The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-07 00:00:00

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right him and wl;o"up to that ,
told by StrYPet "was
weighed meeehendiee' brought "Itch pony bad
them atnall. gr'n7 most of these y bad
wlts a"'
no-
draeyrehadttninlap e%2liferooontare Their services were shortly
)UtTottban Corresponbtnt from beyond the seas to the King's beam, to which vmem'ote sod private soldlen—gave very strauge and anaattatac- to be required. As soon se the jury retired, M. Frayll.4.
belonged a master, and under him four master porters, try acc mos of the etrcumetatinrceee uonordewrowohdicilattthx,tatoasm j.u.n„f„.tiaataffhentsetahte
Iff,,,ofuorrt,
with labouring porters under them. The house ne."°!,:ear...trytd!..
ot theft y would really Of, a sudden there was e occupied by
the
d It as whispered. but
• hush, an w
[We deem right to state that we do not at all times '
neatly oureelves with our forreeponosere opinions beloegeth to the company of Grocers. But off late see the pkltogres left 41111 which was tattooed, and le- haft y bell vet that the Jury had agreed their ve,d,t.ci.
tears little to don in tide office, as entire: • eon, deed in sone slues they could, not, have serrn,taer %%the T„feeLjtarrotuirfrectr,b,tte court at, tholortah,r,,eoe
took
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sit ti's', brett
.. The London semen rosy be '• I t have been dratera pulsory power to constrain them. r ts to have their t.t,mge,s, d„ !Is had
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to
aixmatliy.ldtal , t f
en'neur,Lautt every LweeLwabtennewowhat the verdict would
' ally opened on Thureday the when the goods weighed, they allegin be an unnemmery dye. et t, altd the evidence of • number of p. none who be Troy t Mar thee' is the be, titer nani-I.7dre
first Dnwhig-reiren held by e 4neen at Bucking- amble and chirp." I explain that in er ,ift,:rt:f
barlok swler no :n.rerheoriltathe
setivitleceswoofr
,?,11fuelilit701foenr, AA the foreman
„ifle.eroef:, the err
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pm f•the in t-- it was the pr for m ise ht t they h ualli seen the atadnit e'as L'esearke-i wiefitemipa of isone°ll • "
that come., a new t-r eetendamom the • The delleridau up ad and sisas+ hear bee,
an the me look ''fo fo Dr ,on n from , be we tne 'e
er tria d who had roe. to en Use sat./ ' -
e and Courts 'the gr in Tee f n oth he h- j been called stifle . The Jury were AI c; COCkbllff achiresel,.g the nh, said —Genilemen,
it e debtors mble kir e fle ylel.lllll C apcf, to con Cr whether witnessee to whom, the tattlobrixerks were are you agreed upon your verdict ? -Pot Fo remaff We arc.
Master cede-atm: Do you eee the oeone,e,,,lerllty Of 001
SL ames -par and &Meg the Melt ad- feunded by Samuel Slater and _homete Kentish, two actually
owdelLnlryntene.treg7 gnelri ansdoonnvSnefOligunce-cfyaiwiens'nelt7l7-
miring the fine drawee and the gorgeous liveries which I roeir co driven by the Act of Uniformity from St. dlathe out soy perticular refoon for obaerying them, did not sr e tte tally on
etheektienuftrncoul.fty-OT.
bit'eld'l•eerTfi,(7,isue; -guilty On 1101
show off to the best advantsee in the warm sunlight of rifle's to the Tower. John Clay to n, chosen for thee chef el Roger Ttiefe benne ri°;Yessi:otntludoem,:eotothtohe,;,,clitnocidus.oismlstoh,ett
10,140 is the sagoasi.countt—T h,,rrmnfl thuov.
a spring afternoon. But the day of which I speak was it, wee the son of a Jaancosehire sotton bleacher, k gewerleirtereene.w fielkeascentor the tetial physical mires— Maseru Coreburn You may be 11 eat' on both counts,
the most miserable whech had been expedient/CI inlite a Varpiri4re,l4 fy the well-known Countess nktorsl or artllhisl—,n the boll et tgotandeonfeefezidam,, t ati,r,dr of
, tbst is the verdict of you ally—Tae Foreman ; Thu
British capital for months. From the rising of the o • antingdon. He need to relate how he had been citotresse,Ttuetre'sannibea "m"arksidloterthn. bodies of two°. Pessoai the verdict of Us all,
wan even unto the going down of the same, violent jolted with rotten eggs while, Preaching in the Wen corimpler,l ett Lao:
„job,,_ourrlabl-..e.thideesr,,,m.,A,A•d,
wind, heavy with rain, Was borne up fro. the any air dear "Cierteeiirexcia Xf)r.•ulftilnefe *as Clayfirs issue.-?nr L'Aerde fc a 41' tit c a It, rteh r due fl. rde ea
defendant t nerunotnlitl ere:
De° -anti* Loa "t
•re exigese—ne ao°n°•ext. Ste ace 'of ?h- satOsi rionaorns i—ine Ferrite*: We eee, my Lord.
• tae of the stormy Atlantic, and th to' ridttWed NOW 411WdlightillicitutdChaPel tore fOIPPOPIOg'OII.OI 1,1 be established in e lane e, Lord cite/ .1 oit:ce Are you agreed that he la Arthur
afforded • most cogent and convincing test. The Itr..rdChief Orient—The Foieman We are.
moment's intermission in the pitiless down L•f • . ticpn rty yeses. Justice then csrne to the nut Jack of hand writing, which, he The Lori Chief Justice • Are you agreed on the issue of
deep has always struck me SA being a ' • 1W are looking forward to a gay day on Thursday, said, his vrew, ws, el ways an important test ot Identity, the
Lame on such a day as that. The smoke freM ten the 12th mutant, and want only line weather to make and in this case was.
of the de'es,dst,t ~The "Ltindynmli:dntcliollraLe'ifg bknorensannefenur t'eet'artene staled
Pad"
Itheetesufl 011ialiterso instead of sumendbm • ANNOY than Aston one long to be remembered. For on that eurtfeeTir ergjrartie• were entirely different, whiter'', •ux the Ur. Bask us: Oa behalf of the Crown, I pray for mime-
Into the et.- -ds canglet by the tookiedly day the leake and Duchess of Edinburgh make their other hand, the writing if the defendant hod 80310 Of 1101
e The Foreman of the Jury: I will reed the verdict. We
blast, ACV& allatiedercNnify here and there,- efublic entry luta London, and her Majesty accom- rocednelliteiteleeticenreonneirtd°,ar'ylbnet ;noe VarTenw°rinetilnrgierthie tie
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driven down upon the ids-tete, and into the pante§ them by way of presenting a new daughter to tendent was the handwrlttug.df Roger when hu went throat, end, first, that the defendant is not 11 ,ger Cherie. Doughty
Tichborne ; sec dully, we end th ci the defendaolfid,ldizt
fame, epic gait 'nostrils ot the unhappy wey farere. her people. The route between the Great \ Veetem
„•,,0,r,d.4.1 the th
that Loner's handertttog dt It
gw%nbil
h _it evidence that
bites
leg 7:t he Vernr, e aCoV tar: there nag noti now Lany
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C'bmeto. .aid *Olattibete • Agiyars look unutterably Terminus at Paddington and Bu oking ham l'alece is restdenoe In Australia had altered, and bed gone gager Cowles Dougety
boy heed ; • theory, however, with Lis cousin Lacy Radcliffe on env occasion
Wretched, ne, high apot the boxes: of their respective sure to be densely lined with spectators, but with the hack to Ms sch.
I Venda. whatever (app(ause); thirdly, we find that the defendant is
riehborue was ever gufity of undue
eeleicies, and enveloped 4n Mae witerproof wrape, they exception
.tof Regentatreet or Wat4leeplace the Zjohloch rejtodosjinoakZertiauleadgowmylgtnribetn:letletneed In the Arthur Orton
- are borne throorgh the sodden thoroughfare., con thoroughfares to be traversed by the cortege are by no course of a tew years, still it retained the same genera The Lord Chief Jostle., That Jimmies ot all the UAW.
• tenlPlatkig with _martys.like imperterbability the 01,1111118 of an knpoeing character, and accustomed as rarell7l ifgan.i:•nne"itegstnciessetnm"urit cboenlddierd adopted,ve•oe:ytht: The Foreman then handed to the Lrd Chief Justice a
seeti/pg lelbeke• or Ina anferindite helps which trot her Imperial Highneas has been to the splendid the detendaret But, then, there wag something even more
owelthteenc.p.artirewr4o,rteteniwb„y, thea , , ppr,yrt ~a.u.dloaaltdreatr °pinto°
gloomily atl?tig' 'front of thaw. Trademeen, who panne of Si. Petersburg, places of the calibre of the ea.h.leanete.,,r,iset,lcarin,mo,..erlt:4•ll.ld.welgal,ita,zted
otlf:tat,wlas„, style
The Lord thief Justice • Yes, 1 think it is quite eight.
balk for Imitra perambulated empty shops, ever and Grand Junction Read will convey but an inad -erode easy and flowing, foil Ideas, In the main correct in This lithe general epinion.of yett alt
anon venture to the door, cast a despairing glance at impression of the wealth and the extent of the British lengume, wish a few venial lapses Into entrap litng, but with. The Foreman: Yes, my Lord, the generol opinion of us all.
the murky sky, watch the inceisant patter of the rain- Metropolit. Meanwhile, costly peanuts are pouring CT: niervne gneisms or groin zr,o„esmt.,dtkg.:lfamboyartewhne,,„reao,s,
t t The Lord Chief Justice therenpon read the paper, which
drops upon the pavement and listen to the howling in thick and fast upon the Grand Duchene. One of poverty of ideas and difficulty of expression, with the was in these terms:—
grossest vulgarirms said relied, um miamellings. There "The jury desire to express their epinton that the charges
wind, m the sound thereof riseeleven above the noise of the handsomest has been subscribed for by officers of
were hut tour instances out of hundren In which Roger of bribery. conspiracy, and undue 1011a•11. brought agelust
the skeet teethe- Tame whose businese imperatively the Navy and Royal 'Marine'. It was at Buckingham and the defendant mania the same blunders ; teens mietakes the prosecution in tribe case we entirely devoid of found..
demands that they should take their wells abroad, Palace for inspection on the day of the Drawing-room, !ore chanceoirtfc and they were different. _ nob ; and they regret exceedingly the violent hurguage and
'siworoerriovtet,..",olfor.etiwusantendo"pwreorpeot,toben founda .111.Ra:h.
id,etm..teounproont tteelea.,el.ln.g..e,ou.re,lhfeorptf.„he, defendant in his
otonched under umbrellas, fokled in Uhters, or peep mid elicited the undisguised admiration of that boil- cution and upou
Int out from under streaming mackintoshee, push along ! Heat assembly. It is of silver gilt, aid Is adorned with these blunders, for 113 100 noes of Roger's writing there several of the witnesses produced in the Cana-
an rapidly an poseible, seldom looking either to the right numerous beautifully-wrought marine figures. The wwerre cnly e
.1111tiesrlreotanChiuntilse'l s"onu.g.hotitton:ccdo°nkuntlfnuraltdneeerde, "OW) "11. F. DicKhN'• Foreman."
or to the left, Peradventure one meets an acquaintance, large centre-piece is supported by Triton' and neer. ey his long ebsenee from England , but was that theory
and might say to him—" Wet day this, Mr. Simpson !" maids ; the salt-cellars are eupported by sea nymphs, and tclun:lnvleenat:!ede.thengetienUoateenntagaAint:oltnlitswt"t„alit owltsercroelt,
The gentleman so addressed, it is likely enough, is soak- the state/owns are imitation coral end shells. The claret that the defendaut had some peculisrittes et spelling which
lug through, laconically replies" Very I "and hurries on. jags are very richly chased. The dessert-spoons repre- certainly were Dot to be found In Roger Ticheorte, e writ.
Well,
was
Well, it was on such drenehing day are this that her sent Melte, and the handles are formed by graceful rF:
ornoir'' tfOrn tir'inttracnon"lesEls'n°,ertrente'ref,ontht thheeotr
Majesty held her first Drawing-room. The opmdron allegorical figures. The o.ot Of this beautiful gift is tottered on fact that the deferAlant had lost his own way of
o Blues, which formed the guard ef honour in the 2,000 guin wining and Afgollell ortoneeas. of 11. 'ger Trehborne and Arthur Orion and of the defendant
Mall, proceeded from Albany-street Barracks to After the excitement of tie past few weeks, people tended to the concluslcu that the defendant Is not Roger
Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, but fee *ace there generally are looking forward to a quiet time. The Ted:Morns, but is Arthur Orion.
were no admiring eyes to gaze upon them. The ladies ciremnetancres under which Parliament meets would
invited to the Drawing-room rolled by intheir carriagee, appear to preclude the possibility of any serious poli.
but not a head was put out, and nothing was to be tical struggle this eeshion. After the whirlwind and the
seen beyond blurred window-panes and mud-splashed stotm of the general election the "still, small voice" of
equipages. Within the Palace the time was not a peace is heard, and the heat of the strife naturally
cheerful one for POMP of the actors in the scene. Lord begets a reaction, and a desire for rest which is not
Sydney, the Lord Charuberlain in the late Ad- likely speedily to pane away. The absence of stirring
ministration, played hie part for the lard time, for on rarliameutary &bates and critical divisions will not be
the morrow the New Chamberlain, the Marquis of the only characteristic of a season which now promises
I iertford, was to superintend the ceremonies, and to be one of peace. The Tichborne trial, which seems
another Mintrees of the Robes wad to be In attendance to have had a perpetual life in it for years, and appears
upon the Sovereign. The storm of wind and rain to have possessed a never-failing interest, is at last at
laated far into the night, and not a few of the millione end, to the heartfelt sorrow of the managers of all the
of London must have been rudely awakened from their London dailies ! It has proved the best impetus to
elambers in the small bourn of the morning by the their circulation since the war between France awl
fierce and persistent beating of the rain-drops upon the Germany. Add to these two causes, the termination
window-panes. I of the Ashantee war, and I Slink you will find ample
! foundation for the belief that, in the absence of the
In striking content with the dispiriting ingueLces I unforeseen, a period of comparative rest and quietude
which I have ettempted to deecribe was the wsether , is before Us.
of Saturday, the day heed for the termination of the
great Tichborne trial. We could ecarcely realise the fact
that we were living in the same world. Ns howling wheel
now, no torrents of rain, no blinding emoke. Instead
thereof we had a clear sky, a genial atmosphere, and
brilliant sunshine, which Was more like that which we
are accustomed in May. The leafing trees in the
eqoares seemed suddenly alive with busy life, the birds
hopped chetrey from bough to bough, and the merry
notes of the winged warblere had chased away the
ahadowe and the gloom of the previous forty-
eight hours, bidding un look forward to warmer
and brighter days,. No wonder that the neigh-
bourhood of Wootminster Hall was thronged by a,
dense a multitude as ever gathered in a superficial ales
of similar ale° within the COLfille9 of this mighty city.
The vat space of Weraminster Hall itself would have
been ineufficient to accommodate the number of those who
had applied to the Judge, for admiasion to the Court
within the precincts of which one of the most extraordi-
nary deem as of the century was at laht to be played out,
after having occupied three of her Majesty's Justices,
a large tar, and an intellioent jury fee more than ten
months. Saturday is a day of leieure with • large
proportion of the iubabitants of Loudon, and this ea-
turally added to the immensity of the aesemblage.
They swarmed in Palace Yard; they clustered an
thickly as been upon the grass in St. Margaret's
garden ; they etood in knots upon the pavement in
Parliament-street ; they gathered he thowands upon
the Middlesex hide of Westmhoster Bridge. Within a
minute or two after Big Ben had sounded forth the
hour of no, n, it became known to the people that the
Judges had concluded their observations, and then a
feeling of nabob:Led expsctancy settled upon every
face. There was a pretty general opinion that, con-
sidering the vaat maes of evidence to be weighed,
the intensity of the public interest in the
case, the time which it has occupied, and the
host of conflicting circumstances which presented
themselves at every turn, the ittry would
be some time in deliberation, and many had predicted
that they would not agree upon a verdict. Great,
therefore, was the general surprise when, after only
half-an hour, it was known that the jury had returned,
and that they were prepared with their decision. As
they re-entered the box, and anotwered to their name.,
the Claimant narrowly ecrutiMeed their countenances,
and from the air of gravity which they wore, he must
have at once felt that he was a lust man. The fore-
man reads the judgment from a written paper which
he holds in his hand, and as the word "Guilty I" rings
through the Court, a low murmur of sensation runs
through the densely-packed audience. Then the de-
fendant is ordered to stand up and receive his sentence ;
the words "Fourteen years ! pails from lip to lip with
the rapidity of lightning ; the curtain fall, upon the
long-drawn out scent; and the Court dismtves amid
the antiquated proclamation made by the crier, " God
save the Queen and my Lords the Queen's Justices."
In a few weeks Northumberland House, so long
the town residence of the Percy family, will have
ceased to exiet ; Indeed, by Midsummer the building
will have altogether disappeared. Its removal has
excited much criticism, and given rise to the expres•
elon of comfy conflicting opinions. Those who have a
profound veneration for the past regard the destruction
of this noble hihterical palace as being little better than
an act of barbarism, and are disposed to lament the
',whine activity of those who, with no respect for
venerable %%melanoma, look only to the convenience,
or it may be the necesnitiee of the presetot Pay. On
the other hand the utilitarians declare that the ducal
residence hoe long beim an eyesore to the people of
London, end a delusion an 1 a snare to the country
vintor, who in contemplating its exterior, could not but
imagine that it was the Bastille of the metropolis,
The new street for which it has to give way will un-
doubtedly be a great improvennat, and it, con.
htruction is the only means of turning some of
the immenee trate t at Charing Cross en to the
Thames E obanknient, which although it cost two
milli- ne sterling, has hitherto failed to relieve the
erowied thoroughfares west of Ludgate-lrill and east
of Trafalgar-quare. With a proper means of access,
however, there I. every reason to believe that it will
effectually answer It. original purpose. The history
of Northumberlan i House is written in otherchrouioles,
but while ell outward end visible signs of the mansion
will now vanish, it a satisfactory to know that the
tonnes white marble staircase and the other art tree-
cures of the place will be preeerved. The stone lion,
too, which in all winds atol weathere has from its
elevated penal do ever the gateway pointed its tail
defiantly in the direction of the city, will be removed
to a place of safety.
It is not only at Trafalgar square and Charing-cross
tbat the work of improvement is going on. The new
terminue of the London, Chatham, And Dover 11 oilway
Company upon the Holborn Viaduct is now complete,
and bean no comparison with its predeceseor at Lod-
gate- hell. There the accommodation was limitot ;so mach
so, that the psemengers from an in-coming tram
in descending the narrow staircase, frequently
came into collision with an excitol crowd of ticket
holders who were fighting their way up, and whose
impatience was-only increased by the ehoute of the
guarol upon the platform above--" Any more for
Aldersgate ? Those who are for 31oergateertreet this
way, plesee I Are you right behind there?" In the
distance a reply is heard "All right!" the guard'e
whistle Rounds, and the train slowly movee away, to the
manifest chagrin of the struegling heisted crowd in the
staircase who wanted to go by it. The Viaduct station
is, however, large and commodious ; there are three
double line., with four long wide platforms. Clone by,
slowly rises from the ground the "Viaduct Hotel,"
which promisee to be a eplendid structure. There will
be an imposing facade 250 feet long, and the tasteful
Mee wird roof will be • hundred feet high from the ,
street levet It will be in the Italian style of archi-
tecture, and into be completed within two years.
On reading the announcement of the Rev. Thomas'
Binney's death tart week I was reminded of the singular
history of the Weigh Hones Chanel, in which he
officiated PO many yeare. The Weigh-Hottse Peen
stands neon the site of St. Andrew's Church, which
wee destroyed ln the great lire of 1666, In It, we an

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