The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-14 00:00:00

•EPfIONIE OF NEWS.

MWSB akID FOREIGN

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Prince Bismarck has been Intl oring for some days
from acute uturalsla, and attacks of his old enemy, sleep-
lessness. He is better, but it Is thouaht, ft at he will but
be able to attend to public business Icr some time.

On the 19th of February, D. Peters, of Hamilton
College, New York, telegraphed to Washington that he bad
dbcuv.roda planet la ii hours 19 minutes right ascensi.u,
plus four degrees 25 minutes declination. Tue 11.till11 Is
parallel.

The Earl of Glasgow appeals for rubscriptions and
donations to the Emtbourne Cdivelacent Hotpital, to enable
the co mmittse to cleu od the debt, and complete the chapel
and new wards. About £3.003 ere required for thet., par-
pole I. No fewer than 1,0[3 patience were received dur
the year endlEg last October, and 200 applicants were obdgea
to watt admielion tor want ot space.

The remains of the Hon. G. W. Fitz willtam, whose
death from an accident in the hunting.tleld has been already
announced, were interred on Tuesday at fdarholm Orono,
Yeterh,rough. Among the mourners were Lord Fitz
Lord Lyre lea, Lord Zatland, Lord btrathnatrn, Lord
Sandwich, the Alatquls of liartington, and trie Marquis of
Hantly.
The Liverpool School Board hare adopted a recocc-
m,ndatton of the General Purpose Committee, to &beetled
that rooms In the school buildnags should be let for religious
teaching or for ~they purposes out of schof,l hour., on conol-
tion that no children attending the Board Soho. I shall be
admittld to religious teaching except at the request of the
children's parents and guardians; an.l that a rent shall be
chaired forth. elect the rooms.

The Right Hon. WilliamH,llier One low, the fourth
earl ut Oath:ow. tt dned his malorPy me Saturday, he having
been born on the 7th March, 1853. The occasion eras eele,
brated by the presentation to him at Clandon Park, !y •
a deputation from the tenantry on B.turday morning, or an
worm. engrossed on vellum, and some music e silver plate.
The tenantry Were subetquently entertained at luneneon.
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The drath ill announced of Mr. Field Talfourd, be
artlat, the younger brother of the he Mr. Jurtice ralfourd.
Toe deemed It 11.5 I, en at Reading In leis, In the early part
of his career he devoted hlmaelf almodexclus.valy to portrait
painting, In which he argolrtd conalderaqle pronchticy ; but
It ere In an entirely dlivrent bruneh of art, that of lami-
nate painting, that he intimately achieved hit greatest
success.

A telegram to The Times on the subject c f the Indipn
tam!, mars that Commiesloner Bayl, y report. that Vila
famine Is /rune than any. TO. children 12 he lirnee corres-
pondent states) are pitifully emaciated, Tie *dune arr. la,
proving The people encp.oyea ars Increasing at toe rate of
2000, daily.

A Bill hal been reported from the Committee on
Judiciary to the United States' HAM of R-presentatives,
providing that the President Is to aptx,lnt with the consent
of the berate, a Commission cf five perW he to investigate
the traffic in ricsholic liquors, with reference to peupeilam,
crime, social vice, public nealth, and the toners! welfare of
the people, and to inquire and lake testimony ss to the
pracacal results of licensing and restrictive logiilatiou for
the prevention of intemperance in the ',dyers' Sinks.

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On Monday the memberi of the Reading School
Board were re-elected without • c.mtest. The B iera consistu
of nine mt [Oen—five Churchmen and itrir Nonconformist.,
The Nonconformist Committee of the town have pulled a
rePolmion cm:orating themeeivea sati•fied with the Impartial
manner in which the Educe, ion Act had been carried oat
by the Board, and Aspiring the members to continue to act
for another term of three years, seeing that they have fairly
represented ali theetuterests in the town.

At a dinner given at the Mansion 1101168 in London
an Tueaday night by Mut Lord Mayor, Sir Alexander Milne,
hi replying on behalf of the Nay, said that ll Majesty
had that day commanded that the expresaion of her appro-
bation ehould be convsyed to the naval service on the coast
of Aisles, for the agno-r in which their diAies had been
perirmsd. 11-r Majeaty had also commanded that •
shriller menage shoal] be conveyed to the mililvy force&
This atinOunCement was reccved with great approbation.
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At the meeting of the Institution of Civit Engineers,
held In London on Tuesday evening, Mr. G. W. Leonel, C.E ,
reads paper on •' Gun Corrtages sod Mechanical appliances
for world. Heavy Ordnance," After combating the popular
prejudice entertained motile Iran as • material for gun
ferriage', on the sects of the destruction canoed hy
splinters when struck, the author proceeded to describe the
yerMile types of CatTlogee mono, motored at the E.mice
Works. ant aevucate4 the flee of hydraulic machinery Lithe
most efficient anbotitute for manual labour In w..rklog the
monster ordnance of the Mime.
A numerous deputation, representing a large number
of brewers' associations, has welted npoe the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to point our the b jesti co caused by the con-
Mamie° of the Brewers' Leone, Duty, and to atir for Its
total sod un-ondlvoLal repeal She Vinoncollor of the Ex-
chequer sutured hie is that the vow. which they hsd
laid beh re Cum should have every attention. Tbe surplus
with witch tree Governmeht would have to deal erns un-
doubtedly a large one, but It was not large If taken In corn.
Nielson with the demands already made Open It, and he
e,eed not remind them of the Various Cl iises who were ask-
ing for senclaslons of button, and Chose claims had to be
censidsred.

An Inquest ham been held in London at St. Georee's
Idwptt el respecting the death of lira Vallee:arc% aged forty,
vele of • tattler. On Friday evening, train was moving out
of the York-read nett to, when the etcested openea the
dour of • carriage atd atdetvonred to get In. In ate result
she feU between the platform and the wheel.. The train
was then going at the rate of four miles an hour, and before
atything could be done the deceased received fearful in.
lutes. Sue was conveyed on a stretcher Co St. Ovorge's
9apital, hut It'd three hours alter &rimiest to. Alt the doors
of the carriage' wore cicsed before the train galled A
porter attended to thee- ntre of the train, the guard to the
front, and the under-soard to the rear. the laity retartee
a veratct of "Accidental death," with a recommendation to
the rall/11, oompany to proetie better site. once at the
et .t.nth The f woman of the jury said be dissenkel from the
recommendatlt 0.

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The Executive Committee of the Bengal Famine
110-11ef Fond met In London on Monday at the Mansion
Howie, under the presidenc, of the L-rd Mayor, and it was
announced that upwards of £lO,OOO has been subscribed.
Its opinion expressed In Lancashire that the famine is •
(3,-,v,rnment yuertt.•n with witch private subacriptions can-
not, and should not, alttmpt to cope, was stronelv com-
bated, and a h pe was expressed that Mancuester and Prez-
pool would alter their determination not to assist the flow
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