The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-24 00:00:00

LOVE AND LUNACY AT WINDSOR

CASTLE,

During the half-century that the Queen has occu-
pied the throne a large number of wandering lunatics
from all parts of the country have found their way to
Windsor under various pretexts. There is nothing
strikingly novel in the I rtion of the po3r Scotehman,
James Junior, who NVEIG brought before the WiudsoT
magistrates on Saturday, and ordered to be removeJ
to a lunatic asylum. Like many of his predecessors
who had found themselves in the same police-court,
Junior had gone down to Windsor to obtain an
interview with the Queen, for the purpose of trying to
induce her Majesty to marry him. As a preliminary
announcement .of his connubial intentions, Junior
had written a letter to his "Beloved Victoria," in
which he had somewhat prematurely styled himself
"Your husband the Emperor." Not receiving any
reply to his proposal, Mr. Junior took the trouble to
go to Windsor personally in order to get a definite
answer "Yes" or "No." Instead of immediately
being introduced to the Queen, Junior found himself
confronted by Inspector Bavago; and this intelligent
officer, being conversant with the symptoms in pre-
vious cases, at once arrested the wanderer. On his
person was found a large-bladed knife, which the
prisoner alleged he used for cutting his corns. An
unarmed lunatic is in himself a source of considerable
trouble, but when accompanied by a large-bladed
knife he becomes positively dangerous to the public
at large, and the justices did well to send him to an
asylum without delay.

In the Queen's Bench Division on Monday an action
for libel was brought by Mr. CAledge, late Vice-Consul
at Kertch, against the "St. James's Ga2ette," for an
article which appeared in that paper commenting on
the proceedings at the Central Criminal Court against
the " Globe." Mr. Justice Denman, suggested a Fettle-
meat, and saw the counsel in hie private room, whore
it was settled that plaintiff should have .;200 damages
and cost!.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE ARCHBISHOP
OF PARIS.

The obsequies of the late Archbishop of Paris were
celebrated on Friday at Notre Dame. At nine o'clock,
in the presence of the Vicars-General and Canons
of Notre Dame, the body was taken from the
Mortuary Chapel at the Palace. The hearse was
drawn by six horses. On the coffin lay the Cardinal's
robe and the biretta. The pall-bearers were MM.
Chesnelong, Baron Mackau, and the Superior-
General of the Lazarists and the Oblats. Moilsignor
Richard and M. Sarus, the nephew of Monsignor
Guibert, were chief mourners. The cortege which
followed was of a vast length, and embraced many
religious orders, congregations, and confraterni-
ties, each of which was preceded by standard
bearers. The 'prelates, of whom there were 35,
did not fall into the procession, but awaited the
arrival of the body at Notre Dame, along with the
parish priests and heads of seminaries of the metro-
politan diocese. M. Goblet represented the Govern-
ment. The Chamber and Senate sent deputations.
There was much less public curiosity evinced than I
had expected, and there was no manifestation of any
kind of sympathy in the streets. At ten the hearse
reached the door of the cathedral, where it was met
by the Chapter. The bearers of the coffin who took it
to the catafalque forgot, it was remarked, to uncover
their heads, and wore their glazed hats in and out of
the church. All the upper clergy were massed in the
chancel, and the monks and nuns of the non-cloistered
orders in the transept. An arm-chair, reserved for
M. Grevy, was occupied by Major Fayet, who
represented him. The Nuncio was between
M. Goblet and a permanent secretary of the Public
Worship Department. Most of the seats in the nave
reserved for military men were nearly empty. Mar-
chal MacMahon, wearing the Grand Cordon of the
Legion of Honour, came early with a few generals,
but of subalterns there were only a captain and a ser-
geant. The bench was more largely represented
than the army. Eleven members of the Institute
wore their academical uniforms. The internal deco-
rations of the church were what they always are at
first-class funerals. What was really imposing was
the Gregorian chanting, without instrumental accom-
paniment, of the dead mass. At half-past 12 the
ceremony was over. The body, instead of being
aken to a vault, was left in the catafalque, where it
temained until nightfall.