The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEV.

BRITISa Al J FORE,liiii

The Emperor of the French, who is only recovering
from lilt recent indisposition, wore a great cost in the Bois
de noulogne last Sunday.
A Poor Law return issued on Monday shows that,
whereas the number of paupers relieved last year was smaller
than it has been in smile of the last ten years. the amount en.
petaled in poor law relief amounted to a million sterling
more than in any of those years.
The International Peace Leatrue—not the body
which held its alerting I:,st year at Geneva—held its first
meeting In Paris on Monday. There was a good attendance
and much applause.
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The Gent-tan emigrant ship Leasing was wrecked, on
May 23rd, at Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands, about
twenty miles from any other land Fortunately, no lives
were lost, hut the emigrants and crew, numbering 450,
were thrown, in an utterly destitute comlit on, on the
hospitality of the idanders. From Fair Isle they sere re-
moved, after is few days, to Lerwick, where they now are.
Mr. Seward has been requested, by a resolution of
the I:ulted 8 ales' Senate, to furnish copies of all corres-
pondence with Great Britain rasp. cling the Alabama claims.
The Canadian legislature has passed a law under
which all insurance companies are bound to render periodical
balance-sheets, and, if life offices, return a perimlical
valuation of their liab Hiles, besides sec ring a certidu
proportion of the latter by investments in the üblic funds.
The less criminal of the Fenian prisoners are, 17
degrees, being released.
The Japanese Dickens, Kioyte Bakin by name, has
written one story in I Ii volumes, which was thirty-eight
years going throu,ll the press.
, Apropos of the reduced condition of France.
Nariancile says, with reference to the late Mexican war.
The French were rich enough then to pay for glory, but
they have scarcely mom y enough to law bread now."
Brig,ham Young, wishing to make Mormondom as
patriarchal as possible, prohibits work.
A stage coach, it is said, will shortly be started to
run between windser and London &whiz the summer
months. Its proprietors will be aristocr •tic '' whips "
There is plague allaalg the Seine gudgeons, numbers
of which float ashore dead or dying, and those which are
caught alive are very bad eating.
The observer says n. -"It is the general impression
that an early illsg•dution will not cause Parliament to meet
earlier than usual, neat least very little earlier."
The Duke of Devonshire lass erected, at his own
cost, a Wesleyan chapel at W.mdland, bear Ashopton.
Sir John Lulilsck, who is a Parliamentary candidate
for the University of London, and who is well known for
anthropological views of .hat would In have been
considered a heretical kind, has been giving a series of
lectures at the Royal Institution Inn " Savogea"
"The Pattie is good enough ten give us 'Theodore of
Alryssioia's w ill,' but the Paine was good enough to give
its 'Jesie if Lucknow.' Both stories are on a par, anal. If
we iiii.take not. we recognise the tlllO 'bonen hand that
wrote from Lucknow and. front All sinia, being snugly at
home all the tinte."—CourtJournai
At the Liverpool police-court on Saturday last, a
reap ctamysire-sed young WOlllllll, liaised Ella Jell Evans,
was char ;fed with the wilful murder of her new-born child.
She ego her own accoeteliciis. Tie infant was mond alive
in the still I,l' the water closet, peril By c, remit with small
coal. it died next day The prisoner, who is a married
oman, has been P r sometime separated Irmo her hu,band.
She was is remitted for trial for wilful murder.
The Marquis of Huntly and the Earl of Gosford are
still in 11111 i 011 their sporting excursion. The Earl of (his.
Intl has had considerable success in tiger shooting, hay ng
In one week lined six fine tigers. The Marquis and his
friends are expecte.' home towards the end of next month.
'Pile Bunn monument at Edinburgh, which contains
many interestirg relics id the Intel, Vlali last week banded
over, in the name of the committee of the Edinburgh Burns
Club and others, to the Town Council, under whose care it
Still be in future.
Above £1,600 has been subscribed for the purchase
of an annuity for Mrs. Dargan. The list is headed by the
Duke of ',Ouster, the Earl Fitzwilliam, Sir J. McKenna. and
Mr. William Coates, who contribute £lO • each ; and among
the liner subaeril,ersan e Lord Fermoy, Mr. NI alcs dins, or. I ord
Cloneurryng, Mr. VD cent Scully, the Lord Chancellor of
Ireland, Mr. Thomas Fairbairm Mr. William Fain bairn, and
Mr. Thomas Brassey.
The Sunday League gave aoout six hundred people
a tree Sunday" at Eastbourne and teechy Head on Sall.
day.

In Paris, for some
:days past, a number of cabs have
been seen with the new kii.ometrical lower for measuring the
distance traversed, The apparatus is ltoed tot e vet, at
the left of the coachman, and resembles a small timepiece.
The conimaiwm Is so much the more enact that near the
traveller is allot whi.ll marks the hour.
French soldiers without arms ! What will the
NU. airy? Many years ago the private British soldier, 11.4
on duty, na, Ilvpnve4 of his bayonet ; and it has recently'
been hmtal llce Iful to take away the belt from ill-conducted
men Several french soldiers have lately committed very
grave ao,t4 of violence against men and women ; and Mandell
Niel, Minister of War, has now decreed that habitud
it hunts mol bad characters OMB 11,4 wear arms when Ott'
duty. The reform is the more marked in France because
the pride of the military class is stronger there than it is
here

The ingennity of our Transatlantic cousins is inex-
haustible. The '' last thing out " is a machine for "setting
up' 11111 i " diStribUtillg " type by electricity. ‘t e are tol
that •• the reporter or Operator can set the type himself, tie,
machine standiug in New York or New Orleans and he beiw2
in the capitol !"

A bill 100 been brought into Parliament lir Mr.
Kennedy and Mr. Set Pant Armstrong to suspenii, for a
period of Mir yso !e years, the application of the Into of
ejectment 1,, relnid to agricultural tenmts from year to
year, except for the non-payment of re t, or upon the sub-
division of farms.

Earl Brownlow was married to Lady Adelaide Talbot,
the daughter of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, on ThrirsdaYlii
last week, at Newbattle Abbey. The ceremony took place at
Lord Shrewsbury's bedside, and his lordship died almost
immediately after.
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A labourer named Pellet, a Wi lower, &zed 30, has
Inn been condemned to hard MI oar her life, by the Court I
Assize if the Rhone, for attempting to drown his son, aged
live years The child is afflicted with a tumour in the knee,
awl was an b•tacle to a second marriage.

The Saturday Ner,e, points out as a singular, but
certain fact, Let Mr. Glasktone's en-ming unpopularity its
the House of 0.11111110113 is balanced by his groultig popularity
in the country. The truth is that the House of (Moutons is
resolved to stake the wont of Mr. Gladstone's peculiarities
as a general, and the country outside to make the best of
thou

--Respecting the murder of Mr. M'Gee, a despatch
from Ottawa Rey, that he witness Turner. who gave evi-
dence agahrt Whelan, wh le attending a ball on the 2,3 th
ult., was inveigled outside, and brutally beaten by three
Olen, two of 01101.1 wei e suniequently arrested. tin the Pal.
day Graham, another Si flings, received a thpateninz letter.
alt, drawings of a coffin an I a pistol, and r flint]. to the
effect that he was not forg,tten, and toot the Fen 11113 never
did things by halves.

One of the female members of the Japanese troupe
how performing at the Lyceum The.itm, m London. has
been safely delivered of a daughter. This is, we believe,
the first Japanese born in this country.
11. Harrison, an engraver, of New York.
believes himself to be the rightful owner of £2,000,000,
torn wily the pp petty of William li arr.son, of 1.01.10 h. The
heirs of w 'Main Harrison have heen advertised for for some
weeks past in the feasting Journals. The New York Harrison
claims to be a nephew of the wealthy Londoner.

Queen Amelia, widow of the late King Otho of
Greece, has claimed, as is known, repayment of the sum
expended by her husband in building the Royal Palace at
Athens. The Greek Govermuent exhibited much reluctance
in the matter, but as the claim could not be contested, a
bill is about to be laid before the Chambers for the payment
of • compensation amounting to 41 millions of drachmas
each 9vc.,

In some at least of the Roman catholic churches in
London, on Sunday, the prayers of the ertng.ettations were
roiliest.' for the epose of the soul of Michael Barrett.
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On Monday, an amateur i.edestrian undertook to run
ta Ice from the .• E.epliatit trul Cattle," in London, to croyilon
and back. a diAatice of forty miles. within five hours. The
fiM pateney to Croydon and back was performed in 4 hours,
it the secomi was completed, and the match won, with
seven minutes to spare.

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A sum of £27., was stolen on Saturday from the
Hollingworth lake Hotel near Rochdale. the thieves having
been ahle, unobAert ed, to &Weill' to the room in width the
money was kept.
The death is announced of Dr. Juge, an eminent
practitioner Its Paris, at the age of 41, in consequence of a
puncture aelidtilily received while dilatation.
Mr. Morrell, the Secretary of the Sunday League,
has been examined as a witness before the Committee on
Sunday drinking. He expressed himself strongly against
further legislative restrictions, which he said would press
hardly upon Sunday excursionists. In the course of his ex-
amination he sail that since 13attersea-park had been opened
and Sunday hands provided for the amusement of the people,
the attendance at cremorne had fallen off on the average
from 12,00, to 3,00.

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A curious cricket match between Surrey awl the
Niarylebone Club terminated on Saturday. At the close of
the second innings of Itarylebone it appeared certain that
Surrey oust win, as they had lout Linety-four runs to get, and
were a formidable batting eleven. how ever, with the pro-
ve, hint uncertainty .4 cricket, they unit down one alter the
other before NVootton's admirable too ling and the look
fielding ,4 the whole side, until the Nat wan was clever!)
cauzld nit by a substitute. and the match ended in a tie,
Surrey having scored only ninety-three.

The explorers in the Oaks Colliery discovered two
snore bodies on Friday evenhitt in • keel at the top of
Jcnes's Jinny. They are tho-e of two boys, and one of them
has been recognized by his clothes as that of John Graham,
of It Beworth, Monk Melton, fourteen years of a,e, It was
opos+ible ti ecownize the Isabes by their fetures. Le
it It tin, 1 each sae drawn lip toward* the lace. as If to
iield the latter from the deadly blast.
A man calling himself Pi ofessor Lubin dived, or
rat jumped, iinsi pLiffinill on he pier at it', sten suier
Mare, on satunitty, fiseu a height of BY. feet. It is said that
lie pr efon i e.l the feat n mortal terror and under the influence
of drin . Be fell loin the water no hi, side, lid was taken
out noes. lisle ly some persons swimming about. lie eas-
t:tined internal injutha of. MOE serious character
Lord Elcho was entertained by a Glasgow working-
elns+ audience on Friday night, by a hotly slang Itself
" The E routine Committee, representing the worii g-elasse+
it Great Britain an Ireland," who presented an address of
" than s and gratitude lor the great interest and sympathy
et:Whited by him on all occasions where the ...AA condition
the indiodrial toilli..ns of hi-- countrymen is itiv.lved," and 1111,0 estate tall) for the •' aid and Cl, p,ratinti readeted hi, bact,lnt, it, chtaiciag the amendment of the law caeetintt
c.mtracts oi service between masters and servant a." The
claim of this body to speak on behalf of the working-clamea
fteeerally Is disputed.]