The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-20 00:00:00

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SOME, FOREIGN, AND COLCNIAL,

THE NONCONFORMISTS AND THE PRINCE OF
WALES. —On Monday afternoon the general body of
Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the three denomi-
nations (Baptists, Independents, and Presbyterians)
met at the London Missionary Society's-house,
Blomfield-street, and unaninmusly screed to an address
of congratulation to her Majesty on the recovery of
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The Rev.
C. Storel presided, and the Rev. Dr. Halley (Inde-
pendent) and the Rev. R. Wallace (Baptist) moved
and seconded the adoption of the address.

GOOD NEWS.—The correspondent of the
Daily, Telegraph, writing from Lynn last Sunday
night, says :--
At length the Prince's Physicians ere able formally to take
leave of their patient. They have turned the last leaf in
the book of sickness and written their last bulletin. They
leave him to the kindly hands of Nature, and with the best
reason to hope that the work of recovery so happily brotight
o the point of established convalescence will by her be
finally and perfectly concluded. Everything has, I am
able to state, gone well. To-day the Ininee was able
to rise to his feet and stand, and although there is
still a little stiffness In the right limb, indicating
traces of the past trouble, it is fully expected
that he will Ins few days be walking about the house and
able to take carriage exercise. Not only have his phydcians
left him to the care of his own attendants, but they have
authorised the departure of the night nurse, for whose ser-
vices there is no lower any necessity. Of course some weeks
must pass before the care is consolidated, and it Is, I am
assured, not at all likely that the Prince will leave Aandring-
ham for several weeks to come Meantime all anxiety may,
It is stated, be dismissed, and we may in due thne expect to
see the Prince among ns in all his wonted health and vigour.
So ends happily one of the most trying incidelltail lathe
domestic history of the Royal family. Not the least IMppy
among the many who rtjolce must be ties physicians it hose
shill and ceaseless care have been attended cult so happy a
result.

KARL BLIND ON HOME RCLE.—Mr. Karl
Blind writes in the New Free Press of Vienna
New reasons for the separation mom England are for ever
being discovered in Ireland. This time the fishes speak for
It. This specPs of animal is generally held to be dumb.
But as it is well known that in Ireland everything, is quite
osnes,riss than elsewhere It cannot be matter for astonish-
Int lit that the Irish fishes have explained their grievances to
the Mayor of Cork, who presents himself now as their pro
tector. The Irish flakes are wearied of being taken and
salted by Seotehmen and Englishmen, and demand that this
shall be done in future by their own countrymen. As the
Mayor of Cork asserts, this cannot be done as long as Ireland
has not her own Parliament and her awn Government
Therefore, to please the fishes, home rule rum be introdueed.

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A BRIDE AND A WIDOW IN ONE DsA-A
shocking and fatal accident occurred at Sheffield on
Monday. At about a quarter-past two in the after-
noon a man named William Goodwin, employed by
Mr. Batty Langloy, at the Wicker Saw Mills, was
superintending tat removal of a number of large tree
trunks from one part of the yardto the other by means
of a travelling crane. At the time of the accident one
of the trunks was suspended in the air, and deceased
was standin,g with his back to the timber stack watch-
ing its progress, when one of the trees on the heap fell
down, and jammed the unfortunate man against the
one he was moving. Before he could be extricated he
was so severely crushed that he met with almost in-
stantaneous death. What makes the matter still more
paniful is, that about half past eleven o'clock on Mon-
day forenoon he had married a young woman, who had
been a domestic servant. Deceased bad not intended
to work on his wedding day, but as several of his fellow-
workmen were absent from their employment, he, at
the solicitation of the foreman, consented to perform
his usual duties that afternoon.