The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-02-20 00:00:00

At the London Bankruptcy Court on Monday, the
failure was announced of the liccours.ble Charles
Lowther, who is described as of 6, Grove-end, St.
John's W-c,rxi. gentleman. The public examination is
fixed for the P'd of March;
Lord Forester dierl on Sunday morning after a short
illness at his house in Carlton-gardens, London. In
default of issue ,he family honours devolve upon his
brother, the 11072. and Lev. Orlando Watkin Weld
Forester, Rector -cf Gedling, Notts, and Canon of
• k.
At the phosphorus works of Messrs. Albright and
Wilson, at Oldbury, cra Saturday, a labourer named
Sadler was buried beneath five or six tons of material
which slipped and fell, and he expired before he was
extricated.
The" City Press," quoting from a speech delivered
by Mr. A. Burdett-Coutts, hi P., at a livery dinner of
the Turner's Company, states that during Monday's
riots the Baroness Burdett-Coutts's windows were
broken, and that she herself was pelted with stones on
going to the windows tS see wnat the matter. For
fifty years he did not suppose that any demonstration
had passed her house without raising loud and hearty
cheers. _ _

At half-past two on Monday afternoon the first
meeting of the new Cabinet was held at the Premier's
official residence in Downing-street. The whole of the
Ministers were present with the exception of Mr. John
Morley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
There was an Anarchist demonstration at Pere
Lachaise on Sunday afternoon, to celebrate the anni-
versary of the death of Jules Valles. Mdlle. Louise
Michel was present, and was one of the speakers. All
the speeches were made up of the necessity of employ-
ing force for obtaining social reforms. Congratulations
were sent to the assumed English revolutionists.
Subsequently a meeting was held at the Salle Graffard,
when Louise Michel dwelt in glowing terms on what
she called the " Reveil de l'Angleterre."
A painful discovery has been made on the Glamorgan-
shire coast, at Llanmaddock. William Thomas, a
labourer, was passing over the Whiteford Burrows
when be found the dead body of an old farmer named
David Roberts lying half buried in the sands. It is
believed that the de-eased, who was in his 76th year,
was crossing the sands to Llanmaddock, and got into a
sand hole during a dense fog, and was drowned.
At the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday afternoon,
before Mr. Justice Day, Michael Lavelle, 16, was sen-
tenced to death for the wilful murder of Michael Fitz-
patrick, a sawyer. The deceased and the prisoner
worked together, and the latter being discharged by
his employer, accused the deceased of being the cause.
He waylaid him on the way home, and assaulted him
so seriously that Fitzpatrick (Led is few hours after.
wards. Lavelle was recommended to mercy on account
of his youth.
Although no full account has been published of
Messrs. Needham and Molesworth's recent adventurous
journey to Kima, some few details of geographical in-
terest have (the Calcutta correspondent of the " Times "
says) become known. The outward journey from
Sadiya ocupied 22 days. Tibet is not barred off in this
direction by high snow-clad passes; but the country is
very rugged and the tract ascends and descends the
mountains which are piled round the ravine of the
Brahmapootra. The identity of the River Sanpo with
the Irrawaddy is now disproved, also the theory that
the River of Zayal is not the Prahrnapootra. The
stupo rises several days' journey north of K.ima and
joins another large river rising the other side Of the
same mountain, and their united waters enter Assam
under the name of Dihing.
The proposed expulsion of the Princes from France is
shortly to be discussed at a Ministerial Council. Four
out of the eleven of the Mi dsters need no presgire to
bring them to give an affirmative vote. The others
are neither for nor against the measure.
At Sierra Leone the troopship Tyne, with one of the
West India relief regiments on board, has been de-
tained by the Governer in consequence of rumours
of an intended raid on the settlement by inland
tribes. _ _ _

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On Monday the Prince.; Louise opened a new build •
ing for the Maida Vale High School for Girls. The
institution is one of thirty belonging to the Girls'
Public Day School Company (Limited), of which her
Royal Highness is patroness. The compdny was
founded fourteen years ago at a meeting in tLa
Princess's rooms, Kensington Palace, its object being to
improve the higher education of girls.
On Monday evening a fire broke out in the basement
of premises in Houndsditeh, London, occupied by
Messrs. Anton, Brenda, and Co., Japanese merchants
and importers. The basement, some 130 feet in depth,
was full of inflammable goods, and for some hours it
was found almost impossible to approach the actual
scene of the fire. Damage was done to the estimated
extent of 125.000.
Mr. 0. H. Hopwood, Q.C., has been appointed to the
Recordership of Liverpool, vacant by the death of Mr.
Aspinall, Q.O. The salary attached to the post is about
£lOOO a 3 ear.
Speaking at Wednesbury, Sir Richard Cross criticised
the public career of Mr. Gladstone, who, he said, could
not understand how the nation should ever wish him to
be out (.1 power. He declared that the Conservative
party could never consent to a separate Parliament
being granted to Ireland.
One of the members for Illinois has brought in a bill
into the United States House of Representatives for
the reduction of the customs tariff to the extent of
about 20,000,000 dols. per annum.
At the annual meeting of the Imperial Feleration
League, held at the Mansion House on Monday, under
the presidency of the Lord Mayor, several members of
Parliament of both parties were present. A resolution
was passed commending the objects of the Federation
to the support of all British subjects.
The Royal Geographical Society has, it is stated,
taken a step which may be expected to add materially
to the value of the records of scientific travel. Hitherto
explo:ers have not always been masters of the art of
photography; but the Royal Geographical Society has
now made provision that in future its agents may be
thoroughly well equipped in this respect. For this
purpose Mr. John Thomson, F.R.G.S., 70e, Grosvenor-
street, has been appointed instructor in photography to
the society. Mr. Thomson is not only a successful
photographer, but is also the author of several impor-
tant works of travel.
The death is announced, in his 79th year, of Mr.
Edward Anderdon Reade, C. 8., of Ipsden, one of the
elder brothers of the late Charles Reade. Mr. Reade
was Acting-Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West
Provinces during the Mutiny, organised the defence of
Agra, and rc ndered efficient service to Havelock by
keeping him supplied with money.
Seventeen Republicans have just been returned in
four French Departments, the elections of which had
been invalidated by the Chamber. The unseated
Deputies were all Conservatives.
A singular case was tried by Mr. Justice Stephen at
the Winchester Assizes on Monday, when Charles Cull,
a blacksmith, was charged with damaging shrubs to
the value of Ell. Mr. E. H. Pember, Q.C., had, at
Vicar's Hill, Boldre, a fine collection of rare trees and
shrubs' and these he found on January Bth destroyed.
The act was traced to Cull, who had a spite against Mr.
Pember because he had refused to permit him to work
for him again. He was sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment.
A question was on Monday raised before Mr. Justice
Chitty, under the will of the late Dowager Lady
Ashburton who died in France, having bequeathed to
her daughter and others large legacies and annuities,
which could not wholly be met by the personal estate
in this country. His lordship decided that, as the will
was in English form, the real estate in France did not
pass under it, and would be divided by the testatrix's
two children, the Duchess of Grafton and Lord Ash-
burton, without any liability under the will.