The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

y. n 17. 1549.

dvatla of tla ~o.een of :,..,tlagsearluta been

ann .ced.
'le Supreme King of Siam has conferred upon Sir
herring the • .:signia of the te Elephant.
The En:press liar ten a prize of 2,000
francs to In run for at al Foutair.e:dean race,
Jem Ward, the pugilist and painter, has just left
' Olsson:, .y for Amenea.
Jeaune Marie Heauchel has just died at the ripe old
age or eighty-eight. She entered the French army as eail.
t iniere in the year IX, served wills the i;funde Aroma, and
rio yrsvent at Lylau, Friedland, and Wagram.
Letters from Homburg state that visitors have
already arrived in that neat delhilitfol of German Watering-
dae, a and rouge-et-r dr The thes,res amid the concerts this
year are to be organised on a mots extensive scale than herr

totem.
At a performance of Ernani in New York, lately,
rancam killed himself apropriately in the last act, but the
curtain would not co e down, and the dead man wasobliged
to tet up and walk off, amid the applause of the audience.
The Drove,. of Genoa publishes the following letter
Iron, General Garibaldi :--•• Dear Rovagyi,—l hope to go to
Rome with von, but I fear It wili be late, if we ...linnet shut
up the priests' shops in the re.d. of Rub.-
The widow of an Arklow !Slot has obtained a verdict
in the Dublin tNiiirt of Common Ple.,s for i:115 danmees
hosing the owners -1 a vessel niceed 1:0, .4 a ree, lee the he,
hel hodenels life. A rope liad been thrown to the hat
in which he arrived, but iron, the ne•heence of those on
board the vessel the boat wan o‘ertin tied, Mel he was
da,wned.
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An old man named 'I orey, living in Ilirming,ham,
committed suicide he other day by cutting his throat ills
appcamd to the yen:Weans to be inn meat poventy, but on
the premises being ,earchel 61. inn deposit receipts,
some shares, and other property it ere mond
The Comptroller of her Majesty's Household has
X 904 a year. Tins odd four pounds has a history. 'the
17oinpnroller has an ancient right to the lett sting of the fowl
—or the left wings”! the fowls--on her Majesty's table; but
many years ago this curious right was commuted for £4 a
year.
" In reply to the compliment, ' I'd give a world for
her fingers,' paid by a gentleman in the hearing of a brilliant
lady pianist, of Great Barrington, Massaelitvetts, she re-
torted, 'You may have the whole hand nor your CArn.'—
American Paper.
Certain idiots, who appear to have nothing better to
' do than to spend their time in iittec,pting to hoar the press,
have anceeeiled inn palming off tI4 following marriage an-
nouncement upon the Court Jouvarat :—'• Marriage inn high
life —tlr. l'eter itorthwick, of the 'nth Highlanders, is alt not
to lead to the hymeneal altar the charming Countess
Caskovisky."
A man named Roure has been executed by the ga-
mite at Madrid, for the murder of a gaoler at the prison of
Melilla. Before ascending the scaffold be admitted that he
had previously taken the lives of six other persons.
An American writer in Tinsley? Magazine, com-
menting upon the eccentricities .1 the English press, says
that earn,! the leading Londoo journala .• kindly maintains a
correspondent in Paris, apparently for the sole object of
enalnling the other London papers to make fun of htin.”.

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The trustee. of William and Mary College, Virginia,
received from England, a few- weeks since, a remittance of
n,Ooodollars, the accumulated proceeds of a legacy lea for the
College in 1742, by an English lady of the name of Margaret
Whaley. be original legacy was £5O sterling, to be applitd
by the ceecutors t the Whaley estate to William and Mary
Coll cc, and has been hitherto unknown or foigotten, until
accidentally discovered by a lawyer in searching over some

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old papers.
Ismail Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt, who is now at
constantioople, is coming to Paris, before he return. to Cairo.
A chalet hashedn taken for him between Eughien and Mont-
morency, and it is soul that he wishes to try the Enghlen nut-
phureous waters for a chronic sore throat from which he
suffers.
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The Duchess de Morny, who was married to her
Spanish husband as Duke de Segel, is now in Paris with bins.
But, taking the choice of a very long list of hereditary titles,
they intend to be called in future the Duke and Duchess
d'Allimmerque.
There is in Paris a ,ery old and very exclusive club,
founded In 1822, under the title of the Tw nty Club. There
are but twenty membeis, who dine together on the Oath of
every month.
Mr. Batchelor, late page to her Majesty, expired at
his residence at St. Albans-street, Windsor, on Wednesday in
last week, in the eighty.third year of his age. The deceased
gentleman was well known by a large circle of ft lends and
inhabitants of Windsor. Mr. Batchelor entered the Royal
household in the reign of George 111., and was page of the
backstairs to George IV., William IV., and her piesent Ma-
jesty Ile retired from the service on a pension in 1861.
lier Majesty, during Mr. Batchelor's illness, sent from Bal-
moral repeated inquiries after Me health, and called to sea
hhn on the day of her return front Scotland.
The The Din, procession was nearly leading to a
serious riot in Venice. A large number of persons refused
to uncover as the Host was carried past, whereupon the
more reverent spectators fell mum the others. and for some
time there was a free tight, in the midst of which the women
and children fled away.
Lord Vaux, of Harrowden, an officer of the Prince
of Wales's stall, has been cast in £75 damages for assaulting
a Dublin carman who, refused to take a sixpenny fare.
A local Italian journal informs its readers that 'Sir
bright" has lately presided at an anti-English meeting at
Liverpool.
l'rince Napoleon has charged an Austrian officer to
purchase a splendid necklace of peach for him, valued at
200,00., florins £20,000. !
A New Orleans paper says :—" A woman is like
the sugar we sometimes get—a combination of se eetne-s
and grit and there is now and then too much of the latter.'
The Crown Prince of Belgium is still very ill, and it
Is feared that he may not grow up to loan's estate. There is
mei,ijo in Koine circles about his sister being titan ried to the
Prince Imperial of France. the ages of this mature pair
are twelve and ten respectively. Prince Leopold is tee pnly
son.
" We regret to see that the practice of placarding the
walls with the announcements of forthcoming sensational
sermons on topics of the day, is on the increase in South
London. One struggling cause this week seeks to attract a
ceegregation by copying Madame Rachel's advertisement
' ta•autif al f r ever "—South 1.01141011 Press.
In his recently-published work upon "Saints and
Sinners," Dr. Doran states that "at the present time cricket
Is the only game which can lawfully lie played in Blighted on a
Sund ,y." Either lir. Duran or the Leominster magistrates
naht be in error, for the latter have just tined tour boys a
Mailing each and caste, with the alternative of seven days'
imprisomutnt, for playing at cricket on Sunday week.
A new sovereign is about to visit Paris. The Queen
of Nlohilla has arrived at Suez, on board the Mayrlower, on
her way to Polio. Mobilla in one of the ConMra group,
situated at the southern entrance of the Mozambique
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Channel.

The Corporation of London did a grand thing last
Friday et-hell they handed cheques for £200,000 to the repro.
sentatives of the proprietors of Southwark bridge, which is
now free to the public for ever.
Curran, while at college, was called before the Board
for weal big a dirty shirt. "I pleaded," said he, •' inability
to wear a clean one ; and I told their reverences the story of
poor Lord Avenniore, at that time Barry Telverton. ' I
s.
Winy why eleven?'
that s
tile
preceileiit lily idoasa
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Poor Itorry," a,1,1e,i Core-all, :rh'itsa:aadli 'eeb' !la:tt oughtheoees:lto‘i:ah: Vie 'a}:
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I A crusade against Court dress seems setting in
among contemporary writers. The practical point to it,! on-
tattered is—if the present fashion lie abandoned what Is by lye
the nature of the change 0 and it it stimiested that the
uniform of the Diplomatic or ordinary Civil Service might
be taken as a basis, and, without any invasion of official;
rights, a costume assigned for the use of private persons.
The New York Tonies says that it has rectAved a
telegram to the effect that the Bishop of London has taken
upon himself to order that the President of die United
States shall in future he prayed for in all Enelish churches,
along wi Ii the Queen and Parliament. o This," seys lle
New York Times, "is 'a touch of nature ' which will have
a great effect:"
Archbishop Manning has just consecrated a new
Roman Catholic Chinch at Barton-on-Irwell, in Lancashire.
The church has been erected from the designs of Mr. Welby
Pugin, at the sole expense of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, of
Trafford-park, and, with the Presbytery, cost £lO,OOO.
The Town Clerk of Leeds has written to the 'Home
Secretary, sugge ting an amendmeht oil the Registration
Bill, by the effect that the timelier of totes permitted to lie
polled moor booth he raised from 300 to Mk, instead of to
only 0.00 us at present proposed. Ills shown that in conse-
quence of the great increase of the constituem body in Leeds
under the new Reform Act, about 70 booths would he re-
quired in that borough if i.OO votes only be polled ill each.
"The movement in favour of a testimonial to Mr.
Vial, the Sydney coachinaker, who seized °Tureen and
turned asi•le his arm, •:•• that the second shot diii net g's near
the Prince, has niSinnefi a tangible form. Upwards of nsiio
has been suliseribed."—MeiSouine Age.
Dr. Cumming. it is said, concludes from his
readings and calculations that the Abyssinian war was
foretold!
A London contemporary, spealdng of the recent
out-of-door fashionable gatherings, gives the folloaing
Leighton-like picture of the lady of the period Ike
beautiful summer weather had tempted the ladies to throw
aside everything in the shape of shawl or mantle, or bog
sleeves of any tissue thicker than the airiest gauze."
Tne health of Mehemet Ali-Pacha, broth r-in-low of
the Sultan, causes great uneasiness, Twenty debts have
consulted together, and state that the disease is increasing.
Hercules himself could not have steal againd twenty
doctiws, and Mehemet Ali may shortly flint himself amongst
the charming hourts of Paradise.
Amongst tits attractions of the recent Hortioultural
Fete were some monster strawberries, said to have been
" raised "at Barking, rei land slice worse than ban-en, hut
now, thanks to • endue sewage, a garden of sweet-smelling
Ilimers and tasty fruits.
Woman is asserting her rights in France as well an
in this country. The ladies have appeared on the French
Bourse ill great nunthers, and buy and sell stock still,,,
vigour an•l earnestness completely unknown to the *se
favoured sex.
The rapid extension of the Union Pacific, Railroad
hqs directed Public attention to the great outlying regimit
variously known as the Plains, or the gnat Arum icon Desert ••
and the Desert is declared to be no desert at all, and the
Plains are an undulating, rolling country, belted with
timber, laced with streams, sant rich in beds id ore and
mineral deposit.
A curious scone is reported by an eye-witness
to have taken place the other evening at the Tuileries
Bartle., during the performance of the Imml. A young
girl, who, it appeal., is well known at Mabille, appeared in
a dress, bonnet, shoes, gloves, and parasol I.f a brilliant
shade of green. A crowd paltered round her, and literally
persued her beyond the gardens into the street. Sho appa-
rently wished to escape by the Rue Castiglione, bus she was
compelled by her persecutors to go down the Rue de Riven
as f•r no the Louvre. 'The story sounds incredible, but es
nevertheless true. The crowd at one moment was so great
t at the °nimbuses could not circulate-
The North Ertstern Correspondence tells the following
singelar st••ry .—" Last 'lltursday week a sum of 2,0 5 purses..
1b01,5ie050 piastres arrived at Constantinople from Bagdad.
At soon as the ship which brought the money had entered
• the harbour, the Minister of Finance sect sortie porters to
the landing-place to take the Mines to the Treasury. dust
,so they 'sere Wend nil board, henever, a detachnient ei
soldiers male its Lopearance, pushed the porters mule, •••,'
• taking po•Sefelien "f •he mohey, marched off with it hy tP
. War .iftloe. The surprise it the Minister of Pittance Ott'
unespected manoeuvre may easily lye iniaoned."
, Two Englishmen, ones tailor arid the other a grocer
I have just lieen tried at Orleans, for picking
pockets 11:ere
• dining the late visit of the limperor. Each 11l the inisonera
, had been previoneh; condemned in Fiance for the same
• offence to two- yeeer nynenenlinent, end had subsequently
r been ll"lldested by gen•lareies or, board a steamer at Dieppe
ra., present charges were oisierly proved, and Inc w.a now
sentenced t•• three and half years, and the other to three,
of the same punishment Os before.
A nOVel sale took place at the auction rooms of
tMessrs. Pebenham and Story, London, • n Monday last. The
1 Twilit were hung round with ecclesiastical vestments of
I every description, and of the most costly character. There
side copes, steles, dramatics, albs, muds!, maniples,
1 chasul•les, cassoc,a, berettas, banners, and eVerytning else
' which the moat ardent Ritualist could require for carrying
out in the most complete style the various offices of the
r Church. The novelty of the aale attracted a considerable
numbir of clergy and laity interested in such matters, and
i good prices were realised for some of the articles more
generally' used.
.A correspondent of the Nor) mentions that the
e Emperor Napoleon is very bail of Inkiii' no itary ssalksia
- the forest of Fontainebleau, and making experiments with
r the small portable pump which haa been used with so much
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