The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The death of Thomas Lally, the American artist, I
announced. Re wadi ninety years of age.

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Of 156 prisoner, booked at the Liverpool police
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stations between Sunday evening and Monday morning, 150
were drunk.

During the present week, several shipping disasters
have been reported from various panto around the British
°oasts.

The dead body of an unknown gentleman was found
on Monday among some tombstone. In Mensal Green 0..-
tee. A pistol lay near hls heed.

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It ha; been determined to form an agricultural
awociation in Cambridgeshire, to resist strikes, and to defy
the effort. of pridessiiiiial agitator.
Several hundred labourers, with their families, on
Tuesday, left the London Docks for New Zealand. Others
proceeded to Liverpool, en routs tor Derail.

Fifteen years ago an influential London contempo-
rary pronounced a seven per coot rate to be " as disastrous
in its effects as earthquake, parttime*, famine, flood, oonlia-
gration, alai shipwreck.

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The Northumberland Coal Owners' Aamodation have
advanced the price of small coil from Ms. to 30s. per chat.
dron. Very recently the pito* of ansereened coal was re-
duced.

A man named Michael Collin who wee discharged
from a lunatic asylum on Sunday night, slimily afterwards
set fire to a quantity of fume in the neighbourhood of
Limerick, and placing himself in the midi, was roasted to
death.

A Paris Correopondeat says that hi. Gravy was al-
most unanimously ro-eleoted President of the lrenoh
Assembly on Tuaday, and that the former ViceePressidonta
were also re-elected, the Left withdrawing the candidates it
had brought forward.

Thomas Chi'!loner, • collier, wastound dead on Mon-
day on a cinder heap at Earl Granville's deep pit, Henley.
111, supposed that he hat lain down forth. sake of warmth
and was suffocated by the fumes.

"A marriage, which makes a 'great sensation at this
moment. Ii that of a lady who was Princess de la If oskows
by her father, and Duchess de Persigny by her husband. In
a few days she will only be the wife of a simple advocate at
tlairo."—Court Journal,
A tramp who had been refused alms at a house near
Bodedern, in the Isle of Angleses, the other evening. made
a violent attack upon the maideervent and her mutes', an
old gentleman nearly 80 years of age, the lasirearnt used
being a bricklayer's hammer.
Cardinal Cullen, in a pastoral letter which was reed
on Sunday in Ireland, remarks that there ts reason to hope
that the Government will accede to the wishes of the Irish
Roman catholic* "education In accordance with their re-
ligious principlea"

Fly a telegram from Copenhagen, we learn that Mr.
FA ward Whymper, IMOWTI for his testa of Alpine climb-
ing. h,,s returned from a mooed IMAMy of exploration In
North Greenland, bringing with him a skh collection of
curbaltlea, Including some remarkable specimens of fossil-
ised wood.

"Mr. Bessemer will be blessed in many lang: meek
by Englishmen and foreigners, without distinction of age or
flex if he manages to abolieh seanickneu through his ingro
Moue ides of a chip within a ship, the inner movements
counteracting the outer, and producing a central estm."—
Daily Telegraph.
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According to the New Free Press the cholera epidemi c
In Hungary has been severe. In Prath alone there had beon
64 deaths out of 224 eases Once the 18th OM., and In the
week ending the fed that, there were 47 new PM. Is at
Sunday'. returns showed a further progreuive increase. The
&Hue has appeared at Vienna.

It is stated that large numbers of iron and steel
masters in Sheffield are combining to bring about a reduction
In the price of coals. They have threatened to atop their
factories half time by locking out their men. If they are
compelled to do no, 14,000 workmen will be partially thrown
out of employment.

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At a meeting which he recently been held of the
French Conservativea' or party of the Right, it was resolved
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e support Prince Na.polenn ;hen his cis. iiomes before the
House, not from any personal eympathy with the Prince, but
for political reasons.
From April lit to the 9th instant the Treasury re.
ceipts am, uhted to 41,287,596, as compared with a 5,601,918
In the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure
has been £41,02,777. On Saturday last the balance in the
Bank of England exceeded three millions and a half sterling.
On Mr. Alderman Lusk taking his seat on the bench
at the Guildhall, London, on Tuesday morning, Mr. Martin
informed him that there was not a single night
.charge from
the whole of the Guddhall diatl lot, width compete. lour out
of the six divisions into which the city is divided. His wor-
ship was then presented with • pair of white kid gloves.

"Fray, sir, of what profemd- on are you?" asked an
eminent Q C recently on circuit of a witness who had corns
prepared to prove a fact, and who was deemed not very re-
speotable. " Sir, I am a shoemaker and wine merchant. '
A what, sir?" said the learned coanseL "A wine mer-
chant and shoemaker." "Then," said the counsel, "I may
describe you as% sherry cobbler."

The President of the Cambridge University Boat
Club announced on Monday night that be had received •
challenge from Oxford to row the usual eight-oar race at
the end of the next Lent Term. It was resolved by accla-
mation to accept the challenge, and the President and Secre-
tary are busily engaged in selecting mews for the trial
eights.
A French provincial paper declares that M. Thiers
has been uanttlidally made squinted with a letter from
Prince 'lnmate]. to • German functionary, in which it is
stated that Prussia is favourable to the establishment of •
Republic in France, believing that • Monarchy would be the
signal for • civil war, but that she would change her attitude
were the Madinah to oome into power.
In Paris recently, an inventor of boots with which
to walk on the water made a public experiment, when, says
the account, the boots indeed floated; but the inventor,
with his head under water, seemed to be carrying on a con-
versation with the fishes, which would probably have ended
with his suffocation if • boat had not picked him up.
In London, on Monday evening, • public meeting
was held &Eddie Workmen's Club in Smithfield, to proteet
against the demoUtioa of the house, of the poorer dilitek
and to demand the erection of more suitable dwelling.. Sir
John Bennett occupied the chair. The object of the gather-
ing met with general concurrence, and it was resolved to
send a deputation to the Lord Mayor on the subject.
The opening meeting of the Royal Geographical
Society's Session was held on Monday evening at the London
University. The chair warn occupied by Sir Henry Eserlinnon,
the president, who, in his address, spoke of sir. Stanley's
journey to Lake Tanganyika as the most Important geo-
graphical achievement of the year, and one fully deserving
the Society's medal
One of the novel street sights of London just now Lu
a new double hansom running on two wheels, but tarnished
Intl is with double seats for four persons, hat ma in the
old four wheeler. The body of the car is balanced on the
same principle as the ordinary hansom to relieve the horse
from the weight, and throw it almost wholly on the wheels,
while Jehu is perched up overhead as per regulation. The
wheels are very small, and Sr. axed rather Ruder than out.
ide the vehicle.. . . . .

A partial lock-out has occurred in the building trade
of Birmingham. Dist week the Builders Association issued
notices to the effect that the working hours for all branches,
both in workshops and out of doors, would be from seven
a.to to five p.m, on and after Monday, Nov. 11, till Feb. 18,
It-3 Tide, the men say, Is contrary to the rules as decided
by Mr. Rupert Kettle, and they accordingly Issue 1 • counter
notice that the short time would not commence till Wed-
nesday. A largi number of workmen are thrown out of
em plot meat.
The Bishop of Manchester has been giving advice
to young working men at Bradshaw, near Bolton. Bpeak-
Mg at the luncheon which followed the consecration of
a new church there, he said working men goismally had ad-
vantages now of making themeelves comfortable that they
had never had before—at least, not in his memory. A young
man earning £2 a week, if he had no burden upon him,
could put by £1 • week. That could surely be done If an
agricultural labourer could live on lfra a week and bring up
four or live children u well. And the Man who did that
for ODO year would be Justified In asking the prettiest, the
trueat, and the nattiest girl in the parish to have him for her
The Daily Netts Correspondent in Rome says that
the sufferers by the late inundations in Italy need help to •12
extent that neither the Government nor private generosity
will be able to provide; It has accordlogly been suggested
that • sum of about twenty millions of franca, collected
some years ago for the purpose of paying off the National
Debt by public subscription, should be given to the de-
vastated district.. The proposal has been approved by the
newspapers of all shades of political opinion, and the
Gazzetfa &Italia has followed It up by recommending that
the amount assigned to the Pope, which relying idle because
he has hitherto refused to accept It, should lee devoted to the

same parp.e.

Speaking M Southampton, on Sunday, Bishop Wil•
berforee, taking up • reference to the an,iglavery efforts of
his ancestor, said he felt that his cumaction with that name
was a perilous Inheritance, but at the same time the posms-
sloe or it In a freuc?untry like tms.p2muil he. a great moral
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stimulus to any thinking *Man —ln the morning -the htshop
prea,hed to the local volunteers, and pointed out there was
nulling sinful or contrary to the Dlvioe Word to a man being
a soldier. That. war might be a righteous one he held to
be supported both by the Old aud New Testament.

Mr Hibbert, M.P., secretary to the Local Govern-
ment Board, was present at the first anniversary of the
Chadd,rton Liberal Regtstration Society, on Saturday even-
ing The hon. gentleman said that he expected that one of
the principal measuree to be brought forward In the next
session of Parliament would relate to local government and
taxation. The time had, he thought, came for the estab-
lishment in counties of a system of financial government by
county boards, and for the amesiuments lath. various unions
to ne made on • uniform plan.

An application was made at Rolls Chambers, on I
Monday, to the Chief Clerk, on behalf of the Right Hon, W.
E. Gladstone and Lord de Tabley, as trustee under the
of the late Duke of Newcastle, that a sum of £lf,O the
proceeds of the sale by private contract of the mine. in
Charltoo House-terrace, should be ordered to be invested In
Consols and allowed to accumulate. The Chief Clerk made
the order asked for, but remarked that he wished now he
had ordered the property to be sold by public auction In-
stead of by private cooked.
A serious railway cornstalk occurred on Tuesday
afternoon on the Highland Railway. The ordinary mall train
left Inverness at the usual hour, proceeded nortkwud, and
reached Nova at the proper time. There a goods train,
going south, was being shunted to allow the mall trait to
pass. Through some mistake, the shunting was not com-
pleted when the mall train came up. The remit was that a
large destruction of ProffsatT was 0•11•11••••• IRK • 17•• t
lumber Or Immenitre much Injured. The most
hurt are the raj; sad le the
dl lustatitgardlafik ot IMMO&

Toot•wormers are mow .applied 'to a
PoNorm noon the Great Northern Nollya.

- The- profits of the 'moodual table at -Spi,lPokfunt)
Ws paw he - -

The snow-drift at Da'moral on Sunday and the
greater part of Monday was all kat Wallis', and the mow
aow Ike at couldenable‘spda.
An explosion of fire-dagnp, by which thhiy-eistt
perilous were killed and three wounded, has taken plies as
the Monceau: Kings, in Fiasco
In congegnence of the high price of coal, the direc•
tore of the erlef Gas Comas, have advanced the price of
Pe from fla Bd. to 7a MI. per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Several Japanese Pallas shipwreekei on Formosa
Island were eaten by the natives The Kiog of the Loo
Choc* has sent an embuey $O Jediio for aid $o avenge their
death.

Mr. John Bright mewed hhneelf attending the
Mayor's hanqiiet at Birmingham on Saturday night, on the
groin d that h s state of health still renilereil It ne ieunary to
&told puhlfc dinners and apiseche..

"At Shampore, in the e district ef ll..wrah, ts wild
beast En tired the home of • native wont to through the
window. and ripped ores her stomach. trent the etteeta of
which wound she died lonsedistely."—Calcut ta Engoshman.
A new coal bed has, it is said, been discovered in a
Geld at Greystoom, near Sheffield. The coal is situated about
seventeen yards from the surface, and the bed is Shout foul
feet thick.

Prince Christian of Holstein arrived at Dresden on
Sunday wit.. autograph letter from QUONI Victoria eau.
gratnlatlng the King and Queen of suony upon She fiftieth
sumiveniary cf their wedding.
A telegram from Constantinople mentions that the
Levant fletaid has been suspended by the Tartish Wrest-
meet for two months, for publishing what Is described al an
ironical attic a on the deficient wata supply of that city.
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The Tranaatlantic Company's steamer Louisa; has
arrived at St. Navvre vdth 28 passengers, 1,050 packages of
merchandise, and 312,000 t. in specie. Her dates are—Vera
Cruz, 0 tober 17; Havana, 22; St. Thomm, 27; and San-
lands% November 10.
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Last Saturday a fatal accident occurred in the
Orkneys by which a mail boat was upset and two men
drowned. Only two mall' bags were recovered. The men were
brothers, belonging to the island of Walls, and were un-
married.

Afire in a colliery near Wigan. which was /apposed
to have been extinguished two years dune, revolving a fresh
supply of air by a fall of the roof, burst forth again on
Friday night, and caused the deaths of four men by suffix.-
lion, seriously Injuring a Ufa.

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Mr. Stanley left Liverpool on Saturday, in the
Cunard Steamship Cuba, for America. flea Stanley will and
plenty of honcurs .waiting him when he reaches his Mike
coil; And among others it Is stated that all newspapers 00r-
reosudents at Washington purpose giving him a grind
banquet on his snivel In that city.]
An old erindruhl seined Seller has just &ad in the
Swiss penitentiary of Aargau, who acknowledges having been
the murderer of • Jew, whose death, until this cordeaston, re-
mained • secret. The son of the murderer held the victim
while he killed lam with • bill-hook. For some time pee-
vious in hie death the wretched run dreamed continually of
the executioner of Mutely.

A melancholy accident occurred on the River Type
at Newcastle on &slay afternoon. A yacht with Ave men
toil was sailing across the river when a sudden gust of wiled
arms and the yacht capsized, filled, and sank in a moment.
Two of the men swam to shore, two others were drtwned,
and the fifth man, who wee an expert swimmer, got ea-
tearied in the rigging and went down with the yacht.
The Post Office of Victoria, Australia, having given
notice to the General Post Office that articles of Jewelry re-
ceived in that colony are chargeable with Customs' duties,
the Postmaster-General thinks it necessary I. make this
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regulation known to the paid°, sad to Ilea ask any kaiaks
or packet,. containing such articles sent throngs the poet are
liable, with their contents, to be fortettod.

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The Court of Exchequer has decided that to oa/1 •
sporthue man a welsher is not slander in &legal sense. In
the course of the argument in the case. the Judges indirectly
idgmilled their willingness to aecept the authority of the
Slang Dictionary' for the delnftion of tb• ottiozious word
for the use of which an action had Wee brought.

In honour of the birthday of the Priice of Wake,
and In commemoration of Ma Royal Blehnees'e mover/ heel
In. Rinses last year, the Princess of Wales hes presented to
Sandringham Church • new lectern, laserined, 'To as
glory of God. A Thankorering, 14th December,
Alexandra, I was in trouble; I called upon the Lord, and
Ile heard me.' —Psalm coo., v. L"

The Mayor of Ceetillon, in the Gironde, has been
suspended for two mouths, for declaring the cries of Vire
l'Empfreur !" as legal as the orbs of "Vv. is Rkpublique !"
It appears that some electors in the Town nail shouted
. Viva la Republique and others having rejoined "Vice
nmpOreur !" the Mayor declined 60 interfere, Writing the
above reason

" The people of Bombay have had the happinese of
new coloured windows for their Cathedral, but the workmen
had fixed them inside out, to the great amusement and,
whips, horror of people conversant with what la algnilled
by the soft many-coloured light falling on the worshipper..
When the error was discovered, means of counts were taken
to repair it, and the Viceroy will lind the Windows with their
right sides out"—Correspondent of rite Times

The Prince of Wales has acknowledged the warm
greeting which he received at Newcastle in • patriotic reply,
which, passing the mere customery formalitiee, expresses
the Prhice's pleasure in mixing with the classes who contri-
bute to England's prosperity, and his desire to identify him-
self with her institutions, and labour in common with his
fellow-countrymen to hand them down unbispidred to pos-
terity.
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"-French capitaliste in connection with French
leading politicians hove just established at in. Petersburg
a daily paper in the French language entitled La NOva.
The tlbjecA in view is to foment the plan of • Russo-French
alliance, all discouragement, notwithstanding. As there
are a good many people in Russia favourable to such
scheme, the paper cannot be raid to be altogether purpose-
lem, even though the reigning Emperor prefers good re-
lation, with Germany."—Correspondeut of The limes.
On Friday morning, while some men were at
work on a building it Brighton, the streetare fell to the
ground, with aloud crash. The plasterers, who were engaged
La finhhing the interior, had a narrow escape, but three men
and a boy, who were at work in the lumens, were burled
beneath the falling materials. Assistance was soon obtained,
and three f the persons were taken out alive, but • boy,
when extricated, was quite dead, baring been fearfully In
lured. Two of the sufferers were speedily conveyed to the
gusset County Heepital, where they both remain.
A newspaper correspondent in New York nays that
great inconvenience continues to be fettle that city, owing
to the epidemic among the horseo More than h'alf the
streetcars and omnibuses have been withdrawn, and the
foreign steamers leave with abort cargoes because it Is im-
possible to convey goods from the warehouses to the river.
Oxen are being used in the city to draw heavy drays, and the
sight by its novelty attracts crowds of idlers. Fortunately,
there has been little mortality among the horses, and if al-
lowed • few days' rest they generally recover from the dis-
ease—a kind of severe influenza—from which they are
suffering.

The Prim:wee Mary of Cambridge (Duchess of Tack)
has written • graceful letter to Lord Skelmersdale In ac-
knowledgement of the cordiality with which she wee re-
ceived OD her recent visit to Lancashire. tier Royal High-
nem says, after thanking the Mayor 01 lAverpool for the re.
oeption which she met with In that town—"! can never
forget the welcome Lancashire has given me and my husband:
end! never felt more proud and happy to be an English
Primer than on this occasion, whoa 1 once again had before
me so striking a proof of the loyalty and deeparooted attach-
ment that exist for the Queen and the Royal house. I used
scarcely aunts you that I shall not fail to let the Queen
know how enthudestically loyal Lancaahlre is."
During the week ending Saturday last, 5,585 births
and 3,070 deaths were registered in London and twenty other
/urge cities and towns of the Totted Kingdom. The mortality
front all canna in these towns was at the rate of 12 deaths
annually to every thousand estimated to he living. In the
metropolis 2,402 births and 1,118 deaths were registered, the
former having been 121 above, and the latter Mk below the
average. Fifteen persons died from smallpox, 11 from
measles, 14 from scarlet fever, 3 from dlptherla, 23 from
whooping-cough, 28 from different forms of fever, and 19
from diarrbies. The deaths from these seven Mures
were in the aggregate no lees than 189 below the cor-
rected average number in the corresponding week of the
last ten years. London has probably never been so free from
the providence otrymotic disease as it In now.
In an article on the marriage of the Emperor of
china some curious facts are mentioned. For example. It
I. stated that the number of wives sad concubines is so
arranged as to form a aeries in geometrical progreeslon, with
three as its salmon ratio. Thus, by law the emperor Is
oompelled to take unto himself, braider! the Empress, three
ladies as petitier lemmas of the fine degree—these haul
been selected for his imperial Majesty—Mae of the
sealerrudidegree, twenty-seven of the third degree, and nine
times nine concubines. With equal precision the various
duties of these ladles are minutely hid down, and not mach
more latitude as to the choice of his companions appearto
be allowed to the Emperor after his marriage thanin the
original selection of the members of his household,