The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-08 00:00:00

EPtrromE OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In Madrid a strike has occurred among the postmen,
and their duties are being temporarily discharged by tele-
graph messengers, policemen, and others.
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In the Prussian Parliatn. ent, on Tuesday, the Bill
amending the Constitution for the purpose of bringing all
religious bodies more campletely under the control of the
State, was read a third time, and passed by 245 to 110 votes.
It is said that Sir Henry Thompson made a drawing
of the face of his Imperial patient shortly after death, and
that the Empress requested him to give it to her. Sir Henry
is almost as well known in art circles as Dr. Seymour Haden
The Army and Nary Gazette says :—The War Office
ham, as we know, decided on abolishing the regimental
numerals and distinctions on the buttons, but retsina them
on the collets, and the regiments are said to be satisfied with
the compromise.
Her Majesty the Queen will arrive at Windsor on
the 18th hist , and will stay at the castle for about a we, k,
and will then. it Is understood, visit the metropolis. The
Queen is expected to stay for several days at Buckingham
Palace.

" We understand that the Directors of the Midland
Company have determined to run sleeping oars upon their
railway on the completion of the joint line. to Liverpool,
which is expected in June next. Carriages of a similar
description are, we understand, to be siso run upon the
South-Eaatern Railway in connexion with the Continental
service;'—Railtany New.

Lord Odeington, the late Speaker of the Houge of
Commons, remains eerionely ill. itle lordship, while riding
In his carriage the other day, was seized with an attack of
parslysis, and had at once to be carried to his room.
Medical aid was immediately procured, when It nu found
thst he was suffering from a severe attack of bronchitis.

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The ether evening the Rev. Father Nugent enter-
tained about a thou mnd of the street &reheat Liverpool to
lea at Hope Hall, and afterward. delivered to them a short
address. He advised all the lads unter is years of site to
attend school, and off creel to find food for those who. it they
went to school. had no means of Ilvllhood. The elder ones
he counselled to mitrate to Wigan, where there was plenty
of work at good wages.

The minor courts of Germany have been greatly
exercised in the matter of mourning for the late French
Emperor. However, they are all one by one following the
example set rather late by liavaria. At CarPraha the Grand
Ducal Court Imposed mourning on the Baden officials for
eight days, but only of the slightest shade recognised sty
official custom.
Lord Hartington received a deputation on Tuesday
from the Baptist Union, who presented his lordship with a
memorial selling forth the views of the den ',Minato upon
the question of primary education in Ireland, as expressed
in a resolution passed at • meeting of 800 delegates held at
Manchester In the autumn of last year. Theljarquir pro-
mised that the memorial should have the attentive consi-
deration of the Government, although they did not contem-
plate making any serious alterations in the eliding system
of primary education daring the forthcoming session.
The Milan Correspondent of the Swiss Times wribm
Lut Sunday evening a series of distressing accidents
occurred at the Scala. The clothes of 'ballet-dancer caught
tire, and but for the immediate aid of the scene-shifters she
would have been burned alive : a modiste fell downthe stair-
case leading to the wardrobe, breaking her leg; • stage
assistant fell dead, stricken with apoplexy anti • muirclan
In the orchestra went raving mad, and was forcibly conveyed
to the hospital.'

Mr. Oglesby, a farmer, living at Tilney-cum-
Islington, met with a shi eking death on the Great Eastern
R tilway on Saturday night. The deceased had attended
Wisbesch-market the same day, and In returning home by
train he got out at sineeth Drove Station, imtead of Middle
Drove Star ion, it Is supposed by mistake. He was not seen
or heard of afterwards until Sunday morning, when • boy
found his body frightfully mutilated by the side of the line.
It is thought that he was walking home cling the line,
and that he was killed by a train which came from an oppo-
site direction to that in which he was going.

• A riot arming from a snowball Conflict occurred in
Dublin on Monday. The students of Trinity College, to the
number of WO, congregated at the back entrance to the
Collegeplace, and commenced to snowball the passers by.
A crowd of rough, gathered, and returned the fire of the
students with stones A fight then ensued, which lasted for
several hours. Reinforcements of roughs arrived, and the
fight was sustained with great vigour on both sides Sticks
and stones were freely used, and serious injuries inflicted.
The fighting was carried into the neighbouring streets, and
much damage was done to window glass The riot was
ultimately suppressed by the police, who forced the
students to retire, and took possession of the college gates.
Several arresta were made.

The Church Herald Is enabled to state on authority
that no less than forty eight of the colonial prelates have ex-
pressed in one shape or another to the English Mahone (Kim°
formally, others by private communications) their conviction
that any tampering with or alteration of the Creed of St
Athanasius would be fraught with peril, and might severely
strain the existing good relations between the mother and
daughter Churches—The same paper says that a High Church
Society for obtaining possession of the advowsons of livings
la important centres of life and activity was formed on Fri-
day hat, and an influential committee of clergy and laity sp.
thr,ed an its trustees. The sum of £lO,OOO tor its purpose was,
Isle reported, promised at the outset as an lnasalm.nt.