The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH A ND FOREIGN.

The Duke of Cambridge on Saturday formally opened,
for public traffic, Oharing.cross•road, the new line of
thoroughfare formed by the Metropolitan Board of
Works from Oharing, cross to Tottenham-court-road.
The idea of boring a tunnel between the peninsula
and Sicily has been revived. The estimated cost is ?aid
to be 71 millions of francs, and the time required for
completing the work would be from four to six years.
It is stated that the depth of the
.Sea is 160 mettes. _
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The 29th of October next will be the hundredth
anniversary of the performance of Mozart's "Don
Giovanni, and already arrangements are in progress in
Germany and in the German provinces of Austria to
celebrate the occasion by a jubilee performance of the
great work
' On Saturday. before Mr. Justice Stirling, in the
Chancery Division, a petition was presented to appoint
official liquidators of the Bank of Egypt, which had
outlasted its charter, and for the reconstruction of the
batic as a limited liability company. The petition
was ordered to stand over till Thursday week that
notice of motion might be advertised and any objector
might appear by counsel.
At the London Mansion House, on Tuesday, two men
were sentenced to three months' hard labour each for
picking pockets in St. Paul's-churchyard during the
assembling of a crowd on Sunday afternoon.
Replying to a deputation from Sheffield the Home
Secretary expressed himself as adverse to the appoint..
ment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the
marking of Sheffield and other British goods.
Sir G. Trevelyan, in a letter to Liberal Unionists at
Aberdeen, declared that the Irish question must be
dealt with thoroughly, radically, and remedially by a
reunited Liberal party, and that he believed the moment
was ripe for Liberal reunion.
An inquest was held at Kingstown concerning the
suicide of Mr. John William Cannon, aged seventy,
landlord of an estate in county Galway, producing
some £5OOO a year. He used to have pains in his head,
and took chloral. The verdict was "Suicide while of
unsound mind."

Mr. Justice O'Brien, in opening the assizes for the
county ()Jaye, said he regretted to find a large increase
in the number of undetected crimes, the nature of the
offences denoting a disturbed condition of the country.
He was concerned to find a great increase in offences
arising from intoxication, showing a growing de.
moralization among a certain class.
it is now believed in Rome that King Humbert will
atain summon Signor Depretis as the only statesman
likely to command a majority in the Italian Chamber.
On Tuesday aftemoon the Prince of Wales, by com-
mand of the Queen, held a Levee at St. James's by
on behalf of her Majesty, which was numerously
atter ded, and many presentations were made.
Sir Frederick Abel, recently elected president of the
Blackheath Arts Club, delivered an address to the
members on Tuesday evening, in which he remarked
that to commemorate the fiftieth year of a wise and
prosperous reign no more fitting offering to a sovereign
could be imagined than the creation of a National
Institution to serve as a great central source of infor-
mation on all parts of the Empire. He hoped abundant
funds would be obtained for the
_purpose.

he revenue
078c7e9i,v1e5, o
d 1 from
El,B
m A7-p1ri,83117 natotehreo2t6htanh utlbte.
amounts to z
= 79,160,314 received in the corresponding period ending
February 27, 1886. The expenditure up to the 26th
w being £1,870,292 less than the
expenditure LBOB
9,8f805P
for the similar period of 1885-6. The
balances on the 26th ult, amounted to £7,013,045, and
on February 27, 1886, to £6,863,180.
Mr. Bush, a chemist at Hackney, London, endeavoured
in the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday to recover
.£37 168. which he had paid for a horse at auction at
Aldridge's Repository. It was contended on his behalf
that the horse did not answer to a warranty; but Mr:
Baron Pollock held that there had been no breach of
warranty on the part of the defendants, for whom
judgment was given with costs.
Prince Bismarck has sent to the "North German
Gazette" a letter in which he thanks a large number
of correspondents for their goodwill and patriotic
feeling in reference to the recent elections to the
Reichstag.

Toe German Government is said to have ordered
certain Alsatian choral societies to be dissolved, in the
belief thet they furthered the aims of the French
League of Patriots.

,WITAP,A.-Y, MARCH 5, 1887.

It is stated that subscriptions towards the National
Memorial to Lord Iddesleigh are coming in fast, and
that there is every probability of the donations reaching
a sum fully adequate to the requirements of the
committee for the erection of a statue in St. Stephen's
Hall, Westminster, London.
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On the arrival at Kentish Town of the 5.15 p
train from Manchester on Tuesday night a gentleman
was found lying dead in a first•class compartment.
He had aprarently shot himself, the weapon with
which the deed had been done being found by hie
Bide.

The original trustees of the late James Moffat,
merchant, of Port Glasgow, handed over on Tuesday
to the specially appointed trustees a bequest of
£2B 000 for the erection of a new orphanage for the
lower ward of Renfrewshire. This sum does not in-
clude the Carnatrie Estate, Port Glasgow, valued at
£13,000, on which the building is to be erected.
An appeal was heard before the Divisional Court of
Queen's Bench on Tuesday from a decision of Mr.
Justice Day, refusing to allow a clerk named Bamher
to appear" in forma pauperis " to defend an action for
breach of promise of marriage. After argnment, the
court decided that as defendant had not stated what
his outgoings or liabilities were there was no proof that
he could not save £25 out of his salary, and dismissed
the appeal with costs.
It is announced from Calcutta that Chief Justice Sit
W; Corner Petheram' in evidence given by him before
the Public Service Commission, criticised adversely
the provincial administration of justice in Bengal.
According to the Berlin " Post" it has been resolved
to dissolve the National Union of Alsatian Musical
Societies, that association being suspected of connec.
tion with the so-called Patriotic League:
Morgan's Pier and Dock at New York on Monday
were destroyed by fire, as well as the steamer Lone
Star and a large number of cotton bales.

Mr. Bright, reply ing to a correspondent who had put
before him a quotation from one of Mr. Slagg's Burnley
speeches, olmerves that it shows the depth of humilia.
*ion in the matter of argument to which the English
allies of the Irish conspiracy are driven.

In the drawing-roo of the London Mansion House
on Monday, the Lady Mayoress was presented with a
case of gloves by the Worshipful Company of Glovers,
in token of their appreciation of her husband's services
to the City.
Two men who took an active part in Sunday's Socialist
procession were brought up at Southwark Police,court
on Monday charged with disorderly conduct and assault-
ing two constables. They were sentenced to 10 days'
imprisonment each.

Mary Adams, a married woman, was charged at
Southwark Police-comt, on Monday, with attempting
to commit suicide and to take away the lives of her two
children. Soon after midnight the prisoner was seen on
Waterloo-bridge, tying the children together by the
neck with a scarf and lifting them to the parapet, as if
with the intention of throwing them over. A min
named Carr rushed to the spot and prevented her. She
was committed fo- trial.

•
Herbert Freund, who has often been charged with
the same offence, was again placed in the dock at the
Mansion House on Monday for brawling in Sr.
Paul's Oathedral on Sunday, and was remanded for a
week. _ _ _

The Rev. J. F Jemmett, vicar of Feltham, attended the
Staines Petty Sessions on Monday to prosecute two
martied women, named Ellersley and Higgins, for
vagrancy. He explained that he had taken up the case
on public grounds, the women having called at Felthara
Vicarage and untruthfully represented that they were
in great distress, while they had also given false names
and addresses. He recognised Ellersley as a woman
who had imposeclupoya him previously, and complaints
had been made about her by other persons. A constable
said the women lived at Sunbury, where their hue.
bands were in good work. There was employment at
2s. 6d. a day for Eller slay to go to. The Bench sentenced
Elleraley to a month's imprisonment, and the other
woman was fined 10s.

A Sheriff.; Court was held at Leicester Castle on
Monday to assess damages in a breach of promise action
brought by Miss Lizzie Smith, a dressmaker, against
Arthur Tunbridge, Corporation clerk. The parties
became acquainted in 1885, cztcl the defendant quickly
dechtred undying affection. He was accepted, and
arrangements were made for the wedding by special
licence at Nottingham. The defendant, however, failed
to attend. The plaintiff subsequently had a child.
A verdict ot £lOO damages was returned.
A boiler at the gasworks at Thu:so, used for making
sulphate of ammonia, burst on Monday af'ern on from
over-pressure. The force of the explosion blew the
boiler•house to pieces, and a portion of the boiler was
blown about a hundred yards away, while a large ball
was thrown into the shop of a neighbouring merchant.
Mr. Young, the manager of the gasworks, was found
among the ruins of the boiler-house, dreadfully injured,
and he lived only about half an hour. No other person
was working at the time.
While the usual Evangelistic meeting was being held
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the other night in the Gospel Institui-e, Rutherilen, a
few miles from Glasgow, a woman shouted "Fire."
The whole audience rushed to the doors, where the
crush was very severe, but they all succeeded it getting
out without anyone being seriously injured. The
woman who raised the alarm observed smoke issuing
in at the hall windows. The smoke came from a neigh-
bouring bat? ehouse.
A serious fire occurred at
.Poynings, a village five

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miles from Brighton, on Monday. The outbreitk was
caused by the accidental knocking over of a paraffin
lamp. A general shop and a cottage adjoining, and a
part of a brewery, were almost wholly destroyed before
the arrival of the fire brigades from Brighton and
Hurst. The damage will, it is stated, amount to
£2OOO.

At a meeting of the Ramsgate Town Council on
Monday it was decided to apply to the Board of Trade
for leave to utilise a portion of the inner harbour and
other property belonging to them, in order that a
marine drive, which will connect the east and west
cliffs, may be constructed. The cost of the road is
estimated at 00,000.

Sir M. E. Giant-Duff, ex-Governor of Madras,
received a cordial greeting on his arrival at York House.
Twickenham, on Monday evening. A. number of the
inhabitants awaited his arrival, and expressed their
satisfaction at his safe return. The ex-Governor
briefly replied, assuring the townspeople that:he highly'
appreciated their kind welcome. Hearty cheers were
given for the right hon. gentleman and Lady Grant
Duff, and cannon were fired by the watermen :a
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honour of the occasiob.

Mrs. Owen Wynn', of Hazelwood linisse,
daughter of the late Sir Robert Gore Booth, Bart., of
Lissadell, county Sligo, was on Sunday evening driving
with another lady in an open barouche, when the horses
ran away: Mrs_ Wynne was thrown from the carriage
into the road, her head striking violently against a large
stone, from which fearful injuries resulted. She was
removed in an unconscious state to an adjoining house,
where she died on Monday.
Lord ray ttelton presided on Monday at a meeting cf
Great Western Railway employes at Paddington,
London, when an address on the importance of a
practical training in ambulance work was given by Sr
Vincent Barrington, deputy chairman of the St. John
Ambulance Association. It was stated that very suc-
cessful classes are now being held by the Londcn and
South-Western and Metropolitan District Railways.
In consequence of the statement by the Duke of
Cambridge at the meeting of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation, the Council hese stopped the works which
were in progress at the butts at Wimbledon, with the
object of increasing the quantity of target accommo-
dation to meet the yearly increasing number of cora-
pet•tors. _ _

Toe Committee which has been inquiring into the
bei.t means of harbour defence for Portsmouth has
reported that the submerged forts at Spithead should
be armed as alternate ports with 12-inch 45-ton guns
on b.-.4h the upper and lower tiers. To carry out
this scheme 38 guns would be required.
At the request of the Queen the Home Secretary
telegraphed on Monday afternoon to the Lord Provost
of Glasgow that her Majesty approves of a hospital
being erected on *he south side of Glasgow, to be called
the Victoria Infirmary