The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-06-19 00:00:00

PREPARING TO FLIT.

The Orleans Princes have made sure of savi72; one-
third of their estates from confiscation by mortgaging
them to the Credit Foncier, which always in lending
money leaves a margin of two-thirds of the value of
the security. This is the statement of their mort-
gagee which has been furnished to M. Pelletan : The
Due de Chartres has raised 650,000 fratcs on his
Paris mansion ; the Duo d'Aumale 12,250,000 franca
on his Paris Chantilly, and Guise estates; and the
Comte de Paris, 3,000,000 francs on the Chateau,
Park, and Forest of Eu. The Prince de Joinville has,
it appears, sold the estate left him by his aunt, Madame
Adelaide, in Brittany, and mortgaged the one that
she bequeathed him in La Haute Marne. Though no
important group of the Chamber would support a
measure of confiscation, the decree of Louis XVIII.,
restoring to Louis Philippe the apanages of the
Orleans family and those of his grandfather on the
maternal side, the Due de PenthiOve, was illegal.
They should have lapsed to the Crown.

THE COLONIES AND EMIGRATION:
A paper was read by the Rev. A. Styleman Her-
ring, Vicar of St. Paul's, Clerkenwell, at the Exhibi-
tion. It contained, among other observations, this—
that the best benefactors to the colonies were those
who assisted out suitable emigrants—the colonies
above everything else needing population—and that
wealth invariably followed population. Emigration
was equally beneficial in the Mother Country as well
as the colonies, which (omitting India) occupied
7,227,510 square miles, inhabited by 15,031,832
peoples, with a revenue of £38,831,117, and have
borrowed, independently of city or town borrowings,
£205,127,725. The number] of English, Irish,
and Scotch who left our shores between January
and May 31 were 59,148 for the United
States, 8938 for Canada, 18,124 for Australia and
New Zealand, and 3737 elsewhere. Mr. Herring,
from his practical experience during the past 18
years in assisting oat nearly 5000 suitable emigrants
strongly advocated emigration clubs or societies, like
the Germans, who are the best of ernigrationists.
The forwarding out of children he highly advocated,
instancing a party of 11 whom he sent from the
Holborn Union, thereby saving the rates of £lOOO.
They are now comfortably settled, and a brother of
one of the girls, himself an inmate, is now a Canadian
lawyer and banister. The best workmen do not
emigrate. He contended strongly that there must
and will be a continuous stream from Great Britain,
which annually increases 400,000. There were abun-
dance of inquirers, and he had answered 05,000 letters,
but just now, owing to the not over prosperous state
of the colonies, the flow was towards the United
States. He contended that the Imperial Government
ought to guarantee a loan to the colonies to assist out
suitable emigrants.

A grand parade of cart-horses took place on Monday
in Battersea-park, which was attended by a great
number of persons, who much enjoyed the sight of the
splendid animals, some of which were sent by various
Vestries in the metropolis. The display was quite a
success, and a number of prizes were awarded.
The annual sale of yearlings took place at Beenham
House on Saturday. The 30 lots realised 6190 guineas,
but the average was below what had been antic!.
pated.
A terrible accident occurred on Sunday evening in a
circus in Madrid. About the middle of the performance
a Hungarian artist named Siena Rodowski, aged 28,was
making a descent from a ballaon 40 feet above the
ground, when she missed her hold of the parachute.
She then caught hold desperately of the balloon, which
gave way, and fell rapidly with her towards the floor.
The scene created the most painful excitement
throughout the house. The woman's husband sprang to
catch her, but only succeeded in slightly moderating the
violence of the fall. The woman had both legs frac-
tured, and she sustained severe internal injury.
Considerable excitement was caused among the
members of the Salvation Army in Hull on Saturday
by the intelligence that the Salvation steam yacht foie
had sunk in the Humber. This yacht was some months
ago presented to the army for the purpose of carrying
on evangelical work among seamen and fishermen on the
coasts, and great preparations had been made in Hull
among the Salvationists for meetings with the crew of
the lole during Whitsuntide. A few days ago the lobe left
Ipswich, and all went well until Friday evening, when
she arrived off Paull. The captain (Mr. Fielder) and
mate, with the crew, were all on the 100k-out and
lead" at work. They had plenty of water' but
suddenly, about half-past nine, something caught the
vessel's bottom; she swung round with the making of
the flood tide and rolled about. The crew, finding her
filling with water, had to take to their boat. On
Saturday morning at dead low water only two or tlaee
feet of the lole's funnel was to be seen.