The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-13 00:00:00

"zATURDAY, JULY 13, 1872.

A °engross of " Philatelists" rs of postage
stamps) bi to be held at Lubeck on thTiltrinato
M. nocht.fmt has been authorised, says the Omdti-
tritionnel, to collect all the materials necessary to writing I
an aneedotical history of the Second rrewire.
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About 300 of the servanta Of the Great Northern
Ra lway met on Sunday night, and adopted a memorial to
the directoes for a new scale of wages by which the men
would benefit to the extent of 2e (id. a week.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has acknowledged
under the head of "Conscience floury," the receipt of the
first halves of £eo and £lO notes from n W.W.'' for Ill'
come-tad, (1/11i the second half ef £5 note from "
35.
The premises of Messrs. Rosa and Son, Buchanan-
street, Glasgow, were entered by beirglars, after the shop wee
closed the other evening, and jewelry mid watches of the
value of about £1,00.10 carried off.
Captain Burnaby delivered a lecture at the United
Service Institution on the education of Mall officers in foreign
States. He sketched the Prussien system, which was being
largely selopted by Austria and Russia, and was warm in his
praises of Autumn niameuvres.
A large number of Thames lig,hteeMen assembled n
Tower-hill, London, on Monday, ad exert-seed their deter-
mination to adhere to the demand which they have made for
en increase of wages. They afterwards walked in prom.-
Mon through the streets.
A bill has been printed, beroing the names of Mr
Fordyce and Mr. alcCombie, which proposes to amend the
law of Scotland in regard to the right of property in lorildings
erected by agricultural tenants.
The German Emperor has given the celebrated
military library of Metz to the general staff at Berlin. The
library comprises 40,000 volumes, many of them exceedingly
rare, and a great number of valuable manuscripts arid draw'
logs. It is the result of 300 years' collecting.
The Treasury allowance for the maintenance of
prisoners at Portsmouth has been suspeudel, in consequence
of the defective gaol accommodation. Three sites have been
selected for a new prison, the cost of Which Li estimated at
between £30,000 and £40,000.
"We understand that it is the intention of her
Majesty to visit Holyrood Palace on her way to Balmoral
next month. The 17th Cl newest has beeu mentioned as
the probable date of the Royal Celt, which, we are told,
nosy possibly be extended over two or three days."—SCOte•
An interesting ceremony took place at West Ham
Cemetery on sunday, in tin. shape of erectleg a tondsstone
to the niemort of Nums. Barton, the young Jew whe, bestdes
being ...renew of the University of London, became Selifor
Wrangler at Caninridge, and died of small-pox last Year.
The tombstone bore an instription mailable to the occasion.
Turkey, besides those naval and military prepara-
tions to which attention has lately been &men, is rapidly
developing her railway system. A telegram from Constan-
tinople reports the the to Salenice open, and an imperial
Commission has left for Adrianople, to take in hand the
Roumaliau network of railways.
The death of r Joseph Hawley's famous thorough-
bred sire, Beadsman, in the seventeenth year of his age, is
an undoubted loss to the British Tail ; for in his veins ran
some of the purest blood that ever warmed the heart of a
DerhY wiener. At the moment of his death, no hone in
England of the eeme age would have fetched so large a price
as he would have donfi.
The John Bull hearse that the it et. Pr. Mitchinson,
Bead Master of Canterbury School, has beta eflered the
Lishotrele of Mauritius, but has declined it, as, thete betel
no letters netent. no security could be given him that he •
should not meet *inn tile same treatment as Bishop Jenner
at Otago. Bishop Ryan, We kart, is going out again for a
year to reorganise the diocese.
.fk. young woman has been charged at a Lenclon
pollce.court with makings, fourth attempt to commit suicide
by cutting her throat. It was explained that elm meant to
frighten her lover, and did not intend to do herself any harm.
'the eliaplain reported her as penitent while in the House of
Detention, and she wee dismissed with a caution.
In a case heard at the Edinburgh pelice-conrt the
other day, a church officer, complaining of the noise matie by
MI boys at the door of the chapel, said he had been therch
°ewer for the last twenty-nine years, and during the wh is
of that time he, had never heard a sermon, because of the
necessity of his basing to remain outside to keep the boys
away.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards Is now on its
way back to England. Before leaving Boston it played at
the Academy of Music. "Clod Save the Queen," which was
given encited much enthusiasm. At one of the Jubilee per-
formance! the Bend is esjd no have averted a panic caused
, by a false alarm ef Ore by playing "Tire liter Spangled
, Banner."
The furniture and effects of the tote Miss ilead,
"the eccentric old lady of Stamford-street,' load a, are
aaneemeed for sale by auction. They comprise rare and
' antique jeweller>, antique cheats of drawers, etc., and about
' 200 ounces of plate of tht pined; of Queen Anne and Georges
1., It., and 111.
M. Koechlin, the opulent Alsatlan .4:inner and
machibist, has died. M. lleachlin at the outset of eke war
o volunteered to raise and maintain at his own expense a coepe
' of ,5,00 d men. Miss lieeehlin, his daughter, is now under-
going eve menthe innprisonment for her patriotic demon-
strati°. in Wont Of France..
A horrible story of cannlbafirtn bra occurred at
Flamatan, a town in Persia. Two women, nes:4V! by 9C7511
other persons, canned elf nu'ee children mid ate there. The
• cannibals were arrested, and on being email:lied the bones of
the children were found concealed in their clothes. The
Grand Thiele cendemned the two women to be hanged, and
, Hair accomplices to death by starvation. A week afterwarde
. Deese wretchei were found dead in greeon ; five of them had
' eaten the other tWO.
t An account has just been made up cf how it fared
, with the 64 tattooron that left Paris during the eit go. Witty-
; seven reached a safe destination. carrying 150 passengers.
,• Two came to grief by falling into the sea, where the pawn-
, ;met foil their hoes ; the other five were captured by the
I Germane, By Means of pigeons carried out of Paris by the
l remnants, 60,009 Mimeses were 11511 t back into the besieged
city.
The Due de Broglie has presented the report of the
Committee on the treaty for the payment of the (lemma
guar insienmity, and the situation stems to be accepted relth
a good grese. In the vague and lofty words which are dear
3 to the political intelleet of granoe the members of the Com-
-3 mittee say to the Assembly •" We shall not have to wait
long for the evacustion of the tefritery if yen continue to
exhibit the spirit of pacific moderation and petrietie devo-
tion by which she Assembly has always shown Itself Se be
r animated."
Royal warrsthin regulating. the pay, promotion, and
ntiring allowances of offieers en the Ito jat Artillery and
Engineers have been issued, Onkel) trig the suggestions
3 which the Secretary for War made to Panlisment a short
- tinie since. In future the captaius in both corps rill take
. the rank of major ; the second captaleinwill be made ceele
talus; general officers and regimental cblonels will have a
' retiring penaloo of £OO5 a year and the °tannery and extra
• raters of pay on active service will he iucreased all round.
Further hearing has been given by the Archbishop
of Canterbury to the appeal of Archdeacon DCIIIOOII4 curate
' against the revocation of his licence by the Bishop of Bath
and Wells, on account of ritualistic practices at East Brett.
A preliminary objection had been raLed that the revocation
and summons were invalid; but this was not allowed by the
Primate, who repudiated any wish to prejudge the case.
Chinese jurisprudence is a double-edged sword,
which literally cots both ways. A short time ago, as we
3 learn from the Shanghai Bridget, a Woman was prosecuted
by her husband for running away from him. The result of
the investigation made by the authorities into the whole
circumstances attending the can wa . ha she was sentenced
to forty blows of the bamboo on the hand for running away,
f and the hushand to forty blows on the thigh, because she
a ran away inconsequence of his ill treatment.
A fatal case of polauming from eating crab has
occurred at Birmingham. On bathed. evening Mrs. Stye:he,
o widow, gave to her little boy, aged seven years, part of a
f crab with his tea. ills supposed that he ate a portion of the
creatures lungs, and, In consequence, became soon after
seriously unwell. About two o'clock 101 Sunday morning a
doctor was gent fon fie found the child in a state of in-
t sensibility. The usual remedies were administered, hut,
apparently without effect. The poor boy continued to get
, worse until about eight o'clock, when hs became convulsed,
' and shortly afterwards died.
About 2,500 sheep on the Dorsetshire farms are suf-
fering from the toot and-mouth-dinease, which is spreading
fast in the hot weather. The past week's returns from the
various police divisions give the following particular. :
j Dorchester, 20 head of cattle, 40 sheep; Cerne Abbas, 0110aheep, 10 cattle, 10 anioe ; Britiport, 18 cattle, 36 swine
Wareham, 76 cattle, 250 sheep ; Wimborne, 120 cattle. 1,400
sheep, 22 swine ; Sturrninster, 62 cattle, 11 sheep; Blandford,
24 cattle, two swine Shaftesbury, 47 cattle.
• A telegraphic message of twenty words can be sent
to Queensland, in Australia, for £lO, and it will 13e for-
i warded to Port Darwin by cable, and thence to its destnia-
tion by horse express and telegraph. The whole disteuce
. which such a message will travel will be some 14,000 miles,
and it will reach its destination in about thirty hours. It
will go from London to the Lakin End on land wires, will
enter the ma and reappear at Alexandria, pass over F,gypt,
re-enter the sea at Sue., and again appear at Port Darwin,
General Troehn, according to a Paris telegram, has
addressed a farewell letter to his constitueuts, which coca.
, eludes as follows :—" Worn out by events, I have neither the
ability nor the health to continue the struggle. I entertain
, the hop hat new men, inspired by the necessities of the
hour, will be more fortunate, and will secure the triumph of
sound principles." All the reports coming from Morbillan
. assert that General Truellu will be re- elected, in spite of his
resignation.
The Earl of Shaftesbury writes to say that the final
statement of the nundier of signatures appended to his de-
claration on the subject if the Athariaslan Creed shows that
the y have wow re ached 7,135, inclusive of 53 Peers and 150
members of the House of Mannmes. Dr. Lushiugton hap
sent in his neme to be added. His lordship remarks that
"one Crime has become manifest from the late movement—
hot the great hulk of the laity are determined henceforward
to take the refmna of matters smclesiaretical into their own
hands."
On Monday Mr. Bruce received a deputation on the
subject of the Licensing Bill, who pointed out the Incon-
venience to working men of the proposed hours for closing
publichousen, and proposed a uunorm closing at miduiglet
throughout the country. Mr. Bruce deprecated the Idea that
the later closing of houses in London had in it anything of as
class di/dim:hon. Later hours were kept in London Mau its
the country, and his experimme haul elm. n him that the in-
crease of eirunkennesa was very much ala proportion. to the
lateness of the homena being kept opeu.
An inquest hoe been held has Loudon on the body of
• French lady who died auddenly from heart disediee, snot
which was the means of calinuir fourth en expreniou of
ovule'ni entire subject of coroners' j.les. Dr. Petitjehin of
New York and r..ra,, who was at. rug at the restaurant
where the lady died, gave evidence that he had been one of
the coroners for New York trueing twenty years, and that
the conmer's Jury was there composed of six gentlemen, a
number which was fiend toy experience to answer very well.
Dr. Lankester thought the plao sorthy of imitation, though
still holding that, in serious eases, the coroner should have
power to summon stall jury of twelve.
The following is an extract from a letter addressed
by Mr. .1. a. 31011 to the homerary Secretary of the Jameica
Committee The proponl to indemnify Mr. Eyre, on the
ridiculous plea of being bound by a promise given by a Tory
Government—aa if the promise of a Slibister to make a pro-
posal to Parliament could biud his political opponents—is
altogether the most inexcusable Hong which the present
Government has dune. Nu protect agaimt it can be too me- ,
phone, sad roe resistance too strenuous I hope it may be I
possible to concert me:games f r such an opposition in the
House as may deter the Govenonent from pine:ceding.—
Yours very truly, J. 'S. MILL"
The Dublin Mail has published the following threat-
ening letter, which has been sent to Sir Arthur Guinnew
" We are advised to inform you that an Orange whelp like
you insulted our clergy and pm-pie Newspaper last week, as
if anybody cared about your or the infernal Exhibition; and
unlen you mend apology to Freeman's Jo finial and likewise
give a handsome subscription to Captain Nolan's fund before
a week your life is not worth a month's purchase, for we will
send you a ballet as well a. that scoundrel Keough. as Ise
have a person hired to shoot you and him, and no mistake.
So take warning in tame."
Last week the mortality in London and 20 other
large Loan of the Voised E modem was at the rate of Cl
deaths annually to every 1,060 persons estimated to be
having
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which 3 were certified as typhus, 1 as enteric or typhoid,
and 6 as simple continued fever', and Cl trom diantoca.
Demme. of the respiratory organs, including phthiria, caused
295 deaths. With resume to the temperature, it uppers
that on Monday, the Isl iustant the mean WU GO 5 degs,
awl slightly below the average, while an excess prevailed on
each of the other days; on Friday the mean was 70.8 dega,
and al Legs. sinews the liVtrage. The thermometer in the
sun, with a blackened bulb in vacua, Teas ebove 150 dogs, on
folti OM of tiO noon, and on iliday to 16nd dep.

" A, croquet tournament " half been held at Wimble-
don thle ova,

120,000 square feet of land on the Holborn Viaduct
hve been let upon a building lease for £1.5,000 per annum.
A tax domestic servants is to be introduced litto
France. Foreign servants to pay double.
The clerks in the railway clearing house have re-
lioirtot to petition the committee for a general revition of
salaries allt.salintrt the office.
It is announced that the Marquis of Lorne is about
to take part in the poptlitt religious services at the Agrlcul-
uralt Hall, London.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
" Cororlence Money" the receipt of the second halves of £2O
I and KW notes from " W. W." for Income-tax.
On the part of the bakers a strike is generally die.
countenanced 65 premature, if not uncalled-for; hut a
demonstration of the whole metropolitan trade is contem-
plated.
The marriege of Lord Auckland to Lady Mabel
Finch Hatton, Second daughter of the Earl of Wincheisea
an I Nottingham, was snietr.ntsed last Saturday at the church
of St. Margaret, Weetmln.ster.
Oppreasite as the heat has been in Europe during
the past week, it has been still more severely felt in America.
The deaths in New York have, within that period, been more
than three times the average number.
jiyhope Colliery, near Sunderland, one of the most
extensive pits in the north, has Just been laid idle by a
etrfto! the miners tor an advance of 15 per cent. and a re-
duction in the hours of the boys to nine per shift.
Great minds stoop to, small things. It is, it appears,
s matter of moment to irsift•At to change the name of the
" Avenue of the King of Rome '' into the "Avenue Thieve,"
and it will he done accordingly.
"The 26th,--I strive in vain! I cannot leave Eng-
land withoot seeing you. I must winter in Egypt, if I live
till then. I can come round to any part of the coast. Tele.
graph to club by the ma."—Advertinement in The Times.
The list of subscribers to the National Society for
Woman's Suffrage Fund includes "A well-robbed, a well-
crushee, and effectually suppressed wile," and "A mite from
a White Slave."
A duel with swords was fought near Paris last
Sunday, between M. Tirard, deputy for the Department
the Sable, and M. Francis Aubert, an editor of the Gaulow.
Both were slightly wounded.
At Liverpool a coroner'. jury have returned a verdict
that an infant one month old dicta by misadventure from the
administration of an overdose of paregoric, which was given
it on the adVice of a midwife.
Yielding probably to the Free-trade sentiments of
the Right and Right Centre of the Assembly, the French
();,!17,1ileilt has given up the Idea of taxing raw material,
substftuting for it an additional impost upon trade licences.
'l'he Loon t Times of the 29th ult. gays :—A Mr.
Kiriskopoulo was captured some data ago in Greece by bet-
gands and cruelly murdered. This makes one murder and
too captures within the space of a mouth. When will tN•
Government adopt effectual meantime for the suppression of
brigandage? _ . . • • • •

An infant in London, has been severely bitten liv
two white rate, which the parents kept in a cage. During
the absence of the child's mother the rats escaped from the
cage, and injured the Infant so seriously that the doctor do-
claret it to be in a very precarious condition. „
The King of Sweden has just conferred the Grand
Cons of the Order of the Sword on General &Malik, who
cm:emended the troops at St. Germain. Hitherto Marshal
Maerughen was the only officer in the French army who held
that dignity,
The Secretary of the Eetate Exchange, in London.
reperts the total amount of property registered as sold by
public anetion'and private contract for the half-year ending
the 30th June at £3,775,080, as compared with £1,903,060 noel
during the same pe led in 1871.
It is the intention of the Due d'Aumale to transfer
In Chantilly the collection of his pictures now at Twicken-
ham, uhtch he has formed during the last twenty years at $
cost of £100,099. The public is to be admitted every Sunday
to see these works of art when they are installed.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales never
lookedbetter than at the laal. State Ball, and her dram was
one that caused general admiration. It was composed 14 the
new shade, called "bleu Aurore,' and was most artistically
trimmed with flowers of various hues.
Surrey Chapel (London) has secured its new site,
and religious sec-sires were held thereupon last Sunday, the
Rev. Newman IIeU stating that various creeds had con•
tributed to the sum reqeired the Duchess of Argyll, Lord
Shaftesbury, and the Marquis of Westminster being among
the eats-scribers.
On Tuesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury pre
aided at a Meeting held at Lambeth Palace in connection
, with the Irish Church Suitentation Fund. A report was
read, BiloWing that use representative body in Ireland had
received £5,2,077, and that an additional £37,265 was pro-
mised. A resolution mai passed, declsring that the veer-
them now Teeing made by the Church in Ireland entitled it to
the sympathy and support of the people of England, mad the
meeting pledged itself to support these efforts.
A son of the Rev. Sir Cnristopher Leighton, Bart.,
of Ellaston llaU. Derbyshire, died early on daturday
log from the effects el a blow from a cricket ball, struck by
'sue of his fellow-pupils at Rept is Hall School the previous
afterreee. An inquest was held on Saturday, when the jury
returned e verdict of" Accidental death."
A very hate:Mow illumined vellum has been pre-,
seated to Mr. WilliaM fforster, of Dover, by the Council of
the National Society for the AM to the Sick and Wounded in
War, in recognition of the eerier, lie rendered at Dover and
other ports in the speedy transmiesion of stores to the two
armies; e tuck of no small difficulty at a time when traffic was
so Impeded and various communications cut cif.
On Saturday a young seamen, named Ford, belong-
ing to the largeship Engterrt Empire, of Liverpool, and lying
in Palmer's graving dock at Jarrow, near South Shields, acci-
dentally fell demi the hatchway of the vessel, a distance of
30 feet, and struck upon his head. 110 received such seriona
injuries that he died almost immediately alter the accident.
lie:vaned was le years of age.
Colonel Yolland, one of the inspecting officers of the
Board of Trade, has lately made an inquiry into the circum-
stances which attended the collision at Willesden on the
21st nit, when 40 returns were injured. Colonel Yoliand
says the accident was due to mistakes on the part of the
driver of the passenger train and the signalman in No. 4
hex at the Willesden station.
The Liverpool coroner hehl itypiessts on Monday in
several cases of death from excessive drinking of the
usual painful descriptions. In One case, that of • woman, the
jury: in returning a verdict of "Died from excessive drink-
ing, ' presented that "the evidence shows an amount of
depravity and misconduct which it ie shocking to think of,
end reflects the greatest discredit upon time wretched
drunkards concerned."
" Chight Corporeal Punishment to be admitted to
the Disciplinary Code of a l'enitentiary System 7" Such was
the question propounded at the sitting of the Prison Con -
gress the other clay by the delegate Irons Belgium, Mr.
Stevens, a gentleman of large experience in penal economies
it was in the negative that the speeker enswered the query
submitted to discussion. lie asserted unreservedly that the
Infliction el any kind of bodily chastisement tended only to
the brutalisation of prisoners, and, as a rule, tailed to amend
them. An might be expected, Mr. Stevens's positions were
combatesi by the English prison disciplinarian. present.
Captain Du Cane conteediug that all experience from the be-
ginning of the world showed corporeal punishment to be
necessary—a postulate which was met with an emphatic" no"
from s lady in the audience.
On Saturday evening the women employee! to a great
extent in held labour met in different parts oi the county it
Durham, and decided to keep out of the hay and corn har-
vest unlem the demands, as referred to by a speaker at a
'ergo meeting at lieiahingten, were acceded to. Their com-
plaint was that they get but Is. a day for their work, and
men did but little more Ists..l. All they now asked fur wa.s
Is. 3d, a day, except at harvest, when they wanted 25. ed. a
day, with bread and beer twice a day; to leave off at four on
Saturdsys, except harvest time; all over-time after iGm
o'clock to be paid for. If the masters would not accede to
this all the women would strike, and were determined not
to assist in the forthcoming harvest.