The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lord Napier of Magdala is on his way to India to
resume his command
It was announced the other morning that the Bishop
of Lombm had 'ben chosen us the successor of Dr. Longley
as Archbishop of Canterbury.
The rnmour is revived that before Mr. Disraeli goes
out of office a fresh batch of Peers will he gazetted. Eight
or Moe is the number mentioned.
A vonno Dutch tourist has just blown out his lorains
in an hotel at Maytmce from having lost considerable SUMS
at the gaming-tables of Wiesbaden.
At the Guildhall, in London. on Monday, witnessing
lii 11,111iMiti,•11, were ho tliulineo less. P. 11,1, s.-11 of the
cer, yof E_ ,t ; Nubar Paella, the EgyptiNn thinner of
Fort•ian Affairs, neconipaeied by Colo., Campbell Mr.
Charles Oppenheim, and other gentlemen.
The sculling match for £2OO aside and the champion-
ship of the Thames, betwen Henry Kelley, of Putney, and
James Renforth, of Gateshead, took place on Tuesday after-
noon over the usual course between Putney and Mortlake.
Renforth won by three lengths.
At the Presidential election, on the 3rd. inst., the
Democrats of New York tent round the city before sunrise
large bells mounted on waggons to rouse their voters.
The Secretary of State for India (Sir Stafford
Northente: has granted two day, leave of absence to the
whole of the employer of the India-office, to enable the
clerks fool others to record their votes at the borough and
county elections.
Mr. Gladstone spoke twice on Saturday, the first
time at Gordon, and the second at Wavertree. Ile gave an
explicit reply tosome questions which hail been pet with re-
speot to his intentions reganling the property of the Irish
Church after its disendownient.
The Queen. the Crown Prince and Princess of Prus-
sia, Prp,cess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Princess char-
lotte of Prussia, attended divine service last Sunday morn-
ing in the private chapel at Windsor. 'The Rev. Stopford A.
Brooke, honorary chaplain to the Queen, preached the
sermon.

The followina idiotic advertisement appeared in The
Times on Tuesday B. EN. (Cygne.—Hardly the first,
as toy silver cool' is already stretched too far. No more
' Londinum for toe? Are not the riven of the East better
than the waters of the ' Serpentine?' Crocodiles' eggs only
hatch Inn 'l3,onian ' earth. With not a drop to drink.—' La
Votive ' "

A telegram from New York, received by the
Atlantic cable, states that the steamer Matanzas, hound for
New York from Savannah, with a cargo of cotton, has been
burnt at sea. The cause of the disaster was not known. Six
of the crew were aved.

At the annual dinner of the Bristol Dolphin Society
the Duke of Beaufort said that "in consequence of the great
facility for reading of everything that occurs, in every
station of life every one is perfectly alive to all that goes on,
not only in this but in every other country."
There has been a terrible fall of snow on the Alps.
More than 8,000 sheep have been latrie.l by the snow upon
the mountains of Allevard, thereby entailing upon their
owner a loss of e 15,000.
The reconstruction of the grand cupola of the Holy
Sepulchre at Jerusalem has just been terminated in perfect
conformity with the tenor of the protocol signed on the
Mh of Sept , 1862, at Constantinople, by the Ambassadors of
France and Russia, and by the Grand Vizier, Aali Pachi.
The latest definition of a bachelor is a man who
has lost the opportunity of making a woman miserable.
"The following conversation, Which will illustrate
Paris life, was overheard lately in the Cafe Anglais What
a pretty woman !" gut lie belle femme !' Yes she it charm-
ing." And that Monsieur, is it her husband ?'tilt, no,
replied the friend, sipping his absinthe ' I should say cer-
tainly not, for I have seen them driving very .clten .d indeed
they were at Baden together.' Paris morality and Paris
are very odd, are they not? Don't you foist so
often with your w ife, or you will get talked about,' was the
advice lately given to a friend of mine."—Court Journal.

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The Nem York Herald in not the most trustworthy
authority that can be cited n American affairs, and n hen It
states that President Johnson has declared that be will
never consent to the appointment eta mixed commission on
the Alabama claims, it probably merely cohveys its own
~pinion on the subject. The Pre-ident is very likely to act
in accordance with the advice of Mr. Seward, and air. Revenly
Johnson may reasonably be sumosed to have consulted the
instructions of the Secretary of state in his recent negotia-
tions
The Pope has been very iIL He was some days in
bed, and during this time received a visit from Doctor
Conneau, physician of the Emperor Napoleon, who happened
to be in Rome. The Holy Father is now convalescent.

The amount of property and income charged with
income-tax in the United Kingdom in the year mviing April
6th. 1067, was as follows ,--Schedule A, lands and teoemeuts,
£126,070,065: Schedule B, occupation of lands, A:35,645,172;
Schedule 1.7, dividends, annuities, &c., £33,040,440; Schedule
I), trades, &c., £138,052,025; Schedule E, public offices,
£21,006,100 ; making a total of £373,998,413, being an in-
crease of 9.567,000 over the preceding year, notwithstanding
the commercial panic and failures of Slay, 1066.
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"There are Come very queer rumours floating 'about
town' indirectly connected with the london theatres. One
runs to the effect that a young gentleman of good birth,
excellent position, and brilliant future prospects, has
• announced his intention of celebrating his atrival at years of
discretion—no, of his attaining Ids majority—by contracting
a marriage with a demoiselle who originally emerged from
the chrysalis state at one of our smaller theatres, and who
now flutters the most gorgeous of butterflies in Rotten-row,
the Ring, and—ltrompton."—Court Journal.
The Russian authorities seem very anxious to pro-
vide the common people a ith amusements. The St. Peter.
burgh Gazette reports in a recent number that the erection
of no less than ten theatres for the people, all to be situated
In the workmen's quarters of the city, is to be begun forth-
with ; the plans having been submitted to and approved by
the Ministry of the Interior, under whose supervision they
are to be placed. It is calculate I that the new undertaking
will also pi ove a good commercial splculation ; but this
Is certainly hot the aim in the first instance,—more
especi illy 89 the Government organ itself goes the length of
declaring that every day that is lost before all these places
are opened is s "serious loss to the moral strength of the
People."

A mission from his Mghness the Sultan of Zanzibar,
accredited to her Majosty, hits ari teed in London. It con-
sists of his E,celleticy Sav yid Ai ahammed bin Salim, and
Say Ahmed bin Suleiman, two Arab chiefs of he highest
rank at his Highness' Court, and Hajee Mahonimed
Hakushinir, the confidential secretary of the Sultan, accom-
panied by nine Arab attendants. Tie object of the mission
is Conni Cted a dh the suppression of the slave tyade on the
East t'oast of Africa and the revolution at Muscat, where
S4Yid Thorwenee. the elf r brother of his Iliglinese, was
some time ago cruelly murdered by hie own son.

Mr. Bright, in an addreas to the Birmingham eh-rt.—re
on Saturday gave at length Ida views on the subject of
education.

Antler, who is now eiAty-six years of age, is
deseribed by a writer from Paris as "walking like a y..ung
man, and looking fresher than most of the boys ,French)
of the period." .

A memorial has been transmitted to the Ti, miry
from the Edinburgh Chamber of i oumerce, praying that the
postage on circulars, small pamphlets, nem simper,. and
other printed matter not exceeding 2oz. in weight, might be
reduced to id.
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The telegraph brings us news of yet another earth.
quake—this in the east of Europe, at Bucharest. The
ehoek, which is described as violent, was felt at Mile o'clock
On Friday morning in last week.

The personalty of the late Earl of Bantry has been
sworn under £90,000.
"Whether there be a cisange of Alinistry or not,
there Is little doubt that the coining spring will witness a
reduction of the officers of the army—A /lily and Nary
Gazelle.

The announcement made on Friday night by the
Gantole, that a conspiracy existed in France, and that its
°Meet was the overthrow of the Empire, has not been al-
lowed to pass unnoticed. Legal proceedings have been corn.
mencet amimt the Grtutois for pubhshing " false news,"
such news tieing likely to disturb the public peace.
Professor Palmieri announces that a new cone of
Mount Vemvius has opened, and is in active operation
ejecting lava.
The Law Journal states that 117 bat rioters are can-
didates for counties /MI boroughs in England anti Wales, and
says that 59 are fiber Is and 51 Conservatives. There arc
more than 100 attorneys seeking Parliamentary honours.

There is a
.question of changing the Spanish Bag.
Instead of a stt we of yellow, between two of red, there would
be one each of yellow, red, and v to:et. These were the
former colours of Cast lie.

A Chicago specul4tor offered Mr. Ponshon 50,000
dollars for this wintees lectures. Mr. Punshon declined the
offer.

In an interesting pampid, t on the cobra poison
Dr. Francis has calico attention to the dislike which cobras
and other venomous snakes have to erewote, and he soggeM
that it or carbolic acid should be freely used in homesteads
and in the neighbourhood of cattle-,tails sir sheds, to keep
the reptiles away, seeing that there hi good reason to think
that the milk of animals bitten by cAras may convey the
poison to those individuals who make use of it.
A new sensatisin! They are going to bring out a
new drama ill PairiS at the Theatre lii Vitatelot—the title oh
it, Theodore., ; and two ma actors ore to appear in it—a
couple sit serpents. Horses have been bnimlit on the stage,
and dogs, and pies, awl parrots, anti cockats, a, and hear•,
and even those familiar insects to 'slier bite the Prim,
Minister once compared the national debt ! Where is ill the
sensation fever end?

Energetic efforts are being marle in Dublin to pro-
cure an amnesty fir the Fenian convicts. A meeting for this
object has been held, under the chairmanship of or. lsaac
Butt, Q C., and a resolution passed 'encliening at! politics!
or party tactics, in order to promote the one object, apart
from every other agitation."

The key. Mr. Sedgwiek, of St. Al Church,
Manche-ter, who was inhibited from officiating by the Bishop
of Manchester in this diocese, on account of his ititualistic
tendencies, preacned on Sunday last Miffs own church again.
Ile has appealed to the Archbishop id York a ainst the In-
hibition, and has defended himself from the clunges vi
ecclesiastical irregularity which bait led to his suspension.
By the death of the Marquis of Hustings, the Irish
earldron of Moira becomes evtiuct, and this vacancy counts
al3 the first ton arils nut dher creation in the peerape of Ire-
land. The vacancy is now availaile, a year having just
elapsed since the death of Lady Keith mid Nairn, the ex-
tinction of whom Irish title was the last in date of the three
extinctions which must precede the creation of anew Irish
peer. The two other vacancies were created by the deaths of
Viscomit Palmerston and the Earl it Clare.

Dick, a gamekeeper, was out with his son, mar
Dunfermline, hunting rabbits. The boy was lying at a
rabbit's burinw, and the father observing a wounded rabbit
rising and running off, he fired, without noticiog, in the
direction of the by, who was only time or five yards distant,
end the shot entered into the head of the boy, who gave two
cries and expired.

Mr, Moncrieff was on Saturday elected to the Lord
Rectorship of the Edinburgh University. Ile was opposed
by Mr. Lowe and Mr. Ruskin, but the candidature of the
former was Withdrawn at an early period of the pulling. and
the latter Was defeated by 102 votes.
In answer to a letter from the secretary of the
Sunday League, Mr. J. S. Mill writea:—" I have repeatedly
said at public meetings of the electors of Westminster that
I should vote for the opening of pineen of instructive recrea-
tion, such as the museums and libraries, on Sunday ; but, in
the present state of the public mind, not of theatres, for
although, in my opinion, theatres might be places of instn,e-
live "recreation I think it more wise and right not to offend
the honest feeling which at present exists in the minds of so
many worthy persons against opening them on Sun hays."
"The infant Princess, daughter of the Prince and
Princess of Wales, still lie left in the care of her Majesty
during the absence of her Royal parents, and 4,11 leaving
Copenhagen the three other Royal children will I,e left under
the care of the Queen of Denmark until the r tarn of the
Prince and Princess of Wales after their lengthened tour,
which it is expected will extend over live mouths."—Court
Journal.
"By the London Osnctle it will lie seen that Mr.
Richard Clay, our most eminent printer, has retired from
active business life. We hope that he may be long spared to
enjoy the competence he has as worthily a- tallied No printer
of modern days, either here or in any other country, has
proved himself a more worthy successor of the Aldus. and
Stephenses of old. Many of the productions of his press
will be treasured by collectors, and be eagi-rly sought for in
future ages. The Bread-street business will be catried on by
his two sons, in conjunction with his excellent pupil and
confrere, Mr. Taylor."—The Bookseller.
One of our (Poll Mall tte) correspoi-dents intro-
duced the other day into a letter the well-known quo•ation,
'• to such base uses do we come at last" It is one of the
many instances in which popular Imbit has altered, and
possibly improved upon, a proverbial plitase. The true
version is, "To what base uses we may return, Horatio." In
the sante way most wives suppose that they pledged them-
selves at their marriage to "Love, honour, and obey" their
husbands. They did so. but not in those words. The
promise is to love, cherish, and obey."
"Captain Frederick Lahrbush is an English
centenarian, resilient and naturalised in New York, ssho
come- to the surface every six maths in a paragraph. His
fast emergence is the statement that he none to the poll the
other day, notwithstanding Ids hundred and ta o }ears, and
voted for Grant. His bodily health is said to be unusually
good, although the account just given of his polities will
cause Varittni estimates to he inn Upton Ids mental ditto.
The principal claim which '.Mptain Lahrtmsh possesses upon
English interest is found in the fact that be was one of the
officers stationed at St. Helena during the captivity of
Napoleon."—A inerican correspundent.
Amongst the illust,ated books that enterprising pub-
lishers have iasued at this season of the year, designed to
take a place amongst the "Christmas presents" and " New
Year's Gifts," is a very beautiful edition of "Gray's Elegy,'
publLheil by Sampson Low tt" I 0., which deserves special
notke, fir the excellence of its colottred illustrations. Many
of the finest specimens of wood-cut printing have emanated
frost the well-known firm of Clay 41: Co., of the Bread-Street
Hill Press, for which they have gained an enviable renown ;
but this year, they have, in additien. turned their attention
to the art of colour printing; and if it ruay be judged from
the beautiful edition of "Gray's Elegy," their first effort,
they will he as successful in colour, as they have hitherto
been in black wood-cut piloting—an net in which the Works
printed by them have been stamped with an additional, and
perhaps an increasing, value.
The Indi,n papers assume, as a matter of course,
that Sir John Lawrence will, on his return home, he raised
to the peerage. The honour, it is hinted, ouvht not now to
be too- expensive, as Sir John must have saved enough to
fouml a family front a clear income of £20,0 0, besides the
previous savings of thirty-flve years. Viscount Lawrence of
Lahore, is suggested as a fitting title.

The captain of the Lore 11. rd aurrend,red at the
Thames Poli.7e-court in London last Saturday, to answer a
charge of having caused the death of the cook and steward
on the homeward vo3 age from Congo to London Four sea-
men swore to acts of cruelty on the part of the captain, but
as they had made no complaint for ten days after the vessel
had arrived in London, and had signed the ship's log in which
the deceased was stated to have died from fever, the charge
was dismissed, and the captain is at liberty to prosecute the
men for perjury.
"What a legacy of litigation John Sadlier be-
queathed—a vast inheritance of misfortune—which has not
)et been disposed of ! In the Dublin Court of Common Pleas
the other day the familiar Cannes of kindlier, the Tipperary
Bank, and its creditors were recalled from tenimo ary
oblivion, aml all these disastrous affairs were discussed alio:.

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The three boys who attacked and endeavoured to stab
another lad near Manchester, as reported Is the papers, nero
sentenced to one month's imprisonment, tiering which thee
they are to be ihigged with a birch rod every day, and after
the term has expired they are to be sent to a refinmatory
Sellout for five years. The hoys commenced crying on Incur'
this sentenoe, as boys always do %hen flogging Is part of
their punishment, anti the mothers of two Of them, who were
in the court, screamed violently.

The John Bull says that the 'Worshipful Company of
Salters, who, throngh their large estates in the North of Ire-
land, are specially connected .ith the Protestants of lister,
have prst unanimously elected tne Bishop of Oxford a member
of their compoly : an honour which he alone of the bench
shares with the venerable Irish Primate.
A will has been declared mini in the Irish Court of
Probate Well was rendered invalid not only by the framer 4
the Rev. James Ryan, P.P., having had it signed In the
nesses "in the kitchen, and not within view of the deceased, but by the asssets having been subsequently distributed with-
out proving the will. The testator, a farmer named Gleeson,
of Nenagli, left £1,200 in hank. besides two valuable freehold
farms, and his nephew and heir-at-law disputed the will. As
to the witnessing of the instrument, the Rev. Mr. Ryan
thought the "moral presence" of the parties was quite
sufficient.
The Bishop elect of Peterborough, in his reply to the
farewell address presented to him in Cork, said that the time
of his parting from his brethren wits a grave and critical one
in the history of the Church. "It was a time to test the love
and the courage of all her children—a time when each One
of her sons was bound to devote to her service a defence
whatever of wimitom and of power he possessed." Should the
hour (of trial and peril for his " spiritnal mother, the church
in Ireland," grow darker, he would rejoice to remember thaS
" she had in her ministers a hand of faithful soldb-rs and
servants whom danger and trial were daily drawing Into
closer brotherhood.'

A great meeting was held in Madrid on Sunday, at
which the principles recently set forth in the programme of
the committee of the three sections of the liberal party
were advocated by Olosaga and other speakers. Complete
religious freedom, and the adoption of the monarchical
system, based not upon divine right but upon universal
suffrage, are the most prominent points of the programme.
At the conclusion of the meeting, at which perfsct order
prevailed, a deputation waited upon the Provisional Govern-
ment, and reported what had been dune.

Two Irish girls who were plucking a cabbage in a
garden at Milford, Massachusetts, preliminary to the doe
celebration of Hallow E'en, w..re fired on by the Owner of the
garden, also an Irishman, and one of them, by name Bridges
Murray, was killed.
The Emperor of Austria ham ordered that henceforth
his title in treaties with foreign powers ohatl be .Ernpetor
of Austria, King of Bohemia, etc , and Apostolic King ot
Hungary." In the body of treaties hills title will be al,fire-
'tilted by the omission of all references to Boliernia,miJ ho
will lie spoken oi as " His Majesty the Emperor and King," or, "Lila imperial and Ito, at Apostolic Majesty " The ern,
pire is in future to be called "The Austro-Hungarian Ms,
narchy," or' The Austro-Hungarian State."
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1 here is a man in Paris, and will known too, who
is no stupid that it ea; said of him lately that, it there were
another de uge he wouad have to walk fiats the Ark alone. A
friend, the other Ility, asked him line happened to Yemeni-
ber the date of the battle of Austerlitz. " Bless my soul
no !" replied the man ; I never remmember anything, but
dates I lorget especially. I could not tell you alleu the
revolution of 1;530 took place unless I referred to my
diary."

The anniversary of Robert Blum's execution has been
celebrated in many German cities. An "In Asemoriam," by
Karl Blind was hugely pnmagated, the Frankfurter Zettung
and other liberal journals reprinting it in full at the bead of
their Minims. At Frankfurt, in spite of the vigilance of
the police and the troops, an immense black Lenin r was
found hoisted on the catl:e Ira] on the morning d November
9, and the excitement was intense, as the police bad great
difficulty in taking It down.

The pocition of the ailk trade having been prenaed
upon the attention of Mr. Gladstone, the right hon. gentle-
man has intimated that, "tn any proceedings for the
renewal of the treaty with France, It would certainly be the
duty of the British Government to preis for the nearest
possible approach to a perfect freedom of trade, espec;ally
In the case of silk gosals of all kinds, on the side of that
country." Ile it " persuaded that the freedom with which, itt
1800, we opened slur own ports would powerfully recommend
any representations to a cimilar effect which might be subs
witted to the Government of France."

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