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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

SPLENDID BRIDAL GIFTS.

The wedding presents for the Princess St4phanie,
future Empress of Austria, will be exceptionally
splendid. One of the most valuable gifts is the suite
of jewels presented' by Buda Pesth, and including a
silver waist-belt in chainwork, formed of small square
scales, each of which contains a fine opal in the centre,
with diamonds sparkling in the corner. The opal
and diamond necklet reaches to the waist, and from
it hangs the Belgian lion in jewels, while fourteen
buckles for the dress and six hair-pies are added to the
usual earrings, bracelets, &c.
• Fiume sends a characteristic specimen of her cele-
brated " Moretti " work, earrings and necklace, the
latter consisting of a fine Venetian chain, on which
are strung sixty gold rosettes, with shining black negro
heads enamelled on each, and a ruby in the centre,
forming a most effective contrast.
The Comtesse de Flandre gives her niece a gold and
jewelled fan, on which is painted a wedding procession,
wherein the shepherd bride and bridegroom resemble
Princess Stephanie and Prince Rudolph, and the
Queen of the. Belgians presents an exquisite piece of
Brussels lace for flounces or a train, delicate as a
spider's web, and costing £4,400, the accompanying
handkerchiefs being worth £2,800 a paia.

The most elaborate handkerchief, however, is one
being worked by a girls' school in Prague, which has
a border of silk-embroidered crowns in relief, with an
S below, while in the four corners are wrought the
Bohemian lion, the Austrian eagle, the Belgian arms,
and an S surrounded by flowers,

A grand farewell demonstration in honour of the
Princess Stephanie took place at Brussels on Monday.
The King, the Queen, and the Princess left the
Palace of Laeken at 1.45 p.m., amidst the cheers
of the crowds. After receiving an address of the
Corporation ot Laeken and bouquets presented
by young ladies, their Majesties drove by the
Central Boulevard to the Bourse, on the steps
of which a platform had been raised for the
Royal Family, the Ministers, and the authorities.
An address of the Corporation of Brussels was read.
Mans, bouquets were then presented by young ladies.
The popular clubs, 120 in number, marched past the
Royal Family with banners and music. Tile march
was opened by the surviving veterans of 1830. The
King descended and shook hands with their president.
The proceelings were of an enthusiastic and touching
character. All the streets were profusely decorated
with flags.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

AN UNCEREMONIOUS SUMMONS.

Oit the Saturday before Easter the German Crown
Prince and his second son, Prince Henry of Prussia,
were out snipe-shooting in the so-called town-woods
near Spandau, when, through an unexplained acci-
dent, some short cover caught fire in their immediate
vicinity (says the Daily Telegraph). Strenuous
efforts were made by the foresters to suppress the
conflagration by throwing sand upon the burn-
ing brushwood, and the Crown Prince, spade in
hand, took his share of the labour with his
accustomed energy and cheerfulness. When the
fire broke out, Prince Henry was at some
distance from his father, working through cover on
his own account, and had but just passed by a group of
labourers, excavating sand, who, seeing a young sports-
man in the plainest of shooting suits all by himself in
the wood, asked him "Who he was ? " "I belong 'to
the Crown Prince," answered his Royal Highness,
and walked on. A minute or two later, the
Crown Prince, missing his son, began to shout at
the top of his voice, " Henry! Henry !" and the
labourers, jumping to the conclusion that the
youth who had just passed them was a Royal
servant who had strayed away from his august
master, dutifully echoed the cry of " Henry !"
with all their might and main. Heartily laughing at
their unceremonious summons, Prince Henry joined
his father, and turned to at the sand-shovelling
with a will. By the time the fire had been extin-
guished both Princes were as black as tinkers, and so
parched with thirst that a timely draught of country
small-beer, supplied by Chief-Forester Kranzler, was
by them pronounced to be "altogether nectariax."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESES.

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1881.

TRADESMENS ADDRESSES.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

GAME AND POULTRY.

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to 68.; rabbits, is. 9d. to 3s. ; wild ditto, 6d. to 10<1.; or
wegian ptarmigan, Ild, to is. 2d.; live quails, Is. 3d. to 28..'.
hdunches of venison, 608. to 708. each; forequarters of ditto
10d. to Is. 6d. per lb

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HALESOWEN.

DRUNK AND REFUSING TO QUIT.—AI the Police.
Court on Tuesd3y, before Messrs. E. B. Phillips
and T. H. Hickman, Joseph Edmunds was charged
with being drunk and refusing to quit the Leopard
Inn, on the 19th ult.—Police. constable Bull proved
the case, and defendant, who p!eaded guilty, was
fined is and costs, with the alternatlve of 7 days'
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imprisonment.

PITCH AND Toss.—John Shuker, Joseph Loisham,
Henry Rudge, John Hackett. and Benjamin
Shakesptare, were charged with playing at "Pitch
and To-8" on the 24th ult.—Pojice-consta,bit,
Roper proved the case and they were each fined
5s including costs.
HIGHWAY OFFENCE.—AIded Smith, a wagoner,
was summoned for hiving a wagon on the footpath
at the Quinton, on tie 2,ith ult. Police-constable
Barley proved the case. Defendant's plea was
tuat toe roads were heavy and he horses were
'knocked up." He was fined 58 and costs.--A
similar charge was preferred against Elijah Tru-
man. Police-constable Barley said that he saw de-
fendant drive a horse and trap on the footpath at
Quinton, on the 28th ult. Defendant pleaded not
guilty, but was fined Os in,luding costs.
ScHOOL BOARD PROSECUTION.— John James was
summoned by John Diagiey, school attendance
officer, for neglecting to toad his child to school.
An order was made tor the. child to attend school.

SisAallo A SHIRT.—Jos, ph Weaver was chirged
with stealing, on the 21st of larch, a wool shirt,
the property of William Walter.—Ann Walker,
wife of p:osecul or, said she hum, the shirt on the
line in the yard, and missed it flout 5 o'clock in
the afternoon. The shirt produced was the
property of her husband and was worth 6s.—
Walter Harris, a groom, proved following prisoner
to near the Corngrsaves Works, where he dropped
the shirt. He caught hold of him and held him
until Police-constable Hardwick came up.—Police-
constable Hardwick proved apprehending prisoner,
whc, he said, was under the influence of drink._
Prisoner pleaded guilty and said he was sorry, and
was drunk at the tin-ie.—Superintendent Kemp said
there were eight previous convictions against the
prisoner Stile, 1871, being one each year —He was
fined 40s including costs, with the alternative of
one month's imprisonment.
DRUNK AND ASSAULTING THE PoracE.—Richard
Hill was charged with being drunk and assaulting
Police,ergeant Raybould and Police-constrible
Roper, on the 20th ult —Police-sergeant Raybould
said ho hoard a great noise in Birmingham Street,
near the Shenstone, and went there and 120tW the de—
fendant who was very drunk and making use of
filthy language. Witness requested him to go
home, and his •:wife wanted to take him, but he
refused to go. Witness took him into cu..t.rdy and
defendant became very violent and kicked and bit
at him. Defendant also rtruek Roper.—Police-
constables Hardwick and Roper gave corroborative
evidence.—Defendant denied committin4 an assault
and said that one of the officers struck him with a
stick.—That was denied by the police.—He was
fined 5, and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE CHATHAM MURDER.

A discovery was made on Sunday afternoon which
it is thought may have some connexion with the
murder of Lientenant Roper, R.E., at Brompton Bar-
racks, Chatham, in February last. As some boys were
playing on the chalk cliff at the rear of the mess of the
Royal Engineer officers, one of them crawled into a
hole, and there found a box containing 28 revolver
cartridges, and a piece of paper and string with which
the box had been apparently tied up. The cartridges
are precisely similarly in size to the one with which
the deceased officer was shot, and also to those found
upon the staircase leading to his quarters, where the
murder was committed. The hole in which they were
found would be passed by any one going from the rear
of the deceased officer's quarters to the road leading
to the Dockyard Extension Works. The matter was
at once reported to the police, and Detective Sergeant
Clark, Metropolitan Police, stationed at Chatham
Dockyard, is prosecuting inquiries.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE MARKS.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY,
The cattle trade was decidedly weak. Although supplies
were not large, they were amply rsufficient for the demand,
which throughout lacked activity, and quotations ruled in
buyers' favour. A moderate supply of English beasts was on
offer. The Scotch receipts were short, and those from Ireland
limited. A restricted inquiry prevailed at drooping cur-
rencies. The best Scots and crosses sold at 4s. 10,1. to is. per
Slb. From Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex we received about
1,600, from the Midland sand Home counties about 250, and
from Ireland 100 head. On the foreign side of the market
there was a fair show of Danish with a few Spanish beasts.
The trade was dull at irregular currencies. The sheep pens were
not over well filled, but a large supply was reported at
Deptford, and, as the dead meat trade was depressed, the
market at Islington was very weak. The general top price
for the best Downs and half-breds WAS is. .ITd. per 81b., and
this quotation was only exceptionally exceeded. Lambs
were quiet at Ss. to 9s. per Sib. Calves and pigs sold at about
late rates. At Deptford there were about .600 beasts and
14,000 sheep and lambs. Quotations :—lnferior beasts, 4s. to
4s. 4d.; second quality, 45. 4(1. to 4a. 6d. ; prime large oxen,
4s. ed. to 4s. Bd.; prime Scotsja. 1041. to Is.; inferior sheep,
4s. 6d. to is.; second quality, is. to is. 4d.; prime coarse
woolled, is. 4d. to is, 6d.; prime Southdowns, is. 641. to
is. Sd. ; large coarse calves, ss. 6d. to Cs.; prime small ditto,
6s. to 6s. 6d.; large hogs, 4s. 6d. to is. ; small porkers, is.
to is. 4d.; lambs, Ss. to Os. per Sib., sinking the offal.

METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.-MONDAY.
There was a moderate supply, and trade was very slow, as
follows ;-Inferior beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 6d.; middling ditto,
38. 6d. to 46. ; prime large ditto, 48. to 4s. 64. ; prime small
ditto, 4s. 4d. to 45. 6d. ; veal, ss. to ss. 4d. ; inferior mutton,
38. 4d. to 4s. ; middlidg ditto, 48. 44. to 6s. 4d. ; prime ditto,
6s. 61. to 63. ; large pork, 33. Bd. to 48.; small pork, 4s. 44. to
45 Bd. ; lamb, Bs. to Bs. Sd. per Sib.' by the carcase.

MARK-LANE.-MONDAY.

At Mark-lane the wheat has shown increased dulness. The
small supplies of English wheat, and which included some
good dry qualities, sold is. lower. Foreign wheats declined
to the same extent, and were saleable only in limited quan-
tities. Flour continues in large supply, and still droops in
value. Malting barley firm; grinding rather dearer. Beans
dull of sale, at is. per quarter decline on the week. Peas in
good demand and rirm. Light Russian oats remain dull ot
sale, at unaltered rates. Other sorts dearer. Maize in good
supply and easier.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.

The annual meeting of the National Temperance
League was held in Exeter Hall on Monday evening.
The chair was taken by the Rev. Canon Farrar.—Mr.
R. Rae (secretary) read an abstract of the annual
report which stated that the jubilee of the National
Temperance League would be celebrated in Exeter
Hall on the 29th proximo. Attention has been paid
to the spread of the principles of abstinence
among medical men, and more than 250 medical
teetotallers were now members of the British Medical
Temperance Association. The subject had also been
discussed at meetings of the British Medical Associa-
tion. During the past year several conferences of
teachers had been held, and numbers of illustrated
lectures had been delivered to schools. Good work
had been done in the army and navy, and it was esti-
mated that from 9,000 to 10,000 men in the navy
were total abstainers, and in the army as many as
20,000. The income of the League for the year had
been £3,530, of which the balance in hand was some
£3O.

The Rev. Canon Farrar said that he noted from the
report that the League had made strenuous efforts to
rescue the young, and that they had induced Lord
Northbrook to stop the issue of rum to boys under 20.
Among the evidence of ruin and desolation caused by
drink he knew of none more heartrending than that
which showed the painful amount of misery and de-
struction which was entailed by drink on English
children. He urged the continuance of the work
among the children for though it might be very diffi-
cult to correct drunkards, it would not be so to induce
the children to abstain from what they did not need,
and, indeed, did not like.
Mr. Andrew Johnston, JP., addressed the meet-
ing, and urged the importance of establishing in the
neighbourhood of the criminal courts good coffee-
houses, so that the people need not be driven into the
public-houses for refreshment.

The Rev. Dr. J. M. Gibson said that in America it
was quite a rarity for a Christian minister not to be an
abstainer. He thought that there were two classes
who ought to abstain from intoxicating drink; the one
was those who found it easy to abstain, for to those
it was a small sacrifice for the temperance cause;
and the other class was those who found it difficult
to abstain, for if they found it difficult, it was time
for them to abstain for their own sakes, as well
as for the temperance cause. He thought a good
sign of the times was the large number of persons
who, though not abstainers themselves, approved of
the movement and the work they were doing. Another
good sign was the alliance between temperance and the
Gospel. He said that Richard T. Booth, a temper-
ance lecturer, was doing a great work at Newcastle.
He congratulated the audience on the vote in the last
session in favour of local option. For four years there
had been total abstinence in the White House at
Washington.
Other addresses were delivered, and the meeting
closed with a vote of thanks to the rev. chairman.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

AN OFFICIAL RECORD OF LORD
BEACONSFIELD.
The Tunes has published the following letter :

Sir,—l have just ferreted out the only official record
of the entry of Mr. Disraeli into public life, and it
may be a fitting pendant to the account of his quitting
it. It is his " apprenticeship indenture '' (recorded
No. 2,953 of the old King's Bench of 1821) in the
usual manner, with an affidavit of the execution. The
date is the 10th of November,. 1821, between Isaac
D'lsraeli, Esquire, of Bloomsbury-square, Benjamin
D'lsraeli, his son, and William Stevens,
solicitor, of Frederick-place (Swain, Stevens, and
Co.), whereby the son was placed for five
years as clerk to learn, &c., in the usual form, to
become "an attorney of the Court of King's Bench
and a solicitor of the Court of Chancery." The deed
was executed by all three parties, verified by the usual
affidavit, filed on the 13th of November, and enrolled.
Being the only survivor of his then surroundings (I
was then in my teens, when he was in his twenties),

I have had papers pass through my hands showing he
did the usual routine, for they were endorsed "Served
copy on clerk on date, B. D'l." Among other eleves
of the firm (the hi4hest of its day) were Mr. Justice
Parke, Master Unthank, Mr. Nash, the writer (whose
"Railway and Land Taxation" had a leader in The
Times of the Ist of November, 1844), Mr. Digby
Seymour, Q.C., cum multis alii,3.—Yours respectfully,
C. NASH.
Copploston-road, April 27.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE BRIGHTON RADICALS AND THE
GOVERNMENT.

The following resolutions have been passed by the
Brighton tßadical Association, and sent to the Govern-
ment :

"That this Association thanks Mr. Gladstone, Mr.
Bright, and the 175 members who voted with them for
their defence of the right of constituencies to select
their own members, and firmly protests against any
interference by the House with any duly elected
member in the fulfilment of his legal and constitu-
tional duty in taking his seat."
"That this Association views with regret the course
about to be taken with reference to the proposed
monument to Lord Beaconsfield, and protests against
the expense being defrayed from the public purse."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

GNOTES

(By our own Turf Correspondent.)

The three days' racing set for next week tit
Chester will witness some scnAai ional wagering on
the coming Epsom Derby, when a host of winter,
" cracks " will be driven to the wall in favor of
those that have sound constitutions, as nothing
finds out any flaw in an animal like the Derby hill,
therefore Bal Gal and St. Louis who were at the
top of the tree last year, will now most likely be
absentees. Sir Charles accordin‘, to all reports has
done well, and Brag comes in for good support;
likewise the Americans will have a sound candidate
in Barrett, who ran but indifferently in the City
and Suburban handicap.
The chief event to be decided on the Rhoodee io
the Chester Cup on the Wednesday, distance 21
miles, and since Apollo made such a bid for the
Great Metropolitan Stakes he has come into notice
tor this event--and certainly with only 7st. 91h. up
for an animal that got fourth in the Epsom DerbY
he should look wed at the finisn in the last round.
Fernandez and Prestonpans I think will b two
absentees, and Madam du Barry 6st 121 b seems to
have plenty of weight. Reeler, who won this event
two years ago, will find the distance too far this
time. Wadlow's pair—Retreat should be the best.
Cannon should be handy with Lord Itoset.errP
Ercildoune, who was greatly fancied for last year
Derby. Bates will find a likely representative out
of his three, which should be Blackthorn. Olivette
in Green's stable can stay, and is fairly treated.
Mistress of the Robes Iv ill find supporters. Bonnie
Ma:den may find the distance more to her liking
than the City and Suburban was. Sweetbroou,
can stay, al.d is let well in. Sun of York and
Windsor are both trained by Lynham, and whicz:-
ever they elect to represent them should be there
or tuereaboats, but if I take two to represent no
they shall be

Al OLLO and ERCILDOUNE.
On the third day the Great Cheshire Stakes will,
be decided, distance one mile and a quarter, an
should Appollo miss the Tradesman's Cup I should
stand him, uut with a penalty. I should then pi ele
either
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES OF AMERICk.

Governor Ordway, of Dakota, in a speech reported in the
American papers just received, gave a clear account of the
disaster which recently befell the farmers of the south-
western portion of that territory :

The unusually cold winter caused the formation of
an enormous quantity of ice in the Upper Missouri
River. A sudden thaw and freshet broke up the ice
on hundreds of miles of the river's course. A short
distance below Yankton, at a bend in the stream
between high bluffs, a jam occurred, and the enormous
blocks of ice, wedged together by the force of the cur-
rent, made a dam as strong for the time as a granite
wall. The ice constantly accumulating against this
obstruction filled the channel for the distance of nearly
ten miles, and the river overflowed its banks and
spread far and wide over the flat bottom lands. A
large part of its waters made a way for themselves
northward across the country to the Big Sioux
River, a distance of about thirty miles, spreading de-
vastation over hundreds of farms, drowning the stock,
ancl sweeping off fences, granaries, and houses. Two
villages on the banks of the Missouri were entirely
destroyed, the ice masses, whirled along by the power-
ful current, battering down the houses as effectively
as a bombardment from a battery of heavy artillery.
About 500,000 acres of the richest farming country in
Dakota is covered with water to a depth of from two
to six feet. Most of the inhabitants have lost all their
possessions save the bare land of their farms. Their
destitution is complete. They have no animals, tools,
or seed to plant a new crop, and nothing to live upon
until harvest time. Over 7,000 of these unfortunate
people are now supported by public charity,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing Room a
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday afternoon.
Their Rsyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, attended by Baron Both and
Major G. Winsloe, Her Royal Highness Princess
Beatrice, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught
and Strathearne, His Royal Highness Prince Leopold,
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Teck were present.
The Queen wore a dress and train of black silk,
trimmed with silk embroidery and crape, and a black
tulle veil surmounted by a diadem of jet. Her Ma-
jesty also wore jet ornaments, the Riband and Star of
the Order of the Gauter, the Orders of Victoria and
Albert, the Crown of India. Louise of Prussia, St.
Catherine of Russia, Marie Louise of Spain, St. Isa-
belle of Portugal, and the Saxe•Coburg and Gotha
Family Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wore a
dress of black tulle over black poult de soie, veiled in
jet embroidery and looped with jet leaves. Corsage
to correspond. Train of black embossed velvet lined
in black satin and bordere.l in jet. Headdress—a
tiara of diamonds, feathers, and veil. Ornaments—
pearls and diamonds. Orders—Victoria and Albert,
the Crown of India, St. Catherine of Russia, and the
Danish Family Order.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice wore a dress
of Venetian satin, trimmed with bead embroidery,
and a corsage and train in a darker shade of Venetian
satin. Headdress—feathers, veil, and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness also wore a necklace, barribgs,
and brooch of pearls and diamonds, and the Orders of
Victoria and Albert, the Crown of India, and the
Saxe-Coburg and Goth q Family Order.
The Diplomatic Circle was attended by most of the
foreign Ministers, and several presentations were
made in this circle. _ _ _ _

The general circle included several of her Majesty's
Ministers. Presentations to the Queen were made to
the number of about 150.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

FORM or AN 011D1Z.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

HOME LIFE AT THE BERLIN COURT.

The home life of the young folks at the Imperial
Court in Berlin is characteristic (says the Court
Journal). Prince Frederick Leopold, fifteen and
a-half years of age, son of Prince Frederick Charles,
is diligently attending his riding and drilling lessons.
At about noon he may be seen every day leaving the
Royal Palace in civilian dress, high cavalry boots,
carrying a riding whip, and accompanied by his mili-
tary governor, walking to the manege in the Breiten
Strasse, where he mounts one of the picked horses of
his Imp3rial grand-uncle, and for a full hour goes
through his equestrian course under the stern tutor-
ship of riding-master Major Meyer. At his drill the
Prince handles a cadet Mauser rifle his drill-waster
being a gigantic corporal of the body company of the
fire regiment of the Guards.
The young princesses are by no means allowed to
neglect their physical development. The three
youngest daughters of the Crown Princess Victoria,
Sophie, and Margaretha are practising gymnastics at
least thre.e times a week, under the direction of Major
von Dresky, chief instructor at the Military Central
Gymnasium. They take their lessons at the crown
princely palace, and are not only proficient in the
various exercises, but appear very much to their ad-
vantage in their pretty English gymnastic costumes.
These latter are the productions of a "home
industry," which is established at the palace, and
runs no less than thirteen sewing machines
for the confection of the every - day dresses
of the young princesses as well as their
august mother, who herself makes the designs and
superintends the work. In an emergency this Imperial
dress-making establishment does not at all shrink
from venturing on the manufacture of more sumptuous
and complicated gaia-dresses. It was only the other
day that the Crown Prince was shown a variety ofi
handsome but expensive costumes for his spouse, and'
that he deliberately but pleasantly remarked to the
head of one of the well-known magasins de nou-
veaut6s : "These prices are too high for me ! My
wife would be anything but pleased if I were to spend
so much money for a dress. She is far too practical
in that respect—she prefers to buy the material herself
and have it made up at home.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE RIGHT OF ASYLUM.

The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
says it is not true that there is, or was, an under-
standing between the three Empires, in view of
the Conference proposed by Russia, for the purpose
of examining by what means the activity of
the Social Revolutionists could be checked. No
agreement of the kind ever existed. The Confer-
ence itself is not likely to come off; but that is
due quitests much to the 'formal reservations with which
it was accepted by some Powers as to the refusal
of others. The answer of Germany is not known ;
but it is doubtful whether even there it was
approved of unconditionally. It would be doing
a gross injustice to the present Austrian Govern-
ment to suppose that they would etnter upon any
arrangement for restricting the right of asylum.
Moreover, such an arrangement ,would never be
ratified by either the Austrian or Hungarian Parlia-
ments. It is clear that in proposing the Conference
Russia contemplated something more than the
adoption of measures for the prevention of regicide.
It is generally assumed that the object she had in
view was far more comprehensive, and extended
precisely to an abrogation of those rights which, in
all free countries, are regarded as sacred.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE PEACE WITH THE BASUTOS.

The award of Sir Hercules Robinson, which has been
accepted by the Cape Government and the Basuto chiefs, is
described by the Durban Correspondent of The Times as
follows :

The Basutos are clearly made to understand that
the disarmament law will be maintained and all guns
are to be surrendered; but any one wishing to retain
his gun, with the approval of the magistrate, may
have it registered and returned on payment of a
licence fee of £1 annually in advance. Such fees,
after defraying the cost of registration, are to be
applied to paying the interest of the colony's debt in-
ciirred for the war.

The guns surrendered are to be paid for at the
appraised value, the property taken from the loyal
people is to be restored, and all loss or damage is to be
made good by the tribe. Compensation is also to be
given to the traders for the loss of property, and all
the Government property captured during the rebel-
lion is to be returned.

The tribe is to pay a fine of 5,000 cattle for having
taken up arms against the Government.
On these conditions being complied with there will
be a complete amnesty granted for all acts committed
during the rebellion, and there is to be no confiscation
of territory.

The Standard (in a leader) says that, "in whatever
light the news from South Africa is regarded, no quo
can deny that it is extremely unsatisfactory. The
Cape Ministry have been forced to conclude a peace
upon the terms which the Basutos would readily have
accepted at first. The peace, in fact, very ihuch
resembles that made by our own Government with the
Boers. With regard to the Transvaal, it is not too
much to say that the surrender of the British
Government has produced a state of absolute chaos.
What shadow of hope is there that a satisfactory
conclusion can be arrived at under the circum=
stances? The chances are in favour of the Boers re-
fusing absolutely to ratify the conditions made by
their leaders. 170/en if they agreed to them, what
hope is there of the conditions being observed a single
day after the British forces have lett the country? It
is possible that the labours of the Commission may
be followed by a nominal peace, but he must be
sanguine indeed who, with the existing state of feeling
of all parties in Natal, cherishes the belief that a peace
concluded under such circumstances will prove accept-
able or lasting."

A telegram from Durban states that the session of
the Volksraad of the Orange Free State has been
closed. President Brand made a pacific speech on the
occasion, in which he expressed the hope that a lasting
peace would be arranged between England and the
Transvaal, and asked permission to attend the sittings
of the Commission at Newcastle, which was granted
by the House.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-07

THE. CENSUS.

Birmingham now has 408,004 inhabitants, or 64,217
more than it had in 1871; Bradford, 183,008, or 35,907
more than in 1871; Blackburn, 92,958, or 16,619 more
than in 1871; Hull, 150,842, or 31,486 more than
in 1ti,71 ; Oldham, 111,343, or about 29,000 more than
in 18'1; Halifax, 78,074, or 12,949 more than in 1871;
Rochdale, 68,865, or 5,300 more than in 1871 • Dews.
bury, 64,792, or 9,852 more than in 1871; ipswich,
50,391, or nearly 8,000 more than in 1871; Isle of
Thanet, 50,022, or 7,917 more than in 1871; Wigan,
48106, or 9,101 more than in 1871; Darlington,
35,100, or 7,371 more than in 1671; Colchester (in-
cluding the garrison, now some 1,51111 below its usual
strength), 28,363, or 2,023 more than in 1871 ; Cam-
bridge, 35,372 or 5,298 more than in 1871 ; Oxford,
39,759, or 5,310 more than in 1871; and Windsor,
exclusive of Eton, 15,614, or 1,144 more than in 1871.
The population of Liverpool and its suburbs is now
681,936, being an increase of 110,656 as compared
with the previDus Census; Glasgow numbers with its
suburbs, 704,436; St. Asaph Union, 29,448, an
increase of 1,587; Ruthin Union, 14,638, a decrease of
734; Warminster Union, 13,840, a decrease of 1,432;
Hastings Union, 50,126, an increase of 14,480;
Norwich, 87,841, an incz ease of 7,459.