The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-19 00:00:00

IgrATUR)-,1. DEC. 19, VRAR.

A claim for compensation, arising out of the Aber.
gele catastrophe, was heard on Saturday at the Manchester
assizes. The action was brought on behalf of she three
children id a naerchant of Blackburn, who had lost his wife
through the accident, and whose pridts were estimated at
the rate a £1,2,0 a year. The jury returned a verdict tor

One result of the general election has been to ex.
elude several raths ay directors from to Hoar of comm..,

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The losses. however. an; Wry nearly Waimea by the election
of many Nlernbers of Parliament Horror lees connected with
the railway interest. The total number of directors in the
new House le 116.

The Fenian marauding "Captain," O'Brien, has
been committed for trial in Cork. it is stated that, sinc.
his f.diner escape from Mallow Rridewell he has been `• levy-
ing a navies of black mail on the farmers of the disttict.•
lie was conveyed to Cork by a strong guard.
It is saidthat at the sale of the diamonds of. the

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onved to the ex-t:ueen of

The atetemttling of hirliament for even • few days
took emany families to London. More carriages have liven
driving Miont the West-rmi this week than had been wen
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sioce The. end of lust July.

The Bishop of Winchester, who hatel been for a long
time soriously ill, Is doily improrina in body, nto.l. and
• pc, oh. and it is his lordship's intention to bola a serit tot
confirmations in the spring.

The governing fanlike*" of England willbe largely
reprebented in the new House lif c us. Of the sly
retur ei Iminbers, ninety,eight, or r.ktber mote than one.
seventh, t,eion_ th noble houses. Of this Lumber 22 have
been returned for boroughs and 76 for ties.

A notice has been ne'nt from Cold Overton Hall, near

Oakhani, to Mr. Tailby, the master of the houn.ls prine pa y • .1
ir
Itttri” the neighbourhood of I old (Overton, that ho the
futon, hunting will not be permitted on the estates of
Mts. Freweu Turner. This is, of course, carrying ont the in-
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timation eootained in Mr. C. It. 1-',eueo's letter to the Duke
of Rutland, immediately before the election for North

ccstershlic

The Indian papers informs us that Miss Carpenter
has received a very hearty welcome in Bombay, and having
decided spot staying in that city, the government has gladly
art tided an offer she has made of her BerelooB in Ginnenan
with the establishment of a female normal eehool there.
The native press has also welcomed her very warmly. she
was to explain her views at a large politic meeting to be held
in Bombay on the at ten moon 01 the day on which the mail

The Morning Post announce that Sir Richard
Mayne the Chief Commissioner of Mice, is about to have
the dignity of baronet conferred upon him for his long
public services.
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An Irish paper, noticing certain featurew of the
recent Army Medical Report, mentions that Ireland send.
two recruits to the army for enemy seven Englidituoi. Dublin
ranks neat to London as a suce,,ful recruiting ground,
Lieertionl following close after. The largest proportion Of
rejeetions for deficient physique took place at holt:18t.
A son of Sir Rowland Hill liar invented and pa-
tented a machine for stamping letters toy i s help as many
as 010 letters eau be " single-stamp:4 " and 100 " double-
stamped " hi a minute.
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M. Errazu, a wealthy—Mexican resident- in Paris, is
dead. For several years his daudhtd, have Welt prominent
guests in the most fashional de coin e.s and ball, lie was the
pridirictor of a claret •vineyanl scarcely second to that of the
Chateau Lafhte—the Clos irEstourriel. lie Inures fortune
estimated at ten millions of frams

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The convict Wheirui, now Vito; under sentence of
death for the assassinatioa of Mr. lcArcy 01'Gee, on whose
behalf a writ of habeas ojioa has lately bees gninte4
respited until the 29th inst. Ile spends his time oi uttering
the most horrible blasphemies; even the presence of priests
does not check his wickedness.
Advices from the Sandwich Islands state that forty.
eight whalers have arrived at Honolulu, with 2,60 s leirras of
sperm oil, 29,335 hanwla of whale oil, and 352,700 Is of
boa, The whaling mown in the Arctic is repre,ented to
have been the worst known for twenty years.
In the course of the breaking up of the steamer
Milano, at Tileste, a packet of 10,00, gold &rim was wand
in the timber-work. This sum had Ices contidol hy a mer-
cantile house to the vessel, for conveyance eight or nine years
ago, but having been missing ever since, was generally sup-
posed to have been stolen.

The police returns of London show the inhabitants
that they are living in perpetual presence td an army.!
14.000 criminals. A pleasant reflection, truly and the com-
fort of the British public, in genoul, is not increased II
knowing that crime in tireat Britain in computed to cost an-
in the shape of loss, precaution, and punishment, no
less than £10,000,000.

"Wig. are becoming fashionable. At the late
theatricals at Compitgrie, the Roumanian Princess °hilts—
handsome and twenty-tive—wore a blonde one; and tha has
such black hair other own."--Court Journal.

One of the new members returned to Parliament is
the proprietor of a lunatic asylum, so that the "lunatic
intereA " will be duly represented in the new Parliament.
A petition was lodged in the Dublin Court of
Common Pleas on Saturday against the return 1 Major
Knu for the borough of Sligo. The petitioners are two
electors named Foley, who allege that Major K non "del. by

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himself and others, procure, and promiselo procure, ph'ice's
and emoluments for Cenath person., to induce them 5o 00t
or to abstain from voting." Bribery and intimidation are alai
generally alleged.

The Nation of Satnrday advertimea, under the head-
ing " God save Ireland," a publi aloe entitled, The
Wearing of the Green, or the prosecuted fur oral procession;
being a complete history tit the event s which ensued in Ire-
land upon the execution of Allen, Larkitr, and °litres in
1 G 7, and a graphic description of the monster funeral pro-
cession in Duttlin on the Bth of December, 1867."

In London, on Monday was held the annual Christ-
mas cattle market. The show was not so good as It has bean
In former years, thr ;Teat damage done to the stock by the
cattle plague of lobe not yet having been recovered.
The violent storm which visited these shores last
week seems to have extended over a large part of the con-
tinent. Both in Belgium and in Cermany much damage is
reported. In Berlin, chimneys and trees were blown down,
arid ..nw few lives lost At Fritzlar, near Cassel, the spire
of the cathedral fell in during mass, and many persons were
killed. From Roumania we learn that there was a stone
at Fokschany on Thursday bat, which blew down fifty
houses.

Lord Stanley has ad,lressed a letter to Mr. Raasam,
wherein lie speaks of that gentleman's services in A loyssinis
In the highest terms, and concludes with the following still
more satisfactory announcement :—" The suffe,nns which
you all underwent have been deerey deplored by her
Majesty's Government, and as some compensation therefore,
as well as a testimony of appreciation of good service, they
have resulved to present a sual of £5.000 to yourself and
sums of £2,000 each to Dr. Blanc and Lieut. PricLaus."
The Apethorpe preserves were shot through one day
last week, by the Earl of Westmoreland, the Duke of Man-
chester, the Earl of Carysfurt, Lurch A. Lennqk, the lion Cap-
tain Curzon, ('clone! W. Craven, Captain Matson, Captain
.1. Little, and the Rev. E. Du 100. The quantity of game
bagged was 2,330 head ; of these 1,030 were pheasants, and
000 hares.

On Satnnlay, a Wiltshire gentleman farmer, who
owns nearly 3,000 acres in the parish of Stanton St. Bernard,
in that county, was charged at the Guildhall with having
sent to the Lendon market the careasesof ten diseased sheep
unfit for human food. The prisoner pleaded guilty. The
presiding magistrate said that it was mily the great roe of
the prisoner that prevented him from sending him to p
but he inflicted a hue of £2O for each carcase, and ten
guineas costs, with the altenudive of three months' impri-
sonment. This money, which amounted to rather more than
2101., was paid.
An insurance society upon a novel principle is about
to be started. It is an adaptation of the principle of the
Manchester st, am Boiler's Association ; and it will enable
colliery lispi &tau to insure their worss against explosion.
The imme,l Ie effect of this proposal has been to make the
pitmen de-1 1,, that they will not work unites they are
insured tr,.. say that the masteis, being sure of a
pecuniary ~ompensation in the event of accidents, will get
careless about ventilating their works, and that thus the
lives of the pitmen will be fu much greater danger than
before.

Queen Elir: beth's Oak in Beddingtompark, has
lately been fell,. It is supposed to be more than a thousand
years old; an I Queen Bess, in her frequent visits to Red'
dinetompark, u d often to sit under its wile-spreading
branches, attended by her courtiers and favourites.
Queen Isabella has purchased for L54.10,000f. Count
Basilewski's splendid mansion on the Boulevard do RI la
Rome, at Paris, near the residence of M. Emile de Girard i
ller Majesty liar pall a forfeit of taLooof. to get rid of the
two houses a kith were taken for her in the Champs Elyseeit
"A widower who has a good fortune, and no family,
who is known to have been a very kind hustiani, was liesrd
a short time since to say to a widow lady of high rank, that
he thought the most beautiful stud interesting object on the
face of the earth was a widow lady out of her weeds. The
lady prudishly misconceived the idea—at first, hut at length,
It is said, gave her hand and dropped her weeds is earnest.—
Court Journal.
Liverpool is in debt to the extent of £4,000,000. It
is beginning a sort of National Debt of Ate own. We alkalise=
hear of Liverpudlian Consols.

" Whiskerets 'is the name of the John coW•
catchers' that the ladies weer on their cheeks in the place
where the whiskers ought to grow.' They are formed hy
drawing down a little tuft of hair from the temple, and curl-
ing up in the shape of a ram'a horn or a little pig's tail with
an an extra kink io it."—Court Journal.
A letter from Rome says that Francis 11. of
Naples has been laid tin fin the last fort night with a fever, which
occasions serious uneasiness In the Farnest Palace; nohodY
but the Queen, the K physician, and an Old servant
being admitted to the sick chamber The exact nature ot
the malady is not known, but it is supposed to Its of typhoid
chat actor.

Gradually the survivors of Waterloo are passing
away front among us. On Sunday the remains of John
Corker, one of these heroes, were interred in St. Mary's
churchyard, Sheffield. The deceased was a drummer in the
2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards on the 18th June, 1815.
The (Vdogae Gazette announces that its number of
the 25th October, which had been seized by the authorities,
has jest been returned to the editor with a notification that
it bad lwen taken posseasiott of through an error.
The .Tesuits in the United States are, it is said, pre-
paring for the reception of large numbers of their brethren
who have been expatriated from Spain.
The Archbishop elect of Canterbury preached on
Sunday morning at St. Luke's Church, Lerwick-street,
Londim, what is understood to he his last sermon as Ifishep
of Loudon. The church was appromiately vested for
Advent, and on the altar were two large emelt, unlighted,
ith a cross at the back The Arehleimhop's subieet was
, Solomon's Temple, and ia the cone to trl loin acrouel he apok•
• warmly of teremonial worship, but remarked that at the
very climax of Jewish ceremonialism a humble afir eentritu
spirit wai spoken of as a still more acceptable service. The
offertory collection was devoted to the expenses of St. ',thee
services.

A gentleman, anxious to investigate the phenomena
of haunted houses, advertises that he "is desirous of
obtaining leave to reshie for a few days in a Haunted House,
situated in, or at a tolerably easy distance itg rail, from
London. A good sum wII lie given for an occupation for a
week.—address, giving some proofs as to the probability
of the house being really haunted."
As an instance of the ruling passion, it is said that
Rothschild, who knew his death would cause a peat fall in
the shares of the bombard l'ompany, of vs Inch he has the
president and elver support, speculated largely tor the fall
just before ibt died. The 'wont, of coons., gills to his heirs.
The Diritto (Italian paper) publishes a list of the
subscriptions received by the principal newspapers of Italy
on behalf of the families of the two men recently executed in
Rome. The total is 29,21,3 francs '41.170 . This, the theists
exylrdns, by no means represents all the money collected.
Lists from other papers have yet to c,,me in; sums, liio have
been voted by the c(PllMitinal and it tu niei a I consul is though
out the kingdom, and the proceeds of various theatrical per,
formances have to lie added.
A stonecutter named Nelson has obtained a verdict
against the London mrd North Western Railw my Company at
Manchester on Saturday for £.750. Ile was employed upon
sonic works on the uoinpany'a live at Laneaider. and was
seriously injure, through the scaffold lb ii cliit he was at
work being thrown down by some waggons that were being
shunted. The pointsman in charge of the shunting had been
warned by Nelson and the men at work with him that the
waggons were so loaded that their sides would stnke the
scaffold poles. The plaintiff hat to be carried into court
upon a cant, and the doctors stated that there was
no probability of his ever being able to work at his trade
again.
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The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland have issued an
address to the members of that institution, signed by the
Earl of Enniskillen. the Grand Master. It refers to the
app,iotinent of Mr. (ilailstone to the Premiership, and
maintains that all true Protestants may now 1.... k ard
excludon from place and power. Further, Orangemen
" may expect that the judicial bench, the ekei-utive gcxtrit-
merit, and the magistracy of Ireland will, ere long, be
brought under the management and control of the Court of
lowa