The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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A very large audience assembled on -ay, April
R, in New York. at morning and evening services held at the
inauguration of a Fe itiviot church.
"A European professor bas succeeded in photo-
graphing the beating of a person's heart. What a neat
thing for an absent lover to send his adored Would be a carte
of his palpitation on gazing upon her portratt."—Ameriean
Pape,
Captain Richard Stepliens; the comrhodore of the
Southampton and Isle of Wight Mail Company's fleet, fell
overboard and was drowned at Cowes on Saturday.
The Emperor of Austria has resolved to celebrate
the birth of his daughter by an amnesty. His Majesty has
midnessed an autograph letter to the Minister of Justice
instructing him to submit a list of criminals to be pardoned
on the occasion.
The other day a well-dressed man was detained as be
stepped from the London train on to the Hereford platform,
and on Ids biat being searched a dead child was found. It
turned out that the man wanted to bery his <Mill at Chester,
and had concealed it to avoid paying the carriage, which he
afterwards paid and proceeded on his jouthey.
There is a report that the Emperor and Empress of
Austria are to visit Paris early in June. This projected trip
is hot viewed, it is said, with favour in Germauy.
The next exhibition of the National Tulip Society is
appointed to take place in the Manchester Botanical Gar-
dens. In conjunction with the Great National Horticultural
Exhil aloe, on the 29th of May.
Stephen .T. Meetly, the Fenian prisoner who was
relea,ed from pthon on condition of leaving the Ysated
Kingdom, has arrived at New York.
An order has been received unexpectedly at the gaol
of Clomund,.directing the release of the the men convicted
of taking part in the Fenian rising in '1 larch, 1667, and under-
going their term of iruprisomnent.
"Bishop Goss, of Liverpool, has directed prayers to
be suffered up for the dieendow went of the Church of Ireland,
stating that the Pope and the Irish Prelates would after-
wards comider of the establishing of the Roman Catholic
faith there as the national religion."—Court Journal.
Nearly 1,000 horses were purchased at Lincoln Great
Fair for the French Governinent. The prices ranged from
tail to £l2O per horse.
It will be gratifying to railway shareholders to leans
that there has been no falling of in the railway revenue re,
turns ter the first quarter of the year.
A new invention (Sim's) for watering streets has just
been tested in Glasgow, and the authorities expressed them-
selves satisfied with the experiment.
Some fresh strikes of colliers in the neighbourhood of
Charleroi have taken place. The workmen simply refuse bs
work at the reduced rates. and exhibit no disposition ti situ pt
violent or illegal means. Troops have been sent [pan Brussels.
and are located M the neighbourhood of the mines where the
men have struck.
in ISetti tweuty-three marriages were celebrated in
England and Wales in which the bride or bridegroom had
been divorced. In the previous year there were forty-eight
such eases.
A truly legal decision has just been given by a French
fudge. A gentleman was seen to come out of a river on horse-
beck where a notice was posted that it was illegal la enter the
river. The judge decided that as the law far] lade the entering
the river, and as no one had seen the gentleman cuter it, the
suit was dismissed.
The late Mr. C. J. Packe, M.P., of Prestwould-hall,
Leicestershire, who died a few weeks since, inherited his es-
tates in 1816, en the death of his father aged ninety', who
hail succeeded his father in 1735. The tenure of the Prest-
would estate by the two gentlemen thus extended over 132
peals.
New York city is to have a new post-office. The
building will be of white marble, will rover two and nthalf
acres of ground, will be triangular in shape, and will cost no
less than 3,500,000 dollars.
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"In Government circles it is positively declared that
Mr. Disraeli is ready and prepared to dissolve Parliament if
Mr. Gladstone succeeds in forcing his second resolution
through the House of Connuons. The Opposition threaten
to stop the supplies."--/rida Tinaa.
Chicago is a wonderful place, says the Examiner,
adding, in explanation of the remark, that babies are no
longer born there, if we COI credit the announcement in a
local paper, that during February 229 yotmg gentlemen and
324 young ladies were born in this city."
The Sonth London Press aays that Itoupell wiU
qhortly be released from the Portland Convict Prison. His
health has severely suffered during his punishment, and his
return to the world—broken-down mid despised—will be a
bitter discipline for some who, it I, rumoured, were unnally
as criminal as he.
A correspondent, who gives us (Daily News) his
name, denies, upon good authority, the statement going the
round of the papers:that the great American philanthropist
"left the Pope e 5200,500 on quitting Rome." The Italian
papers ieport mete accurately " a gift of 10,000 dollars for
one of the educational institutioini in Rome, by George
Peabody."
A linendraper who has lately taken a business in a
leading thoroughfare in Ismdon, has iSSUC4I a circular to the
customers of Instate employerin which his the new leasinners,
carte de visite is presented.
Mr. Cyrus W. Field sees no reason why it year should
elapse without efficient submarine cables being laid from
Suet to Bombay. "It can be done—it ought to be done—
and I believe it would yield a good return upon the capital
invested."
Mrs. Scott Siddons has received the command of the
Queen to read before Her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The presence of the Princess of Wales has produced
a sentiment of the profoundest sympathy awl respectful at-
tachment. An enthusiastic but very decided Irishman, of
" national" views, exclaimed, "If she could only be seen by
every man, woman, and child in Ireland moving about as
ale llaa done limo in our er wded streets, the Government
might withdraw every &diner to-morrow !"
The Record is informed that the letter of invitation
from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Dr. Cullen to attend
the great banquet given in bonne of the Prime of Wales,
was, by Mr. Disraeli's desire. addressed "To Ids Eavelleucy
the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin."
The well-known London firm of Gunter and Co. re-
cently killed one of the largest turtles ever seen in this
country. It weighed 3 cwt. 121 h., and it scsi supposed to be
about 300 years old. Fifty full-sized eggs were taken from it,
together w bit about 200 of smaller size.
The Berlin Wo y Military Gazette announces that
reductions in the nember of the Prussian forces, in a peace
footing, are about to be shortly effected. These reductions,
though net considerahle, would yet manifest the confidence
of the government in the preservation of peace.
It is said in Dublin that the American Minister in
London has received formal mouse of the intention of the
Irish Government to Ming Golonel *Nagle wain to trial on the
9th of Slay next in the Court of Queen's Bench.
In the Select Committee on the Sale of Liquors on
Sunday Bill. Thrue metropolitan magistrates gave than
spvidence, tied all three opined that the working of the Act
of 1514 had produced the most beneficial results In bringing
about a dfrolnUtion, not only of drunkenness, but of the
crimes eonsequent therein. Further restrietb,m, they relieve,
001.1 tod outs cause dissatisfaction, but tend to increase
drunkenness, by pis meting private thinking.
There is in Jamaica it "Preserved Turtle Company
Limited." which manufactures turtle soup for export, ready
for the table also, "caliper, calipash, and 1111 A." a nth.
canister of which is sullivient to make "eight quarts of rid,
turtle seep, as served up in London at civic entertaimnents."
The Turtle Conumny also advertisni for export the "lulled
Black Crab Paste." a preparation that " possesses the peculiar
flavour 41 the Jamaica Mack crab fer ally length of time."
"Eleven very beautiful pearls, varying in size from
the smallest shot to the larzest pea, have been exhibited in
Melbourne. They were hind at the new pearl fishery of
Western Australia, at which place a large fleet of small
vossels are engaged in the trade. and as the pearl shell is very
plentiful, and is aorta about else per ton in the London
market, it has epened a very profitable trade. The pearls
abeve mentioned were fully equal in colour to the finest
oriental pearls."—Methourne 4,9110.
Of the 53,400 children lv born in Paris 18,000
yearly
are put out to nurse in the provinces. more than two4hirds
through the instrumentality of the " agency offices." The
mortality among these nurselings is 89 per cent, in the Loire
Inferieure, 87 per cent. In the Seine, 69 in the Seine et Oise.
awl so on. No wonder the population of France takes hos
years to double, while that of Great Britain &tildes in rather
more than 50 years.
The following is Mr. Plowden's description of Theo-
dore, written in I015:—" Velma in years, vigorous in manly
exercises. of a striking enuntemnee, polite and engaging
when pleased. alld nosily displaying great tact asil delicacy.
. . So persuaded that he is destined- to restore the gleries
the Ethiopian empire . . severe to his soldiers.. indefatig-
able in ',mine, fond of splendour ; receives in state
even when on a campaign . . a religious enthusiast .
stricly continent . oppesed to the slave trade."
The new dog tax occopied rather a prominent place
1,, the Budget debate. Its succegs was referred to by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer as a strong argument in favour
of turning assessed taxes into excise duties Under the Inner
system the number of dogs upon which the tax teas paid up
I', April 1867, was 442,645. Under the new system no lens
then 025,311 licences were taken out between April and
December ut last year. The produce of the ii.ences. which
was originally estimated at £300,000, was, in fact, last year
£369,900, and there will be, of course, a considerable increase
this year.

A meeting was called in Leeds on Monday, to pass
resolutions amdust the diseqablislonent of the Irish Chord,.
The Vicar o(Leeds presided. The supporters of Mr. Glad-
stone, however, mustered in such strength that, before the
mover of the first resolution bad concluded his speech, the
chairman dissolved the meeting A meeting was sub-
bequently held in front of the hall in which the arst gather-
ing took place, and resolutions in favour of the disestablish-
went and disendowment of the Irish Church were passed.
Havre totters say that fishermen of Etretat report
1!,,,! a few slays ago they saw floating in the sea, at /It tWeell
six and fifteen miles NW from land, fragments of partially
burnt wood. appearing to conic from a vessel of between 300
and 350 tons. The letters add that other fragments, also
carbonised, have been cast ashore between Etretat and Saint
Jonen. on one of these latter lb a board painted black, with
the word " Itritirts "it, white colours.
"Evening Shadows. —T ant in terrible anxiety.
Write to me, dearest. Direct in full. Alhany-street."l--
-(3. V. P.‘-In your last you sail that you were very ill.
Please sole). if only a line to say how you are and if I can
write. When possilde let me hear from pat.—Yours, as
alwaya.-27th April."—Advertisementa in London times.
John A. Brown, Esq., of Philadelphia, has given
20,000 dots, to Lafayette College. at Easton, Penn. Mr.
Pardee, of Penmylvania, recently gave the sante institution
220.000 nob.. and a number of other citizens of the same
State have given RUIN ranging from 20,000 dole. to 25,000
dols.

The Timex jo requested to state that the letter, pur.
porting- to be shamed by Mr. Henry Cole, C.B. to the effect
that that gentleman declined to accept the £l,sfie offered to
him in excess of his regular salary for his exertions in Paris
during the Great Exhibition of 1e67, and that he thought
the £1.550 charged to the public by him for house rent in
Paris whilst he was employed there an extremely moderate
charge, In a forgery The letter was published in the
Morning Hera d and the Standard.
A sad accident occurred at Chicago on Good Friday.
The Ronan Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary was tilled with
inol the weight of th m e ultithde caused a lair-
tl'oirl
i'ilPfirlir' e 'thaw to give way. which raising a great thot
led some one to cry "fire." A terrible panic ensued, and in
the rush tint was made for the doors four women were
crushed to death, and 20 or more persons were seriously in-
jured, three of them having since died.
In what is termed the Est:Thary Keller, in the
Nagler-Gasse, hear the great city fashionable promenade of
the Graben, Vicuna, four glasses of wine may be had for
eighty-eight kreutze,, including the glass in which the
same is served If the glass is given back ten krentaers are
returned. Prince Esterhaay opened this cellar that people
might taste a pure and unadulterated wine, which is made
at the village of Rust, on Ids property, and is called Rioter-
Weise. Each large glassful, therefore, is charged shoot
441., but it mu 4 be drubk standing in the cellar, and Ole
same person cannot be supphal with a i,ecood sake worth.
"A sporting contemporary states that the Marquis
of Hastings, in consequence of :along been is-sable to pay the
bets lost by him last year. has been warned IT too if the
leading I s ,okqua kers not to appear in the boa mg aim. This
step has called forth indignant remonstrances from his lord-
ship's friends, although it seems unreasonable to export that
a bettor who has betted and lost, and cannot pay, should he
Permitted to continue to bet In the hope of getting hack what
he has lent. It is the rule of the ring that a defaulter shall
not be perm'tted to tint as lonir, as he centimes to be a de-
faulter, and there can be no legitimate reason why that rule
should be diaregarded in the case of Lord illastings."—Psf/
Malf qazette.
A Roman correspondent, writing on the 20th, says
"The f Rome, fixe I for the 16th, was. in con-
sequence of the had weather, deferred till the isth, when it
wnn carried 101( On a magnificent scale. The haloseriptioas
for the display aime in so slow tint a committee hod been
app,intel in every parish to go from house to house and
collect donations, but with little remit, the ettizen,i stile nut
that the money lad letter be reserved agaffist the posatirnit,y
of a return of the cholera; at left the deficiency was made
ioioul lr the Youtiltral Cloverunreal awl the haunt.
caviar',