The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-10 00:00:00

T_Tpwards of twenty million persona have visited the
Crystal palace during the eleven sears end a halt it has
leen opened to the public, Melting a daily average OcOver
five thousand per day.
theltedisitosa,iLir,.,Timro,n.nanu,Benrt.a I,lautior., !,D,t
paper. is ai7olt to ;it' married te-titte daughter of 4al
Minister to Pass.
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It t stated thattor elggen mont‘Aeither rain nor
snow Tyes fallen at Ode, anti the create:ft distress prevails
coneenuempe Usenet
_part of China.
' About seven huared hogsheads of pilchards were
secured on the Cornish coast by St lees seines during the
past week.
"The Secretary of State for War Lee decided upon
grautiog a sub, tantial rewssd to the family of the mates
tunatedeceasod. Mr Snider, the inventor of the new breech-
loader."—rnited Service Gazette.
The gent] ex nen connected with the Atlantic telegraph,
who are to he made har.tiets or ko4ghts, will shortly receive
those honours. Her Mal. ay the Qoeen has not yet tied 'lnt
Whether she will dub them knig•its or confer that noi.our
upon them by patent, wlic`t is a longer process. Baronets
are always created hys patent
The New York Herald of Oct. 20 save—" Tony
Lankoff marrie I Agnes Kriept at Newport, Kentucky, a
weraago, and three days ettervezdv teeth ided or cholera,
and were ruried in their wedding gsrasents in one grave"
The Mayor of Manchester has called a meeting for
Monday next in aid of the sufferers by the Quebec ere.
"I. I.—Yon seem too good; but should you decide
as I wialsed I will do everything to promote your ..sipiness.
Continglitidisoppointments front No 23 have 'Mg, ti down •
the spirits.—As before."—Asivettisernent in London Times.
A terrible fire- happened on Monday night on the
Preleixs rf Mr. Lizerne, • clothier, in the Haresten!-road,
Lainioh, not for from Eaton station. Three of Mr. Lase nee
children, a boy of ten and two giro, and rovnectively nine ,
and eight years, were so severely bunt true they tied
while bring taken to the hospitej. The fire was caused by
an escape of
It is rumoured," says the Nord," that the reigning
Prince of Lichtenstein shows eymptions of mental ate nation.
Ills supposed t,at, In year the malady should inert, e softie
as to prevent Prince Jdhri If. feint *Confirming to reign, an
athaugement will he made h-twthso Austria sr d the agnates
of the license id Lichtenstein, by. which the rights of sone-
relonty to that principality would peas to the reupeterytan-
'cis:Joseph, in whole) states it in wedged

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A mend race across the Atlantic it to,be one of the
",eneations" of 10,.7. The American buildcre are hard at
work on,clipoers of both wood and iron, and at loom forty
mrianfficent yachts are expected to start bhnnitaneun,ly irons
7dev.:l(oA for Ilayse Amnntret the competitors will be Mr.
J:tmee 'Gordon Bennett, jun.. manager of the New York
Hera et for whom ono of the first-elwa A DletiMlU 514611111t1.0.■
haa now on the steoks ir yacht of 200 tons.
Two French peawintir wets discoashig the late war,
`ten one attempted to. explain to the ether the nature
...to tel.-graph. /Moir reptate Ily failing. he was struck with
'a brill, w.t I50'101), .. and txclatnied—'• Imagine that the
;telegraph is an immPe.se Ding dog—to long chat Palma lls at
, Vif ram, and its [islet Pak Woll, srePd ,di Its tell, which
.1a attar's, N.,i it wilt:beak at Vic 11.114 il,h3 you understand,
•now„, stupid, what the telegrafh te Wier'
1' At Tipton, an old woman, aged eighty-two, at-
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'Lt-ropted to lift a tea-kettle from the the, at die doing wi sl.t
fire to her dro qi. tier err arm and groans having crawn the
attention of the neighbours to the hour., an enn:Qice was
rOurained and the unfortu. ate woman wax found wrapped in
flames.' The poor womai was frightfully burnt all over the
body, and died shortly afterward&

iltWhbeerw'

In cowriplelnce of slime gentlemen at Chelmsford
hang art mpted tomit down the sth or November demon-
stratiess, the moot on Monday attacked their houses and so
serious a riot ensued that a detachment of &gem,ns was
stma for, and three himdred apectal constables Were
sworn In.
"The Fenian headquarters 'wear alively appearance.
Forty thousand uniforms are Bahl to be making They are
to he similar to those worn by the tutted States army, seep;
the buttons The caps are to have a band of gie-n ribbon,
and the harp of Erin is to appear on the front. There is no
truth in the report that Colonel Roberts has sold the arms
under his control to Santa Anna "—Yew York Paper.
Mr. Robert Webster, an elderly gentleman a Stoke
Newington, Lon 'on, died a say or two since Iron, running
oto catch an emulous.
Mr. George Peabody has precented to Harvard
University 150,000 d liars for a mimetic, and professorship of
American Archeology and ethnology.

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Garibaldi hoc juA written the following letter to M.
Lorigiola, who haa communicated to him a plan for at fin
meeting at Padua —"My: dear Lorigiola.—Bravo ! I com-
pliment you, and wish you every succe9s In the realization
of your limpet. The people shoahl be made to understand,
once for ell, that the carbite ought to be the g,pel of
the nation, and that only when well exerciaed in to me of
that arm wit thty be able ro ray proudly 'We are Italians!'
Continue, and I will aid yen with all my power.--Entirtly
yours, G GALIBALDI."

Her Majesty's Government having detesnrined to
witbiraw their elplotuatie repreeeetative from toe Court of
fivxo.Y, bud to break up the establishment of dm British
Leporti,n at Dresden, the Worm. nation of the Saxon King-
dom in the Prussian Monareby is thus formally seiognieed,
aun ene more epeadent Mate vanishes from the amp of
Europe.

A letter was recently received at the Academy of
Sciences of Paris from a M. de Dingle, dated on holm the
Zenobie f sleep, off the coast of Gahoon. The wdter
seniles she habits of a very young female fronds, which was
taken from the u.other while sucking. Is likes to hang upon
people's hrea-ta as if sucking its culla ; the sailors take off
their coats for it to r, 11 itself In ; It appears quite setenishsd
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to see them divest thernstives of their miii.' It likts bread
better thi.o fruit, so Oust it Is likely to outlive the pusage
home.

The French papers speak of a new description of
carbine invented by an orderly officer of the Mt ulster of Ma-
rine, it. Itonnin, lieutenani in the navy. lii. spoicen of ea
very simple in its construition, and in accuracy and rapid,'
surpassing everyihing of the triad hitherto invented. The
breach is Quite independent of the barril, and Is no complete
in itseq that it can be applied to barrels of the civets candres
I n use in the army. The management of the arm ts so Mmple
that a few days practice makes the soldiers masters of ii.

In commemoration of their
,visit to Norwich, the

Prince and Princess of Wales went thronah the ceremony
of planting a couple of treee—a circumstance which led sea
curious after-scene. Some ultra-loyal inemben of the crowd
ha.! t•roucht koivos, with which, as EOM tie the Prince and
Prlnceis had taken their nepartute, they fell upon tee =fort
tanate trees. Already a large munber of commemorative
sprigs had been out off when tie police, after desperate
efforts, succee.leti in ssving the unfortunate atiplin a from
further mutilat'on. They are now guarded day aryl night,
and this very Ltet tarry surveillance is to be cyutinued and

they have been surrounded by a s:rong fence.
The Times of Saturday gave an account of
the obsequies of the late huntsman of the Queen. Mr.
Charles Davie, who was interred in Sumingbid church-
yard on Friday last 'the funeral of inis populsi pubic
servant was attended by Lord Colvi.le, the present
Master of the Buckhounds, and by many of the most pro-
minent habituco of the Royal hunt. The Times soya that
Mr Davis', Ins ourite hunter was shot previous to to, csre-
mony, and that the animal's ears were turied in its master's
grave—an innovation which some may think, would have
been more honoured the breads than in the ohs, ,ahce,
savouring as it does of the manner in which widows use Ito
be dealt with in our Indian possessions on the drain of their
husbands.
The Rev. C. IT. Spurgeon delivered an address to
the members of the S iciety of Fricnds, in the Frbuds' In-
mime, liishopagatt-street, London, on Tuesday es, ing.
The subhct was the 'Life and Cnaracter of George F a"
The speaker strongly urged upon the members of the socisty
the duty of taking an active part is the contest against
Ritualhm, they occupying a peculiarly eligible vamage
ground tor engaging in such a contest. The meetlag was
very largely attended.

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The Entr Ark relates the fellowing : "One day the
protector of a very indifferent female rinser asimd for a
favourable notice from dcudo, the musics, critic. ' Will you
beg Mdlle X-- to slog faire to-m ...row night in the fourth
ac ? said the other. ' What !' ml.l toe 4,tber, quite
est unshed, what, you Into to ask me that?' 'My pod
air,' said the critic, • you have just a;.keti me to slug false in
my notice of her perfoi manes '"

The war in Germany took the army of Electoral
Hesse IT surprise, as at the moment of the Prussisn lava-
.ion it was without munitions. The staff sent to the govern-
ment of Baden begging the loan of some cartridap, The
bargain WAS coneludet on condition that p,linent should be
made after the ear. Pear restored. Be in fresco!' : her
1,11 to the municipality of Canal, whopa,sini it on to hoots,
which has annexed the }2.1,500rat,. Prussia conslth rs the
claim to be just, and pays in sterling coin for the ammum.
toms that nerd to he used bgainst her.
Advices from America inform no that a Canadian
jury his found the Fenian Colonel John Lynch and Ilse Rev.
John M 'Mahon suilly, and the judge has sentenced hlstio to
he hanged on Dec. 13, giving the prhonors thin privdege to
appeal against the decision of ihe court. The aewenoe has
caused great excitement among the Pollens —The N, w York
municipality has ',meet resolutions requesting the Cana den
authorities to release the prisoner?, and has also sent a de-.
potation Po Wasoington, requesting the PAsideist to use his
error s to obtain their pardon.

According to the Sunda?, Gazette, Mr. Disraeli has
placed the heads of a new Reform II II before bt co, 'agues.
It Includes, we are told, household suffrage In the large
towns, an 8t franchise In the smallur toofoughs, and a 201.
qualitica,lon In the counties The Chanceflor of too Ex.
ch,quer Is said also to orttemplate " a large extendon of
bor, ugh bmtmlarles, and an esc.usbn from the county roll
of to tern In respect of freehold property in b,roughs " This
Is prohshly old) one of those rumours that ate to be Loma
for what thty are worth, as the phrase goes.
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Many pereona will regret to hear of the death of
Sydney Smith's favourite daughter S%ba, Lsdy Holland. She
married in 1834, es his sec.m t wife, Sir Homy 110 land.
D CL, KR S. the eminent physician, 1....) biebllll in 0- ,Ineri
to the Que.-n ;Lire 1852, and has had Issue two dang,ters by
him. Lady Holland was author of the well-known it
of her father, the witty canon of SI. Paul's, anti potteseee.7.o
ellgrLt share of his humour.

"P. M.—Things are not no bad as yc,ti imagined. -
Everything is being arranged by your owg 1.5570c.y.ar hiOg
terese well rarest for The great barrier is not hetes ,ble to
Consult You netsonSleY ; this is ciuniing heavy and oceelers.
expenses Without loss of Mule telegraph to 34.11 r wife,
giving your address. She will rimmed iately cocoa ti yea coo-
thientially, furnished with fist particulars This is 11e onlY
step that will lead to things bring arranged.'"—adverthrentent
In London Ti.lnes.
One of the largest bake of herrings perhaps ever
known was ssourea in Dublin Bay on stanley night A -
fleet of about 100 smacks were engaged at the work, and all
secured snob quantities that great difficulty arose fa seising
In the nets. Tie fish were brought shore and piled in Im-
mense heaps along the pier at King.town, and she dlstzict
WM scoured for salt with which to pr-serve then. The fish
are now chit fly mod for espoitattou and curing—as since the
epedimic of cholera has extribl•ed ItAlf hi Damn* and in
the workshops of the sea coast the poorer classes have
evinced a din allah for fish of any description.

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hioekalerrattach,
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ancient,
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having Income vacant by the elevation el Mr. Charles Pollock
and Sir George Honey-num n
to the rank ed Qiee's C a onns,
Mr. Henry James and the lion. Alfred Th..siger hero helm
weinted by the Lord Chief Ba-on to sue. e I them, and e,
tpohensitthtinze eLtrtd gcoeuu .e. to take h
coon lost daybtisaau lv
lordshipse,i,cnsg!,i,,eris
to their offices.
An inquest has been held in London ci% the wife of
• mechavic, who has died front fright. A lea months neck,
while sitting one evening in her 104111, ...jcre was an a.,rm..f.
thieves In the a joining Wise, av d ihe was etc
frightened. The otter ledi,ers in the home w also
alarmed, loot the deoeased Was so exceedingly ternd teal,
she become ill, and never recov.-red her health. On Tiunday
lost elle exclaimed suddenly, I tvel so mislreole teat I anon'
I most die," and she died almost immediately. The medical
gentleman said tt at the cause of the deceased's deals was
valvular disease of the heaxt, indtwel by the sLock wf the
fright described.

The following sub jeot was brought on for disonasicos
at the last weekiy meeting of the Otford Union P. ...Mug
Socieir. viz :—" That the habitual n n of slang term - is up-
worthy of an educated linel shmall " amenimei, WAS
moved to the edict "That the habi,ual use of slang t=rme is
eirt.juo 'alai." The ameeduient was lost with mi.& olvisi.o., and
the origibal motion was reject-4 wine vo:es of the member*
yormt ut being takes, the numbers Iwing for Vie :unties,
elet ; against, twenty-three: majority azainst are et. Ca%
twrli, the question foe debate ou a taint.° intone, is,
" That In the viiiniou of this [louse lir. Bright is a re',„,tgetl
to the country th‘t give him birth."
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The effete of .he late panic in the tavjey rltt.rlres
are f he teut! la the law reports of the lono.on ra 4 • .0-rt
The s coral Cu ts of Crianetry opened so Situ: •CO
It turned ell, trat silm-At every case in every Cou.. •.,Ot
ills ht,ihest. related to the win .ing-up of 'lie
ory legal atino.phere," t ys (1119 a..m.t, “13 with
bursting Oubb.es. A golden showor desoends upon /I , loos
of Court, and althougn the I”ekgroun.l is male up of (a.quel
shareholders and anxious Creditors, the fort ground Is rr.uient
wttb happy lamilkwho are thrown Into high relief by theit
sombre sumo