The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-15 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.

A despatch from New York, reviewing the immigration
Into that city during the month of April, says :
" Never in the history of immigration has that month
been paralleled. Hitherto the largest number of immi-
grants received at Castle Garden in one month was In
April, 1873, when the total reached 42,743—figures
Which were considered phenomenal. The total for last
toonth, however, exceeded those figures by nearly
3,000 souls, being 45,274. The significance of the
gures is that they increase daily, and that. the
kr_ospect for May is for an equally large immigration.
The Emigration Commissioners are basing their esti-
uaates on a total immigration for the year of 350,000,
but' probably the actual number will reach 400,000. •
The resources of Castle Garden, ample as they have
always been, are now taxed to the utmost, and the
l'allway companies are running extra trains to carry ' .137,a31' the waiting crowds bound for the West. On
si."l.Bday, the 29th of April, no fewer than seven
:ftL.eanaers arrived from various countries in Europe,
ch crowded with emigrints, and for almost the first.
"Ille in their history the Castle Garden authorities
%eWere unable to meet the, rush, consequently two
arners had to delay landing their passengers until
e following day."

THE BURIAL QUESTION.
Burrlittee 13ishop of Lincoln Speaking at a luncheon at
in rwick said it was now 240 years since the open-
of tile Lon; Parliament, which • that just elected
41 B°lne respects resembled. We might very well,
consider what occurred between 1640 and 1648,
and - during the twelve years of republican govern-
inent - which came to an end in 1660. He
had heard -it said in tlfe House of Lords that it
did not signify AO long as the dead received a reli-
- &inns burial, and that it did not matter whether the
service was performed by a minister of the
Church of England or by one of any other denomina-
tion. But we had only to loOk back at the state of
things which existed between 1640 and 1660 for an
abswer to this kind of talk. The'chnrches and church-
Yards then were given up to Presbyterians; Indepen-
dents, and Baptists, and Fifth Monarchy. men. He
,woulds like to know if any one had considered what
Rind of services Were performed in those days.
. There was scarcely a heresy of any kind which was not
'ln'tro d u c e d when the service prescribed in the Prayer
tinnk wa.s discarded. That was precisely what was about
to•be . attempted in the country at the%present time.
I,f"Are allowed the churchyards to be surrendered in
"lig way we should open the floodgate of heresy and
blasphemy. Ile sincerely hoped that some of those
present might study history and look at what occurred
In' Lincolnshire and in every county and every diocese
ng.land at that period. He hoped that those who
84 to legislate on matters affecting the welfare of the
Church would take these things to heart.

THE FRENCH WAR INDEMNITY•
.
The
`4e final report of the expenditure of the war in-
rrunity paid by France to Germany
.-has been sub-
tol the Federal Council; and it appears from
this return that the total amount received was
4:210,354,8°0, and that at the end of last year
28,038,849 had been spent upon the fund for in-
tvalided soldiers, £10,800,000- for the transformation
blld B.rmament of German fortresses • £8,580,884 upon
r,ailways in Alsace-Lorraine; £6,495,380 upon the
i„,'"Llajra, completion, and armament of the fortresses
'ue .annexed provinces; £6,000,000 upon the Im-
.Derial war fund; £600,000 for rewarding distin-
ilished services. and £300,000 for indemnifying
`-,Arreans who were expelled from France during the
In addition to these expenses £1,200,000 was spent
livyr on the new Reichstag palace ; while further stuns
t 0e employed to redeem the Treasury Bonds issued
t
.9 increase the strength of the navy, to indemnify
ti rail,waY companies or the rolling stock requisi-
. gZidied "urillig the war, to give pensions to invalided
ern, arid- to strike commemeratiye medals.