The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 1866.

Gsverni. the celebrated Freich
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behind him no less than 60,100 designs
In 1859 Monis had 75.431000 inha'bitents ; 181.0
76-674 1001 77 328 000 1861 78,384100; 1663, 75 2r.3 ,
1864, 80,211460,1 ; 1066, 84,257 WO; and in 1666 Ei2.27?,n40
According to the Maniteur de la Illeurtl
a. Ippm
phsgy, Or the nee of horse-fieeh as food, is niaking progre
atolency. M. Pinean, to alum the acclimatisatido seieuty has winooded the enterpriee, has elrea.ty a Ocean horses
tits dairies, fattening At ls two animals per week. present the average consumption
On the 30th November an engine from Cawnpore
went through to Lucknow on the Indian Branch Railway.
The revenues of the ehrunken Papal dominions in
NM were computed at 5766,780 crowns, the expenees at
10,295 103 crowns, leaving a deficit of 4,529.323 crow..
The Peter's Pence in that year yielded 2,036585 crown,: but
&inns six years It has only produced 43,010.401 Trance, a
proof that the laraesess of the faithful have not exactly kept
pace with the necessities of the Pontifical exchequer.
Weston.super-Mare has been rather lively recently,
.
so far an religious controverd are concerned. In ad 'lton
to lecture. by Mr. Hunt, of 7'iorthmoor, in defence of Rituse
nem, the Plymouth Brethren and Seettiennorgians are said
to be holding special meetings, and Lord Haddock Is en-
deavouring to get ups "revival,"
"A number of French and Italian artists are cone
tinually engaged in painting and otherwise decorating the
interior walls of the Prince Consort's mausnienm at Frog.
more The Queen is much intereste lin the ph•gress of the
works, which are almost daily insp,twl by Her alejesty,
hut it le expeeted they will not be in a euffinent date tic m.
pinion for she next twelve months to allow of the rem•val
of the Prince's coffin from Its temporary anode to It, final
resting-place in the granite sarcophagus "—Court Journal.
The Frondenbl aft of Vienna has thwfollowing most
extraordinary statement'—" At Rechnitz in Linsgary, a
man has committed • horrible act through eupersinion he
has successively anassinoted four children, and eaten their
hearts, raw, believing that he would become invi ible when
he had done the same to seven. The crime was diecovered
before he had time to arrive at the end of his atrocity and
the man is in custody.'
The British Lying-in Hospital, in Endellatreet,
London, has just received • donation of 5001. from an
anonymous benefactor, who, it is said, has set apart the auto
of 25,0001 for distribution amongst metropolitan chanties.
At a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, is a
tablet informing visitors that the editor cannot be spoken to
unless paid for his time. Persons desiring an audience an
Invited to buy a ticket of admission ot the door of the wait-
ng-room—one hour costing 10a.; half an hour, 65.; 15 minutei,
3s. ; and so on.
It is announced in America that the relations be-
tween the United States Government and thatof her Majedy
are pleasant. and that in a short time it will be made known
to the public that the differv, cm seizing out of the
Alabama claims have been settled. It is ad el that Mr.
hii.e.waraffdatndsathdetPharetayiln.t
it!
dlo.np.g ctcohnef ;re:erre. atro/rcopo.r,ieedi
to Mr. Adams in London.
A number of skaters were disporting on the lake of
the chateau of Chemnitz, near Cologne, one day last week,
When the Ice suddenly gave way. Nineteen tenons were
got out, but eleven others were drowned, and lean are en-
tertained that two more have shared the same fate, as they
have been missing since the occurrence.
Advicee from Florence state that Admiral Bertram,
Is greatly depressed in spirits; be passes his days in walk.
leg about his room without either reading or writing. Ile
has aaked to see his con, who acts as bin secretary, but it is
not known whether the favour will be granted.
The great tunnel excavated under Lake Michigan,
for supplying Chicago with water, ha. peen completed. It
is nearly two miles long ; is dug eighty feet under the bed
of the lake, beneath a stratum of clay ; and was excavated
without a single accident; the ground being first broken on
March 17, lam. Its capacity is 57,500,000 gallons of water
daily. The cost of the excavation was about 46,0001. The
necessary machinery for distributing the water through the
city will be put in operation by next spring.
Mr. Jacob, a member of the Wincheder town noun-
cif, complained to that body last week of the c +potation
pictures being kept in Si. John's-rooms, where balls are
hell, anti that the picture, were injured by the heat and
moisture of the room. A picture, at one time worth 1,500
guineas, of Charles IL, painted by Sir Peter Lely, and pre.
limited to the corporation by the "merry monarch," is
seriously damaged. It wait takeo down a snort time sinm
and laid in a kitchen, and • person nearly put his foot
throueh it.
News from Saigon to the end of October reports
great damage to the rice fields, caused by a stamp-de of
elephants In large numbers in the environs of Baria. Al-
ready, during the month of September, th,y had obstructed
the road from Blen.Phuoc during several hours.
A commission has been appointed, of which the
Crown Prinee of Prussia is president, to Inquire into the
re- u'ts of the experiet re of the late war, as far as the cloth-
ing and equipment of the troops are concerned, and to de-
termine what change. In these reepects may be advanta-
geously introduced in the Prawn° army.
There are in Austria 728 monasteries and 298 con.
vents, the first with 59 abbots, 6,754 priests, 240 novices, and
1,917 lay brother,; and the second with 5,190 nuns. Two
hundred and eighty.two of these establishments belong
to the Frenchman orders, 85 to deters of charity. 60 to the
Planate, 41 to the Dominica., 37 to the Benedictines, 26 to
the Bunions, and 17 to the Jesuit..
The " tive.twenty" bond of the United States re.
enters it. name from the fact that its redemption is optional
with the Government at any time from five to twenty yetnfl
after the ate of its issue. There brinda were fir t issued in
1066 and the Government may therefore repay those issued
in that year in 1067.
Last Thursday a boy named Wyatt was sentenced
to three mouths' imprisonment at one of the London police.
courts for stealing two pots of jam It now appears that he
was perfectly Innocent. A gentleman connected with the
Parkhotue begged School went on Monday before the magis-
trate, and took with him the boy who really did deal the
jam The magistrate advised that immediate maul -cation
should be made to the Home Secretary on the sunject.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday. an action
was brought against Mr. Sfocuityre, a coach rnanufac.urer
of Buralem, to recover calls and interest due to the N
S'affordstitre Iron and Coal Compan v Defendant Insd paid
10t a share on 60 share., but refused further payment, on
the ground that the statements on which he had bee, in:
duced to apply for the shares were "faire and fraudulent.'
The jury, after much deliberation, gave their verdict for the
defendant.
Kitty Vance, the old woman who wa'ked from
Penzance to Loudon and back in the year of the first Bahl
Fitton, has jtut repeated the same hat, the object this
time being to see her daughter. She is eighty-eight years
old.
It is said that, on taking leave of the officers of tire
85th French R-giment, the Pipe sail, "I regret to part with
you; I regret tat your Emperor has abindond me, atter
gaining so much of my coin tenle, and so formally promising
to defend me But I have oonfi Once in God. I hope he
will avert the revolution, and say to sit he said to the sea,
of the Holy See compels me to seek a refuge elsewhere.'
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dangerthe. t shallthe
liberty "an't minydePpl:d. eanrcil
A lady named Dimond, resitting in her own honor in
the fashionable part of Southampton, has given the hous -end
it. furniture to the committee of the Royal Seirh Hants
Infirmary for the benefit of that institution, and has eon. to
resde In lodgings. The furniture has been sold by auction
and fetched 5001, and the honor has been let for nearly 1001,
a year
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,
I The turnip crops on Lord Kinnairrl's estates in Scot-
land having nearly all failed, his lordship has written to say
that., the failure "mast seriously interfere with the future
cropping of the land, unless some arrangement be made to
meet the oilitmity which will be felt by the tenants of the
want of mews to convert their straw into good manure: he
therefore proposee to. all .w the tenants on those farms
where the failure is ascertained to have occurred, to sell
straw, to be replaced by good manure equivalent to the
straw sold" Besides this, his lordship gives 21. per tete for
the lose of the manure used in growing the turnips.
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The United States' army, at present consisting of
about 45 000 men, is to be recruited to the Minltollll,l stan-
dard, 55 302 men The total maximum strength under the
present organization noult be 70,3,2 men The United
States' navy at present comprises 294 vessels, carrying 2 563
guns, the majority of them very heavy ones. There are 63
Ironclad*, sin frigates, and 65 ships of the line 31 of these
'easels are over 2,500 tons burden each. During the war
there were 600 VesseLs in the navy, over 300 of which have
been sold.

The Prince and Princess Christian left London by
the 11 20 train on Monday morning, and arrived at the
Huyton station of the London and North Western Railway
about half-past flee in the afternoon. They were net at the
station by the Earl of Derby, and at once 0 rove to Knowsley.
park. A large nnmner of persons, principally lade*, as'
ambled at ti e station and warmly greeted their ro)al
highnesses, who repeatedly and heartily bowed their
I acknowledgments. Both the Princess Helena and her
husband appeared In excellent health. It Is understood that
the royal visit will not extend beyond Thureday.
The Northern Ensign tells of a young lad in Dornoch
whose arms are so twisted and Imperfect in size, end totally
powerless, that his legs and feet, which are also weak and
twisted, have to be used as anns and bands. He handles
the knife and fork with his feet exceedingly well, writes an
excellent hand, threads a needle as handily and exp.:thornily
with his toes as the most expert seamstreee, sews and darns,
and otherwise employe his lower limbs with a dexterity that
Is truly remarkable.
A bricklayer was ascending a ladder in front of a
house In London, when he slipped and fell from the height
of the second storey Ile was caught on the spikes of the
area railings, one of which entered the thick part of the
right thigh, causing a dangerous wound, and another of the
spikes perforated hie right arm above the elbow, and he be-
came literally impaled.

Some experiments were made on the Great Western
RAJlway. on Monday night. with Mr. Spann°letti's sys,ern
of electrical communrcuton between puserigers and irmirds.
The apparatus was aths.-d to a couple of carriages attgched
to the live p.m. train from the Paddington terminus. In a
first-clase compartment were Mr D. Gooch, Captain Bulgeley,
Major-General the Hoe. A. N. Hood, Lady thrrinaton. and
other parsengert To this a set of apparatus was attached,
as well u to the compartment occupied by Mr. Smarr°lettl.
The apparains in Captain Maineley's carriage was eet In
motion by Masa Van de %Veva., the ,anghter of the Belgian
NUM/tier. just alter the train bad left Slough, and a light
thus tanked remained bulldog daring the whole time the
train was passing fr. m Siougn to Windsor.

_
The fact of the Prince of Wales having rimmed
through Paris without paying s visit to the Emperor has
given rise to many strange surmises. Lila Royal Highness,
Instead of going to Compiegne, preferred going to the Petals
It^yal, not to call on Prince Napoleon, but to be present at
one of the moat stabrela pieces of the present repertei
"La Vie I,tridetine." Le S lid, which mentions tile fact.
writes "The future Ring f England freunently applauded
the eccentricities of tide piece " Bet noticing Ibis,the
correspondent of the Star says : "I hardly believe this, inas-
much ea Ills one of the most senseless plays which have
deemed the Perla theatres for many a lore day."
The splendid hospitality extended to the English
Volunteers in Belgium has mete so atrong an impretnion,
that the Executive in this country IA alrea y planning the
arrangements for wets bming the Belgtans at our National
Volunteer Meeting next yesr A meeting was held at the
British service t'lnn utfl Friday, under the Presidency of
Lord Rory, of the, liken and gentlemen appointed to organise
a return reception. to the Belgians. It Wan agreed that
Loud Bury should he asked to open communications
wtth the Belgian awhorißes as to the numhera likely to
visit Eni‘land In July next, and It was also agreed that the
flThh Sheriffs of counties. Mayon. and gentlemen in • pod-
t lot, to 'As at the inurement should he requested to join the
committee

At the meeting of magistrates in the Qdeen's County,
Ireland, ove of the speaker. eeclared, amid applause, that,
there w.s to such ado/ as treason or diesifeoion amour, the
pe“ple of their district "Still, they could not shut tin ir
eyes to the fact that a wide spread conspiracy was at work."
A list wss opened of persons ready to cone forward as
special Constables, and about" tifty farmers" awned It. A
meetinz of Inhabitants has also been hell In Dun/ammo,
for the county of Waterford, and a memorial adopted ask'
log for additional troops. In the city of Waterford a similar
"print.' conference of magistrates has taken place Lord
Bellew, sia Lieutenant of the county of Down, has applied to
the atlthorities to quarter military in Drogheda.

A very important movement appears to be taking
place In Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and elsewhere, amongst
the ii n•anionist colliers, against the tyranny of the trade
combinations which so often force unwilling men to join
them in Meats, and a densaly-crowdesl meeting of col-
liers was held a few days ago, at Staveley, In Derbyshire, to
&wort a non-unionist organization, at which several of the
speakers described the privations which they had bronchi
upon their families by going ou strike, and the struagle
which rook place In their minds between their all-glance to
the union, and their duty to their wives and children. °1
have a union tn my own house," said one minable fellow;
"my wife, • cripple, and sin little children and that's the
• oi I mean to stick to" This Is intact only another %Ivo
lbw tie conductor, of the trades unions have been pith tie
th.-ir pret,iel ma ton far, and t at w risMg mu by no
m an. relish loch restriction. on liin-rty of action a• it
pine. ii upon i• 111. The movements. Starerley, occurring
es
IS does in the middle of a strike, is cedialthe sef7 sig
Wigan sod Important.