The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-07-11 00:00:00

DR. MANNING ON ENGLISH SEAMEN.

Archbishop Manning preached a sermon at the pr i-
Cathedral, Kensington, on Sunday morning, on behalf
of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal
Benevolent Society, takin.•° his text from the 13th
chapter of Job, "Though He should kill see, yet
frill I trust in Him." After dwelling at consider-
able length upon the lessons to be learned by
Christians from the unwavering faith of Job in
the ever-watchfulness of the providence of God, the
archbishop said he slid not know of a calling
which had need of a confidence like that of Job
in the goodness and mercy of God as that of seamen.
Man had made for himself a power of walking upon the
waters, but when he exercises that power he walks in the !
midst of changes, instability, and danger. The winds
above him he has no control over ; the waters beneath THE CA ME RON•LIVIN GSTONE SEARCH
him obey no power but that of God ; and his whole EXPEDITION.
life was one of constant danger. It w,iuld be the black-
est ingratitude of Englishmen to forget the duty they extracts from a letter received from
owed to their seamen, for it is to her seamen that Eng- The Revotlil
jrztt-Cameron, vicar of Shoreham, Kent,
land is indebtedsnot only for her material wealth and d journals. Mr. Lovett-
illei,n4s :74
rLeideuoterna.
Lumt
,Lo,gsvtetmt-eir
map
tells of his has-
greatness, but also for her civilisation. Her armies I Cameron sends also stew short extracts from his son's lour.
had done much for England, but they woula 1 nal, which give sonic account of the effect of th. Slave Trade
have been powerless without her navy, for it was , on the population of the interior .4 Africa.
they who led the way to the conquest of her EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF LIEUTENANT LOVETT
colonial empire. He was a man of peace and !
CAREILON, R.N.
abhorred war as he abhorred capital punishment; 1 "Feb. 28.--Here lam at last at Ujiji. I send my
but he believed capital punishment to be inevitable,
pocket-book with the rough notes of my diary, which I
, necessary, and just, and he also believed that war—
now keels in addition to my regular journal. Y.as will
which was capital punishment on a large scale
see that about Ugaga I was in a fuss at being different
! inflicted by nations upon each other—to be often
from Burton and Spoke, but using the correct variation
I inevitable, necessary, and just. He had no sympathy
and not changing my distances at all bring me right
I with the mistaken charity which would letve
England to an unarmed nation. Ile considered' an
armed and just nation the arbiter of peace. A weak which lam certain i, naccord
t a n
bet r
tone's
i nag,- xt"m le nights. ht
ands l found
ouintdin a
takings stand 1,1
y Living-
England
sas good as a lunar can be. My
nation was a temptation to others to assail it, whilst a
latitude b D.R. is 4 deg. 55 min. 30 sec. ; longitude
naticn armed and just might maintain the peace of D.R by ~ 29 deg. 59 min. 30 sec. • latitude by sight,
the world, and that was, he believed, the real mission y
4 de,. 58 min. 0•3 sec. ; longitude 'by lunar, 30 deg.
of England.• The first duty of Englishmen, Irishmen,
o'4 lin. 30 sec. ; so for a march between two places,
and Scotchmen was to make the calling of their sea-
whose shortest distance is 180 miles, and to do which I
men, so far as lay in their power, one of safety to the
amafraid to say how much we marched, I have not been
wives and little ones who depended upon them for very wrong in my courses and differences. My height
support, above the
.sea
,I make, by two mercurial barometers,
THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD.

1 2,439 ft. ; by four aneroids, 2,740 ft. ; by seven boil-
ing-point thermometers, 2,540 ft. Would you let Sir
Bantle Frere know this, as they are the points which
the Royal Geographical Society is very anxious to hear
The report of the Select Committee appointed to in-
quire into the operation if the Adulteration of Food about? I would write to them, but am too busy writ
Act, 1872, published on Wednesday, is a document of 1
i log up journals to do so before the men go who take
this, and my duplicate map is not finished. However,
considerable interest. The Committee, having
fourteen meetings, and examined fifty-seven wit- I
nesses, have an-iced at the unanimous conffirsion that
held ' I intend sending a mail of my own in a few days, with
1 Dr. Livingstone's map and journal from Mikandany,
, which I find here. The living is very good here.
the Act has done much good.
Fish, eggs, and milk are cheap. The fish are more
It has, at the same time, inflicted considerable injury, and like sea than fresh water fish. Ihe Ttuaganyka is a veri-
imposed heavy and undeserved penalties upon some respect-
able tradesmen. This appears to have been .iwing mainly t . • ' I j 1 ••.• , it
table sea I will send home a bottle of lake water to
the want of a clear understandings to what does and what be analyzed. cannot urn enstam , res. en im, as 1
does uot constitute adulteration : and in some eases to the does rivers that flow through a salt soil why the
c‘edsions and i xpe nerience tA he alialysts 's is waters of the lake should not be salt. I be,lieve that A correspondent of the New York Tribune, in a letter
mtlicting d
Committee, however, are of opinion that the Act itself is de- it is gradually being filled 1113. The Nlalag arazi and respectin g the expeditism of the United States steamer
fective, and needs amendment. The adoption of the Act has '
ices by no means general, and in many eases where it is Rinke have formed shoals at their mouth, and just Tuseorora to take soundings for a bed for a proposed
bef.,rie reaching the month of the Ruche we crossed submarine cable to Japan, gives the following account
applied and officers have been appointed. its operation has , of an islarol in the Pa••ific called Peele Island, visited
been of the most restrict. charade r. Even where oe Cr ground which evidently had not been very long
a competent analyst has been established, if the above water, From all I can hear the Lualaba goes by the
en Tusearom
ears—There being
, which was the first war vessel that
local authority does not ...date a special inspector into the Albert Nyanza. and if it does Dr. Livingstone bast be seen there for seventeen
with him or does not insist alma the Police or other recog- was right about its being the Nile. I find there is no but sixty-five inhabitants to the island, and they
sines!officials performing the duties of inspectors, the ~,,,,,l trying to start ou the other side of the lake foe scattered, our reception was not particularly demon-
Act remains a dead letter. It appears that onlymade. in o 1
211 boroughsm and 34 counties have ap linen toss months, so lam going to employ my time in a strative or grand ; still two or three canoes could be
seen afloat soon after our entrance, and now and then
while the number llr oughs undpointmentser the Aet is 171, and of ernize round the le. ak "
a green turtle took its departure from our vicinity,
roman s 54. In the City of London the Commissioners of EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL.
Sewers, and in the rest of the metropolis all the vestries or .which was altogether, to say the least, a relief from the
district bunts under the Metropolis Local Management Ad, " Jan. 1,--Passed sites of several deserted villages, perpetual watery landscape which had been our
have appcinteil analyst. From a return of the convictions Ind the people are wiped out, either killed or carried companion for twenty-eight slays. I learned that
year 1,73, . received by the Home iMice, it will be away for slaves, ti W rough this ar of Miranda.. Thick Mr. S m avory, forerly a whaler from Salem, Mass
is the.,
Been that the number ot proceeditigs oMsble the metivpobs : jungle, vs crass cal inbuga rsr swamps. The ;water who died louts month no at the age of eighty, was up
awl a few large towius has been singularly small Theo..'" ' in some of these was 2ft. deep. overlaid with sticky , to the time of his decease nominated governor of the
of good resulting from the Act must not, however, be judged I nod. The country seems very fertile, and since was island. Mr. Thomas Webb, our pilot,haa taken his place
by the i 1111 l deer of prosecutions and convictions. The.
inion I well cultivated !n
,as the arks of the ridges and furrows by- right of education anti occupancy of a house here for
deterrent effects are undoubtedly great, and the op
of the promoters has been substantiated, that the most I still remain. In some places we saw the burnt remains over 27 years. AN governor he exercises no particular
ct would be to prevent adultera- 'of the huts. It is indescribably saddening to pass sway ever the people, but is considered a necessary
beneficial effects of the A
tion rattier than to punish it. through ()laces which once were the homes of happy requisite at times of marriage or death, when he
Tie Comnsittee suggest that the two Acts to which and contented people, who may have been negroes officiates. He had mach to say regarding Commander
iz. the Adulteration truly, but now are either dead or slave and all caused Perry's visit to the island in 1858 • and had in his
their inquiry has had reference—v d coast Aralos. Tm he Oman Arabs house n original
a chart of the harbour, made under
Acts of 1860 and 1872(23 and 24 Viet. c. 84, ansl 35 and , by the unprinciple
74), should be repealed, and another Act, are far superior to those of Zanzibar, and if they alone the supervision of the commodore at that time. They
36 Viet. e.
consolidating and amending these statutes, substituted had penetrate s 1 the interior the state of the country are in some doubt as to the country to which they owe
for them. It is also suggested that the fraudulent north! Ise very different from what it now is. allegiance. In 1827 the island was taken possession of
abstraction of imortant properties of any commodity " Jan. 14. —Here we are in foes wander again, as lsy Captain Beechey, KN., in the name of King
should be a punipshable offence, but that a distinction 1 the usual road is closed bv a colony of nmaway slaves; George IV., and a plate to
he that effect is still to be
should be drawn between this and the fraudulent or I of the Arab
nds, who are all rep?rted to have muskets seen embedded in a tree. T Japaneoe claim it by MANIFESTO OF THE COMTE DE
noxious addition of ingredients, which more strictly to pluer all they can, joining occasionally with right of disessvery and occupation prior to that date,
speaking constitutes adulteration; and that clause 9 Nlirambo against their former masters. asserting that it at oue time was inhabited by a large CHAMBORD.
of the Act of 1872 should be so far modified as not to "Jan. 15.—We are compelled to halt by the tor- colony from that conntry, which, previous to the The Paris Union has published the following Manifesto
make it incumbent on the analyst to give a certificate, rents of rain. It came down I think as heavy as I arrival of Catin Beechy, left the ialand and re- from the Comte de Chambord :--
except when he tin lath articles submitted th him to have ever seen it It is an awful bother, a. both pa
turned to Japan. The belief of the Russian Admiral " Frenchmen,—Von have demanded the salvation
be adulterated or debased. It is further recommended inen and donkeys refuse to face the storm. I heard Lui,ke, who visited the island in 1828, was to the same of our smuntry frmn temporary solutions and you
that the Act should be made compulsory. In conchn the sound of the rain before it reached us, just like effect. The whalers traveraing these waters visit the appear to be on the eve of rushing into trent' hazards.
sism, the Committee say. the sound of heavy waterfall. place for lseef, sheep, fowls, deer, pigs, turtles, and Every one of the Revolutions that have happened dun
afforonpliblk to know that w
" Jaw 26. —Could get only one day's fond, so e fresh provisions, of which there is an abundance to ing the last 80 years has been a striking demonstration
in thit wni d
somee
matter of adidteratMconsoh n they are Molted nailer Ulan go on again. The village so chme to the bothini of meet their demands. of the monarchical temperament of the country. France
IsaSsued Witnesses of the highest standing concur in stat- the WI, and the rocks came down into it, and ths, has need of R yalty My birth hass made me your King.
o
it-.that, in the numerous articles of food anil driok which villagers have a way they can close up into the rocks. I should be wanting to the most sacred of my duties if at
they have snalys id, they have (mind scarcely anything SIR ARTMJR HELPS ON MODERN Ohs solemn moment I did not make a final effort to
upsabsolute jurioas to health, mid that if deleterious sub- fin In Mirambo came here to attack the place and could
1 d 1 11' ' 1 I- EDUCATION. overturn the barrier of prejudices which still separates
tel Ram. they are used in such minute quantities vato be and behonengs into ves awl holes in tier scks. I
stances are sat lb einploycl for the purposes of mint- um. no one,. no pun er, as t !sty cis hull en t semse ,es
me from ys su. lam aware of all the accusations
Sir Arthur Hellos, Clerk to the Privy C amen, on Saluda
eonilialatively Is It Your Cemmittee believe that it is don't know what we should have done without the directed against my iolicy, against my attitude, my
distributed the prizes won by students of'the Warehousemeti
the ildention of Pairliament that con:miners tillsho e pro- inslia rubber Is at in crossiwg the streams tda o-y r, I I words, and my acts. There is Bathing, even my
and Clerks' Selma at Caterlann, and addressed the assembly
tected from frauds, and that they should be enabled to v.- what we should have done at all witless-it the tws, bell , as follows : silence, which does not serve as a twetext for incessant
care the articles they ask for and require. But your Con, recriminations. If I have preserved silence for long
mittee sh., usst essissider that Pas names , t desires needlessly to , , ~1 ', ,
tents all of which I owe to Major E. Smith's thought- lie referred first tss the great loss which the institu-
hamper or fetbir ti-ale still less to interfere between the " s,ncnier's; tion, in common with many other charities, has su.s• months it is because I dist not wish to render more
I and seller with 1.1 view of regulating prices, - taine,l in the person of its munificent patrisn, Mr. difficult the mission of the illustrious soldier whose
tempting to assist the comonner in ascertaining the real sword is protecting, you. But to lay in the face of
money runless( any marketable commodity. SALE OF LOST LUGGAGE. William Leaf, rif the Old Change, who died prematurely
so many accumulated errors, of . many falsehoods
--thsamh at the ripe old age of b3—of grief from the
. _
boss of two of his sons; sugdesting that respect should be that have been circulated, ..f so many horsest people
One of those collections of miscellaneous isroperty deceived, silence isnolonger allowable. Honourimposea
shown to that good man ;memory by doing more and
which every year accumulates upon the hands of ete on me an energetic protest. 111 declaring in the month
more fir an institution he had loved So well. Dealin •
various railway companies was on Tuesday dispoaed of October last that I was ready to renew with you
then with the examination which he rightly describea
of by auction beneath one of the archways of the the bond of our chest ides, to restore the shaken edifice
as nsost interesting he midi-eased himself first to theboys
" Elephant and Castle " statism (says the Globe). of our national greatness, with the co-operation of all
and girls who has'l not won prizes, whom he recoil'.
The gathering on the London, Chatham, and Dover sincere minds without distinction of rang, origin, or
mended, though they knew they were beaten, not to
Railway is not as a rule nearly so large as that of party—in affirming that I retracted nothing of the
be disheartened, but to hope for prizes another time,
several others of the lines, but there were, nevertheless. declarations constantly repeated for 30 years in official
the great 'thing being to learn to contend honestly
250 hits, comprising some thousands of articles, knocked ansl private documents, which are in the hands of
and industriously, with, or without prizes, in the sphere
down under the auctioneer's hammer in the midst of a of labour to which they might hereafter be called. everybody, I counted on the proverbial intelligence
crowd of buyers awl spectators of that curiously of our race, and on the clearness of our language.
cr Without undervaluing prizes, he thought young
miscellaneous character so often found on these oeca- People have pretended to infer that I placed the Royal
pes de should be persuaded to address themselves to -
sion.s—workmen of all kinds in quest of tools, ' power almve the laws, and that I was dreaming of I
the highest subjects from love of them, and not for
and the smallest of small shopkeepers with an do not know what Goverrunental systems based on
the sake of any temporary reward. There was a
eye to bundles of rags and old boots and hats, mingling great what is arbitrary and absolute. No ; the Christian
eat discussion at the present time as to the best
and French Monarch is in its very essence a limited
with well-to-do tradesmen conic to buy the better
classes of goods, and a sprinkling of gentility with —things to be taught. There were classics, modern
(teniperee) Monarchy, which has nothing to borrow
languages, and science, and very great disputation
designs on opera glasses, railway rugs, and port- from those Governments of chance which prolnise the
as to Which should be pre-eminently taught. Con-
manteaus. Many of the lots partook of the same golden age and lean to the abyss. This limited
sidering the admirable works written in Latin and
prom iscuousdeseription. One lot, for instance, consisted Dlonarehy admits of the existence of two Chambers,
Greek, and that the student was obliged to exen
of "a basket, one scraper, ime gorse, five sickles, one sine of which is nominated by the Sovereign within
perambulator, frame and cover, and seven wood cise the greatest critical faculty in discovering
the meanin of the s-reat writers in those dead fixed eatePriells and the other by the nation se-
frames." Another was made up of " eight bundles ssf g t 4 • cording to the kind of suffrage settled by the law.
languages he placed the study of the classics very
pea-sticks, ans 1 one case of sculpture." A third comprised, , Where is there room here for anything arbitrary?
high; but' then, when he thought of the advantages of
"a roll of indiarubber hose, three chairs, and tin paste, t,..in the day when you and I shall be able, face to
knowing several langmages—the Emperor Charles V.
can ; "while in a fourth was found "ten hampers, twelve to handle together the interests of France,
had said that a man knowing two languages was twice ' lace,
sieves, thirty pads, four carboys, and five bundles of nsu will learn how the imissn of the people ansl the
a man—he was obliged to speak very highly of that.
mats." These sales are usually very well attended,King enabled the French Monarchy to baffle during
And, laatly, there was science ; and when it was can'-0,
and the bidding tolerably brisk, many people sidered how imperative a thing it appeared to be that many centuries the designs of those who only
on a struggle against the King in order to
aPPntly being under an impresaion that the things one should know the properties of earth, air, and carry
are
sold cost the companies nothing, and therefore are water for mere self-protection--if that were poissible domineer over the people. It is not true to assert
that my policy in inconsistent with the aspirations
likely to go cheap. Even if this were the fact, how- against unsanitary evils, no one could doubt that the
of the country. I desire a strong restorative power.
ever, the prices would, of course, depend upon the advantages if science were very great. His idea of
France desires it no less than myself. Her interest
buyers competing, but a.s regards a great many ssf the education, however, was that during the critical
impels her to it. Her instinct demands it. Serious
things it is not a fact that the companies get them for period of life children should be tug taught som o
t to do some tine
durable alliances are being sought. Everybody
nothing. They are, in many instances, goods for difficult thing supremely well. They had seen during and
which the companies have had to pay pretty heavK comprehends that the traditional Monarchy alone can
the examination the advantage of card al study of one I
oropensation claims. Some of them arc articles whic give them to us. I wish to find in the reprentatives of
c
subject in the results attained in mental arithmetic. I
warehoused by them until their legitimate i the nation vigilant auxiliaries Es sr the consideration of
have been w
Speaking with becoming diffidence of the feminine sex,
charges have exceeded the value of the goods, and which questions submitted to their control. But Ido
who were mocha cleverer than males, and rushed (is con- the
not wish for those barren Parliamentary struggles,
the consignee has therefore declined to take. There are, elusions much quicker, he did not think there was any ad
liossever, of course, a great many things which are whence the Sovereign too frequently issues is,werless
vantage greater for them than a little severe study in '
simply lost luggage and odd articles left in waiting- and enfeebled, and if I reject the formula of foreign
early life, and therefore he had been supremely satisfied
rooms and carriages. Amongst the most numerous of importation which all our national traditions repu-
with the mental arithmetic. Speaking of minor .
these in all such sales are walking-sticks, parasols, and with its King who reigns and does not
umbrellas. Tuesday's sale comprised about a thou- matters, he never remembered to have heard better diate,
govern, I feel myself on that point in perfect accord
reading in a school, especially amongst the girls, than ,
sand or these articles of all sorts and sizes. with the desires of the immense majority of you who
Ladies' here. The music, too according to his poor judg- I
bags, shawls, waterproof cloaks, muffs, and kid gloves ment, seemed very well doue. Nothing which could understand nothing of these fictions. and are weary of
were numerous as usual, while all who aborninate the , these falsehoods. Frenchmen, lam ready to-day as
be taught would be more of a *solace in after life. He
atrocious fashion of chim -p neyot hats will probably deeply regretted that the advantages of the present I was yesterday. The House of France is sincerely,
rim satisfaction in the circumstance that, loyally reconciled. Rally confidingly behind it. A
find a little g
from the catalog,nie, it would appear that about 150 generation in that respect had not existed in
truce to our divisions in order that we may think
travellers on the London, Chatham. and Dover Rail- his early days. T n
only he musical skill of the childre
of our country's evils. Has she nut suffered
way last year were victinsised by their weak minded seemed to him sufficient to en.sure them the enjoy-
sufficiently ? Is it not time to restore to her, with her
ment of further development of their musical ability
ancient Roysalty, prosperity, security, dignity, great-
adherence to this fashion, and, no doubt, by putting in after life. He thought all would agree with him that
, ness, and all that assemblage of fruitful liberties which
their heads out of window, lost their hats,
the examination had in every respect been most sue
you will never obtain without it? The task is a
laborious one, but, God helping rus, we can accompliah
bpeerensiitdrtiactutrevlasgrat dtiifinnedertoofictldiethiani
, it Let every one weigh in his conscience the revolt-
' SetthesBietufgtiuire°.antlenhOiadnrseto its funds continued their benefac-
tions by giving personal supervision over its affairs, sibilities of the present and bethink himself of the
severity of history. " HENRI V.
To that fact he attributed it; success. (Cheers.) "uly 2, 1874."
In conclusion, Sir Arthur impresses! on the chi J
children
the importance of cultivating the law of kindness both
at school and in after life.

The resolution was carried, and a vote in favour of
the agricultural franchise was also agreed to.