The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-09 00:00:00

EP/TOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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and jewellery to be packed op to be ready in the Mut of
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hae Ordered & portion of the Papal archives
The right he,
gentleman's guests were, accurate: to Prelleslent, the Mem.
bentef the Administration. hiae,,enfirstct Parliamentary
return
just Issued, there were 40,000 tons more of shieping lb the
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coarse Of eonstruction in Scotland than in Eoglaud.
1
On Saturdatt morning the dead body of a man more,.
The Scotch hppear to be becoming the naval archir
Patrick was (mild at Carliste under circumstances that lead
to the conclusion that be had been murdered. A large mark
that had :Tee tern from Cu adjoining fence.
to s Parliarueetery .
from ber Majesty's collections Medi be lent es, the Irish Exhi-
bition of Arts, ledustrice, and Manufaetures, which es moue
wen. to:nQsliditenednehr I:sci left ease that had di,ei beencaneesi latis„:
to be opened in Dublin.
In the new Army Estimates there is a • vote of
spurn.] to complete the work.
A monster concert to coming off at Boston shortly.
it ts tote called ...The World's Peace Jubilee and later.
haLs.,,,,mno;
bnes.oneawiren.odwi;lveoter mdse.:lll47
£‘6l,soothe el eedrevraweil,
lit.W,oooe..
nation's! elneleel Festival. The cenductor mmounces that
the chorus white Ifenited te 20,000 voice&
Ytthhe
Irish Parliament 33 George 111 , cap. VI, intitMed "An
Act to prevent the electiou or agpointmeree el unlawful
tityl'il,feiet,eli*Ttr.of P
the
ericAke t 8
ei nt
assemblies."
The Devonpott School Board bars ~::.-Tided V;
and
Ad
nbthilelrbiaarid!ielenlnbebrio:li,f'",.:
point an officer to enforce the compulsory dailies ::' t`te
Education Act, and ordered the General Purposes Committee:
to prepare a report of the duties required of him and the
salary he should have.
The number of passengers conveyed over the Metro-
politan, Metropolitan and St. Johne-wood, and Hammer-
smith and City railway e on Thanksghing Day was 243,00 e.
The number of passengers using the Metropolitan Company's
omnibuses running between Portland-road and Regent-.
eine!, en 'the same day, was 4,523..
An annual account rendered by the Bank of Eng-•
land thews that at the commeneeteept of the year 1672 the
dividends on the National Debt due aed not demanded
amounted to 42.444 315. In pursuance of etatutee of 31 ate,
44 George 111., £570,739 bad been advanced to the (finery,
meat, and £67,576 retualued in the hands of the NM: .
Lady Charles Ker stirl lingers. On Sunday afte,tl
noon the telegram was—, Lady Charles has passed a quiet
night. Her general symptoms, though complicated with
very grave inuieations, are eltegether snore fevonranle."
Iler Majesty visited the dnfortunete lady on Sattellays Meg.
big for about twenty minute's
In the opinion of the Arne York IVer4d the Treaty hi&
completely broken down under the American hitorpretation
of it, and unless Mr. Fish and Mr. Gladstcees can re-
construct it, there is but little hope of • satistachite *Mee.
ment.
of the victims of the crush of Thanksgiving Day. One of
1 In London, inquessts have been held upon thrett'
the coroners expressed an opinion that, considering the vitt
Mr. Whalley, M.P., who is in ill-health, has pro- comparatively small, and another was comp u
ceeded to Sardinia, for rest and change of air. numbers of persons in the strects,hhe Imo
11.ot lifeuryhatbeethne
management of thepolice.
The Prince of Wales has been able to drive out each On Tuesday, the Committee of the Congregational
day this week, accompanied by the Princess. Union of Englend and Wales unanimously adopted • reao-
" Come and kiss lose" is the name of a small steam- tenon, approving of come of the features in the
boat running on one of the American lakes.
• i . the measure which yielate the principles of religious
The Ludgate-hill triumphal arch Cost, it s said, Scotch Education Bill, but objecting to those prov lsims of
1 equality.
£s,oeu. The Queen, who had contemplated instituting, a
Of the 275 private bills which were prevented to medal se a reward for long or faithful service anima Her
Parliament last year, 199 received the Royal assent. In 1470 Majesty's domestic servants, has inaugurated the taste
there were 240, of which 167 passed. Ultima by conferring on Mr. John Brosvn, the Queeses per-
A celebrated gambler has just died at Geneva in , sonal 'attendant. a medal in gold, with en annuity of 4:75
utter destitution, aged 47. lie wan buried in the fame com- attached to it, as a mark of her appreciation of his meson.
.mene at Geneva of mind stud of his devotion on the occasion of the attsess
Nearly 2,000 miles of irrigating canals have been rtro-
r ',itch of Webruary, 16,2.
jected in Califothise welsh, it is said, will protect ten million -- th -` -
madouponoeler Majesty in Buckingham Palace Gardens oil
acres Miami trout drought. An incident in most awes of an interest confined
to the famil concerned eves the subject of universal con.
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia—who has left gratulation Iyn the House of Lords on Monday night. At the
Rome for Naples and Sicily—is asserted to have declared sitting of their Lordships it became known tlmt Lady Gran-
that Germany would defend Italy were she attacked by ville had glens birth to a son and heir, and Cue Veers of all
France. parties joined in Congratulations and good wishes to the
A commUnicatitei from Bilbao states that at a bull- leader of the femme, whole popularity is by no means limited
fight in that town one of the pleaders, who was mounted to the aide which he leads.
on a velocipede instead of a horse, was never onCe knotted The Philadelphia Lol per says that the total annual
down throughout the whole proceedings. circulation el newspapers prioted in the Mate of New York
A telegram from Paris states that several arnbas- is 492,770,866 tout's, being more than twice the number
swims have threetened to meet the proposed new Customs I issued in auy other State. The next greatest numbee of issues
duties by France by similar Meannres nss printed. French pro. is in Pennsylvania, where 2.2,,,,4).:,32 copies are annually
duce. 2,e80,204, Oldo 1.3,592,448 Next comes California, with
Massachusetts prints 107,6M1,9e3 copies, Minnie
An action to recover damages for breach of promise
of umeriege has been tried at the Hertford Assizes, in which 40elsig,408 new epaper sheets per "mum.
Miss Fanny Key, the daughter of a manager to a brewery, Mc: Andrew Johnston, /SLY. for South Essex. has
obtained £l,OOO trim Mr. Powers, one of a firm of millers at introduced a bill into Perliament with the following titles-se
Biggleswasie. A bill for the better protection of the "avocet, curlew.
Not less than a hundred thousaml persons wrote to dotterel, dueler& Mulles godwit, greenshank, layering. ox-
Lord Sydney, begging and praying fur admission into tit
bird, pewit, phalarope, plover,
Patilestetliedrel en Thanksgiving Day, and as accemodatiou mallard, redshsek, reeve or ruffplover stage, pochard; puree,
, sanderlieg, sandpiper, Wes
was only presided for &Willi ]2,0u0, we may add that some lark, shoveller, nape, spoonbill, stint, stonectinew, steel&
of the applications were refused. hatch, smelter snipe, teat. thicknee, whaup, whimbrel, whir
wild duck, wild goose, and woodcock.
The Soil. thus laconically notices the elatiteflal goon,
Thanksgiving e—" The fete which took place yesterday at The Wert African Company's lloya plait eteamer
London for the restoratian of the Piiiice of Wides's health Logos, tins &lived in 'the Mersey, teem the West Coate of
wee epleedid. There were only severity wouraled arid one i Africa. The I,- V,.!. brings intelligeme from Monrovia to the
killed, effect that the ex-President of Liberia, the li on. Mr. Hoye,
Au action to recover damages for le-each of prounse•
of marriage was tried at the he I' Assizes on nedorday, escaped frsm miss non the night of the 11th of February,
who bad been sentenced to death for high treseou, hut who
I n which the plaintiff was evi .1 id years of age, and the wandrowned whilst attem sw
pting to
‘lel ofi from the beach
defemlant was awidower with five children. The jury awarded to the Bntish and Airman team Oasegaleon esimpany's
the plaintiff k:teKl • steamer Loonds, Inns at anchor se the roads, en route for
Liverpool. The body of the deceased gentleman was re.
Mr. Harding, of the Town-bill Farm, SWaneea, has covered the rent day with a belt faeteeed round it contrtining
hasran extraordinary piece of good luck in lamblug. Front a large amount of money In gold.
a email flock of 17 ewes, he has had no less than 37 lambs, A meeting of station-masters and clerks was held at
all alive and doing well. Every ewe has brought "doubles,*
and three have brought "tripleta." the Free Trade Hall, in Manchester, on Sunday afternoon, at
. . which all the compute,: running into alenchester were re-
A rumour obtains currency that Lord Penzance IS presented. A resolution wae pawed affirming the lor,r-
-[ ',pin to iatroduce the Deceased Wife'a Sister Bill in the . hours system to be a fnatful soffree of mischief, and reit
I House of horde, and that the Archbishop of York is to cease ' conducive to the safe conduct and wottiteg of railw aye A
I Ws opposition deputation was appointed to wait on the Otreetors oh the
The mandege erg tbe Mars-leis of Dlste end m
the lion. several copauies, asking for 20 per cent. inerense nows,:e,i
GWendoline Howard, eldest slaughter of Led Howard of of clerks mid Metiers masters •, that nine hours ellsOnid lees
Glossop, will take piece towards the en& of nett Month, the day's Work for the latter, and that the hours of tlfe former
day not hr soil" been definitively fixed. ' illesOd 1:e eight per day for this first live days of the Weak,
The New York papers comment on the attack on The itii, kiik I, a)..s
and tour Ott thanrday.
We learn by our London
the Queen. The Times says it w ill exasperate still further 1 lettere that he who was 'Napo!, 1 111. will seise abdicate.
the lenglleh people agaieet, Feta:seism. The Tribune rays The.l.6th of next month, en which'hia son will dome Of age,
Es' i flitensy the popular affeenon for the Queen. is even mentioned es the day of abdication. The louse
A verdict of "Nut Guilty" on 1.11 the counts of the Louis, whom Frame could reproach neither with We sear.
indietmeet has been returnee by the Jury hi the case of M. I nor Mete, nor Sedan, would bs•corne the ottenslble chief ot
Jauvier de le Mate, the former Prefect of the Fore, whclise I the Bonapartist party. The ex-Emperor, dieembarrasseil
been on his trial et Rome tee the lest week, charged with from all personal care, would take up again his old trade of
emhezzlemeld aild fettle/7, I conspirator, end place his abilities at the sen'ice of his
The Prince of Wales still sallets front the affection amt."
.of his kg. He was able to take a carriage siring trite the At Lowestoft (while in is state of delirium, occur
I Foilsmen on Saturday. The Prime's departure fine the Coa. +toned by the small-pox), a man named Warner cut his wiles
• nitwit will probably be unavoidably delayed tor a short time. thieets nearly severing her head from the body. The poor
llt is now expected that the visit of his Royal Highness to woman WM .100 suffering from sinallemx, hat won recover-
Great Yarmouth to teview the Norfolk Artillery Militia will Mg from the terillie disease. The murderer, n'ho reside, M
take plan Pi the first week of June.
At last there is a faint prOmlati Vett rft,i,, will regain a cottage ilk St. Peter's-street, was in receipt of parish relief.
A young girl a danghter of teethes, ran out to give an Marne
when her father bee.re visslenT lost assistence arrived too
her old independence and gaiety, for the state of allege ie ex- late, %Venues being found lyieg is bed beside the Weeding
peeted to be raised during the month of Aptil ; and after torose of Um victim. The age of the Murdered woman
that admission that the city has regained its right mind, was Silly twenty year., while Warms is about twice no old
there can Ise little pretext for hesitation anent making it
once more the seat of the Governmeut and Legislature. The Scotsman chronicles as an important event in
There a Total Abstinence Society, it appears, in thee Ws,fory of thee
en:we:peeper:zee the fact th.at,ownj:rity
F is
rance, re it elleptsee neer the wine chops pictures of the Istvit tth itself. 'sZ .i t P ttugrts.l a .
An express tram, specially ire rem the North
homers stomach as bet n S,d be absinthe. The wine ships also British Railway Company, left Ed in burgh at an early hour, con-
have their cartoons exhibiting tee hideoite state of the 'eying the first printed suppliesof the ,Seot man for circulation
stomache of teetotalers—more dreadful in an imitate point in GliagoW and the West of Scotland simultan minty with the
of view. Deblication in Edinburgh. The train eonsisted of only the
Primary education in Switzerland is henceforth to emetic find a large panel van for the paper.. In addition te
be under the supervision of the Confederation, instead of the guard and me of the railway inspectors appointed to
being, an hitherto, left to the care of the several Cantolla superintend the arrangements, the only persons conveeed
The resolution effectingthis change, which willhave a serious were three Seetema is offis'ials, who were engaged dune" the
heroine eh the religions or denominational question in journey in packet's the papers into parcels for despatch by
education, palmed the Coning' of States hy the narrow the fleet mooring Gains from Glasgow, and for delivery to
majority ef 19t0 18. the Glasgow news-agents. The train made no stoppage be-
Mr. Justice Grove, in charging the Ciritindrthen tweet] Edinburgh and Glasgow, and arrived one minute
grand jury, and referring to the notion the Welsh are a before the stipulated time. The arrangement te intended to
litigious people, said that in three counties he had had only be a perroanent one.
two civil causes. Prs•bably a Welshman's litigiousness was Last week the aggregate mortality in London and
seen notin the large number of cases tried but in the per- twenty other large town, of the United Kingdom was at the
tinacity with which they were (might. A Welshman seemed rate of in; deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated
to follow Polonitues advice to Laertme—to Ise unwilling to to be living. In the metropolis, 2,054 Meths and 1,423 deaths
enter aquaria] and loth to leave it. were registered, the former having been 360, and the latter
The Prinea Imperial, the son of the ex-Emperor of 212, below the average. Tbirty-two persons stied front men-
the French, was in the Stewed, In Leedom the other day, g- ' - Is, el from slifferent forms of fever prit,:nlif.robsen nreasles 9 (rem scarlet fever. Strom diphtheria,
with two yeang companious. A well-enseeted pilot' graph iltof which. tfi'll.l'ee wseVcertified as Cu.' 12 lie eMerie or
of a scene at the Cattle of Sedan attracted the attention of typhoid, and has simple continued fever , and 10 from diar-
the party. The Prince drew attention to the troops who nova The temperature woe slightly below the average on
were represented as rushing madly forward
of a soldi as if pursuedw by Tuesday and Wednesdayer lastand, whilethe aMean large ekcelks
eek wax
f the prevailed
the enemy, and having further spoken er wlso as .
deted amongs e slain, w t the laughing away.
..45.0 deg. arid 5 6 deg Move the aVerage for th corresponding.
correspondi 1 on eacli of the oth daye, o w
ple
The Western Mail a ,liia it is Pow definitively settled week in SO yeers. on Friday and Saturday the temperature
that the marriage of the Marquis et Bute with the• Honour- was equal to that of average dayss in the middle of May.
aele Miss Bossard will take place at Glossop, net dutieg thy
first fortniela in April, but on Tuesday, the 16th Meeting.
According to present arrangement sethe noble bride and bride.
gram will leave Glossop ia the afternoon of their wedding
day, and proceed to the Couutess of Leedom's seat, at
Donningten Park, near Derby, where they will remain for
about a fortnight, and then proceed to Cardiff Castle.
Mr. Serjeaut Ballantine has made an application to
ford Penzance es Chambers, ox Tuesday, on behalf ef eir
Clierlee ef ordatint, praying for Cu inquiry into Lady
Alordattut's state of mind, in oyster that Sir Charles
might prosecute his suit, of Might be enabled to appeal to
the House of Lords. At the suggestion of Lord Pennines, it
it was arragged that the matter should stand oics fee a
week.
During the eleven mouths of the financial year,
endina on Saturday last, the Treasury receipts amounted to
£06,702,726, an increase of more than four mililone awl a
queried...l.er tee sine in the corresponding period of last
year. fhe retenue then stamp already exceeds the estimate
by £l.ett,oeo. The espentfitare has been 4264,933,741. On the
2.1 instant the halanee lit the Hank of England was
4.7,535,602.
The Jewish Chronicle Antes that an invitation to
attend the Thanksgiving cerentolly at St. Paul's Cathedral
was seat to the Rev. Dr. Adler, but that he felt it his duty to
decline : the reason being that he, as a " Cohen," might uot
!es presetsl under a roof which covered the graves of the
dead. Mih. Adler, Winans% seas free seat The Rev. Dr.
Artom, chief of the Stparifsh end Furtuguese Jews, also re-
ceived an invitation, and he attended.
The Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, in a letter Le the
Spaerefor, urges that advaptage should be taken of the deep
feeling rikleh has stirred all Elieliih hearts in connection
with the cerensoMal of last Tuesdey, to "orate the noble
stet...oration of the Cathedral whirb was the seene of the see-
,lce "7., rerPet.-st elpresslon of praise." Mr. Brown says
he le ma able to answer ler other Nonconformists, but he
believes that this ie a Matter into which both miuieters and
laymen would heartily enter.
By declining, to sell les.s than a dozen postal cards at
once, and charging an extra ed for them—that is, Met a
doses—the Post-office authorities contemplate saving, or
gaining, el 3,00 e a year. This change, which was annolthced
in the House c f Coulnlolls kni Vritay night, can hardly lie Ca-
p.:tett to prove popular. It is snot, however, entirely with.-
oust jumilleation. People never think they Cali get too much
out of a miblie department, and it cannot Ise denied that the
Post-office has done more for a halipeany than it has ever
professed to do for a penny.
The whole of the operatives engaged in the flax
mills at Leeds struck on Monday twining for the nine hours
limit. Between 10,oe0 and 11,000 hands—nteki, women, and
girls—are involved in the etrike. The mills stopped include
these of Messrs. Marshall, who employ over 2,000 hands ;
Messrs. Briggs, who employ a similar number; and Messrs.
Hives and Atkinson, also large employers. Trade Is com-
pletely stopped. The turn-outs are perfectly quiet.
"A combination of newspaper proprietors is con-
templated for the purpose of amending the law of libel and
defeating vexatious actions. 'A clearer expression of the
law 'is asked for 'anti the nature of privileeed comments.-
Gone: and' a reform hi that section,' whatever that may
mean, 'winch readers ilea spapere responsible for the re-
ported usteraece of epeakers at public meetings: She
should advise those engaged in promoting these Metal to
put themselves at once in communication wise a lawyer of
ability who Can advise what to ask for and what to avoid."—
Law Times.
Joseph Elwell, the clown at Astley's Theatre, has
been charged at the Lambeth police-oeun with. meaulting
Richard Manning, a supernumerary, during the performance
of the antomirae. The complainant said that there was a
'rally 'ion the stage, and Ise, with others, bad to throw car-
rots, turbine, etc., about. One of them /Muck the defendant,
who was tbe clown when the carrot struck the defend-
ant be got the "needle." The magistrate wished to know
what the' needle" meant. The complainant said that when
a person lost his temper he was etensidered to have the
"needle " When the "laity" ICAO over and he left the
stage, the defendant atruck him tour blows, making him
.lileed like a Mg.e The defendant admitted striking the
coniplairrast, bet raid his was annoyed by being struck on
the hese si itis a large este The m4;istrate said the defend-
ant had nerhata Mit annoYed, and lost hie temper, but that
did uot justify the imasult complatud 4, no mom him
to phy a film ot A