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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

GLEN FIELD

STARCH is the only kind used in
9 Her Majesty's Laundry.

IF THERE ARE ANT LADIES who have not yet used the
GLENFIELD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited
to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions
printed on every package, and if this is done, thee will
say, line the Queen's Laundress, it lathe finest STANCH
they ever used. When you ask for tiLENFIELD
STARCH, see that you get it, As INFERIOR KINDS Aau
01T115 SUBSTITUTED FOB TEE SAKS OF EXTIY PROFIT.
PEWARE THRBBFORE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20


WANTED, a WATCHMAN for NIGHTS.
Mast be able to reed and write, and must apply
le hie ema baadmitimi. Weges, 18a per week. —Apply to
nein, Pk. e, Kong Wheel Works, Stourbridge.

WANTED, Iftr A ENGINE DRIVER.—
Apply to f atat Parker, DierAey Wheel Work',
Mosairldge.

WANTED, a Strong YOUTH, about 18 or
nO,ii GSNER&L -PORTER.—AppIy, Observer
etosrbrWge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

FRIEND OF ALL.
HOLLOWAY'S piLLs.

Let no one longer be oppressed with the notion the
his malady is incurable till these Purifying Pills have had
a fair trial. A few doses will remove the more urgent
symptoms, and thereafter completely control all disor-
dered actions, rouse the torpid liver, relieve the obstruc
ted ktdneys, cleanse impure blood, and confer on every
function healthful vigour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

MR. JUSTICE KEOGH.

The Times' " own Correspondent," writing from Dublin
on Sunday evening says:—
The Grand Juries of Meath and Monaghan have
passed resolutions directing attention to the continued
attacks on Mr. Justice Keogh, and calling on the Go-
vernment to take steps to put an end to such gross
attempts to intimidate the Judicial Ben,h. Judges
Keogh and Lawson were cheered by the people of
Enniskillen as they passed through the streets yester-
day. The Grand Jury of Fermanagh presented an ad-
dress to the Judge, in whirls they expressed their high
sense of the independent character of the Judicial
Bench, as exemplified in the recent decision given
by their lordships in connexion with the trial
of the Galway Election Petition ; also their high ap-
proval of the sentiments so fearlessly and forcibly
expressed by Mr. Justice Keogh in his Judgment.
They considered tlyit he was not only justified. but
that it was incumbent on him as a solemn duty to de
liver thst Judgment, founded, as they declare it to have
been, upon evidence of the clearest and most incontro-
vertible character. They condemned the attacka upon
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

WORCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

AGRAND HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI-
TION in connection with the above will be held
the Stow Gaounn, at STOIMBRIDGIS, AtIOCIIT 27th,28th,
and 25th, when Prizes to the amount of £lB4 will be
awarded. (ENTRIES CLOSE 20TH AUOUST.)
For List of Prizes and Rules, dc., apply to ALIMST
Secretary, Worcester, or to
J. S. HAYWOOD,

Bu-c-x-,

26, Broud-atreet, Worcester,
Hon. Secretary to Horticultural Show.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

GROCERS' SPIRIT LICENCES.

Mr. Homer, in a letter to the Morning Advertiser, gives
the iollowing reasons for placing grcecr awl apirit dealers
unuer the provisions of the Licensing hill

Because this is not a question between two rival
trades, but a question of principle and consistency—
a question of legislative morality and public polity.
Because great evils have resulted to society from
the operation of the law in reference to grocers'
spirit witablishineuts, and as no provision is made
under the bill to check the multiplication of grocer
spirit sellers, it in apprehended that the evils com-
plained of will prodigiously increase with the un-
checked growth of such establishments. Because, under
the bill, any number of new licences can be obtained
for new grocers' shops on the payment of the duty as
a matter of course, whereas the bill makes it touch
more difficult to obtain a new public-house licence.
Because it is unsound policy to have two systems in
reference to one branch of the retail spirit trade, no
matter whether the sale is for consumption " on " or
" off " the premises. Because the evils which have re-
sulted from the unrestricted grocer system are thus
described by Dr. Little, senior physician of the London
Hospital
I regret to say that tra -heroes, reputed respectable, have
been foimd to send wine and spirits packed in nisguire to the
wile's order, without the knowledge of the husband. I was
professionally cencerned in a lady's case, her brain anti
health having thus been destroyed."
Because the object of the authors of the Bill—i.e.,
the diminution of the gale and consumption of intoxi-
cating liquors—will be defeated unless grocers are
placed on the same footing aim publichouses —at least as
regards the obtainment of new licences.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

SEWER ON BEAUTY BANK.

MENDERS are required for LAYING a
a_ SEWER on Beauty Bank.
Specification may be seen at my Office, any day after
Monday. the Iflth instant, between 10 nod 12 a.m.
Tenders to be sent in to me, on or before Wednesday,
July 24th.
The Lowest, or any Tender, will not be necessarily
accepted.
56, High•street, Stourbridge,
July sth, 1872.

JOHN TAYLOR, Clerk.

HALESOWEN & fpGLEY FLORAL

HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION.
TO BE VELD AT

THE "LEABOWES," HALESOWEN,
By permission of Benjamin Gibbons, Msg..
ON TUESDAY, JULY the 30t1, 1872.

THE GROUNDS TO BE OPENED AT TWELVE O'CLOCK,

AND CLOSE AT SEVEN.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

Alistellantous

HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

CRIME IN GERMAN Y.—A youth has been most
cruelly murdered at Tuchen (Rhenish Prussia), by his
companion, a fellow-labourer at the same farm, on
their way to church on the 29th June. The murderer
dragged the corpse into a corn field, where it WX9 dis-
covered lately, after having robbed it cf the paltry sum
of is., which the pimps youth intended for his iudi-eee,
parents. The murderer hsa been arrested in a balls
room. A Young girl, the daughter of a farmer at
Treuen, inVorpommern, having disappeared since the
2.l:fi of June, it was surmised that she had been kid-
napped by a band of gipsiea Subsequently, a band of
to. enty men and women of these pscudo-gipsies, who
aio only native outlaws living on tinkering, pedlsriog.
gy nn asti cs' and musical performances, and in itate the
gipey.tribeto perfection, were secured, and taken to
St. ttin ; and also another band, with whom the po
child lived for a few days. It has now been ascertained
nee.. to ceitainty that toe child was murdered by the
wife of one ot the former band, a musician called
St,auss, in the Blumberg forest probably.

THE WISE MEN OF THE WEST.—An old cry
has just hem revived at the West End. " Eastward
Ida!" its inhabitants exclaim, and lose no time in
hastening to Bethnal Green, to see the Museum and
the Marvellous Collection which is fast mskine it
famous, through the generous action of Sir Richard
Wallace.-:Punrh.

CONTIGIOUS DISEASES ACT.—The de-
terrent effect of these Acts in preventing the demo.
ralizstion of young girls and children continues as
conspicuous as heretofore. During the neat six months
of the present year 1872 forty young girls under fifteen
years of age, and a very lane proportion of them
under fourteen, found by the officers engage; in nen),
ing out the Acts in houses of ill-fame and similar
resorts in Plymouth and Devonport, have been either
restored to their friends or placed in homes fit for their
reception before becoming in any way liable to the
operation of the Acts. The sanitary effect of the Acts
has been steadily improving. For the twenty-three
weeks of 1872 ending the Sun of June the annual ratio
of seamen and marines at Devonport sett to hospice,
with contagious disease has been Oi per cent. of the
strength; this includes cases of disease contracted by
men on furlough and away from the protected district-
Excluding such oases it has been n per cent. A few
years ago 14. 15, or even twenty per cent, were not
uncommon rams.
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MESSRS. SYNYER AND GILMER'S BIND WILL

BE IN ATTENDANCE.

AutrusioN.—At Twelve o'clock, 2a Gd each; at Two
o'clock. le; at Halt•post Four, Gd. Childtea auder
lielf.price.
l'. I:. GRANGER,
Fortaa),ltuaicy,
Secretary.

ONE Box of CLARKE'S B 41 Pills is
warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary
Organs, in either six. acquired or constitutional, Gravel
and Paina in the Each—Sold in boxes. 4s 6o each, by
all Chemists atd Patent Medicine Vend°, ; or snot to
any ddress ini (Si Sumps by the F. J
Com:tilting Chemist, Iligh.street, Lincoln.—M.holesciu
Agents, Bacci.or & Soar, Lundon,and all the Wholesale
Houses.
Sold by A. P. Morris, Chemist, Stourbridgo.
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AND THE ACTS INCORPORATED THEREWITH.

IMPROVEMENT RATE.

-XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at the
IN Next Monthly Meeting of the Stourbridge Im-
provement Commissioners, to be holden at the COinnliii-
sioners' ROOM CORN EXCIIANGE, On MONDAY, the 29th
day of JULY NEXT, at Three o'clock in the Afternoon,
it is intended to make an IMPROVEMENT RATE of
NINEPENCE in the Pound, pursuant to the 74th sec-
tion of the Stourbridge Improvement Act, 1666.
And Notice is Hereby Further Given, that a Statement
of such proposed Rate is deposited for Inspection by the
Ratepayers, at the office of the Clerk to the said Com-
, miseioners, No. 56, High-street, titourbridge.

Dated this 18th day of July, 1872.
JOHN TAYLOR,
Clerk.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

him.

The Judge replied as follows :--" I return you
my heartfelt thanks for your kind expressions
of sympathy contained in the address you have been
good enough to present me with. I claim no
merit for havine simply dons my duty. What I did
I did balieviog that I %iris right. I still believe
it. I was well aware that the observatiota which I
felt it my bouudet, duty to suWse would expose me to

obloquy; but it was not for me to regard consequences.
In the position which I occupy I can neither reply to
nor confute my calumniators. Nly attitude must be one
of patient endurance, but I have a confidence that there
is a Power above evil report, which will in its own good
time vindicate me. I neither invite nor would I feel
at liberty to accept praise for having done my duty,
but I value highly this expression of the intelligence
and independence of this great country as a well-timed
protest against the attempted intimidation of the
Bench, an atteropt which has not influenced, and never
shill influence, me. I Eibld my office from my Sovereign
and to her alone I acknowledge allegiance and re-
sponsibility. I refuse to bow my intelligence or to
submit my judicial conduct to the decision of any
poiver."
The Judge diced with the Grand Jury in the Town-
hall and was again cheered by a crowd outside. An
attempt was made in a street on the ontskirta of the
town to burn an effigy. The police interfered and
MA& some arrests.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

VOR SALE, a SPRING Th. _ , _
1' Condition. Snit a hone 14 handa.—npply to
William Hill, tinion•street, Stourbridge.

.'RAP

Good

LIOR SALE, a Quantity of Old HOOP IRON.
12 —Apply to Wm. Hatfield, General Merchant, 57,
Cbriatian-street, Liverpool.
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"To Edward Malins, Eq.,
"8, Old Square, Birmingham.

"Dear Sir.—lt is with the greatest regret that we re-
gard the event of your removal from among us.
'During the five years you were connected with us
your eminent professional skill, your extreme kindness
and ever ready attention, and your great consideration
for the poor, gained for you our highest esteem ; and as
a memorial of our regard, we have much pleasure in
offering for your acceptance, the accompanying gift of a
silver salver, claret jug, and goblets.
"While we deplore your departure, it is a source of
satisfaction to us to know that there is a promising future
before you, and that you hare now a better opportunity
than hitherto of attaining that high position in you pro.
fusion whiah your abilities mustisooner or later com•
mend.
That this consummation may be speedily and amply
realized, and that every happiness may attend you in an
the relations of life, is the earnest hope of,
"Dear Sir,
"Yours very sincerely
on behalf of the subscribers to your testimonial."
[Here follow the signatures.]

The following inscription was on the silver salver :
•' Presented, with a silver claret jug and goblets, to
Edward Melina, Esq., M.D., by his patients and friends
of Cradley Heath and its vicinity, on the occasion of his
removal to Birmingham, as a memorial of their thigh
estimation of his skill and kindness daring a residence of
five years among them—July 16th, 1872."
The presentation having been made,
Mr. Mali., who, on rising, was received with loud
and prolonged cheering, said that if he were simply to
convey to them his thanks he felt he should be doing
them inadequate justice. Rather let him confess his
utter inability to express the heartfelt gratitude he expe-
rienced for the very kind manner in which they had
treated him that evening. His friend, Mr. Hingley, had
referred to his approaching departure for Birmingham,
and to his own aorta to dimmed' him from it; but they
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

FRAUDULENTLY DISPOSING OF
PROPERTY.

At the Assizes held at Durham, John Goorde lirown ho
was indicted for fraudulently disposing of property and
appropriating moneys to his own use, as a bankrupt, contrary
to the provisions of the Debtors Act, lan9, at itickton, on the
tho Otis of March last. .

The prisoner, by the ads ice of his counsel, pleaded
"Guilty ''to two of the charges contained in the in-
dictment, one charging him with a fraudulent pre-
ference of one of his creditors, and the other with
appropriating £5O, the property of the trustees under
his bankruptcy, to his own use.
The Attorney-General for the County Palatine, in
mitigation of punishment, stated that as to the first
charge the prisoner had been greatly assisted in his
business as a draper by one of his creditors, who had
lent him money as a friend; and, no doubt wrongly,
the prisoner had considered himself bound in honour to
protect that creditor as far as he could, and had sent
goods to him ass part payment of his debt shortly before
his bankruptcy. With rig.ard to the other charge, he
had a wife and family dependant upon him,who were in
distress, and he had drawn a check for £5O very shortly
before hie bankruptcy, which had been cashed, and
had appropriated that cum. He had heretofore born
an irreproachable character.
Mr. Leresch said that some of tl.e prisoner's creditors
residing in Manchester had supplied him with goods on
credit very shoitly before his bankruptcy, and they
felt indignant on finding that these goods had been
sent almost as soon as the prisoner had received them
to one of his creditors, in part liquidation of the debt
due to him.

His EtTrrishio, in pasting sentence, raid the offences
to which the ptisoner had pleaded " Guilty " were
clearly such as the Debtors Act, 180, was passed
to prevent. lie would take what bad been said
in his behalf into consideration, fie thought the
offence chiefly relied on by the prosecution—the
appropiation of the goods obtained on credit from one
of his creditors to pay the debt of another—by far the
most serious. To those who were not lawyers it ap-
peared to differ little from stealing, though in law it
was not stealing,. It was necessary to make known by
an example thst the law prohibited this. The sentence
or the Court was that he be imprisoned with hard
labour for six calendar months.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

ANOTHER SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.

The death, by self-destruction, of Jeinima, the
eldest daitAter of Sarah Squire, whose untimely end,
as also that of her daughter Christiana, is still sur-
rounded with mystery, adds soother melancholy inci-
dent to this horrible tragedy. It will be remembered
that the two sisters above mentioned were the only
issue by the second marriage of their murdered
mother; and it is alleged that the marriage of Jenaima
to a man named Totnam resulted in the birth of two
children—one of whom is dead, the other bring
an interesting little girl, now in her eighth year. As
might be naturally suppmsed, since the unfortutuite
affair in Hyde-road, Jeminia had been in a very
melancholy condition; but, added ti the grief occa-
sioned by the murder of her mother, there appears to
have been (aridly differences, and it is said that she had
previously attempted to lay violent hands on herself. In
the present instance it appears that on Sunday the
family, who resided at Bow, were just going to sit
down to dinner when the wife, Jemirna, made her. appear-
mice with blood flowing from her neck, and it was soon
discovered that she had cut her throat. Medical aid was
procured, and the unfortunate Woman Was subie-
quently removed to the Infirmary at Poplar. She had
inflicted a severe gash, and expired in the above in-
stitution at half-past nine on Monday morning from
loss of blood and exhaustion. Information of the sad
event was furnished to the coronqr; and in conse-
quence the funeral of the victims of the murder, which
was to have taken place en Monday, was postponed.
1 The .t was committed with a razor, which the poor
creature had sem eted about her person.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

PUBLIC NOTICBB.

CRICKE'I'.

STOURBRIDGE . KIDDERMINSTER.

AMATCH will be PLAYED between the
above-named Clubs on the Stonsbridge Ground at
AMBLECOTS,
.0D MONDAY, JULY 22nd, 1872.

Wickets pitched at Eleven o'clock.
Admission. Threepence (Members exeepted).
Refreshments by Mr. Charles Parkes.

STOURBRIDGE UNION.

WANTED, a Widow, or Single Woman
(without incumbrance), between the ages of SO
and 40 years, as NURSE to the above Union, who will be
required to perform such duties as the Local Government
Board and Guardiana shall from time to time order, and
genorally to asset the Matron. A knowledge of Mid-
wifery is necessary. The salary is I:15 per annum, with
Board, Washing, and Lodging.
Tesiimonials as to character, temper, and capability,
flint be sent to me on or before the it August next;
and no person need apply who cannot read and write.
Persons applying for the situation must attend person-
ally at the Board Room at the Workhoutie, Kingswinford,
at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, on Friday, the 2nd
August llext. when the election will take place.

'A.ti expenses will be paid.
By Order of the Board,
tlr.lOllOE HOLLOWAY,
Clark.
Workhouse, KingswinforJ,
July nth, 1872.

STOURBRIDGE IMPROVEMENT ACT,
1886,
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111 b.

THE CAREER OF A TICKET OF
LEAVE!

At the Wincheiter Metes, George Cowper, alias Norman,
alias Grllrm alias nrown, •ho was convicted of feloniously
snit without lawful excuse being at lar4e within the I uited
Kingdom, his former sentence of seven years' penal servitude
hying then unexpired, was brought up to receive sentence.
The learned Judge. in pasiing sentence, said that it
appeared that in 1851 the prisoner was taken upon a
charge of burglary. Before trial he escaped from
custody, but warn retaken and senten,ed to ten years'
penal servitude. Having been sent to Western
Australia, he received in 1851 a ticket-of-leave.
W'ithin one month from the granting of this ticket-
of-leave he was convicted of theft, and senteimed
to 12 months' imprisonment At the end of that time
he received another ticket-of-leave, but shortly after-
wards forged a check, was apprehended, and sentenced
to seven y am' imprisonment. A year afterwards he ab-
sconded, but was taken and sentenced to four years'
imprisonment. The next year he again absconded, and
was taken and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
In 1861 he was once more released with a ticket-of leave,
and a few months after received a sentence of two years'
imprisonment for being unlawfully out of his district.
While ..n his way from Albany to Perth to undergo that
sentence he absconded, and WSW next met with in
England, where in February, 18A11, he received a
sentence of Seven years' penal men itude for larceny in
a dwelling-house. Ile attempted to escape from Mill-
bank Pliant, and was again sent to Western Asia-
tralia, where he arrived in 18418. He was recognised,
tried for abinunting, and sentenced Li 12 months' ins-
prisoument, After some time he received a ticket-of-
leave, and Was next found again in England, and taken
upon a charge of obtaining goods by false pretenced ;
he was sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment for
vagrancy. The sentences, added together, amounted
to 35 years, and this was the ninth conviction known
against Ithu. The prisontr's age was 12 years.
He %VAS sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude.
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SPUTTE RINGS FROM " JUDY'S " PEN.

IF the trams aye continue and Increase, we shall hear no
rw.no it thy roar of England: people will talk of us as the
cat-nation.
PAYING off a Back Boore—Plogging a garotter.
To A COE RESPONDENT.—rostmastels-General are generally
burled In a Post-crypt.
Tug Worst Pickles Out—Spoilt children.
THE British Public—A tin-palace.
Commux Scents—Munk and verbena.
Tina Juggler Vain ?—Well, Hermann ought to be vain, if he
isn't; he's clever enough.
GOOD Round Came-600d plump partridges.
A PENNY Wine-Acre—/s mise
JUDY asked her doctor i he believed lit vaccination?
" Jenner Ea is pas," said he.
A Liiir's Imprecation—Lace me tight.
HIRED Bravon—The author's friends on the first night.
Tux Coming Man—A waiter.
THE Best Sea-weed—A nice cigar in one's yacht.
FOOD for the Imaginative—Fancy bread.
WHAT in better than presence of mind Ins railway acci-
dent i—Why, to be altogether absent.
IlEalist, medicine. are all very well, but pretty women
often find thyme very injurious.
A " NINE Hours' Movement "—From London to Edinburgh
by express.
WHEN is a clock like a builder i—When It strikes.
—Judy.
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STOURBRIDGE CONSTITUTIONAL

ASSOCIATION.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of this ASSO-
i. etkitoN nill be held in the READING Boom, 77,
HIGH-STREET, On MONDAY EVENING NEXT, 22nd inst.

STOURBRIDGE IMPROVEMENT ACT,
1866.
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SPORTING NOTES.

The Goodwood Meeting engrosses all the at-
tention of the turfites. Spennithorne still heads
the list of favorites, but an investment in favour
of Shannon and Olenlivat will prove more re-
munerative. Next week the Pontefract Meeting
takes place, the principal event the Pontefract
Handicap having received '26 entries, and as the
distance is only five furlongs I shall fully expect

BONNY BELL FILLY
or Gnosis, to be heralded the winner.
The Alexandra Handicar; seems at the mercy
of La Favorite or Little Nell.
The Badsworth Hunt Cup, one mile, Pain-
killer or Myosotis should win.
The Yorkshire Welter Cup Yellow Oak or Jex
Blake will win.
P.S.—My Goodwood article will contain the
11 absolute winner of the Goodwood Stakes.
NEMO.
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REGISTERED FOR i
1 TRANSMISSION ABROAD.

ENVILLE.

STAMFORD ARMS HOTEL, ENVILLE.

PROPRIETORS
THE TALBOT HOTEL COMPAA I LIMITED.

The Proprietors, in taking the above large and commo-
dious HOTEL, assure the Public that no effort will be
spared to conduct it with efficiency, so as in every way to
render it a first•rate Establishment.
The Hotel adjoins the fir-famed Enville Gardens, and
the neighbourhood cannot be surpassed for its beautiful
scenery and healthy situation.
By the kind permission of the Earl of Stamford and
Warrington,

THE ENVILLE GARDENS,
Now ii their full perfection, will be thrown OPEN to the
PUBLIC on MONDAY, TUESDAY, and FRIDAY in
each week throughout the Season Free. Tickets of
Admission to be had at the Hotel.
First-class WINES, SPIRITS, and ALES. LUN-
CHEONS, DINNERS, and TEAS at moderate Prices.
Large and well-ventilated BED ROOMS and SITTING
ROOMS, commanding extensive views of the beautiful
Parks and Grounds of Enville.
Large and Excellent STABLING and COACH-
HOU SE accommodation.
OMNIBUSES run between Stourbridge and Ravine,
from the 'Talbot Hotel every Monday, Tuesday, and
Friday, starting at one o'clock. Fares Is each way.
CARS, WAGONETTES, OMNIBUS, BREAKS, Sze.,
may be obtained at the Talbot Hotel, Stourbridge, for
Parties visiting Ermine.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

iMPERIAL PARLIAkE

In the Rouse of Lords, July 15, the Commons amendments
to the Life Assuranee companies' Acts Amendment Bill
were considered nod postponed.
The Treaty of Washington till passed throngh committee
Without amendment.
On the consideration of the Commons' amendments upon
the Paliot ItilL Lord Ripon said that the Privy Council bad
consented that the days during which the schools were eria-
ployed as Polling-Places sh, uld be counted as attendances.
Lord ('hamsford tuagested that the word " employed"
should not cover the days darted which the schools were
being made ready as rolling Places.
Lord Ripon sald that the clause would include the whole
of the time during which the scholars wore dq.rived of the
9 of the school.
-

• price which would prove remunerative, a result which ap-
peared to be somewhat improbable whilst the expectations
of the shareholders in view of. Government purchase were
so estravagant.
- -

After a disemsion In wide's several hon. members took
part. Air. O'Connor moved the adjourninent of the debate,
which, on a division, 31a. negatived by e 4 against Lei, but the
bill stood adjourned by the rules of the House.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the If ouae al-
journed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, Sz DISTRICT CHRONICLE

S. PIMT_JID
JUST RECEIVED A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF

FOREIGN CIGARS,

TI Cl-1011 11'03B.A.CCOS.
WILSONS SCOTCH SNUFF.

:CES'II

s FIELD,
04. HIGH 6 2.RENT, BTOURBRIDGE.

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1872.
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certain that even the competition to .. we
have alluded is a lesser evil that, the recklessly
letting loose on society those ono have once
broken its laws, and practically shutting them
out from honest employment. Of the value of
industrial and ragged schools and of other insti-
tutions designed to save children not yet crimin-
als but in danger of becoming so, there can be
no doubt, and society owes far more to its neg-
lected classes in this respect than is generally
admitted. To these agencies we would add the
improvement of the homes of the people and the
regulation of the drink traffic. The Legislature
is doing what it can in the latter respect, but
tbe former reform is unhappily still left to the
slow and feeble agency of private philanthropy
or enterprise. On the whole the International
Prison Congress may be congratulated on the
earnest, practical spirit which has animated its
deliberations, and on the sensible conclusions at
which it has arrived. We trust that the time is
not far distant when some of these resolutions
will be embodied in legislation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

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neuralgia, fits, epilepsy, or any other of the thousand
forms of this raging malady, will find Dr. THOMSON'S
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thousands of cures of all affections of the nervous oyes
tam since its introduction to the public, and is so safe
that it can be used by young and old, however weak and
ill they may be, and so cheap that even the poorest have
no longer ^, necessity to stiffer. Price Is lid and 2s 94
per boa, with dietary rules, Ac. Sold by all Chemists,
or will be Bent tree by post on receipt of 14 or 33 penny
stamps, by Dr. THOMSON, 55 Bartholomew-road, Ken
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sound health. The extraordinary efficacy of Neurotone,
renders it necessary that the purchaser observes that the
Name RALPH THOMSON is engraved in white letters
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Any Chemist will procure it for you. Bold by Mr. Whit-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT COAL

AND IRON.

A Midland CCMint3Etar has sent tho followieg h tter to
The Tiar, for publication. It will ho read with &mat
interest just now
. . .

I am a mineowner in one of the Midland distritts,
and whh to call the attention uf the public, throtrzh
your columns, to the very serious- position, both pre-
sent and prospective, of the trading community, and,
indeed, of all classes., owing to the highly abnormal
state of the coal and iron trades.
. . . .

:11;,:i;;;;;i717asici;;;;;;of the former trade for
some years, I can fairly say that I never remember
such a state of things as the present, and I am fully
borne out in my opinion by information received from
an eminent mining engineer of thirty-five years' ex-
perience.
We are all now raising our prices, owing to the im-
possibility of supplying half our orders on hand, and
this at a time of year when generally we are either
working half time or stacking coals to meet the winti r
demand, and I will venture to say that there will not
be an ounce of spare coal on any pit-bank in England
at Michaelmas, when the winter trade is generally
suppored to begin. I leave your readers to judge of
the probable effect of this on winter prices.
The main cause of it all is the continual shortening
of the hours of labour, and co: segment diminution of
output, amounting to from 10 to 12 t percent. for every
hour so taken off; and even where the short hour
system is conceded these is the utmost difficulty to get
the men to work out the stipulated time.
The worst of it is, however, the very injurious effect
that is being produced on the mess. °The requirements
of their families being far below the present high wages,
they drink away the surplus, and numbers are found
the day after pay lying about the roads and fields in a
state of intoxication, the short hours giving them more
time to frequent the innumerable pothouses, besides
instilling habits of idleness, which it will be difficult,
if not impossible, to get them out of whenever trade is
slacker.
Coal and iron at moderate prices are the lifeblood of
our commercial prosperity ; and we must take care
that the coal famine, so often foretold isy Mr. Glad-
stone, Professor Jevons, and others as likely to happen
from natural causes be not artificially brought about
by the reckless combinations of our misguided Trades'
Unions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

ACTION FOR COMPENSATION FOR
INJURIES.

At the Oxford Asdres, the cause of "Thylor the Great
West.rn Railway Company " has been heart, and was 00
action to recover compensation for injuries by Nal
noel lost suffered by the plaint if when a passenger by the
line of the nefendanta. The defendanta paid a shilling lute
court, and thereby admittei that they were guilty of nigh.
gen.
'the Ida:mid %c.v.+ an artlstie decorator, who gril nod
in marble en wood panelling. lie was emplo3ed by
some of the chief decorating establishments, 50011 515
Messrs. Gillow and Messrs. Crace, and earned at the
rate of two guineas a day. Dia wife kept a toy
shop in the Edgware-road. In August of last
year he opened a business at Birmingham, and was
on his way from London to that place, when, on the
12th of August last, the train in which he was met with
a collision near Banbury, and he was thrown down ou the
floor of the carnage in which he was riding,. and re-
, ceived a blow on the chest. On the 11th of August be
returned to town from Birmingham and complained
of suffering. Ile went to Brighton, and, after a
month or so, returned to town and raw Dr. Cooper,
the defendants' medical adviser. He subsequtntly
went to come friends in Glasgow. and on returning saw
Dr. Russell Reynolds, whoadvised his going to Brighton
again for a month. He also consulted Dr. Itainskil
and Dr. Goddard. The cost of his travelling eXpeoseB
and medical bills amounted to .CllO. lie presented
a shattered appearance in the witness-box. The medical
gentlemen whom he had consulted spoke to finding a
lees of tissue and increased temperature of his body.
They thonght him worse lately than he had been be-
fore. Dr. Ramskill thought that, perhaps, hi a year
or two he might recover, but that it was a very doubt-
ful case. Messrs. Crace and Mr. Donaldson, of the
firm of Messrs. Gillow, spoke to the excellence of the
plaintiff in his workmanship. The defendants called
uo_witnesses: . .

Ma Lordship having summed up,
Tio• jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
21,800.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

A SI:ENE AT THE HAMPSHIRE
ASSIZES.

get up
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An extraordinary scene occurred at the Hampshire
AS6IZ CS on Saturday in the course of a trial. Mr.
Lopes, Q.C., M.P., counsel far the plaintiff, was
putting a question to one of the witnesses in cross.
examination, when the judge (Mr. Justice Mellor)
ruled that it had nothing to do with the issue, and said
he should not allow it to be put. Mr. Lopes said he
twist repeat the question.
The Judge Then if you ripest it, I shall desire you
not to do no again.
Mr. Lopes What I was about to repeat / shall
repeat.
The Judge rose from the bench with great warmth,
and wad the question should not be put. He would
have some rules observed there.
Mr. Lope& : If eouhsel are not to be heard, ti.st are
to„lte put 409,11-.---
The Judge I desire you will aeaza the arrLauent on
the point.
Mr. Lopes . Then! bad better cease altogether. I
declitio ....ego an ia ant bs dealt with in this sort ot
way.
The Judge (with much warmth) : Nothing, Mr.

Lopes, would give me greater pain than to tine you;
but I will if you persist in it.
Mr. Lopes: I persist in nothing.
In summing up the evidence the Judge said, for the
first time in his experience he hid been told by a
learned counsel that he would persist in putting a
question which he (the Judge) had ruled was an im-
proper one to be put. Ile must say he was surprised,
because be knew Mr. Lopes to he a gentleman of
great experience, and very desirous to treat the
judges witn that respect which WWI due to them,
because if it were not for a judge presiding at a
trial, the court would be a bear-garden. One man
would get up and insist on this, and another man would
. and insist on the other, and the whole business
be stopped. The course for counsel to pursue was
this: it a judge wade a mistake, be could go to the court
out of which the record proceeded, and camplain. That
was the only remedy counsel had. The fact was, come
people thought it displayed a good deal of courage to
beard a judge; but it was not so. A judge had gr. at
power—too great to be used. He (the judge) had un-
limited authority in that court to tine or imprison for
any contempt of court; but the jury must observe how
unlikely it WSW that a judge should use it. It was not
courage, therefore, lor counsel to take any otter
course but the legitimate one in di/salting from a
judge.
NO further allusion was made to the dispute, and the
jury ultimately returned a verdict for the detendauts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-20

SATITRDAY, ‘''

constable Lavin proved the case. Defendant was fined
10e 6d and costa; in default 14 days.
AIMAULT CASE. William Moore, a puddler, was
charged by Isaac Hunt with assaulting him on the 13th
Inst. It appears that both parties live in Albion-street,
and had words. Defendant came to him, and struck him
and knocked him down. They afterwards fought. Fined
10s 6d and costa, and defendant was ordered to find two
sureties in £5, to keep the peace for 12 months.
Assatturrao A Stn.—John Lloyd, of Tammy Green,
was charged by Martin Cadman with assaulting him, on
the 9th. Mr. Addison defended. From the evidence of
complainant it appeared that he works for Messrs. Firm'
stone and McEwen, at the Lays Works. Defendant also
works there. On the above date he asked witness to take
an umbrella to his young lass. He refused to take it as
it was in his master's time, and the defendant kicked
him. Several witnesses were called, and the defendant
WEB ordered to pay the costs, 10s, and bound over in £lO
to keep the peace for six months.
ALLOWING A FEROCIOUS Doo TO BE AT LABOR.—
Joseph Prothere, of Level-etreet, was summoned for
allowing a dog to be at large without being muzzled, on
the 12th inst. Police-constable Goodfellow proved the
offence, and said the dog had bitten three persons, and
the defendant was convicted in May last year. Defend-
ant was ordered to pay 9e 6(1 coats, and to keep the dog
tied up. If not be was liable to a fins of 20s every day.
WOMEN'S QUARRELS.—Mary Cox, Ann Maria Cox, and
Jemima Cox (mother and two daughters), were charged
with assaulting Llizebeth Malpas. After hearing the
evidence, Ann Maria was fined Is ruid costs, or 14 days;
Mary 2s 6d and costs, or seven days; and Jemima
Cox Is and costa, or seven days.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-27

SIR ARTHUR HELPS AND HER
MAJESTY.

The "Life and Labours of Mr. Brassey," by Sir
Arthur Helps, K. C. 13., has just been issued by Messrs.
Bell and Daldy. It is prefaced by the following dedica-
tion to the Queen :

To the Queen,—Madam, I am very grateful for the per-
minion given me to dedicate this work to your Ilajeaty.
. . . . . .

,
" I desired so to dedicate it, because I do not know of any
one who has a deeper sympathy with the labouring classes
than your Slajedy, or ally one who takes a more heartfelt
interest in everything that concerns their habits, their edu-
cation, and their general welfare. Moreover, this sympathy
and this interest are not confined to those classes in your
Majesty's dominions only, but are extended to them wher-
ever they are to be found.
"t think, a so, that it cannot but be very gratifying to
your Majesty to have full evidence that, in a special kind of
labour of a very important character, namely, the construc-
tion of railways, your own subjects have hitherto borne the
palm, and have introduced their excellent modes of working
into various foreign countries.

" Your Majesty will find that the late Mr. Brassey was an
employer of labour after your Slajest)'. own heart; always
solicitous for the well-being of those who served under him;
never keeping aloof from them, but using the powerful
position of a master in such a manner as to win their affec-
tions and to diminish the distance which is often fax too
great between the employer and the employed.

"I venture, therefore, to think that the volume will be in-
teresting to your Majesty on its own account; and that you
will be disposed to view with favour the merits, if any, and
t deal gently with the faults of a work written by one who.
with all respect, is ever your Majesty's faithful and devoted
subject and servant, " ARTHUR RELPS."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-27

CHIEF JUSTICE WHITESIDE AND MR.
JUSTICE KEOGH.

Lord Chief Justice Whiteside • was on Monday
afforded an opportunity of referring to the attacks on
Mr. Justice Keogh. Two cases of effigy burning were
reported to him by the officials of King's County j at be-
fore the opening of the assizes for the county on Monday,
and in addressing the Grand Jury, after stating the
nature of the reports he had received, he said that for
ages the custom had been to select the Judges from a
highly intellectual and well-trained profession, and from
generation to generation, with few exceptions, and those
only of men of infamous character, the Judges had
done their duty. Coke had said that no persons ever
loved justice more than the people of Ireland, and
was justice to he administered in a civilized country
if, because a Judge had been obliged reluctantly to
discharge a particular duty, he was to be subjected to
such indecent outrages as those which have been per-
petrated in this case? It was right to tell them that
his learned brother had no option in the matter. He
was required to try the Galway petiti-n because it was
his turn to act. It involved questions of politics, and
his learned brother had expressed himself as be thought
the facts before him warranted. It was the first time
that he had read or heard of a Judge, who was right
in his law and facts, being censured for having ex-
pressed himself too warmly. Had they, he would ask,
read the charge of his learned colleague the Lord Chief
Baron, and observed the care and nicety of expression
used by him in reference to the right of the Crown to
dissolve a meeting, or lay hands upon persons who met
to express their opinions? This would afford the fullest
means of judging of the mischief of censuring Judges
for the manner in which they expressed their views of
cases, and would show the extent to which a Judge is
responsible to his own conscience, and to Parliament,
in the manner pointed out by the Constitution.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-27

OLD HILL.

ASSAULT CASE.—At the Police Court, on Wednesday,
before Messrs. F. W. G. Barr s and N. Hingley, William
Kyunersley was charged with assaulting Paul Marsh, a
boy, at Mr. Jones' Works, Old Hill. Complainant aid
he was clerk for Mr. Jones. Defendant went into the
office, and asked him for some hammer shafts. He re-
fused to give them as it was rot his place to do so, when
defendant laid hold of one 3 feet 6 inches low'', and
struck complainant three times, knocking him down.
Defendant said he struck complainant because he cursed
him and would not give him the shafts. Fined Is and
costs.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A PUBLICAN.—WiIIiam
Andrews, landlord of the Crown Inn, Old Hill, WA:
charged with assaulting Joseph Hughes, on the 15th inst.
Mr. Homf ray appeared for complainant, and Mr. Warm.
ingtou for defendant. Complainant said on the above '
date he went into defendant's house for something to
drink. He went into the bar, and defendant ordered him
out. He did not go and defendant caught hold of him,
knocked him down, and kicked him on the head very
severely. Defendant then got a gun and said he would
shoot complainant. He pulled the trigger, but it was a
bad cop, and the gun did not explode. Several witnesses
were examined on both tides, and after hearing the whole
of the evidence, the Bench said the defendant had been
guilty of a serious assault, mid they fined him 40s and
costs.—A summons against Hughes for refusing to leave
the Crown Inn, was dismissed.
OFFENCE AC.AINST THE EXCISE .—Joseph EtIVIATII BAD
-
nett, of Oakham, was charged by Mr. A. David, Super-
visor, with keeping a horse anci carriage, without a
license ; and further charged with keeping a dog without
a license. Mr. Owen, of Dudley, appeared for defendant
Defendant pleaded guilty, acid was tined in all AG Sc,
being the mitigated penalties in each case.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-27

ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL.

A very serious accident has happened to the down
Irish mail on Sunday morning, midway between Valley
and Holyhead stations. The Irish mail being tele-
graphed an hour late in leaving Chester, a special train
of empty Irish trucks was allows] to leave Bangor for
Holyhead, there being considered ample time for it to
make the journey before the Irish maiL The train with
the empty trucks passed Valley at 3.41, and after
crossing the bridge spanning the small straits which
divide the main island from Holy Island or
Holyhead, it had to ascend an embankment, and
before getting to the top the steam in the engine
was so reduced that it came to a stand. During
this time the Irish mail came up the Valley, and
the signalman not having received any signal from
Holyhead of the arrival of the empty trucks' train,
put up the signal of caution to the Irish mail,
informing the driver that another train was on the
line before him, which was answered by the driver of
the Irish marl as underst,.,od, but the pace seems not
to have been slackened, nor the other train seen, until
the mail got within a few yards, when too late. The
driver immediately reversed his engine, and be and the
stoker jumped off; in another second the mail engine ran
into the other train with a fearful crash, driving the
breakvan before it, and ploughing up tile empty trucks
for about one hundred yards, ',itching them over like
a double-sheer plough on each side of the line. Five
of the trucks were literally smashed to atoms, and
several others damaged. Fortunately, the mail engine
had kept on the line, for the empty trucks, being
light, yielded to it. Had the other train been a coal
train, or heavy goods the consequences would havebeen
a fearful lows of lie, for the Irish mail bad a good
many passengers in it. As it was, several of the
I passengers were hurt, but none seriously. One gen-
tleman had a rather deep cut On the side of his face;
but they all proceeded on their journey to Ireland.
The mail driver and stoker were the worst injured
through jumping off.
A large number of workmen were employed all day
in clearing the line. In loading one of the broken
trucks the chain slipped, arid it fell on the top of live
I of the workmen, including the superintendent of the
I permanent way. One man had his back and ribs
I seriously injured, and the others were more or less
I hurt,.