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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

TIM LABOUR

Writing from Philo
2'irnet says :
The movements
tnited States for hi
,the Past week, max
...u9mands of the me
The New York piam
%ecured the increase
"York carpenters hay,
tOo. to 3 &Os, per d
400 men have air
ered New 'York carp
cent. advance. The
asked an advance fro
taloa effect Aprill4.
ken on strike in Ne
Wages, as for a con
r;llte. This strike af
P.,nip companies, and
Promising with the s
strikers on the East
month. In New C
striking for an aelvan
train hands on the Cu
In West Virginia had
This strike stopped c(
land bituminous regic
t3iuxted this week. El
ilaltirnore and Ohio I
wages 10 per cent. '1
way wages has reache
the Troy and Boston
cent Several strikes
the New Jersey Cen
labourers,. who do not
~,tllvance, but ask an i]
There has been fol
labourers at the coal?
I‘Tew York Harbour,
Promised ail_ dol. 80c
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idle in consequence of
advance of 6c. Per
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New York, have seci
strike at the knittinE
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arrangements with se,
brought in outside
koderateloadvances o
The tailors in Philadel
for an advanced sched
'will give about 40
blowers of New Jers
organization, have all
conceding most of thei
AlleghAny City, Pent
idol. 75c. and 2 dols.
Me. The furniture-m:
ask 20 per cent. advan
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

M. DE LESSEPS ON THE PANAMA

CAN-AL SCHEME.

M. de Lesseps gave an account of his Panama trip
on Saturday night to the French Scientific Association
in Paris, and was enthusiastically received. He
stated that the only apreciable difficulty in the way of
the canal was a hill 36 metres in height, which sepa-
Lated the Rio Chagres valley from the Rio Grande
Xalley. As an engineer for 30 years, he could affirm
the feasibilitytof the scheme, and his reception in the
United States had shown that their adhesion was now
gained. Twenty years ago the Rio Chagres swamps
would have been an obstacle, but the powerful dredges
invented for the Suez Canal, where they cleared a dis-
tance of 44 kilometres in tlfe Bitter Lakes, would easily
deal with those. As for the occasional inundations of the
Chagres, nature had placed the remedy close to the
evil for an embankment between two mountains
woutcl intercept the streams producing the floods.
Panama had never been visited by earthquakes, for it
was outside the volcanic region, the stability of the
Cathedral being a proof of this and the alleged in-
salubrity of the isthmus was refuted by the perfect
health t his party of nearly 150 persoirs. Although
often wet through, they never lad fever. As for the
Colon Railway costing the lives of coolies, there was
simply a :suicidal mania among the thousands of
Chinese. Home sickness induced some to bury their
savings at the foot of a tree and hang themselves on
the branches, 'faneying that they wouRI wake up in
China. Climate had nothing to do with it. At
Panama he knew a family of nineteen girls, another of
fourteen, and-a woman who, though still young, had
fifty grandchildren.
M. de Lesseps wound up with a humorous account
'of his United States experience. He was besieged by
reporters, and received the utmost courtesy on all
hands, the Chicago hotelkeeper refusing- to take any
payment or even to present himself to• be thanked.
On liis explaining that The acted under the concession
of the Colombia Government, that no other Power had
anything to do with it, and that the management
would rest with whoever chose to become shareholders,
all promised their support, and he had 300 millions
for subscriptions pledged to him in America. The
canal would be made by France, with the co-operation
of all the world.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

ARRIVAL (

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Copenha
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students intoning the
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times three with all th
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to the breadth of a
winding so that the
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sea. is dominate
Izasses of the venera
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remnant of a fortress
these two guardians of
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and the strains of orcl
harbour piers of Elsinc
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night somewhere near I
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officers, and naturalist
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night in question.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

A VISIT TO SIBERIA.

A Correspondent of The Times, who for some years past
has spent his summer holidays in visiting the prisons and
hospitals of Europe, has recently made a tour through
Siberia.— We give the following extract from his interesting
letter :

"I reached my destination (Vladivostock) on Sep
tember 15, having crossed Europe and Asia, and
having finished a journey from London of 2,600 miles
by rail, 5,700 by steamer, and 3,000 by horses. It
was necessary to wait a fortnight before any vessel
was leaving for Japan. Vladivostock strtick me as
the prettiest and busiest of the towns of Siberia, and
nowhere did I receive a kinder reception. The
present Governor and his wife had come out-to the
place evidently bent on doing what they could for the
good of the province. They have been there less than
five years, and during that time the Governor has
made roads, laid out pleasure gardens, and done much
for the general improVement of the town. Besides
this, Madame d'Erdmann has organised among the
ladies of the place a charitable society for the relief
of the poor; they have enlarged an educational insti-
tution for officers' daughters, and have erected the
prettiest building in the place as a free school house,
not to mention the building of a Protestant church,
in which I conducted the first English service. On
previous visits I have ever had reason to speak well of
Russian hospitality, and this time doubly so, which
was the more noticeable since the English were said to
be not in favour in Russia. On one occasion at a
dinner party a very tiny symptom of this oozed out;
but, as a rule, things were in quite the other
direction. Whether my cloth and my self-imposed
mission had aught to do with this I know not; but
my case was not solitary. Only a few weeks before
my arrival her Majesty's ship the Iron Duke had been
in the harbour of Vladivostock. Above them
frowned forts only quite recently erected in view of
the possibility of England and Russia going to war.
The aspect of affairs having changed, however, and
the English coming north to escape the heat of the
China seas, the English officers were invited to dine at
the Governor's house, and had left behind a capital
impression. Being a frequent guest at the same
house, I heard them hi,ghly spoken of, and not only
there, but also at another house by the admiral of the
Siberian fleet. On September 30 I left Vladivostock
in the captain's cabin of a Russian man-of-war for
Japan, and was transhipped at sea to the Pacific mail
steamer for San Francisco, which was gained on
October 27. Then, visiting the Yosemite Valley and
Salt Lake City, I crossed the American continent to
Chicago, Niagara' and New York, and reached London
on November 25, thus going round the world in about
as nearly a straight line as can well be done from
London, keeping within the parellels of 10 degrees to
the north and south. The journey occupied 210 days,
50 of which were stationary, and the distance travelled
was 25,510 miles."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

THE VICEROYALTY OF IRELAND.

The Dublin Correspondent of The Times writes under date
April 17 :

"The preparations for a change of Government are
proceeding rapidly at Dublin Castle, and the high
officials are ready at any moment to vacate their ap-
pointments on receiving notice to quit. All is packed
up for removal, and the incoming tenants will find the
house in good order. Some len,g,agements have been
necessarily broken off, and projects of business, charity,
or pleasure, in which the Duke and Duchess of Marl-
boroughwere chiefly concerned, had been indefinitely
postpondd. Her Grace has made judicious arrange-
ments for the care and continuance of the relief fund
with which her name is associated, and is now engaged
in paying farewell visits to benevolent institutions in
which she took an interest, whose managers and inmates
feel that by the removal of his Grace they are about to
lose a sincere and genuine friend. Speculation is already
busy as to who is to succeed the Duke of Marlborough
in the office of Lord-Lieutenant, and an earnest hope
is expressed that whoever.may accept it may prove as
fortunate as his Grace in winning the confidence and
esteem of all parties. It is a position which, though
divested of personal responsibility for the acts of
Government, is one of some difficulty, and requires
judgment and tact, firmness tempered by kindness, an
impartial and lilseral mind, and a dignified yet, genial
manner. If the success of the Irish government,
however, depended upon the Viceroyalty the incoming
Cabinet would have much encouragement in the fact
that for a long series of years successive Ministries,
whether Whig or Tory, have been happy in their
selection of the Queen's representatives, each in turn
distinguished by rank and personal character, and
successfully emulating the generous example of his
predecessor. Many names are spoken of, but it would
be premature to discuss the matter, though it is
uppermost in the thoughts of the citizens of Dublin."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

AN UNSECTARIAN CHURCH.

The New York Herald of April 5 gives the following
account of a new church which has just been opened in that
city .

- .
The large and handsome church building situated on
the south side of Thirty-fourth-street, near Eighth-
avenue, and formerly known as the Free Tabernacle
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was opened
yesterday under new auspices as the Union Taber-
nacle, a place of worship for all Christians, irrespec-
tive of denomination. All are invited to join in its
services, no charge is to be made to any one for paw
rent or any other purpose, no special ritual is to be
followed, and, as the prospectus of the enterprise
phrases it, its promoters "Know nothing among men
but Christ Jesus, and Him crucified." The Tabernacle
is to be placed under the pastoral care of the Rev. George
J. Miggins, a member of the Presbyterian persuasion;
but at the services, whicTi will be held.every evening and
at the customary hours on Sundays, clergymen of dif-
ferent denominations will be invited to occupy the
pulpit. The inaugural service took place at half-
past three yesterday afternoon, with the Rev. Dr.
Burchard presiding. It embraced prayer, singing of
hymns from the Moody and Sankey collection; and
addresses by several prominent divines. A very large
congregation, including numerous clergymen, filled the
Pews. Rev. Dr. Kane, of Yonkers, a Methodist,
offered the opening prayer, and gave place to Dr.
Burclrard, who pointed out the merits of the " new
departure" as affording a church where love among
Christians would be promoted and where poor and rich
alike might seek for grace. Rev. Mr. Mingins then
gave a history of the establishment of the Tabernacle.
He said a gentleman of this city, whose eyes were
opened and his heart warmed by God, discovered
that there were many churches for the rich and missions
for the very poor, but that the most destitute people in
New York, in a religious sense, were the bone and
muscle of the city, the men who worked for and lived
on small wages. These were, he saw, not, on the side
of the devil, but they could not afford to attend great
churches, and would not as paupers, and so hardly 15
per ceikt. of them attended any church. Therefore
this gentleman had bought this building and given it
to the people, and it stood at that moment without a
penny of debt on it. All the expenses said the
speaker, were to be kept as low as possible, and no
money was to be raised except by voluntary contrjbu-
tions, when everyone was asked to give just according
to his means. A collection was then "taken, after
which Rev. Mr. Page, of the Presbyterian Church,
Re-v. Mr. Lloyd, and Rev. Mr. McArthur made short
addresses, and the services closed with prayer and a
benediction by Rev. Dr. Rossiter.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

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COMMUNICATION RES roR ED

[FROM THE "DAILY NEWS."]
CA.BuT„.Weclnesday, 1.1.30 a.m.

Foraging parties from General Ross's
force have been fired upon by the Nerikh
tribesmen who were punished last Novem-
ber. A few men were wounded. On a

force moving to cover the foraging parties
the enemy retired. A reconnaissance shows
that the Ghnznee road is elear. The towers
are deserted. Two or three thousand Umar
Kheyl Ghilzais hold the neighbouring bills.
General Stewart is within two days' march
of Ghuznee. Cabul is quiet. Two guns
and a wing of the 92nd Guides Corps
marched to Charasiab to-day to watch the
Logar Valley.
—•
WEST FOREIGN NEWS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS).
GREAT FIRE IN CANA DA.
•
OTTAWA. Wcdnesday.

A conflagration broke out to-day in drill,
situated on the bank of the river opposite to
this city. Eight hundred houses, forming
half of the town, were destroyed, rendering
4,900 people homeless. Several lives were
lost, and some persons are repsrted to be
missing. The great lumber mills were
saved. The loss is estimated at £500,000.
The Governor-General has offered his
assistance to the inhabitants, and has
,visited the scene of the fire in company with
the Princess.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Tlllll Eiday.

A portion of the roof and o7te of the
walls of Gilmore's Gardens fell ia yeste •day
evening whilst a fair was being.held. Three
women were killed, and twenty persons
were more or less injured
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

ALSO I FINE STOCK OF

ci(3l Ans

OF THE BEST BRANDI.

TOBA CCOS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

- -----
The most remarkable results ever effected by a Beal
jog Remedy are prAl need by PowEnn's EYES.,C..I JON.
H.lOl. the Duke D'Aumatle, the Right Hai the late
Earl of Clarendon, K G., the Right Hon Frauces
Countemi Wakegrave, the Right Hon. the Counti,,ea of
Ra,1.1-,or, and many other eminent perie,ns lie,' given
testimorials as to the extraordinary efEzaey of Pow-J.1.1;s
RgsrmaTic EMBROCLTION. The relicf which it s.Gord›,
the cure which it effects in all cases of rheumatic auil
neuralgic pains, goat, lumbago, and all sudden and
painful attacks, aches, pains, and weaknesses in any part
of the body calling for an external application, are at
once speed and relnasuent. It is s4l by all chemists
in bottles at 19 lid . and 2s 9d. Air. S. Hughes is our
&gent at Stouibtge.
Eppsig GLYCERINE JUJUBES. CACTIos 1 TheS
cffectiyo and agee.able c:qtfeetions are sold by mos
Ctiemi,ts, by othbis, however, attempts are of;eu mate
lat sutstitutiou, we theiefore (keit, Ilecettar, to t'eloi,u
the public that they can oltiy be obtaired lit it,7:tes
and Is Labilled JAaI;;A & Co , 11..:Tece
Chemists, St,orl,o,tge.
s7e sold by 1. P. Morai, 136, 610 Sire, I.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

POTATO.

Home-grown potatoes _command a ready sale at full prices,
but trade remains dull as regards foreign, owing to extensive
supplies :—Scotch regents, 140 s. to 160 s. ; champions, 1508. to
2005.; Lincolnshire, 1803. to 190 s. ; Victories 160 s. to 1808.
per ton; German reds, 4s. 6d. to 75.; Dutch' rocks, 4s. (3d..
and French whites, 4s. 6d. per bag.

HOP.
Under the influence of tine weather •and. gv44 troP Pros-
pects, the market for hops is very dull. There is a diposi-
tiou to press sales, but tho chief feature is to be seen in the
better qualities, the stocks of which are reported as Email :
Kent, 1879, £4 105. to £l2 103.; Sussex ditto, £4 10s. to
RV 10s. ; Faruham and cotmtry, £0 to 128. • AMerican
iXto £10; Belgian, £3 10s. to £1 Is.; t;
44.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

A NEW AERIAL MACHINE.

Professor Richell of the United States proposes to
make a voyage to the North Pole in an aerial machine
invented by himself. This machine, a working model
of which he has prepared, does not differ materially
from one made by the Professor about two years ago
and exhibited at the Philadelphia Exhibition, where
its performances excited wonder and surprise. It went
up or came down at the wish of the operator, went for-
ward or backward, turned rou•nd, remained in one
place or went to any desired point. In short, it did all
that a flying machine could be expected to do, with
one exception, namely, that under certain circum-
stances it declined to fly. This little defect has now, it is
said, been remedied, and the machine to be constructed
after the model will, it is anticipated, be a thoroughly
efficient air-ship. The Professor is very sanguine as to
the results of his proposed expedition, and thinks his
scheme is far more likely to succeed than Commander
Cheyne's. " I will," says Profetsor Richell, "go to
the North Pole in, my air-ship, and the very reasons
that will keep Captain Cheyne from reaching the Pole
will be the ones by which I will be able to succeed."
He believes that he can make headway against wind
blowing at the rate of ten miles an.hour. The machine
has already travelled against a six-mile wind at a fair
peed; and what it has done is nothing to what the
Professor intends it shall do. The speed of the
machine, is really, however, a secondary considera-
tion, We have waited so long to get at the North
Pole that a few hours' delay in reaching it is not a
matter of any great importance. If Professor Richell
'performs the journey there and back in reasonable time,.
no one will have aright to complain.—Pall Mall Gazette.

MEN OF LIGHT IN LEEDS.-It has been well re-
marked that when Mr. Herbert Gladstone shall have
been elected for Leeds, it will prove that the Liberals
have not left a (Glad)stone un(re)turned to maintain
their cause.—Farcgy Folks.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

TERRIBLE SNOWSTORM IN RUSSIA.

The Orenburg- Listok says that upwards of a
month Orenburg has been severed from the rest of
Ilussia by snowstorms of a severity hitherto unknown..
1!_or three weeks railway communication has been
st6pped between Saratoff and Orenburg, owing to the
inimense drifts that have accumulated on the ime, and
although thousands of soldiers and workmen have
been engaged all the while in clearing away the
snow, it is expected that several weeks must elapse
berore the trains are- able to run through afresh.
Cases of death from exposure to the-cold are numerous
and heartrending. Early in April a family of ten
persons was overtaken by a snowstorm a few miles
fDam Orenburg, and the whole of them perished,
.except one man, the father, who, after seeing his wife
and children perish before his eyes, managed to make
his way alone to a hut a short distance off. Not far
from the same locality a gang of thirteen men suc-
cumbed to the cold, and were found a few days
later lying dead within a few yards of each other.
Several instances are recorded of peasants leaving their
huts only a few seconds losing their way and 'perishing
within a stone's throw of their home's. In many
villages the people have been compelled to strip the
thatch from their cottages to keep their cattle alive,
and stories are circulating of whole communities nearly
perishing for the want of food, owing to the impossi-
bility of traversing the huge snow-drifts encircling the
villages. No mails have arrived from Central Asia for
weeks, and the nomads in the Kirghiz deserts are re-
ported to be starving.

- AFTER DISSOLUTION.
(Wed. April 14, 1880.)
And is it true that after Death,
When dissolution and decal/
Have quenched life's force and stopped its breath,
The dead once more revisit day

Those who their- Place no more shall know,
For whom life's Ministry is o'er,
Once, only once, though dead, may go
Back to the haunts they loved before !
There, the last office done with, grief
One sad assuagement finds; they meet
Once more their Visionary Chief
A throng of ghosts in Downing Street !
Once more, like. Ministers of State
In form, though force has fled, they hold
The hollow inockCry of debate
On Phantom Projects, as of old.
Once more—but who shall seek to pierce •
That•dread Last Council's mystery?
Or say what grave themes they rehearse—
Dead ghosts debating how to dig !—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

THE "THREE BORROWING DAYS."

•
The "three borrowing days" of weather folk-lore
have this year been tolerably trueto their traditional
character, and the bright sunshine of yesterday may
be taken as a, pledge that April means to remain Con-
tent with the loan to March sanctioned by use and
wont. The change oi the calendar from Old Style to
New Style somewhat obscures the remarkable way. in
which the systematic observations of meteorologists
have confirmed the truth embodied in the popular
fiction of the "three bgrowing days." Tuesday
the 13th was the •Ist of April- Old Style; and that
and the two following days were the days which
blustering March for purposes of its own was
supposed to borrow from the milder month of Ail.
The purpose for which March requested to be allowed
to work its will on three of the days within the
dominion of April takes different forms in different
parts of the country. In the north of Ireland March
is said to have evil designs upon an.old woman's cow ;
in Scotland, three sheep upon the hill are supposed to
be the object of its murderous intentions. The legend
varies a' little too as to the character of the weather,
agreeing only in the main fact that the three days are
"ill." According to the most unfavourable version—
The first day was winn and weet ;
The second was hail and sleet;
The third day was birly-banes •
linock'd the wee birds' ncbs agin the stanes.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were not quite so
"ill" as this even in Scotland, but all over the country
there was abundant experience of wind and " weet '
and hail. How nearly accurate was the weather
wisdom of our aneestors, expressed in the fiction of
"borrowing days," may be judged from the fact that
meteorologists have fixed upon the period from the
11th to the 14th of April as one of the esta.blishei
variations in the regular march of the seasons from
winter to summer. The "three borrowin,,,,, days " are
sometimes incorrectly said to be the three lasf clays of
March, as if March could be under any necelsity of
borrowing from itself • but even if we adopt this error,
which has the sanction of Sir Walter Scott, the
wisdom of popular lore would have been justifie:sl by
science. Such wisdom does not pretend to minute
precision.—Daily News.

Here are 41pefu1 signs of a warm summer. Swallows
an 4 kanerttns hage apnoreti. in the t4.&bourhoorl of Whitby,
lova throb fisIMA DeM`e their mild OM
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

SALES BY AUCTION

PRICE ONE PEI\ Y.

VICTORIA HALL AND. LINK,

BELL §TBEF,T, STOURBItIDGi,:.

TELE BEbT FLOOR IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIi:B

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.

The above popular place of resort

(NOW "UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT)
Is OPEN Fox
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

AN EQUESTRIAN DISPLAY IN VIENNA.

The Vienna Correspondent of The Times, writing on the
18th inst., says :

For the last few days all Vienna has been taken up
by the Carrousel, an equestrian pageantry got up by
the aristocracy, the proceeds of which are destined for
the relief of the distressed districts of Silesia, Galicia,
Istria, and Moravia. There are to be three repro-
sents4.ions, the first of which was held yesterday, and
certainly the display, by its historical accuracy, the
gorgeousness of the dresses and equipments, and the
precision of all the evolutions, presented a show pro-
bably unique of its kind.

As on the celebration of the Silver Wedding, with
which it agreed in more than one particular the loca-
lity chosen for the Carrouzel was the Imperial Mange,
one of those fine buildings erected in the beginning of
the last century. The walls of the building were hung
with specimens of the most valuable Gobelins tapestry,
in themselves an art treasure. Twenty-seven electric
lights' softened by glass globes, illuminated the scene,
which was brilliant in the extreme. Their Majesties
and many of the members of the Imperial family were
in the Court box, while the elite of Vienna society
was distributed along the gallery running rdund the
building.

The epoch chosen for the pageant was that of Ger-
man renaissance at the end of the 15th and the first
half of the I.6th century. Nowhere, perhaps, have the
traditions, the models, and specimens of this period
been so amply preserv,ed as in the Austrian provinces.
Not only is there the Imperial collection, but many of
the seats of the old families are filled with objects
dating from that time.
As usual in these displays, the heralds opened the
cortege, followed by men-at-arms; then came deer and
chamois hunters on horse and foot, with hounds and
all their apparel ; then followed the falconers, 12.1a1ies
and as many gentlemen, in two aivisiOns, one headed
by the Archduke Wilhehn, the other Ity the Archduke
Eugene ; then six ladies followed by pages ; eight ladies
in a g,orgeous hunting car; after them the wild boar
and bear hunters, then two carriages and pairagnd two
carriages and four, and at the tail of all the hunting
car, covered with the spoil of the c4ase, making in all
a brilliant procession of 226 persons and 142 horses.
• The procession first slowly went round the hall with
the sound of martial music, and then made room for a
series of equestrian displays. When these various
evolutions were over the whole cortegeonce more paraded
before the Imperial box • the standard and flag-bearers
waved their flags; the 'National Anthem resounded,
and the pageantry was over. Desplte the high prices,
the seats for the three representations are all taken, so
thatas a charity!, te it will be a great success.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

NWs Pli

The font:ring has
papers igr publication

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

PROGRESS IN JAPAN.

A letter from Tokio in the Allgemeine Zeitung gives the
following interesting particulars as to the development of
postal communication and the circulation of books and news-
papers in Japan :

_ _
The European postal system was introduced in
Japan in 1871, and the number of letters, '&c., sent
through the post is rapidly increasing. In 1878
24,983,419 ordinary letters, 763,037 registered letters,
10,036,960 postcards, and 9,616,098 newspapers were
sent by post from one part of Japan to another • while
in 1879 the numbers were-27,763,243 ordinary fetters,
928,597 registered letters, 13,510,238 postcards, and
11,203,339 newspapers. The revenue of the Japanese
Post Office exceeded the expenditure last year by
nearly 15 per cent. 2 • and the increase in the number of
newspapers during the last two years has been 52 per
cent. _ _

_
The publication of books has also greatly increased
During the year 1878-79 5,317 new books were issued,
of which 543 were on law and politics, 280 on historical
subjects, 454 on geography, 225 on arithmetic, 470 on
education, 107 on religion, and 313 grammars and
dictionaries. The Japanese are very eager to acquire
knowledge, and very fond of reading. There are
numberless booksellers' shops at Tokio, and public
libraries have long existed in all parts of the Country.
The great public library which was opened in the
capital in 1872 has since been much enlarged; it now
contains a valuable collection of Japanese and foreign
works inc.all .branches of literature, together with the
chief Asiatic and European periodicals, and is open to
the public free.

The art of printing has been known in Japan since
the year 770 A.D., when the Empress Koken ordered
the publication of a number of Buddhist canonical
books, which were printed from wooden blocks.
Movable types were first used in the sixteenth cen-
tury ; but they did not come into general use till very
lately, owing to the variety of signs in the Japanese
language, which render it necessary to have at least
5,000 different kinds of types. Even now movable
types are only used, as a rule, for newspapers. _ _

_ _
Authors have always -been highly respected in
Japan, and they used to receive pensions from the
Central Government or the local princes.
Since the country has been open to foreigners thou-
sands of books on foreign countries have been pub-
lished. Copyright and the censorship have existed in
Japan for centuries. As for the newspapers, they
have only existed during the last twelve years, but
they have an enormous circulation, and are, as a rule,
well written and neatly printed. One of them, a half-
penny daily paper, called the Yomiuri Shinbun, has a
circulation of 6,565,786, and the t4al circulation of
the twelve principal papers in Japan is no less than
21,441,123. The master of every house subscribes to,
at least, one newApaper (single copies are seldom sold),
and the servants usually have another for their own
use.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LANE.— MONDAY.
Heaviness prevails at Mark-lane. The splendid weather
for agricultural affairs and,the further fall at. New York have
caused a decided display of weakness here. Supplies of English
produce were short, foreign wheat and oats were moderately
plentiful; other grain scarce. English wheat was dealt in slowly,
and prices were is. to 2s. per qr. lower than on Monday. In
foreign wheat the inquiry was on a limited scale, and business
was only concluded on lower terms, the decline on the
week being is. to 2s. per qr. on Russian, and 2s. to 3s. on
other sorts. The barley trade was irLactive ; secondary sorts
continued to droop in value; fine malting, from its scarcity
was fairly hrm. Malt sold at previous currencies. In oats,
transactions were limited at about late rates. Maize was
dull, and still drooping, say 6d. lower. Beans and peas were
quiet, but tolerably steady. Flour was dull of sale and is.
lower than on Mondoy last.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MoYDAY.

The cattle trade was in a quiet state. Supplies offering
were larger, and the quality and condition was about the
same as last week. The deliveries of home-fed beasts were
quite the average. The warmer weather and the dulness of
the dead meat trade checked business. Prices remained
about the same as last week; but with a drooping tendency.
The best Scots and crosses sold at be. 10d. to Os. per sib.
From Norfolk and Suffolk we received about 1,200, from the
Midland and Home counties aout 800, from Scotland 263,
and from Ireland 500 head. On the foreign side of the mar-
ket the receipts were only moderate, and consisted for the
most part of Danish, Swedish, Spanish, and American.
Sales progressed slowly, at drooping prices. As regards
sheep there was a fair number in the pens. The inquity was
on a full average scale at hardening prices. The best Downs
and half-breds made 6s. to 6s. Bd. per 81b. Lambs, with a good
demand, realised 9s. tolls. 6d. per 81b. Calves were steady. Pigs
sold at previous currencies. At Deptford vere a few beasts
and 11,000 sheep and lambs. Inferior beasts, 4s. 6d. to be. ;
second quality, be. to be. 6d.; prime large oxen, be. Sd. to ss.
10d. ; prime Scots, be. 10d. to 6s. ; inferior sheep, 4s. 6d. to
ss. ; second quality, 6s. 6d. to es. ; prime coarse-woolled, 6s.
to 6s. 4d. ; prime Southdowns, 6s. 6d. to 6a. Bd. ; large coarse
calves, 6s. 6d. to 6s. ; prime small ditto, 6s. 6d. to 7s. ; large
hogs, 4s. to 4s. 6d ; small porkers, 4s. 10d. to ss. 4d. ; lambs,
9s. Od. to 9s. 6d. per 81b. sinking the offal.

METROPOLITAN 'MEAT MARKET-MoNDAY.
There was a full supply, and the weather being warmer,
trade was very slow. Prices were as follows ;-Inferior beef,
2s. Bd. to 3s. 4d.; middling ditto, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d.• prime
ditto, 45. ed. to &s.; prime Scotch, 45. 10d. to ss. 2d. ; veal,
ss. Bd. to Os.; inferior mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4cl. ; middling
ditto, 4s. 4d. to 55.; prime ditto, Ss. 4d. to 65.; large pork,
4s. 25. to 4s. Ckl. ; small ditto, 4s. Bd. to ss. ; lamb, Ss. Bd. to
Os. 4d. per 81b. by the carcase. .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

BRAVERY REWARDED.

Mr. 11. P. Hortoft, Commoner of Magdalen College'
Oxford, has been presented by the Royal Humane
Society with a medal for having saved life on the
occasion of an accident which occurred on the lake at
Blenheim in January last. The society has also
granted a medal to Mr. Baxter, of Oxford, for his
conduct on the same occasion.

Captain Pitman, R.N., has visited Leigh, Essex,
and has presented rewards from the Board of Trade
to George Emery, Abraham Wilder, Shaw Lungley,
and Thomas . Vincent 'Emery, fishermen:, and to
Edward Porter and James Fox, Coastguard boatmen,
all of Leigh, for having gallantly rescued from
off the Jenkin Buoy, three men belmiging to the
barge Walter Little, of Rochester. A public sub-
scription in recognition of the bravery of the recipients
hm also been opened in Southend.

The Queen has beer4leased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Beal of the United Kingdom,
ordaining and declaring that the borough of Liverpool, In
the county of Laucastor, shall be a city, and, shall be called
an qi tyloil "Ili My of Liverpool, in tlfir" county of
La=gsttr. .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

ELECTRIC LIGHTING EXPERIMENTS.

The Gibraltar Chronicle of the sth inst. says :
On• Saturday night at 9.30 o'clock, to the great
astonishment of those who were not prepared for it,
but who happened to be looking towards the bay, a.
brilliant light was seen to' burst forth suddenly, shoot-
ing out a prolonged ray across the water and on to the
Rock, which it lighted up in a most vivid manner.
This was soon followed by a second similar light at
some little distance from the first, and it soon became
evident that,they were electric lights and proceeded
from Her Majesty's ships Minotaur and Agincourt.
The practice that followed with these lights, and
which was continued for nearly an hour, was interest-
ing in the extreme, for there was not a hole or cranny
on the western face of the Rock from the water to the
signal station that was not searched out and illumi-
nated as if by magic ; 'nor was; nere a vessel or a boat
in the bay that did not undergo the same minute
examination. Owing to the concentration of the light
at the instrument necessary to permit of its rays being
reflected to a distance, the sphere of its action is un-
avoidably limited, and it hence becomes necessary tp
search the water or the shore gradually and methodi-
cally, in such a manner
in
itself is
spot being left
unlighted. Thus the drill n is intricate and re-
quires considerable practice. There is one point which
cannot fail to strike even the uninitiated, which is
that during such time as a vessel displays the electric
light she is, while illilminating the batteries of her
opponents, an excellent mark for their guns."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

A GERMAN OFFICER'S OPINION ON
THE BRIGHTON REVIEW.

A German officer, who was present at the Volunteer
Review at Brighton on Easter Monday, contributes a full
description of the event, with his opinion of the efficiency of
the force, to the Berlin Deutsche Bares Zeitung. The fol-
lowing is an extract therefrom :

"In the battle at Brighton on Easter Monday the
English Volunteers have amply shown their ability to
perform all that Militia troops can be expected to do.
Anxiety to do well, attention; exertion on the part of
the men, and complete devotion to their work on that
of the officers, coupled with good understanding on
military-forms and methods, must be accorded to the
Volunteers. But there is still much to be done in
adapting rules to circumstances, such as strength and
position of the enemy, nature of the ground and object
to be accomplished. A corps of officers of 'a • Militia
cannot from the nature of things in a time of peace
attain more than a certain degree of excellence.
Nevertheless, taking everything into consideration, it
must be admitted that the Volunteers are a serviceable
force, and are on a fair way to improvement. The
felts lie in the system. The opinion expressed by an
English journal that the finest soldiers in the world
may be made from the English Volunteers may be
fully endorsed—on the condition, however, that a
three years' service is submitted to."

The writer remarks that in the "march past," which con-
cluded the proceedings, notwithstanding the exertions to
which the men had been exposed, their zeal showed no
abatement, and no trace of any great fatigue was to be ob-
served. He concludes by saying :

"Whatever improvements, may be required, the
nglish Volunteers are already a force which English
policy can take into account. The home garrisons
and coast defences may be safely left to them, leaving
the regular army at liberty for action abroad. And
if England can, as has been said, sekd no more than
two or three Army Corps for service out of the coup-
try, such a force is by no means to be despised even
at the present period of gigantic armies. Circum-
stances upon the Continent are, indeed, changed since
the days of Marlborough and Wellington. But an
English military expedition would still'be a most valu-
able assistance to any army, as, although, small, it
would- be excellently equipped aid could be landed
promptly at any port of the Continent. After the
late Review at Brightontnone but a favourable opinion
can be formed of England's Volunteer arrn,3r."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-24

SPADES AND SEIOVELS

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