The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-17 00:00:00


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HOME FOREIGN, AND COZONIAL.
foie thee it eight to stpte that we donee stall timeettientil --
tension* with ow cornattiondeut's opinions.l
' LONDON Aahsi.-A persevering attempt has
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' The world of politics WI externally calm, whatever
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•of the rigged balf-clad urchins from eight to_thirteen
lately been cionimenced to clear the streets of London
may agitate it below the surface. At such • *ier the. „ewe or age, who baserenne No pereeverindy every
. . speech of *Prime DlU:lister ie naturally read ern* more 'peeler by to porefilthe cigarffiebte, Nunibeet are
. than ordinary interest. The Earl of Derby alwaye , brought up evert ntorning at * police-courta, ender
F • speaks well; he is one of the first orators of the day, a recent act of Parliament, which enables ?Lim. affte.n.
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#' les ' • • and his speeches are always read for their intrinaie treed tee.dto
.ftend ench cihlr.ed,,t.ito i,n,iinthettriirsmeL,tied..dm
„ ~... -- merits,' quite independently of any political signifi- AT'thei'Crlel;liTaenthwir.lrhil n
pot lice-court on Monday an in-
canoe. Lon! Derby's speech at the -AI melon Rouse is spector gave an amusing account of the habits of these
sol‘melY • fair specimen of his eloquence, for it is city Arabs. "It ware" he esid, "no racy matter to
a oue-ll aeteuipt to
evidently somewhat marred by a desire not to put hand on you iuieht we we
anything which could be regarded as an -edic# eatch a crow. They evidently kept a good lotk.out,
eril took liiitit iestantlje is constable came in sight, ea
policy. It is in the freedom of debate, and wW- that it was necessary tto run them into a corner."
minds cf his auditory are directed to yen ' A STRANGE DoNATi off.-- Amongst the London
subject that Lord Derby, like
,thmet other-apeeirers Times' advertiiemente of Thursdiy last appeared the
• strives most. But independently of the merits of th hieing
pleasnredees dor ehg•r Aichbi.hop Manning acknowledges with Ms Val•kos the
alieectiowe can read it with
ie::;esralnil enclosure of .N. L L , received safely on Ns
---:" vreW tzit, ii,- takes of our position. Glancing at the
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' . late ussipetary pressure, Lord -Derby-payer." public `i- transaction to which the above annonecement
4N, 1 • A.'We tenet tie
credit stands unimpaired, esvenne ye n los refers it • rather extraordinary me. On NE lay
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heat -eta tlie commerce of the country never to my tete iin, a day on which the Gutipowder Piot is called
ef ,
.. by eundry teeque exhibitions in the fouhlic
anowiedg,,, was in as , better or stronger or woirthier i gro
. Archbisho -Manning received the letter alluded
~ • penitfoti." He takes a hopeful view al•o of the still th to, e encl. sure being a cheque on a leading bank for
de . -e- disiurrea 'state of America: " I cennot but believe," the lino, of ISOM The sender gave no OWne, but signed
he owye,.. "that that corintit which is so deeply in. himeelf "Gut Faux, a prote ot idn," and marked his
'a'a ,fl4.,.e • detested in the science Of iiilf.goverionent will , know,
.t pation "for the use of Pope Pius IX." Archbishop
inautliug looked upon the letter in the light of a jeet,
how to, conoteae the agitation which at present pre
a about throwine letter and cheque on the tire,
• •-,- • Voile, and, will exhibit to the werld, st...masiastant 'in wh.' ~ere Y
~ . tar a 1 •gested y that the lid ht be able
f.-pegiod. again, the gratifying prospect of s stoat, to trace the arothor eltthe euppoeed hoax, inasmuch- as
. rioaerful, and united republic ;" And he hopes that the cheipM with numbered and lettered by the liankeee.
.**l i-• • "we shall be placed 'in .•
better position than. Archbiebop Manniposgreed to this, and on the cheque
. ....1 ••. - we have ever yet vetoed is relation with that im ,c
hei,tnr,gpre.ionted at the batik, the inana,er said. he had
ti ins to pay the amount, and that the gift was
dr "i' 'great country to which. 'we see ibotind Ir so, that of a protestant gentleman, who was anxious that
t many ties." Lord Derby is humourtiome sea his naene should not be made known. The archbishop
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kt theering efith regalei to the invasion ot Fonge thanernitted the money in due course to Rome, and
is. next year to see the Exhilition, and no pa
of his thanked the donor by public advertisement.
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A. LONG RAILWAY.- The A thin tic end Pacific
ailrer can, have. been, listeseds.to with au much
Railway from New York to Son Francisco will be
` .al league,. There is One thing wWich is cittile
l r P -32(5) milei•long. It paste.. through St. Louie, Kansas
.sa about the noble lord's speechT, rinthing thar Ti in it, city, the heart ot New Mexico, and gets into Cali-
, • ..,„141 but eomethinif thaireonspiciatous by its abseil:me. He ford*, near the head waters of the Colorado river,
r•••er 4•441111114 e 'Anetrill, lie praises • Italy, but-nod a word • loge path in'the Rocky Mountains. The Railway is
about lemma ; awl ha tells us that it "oSterld be rinidly being mad e from le tth termini. By Jannan, 1
. 1868. it will be extended 1.7 Situ,le from New 1 oryk 1
preanature to express an opinion's to what may be its to within 200 miles if the Rocky Nlitontains. In two
-ultimate reedit." Fait it be that his lordehip is a or three 'io ea qi time s person will reach. San Francisco
believer in Old reel fed Russo-Prussian &Mature? troll Ethiland in Mile odds of a fiirtnight, and he will
ha made during that'period an ocean vdyage 3,000
4". 1.-. - ThAtiief cif GovernoeF.yre, which will neon tak e place,
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miles long. and pertornteti a- lend journey of greater
lei Sc •wi Wel perhaps excite as flinch attention 'll any trial We length. When the Atlantic and Pacific railroad is
.- shave hadifor Years: Secledecidedlt tkposite viworeitave ,-omoleted the route to Japan and China via New
leeirifitten et tip conduct. of the Governor, atel those York and San Francisco from this country will be
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i,baral bap attvocratedend controverted with suoh tense ull?elf the best and quickeet one. .
: City, that attest it has become quite a party dispiita and . • Alt Ocems YACRT RACE.-A dv ices received at
...bitlaisilight will the trial be viewed-, beeides exciting i t:itoLet state that thhet airraengehtnave.nteb,fioir the serest t
considerable interest on the part of the public generally
The course cis 1 7 beafcroml\l'ew York to ('owes. Three
' as involving important considerations in the dirties of tooters of yachts - Its. Bennett, jun., of the
a Governor, the rights of colonists, and thmalleged Henrietta; Mr. Nereid, of the 17ectwing ; and Mr.
'i • wroiteis 'di the- negroes. There may or ma-not be L•irillard, of the Vesta-have agreed to stake each
riottiething like vindictiveness on the part fif the I
tti,.11,"1,d,d015.,-mistihic bp %purse of 90,000 dole. (or pay
Jamaica Committee, and there may be a ' strong mos ) ; the first vessel in to take the pool. Toe
stakes are deposited in the hands of a well-known I
partisan epirifriii the part of the Eyre Defence gentle-- leader of the sporting world, Mr. Jerome. The
teen, -but of one thing we may be certain, that ex-, tonnage of the three yachts is nearly alike, the
GowernottiErre will have a fair trial, and, after elf ' Fleetzeing being of 204 tons; the Henrietta, 203; and
the Vesta. 201 They will start on the 10th of next
this controversy it i• s far better that the matterishould
month. These. yachts are the finest and swiftest ever
be brought before a competent enit impartial tribunal, built in the United States.
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- - ttial'circlith have lately been quite excited byinume. . A TNille 'FRAPPED.-A person brought a large
roue changes, some of them occasioned by thel touch box into the doorway of a wealthy shop in Turin, and
of the icy hancrof Death. There is now a rumeprthat linked permission to leave it for a few hones. Cloeieg
Lord-Chelmsford may resign the Lord ChancellSrehip, . time arrived, and as the box still remained, it was
!wed on end against the wall, to be out of the way.
and become the Chief Justice id the Common 1-ileae in'
IS the morning blood was olwerved on the floor, and
tie-room of Chief Justice Erle ; but it is also rumoured the alarmed tradesman, having procured assistance,
~. that Sir W. Bovill will succeed. the present !Chief opened the box, and found within it the dead body of
Alstice. One change in legal matters nettally peakes a notorious thief. The design was immediately alma.
' eniny, and there de always a flutter even amilet the : tont, hut it hal been most unwittingly frustrated
• through the box having been reared min& down. The
lower ranks of the legal profession when any rumoured . r • . would-be robber's head was where his feet should have
-Change- is among, the gossip of the day, lor no, great been. The difficulty of respiration had been incremed
, legal functionary removes from one poet to Mother by this; and suffusion of the brain and the rupture of
without "a large retioue moving with bile, ither ,e hided-vessel had followed.
directly or incidentally.
a 1 ' This VALDE OF CliftlOUB ARTICLF9.-A Rotten
At one of our potty sessions here eixty-eight tiadear paper puldiehes the following curious list of the priqiis
rhich certain articles of no intrinsic value have attained
then-were fined small sums tor false weights and ' roes- In consequence of having been worn or possessed by
sures...! How much cheating there is in the worl4 that historic personage, :- ...
. never comes before the tribunals is not a yoleauani sub-- i The ivory chair which was presented to Onitavus Waaa by
i cjeot of speculation, but: looking only M CA whi,h is 1 the city of Lubeck ...emit by an,tion In 1,25, and knocked
10owo no ttto)rianc. ham heir teflon, tg. the King of Sweden, who bid
diacoyered and " punished," if that is the right word,
,it is evident that the poor are serionals alneuiered, and The coat met be ihar]es 111. at the battle of Fultows was
1b..el ft nen. who followed the King to
- oftiar with impunity. Weights and measurea ought to trr,Ted bY
. This garment we. afterwards le ld for 22, 001 at
be sacred things, as sacred as coin or bank notes, and Edinburgh.
~ • 'rigidly _fraudulent sale by short measure or weight shAbtoTerstrt reel agulotts price ;tor e pair of deneing
• should be punished as • forgery. E very set of weights himself tr"ook Ypard.ur.ing t:::•7l;ipstrtetlit:re'ligntch lui
and scales, and every measure, should be certified. and theeltho the boots* of Helms.. and Abelagt were removed-to
' q stamped, and to alter these or pee any others should for oneTtaf ''kltooLlasaienetahE. Laile"tategeeneVe'ialapatilloffso"pt:Tr.:-.
be felony, punishable most severely. And I think it cartes' skull, put up for auelon at the soarmsnn tole in 1820,
flt?thnisr.. . .
• would be well if part of this punishment were to coni e 1 tnrtelltir :1 Vs tcKa ea 'tolliult..l,
ja.n.td.t.heßcred e
no.f
' eirst in the poeting-up of the names of fraudulent fetched 93411. Mi for an old eehocoat is laTioi a bad price,
tradesmen at the police offices, the Twin Hillis, or tics (I give notice that I purpose disposing of one of mine during
the terms write th cur-
of win•er on the •,ore , . e
courts of justice in the several towns:, Not only would thewoothi rooma wethee Nepotists the above.)
' t'llb poor thuele shielded from nefarious transactions, It. hat worn by Napoleon at F,glau brought 1,9201. at a
but honest tradesmen-and it is to be hoped that they recent sale:
are the overwhelming majority-would themselves be GIPSY LIFE-home revelations of gipsy life
were given in. case which was before the Waudsworth
' 7 the gainers. . , , i „notice-octet. London, the other dey. Two little boys,
"Owing, to th• ....weave demand for respectable , named Cherry, thirteen, and Sodas, twelvo, IbLe
servants in London," says an advertisement, erne. latter without shoes or stockings, living in the gips)
-Tting from a Servants' Agency. "clergymen and encampment near the Wandsworth railway station,
••••we brought up on remand from Saturday last,
Misters ere urged to make thi re s want known among charged with begging. A police.constable gave an
i}„llieig cosgregatione. Every information will be given account of the inquiries he had made. He said that
• feepersoesl or-written applications, and respeatable he went to a tent in which Cherry lived, and found
homes named while out of niece." It ii rather stratifies Jpg,ftieter in it with a child "stiff" with cholera.
thet clergemerrand ministers should be naked to make ere waa a man in
cholera. The '
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e tent also suffering from
al tn 1 planner al a father, but no mother.
such a want aa this known among their congregations; ' The father had four children, anti they all lived
die could not merely. he expected to mention fromthe ' and slept in the tent. In the case of the other
--pelpit a particular servants' agency, while as to the boy, he found ten person., consenting of two families,
demand for respectable servants in London, there is all sleeriing in one small tent. There was &small piece
no need for anyone to stake this want known. Every. ooff c..:nnit,a,s ingee teottoi.
ndiviidthe,thelif,ariniliebe, lot it was lull
,body
knows it already. As to any "excessive dentanff " clothes.pe. gm acid selling them': l'lrenTprisoners were di...
i.
Fmuch doubt whether there in eanything cif -the kind. calmed with a caution.
gliere is a regular steely demand for respectaffle GOLD IN NEW ZEALAND.-A recent number of
, Servants, and the demand is in fact maten tirap the the Daily Southern Cross has the following piece of
'Simply. And so it would seem, it is. likely to be. interesting intelligence :-
Every day it becomes more and more the custom for A return, showing the amennt of gold exported from the
girleto be employed in shops, factories, dm, and en the ell". ce
wencher °nit Ist cii:;ll7l4lN, .74.15, &odd •nilintb.the 31X'or
whole they find that, if their pecuniary position is not 'March, lace, has been laid on the table of thegil rinse of Ite-
thistle,. than •in domestic service, they at least' have presentative., • coop of which has b-en supplied to us.
h e
_roe:urns:too wn g tlizvt Itroo.m. Aitti,.l,l,lsoi dtkt,he2re.
577oezre: exr,rtetnad.
"Ask evenings," and there is • charm in *it whin!'
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t °,978
mistresses find it very hard to contend against. : 2,3340 z. ; ROlElOll[ll, 331,849,s ; Grey mouth, 103.415,. ;
Lytileion.23oo. : Dunedin, 21041001; Invercargill, 3,9i805.;
The Freemasons. appear to be going ahead. A. total 674 40905.
masonic hall is to be erected in the south of,,4liiii, at 4/. an qunce, gives 2,697,996/. -rather a large
,
trio., in Kennington or Camberwell, and I hear . annual contribution to the guild produce of the world
from a country which only a few years ago wag
. float a lodge of Freemasons is to be °petted Mr 3 deemed scarcely worthy the attention of the Australian
English in Paris. The new hall which is to be erec : prospecter.
Were will be, I believe, on a large !scale, anilailibq the
CALIFORNIA SfATE FAIR. The 13th annual
property of a limited liability company, , , , ' State Fair of California ended Friday, September 14,
*" 'History," says Emerson, "repeats itself ;" and the The weather wan beautiful and the attendance very large.
same author observes that "society never advance.." I. 116"611$11tie entries we (Daily Newt) notice a variety iii
dmestic manufactures by the higiies good ar of
It would almost seem that society, however!, "me' oto he
I in that far off land, and including ail the variety of
ittmle retrogrades. We were beginning to think that . articles our mothers have been in the habit of making.
;enrolling in all civilized countries was becoming at. One exhibitor showed 265 varieties of apples, eighty
;op rof the past; but in Paris, perhaps the moss of neacheti, twelve of quinces, 240 of grapes, five of
;hly civilised country in the world, duelling appeari of plums, forty of dried fruits, two of
...nd eleven of native wine. Then there were
to have re-commenced, and is almost coming ixitO samples of ores from various mines, wool of imported
lealtrion. There have been several within the last Joel sheep, borne, brushes. Sze. One lady had a quilt
months. The last one recalls memories of the worst which was made by Mr.. Martha Washington. One
days of duelling amongst ourselves. A If., Sequin Ertles, which are to be taken to the Paris fair,
showed 110 varieties of California seeds, in
t
asinf an officer of the ZOnSVOS quarrelled at a cafe; a I
blow was struck, a challenge given, seconds found, and PARTICCLARS OF THE DEITII OF THE BISHOP
lanai:arty set out, on "murderous thoughts ditent,ff feel OF CALCUTTA.-Calcutta advices now bring us some
.t.liedioie de Boulogne. Here they fought a duel with , Part
BisloTtcip of gidular,=a7el'ilthfa•-t death by drowning of thewing id from a relieble
rapiers by the light of a lamp, for it was late at night. ! source, being from one who was present on the
M. Stomin, who was the offender, was res thrqugh. ciocasien :-
tbillSodyf, and soon afterwards died. Whatever may. The Bishop was returning from the consecration of the
be the immediate result of this sad and disgraceful: inmenaTifelteagT on
noottLad atth6e3OßLL so -Saturday. fie WWI
SOW, it IS to be he/pad that the French euthorities yacht,) which was moored close to the Gunnstl'erleaZtli.e.
will do all in their power to prevent the recurrence oft Gonstrick being moored along shore, and having • plank
'rom the hank to the est. This nage was made of four
14 a blood-thirsty, SS well as such an. utterly absurd] each 160. long and 14In wide, the plank. bong
:tray of endeavouring to settle • dispute. ' so and two no that the bridge was some 29'n, wide
t 1 as: amt. long. Near the side of the flat was. strong esdy,
,ctlzey is again cheap, money being in fact-at leant.' tied ihe current net In under the flat On reaching the rive
a r
• ing hominy ciarrency theorists-a commodity.se 11. haolletane, pop tirt,lid itra;orae.ofrzom, e.firtibeld 1.74 went on to
much as wheat, or beef, or any other article of co.. we . lod by another servant. I was then on the bank ftr
nc e.
mrpe. The reduction of the Bank rate to four per? .brldge, about ten feet from the flat. The blot p stumbled,
moisi• will give- a decided impetus to trade, and per. , ths
hilt:the:mover a rope, which was pnt
... nt states across tne p sinks to
weether !as his ..; be put
hips rather too much impetus to illegitimaterapeinala. I :i.i, stick on one side of the plank, and so mimed the support,
tiort We may :pow look out for the Itheriation of ' was"XereTaa'thanat"tawael'vlade feaeatd dicaelp.TWoaltasa w'eraetagT;t 'aka
.isompany after company (limited), and perhaps in due moon as possible in about two minutes, but he oe'ver°roff at:
woo- we shall have 'mother panic. nor aid hla het or anything else appear We dragged the
river for two [weird between the fist and the ignore, and
Reader, have you ever noticed how we in England, (moving the flat) under the fiat also.
iirlao boast of •-ltir local self-government, occabionally At the departure of the mail, the body had not been
hanker after the iesternsl government of some contd. found.
nental countries!' For instance, we in London are A BOLD SPECULATOR.-A wealthy capitalist
has offered to the Commiesion of the Pari4 Unives I
'always getting up deputations to some Gevern.
Exhibition of 1867 to pay a sum of 320 0001 ' a
'meat department Wring it to do something or other for the receipts from visiters at the tari
ff
h.,ret:ir.llll.
A deputation •day or two ago waited on Lord sione which has been officially fixed. If that offer
Mtn Vanners, making him to enlarge Victoria Park, . had blip elawflidodi 111 rim of 160,600/. on account
taking in some ground that otherwisetwill probably be , would have been paid on the day on which the. agree.
n.ejl for some detestable gam-works. Lord John natu- i itrenot should lo,lbsiiigned, all the balance on the eve of
rat* enough doubted whether the House of Commons , a repriZTrTrawn up Ten the suwtTricvt7,3:V:rDeviTtelc):7l
graild provide the necessary funds, and, just as watt , man of, great expelifence in such all ore, coecloded in
rally, said the natter should receive his best attelhe favour of its adoption. It was, nevertheless, rejected
lion. The rinestion of funds-imperial funds tor local libn consequence of political considerations presented
inmepeements-oie always a difficulty, and in most cases lity.ottheetc'omadeston ap.PperiarnciiilPgall'o°wnishhe toT d::Ta7cl
seams insurmountable. Let me suggest a remedy in :itself against eventualities to which the yearglit67
tlu
,oes case. I feel sure that if a public subscriptionmight give rise.
wad' opened:for the enlargement of this park, it i ATO
....EFIiNCL OF MR. BRIGHT.-Professor Rogers,
would be well supported, so advisable ia it thought to in a letter to the Morning Star, vindicates Mr. Bright
prevent encroachments on a park in such a poor and 'from the'siTtracke whicli hav's. been mode upon -him for
densely crowded locality, and no desirable it it to pre- his statement atheit--the i,,norant labonrer's family
vent a beartiful park being spoiled by the noxious within six miles of Windsor Castle. Mr. Rogers thinks,
as Mr. lieght's assailants have thought, that it is not
and °Cilium • propinquity of eas-works. - very god logic to connect the presence of such ignor-
ance with its poorness to Windsor, and that the two
facto do not stand in the relation of canes and effect.
He adds, however, what is More debate'•le, that Mr.
Bright 4PI not intend the statement ti imp.). • logical
relation. 'But," he proceeds, "it is very natural and
very familiar rhetoric. One would, for instance, ex-
pect an orator whose present bneineen might he a o,m.
went on the groin orarruption which prevails in Wilidsor,
to exclaino 'Anil this goes on muter the !shadow of the
Court.' Or again, supposing it were feuntl that the
state of popular education in Oxford was low or the
morality of the city questionable, • speaker might very
innocently costliest the former whb tais laariarg of Its

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FlOrli FR trDS.--'1 he ArelbishOp of Tours has
odd re.el the foltowing letter to the French journals :
.4Cier. ema.ruera,tt,,plesepnatpeti being
ncti :Mat:
pdroa
pot
.tted trait ht::11.
10.'ili,..4mnatursi apparition', preceded or followed by 1
alg7the whole profeming to be under the eoprobetion
ral Bishop., amongst whom my name is set down,
hue never approve: of anything of the sort, and I have
eCI7 ressoo believe that the other veuerable prelate.
name. are need have not done so any more than my-
self, lam determined to take legal proceedings •galtut
eoe Perim who, after this warning. Mall 000mit an oboes o
oomptomoate tot the gravity ot opitoopol oloorootor.