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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

ANOTHER OVERFLOW OF THE
THAMES.

On Sunday another calamity visited the poorer
classes residing in the low-lying districts on the banks
of the Thames. On Saturday evening and just before
midnight a gang of labourers were employed in pro-
tecting property along the riverside, and also watch-
ing the rising water.
At low-water mark on Sunday morning the ebb
spring tides ran out with unusual velocity. At the
turn of the tide the water rose, and the muddy fore-
shore of the south banks of the Thames was soon
covered. This was caused by immense quantities of
upper land water inundating the tributaries to the
Thames, the strong flow being accelerated by the late
rapid thaw and surface drainage. The tide at first
quarter flood commenced to make rapidly, being 3i
knots, and rising 3ft. Qin. per hour. It gradually
in:treased in velocity, and on being gauged at a quarter
to twelve o'clock the water was running up at the rate
of 4. knots, and rising 4ft. Gin. par hour. At that
time it was only a few feet below Trinity high-
water mark at St. Paul's Pier. At half-past twelve
o'clock the tide suddenly slackened, and if was then
thought that it would pass off as an ordinary high
tide. Such, however, was not the case, for the water
soon after "heaved up," and the tide again ran up
with increased force. It was then ascertained that an
overflow was inevitable, as the water had another
hour and thirteen minutes to run before it was high
water. Crowds of people then began to assemble
along the riverside, where the tenants were busily
engaged protecting their houses and homes from being
inundated. At Prince's-square, Commercial-road, the
scene of the late inundation, barricades had been
erected in front of the entrances to the numerous
dwellings. Women and children were standing in the
enclosure, called a square. Immediately after two
o'clock great alarm prevailed, as the water came rush-
ing through and inundating Upper Ground-street to
the depth of over two feet. From the corner of My's
Bridge to Hatfield-street the roadway was impassable,
and the whole range of houses on both sides of the
street had their basements flooded.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

DISLOCATION AND REMOVAL OF ICE
ON RIVERS.

Last winter, it will be remembered, the Loire be-
came seriously blocked with ice about where the
Indre joins it (where are two small islands). The
manner in which this was dealt with by a detachment
of the French Artillery Service offers various interest-
ing points. The proceedings have been lately described
in the .Rente d' Artillerie. Blasting with dynamite and
firing shells were variously tried. The chief results of
the experiments are these :

For surface sheets of ice on a river not thicker than
25 to 30 centimetres, with the water running below,
the best method consists in the use of dynamite in
small petards of 2(Y) to 400 grammes lodged between
the ice and the water, and fired by electricity, in
groups of two or more, giving simultaneous explosion.
'the work is begun down stream, and the stream
carries off the detached pieces. For massive banks of
ice, occupying the whole, or nearly so, of the river
bed, mine chambers of considerable size, holding one
or two kilogrammes or more of dynamite, give effects
of local perforation which are almost surely effectual
in the long run where the work is judiciously done.
But it is a slow process, and where the bank attacked
amounts, as in the present ease, to several hundred
metres in extent, this slowness may be a very grave
objection. For such ice-banks a well-directed fire
of cannon and mortar, sending shells with percussive
fuzes, proves best, effecting a speedy dislocation of
the whole mass. With artillery the work should be
begun with horizontal fire, so far as the nature of the
ground will allow. When the first and principal
effect of disaggregation has thus been accomplished
throughout the ice block, the work of destruction is
carried on progressively by attacking one after
another the solid isthmuses left intact by the cannon,
using mortars of more or less calibre, or, if mortars
are wanting, forming chambers of dynamite. To give
an idea of the effects, it may be stated that in the
case considered some 80 shells (or a mass of iron and
powder weighing about a ton) were fired in a short
time against a large, massive bank more than 250
metres long and 150 metres mean width, and with the
aid of complimentary blasting this vo as loosened and
set adrift in 24 hours,

.
A telegram from New York says that on Wednes-
day a driving snowstorm was raging throughout the coun-
try, the cold being very severe. • New York harbour was
filled with floating fce which impeded navigation. Some of
the railroads in the west were blocked by snow.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

A LONG VOYAGE.

A Correspondent, writing to the Standard from Las
Palmas, Canary Islands, gives the following interesting
account of a remarkable voyage :
" On Sunday, the 9th inst., the sailing boat 11 Leone
di Caprera, 3i tons register, from Monte Video, put
into this port for provisions, after a long voyage of
ninety-five days. The boat is manned by three
Italians, Captain V. Fondacaro, and two seamen, 0.
Grassoni, and Pietro Trocoli, who all arrived in ex-
cellent health, not having suffered one day's illness
since their departure. She is twenty-seven feet long,
seven and a half feet wide, three feet deep in the
centre, and five feet fore and aft, flush deck, with
bulwarks two and a half inches high. In the after
part of the boat is a small semi-circular space,
three feet deep, in which the helmsman sits. The
hold, which is fitted with a number of hermetically
sealed zinc tubes, ten inches in diameter, capable of
floating forty tons, is entered by a hatchway in the
after part of the vessel, close up to the semi-circular
space before-mentioned. Here their provisions
and water are stored, and there is just enough space
to allow one man to lie down at full length. The
planks are of cinnamon wood, and the framework is
made of algarroba (carob tree). The two masts are of
walnut-wood, and fitted in such a manner that in case
of a sudden squall they can be lowered almost instan-
taneously. When in 48 deg. longitude and 30 deg.
latitude the boat was struck by a heavy squall, and
was thrown on her beam ends, the tops of the masts
being forced two or three inches under the water, but
she raised herself almost instantly, and suffered no
damage. During their long voyage they met the
Italian barque El Victoria Madre, of Genoa, Captain
Albini, from whom they procured a bottle of oil for
their cooking stove; they also spoke the Portuguese
brig Maria Desdora, the Montgomery, and two German
bat slues bound for Valparaiso; and on the Bth January
they sighted the Island of Hierro' passed by Gomera
and Teneriffe, and anchored off Las Palmas on the
9th, after having spoken with the mail steamer Africa,
bound for Liverpool.

Captain Fondacaro has sailed under the English flag
for 19 years, and first served as ordinary seaman, hut
now holds a master's certificate from the Canadian
Board of Trade. He is a well-educated man of 36
years of age, and can speak French, Bpanish, and
English fluently. During the few days he remained
here he was treated with gnat hospitality, and
banquets in his honour were given by the magistrates of
this city, the Governor, and various societies. On the
13th he set sail in stormy weather, and great enthu-
siasm, for Barcelona, and intends to go thence to
Caprera, Rome, and Naples, in the Museum of which
city the boat will be deposited.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

ROLL OF THE LORDS.

A Parliamentary paper has been issued containing
the roll of the Lords, spiritual and temporal, in the
second Session of the 22nd Parliament of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The number of names on the roll is 517, but as six
lords (Lord Selborne, Earl Spencer, the Duke of
Argyle, Earl Sydney, the Earl of Kezunare, and the
Earl of Erne) are twice named, the total number of
lords, spiritual and temporal, is 511. Of these, four
are princes of the Blood Royal, two are archbishops,
22 are dukes, 19 are marquises, 138 are earls, 32 are
viscounts, 24 are bishops, and 270 are barons.
The first name on the roll is that of the Prince of
Wales, who is followed by the Royal Dukes of Edin-
burgh, Connaught, and Cambridge, the Archhishop
of Canterbury, Lord Selborne (Lord Chancellor), the
Archbishop of York, Earl Spencer (Lord President
of the Council), and the Duke of Argyll (Lord Privy
Seal).
The premier duke is the Duke of Norfolk, Earl-
Marshal of England; the junior, the Duke of West-
minster.

The premier marquis is the Marquis of Winchester;
the junior, the Marquis of Abergavenny. -

Earl Sydney, as Lord Steward, comes first in the
roll of earls, followed by the Earls of Shrewsbury and
Derby; the junior earl is Earl Sondes,
- -

The premier viscount is Viscount Hereford; the
junior, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Of the bishops, the Bishop of London comes first;
and the Bishop of St. David's last, the Bishops of
Rochester, Truro, Lichfield, and Liverpool not yet
having seats in the House.
The Earl of Kenmore (who, being an Irish earl, sits
as Lord Kenmare) comes first in the roll of barons,
as Lord Chamberlain, followed by Lord de Ros and
Lord Mowbray; the junior Baron is Lord Brabourne.

The station-master at Lane-street, Liverpool, has
received a threatening letter, intimating that if the London
an Korth-Western Railway Company do not cease bringing
coals from other districts into Lancashire, the colliers will
tsar up the rails. There is no signature to the letter, which
has been handed to the police,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

KIDDERMINSTER.

PREBENTATION.—A presentation was made in the
Mayor's Parlour, Kidderminster, on Wednesday, in
the presence of a considerable number of gent!etnen
to the Rev. L. B. Penley, vicar of St. John's Stour.
bridge, as a memento of his nineteen years' resi-
dence in Kidderminster, and in testimony of their
good wishes on his acceptance of the above living.
The Mayor (Alderman Willis) in making the pre-
sentation, testified to the high esteem in which Mr.
Penley was held as a clergyman, and one who had
carried on an educational work in the place; and
on behalf of the subscribers, asked Mr. Penley's ac
ceptance of an epergne and two salvers, together
with a cheque for £l5O 35., while to Mrs. Penley a
breakfast, dinner, and tea service was presented.
The Bev. L. B. Penlv suitably acknowledged the
presents.

OLD HILL.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

PRESERVING LIFE IN SNOW STORMS.

A member of the Natural History Society of Glas-
gow, who read of the tale of disaster on the Wiltshire
Downs, calls attention in a Scotch contemporary to the
means recommended by the Rev. G. Wood for preserv-
ing life when persons are overtaken by snowstorms
such as visited us recently, and which, had they
been employed, might, he thinks, have shortened
the list of those who perished from cold in various parts
of the country. "People," says the author he quotes,
"who are accustomed to pass much of their lives
amid the snow, can hardly conceive an act of such
supreme folly as to be frozen to death while the means
of warmth are at hand." He then gives the following
instructions to persons lost in the snow :—" They
should select some spot where the snow lies deepest—
the side of a bank, for instance, or of a tree—and
scoop out with their hands a hollow wherein they c'an
lie, and be sheltered from the bitter blast scudding
over the land. Wrapped in his garments, the be-
nighted wanderer burrows his way as deeply as he
can, and remains quiet, allowing the flakes to fall upon
him unheeded. This extemporised bed soon begins to
show its advantages. The substance in which it is hol-
lowed is a very imperfectheat conductor, so the caloric
exhaled from the body is no longer swept off by the
wind, but is conserved around him, restoring warmth
to the limbs. As the body beconles warm the hollow
enlarges slightly ; its temporary inmate sinks deeper
into the snow, and the falling flakes rapidly obliterate
every trace of his presence. There is no fear of suf-
focation, for the breath keeps a small passage open,
and his snow covering is broken by a little hole
glittering with hoar frost caused by the congelation
of the breath. To perish from the cold is now impos-
sible, the snow cell is rather too hot than not, and
the traveller 'can sleep as warmly as in his bed at
home, if not as composedly.'"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

SNOWSTORMS IN AUSTRIA.

The Vienna Correspondent of the Standard, writing on
'Tuesday night, says

Every day brings fresh illustrations of the severity
of the winter in the various provinces of Austria.
Thus, we hear to-day that there has been a great
snowstorm in Galicia, in which no fewer than fifty-
one persons were buried. They were coal miners,
and were caught in the storm while returning home
from their work. Six of these miners were frozen to
death. The others managed to escape with their
lives, but hardly one of them was rescued before he
suffered severely from frost-bites.
In the newly annexed province of Bosnia the fall of
snow has been almost unpiecedented, both as regards
its depth and the area over which it fell, At Sera-
jevo, the capital, the thermometer has been as low as
fifteen degrees below zero. The population of the
city has for the first time seen sleighs driving about
in the streets. The excessive cold has had the effect
of bringing the wolves down from the mountains in un-
usual numbers. These unpleasant visitors have been
making their appearance in hordes in Bosnian vil-
lages, and commiting great havoc amongst the flocks
of sheep in all parts of the country.
In the Tyrol all travelling and traffic has been for
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

INTERESTING POSTAL STATISTICS.

The City Press says that few persons can realize the
amount of extra labour thrown on the General Post
Office at Christmas time. This year, in anticipation
of the great event, 178 extra hands were engaged from
different government offices on December 22nd.
On the,pth (Christmas Eve) there were no less than
1,324 men engaged at the General Post Office all
through the night, whilst at ordinary times only 196
are employed until midnight. The greatest number of
men employed at any one time in the office during the
pressure was 2,542. The amount of correspondence at
half-past ten o'clock on the 25th was 1,000 sacks filled
to the brim over and above the ordinary quantity.
Excluding registered letters the number of extra
sacks of correspondence received during the "season"
was 3,383 ; and the number of extra sacks despatched
4,347. The number of extra letters, exclusive of
" registered," was estimated at 111 millions, and
the amouut of extra postage was estimated at
255,902.
The total number of registered letter disposed of
during the season was 183,124, showing, an increase
over the ordinary number of registered of 25,594.
On Christmas Eve alone the number of sacks of
extra registered letters was 240, and during the season
the total extra weight of this class of correspondence
was four tons.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

CRADLE Y HEATH.

SALUTATION HALL OM VARIETIES --FIi.OPRIRTOI3, H.
BARBEY/. —This favourite place of resort and amuse-
ment continues to uphold its reputation fur good
talent, and the placelts well patronised each evening
by highly-pleased audiences, and we must say that
Miss Rose Burtenshaw is a capital vocalist, al her
songs being rendered with great taste and feeling.
She has a very pleasing manner and has become a
great favourite, winning the approbation of all, as
she is repeatedly encored to which she willingly re-
plies, and with capital changes. Miss Burtenshaw
also SppeaTS in conjunction with Mr. Burtenshaw in
a minstrel entertainment, which is gone through in
a first-cl isa style, causing roars of laughter and
unbounded applause, in which Mr. Burtenshaw
shows himself to great advantrge, he being a
thorough deleniatt,r of negro llfe. j.hey are also
very clever in several other shetehes and duets
which they have introduced. This being their last
night those that have not seen them cannot do
betterithan pay this place a visit. Entire change
next week.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

FROST AND MORTALITY.

The fatal effect of
.severe winter weather, called
seasonable, upon the public health is once more
exemplified in the Registrar-General's weekly return
(says the Lancet). During the six weeks of mild
winter weather ending Jan. Bth, the weekly number
of deaths in the twenty large English towns dealt
with in that return averaged 2,971, whereas in the
two following weeks they rose to 3,444 and 4,199.
This represents an excess of mortality in the two
weeks equal to 1,701 deaths in the twenty towns.
It has often been shown in the Reports of the
Registrar-General that the effect of intense cold is
fully as great upon the mortality of rural as upon that
of urban populations. We may therefore assume that
the effect of the severe frost which set in on Jan. 12th
on the registered mortality of England and Wales up
to Saturday, January 22, was to add to the register the
record of not less than 5,749 deaths of persons who
would have survived if the mild weather had con-
tinued. This simply represents the number of those
killed outright by the first week of the frost, and
affords but a slight indication of what the losses to the
population would have been from a continuation of the
intense cold.
The above figures take no account of the wounded
in the first week's conflict with the weather, who will
the more readily succumb if the conflict be prolonged.
It will be many weeks before it will be possible to sum
up the total losses due to this arctic weather. It
must not be supposed that the losses fall chiefly upon
the weakly, the elderly, and infirm, as these figures
show that the largest proportional losses were among
male adults aged from 30 to 00, upon those whose
occupations entail upon them most risk of exposure.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

"CROSSING THE LINE."

A correspondent (says the Daily News) on board
the Inconstant, flagship of the detached squadron,
writing from Monte Video by the mail just arrived,
describes the proceedings on the squadron crossing
the line on the 28th of November. "King Nep-
tune's court," he says, "held its revels. On the
preceding evening his Majesty made a ceremonial
visit with his wife and retinue, when everybody,
even to the admiral, the Earl of Clanwilliam, came
in for a sprinkling from the king's native element.
The next any, from nine o'clgck till two, shaving and
ducking took place, till all the officers and men who
had not previously crossed the line had passed through
the ordeal. The whole of the rquadron were treated
in the sarne way. Prince Albert Victor and Prince
George of Wales were rather roughly treated, one
getting some soap in his eye, which inconvenienced
him for a little time. The young princes, however,
behaved very well."

Another accounl gives the following description of
the ceremony of "Crossing the Line :"—" On board
the Inconstant the first one called for by Neptune's
secretary was Prince Louis of Battenberg. Having
been blindfolded below the Prince was presented in
due form to Neptune, who directed his doctor to ascer-
tain the state of his serene highness's health. The
official accordingly administered the scent bottle and
gave him a pill, after which he was transferred to
Neptune's barber, who placed him in a chair on the edge
of the platform with his back towards the bath, in
which position he was well lathered, every device being
at the same time tried to induce him to open his mouth
for the entrance of the brush. After being roughly
shaved, the Prince was then capsized into the bath,
where he was thoroughly drenched by the bears and
assistants. He was next turned over to Neptune's
servants, who dried him with wet swabs. The pro-
ceedings on board the Bacchante were very similar, the
Royal midshipmen, Princes Albert and George, taking
their turn in the shaving and ducking with the rest of
the gunroom officers. The Princes entered heartily
into the fun."

On December Ist a young man named Green
fell from the main royal yard of the Inconstant
during drill and was drowned, his body not being
found. On the previous day a seaman fell from aloft
on the Bacchante and was killed." On Jan. 7 the
squadron was to leave for the Falkland Islands.
Here, it may be remembered, orders directing the
squadron to proceed at once to the Cape would be
awaiting them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

A NEW DISEASE.

A boy lately died at the Sainte Eng&lie Hospital,
Paris, of hydrophobia. His saliva, taken four hours
after death, has been found by M. Pasteur to have
remarkable properties, causing what appears to be a
new disease. Two rabbits immediately inoculated
with the saliva diluted died in abour thirty-six hours.
Other rabbits were inoculated with the saliva or with
the blood of the first, and death ensued even more
rapidly. The process was several times repeated, and
with like effects. The animal, in five or six hours,
loses appetite, afterwards become weak and paralyzed,
and at length dies of asphyxia. The windpipe is a
good deal congested and shows hemorrhage. There is
also a swelling of the ganglions on either side, and of
the groin and axillm, &c.
M. Pasteur has observed in the blood of the inocu-
lated animals a small organism, or microbe, which (by
his method of artificial cultivation) he finds good
reason to regard as the agent of the malady. It is a
very short rod, slightly contracted about the middle ;
a sort of aureola appears round it, probably due to
mucous substance. It is somewhat like the microbe
of chicken cholera, but differs entirely in its effects.
Fowls inoculated with it are not in the least affected.
It is further singular that while the rabbit is always
so quickly killed by the effect of inoculation, the
guinea-pig, so closely related to the rabbit, retains its
vigour and appetite weeks after inoculation. Whether
there may not in this case be a long incuba-
tion of the virus remains sub judicc. The new
malady seems thus far distinct from rabies in the
absence of the usual incubation, the nature of the ana-
tomical lesions, and the transmission by inoculation
with the blood of the dead animal. Further, dogs
inoculated with the boy's saliva died in a few days
without presenting rabid symptoms. M. Pasteur,
however, thinks it would be rash to affirm the abso-
lute independence of the two disorders; and if rabies
may be attributed to the presence of a microscopic
organism, some hope is offered that science may find
a means of attenuating the action of that terrible
malady.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

LOCIL GOVERNMENT ENQUIRY.

Mr. J. T. Harrison, C.E., inspector to the Local
Government Board, opened an enquiry at the Corn
Exchange, on Thursday, into the application by the
Stourbridge Commissioners; and the Stourbridge
aural Sanitary Authority for a provisional order
for the formation of a united drainage district for
Stourbridge anti adjoining parishes. At the outset
of the enquiry Mr. Freocott objected to the presence
of Mr. B. W. Foley, and asked him to retire, as he
was not an inhabitant.
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The Inspector: But this a public enquiry.
Mr. Foley at a subsequent stage of the proceedinga complained of the manner in which Mr. Pres-
co t several times refQrred to bun, and he juitifiLd
his presence by the fact that he was a menit.,er of
the Rural Sanitary Authority, and otheraise inter.
ested in the proceedings.
Mr. J. Taylor appeared for the Stourbridge Com•
mission,rs, Mr. T. Will for the Rural Authority,
Mr. T. Eleook for the Surveyors of Wollaston, and
Mr. Prebcott said he appeared for himself and other
ratepayers- There were present at the enquiry
Messrs. J. E. Swindell, R. L. Freer, W. J. TurneY,
G. Holloway, F. Ilaskew, W. Fiddian, E. Stringer,
fl Billinglum, H. Mills, B. Shakespeare, T. New-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

CARDINAL MANNING AND THE POOR.

On Sunday throughout the various Roman Catholic
churches and chapels of the diocese of Westminster,
a circular letter was read from Cardinal Manning with
reference to the recent severe weather, and its con-
sequent sufferings amongst the peor. His Eminence,
after remarking that the sudden and intense cold
must have brought upon the old, the sick, and the
children many and great sufferings, said
"I am sure that in your sheltered houses, with suf-
ficient,-if not abundant food and clothing, you have
not forgotten those around you who are in cold and
want. When you lie down on your warm bed at night
you have thought of those who often have not a
blanket to cover them; therefore I call on you
promptly and generously to send your offerings to
the clergy of your church, and givadood and fuel and
clothing to the poor around you. The clergy will tell
you who are most in need, and you can help them in
the distribution of your alms. Give according toeyour
power without delay, and bring your further offerings
to the church next Sunday, and give them at all the
Masses. May God, who is rich in mercy, move your
hearts, and reward your care for His noor."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

GALLANTRY AT CANDAHAR.

The Tiineg has published the following letter :

Sir,—Mrs. Brooke, widow of .the late Brigade',
General H. F. Brooke, has just received from Candahar
the latter part of General Brooke's journal, written
during the siege of Candahar, in which he relates
the following acts of gallantry performed on the 12th
of August, during one of the minor sorties from Candi',
har, and as it does not appear to have been generally
known, Mrs. Brcoke has requested me to send you the
extract in full from General Brooke's journal, in the
hope if it has not already been brought to the notice of
those in authority that it is not too late for the officers
mentioned by General Brooke to receive the reward he
considered they so well deserved:

"I was standing on the parapet directing matters as
far as I could, when I witnessed, just 20ft. beneath me,
a grand piece of gallantry on the part of two young
RE. officers (Lieutenant Jones and Waller), who under
a galling fire returned from safe cover and carried into
safety a wounded Sepoy, during which operation one
of the men who was with them, a private of the 7th
Fusiliers was killed, shot through the head. I can
personally testify to the hotness of the fire, and have
recommended both for the V.C., which I think they
fully deserve."—Your obedient servant,
FRANK BROM.
Ash Brooke, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Jan. 24.

"TROUBLED WATERS,"—Where fishery disputes
begin.—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

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INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.

The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, writing
on Monday, says :

Melancholy accounts of the ravages wrought by the
inundations in different parts of France continue to
pour in. The Eure and the Loir have overflowed their
banks, and the lower quarters of Chartres, Nogent le
notrou, and Chateaudun are flooded. This is also the
case at illiers, Courville, Bonneval, and Cloyes.
Fields and villages are completely submerged,
houses destroyed, and the losses enormous.
350 sheep have been drowned on one farm
alone. Communication is interrupted at Alencon,
several streets of which are under water. On Sunday
the Prefect of the Orne left for Laigle, which is in a
wretched condition, the gendarmes being obliged to
carry food to the inhabitants on horseback. The rail-
way between Evreux and Bonneville has become im-
passable, and on Saturday one of the trains from Paris
to Cherbourg was seven hours late, one of the bridges
having been destroyed by the flood between Serqttigny
and Berney. Brionne and the neighbouring parishes
are submerged, and from the Chateau at Launay the
surrounding country looks like a large sea, dotted
over here and there with the roofs of houses and the
tops of trees. At V-alieville two houses suddenly
fell down, owing to the pressure of the water, and in
hundreds of instances the inhabitants, even of the
towns have been compelled to evacuate their dwell-
ings, they being simply drowned out. Evreux, a
fairly large town, is completely inundated, there
being quite three feet of water in the streets. Brest;
has also been cruelly visited. Boats are in great re-
quest for the transport of food. Such floods as these
have never been known before. The Mayenne, too,
has overflowed its banks, and the Sarthe is rising fast
at Le Mans, which is partially inundated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

THR STOUTI1311,11)G-E 013S11VElt.

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clays entirely suspended. At Innspruck there is a
petroleum famine, and a large number of the poorer
inhabitants have been without lights at night.
In and about Vienna a thaw has prevailed for the
last day or two. So great was the quantity of snow
on the ground, and so rapidly has it been melting,
that dangerous inundations are apprehended.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

TRE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER

THE EARTHQUAKE IN SWITZERLAND.

•The Geneva Correspondent of The Times, writing on the

29th ult., says r— -
Later accounts, show that Thursday's earthquake ex-
tended over a much wider area than was at first
supposed. It was felt with varying degrees of in-
tensity, not alone at Berne ant Aluensingen' but
at Thun, Basle, Solothurn, Zurich, Bienne, Ober-
hofen, and Aarberg. The principal shock occurred
at 2.20 in the afternoon, Berne mean time. A
slight shock was observed at three o'clock the same
day, and another equally slight at six the follow-
ing Friday morning. According to a report of the
Berne Observatory, the first and principal shock
was in the direction from east to west, with a slight
northerly deviation. The oscillation was both ver-
tical and lateral, and, according to some accounts,
was preceded by a rumbling subterranean sound. Its
intensity may be judged from the facts that the
chimes in the church clocks were made to strike and
the bells to toll, books were thrown from their shelves
and pictures detached from the walls, while in Berne
alone more than 100 chimneys were thrown down.
Children and teachers ran pell-mell from th 3 schools,
and all study had to be given up for the day. This is
the 24th earthquake that has been recorded in
Switzerland since November, 1879, and is probably
the most severe.

Tha shock of an earthquake was felt at 5 p.m. on
the 24th inst. at Bologna, Florence, Venice, Padua,
Ferrara, &c. At Bologna there were also slighter
shocks at midnight, and at 8 and 9.15 mn. next
day; while Florence likewise had a second shock at
7.53 a.m. on the 25th,

Mr. C. IL Parkes, in presiding at the half-yearly
meeting of the Great Eastern Railway, said that in older
to continuo their good relations with their employes the
company offered to contribute a larger sum towards the
Accident Allowance Fund than formerly, at the same time
giving the men liberty to withdraw from the fund and come
under the Employers' Liability Act, but out of 13,000 men
who belonged to the fund only Jive withdrew.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

CRADLEY.

SPECIAL SERMOSS AT THE CHURCH.—On Sunday
last, two sermons were preached by the Bev. James
Ormiston. Rector of St. Mary Le Port, Bristol, at
Cradley Church. Collections were made at the
close of each service in aid of the Additional
Curate's Society, and the handsome sum of £l4 148
Od was realized.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

PALES BY AUCTION

KIDDERMINSTER CATTLE MARKET,
TUESDAY NEXT, the Bth inst.
220 Prime FAT SaEEP,
35 Heal of FAT CATTLE.
OATES, PERRENS, 84 WOOLDRID6E.

TO TIMBER DEALERS...

HOB GREEN FARM,
IVOLLESCOTE, near STOULTRIDGE.
--
MR. H. KING is instructed to SELL by
AUCTION, OD SA EDNESDAY, FEBROA,RY 16th, 1881,
'MT:is RAFE AND HOUNDS INN, CARELE?;S GREEN, nt
o'clock im the Afternoon, subject to conditions of
Sale.

125 Oak, Ash, Elm, Beech, Sycamore, and other
Timber TRPIES, in three lø!g, now growing on the
above Farm;
Mr. Taylor. the Teuant, will point out the Lots
Catalogues may be had of the Auctioneer, Stourbridge.

• - • • "•.• , • ••11,, 4,46.9.,..44•••1,11. ATVC,

TO LET.

RICH OLD TURF LAND, AT THE HEA.TH,
sroURBRIDGE,
17a0. 2rds. 26per. to be Let from Christroai.
Apply to Oatcs, Perreos and Wooldridge, Land
&puts, Stourbrioge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVE RHIN PTON, Wednesday.
The tone of business on 'Change this after-
noon was firm, strengthened to some extent by
the advance in the price of coal. Most of the
finished iron manufacturers are well supplied
with orders, and some of them will not take any
fresh orders unless they get a little more money.
Markerbars are s(eady at 106 while unmarked
qualities are fetching 4'6 5a and upwards. There
were some better inquiries to-day for common
sheets, girder-plates, and ties. Tin plates are
also in growing demand. The pig makers ob-
tshed several good lines to day. Iligh-clahs
metals keep as dear ax latterly, while a number
of cinder-pig sales were completed to-day at
428 6d, and the same makers will not undertake
fresh bargains for less than 455. Of foreign
iron, Northampton forge and Derbyshire foundry
brands were chiefly saleable. Ironst,ne went
in fair quantities, and sales of fuel were satis-
factory.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.
To day's market was firmer. Transactions
not so large but numerous buyers were asking
more money. Trade in coromqn unmarked bars
fairly satisfactory. Common and best thin
sheets in better demand; girder plates and ties
so!d well. The sales of pig iron wero chiefly in
foundry sorts; SOalC tidied half-a-crown
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extra, through the rise on coal. Cinder pigs
sold well, and both cokes and ironstone met with
a brisk request. The coal trade is more active.

rTARIT,INit!—FOR Tril TINT/I AID !MEAT!! —A.
few drupe of the lkirtid " irlornite. apri.kloti on a
wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant lather, which
thoroughly clean3es the teeth final all paraeites
Impurities, hardens the gums, pnvents tartar, st,tps
decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly-whitscess,
and a delightful fragrance to the I:resth. It removea
all unpleasant *dour arising from sisoved teeth or
telraoco smoke, "The fragrart being own-
ii part of Honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to
Ced tarts, and the greatest toilet discovery of the age.
Prioe Is. 6d., of all Chemises and Perfn.mets. ";fitole-
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teeth? Go at onos toe chemist and cet a bottle of
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

HOP.

The position of the hop market continues strong. Fresh
supplies are small, and the few tine samples received are
taken at full prices. Continental advices report steadiness.
Kent, 1880, £4 to £9 95.; Sussex, £3 18s. to £6 155.; Farn-
ham, £7 to £8 Bs.; ditto, country, £6 12s. to £8; Wor-
cester, £7 10s. to £8 15s. : Americans, £6 6s. to £8 Bs. ; Eng-
lish, 1870, £2 10s. to £0 15s. ; foreign, 10s. to £4 15s.

FISH.
Soles, 2.5. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per pair; turbot, 7s. 0(1. to 15s.
each; lobsters, 12s. to 40s. per dozen: crabs, 255. to 36e. per
kit; mackerel, 2s. to Ss. 6d. per dozen; mullets, 68. to 7s.
per score; whiting, 10s. to 12s. 9d. per basket; bloaters.
3s. 9d.65. 6d. per box; kippers, 6s. 9d. to Sc. 6d. per pad;
native oysters, £l2 per bushel
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

GENERAL ROBERTS AND THE
VOLUNTEERS.

In London, last Saturday, the winter inspection
and annual prize distribution of the London Scottish
Rifle Volunteers took place in Westminster Hall, in
the presence of a very large company. The corps
having been inspected Lieut.-Colonel Lumsden stated
that the regiment was now 635 strong. The drill
camp had been attended by an average of 130 men
while it lasted. In shooting the corps had won three
matches and had been beaten twice.—Mrs. Lumsden
then distributed the prizes.
At the conclusion of the distribution General Sir F.
Roberts, V.C., who was received with long continued
applause, said it was always a great pleasure to him
to be associated with Volunteers, or to assist in the
smallest degree the Volunteer movement, which had
done so much good for the country. He had watched
that movement very closely, and had come to the con-
clusion that, apart from the sure and certain use which
the Volunteer force would be to the regular army as a
reserve in times of national danger, it was a great benefit
as a wholesome outlet in times of peace for the energy
of young men. (Cheers.) It was a healthy and improving
employment for their spare time—it helped to foster
that true self-respect which was inseparable from a due
respect from those above them, and, above all, it
inculcated habits of order, regularity, and punctuality
which were essential to success in civil as in military
life. It certainly improved the appearance and manly
bearing of young men, and he thought it helped to
quicken their attention and sharpen their wits. The
regiment he had seen that evening bore evidence of all
these advantages, and perhaps he could not pay the
London Scottish Volunteers a greater compliment than
to tell them that from their well set up and soldier-like
appearance he considered that they were well worthy
of being associated even with those two grand Scotch regi-
ments, the 72nd and 92nd, which for nearly two years he
had had the honour to have under his command. (Cheers).
The report of their attendance and efficiency was above
the average, and excited in him no ordinary amount of
admiration, when he thou-Ft of the many hindrances
to soldiering amongst men who had other duties to
attend to, and who were without the benefit of mili-
tary discipline, being, in fact, a law to themselves,
than which no law was easier to shirk, or so difficult
to obey. (Applause.) If he had been successful in
arms, it was because he had been associated with men
actuated by the same spirit as themselves, and who,
although belonging to the regular army, had volun-
teered for that army, and had volunteered to share
alike its dangers, its hardships, its honours, and its
rewards. He wished the corps all success and pro-
sperity.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

CANVASSING AT ELECTIONS.

Under Mr. Morgan Lloyd's Parliamentary Elections
Bill candidates and their paid agents would be de-
barred from canvassing either personally or by letter.
The employment of paid agents for canvassing would
be deemed a " corrupt practice" on the part of a can-
didate. Landlords and their agents, also, would be
prohibited from canvassing their tenants, and em-
ployers of labour and their agent from canvassing
their employes. However, the measure would not
apply to public meetings, or to circulars, addresses,
or other writings containing only statements of a
candidate's political views.
Another portion of the Bill would hinder carylidates
and their agents from using rooms in publichouses for
committees or for any other purpose in connexion with
an election, except that they would be permitted to use
hotels as "ordinary guests." The penalty for not
complying with, any of these provisions is a fine of 250,
to be paid to any one who may sue for it.

Lastly, publichouses situate within a mile of a poll-
ing-place would have to be closed during the hours of
polling, except for the purpose of supplying reasonable
refreshments to persons residing more than two miles
from the polling-place.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-02-05

FOUR PERSONS FROZEN TO DEATH.

Information has just come to hand at Liuerpool of
a very sad case of shipwreck, by which three if not
four persons were frozen to death, including the
captam's wife and his daughter, the latter dying in
the arms of her mother.
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The news comes frorii Yarmouth, N.S. and states
that the barque Nappy Home, Captain Coalfleet, whilst
going in ballast from Hamburg to Hansport, struck
Trinity Ledge about eleven o'clock on the night of the
3rd inst. The vessel was damaged, and commenced to
leak so rapidly that her master considered it advisable
to at once make for Yarmouth. There was a heavy
gale blowing, and at two o'clock on the following
morning the Happy Home heeled over on her beam
ends and filled with water. The vessel finally
drove ashore near Sanford. Captain Coalfleet had his
wife and daughter on board, and, owing to their
perilous position, the captain's wife was lashed to the
quarter. She was well wrapped up in cloaks and other
clothing, but, notwithstanding this, she was dead
when found a few hours after the disaster to the vessel.
Her daughter, a little girl about seven years of age,
was also dead. She was clasped in the hands of her
mother, and both had been frozen to death. The
mother, when found, had not long been dead. The
steward of the vessel also perished through the cold.
The remainder of the craw were rescued by boats
from the shore, but all of the poor fellows were more
or less frostbitten. It was reported that one of them
subsequently succumbed to his sufferings. The -Happy
Home afterwards got carried to Green Cove, some five
miles off, and eventually became a complete wreck.