The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-10-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

This year the declared value of bacon imported Was
£4386999; last year, £3,146,416.
A weekly newspaper milled the Fret Speaker with
some novel and special features, 11 11009917 to be published.
Last year the Exciae duty on gun licences amounted
to £63,393.
American female newspaper reporters are now tc be
found In all parts of the world. Sixteen went to tile Vienna
Espositlon.

A prudent clergyman being unwilling to accuse a
c vsen ot lying, maid he need the truth with penurioue
frugality.

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The death is announced of the celebrated Italian
sculptor Constantino Corti. The colonial statue of Lucifer,
which was exhibited in London, wax one ct hie meat admired
works.

The Sultan is about to send to the Emperor of
Kneel& a present of ftrogal fine Arab home of We purest
breed

A large meeting of ratepayers was held in Liverpool
on Saturday, agaiost the proposed expenditure of AtitO POO
to the Liverpool School Board,

Advicas from ludia bay Chat thy King of Siam will
!downy lyealde his crown and enter the priesthoed—Lut
only for for night.

It is said that two of the nephews of the Ameer of
rabul hate eulEted thenuelrea to the Eritlah Army at
Lahore. . . .

The consumption of foreign chetiae increase& This
year the value lirported fru .£3,005,456 ; lad year, £2,363,088.

A new comet bee been visible for meveral nights by
ald of the powerful teletume at the B. man Onstrratory.
It la desorlbed aa most brilliant, with a tall of extraordinary
tplendom. _

Durk g the hilt three rrynathm the Marine S.viety has
sent troll] K. tr 4,11114 e hip 3& boys Into tat Iloy.si navy and
be into the mercantile marine.

A new home and school Lr orphans of seamen who
belonged ti the Royal Davy is to ou ereettd at Porteva The
Q leon and Baran., s Burdett Coati+ head tho Ilat of donors
to the building fond.

John C. Heenan, the noted pugilist, is reported
to be dangerously Win Montana territory, where he went
for the beuetlt ot Ws health. Ms (theme Ii heroorrsge ot toe
lunge.
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It Is shown by the Fhance Accounts just tamed that
In the ye if ended the 31et of March the Inhabited llouie
Duty suuounted to £1,243,131i 191. Si.

For threatening to excommunicate a Prorewor of
Theolcgy, In Posen , who had signed the Catholic address of
fidelity to the emperor William, Archbishop Ledochowski
hen been sentenced to a One a 3io Maier*, or two month's
imprisonment.

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The value of paper imported f.‘r printing and writing
In the 'set nine m"nthe was £414,70.3 ; in &ha Lae period of
the prece year, E 411,1,739.

In the E,linburgh Court of Session, Mrs. Lenkford
has recovered L'eOe trots he North British hallway Company
on ace, uut of Injuries austalned In an accident et Grantham.

The declared. value of guano imported in the last
ntue months was 1.1,348.95 t, against 4515,167 In the prevLus
year.

The rrcontly pawed laws with ngard to Italian
ecelcalaittical propeety ard taking effact in tie expropriatbn
of a number of cunv.nta In ktomo.

The stamp duty on patents for inventions in the
year elided tiat 31.8 of Laren last amounted Co £1.33503, 18.
A letter from Ltrowell mettious that the Burgo-
master of that clty has refused to execute the decree, of ti.e
Belgian Clovernmeut 1,4 r the expulsion of persons alleged to
have been connected with the Commune in Pala.
The Cunard Company's steamer Russia, which
arrtved In Liverpool on &today, brought amought Its pus-
seers General M'Clellan, well known In connection with the
American war.

The trustees and governors of the Nautical College.
at South Shield., have resolved to extend the benefit. at
that Institution to boy. over thirteen years of age, who will
be cduceted free of cost.

"France has now had time to realise the fact that
within the course di a fess works, if not day., • decisive at-
tempt whi be made to reeeetahlieh the old Bourbon Monarchy
In the person of Menu V."—Leader in Daily Tekgraph.

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It ie stated by the Madras papers that the Govern-
ment have appointed Miss P,lgson. the eldest daughter of the
Government natmnomer of Madras, to be assident astrono-
lwr at the Government observatory, and that this yeung lady
will very shortly arrive at liadras to take up the appoint-
ment which the Government have been pleased to mallet
upon her.

An Indian paper Pays that Dr. Bubler, educational
Inspector, northern division, has discovered aa old manu-
script in Limree, which appe•rs to be dated somewhere
near 1189 sumvut. The hick Is in Connection with Jain
rel.lon., It la hamed " Pails Avaida ka hatra."—Surya
Prokaah.

Intense excitement has been created at Geneva by
the events In ow nectiou with the popular election to the
vacant curacy. Father Hyacinthe—to whom a son has
just been born—preached on Anode, to a large erase, and
maintained the right of the people to elect the curb,
against the denunciation of Monsignor ?dermalod.
Front a return completed on Saturday for Mr,
Charles Hawkins, the Government Inspector et the medical
school. In the metropolle, it appears t`33t there Is a consider-
s Ole Increase over the number of sindenta of lest ye., when
they amounted to 1,496. against I,FM in the present session.
Sir Stafford Northcote presided at the annual confer-
ence of the pot r law authorities which commenced at %Teter
on rue sday. A paper was read by Dr. Aden& who insisted
upon the point that thoee who were erganed In the pre para•
Hon and conduct of Parilainentary schemes , elating to 1111111i-
tsry matters &horrid be men who had local experience.
On the grouuds that the South Kensington Schools
of Science and Art are, as at present constituted and
directed, dearly venni hy the country, and are moreover In-
dispensable to Its commercial, moral, and social progream,
Mr Cole, C.B , has, in a speech at Hanley, culled on the
scientific and artistic student* throu,,hout the country to
disallow the Government plan of tnotrf. rang the dictator.
ehip of those tohool t 3 the authorities of the British
M u .eum

The strike in the Levers branch of the lace trade at
Notate .hem continues and the whole of the new rwiety '
men are still out, rho matters aopear to •,e determined not
to aeneoe to the deman I of the men (which, it will he re
ruecubortd, WWI far MI 11111.1100 01 tlre shillings per week
during "alterations"), and the present ditimsa of trade is In
their favour. Tae dispute, moret.ver, had not hitherto
affected Cite" old" uniou, the memben of which remain at
work.

The festival in celebration of the 1110th anniver
sary of the foundatlem of Kly Cothedral was continued on
Saturday and Sunday. The Archbishop of Canterbury was
amongst the visitors, and took • prominent port in the set.
vice on Sunday, wolking atthe head of • procession In which
there were several tre'atea. The urnion in Iho morning was
preached by the bishop nf the diocese, who addressed a
cro.wded congregation as to the unbroken stream In which
the Church had come down from apostolic times. The Holy
Cc mrounion was afterwards ce'ebrated, and in the afternoon
the Rev. Cane Klegriey preached.

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During the week ending last Saturday 5,536 births
and 3 193 deaths were r,gistered in Lon.),,ti end twenty other
laree elide* and toenot of the Vpit• d IC,nedom. The natural
in.cease of population was 2,343. The mortality from all
causes In these towns was at the rote of 22 deaths annual y
to every 1,000 persons estimated to be living. In the metro-
polis 2,134 births and 1,253 death, were registered, the
former having been 1(6 above. and the latter 195 below, the
average number in the crreepondong week of the last ten
years. Fifty-000 venous tied from measles, 18 Irom scarlet
fever, I from olyhtheria, 31 from Who,ping.eough, 32 from
different forms f fever, 30 from dlarrtuns, and not one from
small pox Diseases of the respiratory organs and phtbleis
caused 4,3 death., while 42 persons died from different
forms of violence.

On Tuesday night a violent gunpowder explosion
occurred at South Shields. It appears that a ycung man
named Wraith, had been encased In making shots trom!a
Sul of gunpowder, and in doing had left a portion of the
gunpowder on the floor. Shortly afterwards his mother
entered the room with a lighted candle, and, widlet engaged
In making the bed, it rpwrit from the console accidentally hill
amrg the gnispoweer, and the result WASS terrific explosion,
the root of the house being blown off and the building
greatly damaged. Mrs. Wraith was also dreadfully Injured.
Ins report presented to the Commissioners of Sewers
of the City of Laudon, their Sanitary committee, after com-
plaining of the barge quantity of adulteratsd tea which they
believe toter Is bond in London, express their belief that •
large per-centage of the Import, is sot tea at all, hut the
leaves of various plant.. The Commissioners have adopted
this report, which vecom-nen, s that communications should
be made with the G overionent In order to the Introduction
of a tell appointing oxtoctere to examine every cargo of tea
brought to this country.
The Times' City Artlele on Tuesday had the follow.
log The hope• of success for the experimental shipment
of ircsso meat by the Norfo,k whiM arrived from Australia
have been disappointed. Ou the arrival of the vessel on
Monday, it was ascertained that, o +lag to detecla in the
cobstructimi of the tanks which csutalned the meat, the
seate of ice W6S greatly In excess ~f the calculai l'lntie
defectu were dive, vertd shortly slier hooting tient dirue,
creep exertion manmade icy those on hcarti to remedy them,
but it was ultimately Imind neftraary to throw the whole
ooantitt lieure this costly exp. riment has de•
ter,olue,l uothloy as to the possibility of sending meat in
the proposed 0111//11Iff lr.nxt Australta. Toe defects, it Is
I Ilt•hmk won purely mechanical, and sue u can certainly be
I obrlitet; •••