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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

"HABITUAL DRUNKARDS" RETURNS.

Sem, interesting statistics with regard to habitual
drunkenness are git, en in a return just printed for the
House of Commons "relative to convictions for
drunkenness, &c., for each county and borough in
England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from July
let, WO, to July Ist, 171." The following is a sum-
mary of the figures given in the return: -

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England and I -
Wales .... 22.704,106 130,785 . 10,862 9,861 ; 2,018 397,495
Footiand .... , 4,738022 15,194 1,094 556 , 919 55,333
'Maud- ; 5,402,759 91,333 11.099 7,549 16,911 185,057
Tots).... ' 92,945,799 • 238,274 • 23,175

12,065 21.844 I

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The advocates of intemperance must not, however,
take these figures as giving even a proximate idea of
the number of mischevious drunkards who did their
bet within the period referred to to make their fellow-
creatures uncomfortable (remarks the Pall 1114111
Gazette). Experienced old sots are rarely if ever con-
victed for drunkenness or disorderly conduct, but are
nevertheless among the most dangerous members of
society. Others again make it a rule never to get
drunk off the domestic hearth, and confine their
brutality to their own family circles. The least objec-
tionable drunkard is he who cannot become drunk
without also becoming incapable, and is either run
over by a van or light cart (driven by some one not
quite so drunk as himself) and is thus removed to a
hospital or a better world as the case may be; or is
carried on a stretcher to a police-station.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

WINES.

SHERRY -15—s— 18s 21.3 24$ SOs
Superior ditto ...... • 364 42s 46s 54s 60s
TARRAGONA PORT 13, 15s 188
PORT (Oporto)
Ditto (Old, to Bottle)
CHANPAGNE....Irom 27s to 70s Quarts
Ditt0....... ....... „ 15a to 37s Pints
CLIBET , 12s to 46s Quarts
livery other description of Still and Sparkling Wine.

111111 TON ALES.
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BEER 0 19 0 pa Had.
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BITTER BEER 1 4"61 00
118 0

S. FIELD
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF

FOREIGN CIGARS,

INCLI7DING THE HEST BRANDS,
NE PLUS ULTRAS, INCOGNITAS, INFANTAS, MORALES, CALLIOPES,
HENRY CLAY'S, &C.

JUST ARRIVED, DIRECT FROM VIENNA AND HAMBURG,
A large quantity of
CIGAR HOLDERS
AND

Also a splendid assortment of
SEALSKIN CIGAR CASES, TOBACCO FOUCBES, AID FUSEE BOXES
AND OTHER ARTICLES IN GREAT VARIETY.

I='llm'MS.

'MITE 01-1011 TOJELACCOS.
WILSONS SCOTCH SNUFF.

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92. AMR' STREET. F:TorPitßinnit
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

TB STOI7RI3IIIDGE OBSERVER.

that he had not been . to by Messrs..—
comb and Co. until the summons was issued;
but this was contradicted. His Honour thought
it had not been represented to the defendant
that the sackshad been hired on his account, and
gave a verdict in his favour, plaintiff to pay all
the costs.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

CHARGE OF ILL-TREATING A
LUNATIC.

At the Leeds assizes, LLiry Madeley was charged with
aasaulti anti MAI eating a lunatic who was under her care
and charge.
This was a case of considerable importance, and
seemed at one time, 88 the learned Judge remarked,
likely to vie both in length and in the contradictions
t.f testimony with the Hampstead Hospital inquiry.
The lunatic in question was named Martha Biggin,
and was an inmate of the Eeelesall Workhouse,
where the prisoner was nurse in the imbecile
ward. When Martha Biegin was admitted into the
ward, which occurred on the 4th of November last, she
was far advanced in pregnancy; there were no 'narks
or bruises on her face, but one or two on her legs, and
her aim was slightly swollen. According to the evidence
of two pauper women, who assisted the prisoner
in taking care of Martha Biggin, the prisoner got
very excited in the eautree of the night of the 4th of
November, first swearing at the lunatic, then beating
herover the face sin' had, pouring vinegar and water by
canfuls over her, and at last tying her by her hair to the
bedstead. In the morning the lunatic's face was covered
with bruises ; she had two black eyes, and there
were other marks Ilith on her face and neck which
seemed to be produced by a finger and thumb. The
medical men who examined these marks said it was im-
possible that they could be caused by the lunatic her-
self in the manner suggested by the prisoner, which
WM that she had knocked herself about, had got out
of bed, and fallen against the fireplace. It was further
stated by the women who assisted the prisoner that she
was Munk doting, the night, and one of the medical men
said that she was drunk when he saw her the following
afternoon.
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The defence suggested was that the appearance of
intoxicaticm in the prisoner came from opium, taken to
relieve pain from which she was suffering: that the
injuries were caused by the lunatic herself, and that
the two women who gave the fullest account of the
matter had been asleep, and invented the story to
c,.ver their own neglect.
The jury returned a verdict of Getilly, with a re-
commendation to mercy on the ground of her previous
good character and length of service.
Mr. Justice Quain sentenced her to be imprisoned for
throe months, without hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

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of the iv:itiuy. tflhlg s•-x and ago, ,0,1 e.lelomng four-
teen penny postagn stunt's. to MISS RUSSELL. 28
clirenoo-roal, K na!aa Two. Lundau, and thiy miii re-
coil, a fott an oi.unto detail of the gift, &Ices. taents,
Hll,:etions, tic..., at the irci:er, kvid ttwir prot thin
intnniee .ot after 'if°. wt it advice in difficulties, and on
future r,opecti 'he real, r thous old.; who hare thank.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

Illustrated Calalogue of Watches, Clock', Jewellery, &e.,
post free for 2 stamps.
Witches, Clocks, Jewellery and Plate seat to an parts of

the world.
Silver and Electra Plate Catalogue post free 24.
Watches repaired by skilled workmen. Old Siliar, h..
ellery, Watches, &c., exchanged. Merchants, Ship-
pers, and Clubs supplied.

STEAM FACTORY AND CITY SHOW Rooms—
LCDO4TE HILL ANp OhD BOND•STREST,

ii-DOIC
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:TRADESMEN'S ADDRIBSBB.

HAIR BRUSHING BY MACHINERY,

HAWKINS'S HAIR-DRESSING AND
SHAMPOOING ROOMS,
ISO, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE
(OPPOSITE COMIIERCTAL BEILDINOS).

A cßoicE ASSORTMENT OF BRUSHES,
COMBS, PERFUMERY, ao.

SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES ATTENDED.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

SANG BY SAWNIE.

There's ae question I wail speer,
Ere I learnt Mtn marriage ;
Etch, noo, locale, lure alf dear,
Cute,' ye live on altmeal parritch °
Cou'd ye wear a cotton gown
For the Sawbhath keep ane plaidie ?
lie content wi Nature's crown,
Nae Luse chignon cost your laddle ?
Wad ye, D your gizzard fret?
Wad ye .me ith' aulleta linger
For a' trinkets gin' y'ed get
o' gowd on wee fourth finger li—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

CONVICTIONS UNDER THE GAME LAWS.-11l
the year 1871 there were 8,913 persons summarily con.
victed in England and Wales of offences against the
Game Laws, and 62 persons on indictment for being
out armed, taking game, and assaulting gamekeepers.
The summary convictions comprised 7,725 for tree-
pawing in the daytime in pursuit of game, 429 for
night poaching and destroying game, 28 for illegaßy
selling or buying game, and 731 under the Poaching
Act of 1862. The total number of persons proceeded
against summarily under the Game Laws was 10,771,
there being 1,858 discharged and 8,913 convicted. The
total number proceeded against under the Poaching
Act of 1862 was 927, there being as many as 196 dis-
charged, and 731 convicted. In three English counties
Buckingham, Dorset, and Hereford—the summary con-
victions untkr the Game Lowe in 1871 exceeded one
per 1,000 ofithe population, and in Shropehire the con.
victions very nearly reached that ratio.
. .

A THOUGHT UPON TAFFY.—Your Welsh Cad
is a greater Cad than any other. Ile numbers among
his ancestors a Cadwallader and a Cadwallon. —Punch-
POST OFFICE NOTICE.—The following nonce
has been issued from the General Post Office, dated the
Bth inst. : .

----• •
As a large number of newspapers addressed to places
abroad, prepaid only with a stogie rate of postage, although
exceeding four ounces in weight, continue to be posted in all
parts of the United Kingdom, it is neceteary again to remind
publishers newevendore' and the pablic generally that every
newspaper intended for transmission through the post to any
foreign country or British colony is liable to a separate rate
of postage for Ivory four ounces, or fraction of four ounees,
and that if this postage be not fully prepaid the new simper
cannot be sent forward. Among the newspapers weighing
more than four ounces frequently detained in consamence of
the postage prepaid being insufficient, the principal are the
following —libel rated London Seto. graphic, Queen,
Lancet, The "Awe, Hereford Timor, El 'WNW, Engineering,
Pall Mall Budget, and Guardian.'

MR. BRIGHT ON BEPI7BLICkNISM. —A pOTBOII
in Birmingham having been told by a member of the
Republican Club that the republicans. if they gain
power, would sel.ct Mr. Bright as their first president,
wrote to the right hon. gentleman on the subject. Mr.
Bright has written back :—" Your Republican friend
must not be a very desperate character if he proposes
to make me his first president, though I doubt if he
can be a friend of mine. As to opinions on the
question of Monarctly or Republicanism, I hope and
believe it will be a long time berm e we are ask,4 to
give an opinion. Our ancestors decided the matter a
good while since, and I should leave any further die.
cussion to our posterity. Now from your letter I
conclude you are willing to do this, and I QM assure
yon I am not law willing."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

OUR FOOD SUPPLY.

The Rev. Henry Motile, writina from Fordington Vicarage
on the inadequacy of the food supply of this country, comes
to tho forioartalg conduaious _ . .

Let fa-auts s, whatever be the extent of their hold
Inge, n Am a MOI e provident use of straw, and of stalks
of almoet every kind, for food for cattle and cheep. Let
them make a more provident use of their pastures. Full
two-thirds of the pasture of most enclosed fields in the
ordinary mode of grazing are wasted. Let far the
larger proportion of cattle be fed its (gals, and in
that proportion would this waste be preveuted, and
economy of straw, &c., be promoted. With the
andance of food thus provided there would soon be
an end put to the wasteful slaughter of mites and
lambs ; and by this means alone the stock of a farm
would soon be increased. But beyond this, if the manure
of the stalls be carefully preset ved, and treated in the
way in which I rromse to treat toe refuse of towns, and
of which I gave a general idea in The Times of December
3. 1671. then the corn produce and thelive stock of our
47,000,000 acres might soon be doubled. For, with a
due supply of dry earth to the stall antl the proper
admixture of other substances with this earth, a single
cow will produce 19 tons of manure per annum, one
or, at the most, two of which shall very largely in-
crease the produce of an acre of pasture. On an
ordinary farm two or even three acres are deemed re-
quisite for one cow. If this stall feeding Is' practised
and the cows be properly tended, and the pasture duly
manured, one acre will keep two cows ; and, if the
land be good, even three cows. The remaininv 10 tons
of manure from ore cow might be applied with great
advantage to 10 acres lif land, drilled in with corn or
the seed of root,. If 90, then, together with a saving
of 19-201hs on the ordinary carriage of manure (which
would of itself admit of a larger amount of human
labour throughout the year), 10 cows, besides keeping
up their own tim tidy of food from three or four acres,
would afford an annual supply of manure for 100 acres
of corn or roots, the almost inevitable result of which
would soon be the doubling of the live stock and a very
large increase of the corn produce of the country. Much
more than this, however, might be effected by calling in
he aid of the orking classes themselves.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, & DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1872.

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STOUT
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Ditto

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In quantities to suit Families.

CURE FOR ALL.
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SELF-CURE FOR INVALIDS.
(MEDICDiE SUPEREIEDED).
NATURE'S CURATIVE.
(ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM).

HEALTH AND MANHOOD RESTORED

MAGNETIC S ELF-A DJU STING CURATIVE.

HORNIMAN'S PURE TIIA has for 30yearsbeen
supplied free front the injurious facing, powder
generally used by the Chinese to disguise
inferior leaves, consequently it is very
STRONG, reliable in QUALITY, & truly CHEAP.
Sold only in packets, all genuine are
signed gegv,oiiii,""r".lThafilleKr LONDON,
Origiaal iniporterr of the Pare Tea.
LOCAL AGENTS
Stourbridge, Clarke, High-street.
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Morris, High-street.
Baker, High-street.
lialesornen, Adams, Chemist.
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Blackheath, Barlow Chemist.
14/e, Jones, Chemist.
Wordsley, Turner, Chemist,
Kicklerminste., Howitt, Chemist.
Dudley, Bagott, Chemist.
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I Netherton, Follylove, Chemist.
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,Ii the Largest, Chesty est, and Best Family Paper in
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£1 100 DAMAGES.

At the Bristol Assizes, the cause of " Rogers v. the Midland
Railway Company 'has been tried, and was an action to
recover damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff
through the negligence of the defendants, who dii not deny
their liability, so that the question was one of amount.
The accident happened on the 15th of October, 1870
not far from the GlN:ester Station, where a train ran
into a truck that had been left on the line. Several
passengers were injured, and among others the plaintiff
was thrown forward and received serious injuries. She,
however, returned to Br istol that day to the house of
her brother, who is a coach builder, and where she
was staying. At the end of a few days she was so ill
that she had to call in a medical man, and since then
her state had been very serious and tier recovery for
some years doubtful She was brought into the court
on a couch, and by way of contrast a photograph taken
a year before the accident was produced, which repro-
sented her as a healthy, good-looking girl, and which
was declared to be an excellent likeness. She had
been formerly an assistant in a draper's shop, and was
at the time of the accident engaged to be mairied. The
ease turned oil the probability of her recovery, the
serious nature of her injuries not being questioned.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

USEFUL HINTS FROM THE BISHOP
OF MANCHESTER.

The Bishop of Manchester at the annual meeting of
the Diocesan Church Building Society at Preston on
Saturday gave a few useful hints on the subject of
Church Architecture. After urging the necessity of
increasing activity on the part of the Society in church
building, and through the means of riji.,-+ion rooms and
other agencies if filling churches sc,-10 devout con-
gregations when they were built, the Bishop expressed
a hope that the Society would see to it that the new
churches which were beino. built should be "sub-
stantial" churches. He had been rather alarmed at
the unsubstantial character of some of these new
churches. A friend had told him that there was hardly
a new church in Manchester that would live for fifty
years. He (the Bishop) hoped that that seas an ex-
aggerated way of putting the case, but there seas a
foundation of truth in the saying. He observed
that roof timbers sometimes were slender, and in
some instances churches which bad been built only
two or three years ago were giving way in the roof.
Everybody knew that a cheap article proved often the
dearest article in the end. If they would forego in the
building of churches the use of frittering ornament,
which was often an excuse for veiling an architect's
inability to comprehend the laws of architectural pro-
portion, and be content with solid substantial outlines
with good proportions, the result would be more satis-
factory. Another pohtt the Bishop urged was that
they should measure their churches, not by the sittings,
but by the kneelers. In many churches the pews were
no inconvenient that kneeling in them was extremely
uncomfortable; indeed, in many pews there was no
provision for kneelers, and no effort WWI made to in-
duce the congregation to relinquish the sitting position
they were in the habit of maintaining.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

F'S'!.

-
nqs. r!11t1n.124 'n?2a. ; ?maid
. ; t. 36. • kippers,
2s. to 41. per box; turbot, Ss. Lola.. ; brill, 4s. to 641
_; dorer.
Ss. 601. to 6e. 6d. each; soles, ls. to 35. per parr; Ogre 121.
to las. ; trawl haddock, 10s. to 16e. per bail; et ; crooked
haddock, 20s. to 30s. per barrel; wbiting, 121. to ISt Per
basket; native uyoters, £lO 101. ; peal I ditto 1:3 Is. ; Coutraon
ditto, 131. to 30$. per barrel.

DOTATO7-9.
The markets hare been moderately supplied with potannts.
Thi. Oen, ml has been more at nor gnoistio: s The
Import into Tendon last week consteted of 72 tons from St.
Maio, 86 from Dunkirk, and PS from Jersey : Legeut%
a. to 1255. • rocks, 801. to 955. ; flukes, 1001, to 1405.; 1001
VictorLis, 94, II 1401. per ton.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

HOP.

Throughout the week much quietness has prevailed. Bush
ness, as Is venal during Easter week, has been of a very
limited character, and priers have remained without mate-
rial change. The iniports foto London lest week entibiStrtd
of 12 bales from Boulogne, 13 from liamburgh, and 53 from
Rotterdam. Mid and East Kent, £lO lea to all W mid of
Kent, 105. to £lO 105. ; Sussex, £7 1 f.s. to £.O es.
Yarnkam and country, £ll Us. to £l6. Yearlings Mid
and East Kent, a to £6 10s. ; Weald of Kent, 1.3 to
£0 The. : Sussex, £3 to 8.6 6s. ; Farnham and country, £6 to
; old., £1 Is. to Ct.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

IRISH SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S
SUFFRAGE.

A largely-attended meeting in cennection with the
above society WM lately held at Blackrock, Dublin.
Among those present were Lady Kane and Mies
Kane, Lady Wilde, Mr. P. J. Smyth, MY., the Rev.
Barrington Orr, Mrs. and Miss Orr, the Misses Newell-
Baron, Fitzwilliam-equay, the Rev. W. G. Carol!, &c.
The chair was taken by Professor Hennessy, F.R S.,
when Mrs. Edward Lynch delivered an address
upon the claims of women ratepayers to the suffrage,
which was listened to with deep interest. She com-
menced by observing that women in England having
been given the municipal franchise, it followed that,
the jir was no reason why they should not
also be conceded the parliamentary vote, in order to
have theii property represented. She mentioned many
of the hardships suffered by women owing to want of
political representation, particularly those relating to
the non-existence of suitable provision for women who
are obliged to depend upon their own exertions for •
livelihood. She also touched upon the fact that the
higher education of women had been neglected by the
Legislature because the wishes and requirements of
women were overlooked when unrepresented. Bet
when women gained the franchise, then their interests
would be attended to. (Applause.)
Miss Anne Robertson, president of the Irish Society
for Women's Suffrage, moved a vote of thank. to Mrs.
Lynch for her admirable address, so clearly and grace-
fully delivered. She was sure all prevent bad received
much pleasure and instruction from Mrs. Lynch's
paper. She was happy to say that the question of the
enfranchisement of women ratepayers was making
great progress, and petitions in favour of it being
signed in different Parts of Ireland, as also in England
and Scotland.
Mr. P. J. Smyth, M.P., seconded the vote of thanks
to Mrs. Lynch. lie said be hail always entertained
the idea that women who were ratepayers should not
be excluded from the franchise Ittit his attention had
been particularly drawn to the question by Miss
llobertson, and he would have much pleasure in
supporting in Parliament the bill to remove the
electoral disabilities of women, when it comes on
for second reading on the let of May. From what
he understood of the general feeling on the sub.
ject among persons of different political opinions,
he would feel disappointed if the bill did not
pass this year. He felt sure the refined and educated
audience present had listened to Mrs. Lynch's
address with much appreciation. The chairman ex-
pressed his syni,athywith the movement for obtaining
the franchise for such women as were qualified for it
by the possession of property and the payment of taxes.
A vote of thanks to Professor Hemiessy for Ere-
siding was moved by Mr. Emanuel Hutchings, J :P.,
and seconded by the Rev. Barrington Orr, after which
the meeting separated.

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THE CHARGE OF INTIMIDATING
THE QUEEN.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday morning,
the Grand Jury came into court with a true bill for
misdemeanour against Arthur O'Connor, who stands
charged with presenting a pistol at the Queen on the
20th of February last, with intent to alarm Her
Majesty.
Early in the day his Royal Highness, Prince Leo-
pold, and Mr. John Brown, two of the witnesses of
the outrage had gone before the Grand Jury and de-
posed to the circumstances. No other witnesses were
called. The Prince, with the members of his suite, was
previously escorted by the Under Sheriffs into the Old
Court, where they took seats on the Bench, and re-
mained a short time listening to the proceedings.
Later in the day the prisoner Arthur O'Connor was
put to the bar to plead. He was told by Mr. Avory,
the Clerk of Arraigns, that he was indicted for
having on the 29th of February unlawfully and wil-
fully presented a pistol at the person of our Lady the
Queen, with intent to alarm her. In another count it
was alleged that the intent was to break the public
peace. Other counts varied the charge. Being asked
if he was Guilty ,T Not Guilty, the prisoner replied,
after a brief pause, "Guilty." He was then told to
stand down.

The prisoner is a slender, pale-faced lad, 18 years of
age, and appeared a little ashamed at first on bring
pla2ecl at the bar. His pleading "Guilty" appeared
to take all present by surprise.
Judgment was deferred.

MR. SPURGEON ON THE AGRICUL•
TIJRAL STRIKE.
Mr. Spurgeon, in addressing a meeting of the Metro-
politan Tabernacle Culporteurs Association on Tuesday
evening, referred to the condition of the farm labourer.
It often happened, he said, that the clergyman in a
country district knew as much about the Gospel as a
ploughman did about medicine. If people heard him
for as many years as Methusaleh lived, they would not
know much about Christ. They would not be going
in the way of salvation, because the guide was blind,
and it would be simply the blind leading the blind.
If a poor man went to a Dissenting place of
worship probably he got mentioned to the squire
or his employer, and be was told that he must
not do anything of the sort. At all events, if he
was not directly told, he learnt it when Christmas,
strongly flavoured with the Thirty-nine Articles and
the Catechism, came round. He got nothing himself,
and Ms wife goes without the blanket in the cold. Be.
cause a man chose to go where his soul led him, he was
put under a kind of ostracism ; and if the law did not
, permit him to be wrong, his punishment was not very
far short of it. Dissenters had also to contend with
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

thanks, ant
- ladies,

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Miss Bee-----'"---dy responded on
behalf
off
4'the lam—,
Mrs. Ashford proposed that thebest thanks of
the meeting be given to the Rev. H. Sherrard,
for the able manner in which he had conducted
the proceedings.
Mr. G. K. Harrison seconded the vote of

thanks.
Mr. Sherrard briefly responded, and the meet-
ing separated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

PUBLIC NOTICES.

METHODIST NEW CONNEXION,

STOUR BRIDGE.

ON SUNDAY, APRIL the 14th, 1872, the
Services in connection with the 35th CHAPEL
ANNIVERSARY, will be held in the shove Place of
Worship, when TWO SS RMONS will he PREAC El ED
by Mrs. A. C. BEVINGTON (wife of the Rev. A. C.
Bevington). . . . .

Service to commence in the Morning at 10.30, nun in
the Evening at 1 o'clock.
A Collection will be made at the close of each Service,
in aid of the Trust Fund.

Your presence and support will be esteemed • favour.

STOURBRIDOE UNION.

INTANTED, a HAIR-DRESSER at the
Workhouse, at the Salary of £l3 per annum.
Attendance required twice a week. Further particulars
can be obtained on application to the Master of the
Workhouse. . . .

Applications to be sent in by the Itb iust.
By order,
tiriORGE HOLLOWAY.

Workhouse, Kiugswintord,
12th April, 1872.

CORN EXCHANGE, STOURBRIDGE.

MR. GEORGE GROSSMITH'S New and
Original Entertainment
"THE COMIC SIDE OF LIFE."
WEDNESDAY. APItIL 17th, 1872.

Doors open at 7.80; to commence at 8.
Front Seats, Is fal ; Second Seats, le; Back Beata, 6.1.
Plan and Tickets at B. Brootuhalls.

STOURBRIDGE IMPROVEMENT ACT,
1866.

MENDERS for CHANNELLING and
_L. LEVELLING PARK-STREET (WEST), Beauty
Bank, and for LAYING DOWN • SEWER on Beauty
Bank. _

The Stourbridge Improvement Commissioners require
Tenders for the above Works, to be delivered to the
undersigned not Inter than TUESDAY, the 23rd INSTANT.
The lowest Tenders will not neeessaaily be accepted.
JOHN TAYLOR, Clerk.
56, High-street, Steurbridge.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
PARTNERSHIP which has for some time been
carried on by JOSEHH WHITEHOUSE, JOHN ROB-
INSON, and WILLIAM PEARSON, under the firm of
Whitehouse, Robinson, and Company, at Stourbridge, in
the County I f Worcester, in the trade or Lima.' of
Coal and Lime Merchants, was this day dissolved by
mutual eonsent. All debts due to the avid firm are tube
paid to Mr. A. Phillips Price, Solicitor, 82, High-street,
Stourbridge. As witness our hands this Fifth day of
April, 1872.
JOSEPH WHITEHOUSE,
JOHN ROBINSON,
WILLIAM PEARSON.

Witness the Signatures of
Joseph Whitehouse,
John Maui:l,on, end

William l'otrion..

A. PHILLIPS PRICE,
Solicitor,
Stourbridge.

MR. JOSEPH WHITEHOUSE,

I:4 EGS to announce that he will continue the
J COAL and LIME Business. at the Canal Wharf,
Stourbridge, lately carried on by Whitehouse, Robinson,
and Company.
A Quantity of good Lime now in Stock, at the Kilns,
at the Canal Wharf.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

ARCHDEACON DENISON ON THE
CRISIS OF THE CHURCH.

On Monday, the Vert. Archdeacon Denison held a
visitation at Taunton, and delivered a charge to the
clergy of the deanery of Taunton. In the course of
hie athlress, the Ari hdeacou said :
A time of transition is commonly a time of delusion.
Thesis who have grown op under a system %Mai is
naming away do tact readily incline to the belief that
it is passing aw ay. and shut their eyes to the evi-
dence of an accumulabd and accumulating experience.
It is thus that men cling to the belief that the
old relations of State to Church here in England
are not passing away, notwithstanding that they ale
passing away is not a matter of opinine, hut of fact.
All I will say here is that there is one thing worse than
diseetablishue nt and direnilov in.ut, and twit is establish
ment and eudowment which shall be of no particular form
and faith. There are a great many of us Mehl° the
Church as well as out of it who are labouring to keep the
Church eatablished and endowed on this conation only—
on the condition, that is to say, that it be no longer Ca-
tholic, but a compound of "all denominations, ' and there-
fore creedless and unsaeramental, so that it may become
" national," not in the true sense of the word, but in the
sense of including all religions and to religion. lam not
speaking thus of the church of England as she in herself,
but as she is by law established. These two thiegs ale
very different things. The Church of England as re-
formed, that Is, formed again upon the primitive model,
is a part of the Church Catholic, and has existed in this
country from very early times of Chi istianity. What is
I called the Establishment IS three hundred years old. It
Is an accident of the Church only, not the eminence of it. If
any nimi care to know when I finally ceased to think the
Establishment worth keeping—and, more than this, when
I came to the conclusion that it was bad for true religion
East it should be kept, and why I caw to think so—l will
tall him. The " ashen " w-as in ISTO ; the " why " was
the adoption by bishops, clergy, and people In the name
of the Church of the (so.called , "Elementary Education
Act." When I Raw these things done, " favente et adjuvaide
Episcopate, Clem, populo," I ceased to think the Establish-
nient worth preserving. Whatever may be the material
advantagea of the nineteenth century, 1 doubt its possessing
the advantage., intellectual or moral, which are commenly
claimed for it. Certainly standieg fast and holding the truth
at whatever cost Is not a conspicuous feature of its history.
Compromise has laid hold of all politics, and is eating its
hateful way into religious truth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S " PEN.

Tim inspiration of some poets is only—g-inspiration after
all.
TEE Footman's Motto.—Ye plus (hues-plush ultra.
"Wuy, my little boy, did that hulking big fellow hit you
on purpose!" " No, sir, he bit me on the head."
A YOUNG country friend of Judy's says that she never walks
across her father's fields, because they re too style-ish for
her.

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IT is impossible to say how many dog-days there are in the
year, because every dog has his day.
- - • - • _

•
JONES, on being puled by his friends because Mrs. Jones
had left him, immediately exclaimed, " Pity me not, unfit
she returns !"
BLACK as your Ilat. —Darkness that may befell.
A FUNNY friend of Judy's says, that he only backed one
horse in his We, and that was into a shop-window.
WORKMEN generally on the Strike.—Blacksmiths.
CARPENTERS frequently become not only bores, but also
-•ettrues annoy people with their old saws.
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bone

soruell

Cilanok of the Lied, Brigade—The gas bill.
LOVE'S 'num) DREAN.—A little sighing, a little crying, a
little dying, and a very great deal of lying.
MRS. JONES haa Buchan aversion to tobacco especially to
Jones's), that there is no end of tobacco jars in the house,
She fumes, and he puffs; so it all ends in smoke.
WRAT some Husbands resort ter if ter Marriage.—The Club.
A MOORING Affair—A magnetic battery.
110Cli Turtle—Connubial affection before tompesy—nome.
Imes.
MILITARY QUERT.—If a sub. gable a step by his senior
)fiber's fall when out hunting, can it be culled promotion
per chase 9
A YOUNG marrle4 souple, who have recently been fumish-
ing, say, they don't find diunb•weiters answer.
A GREAT LARK —On hoard ship it does not matter how
tipsy you get ; people think its only sensickness.
TUE Abolition of Capital Punishment Society—Pshaw
Bah I it won't hang air. —Judy.

times.

officer's
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-13

THE SUNDAY TRADING BILL.

Oa Monday evening a crowded public meeting wee held in
the Music-hail, Great Portland street, Load., in opposition
to the Sumtay Trading Bill of Sir T. enambers, M.P. ; Mr.
llepwoitli Dixon presided.
The chairman said if this Bill was passed this Ses-
sion the Puritanical party would make an attempt to
pass a measure next year to stop the excursdou trains
on the Sunday, the sending of telegrams, and, in
fact, to iuterefere with the liherities of free-born
Englishmen Co as to make the only day which
they could call their own as wretched, as gloomy,
and as miserable as possible. He felt very strongly
against this measure, as he believed it was directed
against the poor. Taverns at the West-end, called
clubs, would not cause within the scope of this
Act, but the taverns used by the working classes
would conic within its scope. The bill was un-
necessary and tyrannical, and interfered with the
liberty of the subject, and he hoped it would be strongly
opposed.
Professor Sheldon Amos asked if Sir T. Chambers
was prepared to compensate the poor people who would
suffer loss if this bill should pass. Ile moved "That
this meeting of electors of Marylebone protests against
the Sunday Trading Bill introduced by. Sir T Cham-
bers as unjust, minecessary and tyrannical."
Professor Beesly, ir. seconding the motion said this
was an attempt to bring political influence to bear to
force certain religious views upon the people. He
warned the meeting that if the bill passed, snore oppres-
sive measures would soon be proposed. Mr. Baxter
Langley protested against miserable bills like this
which attempted to force religion down the throats of
the people and interfered with their personal liberties.
The resolution was unanimously carried.
After addresses from Dr. P. Perfitt, Mr. A. H. Hill,
Major Pratt, Mr. E. D. Jerrold, Mr. Du iley fleck,
and many others, resolutions were passed adopting a
petition to parliament praying fur the rejection of the
bill and the repeal of the Act of Charles 11. and
pledging the meeting to support the Liberal Associa-
tions of Marylebone in seem mg the return to Parlia-
ment of representatives who will support truely Liberal
measures. The proceedings closed with a vote of
thanks to the chairman.