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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

HOPS,

A bunyeut feeling pervades the hop market, end Sc the
stocks remaining are in the poosennon of a few who appear
to evitoxvcrs little dispointlon to effect sales at the press nt
range of triers, there is every probability of • further general
advance being established A f sir business ia iwasnig in nubs
as well as in the lan growth, and an Inquiry sail exists on
American account. On the continent the trade tlonigh not
active, is extremely firm with a strong upward ns q,e-
ment in trainee. Slid and Kist Kent, 105, to 117 s. Weald
of Kent, 105 s. to 130 s. ; &tact, 105 s. to 155.1. ; Farnham and
Country, Site, to 120 s.

FISH.
Pickled herrings, Its, to 364 ; red, 12e. to 2311 &t.; routed.
18s. to 27e ad per barrel ; kippers, Be. to 4a 24 ; bloat•t*
Is 44. to 84. loil per hoz:: •roniced had lock. 82e. to 38. ; •
trawl haddock, 204 to 28.. ; ditto plaice, 21e. I. 25s ; ditto
whidug, 16. 1...284. per barrel ; soles le. to as. Oil per pair ;
turbot, Is. 61. tee 15e. ; brill, as. to 4i. each, ern,ce,,,i, 2i. pl.
to es. per lozen ; eels Is. to la lid. per lb.. lido's:re, le. Dd.
to Is. 55e4. ; orans. 15s. to 80s. per dozen; libelee oysters,
£lO 10a. ; uorreneme Lee to Re. per 'Minkel

POTATOE3.
The supplias nf English potatoes are only moderate, and,
with a eteadi drma,,d, sound qualltlet, realise centrally
higher prices. Foreign potatoes eintlnue to arrive I large
quantities, and sell at prices yanks from 701 te 1004. per
ton :—Regents, labs. to 2205. ; Essex and other regents,
120 s, to higs, ; and rock., 110 n to lann per ton.

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Painless Dentistry and Artificial Teeth, at Arielly
Inn,!crate charges. .
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A sluice Tooth to si complete set supplied—warranted
for hisstieslion Awl articulation.

it :01. LlirniaU t KIDIIe:RMIN iTER. Next
visit, Jan. 210, at

MISS YATES'
FA Nei REPOSITORY, 8, HIGH-STREET.
It. c`±ABRIEL, the Old Established
k_X LONDON DENTIST,

Begs to intimate that at the urgent request of numerous
Inhabitants, patients, and friends, he has been induced
to visit Kiddermi.ister every ALTERNATE TUESDAY,
and may be consulted personally (tree of charge) upon
his recent improvements in the construction of Artificial
Teeth and Gums, whereby the weight, bulk, and cost of
the case or frame, ha been much reduced, to the great
convenience and advantage of the wearer. Teeth are by
this new method exquisitely fitted, without extracting
stumps, or any painful operation.
Mr. GABRIEL'S practice (one of the oldest in
England) was established in 1815.

Particularly notice,
NEXT VISIT TO KIDDERMINSTER,
Jan. 210, at Mi.BB rates Fancy Mpositutn, 8,
Iligh.street.

Constant and personal attendance daily from nine till
six at

11, BENNETTS HILL, 11
Next to the Bank of England)
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

CRADLEY HNATH.

CRAIG' 01 STEALING • WATCH—John Willey, and
Caleb Robinson, were brought up before Mr. I. Spooner,
Stipendiary, at the Biierley Hill Police Court, on Thurs-
day, charged with stealing a watch on the Bth inst., the
property of Henry Humphries. Prosecutor said that he
was at work at Quarry Bank, and about eleven o'clock he
palled out him watch to see what time it was, and in
putting the watch into his pocket it dropped between his
apron and was afterwards found by the prisoners. In
answer to the learned Stipendiary, witness said that his
name was not on the watch, but that he knew the
number and the maker. Mr. Spooner said it was quite
clear there was no felony, to make it one; it must be
shown that the parties finding the watch, had no reason-
able ground for knowing to whom it belonged, and he
must discharge the men.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

LECTURES in ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

The Right Rev. Bishop Claughton delivered a
lecture in St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday night on
l'he Religious Principle in Chlistisniev." His task
;his eveuing would, he send, be more difficult than on
elle two nrevioes ecciusions of his addressing the audi-
ence. le might seem superfluous to prove the ridd-
en, eof the religions inciple in Chtisettanity, and even
to describe it pre seeted the difficulty of forcibly imprete-
sing upon the mind an already familiar idea. He wished
:o 11 w that the worship which Chriecianity brought
le,me to us was the truest worship of all; and further,
he wished to lead his hearers to think of Christianity
as a ri iteration of true worship. What men longed
for through ages of th.ubt and darknexe—what they at-
tempted to °began in most imperfect imitations, or,
wence, in entirely false and unworthy ;substitutes—
this, the revelation of Christ brought back to them as
a precious thing regained. Christianity, in truth pie-
canted to us a belief so perfect that it met every form of
what he would call unsatisfied want in man's moral
nature. Fear, the natural apprehension of the guilty
tool; Hope, the eat nest desire for comfort and pardon;
Faith, the trust in a Being who could dispel the one
end bestow the other—these all found their object in
a teconciled God. But "Reconciliation" WM a doctrine
Peculiar to tie CoePel. and it implied all that we
held as Christians—in ehert, it was the religious prin-
ciple as he h ,d UOW to prevent it to his audience.
Having refs-met to his previoue lectures in which he
had orgued for the universality of the religious prin.
c pie, be maintained that all the religions of the past
end of the present of which he had epoken rested upoa
the truth of one ; they were PO many expressions of
man's sense of &petulance on his Creator. After en.
leag ng upon the doctrine of the Fall of Marc which,
he esdiel, was proved in many ways to be not
oily a doetrine but a fact, Bishop Claughton
spoke of objeetions which were made to Christianity
in the present day and which did not (MOUT LO
ur fathere. There was consolation in the hope that
oi .te,, ueeper naten-ity of religious thought had
comr a eort of alarm which Lail provoked the spirit of
ortradiction, and that the unbelief we regretted was an
ineffectual effust to throw off what suit minds felt to
beteede4sam...The ohjeograte t peke of took two forms
—one, that of imputing. to Christianity a virtual de-
tra di in feint the ere atuess of the Almighty, SA if
b-lief in Christ WI the Son of God was incompatible
with "we r-hip of the Unity;" the other a denial of
what he meant by worship, a strange and lamentable
lapse into the very vague notions whieh, as had been
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
EX-EI'APEROR OF THE FRENCH.

BORN AT THE TUILERIES, APRIL 20, 1808. DIED
_ Al CiIIsELHURST, JANUARY 9, 1873.

"The Emperor died this morning —h slf past ten."
So runs the tidings. writ up, shoo, and round.
On mud-spla.hed nindoes to each dusty deo,
Where, daily, the day's news takes shape and sound.
And the unresting tide of life, that fli:ws
I:Trough London's arteries, 'taut heart and brain,
Stays to the In, then on Ps eriaiid goes,
Nor settles, straight, to even pulse again.
News, this, of tl e de, p voice that speals to all,—
Lightest if bruit or grdvest—those who care,
And Anon least of the wor el:ce as they fall,
Or, keenest, back the game, or, deepest, share.
News, whose dull fall through Time's dark pool will urge
The pulses of an ever. widening Ting,
That cease not, till they touch the farthest verse
Reached by man'. message on the lightning's wing.
It was no common life that so could fill
The th light of Europe: no common death,
Kings. statestnen, nations, with such shot k to thrill,
As rarely greets surceaae of exile's breath.
Already acre. of roaAtpertrale draft
' •

hi's life's c .urse alio-e'er their bird-eye view,
TMough povsrty, and perjury, and craft,
And redder steins that the blurred track imbrue.
Let ahoso will count of his faults the costs,
Ann ppint a Inert] In his seed, ned rnd
Tufts is the thpught,th England uppermost—
"

vi o haa-aitd saut7g u, livvd vuririend.
If fOrmere may beluffer2ng,4443, be shriven.

What temples those but }ems had to sustain !
The sting of tell and failure deeper driven
By the dull stroke of slow and sleepless pain.
Who that has judged him harshlic at but has found
Comfort he thinking love was there to teed
The exile'. eve, and cheer home's. narrow bound-
- . . .

met wile and non wore with him to the end.
The time to weigh him fairly is not now;
Nor are the true weights any France can bring ;
That sprang to ex the crown upon his brow,
And her owu veck beneath his feet to fling.
Heavily both have answered for their sin ;
Nor did the Emperor heavier fall undo,
That France, that backed him still while he could sin
Nor turned against him till the luck tamed too.
But now 'tis England, and not France, that stand!,
Silent beside on exile's dying bed,
Mindful of kindness roude red ay Ma hands,
Borrowing with those who sorrow for the dead.
—Pouch,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

ST

or iterative tindertathigs, and 'very shilling of It goes
in the a Jgcs of souse surt of labour—Lc. in n.aintain-
ing in h..ni et industry "the families of the labourini
poor."
Thus, whether the man of £30,000 a year spends his
money la,ishly or invests it sagacionely, it is equally
necessarily used ineuiploying and remunerating labour.
The millionaire cannot enjoy or pr fit by his millions
except by purchasing the luxuriee he desires; and
these luxuries are proc ird by the work of innumerable
hands which he puts it activity and repays for their
exertion.. He doss not, therefore, "c insume the in-
come of six hundred poor labouring families." He gives
those faroiliee their income by enabling them to earn it.
By the beautiful arrangements of Providence, we who
toil can only live by supplying some want which others
feel. Those who are endowed with wealth can only
enjoy it by distributing it among the toilers in return
for what those toilers bring them.
All these are hackneyed as well Bel obviotts masidera,
thins. It should not has e been needful to recall them
to the reiiollectien of no competent and accomplished
a thinker in Mr. Goldiviu Stith. but it would he
well if they could be instilled into the minds of the
masses and their leaders by noose less painful protasis
titan the disastrous consequences of forgetting or deny-
ing them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

MGE OBSETtyriter

DOUBLE EXECUTION AT DURHAM.

On Monday morning two out of the four men sen-
tenced to death by Mr. Tuatice Denman at the gael
delivery held in Durham a month ago, for the murder
of a man at Spennvmoor, were executed in Durham
County Gaol, in Durham city. The four hist-linen
who were condemned were matted Hugh Slane, 32
years old, Tereoce Rice, 19 years, John Hay; 29
years, and Ge axe Beeeb y, 27 years.

_ .
The murdered man was named Joseph Waite, and
he resided at Spennymoor, where, on the 16th of
November, the prisoners kicked him no severely as to
result in death within half an hour of the aesault.
Directly after the conclusion of the assizes efforts
were made to secure • respite, and on January 4th two
days before the date originally_fixed for the execution,
a communication was received from the Home Office re-
spiting Rice and BetYley—the former, it is mpposed,
on account of his youth, arid the latter probably owing
to his identity not being no satisfactorily proved at the
trial as was Hie case with the other thiee men. The
fith instant was the date originally fixed for the cue-
lotion to take place, but on the afternoon of the 4th
the execution was postponed until Monday, Calcraft,
who had been engaged as hangman, having another
engagement on the 6th. Since that time great efforts
have b. en made to save the lives of Slane and Hap,
but without sm.vees.

The preparations for the executions, sommenced dur-
ing the first week of the month, were completed last
week. The two men were at the time of the is•tpones
ment of their execution in • very cdux and quiet state
of mind, having no hopes of escaping the punialput ut
of death, but after the postponement wan announced
tleey became excited, and some time elapsed before the
two Roman Catholic priests who have attended to
their spiritual interes • could bring them again into •
calm state.
Slane was quiet and calm on Monday morning, and
‘lid not speak. Hays, addressing the rep ,rters sod
others I.resent, said that he was innocent of the murder
of Wade, and he Was sure that the other three men
were innocent; but, if Slane did it, then it WWI before
S ane came into his house. The two men then
walked to the soaffold, and Were executed. A
written etatement has been left by Hays, wnorequested
that it should be given to the reporters.

HINT.
(I mprored Irvin Shakapeare.;
" BEN that! was a little tiny boy,"
And usgl bad words because Of ran,
My parents, with reverse of joy,
Reversed vie, ant—l shared their pain.
But now I've come to man's estate,
And curse kind rains in language rash,
There', poetic whc can smite my pate
Fa talking thankless, idiot trash—Punch,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

EAGLET.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Monday evening, a most
Impudent robbery was perpetrated at the Higley Railway
Station. It appeared that when the ap.train arrived from
Stoarbridge soon after five o'clock, Mr. Bullock the
station-master, and signalman went across the line to
attend to the train, which would scarcely occupy more
than three minutes. And during his absence some thief
got into the station.house, forced open the door with •
chisel and stole the contents of the draw, seven sovereigns.
There was a quantity of silver in the draw at the same
time, but that wag not touched. On the station-master
going into the station, the robbery was at ones detected,
but there was no trace of any one. A similar robbery
was committed a short time ago at Yearns! Heath
Station. They had evidently waited the time for the
station-master to be on the other side from the station.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

THE ,

FATHER HYACINTHE IN FARM

Father Hyacinthe, who is still in Paris, preached
lost Sumlay night in the Proteetant Church known as
the Oratory. The building is supposed to hold &WO
persons, and it was crowded long before the service
began. The preacher wore no clerical dress, and did
not ascend the pulpit, but spoke from a plattorm.
The occasion was the decision of the French Evan-
gelical Piotestant Communion to hold a week of in-
tercessory prayer for the restoration of Christian
unity, which week ended, as it had begun, with
a sermon from I'i:re Hyacinths. The service
opened with a hymn; then followed an extem-
pore prayer by M. Monod ; then another pa-tor
read a portion ot the nide, adding a brief com-
ment on it, and then Per,, hyacinths delivered
Ins sermon, taking for his text, " And all the earth
1-hatl de tilled with his glory." The preacher
began by laying great stress upon his position there in
a Protestant church as a Catholic pnest—assei tubs and
reass,rting with great energy and vehemence that
though he had abjured certain errors of the Church of
Rome, and was no longer able to address her congre-
gations in their own places of worship, he still held
himself as firmly as e,er menil sat of her communion
--still felt SS vividly as ever the consecrating influence
of the hands which had been laid upon him conferring
Its priestly rights, lie did not appear before them as
an exile, asking to be received into their Church, but
as a friend and ally.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18

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seen, prevailed with Buddhleta. To talk of God as
he great universal idea to which, being incou•
'citable ag an ohjett, prayer would be impossible,
was to destroy the religious principle. He would
meet tire former objection in few words. Tile
religious principle in Chrietianity was worship of
(1...3 as restored. It was a return to a privilege once
lost, the recovery of a power which had been long in
abeyance through ignorance brought about by sin. In
oricluding his reply to the second objection he said
that to make ourselves judges of what God had re-
vealed was not wisdom, but folly. " Canst thou by
searching hod out God?" The answer to this emo-
tion was the refutation of all the vain speculatione of
science Wisely socedled" which in this day bal led
men to question the efficacy of prayer, the very power
of God to interfere in His own creation ; and when
by such falee reasoning they had, not destroyed
for that was beyond their power, but lost sight of
Christianity, the autetitute thee., men would provide
was abaolutely nothing—an unreal abstraction which
they could not place befor us in words worthy of atten-
tion. He scarcely regretted, except for the sake of
those who had been deluded by such arguments, that
"freethinking," so called—the very folly of thought—
had had its foil play, and shown the emptiness of its
own conclusions. NVell worth the diacovery, truly, to
be told that there is no God, to whom we may turn as
children to a father; that this great universe is but one
vast pi son ; our presence in it an undefintal and d pur•
posrless nn very ; our departure dark, and uncertain
as to what it leads! Changing the picture be con-
cluded by describing the condition and hopes of the
Christian.

The next two lectures on "Jesus Christ and
Buddha" will be delivered on succeneive Tuesday
evenings by Dr. Liddon.