The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-03 00:00:00

EVER.

trade is good, and the working ohms are in full
employment. The weekly revenue returns, an pub-
limbed by the Treasury, are satisfactory, vxhibitiog a
olight merean upon than of twelve mouths ago. That
or linai.c;al poltiou is a sound on.- has 10-.-o conclu.
t. waly provvi by the success with whivh din monetary
...cid born utidna aNiC ne Per edt. Bank Rate.
'll**, it will rem, ered, was (nly one Ow
oiher the home wl prevailed during the mcbc A
had ,'
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remembered, a.,
..tre which prevsiled du.,_„,
arid oimeserchsata had ihe gratification
rx dithalltiee w fia
gre never iras paining New ...ark.
T t ucti Ire Bank I4as tended con-
siderably to allay the apprehensions of those who
feared the consequences of another turn of the screw,
and who are now satisfied that our trade rests upon a
1311h41 mtial basis.
ULdoubtedly the aesial trerifirsif the y, ar which has
attracted miet attention is the trial of the Ti Wren
Clii the ,
chml.l4 iztdrents of 41db see f,illi
ilis
fs,%ooeeessing der rfordialen- ieiterest for
of the newspaper reading public.
D:4atty. as usual,' his beet busy as irea ifir the
Legislature as amongst less favoured Gables. Giviug
them in the order in which they died, we hod that the
following members of the House of Lords have
h'eu thus reulegeffi tho, Sart of ealkiley, Lard
•Riimatn.7,,,,d Lytton. Viscouut Oseiugton, the Earl
Hopetoun, Earl Delaware, the Earl of ZsUaud,
Earl Ca loge°, Lord Marjoribanks, Lord Rayleigh.
the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Wilberforce), Lord
Westbury, Lord Wolverton, Lord Zotiche, the E in of
Hardwicke, Lori Aunaly, Lord Howden, and Lord
Lyveden. The House of Commons has lost Sir
William Verner (Armagh county), Mr. Graves (Liver-
pool), the Right Hon. H. T. Lowry Corry (Tyrone
County). Sir Wilton Tite (Bath), Mr. S. T. Keirewich
(South Devon), CoL French (Roscommon County),
Mr. J. R. McClean (East Staffordshire), Sir David
Salomons (Grenwich), Mr. James Clay (Hull), Dr.
Dalrymple (Bath), Mr. Thomas Baring (Huntingdon).
NI,. Gore Langton, (West Somerset), Mr. Winter.
hotharn (Stroud), and Sir Joseph Cowen (Newcastle.
on-Tyne). The oldest of the deceased peers
was Lord Aunaly, 84; the youngest wee the Earl
id Hopetonn, 41. The eldest of the late members of
the House of Common. were Mr. Kelrewich and Sir
David Salomon., both of whom were 76 ; the youngest
was Mr. Winterbotham, the Under So•retary of
State for the Horne Department, who was 36.
Of men otherwise celebrated in various walks of life
ior obituary list must include the Hon. and Rev.
Baptist Noel; Dr. Lushington, for many years Judge
of the Court of Admiralty; Professor Sedewick, the
eminent geologid ; Captain Marley, the well-knovrn
hydrographer; Mr. J. S. Le Fenn, novelist ; SirW. F.
Channell, for fifteen years a Barons of the Court of
Exchequer ; Mr. Charles Knight, the widely known
author and publisher; Archdeacon Sandford; Count
Bernstolff, the German Ambassador at the English
Court; Mr, Macready, the famous tragedian; Mr.
John Stuart Mill, philosorier and logician ; Dr.
Ewing, Bishop of Argyle and the loins; Alderman
Sir James Duke, Bart. ; Sir Thomas Western, Bert.;
Signor Rettazzi, Italian statesman ; Mr. Thornton
Hunt, journalist • the Duchess of Inverness, widow of
the late Duke of Sussex; the Duke of Brunswick ;
Dr. Nelaton, a celebrated FreLch surgeon; Vice-
Admiral Sir Robert MiClure, an Arctic navigator;
Dr. Candlish, Principal of New College, Edinburgh;
Vice-Chancellor Wickens; the King of Saxony ; Sir
Henry Holland, one of the Queen's Physicians; Lord
Chief Justice Buvill, and the Dowager Queen of
Prowls.
P , drops the curtain upon 1873—a year of mingled
memories to thousands. As it passes away to be en-
rolled in the long list of its predecessors, let us all re-
tain the pleasing recollections which it aves behind
it, and endeavour to efface from the mind any
unhappy remembrances which might have been
experienced during its progress. There is al.
ways something impressive in watching out the last few
minutes of an old year. As the midnight wind sweeps
by the old church towers which have looked down
upon centuries of men's deeds, these seem to stand
out like giant spectral watchmen guarding the silent
towns whose peoi Is lie wrapped in sleep at their feet.
Then, as they proclaim with iron tongue the hour of
twelve, the sound of stroke after stroke slowly dying
away in the illimitable realms of space, the will for
the departed year seems instantly to change into a
song of joy at the arrival of its successor. Disappoint.
merits and discouragemente are forgotten, and as the
belle cheerily ring ins the, new year, let us hope that it
will be one of peace between the nations, and, of pros-
perity over earth's fair lands. May the good resolu
done invariably formed at the beginning of the year be
strengthened with the gradually lengthening days, and
as no portion of time that has passed away can ever
he recalled, let us live and act so that when the mid-
night chimes shall announce the departure of 1874, we
may possess many an agreeable renenisc,nce, of the
days, the weeks, and the months which it has given
to