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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

EPITOM E OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Italian harvest reports are generally mssl, and
the price of corn is falling in all the Italian markets.

The Earl of Egmont died at his residence, near
Epsom, on Sunday last. The deceased peer, who was in him
Slat year, is succeeded in the title and estates by his nephew,
Charles George Perceval, M. P. for Midhorst.
The Lirerpool Mereurg states that, subject to the
approval of the Dock Board, it has been determined to re-
contract the deck of the landing stage with iron, which will
be covered with a thin coating of wood.

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There is now such a rush of tourists from the
United States to England that on the last Saturday in June
three steamers left New York, carrying lat cabin and a
large number of steerage passengers.

During the Good Templar's fae in Penylan-park
oswestry, on Monday, a young man named Holland, while
playing at "Kiss-In-the-ring," came into violent contact
with another mall, and being knocked down, died almost
immediately.

It is stated that the Spanish banker captured by
brigmids in Navarre had to pay 1150,000 francs for his
release. Eleven of the gang who seised Mr. ilaselden, and
who were afterwards arrested, have been sent for trial by a
criminal court.

We (Court Journal) have been shown a diary for the
month of January, 1784, which, under the date of } riday the
4th, has the following entry :—" Mr. Longman wrote me de-
siring my support to a periodical called The Timed"

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The domain of Ermenonville, celebrated for having
been inhabited by J. J. Rousseau, was on Saturday put up a
second time for sale at the auction-rceen of the Civil court of
the Seine The upshot-price of 1,200,010 fr. not having been
covered, the further proceedings were adjourned.

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The poet Vincent Zusner, who recently shed at
Gratz, has made provision by his will that every year two
prizes of twenty and ten ducats respectively are to be offered
for the best composition of two songs from his poetical works.
The three judges, each of whom is to receive five ducats
yearly, are to be chosen from the Conservatoire at Vienna.
During the 1..-urning of the landing-stage at Liver.
pool a fire policeman had a narrow escape. He was one of
the last to quit the burning portion of the stage, and had to
seek refuge on the top of the framework of the fixed gang-
way at the embayment. lien, lie was quickly enveloped in
dense smoke and iu imminent danger of suffocation. The
passengers on boar.: one sf the New Brighton boats fortu-
nately discovered his perilous position, and a tug boat was
bailed, which at once ran stern on against the stage and
rescued him. Ile was at the time in ans sit exhausted con-
dition, and in five minutes afterwards it large area around
the spot from which he was taken because completely Isilap
proa‘hable by naval of Amok° lad fire.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

WORDSLEY.

MASONIC FETE.—On Monday, the annual picnic of the
Honourable Order of Modern Masons was held in the
beautiful park and grounds belonging to Colonel Fletcher
at Lawneswood, near Stourbridge. A grand procession
hit Birmingham in the morning, and proceeded by train
to Brettil Lane. A grand procession of the whole of the
lodges of the district after. ards marched through Stour.
bridge to Lawneswood, accompanied by the Brierley Hill
Saishorti Band, the Birmingham, Bordealey. nod the
Wolverhampton Bar.horn Band. The great Vol Becque
Troupe and a number of other artistes were engaged,
and no effort was spared by the committee to make this,
their first gathering, a successful one. The weather was
beautifully Eno, and large numbers visited the picnic
daring the day.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

CO-OPERATIVE STORES.

The Saturday Rrrirta, in an article referring to Sir
Thomas Chambers reference to Co-operative Astociation, in
the House of Commons, says :

If retail traders were wise men, they would set to
work to help themselves instead of asking the member
for Marylebone to help them. In one respect many
of them have done this already. Ready-money deal-
ings are very much more common than they once were,
and the disuse of long credit is in a great measure to
be traced to the popularity of Co-operative Stores.
But, as we have just seen, it is not cheapness alone
that the Co-operative Store gives it customers. The
certain purity of the goods is to many persons even a
more attractive feature of the system. There is no
reason why this feature ekould not be equally present
in the rival system. A writer in the Corn,.
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Magazine proposed some months ago that shop-
keepers should form themselves into an Association
which should pledge its members to give a correct
description of every article sold, maintain competent
analysts of good professional repute to test any sample
offered for analysis by a purchaser, and return the
price for any article which failed to stand this test. If
thoroughly respectable dealers became members of this
Association in the first instance, it would soon be un-
derstood that shops which remained outside it were
afraid to face the ordeal which membership involved.
It might also be expedient in the case of new members
that the heads of the Association should exercise some
I supervision over the quality of the goods sold, without
I waiting for the purchaser to take the initiative. We
do not say, however, that even with this precaution re-
tail dealers will rind the future as easy as the past has
been. The number of shops is far too great for all, or
nearly all, of them to be profitable to those who keep
them. A glut of distn'butors must have the same
results as a glut of producers. Only a certain number
of men can live by bringing goods to the doors of the
customers who want them, and those for whom there
120 bu Inuit eetic a livelihood in other ways.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

CANON LIDDON ON WOMAN'S
INFLUENCE.

In preaching on Sunday afternoon at St. Paul's Cathedral
on the temptation and fall of Solomon, the subject or one of
the Imams for the day, Canon Liddon spoke strongly of
woman's power over man, and reminded his hearers that,
although the king had seven hundred wives and three hun-
dred concubines, what happened to him might easily happen
to a man with one wife. The Pall Mall Gaulle thus sum-
marises the sermon :
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That a subtle and powerful influence may be exerted
over a man in this way is an unquestionable fact, and
in the majority of cases it is exercised with good effect,
for woman, as a rule, has higher aims, truer instincts,
and loftier views of life than man. Hence the pro-
verbial saying that a bad woman is much worse than a
bad man owes much of its force to the fact that when
woman fulls, her fall is all the deeper because she
falls from a higher level than man. And it is because
her influence is often exerted without its being suspected
by its subject that it is more disastrous when it tends to
evil. Solomon's wives did that which no man in his em-
pire could have done—they perverted the wisest of men.
Towards the close of his sermon the preacher referred to
some of the influences which might have been expected
to hinder Solomon's fall, and first to his age. Many men
in middle life, said Dr. Liddon, think that as they
grow older they grow better, or at any rate, do not
grow worse; that they are kept by routine and fixed
habits from any great fall; but Solomon's history and
our own experience proves the contrary, for the course
of the soul as years go by is not upwards and onwards,
but too often downwards and backwards. After
instancing the cases of Judas and Demas as of men
who fell in old age, and pointing out that the asser-
tion that 'a hoary head is a crows of glory" hangs on
the appended condition "when it is found in the way
of righteousness," Dr. Liddon said that as age does
not ensure a man against moral ruin, so it makes
ruin more dreadful when it has taken place.
Neither, added the preacher, did Solomon's
knowledge prevs. his fall. Although he was a
master of natural science, of constructive skill, of the
rules of administration and government, and of all the
rules of human life then known, as also of all spiritual
, knowledge, still he fell. The old Greeks thought
that knowledge and virtue were at the bottom the
same thing, and some modern speakers and writers on
education also take this view, and seem to think that
if only knowledge, human and religious, is supplied,
the kingdom of heaven will at once begin on earth.
Solomon's history proves the contrary, for his
knowledge only made his fall all the deeper.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS_ BILL._

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The Romeo went into committee on the Endowed Schools
A.a Amendment Bill, and the amendments of the Duke of
Richmond indicated in his speech the prelloll3 night were
inserted and agreed to.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following bills also passed through committee :—The
Appropriation Bill, the Valuation (Ireland) Act Amendment
BM, and the Lough Corril Navigation Bill.

PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION BILL.
On the motion that the Commons' amendments to the I
Public Worship Regulation Bill be considered,
The Archbishv of Canterbury, anticipating that the
Commons amendment allowing an appeal from the Bishop
to the Archbishop would lead to some difference of opinion,
explained that such an appeal was by no means novel in the
constitution of the Church ; but he thought that it might
be well that provision should be made for enabling the
Archbishop and Bishop to confer together on the representa-
tion submitted to the consideration of the Bishop. lie
added that he was only expressing the opinion of those most
interested In the bill when he expressed his obligations for
the great attention bestowed in both Houses of Parliament
on the details of the measure, which lie trusted would
greatly conduce to the establishment of peace and harmony.
The Commons' amendment, allowing an appeal from the
Bishop to the Archbishop, gave rise to conaiderable discus-
sion. The Archbishop of York thought there would be ex-
perienced great inconvenience in the appeal, but that the
Inconvenience would be much diminished by the adoption of
a suggest bon made by the Lord Chancellor that the Bishop
and the Archbishop should exercise a joint discretion.
The Bishop of Winchester opposed the Commons' amend-
ment on the ground that it interfered with the Bishop as the
ruler and Judge In his awn diocese : and the Bishop of
Lincoln also expressed objection to the amendment because
he thought that by it the discretion of the Bishop would be
entirely overridden
Lord Carnarvon contended that the amendment, taken
with other amendments. greatly altered the character of the
bill, and practically took away the discretion of the Bishop
and transferred the power to the Archbishop. Lord
ifarrowby thought the Commons' amendment, which pre-
ventqd the Bishop from stopping asi appeal to the law,
ought to be acquiesced in.
The Lord Chancellor then proposed an amendment to the
onimons' amendment, believing that the absolute
of the Commons' amendment might prove fatal to the bill.
The effect ot his amendment he stated would be, by an alters-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

FOYLE COLLEGE BILL.

The Commoni amendments to this bill were considered
and agreed to.
VACCINATION ACT (1871) AMENDMENT BILL.
The Commons amendments to this bill were considered
and agreed to

REWSTItATION OF BIRTHS AND bEATHS BILL.

This bill passed through committee.

SANITARY LAWS AMENDMENT BILL.
The report of amendineata to this bill was agreed to.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

THE LAST WEEKS WORK.

August 1-8.
A van END of fagged hacks untiring
Fag final clauses through;
A knot of Law-givers, perspiring,
Expiring laws renew.—Punch.

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AT
SCHOOLS. .

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Some interesting remarks respecting compubiory
attendance at schools are made by the Rev. -Hobert '
Temple, Inspector of Schools in Montgomeryshire and
Shropshire and the adjoining counties, in his report for
1873 lately printed (says the Pall Mall Gazette). Mr.
Temple has observed one curious result of the system, and ,
that is that where a board school to which the compelled
attendants go and a voluntary school are in the same
neighbourhood the better claim of work-people send
their children to the latter, whether it belongs to.° Church
or chapel, because they do not wish them to be
contaminated by the had language, morals, and man-
ners of " young blackguards swept from the gutters."
It is all very well to talk of reclaiming stray sheep, '
but if the stray sheep are diseased the owners of
healthy lambs may well object to contagion. "I du
not know," adds Mr. Temple, "what depth of treason
I may be about to fathom ; but I must say that there
still remain in my more generate mind certain doubts
about the expediency of compulsion. People of the
higher and middle class are left free to educate their
children at home, at school, or at a tutors, according
to their judgment, and I do think it rather hard
that a mother of the lower class may be forced
to see her nervous and timid child dragged against her
will into the uncongenial atmosphere of a big school.
I certainly see in schools children of this kind who
ought not to be there. Moreover, I cannot forget that
the factory girls who have been subject to compulsory
education for years; make the worst wives and mothers
in England. Compulsion may be necessary, I do
not say it is not, but when I think of the discomfort
which it brings to thousands of cottages, and the mis-
chief it may do to the health of thousands of children,
• it is clear to me that the most delicate handling is re-
quired, and will, I heartily hope, be obtained. Ten years
I ago there was a cry against education, now there is a
i cry in its favour, and whenever a cry is raised on any
I subject exaggeration and oppression are not far off,
and ignorance is pretty sure to attempt the work of
experience." Mr. Temple appears to forget that
without compulsory education we could never convert
ruffians into scoundrels, and the latter are not such
eyesores to society as the former.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

The above has elicited the following letters :

Sir,—Allow me to say a few words in answer to a
" Dorsetshire Labourer" who writes to you concern-
ing Canada as a country for emigrants. He asks,
where is truth to be found I answer, from those who
have lived long enough in the country to be able to
form an opinion of its advantages and disadvantages,
and not from agitators whose constant cry is, "
grate, emigrate," thereby trying to make a tool of the
labourer in order to injure the farmer.
These men know no more of the country, as a rule,
than the " Dorsetshit• Labourer" himself. I lived in
Canada for more than five years, and any opinion is
that your correspondent would not be better off there
than here. He would get about four shillings a day.
His food would be much cheaper, but not so good.
His clothes very much dearer. House rent about the
same. He would have to work much harder than he
does here. As to churches and schools, there are
plenty of both—and the education at the latter cannot
be excelled. There are also benefit clubs in case of
sickness.
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Now, let me tell him that money is not so plentiful
in Canada as it is England, consequently he would not
always find his wages ready for him, as I expect he
does here, Lay, more, he would sometimes have to take
them in kind. As far as work is concerned, there is
no lack of that; and a strong, healthy man, without
enciunberance, and with ever so little money in hand
to help him tide over any emergency, would certainly
have more chance there than here of becoming in-
dependent in time. On the other hand, I would
strongly advise " a man with nothing but his two
hands to look to. and with a wife and live children,' to
think more than three times before he leaves his native
land, —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, C.L.
caterham, August 1.

Sir,—! noticed to-day a letter in your valuable paper
from a " Dorsetshire Labourer" seeking information
about emigration to America. I having been in all
parts of America, both North and South, will, with
your permission' give him my opinion. All persons
going out can make a living, as there is plenty of work
and good wages, but they must prepare themselves
to rough it out, and I would advise any one who
can make a living at all most decidedly not
to go. I notice a dollar (4s. there) in just about equal
to Is. here. All people who emigrate should be
young and healthy; people who are k,rOV6ll up and used
to the many little comforts of an English home take
badly with those changes that they find in the American
life ; and I have noticed people who have gone out
with families doing all they could by any means try to
get back again to their English home; that appeared
to be their only object in life, and they seldom attained
it. In vessels which I have myself commanded many
have offered their services to me gratis if I would put
them down penniless upon the English chore.—! am,
Sir, your obedient servant, M. M.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

AUSTRALIA,

ASSISTED PASSAGES
UNDER THE NEW LAND ORDER REGULATIONS
The liovernment of South Australia are prepared to
grant munages to the following persons :-
1. Artisaes, Agricultural and other Labourers, Miners
and Gardeners under 50 years of age.
2. single Females Domestic Servants, or Widows
(without Children under 12, not exceeding 35 years
Of age.
Sabject to the payments as under:—
For Males or Females tinder 12 peels £3 each
D itto ditto over 12 and sander 40 4 „
Ditto ditto over band under 50 8 „
Persona paying their own Passage reserve a Land War
rant of the value of £2O.
For further information apply to
Mr. M. PALFREY,
Cecil Street, Stourbridge,
Selecting Agent.

TIVICICS tr ATCHES—The Bost and Cheapest in the
World (ride 'limes). 30 PER CENT SAVED.
Wept Prices: Aluminium, 188 to 255; Workmen's
flood Silver, 26s to 395 ; Ditto Hunting Case, 465;
Ladies Elegant Silver (Small size). 36s ; Hunting Cue.
425; Gent's Splendid Silver Levers, 45s to 1050; Runt,
lag Case, 70s to 155 c; Ladies Fashionable Gold Watches,
• 81.: Ditto Hunting Case, 1180; Gent's Splendid Gold
Levers, 981 ; Hunting Case. 130 s. Every kind of First
Class Gold and Silver Watches kept in Stock, at Lowest
Wholesale Cash Prices. All Watches warranted to par.
chasers from one to five jeers each, by Printed and
Stamped Warranties. signed, GEORGE DYER. Price
Lists and Orders sent safe per Post to all parts of the
world. Post Office Orders Payable Regent-street; Ban.
knee, Union Bank of London.—DYkß, Goldsmith and
Watt!. maker, 90, Rego t.street, London,W

AWell-bred Short-born BULL is kept at
G. Horroky's, top of bureb.street, St,urbridgt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN'S
FAREWELL.

In London, last Sunday night, St. Paul's Cathedral
was crowded by an overwhelming congregation,
anxious to hear the new Bishop of Capetown's fare-
well address, and at its close the Metropolitan of
South Africa was warmly greeted by working men.
The most reverend prelate preached from St. Luke
xii., 48, on the " Use of Opportunities," and after the
usual exposition of the text, alluded to the cheapness
of the Bible, saying that he feared it was net less store
by and held more common owing to its cheapness.
Certainly it was more valued in those days when it
could hardly be produred for money, but was chained
to the walls of churches. Which of us can say that
we make all the use of it that we might? Do we make it
our daily study? Which of us can say, with David,
" Thy word is a lantern unto my feet, and a light
unto my path ? " How often do we think that we
shall have to give an account of the way in which we
I have used the sacred volume? The most rev, prelate
having remarked on the responsibility raised by the
numberless books of piety and devotion now published,
said that we should be called to account Tor the way in
which we had used such blessings, and reminded his
hearers that multitudes of our brethren abroad had to
travel thousands of miles before they could obtain the
blessings which laid at our very doors. He then con-
trasted the luxury which reigns here, the wealth of
London, the gorgeousness of its spectacles, the magni-
ficence of dress, the splendour of equipages, the waste
and extravagance which is thought the suitable accom-
paniment of rank and fashion, the lust of the flesh, the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life with the nig
gardliness of almsgiving. The Indian bishops pro-
claimed the crying needs of their dioceses, and the same
cry comes from every quarter where the English Church
has set her foot; and while luxury and splendour and dis-
play, of ten too regardless of the victims who labour and
starve behind the outward scene, are revelling in Lon-
don society, a mission must needs be abandoned, which
might have been permanently and for ever endowed,
and that amply, at the cost of one great and sump-
tuous entertainment. Oh, this country of ours, and
this City of London, they have a grand future before
them, if their wealth and their commercial power and
the intercourse which they hold with the nations of the
world—if these, I say, are used to the glory of God
and the extension of His kingdom, and the conversion
of souls, for which Christ died. But, inasmuch as the
greater the opportunity, the greater the responsibility;
the loftier the elevation, the more disastrous the fail;
so let us take warning while we have yet time, lest
the eye of Christ be turned on us with that sadness
with which it fell on Jerusalem and wept for wasted
importunities, lest these words be true such as of
Xeruealem, "If thou hadst had," &e.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

THE CAPTIVITY OF BAZAINE.

The Perzereranzo of Milan gives an account of a
visit to Marshal Bazaine at St. Marguerite. His cap-
tivity is shared by Madame Bazaine, his three sons, '
aged three, five, and seven years, Colonel Villette,
who refused to abandon his General, and two servants,
none of whom are allowed to pass beyond the small
strip of garden facing the building. The Marshal—
or, as he is styled by his gaolers, M. Bazaine—
made inquiries of his visitors as to the progress
of the Italian army and the improvement being
made in it. He asked for Della Marmora and
other Generals whom he had known in Italy,
and stated that if his lot underwent any change
he should settle with his family in that coun-
try. He described himself as a scapegoat, but mani-
fested no bitterness towards his judges or the French
Government, regarding himself as the victim of unto-
ward circumstances. Ile is devoted to his family, and
spends his time in reading, writing on the events in
which he was an actor, and walking with his faithful
Villette. His letters, books and newspapers are in-
spected by the Governor of the prison, which contains
no kitchen, and his meals are therefore supplied from
the canteen in the same way as those of the officials.
He has received very kind messages from the Pope, the
ex-Queen of Spain, and the leading Bonapartists, in-
' eluding the Empress Eug
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

DEATH OF PROFESSOR INNES.

The Edinburgh Courant announces the death of
Professor Cosmo Innen, one of the Principal Clerks
of Session, and Professor of Constitutional Law and
Constitutional History in the University of Edin-
burgh. The Professor died very suddenly on Friday
morning, at Killin, where he was staying with his
wife and daughter, who were accompanying him on a
tour through the Highlands. The party left Edin-
burgh about ten days previously, had come from the
direction of Loch Awe, and were resting at KiLn
before proceeding farther. On Thursday night Mr.
Innen appeared to be in excellent health and spirits,
but on Friday morning, about three o'clock, he became
very unwell, his appearance indicating that he had
sustained a severe shock to the system. The services
of the resident medical practitioner were at once
obtained, and so serious did he consider the patient's
condition that a telegram was despatched to Edin-
burgh for Dr. George Keith, the family physician.
Dr. Keith at once proceeded to Killin, but be arrived
there ton late to be f any service The Professor never
regained consciousness, and gradually sank till about
eight o'clock, when he expired. Apoplexy is stated
an the cause of death. The deceased Professor bad
attained the ripe age of seventy-five years.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

CRADLEY.

A campanile or bell tower, to carry • peal of bells, the
gift of a July to the church, is being erected in connec-
i ox with the Parish Church at Cradley, at a cost of up.
outdo of £1.390. Mr. Nelson, contractor, Dudley, is
executing the work from the designs and under the direc-
tion of the architect, Mr. John Cotton, of Temple Bow,
Birmingham.

BROTHERLY LOVE.—At the Petty SeSSiOHS at Stour.
bridge, yesterday, Henry and Selina Crampton were
charged with ass lulting Charles Southall, on the Sith
alt. From the evidence of complainant and his witness
it appeared that bah of them were members of the Odd
Fellows Lodge held at the Black Swan. A dispute arose
between them, and " hard words '• were used by both
parties against each other. When they had left the
lodge, the defendant, Henry, struck him and kicked him,
and the wife threw a jug at him. The defence was that
the complainant charged the defendant with cutting a
man'a pocket if, and they fought. Henry Crampton was
tined 5a and costs, and Selina 24 6,1 and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

FISH.

.......
Pickled timings, 30s. to 355. ; red ditto, 128. to 221 ;
roused ditto, 208. to 28s. ; fresh ditto, lin. to 25s per barrel .
kipper ditto, 2s 4cl. to 48. 64.; bloater ditto, 28. 64 to
38 10d. per box ; smoked haddocks, 208. to 308. per barrel
trawl ditto, 13s. to 18, ; ditto plaice, 188. to 208. ; ditto
whiting, 108. to 15s. per basket ; turbot, 68. to Its. . brill,
2. to 3s. each ; soles, Is. 64. to 40. per pair ; mackerel, 29. to
Se. 64.; lobsters, 85. to 20s. ; crabs, 74. Od. to 218. per dozen ;
native Oysters, £lO 100. per bushel.

PROVISION.
Log Port, Saturday, Aug. 1. -The arrivals last week from
Ireland were 362 firkins butter and 2,480 bales bacon, and
from foreign ports 27,430 packages butter, and 2.880 balea
bacon. With moderate supplies of foreign butter, the de-
mand has been good, and prices advanced about ris. per cwt.
In Iribh there is more doing, and in Corks also in fine Clon-
mels some sold at 1305. free on board, and Limericks at 128 s.
to 128 s free on board. The demand for bacon is very good;
no change in value of best Waterford, but Limerick is 2s,
dearer, and Hamburg Is. American singed sides are 2s.
dearer Lard has sold more freely, the very moderate price
commanding attention to it.
PRICES.

. ai.i...0.
Butter, per cwt : s. s. Cheese, per cwt : I. S.
Dorset . • , 188 to 140 Cheshire 74 20 84
Friesland
Jersey 96 104 Cheddar 78 90
Eng. Fresh, per doz l5 17 American
Bacon, per cwt : Hams: York lO2 108
Wiltshire, green 82 88 1 Cumberland
Irlah,green, to. b. 84 SS Irish .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LANE. -WEDNESDAY.

There has been no feature in the grain trade at Mark-lime.
and Lusiness has been much restricted. English wheat has
been sparingly out-red, but the demand has continued quiet.
Old samples have been unaltered New red are quoted at
58a. and white at 625. per qr. Foreign wheat, of which •
moderate supply has been offered, sold slowly, on former
terms. Barley has been in short supply. The demand has
been quiet, at late rates. Malt has sold on former lemma.
With oats the market has been scantily supplied. The trade
has been quiet, but firm, at previous quotations. liaise has
been inactive, at about late rates. Beans and peas have been
quiet, on former terms.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. -MONDAY.
The total imports of foreign stock in London last week con-
sisted of 11,686 head. In the corresponding week last year we
received 12,879 ; in 1872. 13,159 ; in 1071, 21,993 ; in 1870, 9,884
in 1869, 11,146 head. The cattle trade to-day has been steady
on the whole, although wi shout feature of importance. We
have received a fair supply of beasts from the grazing
districts in moderate condition. Prime qualities have
commanded a rather active business, at Gs. per 81b.
other descriptions have been quiet. From Lincoln.
shire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire we have
received about 840, from Norfolk 30, and from Scotland 15
head. The supply on the foreign side of the market was
moderate A fair business has been transacted, at late
rates. There have been 1 200 Tonning, 200 Spanish, 50 Go-
thenburg, and 286 Dutch. There was a fair show of sheep In
the pens. Trade was steady at late rates. The best Downs
and half-breds realised 55. to 55. 4d. per 81h. Lambs quiet,
at 6s. to 6s. 24 per Sib. Calves have conimandect a fair
amount of attention at late rates. Pigs unaltered. Coarse
and inferior beasts, Is, to 45. 64. second quality ditto,
4. Bd. to 5.5. Oil. ; prime large oxen, ss. 6d. to ss. 8d ;
prime Scots, be., Os. 104. to 65. 24. ,• coarse and inferior
sheep, 4s. 44. to 45. 64. ; second quality ditto, 4a. 64. to
45 bd. ; prime coarse-woolled, 4s. 104. to Is. ; prime South.
downs, ss. 04. to Os. 44. ; large coarse calves, as. 10d. to
Is, 641. ; prime small ditto, 4s. Oil. to 5. 24. • large hogs,
Ss. 84. to 4s. ; small porkers, Is. 4d to 45 8,11. ; lamb, 55. Oil
to Ss. 44. Total supply :-Ileasts, 3,960 sheep and lambs,
23,311 ; calves, 350; plgs, 30. Foreign : Beasts, 1,761 ; sheep
and lambs, 10,000.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

WILLIAM TATE.

rilo the Overseers of the Pour of the Tesveship
_L of Cradley, in the County of Worcester, and t., u..
Superintendent of Police of the Division of Stourbridge.
in the stud County, and to all whom It Ina) concern.
I, REUBEN HARPER, now residing .t Colley Oat,.
in the township of Cradley, in the county ,I %torc.,ste,.
Beerhouse.keeper, do hereby give Notice, th .t it me tuy
intention to apply at the lieneral Annual Liceuvin
Meet:lig to be hoiden at the Public offve, tourbruige, n
the DIV.IOO aforesaid, in the said c..inty...n the 26.,
day of August next ensuing, for a LIA.r.NAE to Aeh fl
WINES and SPIRIIS, to be eubAnued either
or off the Premises, at • Rouse situate at Loney lute, in
the township of Cradley, In the CO uty f Wont§ er and
being within the not, Divi-ion
'the Owner of the House in T.apot .1 wto• Ii tut
License Is required is my own..
. . _ . .

Gwen nuclei my hand:thts 21st day of July. 1874.
The Mark of
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

PUBLIC NOTICES.

STOURBRIDGE OkS COMPANY.

IVOTICE ISIHEREIIY GIVEN, that tits
next FIALF-YEARLY IdE,TING of the
SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the
Company's Offices, at the G.is IN'osks, AYBLIICOTT,
STOCRURII,6 K, on FILIDAY, the 14th day of Atfunex.
1871, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the purpose of
receiving the Report of the Directors of the Receipt&
and Disbursements for the last half-year, and a State.
went of the General Aft.iire of the Company for that
period ; also the declaring a dividend for the last hall.
year, and for the transaction of the General Bottom
of the Company.

W. U. JONES,
Socretary.

Stuurbridge. July 27th, 11374.

The Transfer Books will be closed from the Srd to
the 17th day of August, 1074.

STOURBEIDGE WATER WORKS COMPANE
(LIMITED).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
OhDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the
Shareholders of the Stoorbridge Water Works Company
(Limited), will be held at the Company's Oftices, No. 1,
CHOECU-STBEET, in the Township of Stearbrldge, in the
County of Worcester, on MONDAY, the 24th day of
AVOVILIT just, at Half•past Four o'clock in the Attereowa
to receive the Directors' Report, and to adopt the same
or otherwise ; to declare a Dividend ; soil for the purpose
of transacting the general business of the Company.

(By Order),
GEI3, Euil,l,o%‘ AY, Seeretery.

Company's Offices, Stou:bridge,
Aug. 3rd, 1874.

WESLEYAN CHAPEL, SIOURBRIDOE.

ORGAN OPENING.

ON MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871, Mr. STIMP-
NON, :Organist of the 'roan ii,rtninghans.
svnl give no OlttiAN RE, :a inL, Coln wrLclug at tielfai
u'cioth in the Evening.
Admission : Area, 1, ; OaDery, 6d.
Prograutme of the Mugu. no.l Itols-t• for A :tut...lon,
ratty ba pan ffolll MelSlll. 0011gb, Clcudry, Canadine,
klusaell, and Chapel Keeper.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

TO FARMERS AND OTHERS.

AQuantity of MANURE to be DISPOSED
OF, en application to G. Horsley, top of Cbureb•
street, Sturbridge.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

TO be LET, FURNISHED, for one or two
months, a beautiful RESIDENCE, standing in its
own pounds of three acres. First-class situation.—For
full particulars, apply to
OATES, PERRENS, and WOOLDRIDGE,
Land Agents,
Stourbridge.

APARTMENTS to LET, pleasantly•situated,
near Kinfare Edge. Front Bed Room and Par-
ma, nicely furnished. Terms very moderate—Address,
• Villa," Kinfare Yost Office.

WANTED, to Rent. near Stourbridge, a
SMALL HOUSE, with or without a Few Acres
of Laad.—For particulars, apply to " 0.P.Q.," Post
Moe, Stourbridge.

APPRENTICES WANTED, to Learn
MOULDING, &0., in an Ironfoundry,—Apply,
Mr. Maury Robinson, Stewkins, Foundry, fßourbridge.

CASH ADVANCED N4ITHOUT SURETIES
MONEY LENT PRIVATELY, at a Day's
Notice to Gentlemen, Tradesmen, Farmers, and
others, residing in any part of England and Wales, from
per cent. in MIMS of £lO to £lOO, on persons' note of
hand. Terms arranged from three months to five years.
—Apply personally, or by letter, stating the amount re-
quired, and when, to Mr. A. Bradbury (private house),
161, Welworth-road, London, S.E. Surplus Cash always
on hand, no connexion with Loan °Mess,

yoNEY to be lent in ToiAn or Country, to
1 Gentlemen, Farmers, Tradesmen, or others, from
Fifty Pounds and upwards, upon personal security. In.
Cereal five per cent. per annum, from one to seven years.
No commission or charge. made. Also sums from One
Thousand Pounds on Mortgage, at three and a half per
cast., on freehold or leasehold property, for any term not
esceeding twenty-one years —Apply to Mr. HENRY
HOWARD, Civd Engineer and Surveyor, late Girdlestone
and Barclay, 11, Eustomaguare, London.

EMIGRATION

TO ADELAIDE.

SOUTH

- 4
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

THE NEW TRAINING SHIP
" ARETHUSL"

- - ---
At Greenhithe, on Monday, the ceremony of the In-
auguration of her Majesty:B ship Arethusa, a training
ship for destitute boys, was carried out under the
presidency of Lord Shaftesbury, in the presence of a
numerous and distinguished company. The noble
Lord, in addressing the boys said—lle must thank the
boys very much for the suit of clothes which they had
sent his grandson, with the word "Chichester" upon
the cap. He would wear the clothes till they were
worn out, and all Lord Shaftesbury hoped was that
his grai.dson would inherit the love which he himself
had for the Chichester boys. They had indeed
answered to the care bestowed upon them, and had
shown that God's grace was not given in vain,
The noble I, •rd then, addressing th.• ladies and
gentlemen present, said that six yearn ago his
friend Williams (the Secretary) and himself sat
in council, and they asked each other. "What
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

TEE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.

A meeting of the Executive Council of the Agri-
cultural Labourers' Union WAA held at Leamington on
Monday, Mr. Joseph Arch in the chair, when the
following resolutions were passed with reference to
the crisis in the Eastern counties :

-
" Thin committee confirms the resolutions of the sub-
committee of July 27 in reference to the locked-out
labourers, and are of opinion that one week's clear notice
should be given to each locked-out member before with-
drawing their support. This committee, therefore, decide
to pay one week more to those locked-out members not in
employment."
- - •

':-The committee does not feel justified or in any way
bound to give permanent relief to such men who, by reason
of age or infirmity, are unable to migrate, and who are
victimized by the farmers in being discharged."
'' The comadttee does not feel justified in taking upon
itself the duties and responsibilities of the Poor Law
Board."

Several agents of companies running steamers from
England to thecolonies and other places had interviews
with the Executive Committee with reference to pro-
moting the emigration of farm labourers from the
Eastern counties. Checks were drawn for the relief
of the men during the ensuing week. The amount
collected at Leeds on Saturday reached WA, and on
Sunday £4O more was collected. On Monday morning
the men left Leeds, and marched eight miles from
Bramley to Stanningley. The town was paraded in
the usual manner, with a brass band, after which a
meeting was held on the Sun-bridge, presided over by
Mr. Harrison. Each man was on Saturday night pro-
vided with a pair of socks and a shirt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08

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BRIERLEY HILL.

Bov's Intaxs.—At the Petty Sessions, held on Thurs-
day, before 1. Spooner, Esq., Stipendiary, Benjamin
dart and 1: homes Mogendge, were charged with assau it-
mg Frank Taylor, on the 25ult. The assault complained
of was, that tie defendant put him into a cistern and
struck him. Deferment was ordered to find one surety
in dila pay Costs.
AsaIULT CASE.-1130Dlatt Roberts was charged by
David Absolam PAM, with assaulting him on the 27th
mt. Mr. Lowe of Dudley, appesred to prosecute, and
Mr Homer d :folded. Pr ink the evidence of complain-
ant it appeared that the defenuant married complainant's
sister, and was in the habit of iiltreating her. On the
above date complainant heard cries of" Murder," and on
going to the defendant's house, found that he had been
beating his wife. Oa remonstrating with him, defendant
picked up a crane, and aimed a blow at his head. V% itness
put up his arm to ward if the blow, and received a seri-
MO wound on his arm, and be had to call in Or. Ash-
me id. Several witnesses were called to prove the assault.
Br. Homer, for the defence, did not deny the assault, but
contended that complainant and others were removing
defendant's furniture from his house, and he was excited.
Several witnesses were called for the defence, and Mr.
Spooner said it was very wrong to take a man's goods from
nis house whilst he was away, which gave him great pro-
vocation; and he should not tine the defendant, not order
him to find two sureties is £5, himself in .210, to keep
the peace for six months, and pay costs.
AsetAtLT Can.—John Hickman was charged with as-
saulting Benjamin Fades, on the ii inst. Complainant
said they both worked at Messrs. Westwood and Moores
Bottle Works. On the above date defendant struck him
and knocked him down, and whilst down struck him on
the month, and made it bleed. Defendant said that
edmplainant struck him wit.i a blowing pipe first, which
deified. lined £1 and Costs; in in:fault three weeks'
hard labour.

THE VALVE OF A Richard Revington was
charged with assaulting Joseph Whitehouse, on the let
inatant Complainant said he was at the Rock Tavern,
Corumonaide. A dispute arose, when defendant struck
him a violent blow on the mouth, and knocked one of his
teeth -out. On cross-examination, witness admitted
striking the defendant on the eye, and the cause of it was
that the defendatit bad discharged the complainant's eon.
Ordered to pay 2. 64 each, the Costs.
APPLICATION COB AN EJECTUENT.—Mr. Honfray, on
behalf of tSr. Walker. made au appiication to the Court
to eject one Elias Cooper from a tenement occupied by
Cooper, in Moor Lane. Complainant mid that he let the
defendant a tenement in Moor Lane, Brierley Hitt. The
defendant was a tenant at will, and he (witness) had given
him notice, but he refused to leave. Jomph Wnght, of
Oudley, process-server, proved serving defendant with a
notice to leave, on the 7th July. John Pate shall, clerk
Messrs Homfray and Holberton, proved AerVl/Ig defend-
ant's daughter with n notice. The application of com-
plainant was granted.