The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-08 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEW&

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Count Moltke completed his 74th birthday on the
Ott

Pd. Michelet is writing a history of the year 1815
and tlas Restoration.

Some one suggests to Mr. Gladstone as new and
not objectionable mode of "cabin Um wind," the Imposition
of a fan upon perambastora

A meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture
wee held in London, on Tuesday, at the Salisbury Hotel,
Fleet-street ; Sir M. EL Beach, f P., in the chair. Amongst
the sul Jerk for dismal= were the pressure of local taxa-
tion, toe prr twisty of granting comp nsation to tenant
tamers for the value of unexhansted Improvements, the beet
means of extending middle clam education in rural districts,
the present system of outpoor relief to paupers, and the
alleged injustrce of the malt-tax.

A football match which excited • great deal of in-
terest curie GIS last Saturday afternoon on Perker's plea.,
Cambridge. The clmpetitors WWe twenty members of the
Richmond Club and twenty of the University. After one of
the most exciting contents ever known, the game ended In •
draw, neither party achieving • goal within the pietcribed
time. The eh) yinent of the game. which waa played accord.
big to the Rugby ruleu was sadly marred by an accident
which occurred almoet at the commencement. Mr. Sorot, of
Trinity got an untoward fall, by which his right
forearm was treasured. The limb has been set, and there are
no unfavourable symptom&
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M. Magre the French Minister of Finsnoe, has
trued his report. He estimate. the expenses of the war at
/3,739,04)0,000 francs (2319,060,000). Of the same borrowed
from the Bank i0,0000(0 trance nave already been repaid,
and 211,000,000 francs are still due. This latter sum and the
arrests of the public loans amount to 008,000,000 francs The
deficit for 1870. estimated at 179,000,190 francs, M. ldagne
meet. by reductions in the expenditure and an increase of
misting taxer This he mtimaie• would 11•10 191,000,000
francs, thus allowing • surplus of about 10009,000 francs
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The last advlces, dated October 9, state that Com•
modore Commonll lull remained In a very weak Mate, though
hopes were entertained of ii. recovery. Ile brings op.
good deal of blood, and on &be 3rd of October threw up a
piece of blue cloth. Ile IN very reduced, having been DO W
dfty-sla days on his back ; the doctors, however, think that
If bla strength oan only be kepi up, he will pall through all
right. It cannot be anserteined where the ball le some
think it has pared round the body and lodged le the back,
but ODD doctor farmer It la In the lungs and will work Its
way out Ha we. for tie ant Haw to-day twirled In •
chair Na dew is a trower form The syzatabataid.
laderrat NS Yr lin aalwaral at the Cape.
Ot dab ape dally past dui rad biasolo."

Between assidental acquaintances in Parlo—" Aro
you Bonownlllll or looloolot "N.. dr, I am Oho wind
ft lb* Oloolois Wise dress

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It ir stated that Kr. Ward Hunt is preparing •
meows for itso •isfoolhOial of tho ono laws, -with Stag Asir
of twinging ft Woos radiamari nen ofealon.

Al the London Coal Market, on Monday, house
was wer« Mier at prevleesretwo, the demand betas cheek« d
Wine Osage to the weather._
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The fou-adatlon-.toe of the new building, to be
erected new the Yeataion Howes by the NaMovel Mete De.
posit C mean) wit oe Tuesday lad by the Lord Meyer.
At a Boston testeurant a 'apply of Bre trout is kept
la a teak. so that agleam may pick out which Ilk they will
have cooked.
The few paid Into the Exchequer In the year ended
the lad et Ilaroh. wader the ad 12th sad lith of Victoria,
obey. 75. eatoadeed to .941,1154 18e. 95.
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The —Queentiown Cotondulannan have adopted a
tanntarlat to Yr. Gisclanono, pegging for Ye Maw of the
foinalnlng polkaed plowmen
On Saturday night end Sunday mornlnwevare
rvrtrsinitaa=2l:ressloi a largo billing. wlddi
was quits di:Word. _

Tea railway annpanies in America have failed to
pay Um November Interest on their bond', the a
capita reptmonted by Irbtob lo thirty millions of dtiCira.
Is the feet mine mooth• the hope.% of salted beef
he,. tboromed to 1.112C044. solo* • Ntb3,796 b. Oa same
period of the proviom year.
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The declared value of cotton manufactures imported
la ths lsat ohm months was /11,1t6 ee3 In the eorreepoodlag
period ot the preeedlog yew, £1143,2t_ . _ _ _ _

The opening meet of her hfnieety's stag hcands took
ploce to nwsoos et Salt HUI, nem Slough. Toe weather
wee Me end a large company of hake and gentlemen at-
tended the meet
In the present Tenn, commmicing on Monday, there
were 151 spplicants to be admitted as Monsen brides •
Lumber of renewed applicatlom
Next year Mr. /Sennett of the New York Retold,
puma to have his own reportage In the Homo of Compote,
and to publish • daily report of the debates.

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The brig Magician, from Pomaron for Maryport, has
Man svried on We rooks at Wm entrance rd WIG Tagus.
fbe orew went laved In the boats, and taken to LIAM.
There has been • large fire at Constantinople, in
'Fitton forty house. were burnt down, and another at Auck-
land, In New Zeeland, where property of the value of LIAM

There is • rtimourin financial circles that the Turkish
GOYOIIIIIIIIIIIt bee obtained en advance of four Wilkes
Marling through the agency of the Credit Mobilise of Palm
Fines of 20e. and 40s. were on Monday imposed
upon two ehopkeepers In the saMend at London foe having
gold lifework, to children under 16 years of ay.
In acoordaime with ancient new% the Lowdjitm
•iderinan Luck, Ili ) was on Monday .-1
to the Lord Chmeelicr. who formally ocinveyed heecials77ty s
approval of the choir* of a chief magistrate which bad
been made by the attains of Loudon tor the year limiting.
A Hungarian named Mester has discovered • new
locomotive which la propelled by condoned air Mahood of by
ateem Several flungsrlan engineers expeas warm Aaron]
of thin discovery, and funds are being raised tor trying ths
locomotive on railways and reeds.

The Francois says that the text of the important '
letter of the Comte de Chambord was entirely In Ms own
hand. and in a hasty style, winch betrayed rice In its ma-
terial form the ardour of the emstions under the sway of
whim It am composed.
A short time back Sir George Campbell prorated
the Ranee of filtklna at Deij.slia with a toilet bottle of
besot. /Ler Inghnisai drank MN ad Me amisnis before Me
ooald be stopped; and, when Mlamed el lbe Om are of the
1404.1, benrearereiy pared the on to he, band-

Athe funeral of Kin John of Saxony the Queer
wee repreeented by She Dole of Zdhabargh, tini Emperor of
Germany by the Crown Prison and the Imperial Routh of
nutria by one et las Archdukes. rho eeremony sott=
on FrWay morning, the SIM 01l , S. the loyal
church KS Dresden.

At Brighton, on the 28th ult., at about four o'clock In
the afterzsg=tor Terry coasted the number of
pleasure the MOM= of West. street, la
ten minutia, sad Seassardhat there wme as Nan,.. 274.
Me same lospwAer kat taken the treable to make muds s
roust for 17 years. and his list shows Ihall the above amber
Is larger than that of say of the preeeding yearn. with tbe
stogie exception that 276 were ommagsd la the year of the
Frau a> Pm man war.

The executon of Colonel Hargreaves, Burnley, the
largest colliery ownees jßeet Lastrakkke, bond notices es
Saturday, Magni that on sod after that date the pates of
their mai would be advanced at the Me of Id per sera or
Id. yew ton. This advance applise to ben stems of deal
A similar notice wee Issued by Marra Brooks amid Flacp.
of the Townley Collieries, Burnley.

At • °anteroom, of d"elecates from the various seri-
culture' labourer. union& held in London ou Tuesday, nearly
forty thousand numbers were represented. Its object was
to edeot a national Isderstion between Wm London and pro-
ctorial societies. Alter some controversy it was resolved
that the title of the new association should be "TI.. Federal
Union of Agricultural and General Imboorars."

News ham- arrived at Aden from Zanzibar that Bobs
Lieutenant Marcus ll'enualand, of her Majesty's ship
Daphne, has been killed by natives while mulleins after
Mayon Deal Brave. ha conseqinome of this deed bead
cream from the Daphne and Brawn have deetroyed the
village inhabited by the murderers, and killed several of the
natisaa

" spealung of the approaching maniage of 12is Royal
Highness the Doke of Zdinbargh at fif. Petersburg, the corre-
spondent of Le Nord sravily Mates that, among the gaols
distlogalebed Melton who will be present on that wisdom
In the Ruistan capital will be ' the Rake of Cambridge,
ClTltheme of the British forces, end uncle of Royalty,
lso the Archbishop of Wertadneler and his wife, .lad
of Honour to Her Mtjesiy.' "—The Times.

On Saturday a conference wee held in Dundee, at
which repneentatives 11061 the principel nuastaebenne
teem In Scotland were prior* with the Mew at dleennieg
Mr. Mundane's Factory HUI. After a long Mammies Swim
arranged that the si horn daily should be wrangle between
the home of six in the morning and NM at ale* end Ileat S
should be 'pacifically arranged that no laa should be m-
ei ied leery factory for more than half time who was wader
13 yeas or ses. It was agreed to inform Mr. Mandell* of
the Immolations of the °palomino".

The postal card has been • failure in Frame owing
to the manner its use hag been abused, bat More on to the
high rate ot postsge ssaoled. To tamely the first drawback,
by concealing the wrltlue, en eumlope has been invented by
which the address-Ws of lb. card .111 be expose 1. save the
(turner.; the other .be of the envelop* will close at if an
ordinary letter, but so perforated as to cunoml the writtrg
and to permit the clerks to me that on y a card la !mile.
The cards are unpopular, and nothing will remove that but
reduced poetsge.

Mr. Lain- be-rt, one of the best bar singers of Cathe-
dral music, was officiation on Sunday in the Durham
Cathedral choir, and Um chanting of She Nasser of the day
was] oat about to commenos, when the deems/id soddenly
11, striking his head with a fearful comb on to his desk.
Mr. Lambert, the father who was a wltneas of this, ran from
his pew to his son'. maletance, and lifted him lip, bat he was
quite unoonectous, and died Inunadlatels. The Dean at
once stopped the sersioe.

Dr. 13:ke oommunicatee the following entrant of a
letter recently reeelved from a resident at Bona, Western
Africa. under date of Anpnet it—lam promecUng to-day
or to morrow to Idmineo, Upper Congo. In ate. dans we
expect there the Llviosetow• napraution, which cannot
proceed from St Salvador. Llviagetone himself la • prisoner
In a town twenty days from here, but la entirely without
mean, to pay hie ransom. Ambiance bay, however, beet
sent to him and h. may be here Inn month or so."

The resolution passed at the recent meeting of
grooms and tea deniers with teem* to the Adniterallon Act
having been I orwsrded to the government, a teeter has hem
received from Mr. Gladstone stating, In re arenas to the re-
solution advocating the Insprotlon end enelreis or tail.
bond, that her ltaisety's advisers ese much difficulty in amy
Mealier* intended to make the diem of the government re.
rponsible in the came described,
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The Lanett ham good ground for believing that the
prolonged attendance on the Thdaborne trial wad the polluted
stomacher. of the court are telling seriously on the health
of mourn than one of the Jurymen. Symptoms of blood-
view:ling ham appeared hi at least oases... Toe Insanitary
conditions which affect the Jurymen Mil less visibly on the
judges, whom tolenwos of the atmosphere peculiar to law
ramie deserves the notios of the goolimatisation Moiety.
In receiving eeveral member. of the religious corpo-
rations on Sunday, the Pope said that the suppesedoe of
those bodies was a visitation of Providence Mamas they
had not kept up their discipline, and had booms corrupt.
If they.,.. matigembled Mecum reforms would be seam
sary. In reference to the letter of the Comte de Cluunbord.
hie Holmes' said that Provides** sated in sad
Its decrees moat be received with . He lies, at
the same Hew, a:medlar to reports from Hoene, addressed a
letter to the Count compratnlating his. for having dewed
up all doubts about his positioe.

A .notlos has been lamed by the French essosnl la
Los 100, calling upon all Trench subjecat widest In the
United Kingdom who are liable for the occusintlon to report
melamine at the VATICRLI French coseenlathe throughout the
country, under pain of prosecution by the military anthort
Mee upon their return to France, and the forfeiture ot eights to
protection from Wendt consuls in Great Britain. The parlous
affected by this declaration are those who attain the age of
20 before the expiration of the present year, end those be.
'green 10 and 30 years of age who Mee not yet taken part in
the drawing by lot.
On Sunday morning the service at TrMlty Church,
Nottingham, was brought to an abrupt termination owing
to a Ore breaking out in the roof. The names were IM
*Worth by • passer by, who communicated with one of
the chmish it; the fire not being thee dthernibla In-
side the building. The fact was Intimated to the Bishop
buifragth of Nottingham, who was preaching, and Ida
lordship requested the ooneregattoo to quietly withdraw,
which they did. Meanwhile the fire brigade had been
sent for, and on their arrival theeeeded in wresting the
program of the flames before any great damage wea done.
The church had jut undergone extensive alterations, and
WU only reopened on Fthiay het. Tne fire arose from •
defective fine and the overheating or the stove.. Than
an, no service in the evening.
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The Prince of Wales, preadent of the society of Arts,
inspected, In the courtyard of Marlborough House, on &War.
day, the four oar selected by the James (Bmisty of Arta)--
an improved Hansom, by Meru. larder and Co., of Wolves.-
I.,epfor, a two-wheeler, on a novel construction, by Thorn,
et Norwich; a four wheeler by Limberly of Londe*: and a
four-wheeler by Quick and Normington, of London. The to.latter can be 0.0,1 either op.. or Met Mks goys! alghnelle sr-
Erthimself pleased with the vehicles, and coneldered
nprommeets on those at present In ass.
The Daily laws' Special Correspondent at Cape COW
Ciatle, says that, according t Information which hat he..
received Mere, the King of Adiantee has sworn that be win
take the place or parish with We o hole wry in the attempt.
Two separate bodies of hie forma, one of 20,100 and another
of 12,000 men had mined fJle Praia All the necessary
preparations bad been made to receive them. The bush had
been cleared, a scheme of defame drawn ap, arrangemant.
made for lauding the marines at a moment's notios, and for
the co-operatlon of the erg. Another Correspondent sp,aks
In very maim/arable terms of the Fantle', as perhaps the
most demi:doable flee in Africa, who have lost, under on, pro
Section, any little meatballs they ever powered. They beg
for food, be says, sod then actually ask to he paid tor
currying it home!)
A great number of valuable articles—much as barge
trapplusl adorned with tar comer and Mher worms steam,
arms, (repots, and Mewls—were found to the palms of the
Khan of liblve, and In that of his favourite, Bee Mat
Muted, by the Russian troope A anal of money W 24 al.
discovered In tonsils (a sliver coin worth about 20 kopec
the total value of which was shout 48,000 roublm. No gold
coins were found, the Khan having ceased to strike coins of
that metal some time ago. Some of the articles toned In the
palace had evidently come fr on Europe : among the.. wore
several seeing machines Amon. tkui arms were rides after
the Carl 'prism, and Eogllib cartridges, and In the labors.
there were some Mania bullets, which had tut been
DOAng the week ending Saturday last 5,491 births
and 3,708 *arias were registered in London and twenty
other large cities and towns of the llnited Kingdom The
naturist increme of population was 1,789. The mortality
from MI causes In thews towns wee at the rate of 28 deaths
annually to *very 1.0.0 persons «Warted to be living. In
the mesropolis 2,470 births and 1,849 deaths were registered,
the former having bear 100, and the latter 109, in excess of
the average numbms In the corresponding week of the lart
tan years. Two persons riled boa small-pox, 103 from
measles, 12 from scarlet fever, 10 from diphtheria, 41 from
whooping-cough, 42 from different forms of few r, and 21
from Mantas& thus to the levee principal dimness of It,
tymolk clue LSI deaths were referreA egalnol7l and 109 in
the two proceeding weer. In supplying these facts, the
Registrar General Oates that the illemeenallir add Weather,
eels!, slurp frost; which prevailed Obi greater pus of last week, linfavrirably a/NW pima death-
rale led week, end especially the mesteggp bum atesesaa et
the langs. Ilk impomible loadhiel, hi,he area
of the cold weather may have sem ispivaled lw pi. not bleb Pas d °NIL

The dist edition of Mr. J. 8. Mill • autolifogikor
win sold la week.
Tb• trod* in Werke feathers %Wean the Cof 00.6 no" bow inogisse amount' in value to 4100,11111apa ran
Tits birds are nerd like pleura* and then leathern In
worth 60 salons per pouad.
With va7 little ceremony the Thou Srhibitha
wee 010.4 a. Sidarday the be that The darn. of th.
National anthem sod few rovonsive sheen hos ths
In the Prater loathed the tertniesinia of so eneldal
The Whew Ante of eafito, hal be.. !lead Nwp Haps, Uwe spy credit I nen almonds, whke tell ft tr
c:Tt there who nointly had • anew meowed teem boo
The proprietor of a wine shop hi Paris bops th
soonitittiothl question is lit iron a nolation seta ethelant drink mei whim dleowedny the Women, womb as
tepabllc.
The quantity of coal relied ia Gnat Bitola ik Ill! was lth 8173,563 kiss, and the hue 104 II 'Slag no
coal amounted to 1.060 ; thus thowlng that 116,409 lees.%
raked for each We lost
la ansonnead hymn Btaltierd tied Bees*
Auerbach I. shoot to proOluto • DOW MOWN%
mats of the Ws war with that bone Ul,th• inkh
populdloa of the Sleek lowed which bli"xnereeha' elk
other well-known novels have made farahr to Len
eesdona
Lord Chief Justice &rill died on &harden se kh
cueruciee, all Combs In Read For • short Ike pool hao..
been ailing: bat it bad been pposed that in noir,
wee encesoildnit to medical treatment The mak* nb
ra-=t„ however, wee lalladoes; d s rapid Ono I,
led an
So kis ounewhoi sodden death.
Th. Devon Oa 811Pirsetii.iw. Which eseanob
the Greet Raters spina *lli wove boaiend see Inn
Devon ham benunpthoil yin •The Mae St win
long, end Is on the broad namer bas both no Hann
coostructloo and hoe oast shoat £21.000 • nth, dhow, he
Wesel estbseted .018 w.. MI 48,1100 per Lie.
The Lhnerkk Fannon' Club hare adopted reran
Um In favour of Rome Rule. A number al WO Altaileaki
forwarded a loner protesting against that then ai
width would In reality convert the Aesonano• lien a
• lineees'4llab p 1 Zane Rot ..aloneeloa.
"Out of a draft of 48 neernito mat fres the Slik
Meade Depoltran the hwaitusereere el the!
If bad bean Is Louden, amp Ins pouboW6
would naturally It Si. mated that they bed bin
Soled So Norlolk. do moth tor the vended new spene..
Court Journal. •
The Town Triads= of SWIM have decided h
prober Sweaty ewes of lend la the olthitirts of Sinn,
Ice the Perron of s perk etcreSeastesoll-
h It led
to be Amoco. • Sew
Shoaled wetland a perk in • one r 411,114 isa Bk.
So be purchased by the Tonle bedew Is to mann
to IL
Iddlia. Eugenie Billiard, a round Indy ode nil
yearn et sp, shade her dart se a priniels al /f. thnon
Concerts, it Cored deeded medic Ear ki
"The boll= Rana" whisk was esithellies
showed the mein lanniellea she bee indergoan elea
much proada• for Iter asPero thew.
The late Mr. Solt ?dike WhellerAst.B.C.4
lag., who poetised sway pen at noo
quathed the reddth at We papaw lo err
ebati id Ines
lee am use Ploy ice the Medd of boob*
the pranced free Stag. rirs moo&
AIL• 00.
The Queen attended the pad& okapi of Cradle et
Bundsy, and took part In the eelobrothe el as lan
othamnsloo. Ile Coutes, ol throll, Lay Ikea
ma& the elm Oof Yu nset Ni et the oteunsini
table. hfrirsavy. Dr. Taylor WM ethisted by the Rot Eng
Clank d Aberdeen.

"A etread oneltallat" table • WT. "e Mee
=age =Woe of ladle aphid laropesa edeeella OM
,y. • km Issisame on= of onveselea kMe
Iran sere of Ihs ken ; bat I an sony to why Soo any
liars their one silks tor what they tea get by the dim
I wag cam Idrker• wreak sad eind wok • wbAs Amu,
7011 .1. eke be, with • broad to, • lan adebelet
ores-4 sea eat sad dent unthlag.' •
The Sea Diego (Oehlande) Man to. gat I
favottgeto path= there at pressat Is to phis* a nous ado
krealan to a largo kale, sad 101 =gm hem it oot. A
onabed of tbls deseelplise, I. vldlb the yaw, alto
severs onto= goesantsal to Ms nano to auralst Sobs
Acne-dog style, by tie Maw.
While Prodded Gault WM Mon the bk
Wodadaster, Md., I,s poor old ran weailaimeest
Ida by the head sad latod, ellbtoan,embedevalte
obson, "mask God, Ilisser, yea aided years I. Mu
NMI= ago frog—you sod Mew, Umiak, sod I patter I=
giod bisosyoc every ali& of lay Mkt dolor thst. fed Mr
Foe, Manor 1700 sad Ineen--Ged bleu you
In • paper on the !ogee& sad bleary of oak's
plasma reed recootly baker the 5001017 01 Menet Innen
M isgaboarse, the following =nom della often la
Preece the tear do lye k losansdbysosonptseeoga.t
de Lode ; It don am repronat, as to 5.an,11y nypfsel„
sow of • lily, bet ea Its, Ml* was the en*.
adopted by Loafs VIL oa ken= for the Cranks, sad
wore by the =apogean of that Moaaretg" Pres lank
Leak aims tear de lays and thea agar de Iya

Mr. Buckmaater's cookery elan at th• Intaraathaal
liblbtMon hll4 forth. present rioted. la his last ledge, be
mentioned that the school bad been mimed fal
during which time he bed admire& nearly elitay=
persona, and had delivered two and sometimes three Mime
daily, or altogether MO. For the peat three weeds Me I.
tandance had been greater than at any plutons esiel.
What lona the school would mum in the Mon Isa
impossible lot him to say. TIN commlllse mood Ils oak*
Us. arrangements for • permanent pmeMml seised wail, la
nil probebility, shortly publish ahem*

At a meeting the other evening, Mr. Spurgetm eett.
plained that bironeidersitstrpi• loanitlinee pat sprallemile
him which It woe vary [La want to eamter, Metaateig
• gentleman asked him w Tabernacle would do who
he was dead. He answered this oseetton with eaellre,
" Pray, sir, what will your wl,e do when you are deter
His interrogator changed the subject. At thetas' Esslin
Mr. Spurgeon remarked on the large Dauber of pound ado
which he received from licotUad, hi supported the hatorohnl
institutions cemented with the Tabernaolie.