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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THE LOVE OF LOOT!

The majority of the inhabitants ,•f Maadala were, in every
babdity, brought there ff• rceti,littf r,.:11 at olthe frtorStilref.lbLirilTheodore, who had, in :
huge den of robbers, and would return readily and quietly
enough to their own homes it the Gana would let them ; and

The humble, paltry property which they have strm,led as
eagerly to carry w ith them as if it were gents of untold
value, some of the women and slaves being covered from •
head to foot, and almost invidble, tinder the mass of little •
household articles pfled upon th,ni by their lazy lord.— •
ought not, one would think, to tempt the cupidity of Ilar-
pagon. It c .uslats of a great number of goulds of every
shape and site water being scarce in Slagdala itself), a kw
rude cooking utensils, and coarse cloth+ and mats, a rough
stool or two, and, occasionally, a few flashy, but apparent iy
valueless, personal ornaments, The Galls probably finds in
the pursuit of loot as the philosophers In the pnrsuit of
truth, its chief reward, and has shown a recklessness and
audacity in rushing after it, which the utmost vigilance of
the force has failed to keep alb g thee in check. they have
come near enough li, aIC mounted 'nickels to attack them
with stones, and last sight nearly carried MI two women
from our camp itself, despite *Mir Tesistance and loud-
cries. The ditlieu:ty has been increased by the inability of
our troops to distinguish between a Galla and an Abyssinian.
However, ion, hails has been killed and five womoled, and
now they begin to nut at the first sight of .1 British ne Indian
soldier, though they still host on tine skirts of Theodore's
retreating army, murdering probably all that fall hy the way.
BAD LOGIC NUMERABLE To THBOAT-CrITING.
It is a quaint illustrat bon of the different views of honour
and morality taken by different Ilatiolia, that the i:allas are
as much surprised and shocked at our baNe ingratit tole as we
at their inhuman barber ity. They any that we is itta' thlall
to active hostility against the leading Abyssinian. Theodore,
and that when, in pursuance of our presumed wish, t hey
attack his followers—profe-sed encodes to us and life-hunt
blood-feud enemies to them—we show our gratitude and
appreciation of their services by Ming rocket and ball into
them. It is tan be feared our conduct is scarcely logical ; but
even had logic is perhaps preferable to throat-cutting in
cold blood.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THE MODERATIoN OF THE VICTORS

The compassion slot moderation which our troops have
show n ton ards their vanquished enemies could not be ex-
ceeded—a mmleration all the more laudable when it is
remembered that the two hail scarcely one point of sympathy
In common, for the Abyssinian caricature of Christianity
would be tar more likely to revolt than to conciliate the
ordinary average soldier; that the expedition has been
long Unpopular in the extreme. from the hardships and pri-
vations which it has involved, compensated IT only the
slenderest hope of tighthig sr had ; that our troops, ad-
mirably as they have behaved to the Al Tssinians from first
to last, from Senate to Mandela. hearty dislike and demise
them, knowing them only as greedy, treacherous, immoral,
and, a' one all, nullity ; and that the Aby,sinian, on the other
hand, has scarcely I leen at the pains to conceal his contempt
to their bagman ethics and peaceful guise. it is not often
in history that a victory ever aliens in race, colour, language,
and sympathy has been in the fierce hour of vengeance so
little abused.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

WORDSLEY.

CHAROS OF DAMAGINO CLOVER.—At the Petty Ses•
sions, on Monday lad, before F. Evers, T. 1. lee, and
H. Smith, Esqrs., Thomas Kendall was charged by Dud.
ley Pearson with damaging a qnstitity of clover on the
6th inst, his property. Several witue,sea acre I xamioed,
and the Bench considered the cone proved, and defend-
ant was tined GI arid costa, and Cl for the damage done
—f I fs 6d; irs default 1-1 days.
CAUTION To CAKTERs.—Cieorge Wise was charged by
Superintendent Mills with using a cart belonging to him
on the 1611 mat, at Amblecute. Police-constable Free-
man peed the offence, and defendant was ordered to
pay the scam, in.

KiNVER.

CI7.IIIGE OP STEALING.—At the P. tty Sessions. on
Monday last, at IVordshay, before F. Evers, T. Y. Lee,
mid 11. Smith, Esqrs , John Davies was charged with
having in his possession, on the thhael inst, a cock fowl,
knowing it to have been stolen, the property of Robert
Richsrals. Mr. Ponton (Rurlaury anal Pontonl defended.
Prosecutor süd thn on the above date he had three hew
fowls, and a cock fowl. The cock was stolen, the pen
having loon broken open. The cocks bead produce!,
was the head of the cock he bad lost. He knew it be
the colour, end a mark on the head. George Pawns :id
that he was a neighbour to the prisoner, and on the
shove date be saw the prisoner making a bole in th.i g sr-
den with a spade. Did not see him put anything in the
bole. Ann Dutton said she heard that prosecutor hut
lost a fowl, and she new Mrs. Lucas at the pump, who
said that prisoner had been digging a hole in the garden,
and she should like to know what he bad been doing,
and went and dug up the ground, and found the fowl's
head. Sarah Lucas said that George Pagett told her
that the prisoner had buried something on Sunday morn-
ing, and curiosity led her to go and dig, and she dug up
a fowl's head, and afterwards gave it to Mr. Richards,
The Bench did not think there was sufficient evidence to
commit, and dismissed the ease.

OIisTRUCTINGriio NAVI.:ATIoN OF THE CANAL—Wit-
Ham Coley was charged by John Beach with obstructing
the navigation of the canal, on the 7th instant. John
Dalton said lie was a lock keeper, and on the above date
defendant woo rowing down the lock, and fastened his
line to the lock gate while another boat sag in the lock.
Defendant stopped the free navigation for one hour sad
three quarters. Dvfenilant pleaded guilty. Fined o sod
costs; in default seven days.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

OLD HILL.

CH MOE or DRUNKKNNESS.—On Welneaday last, at
the Public Office, before Mr. F. W. 0. Barra, Benjamin
Bißingham was charged by Superintendent Mill. with
being drunk and disorderly on the '2'2nil instant. PoII;Y-
-constable Sirumenda proved that he was on duty at
Bradley Heath on the above date, when he saw defend-
ant, who 1.3 very drunk, and challenging persons to
fight. Police-sergeant Powner said that defendant had
been up a dozen times, but would never pay. Defend-
ant y,; and lam likely to owe this if there's anything
to pay. Fined td and costa; in default 10 days.—There
ne ill°„iAtOt°
were liereral other cases entered for hearing, but as there
was only o g
present they adjourned tor
week.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

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ARRESTED IN MISTAKE.

We have had a curious scandal at Chantilly, in which
the police are utterly, entirely, and dangerously in the
wrong (writes the Paris correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph). "Trop de zele" is the fault cif these guar-
dians f the public peace and quiet. One day last weet
a British clergyman had preached two charity sermons
:it Chantilly, and was waiting to catch the mail train
from Creil to England. I rnluckily for him, he heard
mounds of revelry that sultry summer's evening--that
is to say, the sounds which emanate from the drum,
fiddle, and flute, which constitute the orchestra of a
village fair ; and to the fair he scent. Suddenly lie was
arrested for "attempting" to pick pockets.
Kota Bene. —The reverend gentleman certainly had
Letter not have been there, and his semi-clerical cos-
time, long black frock coat, stiff white nee :cloth, and
black wide-awake, would excite no religious feeling in
France, whatever it might do at Clapham. Nay, in-
deed, I fear the people of Chantilly would take a man
wearing that "dress of the period" for a maitre d'hotel
out of place, rather than for a " rtiv(yend hire,"
He had sufficient money in his own pocket ; and if
the absurd idea of his waiting to pick other pockets
could he for an instant entertained, he could not have
found twenty SOUS in any pocket present. Amongst
the witnesses procured against loin, I am assured that
not one hail a franc about him. The gentleman was
thunderstruck. as von may imagine, hut he did one
"plucky" thing -he refused all compromise, and
would have the affair thor4 in :slily probed. The police
were very hard. A gentleman at Chantilly offered
rooms in his house for the officer in charge and the
gentleman charged, hut the police insisted on sending
their victim to Senlis, where he Was lovk,ll up with the
commonest criminals for three days. Then the affair
came before the magistrate there was no doubt of the
case, lint the imliee tried to save themselves it is their
attire. If the accused would only admit that there
was madness in his family, or that he was drunk or
subject to delusion, he would be set free. Ile utterly
declined to do so, and the recruit is that he is In m- free
with a "handsome letter from the Pr, waren,- Imperial
to the effect that his arrest was a mistake," and ex-
pressing great regret for that mistake. This is all very
well, but really, if such "mistakes " happen again,
• English people will travel with about as 11111 Ch PkaSltre
I slid security as a foreigner in Anstria a few years ago.
Luckily, we have an ambassador here who always
nines his authority to bear, and in this instance I am
told that he acted with his usual quickness ; but, even
more than to his Excellency, the poor priest is in-
debted to the kindness I,f English residents at
Chantilly.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

AN ACT OF GREAT HUMANITY.

- -
Just before the gate was blown up—the last net of destine.
thin —a loathsome cripple. covered with sores, was discovered
Hear it IT a corporal of the 3:ird, whose name unfortunately
I have not learnt. mot carried by him to a place of safety.
The man will, it is to be herd, get some other reward than
that of a good conscience. There are many in the force who
would may too gladly have john,d the storming party and
risked their lives in the narrow path, but who would have
Slirlisk trials tins safe and simple net of heroism. It is,
however, but one, perhaps, striking instance out of many.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THE TWO QUEENS.

It is curious, too, that this misunderstanding, which in
Europe would be considered anything but trivial, has not
produced the 'lightest chest on the friendly relations which
are supposed to estst between their respective Majesties
at
threat Britain anal Wollodlalla hunt The two (MIN Queens—
Workite gold and Mastrat looking-glass —have had at race
which should he the first to congratulate Sir Robert, and
narrowly escaped arriving at the saute moment, which
might have placed him in at rather einharrasiing position,
as his two female admirers have been fighting vigorously
with each other for some ytars. Bravery and warlike :
renown cover a multitude of sins in the eyes of a liana
woman], and are considered worthy of ally reward. It is to
he feared that the ladies went awn) si lila but a pinor °piffle in
at heart of itritish gallantry in hive, wlmtever it may he in
war, and thooght our Connnander-net'hief, as Cleopatra
thought Augustus, a sadly ••eold.bliaided Caesar." Inn out-
wardly they professed great delight and satisfaction. giving
and receiving Valiolls handsome presents. I am told, on
good authordy, that they go i»to battle and handle spear,
MOM, rind gun right manfully ; there is even a stoty, pro-
bably mythical, that Mastrat, with her non hand, wounded
the mighty Theodore. But usually they go about si muffled
up, and looking so like a lmelle of shawls moved lay
mechanism, that ex,ept in their method of thling, their ap-
peariume is anything hut Amaz an e. Workite kept herself
closely wrapped up and hidden during her stay in camp,
but Mastrat boldly threw aside her fich royal robe 14 crinua
speckled with gold, and came out of her tent and before the
soldiers—if her Majesty will pardou the expresdon—like a
man, to have her photograph taken. tier complexion was
very pale olive—fairer than that of many Europeans—and
her express am, though the features were huge and scarcely
like those of Theodore's widow.in.chief, at the thorough-
bred type, was essentially queen-like Mai commanding.
She looked quite c Table of leading her army anywhere.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE IN
LIVERPOOL.

On Tuesday, a frightful explosion, attended with the
loss of three lives, occurred off West Derby-road,
Liverpool. For some years past a wooden building,
constructed on a portion of the ground formerly known I
as the Zoological Gardens, has been used as a tirewoik
manufactory, the proprietors being Messrs. Harper I
and Hope. At about twenty minutes to twelve !
o'clock in the morning the two proprietors were on the :
premises, engaged in the composition of some stuff for I
fireworks, when, by some means or other, which—in
consequence of the death of every person who Was
present at the time will, no doubt, remain a
mystery—a fearful explosi'm took place. The buibl-
ing was smashed to ',feces, the timber portion
of it set on fire, and everything inside completely
destroyed. As soon as the fire was extinguished,
a search was made for the bodies of the people who
were inside at the time of the catastrophe. The
calcined remains of Mr. Harper and Mr. Hope were
found, as was also the body of a youth whose name is
at present unknown. Mr. Harper's silver spectacles—
minus the glass—together with his watch were found,
both very much discoloured. The body of the youth was
very much disfigured ; his left leg was burnt away
close to the knee, and his skull fractured. There was
nothing found to give any clue as to who he was, and
it is generally believed that he was a casual visitor,
and bad just called in out of curiosity to see what was
taking place. From the position a the bodies when
found it is believed that the explosion took place near
the entrance to the building, and that the retreat of
the ,00r fellows inside Wag cut Mt It is a most
singular fact that although the building was e,
striated on the principle laid down by the Act of Par-
liament relating to buildings used as firework manu-
factories, but four years since an explosion took place
in the same building. The bodies of the deceased were
taken to a shed close by to await a coroner's inquest.
No other accident tool: place.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

CUTTING off a LITTLE GIRL'S HAIR.

An extraordinary story of the abduction of a littla
girl in London has been put dished. On Nlondav week,
Emma Hart and another little girl Mary Ann Wesley,
were returning home front the Nation! School in
Kennington-oval, when they were accosted by a
woman, who rotttested to he shown to Mackinaw-
bridge. Marv, Ann Wesley accompanied Enuna Hart
a portion of the way to Lambeth walk, and returned
to her home. The woman succeeded in prevailing on
the little girl to accompany her, by holding out a
promise that when they got to Blaclariars she would
give her 3s. to take home to her mother. The child
did not return, and great alarm to her parents was the
result. It is now ascertained that the WOMM took
her to some low coffee-house in the neighbouthoad of
the Regent's-park, where they slept during the
Monday night. The next morning she took the little
girl to it barber in the same neighbourhood and desired
hint to cut her hair ,tlf. The little girl hearing this
objected, saying that her mother sail that her
hair was not to be cut off, and lassan to cry. The
barber inquired if the woman was not her mother, and
being informed that she was not, the woman said,
"Oh, you lying little tuirl ; lam your mother" After
her haw was cut off, and sold to the barber by the
woman for Is., she took the little girl to the Regent's-
park, stripped her of her boots (which were quite tww)
awl all her under-clothing, and afterwaros abandoned
her in the park. The ipt)or little girl's cries attracted
the attention of a gentleman, who kindly inquired into
the eau,, and after h.:truing some few particulars of
the little girl, directed the attention of the police to
her case, who removed her to the station, From
Monday afternoon until Tuesday evening at six o'cloek
the iskor little girl haul had nothing to eat, aml was
nearly famished when restored to her anxious parents.
The police are on the look-out for the woman, and
also for the barber.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

WHOLESALE HOMICIDE.

A horribt: case of wholesale, maniacal homicide is
reported from l'armagnola, in Piedmont. A woman
pained Pertesio, standing at an open door with an in-
fant in her arms, was accosted by two boys, who desired
to be directed to some house in the place. The
woman enticed the two lads into her dwelliw, promis-
ing to give them smut:sweetmeat:4. lint no sooner had
they entered than the fury, seizing a sickle that lining
from the wall, belaboured them both about the head
and body with such effect that the piwr little victims
were siwn placed beyond the power of crying for help.
It should tic observed that the greater part of the
population was at the rail, ay station awaiting the
arrival of the Archbislaip of Turin. Thirsting for more
bloodshed, the WOIIIVI then madied forth, still holding
her baby with her left arm. and gra,' dug her murderous
implement in her right hate 1., made straight for the
house of one of her neighlsona, a young mother in bell
with her newly-born infant, and slew them both.
After this she cattle out maw more into the street like
a Malay riming a muck, and attacked an old man and
two other ehildren. At last a man disarmed her, but
she o sold not lw effeettrilly encored without the assist.
acne. of aei s ple of earl,in,rs, who, when the alarm tva-:
gividi, hurried to the siwt. The woman's madness
seems ti be plat •ed beyond all doubt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

WHOLESALE MURDERS IN
AUSTRALIA.

On the 17th March, at C.earoy's Gap, near Vass,
New South Vales, a man named Monday, or Collins,
who considered himself to be unfairly treated by Mr.
Conroy, a squatter, by whom he was employed as
shepherd, murdered five persons under the following
circumstances :--
Conroy lived in a hut of four apartments, two in front,
with two skinimerooms at the rear; a passage runs through
fr the front entrance of the building into one of the
'Milton-rooms. On the lei t site of the passage on entering
is a rrsriii used as a kitchen, and itt this the prisoner and one
of the shepheols slept. In the room on the imposite side the
unfortunate man Smith slept, tind in the s iilooi, entered by
a door fn. Smith's room, the owner oi the place Conroy,
slept. Mrs. Conroy slept in a deter .ed but kitchen, not
far from what may he described as the main building.
' It seems that during the night the prisoner von, awl with
aft axe murdered the shepherd Wll4l lay alongside of him.
The o.,ise awoke Smith, who slept in the opt losite room, and
on his nishing in the prisoner struck him ill the abdomen
with the inane of a sheepshear. Mid then struck him several
brutalhlows unit the itxe. Conroy then appears to have left his
bet and rushed with merely Inc shirt and nightcap on to see
Wintt was the trotter, when he was murdei .1 in a similar
manner. Mrs, l'oltroy, having aim, heard the scuffle, rushed
from the place whe e she slept, when she toils struck in the
nhilOntell With the blade of the shears, and then terribly
gashed across the head and face with the axe. One of the
shepherds who slept in a gunyah near where the sheep were
hlied, at an early hour proeeeded to the list, Wheln the
prisoner had apparently waited his approach. On his enter,
Mg, the prhsiner first disabled him with the blade of the
she spshears, and then struck him 110.11,11 h the axe. The
prisoner then, it would appear, resolved to born the bodies.
Those id Conroy, Smith, and Mrs. Conroy he placed on the
floor of the kit chen i tin to of them lie placed the mattress
from off the bed where. Smith had lain, and river this he
laid the bodies of the two shepherds, covering thorn over
with blankets. &c. The prisoner declared his ititsntion of
murdering Michael Conroy, a son of the deceased, but, for-
tunately, he did wit visit the hut at the time the murderer
was there.
Monday, or Collins, vvas tried on a charge of murder
at .Maitland, in 155.1, and ivass found guilty of man-
slaughter. He received a sentence of fifteen years, ten
of which he haul served when he received his ticket-of-
leave, lie has been committed for trial.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

A DUEL IN AMERICA.

The dulness of life at Washington in the month of
May has been relieved this year by two gentlemen
kindly volunteering to fight a duel. The unfortunate
persons who are doomed to live in that city all the
year round, and whos spirits are apt to be affected
by the dispensation, have thus lwen furnished with a
new and cheerful subject of conversation. It is said
that at one of those lively evening parties which occur
two or three thues a season, even in Washington,
General Lawrence, of the United States Army, made
some remarks to a lady concerning Baron Kussarow,
of the Prussian Legation. The Prussian Minister
(Baron (l6rolt) is a gentleman who, by reason of his
experience and discretion, is not likely to be drawn
into a personal "difficulty ;" but the younger disciples
of the diplomatic art who render hint their valuable
assistance in circumventing Mr. Seward, are not
so guarded, and the good opinion of a lady is
of more consequence to them than the smiles
of ancient and white-headed gentlemen like their
chief and the American Foreign Secretary. Baron
Kussarow therefore challenged General Lawrence, and
the American, nothing loth, went forth to the field of
combat. The distance was fifteen paces —the Baron
fired high and the General fired into a stump. The re-
sult was that no one was particularly damaged. The
inoffensive stump alone had reason to complain. Tlw
principals would fain have had another shot at each
other, but the seconds refused them this consolation.
A member of Congress tried to get the Legislature to
dismiss t:eneral Lawrence front the army and ask ha.
the recall of Baron Kussarow ; hut the Hasse (le-
dined to take up the quarreL It remains, therefiire,
for the lady who set the tire alight to put it omit. It is
possible, however, that (like other ladies) she may 11t
be so expert in the latter as in the former interesting
Operation, and perhaps the best thong that Bann
Ixussarow can do is to get transferred to a post where
there is no General Lawrence to mar his hopes.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

CORNS AND 'fOOTkiACHI

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corns, and banishing the tootharlor in I. than
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

We extract the following interesting and graphic
account of the proceedings 4 our army, after the cap-
ture of the Abyssinian stronghold, Al itgdala, from the
letter of the Special Correspondent (4 the Trans :--

WHAT THEODORE WAS LIKE.

I am afraid some of your readers will think that in my
last two letters I have heti] guilty of a very grave omission
In not telling them what the far-loused Theodore was like.
But the fact Is I only saw hint almost immediately atter he
had died a violent death, and before his features hail time
to reassume something of their ordinary expression in life.
Those who saw him next day, mites the body had been
cleatmed from blood, and the face hCCOUIC more composed,
declare that hit personal appearance seas very striking.
The face, though in complexion s cry dark. had nothing
wludever of the negro about it. The features were
finely cut, though generally for more expressive of power
and strength of will than of deheacy or refinement ; the
brow massive and thoughtful, the lips thin and closely
drawn, indicative if rare determination. Ills ti-ante was
small and slight, hut well-shaped and firin'y knit. It was
strangely 411r1111kell RIO emaciated, as if the constant fatigue
and anxiety of the last few years, combined with almost
11,tily dissipation, had told upon it. In his best days
Theodore's whole appearance may have borne 'Mt all that
his admirero have mid is favour Id it but the hart life be
has latterly led had stamped um di de, face—at least wheo
saw it—an expression of grtosn,s and sensuality w hich
greatly impaired its otherwise St citing elect. However., Mr.
Polities, a first-rate amateur artid, has taken m hat is de-
clared by those who knew Theodore well Pt be an admirable
likeness of him, so that all who are curious to know what
the fallliMS or infamous Emperor of Altyssiiim looked like,
will have au opptrt unity of gratifying their curiosity without
further description front me.

CLAIMING Ills BODY.

Theodore's body was placed at the disposal of his widow,
or, perhaps, I ought to say his principal widow, Pr there are
at least two Royal ladies, and there is no saying how many
semi-Royal, who las a unmake... Rigid claim to him. The
Oriental fashioo, it seems. holds good in Abyssinia, that any
woman upon whom the Imperial eyes have olive I‘,,ked with
favour is thenceforth set apart as sacred friim the approach
of ordinary mortals; and as Theodore was ei aist :ditty on the
mareh, and his an,„Ttions—at Rant latterly—shortlived ía
Ids earlier days he was famous througloatt wondering Al os-
sinia tor his devotion to one lavourite Queen , trio harem
grew very large.
When on the first anxious day of negotiation fientenant
Prideaux told hint that hotiousrabto treatment Wollid lie gives
to him and his family if lie surrendered himself and NI agdala,
Ire broke out with an odd mixture, fur such a moment, of
Mummy 1111,1 1111,149101. M. " What doe.: your chief mean by
niy family? Is lie prepared for a thousand ?" however,
only two suidosen have been recognized.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

ELECTION NEWS.

On Monday the members of the Reform
League held a meeting at the Lye. There %yore
present between two and three thousand persons.
Messrs. Wo,lley, Packwood, and Murton ad-
dressed the meeting, after which a resolution
was passed to support Mr. Lytt,lton. A meet-
ing was afterwards held at Crudley, when souse
two thousand persons were present. Addresses
were delivered by members of the Reform
League, anti resolutions passed pledging to sup-
port Mr. Lyttelton. On Thursday evening a
meeting was held at WeHasten, under the aus-
pices of tha Reform League, Nv hen a warm feel-
ing was manifested towards Mr. Lytteltuu, and
at resolution passed to support him.

Darin. the week meetings have been bad all
through'the Eastern Division, by both candi-
dates. On Saturday list a meeting took place
at flalesowen, at the Shenstone Hotel. Mr.
Lyttelton then addressed them from the window,
and was well received.

Mr. E. Moore moved the following resolution:
That this meeting having heard the expres-
sion of Mr. Lytteltun's views, pledges itself to
ute every exertion to secure his return "
(cheers).
M. Ths ass Bissell sec° sled the motion,
which was carried unanimously.
The Bon. E. C. Leigh also addressed the
met Vag. In the course of his remarks he said
there were only 700,000 Protestants in Ireland,
l that they had two archbishops, ten bishops,
thirty-three deans, thirty-fa:lr archdeacon,
1,900 clergy, and over 1,500 beneficed parishes;
and all for a population of 700,000. If they had
Cte same proportion of bishops in England they
would have 240. The speaker concluded by
hoping they would return Mr. Lyttelton.
The lion. Spencer Lyttelton slso addressed
the meeting, and a vote of thanks to the chair-
man closed the proceedings.

On Monday last Mr. Las'ett proceeded to
Oradley, where he addressed a largo meeting,
and was received amid great che.ering.
were passed to support him.
Ito then pr.weeded to Halesowen, and ad-
dressed a large number of persons amid dicer-
jog and groaning. At the close the meeting,
passA a resolution to do all they could to return
him to Parliament.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

BALDNESS.

BALDNESS PREVENTED.

THE Hot Water from a Spring rising from a
Mountain near the T 1111.114 river, in Italy, with
the juice of the Foam:lied eIK will ercrent the hair front
ay. r hie the scalp, and will free the hair to groin
0 0 week on the head of the °We'd man jr Wolllllll in
England. Frey...red for the discoverer, by Mr. It.
Coorrw. 151. Fleet street, Lotdon. Sent post tree with
instructions how to use it fot 14 stamps.

TESTIMONIALS PRESENTED TO
M (()()'KI.

BALDNF.MS PREV ENTED AND HAIR RF.STODED.
;FIN, awed 61, rosidinn at siilwrtsia to,
North iasieli. to bendy testify to toe isatrouni valow it
Mr. Cooper's prepsration for loreveitiing baldness and run.
toritta the hair. I have especial 111131.11,1 e r.se ttttt mend-
ing it. for. hailing been bald for duriood twelve yearn, soy
hair ha* by its weans been restored to nue if • loorriant
orowlis and of a colour far preferable to Ito former hue.
"JOSEPH ROGERS..
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

TILE lUON TRADE.

THE STRIKE.

Another meeting of puddlers, millmen, rollers,
shinglers, and ball-furnacenieu on striice, was
held at Brierley Hill, on Wednesday, 'the re-
solution to continue the strike was again passed,
yet, on all hands, the men are returning to work.
The works of Messrs. Hingley and Smith, Hart's
Hill, resumed at the drop, and the works of
Messrs. N. Hingley and Co„ at Netherhou, and
3lessra. Swindell and Co., are also on. The
men employed at the first-named firm professed
great firmness whenever the strike was alluded
to; consequently their acceptance of the reduc-
tion must be looked upon as a sign of the times.
We hear that Me .45r5. Hingley and Smith are
I getting down extensive machinery, to render
them, to some extent, independent of shinglers.

There was only a small attendance at tho
Birmingham Exchange, on Thursday, and the
business transacted was in accordance with it.
Many of the puddlers are still out ; the practical
effect of that being to create disturbance in the
trade, otherwise little inconvenience is felt, the
demand fur all descriptions of finished iron being
on such a moderate scale. It is a fact that, low
as prices are, anion firm. 3 are unable to obtain
them, which is a farther justification of the re-
duction of the wages scale. There is rather
more enquiry for sheets, and an increased de-
mand on account of the United States is calcu-
lated upon.
No transactions in pig-iron were reported on
Thursday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THE STOURITAIDGr, OT;SF,EVETI

THE EXECUTION OF O'FARRELL.

The assassin of the Duke of Edinburgh was duly
executed on the 21st April. Shortly before his i'eath
he withdrew the statement made at the police court
that he had been selected from a number of Fenians
to perpetrate the horrid deed, and had committed it
under orders. Either, therefore, his first statement
was false, intended to intensify the fears of the excited
population, or in view of the scaffold he retracted a
fact inadvertently disclosed. The former opinion
appears to prevail in Australia.

We also learn that the Melbourne Parliament has
made it penal to refuse to drink the Queen's health,
and to discuss the separation of the colonies from the
mother country.

Prince Alfred left Sydney for England on the 6th
of April. He WllB sufficiently recovered to take com-
mand of his ship, the GOlO, et, and it is stated that the
external wound caused by the bullet had completely
healed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

BELBROUGIITON.

HOTS 'flirt:max.—The usual services were held on
Ascension Day, et the parish church: in the Morning at
11.0, and in the evesing at 7.30.
BUROLARY.—On Tuesday, the lath inst. at the Public
Office, Stourbridge, before Mr. Freer, Walter Charles
Hatton and Henry John Oakes. of this vilinge, were
brought up, the latter charged with, on Sunday morning,
the 17th lust, breaking into the house of James Pardoe,
and stealing therefrom three half.crowns, one florin, and
thiee penny pieces. Both prisoners were then charged
with breaking into the butcher's shop belonging to Wil-
liam Ellis, and stealing therefrom a butcher's cleaver
and a knife. They were both further charged with break-
ing into a stable belonging to Mrs. Mary Parish. and
stealing therefrom a bucket and a quantity of cider.—
Both prisoners were fully committed to IVorcester As-
sizes for trial, bail being refused.

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upon the chest and hack, penetrating the akin, is carried
directly to the lungs, where it expels all inyurities
All the blood in the body constantly passes through the
lungs, and there all noxious particles tending to produce
disease can be quickly, thoroughly, and permanently
neutralised, rendered harmless, or ejected from the
system. Holloway's Ointment and Pills perfectly accom-
plish this purification and by the blood thus cleansed
the influence r.f these wonderful medicaments reaches the
remotest parts of the human body, and thus DUI.a all
diseased action, whether internal or external.

IMPORTANT TO MOTIINRS.—Sirs, Winslow's Soothing
Syrup, for children teething, is perfectly harmless. It
producee natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes as " bright as a but-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

BY THE PROCESS OF ENAMELLING.

The New Enamelled Cartes present a brilliancy far
rannins;ny ordinftry Carte.; niul being protected from all
atmospheric inflaeoces by the ENAMEL, are, therefore,
more permanent thou any other.
Terms on application. Specimens on view.

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ler
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

"COD SAVE THE QUEEN."

. . . .• In the rush and eagerness to capture Theodore
the storming party passed a man lying dead just inside the
second gate without examining him. The prisoners, some
of whom came up afterwards, recognised his features and
declared him to be Theodore. There was nothing regal in
the costume ; a white shirt and a scarf of the same colour,
without ornaments, was the costume in which he fought.
The hand .d the 23rd Regiment playing "that Save the
Queen," and the re-echoes el the heights of Magdala to three
hearty cheers, proclaimed that we liad added another laurel
to our (Town. Many in the enthusiaim of the moment felt
a recompense fur the weary marches and privations of the
expedition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THEODORE'S WIDOW-IN-CH Er.

The widow-in-chi. f is the daughter of Ras thibie, of Tigri,,
and therefore I sdi ings to one of the oldest and mo.-. 4 powerful
dynasties in Abyssinia, crushed with ho many others, by
Theodore, when he, for a lisle, effected the comiolidation of
the empire. Those mm, saw her on the day of the storming
of Magdala, when her face was exposed, say that she must in
her day have been a very great beauty, cruelly thrown away
upon Abyssinia, of the thoroughbred type, the features deli-
cate and well-cut, the hands and feet small and exquisitely
shaped. The British solider did not, of. course, unilerstmet
that the removal Id her veil the profoontle .t proof of sub-
mission anti humiliation that an Abyssinian lady can give
was anything out of the way, and his efforts to console her
by slapping her on the back and informing her that nobody
should hurt her, but that •' 'Mires was huffish "—an Arabic
word used here to denote anything and everything not good
or to the purpose—were anything, but reassuring, however
well meant. Happily Dr. Blanc came np in time to rescue
tier, and she is now safe somewhere in our camp, closely
miffed up and screened from profane eyes. She did not even
affect to feel any grief at her 1113,1141.11.ni death, and left the
British to do what they thought best with his body, w hich
was ',Need inn the loiter porch of the wretched cabin at Nag-
data digni.ed by the mune of church, for as a suicide Theo-
dore could not be given Christian rites or military honours.
NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THINGs MOUS AND PROFANE.

It was intended that the church should be spared fnta the
general conflagration of Mamba& lest the priests should my
that the common tie of Christianity between conque, ors and
conquered hail been forgotten. But, despite the precauthais
taken by Captain Goodielb., which in everything else were
admirably successful, the flames, recognising no di:dim:Con
between things pious and things profane, soon leapt fiercely
upOn the building, and In s few minutes not a trace was left
to distinguish the spot In which the great Emperor lay from
the blackened ruins AXIIIIIIII. The accident was, perhaps, a
fortunate one, for the Wolin Gallas, Theodore's unrelenting
enemies. are less likely to find inni wreak their barbarous ven-
geance upon his body. They are among the fiercest warriors
and most determined plunderers in the world. Puring our
heavy bombardment of Ilagdala they wore looting vigorously
among the huts close under the waIN, until a few rockets in
their immediate direction dispersed them ; and they hail
clambered up by the southern gate, almost 1111 13111 M as the
place was in flames on the last day and our men hail begun to
retire. They rob, murder, and mutilate every Abyssinian
they can get hold of ;and the British force has hail more diffi-
culty in protecting Theodore's army and huge host of fol-
lowers than it had in conquering them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

A MOST MARVELLOUS EXODUS.

The poor wretches have bcen leaving Magdala for the last
two days in thousands, and lining the road between tins and
the Dalanta plateau for many miles. I have heard then.
estimated at from 23,0041 to 30,000, tort any European estimate
could be little 01(110 than a loose guess, arm! the Abyssinians
themselves have as vague a nothm of numbers as of distance.
Whatever the population was, it seemed to cover with
swarming multitudinous life not only the Amis., but nearly
all the immediate neighboorhoml. and presented as strange
and motley a collection as it would be early to flnil isut id a
museum—men and women, the young, the old, the Infirm
ami the VimM,m, fathers borne on the shoulders of stalwart
soils, weak women tottering under the weigot of noisy, ani-
mated bundles—sometimes tWo or three such bundles ; the
chief, conspicuous in his red-striped shams, striding im-
patiently and haughtily, alhiet a little crestfallen, ahead It
his overladen Sirnrrgaitla slaves, liegrOeS, ilig.litmnlled nit
black, to borrOW Johnson's simile, us " Cyclops from the
. . . .

. ....
forge ; ' the lady of rank, on her sleek, gaily-caparisoned
mule, riding—as ladies in Rotten-row do not ride, and so
closely muffled up front head to foot as to show nothing
more to the passing eye than a welbshaped, but yelbts ish
rso of nose, and a by Ile OteaTi9 expressionless black eye.
her handmaids making a bedy.guard round her on humbler
animals and in coarser chilies, but as a compensation, Dee
front the drawbacks of rank, and thus enjoying the iladle
feminine pleasure of seeing and being seen ; here and there
a friendless cripple, unable to drag hi, palsied limbs further
down the steep hill, and piteously imploring every passer-by
for water or the supine of a strong :um; and, most start-
ling.. though not saddest night of an, the corpse of some one
fallen faint front hunger or thirst by the wayside, or a rude
litter carrying high above the dense throng the hotly of setae
dead Or WOOlaiOd salter, a ghastly token of the recent days
of blood. It was certainly a most marvellous exodua, and
would have been inexpre,sibly painful if one hail thought
the people were leaving for ever real homes in which they
hail lived front childhood, and for which they cared. hut
such sufferers were in a small minority. A few- inhabitants
nifty have been loth to leave Magdala ; some from age or
infirmity were physically unalde to leave it ii tilt comfort, or
even at all. A few ef these clung to their huts up to the
last moment, and had to be hunted from hiding-place to
hiding-place.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

THE LAST PUBLIC EXECUTION.

The last dread sentence of the law has been
upon Barrett, who was uadouldedly the most
promenent itctor in a crime which, at the time
of its perpetration, startled the whole country,
and which has never slime ceased to be regarded
with horror and execration. Never did an ac-
mused man have a more patient or a fairer trial
than the wretched erian'ual who on Tuesday
was launched into eternity to the aecompani-
merit of groans and ribald jests. That it was
he who fired the barrel, the explosion of which
dealt out murder and desolation to so frightful
en extent, cannot Er! doubted by anyone who
has read the evideace, quite irrespective of Bar-
rett's never having denied it.
We may regret that in consequence of the
determined efforts to prove or the wretched
criminal was tortured by a respite front week to
week, but the Government cannot be blamed for
this. The Boma Secretary was forced by the
prisoner's friends to mlopt the policy of delay,
Ana to institute farther inquiries which could
not bat result ht a confirmation of the original
sentence. The jastice of that sentence, if we
are to have capital punishownt at all, cannot
but commend itself to all who have studied the
case.

-Barrett's execution will be memorable, not
only for the dreadful cloiracter of Ida crime, the
complicated character of the evidenee against
him, and the long continued uncertainty of his
fate, but for the fact that the execution will be
the last in the metropolis at least, and probably
in the country, which will be carried out in pub-
lie. That we shonld have Mel public executions
has been our disgrace and our national ruisfor- '
time, and the reform that will now take plac.t is
one that 303111 scarcely be too highly appreciated.
The " example," of which we have heard so
ninch will, in our opinion, be inure impressive
1113111 ever it was. There will be 31 solemnity
:Lima the last dread scene, a judicial coolness
I that there never was before, while the !death of
the erilnilini will be nnaccompaoied by those
horrid imprecations and jests, that horrid buf-
foonery, and that mercenary trafficking in his
last agonies, which have hitherto characterised
public executions. At the last execution we are
told that ten pounds were ohtained for a small
•room, the ainels'4oll limited to three, where a
viev of lhi gallows wit commanded ; ond every
avilable coign of vantAge, were the struggles of
the dying ctlininal Clould he witnessed, was let
tor sordid money. It was high time that a coon.
try in the forefront of civilisation should he
freed from such legally permitted digrace. We
; are t nation of shopkeepers, and we are none the
I worse for that, hat at least we have done well
' to abolish the gallows as a show and on enter-
Italia:want, and to retain it, while lii. retained,
merely as as the last dread weapon of retribtp
tire jest's*.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

HAVE SEEN THE WtolILD!"

I have somehow omitted to mention the young prince,
Allunrdiyn .• I have seen the world " , Theodore's son by
Ras Oubie's daughter, and said it he in appearance very like
his father lie is an intelligent, fine-looking little boy of
about seven, and ought to do credit to Dr Wilson, of
Bombay, to whom his education is, fortunately for him, to be
Ltrusted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

FIFTY-FOUR ACRES OF EXCELLENT
GRASS KEEP,
THE HOLUM FARM, NEVILLE, NEAR
87'0V RBRIDGE.

TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by W. COTTON
On MONDAY, the lot day of 3CNIC NEXT, at iNO
o'clock in the afternoon, at the various Field Gates—
Fifty-four Acres of capital GRASS KEEP, in four lots,
subject to conditions, to be grazed from day of sale until
2Sth day of September next, by order of Mr. John Rob.
bins, of the Ifolliss Farm, Envil, near Stourloridge, in
the county of Worcester.
The Auctioneer invites the attention of Stock Dealers,
OrdZiers, and others to the above•mentioned Keep, which
is of first-class description, it being on tine old turf land,
well watered and shaded. All payments will Ire borne by
*Le .Vendor, and a person appointed to look after the
Poe*.