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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

In London, on Sunday morning, the Bishop of Man-
chester preached at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, and in
the course of his sermon his lordship said attempts
were now being made to empty Christianity of any-
thing like a supernatural element, and to regard it
merely as a system of morals, and those not even
of the highest kind. Not that he, the Bishop,
liked the word "supernatural.' There was, he
doubted not, a nature—i.e., as Bishop Butler
had said, a fixed order—in spiritual things and
forces as well as in material. There were "laws,"
experienced, registered, generalised, phenomena
of grace as well as of the physical system of the world.
And those laws were constant, and it might be said
immutable. If they experimented upon them, fulfil-
ling all the conditions, they would find the experiment
as successful as any experiment in the laboratory of
the chemist who had taken care to observe all
the conditions of success. Men's spiritual failures
were because they had not wished to succeed ;
they had tried the impossible task of serving
two masters, and, of course, had failed. And no
it was an easy taunt to make, and a hard one to repel,
that Christianity was but a civilised heathenism—a
poor thin varnish of high-sounding principles and
transcendental doctrines never translated into,nor very
deeply influencing the actual conduct of living men.
For himself, deploring that the Gospel had been frus-
trated by the faint-heartedness, the halfheartedness,
the lethargy, the indifference, the fashionableness of
men and women—he yet must confess be did not ex-
actly see the reason why clever men should seem to
find so exquisite a pleasure and so much delight in
destroyin.g high ideal. He imagined that if there was
any truth in the theory of evolution, there might
be such an ideal state as the Gospel set forth to
be reached in the Church; but that ideal was being
swept away, and men, instead of doing as the Apostle
did, forget the things which were behind, sought to
prolong their vision beyond the horizon by experi-
mental evidence. They set their eyes upon the finely
granular albumen in which men of science saw the pro-
mise and potency of every form of of life; but bow did
that help a man to do his duty better in this nine-
teenth century, so long after the blessed Gospel had
been proclaimed to the world? Was the world so pure,
so unselfish, so full of symp_athy and the spirit of
devotion to duty, that it could afford to dispense
with the highest motives and the noblest exemplar?
Turning from the men of science to the men of litera-
ture, he was told that the idea of a personal God was
an unverified and an unverifiable hypothesis. Another
had sought to prove that Christianity was but a mere
bundle of precepts loosely thrown together, and that
miracles, incarnations, and the like were dreams
which no man held by. After all, would those
theories help him a bit the better to discharge those
duties which a still small voice within him said was
the purpose for which he was floated into this
sublunary world!
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

POT ATOE3.

The arrival of potatoes are still rather short, owing to the
unsettled weather, and trade in these continues steady, at
the quotations subjoined. The imports ii.to London last
week consisted of 111 bags from Antwerp, 143 from Brussels,
14 casks from Dunkirk, 14 casks 6 bags from Boulogne, and
3 casks 12 bags from Rotterdam i—Good regents, tiChs. to 905 ;
ordinary ditto, 755. to 80s. ; rocks, 60. to 70s. ; and kidneys.
1008. to 110 a per ton.

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FIBII,
Pickled herrings, 288. Sd. to Ms. : red ditto, 12s. to 22a ;
roused ditto, los. to 2es. ; fresh ditto, 13s. I'd. to 18a per
barrel ; kipper ditto, IL to 3s. 9d. ; bloaters, 2s. to Ss. 6d. per
box ; smoked haddock, 20s. to 300. per barrel ; trawl ditto,
16s. to IS,. ; ditto place, is,, to 28,. 6d. ; ditto whiting, 101.
to lEs, per basket ; soles, I. 3d, to 4s per pair ; turbot, Sis.
to 13,. each ; cod, £5 to 8 per more ; eels, Is. per lb, ; native
oysters, LIO ; common ditto, 138. to Li 10t per bushel.

SEED.
LONDON. Monday, Oct. I2.—A few samples of new red
Cloverseed have been shown of good quality, but few aales
yet effected. The best French red was held at very full
rates, but not much business transacted in any sort yet.
New winter Tares were In good request, at rather more
money. Canaryseed realised former values. Dutch hemp.
Iced quite as dear, with a steady sale. Fine qualities of
White Mustardseed, both new and old, brought fully former
rates, with a fair demand. Brown samples were inquired
for. Black English Rapeseed was steady in value and
demand, hut red descriptions were dull, and difficult to Ma-
posc of. A few pareels of new Trifolium brought former
rates. Fine Trefoil was held at previous values, but not
many sales effected
PROVISION.
LONDON, Monday, October 12. —The arrivals last week from
Ireland were toe firkins Butter, and 3,061 bales Bacon, and
from foreign ports 27,332 package' Butter and 2,093 bales
Bacon. Foreign llntter continues to meet a steady sale, and
prices have advanced 40. to Oa. per cwt. for fresh parcels.
The quality of Dutch having improved it advanced to Mit
to 140 s. In the Bacon market we have no alteration to notice
In prices of Irish, but Hamburg declined 2a. per cwt. at the
close of the week.

PRICES.
Butter, per cwt.: s. Chem:, per cwt:
Dorset .....• •• .. 158 to 180 Cheshire,— 68 to 8)
Dble. Glouc., new 72 80
Jersey ...... 118 130 Cheddar ........ 88 90
Eng. Fresh, per dos 16 le American 66 66
Bacon, per cwt. : Hams York... 112 126
Wiltshire, dried 72 78 Cumberland .... 108 114
Irirh, green, fob 76 82 Irish .......... 100 114

TALLOW.
LONDON, Monday, October It—The nurket though not
animated continues firm, and prices show a furthet advance
in some cues. Y.C. au she spot is sold at 4th. for new an
431 6.1, for old par cwt. ; while Town Tallow makes 408. itd
net cub.

a d. a d.
Town Tallow, per cwt. 42 9 Rough Stuff, per cwt.. .15 6
Rough Fat, per Blbs.—. 1 11i Greaves ~19 0
Melted Scutt, per evii.3o 6 Good Dregs ~ 6 0
Yellow Rusaian, new.......... 40s. Od. per cwt.
Ditto Ditto old .... ...... 43.5. 641. w
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

ON A FAMOUS PROFESSOR.

Mr. Smalley, the well-known correspondent of the New
York Tribune, in dwelling on Professor !luxley's recent ad-
dress at Belfast on " The Hypothesis of Animals," writes ,
thus of that famous scientist :
A well-built man in evening dress, rather above the
average height, rises from his chair and steps forward
to the edge of the platform by the side of the desk.
He stands quietly during the applause, which gives
you time to look at him before he begins to speak. So
dark in complexion as to be almost swarthy, the skin
quite blue-black where the moustache and beard are
shaven off. Black hair, touched with grey, worn rather
long and falling over the angle and half across one side
of the forehead, like Mr. Sumner's, only on the
opposite side. The head well tilled out, and with
a singular expression of power, not to be hid by the
careless sweep of the hair, which depresses some of
its strongest forms. The face thin, at once resolute
and good-humoured; the eyes the most remarkable
feature of it—dark in colour, luminous, so penetrating
as to give you the notion they might blaze fiercely
sometimes, but full of kindness. Very self-possessed
in manner, with not a trace of self-consciousness. The
hands falling easily by the side. You see he is at
home on a platform, and no way concerned about
getting comfortable through the next hour-and-a-half,
nor his individulity in the least mastered by the two
thousand other individualities occupied at this
moment in taking his measure. It may be doubted
whether the general success of this operation is great.
He looks an inscrutable sort of man, should be choose
not to be open; but the main difficulty in taking his
measure would be in the capacity of the observer, not
in any purpose of his to repel the interest he excites.
The whole discourse was delivered without a note; nor
does Professor Huxley employ the common oratorical
artifice of committing certain passages to memory. In
verbal memory, I once heard him say, he is singularly
deficient, and though a great lover of poetry, he could
scarcely repeat twenty lines. His habit is simply to
think out the whole of a subject—to exhaust every
line of thought, so as to feel sure of not being taken
by surprise—not being intruded upon and confused
while he is speaking by a new view, and so led away
from his fixed path. That done, he delivers his
address or lecture without aid, or, as he would say,
without hindrance—from a manuscript. This is not
an easy process on any subject ; on a scientific one it
requires a degree of severe training, a capacity for
prolonged mental effort, which belong to few men
indeed. The effect on an audience is extraordinary. A
born orator I should say of Professor Huxley. Though
his voice is weak, he makes himself heard all over a
vast and crowded hall by a distinct and patient articu-
lation, finishing each word before he begins the next.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

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average attendance of more than 1,300 students duriag
that time. This institution hoe taken a very satis-
factory position at the examinations of the present

On an autumnal evening, when a swimming match
is in progress, the Lambeth Baths form an interestmg
and attractive place of refill. Viewed as a mere
exhibition of gyinnasties the performaace is Zen woaf.l
seeing.; but when it is remembered that those who
take part in it may each and all be the means some
day f saving a life in peril frcm drowning, the ex-
hibition may well take higher ground than the
antics of acrobats, or the exploits of bicyclists.
,Both these latter thaw crowded assemblies,
and those who take part in them reap a substantial
pecuniary reward, but their skill is productive of no
benefit to society and is often dangerous to themselves.
If you look in at one of these entertainments you will
find that round the oblong sides of the bath and in the
long galleries above, are ranged the spectators. Long
rows of gaajets flicker above the water, which, posses-
lug the animation of neither the sea nor of a flowing
river, looks black, sullen, and forbiiling under the
gleaming of the artificial light. Suddenly a splash is
heard, and one competitor after another, bareheaded
and in a coloured dress, plunges into the cold and
silent pooh Watch the varieties of style and you will
see that one buries his whole body as well as his head
at every stroke, while another keeps his head high out
of the water. Some work with a ouick short stroke;
others with one of a longand powerful character. Occa-
sionally there is a series of aquatic feats by the Pro-
fessor and his assistants, the latter consisting of a
young lady professional and two little boys who are
introduced as the "Frogs," and whose gyrations in the
water elicit the warmest applause from the audience.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICL

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

ledge the iionetits resulting from that, gift. To-day, in
opening in person the Session of the Rigrag, we consider it
onr Royal duty to erpress to the Rigsdag our desire that the
discord, the dark shadows of which have of late obscured our
common happiness, may disappear before that spirit of con-
cord without which our work will be sterile. lu this direc-
tion we have done what we considered to be for the public
weal, and we now confidently hope that the Rigsdag will
join its efforts with those of our new Ministry in order to
further the reforms, proposals for which will be laid before
the chambers, tending to the development and progress of
the country, and that the Rigsdag will not withhold its
consent to the grants considered necessary to insure an
efficient administration of the public service, to open up new
sources of wealth, and to strengthen the defences of the
country.
•-- •

"Our relations with foreign Powers is still amicable.
Though the state of political circumstances has not as yet
permitted the solution of the question of North Schleswig,
we remain firm in the hope that we shall succeed in procur-
ing a satisfactory settlement of this matter that is embraced
by us and by our people with undiminished earnestness.
" Invoking the blessings of God Almighty for the work of
the Rigsdag to the benefit of the people and of the country,
we now declare this ordinary Session of the Rigsdag to be
opened.-
When the King had concluded this speech new
cheers rang out, but this time on the signal of the
leader of the Radical Opposition, who gave out Live
the King, and the Charter I" These last words are in-
tended to infer a sharp distinction. All are ready to
cheer the King, and the Charter is equally sure to unite
the homage of all; but, notwithstanding this, the
combination of the two has 1, ot a distinct party mean-
ing, and it is considered a very clever hit of the Radical
leader that he concluded the ceremony with his par-
ticular party cry. The King's suite marched past the
Throne chair, the King descended when the Chief
Court Marshal had passed him with his golden staff,
and at the same time the Royal Family retired from
the gallery, leaving the Houses to constitute them-
selves by the election of Presidents, Vice-Presidents,
and Secretaries.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-17

BRIERLEY BILL.

DRUNKENNKis.—At the Police Coart, en Monday, be.
fore Mr. F. Evers, It•chard.dines waelcharged with being
drunk and incapable. on th • 3th inst. Fine I ss.—Wrn.
Davis was fined .5s for a similar oldence.—Win. Hiuett
was also fined ss, f it. being drunk.
iIIIKEATENISIO.—Before Mtwara. F. Even and L. Freer,
Edward Pearson was charged with threatening his wife,
on the 3rd lust Complainant said she had five children.
Defendant was confirm illy thr.iateoing her, and she had
ti summons him three Dines. Ile was frequently drunk.
ond when he was in that state he p eked up the poker to
strike her with 1/..f,nda.lt was ordcr d to find ona
surety of £5 and hiuleelf in t 3. lo km.p the vice for sin
mouths.

ALL/WED DAMAGE..—DaviI Griffiths, 15, was charged
with attempting to commit wilful Jamsge to machnery,
on the Bth inst James Lamb said that on the above
date, at half-past twelve- he saw tie , defendant gding up
an incline belonging to one of the Fart of Dudley's pits
the wagon going up was atopi ed. On examining the
wagon he found II juice of roa in it Whitt no did nit
,ee J.fethlunt put it in. Henry Lamb, eegin cc, acid he
siw the wagon atop. lie loft the engine to ace wird ws
the matter, and hated the pif-ce of iron produced in one
of the wheels. He saw ii,feutlant on the line but did
not see him put any iron in at: wheel. Defendant was
.lisint,sed with a caution.