The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 186S'

The bowie' the I lerlin police is now in l'aria, brring •
affived thank it It 111;111,24,10d. to t udy thU workitlg of the
police systems ln that capital.- 'this Prn•sinif functionary haa
already had several interi icws with NI. Pletri.
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Government tin not man to to persist in their obnoxious
parcels clause in the Itailwa)s Iteatilatbm Bill he Duke
of Richmond is a shrewd num of business. -Ile found oat
where the shoe pinched, and Inn eased it.
A national calamity has taken place. in .ove of the
French provinoes. A girl lota I wen born w ith two tongues
Are th, French going to rear feinalcs thus gifted t
'rhe stonemasons at Birmingham are out on strike.
It is ttal that Baron Rothschild will tolvanee the
Italian Goveniment let) millions of francs to help them rut
of their difficulties.

The .2l't ic lurk Tribreaf tia,ta not thiak that Cram'
(rut o ill salk over the eomoo to the next presidential rot,.
te,t. It especially tears the iZoman Catholic vote. me,
are over one mar voters belonging to that Church. alai
the Tri&une thinks limit mill be Ineky if he gets 50,ev0 01
them.

The Counniasion on the French Ihhlget has tat its
face antaiint any increase of salaries to the servants on the
state. haotteutif. for general, of diViill‘.ll. Itsatoeof for
the telepraph nalleiats, aunt :'.000.000t for the profes,ors are
si r Ito k iii of the e incl. en. I'l t.,arnl to the military votes,
it hina been resolveil. it in teiinh to On the total at 1n.000,0141,
hut the ditflctity is that already the monvy inked tor has
heel] Al.ent
Mr. John :Mellor, nu artiunare of Derby, states
that Inc has iliseovereh the 'lanainn, et king Alfrea at Ilyde
Abbey, Wilicheoter.

Th.:, Levi.. Mg retiTO reports that Mr. Carmichael, the
painter, dkal very sitiblenV at his residence at Scartiorough
4pit Saturday morning. Ile had been out on
1,,. return was wizisl with it tit, which resulted in his death
in a few minutet lie was sixty-eight years ot age.
secotal anniversary of the ('ear',. twalie from
the pistol of Karakozelf mai celebrated on the Nth with
great pomp. There was It ovoid processi.at through the
streets of sit Petersburgh, ntol a •• 're Ileum at the Kazan
Cathedral. The Czar will probab y iso to Kissingen thu kg
the summer. The Princess 'honer has liven in delicate
lisaltit during the winter, WO has had hi maintain a re-
cutehout 1...W0n. she Is now bolter, and drive* out,
followed 1.3, a stalwart l'ibssack footman.

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A "'private and confidential " circular has heon ad-
dresAed ny the honorary aocretary of the I rated Pretestaut
Is!ictiee Co iiiiii litre to the clergy of the English church. utak
are reiinered to look upon the crisis in religion, ratlnr
than a political light, and to'• resist by an to, in heir
ism, the sttenipt to destroy the established dolt& in Ire.
land, the hot step ton ardg isholishint! the connexion
between elairell and state in Itrtat

"One thing is clear - that n ninn luny weak very
Well in the House of Commons mot fail very completely in
the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite
I intend, In the course of my career. if I have time, to tare
of both. In the Lower untie,, Don Juan' may
perlmpe hollltr model ; in the Upper 110114 V, Paradim
lsivt.'"—The ruling Duke, itook V. chap. 6.
lieu Majesty ham just grantml ten pionols to two poor
coroish e.soen to enable them to join their 11.111111,1$ In
NOVA Scotia.

An ,wder for the rcleafte of Dominick Olifahony has
been received fit Odic. 'the prisoner Ivan tried in conjunction
will. General Condon at tin Irk special hl
atnul Re4lLLit tea, ILA had 'dove heel. l'Olithled lii the county
gaol. undor the liabeivi Corpus itutpeusion Act. The pri,oner
%MS the sniop...al Lead-centre of Cork district.
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The Empress Eugenie luw annoutitxxl her illtetitjup
of seluting the mini of fifty fumes to each child lawn of for
paienta on the tali Mandl, IsiZ, and eonsequently her god.
flio won in question to he hive,' to the child 141 Jai
tilling the first es tttttt undo. tier Ilajsady had previously
placed 9.4cif. In saving.' banks to the aissottit id verb I 1,114
born on the aanie day US the Itikcu iwleilal. 1W Wee patent.
required .31stanee.

77v Mc/no:l.s of Filteltr, the cannan &weer at the
All bra Palace, have beet' published Her ofmte fe.ite
RI 1,,k appetu, In the shop al:Mows iu onapauy u Ith tbe mod
di .tingulshml M F es nail metubets of the itefortu League

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Mr. Ciituica Smeaton, a young Canadian artist-, who
for two 1ie11311.11 had been assisting Mr. Parker. the %ell-
k now n at. bin& %ISt. to 1.11.40011141 the elittleolll6l at
fell a victim to March lest to the Roman fryer. Mr.
ninenton'a photograph:e discoveries were 11111.11 101 to make
him both mils:clot anti envied by the profession in keine,
and his sketches and puintimo, though few Itt 11111111,tr. VliSe
p1.0111i30 Of Inure than ordinary talent iii tie; higher Lllllloles
of art.

The sale tithe Quinn hounds and horses took place
on f.aturday afternoon nt the Old Kennels at (Muni& al. suit
never wa, such a number if monsters of bounds, huntsmen,
and whips seen there sine, Lord Stamford's hunters were
disposed 44 on his retirement from the same country Tine°
%latch realised the bialiest priers were brought froni the
kennels if Ilr. Drake, the Old Quoin, nail the South Willi
They sold is all fir the slim .4 I Ttle golimins The totll
annelid realised ny horses and lonliadd reached 4,158 guineas
The following racy and ontentially French paragraph
haa appe4reil in the Paris papers :--liesterday a young nuts
aunt mm lady took supper at it faahionable reataiirant on the
boulevards. In the course of the evening the young Mall
a lunite hat, lii. lanolin, lie an% carried home. Tho
blond an Ideh be lost proillueisl soatuutary 1111preinlon Union Mini,
and inc now eXpre,nied a firm intention to en on a Itin !

An extraordinary /dory conies from Ruahon. By
the fall of the Rule of a shaft at the Afoneitha colliery
Thursday. April 23, a num al a boy were iMpliSolloll. Efforts
were at once made to reach them, and Op.' Were tviginued
with renewed rigour tn, days lifters aria, alien knorking
indicated that the priSollerS rite stilt alit, 1 hey Cowe hot
got out of the pit until Friday morninn, the tat of slay
They say that during the eight days it their haps isonnant
they had little else than water, and that 6luring the greater
portion of the time they were in darkness, their lights haring
gins out.

A conference of lecturers, with a view of organising
a Lecturers' Association, and to discuss other matters of
interest to the profession generally, as held 011 Monday
afternoon, at ilosell'a Hotel, Strand, London. Mr. Joseph
Simpson, of Newport Pagitell, was voted to the chair, :Ind
submitted a series of resolutions to the ti,eting, which were
passed, and the .V.A.,ciatilln t.nned
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" A rorrespasient in Newtowidimarittly writes :--
• I am int•missl that Or. Watson. who aseistaNl in extracting
the bullet from the Duke of FAlioloirgh. is son ot the lAir Mr.
.10101 Watson, Keetoll, near I'.tle-rock, in this c,ntv. Mr.
Jun Walton was a martyr to tenant-right, anti Altieslirrild
Ny1111401), WAS ilium-tattled for I ill consequence.' '
—Northern Whig.

A petition againift, a separate charter to the Heinian
Catholic university has heen adopted hy the synod of Deily,
the ground that it would tim.l to perpetuate eNntilig
111.11nnti.l. and lit even he a tenimirary settlement of the
11110Ftioll Ot Irish university education • whilst it nonlid lea
the students of !faxen rollexe suili iiiiititutions
without the 111.1 s of obtaining degrees in their own country
at a Moiletate expense.

"The aothoritiee have (mind a moan who sari he Raw
the allot fired that killed IYArey McGee,. lie has not yet seen
what., hut feels collflilent that he eon Identify I
York Tribunr, April 23.

Captain Horatio ROM ha n ruhlrenned a letter to the
riflemen I d Scotland, intimating that he prop”sex having a
competition for aohnnishin into the Scoltitili Eight, at In ine,
on the .I.lnl June.

The Australian papers report A sad calamity in the
bush. John Cameron and his site and little girl lived in the
hush 1.11 the l'lpper Darling. They had suffered much from
di...light. The husband aent In seartli it n air, and when
he returned he fOUnd that WS wife had la•enine insane, and
had W:11Iderell hit" the hush. The litel.4 body at his child
sat in the deserted tent

We lean, from the Itegistrar-Cenerars returns that
1,, the week that ended on haturday Mat 4,758 births mid
2,075 deaths were registered in London and In thirteen caller
lame towns f the I ' Sited K ing,h MI. Ti,,' animal rate 4,1
Wily was 21 per 1,150 persons living. The animal rate of
mortality Wit week was 2.3 per 1,000 in bindon, 29 in Edin-
burgh, and 24 in Dublin ; 23 in Bristol, lii in Birmingham,
21 in Liverpool, 26 in Manchester, 30 in Salford, 21 in
Shenield, 25 in Bradford, 2$ In, Lents, 10 In Hull, 9515 New-
castle-on-Tyne, am! 30 in lilasgow.

dames Cox, a gunner, selsonging to the 6th brigade
of tlw Royal Artillery, has bias is salt his brains by discharging
a loaded Varblem In ids month Ile st as ,often in ontitiemestt,
owing to (us abitellee it t 011.., roll, aunt this perleivi at...4naas
for the is ritten statement that Ise left that he was. .....habit "
Cox, more mindful of filial than military slaty, left lisjuise
tiOIIS to right "to Isis Mot this partirlattrt tot tie
• trage.dy;

"Jtjs altogether too absurd to say that 'Mania not
perfect. Who is there that has tint met with many who
were perfect strangers*, and tionle Who Were perfect rascals,
and not a few who were perfect foola?" A merican Payer
An additional twopence of income tax Was imp,,sed
en Monday evening by a vote of the lion.. 4d I'o 11111 l
An Irishman attending the University of Edinburgh
waited upon a teacher of the t:ennan flute, deeiriug to know
on what term. he would give him a few blessis The flute.
player replied that lie charged two guineas for the first
month, and 4,00 guinea for the second. Thee 11l hcaill
Willi the second," said the Hibernian.
An extraordinary activity, says the NOM?, hue for
amine time been witnessed at the Mint at Emmet% and In a
short time the Colon, Id the 32 million,.4,f flaws which had
Igen ordered last ear will be ter 11l ill ated. large quantities
cif gold !deers of 2of and silver of sf. have recently teen
stria k, fealties %Wit Milliner. of 10e. in bronze
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John Carter, a carter of Itolton-le-.Moors, has been
charged at clitheroe with attempting to tin ow pa,sengerai
out of the train OH Sunday 'tight, while the train was in -
thin. Ile had got In at Whelley, drunk, and the pantangers
wets heard to cry ont " Murder " The Minim'r said lte
not intend to hurt anybody in the cart iage, but only to kill
himself Ile was tined Xon, anti imata, or fourteen dn.?
Imprisonment .—A pleasant travelling companion, truly !
At a meeting of members of the Working Men's
• Ameociation held on Tuesday Hight, In London, tinder the
presidency of Mr. Georms Potter, resolutions were passed
condemnatory of the encionstitotional conduct of Mr
Disraeli in bottling office in face of a large adverse vote of
the Ilouse of C0M111.1.1, HMI pledging those resent to take
Immediate steps forholding an open-air meeting of working
roen'to consider the conduct of the Government
Mr. Home (the spiritualist) in a letter which lie has
forwarded to several of the papers, complaine that notwith-
standing the exceeding fairness of the reports iif the suit
" Lyon it, lime," 'heir two of the inuldin•j hals persist
itt "Wilfully ignoring the principal facts." " The Seim/day
Review," he writes, "referring to me, 'aye: • Ile thee not
deny that through ids histrunteittality er niedi ~,,, ship the
spirit ..f the deeeased Lyon ilid commend his adoption to
Mrs. Lyon, and dint euggent the will and tin,' gift of xcio,ooo.'
I not only in deny every part of It, but have ever Male so,
and it wan to stated at tin,, hearing. Arnim the Saturday
Review says 'lle admits that., a previous occasion he got,
through the assistance of the spirits, an annuity of lato.`
admit nothing of tine tel ; but declare it to be untrue,'"
The Dublin Nalion stolen the character of a prison
Interview of two gentlerneu Ot ttOtlittOtt, "snout aslPPurtfl's
it the preecht Ministry," with Mr. Shaheen, ite editor, when
iteertunw were made to hint—us ho emaddaeg tin thou it
the Govemment--offering him hit rcleane "on condition that
his journal should in future lit, e Meted In a noire
moderate tone," H 8 Ile interpreted the emerminiention, that
" he should give his penile of honour Hit to manage Iris
paper as not to displeane the Government." 'lisle offer ho
" indignantly rejected." The Notion adds, "It le difficult to
write with ettlinnews on such a eubject. The Govemment
that eiindo,entle to haggle with a prisoner when is In their
power can have a very inadequate ides id the dignity which
quilt to belong, HMI the responsibility Mittel. 410. itelollg, to
those who bear the mord of justice."
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On Saturday four bodies were recovered (rota the
mine at the Oaks Colliery w here the fearful explosion tool:
plan:n-111,mA sixteen months ago. The explorer. have been at
work near hiJones.lemiy, annum Satunlay morning they found
four bodies lylngaltogether. From the boots whim% they wore
at is tl ght that they ate four of tine noble hand of volunteers
who a eat &nen the pit on the morning of the lath of hie -am .
laT to recover the des& They wen, to lime all fallen to
;tether, and were lying on then- leeks and sides. One of
them had his arm across his forehand, as If to protect him-
self from the fearful explosion. 'thin bodies lay about two
hundred yards from the pit bottom Their friend. may
possibly identify them by their clothing, but recognition of
their features would lie impossible,
Paris is now full of conscrittts, the ballot in the city
having taken place. On anima at twenty years of age
every Enneliman has to take Ids chance to liccorne a aoldier.
If he be drawn be is wild to have obtained A .• leo! number,"
and Immediately displayx the number in his cap, surrounded
with a coloured illustrat of how a private can ear. 7 a
Mar-.let's baton in his knapsack. Soluetinitsi he may di.play
a knot of red, white, and blue ribbon streamers. km three
day. the Vrinch lidopt this time measurement for many
Daum every one giving him Ids may.
An attempt to defend two ladies from insult ended
fatuity at Edinburgh last Week. While two young Hien were
taking shelter from the min under the porch of the Ledford
Hotel, one of them, named Kerr, used insulting language to
two lad les who were oh-sit lrene, Needle, Ills con pamon, repri-
Mantled hint for hit conduct, Awl during an altercation which
ensued Kerr struck Tweedie a Wow on the face. Tweedie
did not retaliate at the time, but he followed Ken- along
Princes-street, mid when opposite Waverley bridge, attacked
him And felled Mtn to the ground, lien'a head came In, con-
tact with the kerbatone, and his skull was fractured. Ile was
aide to walk home, but he afterward!' &Mk rapidly, said
died the Mowing Wight