The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-08 00:00:00

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he was inclined to regard with toleration;
or again of classical literature, w, he thought
would oontintse hereafter, as hitherto, to be the
basis of English higher education ; or of English
orators past and present, of whom he esteemed Wynd-
ham to be the most perfect; or discussing the well-
known grammatical error in "Child. Harold," which
he regarded as a foolish question to raise about a great
poet, whom he praised with heartfelt enthusiasm ; or
mentioning 116 intention of devoting the summer to
the study of Plato; or attempting to reckon up the
number of really great men in the world, which, he
said, scarcely amounted to twenty; or saying laugh.
ingly that it was hard to get rid of love of approbation
even at the age of 67; or talking kindly to a sweet
child who was listening eagerly to as much as he could
understand of the conversation. That voice was now
silent, but, in his writings, he still spoke to us.
After dwelling upon the marvellous industry- of the
late Lord Lytton, who, ho said, had left a splendid
example of what might be effected by continuous
purooBl, in the course of many years, the rev, pro-
fessor remarked upon the genuine kindness of his
dispositon, and said that all who came in contact with
him felt that he was a true man who had nothing to
conceal, and was willing and able rrsely to impart
Hixi-
self to all. Concluding a brilliant and exhaustive
analyois of Lord Lytton's life and works, Professor
Jowett said be had loft an honoured name, and his
tuernory would always be a delight to hie family and
to all who had known him. Whether we should
see or know our friends in heaven, he could not tell,
but we looked forward to that happy re-union not
without hope.

The Vienna New Free Praia has intelligence f rum
Rome that the Pope means to canonise htary Stuart.
A billposier has been brought up at the Liverpool
polies court. n der the Lord's Diy Act of Charles 11. and
lined 6s and costs for posting bills on a Sunday.
Three young men were drowned at Kianbsford on
Sunday afternoon, through the breaking of ice on a pond on
Which they were sliding.
The Leipeic pnbliebers have arrested the threat-
ened strike of printers by giving notice of dismissal to the
composittva in their employ belonging to the Strike Union.
A dense fog, which is somewhat unusual for this
time of the year, kept Loudon in partial dszknem on
Wednesday.
A family has been poisoned in Kildare by eating
cake made with arsenic instead of soda, the poison having
been sold in mistake The father in dead and three children
are M a precarious condition.
An authoritative contradiction is given to the reports
that Mr. Baas, M.P. tor Derby, is ill. Inc Lou. member iota
London, in good health, and ready to outer on his parliamen-
tary duties.
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The Loudon correspondent of the Leads Ifercuri
professes to know that the G,,verurnent Bill on Irish Univer-
sity Eidue t 4•011 eili contain no concnigiious whatever to the
itomaa Catholic hierarchy.
The Manchester Royal Infirmary has just received
the very munfficent gift of .25,000 from Mr. James Hattori, of
Richmond house, Higher Broughton, to be applied to the
permanent icadcament of the charity.
Lord IL.rtingLon in reply to a deputation frond the
Bamist Union on the aubinet of Irish Education. said the
Government did not contemplate making any serious altera-
tions in the existing sylitem of primary education in Ireland
during the forthcoming session.
A telegram from Ht. Petersburg states that an
Englishman named Mies has just arrived at Omsk. In Eastern
Siberia, having wade his way thence from Pekin. This is a con-
siderable feat of travel, for the distance as the crow flies is
close on 2,500 miles.
On Friday the engine drivers and stokers on the
Portuguese Railways struck, and the traffic was seriously in.
terferedswith On the following day, however, the Govern•
meta made some arrangement with the engine drivers on the
Northern Railway, and the traffic was resumed.
In reply to a deputation of licensed.victuallers, Mr.
Dixon and Mr. Mentz two of the members for Birmingham,
promised to vote for the amendment of the Licensing Act, in
many of the particulars in which it pressed severely and tin
justly upon the respectable trader.
The 17th of March next will be the 1,500 th anni-
versary of the birthday of lieland's tutelar saint, Patrieius
having been born, accordingly to a generally received tradi-
tion, In the year 373.
New troubles are brewing in CabuL It is stated
that the Governors of Bajour and Lughman are preparing to
rebel against the Ameer, and that the instigator of the re-
bellion, one Sher Muhamail Khan, has been arrested by the
Ameer.
An avalanche descended, the other day, in the neigh-
bourhood of Posehlavo, the Orisons, so completely blocking
up the road that It became necessary to make a tunnel
through the snow in order to open up communications.
It having rime to the, knowledge of the Mansion
House Committee that some of the survivors of the IV orthjiest
had b-gun to trade up .n their notoriety at the music-halls,
they were informed that professional business of this kind is
Incompatible with their eleemosynary claims on the com-
mittee.

On Saturday wont of the coal agents in Sheffield
further advanced the price of coal two shillings per ton.
This course has been adopted in consequence of the severe
weather that has set in, and the limited supply. Most
agencies In the town have a fortnight's orders on their
books.
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Mt:. John Gurney has offered the eastern district of
London a park of 80 acres, well timbered, for £.26,000,
tower .s which be guarantees that members of him family
will subscribe £10,600. In addition to this Mr. Gurney ex-
presses himself willing to allow inlf of the balance to re-
main on mortgage for ftve years.
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The Bombay papers 'just— received contain a brief
account of an earthquake on the Sind frontier. The full
force of the shock appears to have fallen on • town called
Lehree, in which nearly every house was destroyed, and 500
persona were either killed outright by fal ing walls or Curled
In the ruins of the houses; In fact, only twelve of the in-
habltants escaped with their lives.

There is a little railroad at Bayou Sara, Louisiana,
that runs to Woodville on a very uncertain schedule. A
s,ranger came In the other day and inquired how often the
steam•car made trips to the country. The party Interrogated
said, "let weekly." " What do you mean by tritreekly
The answer wu, It goes up one week and tries to come
down the next"

During Monday's storm the tit. Ives lifeboat did
noble work, proceeding five times t 4 ships in danger, and
taking off the crews of three vessels, the Mary Ann. of Ply-
mouth; the Franck of Portheawl ; and the Rambler, of
Carom-von.'lwo of the hands of the latter vemel were
washed overboard by a tremendous sea and drowned. Hun-
dreds of people watched the boat from the shore.

A very painful impression has been produced in
Liverpool by the intelligence of the loss of the Clan Alpine
off the Lizard, most of her crew belonging to this port. It
has been ascertained that eighteen of the crew were saved,
but Captain Nelson. Captain Burnett, the company's over-
lookers, as went,' the first officer, chief steward, cook, and
Others, amounting in all to thirteen, perished.
All the leading coal merchants and agents in Lon-
don, who preserve a strict uniformity of prices, made a'bold
stroke on Tuesday. Prices went up about a shilling per ton
each day last week, but a further rise of 8a per ton was
agreed np^n, and the large dealers are asking £2 per ton
for what they call Wallsend " coal, and in most instances
they give no quotation for any other description.

Amongst a variety of curious objects lately found in
the excavations of Rome, are portions of a net found at the
&quiline, pieces of woollen stuff blackened by time, and
having the appearance of contact with fire, but still preserv-
ing their elasticity, and the remnants of a straw mat much
discoloured. These °Wets were found in a large room in
which a public waehhouse is supposed to have been estab-
lished.

Prof. Paul Panoeri, of Naples, in continuation of
of his researches on animal light, has directed his studies to
the Faostama, a well-known phosphorescent aseldian. His
observations tend to show that the luminosity of this crea-
ture resides in a pair of small organs attached to each sad-
diem, the functions of wh.ch had not previously been
understood. Thrusands of these brilliant points are distri-
buted through the colony of middle which make np the come
poundsPyrogoma, and give to the entire organism the
appearance of an incandescent cylinder.
A young woman named Elizabeth Nerley, aged
twenty two years, living at 3, Coburgnitreet, London, was
stricken with blindness about six weeks ago. Last Friday
everting her mother went out, leaving the deceased sitting
by the lire. During the mother's absence souse neighbours
heard screams, and found the deceased lying on the pavement
in a pool of blocti She was immediately • conveyed to the
hospital, but upon examination life was found to be extinct.
om the fact of the room window being found open it is
supposed that she accidentally tell out of the window.
On Monday Lord Elcho took the cbair at a we!.
attended meeting of metropolitan Volunteer officers, held to
consider where the Easter Monday Review of the present
year should take place. Dover, Ramsgate, Margate, and
Portsmouth, severally had their claims more or less forcibly
urged ; and finally it was agreed to adjourn consideration of
the question for • fortnight—a committee being charged in
the meantime to obtain all the needful information from the
War Office and the railway authorities.

There was a large attendance of the members of the
United Service institution at Whitehall-yard on Monday
evening (Admiral Elliot in the chair), when Captain G. W.
Bremner delivered a lecture upon a new steam.steering
screw which he Cu recently invented. The object of his
screw is to effect the tuning, manoeuvring, and revolving of
• ship, and it claims to do this without the necessity of
headway. The invention was described in detail by Captain
Bremner.

An inquest was held on Monday, at Hythe on the
bodies of two men, named Woodling and Shiptou, who are
supposed to have perished in the snowstorm of Sunday morn-
ing. They were employed as shipkeepers of the Royal Mail
steamer Oneida, which was laid up three miles down the
river, and on Saturday afternoon came up for their weekly
supply of provisions. They left again about five o'clock, and
It brimpposed that they tacked too near in the south shore,
and taking the ground, were not able to get off again. Next
morning the boat was found washed ashore near Hythe,
and the men were in it, dead and still A verdict in accord-
ance with these facts was returned. Woodling has left a
wife and six children.

The North British Railway Company contemplate
putting sleeping-carriages on the limited mails between
London and Edinburgh, and it is expected that in a few days
• commencement will be made, as a sample carriage was /sat
Thursday inspected and approved by the Board. The car-
riage lion six wheels, a second-class compartment at one end
and luggage compartment at the other; to the centre is a
water-closet, lavatory, rkc. ; on each aide is a large compart-
ment whiTein are three seats, which elongate and make
sofa-beds, with suitable bolster and eushions. The carrage
is built by the Ashbury Company, of Manchester.

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The general belief that the Government intend to
" &menu" the Elementary Education Act receives some con-
firmation (the Mancheeter Guardian eaysl from a statement
which was made at the Oldham Sthool Board on Monday.
The Bev, It. M. 101,svirs stated that Mr. .1. T. llibbert,
"had tolo him the other day that the greater portion of a
bill to amend the Act had already been prepared."

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"A young gentleman, in a good business and social
position, Is desirous of making the aLquedntance I.f a young
lady, with a view to matrimony; enclose carte, which will
be returned "—Address, kc, A gentleman, 33, in •
respectable position, and whose income S £l7O, desires to
correspond with an amiable young lady, having equal means,
with a view to marriage. As this is bona ,flde, perfect con-
fidence may be lolled on."—A.biress, dfc.—Advertlsements in
Manchester Examiner.

In London, on Monday, A man named Appleby
was sent to No. 7, Ulster terrace, Regent'a l'ark, to clear the
snow of/ the roof. A foreman afterwards went up to see how
the man was getting on, and found him lying in the snow
quite dead.—A man, Identified as a horsedealer from Ireland,
haa been picked up frozen to death ,on the seabeach at New-
land, near the Great Western Mall Packet Station —On
Tuesday morning two women were found burled in a snow-
drift on Tredegar Mountain.

On Satin,lar a large consignment of game firm
Norway to London waa disposed of by game dealers. The
Importation consisted of ptarmigan, etspercallees, and wood-
co,ks, and u the markets had a short supply of English
game a good sale was obtained. Ptarmigan, or white grouse,
fetched Si. rld. to 6s. per brace, and capercalizles 8a to 12s.
per ditto English hares realisel 4s 6d to 6.. each, and
foreign ditto 2. 6d. to.4s. each. The recent frosty weather
has brought wild fowl into the decoys, with which London
marketa were fairly supplied.

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On Monday afternoon the articles seized belonging
to the gentleman who refused to pay the echoed rate at Roch-
dale on conscientious grounds were sold by public auction,
and the la,ge number of persons present appeared to be
rather amused at the proceedings. Mr John Ashworth, the
author of '•Stiange Tales," bought all the goods at high
prices, with the ez,ption of a coal-scuttle, value I at
£1 103 6d., which was knocked down to Mr James Rramhall,
wool-stapler. for £6. At the conclusion of the sale Mr. Ash-
worth said that the owners of the property had nothing to do
at a'l with the hi 'dine. It was his own act from first to last,
and they must not blame them.

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Some years ago an eminent publisher gave Lord
Lytton £20,000 for the flue of twenty of his novels for a rail.
way libmry. It is said that this is the lar.mat aura ever paid
in England for a copyright The most successful publi-
cations of the day, however, from this point of view, are not
novels, but sermons. It Is said that the representatives of
the late hev. F. W. Robertson, of lirtghton, have received,
in the course 61 some years, upwards of £30,000 for the pub-
lication of the various volumes loft at his death.

"With the view of keeping the ex-Emperor's
memory green In the soul of his admirers a mlnature terra.
cans bust of the deceased is sold as the centrepiece In a
bouquet of violets for the small sum of three sous. Mourning
letter paper is for sale with his photograph In the corner or
each 'meet and embossed on the envelope.. There are scarf
pins also with the head of en-Ciesar. An Illustrate I sheet
recounting the glories of the Second Empire for the usa of
the noble inasanta of France' is gratuitously distributed.
The Republican. have brought out a companion sheet, also
illustrated, commencli g with Napoleon's shooting the
soldier Badinguet in the b irrack-ysr 1 of Boulognewur-Mer,
In 1840. The Impartial hist.,rian must look on this picture
and cn thls."—Court Journal!
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In the week ending Satnr lay last, 5,655 births and
8,450 deaths were registered in London ard twenty r,ther
large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The mortality
from all causes in these towns wes at the rate of 24 deatita
annually to every 1,005 persons estimated to be living. In
the metropoliff 2 450 births end 1,336 deaths were registered,
the former hating been 74 and tne latter 400 below the
average numbers Only one person died from small pox, 3
from measles, 7 from scarlet fever, 5 from diptherla, 60 from
whooping.cough, 25 from different forms of fever and 13
from diarrhoe.. The mean temperature was 33 degrees. or
four below the average. The influence of the recent cold
weather upon the public health is but partially indicated in
the return for last week. The deaths rmarred to diseases of
the reepiratory organs and phthisis, which in the two pre-
vious weeks had been 314 and 392, rose to 466, willtdi were,
however, 140 below the corrected average number In the
corresponding week of the last ten years.

The report published some davit ago that an eruption
of Vesuvius had °warred is contradicted.
The Britisji Archmo!ogical SoJiety will probably hold
Its meeting at Sheffield this year.
The mayor of the commune of Nonzeville, in France,
has sent in a return certifying that there were neither
births, marriages. ner deaths in his jurisdiotiou in 1872.
A large meeting to oppose the Income Tax will be
held In London as soon as Parliament sits. Sixty
have promised to attend it already.
The Admiralty have received the suns of £3 in
shilling postage stamps "as money overcharged many years
ago.
the other night, as the guard of a Midland train
running between Bath and Bristol was looking out from his
box his head came in contact with a telegraph post and was
severed f eons his body.
Relations between the Italian Minister at Athens
and the Greek Government have been broken off, in Conan-
quence of some ids, nit, out language employed by the
latter on the Lauriuni Xsines queition.
We have great pleasure in announcing that the Go•
cement, considering the exceptional cackinutaileea of Dr.
'teasel's case, has determinist to difray the expenses of lds
defence, and alio to provide A besiege for Limanit akd his
wife to Brazil.

A moretuent ic on foot in the n.,rth midland counties
to press upon the Gov enmeut the necessity of insututing
gee thvedigatton iLto the Im:reeled teloe of coal- Mr. C.
geoley, Jon., 1.1. P. for Nottingham, wh, is a very extensive
colliery proprietor, has promised to promote this official in-
quiry and to give evidence it called upon_
Dr., Commie:9, the Home Rule coed-Into for the
representation of Liverpool, has retired from the contest,
en the ground that, seeing the Comiervative party are new
united, he wishes the Ltostalaidso to have the advantage ot
thorough union. His retirement, it is expected, will give
between 1,000 and 2,000 votes to the Liberal candidate.

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An inquest has been held in London on the body of
Mr. Brenner. aged 41 years. Deceased was a clerki n the
Audit-office, Somerset•house, and was in the habit of taking
opiates to induce sleep. On the morning of the 26th ult, he
was found sitting in Mammy chair quite dead. A post-mortem
examination was made. and a verdict of " Death from manful
causes' was returned.

An inquest has been held in London on the body
of William Herbert, aged 45 years On the 26th tilt. •
daughter of the deceased was msrrjed, and the deceased at-
tended the wedding. Being late at starting, he forgot to put
on his overcoat, and when returning Irons the church he
complained of being very cold. He became worse, and was
ultimately found dead Id his bed. The post-mortem examina-
tion showed that death was caused by congestion of the
hinge, brought on by taking cold. Verdict accordingly.
On the recommendation of Mr. Bruce, the Crown
has remitted eight months out of the twelve months' fm..
prlsomneut to which the stokers were sentenced by Mr.
Justice Brett. But Her Majesty's clemency has not quite
satisfied the committee of working men who memorallud
the Home Secretary on the subject, and they have decided
"to continue to urge the immediate liberation of the men so
unjustly imprisoned," and, further, to form a standing com-
mittee in order to procure "the repeal of penal taws against
the working classes" which are alleged to eilat.
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"ft has become an intere .fing problem how far the
train of progression can be carried In the adulteration of
coffee. It in now many years since The Lancet lint drew at-
tention to the practice of mixing chicory vEith the ground
berry. We now learn that chicory Is depreciated to a large
extent with scorched rye. In another sear or two we shall
pi. ',ably bear that the rye is adulterated. and the mind gets be-
wildered in speculating as to what the terminal pron. will
be. With geophagle on the Increase, however, it will not
stop at dirt—The Lancet.
A public meeting way held at Exeter-hall on Tues-
day evening,- to consider the defects in the Education Act of
1170, and to insist upon the unconditional repeal of the 25th
Clause, by the operation of which the old Church rate lie.-
imposed in a more obnoxious fcrm, and a violation of the
principle of religious equality distinctly legalized." The
chair wan taken by Mr George Dixon. SIP., President of the
National EJucation League, who was supported by Sir
Charles W. Dilke, Ban., SIP, Dr. Lush, M.P., Sir John
Bennett, the Rev. Allinson Picton, the Rev J. G. Rogers,
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Chairman of the Executive of the
League, and other gentlemen.

At Oxford, a man named Charles Hoimom, aged 60,
has been found dead in a barge on the Isis, supposed to have
been frozen to death. Deceased was well known at the river-
side as a jobbing waterman, assisting at the locks in St.
Aldates, and was in the habit of sleeping in an old barge on
the river. He was last seen on Saturday, but his absence
from the neighbourhood was not noticed until Tuesday, when
a neighbour, missing him, threw a stone at the boat in which
deceased used to sleep, and, finding no response, looked into
the cabin, where he found deceased in • sitting posture, quite
dead, having apparently been in that position two or three
day.. Mr. Hitching., surgeon, was called in, and on a cur-
sory glance gave It as his opinion that death had resulted
from exposure to the weather.

According. to the quarterly return of the Registrars
Qieneral, in the United Kingdom, the births of 269,076
children, and the deaths of 158,5434 persons of both sexes,
were registered in the three months ending 81st December,
1872. The natural increase of population was thus 111,112.
The registered number of persons married in the quarter
ending September 30, 1872. wee 122,212. In England, births.
which had fallen off in 1871, rose again, and exceeded the
average number in the year 1872, and notably in its Christ-
mas quarter The mortality for the year was lower than In
any of the last twelve years, and In the Christmas quarterthe
deaths were only nine in ten of the average number. The
reduction of the mortality was greatest in the cold quarters
of the year, when the temperature was higher than usual, In
the town district, where sanitary improvements have made
some progress, and in the sensitive class of acute zymotic
diseases The returns of pauperism again showed • consider-
able decline.