The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04 00:00:00

THE STOURDRIDGE OBSERVER.

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world, is ne-•esearily formed without that knowledge you who would than provoke me—make game of your
away from his work for ten day, in co-meet-mem, of the which id absolutely necessary to right judgment. Of our little peculiarities of ploorneology or pronoun .1
iejuries he received. Bat he did net wish to press the circumstances the world knows little; of our motive', which, indeed, are trifles light as air, that be inicu
dee 1.;
ease, if the Bench would let him of by peying the costa.
4 nothing. Moreover, in this blind ignorance, the steps . from me. But should nny think proper to ridle my
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Defendant call that complainant first strnek horn. and
of the worldly to a conclosion• are too of ten guided, not wife for inaccuracies which nnavoilslole w o
that they afterwards fought Adjourned for a fortnight.
, by the charity which tbipketh no evil," but by thet tion mey secaeison in her simple utterance. I wool, jtu _
ent r eiduca:i
DERIPRTING A Wm.—At the Petty Cie.:one. beta on .
aoorit censorioneness, if not of positive malice, which Gemied such astiriste that their tenemente lore conetrue ed
Tuesday Get, before B. iattiewood and W. C. Piero:l4one. 'Oben,
Esqrs., William Hider, mill forneeeman, Wes riemrenned ! !pejo, hood (certainly not iron); and that, to euch pereens, the
I -us evil revels and delights, and vents itself ie spiteful of a metered largely manufactured in thie moo
by Sallies Barrett, relieving.officer, for fallowing his wife What, then,
and family to become chargeable to the I.:pion. Mr. I authorised, unenlightened, and uncharitable? Truly to In illustration of tl.at proverb, I would ta e leaveoh
Barrett Proved Omit the del-cant's wife and family had be judged of men, is but ea smell thing." Their cen. inform such rigid sticklers for philological aceurneY I
can be the value of judgments thus no. throwing o/ stones is a proverbiellv dangerls pasimt%
rt.
become chargeable, and loa3 cost the Board re 9s. A
letter TM polio which showed that defeneant howl been eat
vain. Unless, moreover, we despise south judgmenG, we *pontos are constructed to eat soup with—that •:ia ter f
sure is contemptible, their applause impertinent and
getting fl 19s in four days, and that he bad got £77 es can have no firmness of principle, no stedfaatness in deal " is not " a deal," nor " many" doings • ots o
"luncheon " is not " lunch," any more than des.
in thirty-one weeks up to the end of December last; but no magnanimity, no selfdespect. I can conceive things (except in the auction room)—that a ,
there was no evidence to show that defendant had done no diaeter more miserably despicable than tofhm i illness is net designated R 9 such by tautologically teri:ll-1
any work since December. and the Bench not thinl duty,
m hat " sevsre"
o who fearing human censure or courting human applause, leg it a " had " illness. inasmuch as ell ilMeases are a
there was sufficient evidence to convict, and dismisse trims his timorous a course rtire aio popularis ura,. ! thinge —that to " ride "in a carriage (for the perform-
the case. But, oh ! how grave, how dignified; nay, if of high once of which exploit you must neees take into the said
Freer. STRATANG.—At the Petty Seseinna, on Tneedey birth or eta Mon, hew mejesfic, how goblin.. the chew- carriage a horse. or a donkey, and therein mount upon
last, before B. Littleweod, Esq., Samuel Pitt and Thome!
ter of him, who, replyiug to the most pitiless storm of his back) ia a feat less frequently accomplished
tenable& were brought up on a remand, charged with °meet,' only with a smile of calm disdain, proceeds in some people ea language would lead one to suppose—that
q than
feloniously stealing 12 fowls and two tame rabbits, in unruffled compoaure, on the ei-en tenor of hi way; with to " aim at " any object is not except in the vilest sleng,
December 1866, the property of Piranha Parsons, of no other care than that Vie approval of that voice may to "go in for " it—that " awful "is itself an adjectGe
Penenett. Theephilue Lissey Parsons, son of prosecu. be ratified in the Court of Heaven. The conclusions to which should inspire to permit of its being adjected to
tor, acid that joist before Christmas, in leo6, bis foothel which I am thus led, are, that as concerns my recent nouns of lore CT trivial import, such, for instance, as
had lost eight fowls. They were kept in the pie•etve, a
the back of the hense. Samuel Stokes deposed: I have . marriage with ennui plebeian birth, mad the Superinten• "row "—that for a e :wean invariably to designate him to
, dent of my esteblishment, you haSe to right to judge whom she is united as "siy husband," as if the poor tot'
just completed a term of imprigonmont at Stafford, and her or me—that if you do so, to be judged of you, ought low had no individuality but such as be derived from her,
have come from there this morning. Whilst undergoing to be, as it most assuredly shall be, to us 'a very small is not ter, complimentary to him, end therefore of at
my tetna of imprisonment I voluntarily made a state; thing I" but that, netertheleas, to avoid all reasonable least questionable propriety—that Ido not quite clearly
ment to the Governor of the Stafford Gaol ; end did so eause of offence, and to justify in your sight (unless your comprehend why Miss "Ellen.' should be called" Helen,"
withoot a promise of reward, or threats being made to mental ophthalmia is utterly incurable, what May simmer or Miss "Helen," "Ellen "—that an " owl "is not a
me. I intend to make the same confession now. I was . incongruous or unbecoming, I, in consequenes of my "howl," nor do dogs "owl," neither do " ens " ley
with the prisoner on a ,Saturday night just :before toot. connection with you, as your Hector, owe you some es- heggs ;" and that, though a gentleman may Pos.“s •
Christmas twelvemonths. Pitt cohabited with illy planation. That explanation, though I would not be horticultural heating apparatus of bat limited extent, I
mother, and Venables and a girl bodged in the portent unnecessarily tedious, you shall novi.have most fatly. am scarcely thereby prepare to listen, without souse sew-
with my mother. I was in the parlour, asleep, when Pitt Think me not egotistic, then, if, solely with 0 +hub to prise, to his assertion, that be can " eat two oases, but
came end. woke me. He said he knew where there were snch explanation, I begin by telling you; more portico. eeetot eat three."
some fowls, and asked me to go with him, T told him tr than FO4 -haps, you know, by birth and connection But, further, Wee wife may be somewhat at aloes with
y l.
Would not. My mother came to me and said if Laid not who an,
go I should have fin bottle there. Pitt said to tenable' I regard to the conventionelities of society. This is of no
newt'.
that they would go themselves, if I was not willing. T
- Duke alone, Such was his then absolutely unrivalled -h-oUrs are so broL4.
renown, that in the year 1806, though only a Colonel, utterly unchristian chat fowl'
it, deficient in Rood breeding,:in
en.
Tam the eldest son of a soldier second to the (Trete iemortance ; furl cannot suppoeo that any of my 4,
went to Parsons's with the two prisoners. Pitt said,
" Come on, this is the way ;" end when they got to the and though such appointment of aman of such rank was pow! her to ridicule. And, also. aye, eve,
ig•stsie he (PRO brotight out tom foiele and soled therd. entirely without a precedeut he was raised for that cape- my infirmities, studious habits, and mime. e-- -
/enables also went in and brought out four fowls and we
cial purpose, to the grade of Brigadiet, and acteally sent , tions and her quiet, timid, and domestic nature ,
killed them, the same as Pitt. Pitt then went and . a slight matterowf oinydage,
out as Commander•to•Chief of se eepedition which, hate resolved to lead • life of seclusion; devoting our.
mother's house, and parted there. Mrs. Russell,Ohl •
brought two rabbits out, and took them all home, ti my mod. hie leadership could not possibly have failed: suites entirely to her improvement, to the duties of our
dud, *ere mit Mim the objeet of my titter scorn, I station, and to the preparation, of our souls for Heaven.
time, lived next door to my mother's house. Some o
. might add, that his abate 6f Oriels trionee Stae is:Bursted The mention of this latter, and, it should be, supreme
the fowls were speckled, and Come black Spanish. Mary
to exceed half-equation. Bet a large and Moroi rinteeem, object of osoiicitede, leads me to observe how unworthy
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Ann Russell reiterated her evidence, which was given bud miry addition was made to the force, and. as all officers of serlode teemed ere the differences of rank, station, or
week. Police.eoneeible Storer probed apprehending Old
Of higher rank Would have been ready to throw up their education which eeiet in this transitory world. All euch
prisoners on euspicion of stealing some fowls. Motu pro. ' commissions if eo large a force had been entrusted to distinctions vanish—all the demarkations founded on
Rimers were committed so take their trials at the next the chief command of a Briga het My tether Was seiner, such distinctions, broad as the world esteems them,
Stsofforol Session,,
seded iu such chief cononaud, and it was entrusted to dwindle 100 Hoed no, wioler than threads, when compared
CONCERT.—The Harmonic Society gave • concert In the Lieutenant:General, and base craven, Whitelock. with the vast guilsd which pawns between the lowliest
the Uniou Hall, on Tuesday evening last, which was well tinier that coward'e e ommand, not lead, a host tomer- habitations of the just.
&Gentled. The proeramine, which was • miseellaneous ous as Xerxes ever led, could not have averted the For my grave I have already chosen me a place, and
one, WAS selected with great taste, and the various pieces disgracefel failure which enstsea, need no other .10 meet° Mori to make ready, than my for
wers ably executed and thoroughly spnreeletee by the In the great Peninsular sear, My father's army rank grey hairs and gouty limbs.
"d'.°", ne was shown by the refloated applause. An and command were such, that, had he not preonaturelv
additional teeter was introduced by ha vine the band RC. fallen before the walls of Rodrigo, as probably he would most especially by cherishing and giving the entire gym-
companiment. The whole passed off well. Mr. S. Simms not, hut for the alas ! too impetuous, too chivelrons, and
comdueted,
more than knightly courage, with which he eeposed his nobility, for they are the "Son, of God "—the wealthiest
PRESENTATTON.—On Thursday last presentation wee person, standing &lope oh the very crest of the glace,, for theirs are the hone riches whose treasures are laid up
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made to John Paynton sea., of this town, coneisting of shouting out his orders at the utmost pitch of his *Mee, for them in heaven—the most highly educated, for they
paltlisilemellofdoms; heart by
y‘l °ids' the en'o eaeltl:teleo el:rust is the truebat
a beautiful silver electro plated stand,. for his eervice as and thus drawing upon his single devoted form, the are " taught of Hod "—the most refilled, for they are
hen. ace. to the widow noel °relying fund of the Man' whole of the inteuse tiro from the opposite parapet of purged from that" filthiness of spirit" which cleaves to
cheater order. The subscription seas raised by the corn. the Faessee Bride—en-di, I say, were lois rank und cams the most footilions of the ungodly—the beet qualified to
mittee. The chair wee occepieJ by Mr. R. Laolbury, mood, thet,:hed he not thus prematurely fallen he vroulet Meet in the loftiest society, for they ere made, or fast
and the vice•cheir by Mr. Isaac Coakley. The presen- on the conclusion of the war, as e mere matter of course,
=MGR. ''meet for the Inlieritance of the saints in light '
tati on booing mails, Mr. Paynton returned thanks in but a fortiori in consideration of hie matchless merits, —that light which streaming from the throne of Go lis
suitable terms, would have been elevated to the peerage,; and, in reward to the ungodly a consuming fire, chlosing them for sem?
NARROW ESCAPR —On Wednesday last, as Mr. Shaw, of the distinguished part, which douldless lie would hove from the society of the just, which their iinpritity notrld
of Dudley, Was driving a horse and plueten from Hagley pleyed at Waterloo, he would probably have beets raised pollute ; but which, with mild and exhilirating radirthese,
te Dudley, the horse took fright at Oldswirfoord, and therein at least eon step, shall shine eternal on the innumerable company of
was going at a terrifle rate, when, near Church-street, He was the frieud of Qmeenabory, of Grenville, of angeld," and, with splendours no less intense, on those
the horse turned snoldeady roiled the corner and ran Windham, and of Moore. Nay, he was tho friend and in. spirits of jest men remote perfect, the humblest of whim
against the well. The horse fell flown, and the carriage timatc associate of the father of our queen ; nor, in his shall he welcomed, with a smile of unutterable love, by
eves broken. A little boy named George Taylor, woo youth, without the favourable regard of the heroic that Jeans, that Divine Mediator of the New Covenant,
knocked down eel very much bruieed, and received a Frederick of Prussia. The gallant Marquess of Loudon- who, when He, the brightness of the Father's everleat•
severe cut on thou face. Mr. Shaw s.d ts,a &mode friends derry loved him as a brother—followed him as Chief ing Glory, and "pre. 'mime of His Person, for us
were is the ph "in at the time, ane we are guil to Say Mourner, in grief heartbroken. to the grave—recorded miserable sinners, wloo I.iy in darkness and the sheolow
that neither of them were hurt beyond the shock, the
him as inferior, in opportunity alone, la Nelson, to of death, that Hs might maim us the cloil Gen of tool,
party weut home ins car. Abercrombie, or tie Moore o and apostrophized him theta and exalt us to everlasting life, humbled Himself to th
—"The harld whielo screwle tine humble tribete to thy form of a eel-vent. chioso for his aesociates a ceinpany of
memory must be SS C ill as thine own, ere Ste heart which poor, simple fishermen, and disdained not to wash their
dictates it Can cease to cherish the remembrance of thy feet !
worth ! " Thee are they, these People of God, who, huh or
Such was my gallant father! low, rich or poor, learned or ignorant, unpelished or re'
As regards my ancestry, I will new only any that, not tined, have, and shall have, all my regard, my sympathy,
unconnected with the heroic Wallies, I son, at least, col. my love; embracing in the circle of their extent, all such
laterally allied to, if not lineally descended from, the of His people as Gol has given me : but ceiltreing—Wite
ancient Lords of Creators!, who ruled their broad du naught but withering scorn for ribald jest or uu worthy
mains in all the as ojesty od feudal state for centuries imputation—ceutreing iu that one—that poor, and lowly,
before the many usuelorouine who now swarm among the but most Chrietian woman, whom, Lavine deprived me
peerage hoot sprouted froin their native dunghill, of my !Wind charge, Ile has committed to my especial
1 will not trued° you with an esecount of nay luother'e care,
good, though leas illdstriods family ; but they, at least, -
are such, that shortly before lie attained his loot soul
highest elevoition, an offer of marriage was made tot one
of that family by the Emperor of the French, and by
her rejected.
I consider, then, that the only man of my family who
have married in their own rank of life, were my uncle,
Sir James Craufurd, whose wife was a niece of Lord
Gage, and sister to the Countess of Abingdon—my cou-
sin, Colonel Alexaneer Craufunt who married a daugh•
ter of the Earl of Coventry —my Collida, Sir George
Craufard who married a daughter of Lord King, and
sister to the Had of Levelaee—aud my honoured uncle,
who eum led tomes fether's place, Lieutenent•efeneral
Sir Charles Craufurd, whose wife was a domighter of the
Earl of Herrington, and widow of the Duke of New-
castle.
Such, then, is the sort of alliance which, in point of
birth and conoection, I might fairly have expected. And
when a WWI in this parish (in common charity I must
hoope it was under souse strange aberration of mind) had
the efiroutery to aspire to the Lund of one oof my (rough.
tere, though he had, of course, never spoken to her in
his life, the highest lady in the land could not have been
more astoundeoi and indignant thou she was when I told
her of the insult she had received. aud 11, 1; that his iii'
solence could scarcely have been greater had he demanded
tee daughter of a duke. It was partly in order to env,
tdem from the repitition of such an insult, that I per-
mitted may daughters to six teed abode elsewhere.
A woman who marries beneath her station falls to her
busbainfs level, and is ace:sante I as diseracel fur ever.
With ecarcely on exceptioon, so inolecd she is. For it is
the appointment of God Goat the man shall rule over the
w,om on, and the wife he in subjection to her husband.
Aecordiegly He has formed the disposition of the manes
with reference to this rule. To man he has given
strength of character, firmness of will, superiority of in-
tellect, aptitnole to govern. To woman he hes given with
less mental power, a gentle and more pliable nature.
Now, thoot a lady—l use the term in its narrower and
more aristocratic sense—ehould be in subjectien to a low
born man; be ruled by him ; and, if she loves lion, be
graolually moulded into the resemblance of his coarse
and vulgar nature ; this is disgraceful elinest to infamy.
But, with a man, the case is very different. By the
usages of society, instead of falling to the rank of his
wife, he esalts her to his awn ; and unless he is either a
feeble fool—and snob should remain unmarried, save in
the rare case of their findings strung minded woman if
their own degree willing to marry awl to lute them—l
any, unless lie ia either a feeble fool, or else careless of
his duty and a teintor to his trust, the lowly woman
whom God's Providenee may have guided hies to marry,
and thus committed to his care, will, under his asaiduotts
inilaeuce be raised, instructed, fuel refilled, and made in
all respects a help-nieut for her more exalted Lord.
With such a woman it has been my will and pleasure
to form an alliance—an alliance little more in accordance
with my mink—and I son sure ray wife will pardon me
for seying so—tloon was that in acentinnee with his
royalty which King Cophetue farmed when he espoesed
the beggar girl, and, as the ballad tells us, lived with her,
ever after, " a quiet," and oloubtless, a happy life.
Well, I have done so ; and pray. What teen ?
Ciremustatices, to which it would be as improper as it
is needlesus for nie further to refer, have now for some
veers condemned one (of cotirse voluntarily) to a his of
;slimed uubroken solitude, which from regarol—though,
with such memos as I posee., I now think very superflu-
ous regard—to the interests of my children, I have
borne oolonost without complaint, till, at last, my health
and spirits having greatly given way, I have felt it neces.
sary to Lave a '• Companion of my aolitude, ' and an af-
fectionate attendant en the infirmities of my declining
years.
Now I have told you so fully what are my birth, family,
and connections, in noio boastful spirit—as I may fairly
ask you to believe, because for the thirty-two years dine
lug which I Move occupied this pulpit I have never on
any other occasion spoken of myself—but may to enable
you to comprehend how utterly ineapable I am, sad
must needs be, of appreciating the little social distinc-
tion. which exist in this parish, and are chietly founded
on money—money which here makes the chief distinc-
too. between employers and their servants, and which,
as I have said, I utterly despise. I can no snore appre•
Mete such distinctions then, standing on a mountain, I
could judge of the heights. as compoired with each other,
of the molehills which might be emitter.' around its
base.
lily wife, as I Lave said, is of ph Auden bulls; and as
such birth is by the Providenee of God, and therefore no
disgrace, I may nab, I trust, without offence, where was
I, wino have not mixed in the great world of London since
my early mention& and whom the leading families of
this county (though in meny a cage their ancestors would
are de,.med it an honour to obtain a place among the
retiuue of mine) leive somewhat inhospitably negleeted,
where wool to find a woman, and moreover a woman wil-
ling to take charge of a gouty old gentleman like me
(laughter)—whose birth, in comparison with my owe, was
not plebeian?
Should any one, with few exceptione, in these parte,
presume to reproach me with my wife's lowly parentage,
I should, in all Christien meekness, endure his Monde.
an I may only retort would be to inquire, "Who was your
U rand father ? "
Having then no choice, by me appreciable, as to rank,
and utterly despising money, I have chosen one whose
goodness, whose kindness of heart, whose love, entirely
disinterested (as I have had the amplest and most con-
vincing proof) love, which, I may almost any, I have
never hitherto enjoyed ; and whose simple piety are of
incomparably more importance than her birth.
But not only is she low•buru, she is not highly eau.
ceted. Now, putting out of the question those glories of
their sex, a' Daenr," a "De Steel," or a " Somerville,"
whet are the average accomplishments, the average learn-
ing of ladies? They can make drawings which, to pass
[muter, their masters must retouch—they can play a
little, sing a little, dance considerably—are deeply read
in novels, and superficially, perhaps, in rather more im-
proving literature—they can read, and probably speak, a
little French, and less German, or Italian. That my
wife is deficient in these respects is not your loss, sad.
therefore conceits you not. As to myself, I must freely
confees that I care little for drawings or for music, ex-
cept the finest, and the finest are alwaye to be had for
money; and as to lanenagee, (to condescend for once to
expires, myself in parlance more expressive than refined)
I shioted any that for a woman one tongue is generally
suffieient—(houghter)—and that I have no desire for a
polvglotted wife.
Ihit her education, though superior to what those in
her station wally receive, has not sufficed to preserve
her from some inaccuracies in speaking our own lan-
Mae.
Brethren and sisters, Is your language strictly accu-
rate? Pray do not suppose for a moment that I would,
unprovoked--and I feel sure there are 'whammy amongst

The benediction war then pronounced, and the con-
gregation di4persed.