The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-03 00:00:00

STOTIRTIRIME OBSERVER

for having their boots blacked, and be assiduous as to the
degree of 'KIWI.' conferred, is not the least incomprehen-
sible of the many little problems which beset the inquirer.
We c fed seventeen shoelolacks busily occupied between
Waterloo station and the Westminsterhrldge-road On ex-
',boring the Now-cut on Siinday moniing between eleven and
Lao:lye. The patrons tof these boys were poorly dressed—
some coatless, some ragged, all shabby ; but uniformly
anxious for bright 'omits, and all willing to pay their penny
for the Money. This Mane, they stood at street corners, or
strolled slowly along the pavement or roadway, stopping
here and there to listen to the wiles of an unusually noisy or
for.using trader, lout obviously out for a holiday walk, and
by a weekly chat with their friends. These were the
loungers, and they were in the majority among the crowds
tilling both footpath and roadway. Purchasers, with and
without laiskets—of both sexes. and people bargaining,
eating, drinking, and in tone or two Instances gambling,
made up the rest of the throng. The trades, station try awl
lie Modelle, in the full tide of inisineSO were of all kinds.
The refreshments taken on the spot and in the open
formed a formidable its in. llot pluniseake, with
a yellow gromitt-work 01 stea ttt it og substance, half
spoilge, half daunt', and large black spots resembling
petrified radios, paid for and eaten as quickly as it could be
cut up • welks, periwinkles, and another shell fish picked
out with pins and washed down with ginger beer at a penny
a bottle, each hearing an amount of froth which was alone
width the money : pies ail hot, taken fnan a till ease like a
potato ran, and slipplied ii nil smoking gravy like train tsil
as fast as sold ; sausages fizzing and splintering in the yellow
river wherein they were fried : grapes, at threepence a
p. ttt el from the Queen's greenhouses at Windsor Caulk.,"
and walnuts id,teen a penny, ..warruntv.l the sante as is eaten
iii l'otelidcarilen Market by the nobility :" anti biscuits.
lollypop., and quack lozenges, sonic of xhich hail medical
virtue . well as toothsomeness, and others whieli were
be-Aliso:lw only, were among tire delitames canaelliest The
public.liouses were, id course, closed, and experimental
efforts to obtain spirits or beer at the coffeesshops and eating-
houses resulted in igiMilliniolls failure. The druggists' shops
were open. and full"( customers—worn people, for the ne,st
part, who brought their own bottles anti had some of the
- sante deeter's stuff . before.” lout ino sew was drunk,
though several confessed to thirst mill to an agreeable fore-
shadowing of the time when the clock strikes one, and
them - ere Messed shutters" those of the public-house
" are ;lowa." Besides the ventlora of articles eaten on the
premises or in the street, the butchers, the greengrocers,
the grocers proper, the bakers, and the fish men,
are all kept hard at work. Noise seems to be a
condition lif their lousiness life, and the " Buy, buy, buy,"
the 'carrots a penny a It, a lot," the "prime tea soothe-
yer-tea - in one aord , the " who wants fish s" •• fish now,
fish now. ut hat do youreealling the - What do you ;
trek ?" of the told •prentices. aresdl effectual. Nor insiM it be ' The eqffintwtial gales frOln the south-west have been
sapposed that the sunday morning trade is confined to the moat disastrous to life and shipping iii the English
n•wesastriestif life. Tailors shops, sleeked 111,,, with garments Channel. At four o'clock on Friday last the
of mh"Y e"1"""."1 strange 'huh"' , jewellers. h. ''''''' mitenis gale increased to a hurricane, accompanied with vivid
boot and shoe dealers, bird-fanciers. stationers, liabiLr- ib.hes of forked liglitning and ad eluge of rain. About
dashers, and bonnet vendors are all here. Finery for
person and ornate...MO for the house, necessaries; and hum- this; time several large ships managed to enter the
ries. are offered aide by side, as if it were on a cheap Basle- .Portland Roadstead fin- shelter, but a large barque hail
yard. or in a Palais Royal inn. cent of beauty, of attractive- a narrow escape of being driven on the rocks near Lul-
ness. tor taste. Indeed, if tbe motives and actions of the worth, but she managed to get a good anchorage, and
peodple we sallw were analysed, the dff
ierence between them war ultimately taken into the roadstead by a London
an the stroers isi the French Vanity Fair would be, per-
tug, which was cruising by at the time. The coast-
haps, more apparent than real. The loungers who were riot
buying or selling looked about them as vacuously as a bb.e guard on the look unit close to Kimmeridee Ledge, near
Parisian or an ignorant tourist The pins, rings. chains, and Lulworth, and about seven miles from Weymouth.
gewgaws proffered for pence', the imitation tlowers which , observed a schooner (which has since been ascertained
huitated nothing under heaven except flycatchers; the caps I to be the LiGerty, from Portsmouth), with signals of
and bonnets
hhig to of rainthebow huea ; the
velvet great coats with vel Ii tress vet ' flyin, from her m h flat ead. The coa.st-guard
cuffs reac dhow, and neckbands like !
' ninnethately communicated the intelligence to his
collars sif state, all for twenty shillings ; the best laces sold
superior officer, and assiatance was dispatched to the
by a fellow in a ragged woollen garment like an old-fashioned
spencer resluted, who gave bits of his autobiography de- unfortunate vessel, but before they arrived the
tailing his haniships and sufferings as a dock.yar.l schooner struck heavily upon Kimmeridge Ledge.
labourer until Inc " thscovertal the unparalleled strength . The coast-guard were now assisted by a number of
a th' Wte twi" la'''. "Wil IWW‘k fit Iwh lh.
asked ti f"rtuhe fishernien, win, notioed only two men on board, who
youth in true bricklayer's ian o eir ;
venue "if they were meant for yachting 1.,,,m I were clinging to the riggings. The sea was running
do
I as well as shmoting," tuition being :satisfied they were, bought , tremendous high, and making a clean breach over
, a pair co, lire ,p.,t : the knowing looys who taught each other I the doomed vessel. The rocket apparatus was
I bow tote!! smock canaries Fr real, and how to detect ini- i brought into requisition, but unfortunately they
, posit- in the linnets at fourpence each, all reminded one I could not succeed in tiring the line over the vessel,
1 of types to be seen elsewhere. The familiar faces of some
wit las she was too far off from the shore. The men then
th Ire 'situ !
I of the best known London beghered an gars—notably
nerabl
nd the the blind collier,
! launched their small boats to windward, but they were e ~,minat,a n, a vee
philosopher who se eep. his city crossing in straps and by the strength of the storm driven b, leeward, and on
• gloves, were to be seen Maher their way among the crowd to the beach, the waves nearly filling the frail boats,
awl aeCepting donations less in the spirit of receiving alms j and the men narrowly escaped with their lives in their
! than as the. il.writ pocketed the testino '''' ials of the csollegians I 1 ane effort to rescue the remaining part of the
at the father of the Nlarslialsea. It is I probable that there ~. f slew null the pitiless waves that kept meshing over
was a good deal lit cheating among the motelsshort
. weight and athilteration were led unknown : that Lord , them. A larger boat then put out to the rescue, and
Naplor had not :iiithorised the hawker of cheap hats to ' it was watchei with the deepest anxiety by the
christen a particularly %dilations-looking widesaswake by his ! spectators on shore, as she rose on the rrest of the
nanie ; that the "noldw hinds warranted to do their five • waves and then was lost sight of. She, like the rest,
miles an hour. heel and toss, and to WIII their owner money, ' ' had to return from her fruitless errand of mercy. It
woo not by I the mainf s!. exclusively panno tisral loy his Royal I
telbe b m ecae apparent that .the l m ives of the two en
II i,hness the Prince o Wales : that the " here, take me away,
14s sal. :" and '• With :aft 111 takements down the „.... I conkl not be bayed, unless the vessel could withstand
ill,, oil." of the ellesio tronseis tickets were intended to ' the waves. That hope was soon dispelled, as the vessel
, suggest as, silting more titan the intrinsic value sof those I directly after keeled over, With her itallui-raila just
• usesnl articles ; aml that the •' real sealskin waistcoat " :it ' above the water, and the poor seamen were not seen
7°- h`l "." ".-n ehßrelY ge..""'—whhbi"deed• 't ehubl ""I be I after. I" p till Sunday morning none of the lualimi
• unless seals have been ilise,overed tvilli Atins of Scarlet
! h . illeen WaShed in& we, but the vessel is brraking up,
! Vcireteell. illit it Wil• preeminently A 1111i,lay seene—ratle. '
:
:Mil her stern has heell WW.lied &shine. Other mate-
and rough, and emu se—a holiday to the niajority aml a treat •
' to all. I reds have also been washed 111,, and it has since been
i Dudley-street, Seven-dials, gives an entirely different side 1 a.scertained. at the custom-house at Weymouth, that
of Sunday trading There is 10, prOlnenadilig. littP I- dlilY. ! toe captain's natne was ;fames Over. On the amine
and less nobre. Seconthhand boots, each pair suggesting a ;lac the schmoner Adriniturer, of Plymouth, laden
different history from the dainty new-footed Wellingtons .• . .
with Ni Inc, ste.. was caught in the gale, off Dartmouth,
with coloured inorocco tops to the lowly blucher lallgt-•1,
knobby, and stringless, form one of the staple troles. 1 and ; lining a leak. She was run on shore at the
Second-hand goods, scarcely shove the rank of ma, into stores. ' Passa._fe Bar, near Portland. The crew were taken on
! and comprising Initi ke3o, odd bucks, door Imitates, searing ' Aso.. iin a very exhausted state.
appirel, broken china, silk stockings, and stay laces, are
displayed at other shops, lout there is tar Open air fair, no Th, crew
of the Iris, fishing smack, froruScarborough,
hounging for amusement's sake, no humour, and no chaff.
The customers of inulleystreet are people with a purimse, lad, inging to l'enzance, arrived yesterday at Wey-
who go to buy knot; nig exactly wlmt they want—a race not mouth, and reporteit the loss of their captain, Mr.
to loe tempted by bhunlishment, and above the weakness of Joseph Humphreys. The brig was caught in the gale
soc,ety. on 1 riday afternoon, about tifteen miles from Start
The Brill and Chapel-street, Somers-town, are the News.cut Point. A tremendous wave caught the vessel. and the
over again. Tile (eloper:lnce lecturer we listened tit at tile
• rotor unfortunate captain was washed overlx,ard. He
latter place, and who declared .• that, In a logical point io . .
vies% -,yoll oderation "—Specified as a distinct genus, like had ~11 his }witty Sea hoots and oilskins at the time, and
the Es...init 11X or the I Ijibbitway—'' was worse than your lie sank beneath the Waves.
drirakani," s-ceilied to have multiplied hini-elf, and to I.e
atiortiell north silver medal. of many elasps at the Brill. At
both places he had many li.teners; so had the street
preachers, on the •• inucillariSts" who expounded under the
railway arch in the St. Paneras-road, soltad the Cheap Johns
so had the earliest, thoughtful, intellectual lout visionmy- i
looking wta king mon, Will) expatiate.' a scheme for (towable ,
a colony iii the Nets:l,l:a ten itory 11,1 the ...liver:Aire for.n. •
ciple ; so had the all:Ohs, sharp-Med, sinartly-dressed little '
American, Wino toolor-ed his friend's wateturnts. oat who
Made many A 111.01111 Water by ilis gloWilig deseription of ills- ,
woi.king man's position in the state I/, C11,,11g.11, fr,,,,, Wll,lll I
he hail come eight ''''' lithe ',dole. Wherever there was any-
thing to 'merest, olr a 15111,1., aO. littra.l., the, eas a (3111,1 ;
~ , i I DEAN CLOSE ON THE IRISH CHURCH.
tool the people who think the stool:, tlisilllil ilillislii ii.i. i Th., rt'all Id CArli.I.V arrived home from a four
ight & w than
1.011114,11 Are made up ofexplore solely
ththem re cheatersthem and the che
ndateu . , . -• .
wont!. homtay last week ; anion Sin lan afternoon
. mI orse foselves, a see
how notch ea., of teaemoe, of ...Patina, and of a lie resumed his place in the Cathedral pulpit. Ills
klimeludge of better Ultima there Is among their lounging text was "A in. I, therefore, brcione your enemy,
I•
crowds because I ten you the truth! ' Towanls the conclusion,
, he went into an elaborate defence of church establish.

on the road to ruin. No doubt he may boast of Other
friends—Magnes and Schneiders and ltouhers, and so
forth; but these are of the omunon material of
governments in France, and if households every-
where— servants who serve faithfully enough the lour
and the man, and as willingly change their service
When the tune changes and other then seem to be de-
manded thereby." •

Mr. 1. N. Broom reports that the City of Bath hfe-
boat, belonMng to the National Lifeboat Institution,
was launched On Saturday to the assistance of the
Goeside, of Bridgwater, which was wrecked Id
Pembrev. Ilappily the lifelsQt was instrumental in
rescuing; two of the shipwrecked crew. The mate
had previously endeavoured to swim ashore, and it is
feared he Las. been drowned in the attempt.

aMents. arguin: that whenever godliness had laid strong
FIVE SPITS BURNED AT SEA.
b,,bi of a wsiple, it had been through the agency if a
I:eports bave Leen rei•eiwil at the Board. of Trade to I church establishment. Ile besought his hearers not
the effect tloat tle• following ships have lwen burned at Ito look upan this •Inegtion as a political one.
s : T on ti ;,• It wa, oi religion ; a 101,;11,1 if
front 1 :outhay to liv, rpool, laihn as it!, motton. 1 lie freedom ; a imestion of the sustentation of liod's
iron ship Lanylotr, 833 tons, bound to Bombay— truth in exactly that form in which it had existed
trgo, coals. The iron ship Henry Moore, 1,117 tons, hew fir three hundred years. He was not one
likewise bound to Bombay, with a eiineral cargo, of those who took a gbonly view of the matter.
valued at tlio,ooo, awl the Melvin steamer, 850 tone, God could sustain his own church, come what might,
trailing between Liverisiol awl Bostm ihe IVA was but that was no reason why they should pull down its
discovered to be on tire on the 13th if September, and I defences. Let it not be supposed that the contemplated
the captain attributes her loss to the carelessness of destruction of the right arm of the English Church
one if the seamen, who let the bottom if a lighted was not a blow aimed at the English Church itself;
lamp fall lin some oakum in between decks. The crew for though some excellent supporters of the English
were picked up in their boats by the Norwegian brig Church were to be found among the assailants of the
; the loss of the ship and cargo is estimated at Irish tburch, there was a large army of a different
£lO.OO. The burning id the Henry :Wore took place kind wbo hail openly avowed that they were doing
off the coast od Portugal ; the crew were compelled to this for the purpose if destroying all established reli-
abandon the ship, and were picked up by a vessel from gions. If this measure he carried—he might be wrong,
Newcastle, which landed them at Gibralter. 'the but he had from the first said it never would be car.
Meletia steamer VIM on her passage him, Livensiel. ried—it would be a great blow to God's truth; and
She hail a remarkable miscellaneous cargo on boar,!, when so many were striving, to make religion a matter
consisting of 7,210 gallons of coal oil, 1,285 boxes ifj of free trade, surely it was not unbecoming the
lobsters, 2.5011 cases of pressed fish, 259 boxes 14 ' ministers of the Church to speak out. When dissent-
oyster., 0,344 gallons of sperm oil, 51; bales of cotton, ieg chapels were ringing with the cry, •` Down with
Me boxes I cheese, 15 cases of sewing machines, 200 her - even to the ground !" he was justified in stirring
barrels id tallow, 50 hogsheads lif molasses, besides a up the people to rally round tie church. And let it
very large quantity lbf other g, owls. The details if her be known also that they would rally round the Esta-
his.; have not yetcilns'tii ham' : all that known is the 'dished Chore'. of Seidland tis, He believed
fact if her destruction by lb e, mei her crew being thoroughly in Estaldisheil Churches, and he would
picked up and eons eyed to New York,. sooner see any Biblical sect own the Establishment
. than have no Establishment at all, because a nation
without an Established Church was a nation without
God. If the Protestant Establishment were abolished
in Ireland, an•ither, and a Popish Establishment,
would soon be built upon its ruins. Justice to Ire-
land What justice was it to Ireland to nob hundreds
of thousand,. 14 people if their Church and of their
property ? for, he ventures! to say, it VMS not national
pridierty. It these things be so, let them rally round
what they believed to be the truth; and he especially
urged united prayer that it might please God to bring
the Church through her peril.