The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-16 00:00:00

thrown into the water. The two Jaequets woe after-
wards arrested, and have confessed that they had
lain in wait for the others, and had oimitted the
crime.

raeli this year is the same eiho the year before last
drummed up eleven too few for Mr. Dladstone. He
has no political feelings, or shows none. His one
object in life is to get a good majority for whatever
Government ie in. At night he is at the House; in
the daytime he is at an office in King-street. Thence
proceed almost every day circulare to every supporter
of the Government, telling them what there is to
watch for in the Government interest. liewides these
circulars them are many special messages on which he
has to send his scouts. In fact, there are few places in
London where more business is dune, or done quicker.
or at greater pressure, than in this little King-street
office.
THE DFKIS OF EDINBCROH.—Direct communi-
cations which have been received from the Duke of
Edinburgh fully confirm the favourable reports which
have been published His Royal Hiffimess describes
himself as well and comfortable, and quite recovered.
Fortunately, the bullet, although penetrating to the
ninth rib near the spine, aml taking then a circuitous
course around the body to the position whence it was
cut down upon and extracted, seems to have been a
small revolver bullet, impelled by a light charze,
and to have done the minimum amount of mischief to
the tissues.

PACKI.I.) PARCIA.S.--The opiyAition ntised by
the mercantile community to the obnoxious 15th
clause of the Railways Regulations Bill, atlecting the
carriage of small parcels by railway, has roved sue..
cessful. The Duke of Richmond, President of the
Board of Trade, who introduced the Bill, has decided
Ulu the clause shall be entirely withdrawn.

NuPERTT UP DECILASKD SEAMEN.—A Board of
Trade return shows that in the year 1867 £34,850 was
received from waiters of vessels, collectors of customs
in the colonies, and consuls abroad, for wages and
effects of 5,547 deceased seamen. In the course of the
year sums amounting to £24,269 were paid to the rela-
tives and representatives of 2,732 deceased seamen.
The amount unclaimed received before 1861 has been
paid into the Exchequer, leaving an unclaimed balance
to meet claims as they maw be established, amounting
to .£81,124, partly in Exchequer bills and partly cash,
in the hands of her Majesty's Paymaster-General.

THE " Hs." Jiglle BRIGWr.—The writer of the
able dispatches in Ism.lon has been putting the news-
papeis to unnecessary expense during, the past weekly
reporting van, us things of the " Honourable Jelln
Bright" (says the New York A alio.). Mr. Bright has
no such title, and if he ever had he would long ago
have grown out of it into John Bright, which is his
present designation. "Honourable "is a term applied
in England by courtesy to the sons and daughters of
barons, the lowest order in the peerage. :Members of
the Privy Council are "Right Honourables," but Mr.
Bright being neither one nor the other, the title-
Afr Tohn Mitchell has addressed.4„iif:eltnni a third letter on
mongers would do well to let hini alone. We have as • '
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many " llonourables " and other titular nlignitaries
ourselves already iO4 any nation can well stand and if
we were to get afresh supply from amongst the English
radicals we fear something would give way. Many formercollapse of th
He now replies to some of his critics, and endeavours
lemons in America are now called " Honourable " be-
hto re-assure the " good and worthy Irishmen " who,
cause they have written an article in the Washington
latelliyeactr, or supplied oysters for the President's e says, have been
Catholic Dean of Limerick, lately charged Mr.
pained and disappointed at hearing
"state dinners." There ought to be an end to this
the truth about Fenianism. Dr. O'Brien, the Roman
folly, especially since our ambassadortl have been pro-
hibited from wearing court dresses. Mitchell with having glorified Stephens, and thereby
„ deceived a great many in Ireland. Mr. Mitchell
THE VIRTITE OF PATIENCE.— The Japan Hernia denies that he had ever mentioned Stephens" with
gives the following as the funeral oration, preached by common respect," and retorts in the following terms :
the graves of
M. Ulm Roche, the French diplomatic agent, over 1 One thing is very plain to rue, that the Deau of Limerick,
the sailors so cruelly mu rdered at Sakai though he is no Fenian—though he fought Fenianism in
(Japan) : its inell—though he cannot contradict one syllable I have
'My brave lads,—You have been murdered In the most mid of it, but rather confirms all—yet bears a grudge against
cowardly fashion, without giving ally provocation, and while me for letting the wind out of the bag. Ho thought it me-
in the execution of your duty. If your noble officers had ful to have such a shape of terror looming in the back-
acted MI the spur of the moment, you would have been ground, 5 bile he is agitating his little "Repeal "—by way
avenged by the destruction of a city, and the death of 0.111- 0! frightening the British Govemment, as it were—poor,
sands of inhabitants. They had the rare courage to repress simple, and tiinorous British Government !—as if the British
this first desire, feeling that France should reply to barbarism Government did not know better , than you or I, or Dr.
by civilisation. lint, because it is delayed, the reparation 0 Brien, the exact measure, the height and the depth, of the
will only be the more striking and the more just. I swear to F'°i" s'""ti"'
you. in the IMMO of France, and of the Emperor. whose But, while Mr. Mitchell proclaims war against "the
noble sons you were, that your deaths shall be avenged in impracticable enterprise and unscrupulous delusions"
such a manner tha t your comrades Ind fellow onintrymen which have " exposed brave men and innocent families
shall not be exposed to atrocities like those of which you fell to destruction upon a mere blind impulse of sun-
the Innocent victims, boa are with God. Pray him to aid us i .
Di our painful task." I burstery," he takes care not to let it be supposed that
SINGULAR DEATIL—Mr. William Barnes, an i the spirit which gave rise to the Fenian organisation is
at an enil. In his• opinion it hag been strengthened by
architect, residing M the Bow-road, has met his death the defeat of Stephens and his successors :--
by falling from the roof of an omnibus. A lad who sat ,The Irish element on the Continent of Amerka, in
next to him, as the omnibus was passing along the stoulginne, off its contriteting "shell" of Fenianism, cannot
Bow-road, near the residence of the deceased gentle- het grow into something stronger, sounder. and far more
man, accidentally dropped some small money in the formidable than ever. For that collapsed concern, with its
road. The omnibus at the moment stopped to allow a high-sounding pretensions, its monstrous exaggerations and
passenger to alight, and the lad got down to pick up the : VATV4IVIZTUTYji,ItVTIA,,,,,,rt,...iguaurz
money. It would seem that the deceased got nearer tions of all who did not beloniTto it, kept at a' distance tin-
t° the end of the seat, and as he was looking over to best natienalists ill America, as well as the best in Ireland.
see apparently if the boy was successful in finding the , Mr. Mitchell believes that Irish independence will
coin, lie overbalanced himself, and fell with his head ' be won whenever England engages in a foreign war,
downwards into the road. On behm raised there was and, in order to hasten it, he begs "to advertise the
found a large wound on his left temple, his skull was American Government and the French Government
fractured, and it was believed that his neck was dig- that England is now and henceforth utterly powerless
located, causing death almost immediately. The jury to resist any aggression or to resent any affront." The
returned a verdict of "Accidental death. 4 1 Governments thus addressed will probably decline to
AN UNGRATEFUL RUFFIAN. The following , accept the assurance of Mr. Mitchell as entirely satie-
attempt to murder two persons, followed by a sup. 1 factory in a matter wherein his judgment may be led
posed suicide, has just taken place in Paris : ; astray by "a blind impulse of sunburstery."
;
A tanner named Taboureau had just left an hospital, and, 1 .... _
being w ithout resources, appealed for relief to an acquaint- i
ance named Siegfried, a dealer in building materials, near i
the Pont I. nuts Philippe. The latter gave him a dinner, and '
allowed him to sleep in a garret; but the other, knowing I The case of Bryant r. Foot, which has been pending
that Siegfried had a rather large sum of money in a leathern i
hg-it, which, as is done by many workmen, he carried at night : n the courts for about five years, and which involves
instrument r ~,,, unl him, got up in the night with the intention the right of the clergy to manage fees, was decided in
of cutting the tlinmt of his host and wife for the purpose of the Exchequer Chamber on Saturday. The defendant
rolibing Inn. Ile had already made a gash in the neck of was the rector of Horton, in Buckinghamshire, and he
Siegfried, w ben the latter awoke, and his groans aroused Ins
claimed a fee of 10s. for the rector, and 3s. for the
wife, who defenilml her husband firmly against the assailant. .
- clerk of the parish, upon any marriage solemnised in
This latter then struck the woman twice with the razor,
inflicting deep wounds in her face and on her hand, and then the church. The plaintiff claimed a return of the
hurried out •4 the house, and, jumping into the river from fees he had paid. The case was argued some time
the bridge, disappeared beneath the water As, however, he since in the Court of Queen's Bench, when the
majority of that court (Me Justice Blackleirn dissent-
is known to be a goml swimmer, a search 15 being made for .
him hi case lie shoidd have escaped by diving. At idl eventa
in m) have • in favour of the plaintiff. TM (he-
ld, body has Mit been found. The husband and wife hniVO 6 Ifa, judgment
, fent nt appealed against that judgment, anti the
been removed to the hospital ; the former is ill a dangerous
state. A. female child of the Siegfrieds, agent three years, matter Wta argued some time since in this court, when
was sleeping in the same room, and was found still . time was taken for consideration. The Chief Baron
soundly steeping lq the persons who went to the assist...o : now delivered the judgtnent of the majority of the
of the parents. ; engirt. It appeared, he said, that from 1804 to
ARRIVAL GI A LARGE ELEPHANT Mr. Teget- 1854 these fees had been paid, and the question
meier, writing to the l'ield, gives an areount of a WDA whether the court should hold that the
gigantic elephant in the possession of Mr. Rice, of claim by prescription could be sustained ; the
St. George-street, liateliff, London. This animal is majmity of the Court of Queen's Bench had deter-
now twenty-eight years old, mud was presented in 1849 mined that it could not, and the majority of this court
by the Shah of Persia to the Enquemr Nicholas of was if opinion that the judgment of that court should
Russia, being then nine years of age. She remained in be affirmed. In order to show that a claim to such a
St. Petemburgh for ten years, when she was presented fee was legal, it must be shown to have existed from
to Herr Gottlieb Kreutsberg, the proprietor of the the time of legal memory (Richard I.) The payment
largest travelling menagerie of the Continent, in whose must have been made from time immemorial, and it
possession she remained for eight years. and was sold must have been the same fee in amount It was
by him to Mr. Rice. The animal is described by Herr imposs:Jle to suppose that such a fee as 13s. contd have
Kreutsberg as very good tempered, and as being the been paid upon a marriage in a small parish in the
largest and finest elephant existing in csunfinement, time of Richard I. It was proof to rebut the condu-
During the peried ef her capth ity she has shed the sion that the payment had been made from time
remains of two inelars, which have been pushed out by immemorial. The judgment of the Queen's Bench
Ike growth of those designed to sucmed them. would, therefore, be affirmed. Mr. Justice Keating
diesented. and read a very long judgment explaining
TAKING IT loft GRA•Te:D ! --That people are hi.
often induced to sign petitions tin ParlMnient without
knowing their object is sufficiently notorious (says the ,
Pall Mail Oazrtte); but it is net often that such a
glaring instance is disclosed 0, the f, di.ming, which is a
literal- copy of a petition presented by Mr. Hardeastle,
and read by the clerk at the table of the Weise Id
Commons :- " The humble petition of the undersigned
persons assembling for worship at the Primitive
Methodist Chapel at Westhall, in the county of
Suffolk. That on time 29th of March last is form of
petition was sent by time hands of a inessunger, who
brought with it a message from the Rey. Henry
Albert Goodwin, the vicar of Westhall, to Mr.
Robert Meadows, one of our number, that much
petition was against Pepery, but without stating
that it Was against thin disendowment of the
Irish Church. That such petition was signed by your
petitioners and others entirely under the impression
that it was intended to prevent the spread of Popery,
and after having been so signed, Was returned to the
said Rev. H. A. Iloodwin ; bit that, far from wishing
to assist in keeping, up so foul an establishment as the
Irish Church, your petitioners earnestly pray your
honourable House to at once pass an Act fur its entire
disestablishment."

SHIRT MAlN.—Upward s of 50,000 shirts have
been made by the wives and widows of men belonging
to the army and militia stall at Winchester during the
last ten years, for which the sum of £2,000 has been
paid them by the Soldiers' Wives Employment Society.

SPIRITUALISM TO BE TESTED.—A vigorous cur-
respinulence luoi been going 011 between Professor
Tyndall and Mr. }tome, the spiritualist, as to the bond
fide character of the manifestations. Professor Tyndall
maintains that Mr. Home has always avoided a direct
investigation of his entertainment. Mr. Home re-
plies that it will give him pleas:ire to meet Professor
Tyndall and any two gentleman he shall designate.
"On my side, I will have at least two gentlemen,
whose names and position place them alive the suspi-
cion of aiding or abetting a fraud I will meet pro-
fessor Tyndall and these gentlemen when and where
they please, and under such circumstances as they may
decide on. I must only crave their patience if nothing
should occur at the first or even the second seance. A
patient and candid investigation is all I ask. Having
been much harassed, and not being in good health, I
would postpone this meeting till sometime in June."
A NEW HAIR-DYE.----Dr. M'Call Anderson, in
a recent paper, says :
During the treatment I accidentally discovered what
promises to he the most perfect black dye for the hair whicht
has yet I keen seen. After having used the hi-chloride
lotion for sonic weeks. I changed it for the lotion of hypo-
sulphate of soda ; anti the morning after the find application
the hair of the part, which before was bright red, had
become nearly black. One or two more applications rendered
it Jet black, while neither the skin nor the clothing were
stained. I saw this patient a couple of weeks later, and
there was not the least deterioration of colour. although, of
course. as the hair grows the new portions will possess the
normal tint. Ile was by occupation a Turkey-red dyer, and
was much interested in the discovery, though rather grieved
to find, what medically must he considered one of its
greatest advantages. that it did not dye the linen, and was,
therefore unavailable for his purposes.
A Mimi RACE.—A correspondent or a San
Francisco paper writes :
A curiously mixed race is growing up in California, owing
to the intermarriage of Yankees and Digger Indians, Irish
anti Chinese, Mexicans and Malays. Portutrutse and Sandwich
Ishmders, English-tanallians and negroes, French and
Apache,--and the English language --the language of Milton
anti Shakespeare—has antlered lamentably in Consequence.
I entered a limitinaker's shop, and said to the shopseeper,
" You spea, English ?" lie answered promptly, " Si, senor,
certainement you bet." there was a mixture of three lan-
guages. I found that the bootmaker prided himself on speak-
ing English liar a native.
A SAD STATE OF TIIIICOS '.--The Bishop of
Tennessee has addressed a letter to a clergy-men at
Cambridge, before leaving England, on the state of his
diocese. The Bishop writes
Our people are at this moment in a state of bankruptcy
and ruin. Our churches, despoiled during the war, are not
yet restored ; some are closed because the people are unable
to maintain the services, and some are falling into decay.
The oldest presbyter in my diocese has been compelled to
remove to a more favoured region to secure the merest
pittance for support. . . . . If our Church is to lie main-
tained, I must beg help from the faithful in more favoured
parts of our Master's vineyard.
THE VERY LATEST INTELLIGENCE ! Some of
the French papers look on the news of the termination
of the Abyssinian war as at once too bad and too good
to be true. They find it as hard to believe that the
English should leave a country once occupied by them,
as that the reason for leaving it should be a victory
won with so much ease. The Meee«ger du Midi
has therefore hatched the following canard, which is
in some sort meant to typify all these difficulties of
belief
We learn dune soanOre d pew sof* eertene that Theadorna
has not been killed, and that he has not committml suicide:
he is not even captured ! The truth of the matter is that he
has disappeared: anti that the English, not knowing what
has become of hint, have thought proper to give out that he
was dead. it is also known that the contracts for supplies
to the English army have not been suspended on the con-
trary. they arc being curried out with the greatest activity,
uhich leads hi a supposition that the Englislitio not intend to
leave the country.
VARGAS.—The Whip has an office. He
has six or seven clerks and scouts. Ile has a private
printing press. But, above all, he has one responsible
deputy, who is the real Whip, whose efficiency is the
basis of every majority, upon whom hp depends, who
in reality is what Colonel Taylor or Mr. Ohm only
seems. The present holder of this post has 'held it,
if we mistake not (we are quoting from the Court
Jouraol), between thirty and forty years. It is not
a highly-paid office. Yet upon the diligence and per-
fection with which its duties are fulfilled depends per-
petually the fate of Ministries. Understand, the
Whip does not, like the Patronage Secretary of the
Treasury, go in and out of office with Ministers. The
Whipf •Oho drummed up sixty too few for Mr, Din.