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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE LATE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

The Vienna Aberapost gives some particulars con-
cerning the testamentary dispositions of the late
Empress of Russia. The executors are the Grand
Duke Nicholas, Count Adlerberg, Minister of the Im-
perial household, and her Majesty's private secre-
tary, M. de _Mauritz. The beautiful villa at
Livadia, in the Crimea, has been bequeathed to
the Czarewitch, and the Castle of Ilionka, near
Moscow, to the Grand Duke, but on the condition
that neither of them is to take possession until
after the death of their father, the Emperor. The
charming cottage of Alexandria, close to Peterhof, on
the shore of the Gulf of Finland, is left to the Czare-
witch, who has occupied it for several years. Her
Majesty's magnificent collection of diamonds is to be
divided between the Grand Duchess Marie Alexan-
drovna (Duchess of Edinburgh), the Csarevna, and the
Grand Duchess Marie Paulovna, wife of the Grand Duke
Vladimir. A portion is to be reserved for the future
wives of the three youngest sons of; he Empress.
Among the diamonds is also reckoned the little crown
which Her Majesty wore only once in her life, on
the day of her coronation. The diamonds which
the Empress received as a portion of her wedding
trousseau are to be restored to the Court at Darm-
stadt.

The articles bequeathed by Her Majesty are
being arranged in some of the new chambers of the
reserved portion of the Winter Palace. One large
room is given up to precious vases of lapis-lazuli,
malachite, jasper, porcelain, and marble. There are
also magnificent lamps in bronze and the precious
metals, and various articles of vertu. Several tables
are laden with jewels and ornaments in diamonds and
other precious stones. There are quantities of rare
velvets and embroidered stuffs, and most valuable
laces, &c. Her, grandchildren, the little Grand
Duchess Xenia, and the daughters of the Duchess of
Edinburgh are also to receive some of the diamonds.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

MARRIED.

ROBERTS.—COOPER.—On the sth inst., at Peppard
Church. by the Rev. T. Williams, Edwin Roberts,
of Stourbridge, to Emma Clara CaoPer, Blounts
Court, Henley .on-ilames, Oxfordshire.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

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- SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1880.

TRADESMENS' ADDRESSES.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

THE TAKING OF THE BASTILLE.

The Times has a leader on the ceiebratiorrof the taking of
the Bastille by the Parisians, from which we make the
following extracts :

However we may read the history of the siege and
surrender of the Bastille, it is impossible not to
acknowledge that the 14th of July, 1789, is a date
which marks an epoch. History has now revealed
its secrets, and the taking of the Bastille, which
long figured as a patriotic legend to partisans and
an impenetrable mystery to outsiders, now appears
in no very heroic light to those who are at the
pains to ascertain the facts. If the truth must
be told, it was the work of a rabble, clumsy,
tumultuary, and ferocious; and their victory was
achieved, not by their own prowess or skill, but by
the ill-requitted humanity and forbearance of the
defenders of the fortress. A few hundred men
hastily armed by pillage, their leaders filled with
random thoughts of improvised catapults and
impossible Greek fire, blundered against a fortress
that could have laughed at their most formidable
attack. Its governor, De Launay, could have blown
it up in an instant and buried Paris in its ruins, or
he could have swept its assailants from their
ground with a few rounds of his artillery. But his own
humanity and the express commands of his superiors
restrained him. The assailants were surrounded by
an idle and curious crowd, actresses and people of
fashion who left their carriages to see the sport, and
dwellers in the adjacent quarters who were attracted
to the spot by the tumult. On these De Launay dared
not fire, and his panic-stricken garrison identified the
vast crowd of by-standers with the real assailants of
the stronghold. In the end a capitulation was ar-
ranged on.terms of safety for the garrison. But the
crowd rushed in, firing on friend and foe; officers and
men were slaughtered, and De Launay himself was put
to death with a ferocity and contumely happily rare
even in the sanguinary records of the Terror itself.
Thus, as Elie, one of the assailants, said, the Bastille
was not taken by force it was surrended, and that
before it was even seriously attacked. This is the
true account of the matter, if facts alone be taken
into the reckoning. But the Bastille fell, no matter
by what means; and the world, no less than France,
has fixed on the date of its destruction as one which
marks a turning-point in the history of mankind. . . .
The Bastile fell, though none knew then how it had
fallen, who had been its assailants, or why it had been
surrendered, and there quickly fell in its train the
very framework and vesture of feudal France. When
the Duke of Liancourt woke Louis XVI. at dead of
night to tell him what had happened, "Why, that is
a revolt," said the astonished but not very clear
sighted King. "No, Sire," replied Liancourt, "it is
not a revolt, it is a revolution.* This is what all
Frenchmen feel, whether they love the Revolution or
not, and this is why the Republic has chosen for its
symbolical birthday the memorable 14th of July. . . .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-07-17

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT in NEW YORK.

Telegrams from New York have been recently pub-
lished describing a large number of deaths from
sunstroke. On the 25th of June the thermometer
stood at 95 in the shade. According to the
New York, Herald, "Existence was felt by most
people to be of itself a burden. Although the burn-
ing orb of day seemed millions of miles nearer than
ever before, and the day was felt to be almost in-
supportable soon after dawn, the suffering that I
was entailed came less from the direct rays of the sun
than from the heavy condition of the atmosphere.
Men who commonly:laugh to scorn the idea of an East
Indian being obliged to take a siesta in the heat of
the day paused in something akin to fear before
beginning their day's work. The wise man dis-
carded all superfluous clothing, and started out
without necktie, vest, or stiff cuffs, and carried an
umbrella; and workmen who labour in the sun
went out with the full knowledge that half a day's
pay was better than the sunstroke. Many of them
struck work early in the day, and wisely relinquished
the wages that were less precious than health.
As the day wore on the suffering of the people
increased. Breakfast was something even children
were unequal to. The relaxation of nerve and
muscle was too great for the ordinary demand of
nature for food to be thoroughly realised. Those who
like summer forbore to express their preference, feeling
that for once summer had the best of them. People
rnerally were disinclined to talk on the subject, except
in ejaculatory and spasmodic phrases that were by no
means fit to be made public. They crowded into stages
and cars to escape the toil of walking, and thereby suf-
fered the more, for contiguity was heat. The air, until
the middle of the afternoon, seemed entirely devoid of
ozone. Each breath was a gasp, and a tantalising
shower of a couple of dozen drops that fell a little after
noon only aggravated the general misery. Later, how-
ever, there came a south-easterly breeze that brought
some life on its wings. Before this came the city had
experienced all the horrors of a tropical summer day,
without the
.preparations for heat that are made in the
tropics. That the weather is worthy of record and
unworthy of respect is shown by the single fact reported
from Long Island that farmers are feeding their cattle
on hay in June. The oldest farmer has no recollec-
tion of ever doing it before, and the promise of a,
serious distress, if not famine, only needs the confir-
mation of a further continuance of the weather of the ,
past two or three months."