The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-06-29 00:00:00

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It Is to be feared that third-clues carriages to all
eine Ls • financial mistake.
The sale of Imperial jewels at the rooms of Messrs,
bristle and manson, tu Loudon, on Monday, ealised £48,90]
&yen thousand Indians have taken the war-path in
,exas. It ought to be a wide one.
Editors, however much they may be biassed, are
fond of the v ord "impartial." A Connecticut ethtor ones
gave an "Impartial account of a hailstorm.'
Lord Milton, who is only :13 years of age, has re
aimed his sent for the southern thvbrion of the It cat
Itining en account of ill-health.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowl!ages, at
" C.-moms-me Money," the receipt of a poutofice order for
An front "W. M." for Income-Mc.

Newspaper Correspondents in Afeseow peal-s ef the
Exhibition there as being wore attrBctive tLan that held at
St. Petersburg in 1870.

The tbirt-T-twn State carriages wl)ich belonged to
the municipality of Paris irtve just been :obi by autiers, lust
bought by a man st-ho lets out vehLles on hire.
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The Braish Medical Journal undenitanda that Mr
Dalrlmplea committee has come to a unanimous decision la
tav,ur of establishing refortuatoriet for.-luebrLites of the
niiddle and upper classes. -
In the capital of Mexico theymanivertary of the e,eath
cOrValaSed waasaletwated by a literary 'trial'," cohjointly
wall that of the birth and death of Shakspeare, which toot
place on the ESIIIO day of the year (April 2:3).
The death is reported of the Rev. P. Conway,
paribn poet of hominid, county Galway ; ono of Gm elercy•
men reported in tne euhedules appended to the judgment a
the matter of the Galway election petition.

At the Boston Musical Festival the other day the
chorus coraisttti of 16,000 voices, and there was an ac-
companiment of Canla3u. The performance is said Le be
completely successful.

_
Mr. M dlaw's " Hearts are Trumps' derives an ad.
ditional and melancholy interest from the fact that one of
the three young ladies whose portraits appear in the picture
has recently died.—Court Jounia2.
Captain Tyler, of the Board of Trade, was one of
the is itnesaes before the Railway Amalgamation Committee
on Monday. lie bad no doubt wlintever that the railway
tyranny now felt would he increased and Intensified If tho
lines were uninl;amated Into two or three great systems.
" Referring to the statement that the Bishop of
Vanillaff is able to write anal read Welsh fluently, the Star
of Gwent says We should like to see a specimen of his
lordship's Celtic callgraphy, and we should like to hear his
lordship read the ancient British. We should not."--Court
Journal.

Toe movement for supplying flowers to the sick, to
which attention has recently keen paid in this country,
seems to have its counterpart across the Atlantic. With the
commit of the fl..wers, fay sail American paper, the charitable
ladies of New York are recognisiog their •• Flower liliesion,
to supply poor patients in hospitals with flowers.
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From April Ist to the ?'2nd instant the Treasury re.
ceipts amounted to .1.7,34,492, as c unpared with £15,841,542
in the correspoodom period of last year. The expenditure
has Men £1.,,305,6 2. On Saturday last the intones in the
Bank of England was £3,9o7,itit.

A Yankee has taken out a patent f(4- luminous hats.
They would. be Pass. preserve the wearers from being run
over by cabs at night, and would, to some extent, enable •
saving in the lighting of streets with gas to be effected,

A movement is on foot in Manchester for the open.
lag of the free libraries in the city on sundaye. An under-
standing existed with the late bishon, dating from the
establishment of the libraries, that they should not be
opened on Sunday, but it is argued that the understanding
came to an end with the bishop'e death.
Official returns from France show that the cattle
plague is gradually ding out in that country. The discus
has re-appeared In the One, but it has greatly diminishedi
intensity M the Nord and the Somme, and in the ton days
over which the returns extend only seven animals were at-
tacked with the terrible malady in all France.
. . .

Prince Arthur was enthusiastically received, last
Monday, by tre people of Birmingham Ilia Royal Highness,
who was accompanied by the Duke of Teel:, was presented
with an address of welcome at the Tows-hall. In replying,
the Prince expressed his regret that his stay would be tio
brief on the present occasion, but at some future time be
hoped to revisit the town.
A Paris Correspornient says that the Royalist mem-
bers of the French Assembly, who have been in the habit of
calling themselves the majority, now, stimate that if they
were to give battle to M. Thiers they would be in a minority
of about tell. They purpose therefore, IA the present, to
maintain an expectant attitude.
News was brought from Canton by the China mail
OIL Tuesday, that in Chung Sing a Ilvatrical performance
was recently given in honour of a female deity. While the
perfoimanoe was going on one night, the bamboo structure
caught fire from the careless burning of some Joss paper,
and there being a great number of female spectat.•rs present
on the occasion, there was the greatest confusion, and the
eumber of dead and wounded were staled at something like
Gnu persons In one case a whole family were killed, and
the gorgeous dresses of the actors were burnt.

M. ihiers has just i,sueil an order that no more
political arrests are to he made, except in cases where the
accused persona are of bad character. Meanwhile the trial
of the Communists by Courts-Martial still continues. On
Friday a w,.man who had served in the Communal war as a
eatitir,Fire was sentenced to death ,m the charge of being
concerned to shooting a captain of National Guards.

During the month of May, 10.261 emigrants arrived
at the port of Quebec from the following places :—England,
23.; leemnd, 8,55 ; Scotland, 1,57 Prnesis. 309 Norway,
I,ath,. The Norwegians pawed through the Dominion to j,ln
friends in the Western States. When the returns were being
mode up the demand for 'glimmers was unprecedented ; ten
times the uutuber that arrived during the mouth might easily
have found employment.

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Last Sunday, at the Morgue, in Paris, there wan
found the dead b oty of a man named Tiouet, a witness on
the trial of the "Pmoniers traitors." lie was accused by
one of the prisoners named Benin, sentenced by the court-
martial to ten years' imprisonment, of having himself de.
pounced three Frenchmen to the Prussians as guilty of firing
spine them. Houet on leaving the Court threw himself into
the Seine and was taken out dead.
On Monday, about 40 agricultural labourers, with
the ,r wives and families, who have been engaged on several
farms in South Wiltshire and now belong to the West of
England Labourers' Union, left their homes and proceeded
in a body, per Great Western Railway aid Reading, to take
employment in the North. Several other persona had
prevously gone from South Wiltshire to the northern districts
for the purpose of securing higher wages.
The great Conservative gathering at the Crystal
Palace on Monday evening, at which Mr. Disraeli was the
principal speaker. was preceded by the annual meeting of
the Union of Constitutional Associations. A report wan pre.
sented calling attention to the increased prosperity of the
organization, ant looking forward with hope to the future
of the Conservative party. This gathering took place at the
Westminster Palace Hotel, Lord G. Hamilton M.P., in the
chair, and amongst the speakers were the Etri of Denbigh,
Lord Bandon, M.P., and Mr. W. IL Smith, 21. P.
In the French Assembly on Monday, the Budget
was introduced by the Finance Minister, He Muted that
the annual expenses whtrh hail to be met amounted to
2,358,000,000 fmin s. Fresh resources were needed. Verious
new taxes had hemn recommended, but they were not coml.
dered suitable. The Government professed that raw-materials
should be taxed, and that the four direct taxes should be in•
creased, as well as the duty on salt. Some sensatii-n was pro-
duced by the Presh:ent of the Budget Cornmitte stating that
the Committee bad up to the lust moment hoped to acres
with the Government, bat had only then learnt what 114
proposals were. M. Thiers once nt..re defended the tax on
raw materials, which he said he still estimated might yield
170,000,001 francs, hut declared that he was in no way °Mitt.
Date, and that the quest' n was one for the House to decide.
lie 11,1111itted that he was opposed to the augmentation of the
direct taxes and the salt duty.