The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-28 00:00:00

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,3RITISEf AND FOREIGN.

Rebellion haa !hewn ita head very formidably In
Jewel] : So, the attnation at NAitaasiii be he.cople critica,i,
forego r.aldahta I..ealg prepared to ileek .afety uu board toe
men-of-woe.

A party of smigrants are about starting from te
Bernese oberland, with the Lbjeet oi estaell.hiug a cheese
m+unlactory to Krum, where 'ter have already purchaeed
some laud.

Amore; the " valentines" which pawed thmagh
litouce,ter port-3t6ce were two large wooden spoon. The
usmea ot the Intevded recipients were wrlLtro on the handles,
and on the bowls the words •• Your character."

A new Atlantic cable will he laid in June, the start-
tug point from this sloe Nine near Vsleutla. The other end
gnu o. beacord uu Newloundlaud, carried acroe• to Nora
Scotia, awl thence to Now Hampahire.
The poor-rate in liristol for the ensiling half.year fe
to he Ili& In the pound. Thle it the tbst time Mout 1640
that the rate has beeo below Ir.

The value of the Australian gold imported into the
u„itad KiArom In J.Luaiou wad, £.57,865, as compared with
k1,29P,952 In J. nary, 1873, and £881,541 In January, 1872.
The Emper.r of Ate Aria arrived at Moscow on
Mots, awl met rrith• brilliant rtceptlou.

The supporters of Mr. Bonhem Carter st Win-
chester, witch city he hes repreetntea In rsallamel.t for
twoity-emen years, are shoot to present him with a portrait
of himself as a memento of his services.

The Hackney petition wait, tip to Sattriday nfgtt
the only one I..mik,ed agehat &return c acing he recent general
election.

Mr. Willet announceg that the explorers of the Sub.
Walden formation in Sweet are ~b..ut to" strike coal"
'I ,ry are 3,111 taring iu the Kiruniertige cla), boleS
another 100 feet lower they expect to tbot the objtct of their
search--• local coal supply for Brighton In answer to an
application to the dirtct,s of the Geological &they, Mr.
T pity, who or preparing • memoir on the Weald, has been
commieslobed to watcta the further progreas of the boring.
There has been a great Increase in the importation of
hems. Last mouth the value was & ,187 In the same
pert ul in the pre% .ous lea.. only £20.3711.
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Notwithrtand ng the high death-rate, the mean
temperature of tan week was favourable-40 deg., ,r 1
above the average of the oorreamm 'fug period of the hac-
century. The extreme ranee was from a highest day tem-
perature of 62 to a loreeet night temperature of 27 S. Rain
fell on three ua)s, atgreastlng .16 of an Men.

Speaking of Colonel Gordon African expedition in
the service of the Khedive, the Levant Herald says :—lt Is
understood filet Colonel Gordon ebi be acoompanied on his
arduous inittion by a sniff of four Europeans only, the
mai oily of whom served with Mir Hamm' baker No
English commisahmed ofhcer either of the army or navy will
accompany him.

Count Wildeck, painter, reeiding in Paris, La., nay.
Gaisgnassi, Just arrived at the age of It 6 years. In 1a26, the
aet twltig then 6), arm in want of money, presented come
of ht. pictures at the Ecarie dm Beaux Arta, and rake!
4e,OtUfr. for them M Bedard, the director, replied that
the era nice. at lilac Anwand 0,1 ink permit him to make a
purchase of that Importance, but that if Mr. Waldeck con-
sented, he would obtain for him an annual allowance of
2,1001 r. The painter hen therefore rooelvc4l during 48 )ears
It total sum of 96,000 fr. The old gentleman la In exmllent
health.

The great temple Tenshlg Daijon, at Shiba, In
reb•o, was destroyed by tire on the nue sling of January let
Thin was the moat Imposing structure of Its kind In the
blond, though not one of the most mere& The huge bell,
ten feet high, was no Injured al to be rendered wog them

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The commit ea of the Berwick museum acknowledge
the receipt ol a white 14010

The value of gunpowd-r ernoted loot month was
1.35,593 and in the same period to 1e73, £36 149
Over 200 cases of Japanese cilkworme' eggs have
arrived in blew York (fly, eoi algued to English houses,
through a hleh they are to be forwarded to Italy.
Toe importation of guano last year increased to
£743,835. from £71,972 hi toe previous year.
The Mansion house Fond for the relief of the suf-
ferers by the fondue in Bengal amounted on Wednesday to
about ,C 23 ,000.

Messrs. Williams, D,acon, and Co., the London
banters, request us tate Tvntes)to state t.sst y have re-
ceived a death nof Et,oun fzum G. " for tha latent
Orphan Asylum, Wanatead.

A Danish woman didn't speak for five years because
she thought she had committed the unpardonable sin of being
cross to ter husband. She thinks by this time she has made
full amends again, and intends, gu she says In a short note,
to Term again on the Ist of March, 1874

Tee threatened joiners' strike in Edinburgh has
been averted. At a lake meeting of the masters, held on
Taeavley evening, it was unanimously resolved to concede
the demand of the operatives, that their rate of wages
should be increased after the 2nd of March by a ballpenLy
per hour. The primer t rate of pay le id , and it mid be now
Insreased to 70. per hour.

When the Prince Imperial type born endcwinent
assurances to a large amount were *Hooted on his life, and
made pay able at the age of etahteen. I. naequently, on the
18% of March, 1874, he will receive several millions of francs
from the hymen. c.onpsoins.

The Boston Transcript says tint persons in position
to know of the natter, state tg,it the lose of interest and
dividends, and the shrinkage on railway share. and securi-
ties of railroad, at the S .utli and the Weer, nave occasinied
notch more personal Claire., to Boston than mai caused by
the great ken in that city.

Tneeday night's London Gautte annonn ee that
sixty it.. addresses of Congtatuiatin hove been presented to
th.- Queen on the oacadou of the Duke of kdlty.atrgh's mar
slags.

The Murillo, which ran anion the IVrtlAttl, Mt
C ices it,ado, eu Tuesday en route from CaMz to 'Hamburg.
Sue ha. men rt-chrtsteued Huelva.

At Evansville, Indiana, before daylight on the morn-
ing of Feb. 5, a house caught fire In which ten potions were
nine pi g. 1 hree, too of them bt tug children , escaped, but
all the other. were either burnt to dt atn, their et- arred bodies
being afteretafds tagen out of the run., or else were hor-
ribly injured. The two children eh , elf aped were brought
out by their mother, who •ler• aria rushed to to save
others, but perished. Her husk ical when toribd oar eu p-
lug the ba.f-hunt corpse of his youngest child to his brt a t.
1.1.• too. I ad originally earayed, out went back to save We
Children

As two sinkers were descending a coalpit near
Itanicy, on Monotty, the cage, acquiring a sudden velocity,
war forced through the scatkli on which they were to work,
fifteen yards from the bottom, and jerked both Its occupants
out. Ode of them, lhomas Junes, au daahed to pieces abd
the other was seriously Injured.
The Berbers of the Authorized Version of the New
Testament met on Tuesday at the Deanery, Westminster, for
their 37-h senston, and sat fir Stein hour. There were
present the Bishop of tt mounter aud Bristol (who presided),
the Deans of Rochester and Lincoln, the Master of the
temple, Archdeacons Wckereteth and Lee, Canine Lish.foot
and Westcott, Professor, Moutton, Newth, and Edwin
Palmer, Drs. lingo., 8. rivener, and Vance Smith. Prebendary
Humphry, and Mr. Hort —in ail, 16 caeruoers, and Mr. Trout-
back, the secretary. Ste company revised the translation of
the eta cluapuer of the let Epistle of fit Icier.
By a decree of the let of February, the censure of
the thestrea has been formally re-nets dished in France.
The diatress in Paris, which Wan grossly exaggerated
some three or four months ago, Is now a sad and sober tact.
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The British Empire row pneeenee 7,760,449 equere
1211;08 a territory. l'he United Kingdom, 11,t0 Iva
nail"; the colonies, i 3,1021 ; India and C 965,820,
There ere fIA ;Arlon. a square mile In the Empire ; ?Au In
the United Klnedom, 2,1 in India, and 1 41 to the colmies.
In is,me parts of I,dia the density of population more thm
equals that of liuglaJd. The Queen rules over 234,782,591
soul.; her people dwell In 44,142,651 houses ; and the ares
of the Lands they luhabli Is not lees than 7,.00,419 square
miles

At a meeting of the Manchester School I3oard on
td,nday a motto by !Mu Lecher br the adadasion of re.
porter, to the meetings of the schoot management committee
and the general pnrposea committee was rrj.cted by 10 votes
tot A tecerom-hdation of the dila et mmittee that me
female and three male officer, should be appointed by the
boar!, led to • di,cusalon on the desirability of employing
female officer,. Miss hacker proposA that two of to. four
oflimrs should he women, which was aeconded by Mr. Dale.
Mr. Alderman Lame moved as an amendwitt that all the
visitors abould be men, and tido was second,,d by the Rev.
Caton Whltelegge. Ou • diehlOU the antendment was car-
ried by 8 votes to 7.

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The strike of the men employed 'in the Bessemer
chpartment at the Atlas Works, Sheffield, has terml.
sated, having lasted ten weeks. The c proposed to
redurn the w.ges of the men 10 per cant. Rather thau stin-
mit to those terms, about 1,600 of them filmed out, L,at
week the compsr y offered the Well areal:Atm oft Per sr-ni
and an altertdion in the scale of work, by welch arratgarnent
their »awl word] be equal to wmi they received Mitre the
strike. Al a meeting held on Monday, the men decided to
accept the offer.

At the %Veltrfield intermwlate Sef,fllol3ll, AllthOty
Hopkins, 26, mason, pleaded " Guilty " So hresking Into the
pot Mr. W Lockwool, jeweler, at flu Idersfleid. on the
Ilth Inst., .d slesllng LI PO worth of prdptrty.
elms:lce lees effelted from the roof of an aljolnlns house
The prisoner sae apprehended while In possession of part of
the ko,fy. lie h d prerkas y buff:red fire yews' pens'
servitude Ira slmq a offence. tie was now sentenced $0 14
years' pensl servitude.

A l'arisien j inrnal indulge. in some very original
notes on St. Valentine's -y, giving the mat/neve and
customs of the It glieh on toe anntveriary of the lover,.
satnt's dsy which are at lead smusing. the setter (alio
colle.ses he knows nothing ab,'ut tie ..rlglo of the custom
says Valentines are represented by gifts of olatoond
necklaces, 111 k. pictures, anything and everything down to
roast beef. Toe Elglish will send a tine joint of roast beef
to. young Isoy with celestial blue eyes an i fatr hair. It lathe
poetry of materialism. Put the two objects particularly ac-
ceptalle as Valentine Rifts are-1. French gloves. 2.
Prettily -coloured and Illustrated notes, ornamented with
garlands of rows and hearts; prioe Is. The poetry lover,
stud t each other is shown about at the tea-Cede. me
Supreme bon ton is to oopy cones from dhakirpeste."
Active preparations are making for the adequate re-
presentation of French art and it duetry at this year's Inter-
national Exhibition Preach artists are making large demands
or the admission of their pictures and works of art. The
city of Paris will exhiblt WI extensive illustration of the
municipal works of the French capital accompanied by
mccl, of pu.lic buildings, smitary appliances de% This
di-play exelted much 'nterest at VI. nns It Is raid to be
like!ti trot the exhlblll of Frenrh sines In the Alnert liall
wt.l hied to the Introducti in of many kinds at present
little known In this country. The (away of lam ate em-
broidery promisee to be itinatiro,

At a

mg of Agrictiltnriete held at Bevenoak.
es sme.4eektingiewligteentlW• repta,, or at any
- dee reduction, of She It duty.
"Lord Spencer concludes to-day &Viceroyalty Which
may be said to comprise within nye years the wort of •
centery."—Wednesd ay's Netts.
Atter two bon,' debating on Tueeday night, the
araiNidge Cute.). pity Union Pawed a motion by 07 rotes to
6.4 condemning the p Rey pursued by the Prusehn Goren,
mist S,.ord. It. Roman Catholic subject. aa ineouslaterit
with the yrb cfples of religions eqoallt.
'A French periodical etates that the sale of artificial
eyes in Paris amount. to four hundreds •erk. The demand
for artificial eyes is mueh greater than would commonly be
suptoerd. and larceenumbers are exported to Inoia, ant turn
to the Sandwich Islands.

A groat increase in the consumption of foreign pork
has ocourre.l. Lest mouth salted tort was valued at
1ii2,016, and fresh pork 120,40 : in the like period In 1!•.‘73
he sums ',ere £49,737 and A 93.5.
A sad accident befell an actor in the Theatre Royal,
Paisley, on Seturd4y. While pert mining his part he had tus
of his eyes blown out and hie mos scorched, ir,u4h a fellow-
performer incautiously distiniuglog • rill&

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The E tour etatee that Sir Bartle Frere received a
letter frum Mr. 01.detone, prior to hie resigning office, in-
quiring an to the Dumber of children Dr. I.vingitone has left,
elth i view of recommending them to her Majesty or a
pude*.
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A Loudon cab-driver. out of employment, on Situ,.
day morning threw hlime•lf under • eteago-roller, whi.h wigs
being ustd in repnlrua the road In York.place, MarylobOnik,
and wee killed Immediately.

Notice of motion had been given in the t'ourt of
Common Couuell, Loudon, for offering her Royal ifighoele
the Duchess of Edinburgh present of the value or two
thouesud guineas.

Rumour who has her &out ions moods, otpoake of a
•• A roan'. hestre a, the latret novelty wlth •hlch the
metropo I. I. threatened There IN to be a manager..., the
p ayers are to be all women, and ware the author., while
the female ore'leetra fret V Jenne Is to b• engaged In 14
ent lrety. —Court Journai.

As lame remarks have been lately made u to the
pay of &leash ambastiadors, It may be apropos to note that
the rew French am,alssaor to, this country, the Duke de la
R .bef uesuld-Baamigegeta £OOOO • year, the highest new
paid to auy Freni.h diplontimitt etcept the ami.usador at
Pettraburs, who merles //10,C00 The next below the
embus. or to England is the Minister at Vienna, who has
AO WO, and then the one at Perlin who has £5.600.

The Rev. Thorns,' Harding, NVeeleysn minister,
Whi,eheren, father of sax fhomas 0 Peer Haring, Senior
A rangier last year. while pi...aching on bunday morning .nd
deol) fell down In the pulpit In an apopletin Ilk Two of the
donut-frail en bey.e him down the stairs, but he died Ina
few minute., before medical aulstance could be obtained
Last year our exports to Russia amounted to
te 996,69. and In 1872 £2B. 9, 820.
A terrible alcident haa h•ppened at the theatre it
Om. Twenty petroleum lamps hanging from the ceiling
suddenly exploded during • perf,rmanue. The petr
WI on the spectators right and loft, setting the drones flit.
adios lhatautly In a blaze. Several people were iserlowil in-
jured, and one lady died within an hour.

The Mancheittr Guardian's L dart= correspondent
writes Ine,e seem to be rt aeons for the belief that Mr.
Gladstone'. retirement will prove to he more than the with-
drswal from the fl tirco of Common/ upon ordinary °co..
Mons, when busimas 11 not of great Importance. IL Is not
ninny that Ms abandonment A the leadership of the
Dberal party, even if It be but temporary In duration, Will
be Complete whtle it lasts_ lie may, I understand, be led to
make a lengthened tour abroad during the boating swing
and summer. We may, therefore, look forward to a quiet
parliamentary year."

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We have resa,n to believe that her Majeety pro-
poned, as • mark id her gracious approhation of hts services
as her Moro, hi Ireland, to advance End i Spencer to the
dignity of • Marquis, but that the honour has beer respect-
fully and gratefully declined. ft wee also proposed to con-
fer op,n the Right HOD. Ru.aeit Gurney the Grand
Crose of the Bath, in rec. gettbri of his labours In the Wash-
ington Claims C.mmission, but Mr. Gurney did not dmire •
dirtinction which seemed Incompatible with Ms proleeeion.'
—The Time*.

The Tmes (In s leader) congratulates Mr. Dianwli
on the c ,ursge be ha. exhibited in returning to the old Ira-
ditton of twelve as a .unicient company a councillor.. The
gradual extension of the numbers of toe Cabinet has been.
Aro and mesintre of the weeknese of sucoseetve Prime
Midst ‘re Mr. Disraeli, Indere, shows somethivg of the
earth...nevi of conedous strength In not pecking his Cabinet
with colleague. who would Aiwa). acquirffica lii hl. decisions.
The result is a guarantee against the adoption and recom-
mendation by the Cabinet of Biertling propomils, such se
have characterized former AdminlearatloLs under the
guidance both of the late and the present Prime Minister

The half-yearly meeting of the Lot don and North
Western and (item Yorthern hallway Companies Cu. held
on Saturday. AI the loniser, the chairman said he thought
that the proprtd.ors had food reason to complain of the
amount of rate, and taxes that they were called upon to pay
Be was at one time in hopas that Sir. Gladstone, as Chan-
cOlor of tie Exchequer, would have farcurably considered
the question of doing away with, or materially reducing, the
railway passenger tax. But Mr. liudstone wm no louger.in
power. He trusted that the new Chancellor of be Ex-
chequer would set the Justice and advisability of reffortng,
at ail *vents to • uns extent, tido beery burden from the
Moulders of railway proprhston.

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The Anti-Income Tax League are somewhat con-
cerned to know what ore really Mr. Disraeli's intentions re-
epecting the Income-tar Misprinted address to the elector.
of Bucks Maimed the belief that he, like Mr Maibetnne,
prepared to abolish the impost. fits speeche. during his
recent election tour eomewhat dispelled that view. The
League hove therefore determined that as soon as the right
hon. gentleman 01,11 have nettled himself in Downing-street
they will present themselves before him lu the shape of •
numerous deputation, and meek to learn how far hls view
coincide with theirs.
" According to the report just issned of the Amerf-
can Iron and Steel Association, the recent panic, while it
selected every branch of husine“, .truck he Iron Industry no
never, ly that therein very little sign of recovery even now,
although live months have elapsed. li-turns ore given from
two leading brandies of the trade, which show that at the
date when they were made up one-third, jibe blast mill, and
ter -third. of the rail miii. of the country were Idle, the blast
furnaces havine 12.622 hands unemployed, and the rail mill;
11 404 and 10 150 working on hall time—ln all, nearly 25,500
Idle men in this single trade, besides nearly half se many
more working on short time. The rate of wages has also
heel, greatly reduced—From the Money article in Monday's
Time..

In the month of April nest 100 years will have
elatsed Ilil.o the loon laden of the R ilumane Society,
and the committee have dirtied on holding s centenary
festival, at which Lis Royal highness the Dote of Ittlinburgh
Las expramed Ms intention ot presiding, to celebrate the
great success which has resulted from Its exertions to pre-
serve life, and to improve and circulate all over the world
the eimphst and most soleutific modes of treatment in Wille•
of inupended animation, Due notion will be given of the
day heed for the festival AS 11',OLI a/ possible after the meant
of his Royal Ilighneu from Russia,