The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS.
The following tables show the losses and gains of
each party in the old and new Heats up to the 24th :

OLD SEAT 4.
LIBERAL GAINS. CONSERVATIVE GAINS.
Ayrshire N orth;
Bandon ..
Bath . . ..
Bed( ord .. .. .. .. ....
Belfast . . 1 Buteshire ....... ..... ...
Huai nollanashire I Coventry .
cal:abridge
~. .... .

Canteriary
Carmarthenshire
Carnarvonshire
Carrickfergus ...
Cockennouth
Cheltenham
Christchurch ...
Colchester
Cornwall East; .
Denbigh ......
Dumfriesshire...
Durham .. .
Durham (South).
Edniburglishire
Exeter ..
rant ham ....
11 astings
}I elston
Hereford
avert ord west
Hertfordshire..
Ipswich ....
K (Merrill lister
Kings County
Londonderry ..
Macclesfield ..

1 Derbyshire (South) .
1 Durham ,North)
1 Horsham tie)
1 Kent, East
1 King's Lynn ...
1 Lancashire North) .
1 Leicestershire (South,
1, Lincolnshire (South)
1 ,
1 !Middlesex
1 Monaghan .
1 Nottingham
1 Notts North
1 Pembroke
1 Penryn ......
1 Portarlington
1 Portsmouth
1 Sli wehttry
1 Shropshire South'
1 Stafford West
1 Southampton
1 Stockport ....
1 Sussex (East)
1 Westminster
1 .Woreester

_
1 -
- 1
-1
-1
-1
-1

-1

1-

-1

1 -
- 1

1-

L- 1

-1

1-

- I
-1
-1
I-
-1

-
. -

1 -
1 -

-1

1 -
I-

-1

-1
1-

-1
1-

..:: =

1-

-

i -
1 -

1-
1-
1-
1-
I-
1-

1-

31aMon
-Merionethshire .
Mom)), uth
New Ross .......
Newry .
Oxfordshire .....
Perthshire .....
Queen's County .
Sandwich
St. Ives
Sunderland
Tewkesbury
Warrington
Wexford County
Whitby
Youghal

1-

-1
1 -
1 -

„.. ----- ..........
I Wallingford ......
1 W igtoashire
1 Worcesterrldre ;Fast'

Total

-1
1
1-

NEW SEAT
LIBERAL GAINS. CONqERVATIVE Gana.
aberdeen.hire West 1 Cheshire Mit
c . 1 Devon,hire East . .
I ;win, nuluod 1 II ....
hot nley . . 1 Kent ( id
Chelsea .
Darlington .
Derbyshire !East
Essex 8.) 2 Staleyhridge ............
inindee ........ ........ I Surrey (Mid)..............
1...... 1
Gray send ...... 1
I arkney 2
Sloik Border ..
Leeds
Lincoln (Mid) ......
•1
Liverpool .
London rniversity
Merthyr . . ...... 1
' • .

ildlCsleiroileif • • • .
S tat fordsliire East)
irkten
Wednesbury.

Total

Total

ot them will be lacked up, not only there but also
about the hills whereinto they slink. With a view to
picking as many of them as possible up, the utmost
endeavour should be made to shoot them down.
Accordingly, the French troops maintained at Rome
might be utilised, and the wonders which the Chassenot
rifle did at Mentana might be more creditably repeated
at Terracina. or any other neighbourhood infested by
the gang of a Fra Diavolo.—Punch.
THE WONDERS OF SZED.—IS there upon earth
a machine, is there a palace, is there even a city, which
contains so much that is wonderful as is enclosed in a
single seed—one grain of corn, one little brown apple.
seed, one small seed of a tree picked up, perhaps, by
a little sparrow for her little ones, the smallest of a
poppy or flue-bell, or even one of the seeds that are
so small that they float about in the air invisible to
our eyes' Ah ! there is a world of marvel and
brilliant beauties hidden in each of these. About
a hundred and fifty years ago the celebrated
Linniena, who has l*en called "the Father if
' Botany," reckoned about 8,000 different kinds of
plants, and he then thought that the whole number
witting could not much accaul 1.0,000. But a hundred

-1
1 -
1 -

1-

I -
1-

1-

A Iklkw OFFlClL—Everybody is marching with
the times. At a pastoral conference held the other
day at Vienna, it was proposed and resolved, "in the
face if the constant att icks upon the Church and the
cl-rey in the Press (partly Jewish, partly infidel), to I
nippoint a priest, a ready writer, whose business it shall 1
lesspecially to watch over these attacks, and either
, - to refute them by special contributions of his own in
the Press itself, or to bring the offenders, in the legal
manner of the country, before the lay tribunal; he
lillancon llrtriligenct must be possesses' of the legal knowledge requisite for
Psus ,
, I the carrying on of the proceedings on the part of tbe
Church. The new "Defensor in publicie litteris Cleri"
HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. was at once found in the person of the proposerhimself,
—. and he was appointed on the spot.
THE SCOTTISH MARRIAGE REGISTERS. The Nsw OATH FOR MI. MBERS OF PARLIAMENT.—
local registrar at Clyne, in Sutherland, reports to the The following is the new oath of allegiance provided
Registrar-General of Scotland that, owing to the by the Act of last Session-31st and 32nd of Victoria,
failure of the herring fishery, and to the very light har cap. 72—to be taken by the members of the new Par-
vest, nomarriages were ode rated in this district during Bement n-" I (giving the name) do swear that I will
the quarter ending 30th September last. Also, atFetlar, I be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty
in Shetland, no marriages were registered during the 1 Queen Victoria, her heirs and successors, according to
three months, and in this district the herring fishery ' law ; so help me God."
proved a complete failure. At Eyemouth, in Berwick, li THE CURRENT Corn—ln the event of a con- i
there was only one marriage recorded during the quer. I tested election for Orkney and Shetland, it. is un.ler-
ter, the reason assigned for this being the depressed stood that all bets are to be paid in " ponies."—Panch.
state of the fishery trade. In the Highlands, the ,
failure of the herring fishery, however, does not always LANGUAGE. OF TREES.— Poetry finds in trees DO
acconnt fern bad return of marriage., for at Tyree, irn little of its sustenance. From the most ancient poets
insular district in Argyle, where no marriages wi.re i downwards, all verses that have immortality in them ,
recorded during the quarter, the registrar states that , abonind more or less with allusions to trees, fielding in I
the number of marriages registered affords no just them either images for the events—both glad and
criterion of the members who go to the hymeneal i i irrowful—of human life, or emblems, in their higher
altar, at all events in his district, for, after the certi- ' mature, of what pertains to the hears and mind. The
&ate of the proclamation of bans has been obtained, "Language of Flowers " would be incomplete did it
A Rood many happy couples prefer taking a trip by i not include the "Language of Trees," since trees are
steamer to the low country to get married, rather than I adapted, by their original and inalienable constitution,
stand the turmoil, revelry, and bustle of a real High- i to serve as metaphors for almost anything great and
land marriage. "And," adds the registrar, "con- , good, and wise and beautiful, in human nature. Hence
sidering all things, the Public morals gain more than 1 the countless citations of trees in Holy Writ, wherein
they lose by the change." 1 the cedar and the fir, the vine and the olive, the palm
RETIRING TO PRIVATE LIFE—TWO French noble-
' and the fig are a portion of the ordinary vocabulary—
not mentioned arbitrarily, or as a sportive act of the
men, one a distinguished general and the other a lieu-
fancy but on account a their being the absolute re.
tenant in the army, and both young, have retired preseetativee and pictured forms in the temporal
to very private life indeed the motive for which is world of the high and sacred realities that beleng to
unknown (says the Court Journal.) They have entered the invisible and eternal. - Hibberd's Gardener's
the monastery of Chartreuse de Grenoble. situated in Akgazine.
the depth ef a forest. The rules of the order are
more severe than those of La Trappe—" Brother, we COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PASSENGER AND
n.ust die," is the only salutation and conversation Guatm.—Steps have been already taken by the South
each (lay. The cliniate is rigorous—the only meal Eastern Company to carry into effect the requirements
partaken of, and in the evening, is a few ounces of of the act of last session to provide communication
bread and a little wine -even in illness the most grave, between passenger, guard, and driver. There are now
no alteration is made in the dietary. The members four express trains fitted with the electrical communi-
wear no linen t but, instead, hair shirts. During the night cation designed by Mr. Walker, the electrician to the
they get up to prayers, and f r two hours are engaged company. The carriages fitted with this apparatus
thereat, prostrating themselves on their faces on the are not permitted to work regularly in other trains,
add flags ; and those " bre), here " wino have been just and at the end of each journey the electric couplings
received, in ere of the n,,oird-nisoide—men on town! are taken off the carriages and carefelly placed in
Madness is said to be greatly on the increase in France. boxes provided for them Since the trains so fitted
—Court Journal, have been miming, there has not been a single
BARTER.—The Cheyenne ( Wyoming) Argus instance of the communication having been used.
has the following paragraph in a prominent place in ONSUMPVI N AND DYSPEPSIA.—At a late
the paper n—" Coal and wood wanted at this office, to sitting of the Imperial Academy of Medicine, Dr. ,
be paid for in advertisements, subscriptions, and Marotto read a paper in which he advocated the use of '
printing." neutral acetate of potash in gastrointestinal affections, '
ouch as mucus fevers, dyspepsia, itc. It ought, he said,
MISS RYE'S EMICRANTS.—Advicee from America to be prescribed in the shape of a solution in distilled I
inform us that Mine Rye had arrived in Toronto with water of a given strength, to be afterwards diluted as
a second batch of female emigrants from Great Britain, occasion might require. As it has a disagreeable taste,
on November G. There were 73 in all, and their ages it should be administered in separate doses four or five
varied from 19 to 30. The passage out had been very times a day rather than as a continuous drink. At
stormy; but the girls all looked well, and by the 9th the same sitting, Dr. Retard read a report on the
only a few were left without situations. The "Horns" therapeutic effect of arsenic in consumption, asdescribed
in which they were lodged was in fact besieged with by Dr. Montard-Martin. It appear, that its efficacy
applicants for them as soon 11NM their arrival became was recognised by the ancients, and has been formally
known. General servants were most in demand. For confirmed by rune modern practitioners. Dr. Moutard
these there were 70 more situ stions vacant than Miss shows that nearly all his patients subjected to the
Rye was able to fill up. Farm and dairy servants arsenical treatment experience considerable relief after
were also much wanted. The Toronto Globe, after a few days. In the course of three weeks they begin
mentioning these facts, says that whether Miss Rye to lose their extreme leanness. The happy effects of
discontinues her emigration efforts or not, the great this substance are chiefly perceptible in a kind nf con-
demand for her last batch or girls, and the rapidity sumption unaccompanied by fever or very serious
with which they were engaged, forms a sufficient answer digestive disturbances. One of the first phenomena,
to the "malevolent diatribes" which have been in. observed after a while, is a return of appetite. T 1 re
dulged in against her, author of the report it, moreover, as his opinion that
PRA DIAVOLO'S PICK-ME-VB.—According to the arsenic exercises a direct action on the lungs.
Poet's then Correspondent, several of the brigands who ELECTION COLOU,RS.—Too often black and blue.
seized upon the Rev. Mr. Campbell, "have been picked —Punch,.
up in the environs of Rome." Let us hope that more TAKING IT Banat —The indefatigable Bishop
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of Orleans—the Boma of Use 19th century, as he tio
sometimes called—has published A Letter on the
Future Ecumenical Council. The last paragraph of
his first chapter is to this effect
You have been told that the Pope desires to break with
modern society, to c, oakum it, to proscrihe it, and to spread
among it profound trouble. And yet never have the evils
under which you wirer, i:hristian peoples, more palatally
moved the head of the Church; never has he uttered from
the depths of his soul words more sympathetic for your
perils and your sorrows. And—the whole world has remarked
It—though despoiled of three-fourths of his little State,
reduced to Rome and its scanty territory, placed between
the darer' of yesterday and those of the morrow, sus-
pended, as it were, over the abyss—the Pope does not seem
to he concerned at it. It is not his mebaced throne that he
seeks to defend he utters not a sentente, not a word On
such great Interests. No ; in the 801 l Cl Convocation the
temporal Prince forgets himself, and is silent; and it is the
Pontiff only al., speaks to the world.
THE WAR-OFFIcE.--Sir John Pakington (says
the Front Arrow) has very unwisely subjected him-
self to a mild rob Ike. It seems that. a clerk in the
War-office had taken the opportunity of a political
meeting to denounce the administration and organisa-
tion of the office, and he was foolishly wikelr% explain