The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
By the death of Lord Cadogen, end the consequent
elevation of Lord Chelsea to the Peerage, • vacancy occurs
In the representation of Bath.

Mr. Michael Mitchell, steward to Mr. James
Gabbing a large landed proprietor, was murdered at Slirush,
test Limerick, on Saturday night. There had been a dispute
between him and the tenantry en regards a question of right
of way, and this dispute had led to litigation.

A Paris paper is the authority for a statement that
a dispute has arisen between the English and French inhabi-
tants of Newfoundland, the subject being the seizure of the
fishing-nets ,of an English vessel by the commander of a
French ship.

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At the monthly meeting of the Liverpool School
Board on Monday, on the recommendation of the school
organisation and management committee, a collection of
prayers, prepared by a sub-committee, and a book of hymns
entitled " Gems of Song," were agreed upon for use in the
bard schools.

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By decree of the Prefect, the sale of newrpapers
has been forbidden In the public streets throughout the de
partment of the litiOne. Lyons la the chief city in the de-
partment.
The import of hones from France to England haa
assumed an astounding magnitude, so much no that official
attention has been drawn to it across the Channel with a
view of putting a stop to R.

The French Figa-ro says The National Amami)ly
U a ttrange affair it la full of centres, but baa bo gravity.'

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The Netervendor is the title of • new monthly journal,
to be Issued shortly es the organ of the news trade.

Father Hyacinthe's caaajutor, the Abbe Hnrtardt,
preached his that sermon at Gaper& on Sunday lAA to a
large congregation.

In the four months the value of guano imported
wU £648 562. which wee • great ineresae on the importation
In the preceding year, when the amount was only £27.505.
The births registered in Ireland during the year
1672 amounted to 149 %1-76 910 boys and 72,342 glob—
affording a ratio of 1 in every 15141, or 2 78 per cent, of the
estimated population In the middle of that year. The deaths
amounted to 97,577-49.168 males, and 48.409 female,—
affording a ratio of only 1 in 6601. or 182 per cent.
The entire number of marriages registered sires • ratio of 1
In every 198, or .51 per cent, of the population—the number
of Roman Catholic marriages affording a ratio of only 1
marriage to every 216 Roman Catholics :—and the number of
Proteetant marriages a ratio of 1 In every 156 Protestant.

A meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture
was held on Tuesday; Sir M. H. Beach, If. P., presiding.
Resolutions were passed, eritideing the manner in which the
Government had approached the subject of local taxation
reform, and expressing an opinion that any such legislation
as that now proposed should have been preceded or &mom-
panted by some aubatantial relief to ratepayers from national
charges, in the mode approved by the House of Commons
last Session.

We understand that ships of war are belng collected
for the purpose of affording the Shah of Perla, on the oc-
casion of him visit to this country, an opportunity of becoming
acquainted with the naval resources of Zeeland : and of in-
specting a large number of vessels of various hinds afloat off
Spithead
An electrical apparatus, to be placed in the holds of
shine, for the purpose of wiring warning in case of leakage,
has been devised by at. Sortals. On the entrance of water a
current is established, and a communication is thus se* in
operation, which gives notice to the officers on deck.

According to a return to the Howe of Lorda the
licensed game dealers last year in Kngland sold of game,
i,48503; wild fowls, 535,254 ; harm 640,293 , and 4406,025
Mbar... In the United Kingdom the game numbered,
1 641,960 , wild fowl; 680,368; hares, 702,830 , and rabbits,
5,104,817. _ _

At the unveiling of the statue of the late Lord
Derby, Colonel Patten, as • friend of Lord Derby's, mentioned
u • fact within his knowledge that when at the full bent of
his psulon for manly sports, his lordship composed an ad-
mirable religious tent-book for the Instruction of his
children.

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A large torpedo-room is ordered to be fitted on board
the armoor-clao turret-ship Glutton, 2, 4,840 tons, 2,888 horse-
power, before she. floated out of the dock, where she has been
n ndergolng the repairs la her turret rend erel 08.3111•17 In con-
sequence of the injuries It sustained from befog fired into by
the Hotspur. A toroodo-eom will in future be fitted is all
vessels built for the Royal Navy.

The last words of Msozoni were exceedingly
patriotic. pulsing to those around blobs laid 'When lam
no more do what I hsve dm. ever) day of my life. Pray for
Italy, fonts I.Ctorr and for his family, who hare been so g 3od
to me •-40,000 francs have *on already subscribed for •
monument fr him, and his house will be purchased and re-
tained man hist .ricai

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Mr. C. Ruesel, of Stubberi near Romfurd, writes
—" A letter just received has dined my attention to the
common notion that all soft-billed email birds are fruit
esters. In • letter which you kindly published on the 4th,
to the atetement that the garden warbler, blackcap, and the
two white throata eat fruit, I ought to have added that, to
the best of my knowledge, no other sod-billed bird, do so,
except robins, to an extent limited by their pugnacious dis-
position."
At the sitting of the Spanish Cortes on Saturday
Senor Figuerse, In reeigning the powers with which he had
been provisionally invested, referred to these occurrences,
and declareq that the present state of affairs was more
anions than ever, He concluded his speech by moving that
• Democradc Federal Republic should be proclaimed, as
being the form of Government required by Spain. Tide reso-
lution was at once taken into consideration, and was
adopted by 110 vote& •gidild 2-
" The Marquis of Lorne's scheme for increasing the
pay of the poorer incumbents in the Church of England has
met with very little response. Very few of the leading lay-
men of the Church have takes any notice of it whatever,
and some of thou, who r, are give it as their opinion that
what is needed in not the addition of new sources of revenue
to the Church, but the rearrangement end redistribution of
her existing revenum.--Court Journal.

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Admiral Griffin died at Plymouth on Sunday, aged
75. His exploits in the great war with America and in the
ft...len campaign of 180 helped to maintain the naval pres-
tige of England. The deceseed, whose long life had been
one of an almost incemant active service, worked his way
step by step from the lowest rank to the highest. He nu
fond of showing his scan and narrating his experiences as •
prfoooor of woo Dcrtns his later peen his Itbidness of heart
won him many warin Mends
In the Letsure Hour for this month • pathetic ac-
count is given by Sir John Lubbock of the last boars of his
tame wall,. Ho lays " Slie"—a commitment to the sweet
nature of the sex—. would take no food, though she still
moved her legs, wings, and abdomen. The following day I
offered her food for the lest time, but both head and thorax
were dead or paralysed : she could but wag her tell—• het
token, as I could Almost fancy, of gratitude and Mischou.
As far iii could judge, hes death was mitts Woken and she
saw maga a oboe In &NA Mama:

The Poor Lam Guardian Days the Local Govern-
ment Board do not Intend to appoint any mon facade In-
spectors.

The Earl and Countess of Craven have sustained a
severe donwetic affliction by the sadden death, on datarday
evening, of their Infant son. The and event was quite an.
mewled.
The value of the Derby Stakes at E prin. the poorest
in the mat eighteen yet" was £4,826, &LOOS less than in
Lord Lyons year. The Oaks was worth £3,400. • alai
little total for • week
Mr. Buokstone, of the Haymarket Theatre, London,
Mut announces the close of his season:—" The end of the
Wicked World is approeohing." The date of MU event la
July 120 L

Captain Francis Galton has made the curious pro.
poaal to people Africa with Chinese settlers, with a view, 10
would mem, of gradually improving the aboriginal Africa°
00th. lace of the earth. The idea la clever, and Eta appli-
cation might be extended to other countaisa

A gentleman in Florida time killed 900 alligators, none
Is than live feet long, from the D tri of mai December to the
10411 of Apra. The hides netted him one dollar a-piore.
making MO dollars la form months.
Mr. Whiny, formerly proprietor of the Liverpool
Daily Post and Journal newspaperaorse seized with pe
at eleven o'clock on Tueeday morning, and died at live p.m.
without having recovered consciousness.

A general -strike for increase of wages appears immi-
nent amongst the labouring clause of Limerick. T'ke °erten
In the employment of several firma have given notion that
they will not work any longer for leas than lie. a week.
Their present wsges average in general from lie to lb.. •
general turn-out of all the laboarms in the city is expected.
Tuesday% Journal Officiel announces that on the sth
Inst. the French Treasury paid to the German Government
the sum of two hundred and fifty millions of francs
(Z 10,000,000 repeseenting the Ord instalment of the fifth
milliard of the war Indemnity.

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In the last four menthe the declared value of un-
manufactured tobacco Imported wee £470,716, which wee •
leige therein on the previous year, whim the unmet vu
£294,457. Uto macaw:eared tobacco and snug the respec-
tive tunte were 4400,147 and 411106,801.

From April Ist to the 7th instant the Treasury re-
ceipts *mounted to £12.6.16,431. is compered with £13,41K1E4
In the correepondom period of tut year The expenditure
has been £12,904,461. On Saturday hilt the balance In the
Bank of Engincd exceeded nine millions lad • quarter almir-
ling.

"We understand that the autobiography which Mr.
Mini has left behind him, with instructions for be immediate
publication, is comprised within very narrow ilmits, and
will make • volume not much larger than his eery
Labeity. Within about the Isms ewe Gibbon compressed
what • good retie has pronounced one of the moss famcinai-
tinulnningrref In Ina language; and the worth of Kr.
Mills sketch o his own life will not depend for its intense
and permanent value upon he length."—Dtsitm Nene.

The Belfast Magistrates hive determined not to
snow processions in their towniat the approaching July anni-
versaries.

The Queensland annexe of the International Ex-
hibition mu opened on Saturday. It is attune on the ground-
duce on the north-einarn ins of the main building. and
contains an InteresUnn collection of *Wens illostratlng lb*
natural characteristics of that nanny.

The Khedive of Egvpt is about to mske European
tour, accompanied by • Imre mite. He will first visit Con-
stantinople, where he will settle his lateM married daughter
and her husband in an elegant residence WIZ his own palace
on the Bosphorus, and will then loin the Sultan in Vienna.
Leaving his Foreign Minister, Unbar Peeks to attend upon
the Sultan, the Khedive will go on to Vicky, where he will
rIKIIIIO for several weeks. and whence be will, probably,
journey to Faris.

A German manufacturer, Her Bastaert, In order to
dry cloth textures, pares them over several rows of pipe
aperture., out of which trues superheated steam Thls
penetrates the cloth, and dries it, In virtue ot the tendency
of the steam to absorb water, and its high temperature.
The steam is drawn Into a floe above, in which there is a
strong current of sir. One advantage of the promo Is, that
the original surface of the web la free from any Injury this
apt to mania from contact with healed drum. or plates in
the ordinary process.
During the week ending last Saturday 4,578 births
and 3,168 deaths were registered in Loudon and twenty
other large cities and towns of the United Kingdom The
natural increase of population was 1,422. The mortality
from all causes in them towns was at the rate of If deaths
annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to be living, In
the metropolis 1,909 births and 1,219 deaths were registered,
the former having been 207, and the latter 182 below the
average. Three person, died from smallpox, 22 from
mesalea 11 from scarlet fever, S from diptheria, 6S
from whooping-cough, 22 from different forms of fever,
and 17 from diarrhoia , thus to the seven prinidpal
diseases of the smock class 131 deaths were referred,
against 148 and 126 in tne two preceding weeks. The mean
temperature at the Royal observatory, Greenwich, wee 66
Megrim and this we. one below the avenge for the cor-
responding period in fifty yaw

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The receipts for the Parisian theatres during the
month of April afford a curious Indication of the dhiehod
of public tarts in Paris. At the head Mends the Nam-
Dramitiques, which, with the Ala de Madams Avid, es
oper.boude, took upwards of 160,000 losses: next can.
the Opera, with 100.000 franca ; and atter that the Thaatte
Francois, with 114,0010 trance. Last on the list of the prim
cipel theatres comes the Vaudeville, the reitelpta at wtdeh
reached only the small sum of 40,000 franca.

At a meeting of the Leicester Chamber of Agricul-
ture, the subject of load Mission waa discussed, end resoln-
Pons were adopted condemning the Mlle brought in by her
Majesty's Government, namely, the Rating Liability Vane
Bill, the Valuation Bill, and the Consolidated Bate Bill, as
eminently unsatisfactory. On the consideration of the Agri-
cultural Children's Bill, the Rey. J. Helloed moved "That
this Chamber approve the bill as a neoemary supplement to
the Education Act of 1870." Mr. Wilson, secretary, pun-
posed,., an amendment, "Thai this Chamber hot opinion
that the House of Commons, In extending the age of children
from twelve to Obtain, will, in some hutment, cansli=
hardship to be inflicted on labourers with large t
and great inconvenience to employers of the aplealtnre
labour." tir. Watson, to seconding the amendment, seal
the agricultural labonren meetings were Injurious to She
labourer and larmar. Tne amendment was ouried.

Some of the go-ahead ladies anon the Atlantic en
agitating for women's right. • *der a novel sad Nigel&
cant plum. Thus Ifs am told that • petition dined by name
than 200 of the Marimbas** women has been presented he
the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of that Male
praying foe the abolition of the law against the marriage of
a man to more than one wife "In came where the fleet *fa
does not object, and where it is made evident that the etas
is able to support the addifronal burden laid npon
resources." Mei argue that "the mum reports *ow OM
111. impossible to carry out this unwritten but rammufred
law," spathe) feel bound to look for examples of a happier stabs
of things in time. when "men', wives appear to have increased
in proportion to their flocks and Lich*" They my they
have not the slightest design to ask legislation in favour of
"free tote" or spiritual wives," but they require that the
marriage of the emend wife "shall be made as binding and
permanent " as that of the list. TVs is program with •
vengeance.