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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

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HEALTH LOST' AND REGAINED; .or,
DEBILITATING DISEASES, THEIR CAUSE
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• Dizziness, Love of Solitude, Groundless Fears, Muscular
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

MAN'S INFLUENCE ON VEGETATION,

The Gardener's Chronicle says :—The plants which
are specially liable to be destroyed in a tract of country
fully occupied by man, are those that grow upon heaths
and in woods and swamps. In Britain a large propor-
tion of the whole surface is now turned into arable
land, and there are whole counties in which neither a
natural wood nor a patch of heatherland remains. In the
north temperate zone, where the range of species is very
wide, and the wood and heath plants are, as a rule,
eminently social and gregarious, it is very unlikely
that a species should get entirely destroyed. Our
knowledge of the botany of Britain, in close detail, now
goes back for a couple of centuries, and there are very
few plants which we know with certainty, as having
grown wild in the island that are forthcoming at the
present time, though some, like cypripediutn calceolus,
phyllodoce taxifolia, lobelia urens, and asplenium
germanicum, are either quite extinct . or trembling
on the very verge of extinction. But if we take a
limited tract like a county, the known loss in specie is
of ten considerable. The gradual way in which plants
have been exterminated'in London has grown is care-
fully illustrated in Trimen and Dyer's "Flora of
Middlesex," and they. estimate that 58 species once
known, a list of which will be found in that work at
pp. 345-6, are now lost to the flora of the country. In
other rpgions of the world, where the general plan of
plant thetribution ix different, the change produced by

the intervention of man is often far greater. In the
tropics shade is an essential condition of life for a large
proportion of the species. and when the forests are cut
down these are killed. In the warm temperate zine
toe species are generally much more restricted in their
range than in our north temperate latitudes.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

DIA NOFORTES and HARMONIUMS may
A_ be had on the NEW SYSTEM of HIRING, for Two or
Three Years; after which, and without any further pay-
ment, to become the property of the hirer. All Instru-
meats had on this system, or otherwise, will be
Exchanged any time within six month E for any other, if
not approved of, and returned carriage free. And fur-
ther,after. a trial of three years. any Pianoforte or Har-
monium would be taken back, at its original cost, and
the money returned, deducting the usual chargeforhire !
thus offering greater advantages than the London or Bir-
mingham Houses.—Apply G. F. GREEN, Pianoforte
Teacherand Tuner, Music Warehouse, 260,Castle-street
ad 168, High-atreet,Dndley.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

THE MURDER OF MR. DENT.

The North China Herald of the sth ult. states that the
great prison mutiny murder trial has been concluded.
There were 42 prisoners in all, arraigned upon two in-
dictments, for the murder of Henry Digby Dent,
superintendent of prisons, on the 13th February last,
during the mutiny in the criminal prison. At the
outset, eleven of the prisoners pleaded guilty, each in
turn declaring he had wilfully done the deed. The
other 31 were put upon their trial before a special
jury, who then found seven of them guilty on the
capital charge, 11 guilty on the lesser counts of the
indictment, and acquitted 13. The 11 who pleaded
guilty and the seven found guilty by the jury were
sentenced to death ; the other prisoners were remanded
for sentence. The Singapore Times is in favour of
commuting the sentence of death passed on the 18 cm-
victs, to penal servitude for life. It urges that the
interests of justice and order were avenged by the
death of some 20 prisoners at the hands of the Euro-
peans who quelled the outbreak, and shrinks from
further sacrifice of life.

It is stated from Singapore that on the 17th of June
nine of the Chinese who had been convicted of the
murder of Mr. Digby Dent were hanged. Tbe new
governor had reprieved the remaining nine prisoners,
and had commuted their sentences to penal servitude
for life in the Andaman Islands.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE LYE.

A young man, named Obed Lloyd, employed at
Mr. T. Rhodes's brickyard, at the Lye, was dread-
fully injured on Tuesday. He had been feeding
the mill, and got on the plough which goes round
to remove some obstruction. He had been cau-
tioned not to do so while it was in motion, but,
apparently .thinking there was norisk, he ventured
and fell, and the stones crushed both his legs off
below the knees. Mr. R. L. Freer, surgeon,
happened to be passing, and he advised the im-
mediate removal of the poor fellow to the Guest
Hospital, at Dudley, where he was attended to by
the resident surgeon (Mr. Orwin), Drs. T. and A.
Underhill, Mr. W. Underhill, Mr. Houghton, and
Mr. Jones.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN WITH
REFERENCE TO THEIR FOOD.
The Na ional Food and Fuel Reformer says :

The mistake of supposing high temperature to be in
itself prejudicial to health is one which we cannot but
regard as productive of some very injurious conse-
quences. This is especially the case in respect to the
health of little children. If a child is sick in hot
weather parents often lc ok at the thermometer when a
rigid inquiry into what has been eaten would be
much more to the purpose. Children die in summer
from taking into the stomach a quantity of unripe
or partly decayed fruit or vegetables, which would
have killed them at any season. There are some
families in which some of the rising generation are
always sick in hot weather. There are others that
are comparatively seldom troubled in this manner.
This difference, often, doubtless, proceeds from con-
stitutional causes. But quite•as often, we suspect, it
is owing to the circumstances that proper care in
reference to food is taken in one case and not in the
, other. A great many little ones, by the way, get sick
I in summer, upon whom the heat would produce much
I less effect if their mothers had not secured the services

of "such an excellent nurse," with whom they" can
trust the dear little creatures at any time without the
slightest anxiety." But whether owing to want of
suitable care and judgment on the part of nurses or of
parents themselves, it is very certain that the idea that
hot weather le necessarily unhealthy causes a great
many peop4,4a overlook the real influences which
favourably affect'the health of their children in summer.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

WITHOUT FEE.

I\R. H. SMITH, the Eminent Specialist fo
J the cure of all debilitating zind contagious diseases
will for the benefit of country paiicnts oho car.not consult
him personally, on receiving description of there case, send
his opinion, With advice and directions for the most success
ful restoration to health and vigour.
Address, Dr. H. SMITH, 8, Burton Crescent, London, W.C,
. ,
4.1'4 _4.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

MODERN MOTHERS.

Women are apt to murmur at their lot as one with-
out influence, variety, stirring purpose, space for
action. But it is, on the contrary, a lot full of dignity
and importance if properly regarded ancrfitly under-
taken. If they do not lead armies, they make the
characters of men who lead and are led. If they are
not State Ministers or Parliamentary orators, they
raise by their nobleness or degrade by their want of
delicacy and refinement the souls and minds of the
men who are. If they are not in the throng and press
of active life, they can cheer on to high aims or basely
reward the baser methods of existence. AL mothers
they are the artificers who give the initial touch that
lasts for life; and as women they complete what the
mother began. Society is moulded mainly by them,
and they bring up their daughters upon their own
pattern. It is surely weak and silty then to blame
society for its ignoble tone' or the young for their dis-
orders. All men want the corrective influence of
social opinion, and it is chiefly women who create that
opinion. Youth, too, will ever be disorderly if it gets
the chance, and the race has not yet been born that
carries old heads on young shoulders. It is for the
mothers to supplement by their own wisdom the gaps
left by the inexperience and ignorance of youth; it is
for the mothers to guide aright the steps that are apt,
without that guidance, to run astray, and to guard
against passions, emotions desires, which, if left to
themselves, bring only evil! and disaster, but wnich,
guarded and directed, may be turned to the best of
ends. For ourselves, we deeply regret to see the rapid
extinction of motherhood in its best sense, and decline
to accept the modern loose-handed chaperon as its
worthy substitute. We repudiate the plea of the in-
subordination of the young so often put forward in de-
fence of this new state of things, for t is simply non-
sense. The young are what the mothers make them,
just as society is what the matrons allow it to be; and
if mothers did their duty, we should hear no more of
the wilfulness of the one, or the shameless vagaries of
the other. The remedy for each lies in their own
hands only.—Saturday Review.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

DEATH OF A FAMOUS HORSE.

The Columbus State Journal of Ally 10, says :
"Probably no horse was ever more generally known
than the celebrated horse Cruiser, imported from Eng-
land in 1861 by John S. Rarey, whose system of horse-
taming was for some time the sensation in this country
and England. When Mr. Rarey went to England his
system was thoroughly put to the test by contact with
Cruiser, an animal that was so vicious that he was
closely and continuously confined in a stable, in such
a way that he could by no possibility reach anybody,
either with his mouth or heels. His food was de-
livered to him through a sort of funnel, and he seems
to have been kept solely as an extremely wicked
curiosity. His splendid muscle and activity gave
him the wildest scope for the exerciee of
his incorrigibility, and he is said to have
kicked so high as to strike a board floor fourteen feet
above the floor on which he stood. Ordinarily, it was
only the work of a few minutes for Mr. Rarey to tame
a horse, but it took him three hours to subdue the ter-
rific Cruiser. After putting Cruiser under control,
Mr. Rarey purchased him and brought him to this
country, and placed him on the Rarey farm at Grove-
port, in this county, where he became popular among
breeders. He became so gentle that the people about
the Rarey farm could fondle him as they would a
kitten, and his colts were noted for their kind disposi-
tion. Strangers, however, were not permitted to have
much to do with him. This was to prevent teasing
and the revival of the old propensities. Cruiser died
at the Rarey farm on Wednesday last, in the twenty-
third year of his age. His teeth were worn so much
that he could not eat hay, and provender had to be
specially provided for him. As contemplated
by the will of Mr. Rarey, he received the
kindest care in his old age, and it was only recently
that he fell into a decline. From a bill dated May 4,
1861, we take the pedigree of Cruiser, as follows :
"Cruiser is of the celebrated Venison stock of Eng-
land, and was sired by old Venison, the winner of the
Derby race in 1818. Venison proved himself the
stoutest horse of his day, having travelled on foot in
one year, when only three years old, nine hundred
miles, and run fourteen races and won twelve.
Cruiser was bred by Lord Dorchester. in 1852, sired by
Venison by Partizan, by Walton, out of Parasol by
Potatoes, SOD of Eclipse. Cruiser's dam was Red
Rover by Tramp, out of Syntaxina, sister to Syntax,
sire of Beeswing, the dam of Newminster, the most
valuable stallion now in England.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

Nom' anb pistritt getos.

VOLUNTEER INSPECTION AT HAGLEY

The annual inspection of the First Battalion 4!
Worcestershire Volunteers took place on Monday
last, at Hagley. The different companies met in
the park in the:morning; had some drill, and th4y
met again in the afternoon, and were
_drawn up
in line to receive the inspecting officer, Colonel the
Hon. J. J. Burke, who was saluted on his arrival.
Colonel Knight, M.P. (the commanding officer of
the battalion), was unable to be present, owing to
the Agricultural Holdings Bill, in which he takes
considerable interest, coming on in committee of
the whole house, and the battalion was under the
command of Major Walker, Major W. H. Talbot,
Adjutant Wolrige, and Lieutenant and Acting
Quarter-master King also being present. The
eleven companies composing the battalion mus-
tered altogether 613 rank and file, the following
being the strength of the respective companies :
Wolverley, 50; Tenbury, 56; Kidderminster (3rd
Worcestershire), 40; Kidderminster (4th Worces-
tershire), 42; Bewdley, 43; Halesowen, 41; Dud-
ley, 68; Stourport, 55; Stourbridge, 05; Oldbury,
57; Kidderminster (20th Worcestershire), 57.
After the salute, Colonel Burke minutely exam-
ined the arms and accoutrements, and tested the
proficient sergeants by putting them to drill their
men. The companies being equalised, marched
past, and re-formed line to the right of the rear
company. Manual and firing exercises followed,
under Major Talbot, and the line changed front
again, and advanced till they were checked by the
supposed approach of hostile cavalry, to protect
themselves from which the skirmishers formed
rallying squares, and the battalion forming squares
on the two centre companies. Skirmishers again
venturing out, the line was re-formed, and returned
in 'echelon from the right. Halting now, they
fronted, flrmed company squares, and skirmishers,
after closing on the support, were re-called. An
advance in double column was_next witnessed, and
after other movements, quarter column was
formed. Two companies were sent out to Iskir-
mish, with two companies in support, and the re-
mainder of the regiment in reserve, and the man-
ceuvring being completed, the inspecting officer
went to the head-quarters to examine the books of
each company.
We understand that Colonel Burke was satisfied
with the bearing and efficiency of the men, and
his report will, it is expected, he a favourable
one.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

WRECK AND LOSS OF THIRTY-EIGHT
LIVES.

A telegram from Maderia. on Monday, stated that th
steamer African, from the Cape, arrived there that day,
having on board five men, namely, George Fraser,
John Peterson, Thomas Rogers, John Peazer, and
Samuel Clift, who had been saved from the wreck of
the ship Stuart Hahnemann. The men reported that
their vessel left Bombay on the 4th April, with forty-
seven persons on board, and that for ten days the
weather was fine. On the night of the 14th, however, a
squall came on. The captain hauled down the flying jib
and maintop-gallant-staysail, and as the ship was steadily
going over, he abo let go the halyards. Nevertheless,
the vessel was thrown on her beam ends, and a heavy
sea washed several men overboard. Nine of the crew
escaped from the sinking vessel in a boat, which
though at first overturned, was afterwards righted.
They managed to take away with them a monkey
and six cocoa-nuts, and upon these, together with
some flying-fish which they caught, they subsisted
for thirteen days. Casual showers also supplied them
with a little water. On the 27th April the Aus-
trian barque Btandina, bound for Falmouth, picked
them up, and on the sth July she landed the nine men
at St. Helena. Of these, two, namely, George
Masters and Peter Picardy, proceeded to Bremen in
the City of Foochow, and two others, William Hunter
and Thumas Crumley, went to Queenstown in an Eng-
lish barque on the 11th inst. The remaining five ar-
rived at Maderia. Of the rest of the crew, 38 in num-
ber, all are supposed to have perished.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

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• SALES BY AUCTION.
'I4AOLEY STOCK SALE.
IA —ll SALE, MONDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1875.
PERRENS & WOOLDRIDGE.
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ANNUAL SALE OF RAMS and
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

TELEGRAPHING EXTRAORDINARY.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Friday contained
diagram targets showing the exact position of every
shot fired by every competitor, English, Scotch, and
Irish, for the Elcho Challenge Shield, at Wimbledon,
on the previous day. This was accomplished as fol-
lows :—Diagram of the targets, divided into a great
number of minute squares, each square distinguished
by- a number; and, to prevent confusion in telegraph-
ing a word also, were prepared beforehand for user,
both in Dublin and at the Camp. A special
corps of markers at Wimbledon marked each target
as the shots were fired, and the word.s correspond-
ing to the squares struck were then telegraphed
to Dublin, when the duplicate targets were marked ac-
cordingly. By these the stereotype block diagrams
were punched and printed from. It was found in
practice that words were telegraphed with more
accuracy that figures, and the former were accordingly
adopted. These were, of course, arbitrary, and with-
out the key were quite incomprehensible. Thus the
telegram announcing the shooting at nine hundred yards
of Lieut.-Colonel Fenton, of the English team ran as
follows :—Fenton, Euglish Nine—Bark, boat, coke,
card, crib, circus, dear, death, exile, Essex, fair, France,
frank, grace, glass. Each of these words corresponded to a
certain portion of the target. The process when ex-
plained, seems simple, but the carrying it out success-
fully involved great accuracy, care, and labour. No
fewer than eighty separate messages, besides checkings
and corrections, had to be sent and received. Seventy-
two targets had to be printed, and over a thousand
shots, each in its proper place had to be punched. All
this was accomplished in a few hours, and with abso-
lute accuracy.—The Hour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

PROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH.

It is little more than five years since the Government
acquired the telegraphic system of the country; but in
that short time some marvellous results have been
achieved. The total number of offices open to the pub-
lic, which at the time of the transfer was about 2,000,
is now little short of 5,600, of which upwards of 450
are in London alone. The number of messages for-
warded annually has increased from six millions to
twenty millions; and the average charge for an inland
message has been reduced from 2s. 2d. to ls. 2d. Of words
transmitted on behalf of the press upwards of 220,000,000
are delivered annually, as compared with something like
2,000,000 in the days of the telegraph companies.
Those companies possessed about 5,600 miles of line
and 49,000 miles of wire. The Post Office possesses
24,000 miles of line and 108,000 miles of wire. But
the number of instruments has increased in a still
greater proportion—all of the companies together
possessing fewer than 1,900 instruments, as against
upwards of 11,600 worked by the Post Office. The
Wheatstone apparatus, hardly known or understood
half a dozen years ago, and so essential for the
carrying on of the new service of the country, has
been introduced by the Post Office to the extent of
nearly 150 sets; while the " duplex " or double•work-
i ing system is n general operation throughout the
country, and is in use in the central telegraph sta-
tions in London on no fewer than 75 separate lines.
The pneumatic tubes of the old system were about 20
in.number, and measured Rime three miles in length.
Those of the Post Office are 55 in number, and measure
upwards of 23 miles. Besides extending and niaintain-
ing its own system, the Post Office has lent help in
several directions towards perfecting the system of
military telegraphs. It has thrown open a portion of
its service to a detachment of the Royal Engineers,
who have been trained, at its expense, to erect and
maintain telegraph lines, although it is understood that
these officers are in no sense necessary to the telegraph
service of the country, which could be equally well
carried on minus the expense which the Pest Office is
now put to in order to make room for them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

Qtarter-master sergeant Evers said, in reply: I
beg to thank you most heartily for the way in which
you have proposed my health. I have never received
anything but proper respect from this corps, and they
are all a very hearty set of good fellows themselves.
With regard to what Captain Grosvenor has said
about me, I may say that I never refused to do any-
thing in my life which I have been asked to do. To
that I attribute a great deal of the success which I
have attained, and I commend that to the younger
members here as an example for their guidance—
(cheers).
Sergeant Walker also returned them his very sin-
cere thanks for the way in which they had drunk his
health. He then earnestly urged upon the necessity
of frequent attendance at drill, so as to render them
thoroughly efficient members of the corps.
The proceedings were concluded by Adjutant Wol-
calling the attention of the volunteers to the fact
that the County Rifle Association had offered 10
prizes for competition for the present year. Two
pounds were given by M ajor Walker, and he (Adju-
tant Wolrige) bad offered another rifle for competi-
tion. He hoped that the members of that company
would bring a good share of those prizes to Stour-
bridge.
COMMISSIONERS' MEETING.

The meeting of this body was held in the Board
room, on Monday last; Mr. Packwood in the chair;
there were also present: Messrs. Hughes, Woolley,
Mills, Perkin, Blunsom, and Kelly.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. -

The Clerk read the Finance Committee's Re-
port, which;showed—lmprovement Account!: Cheques
ordered to June 28th, ..D/30 9s Od.; due from
treasure £172 13s 3d; paid to treasurer £132 is
6d. Balance due to treasurer to this date £125
148 &I.—Highway Account: Rate paid to treasurer
£251 17s id ; balance due to treasurer June 23rd,
£22 9s Bd. Cheques ordered £6O 17s 6d. Balance
due from treasurer at this date £l6B 9s 11d.—Urban
Sanitary Authority—Balance due to treasurer June
23rd £l7B 6s 3d. Cheque ordered June 23rd £36
108 6d. Intrest charged by treasurer, £2 Os 2d;
fees paid to treasurer, £8 Os 6d ; balance due to
treasurer to this date, £2OB 170 2d.

Your committee having examined a number of
accounts recommended them to be paid.—Highway
account. £l5 lOs 2d. Improvoment account £4l 14s
44:1. Urban Sanitary Authority £35 4s id.
On the motion of Mr. Hughes, seconded by Mr.
Kelly the report was accepted.
GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE.

Obstructing Market Street, on market days.—Your
committee have again considered this motion, and
for the present must report progress. Your com-
mittee have had their attention called to the
wheeling of barrows on the footpaths. The 28 sec.
of the towns' Police Clause Act provides that
every person who leads or rides a horse or other
animal, or draws any cart or cariage, sledge, truck,
or barrow upon the footway, or any street, or
fasten any horse or other animal so that it stands
across or upon any footway, is liable to a penalty
not exceeding forty shillings.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

EMIGRATION TO AND COLONIZATION
OF NEW ZEALAND.

His Grace the Duke of Manchester presided at the I
annual meeting of the Emigrants and Colonists Aid
Corporation, held in London, on Monday, at the i
Cannon-stieet Hotel; and there were also present the
Hon. William Fox, M.A. (ex-Prime Minister of New
Zealand), Sir James Fergusson (late Governor of New
Zealand), the Earl of Denbigh, Sir Charles Clifford,
Colonel the Hon. W. Fielding and others.
The Chairman moved the adoption of the report,
which, after referring to the development of the pro-
perty of the Corporation and to the question of settle-
ment, stated that it was the intention of the directors
to send out another batch of emigrants in September,
and to continue the stream of immigration until one
hundred families should be resident at the new town-
ship of Halcombe. The Duke of Manchester said that
land which had been purchased of the Government for
15s. per acre was now being sold for £2 10s. and even
£3 per acre.
The Hon. William Fox, M.A., stated that he had
purchased some land at the low price of 10s. per acre;
but roads had been made through it, and it was now
becoming occupied, and similar land to his could not
be obtained for less than £lO per acre. He knew a
London capitalist who four years ago bought cd the
Government 1,000 acres at £1 per acre, and land ad-
jacent was now being sold at £3 2s. 6d. The making
of roads and the increase of population had greatly
enhanced the value of land in New Zealand. If one
thousvad people increased its value 100 per cent., two
thousand people would increase it 400 or 500 per cent.
Referring to the sending out of colonists, Mr. Fox
said it was very difficult to select emigrants from this
country. There would always be a large proportion
of the town population and mechanics imported into a
new country, and a small number of bond-4de agricul-
tural labourers. But, although the emigrants might
grumble at first, they were generally gifted with the
good faculty of being able to turntheir hands to many
different kinds of work.
Sir James Fergusson said that in October last,
when Governor of New Zealand, he made a special
journey of sixty miles on horseback to ascertain the
condition of some of the emigrants. He visited a gang
of men at work on a railway. Upon inquiry as to
their prospects, they at first grumbled, but afterwards
admitted that they had much better living than when
in England, and that they were earning 10s. a day.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

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EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

Mr. Edward Jenkins, M.P., the agent-general of
Canada, writes to the Canadian NC2CB as follows :--" I
wish to make an intimation which may serve to pre-
vent a good deal of disappointment and trouble. The
advices which I have from Canada, both privately and
in the press, as well as from gentlemen who have lately
arrived from there, show that in the present state of
commerce and trade in the Dominion, and especially
at so late a period of the emigration season, it is not
advisable to encourage the emigration from this country
of artisans, mechanics, clerks, and general labourers to
Canada. These persons, arriving in the middle of July
or the beginning of August, will find a depressed state
of trade and a lack of general employment, and unless
they have extraordinary energy and self-reliance, or
sufficient means to maintain themselves for a consider-
able time, they may find themselves forced to face a
Canadian winter with no prospect of employment. To
encourage emigration of such persons in such circum-
stances would be almost criminal, and equally dis-
astrous to the emigrants themselves and to the interests
of Canada. I am, however, advised that there is
still a healthy demand for agricultural labourers. I
do not, therefore, desire to discourage the emigration
of these classes, provided that they do not take out with
them large families. But still I deem it advisable to
announce that the Canadian Government will not press
during the approaching autumn for a large exodus even
of these classes. For female domestic servants there is
always a demand, at good wages, in Canada, and it
would be safe for them to go at any time. lam assured
that in a few Months the unsatisfactory condition of the
labour market in Canada will have been greatly altered,
and I hope soon, in view of the public works which
are projected and-,the increasing prosperity of the
Dominion, to be able again to recommend to English
labourers of all classes the selection of Canada as their
home. In the meantime the efforts of the Canadian
agents will be devoted, during the autumn and winter,
to preparation for a large emigration in the spring, and
I shall cause registers to be opened by the Government
agents in all parts of the country, to which labourers.of
all kinds may send their names, descriptions, and copies
of testimonials, which will be forwarded to the
Government agents in Canada, with a view of enabling
them to transmit to this office any offers that may be
made by the local employers to secure the services of
such persons. The details of this arrangement,
however, will be otherwise announced."

IRELAND'S VICTORY. -4444.ik,,,itut0
Wimbledon, July, 22, 1876. •
WS know that Irish bulls have long been famed in Irish
story;
And Irish bulls'-eyes now may claim their share of Irish
glory. —Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

THE GEOGRAPHICAL EXHIBITION IN

PARIS.

This•extremely interesting collection of maps, globes,
mathematical instruments, arms, curiosities, &c , says
Galignani, was opened without any noise or demon-
stration. The congress, as is known, will not meet
until the Ist August, and the exhibition, still incom-
plete, will probably be finished by that date, but a
very large number of curious objects are already to be
seen. In the Salle des Etats, where the sittings of
the congress will take place, is to be seen the
large map of France, the various parts of which
had not hitherto been placed together, and which
measures 15 metres in height by 12 metres in width.
There is also a map showing the lifeboat stations on the
coasts of France, established by the Central Society for
saving the shipwrecked, as well as the different imple-
ments used for that purpose; and, in addition, the in-
struments by which the transit of Venus across the sun's
disc was observed. Belgium exhibits, amongst other
maps, that which Massena used in 1799; Switzerland
has sent some on so large a scale that ascents of moun-
tains made in reality made with BO much toil and at
the same time so much pleasure can be repeated in
imagination without fatigue. Italy shows Etna in
relief, and the localities of all her ports; Austro-Hun-
gary, plans in relief of the ports of the Adriatic, a
tracing of the new course of the Danube, a fine collec-
tion of solar dials, astrolabes and perpetual calendars,
and an instrument for measuring heights without the
aid of calculations. Russia sends the treasures of the
Khan of Khiva ; Germany, numerous works on geo-
graphy, geology and astronomy, and a political map
of France in relief. The Geographical Institute of
Weimar exhibits two maps of America, one executed
in 1527 and the other in 1529 by order of Charles V.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

OLD HILL.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, John Wainwright,
a miner (21), Belper Row, Netherton, fell into a slrillow
pit at Messrs. Doulton's works, and injured his spine.
He was conveyed to the Guest Hospital. where it was
found that he was completely paralysed.

DRUNK AND RIOTOUR.—At the Brierley Hill Police
Court, on Monday, Bofie Lock, alias " Smith " and
IL-nry Malpass were charged with being drunk and
riotous, on the 18th inst. Police•sergeant Stevenion
proved ths case. Defendants pleaded guilty, and were
lined 5s end costa each; iu default 7 digs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

invited the " ins " as well as the " outs " to meet at
his hospitable table, and they did so. Mr. Disraeli
and Mr. Gladstone were "right honourable friends,"
and the good cheer was enjoyed none the less because
there had been an exciting party struggle, and a turn
in the political wheel of fortune.
The epidemic of white hats which set in early in
May has somewhat subsided in the face of the persis-
tent wet weather. Probably there is no portion of
human costume which exercises such tyranny over the
soul of man as the hat. In his secret heart he has a
preference for an old, a battered, and an unpresentable
hat, but he fears to overhear such phrases as, "Not fit
to be seen 1" "quite a fright !" "what a shocking bad
hat !" and so forth, and therefore he feels himself com-
pelled to have one which is new and glossy, expensive
and uncomfortable. The hat is an institution of long
standing. The Swiss originally brought it into fashion
in France, and the first of these articles made in Paris
was manufactured about 470 years ago, though it is
said that it did not come into general use until 1450.
Stow tells us that the first hats in England were made
here by Spaniards in 1510, and there is no doubt that
hth crowns were popular in the days of Queen Eliza-
beth, and they certainly hold their own now, to the
discomfort if not to the mortification of all who
happen to mix with a miscellaneous crowd, to whom
the knocking off of a respectable man's hat is a sonrce
of intense amusement.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT

Your officer states, I have again to report the
sanitary condition of the Township as excellent.
Eleven deaths only have ocurred during the
month, and two of them :are reported as decay,
Of the deaths these are of the respective ages 68
and 83 ; the rest, are all under five years. The
death rate according to the population of the last
census, viz: 9376 is 14 per thousand. The num-
ber of births, registered during the month is 21,
viz :12 males and 9 females. The Medical Officer
report was laid before your committee. Premises
at the Gig Mill, Market Street, and Worcester
Street, have been inspected and the necessary in-
structions given to the Town Officer, and had
certain nuisances removed.
TOWN OFFICER'S REPORT.

Nuisances removed last; month 11; reported
during the month, 41; removed 46; remaining 6.
Your committee instructed the Town Officer to
take proceedings in some cases where the parties
have noc in accordance with notice given removed
the nuisances complained of. Two cases of over
crowding are rep&ted. In one case 8 persons
were found in a room, 12 feet by 10, and 8 feet
high, having a deficiency of 480 cubic feet. In
the other case persons were found living in a room
18 feet by 14, having a deficiency of 44 cubic feat.
The nuisances have been removed.

Slaughterhouses.—These were found not in a
proper sanitary condition. The instructions of
the officer have however been carried out.

Lodging Houses.—Reported to be in good sani-
tary condition.
Removal of Night Soil.-67 Privies, 63 Ash-pits,
belonginging to 110 houses have been emptied and
cleansed. Loads, 143. Mr. Horsley's contract
for emptying and cleansing privies and ash-pits,
and for watering and cleansing the streets, ex-
pires on the 25th of the next month, and that your
committee advise that an advertisement be issued
inviting tenders to do the work for a period of two
years. A suitable covering having been provided
for the Corn Exchange platform. Your committee
advise that a charge of 2s be made for its use, in
addition to the usual charge for letting the room.
On the motion of Mr. Kelley, seconded by M-.
Woolley, the report was accepted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

(From Punch]
A PLAINT TO A SAINT.

Damp Saint, whom we Protestants even invoke,
Is not this sort of thing a great deal past a joke?
May not the most patient of Jobs complain
Of your far too long protracted rain?
Oh Remember, ere past the season's prime is,
That excellent maxim, " Ne quid nintis."
Our climate once could boast to be various,
Now all signs are merged in one—Aquarius
Monopoly so monotonous misses
Approval of all the signs but Pisces!
Taurus (JoIIANNEs), at the Camp,
Has been ploughing an ocean of dirt and damp,
And only in damning and trenching been hearty;
Virgo's done out of her garden party;
Leo, his occupation vain,
Shalles morekthan due-drops from his mane;
Libra feels these superfluous showers
The balance upset of the skyey powers.
So does Punch, and hopes the Zodiac soon
May recover the equilibrium of June.
But for you, chief cause of our complaints,
The wettest blanket of all the Saints,
Our Nature already is far too fond
•
Of playing NIOBE. Beyond
Her spontaneous tribute to the tearful,
Urge not one already none too cheerful:
Her waterworks need no aid from you :
So drop your water-can,—damp Saint,—do!
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

PARAPLUIE v. PARASOL,
(From Punch.)

'T was the voice of the Sunshade, I heard her complain,
" I' m of no use at all, for we've nothing but rain!
Bright Sol is deposed by the Demon of Damp,
And I'm put in the shade by that odious Gamp ! "
Stout Gingham laughed loud till her ribs seemed to split.
" Aha ! Madame Upstart, you're lowered a bit.
Your fiauntings and flirtings with Phcebus are over,
I warned you the god was a changeable lover!
Hoho ! but you used to look down upon me,
As the symbol of Dowdiness! Fiddle-de-dee !" •,
No doubt your supreme self-conceit Miss, it vexes le
To see me the favourite friend of both sexes;
In the sunshine of fortune so upstart and proud,
W hat a poor thing you are, now you're "under a cloud!"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-31

EXECUTION AT WARWICK.

On Tuesday morning Jeremiah Corkery, aged twenty,
convicted at the recent Warwick Assizesfor the murder
of Police-constable Lines, during a riot in Navigation-
street, Birmingham, on Sunday, the 7th of March,
suffered the 'extreme, rienalty dl the, law in;,the War-
wick County Gaol----Some days...pravionaly_Corler-
addressed a letter to the Home Secretary, begging for
a reprieve, and a petition with Om ffs.pail-ohget-was
also sent up from the prisonef's frieitds‘and ethers at
Birmingham. Although Lines had been wounded on
the day named, fatal conEequenoes did not ensue
until a fortnight later, after be had under.
gone a surgical operation. This circumstance
and the fact that Lines failed to recognise
Corkery as the man who inflicted the wounds were as-
signed as reasons why a reprieve should be granted.
The replies received on Sunday morning stated that
Mr. Secretary Cross, after careful consideration,
could discern no sufficient grounds to justify his in-
terference, and on learning this decision Corkery, who
had indulged some faint hope of a reprieve, became
greatly agitated. On Monday, after a second visit
from his brother, the unhappy man became more com-
posed, paying earnest attention to the exhortations of
his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Father Kelly. .
At eleven o'clock Corkery Went ia" bed, and after
passing a restless night, rose at half-past four. He
received the last rites of his Church at the hands of
Father Kelly, and subsequently in a bonversation with
Mr. Anderson, the Governor of the Rol, made a con-
fession of his guilt, saying, "I did it, and no one else."
At eight o'clock Corkery walkedrout otthe condemned
cell with firmness, and knelt on the-scaffold, repeating
with fervour the prayers read by the Rev. Father
Kelly, who knelt beside hill. He had declined to take
any breakfast, and in rising to his feet seemed for a
moment to be faint, and as though he would fall for-
ward. The executioner, Marwood, completed the
preliminaries with celerity, and when the bolt had been
drawn death appeared to follow almmt instantaneously,
the drop into the pit being nearly five feet.

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In the HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 28, Mr. Pell gave notice
that early next session he would call attention to the ad-
ministration of poor relief and move that it was desirable to
take steps to diminish out-door raid, with a view to getting
rid of that encouragement to improvidence and pauperism.
In reply to Mr. Tennant, Mr. S. Booth said it was rather
early days for the Government to pledge themelves to their
• programme for nest year. The pollution of rivers was no
doubt a subject of such growing importance and interest that
It could not fail to occupy the attention of the Government
during the recess Ni pains would be wanting on his part
• to collect the further information necessary for dealing with
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THE HARVEST AND THE MONEY

MARKET.

The Economist says:—" Some apprehension has been
expressed as to the effect of a possible bad harvest on
the money market. And there can be no doubt that
the weather is most unfavourable—the momentary
harvest prospect is bad, and the rise in the price of corn
fully justified. But, even if these unhappy prognostics
should be verified, and if the harvest should be bad,
the effect on the money market will not be nearly
as much as in old times. An unexpected import
of corn does not now cause the same export of
bullion which it once did ; unless of excessive
magnitude, it is only one item in the exchange
account of England with the world: we pay for most
of it in commodities, not in gold. This is one of the
benefits of free-trade. The corn-producing countries
aTe our regular customers; we constantly buy of them
and sell to them; the effect, therefore, of a bad har-
vest is to augment our trade with them, though it may
diminish it with other countries. But no great pertur-
bation is caused in the money market by a bad harvest,
except ,through a great drain of bullion, and we hope
that this year, even in the worst probable event, this
may be escaped."
Alluding to the rise in the corn market, the Econo-
mist remarks :—" As in 1860, the weather has been
such in the' wheat-growing districts of England as to
lay the crop under water and cause it to rot, and even
in the best event of a change to good weather for the
remainder of the harvest, it is doubtful if more than
an average return is possible. The result in France,
where the harvest is earlier than here, must also, we
fear, be reckoned definitely as unfavourable, and the
peculiar importance of the French harvest is well
known. Being under much the same climatic conditions
as the south of England, France, when it has an Dbun-
dant harvest, swells the plenty of England, and when
it has a deficient harvest becomes a competitor with
England, which wants a. large :supply, for the surplus of
the rest of the world. We have thus to expect that an
almost certain French demand will aggravate a pro-
bable deficiency in England. The accounts of the
chief corn-growing countries from which we import
most are also, as a rule, much less pr3mising than those
of last year, so that there will be a smaller surplus
available. The conclusion is not quite certain until
the result at home is more definite, and the unusual
abundance of last year may check an extreme rise of
price, but a return to the prices of last harvest season,
to say the least, is in the highest degree improbable.
The range is likely to be considerably higher until the
prospects of the next harvest again begin to affect the
markets."