The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-12-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Speaking at Lytham, Sir Matthew White Ridley
said that the laws and rules of the House of
Commons were made for gentlemen, but unfortunately
there were other than gentlemen there now. He
thought that more personal action against offending
members would be a good rule to adopt.
Mr. Rolls, of The Hendre, who recently gave
£lO,OOO to the Bishop of Rochester's Diocesan Building
Fund, intends to defray the cost of a new Town-hall
for Monmouth next year, in commemoration of the
Queen's Jubilee.
The boat which was blown out to sea a fortnight
since from Cardigan Bay with a boy named Davies has
drifted ashore bottom upwards some way down the
coast. How, when, or where the poor lad had met his
melancholy fate will for ever be enveloped in mystery.
The boy was the son of Captain Davies, of New Quay.
The submarine boat that was recently tried in the
West India Docks is to be sent to Portsmouth for a
series of experiments by the officers of the Vernon Tor-
pedo School before its final adoption by the Govern-
ment, two first-class torpedo boats being the first in-
stalment of ten that are to be sent from Portsmouth to
Devonport immediately on their arrival from the con-
tractors, the Admiralty having decided to form a
fletil,a as powetful 88 possible of these vessels at the
forthcoming naval review. The work of fitting them
out and preparing them for commission is to be dis-
tributed between the various dockyards, instead of
being confined to Portsmouth, as hitherto.
It is stated that Mr. Chamberlain and his party will
probably return to England about the 15th or 20th
instant.

Ram4n-the-Face, the sub-chief of the Dakota Sioux,
who was in the battle of the Little Rosebud, and was
the Indian who shot Castor, has appealed to the
Indian Bureau to be allowed to attend school. He
realises that education will make him more influential
with his tribe.

A meeting of the representatives of cealowners and
workmen in the Northumberland coal trade was held at
Newcastle on Saturday, at which a committee was
appointed to consider the best means of improving the
trade in the district, which is at present depressed.
Intelligence has been received from Santiago de Chile
announcing the formation of a new Chilian Ministry,
with Senor Ant unez as Premier.
Mr Arthur Grote, son of the eminent historian of
Greece, died on Saturday at his house in Ovington-
square, Chelsea. The deceased was in the Indian Civil
Service from 1832 to 1868, and was a magistrate in
Burd wan, Bengal.
On Saturday afternoon at the Town Hall, Hackney,
Lobdon, Mr. Michael Young, chairman of the Fawcett
Memorial Committee, unveiled the portrait of the late
Professor Fawcett, M.P.
Lord Cranborne M.P., has been initiated a hon.
member of the Blackburn Branch of the Independent
Order of Oddfellows. Addressing a large assembly,
Lord Cranborne said he took a keen interest in the
welfare and proceedings of friendly societies, which
bad fostered a spirit of independence and self-help.
Quarantine has been abolished on arrivals at
Alexandria from the Italian littoral.

The report of the board of visitors on the Royal
Military College Sandhurst, states that the number of
cadets on the roll of the college is 307, being seven in
excess of the establishment. At the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich, the number of cadets on the roll
is 203, or 30 over the establishmebt ; and the visitors
state that the deficient accommodation for these num-
bers is a matter for serious consideration, the capacity
of the acad my being Quite inadeauate for the nurnoral.
The Press Association nnderstands that nothing has
yet been definitely arranged as to the opening of Parlia-
ment by the Queen, but, it being Jubilee year, there is
every probability that her Majesty may honour the oc-
casion by her presence in State.
Five years penal servitude was the exemplary
sentence passed on Tuesday at the Surrey Sessions on
Robert J. Black, a labourer, who pleaded guilty to
beating his wife Because no beer was provided for his
supper, pthoner beat his wife unmercifully.
At the meeting of the Royal Commission on Biwa
tion Acts (Lord Cross in the chair), Mrs. Knowles,
headmistres of Dibden National School, Southampton:
Miss Nauper, headmistress of Rochford National
School, Tenbury ; and Miss Neath, headmistress of
the Ditton National School, near Canterbury, were exa-
mined.

Lord Coleridge had before him on Tuesday an action
for libel brought by Miss Florence St John, the
operatic singer, against Sir William and Lady Abdy„
Ths defendants having, through their counsel, made a
public apology and a retractation of all the charges
complained of, it was accepted by the plaintiff, and the
record was withdrawn.

Sir W. Lawson. speaking at an Alliance meeting at
Carlisle on Tuesday night, said the Alliance were wait•
log t see what the Government would do, and if they
did not do what the Alliance wished he should propose
a resolution in Parliament to make them do so. He
hoped, however, that the supporters of the Alliance
would remembe that all schemes proposed for giving
power to Local Boards were simply red herrings to lead
them away from the scent and prevent them from get•
ting prohibition.
A Mandalay telegram says Colonel Carey, Royal
Artillery, has sustained a fracture of the skull through
a fall from his horse, and his recovery is considered
doubtful.
The Postmaster-General announces the institution
of a parcel post to Tasmania and Western Australia
after Jan. 1, 1887.
• Dr. Karl Juehlke, representative of the German East
African Society, has been murdered by Somaulis at
Kesmayoo.
The Home Secretary, Mr. Matthews, Q.C., M.P., on
Thursday night attended the annual dinrer of the
Birmingham Conservative Association, when a pre-
sentation was made to Mr. J. Satchel' Hopkins, late•
president of the Conservativo organisation in that
tiwn. Mr. Matthews, in the course of his response to
the toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers," said the first
thing the Government would have to deal with would
be some means of checking obstruction by the Dias
unionist party. _ _ _ _ -

Mr Balguv, the police magistrate' died on Tuesday
at his residence, near Chelmsford. He was appointed
a metropolitan police magistrate in 1874.
The Minister of Public Instruction at Athens has
granted permission to Mr. Penrose, Director of the
English School of Archmnlogy, to continue the excava-
tions in the neighbourhood of the Great Temple of
Jupiter Olympus at Athens.
The death la announced of Miss Matilda Johnson, of
Baitinglass, at the age of 105. Her celibacy was due to
a love disappointment early in life. In 1798 the was
engaged to an officer, who died She was very in-
firm, but her faculties were unimpaired when she died.
Sir Andrew Walker, Bart.' has ann-unced his inten-
tion of presenting a sum of £15,000 to Liverpool Uni-
versity College, in commemoration of the Jubilee year.
The money will be devoted to the erection and fitting
up of a suite of engineering laboratories.
The Prince of Wales was invested on Tuesday by the
Japanese Envoy with the Order of the Chrysanthemum
at Marlborough House. The Prince and Princess of
Wales afterwards left London for Luton Hoe, 04 a visit
to the Danish Minister and Madame de Falbe.
A Victorian loan of £3,000,000, being[the second in-
si'ment of the 8,000,000 loan which was authorised last
year tor the construction of railways and irrigation
works will be issued next year.
The death is announced, at Palmerira-square'
Brighton, on Monday, of Field- Marshal Sir Richard
Dacres, G.C.B , Constable of the Tower and Colonel
Commandant Royal Horse Artillery. The deceased
Field-Marsbal was born in 1799, and was the son of the
late Vic-Admiral Sir Richard Dacres, G,O.H. He
served in the Crimea, and at Inkerman succeeded to the
command of the artillery of the army in the field on the
death of Brigadier-General Fox-Strangways.
It has been decided that the Queen and Prince and,
Princess Henry of Battenberg will reside at Windsor
Castle till after Christmas, when the Court will remove
to the Isle of Wight..
On Tuesday the explorers in the Elemore pit, where
the receet colliery fatality occurred, found a pony alive
which had been imprisoned for nearly live and a half
dais without food or water. When got out the poor
beast was given a drink of water and some hay, and on
slay night it was as lively as ever.
Lord Stanley of Preston and Baron Henry de
Worms, MP. received, at the Board of Trade on Tues-
day, teveral representatives of the shipping and coal
interests with reference to the question of light dues
on hunker coal. After hearing the views of the
speakers the Presidsnt announced the following con.
cession : That all vexatious limitations of distress
should be abolished, and ships allowed to fill their per.
hunkers free of light dues, provided they do
not break bulk, call for orders, or take cargo or pas-
sengers This change will be immediately effected by
an Order in Council.

Prince Loitpold, the Regent of Bavaria, arrived on
TueBdav in Berlin. He wa4 welcomed at the station
by the Emperor William, the Orown Prince, and other
Royal perdonages, and by the Empress Augusta at the
Castle.

Prince Alexander of Battenberg arrived in England
on Tuesday, and was met at Dover by his brother
Prince Henry, who accompanied him to London.

SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 1886.

one man has been killed and several have been
injured by an explosion that has muffed at Rydel
Tunnel. The tunnel is a portion of the works in con-
nection with the Thirlmere water scheme of the Man' •
cheater Corporation, and some very heavy engineerivg
operations are being carried out at Rydaf. A men
named Richardson was driving a charge f blasting
powder home, when it exploded. Richardson was dread-
fully injured, and died on the spot. He was a young
man, and a native of Cumberland.
British residents in New York, in meeting assemble,l,
resolved that the day of the Queen's Jubilee should te
fittingly celebrated. The nature of the permanent
memorial to her Majesty which it is proposed to erect
in the United States has not yet been decided up,,n-
The Queen, attended by the suite, left Windsor Castld
shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday morning on a visit
of condolence to LRdy Churchill at Charlbury, in Os-
fordshire. The weather was wet the frost ha% rug di'
appeared. Her Majesty travelled by special Great
Western train to Charlbury, whence she drove to Lad)?
Churchill's residence. The Queen left Charlbury on
her return at a quarter to one, and arrived at Windsor
shortly after two o'clock.
At Festiniog, Merionethshire, a workman namea
John Tudor Robert, who was in his seventieth year, WE
employed at the Oakley Quarries, and was engaged at
his work at the top of the quarries, when he slipped and
fell over the precipice, and was instantly killed.
The steamship Chandernagor, which was reported to
have foundered with 1200 troops on board, is at anchor
in the Bay of Tourane.
General Pettie, head of the military household of the
French President, and a great personal friend of pi.
Grevy, is dead. He had been ill for some days.
The Peterborough Cathedral Restoration Committee
have issued a special appeal to complete the necessary
works of the sacred edifice, their funds being ex,'
hausted. A total of 04,000 has been contributed au°
expended, and £47,000 is still required.
There arrived at Belfast Quay by steamer last Friday
a coffin, on the breast plate of which was the inscrip•
tion, "James Chambers, aged 21; died 30th November,
1886." The deceased went to London about a fort'
night since to study law, but died in hospital shortls
afterwards Foul play is suspected, and the police
detained the coffin allowing the body to be interred.
In St. Giles's Cathedral, Edinbtfrgh, there has been
placed a bronze tablet on a marble background lit
memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and
men of the 74th Highlanders (now the 2nd Battalion
of the Highland Light Infantry), who were killed or
mortally wounded in the various actions in which the
regiment was engaged, ranging from India, 1879, to
Egypt, 1882. The same tablet records also the names
of the one officer and the 48 non-commissioned officeto
and mon of the regiment who went down in the Birker. •
head on the 26th of February. 1852, off Point Danger,
Cape of Good Hope after all the women and children
had been safely landed by the ship's boats.
The Committee of the Northern Union of Irish
National Tea-hers met on Saturday in Beliast, when
they received a report from the deputation who re-
cently waited on the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Resolutions were passed thanking the deputation foe
the satisfactory manner in which they presented the
cause of education. It was stated in the resolution
that the time had arrived when the system of compul-
sory education should be Introdnced into Ireland, and
that no settlement of the Education Question would
b satisfactory that failed to embrace that arrange-
ment.
The Tuaregs are reported to have attacked and
captured Ghat, killing the Turkish garrison of 100
men.
A large number of solicitors' clerks have, under the
patronage of the Lord Chancellor formed themselves
into a society registered as the Legal Provident Instl.
tution, for mutual aid in sickness and at death.
The Secretary for Scotland has appointed Mr.
Charles Stewart Parker, M.P., Mr. R. B. Finlay, Q.O.
M.P., Mr. R. W. Cochran-Patrick, and Mr. Henry Craik
to be a committee to inquire into certain questions
relative to Scottish education, including, amongst
others, the position of the training colleges, the area of '
school board districts, and the condition of secondary
schools as affected by recent legislation.
The communication of the Agents-General to their
respective Governments relates to the proposal to
modify the original scheme by including the United
Kingdom in the organisation of the Imperial Institute.
The details of the scheme, and especially of that part
of it relating to the United Kingdom, are now under
the consideration of the committee. No final decision
in regard to the site has been taken.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has re:
calved a despatch from her Maj sty's Consul-Generei
in Cuba stating that all goods shipped from British
ports in the direct trade with Cuba will be admitted to
duty under the third column of the Colonial Tariff
without the production of certificates of origin.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has re-
ceived a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at
Rome stating that an auction for the contract of cer-
tain works for i proving the port of Civita Veechia
will be held at the Department of Public Works in
Rome, on the 18th inst. Such particulars as-are in the
possession of her Majesty's Government may be seen
on application at the Commercial Department of the
Foreign Office.

An-important despatch has been sent by Mr. Stan"
hope, Secretary of State, to Colonial governors,
aanouncing that, acting upon the terms employed In
the Queen's Speech on the prorogation of Parliament,
the Government have come to the conclusion that her
Majesty should be u..l,7ised to summon a conference, to
meet in London early next year, at which representa-
tives of the principal Colonies should be invited to dig'
cuss proposals for drawing more closely together the
various portions of the Empire.
Smith and Knif ton had arranged to, fight for the
championship on Monday in a secluded' part of Surrey,
but the police obtained information of their movements
and intentions, and prevented a meeting.
About one o'clock on Monday morning PoMeson-
stable George Dodds, on duty in Ormonde-street,
Jarrow, finding the door of the County Hotel open,
aroused the landlord, who ran into the bar with a light
and asked, "Who is that ?" The constable replied,
"Policeman" whereupon the landlord drew a revolver,
fired and inflicted a wound in the constable's right arm.
The latter retreated and summoned another policeman ;
but the landlord dared them to come near him, still
holding the revolver. Finally he was taken to the
police.station.
An order was received at Portsmouth Dockyard on
Monday, directing that in future vacancies occurring
amongst' the established men are not to be filled up. It
is believed that this points to a determination on the
part of the Admiralty permanently to reduce the esta-
blishment. On all previous occasions when there barn
been discharges of workmen the dismissals have applied
exclusively to the hired men, of whom there are 4000
or 5000 at Portsmouth yard, but the number of eats'
Wished men have always been retained at 2600.
The four hundred and furty-sixth anniversary of the
foundation of Eton College by Henry VI. was en"
served on Monday. The students were granted a holi-
day, and in the afternoon there was a full choral service,
in the chapel, when Mendelssohn's " Hymn of Praise '
was sung. In the evening the provost and fellows gays
a banquet in the hall. to which ab( IA a hundred guests
were invited, the memory of the pious founder beil4
duly honoured in the course of the festivities
A moonlight raid for arms was made in the parish of
Ashford, West Limerick, on Sunday night. • The
party, numberihg about 15, were disguised and armed-
They visited the farms of John O'Malioney, Edvvard
Winter, and Bartholomew Brere a, from whom WY
obtained two guns and a revolver.