The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28 00:00:00

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day, the 19th Instant, was as devoid of ceremonial as coart for an allowance white wosid in noose Way CM.
an event of inch importance ;mild possibly be. There pensate them for the time and &hoodoo to be devoted
had been • faint hope, that in consideration of the fact L 0 it. They suggested a remuneration at the rate of
that this War the rust session of the recently-eleciod two gamma a chey,sad the judge., whulswino power
Legislature, the Queen would take the opportunite7of to make an order in the matter, warn* •rnamended
ensuing it in person, and surrounded by the membeile the idea to the rionsictsratien of the Treasury. With the
of her hernial would thus grarrefullY recognize, he understanding that this wee to be the scale of payment
liberality of the late House of Commons in voting to the trial went on but when it dame to a close the
additional £lO,OOO a year to the Duke ofilisilisherir gter m.iormin geggignstjungweliertke Treasurer; intimating'
maeriage,—for this was one of the leek nets of the that even sit two guineas per diem, the jury would be
former Parliament before it separated is Angel* considerable losers, and baking for just a trifle more,
lest. But her Majesty was not present, and. Their surprise; was great at receiving • reply, stating
in etheequenee' the einemeey le" eez, ni1914 that they would be paid only three hundred guineas
epiritleas There was the old spectacle of the Lord ter one hundred and ninety days' work, which, it
Chancellor and the other Royal Commissioner. seated will be seen, Ic considerably less than the amount
on • bench in front of the Throne, enveloped in originally supposed to have been agreed upon.
costumes calculated only to provoke a smile at the In making this announcement, the authorities bid the
expenee of those august personages. There was the jury remember that they do but stiffer 'Sin the in.
usual monotonous process of reading the Commission, tenets of justice "—rather cold comfort for men who
each of the peers mentioned in It removing hie hat as had to neglect their bushier' for more than ten months
him name was called by the clerk. Those who witness in order to attend in the Court of Queen's Bench. The
this dreary routine year after year sigh regretfully action of the Treasury has not escaped much un-
til the remembrance of the days gone by favourable criticism, for it is felt that the country Is
when the Sovereign regularly performed one of the rich enough to pay in no niggardly spirit for services
highest of her constitutional duties and, unless in such as tho e which were rendered by the Tiohborne
limes of illness, not only opened, but invariably pro- jury.
swatted Parliament in person. Piping times then for
Parliament had no sooner got to work than it began
Ltetdm tthdeetnen' when the Conti wee" Backingiumu to think shoot its holidays. The very night after the
Palace, and valet sums of money were spent by the delivery of the Queen's Speech, hon. members were
aristocracy on dress, on equipages, on grand houses,
anxious to know when the House would rice for the
someone liveries for their servants, and all kinds of
Fluter Recess, and how long their spring vacatbn was
splendid appointments The tradesmen of London
to last So the Prime Minister stated that if some
shake their heads over the sad change; fee although
Ilene ;wary bulimia could be got through, the recess should
the Prince of Wales now occupies Marlbor.ugh House,
begin on the 31st, and that the date for resse-mbling
and the Duke of Edinburgh is for the time at Bucking•
would be the 1311 of April. Who would net be •
ham Palace, neither of the Royal brother., not pos- member of Parliament at the price? Meet for buil-
esseing the income of the Head of the State, can die-
nese on the 19th, work twelve days and then, presto!
charge tLe duties devolving upon that position. To
off for twelve days' holiday 1 But the Houma is yet
return. however, to the first day of the Realm The
young, and hon. gentlemen have not yet found out
Royal Message, which was an unusually short one, wee
wh d legislative work really LIONIP. Tne time wil
reed by the Lord Chancelior in • firm, clear voice, but
come when the morning sunlight, streaming through
with more rapidity of delivery than is usual on such
the stained glees windowpanes, will find them either
occasions. The debates on the Address in the imbuing
In the heat of discussion or in the excitement of
Were without any exciting incident. True' the House ,
division ; when the subordinate members of the
of Common, was crowded to its utmost capacity, but
Ministry and of the Oppoidtion, anxious to get home to
as yet the work of legislation is new to about one-third
bed, slip quietly out, but have no sooner got outside
oft Is member', and to those of the old representatives
the glare door than they are stopped by the Whip.,
who remember political history, it must have seemed
who tell them they must go back again, for every vote
strange at first to have heard Mr, Gladstone speaking is wanted ; and when tbo Speaker is in the chair twelve
from the front Bouch of the Opposition, and Mr.
or fourteen hours at a stretch. Such days and nights
Dimwit again Prise. Minister' These telPen..ve have yet to come, and no one who has had any ex-
positions they had not occupied since the month 0
perien,e of times like these can ever forget them.
July, 1868, two years before the declaration of war by
Fiance against Prussia. The mere mention of this
solitary fact shows what tremendous; changes have been
erowded into the brief space of time which has mean-
while slowly, silently, but Barely peened over our
beads.

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The Duke and Dnchees of Edinburgh are actively
taking their places in the work of the London season.
On the evening of the 19th, after they had been to the
Rouse of Lords, their Royal Highnesses attended the
Royal Albert Ilall, and heard the performance of Mr.
Arthur Sullivan's oratorio—The Light of the World.
To those of your readers who may take an interest in
such matters, I may say that the Ihrke is an accom-
plished player on the violin, and I believe has made
some very skilful performances on the Scottish pipes.
Mr. Sullivan's °coterie was produced at his special
desire, and the fact that it is • highly successful piece
of misdeal art, and that it was patronised by Royalty,
attracted to the hall a vast audience, numbering at
least 9,000 persons. Besides the Duke and Duchess of
Edinburgh, there were the PriLIA and Princess of
Wales, Princess Louise, and the Duke and Duchess of
Took. Altogether the assembly was a very brilliant
one, and must have repaid those who made the journey
to South Kensington In order to be preempt
liew descriptions have been read with greater interest
than those which have chronicled the reception given
to the troops who have just returned from Ashantee.
The spectacle of • whole population turning out to
welcome the soldiers who bad to contend not only with
the pot shots of the black fellow., but with the deadly
malaria which at certain seasons proves so fatal to
Europeans, was an ample treed that English people
are never unmindful of those who risk their Owe In de-
tepee of the honour and good name of this country.
There are reports of high honour, in store for Sir
Garnet Woleeley—ta peerage, if he cares to take it, and
& tension for himself and his successor to the title.
Sometimes, when the eervicee of a great captain an of
an exalted order, there is no limitation to the time when
• pension may be received by his descendants. For
11:latent*, the present Duke of Marlborough has au
snanal allowance of £4,000 in consideration of the
splendid victories won by his ancestor more than •
watery and a half ago. Pensions for legal 'Nevi tes
expire with one life, and for ex-speakers of the House
of Corninous with two.
The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the suf-
ferers through the famine in Bengal is now assuming
handaeme sum, as indeed do most schemes of charity
which are heartily taken up in the City of London. If
& Lord Mayor sericessfully carries out one of these
subscriptions, it is as much as he hopes or expects to
do. It is not often, indeed, that two calamities occur
In the course of one year which render necessary an
appeal from the chief magistrate of the City. Toil' was
the cape, however, during the mayoralty of Sir
Thomas Dekiu, in 1971, when nearly £200,000 was
raised far the starving population of Paths after the
siege, and the burnt-out people of Chicago. It Was
In consideration of the efforts made by the then Lord
Mayor in the work of munificence that he received the
hononr of knighthood. Some rcaynral ties pass sway free
from the shadow of a grest etastrophe, as for
instance did that of Sir Sydney NVaterlow. Others ,re
rendered memoratde by the visits of foreign Potentates
----and while upon this subject I may say that we we all
looking forward with the greatest Interest to the arrival
of the Czar next month. The Emperor of all the
Sariss has never been in this country, which to him
will be quite as unknown a land as it was to the Shah.
Thirty years ago, his father, the late Emperor
Nichols's, was in London, and described the new
Houses of Parliament as "a dream in stones." Well,
there they are still, and although the Czar, while in
our midst, will not live and move under such a clear
sky as that of St. Peterelnugh, we have plenty of
sights that he will take an interest in seeing. True,
Instead of the pellucid waters of the Neva, the turbid
Thames flows pad our palaces as well as our ehlpyards,
but whether noon the surface of the river or in our
busy streets, his Imperial Majesty will see on every
side works of art and industry, and a restless activity
bespeaking the presence of an immenee population.
Those who have had occasion to be in the neighbour-
hood of Ludgate H II during the past few days cannot
fail to have noticed a great improvement by the re.
moral of the iron realities at the west end of St. Paul's,
and the coneerrent throwing open of a considerably
Increased space into the crowded thoroughfare. The
expediency of removing the bar to carriage traffic on
the north side of the Cathedral is once more under the
consideration of the authorities. All your readers who
know anything of London are well aware that St.
Paul's Churchyard comfits of • row of splendid shops
with • broad foot pavement, and the roadw-sy un
disturbed by the peerage of vehicles. All carriage
!traffic has to go round by the south side, a longer route
mgegisly, but by no means • narrow one. For a long
time eit,ye has been • controversy respecting the policy
of throwing open the northern roadway, but the trades-
men object to it, and urge that ladies who now
Impact their Bhopal on account of the comparative
quietness of the place would then be driven away.
There is, I think, more force in the plea
that the openiog of this roadway would do very little
to Gas the crush of vehicles on the other side. For
some distance, and rzore modally immediately
opposite the northern entre:tee to the Cathedral, there
Is room only for the message of one carriage; and
what is the use of • thoroughfare unless it can accom-
modate at least two lines of vehicles ? Fleet-street,
narrow as It is, presents us at the busy hours of the
day with four streams of marriages, two moving up and
two down. Bat in St. Paul's Churchyard, unless the
bine wee rigidly restricted from west to east, or the
ocatnery, c 'Melons would be as inevitable as when
two trains meet each other on the same line of rails.
It could not be widened without encroaching upon
the confines of the Cathedral, and the saving of time
to be effected would not be at all commensurate with
the Inconvenience which must ensile.

I have noticed in many of the fishmongers' shops a
comparatively plentiful supply of spring salmon, and
this I. accountedlor by the early run of these fish up
the Eoglish, Iri, and Scotch rivers. In many in-
stances the numbers of fresh-run salmon captured by
the nets during the first few weeks of the season have
been unprecedented. The appearance of such vast
masses of these silvery beauties in our rivers has had •
eathdactory effect upon the price of the delicate and
wholesome food which they furnish, and Londoners
have enloyed the privilege of purchasing prime spring
salmon at a cost which presents the beet practical proof
of the wisdom of the Act of Parliament passed in
1861 for the pmteotion of our salmon fisheries. The
great bulk of the metropolitan supply comas from
Bootland, and this spring the number sent from over
`et has been greatly in mom of is Quantity
Al in any previous season. Ireland has also
Increased quantity, while from English waters
—sot received at Billingsgate has also been

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'le, though the eardetir at The rams nla Iteyoh s Trust.; has been before the ,
neigh. It ie coy with eguse.. „ftbo
el with...lli:jib 'etutf.; t jit: The t tor----1 • this r gal: legacy of El,‘
,ht be n Foe 'in ' th- " 141- MA. cioat' eo*Pidillo IN
have ties!' g e ~.y,i,,g f . exciusition klen
pitAl, eitutytt Hiebgate-hill, LTpper HollownY• In
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Ade of which wee deecribed itai
a recent Cape Comet letter to the Daily Nova, Commie. consequence .4 this motadeocriptio% the execritore and
deco Hewitt had entrusted to Colonel Weil a silver truete.e of the will requited the committee of manage-
sup found at Ooomaasie, with isetructeme to leave meet of the hospital to pass art eolution irdemnifyieg
It with a Pertem,nth eilveremith to have an in- teem egamst powible claim, by other hospital., and
MylPlOun englaveril. Colossi .Wood happenine to (as the refusal of the latter body to pose sue resolution
Inennia° the ojecoandion" It mesa on bused the Moot. t they paid tine legacy iato court. Tbe hospital &utile-
tobon, the offieers preenply subscribed the amount . f tithe presented tlaie petition to get the money out of
ttzurchase-nooney • ' and when Commodere Hewitt I court, and asked that the trustees might pay the costa,
o beam he will lad maittle present waiting for . on the ground that the money had been imeroperly
Moe, and a slight alteration in the terms of the Lowrie- . pgyd in.
'lgo O. the nun. . Among* the trophies, I es* an old ' Mr. Fry, QC., and Mr. Tremlett appeared in sup-
flint-lock gun that Lad been taken from an Aehlilltee. I ....... of the petAtt,n.
It wise about live feet long, and heel the word I. e"--
" London ' engraved on it, ancient lock.plett. There : Me. Weller, Q C., for the trustees, made an appeal
ofere ogood moo, of thy. doss of goo. owt.food ; bat , on eelsalf of his cdeute, who, be said, had acted under
' they by on meane prevailed, the Ashanteel having a L the advice of counsel, and had incurred as little expense
large stock of E•.fielde ; Snelers having been found at ow pmeible in pay ing the legacy into court; but
Coomweie, and first-vines Dutch rifles at Elmins. In- 1 The Master of the Roils mid • trustee might be
dependent of toe seizure, by the Blithn troop. the ordered to pay costs without rose miecondoct, althoueh
steek of the old flint gone eves considerably reduced he had acted under the advice of conneel. It wan one
, during he war, owing to a practice that prevailed of the &eights of being a trustee. He remembered a
t Itittionget the Ashantees of filling the barrel with case where Lord Cottenham made truetees pay all the
' powder to the depth of about le foot, with the result of vete of a suit which had been instituted against them
Itheir occasionally bursting. The noise of the discharge in consequence of thetr acting on the advice of three
Was naturally very great, and lam as tired that above most eminent counsel. Elie knew hoer hardly trustees
the din of battle the occasional expiation of the old were treated, even when their conduct had been bond
, fliatticako could be distinctly heard. The enemy fide, but he was obliged to hold that the reeponciente
1 •wied teeir gnus with dugs, bits of ironstone, rape must pay the costs of this petitiou, which they had
tern oily acquired nail rod iron, and iron, steel, sod rendered necessary. He could not see his way to
braes ornaments. To make amends for these pier 1 visiting the cousequeuets of their error upon other
substitutes for bullets their powder was very good, ! persons.
empty °amiss of Curti/ and Harvey, best brand, bring I
found lii their camp.. I find everywhere amongst :
those who have gone through the campaign a profound
respei for the fighting qualities of the Aehantees.
"If they had ha I • white man to lead them," said •
distiagniehed officer to me, "our little army would
never have seen Cape Coast again."

The train conveying General' Wohieley and his fel.
low officers arrived at the Waterloo Station about •
quarter before one o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
by which time a conaiderable crowd had aseambled.
There wan no official welcome, hut Lord Hatherley
wan in waiting for Ida eon, Colonel Wood, and a large
number of officials from the War Office were al.°
present in their private capacity. Sir Gornet wan very
warmly received on stepping upon the platform,
where he was for some time engaged in shaking hands
with various perannal frien ia, and in raining hie hat in
response to the cheers with which he was ',reefed.
Private carriages wern in waiting to convey the General,
his officers, and friends to their destination. Lady
Wolmeley had already arrived in town to meet her
ustiana. The gallant General, on hie way from
Waterloo Railway Terminus on Samrday afternoon,
reported hiuiself at the War Department, and had an
interview with the Hisat Hon. Gathorne
Secretary of State for War. On leaving Pall.mall the
General proceeded to Fleming'. Rote!, where Lady
Wohieley was awaiting hie arrival.

A TICKET-OF.LEAVE IN TROUBLE
AGAIN!
At the Middlesex Seasions, Edward Maguire, aged
23. has been charged with stealing a watch, value
£2 100., the property of Louis Fontaine, from hit per.
son. The prosecutor Paid he lived at 53, Princes-
street, Leicester-square, and on the night of Thursday,
the 12th of thie month (the night of the iluruinationa
on the occasion of the Duke and Duchess of Edin-
burgh a entry into London), no met tbe prisoner and
asked him to give him a light from his t igen-, and he
dii so. The prisoner, thou speaking French, saved
him to take a cup of chocolate, and he consented to
do so. As they were going towards a chop for the
purpooe, and just as witness was about opening the
door, he felt a pull at his watch chain, and muse.
diateiy afterward-, the prieoner ran away, and he
fund his watch-chain hanging bootie. He pursued the
priaoner, and in Sidney-aliey cauzht tim, but he
managed then to got away, In Princea-atreet be
again caught him, and, a crowd assembling, the prb
Boner was taken Into cust.dy, when he gave up the
watch, and asked then to be left iu peace.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had for-
merly been in tronße, but on his discharge be had
made up his mind to lead a life of honesty, if it was
possible for him to do co. As lie was without a cha-
racter or friend to help him, be made an application to
the Prisoner's Aid Society, and begged of them to rend
him to sea, but they t old him that they thought he
might do better at home. They allowed him a little
sasistance, and he endevoured to obtain work, but was
unable to do to, cod wh,t little money he had being
gone he again went to the society and beyged of them
to give him some avalstancsit, but they refuted to do so.
He repeated hoe request that they would send him to
sea, hut they said that they could not do so, as be had
no money to obtain an outfit. He was therefore in a
very distremed condition, and being without food or
the means of obtaining it he yielded to a sudden temp.
tation, and took the %web, but he was extremely sorry
for it, and he hoped under the circumstances the Court
would be merciful to him, and he then pleaded guilty
to the charge.
Herbert Reeves, warder at the House of Correction,
Coldbath•fielda, proved seven previous convictions
against the prisoner, the last in the month of January,
1808, for seven years' penal servitude, and he wax now
at large on a ticket-of-leave, which would not expire
until the sth of January, 1875.
The Assistant Judge said that the facto of the case
did not support this story, and that it was evident
from the way in which the prisoner addressed the
Court, and from his knowledge of French that he wee
a pereon of sufficient education and ability to obtain an
honest living if diapered to dose,. He must be kept in
penal servitude for the tetra of seven years, to com-
mence on the expiration of his former service.

The same af term ion Sir Garnet paid a vieit to her Ma
jesty the Queen at Wind.or Castle. He travelled from
town by the South Western Railway, arriving at Windsor
at 2.45 p.m., and was met at the station, on behalf of her
Majesty, by General Ponsonby, the Ljti• en's Private
Secretary ; Colonel Gardiner, the Equerry-in-Waiting;
and Sir John Cowell, the Master of the Household.
The Mayor of Windsor was also on the platform. Sir
Garnet drove to the Castle in one of the J. yel carriaver,
which wee in waiting, and after remaming with the
Queen about two hours returned to town. The visit
ot the gullnnt g•neral 'having become knows, a large
number f peril ins aseembled at the station both on his
arrival and at his departure. •

On Saturday the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied
by General Sir Richard Airey, Sir Charles Russell,
V. C., and Sir Alfred liortolorY, visited the camp at
Shorncliffe, and, on behalf of the Queen and country,
thanked the troop. who bad returned from &Amitee
for their gallant services, for the perseverance they
had displayed in a victorious march through pathless
jungles and deadly ewaaapa, and for the courage ex.
hibited at every etep, His Royal Highnees assured the
Welsh Fusiliers that they had amply sustained the
tro titions of the regiment, and congratulated the men
on their soldierlike appearance.

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