The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-10 00:00:00

The Prince of Wales reached Potadam en Sunday
ormser was sited by the King of thrusts, and left for
;. Peterehurg In the evening. r •
Toe yonngest lge Eqgland, at`this momont, ,is
r tinge Cdrol„v Is In hls‘eib 'ear only. 4,4..0'
It is staid thatinet a sing% new rsilway ileff will
prompted nextossolon by Only of the graft y en-
'be; except thd sew line from Sheffield lb' cndon pro-
the London and North. Western Ofimpany.
courseillf the last,tottlight thyre than j 4,0
~ofibiallnEre In Comma/have proceeded to Beotfand
work in coal and iron mine..

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noempincui.

The production of postage, stamps, which in France
only amounted In 1849 to 19,910,000, increase i it 1865 to
414,00,000. and will reach 45 k,000,000 this 500 r. bra we is,
,however, sal for from Eognipil, which pri,ts 800.0v0,00i.
M. do Lamartine has again been tiied by severe
domestic afflictions A favourite niece, Male. Madeleine de
&novae, cifughter of the French count at Patermo has
diud of cholera at fifteen.
ikiritiolfard Mayne - hen just ilia' mkt an 010er to blks
emerlaitendents of the various division. of Metropolitan
Naas requiring ',hem to send in. by Thursday next, the Bth
Mat; 'the insoles Of constables willing to proceed to Japan to
form a mouoted escort to her Majesty's Minister at the
British Lqtation for the province of Jeddo.
.A,tbeating railway, the invention of M. Freeland,
of BirdeauS, has jusi been yeeteutuel. It It duet:lll.3d as
likely to be of considerable service In loading and unloading
year-la in ports having insufficient quayage accquiniodatnm,
Or where the depth of water does not permit ships of heavy
tonns %ate enter etccept at high tide.
" MlighiJuMtion" iv the title of the Christmas
number, of All the Year Round, to be published early in
Deccmber. It is midi ratood that it will contain pave. than
the average amthint of Mr. Diekena's own writing.'

At liic-eater petty aeselohs, a le hour, ve;s charged
with teeing unlawfully isteaultril Ruth Kirby, hy khodag
her as she was walking to caurch. Defendant said he was
very sorry, but he would nevi- rdo it again. The charnian
observed that he mast pay f.r his indulgence to the tune of
lls hi flue, and Ss o.t. costs, or unuergo fourteen days'
imprisonment.
The other day a young woman named Warburton
threw herself from a fever-ward window of the West horny
Teton Workhouse, near Liverpool. and was killed on the
spdt.

The outgoing Vice-Chancellor at Oxford iiaa corn.
municated to the Senate an offer which has been made ny
sotse.gmatie man, who wishes to he anonymous, to found as
annual prim of the value of 401. for good reeving among
candidates for holy orders at the University. _ _

Om-Tuesday the following telegram W&FI forwarded
from :Newfoundland at 25 minutes put 12 (noon), and
was delivered at its destination within the hour. '' Collet,
Newfoundl out to Stewart, 72, Corolla ',orlon, 12 .25.1 a en.
Thermometer 30. Snowing hard. Land lines working well.
Workail Wreak )eaterday from here to Port flood, and from'
Port flood Co New Orleans—Nov. 3, 1810"

During-a fall of aerolites which took place recently
near linya.llinga, Hungary, one of the enormous ,iz, of
56011, fell down with a temble noise, and pitecen the ground
to a depth of nine feet. Its shape was triangular; it *55
mostly comuoied of Igo; and new forms one of the mmy
curiosities of the imperial hologica/ institute at Vienne.
Tom Sayers horse, of sporting celebrity, ia now rum
sing P. the eart of a shipchandler in Rothernithe, its on nor
hating won it in a refill.

Byron tells on that Mont Blanc is the monarch of
mountains. Should the 0, xploiti whiell he has accomplished
this year, however, he repeated, we shall have to change the
reiding into Mont Blanc is the ..!g Omit of moylotaina"
The gamekeeper at St. Cloud has taught %parrot to
fliseross the Empt roes paih when .oufshoottvittraild lahber
mat 'Vice l'Empereur !" in his flight. ihe Emperor Is much
pleased at this act of devotion on the part of hl 2arde
Maw

l'he American newspaper have struck avainat the
tariff for nap. by the Atlantic cable, and refuse to buy any-
thing more than the stock and produce quotation..

Five hundred tone of metal are annually drawn
hit) wire for holding down the corks cf. soda-water aid
other bot:les.

" The niimbei of emigrants leaving Ireland for
America is on the increase shies the completion of the
harveat."—Nehrry,Examiner.
On Friday an inquest was held at Liverpool. on the,
body of a man uhknown, supposed to be a market gardener,
who had died in a lodging house in that town. He had 921..
601 of it In notes, on his person.

Risk-Allah, who was last week acquitted at the
Curt of Assizes at Brussels. paid 20,1,00 f to his two advo-
cates. The Be!gian one, M. Grans, receive° 5 Oka, and M.
Lschaud 15 0..01. The whde trial will cost the accused,
the colculagon is 50,0001. After his linerarion Risk Altah
went to the Hotel ue Flandre, and hi the evening dined at
the table.d'hote.

The Solicitors' Journal states that Friday's list of
petitions in the Roll Court present the curious feature that
out .4 67 petitions, no less than £5 are in matters connected
with limited liability companies.

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The total number of emigrants in the September
qnarter was 47,143 Taking round numbers, 35,000 (of whom
Oaf were natves of Ireland) out of the 47,0'0 went to the
IThited State*: nearly 7,000 to the Australasian, and nearly
4,000 to the North American colonies.
A correepondent of the Diritto, writing from Rome,
the 25th ult , Boys: "The Pope has riceived Lord Glad-
stone at a private audience. Ido not think that important
eff*lrs were discussed or talked of, for tile audience lasted
a very little time. The honourable L ird Ms also been
received by Cardinal Antonelll."

•
An illustrated paper gives a sketch of a family in
he South of France putting crape on their bee-hives, it
being the belief in those parts that bees are capable of the
most touch', g affection for their owners, and that they
i;nourn after them even to death.
A melancholy accident occurred on Lough Erne on
Monday, wlvch canoed the death of Master F. Steel, eldest
Son of the Rev. W. Steel, Head Master of Porto!, Royal
School. It appears that the deceased, accompanied by a
Youta gentleman named Greases, went to take a row in
host °own the lake, and having landed near Derenish the
boat went adrift, when the deceased undressed and swam
after it, hut hat only got a short distance from the shore
when he sank to rise no more.
The Scottish herring fishery of this year has been
more produc live than that 0' last year by about 20,0,0 barrels
of cured he rrings—last pot.* nmery having yielded 800,000
ha, eels, am, this year's tic,.ng estimated at C 20,000. This is
still I elow tie aye loge of the last flee 15arn, and Indeed
below the produce of every one of them ex, pt 165; but it
much exceeds the produce of ISSO, which was ouly 500,000
barrels.

The shoeblacks of New York are to have a trial of
skill for the " champiouship of A meric a."

A- fatal gun accident in Massareene Park, in the
county of Antrim, is recorded. Lord Slassareene was prac-
tising rille-shootir gat a target from his hall door, and shot
a countrywoman who was cooing up to the hon.,. 'the
woman we. so severely injured that she died soon after.
The coroner's j dry found that the death was accidental.

Only four- deaths from cholera, and one from
dlarrhaea were reglatered in the Ln.don diarists last
Saturday.

On the Boston and Worcester Railway, in the
United States, ministers of religion are iflowed to travel at
half price.

A strong Frenchman ia going to exhibit M London.
lie !missile. a 3l.inch iron cylinder.
_ _

The Indians of Nen: Mexico have formally declared
war against the whltes,l.4l, at last dates, were approacaing
Fort Garland. in that territory, in considerable force.
IN said
a for r
battle o'

It in said that the Italian Government will take
steps for raising the Ile d' Italia which was sung at the
' of Lissa.

A very large cotton mill near Preston was totally
destroyed by lire on Stturday looming. Toe building was
Old, but Its value, including machinery and stock, is esti-
mated at 110,0001 Tale is the fourth fire in cotton nulls
within a few days in the neightmurkood Cl Preston.

At Bishop Auckland, a pitman has been charged
with as offence against the public Health Act In his house,
besides a family of seven children there were seven dog.,
three ducks, three rabbits, and between twen.v ard thirty
hens and chickens, all in the s,me room. Defendant said
there was no nuisance but was convicted.

It in stated that Sir Hugh Cairns was offered a
peerage on his elevation to the bthoh, but declined the
honour.

" A Synod of the Free Reformed Church," is at this
moment hell g held at Nietsits. Ds- objvct is to aWdkel, ami
maintain the orthodox Protestant faith in the midst of the
dangers of moderate rationalism.

Captain Sir James Andenion, of the Great Eaatern;
has been unaninioindy elected an honorary member ot the
Lverpool mercantile Maiine Service Association, being the
greatest compliment the council of the association could
pay him.

On Saturday, coon after midnight, a crowded meet-
ing of delegates at d salesmen in the hoot and shoe trade,
was held at the E linburgh Castle, In LlllllOll, at wh,oh It
was announced that tie movement for a reolletiOn of the
hours ot I ,00ur in the trade hal been warmly taken up
by the masters, and that the general dmire was being carried
out.

At the Liverpool police-court, on Friday, Thomas
Rigby, a returned conetct, was cuarged with heing the
husband of four living wives Th second wife gave evidence,
and the prisoner WAS then remanded for • week for the pro-
' the others.

An Arkansas paper gives an account of the marriage
of a gentlemen recently to a Choctaw belie, bliss Katble-
no-he, daughter of "Black Cloud," a Caddo (Indian)
Watt The lady Is descrirwd as a full blooded Caddo, over
ale feet in stature. very comely and straight as one of the
onus of our northern wilderness. At the wedding the
bride wore silver decorations Is her hair weighing over •
pound.

"There were no leas than SS 7 communicants in the
magnificent church of Great Yarmouth ou Sunday. The
Bishop ( having held a confirmation on the previous Nunday),
and there being ten clergy avisting, the service, which coin-
menc“l at halt-past ten was over at two The vicar issued
a pastoral letter to the parishioners. asking them to Join the
newly confirmed in their first communion."—The John
Bell.

At a cost of 100,000/. a new Infirmary of great beauty
and extent has been }brit in Leeds. Before, however, it is
devoted to the charitable purpose for which it wan desig,,ed,
• rea•lution has been agreed upon by influential and wealthy
men in Leeds to hold in this building an exhibition of trea-
sures of arts products of industry, and processes of manufac-
ture, on • 'male not hitherto attempted In this country.
To accomplish this end, aguarantee fund of 50,0001 was asked
for, and Leeds answered by raising 85,000 L in a fortnight,
and it is expected that the fund will reach 100,00i1
It appears that the Dutch volunteers in Belgium
were pinned at their national air not being played at the
opera atter the " Brats...me," "0 .1 save the Queen,"
and " Partant pour la Syrie," and retired in a body. Toe
mistake was seen and they were per.naded to return, but
no one knew the Dutch uatiuual air, nod • pause of ten minutes
bad to be made till It could be procured. What la the Dutch
Datigilid air? A warning to the volunteers wheu they
receive company next year at Wimbledon.
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A lady of diotinction, an Italian and an ally of the
Pone, recently had her dress torn by a French officer's spurs
It had been the admiration of the while ro,m, and was put
down at 60,000 francs at least The poor officer WWI over-
whelmed with grief at the accident, and tried to make
matters better by making them worse by his excuse. The
lady only smiled, and salon, "Colonel, you are hOW QUO.
C,E3ht, lam sure, that the gown should have pr,cedence
of the sword, as was said isi old times."

A Frankfort letter reports the occurrence of a Ger.
man Mortar. case. The writer says A lad r f fourteen,
the eon of a respectable merchant of the Jewish religion,
connected with • large Engliih firm, was decoyed from his
borne by • Catholic friend of Ms parents, anti sent to a monas-
tery at Cologne, there to be bemired. Happily the father
got a hint in time to telegraph to a friend at Cologne, who
Called for the boy on the arrival of the train, and took him
hack. The law officers have now taken the case lir hand, and
it Is to be hoped that the Government will make an
example of dila fanatic which will deter other. from similar
offences."

A correspondent says that "the progress of the
works of the Great Exhibition, in Paris, Is truly marvellous.
The l'alace of industry' seems to grow in the eight, like
the 1.411 of the celebrated 'Jack.' To be sure, inert are
6,000 persons employed, One of the striking feature, of
this exhibition will be a chapel, which has been erected eX-
pressly to display stained glass, painted windows, awl
other works of high church are. The decorators awl painters
are already In the building, and you may he certain that the
' Great National Exposition of Art and Industry' will c man
up true to time 011 Apiii 1."

An inonest has been hell in one of the London
hotpitals, on the body of Edward Nk estland, lily right
ytars of age, who died under the frightful rift cts 4.1
123 dropholna, attar bait 4 bitten by a dog !Loma, three months
since Alter hearing The evidtnce, wnloh showed that
the unfortunate deceased, when bitten, neglected to get the
won 01 immediately and properly treated, and that he bad
died from exhaustion, after being for some hours in a state
01 aletaiaddalas, the jury returned a verdict of death by
isydroparorni, odium by the blt4 of dot