The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-15 00:00:00

THE STOTTRBRIDGE OBSERVER.

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Gentloo to go
,g her never et

Love thought It was
r, and the Idea that
head. lie thatirictly
Iron, frying ' Don't
ated ebb try ten or
We WWI not leave

men, women, and
I boat''' One voice

lye I__ He himself bailed theeO,
.peek ep.i.h, M II
ct the Murillo, end pointing to tb
t !• to them, but they took no notice.

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rasa to some of the
'boats, said 'Boat ;

Mr. Samuel Bell of Jarrow, the passenger describes the
voyage from London to Antwerp; the stay there, where
they Loaded abut 'OO tons of iron relic for Lisbon, and
other cargo for Gibraltar and Melees, leaving Antwerp on
the 2.1. at of
_Jammu; out.litto Flushing that night : landed
Channel pikt Auld master at about nine pm. of the idol
at Dover. An hour and a half afterwards, being hi his
berth iu the second engineer's room on deck, he heard
tuusual noises and commotion, and instantly Mt the
chock of a collision which knocked him out of the
berth. 'rho se amil engineer. wto was stamii.,g by him, el.
, elsimed, 'her 00.r5 sake, put on your things, as we are lute
ship r Mr. Goreleve slipped on his trousers and ran on
deck, lie found they were just Maar of the ship, sad back.ng
autern. Loud cries were proceeding from the ship of Don't
leave us ; send boats !' Ile and Mr. Goodeve refiled, 'No ;
we shall not heave you.' All this Yam Om atapteht and boat-
swain were on the bridge la a lea moments Mr. Bell was
horrified to ill vi they were steaming, down Channel without
stopping to make any inquiries or to render any assist-
/Vice. Mr. bell says the ship was a large one, and
at anchor. She had a very bright light at her foremast head.
Next night they put into Portland, but did not communicate
with the shore. They arrived in the Teens on the night of
the 30th. Next mon:big they proceeded to Lisbon, but,
strange to ray, did not land any cargo there. At 3 In the
afternoon they sit off at full speed for Cadiz. At 7P. fn. on
the 30th they anchored in Cadiz Bay." . . •
The surveyors requeited by Mr. Daniel M'Phers
Lloyd's agent at Cadiz, to examine the Spanish
steamer Morino, report, on .oth, as follows :--
We, the undersigned, having been ordered by Mr.
, NiTnerson,l)o,,ls agent at this port, to hold • sur-
vey on the Spanish screw steamer Murillo, to ascertain If
she harl sustained any damage, also to report if she shows
any aims of haying beau hi collision recently, proceeded on
board this day, and found as follows—tin—
"Upon a careful examination Inside we cannot find any
1 damage sustained, either to her upper works or below water.
We carefully examined all rivets and butts in fore peak, and
fiuotrnne.taraltlbtesrtfeenclly
ant
leoo
stoh es
,laeleatfiritit,istot
oluetki;ktt.
gin. in length by 10In, in width, had fallen from the second
plate from the main deck on both Wee, at Mt from the
stem, and nose lying on Its edge on the stringer plate below,
, evidently haying fallen through coticuedon or otherwise,
as the scale is not broken, but lying whole against the plate
on the stringer below. Outside we found the peacock's paint
at the ten-foot mark or stem, and glitches abaft the stem,
marked With black paint, and op to the it loot mark. There
are appearances of the ship having been Ist contect with
wood. 1 hese appearances are mere distinct oil the starboard
side of the stem than the port side. We found a sharp dent
in the second plate from the main deck, under the port cat-
head. This Indentation does not appear to have been done
recently, as we found the iron had • coating of red lead
underSthe black paint. Beyond this we found nu sigus
whatever of the ship holism sustained any damage or of
having been In collision, with the exception of the before-
mentioned marks on the peacJek's paint on starboard side of
stem.
"JoUS Rusin:Lt., Master of the steamship Lisbon
of London.
"JAMES CoCURANX, Engineer.
" F. DONALDSON, Carpenter, steamship Lisbon.
"Sworn before me We lit day of February, 1873,
" DANIEL liTialiatfil."

he Dungeness Correspondent of TM Times has ,out the
following, under date, Float Boy, Feb. 10, 6 p.m.:-
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The niizen topgallant hag, like the fore topgallant
mast, at last succumbed to the violence of the sea.
At high water the only visible object belonging to
the ship to denote the place where she lies is the
top of the tuaintopinaat, which sticks up about dit.
above the waeh if the water. At low water, how-
ever, the tops of the fore and wizsu made cin just be
seen. Although the wind moddkated very considerably
)esierday, the sea has not gone down so quickly aa
might have been expected, and the diving cutters have
not yet made their appearance. The wind iv now
N.N. E., fresh, net hazy, and, as the beachtuta are of
quinion that it will freshen, the prospects for thekliwas
are not very encouraging.

The body of the woman which Wa9 wwhed on shnre
midway between D,,ver and Folk, stone, and interred
et haa been identified an fast of Ellen
Tough, aged 39 years, a passenger by the Northjfeet.
Her husband and child (a girl eight years of age) Were
also drowned. It is intended to place a tombetone over
the grave, with a suitable inscrintion. In the same
charchyard more than a dozen bodies washed in chore
under sin ilar circumstances are burin I. Mr. William
Forster, the Belgian Vioe-Chowul a Dover, previously
to the identliostion of ths body, had given instructions
that some shrubs and roses bhuull be planted at his
expense.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE "NORTHFLEEr
FUND.

On Monday afternoon the lfzecutive Committee of
the fund for the rrlief of the wi 'owe and orphaue of
the crew and emigreats and other sufferers by the
late diesster in the Channel met at the Mansion-
house, London, for the dematch uf burinesr. The
Lord Mayor pres Lied.

It was announced that the fund then amounted
to 156,900, an 4 that, is addition, various sums were
pronated from the country, ice:hiding .1:1;00, which
hail been collected at Liierisiol. The Com-
mittee, after duo deliberation upon each case,
agreed to make the blowing distribution of the money
with which they had been entrusted by the public,
namely—to Mrs. Knowles, the captain's widow,
£1,000; to Mrs. Gloack, widow of the chief mate, and
her five children. .1:t.;00 ; to Mrs. Blyth, widow of the
second mate, and her husband's mother, whom he had
supported, £J00; to Mrs. Stephens, the carpenter's
widow, £t4); to the parents of Ilerniann Kunde, the
surgeon, £lOO ;. to the relatives of eighteen of the sea-
men, £l5O ; to the fourteen widows and twenty. two
children of passenger., and five orphan children,
£1,950; to other di-pendent relatives of the deceased
passengers, £iloo (of which 4,400 has been already paid) ;
to the ten surviving members of the crew, ; for
providing clothing and outfits, and temporary momn
tenant., fir the twentymiix surviving passengers
1:500; to the injured man, Dixon (or his family, whom
he had deseided), L'2oo ; to the pilot, Mr. Bra* by
way of an honorarium, £2l ; for mem/Ming mid bury-
ing the dead, and local expenses, Cl5O ; to the waiters
and crews of the steam-tug and tuggers who saved so
many live., I:150 (in addition to anything they may
get from the Board of Trade) ; and for general expenses
and contingencies,
.1;100. The manner in which the
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;;s cuss Ph ml.l be paid was left to the diwretion
of the sub-committes.
The L grd Mayer said, before they eonclude 1 their
labours, he thought they ought to suggest that some
improved arrangements should be made with a view
to ev.-rt similar calamities to that which befell the
North gal. He had received many communication.
with reference to improved signals and other arrange
inmate for preserving life at sea. He had also been
shown a mostadmirable pica for lowering boats from a
ship, and as simple as admirable. By it passengers
an 1 crew might get into a boat on the deck of a ship,
and with the aid only of a hammer and pin lower
themselves quietly and without danger into the water.
He suggested that the Committee hires room for ex-
hibiting the nv,dele to which he had referred, and pro-
vide a catalogue of them.
The suggestion was well received by the Committee,
and will be carried into practical effect in slue time.
On the option of Baron Grant, seconded by the Rev.
Mr. Herring, it was unabinvoisly resolved in effect
that the Lord Mayor be requested to put himself in
communication with the Boarl of Trade, the Trinity-
house, and also the EintAration Commiasioners, with
the view of drawing their attention to Use defective
system of danger signals in ship. as now in practice,
and to the absolute necessity of a cob, d rules being
established for use in vessels, with penalties by ens or
otherwise for their contravention ; and especially that
It should be compulsory upon vessels carrying pas-
sengers to carry a full set of signals in accordance with
such rules.
The Committee then adjourned.

nervous condition, and suffered, it was sworn, from
prolapsus uteri; that her body showed certain syphi-
litic taints; that her two confinements were severe
and instrumental, and that the as weri had been
lacerated, inducing ulceration, and that there was a
rupture of the perueurn and a discharge, and she hal
never recovered, in fact, from the effects of her last I
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I'Fir the plaintiff witnesses were called, and among
them were some clergymen who had known, and me-
dical men who had attended her, who stated that she
WWI rather a robustevoman than otherwise, and Capable
i.f taking fair walking exeroiee. Dr. Lyle stated
that his belief was that ehe was a healthy Woman,
and he knew her In 1871 to be capal.de of taking walking
exercise, for he had in January of that year walked
with her a diatance of seven milea into Exeter, and
'llion many occaeions after her second confinement they
had taken long walks together. Dr. Tyler Smith said
that he had been called in to attend to Mrs. Formby, and
that although she had suffered greatly at sew her last con-
finement, under treatment and with care she became
a healthy woman again, and was, in his judgment,
at the time the policy was effected in a state of
health which would make her life acceptable upon
assurance as an ordinary life; that the danger incident
to what she suffered from when he saw her was as
nothing compared to what she had gone through at
her confinements,by reason of a somewhat contracted
pelvis. Mr. Arthur Knave in his report, filled up at
the defendant's request, stated that he had attended
Mrs, Formby In two very severe confinements (with
, instruments), from which she made quick recovery,
and once or twice for slight stomach derangement, and
that he knew of no circumstance which might be con-
sidered as tending to shorten her life or renderan as-
surance on it more than usaally hazenione
It was objected on the part of the office that it WWI
untrue for Mrs. Formby to report that Mr. Kempe
was her usual medical attendant, for she had been pre-
scribed for by Dr. Lyle and others. Dr. Budd said
that when he was examining Mrs. Formby for the
office he asked her if she suffered from any uterine af-
fection, and she denied that she did. 'Upon being
pressed in cross-examination, the doctor said he felt
cure he must have aeked that question, because it was
one of his stock quests t QS, but he would not swear
that he aeked her ni no many words. In answer toi his
questiona she stated, that she felt perfectly well and al-
ways enjoyed good health. and suffered no ill effete from
her confinement. Of Mr. Kempe's port to the office and
the st ate ineut Mos. Formby had herself made it appeart d
Dr. Build was uninformed by the office, and he reported
that Mrs. Formby presented every indication of a
sound constitution and appeared to be in perfect health,
and he considered her to be quite eligible for life as-
eurtince—in fact, that she was a first-class life ; hut he
stated in the witness-box that had he known of the
rupture and discharge he should have rejected her, and
one or the other would have caused further investiga-
tion. It was a remarkable feature in the case that
while Mrs. Formby presented the appearance of being
a fine healthy woman, and was declared to be so by
the plaintiff's witnesses, considering all she had gone
through during her confinements, she was described by
the defendant's witnesses as a poor, weakly creature
in constitution, and always ailing. Dr. Hewett said
that when Mrs. Formby consulted him she was not in
a good state of health, and complained that she had
been suffering from a discharge from the uterus, from
discomfort and pain within the first three months of
her last confinement, and that she felt languid and was
Incapable of exertion. She mentioned that the had
taken long walks, and that her langour and inability to
take exercise heti existed trom that time; and while it
was contended on one side that her power of taking
walking exercise was an indication or proof of her
robust health, it was urged on the other that the long
waits had produced the bearing dawn pains which re-
sulted in a pr t lapse of the wonib, and rendered the wear-
ing by her of a mechanical contrivanceneceesary. It was
admitted for the plaintiff that six months after the
policy had been effected Mrs. Formby became an invalid,
and suffered from a combination of complaints, if they
can be so called, described by the medical witnesses ;
but the defendant maintained that her ailments fol-
lowed on her last confinement, and being anterior to
the date of her proposal to insure, made her statements
in her proposal paper untrue, and that being a viola-
tints of the conditions on which the policy was granted
it followed that the contract was determined, and the
ffice absolved from paying the amount seemed.
Dr. Tyler Smith and others said that they saw no
signs of syphilitic taint or sores about Mr,. Forodiy,
and other witnesies sail they saw no rash upon her
face which the defendant's witnesses swore they had
seen.
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Sir John Kanilake, in the eatirve of his speech to the
jury, said that it was true Mrs. Formby had had some
Periling illness and had recovered from it, and that rho,
like other persons. had passing ailments, and what she
had said to the office in suhatauce was this, " I've had
passing ailments, but takiag me as a woman of my age,
and'having regard to those ailments and my revere
continemtnts, I run an ordinary life for your accept-
ance."

After Mr. Hawkitui had replied,
His Lordship eutunud up, reviewing the whole of
the evidence with very great care, and (malty left three
questione to the jar) -hrst, WAN thire any thisrepre-
sentaam ? beoundlr, If se, we there any material
misrepresentation? thirdly, If any, was the policy pi.,
imrad by it?
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The jury. in answer to the first question, said that
there hal been a mibrepre,eutati ni by Mrs. Formi-y
and her medical referee.

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In answer to the second—whether there was any
material misrepresentation—the answer was,—lt was
material the office should know it.

And to the thir the jury said—We find so.
Baron Bramwell : You see, gentlemen, I did not ask
you about the medical referee. You see there was a
mierepreeedtation by Mrs. Formby?
Foreman : Yrs.
Baron Bramwell : Not as to her ordinary medical
attendant?

1.Tel:oho : No.
Baron Bromwell : It follow., then, it must have
been AA t her state of health. 'filen that amounte to
a verdict for the defendant You will be good enough
to iind your verdict accordingly.
Verdict for the defendant.

In Merthyr there is no change to report beyond
the fact that Mr. Crawshay has not a single fur.
nage in blast at his Cyfarthfa works, the whole num-
ber, eleven, being blown out. So far, therefore, as
those works are concerned, if the Strike were to
end to-morrow, it would be some time before all
departments could be again in full swing. Mean-
time there is something to cheer us in the fact that at
these workii a considerable number of 'nen find em-
,d.yrnent upon repairs, and the name thing is occurring
at all the works affected by the Strike. Advantage is
being taken of the present idlenees to execute repairs
and introduce improvements for which the managas
weed not epochally have stopped the works. The fact
of this being done is at least a Aga that employers have
ample confidence in their business, and are preparing
for a renewal of operations as soon as the workmen
think proper to return totheir Mbourn

There was a further interview on Monday between
the manager of the Nant-y.glo, Beaufort, and Blaius
Works, and the colliers on strike in that district. As
an alternative proposal to the double shift system it
was suggested that the men should resume work at 10
per cent. reduction. If, however, they turned out •
certain amount of coal per month, and put an end to
the restrictive polioy which had hitherto guided them,
the 10 ner cent, should be restored to them. The
workmen are to consider this proposition.

MERTHYR TEDYIL, Tuesday.

Another conference was held to day between the
manager of the Nantyglo, Blaina, and Beaufort Com-
pany, and a deputation of the men, who met for the
double object of receiving an authoritative reply as to
the double-shift propoßal, and to express their adhesion
to the system proposed by Mr. Trump, which gave ten
per cent, advance on the wages where men had worked
• preecribed quantity of coal. Strong hopes are now
entertained of an early settlement of the diapute.