The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-22 00:00:00

" May the cock of Scotland never crow,
May the rose of England never blow,
May the harp of Ireland never play,
Till we poor bakers get better pay."

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Presidtnt Grant bas sent a message to Congress
urging the adoption of legislative measures to prevent the
Interference of the territorial with the Federal Court& in
Utah, and to lad itate the execution of the laws against
polygamy and other crimes. General Grant declares that the
conflict existing Iv twsen the courta which renders the laws
inoperative, may result in violence and in the necessity of
mititary interference, unless congress speedily intervenes.
A farmer of the old school ban declared in public
that he thinks draining now a days is like the old system o
bleeding, which was thought the cure for all diseases. He
considers the drains run off much of the strength.f the soil,
while in that state of solution most conducive to vegetation.
lie believes that if drains were made upon the level &crow
field, and not with a declivity, they would dry the surface
soil and retain the moisture and juices after droughts; but
they would require to be deep.

At St. Vin-cent's Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool,
on Sunday morning, the Roy. Father Baynes made an an.
nouncement confirming the statement that the very Rev.
Canon O'Reilly, the pastor of that mission, would succeed
Dr. Goss as Bishop of Liverpool. The consecration of the
new bishop, at which Archbishop Manning and moat of the
English Roman Catholic hierarchy will assist, is expected to
ake place shortly before Easter

A female patient lately died in St. George's Hoe
pital, London, from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid, ad-
minittered to her in mistake for senile by one of the nurses.
It was admitted that bottles of carbolic acid were sometimes
I,ft lying about in places from which medicines were taken,
but the secretary explained that the nurses were expected
carefully to examine the labels. The jury returned a ver-
dict exonerating the nurse from criminal neglect, at the same
time crongly censuring the hospitat authorities. The
coroner suggested that carbolic acid should be kept In strong
stone bottles, whi ;11 could be readily distinguished from those
containing medicines.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Mr.
Lyne, the father td Father Ignatius, sought to recover gem-
peneation aga not Messrs. Sampson and Low, the London
publishers, for declining to publish a paniptilet. About
twelve months ago, the plaintiff was anxious to issue • work
upon Tribunals of Commerce; but as, upon examination, it
wee found to contain matter which the defendants COR.
sideeed to be of a libellous ammeter, they declined to under-
take its publication. Mr. Justice Lush held that Messrs.
Low were justified, under the circumstances, in breaking
tpeir contrast to publish. The plaintiff was therefore non
suited.

The promoters of an Hospital Sunday for the metro-
polis have had their sh..ritable itrtlollr somewhat damped by
a letter from the Bishop of Lmdon, dissuading them from
Initiating the movement this year. Ills Lordship enclosed
returns respecting t• e opinions of the clergy In his diocese,
which he alleged were not favourable. Lord Shaftesbury, in
moving the first resolution, expressed crest regret that such
a letter had been written. Several clergymen present de-
precated any suspicion that they, as a class, wished to hold
aloof from the movement. Sunday, the 15th June, was flied
upon as the day for th, first si =Mateo!. cdlection.