The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-03-13 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSIMVER.

increased. Should Mr. Cross succeed in working it 1
I TERRIBLE ACCIDE
through committee this session, it will come into
operation on the Ist of January next. YORK CH
Although it may not be altogether true that the A terrible disaster occurred
on the evening of Feb. 25.
popularity of a Volunteer corps depends upon the
smartness of its uniform, it is not improbable that this was being pe in the 11
srformed
Andrew , Dunne-street, a
may be a consideration with many. A rifle corps wall of the adjoining building
with a scarlet uniform is certain to be more attractive siclerable heght above the c
than one of light gray. It is equally certain that the sacred edifice gave way, and I
mortar, bricks, and broken t
fact of having to adopt a "Blue-jacket's" dress does not en
peanni zetnsul,d,
the heads of the congregation Hundreds were
help to fill the ranks of the naval artillery volunteers hurled beneath the debris. , A territm
—a valuable force, and one intended as a line of the worshippers, who were -chiefly w
reserve for the fleet in a case of emergency. Many to the humbler walks in life, ruseci Lir the narrowugin
have urged that, as their duties are those of marine deorway, and five persons were crushed to death in
artillery, a dress similar to that worn by this gallant tbe nzcLe. Fifty oteets were seriou-' ed.... The
corps would be more in keeping with the duties of a" excitementtl the
naval artillery volunteer than the attire of a sailor, at the ri,:leedil their Irv:: Leteetnii:mtvgnesdotwo-sw,
ands
which has scarcely the merit of showing off the figure the ground o'a great depth. One feet was
of a fine athletic young man to the best ad- painfully apparent, vii 7- that, with few exceptions,
amongst whom the clergy present must be mentioned,
vantage. It may not be generally known that
there is a corps of naval volunteer artillery in th ie
cowardlycoridult of
ravage,
terror-stricken 17-
b-
ell ilinlld was both
ru;_twenotrae,
London; which was lately inspected by Admiral their own safety algn'e. In their fear and 'in
Tarleton. The master was not so numerous as might rushed over one another like wild beasts, and strong
have been wished, but the conditions of success men tore their way through the crowd, trampling
beneath their feet children and young women who
are by no means like those which attend the formation
of a regiment of sharpshooters. A rifle regiment has sttoeodacbceitdwenetentit2hee,mpreaandletrhehat I.ristAat9it,heedmriefnt of
ample opportunities of practice, awl can obtain a drill were all at this moment, by some catastrophe called
to
ground within a convenient distance of most towns. judgment, how many of you would be prepared to meet
But it is a very different thing to furnish the newest the Great Judge?
pattern of gunboats to every corps of naval volunteer
artillery; and it is of very little use to supply them
them with obsolete ones. The rifleman has his field-
days and his grand spectacular parades, his stately
marches past, and other concomitants of martial life,
of which his friend in the blue jacket knows nothings
These circumstances may in some degree tend to ex-
plain why the auxiliary to the army is popular, and
the auxiliary to the navy, which after all is our first
line of defence, shows a tendency to languish.

iNT IN A
URCH.

" 1

blew
!ere& '
The -

f tons of el
-nedtdown

mbe?

jujur
e-

corps

TEU AMERICAN REVIVALISTS IN
LONDON.
After-raany notes of preparation, Messrs. Moody
and Sankey, on Tuesday evening, inaugurated their
campaign against the religious indifferentism of London
by a service, at half-past seven, in the great Agricul-
tural Hall at Islington. At noon on the day of the
opening of Parliament, the sth of February, a crowded
conference of clergymen and ministers of all Evange-
lical denominations, convened by circular, was held at
the " Freinasons' Tavern " at which Mr. Moody was
present, and he was Ale to announce that his
committee had secured the use of the Agricul-
tural Hall for ten weeks, from the 28th of February
to the 9th of May, at the rent of £5O a week. Other
sectional meetings have been held in various parts of.
the metropolis, at which the Puritan clergy_ of the
Estabßels---' ave fraternised with their Noncon-
Isers to promote the success of the
has been powerfully aided, not only
Press, but also by zealous house-to-
ion, especially in the North London
parishes, in the course of which the visitors have left
circulars announcing the meetings and urging all who
can do so to attend. The result of all this high pres-
sure was a very crowded attendance on Tuesday even-
ing. The doors were opened at half-past six, and at
seven the vast building was filled. What this means
a few details of what has been done by the contractor,
Mr. Sharman, to adapt the immense shed originally,
built. like Bingley-hall at Birmingham, for the exhibi-
tion Of prize cattle, swine, &c., to the wants of man as a
religious animal will show. During the short period
employed in this metamorphosis it must be borne in
mind that the hall was occupied almost incessantly by
religious meetings, not only on the last Sunday in
February and the first in March, but on the week-
nights as well, so that the work must have been carried
on under serious difficulties. Yet all was in order on
Tuesday evening. In the body of the hall 12,600
new chairs had been placed to reinforce 2,000
already belonging to the establishment, in addition
to room for 2,000 on forms. The platform at the
west end was arranged in steps, giving the building
the appearance of a gigantic infant school. These
steps would seat 1,200 persons. In the centre of
the north side was the platform for the choir or-
ganised by Mr. Joseph Froudenan, of the Tonic So'l-Fa
Association, and for Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The
accommodation here was for 220. The eastern plat-
form was fitted with 900 seats, and in the south gallery
were 3,000 chairs. The addition gives a total of
21,320, not including the west and east end galleries,
each capable of containing GOO more. The lighting of
the room was effected by means of large gas chandeliers
hanging from the roof, aided by lines of gas jets along
the sides, straight, save at the centres, where they,
rose in three semicircular arches. 'The acoustic pro-
perties of the hall were greatly aided by an immense
sounding-board, as big as a barn door, over the
speakers' platform.
Mr. Moody, punctual to the moment at half-past
seven, was in the president's place, bent for a moment
in silent prayer, and then said, "Let us* ri,e and sing
'Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,'" which
was done by the vast assembly with solemn effect.
Mr. Moody then led public prayer, and afterwards
gave out the Hundredth Psalm--` All people that on
earth do dwell." The singing, as before, was accom-
panied by Mr. Sankey on the American organ, and
was very effective. Mr. Moody announced that he had
received telegrams from all parts of the country as-
suring him of the prayerful sympathies of very many
in their proceedings. He begged the meeting to join
in silent prayer for the Divine blessing, and after a
pause of a minute or two, broke the silence by audibly
leading the devotions of the people. Mr. Sankey then
sang, amid the profound stillness of the great congrega-
tion, "Jesus oi Nazareth passeth by." To say that
this solo was rendered with the utmost impressiveness
is but the barest justice. "The Rock of Ages" was
next sung by the assembled thousands to the tune of
"Rousseau's Dream." Mr. Moody then took for his
text the words of St. Paul, 1 Con i. 17, &c.

The Daily News, in a lengthy and interesting
sketch, thus describes Mr. Moody's style and manner
of preaching :
Mr. Moody's style of preaching, as demonstrated in this
address, does not lack impressiveness of a kind. It is true
that he is extremely diffuse, that he is unconnected, ram-
bling, and given to repetition; that lie "squanders himself."
it the expression is allowable, so that he dilutes his climax
often into an anticlimax. But he is full of pith, and manifests
great earnestness ; he is continually saying quaint racy things,
such as we are quite unaccustomed to hear from a pulpit,
such as are often intensely grotesque, and not unfrequently
raise an audible laugh. Hiss manner of treatment is not by
argument, far less by rhetoric, but by dint of more er less
apposite illustrations He works by the citation of instances,
which he narrates in his own phraseology, and the ever-
recurring Americanisms have a naiveté which to an English
audience has a fresh and novel effect. The truth which he
laid himself out to enforce and illustrate was that "God's
ways were not as man's ways," and that He chose His instru-
ments on a principle which to men appeared passing strange,
and sometimes indeed absurd,from their human point of view.
He said that wha• he feared most in coming to this work in Lon-
don was lest many should be leaning on the arm of the flesh,and
on the influence of a "great meeting," and so would be getting
their eyes away from God. "There's no new Gospel," he
exclaimed "it's the old story. The world of to-day is always
running after something new • but if you come here expect-
ing novelty, I tell you you'll be disappoint.
sage was the sarne as that of "these minim
it is in weakness too ; for there's hung
London can preach better nor we
want is to look right straight am
right straight up to God. ' If God's
In London, He must work in His own v
going to do is to mark out channels for the Holy Ghost. God
will take His choice of instruments and means. There's a
mountain. Goa wants to thrash that mountain. Well, He
don't take up an iron bar; He ketches hold of a little worm
to thrash that mountain. When God was going to destroy
the world, He did not warn a nation or the world, but a
single man, whom the nations held in contempt and jeered
at. . . . Why, God's way of delivering the children of Israel
was different altogether from what ours woulcitave been.
We'd have sent an army, or if we'd been going to
send a single man, we'd not have chosen one who'd
been forty years at the backside at the desert , But he sent
a quiet, humble, kind of man, one whom we'd call, I sup-
pose, a stuttering man, and he said 'tell them I AM.' That
was a blank cheque which he was to fill in by and by with
water from the rock and manna in the desert. The man
whom God woiks with most is always considered by the
world the greatest fool. Enoch wasn't a bright man to the
world, but God said 'Come up here. Enoclk!' Noah was
the laughing-stock of his day. Look at Joshua, going tramp-
ing around the walls of Jericho blowing in horns—the riost
absurd thing in the eyes of the world—downright ridi-
culous. Why, what would the English press have to
say cf such a crazy-like proceeding? Faney the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury trapezing round London blowing horns!
He'd have had golden horns any how. Look at Samson—
how he worked with the jawbone of an ass; he slew a thou-
sand men. We don't like to go to work with the jawbone of
an ass; we'd prefer polished weapons. But if we are to be
in earnest, we must grab up the first jawbone of an ass we
chance on, and use it for God. . . . Look at the seeming
adsurdity of a raven sent to feed the Prophet, and then the
Prophet sent for food, not to a palace with well-furnished
tables, but to a poor widow, and she with a child-"
Mr. Moody then drew for an illustration on modern and
secular history. "The Devil," said he, "got his match
when he got hold of John 3nnyan, the Bedford tinker.
I hope there may be a Bedford tinker here to-night,
whom God will use for his service. A hundred such
men as John Wesley would make the world tremble
inside of a twelvemonth." Then he went back to Holy
Writ. "I'd give more for such a man as Saul of Tarsus
now in London than for ten thousand such men as
are not wholly for God, being mixed up with the
world. . . . London never saw the day it had so many
great preachers as now ' • but it's not the eloquence of man,
but the power of God, breaking men's hearts, that does the
business. In all ages God has used seemingly weak human
instruments. I wonder he don't take the job out of our
hams and give the work to angels. . It's she heart for the
work hat is wanted. It does not matter about the talents
—God will find the talents."
Mr. Moody then said that there were three classes
in especial who ought to be in sympathy with
this movement. Clergymen, because they (Messrs.
Moody and Sankey) had come to strengthen
their hands, not .to thwart -their efforts;
Sabbath school teachers, missionaries, and colpor-,
teurs ; and the fathers and mothers, because ,they,
(Messrs. Moody and Sankey) came in the name of
their Master to snatch their children from the haunts
of vice to a pure life, He concluded his address by en-
forcing the virtue of unity. "With pulpit and pew to-
gether Christianity should be like a red hot ball rolling
over the world, against which nothing can stand."
Mr. Moody now called on Mr. Sankey to lead the
18th Hymn ("Hark the voice of Jesus crying,—Who
will go and work to-day? ") • but that gentleman said
he preferred the hYmn "Ifo ! my comrades see the
signal," which was sung accordingly, and the proceed-
ings were terminated by the benediction, pronounced
by the Rev. Dr. Allon.
It was quite a quarter of an hour before the vast
throng was able to discharge itself from the interior
of the Hall, and it was stated that admission had to
be denied to several hundreds.

idreds

-
A meeting of the Committee charged with the
distribution of the hind raised in the City of London towards
the relief of the few survivors and the dependent relatives of
the passengers and crew who perished with the Cospatrick
was held at Mansion House on Tuesday—the Lord Mayor
presiding. It was reported that the total amount at the
disposal of the committee, after payment of expenses, was
£3,050. Of that sum £2,700 in all was awarded to those
whose claims for relief on the fund had been recognised by
the committee, leaving a balance in hand of about £350 to
meet contingencies. Of the £3,050, the committee awarded
£5OO to the two orphan daughters of Captain hlmslie ; £865
among the relatives of those of the crew who were lost; and
the remainder among the surviving and more or less depen-
dent relatives of the passengers.

on
en

-
hardshipdiscernin
ut he hi
,uglao4ruck
Nt%ll times
Made f9r,
gentle e'vei
thoughtv
of ;hank

ly
of
of a
ina ,•
• of
p.
as.
033

One fatt—was made 1 PregliPat

Dm-generons-M-STTlllite'any
_
one of them. Thus we have the assurance that while,
as we have said, the vital strength of our friend and
fellow-labourer had long been slowly failing, his mind
retaintd to the last its whoje,migour And fitresse:_:.;
,e 1 ' 4./ • •

The following memoran-ffirrn- appears in the Court
Circular:—" By the death of Sir .Arthur .Heips the
Queen has sustained a loss,which has eansed 'her
• Majesty great affliction. Af3 a loyal subject and as akind
friend he rendered to her Majesty very important ser-
vice. He assisted, with a delicacy- of - feeling and an
amoufft of sympathy which .her Majesty can neve;-
• forget, in the publication of her Records of-the Prince
Consort's Speeches and of her Life in the Highlandi,F
to which he willingly deioted the powers of his en-
lightened and accomplished mind. The Queen feelk
that i 4 him she has lost a true and devoted'friend." "
1
"STRANGERS"
"4'44.1
PAR:th"iFil%;1:11:11:3:'' 4:1
(From Wednesday's Timed.) t 7
An unusual incident occurred at de sitting oT the
House of Commons last night. During the debate
on Mr. Pease's motion two strangers entered the
House by the members' doorway, and, passing un-
challenged, took their seats in the body of the
House, on the Liberal side, close by the Chair
of the Serjeank-at-Arms. There they sat, accord-
in&• to their own story, for over half an hour.
How they passed the policemen and door keepers
by whom the entrance is so jealously guarded it
is hard to say. Probably they were helped by the
easy unconsciousness which comes from ignorance
of wrong doing. As they saw the gentlemen around
them with their hats on, the two strangers observed
what they thought was the etiquette of the place, and
kept their hits on too. They had comfortable benches, '
were not at all crowded, and must-have been charmed
with the'accommodation so thoughtfully. provided by
Parliament for visitors. At length a division was
called. The Speaker's wonted emphatic warning,
"Strangers must withdraw," fell upon deaf ears, for
the two strangers did not understand the summons and
remained in their places. When the doors were locked
and Tellers were appointed, and Members passed
leisurely into the division lobbies, the two visitors must
have begun to feel uncomfortable and see that they
were not quite where they ought to be. By this time
Captain Gossett's attention had been called to them,
and the first order they received was, "Take your
hats off." As the doors were-locked the intruders
could not be turned out; and it would have been
against all Parliamentary precedent to unlock the
doors for any purpose. They • were therefore led
upstairs into the gallery reserved for distinguished
strangers, and after the clivision was over were severely
taken to task by Captain Golisett, Colonel Forester,
and the officials of the House. Their explanation
was simple. They had orders for the Strangers'
Gallery, signed, oddly enough, by Colonel Forester
himself. They were told by a policeman in the
Central Hall to walk "straight on," and having
done so only too literally, they found themselves in the
body of the House where they sat down, knowing no
better. By one of the standing orders of the Com-
mons, the Serjeant-at-Arms is directed "from time to
time to take into" his custody any stranger or strangers
he shall see, or who may be reported to him to be, in
any part of the House or gallery appropriated to the
members of this House, and also any stranger who, hav-
ing been admitted into any other part of the HOLM or
gallery shall misconduct himself, or shall not withdraw
when strangers are directed to withdraw while the 13 ousq
or any Committee of the whole House is sitting; ancX
that no person so taken into custody be discharged
out of custody without the special order of thk
House." It was thought, on the whole, inexpedient
to make too much of this incident by taking the
delinquents into • custody, as they really appeared
to have erred through ignorance, and therefore no
notice- was taken by the House of their intrusion.
But they were severely admonished and, it is
to be hoped, were duly scared by the repre-
serisation of the penalties they might have incurrei
and the serious breach of the Standing Orders they had
committed. We understand that one of the strangers
was a respectable licensed victualler residing in
London, who had procured an order of admission for
a country friend of the same calling. They will be
able to relate ta their friends a wholly exceptional ex-
perience.

I and

THE THORPE COLLISrON.
An action in the Exchequer—the first tried in
London arising out of the fearful accident on the Great
, Eastern Railway, near Thorpe, on the 10th of Sep-
, tember last—" Tubly r. The Great Eastern Railway
Company "—was heard on Friday at the Sheriff's
Court, Red Lion-square, before Mr. Under-Sheriff
Burchell and a special jury, to assess the amount of
compensation to be awarded for the injuries sustained
on the occasion mentioned. The damages were laid
at .El,OOO.
Mr. Kemp appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Serjeant Parry (with-whom was Mr. Marriott) for
the company.

The plaintiff, Alfred Tubly, and his wife, were
called in support of the claim. The plaintiff was lying
in a second-class carriage when the accident occurred':
He was crushed, and afterwards pulled out of the
debris. His learned counsel said it was a miracle that
his life was preserved. Prior to the aocident he was in
good health. He was able to walk after the occur-
rence, and the next day he found he had beeni.njured.
At Grimsby he consulted a medical gentleman,
and was under his care for five weeks. He
returned to his residence at Lowestoft, where
he was fish buyer in the employ of Messrs.
Mersey and Peacock, at £2, a week, and made on
an average from .C 3 10s. to £4 a week. He was going
into business himself, and expected he should have
made from 000 to £4OO. His lungs were affected.
At present he was unable to work, and it was believed
by the medical gentlemen that it would be some
months before he would recover. His eyesight was
dimmed since the accident. He had.negociated to fill
a situation in Ireland, but it had gone off. Dr.
Ramsey was called, and described the injuries received
Mr. Serjeant Parry intimated that he should not
call evidence in answer to the witnesses examined.

Mr. Kemp, in his address to the jury, asked for sub-
stantial damages. In such a case, especially as the
plaintiff was still unable to work, the jury could not
properly compensate the plaintiff for such an accident,
as he was still suffering, and it must be a long time be.;
fore he could recover, as the injuries might turn out to..
be more serious than was anticipated. He claimed for
the plaintiff the medical and other expenses, besides,
compensation for the loss he had sustained since the.
accident, by not being employed, and also loss for the
injuries he had received.
_ . .
• - Mr. Serjeant Parry, in addressing the jury, stated
that there had been 108 claims made on the railway
company, arising from the great calamity which hap-
pened near Thorpe. Of that number 71 had been
settled out of court, and it was only where, as in the
present case, an exaggerated claim was made that the
company resisted, and the claim when made was £5OO.
Mr. Under Sheriff Burchell, in placing the case
before the jury, expressed his satisfaction at the
manner in which the case had been presented by Mr.
Kemp, and the way in which it had been met by the
learned serjeant. The jury would award according to
the injuries received, and would consider whether the
plaintiff was still unable to work at his business.
The Jury, after a deliberation, assessed the damages
at 250.
z -

NE
iii £he city of New Yorl
While a Lenten servie
orpan Catholic Church o
heavy gale blew down th
Which towered to a,con
:bUrch. • roof 011;
undrecla
rs dr6p,