Mr. Spurgeon after laying the fouuda-
dun stone of a new Baptist Chapel at Peckham :

" It makes me sick at heart to find out the crest seers have
been telling us we are gettbig near the millenturn. It seems
to me they are somethihg late the Irishman who could fore-
see liackw..rds. I wish these kings if the earth would some-
times do their own lighting, instead of getting their soldiers
to right for them. It would not be a had idea if Napoleon and
the King of Prussia would come over to England and light it
out. I urn quite sure the police would wink at the matter,
and for my owu part I would he quite willing to hold their
coats, and I would cheer each one on, and may, lit him
hard; I think he deserves it !".

HUMANITY OF TAN PROVOST-MARSHAL—The
Paris Correspondent of a contemporary learns that
"great precautions will be exercised towards strangers
hanging about the army." One, we suppose, will he
the precaution of giving them plenty of rope.—Pimck.