The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

PATSfENTS.

359 If 11

For solleirorV
For mettenaer's ditto
For auctioneer's ditto
For (tee f r the chief ri-gittrar'a account for ser-
vices retwered by Oficial salignee
Flr postage,, etation,y. t 0....
For advettletna dividend
For Wages, rent. lazes, ratea, itc ,
payable in lull ......£65 13 0
For divbiend of Is Gil. in the pound
on £1,192 14, 30,
.. 90 1 1
155 14 1
Balance in hank .. • • .. 38 8 7

.. 12 14 10
130•
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OUTRAGES UPON LADIEB.—On Saturday a man,
named (film, deacribed as & jeweller's traveller, WEN had
up on remand at the riffieffield police court, on a charge
of assaulting several ladle.. About fifteen ladle.,
who melded in the western suburbs, attended to des-
cribe how he hail outraged and annoyed them. At
the former hearing two case, had been inv.,.tigated
and proved againat him, but he denied that he wee
the man who had committed the offences, and asked
for a remand that he might obtain wane/mem to cha-
racter. On Saturday be pleaded guilty, and no fresh
cage was gone into. He was mentenced to Rix
months' imprisonment with hard labour in each
case proved, the aecond aentence to take effect after
the expiration of the lint.

El arum Dallomm.—The death was announced
last week of Dr. Jeaffreson, Fellow and Censor of the
College of Pnysicans and senior phymican to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital in London, at little more Menthe
m iddle age. Typhus fever, which was the cause of death,
was also fatal a few weeks since to Dr. T. Southey
Warter, a very accomplished young physician at the
same hospital. The lever is a contagious one, and
likely to be contracted M the comae of attendance
upon patients. Dr. Jeaffreson was a man of great
reputation for clinical sk ill. Vigorous in frame, and
of a vivacious and agreeable character, he had recently
built a fine country house, and was contemplating the
pleasures of partial country retirement when he was
seized with typhus. St. Bartholomew's Hoepitai has
prematurely lost aeveral of its most eminent physicians
of late years. Dr. Balry was a few years since killed
in A railway accident just after being appointed
phyaican to the Queen; 1/r. Kirke'm Merl in the year
of attaining his position as physician; and now Dr.
Jeaffrialon has been carried away from the staff of this
important hospital.

Ton VALUE or INawrs.--Great Britain pays
annually 1,000 000 dollars for dried carcasees of that
tiny insect called the cochineal, while another insect,
which produces gum shellac, is PCH/Cely lees valuable.
More than 1,500,000 human beings derive their sole
support from the culture and manufacture of the fibre
spun by the eilkworm, of which the annual value is
200,000 000 dollars England spends 500,000 dollars
every year in the purchase of foreign honey, and she
imports annually 10000 be. of beee'-wair. Then there
are thou,, insect productions of gall•nuts, used 'or
dying and making ink, and cantharidee or Spanish fly,
used in medicine.

THE Yemen RA ID.—A memorial window has
just been placed in the Convocation-hall of the ljni-
vereity of Toronto hearing the names of three young
men—Mr. Mewburn, Mr. M'Kenzie, and Mr. Tempest
—members of Dnivensity College, who fell at Lime
ridge on the 2nd of Tune, lighting for their country.
The window WS% unveile I by for of their fellow
student, who were wonntied on the same occasion.
The President. Dr. M Call, stated that if these three
young men had been spared they would proba'dy all
have obtained the highest honours which the college
had to brwtow.

SPAMPN'S GRIEVANCPB.—A Memorial from 170
seams ti of the nortMeant ports has been transmitted to
the Board of Trade, enumerating the Krievancen felt
by the crewit of colliers and coasting vessels. These
grievances, it is said, are by no means confined to that
claw of ships. The whole mercintile marine in in want
of reform, and if nothing is done there will POOR be a
deficiency of seamen. There are great complaints
that the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 haw remained
virtually a dead letter; that lime-juice is not served
out to the men on long voyages, and scurvy if, preva-
lent ; that slope, boats, and rigging are often unfit for
use, and that the ships are habitually nndermanned.
It is true that this lain complaint in the necessary com-
plement of those which preceded it, and that in course
of time there will he no means of manning. But why
in the Act of 1854 a dead letter? Not for want of
stringent provisions on most of these subjects. It roots
with the Board of Trade to put the provisions in force,
and to nee that inspectors are appointed at all the
ports. The penalty for not providing lime.joice is 201.,
and for not nerving It out N. for each offence. More.