The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND roimiGa.
There is much talk in Paris society of a pampliet
by the Due d'Aunistle on the state of Europe since the
battle of Sadowa
The ceremony of the PbbiJeitc was performed km
Sunday throughout Venetts, and Victor Emmanuel Is Ow
Doge of Venice by all the titles acknowledged In ancient or
modern timer

The Liverpool Town Council were on Tuesday en-
gaged in discussing proposed improvements in vast MIS parts
of the town, involving an estimated expenditure of 3f.it4,0001.
and sanctioned them to the extent of 2.50,04.)01.
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Mr. Alexander 'l'. Stewart, of Newport, United
States, has announced his intention ol glidrg 1,000,000 doll.
for the erection of dwellings for the poor of that city, on
condition that the necessary land shall be provided. Ills
plan is similar to Mr. Peabody's generous gift to the poot of
Landon.
The Austrian General, Count Clani•Gallas, who it
will ho recollected, hat been charged before a court-marital
with neglect of duty to the late disastrous battles in
Bohemia, has now been completely acquitted by the Court.
The Bniper•ir Francis Joseph has addressed an autograph
letter to the Count congratulating him on
.his acquittaL

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A French publisher is in treaty with Victor Hugo
for Ms great novel entitled -93," The great writer asks no
le n than 20,000/ for his book, which into come out in ten
volumes There is some fear led the l'rench ceveromdlit
should prevent its being published and sold in trance, but
as yet nothing certain is known on the subject
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The photograph of 'Lord Layard" appears in
the shop windows at Venice.
111azzini is said to have expressed his opinion Feta.
tire to Venetia in a letter to his partisans in that souutty.
lie says—" A unitary monarchy is to be preferred to a
federative republic Let your vote, therefore, be 'Yea.'"
The iriih Pi plc of the 22nd of September, the
Fenian organ at New York, announces that a member of the
committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the
affairs of Feniankorn, has bolted, carrying with him to Eng-
land the papers of the society, which he proposes to sell to
the British Government. The hid, Pt,,ptc says that the
whole pile is, no doubt, well worths handsome sum of blood
money.

Mr. Thomaa Newbold, who has been for many years
proprietor of the Derby Mercury, one of the oldest news-
papers in the mldland counties, died suddenly on Tuesday
morning Ile was only forty-nine years of age, and was the
previous day to all appearance in perfect health.
James Mason, so well known as the rider of Lottery
and other celebrated steeplecluise horses, uied on Tuesday
evening.

The personal pr.perty of General Lee has been re.
gored to him.

It Berme that there im no doubt that two negroes
were recently sold in Clarke County, Alabama, the one tor
750 dollars, the other ter 600 dollars.

The Peabody Institute, a splestritd marble building
proented to the eity of BsMinor° by Mr. George Peabody,
Is to be dedicated on the 25th inst.
A monument, sixty feet high, of Scotch granite,
and to cost .11,000 dollars, Is about to be raised to Colonel
Cult, inventor of the "Colt revolver."

The list of subscriptions for the sufferers by the late
foundations has only reached 50,000/. for Perla, although
the Moult, or publithes four or five columns of aubszlbera
par Mem. A cloudy printed column represents about sixty
pounds.

The following solvertimement is taken from a New
cattle paper;—" Wanted, Masons to refrain from seeking
employment in Newcastle and Gateshead, as the strike is
still ta,nding,—lty order of the t otumlttee."

"The &witty f..r the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals ought to protest against a e ty le of racing Introduced
last week at Cheltenham The butte ol Hamilton, riding
fifteen stone, himself won a match on a sni iii pony Alas!
fir John Leech's pencil to show to these burly young jockeys
the absurd figures they cut when seated In polite In silk
Jackets on seven potunl saddlec"—Pall 11011 t;a:,

A new Catholic church was opened on Tuesday at
Stratford-upon-Avon. Blabop I'llathorue, of Birmingham,
officiated, assisted by a large bode of clergy, and the sermon
was preached by the Rev. Prior Vaughan. of Hereford. Mr.
eiby Pugin is the architect of the church, which Is built
of limestone, with Bath stone dressings. The exterior of
the building I. extretw-ly picturesque, and Is well situated
on the NVarick road. The renowned city of Shakspeare may
now boast of a very beautiful addition to its attractions.

A census has rec,ntly been taken of the canine
species inhabiting bails. This city p ueenses 40.9e7 dogs,
3S,Oiio of which are pets and 11,90 i watch-toga This sires
an average of one dog to every forty persons.
It is stated that insorances on the ship General
Grant, which Rashid from Melbourne on the 4th of May last
for Liverpool, are now Impracticable. Seventy five guinea,
prem, per cent, have been offered and refused. S..orenty
guineas have also been offered to effect Insurances os the
ef ft, Eat, which left Bassein for Falmouth on the
15th of and on the Emprem of I,n?o, from Ceylon,
on the 2411 i of Slay, but these offers were also refused.
Tic Tina's records the arrival of Miss Shaw Stewart
an-1 eight other lady uarses at Woolwich from Netley, and
says that the Inmates of the military hosptials prefer the
attendance of the male nurses of the Army Hospital Corps.
Our c intemporary states that of the three hundred patients
now in the Ilerbert Iliopital, nineteen out of twenty have ex.
preised their dislike at having the attenuance of these lady
nurses threat upon them couirmy to their desire. This
seems to require explanation.

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On Friday morning, Dr. Sparrow, of Southsea,
died from jot walla which he appears to have inoculated himself
with about a month since while attending a patient, and I
absorbing a certain portion of virtu to a small wound which
he then had on one of his lingers. MI the available skill of
the neighbourhood was called to Dr. sparrow's assistance,
foil without any avail.
Some weeks ago we (Pall Mall ancele) inserted a
note from a colliery proprietor, stating that he was prepared
to find employment in collieries for a number of Cornish
miners, who were said to have been thrown out of work by
the depression In the tin and copper trades. This gentleman
now Informs us that he afterwards inserted an advertusemtut
to the same effect in the most widely-circulated newspaper
In Cornwall. and that the advertisement did not bring him a
stogie application. Oar correspondent says he should Biro
to know whether this has arisen from the fact that the
alleged distress does not in reality exist, or from the pre-
ference of the Cornish miners of starvation in their owl
county to work and plenty elsewhere
The last number of the "People's Calendar," edited
by the well-known German novelist, Berthold Auerbach.
has been cohliscated at Berlin because) it contains a story by
him in which the abolition of the punishment of death is
advocated.
The Salo( Public of Lyons accounts for the die.
tress which now exists in that city by allowing that the ex-
ports tu damasked silk have fallen within a space of ten
years from 74,000,000 francs to 11,000,000 francs, anti BIN ex-
pected that this year there will be another fall of 4,00000
francs. The manufacturers have turned their attention to
the maiden of plain silks to meet the requirements or
.fashion, but other looms besides those of Lyons can supply
VAS article.
"An Oxford correspondent communicates the
startling Intelligence that within the past week five under
graduates has, gone over openly to the (March of Rome.
The names are mentioned, but we withhol 1 them until the
statethent is authentioated."—lferord.
The prosecution of Herr Twesten, one of the most
eminent members of the Progreasist party In the Prussian
Chamber of Deputies, a proaecution, commenced nine doe
after the proclamation of the amnesty, fora speech delivered
by him lister-) the war on the subject of the elections, has
produced in Prussia a very painful impresaion.
An elderly lady has lately bequeathed 10,0011. to
hfr. 1101110, the spirituxiist.
A Mormon bishop, who died recently at Salt Lake
City, left eleven wives and forty-seven children to mourn
hfs Mar.
It is reported that come extensive spinning establish.
Melds in Manchester are about to reduce their working time
! to four days a week, If they have not already dime so. It
is I orther stated that many smaller establishments Are
fotLiwr,ex*nple, anal that occasionally the working
Utile w he ohly three days a week.
Itn hive been issped"l.3; the SecretarY of
State for. preposalle for a new kind of breech-loading nil:,
to replace the ipresent service rife Various rewards nre
offered, and if the rifle to which the first prize is swinged
ahoulellbsi adojted, it will bear the iuventor's name.
acmceiennttlyinc intrwoday of lighting
been uce,i
in
npari under the
and cigars
hefiameofj a
,otrs
de tett it consists of pyrbpborous, which is preserved fn a
this Qatie pith a narrow. orifice. ~114eti a kittle of this
biaek powder is poured out on the end of a cigar, or cnitlie
Macao lrt anipe stem, and then'gently breathed uporl, it
he irises incandescent, anilla In a condition to light the 'aid
Pipe or cloy.. •
The North British Railway Conipany has plated
hoses' at Its stations le Leitk torthe.receptiou lug any near-
, papery and periodicals which travellers may .feel indllbed to
bestow nos the hospital papents or that city., \Vero this
McellerltaistamPle'follaiverl4by other rhilway coMpaniek the
thts inmates of hospitals would beAreat,
mullet lose anything by theitarrangement, save tivacollactors
of math) paper on tile rails.; adhering.
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mistress the hon. gentleman said they livi d in a Mo4e When
seence to ha the intereit.of a section of 'moiety tp make
IS °Mode; hateful, and a -Matter or" reprogehlo ihdicate
the worth, Intelligence, • an'd tiltstueveranter Of those who
lived by labour, and it therefore became the Only of Anse
who abhorred that species of political vilification to taloa
every legitimate opportunity of protesting against visiting
upon chews the sins of Individuals. The working now
would never be in that position they ell wished to see him
placed in until he could show his fellowmen that he it
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