The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-15 00:00:00

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IUEEN' S DRAWING- ROOM. EDUCATIONAL PRESSURE. . CHEAP POSTAGE-AND ITS _BREWERS' LICENSES. CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
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crushedßailwaye erec- A telegram from New York says that an old shell
• ADVANTAGES. ----
The Chicago Blun,clerbuss says that Bill ng
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r.,21,700 have been subscribed towards the .
derminster, and the memorial committee have now deter- death of six workmen standing near at the time.
the Queen held a Drawing-room at A largely attended meeting in connection with the Social A Parliamentary return issued shows that in the tion of a statue to Sir Rowland Hill in his native town, Kid- has exploded near Fort Macheny, Baltimore, causing the
In a leader on the recent appointment of Mr. Fawcett to year ended September 30, 1879, licenses were issued ini sin mined uor the size and shape of the pedestal, and the site At a meeting of tinplate workers' delegates at
.r.:e on Tuesday afternoon. Science Association was held in London on Monday night
nemees the Prince and Princess of at the Caledonian Hotel, Mr. Joseph Brow'', Q.C., in the the office of Postmaster-General, The Times remarks :- e following It
the whole of the United Kingdom to 2,6443 common asked of one of the "dearest and best 'S -
Isis pilosophical studies has the - • - Josh• .
wives, who was con-
manage him?" Ali l . , with a merry twinkle InThomas Todd, a servant of the Great Western the men having,generally agreed to the proposition to do so.
ehair, when Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D., read a paper on A burden is laid uf the brewers, not being vietuallers or retail beer-sellers; t
upon every member o e new• 1 h • h d t'
o spicuous y happy in her oraes lc relations-how d
em .-We heard upon which the memorie willl be erected. Swansea, it was resolved to .reduce the work by one-third,
Garden entrance of the Palace,The Cunard steamer Tarifa, which arrived off Cork
,se, attended by the Countess when
Pressure."
Ministry to justify the expectations formed of them, 99,013 victuallers, to 37,849 persons to sell beer to be" she said wi at
afternoonetuhdeay Eastern deps t ,
between Swansea,thebuffers w'as
harbour an Monday, reports having passed in the Atlantic,.
Mrs. E. Coke, Lord guffield, Declining to express any opinion on boys'
schools, and the Postmaster-General is no exception to this drunk on the premises, and to 10,079 persons to sell soft eyes,. "the best way to manage a husband is not to of some trucks in the goods yard. He leaves a wife and on May 3, three icebergs in succession, one of which was
K 3 Major-General Sir
•, and confining her remarks to the methods of edu- rule. Mr. Fawcett has been called to the work of a beer to be drunk off the premises. Of these 2,510 manage him. eight children.
to death olly
about 80ft. high by 4001 t. long.
V.C., the Hon. A. T. cation adopted in secondary schools for girls, Mrs department, d the nation relies withconfidence common brewers' licenses 69 8-ovictuallers' dth
an le , a , ~ i ,an e A writer in a New York paper, giving his view of At Barrow-in-Furness, on Monday, the Anchor The amounts transmitted to Ire land for the relief
Garrett Anderson dfollowingpractical' the • b t Br't* h and American
e difference e weer, i 16• • ' with 9cattle 9 ' d "
preachers, said, Line steamer Castalia arrived N 21 ,1 5 pigs, an
Stephenson, R. N., and • urge the Rot likely to be misplaced, upon the spirit in which he whole of the Peersellers• licenses were issued in Eng-of distress up to the present time may be stated, in round
, Household troops. points as a remedy for the complaints made will administer it. We may be certain that the new land.t a
"American preachers pay great attention to manners; 915 sheep, all in good condition. The Castalia will be the
numbers as follows :-New South Wales, £25,000 ; Victoria,
as to overwork i , n such schools : -1. To getßritish preachers pay very little;" but the printers made him pioneer steamer of the Barrow Line to Nee!' York.
£26,000 ; South Australia, £12,000 ; Quegasland, Tasmania,
official will enter upon his work with a large liberality • 13,172 victuallers, of whom 13,081 were in England, " • great attention to
say, American preachers pay manner ;
e were :-The Duchess the elements The Liverpool School Board has resolved to give and Western Australia, about £10,500 ; grand total, £72,500.
lie Countess of Erroll of knowledge well and thoroughly of aims and with much executive vigour. The Post 90 in Scotland, and only one in Ireland, brewed their British preachers pray very little."
the Hon. Horatio ht at an
taught 1 early age, and not to urge the Office plays a part in our social life of daily grow- own beer •as ineraction ink. rectical cookery in the schools under theft -
e_ did 6,558 retail beersellers, all of whom , A Wisconsin editor illustrates the Prevailing ex '' teacher is to be appointed, at
charge. A specially qualified. Sydney Morninj Herald.
The Prime Minister has appointed his son, Mr.
in waiting), the child to make up for early neglect by taking a very ing importance. Some of us are apt to groan over were an England. The common brewers traea ance of people now-a-days, by celing attention to the consumed e a salary of is o, to superintend the classes. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., to be one of his private secretaries •
Ethel Cadogan extensive range of subjects as soon as she goes to a, the amount of correspon . dence with which we are 46 659 637 bushels of malt ; the victuallers, 5,595,774 e°' .
tly baby carriages in use, while, when he was a baby
'vdney, CC. B. good school 2 T t two d half three • depththey hauled him round by the air p •
h • f his greed - ' A public meeting WAS hdd OD Monday night at without pey.-Manday's Times. *
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her • u(- hours ofo accept an aor iree inundated, but the complaint has no greatbushel's; and the retail beersellers, 2,824,375 bushels. Parkend Forest of Dean Sir James CanTnell presiding, for The M • f Lorne in his speechproroguing he
Marquis o . ,
rt. (Master of class work as long enough at one time for of sincerity in itself and betrays little consi- In the year ended December 31st last 51 576 890 A man entered a ticket-office in San Francisco, and the purpose organizing' f the relal 0 the die- of measures or e e Canadian Parliament, said that the recovery of the Do-
rer of the almost all children, and to provide two or three short deration for the comforts of the - mass of the bushels f 3 , , asked for a ticket for " Destination." To prove that he was tress preeailing in the district, minion from the recent commercial depressionwas steadily
o malt wereemade, and the amount of duty not mistaken, he pointed to. a notice which read: " Pas-
eaberlain), intervals of rest-e.g., five or ten minutes in each people. If we get a multiplicity of circulars, or even charged Hans Makartthat, " t this dth
, the celebrated Austrian painter, a le deeming, an owing o is improvement an e
has ' - d
Lieuten- hour-during even this time. 3. To insist upon every a profusion of notes signifying nothing, we can easily 6 994 2a9 •as e
was R „ , . against 58,702,933 bushels sengers who intend going farther than Yokohama are re- opened his studio at Vienna to his friends and connoisseurs Banking, CarrenCy, Tariff, and other laws passed by tbss
K.C.B. girls' school having a playground. 4. To aim at moderate the strain of the infliction. We can put thercuars oa w p
and £7,967,512 duty in the previous year. quested to purchase through tickets to destination."
. , to let them see his new colossal Picture, "the Hunt of Parliament, a jetceperous year might be confidently expected
eount greatly reducing the amount of writing in the home circulars into basket, and allow a large "Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I Diana." The picture represents Diana and her companions
Iph, have a correspondent," says Mark Twain, " gen halt by the object of their pursuit, a A telegram from Rome says that Etna is again
whose letters brouht to a sudd
work. 5. To reduce the number of examinations, proportion of the letters that signify nothing to answer I ' 0 the north side smoke and
'ed THE REVIVAL OF TRADE. are always a refreshment to me ; there is such a breezy, un- stag, having taken refuge in a lake, the nymphs of which manifesting signs of act vity. n _
e and especially to make them as unstimu- themselves. The tax upon otr comfort is slight, ashes, in considerable quantities, .
are rejected from aper-
fettered originality about his orthograPhY. He always spring from the waters to defend and shelter it. The picture
lating as possible, and to vply them with great reserve and it is amply compensated for by the benefits The Trade and Navigation Returns for April are in a high spells 'cow' with a large H. Now that is jifst as good as to is not yet quite finished. f last •
tures about half-way between the eruption oyear and
to the children most likely to shine in them. 6. Not realized by the many. The post that brings us degree encouraging. There is an increase ' II ' with • better. It gives the
of 20-3 per cent. spell it wi a small one. It Is The Great Eastern R • aalway are about to adopt a the summit.
.
o arm at completing. the education by the age of circulars is the cheap carrier of a cheap litera- in the value of the imports and of 34 per cent. in the value imagination a broader field, wider scope. It suggests to service for supplying salt-water at any house within- the The Queen and Princess BeatricevFaid a visit to the
-hteen. The main purpose of Girton and Newnham ture into the remotest corners of the kingdom. It of the exports compared with the figures for April, 1879.- the mind a grand, vague, impressive, new kind of cow." ' ordinary cartage delivery of the company in London or the Royal Academy about ten o'clock on ednesday morning,
'eges is to encourage young women to continue their connects the colonies with us. by the most intimate The Tunes of Saturdaye ma comments upon this increase in an Several passengers on the lower Mississippi were country. The water will be conveyed from Lowestoft and and remained in the exhibition for upwards of an hour.
article, from which wke thtt :- .
tion in an organised manner after they cease to ties; and the union of the civilized Powers in the • ' e following exrac attracted by the aligators basking in the sunshine. "Are delivered in three gallon cans at 6d. each, to include de- The death of Sir John Goss, Mus. D., con:poser to ,
e restraints imposed upon school-girls And the way of inter-communication of printed matter promises Whatever doubt there may have been as to the they amphibious, captain?" asked a looker-on. "Am livery bi- live and the collection of cans when emptied. her Majesty's Chapels Royal, and late organist of At, Paul's
‘ of these colleges renders it more t'
than ever to be a most efficient instrument in breaking down the reality of the trade revival of the present year, it can tious ! Thunder," answered the enthusiastic officer, "they'll Lord Fitzhardinge has given his tenants a quantiV Cathedral, took place on Monday, after a long illness, at his
ne to attempt to teach girls everything theY divisions that impede the free commerce of nations. hardly be maintained in face of the returns, we pub- eat a hog a minute !
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of linseed cake, to the value of 10 per cent. on each one s
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residence Lambert-road, Brixton-rise, in the 80th year orAI his .
ew in early adolescence. Every one must be conscious of the extent to which . '
• lish this morning. The • d • the t month e. increase during pas mon The editor of a paper, having an addition to his half-yearly rent, with the view of assisting them to put u*l-
Intelli ence has b
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ng discussion followed the reading of the the ties of family and friendship have been preserved °n both sides of the cc t • h t - b a oun is s own o las e een family, writes :-" ' The storm wieds of the equinox' of last their.cattle, especially the milking cows, into better condi- g een received at New York front
Saturday morning •cherub f the t. aft
g left at our house a little o se ion after the late severe season. Ilavana of the destruction by fire of the village of San Luis,
from rupture and destruction through the operation of marked and Progressive. The has been a rise in tl
quantity re
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female persuasion-.a kind of leap-year tribute, as it were. British titles have in several cases been
Military 1 near Santiago de Cuba. Several persons lost their lives, and
cheap postage. Fashion may run to excess in the an value of most of the chief articles of ex- We bow gracefully to the dispensation, sharpen our lead add Adjutant- 3,000 people have been rendered homeless. Three hundred
opted by the Afghans, who have turned into
horses also perished in the flames, and a large quantity of
;ng Mrs. Garrett Anderson's lecture, shape of Christmas cards, but if so the excess will in Eort and import. In several instances the advances has pencil, and call upon delinquent subscribers to materialise 7' Adjodan," and Major into " Medgir." Thus a Russian
Military stores was destroyed. .
due time be corrected, and we may at least recognize een by leaps and bounds. Under the head of " Iron at once." Colonel, trevelling *through Afghan-Turkestan, when intro-
'en has for ages been so neglected, the truth that, in spite of a, tendency to convention-Saturday at the Rottwen
and Steel" we find the returns of April, 1880, more Astronomers say that the planet Neptune is so far duced to a- ative potentate, found that his hest could not An explosion occurred on y ...
the faintest hint as to their over . ality and exaggeration ' social and friendly relations than double those of the corresponding month of 1879. from the earth that if Adam and Eye had from the first day understand his rauk either by its Russian or Turkish name, Powder Factory at Geesthacht, near Hamburg, when four
the same condition. " Subject " are • --' '
now maintained that would formerly have easily •
. in cotton goods the percentage of improvement has of their existence started on a railroad train and travelled but when told in English, he at once exclaimed, "-Ale men were killed.
schoolmaster who would avoidbeen less, but the tendency has been in the same steadily, day and night, at the rate of thirty miles an hour, Kernel, Kernel; I know." Mr. Gladstone has issued invitations to about 40 of
'he day," or who would hold fallen into oblivion, with a corresponding gain to our direction,- d an the total values still keep their place as toward Neptune, they would by this time have traversed * • l• t d• t his
According to the last census, there were in 1876 his leading supporters to a Par iamen ary inner a Si
year after year, lengthen Powers of kindly sympathy.little more than half the distance to the vaporous orb. The h inst. Lord Gran-
the highest on the whole list. The export of wool is a human • d tl
man race is, therefore, to be congratulate upon the fact .
rather more than 300,000 European residents in Algeria, of residence in Downing-street, on the 19t .
may have misgivings as to Mr. Fawcett succeeds to a great work at the Post whom about 92,000 were of Spanish nationality. It is yule has
issued
similar invitations for the same date at the
eg the banquet set before Office' d g ' • •
, an he will be pressed to develop it still comparatively insignificant matter, but it is satisfac- that Adam aud Eve did not undertake any such foolish trip h Earl K• I 1 f the Colonial
• estimatea that the population is now 350,000. The rate of Foreign Office, as also aswrier ey or e
• health. .. . And thus P P tory to remark in this an advance to between four and Route Sentinel.
further. Already -y y e hear of an agitation for cheaperincrease quite disproves the fears previously expressed that Office.
ne can contest their ' five times the figures of last year. On the side of im- Political orators in the 'West indulge' in some high- the climate of Algeria would be unfavourable to European A telegram from Teheran says that the famine lathe
• urged, the limited rates of postage, whether domestic or colonial, for ports the improvement has been less uniform, but the flown asseverations in regard to their firmness of principle. occupation. Province of Aderbaijan is Increasing, and the harvest pros-
', that life is short, cheaper telegrams, for the institution of a parcel poet general result has been the same. There has been a, The following is a moderate specimen :-" Build a wor - •
m A great Federal Singing Festival will be held at pects are bad. The greatest suffering prevails in the district
always forgotten on a more extensive scale than now prevails, and for decline in flax, hemp, and raw silk, but this has been fence around the winter's supply of summer weather; skins Zurich in July, beginning on the 4th and terminating On the of Urimia, where there have been six hundred deaths from
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runisneil 1 tioviitilti the multiplication of Post Office savings-banks and more than made up for by the advance in articles of con- the clouds from the sky with a tea-spoon; catch a thunder- 11th. Seven hundred of the best vocalists Switzerland can starvation since the mouth of January. Twelve hundred
greater cheapness and simplicity in the transmission cloud in a bladder ; break a hurricane to harness-; ground-
ingestinschool gumption and in other raw products. The entire tablesproduce, assisted by singers from various parts of Germany, Christians have left the country. The price of wheat is £6O
e and if the of money orders. It is evident that there is here are extremely favourable. The whole result of the sluice
ccerarer eosiratnhlucte ; lasso an avalanche;u pin a napkin on will take part in the proceedings, and a building capable of per ton in the famine-stricken districts, but it is cheaper in
- ing there, large scope for work, and we may fairly rejoice that . month is that imports have increased by more than false to my principles.ei volcano,-but cano, b t never expect to see me accommodating an audience of 6,000 persons is.in course of other places.
her than Mr. Fawcett is called to undertake it We may 20 per cent. beyond those of 1879, and exports by 34 erection near the lake. Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
In the probably essume that he will insist on the
.general It has been decided by the directors of the Midland ports were 26,000 bales; ditto since Ist September, 4,676,000
per cent. There is no disputing the significance of
etauree. principle that the work of the Post Office must be self- Railway to raise thewages of all the servants of the company bales ; shipments to England, 47,000 bales; ditto to Con-
these figures, following as they do the reassuring re- A CRIMINAL BUDGET. who, fifteen months ago, had their pay reduced by a shilling tinent and Channel, 26,000 bales • total shipments since Ist
‘ell,, supporting, While the service should be performed as turns of the earlier months of the year. The tide, it September, 3,240,000 bales; stock at all ports, 560,000
u' cheaply
i ply as possible, and it should not be an aim of theper week.
would appear, has at last turned, and the long trade A singular and interesting table o statistics as fh Notwithstanding that the Frenchman is reputed to bales.
Government to surplus an i obte plus revenue from it, yet it depression which we have been struggling through bids just been published in Paris. The budget of French be a giddy creature and living mostly for pleasure, he still A fire broke out on Sunday in the Forest of Fon-
should not be done at lees than its real cost upon- some tainebleau, at a short distance from Barbison. The grass
fair to be compensated for by the season of cheerful- crime has been brought out, and the political economy contrives -somehow to lay by " a tidy sum-" for a" a rainy
-ague allegation of indirect benefits to be obtained and the wood being very dry, the flames spread rapidly.
ness and prosperity on which we seem now to be of punishment • 1. d -th f h ' 1 -f d "tl t •b' I " ' d " -hi h all t t
D 3 supp re wi a res nista. ment o ay, ia proN er la rainy ay w c we expec o
,n.eby. It is not intended that each village office '`• - - s N T detachments of the sth Hussars were sent for from
see putting in an appearance some time in the dim future. Two .
d with the help of the succeeded
ild pay its way, but that the general service of entering. facts and figures. Long ago the study was pronounced
The returns "but b f the f d f f •
are suggestive on many points,
.on y one o e foremost an most famous o its profes- The deposits made last year (1879) In the savings' banks Fontainebleau, an p . e peasants
In limiting the fire by eve o'clock in the afternoon. About
branch of Post Office work should be carried onof this country amounted to the enormous sum of _
none more than on the very f" • •f facts,el'this df y important item o Iron sors a science greedy o an greed or sta-forest burnt.'
four acres of thewere
loss The net revenue of the de a t . p rtment in76o 034 686 fr
and steel." Iron and-steel now take only just not the tistics must be satisfied before the very foundations of ' ' • Last week 2,823 births and 1,416 deaths were
year was in round numbers two millions and The Goethe monument at Beilin will be unveiled .
'lich apparently shows room for a reduction first place in our whole list fexports. The advance the subject are laid. A criminal budget extending
o ii.l the Ist olLurie, in presence of the German Emperor and All •f i fpopulation,
registered in London. owing or increase o
tliey show over the past year is much the most con- over five years supplies us wit a rough average the births exceeded by 210, whereas the deaths were 133
but no allowance seems to have been made gltebrotloifkr;&rwlGrthe
tintrraantillyijthee EoriaEurexses.
below, the average numbers in the corresponding week of the
siderable of any. The proceedings of the Iron and from which we may make our own deductions. beingea's. daughter
lation for interest on the capital s:unk in Steel Institute go far to explain the figures shown The Chancellor of the Criminal Exchequer points Weimar, the patron and friend of s Goethe, and their court- last ten yem. The annual death-rate from all causes,
in the trade eeturns. They tell us of the to his budget with pride, and, like other ship aid marriage at Weimar having occurred during the which in the five preceding weeks had steadily declined
enterprise which has been displayed in deal- dealers in figures and tables, is anxious to latter years of Goethe's life. from 24•7 to 19-8, was equal to 20'2 per 1,900. During the
past five weeks of the current quarter the death-rate in
[From Punch.] ing with these two metals, of the new processes show that there is no cause for alarm or M. L6,on Say, the French Ambassador, as also the London has averaged'7 1 000 • t 25-5 and
only 20 per „ against
TER IN MOD O." which have been discovered for adding to their value despondency. The population of France may be Peruvian Minister, were introduced on Monday to her 25•7 in the corresponding periods of 1878 and 1879.
by Earl Granville, and presented their credentials.-
and use, and
,of the astonishing nature of the results roughly stated at about 37,000,000, and the average The The Daily Nin ews, a leader, remarks • "The arrival of If Egypt looks a large country on the map; but the
which have already been reached. In point of fact a annual crop of murders is about 200, of infanticides Leon Say at the French Embassy in London.i s nature • fertile region is merely a narrow strip bordering the Nile-
'E, men cher, back again, after new industry has been created, in which this country about 190, and of unjustifiable homicides about 123. event which engages the special interest of political econaon- A recent letter in The Times shows the whole cultivable
has the greatest interest ee any. Our native iron is It is curious to find how very little variation there is mists, of manufacturers, and of traders. M. Leon Say comes land of the country only amounts to 4,800,000 acres, or 7,500
Prince-at my Countrymen's square miles-that is, equal in area to a tract of land 100
not equal in quality to that which we import from in the annual harvest of crime. Thus, in the gravest of a family in which economic science is hereditary.y. Even
abroad. The art has now been found of so treating charge,22o the greatestfd was e return o murderers, an as astronomy seems the natural occupation of the Ilerschels, •
miles long by 75 miles broad, which is about two-thirds the
of the
size of Wales, or the same siz,e as New Jersey, one .
or as painting appeared to be the appointed calling of the
'ever, I trust won't affect the imperfect raw material as to get rid of its original 195 the least, and there is the same equality of pro: smallest of the United States of America.
successive members of more than one Italian family, and
epect. faults and to produce from it, without undue cost of portion in the other categories. The return gives statecraft descends in more than one English house, so the The consecration of Bishop Ryle to the new see of
7,. But-well, what's manufacture, a steel which may challenge comparison emphasis to this fact as 'explaining the singular cir- says have now for three generations proved themselves Liverpool will take place in York Minster on Friday, the .
with any other in the world. The practical result of this cumstance that in the course of five years there were political economists." lith of June (St. Barnabas Day). There has been consider-
seems likely to be that iron will almost disappear from almost the same number of capital sentences carried Lady Victoria Villiers died at Adisham Rectory, able feeling in Liverpool that the consecration should be
use, and that its place will be taken by steel. Steel is the out. At the last census the Population Of Great near Dinghant, Kent, on Sunday, at the age of forty-one, either there or at Chester, so that the people night witness
more durable metal, so much solthat even when it was Britain amounted to 33A• millions, but the number of Her ladyship who was a daughter of the first Earl Russell, iit_,i The
Liverpool
of l'Ulorrkehwaseuelvdilltnegf
utuoucdoitsuefr gewasiu
very much More costly than iron it was for many pur- murders was by no means so uniform. It would be was born in 1838, and married in 1861 the Rev. Henry
thought
undesirable
suitableire o v
t church
Chester, in the domestic afllic-
poses the cheaper in the end. But when steel can be a consolation for a Frenchman to know that only one Montagu 'Villiers, rector of Adisham. The deceased lady
tion of the Bishop and in the absence of the Dean. York
'5l leaves a large family.
'croduced at a comparAively low cost, and can be in a million of his fellow-countrymen is guillotined, . was at last decided on, at the wish of the Bishop himself.
ot mea-The Paris Journal Officiel publishes the following
ent and shaped to every purpose for which either were it not that " e>atenuating circumstances" leave a
information on the number of scholars in the lycies and Prisoners in Prussia who have means will, in
metal can be employed, there is no doubt which of the wide margin of doubt.-Daily Hews. colleges of France :-Up
to April 15, 1880, the boarders nuns- future-according to a recent decree of the Minister of the ,
two metals will be chosen. The Iron and Steel In- bered 31,465, the day-boarders 7,177, the non-boarders 46,297, Interior-have to pay for their board and lodging in prison.
stitute will have to drop the first half of its title, or . forming a total of 84,909 scholars; showing an increase for The decree fixes the cost of prison residence to be paid by
will retain it only •to signify the raw material the year of 1,652 boarders and day-boarders, and 2,321 non- such prisoners at 6d. a day from the 16th of April to the 15th
from which its real subject-matter has been formed. THE FRENCH TROOPS INTERNED the 1 h f Octoberto the 15th of
boarders, or 3,983 scholars over the number registered last of October, and 60. from the et o le
The trade returns of last April show that England • SWITZERLAND. year on the same date. April.
• something more than holding her own against her The Militeiir-Wo h bl
of the
cen att prints some details of the The Chief of the Abernacke tribe of Indians situated Mr. Herbert Gladstone, youngest son
.
or .I.geds, m the
,ign rivals in the new industry of • the day. Eng- numbers of the French troops who crossed the Swiss at St. Fgancois du Lac, county Iberville, has lately presented Premier, was, on Saturday, nommatoerd f
f the borough at the
manufacturers are often charged with not adapt- frontier during the war of 1870-71, and of the manner to Prinress Louise in the name of his tribe an address con- place of his fatih,er,whohowasreesturn d
takes his seat as member for Mid-
emselves as readily as othere do to the new in which the fugitives were treated by the Swiss q'ihaetuce
lamtipngAgorntyLlitgflugses
cTiellferhsiafmeserlettuarnuloemCroadlet general
Lothian. There
but
h being no opposition,Mr. Gladstone was de-
lents of trade. They go on, it has been said, authorities, Altogether, it appears, no fewer than strong proof of loyalty. Accompanying the address is a clared duly elected, and afterwards addressed A large
methods, which have been superseded and 87,000 officers and men of all ranker with 11,000 handsome basket made of splints of elm. gathering of the constituency.
- other countries. The trade returns we horses, sought refuge in Switzerland during the war- On Tuesday night a mass meeting was held at A Japanese National Parliament is the latest inno-
-eorning may be taken, together with the the great bulk of the troops crossing the frontier en Blackburn, which was attended by more than twenty thou- vation demanded in the Mikado's Empire, where within the
• Institute i eports, as negativing satis- the 31st of January and during the early days of sand weavers. The deputation which had met the masters last few months there has been gradually springing up a
'art of this .charge. They prove that February, 1871. •At the beginning of the war wit- at Manchester gave
din aheir reportm;rtfoixtaheti effect that that the strong feeling in favour of popular representation. Indeed,
lot behind the rest of the world in zerla.nd had mobilized a force of 37,400 infantry, and iNivioasutledrsd)ovosuoldnnort
woulde sa e wages,
cc
submit the wages
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Portant of all modern industries, 3,400 cavalry, with sixty-six guns, to prevent, if arbitration, nor runs short time. Still the Veavers were jewels in order to send a deputation to Tokio in support of
'rgy and inventive genius are necessary, the violation of her guaranteed neutrality; urged to stop at work until a better opportunity offered, the scheme.
lment of the reward they have and when the mass of French fueitives began to stream An amendment urging a strike was, however, put ib the Holy
meeting and declared carried. Thursday is always rigorously observed by the
across the frontier, a large portion of the Swiss army men employed at the Bethesda Slate Quarries, not, however. .
were ready to receive, disarm, and intern the unwelcome Under the head of " C6nscience Money," the Chan-. from any reverential feeling, but consequent upon an old
THIRTY HOURS' visitors. The condition of the fugitives is described c‘ellor of the ExchequerackfnowledgesnThre 'Times the re- superstition which
ceipt of £205 in bank-notes rom " Alpha" for co has prevailed many years that working
d will battended 'thaccident ' A few ye
me-tax. on that ay wr e wi RD
as having been pitiable. Largenumbers of them, utterly
, ago the management prevailed upon the men to disregard
ars
'e recently broken out
exhausted by the hardships they had gone through, Strikes on a large scale hav .y. . .
the superstition, but, strange to say, there was always a
among the operatives in the weaving and spinning industries
ight, in last week, at lost all energy and broke down completely imme-
in the north of France. The Journal de Roubaix states that serious accident; and therefore, in the present year, the old
custom was observed, and the quarries were at a standstill.
•merous company of diately they found themselves safe on neutral territory. in the district of Roubaix sixty-six mills have been brought ,
her thirty hours' Many were barefooted, all were in rags, and some were to a standstill, and 15,000 hands thrown idle. In some cases The Revisers of the Authorised Version of the
'r of the Royal wearing, though the thermometer was but a degree or the strike hands demand an increase of wages, in others a New Testament met on Tuesday in the College-hall, West-
doing she has two above zero (Fahrenheit), the linen trousers which reduction of the hours of labour. minster, for their 99th session, and, sat for seven hours.
''i the waters, had been issued to them in summer in the south of Mr. Gladstone, in an address of thanks to the There were present, the Bishop of Glocester and Bristol,
• endurance France. Nearly half of them were suffering from electors of Mid-Lothian, bears testimony to the complete- who presided; the Deans of Westminster, Rochester, Lin-
'iy Captain frostbites ; while the continuous coughing which went noes of the organization by which the recent victory
was coin, and Lichfield; Archdeacons Lee and Palmer; Canon
ss a man, on, without a moment's cessation, from the head to won.
The right hon. gentleman pouits out that the time for Westcott ; Principals Angus and Brown; Professors
words has gone, and the time for the beginning of action is Moulton and Roberts; and Prebendaries Humphry and
slight the real- of every column, showed how many were now come. Of the political professions which lie made Scrivener, in all 14 members, with Mr. Troutbeck, the seers-
affected with chest or throat complaints. All sem- before the general election he has only to say that they tare,. The companyei
am'ere engaged in a consideration of
blance of discipline had vanished. The total expense have now become in their general sense and spirit honour- proposals mad with view of securing harmony of render-
to to which Switzerland was put by this irruption of able engagements which he shall do his best as occasion ing•
9T Sir John Eardley Wilmot, addressing his constitu-
French fugitives amounted, in English money, to offers to redeem.
£486,175, which was spent in _providing for the sub- At Wolverhampton, on Tuesday, at the Town sents at Leamington, expressed the opinion that Afghanistan,
l iould be retained for the protection of India, and cons-
sistence of the interned troops, keeping the horses, and Council meeting, a resolution was passed authorising the mended the Government for resolving to enforce the Berlin
roviding for the safe custody of the prisoners ; but Free Library Committee. to expend a sum of a.:.3,000 in the Treaty. He had no hopes of the Conservatives returning to
of the buildings, so as to provide more accom- • •
• whole of this sum was repaid by France to Switzer- enlargementnao
a
dt on for members of the arts and science classes and the power, and disapproved of lowering the count) franchise,
' within a few months. • general readers. unless accompanied by a redistribution of seats. He was
determinedly opposed to the disestablishment of the English
On Monday Lord Landsdowne presided over the hur
Church, and hoped the Burials difficulty wou e )3'
seventy-fifths annual meeting of the British and Foreign adopting a religious service acceptable to all denominations. •
TOME OF NEWS. School Society. A resolution was passed declaring that the
meeting, holding firmly to the unsectarian religious pm-in- Some very successful eee2eriments have been lately
ciples of the society, rejoiced in their more general adop- made in Krupp's manufact(7,- at Essen with a divisible
BRITISH AND FOREIGN, • tion, and believed that the educational efforts of all classes mountain gun. Like all Krupp's ordnance, the piece is a
will increasingly conform to their liberal and progressive breechloader, and weighs, including the breech-closing
--
spirit. apparatus, a little less than newt. The gun can be separated
first State ball is appointed for the The strikes in France are rapidly assuming a very for purposes of transport into two parts of about equal
sham Palace.' serious a .spect. weight, each of which can therefore be conveniently carried
'sat more than 40 Parliamentary Loud complaints are beglnning to be heard of the bya pack animal; the operation of taking it to pieces occu-
pying from fifteen to twenty seconds, and of putting the
-isen out of the late general election, backwardness of ve*getation and the consequent scarcity of
partsn together again thirty seconds.
,mbers of the House of Corn- keep for sheep and cattle. Favourable as the spring has
' allegiance, while ten Quakers been for tillage, it has keen the very reverse for grass ; andaccident, resulting in the death of two young
A sad
on. Thus a total of 535 mem- as last year's hay crop was excesSively bad, the means of men, and the narrow escape of two others happened on
eiry preliminaries to entitle feeding are running short, and, therefore, clovers and arti- Saturday; in the Floating Harbour at Bristol. A party of four
aivileges. • flcial grasses have to be fed down. Unless there is a speedy hired a small boat and rowed from Bristol Bridge towards
Mr. Bambridge, of the change we have thus the prospect of another short hay crop, the If otwells The party comprised Walter Moss, 19, and his
and of de lt - "' brother, Oliver Moss, 15, George Dunn, 15, and George Bate-
of "Time Life of Prince man, 17. Halfway down the harbour they met the steam
ices as teacher of the After a long debate, the Dunfermline town council collier Druid'coming up in tow of a schooner. The boat got
-t's Shaw Farm, Old have, by fifteen vofes against three, rejected a .proposal to in front of the steamer, and although the peoplo on board
ago, open the public baths from seven to nine o'clock on Sunday t them, the lads dto have mistaken the
shoutedo em, e are suppose
morning. The Postmaster-General has been petitioned in di • •
rections, for they pulled the boat right under the bow of
s are about to favour of closing ' Sunday f
Dunkeld post-ofhce on orenoons• the steamer, and it was immediately capsized. A rope was
el palace of the Si
a.
enclosure em- rN. de Rothschild, M.P., on Friday in last week, thrown from the steamer, and Dunn and Oliver Moss caught
•,,i, acres), of opened at Aylesbury the new buildings which he has just hold of it and were rescued. The bodies of the other two, in
fly covered erected, at a cost of from £2.000 to £3,000, and conveyed to site of all attempts to rescue them, were not recovered.
the existing Mechanics' Institute on lease for 1,000 years at a,
peppercorn rent. A luncheon was given in the Corn Ex-
'-ure all change,t h' 1 ' a wlc i complimentary speeches were made.
orderTHE MARKETS.
-let," On Tuesday morning forty-eight workmen, engaged
•ea. in the Mont Cenis Tunnel, were nearly suffocated by the
- smoke from a passing train. Fortunately an alarm was MARK-LANE.-Morther.
raised, and the victims were carried to the mouth of the No feature of importance was noticed in the grain trade at
tunnel, where the fresh air revived all but one man, who 3lark-lane. The attendance of- buyers was thin, and business
died a few hours afterwards. proceeded quietly without any particular movement. English
Mr. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, received a produce was in short supply. foreign oats were plentiful,
eition representing the Dublin Mansion House Relief and there was a moderate show ofwheat, but other articles
nittee on Saturday last, and in reply to their request were scarce. English wheat was in slow demand, at .
,e Government would take steps for dealing with the about late rates, line samples ruling steady. For foreign
which it was believed would prevail in Ireland till wheat there 'Was a rather better inquiry, and prices
.t, said the Government were fully sensible of tended against the buyer. The barley trade continued in an
nsibility in the matter, though he hived that the inactive state. Transactions throughout were limited, and
'y taken and private efforts woUrd prove sufil- the tendency was adverse. Malt realised previous prices.
Oats were quiet, but decidedly steady, especially for sound
'sal meeting of the Salford Conservative corn. Maize was less offered, and the tendency better,
'ter was read from the Common Serjeant of about 3d. per quarter advance being occasionally realised.
('harley, Q.C., in which he stated that the Beans and peas were firm and quite as dear. The flour
euld not be introduced until 1882, and market was quiet and featureless. ,
it follow soon afterwards. In view of METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.-MoNDAT.
he added, must address themselves The cattle trade was quiet in tone, and the tendency was
etant work of re-organization.
not so good. Supplies were not large, but were ample for re-
•to the Zoological Society's quirements. From our own grazing districts the receipts of 0
-don), include a common ocelot beasts continued short. From Scotland a moderate number
ed by Mr. Stephenson Clarke; came to hand. Dealings progressed quietly, and quota-
East Africa, presented by the lions moved in buyers' favour, but there was not much
American barn owls from disposition to force sales. The best Scots and crosses
•
iobson, C.M.Z.S. ; a koala Were disposed of at Is. 10d. to 6s. per Sib. From Norfolk
ey squirrel from North and Suffolk we received about 1,200, from the Midland and ,
eons Timor Laut, two Home counties about 750, and from Scotland 290 head. The
aiia, purchased ; two foreign Bide of the market was well supplied with beasts. •
A in the gardens. • There were 250 Spanish, over 400 Danish, and some Swedish.
-day at Adelaide The demand was quieter, and quotations had a drooping
tendency. The sheep pens were fairly well filled. With a
• voyage having
est time from slow trade, quotations were sornea tat easier than on .
'
difference of Monday last. The best Downs and half-breds made
, hours
6s. Dd. to 7s. per 81b. Lambs sold at from Bs. to Os. 6(1. -
lays the
Per 81b. Calved and pigs were quiet, on former terms. At
actual,
33 Deptford there were 700 beasts, and 16,000 sheep andcape
' lambs. Inferior beasts, 4s. ficl. to Is. ; second quality, ss. Vb •
This i
Is. 60. ; prime large oxen, Is. Ed. to Is. 100.; prime Scots,
Is. 10d. to ,435. ; inferior sheep, 48. 60. to Is. 6d.; second
'nee quality, Is. 6d. to 6s. ; prime coarse-woolled, 6s. 6d. to 6s. Bd.; -see - ,- Hseesee,
'or, prime Southdovvns, 6s. led. to 7s. •, large coarse calves, ss. to
'V Os. ; prime small ditto, 6s. to Cs. 60. ; large hogs, 4s. 6d. to
55. ; small porkers, ss. to Is. Bd.; lambs, Bs. to Ds. 6(1. per
,
81b., sinking the offal.
1
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METROPOLITAN MEAT 3IARKET.-3IoNDAr. •-..-
' moderate supply of meat was on sale this morning, but _ear
g partly to the dull weather trade ruled very slow, at _
,
lowing rates :-Inferior beef, Is. to 3s. 80. ,• middling
's. 80. to es. 40. ; prime large ditto, 4s. 4d. to ss. ; :-'s -. -el-•-• . •
stch, Is. to 55.44.; inferior mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.
'' •
.., , -
•litto, 4s. Bd. to ss. 3d.; prime ditto, ss. 84. to
. , e
o Scotch, 6s. 20. to 6s. 6d. ; lamb, 82. to Bs. Bd.
44. ; large pork, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; small ditto, • saS"
r 81b. by the carcase.
. ..
GAME AND POULTY.
to 7s. 90. ; small ditto 2e. 6d. to -45.----
's. 61.1. ; live hens, is. 6d. to Is. ; pigeons, ' -- .. e•
eons, 4d. to 90. ; French ditto, is. Gd.
to is. 2d. ; rabbits, Is. tal. to 3s.
Id.; quails, 6d. to is. 84. • • prairie
acklings ; Is. 6d. to 7s. 60. gos- _
'H.
let, Is. to ss. 6d. ; grey ditto,
'o 408. ; crabs, 6s. to 3.55. per
I. per lb. ; fresh herrings,.
to 7s. ; kipper ditto, los.
6d. ' • red ditto, Is. 3d.
- - '
'undred. , - A
. _ese...
. ...,...z7
. ,
' to the smaller
vier tendency, as
e 160 s. ; chair-
Victorian,
to 7s. 60. ;
sterly e
- the
'in.
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