The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Queen has graciously signified her intention of
laying the foundation stone of the proposed Imperial
Institute in the course of the ensuing summer.
A collision occurred on Saturday morning between
two passenger trains at Layster Dyke Station, near
Bradford Several carriages of a Shipley train were
wrecked, and some passengers were severely shaken.
The line was cleared in less than an hour, and traffic
was resumed. _ _ .

Addressing the Grand Jury at the Surrey Sessions,
Sir William Hardman expressed a hope that ere long
the Courts would be enabled by Act of Parliament to
order persons found guilty of certain clauses of in-
decent assaults to be flogged. The Grand Jul y subse-
quently made a presentment supporting Sir W. Hard-
man's opinions.
The bill to amend the law relating to the detention
of juries during trials for felonies, which is backed by
Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Finlay, and Mr. Baggallay, was
printed on VI on d ay. It provides that upon the trial of
any person for felony the court may if it see fit at
any time before the jury consider their verdict permit
them to separate for the purposes of rest and refresh..
meet.

1 it results from the now completed German elections
I that the new Reichstag will contain 221 supporters and
176 opponents of the Septennate.
An end has been put to the Italian Ministerial crisis
by Signor Depretis and his colleagues resuming their
respective portfolios.
• Russia has made& demand upon Turkey for the pay-
ment of a second instalment of £50,000 on account of
' the war indemnity.
The sale of the tenants' interest in a number of
fame on the Engird property, on which the Plan of
Campaign had been adopted, and which was aban •
doned some time ago by the Sheriff, in consequence of
ttie turbulent behaviour of the people who attended
it, was resumed at Limerick on Saturday. The pro.
ceediogs were characterised by the same tumult as on
the preceding occasion. Ultimately the Rev. Michael
Ryan, P.P' . suggested a settlement, and the agent con-
sented to a demand of 20 per cont, abatement, which
was accepted amid cheers.
A. report has reached Limerick to the effect that
Moonlighters on Saturday night, near Bodyke, cap-
tured a patrol of police, who have not since been
ascounted for. The occurrence was reported to the
constabularly at William•street Police Barrack, and
caused some sensation. The police could not ulcer.
tam n th- exact locality in which the alleged capture
I was effected, and the local constabulary did not attachi
' importance to the statement.

Mr. William Flint, who last week left Edinb4rgh
just before the sequestration of the firm of Fleming
and Co., sugar and spice merchants, Leith-walk, of
which he was managing partner, and who returned
subsequently, was on Saturday apprehended cn a
charge of fraud in connection with the bankruptcy.
Mr. Flint is alleged to have pledged the firm's goods
and speculated with the proceeds.

The death is announced of Sir Walter Elliot, 1C.0.5.1.,
at wolfelee near Hawick, Roxburgshire.
The Exchange Telegraph Company understands that
the leaders of the Irish party give the most un•
qualified contradiction to the statement that no tax
campaign is about to be commenced. Mr. Dillon him-
self repudiates the statement that he is to take the
leadership of the movement.
The Duchess of Tech has definitely decided to open
the Buccleuch estate as a public park at Richmond on
May 21st.

Sir 1-1 ilry James Sumner Maine, Master of Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, has been elected Professor of Inter.
national Law for the ensuing year.
The Eastbourne Corporation having called upon the
War Office authorities to protect their property
near the redoubt forts against the inroads of
the sea in stormy weather by strengthening the fore.
shore against floods, the Town Council has received a
letter from the military authorities, who refine to take
fiCY stfts in the matter fit preArit,

In Vienna the European eituatia, arded as
showing no signs of irniv :otbltussia and
Austria continue to strengthen their positions on the
Galician frontier, whilaqhe National Exhibition that
was to havaibeen held at Cracow has been indefinitely
postponek ,A The Hung Wan Delegation unanimously
voted tneMgitary credit for 52,500,000 florins on
Saturday. -
A Mandalay telegram states that the Woontho
Tsawbwa hail:low practically acknowledged British
supremacy, his public submission being expected
shortly.
The trustees of the Bishops Stortf.o7l Savings' Bank

state that they will be in a position to Pay the
depositors in the Savings Bank 15s. in the pound on
April 2, and 2s. 6d. in the pound on June 24. The
trustees will also endeavour to psy the remaining 2s. 6d.
in the pound later on. The trustees and their friends
have subscribed liberally to a fund raised to make good
the alleged defalcations.
Arrangements in connection with the Queen's pro-
jected visit to the Continent have now been nearly
compieted. Her Majesty will probably leave Englaud
on April 4, for Aix-les-Baines, where she will stay
about 17 days, when she proceeds to Germany for three
days. returning thence to England towards the end of
April.
Mr. Hewett, British Consul-General at Old Calabar,
has telegraphed to the Government a confirmation ef
the report of the capture of Mr. H. H. Johnston in the
eameronem by natives. The German Consul is second-
ing the efforts of Mr. Hewett to obtain the release of
our Vice• Consul, and every hope is entertained of
ultimate success.

A committee has been appointed for the purpose of
considering and fixing the actual number of horses and
servants required by medical officers on active service
and in the field Sir A. Alison, K.C.8., is president,
and Sir T. Crawford, 11.0.8., and Colonel Mashuen,
0.8 , are members of the body.
The last of the bodies of the St. Anne's lifeboat crew
has been washed ashore at Birkdale. It is that of
Thomas Bonney. The boat itself was found a few days
ago about a mil a and a half from the coast.
It is stated that the Treasury are considering the
question of securing to the Irish glebe tenants more
advantageous terms for the purchase of their holdings
than k.re offered to them under the Irish Church Act.
The death is announced from Hamburg of Herr
Kirchenpauer, Burgomaster of the city. He was 80
years Od, and was well known as a geographer and
naturalist.

The Northampton borough magistrates on Saturday
sentenced an elderly woman named Johnston to three
months' hard labour for fortune-telling. The police
suspecting the prisoner, sent a woman to her for the
purpose of getting her to tell a fortune, and as soon as
she did that a detective sergeant entered the house
and conveyed her to the police-station. The woman
was convicted of a similar offence as long ago as 1869.
Her husband went to the police-station as soon as she
was locked up to bail her out, and he too was locked
up. The next morning he was charged with being
drunk and was fined 10s.

A man named Alfred Small has been charged before
the Darlington Borough Bench with damaging a dress
of Mrs. Legeyt in Victoria-road. When tear the
mayor's house in company with the mayoress, some-
thing was squirted yr thrown over both ladies' dresses
like chrome or paint, and the accused was the only
person who could be seen near at hand. It was stated
that the cases had been numerous where such outrages
had been committed in the streets of the town. The
Bench did not think the evidence sufficient to convict
defendant, and he was dismissed, but they warned the
perpetrators of such outrages that they would be severely
dealt with if caught.
The criminal calendar for county Attrim, corns
meneing on the 22nd inst., contAins the cases of John
Walker and James Walker, father and son, charged
with the murder of Head-constable Mardiner and
Ptivate Hughes, of the West Surrey Regiment, during
the riots last summer. It will be remembered that
both prisoners were twice tried at Omagh last• De-
cember, the jury each time disagreeing. The widow
of the head-constable has sent in a claim to the Grand
Jury for £3OOO compensation.
While a miner and his paramour, residing at
Ystrad, in the Rhondda Valley, were out walking
together a quarrel arose between them, and during the
struggle the woman stabbed her companion with a pair
of scissors, inflicting serious injuries. She was subse-
quently arrested by the police.
The National Liberal Club have published a state-
ment showing the wide eztent of intimidation at the
General Election of 1885, and the manner in which the
Voters' Protection Committee endeavoured to cope
with it. The total cost of the proceedings taken was
£7BB Os. 61. A balance of 023 15s 6d. remains un-
provMed for, the contributions received amounting to
1:464 ss.

The Horne Secretary, replying to a petition for a
mitigation of the sentence passed upon the Rev. H. L.
Bateman, vicar of Halle, Cumberland, states that, after
carefully considering the facts, he cannot recommend
any remission Mr. Bateman was sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment for illegally performing the
marriage service. Another petition is in course of
signature.
An inquest has been held at Chatham Convict Prison
on the body of Michael Dunn, who had hanged himself
by his braces to a gaspipe in his cell. He was under-
going a sentence of seven years' penal servitude for theft
after several previous convictions, and he had made
four attempts at different times to commit suicide, but
these were believed to be feigned. On a slate the
prisoner wrote that he was tired of life because he
had beea twice reported. A vordiet of "felo de se" was
returned

L't' , acbess of Richmond and Gordon died on
Tuesday afternoon at Goodwood on the 66th anni-
versai of her birthday.
The Marquis of Lothian, K.T,, has, it was announced
on Wednesday, en appointed Secretary for Scotland,
in place of Mr. Arthur Balfour, now Chief Secretary
for Ireland.

The Earl of Selborne, writing to a correspondent who
forwarded to him copies of Mr. Gladstone's and Mr.
Chamberlain's letters on the disestablishment of the
elsh Church says he is inflexibly opposed to the
attempt to separate the Welsh from the English Church.
Whenever the question becomes practical it will be
found that very many Liberals, as sell as all Con-
servatives, will unite in steadily opposing any such
measure.

A Chester correspondent states that a desperate
fight between two well known professional boxers took
place on Tuesday near St. Helens. The police inter-
fered, when the ring was arranged near Carr Dam
Mill but by a successful feint the police were thrown
off the scent, and the fight came off subsequently with-
out disturbance on Newton•cornmon. Those present
state that the two men in weight and height were
evenly matched, and that round after round was fought
for an hour and a half, when a young man named
Anders WB3 pronounced the victor. His antagonist,
named DPCormack, was dreadfully punished.
The Rev. J. Gilmore, chairman of the Sheffield
School Board, and Mr. J. Hanson, chairman of the
School Management Committee of the Bradford School
Board, were examined on Tuesday at the sitting of the
Royal Commission on the Education Acts.
The Der,n and Chapter of Chester have given their
sanction for the Chester Triennial Festival to be held
in the Cathedral in July, 1888, and steps are already
beicg taken to make the festival a great success.
Under the provisions of the Bank Holidays Act,
171, the Queen has been pleased to issue a Proclama-
t on appointing Wednesday, March 23, a special Bank
holiday for the borough of Birmingham.
A banquet to celebrate the return ot the Chancellor
of the Exchequer by the large majority of 4157 will be
given to him by the Borough of St. George's, Hanover-
squa e, on the 30th of April next in London. The
Marquis of Salisbury will preside, and be supported by
the Bight Hon. W. H. Smith, leader of the House of
Commons, and many other gentlemen.
A bill to enable master mariners, marine engineers,
and fishermen to vote in Parliamentary elections in the
same manner in which members of universities are now
able to record their votes has been brought in by Mr.
Atkinson, Sir Robert Fowler, Mr. Baden-Powell, Mr.
Grottier], Mr. T. Sutherland, Mr. E wart, Sir E.
Birkbeek, Mr. Ring, Mr. Gourley, and Mr. Cavendish..
Bentinck.

The committee appointed to inquire into the supply
of alleged defective cutlasses and 8 mord bayonets—Sir
Hussey Vivian presiding—met at the War Office on
Tuesday and took further evidence. We are informed
that the committee hope to present their report at the
latter end of this week, and that they have already
condemned all the cutlasses of the pattern of those
found defective. At the same time they have advised
the War Office to stop the further issue of sword
bits onets of the pattern condemned.
At a largely attended meeting of the English Church
Union on Tuesda night, in London, Viscount Halifax
presiding, a resolution was adopted in support of the
scheme for a Church House.
Mr. Justice Day and Mr. Justice Wills, sitting as a
Divisional Court, have decided against the judgment of
the County Court rendering Captain Howard liable
for 130 claimed by a professional shampooer for
attendances on his wife, Lidy Constance Howard who
has a separate allowance. The Court said that there
was no evidence that the rubbings of the shampooer
were necessary, and they reversed the judgment of the
county court.
At the Surrey Sessions on Tuesday George Brook
was convicted of burglary, and, being shown to be an
old offender, was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude.
Joseph Dealing was also convicted of burglary, and,
frequent former convictions being proved, was sen-
tenced to seven years' penal servitude. Thomas Dunn,
also an old offender, was sentenced to five years' penal
servitude for burglary.
At the Southwark Police-court on Tuesday, Mr. Slade
re,n wed the investigation of the charge of disorderly
conduct and assaolting the police brought against P.
H. M'Crowran, clerk, arising out of the disturbance in
S. George's-road, Southwark, on the day of the
Socialist parade at St. Paul's Cathedral. Several wit-
nesses were examined, and Mr: Slade sentenced the
prisoner to two months' imprisonment.
The revenue received from April 1 to the sth inst.
amounts to v 82,964,166, or £1,755,697 more than the
18 !,208,469 received in the corresponding period ending
Alrvcb 6, 1890. The ex pel,6
nd4itn34 lesseupt h
o tthaen he x
stthineEt:
was £-',0,503,a30 being v
pEnditure for the similar period of 1885-6. The balances
to L 7,630,468, and on
Mrmartchhe6,slt BhBdi 7 att. La7m, 5.04u7n,6t5e9d-
At the Preston Sheriffs' Court on Tuesday a young
woreannnanror d Eblreeaanchorofeoporko Cook, 22 e years
o f o
marriage
age, broughtagainst
an aa'io
rge Yates,ro f St. Ilelen's.—The plaintiff, for whom
,
MC., M.P ,appeared, is the daughter of
a farmer,r. Addison,
and
the defendant is a farmer, and had re--
cently received over £6OOO under his father's will. He
commenced courting the plaintiff, who lived at Windle,
near St. Helen's, when she was 17, and had broken off
his engagement. The defendant had allowed judgment
to go by default at the assizes. The jury awarded the
plaintiff C!750 damages.
On Tuesday evening the " IndApendence Beige"
published a telegram from Paturages stating that 57
of the miners entombed in the Quaregnon Collieries
had_succeeded_in escaping.

Mr. Henry M. Stanley's' expedition for the relief of
Emin Pahha arrived at Simon's Town on Tuesday from
Zanzibar, and was to resume the voyag ' on the follow-
ing night after taking in supplies.
The Princess Christian on Tuesday presented, in the
theatre of the University of London, the prieee and
certifloates gained during the past CeEtiOU by the
emote et' the Royal PeijaB4ool ot Art (gte the
(I,neeu b 0 V4,rwitted the institution to bo Ditisti)t