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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

ONE BOX of CLARKE'S B 41 Bill is
warrranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary
Organs, in either sex, acquired or constitutional, Gravel
and Pains in the Bsck.—Sold in boxes, 4s 6d each, by
all Chemists And Patent Medicine Vendors; or sent to
any address for 60 Stamps by the Maker, F. J. CLARILIi,
Consulting Chemist, Apothecaries' Hall, Lincoln.—
Wholesale Agents, ILLuoLia SON, London, and all thl
Wholesale Rouses)
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

THE CENTRAL CHAMBER OF
AGRICULTURE. "

A monthly Council meeting of the Central Chamber of
Agriculture was held on Monday at the Society of Arts,
Adelphi, London, Lord Carrington in the chair.

A communication received from the York Chamber
enclosed a resolution passed at a meeting of farmers at
Melton on the sth inst., to tilt effect that the present
depression was partly due to the much depreciated
value of wool caused by the prevailing fashionlof wear-
ing and using articles of foreign production and of
foreign manufactures, and suggesting to the Princess
of Wales, as the leader of fashion in England, that she
'would be pleased to give her patronage to woollen
goods of British growth and manufacture.
Mr. A. Pell, M.R, brought forward-a report of the
Local Taxation Committee, who called attention to
several Bills affecting local rates. To the Local
Government (Boundaries) Bill they invited the hearty
support of all who desired to see a practical effort to
harmonize those conflicting local areas which so
materially retarded the development of local govern-
ment in counties.
Except so far as the Rivers Conservancy Bill con-
templeted the provision of works of water storage for
the benefit of uplands, it was open to the criticisms
off&ed in 1879 to any proposal to spread a portion of
the charge for river conservancy on unbenefited lands.
The committee objected to the Lunacy Law Amend-
ment Bill in so far as it proposed to extend the powers
of the justices in relation to the care and custody of
lunatics, permitting the purchase of private asylums
and licensed houses, and the treatment of private as
well as pauper lunatics of the general county system.
Believing that tie Free Libraries and Parliamentary
Election Expanses Bills were attempts to increase the
local burdens Of ratepayers, the oentmittee urge that
they should be watched, and, if needful, resisted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

muster is imputed to be larger than in any previous
year. It will bo remembered that last year, after tho
review had been officially sanctioned, the dissolution
of Parliament necessitated the withdrawal of the per-
mission. The review was, however, ultimately sanc-
tion

ed and held; bat the muster was not so good as it
would have been had no interruption in the arrange-
ments taken place. Easter, it will be observed, falls
late this year, and there will be all the greater chance
of having fine weather for a spectacle to which volun-
teers generally look forward with so much interest.
The announcement that the Queen of Sweden had
gone from Bournemouth to Cowes, thence to proceed
to Osborne on a visit to her Majesty, was the first
intimation which many in this country had that the
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Swedish sovereign was in our midst. The late Queen
of the Netherlands was accustomed to come over here
in a similarly unostentatious way; and the Empress
of Austria will soon be here for her annual hunt-
ing holiday. Holland, perhaps excepted, there is
no nationality with which we have so little
practical acquaintance as Sweden. Denmark we
know something of from the connection of our
own Royal family with that of the reigning
House of Denmark, and from its having supplied a
king to Greece, and a future Empress to Russia.
But what of Sweden and Norway? We are occa-
sionally told by the American storm warnings that a
tempest is expected to arrive on the British and Nor-
wegian coasts on a certain day; and Norway has of
late years become a favourable holiday resort for
British tourists, who have enjoyed its mountains,
its fiords, its simple food, and the purity of its air.
But of Sweden very much less is known. We
are acquainted with the fact that Stockholm is
its capital, but it is doubtful whether the.
average man whom one meets in the street
could tell much about its population or its products.
From the fact that the Queen of Sweden has been
staying at Bournemouth, it is assured that she
selected that sheltered Dorset resort as a refuge from
the wave of extreme cold which has lately passed over
Europe, but whibh snared very few places, not even
the usually warm and genial south coast of England.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

THE BOERS DEFEATED.

The following despatch has been received at the War
Office :
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From General Officer Commanding Natal and Transvaal,
February 9.)

"Communication between this and Newcastle hav-
ing been interrupted by Boers, I moved out this morn-
ing with five companies of the 60th Rifles, two field
and two mountain guns, and a detachment of mounted
men to patrol the road, leaving two mountain guns and
one company of Rifles on a commanding point on this
side of Ingogo. I crossed the river with the remainder
of the troops.
"On the rising ridge beyond the Ingoga the enemy
showed in considerable force.
"I seized the plateau, and was immediately vigor
ously attacked on all sides by the Boers, who received
very large reinforcements during the day.
"The attack was maintained from 12.15 p.m. till-
nearly 6 p.m., but was repulsed on all points.
"The Boers drew off towards sunset, and I brought
in the force.
"Captain Macgregor, Staff; Captain Greer, R.A. ;
and Lieutenants Garrett and O'Connell, 60th, killed.
"Lieutenants Parsons, A. D. Pixley, Haworth, and
Thistlethwayte, 60th, wounded.
"About 150 men killed and wounded.
"The Boer loss, judging by the nature of the attack
and the number of the wounded seen being carried
away, must have been very heavy."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

THE DISTRESS OF ENGLISH FARMERS.

The Economist anticipates that as soon as the
struggle between Ireland and Great Britain is over the
demand for an inquiry into the condition of English
agriculture will became sharp and pressing. The
remedy is, of course, to remove every obstacle which
prevents the free transfer of land, to secure to tenants
their capital so far as this can be done without a trans-.
fer of proprietary rights, and to recognize, in the ar-
rangements of taxation, that for a time there must be a
serious reduction both in the rent and in the selling-price
of land. NGt only are the farmers not content with
things as they are, and as they have been more or less
since 1832—that is, for nearly half a century; but
they are strongly, even violently, desirous of changes,
some of which, like the new land laws, will have very
far-reaching effects. They are becoming keenly alive
to the incident of taxation. They are looking more
and more to Parliament for help. And they are
losing more and more the sense that the present
county suffrage is greatly in their interest. The effect
of these feelings, if circumstances do not alter, will be
to incline them in part, if not as a body, towards the
Liberals, the party which makes changes willingly,
and there could be not greater alterition in the work-
ing balance of constitutional parties.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

S. FIELD,

GENERAL PRINTER,

92, HIGLI-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

PRINTING DEPARTMENT.

TA lON ELY.

Auctioneers' Catalogues, Sermons,, and
other Poster?.
Handbills, Circulars, Cards, Programmes, 1; ill
Heads.
Club Articles, Address Cards, Post Cards,
And ALL HINDS of PRINTING, in Black or
Coloured Inks

Envelopes, Note Paper, and ALL KINDS of
PLAIN and FANCY STATIONERY.
Large Stook of PLAYING CARDS, Nsw

GENERAL ADVERTISING A GENT.

Designs and Patterns.
BILL PAPER, PENS, INK, atc.
POCKET BOOES, CHILDREN'S BOOT:
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

MEERSOHAUDI

BRIAR-ROOT PIPES,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

THE CHANCES OF PEACE IN THE

EAST.

The Standard says Behind all the precautions,
reservations, and qualifications advanced by the Porte
stands the resolve not to be either driven, betrayoi,
or cajoled into giving up Janita and Metzovo. short
of this, the Powers can do pretty much what they
like, and get pretty much what they want. The
diffimilty will then lie with Greece. In all proba-
bility, the result depends in great measure on the
amount of unanimity prevailing among the Powers
when, Turkey having been adjudged reasonable,
Greece has to be dealt with. But will Europe be
united? Mr. Goschen ought to know by this time.
One thing is clear. If war arises out of this question,
it will be either because the Greeks are nAischievously
obstinate, or because the European concert is even
less real than the most sceptical ever supposed."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

--- 7 710
4. Balance at date of com-
mencement of account .. 376 11 11
5. Balance due to Repairs
and traprovement Fund
on 31st DecemberlBBo, 47 2 0
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

Second Edition. One Shilling, or 13 stamps by post
QKIN DISEASES TREATED
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distinct varieties of skin diseases. London—James
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

THE RAILWAYS AND THE SNOW.

The effect of the late snowstorm upon the Great
Western system was such that the line was more or
less blocked and the traffic stopped in 141 places,
principally in the counties of Berks, Oxford, Wilts,
Dorset, Somerset, and Devon, and to a less extent in
Gloucester, Monmouth, Brecon, and Cornwall, no stop-
page being caused north of Oxford or Hereford, or on
the main lines west of Plymouth or Gloucester.
The lengths of the snowdrifts varied from 30 yards
to 7imiles, tke total length of the drifts which had
to be cleared being equal to 111 miles 30 chains and
six yards. The number of passenger trains which
were snowed up was 51 and of goods trains 13, the
longest time that elapsed before a train of empty car-
riages was extricated being three days and 22 hours.
The longest time any portion of the railway was
blocked and the traffic stopped was six days three
hours.
One man was unfortunately killed and one injured
while clearing the snow off the line, but no accident
occurred to any passengers, who endured the incon-
venience, cold, and, to some extent, almost privation,
with great patience and good humour.

According to the quarterly return of the Registrar-
General, in the United Kingdom the births of 264,562 chil-
dren, an the deaths of 166,640 persons, were registered in
the three months ending 31st December last. The recorded
natural increase of population was thus 97,922. The regis-
tered number of persons married in the quarter ending 30th
September was 115,57 d. The resident population of the
United Kingdom in the middle of 1880 is estimated at
34,505,043; that of England and Wales at 25,480,161, of Scot-
land, 3,661,292, and of Ireland at 5,363,590.

An anecdote of the King and Queen of Italy comes
from Syracuse. When the Royal Family were already in
the train, and the King was leaning over the carriage-door,
saying a few parting words to the Mayor, one of the officials
tapped on the door, and when the King lamed round, the
man said, "Cheer up, your Majesty 1 Laugh 1" And the
King did laugh, much to the delight of the man, who
seemed enchanted at the idea of having brought a smile on
Humbert's grave, sad face. When that man is old he will
tell his grandchildren how one day he made the Sing
Laugh. . .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

A WESTERN TOWN.

Private letters from lowa give an inteiesting illus-
tration of the manner in which towns spring up in the
great agricultural region of the West (says the Globe).
Twelve years ago the Chicago, Rock Island, and
Pacific Railway pushed its way from the Mississippi
River across what was then almost a solitude of rolling
prairie to Council Bluffs, on the lowa side of the Mis-
souri. Simultaneously with this event a town, to
which the name of Atlantic was given, was founded
near the railway, fifty miles east of the latter river.
The method of beginning the new centre of popula-
tion was very simple. An hotel was built. Within
a few weeks it was surrounded by a host of
stores and houses. Then the circumjacent prairie,
as if by magic, became covered with farms, breaking
the monotonous sameness of the grassy sea in a
constantly extending radius. Soon a grain elevator
was erected at the little "dep6t," or railway station;
more stores and houses sprang up in the town,
more hotels were started, and by the end of seven
years from the time when the virgin soil was
turned to gicTe a foundation for the first hotel,
Atlantic numbered three thousand inhabitants.
This was in 1876. Since then it has progressed with
the same rapidity. It has a dozen hotels, a
town hall, an admirable fire brigade, and a mayor
and corporation, while its population has increased
to between 5,000 and 6,000. It has three, if not
four, elevators, when ee thousands of bushels of
grain, the produce of the surrounding country, are
shipped eastward weekly by the cars. It possesses a,
theatre, and is proud to support two newspapers re-
spectively advocating the Republican and the Demo-
cratic ticket. Further, Atlantic has been made the
"county seat" of Cass county, in preference to the
comparatively ancient " city " of Lewis, founded by
the Mormons some forty years ago, but which has
never contained more than 500 persons. The remark-
able growth of this Western town is, of course, mainly
attributable to the railway, without which it would
not have been; and there are dozens of similar cases
in the Western States.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

THE CABUL CORRESPONDENCE.

The Standard of Wednesday published the "secret
correspondence" between General Kaufmann and
Shere All found at Cabul, which the Government
promised on Monday night to lay before Parliament.
The documents fill four columns of small type, and
extend from June, 1878, to February, 1879. The
correspondence is prefaced by a memorandum, explain-
ing the exact situation of affairs at the time General
von Kaufmann's first letter was sent to Cabul.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FENIAN
PLOTS.

In consequence of the Fenian scare, further
measures of safety have been adopted at Berwick
Barracks. The gates are locked early, and no parson
allowed in or out after dark. On Friday the sth Fusiliers
at Berwick were instructed to hold themselves in
readiness to proceed if necessary to Newcastle.
The Barracks of the Windsor garrison are still
vigilantly guarded by the troops in quarters, the pre-
cautions recently instituted being continued.
In accordance with simultaneous instructimis re-
ceived from the War Department, Lords Commis-
sioner, of the Admiralty, and Police Commissioners,
vigilant precautions continue to be taken at the
Government establishments and in the town of
Woolwich against any Fenian movements. The
sentry posts in connection with the various barracks
have been increased in number, those in the vicinity
of the Royal Artillery Barracks extending a mile
round, whilst the guards at the la,nd.,and river
powder magazines and military depots have
laeen doubled. All the guns in garrison used
by the Royal Artillery for chill purposes and
which are usually " parked " out of doors at the north-
western portion of the barracks, have been taken in
and placed in more secure quarters, the empty ammu-
nition wagons only being left out. Special precau-
tions have been taken to render abortive any contem-
plated seizure of the arms and ammunition of the 4th
Kent (Royal Arsenal) Rifle Volunteers, which until
recently were kept in a building known as the Round
House, near the river. The Royal Arsenal is inter-
sected with an internal network of telegraph wires and
instruments, extending as far as the powder magazine
in Erith Marshes. The Arsenal is also in telegraphic
comrhunication with the office of the commandant of
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The Times states that as a precaution in the event
of an emergency, all troops-in London are confined to
barracks.
On Monday night the Bridgwater Rifle Volunteers
were summoned by the Town Crier to proceed to
their respective armouries, where their rifles were
handed to them, with directions to take them home.
A guard was placed over the armouries all night for
the protection of the remainder of the stores. A letter
received through the post has been given to the town
magistrates, stating that there is a plot on foot to seize
the rifles and convey them to an Irish port.

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King Kalakana, of the Sandwich Islands, left San
Francisco on Tuesday for Japan, on board the mail steamer
Ocean
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

EINVER HILL PRIVATE COURSING
MEETING,

Messrs. Webb (Queen's seedsmen, of Wordsley)
held a coursing meeting on their extensive seed
'arm at Kinver Hill on Tuesday. There was not se
large an attendance as usual, from the fact that
the meetng had been pAtpJned owing to the frost.
The weather was rather boisterous, but notwith-
standing this some excellent courses were run.
Messrs. Webb, as usual, entertained their guests
to luneheun. Mr. R. L. Brie officiated 14.11 judge,
M r, Till as slipper, and Mr. Dabiney as fisg steward.
Th,, stewards were Messrs. W. L. Nicholls, J.
Morris, U. Cottle, T. Jones, and A. Whitehead,
Mr. J. P. Hitehinzs was honorary secretary. The
followiog is the result of the day's sport
The KINVER HILL STAKES, for eight all-aged
greyhounds, at £3 10s. each ; winner £lB, second
£6.

Mr. T. Taylor's ns Triumph beat Mr. T. E. Flake's
Fair it osa I ie.
Mr. W, L. Nicholls's Daily Telegraph beat Mr. T.
Bre Aell's Tu:ip.
Mr. j Aridaster's Oxford Lass beat Mr. R.
Threlfell's Creeping Jane.
Mr. J. Pearmari's Pilgrimage beat Mr, J. Morris's
Maud.

Daily Telegraph beat Triumph. I Oxford Lass beat
Pilgrimage.
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Oxford Lass beat Daily Telegraph.
The ENVILLE STAKES, for eight all-aged grey.
hounds, at £3 10s. each; winner, £18; second, £6.

Mr. W. Hop's Moorhen beat Mr. It. Woo Hall's
Eclipse.
Mr. Torn Jones's Archer beat Mr. E. Fiskes'
Fair itosabell

Mr. George Cottle's Cripple beat Mr. J. Morris's
Mary Ann.
Mr. A. B. Dyas's Dawley Lad beat Mr. T.
Ilenney s Herald.

Archer beat Moorhen I Dawley Lad beat Cripple
. 111.
Archer beat Dawley Lad.

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The WOUDSLEY STAKES, for eight •P IPPiezi, at
£3 las. each winner, 418 ; second, £6.
I.
Mr. Torn Jones's Jolly Ma.'aden beat Mr. P.
Swindell's Wensley (late Wensleydale).
Mr. J. 0.. Harris, ns Da!ocracy beat Mr. A
Whitehead's Adelaide.
Mr. U. Ainge's Separation beat Mr. E, Thomas's
Tyrant (late Wellington).
Mr. A. Gilbert's Grumble beat Mr. J. Lender's
Loco.

Dulueracy beat Jolly Dia'alen I Grumble beat
Separation
111
Duleeracy beat Grumble.

The DeN3LLY MANOR STA.KES, for eight puppies,
at 10s. eAch ; winner £.lB, becond £6.

Mr. A. Whitehead us Lass O'Gowrie beat Mr. W.
Collins's Companion.
iNtr. E Julies Boy-in-Blue Leat Mr. 'l'. E.Fiske's
Fi z Arab. _

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Mr. E. Wobb's' Waverluy beat Mr. Thomas's
Truant.
Mr. W. Turner's Turpin beat Mr. T, Jones's Juno.
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SALES BY AUCTION

KIDDERMINSTER CATTLE MARKET,
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80 Heal of FAT CATTLE.
200 FAT SHEEP,
OLTES, PERRENS, & WOOLDRIDGE.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES,
Convenient to keep bandy is the pocket.

KEAI'ING'S-0017G/1 LOZENGES
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Sold in Tins, Is. lid., and 25. 9d• each, by all Druggists.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

ALL-NIGHT SITTINGS FROM A
MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW.

Commenting on the recent prolonged sitting of the
House of Commons, the Medical Press and Circular
maintains that health and physique undergo irremedi-
able mischief by these protracted discussions. It points
out that "the House of Commons is, by no means, the
only situation in which men, young, old, and middle-
aged, undergo the dangers attendant on all-night sit-
tings. Not now and then, not once or twice, or perhaps
three times a year, but night after night, week
after week, and year after year, there are an uncoun-
table number of persons who absorb the legitimate
working day, and pursue far into night and early
morning, the studies or the labours of their lives. The
habit once acquired, it would almost seem that no effort
of the will is competent to shake it off; and the conse-
quences to the victim find expression in the wards of con-
sumption hospitals, the paralysed and epileptic, and in
their worst forms within the walls of the madhouse. We
have no wish to threaten honourable members with
any such result of their persistence in all-night sittings,
although there are not a few among them who, by
reason of advanced age and failing powers, might well
absent themselves from a scene they can be pre-
sent at only under such untoward conditions for them.
Unfortunately, it most often happens that the men on
whom the nation places high value, whom it can least
well afford to lose the services of, are just those more
aged individuals on whom protracted vigils first com-
mence to tell. In the national interest, therefore, it
is eminently to be desired that the scenes rendered
familiar in the immediate past shall not be re-enacted;
and that no further necessity for the continued pre-
sence in the House of the more venerable of its
members shall arise as a consequence of any political
incident."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

EXPENSES.
1. MANAGEMENT OF THUM Led Led
Salary of Clerk 35 0 0
Postages. Stational y, Stamps,
&c. .• •• •• 13 3 14
Advertisements 4 10 4
Law expenses .. 24 1 2
_-- 76 14 71
2. ExpEtisEs oN PROPERTY NOT
OCCUPIED BY SCHOOL.
Repairs g'.. .• 13 8 6
Rates and taxes, oxcluding
property-tax 2() 12 04
Insurance .. 6 2 4

40 210
3. EXPENSES ON PBOPEUTY OC-
CUPIED BY SCHOOL.
Grammar School.
Repairs and Improvement
und •• •• •6 30 0 0
Repairs in excess of income
of Repairs Fund 0 0 0
Rates and taxes .. .. 14 17 6
Insurance 1 15 0

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4. TEMPoRARY OR EXTRAORDIN-
ARY EXPRNSEs.
Interest on Money borrowed
(Balance of £850) .. 14 19 2
- Pensions or other like annual
payments .. 0 0 0
Principal paid off .. .. 28 6 8
Property-tax 515 0 _ _

49 010

5. INVESTMENTS DURING TRH
YEAR. 0 0 0
6. NET EXPENDITURE ON THE
So Hoot,.
Grammar School.
Salary of Head Master .. 520 0 0
Payments for Assistant-
Masters, School Appara-
tus, &c. .. 523 15 10
E samination Exper ses 12 6 11
Exhibitions.. ............1 11 11
Prizes 14 17 6
Papas, Pens, Ink, &c. 4 3 6
Gas, Water, Coals, &c. 11 15 2
Cleaning, Porterage, &c... 15 8 8
Special 1 payments ; Ashes
for Play Ground, Chief
Rent, Architect's Foes, erc 39 13 11
---1143 13 6
7 BALANCE :DUE TO REPAIRS
AND IMPROVEMENT FUND
AT LIMEI, CI, MEN T OP
ccouNT 34 14 1
Balance in Birmingham
Bank .. 495 8 9
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

DISASTERS AT SEA.

During a heavy gale on Monday morning, the
brigantine Bransty was seen to be drifting towards the
Long Rocks in Dundrum Bay, upon which she soon
struck. The Pyrella Lifeboat, of the National Life-
boat Institution, at once proceeded to the wreck, and
was fortunately enabled to save the crew of six men.
It was only with the greatest difficulty that they were
rescued, and the captain had his leg broken while
getting into the lifeboat. The vessel is likely to
become a total wreck.

Information has been received at Lloyd's that the
ship Bremen was wrecked on Friday morning in last
week, at Leveriwick, south of Lerwick. Seven men
were saved, but 13 lost. The vessel sank.
On Monday morning, when the gale was at its
height, four vessels came ashore between the Beacon
and Old Pier, Hartlepool. They were the schooner
Friendship, of Rye; the Thomas, of Lynn, for
Stockton; the Yorkshire 1.448, and the Mischief of Rye.
The crews were rescued, some by the lifeboat. The
gale moderated rapidly after 8, and the Thomas and
one other vessel were got off on the rising tide.
The brig Julie, 244 ton; register, of Southampton
from Newcastle-on-Tyne for Weymouth, Captain
Crosby, was totally lost off the XVoolsenors in the
gale of Monday night. The crew left the ship in their
own boats, which landed them on Hayling Island
about three o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

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A FATAL LANDSLIP..

A terrible landslip took place on Tuesday afternoon
at Waterbarn, near Bactip, Lancashire, by which
three persons lost their lives. 'Phe place where the
accident occurred is deep in the valley, at the bottom
of which are a number of cottages, one being occupied
by a man named Lever and his family. On Tuesday
an immense quantity of earth on the hill at the foot
of which Lever's cottage is situated gave way without
the slightest warning and fell upon the cottage, in
which were Mrs. Lever's four children and a middle-
aged man. The wall of the house gave way like
matchwood and in an instant the place was a com-
plete wreck. A large number of persons commenced
to dig out the bodies, and after nearly three hours'
hard work Mrs. Lever was found and got out alive.
Three of the children were dead, but the fourth and
the m—n were got out alive. All the survivors have
sustained terrible injuries,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

A BISHOP ON JOHN WESLEY.

On Saturday the Bishop of Liverpool delivered a
lecture in Liverpool College on the life and times of
John Wesley. The mayor presided, and there was a
goed attendance. llis lordship said that most people
knew something, but not much, about John Wesley,
who loved the Church of England to the last day of
his life, and never left her, though the Church com-
pelled him to remain outside her pale. To understand
'Wesley's position they must realise how different were
his and our own times. In Wesley's time Churchmen
and Dissenters seemed fast asleep, and even an Arch-
bishop of Canterbury was reproved by one of the
Georges for a rout at Lambeth. Palace.
The Bishop referred to the salient features of
Wesley's life, remarking on his singleness of mind
and tenacity of purpose, his use of the apostolic
ordinance of preaching, going up and down the
country Bible in hand, and on his power of organisa-
tion. Referring to the great use of hymns by Wesley
and other Dissenters, he said that people must not
imagine that there were no hearty hymns till " Hymns
Ancient and Modern" appeared.
His lordship then gave some statistics of the
wondrous growth of A.Lethodism, and expressed his
opinion that Wesleyans would never, as Earl Nelson
and others hoped, be absorbed in the Church. He
then mentioned his recent visit to a dissenting chapel
at Macclesfield, where he had restored a tablet to the
memory of his grandfather, a friend of John Wesley,
and spoke of the power of a minority if it had truth on
its side. He trusted that while the clergy aimed at
entire conformity with the rules of their consecrated
churches they would aim after more elasticity of
machinery and simple services, with lay help in rooms,
cellars, and barns.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-12

A TERRIBLE VOYAGE.

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quantity of soda, lett the Mersey on the 6th Septem-
ber, bound for Philadelphia. A strong wind set in on
the ninth day, increasing to a hurricane, during which
the ship had to be hove to, when her cargo shifted.
The rolling of the vessel caused the iron to move about
violently against the vessel's side, but the ship made
little water, and after being buffeted about until the
17th, the captain decided to snake the southern pas-
sage. The sea had kept coming over the vessel
and completely cleared the decks. No fires could be
made, and the bottom began to gather barnacles,
causing the vessel to be difficult to manage. At the
end of November, being then nearly three months out,
the ship was off Cape Hatteras, almost out of provi-
sions and in a gale of wind, in fact the only food re-
maining was a small half-barrel of biscuits. When
80 days' out the Norwegian barque Viking spoke them,
giving them a case of. beef. For the next 14 days the
vessel made no headway, and there was not a morsel
of food on board. A brigantine then supplied them
with all she could spare. The gale did not abate, and
the privations told seriously on the crew, some of
whom seemed about to lose their reason. On
Christmas-day the food was again exhausted. The
men had little or nothing to eat from that time to
the 31st December, when the steamer Santiago di
Cuba, came by and stopped. In consequence of the
violence of the gale the captain of the Hannah Morris
did not order a boat out but called for volunteers,
when the whole of the crew instantly stepped forward.
Provisions were obtained and lasted until the Bth
January, when they arrived off Barneget. A further
quantity of provisions was supplied by the pilot boat
to the crew, who now appeared to be perfectly
ravenous, and finally they brought their vessel into
port. The captain's wife, two children, and a
stewardess were on board in addition to the crew.