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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

MAD DOGS.

The following communications have been sent to The
Times for publication :
Sir,—lt is most painful, and indeed aggravating, to
find that whenever there is danger of the widespread
dissemination of contagion the authorities delay the
the adoption of the simplest and most rational pre-
cautions till an incalculable amount of suffering has
been endured. The British Isles have been so
favoured by nature that the isolation of our animals
from foreign plagues is attended with little difficulty.
We studiously avoid taking advantage of our excel,
tional position. Rabies in the lower animaLs—hydro-
phobia in man—is one of the pure contagia, and so
terrible are the consequences of trusting to valiant
policemen who risk their lives for the publis good by
killing mad dogs with their staves th t it is high time
it were insisted on that every dog be led, and if found
loose and =muzzled that it should be seized, and, if
not claimed within a reasonable time, destroyed.
Humane persons sometimes object to muzzles. It is
not difficult to contrive an apparatus projecting be-
yond the upper jaw which would effectually prevent
any dog biting, unless, shark like, he turned on his
back, and the object to be bitten actually dropped into
his mouth. In any case it is better that dogs should
be subjected to temporary inconvenience than they
should die by so painful a malady as rabies, to the
serious injury of the entire community. The subject
is too important to be neglected, and on public grounds
I solicit space for these remarks.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant, JOHN GAMGEF.
1, Great Winchester-street, KC., April 30.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

H. B. SHItRIDAN.

l'udlsy, May 2, 1674.

TO THE ELECTORS OF

PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGH OF

GENTLIXEN.-

DUDLEY.

The late Election haring been declared void on account

of the riots, and Mr. 831111.811ENSTONE haring announe d
that it is not his intention to cor.ti at the Borough, I have
been induced h a rce ivflueutial electors, of both par-
ties, to ifir styse:t as a CNDIDAIIf for your suffreges.
s.ueerely hope that Mr. Snnitioate will fellow Mr.
example, ant retire from the c iu•
test. with • VieW of restoring peace.

I am no party manjaud think:that the eJuntry has bad
quite enough of polities. for the pr..ment at all eeenta. I

t 1.11,) tilillk Ll.at the e.,mpl 4.11; of fu uutf actureri f hanks.

sing awl uwiectis,aq iut:rfeteneo with irate by tit late

PAratan, at art- ins; I) founded

on glad to see that tire n&tioi&lprosperity:is sustained,

wad that the pretitut Guverameot, like the lad, wi.l I.

ab e to tuhke laric remistiaus of taxv

I ',eve. ways bren a bur, porter of the Chapels as well

a. to ('Lurches ,4 pmr borough, and bhouid indeed be

g. I.a ii out ai coreetisione tubs. religions 41010111

• vh ch ',opt with he, in doctrine inn, One

0: to the National Church. To bring this union

idu ut inaniiest abuses ought to be rigoroua iy dealt with :
and as • first step 1 decidedly approvd of the Archbishop
of Canterbury's bill for the better regulation of pubic
w zsbip.

Ai to the kidueslion question. I niu-t regret to see goop

men so divided. I avow myaelf, huwer,r, a decided at.

hvrect of bible instrucii,m

I confidently appeal to the working classes for their
support, for I undoubtedly have many ways promoted
their welfare. - . .

Gentlemen—l am very conscious of my want of
ability for the high post which I seek, nor should I
at my time of like have colleted your favour had I not
though that my return would be likely to restore peace
to your II rough.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
NOAH HINGLEY.
Netherton Ironworks, May 2, 1874.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

CONFESSION OF MURDER.

At the Central Criminal Court, in London, James
Godwin, 27, rug maker, was placed at the bar, before
Baron Cleasby, to take his trial for the wilful murder
of his wife, Louisa Godwin.
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The prisoner, who exhibited extraordinary coolness
and self-pomession, is a short man, f very respectable
appearance. He we well.dressed, and tail great at-
tention to the reading of the indictment which changed
him with having, of his malice aforethought, killed and
murdered the deceased.

When the prisoner was asked whether he was guilty
or not guilty of the crime, he replied "I am guilty."
Baron Maltby : Do you know the consequences of
pleading guilty to such a crime?
Prisoner: Yes, my lord; death (sensation).
Barn Cleasby : Do you understand that you are
charged with having, I,f your malice aforethought,
killed and murdered your wife?

Prmoner es, my lord, and I plead guilty to it.
Mr. Warner Sleigh said he had been instructed by
the sheriffs to defend the prisoner, but after what had
taken place he dial not see that he could say anything
more than to remind the court that it appeared by the
depositions that there was no direct evidence of the
prisoner having committed the act which caused the
death of the deceased, and the case rented principally
upon his own statement.
Baron Cleashy then directed the plea of guilty to be
recorded.

Mr. Avory, addressing the prisoner, inquired in the
usual form whether he had anything to say why sen-
tence .4 death 1,11,,u1 d not be passed upon him?
The prisoner : Nothing.
Baron Clezu.by then addressed him, and said he had
pleaded guilty to the crime of having murdered his
wife ; aml having read the depositions carefully he
had come to the conclusion that it made no differ- '
euce at all his pleading guilty, and that by doing
so he had' merely saved the jury the painful
task of saying by their verdict that he was guilty
of his dreadful crime. He did not believe that
the act was premeditated, but that it was com-
mitted in a tit of anger. This, however, made no dif-
ference, for when an act of this description was com-
mitted in anger it amounted equally in the eye of the
law to malice aforethought. There was no doubt that ,
now his fit of anger had passed away he was very I
sorry for what he had done, and that he repented of I
the act, and if he-had not done so time would be ap-
pointed him for that purpose, and of preparing to
meet the sentence of the law, which would undouht-
edlv be carried into execution.
His lordship then passed sentence of death in the
usual form, and the prisoner, who did not exhibit the
slightest emotion, Wad removed from the law.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

RIDGE OBSERVER:

to the defendant, who travelled for plaintiff, and
„t3lss 3d collected by the defendantand not paid
over to his master. Mr. Prescott remarked that
this 134 13s 3d had really been embezzled.—His
Honour gave a verdict for the full amount claimed,
and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

. LORD DENBIGH AND ARCHBISHOP

MANNING.

At a public luncheon at Bedford on Thursday last,
after the opening of a new Catholic church, built there
by the Rev. Canon Warmoll, Lord Denbigh, in pm-
posing "The Queen," said the name of his Sovereign
wan always dear to an Englishman, and we had a right
to be proud of her under whose reign we had lived so
long. In pmposing "The Catholic Hierarchy in Eng.
land," Lord Denbigh remarked that although this
country was happily still a land of libeity, and they
were spared the iheadful scenes now going on in Ger-
many and Switzerland, yet if, in the providence of
God, the Catholic Bishops here had to undergo the
same trials, they would be found to go to prison with
the same joyousness of heart as the Prelates they now
saw going to prison in those countries.
Archbishop Manning, in responding, said that when-
ever there had been an open declaration of Catholic
principles to be made Lord Denbigh had always been
in the front. He had the felicity to utter a sentence
which would go down with him in his biography— that
he was a Catholic first, an Englishman afterwards.
It was one of those sayings which were so obviously
true that when men looked at it thoughtfully a large
number of their non-Catholic brethren who had
assailed it at first accepted it in this form—that they
were Christians tie-it, Englishmen afterwards--that
was to say, whereas they would lay down their lives
for their country, still, if human authority were to
command them to break the laws of God, they would
die for their Christianity. His Grace, after some local
remarks, concluded by saving that the more the
Catholic Church was seen iind heard and known, the
more people would join hands with its members in
social life, and find that Catholics were an good sub-
jects of our common Sovereign, and just as good Eng-
lishmen as they were themselves.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

To THE ELECTORS OF
THE
PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGH OF
DUDLEY.

At the request of my Palencia in the Parliamentary
Borough of Dudley, I contested the late Election, on
the priniples of political niodereton, and I again
thank all who helped me, especiaily those who nobly
buried their political differences in one common cause
for the general bin-fit of the Borough.
We fought the battle and suffered a deleat which OD
petition has been riverbed by the &claims of one of
her Majesty'. Judges.
The only object of the petition was to somas for

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you the privilege of free electiol, a privilege which I
trust you will always retain in its fulleit integrity.
I Oval now retire from further action, thodgh it
would have been a aource of legitimatelarnbition to have
reprecented those in Parliament, whom 1 have mole.
wound to serve, to the best of my humble ability , in

almost every other capacity, during so many years of
residence amongst you. I hope, however, you will
soon find some local and mire, worthy Representative,
of moderate views, who will command the confidante
of the Borough, and I shall then feel that the la
borions sad costly campaign, which we have fought in
the cause of moderation, will prove a zeal and lasting
benefit to this Importeut eonstituency.
With my deepest sympathy for those who have safe
cIEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, TEE fared injury or loss in our late eonteet.
.1 DIAMOND FIELDS, AMERICA, CANADA,
JAPAN, &s., &a.. by Royal Mail and other I have the honour to remain, (inattention,
Steamers and Hailing Packets, regularly despatched from Ever your faithful Servant,
all Seaports in England. Books, Maps, and Tickets of
FREDERIC! SIIITRIRIINIITONR.
mbarkslion, obtained of Edward Bent, Emigration
011ies, Ihat.straat, groirlay Rill. Wadley, May 2, ISM

hs • CHEAPIST PASSAO2 TO
s
ALL THZ COLO/WIS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

CHRISTIANITY AND BRAHMINISM.

At the usual afternoon service in St. James's Hall in
London, on Sunday, an interesting address was de-
livered by Naravan Sheshadri, a converted Brahmin,
on the subject a Christianity in India. The speaker
took his text from the Bth verse of the 2nd Psalms,
and said that, although various opinions were held in
this country on religious subjects, he knew that no
high-bons Briton would consider himself much honoured
were he called a heathen. What was true of Great
Britain, was true also of Europe, America, and Canada.
Thequestion had been put to him as to whether the
heathen could ever be taught to understand the promise
conveyed in the verse of the Psalm. He could answer
that question by telling them a great deal about the
missionary enterprise which had progressed through
the world since the beginning of the century. His
countrymen were now provided with schools which
were outside the sphere of School Board contro-
versies, and black missionaries were training up
1 other black men to the work of the Christian religion.
India was a peculiar country, in that it possessed a
religion, literature, and caste which were peculiar to
itself—particularly so as to caste, which was stronger
than in any other country in the world. After
describing in detail the various forms of religion
practised by his counts ymen, the speaker said that
the task of disseminating Christianity in India had
been partly surmounted. As an instance, there were
no less than 250,000 converts to Christianity belonging
to the highest and lowest classes. The only hope his
country had was in the dissemination of Christianity
awl a system of religion founded on the teaching of the
(gospel. He believed that there would be a reaction,
and that his country would be civilised, enlightened,
and ennobled under its present Government.
At the conclusion of the address the speaker re-
moved his turban and delivered a brief prayer.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

ii PER CENT. ON FREEHOLD
PROPERTY.

UOR SALE fur 1375, all that Piece of
FRICEHOLD LAND, with the Nine MESSUAGLS
teszeou, the whole 1.091 square yards, situate at the
bottom of Cliorchatreet, Pensuett, and producing on su
it mirage £4ll 10e per annum.—Yor farther partlealera
gra:Mr. Chula' lhaitit, Pelletier, 19, Cast /gat
Crosby Slum, Lomb*, S.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

THE NEW LICENSING ACT.

A large meeting was held at Sheffield on Monday
night, the Vicar of Sheffield in the chair, at which a
protest was made against the extension of hours pro-
posed to be granted by the new Licensing Act. 111 r.
Barber quoted extracts from Mr. Cross's former
speeches in opposition to his present views, and moved
a resolution expressing regret, and protesting against
the Bill and its retrograde principles.

A special conference of clergymen and other minis-
ters of religion of Manchester and Salford and the viol.
city was also held in the Mayor's Parlour at the Man-
chester Town Hall on Monday afternoon, to consider
the Bill. The meeting was jointly called by various
temperance societies. The Bishop of Manchester
presided, and expressed his opinion that instead of
the hours for the sale of liquors in public-houses in
the neighbourhood of London theatres being ex-
tended, it would be advantageous if the hours
of performance at theatres generally were cur-
tailed. The Bishop of Salford moved a reso-
lution condemning the provisions in the Government
Bill which extend the hours of drinking; and the re-
solution having been supported by the Rev. T. Willis
(an Independent Minister) and Canon Birley, was
adopted. Other resolutions, condemning portions of
the Bill which gave increased facilities for the sale of
intoxicating liquors, were spoken to by various mew.
ben of all religious denominations, and unanimously
agreed to by a large majority.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

ANOTHER ENGLISH PILGRIMAGE
TO FRANCE.

It is at length definitely settled (says The Times)
that the pilgrimage made by the Roman Catholics of
England last year shall be renewed this summer; its
destination only will be altered, as, instead of Paray-
le-Monial, the archiepiscopal city of Sens will be its
destination. It will be remembered that Sens was
the place where the two great exiled Archbishops
of Canterbury resided during their exile, St. Edmund
and St. Thomas h Becket ; and the Archbishop
of Sens has addressed a letter to the Very
Rev. Monsignor Patterson, the President of St.
Edmund's College, near Ware, in Hertfordshire,
stating that, if the pilgrims come to his cathedral
city, they shall be " received with open arms as
friends and brethren." The French Prelate also
congratulates the pilgrims in prospect, "so the pres-
ence of the most ifittetrious and Most Reverend Arch-
bishop of Westminster will give additional solemnity
to the event." A committee of clergy and laity,
comprising the Duke of Norfolk, Archbishop Nan-
ning, and several of ,his colleagues, has been already
formed for the purpose of carrying out the project.
It is officially notified that the Hon. and Very Rev.
Canon G. C. Talbot has kindly consented to give the
aid of his last year's experience and energetic zeal to
promote the work, and the Rev. Edmund Egan, of
the Church of the Assumption, Warwick-street, will
act as first secretary. The Vicars-General of West-
minster and Southwark, the Right Rev. Mon-
signor Cepa, the Right Red. the President of
St. Edmund's, the Very Rev. Provosts limit and
Doyle, the Very Rev. F. Clare, S.J., and Rev.
A. llohnan, M.R. of St. Aloysitne, Somers-town,
and, indeed, any of the clergy, will also receive names
of intending pilgrims. In the " Treasury" of the
Cathedral of Sens, among other curious relics, are still
shown the sneer lota vestments and mitre iif Thomas
it Becket, as well as his alb, girdle, stole, maniptile, and
chasuble. The altar of St. Thomas in the Cathedral
is very ancient, and Murray's Handbook IP France
states that "ii is said to be the same at which Becket
used to k,erform his devotions." While resident in the
city of Sens, A Becket lived in the Abbey of St.
Columbe, now occupied by some nuns called "Sisters
of the Infant Jesus.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

A SMOKE-NUISANCE CASE.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, the can of
"Gaskell r. Bailey" has been heard, and was
a smoke-nuisance case, which came from Bolton,
and raised the question whether black smoke is
a nuisance, although not "injurious to health."
The Nuisance Act contains a provision as to any
chimney—not being of a private house—sending forth
black smoke in such quantities as to be a nuisance. In
the present case there was no doubt there was a fac-
tory chimney sending forth large quantities of black
smoke almost continuously. There was evidence that
it was injurious to health, but the magistrates did not
credit it, and dismissed the complaint, reserving the
question for the Court whether it was necessary to
prove that the smoke was injurious to health. The
Inspector appealed.
Mr. Black (with Mr. Edwards) appeared for the
appellant; no one appeared on the other side.
The Court were clear that it was not necessary that
the smoke should be an injury to health, and that the
emission of smoke as described in the present case was
a nuisance.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

HALESOWEN.

Tax Co.raisaairms Soon-v.—The twelfth quarterly
report of this society show, that the cnnsinittee have
agsin been en shied to declare a dividend of is. 31. in the
pound upon all members' purchaaes during the quarter.
The total amount paid far goads dialog the quarter has
been .61301 6s. ld., whilst the working expenses amoun-
ted to 17025. 81 , and the amount received for goods to
£1,113 54 94 , leaving a net gain upon the trade account
of £B9 Is. 81., to which was added the balance from
last quarter of £lO 17s. 10 ; admissions and rules, £2
89.; tines and forfeitures. £4 16s. 84 , making a balance
for a division of £lO7 7s. 31.. which waa disposed of as
folloss :—lnt-reAt on paid-up sharie, £ll he. 3d.;
&videos! I m members purchases at de. 3d. mn the pound,
feso 3s. 9d.; addition to the reserve food, £6 10.; de.
predation of flied stock and property account, £4lle Bd.;

leaving &balance to be carried forward of Si lls. 6d.
The committee congratulate the members upon the con-
tinued success which has attended the society, and
urge upon the members the importance of making all
possible purchases at their own stores, and by doing so
they increase the dividend, as nearly the same amount
of working expenses has to be paid on whatever business
is done. The store should receive the constant patron-
age of every member of the society,.. the articles sup-
piied csnuot be surpassed in either quality or price.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

THE VACCINATION ACTS

The cause of "Knight r. Barnwell " has been before the
Lord Chief Justice and Justices Blackburn and Lush, and
the question raised a nice point in the Vaccination Arts.
The appellant, Knight, had neglected to have his
child vaccinated, whereupon the respondent, Halliwell,
the vaccination officer of Wigan, tail an information
on the 24th of June, 1873, against Knight, calling
upon him to show cause why an order shoal not be
made directing the child to be vaccinated. Upon the
hearing the appellant admitted the facts, and it ap-
peared that he had been repeatedly convicted for failing
to comply with the notice. It was contended for the
appellant that a fresh notice should be given before
each occasion on which proceedings were taken
against him, and that he could only be fined once for
non-compli dice with such notice, on the ground
that the notice of his conviction had become exhausted;
and that a special resolution should be passed by the
guardians authorising the respondent to take proceed-
ings in each particular case. The Justice was of
opinion that the objections raised were invalid, and he
made an order directing the child to be vaccinated
within the space of 14 days from the 3rd of July.
Against that decision this appeal was founded.
Mr. Baker appeared for the appellant, and raised the
same objection as was taken before the magistrate, and,
moreover, that further proceedings could not be taken
after twelve months after the cause of complaint had
arisen, except upon a fresh notice. In this case notice
was given on the 10th of May, 18,72 ; the fourteen days
for the complainant expired on the 24th of this month,
but the information for an order was not laid until the
24th June, 1873, thirteen months after notice.
Mr. Edwards having been heard for the respondent,

The Court decided ag :hist the appellant on all the
points raised. except as to the period when the infor-
mation was laid. In that case they were also clearly
of opinion that it should have been laid within the
twelve months, and this having been neglected the
order could not be made.

Mr. Baker asked for costa, but the Court refused
them.

The Lord Chief Justice expressed a hope that pro-
ceedings would be taken a„1-ainst the appellant to
compel him to vaccinate his child, and that core should
be taken, in case he neglected to do so, to lay the in-
formation within twelve months.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

THE DANGER OF MISTAKING A
MUSHROOM.

The results of making a mistake between a mush-
room aml the many ooisonous linguses that assume
its innocent appearance and thus obtain admissbm to
the throats of the unwary, are often so serious that
perhaps the wisest course would be for all persons who
have sufficient strength of mind to deny themselves
luxuries, to abstain from eating funguses altogether.
A singular instance of the danger of even meddling
with some funguses is afforded by the case id Mr.
Sadler, who was to have lectured to the North British
branch of the Pharmaceutical Society the other day,
but was unable to do so, owing to illness from which
he is still suffering, and which, according to the &ors-
man, arose under the following circumstances. While
preps.' ing his lecture for the Pharmaceutical Society on
edible and poisonous funguses,he accidentally swallowed
a quantity of the spores of a large species of puff-ball
(lycaperdon gigantentn), and within a space of an
hour and a half was seized with severe illness, accom-
panied by distressing pains The violent symptoms
could not be subdued until nine days after the first
attack, during which time, according to the opinion of
the eminent physicians who have been attending him,
the continued irritation was kept up by the fungus
sisires. Mr. Sadler, although fortunately now in a
fair way of recover)-, remains confined to his bed, and
has thus paid leanly for his scientific researches. The
giant puffiball, it is stated, is edible in its young state,
but its matured spores are unsafe to be taken as food.
Surely under these circumstances it is not advisable for
any one to indulge in a giant puff-ball for slimier. An
old giant puff-ball with a youthful appearance is evi-
dently a gay deceiver capable if scattering destruction
and misery far and wide.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

CHESTER RACES (CUP DAY).
IStb, Cheap EXCUR.
ON WEDNISDAY, MAY
HON TRAINS will rum to ER, leaving
Woreester (Shrub 11111) at 8.15, Droitwieh 8.37, Hartle'
bury 8.40. Stourport 8 50, Bowdley 9.5, Bridgoortb 9.35.
Coaluort 9.50, Ironbridg• 9.66, and Suildwas 10.0 am.:
and returnlng from Cheater (Coal Exchass• Yard) at 7.0
Pdm•
For fares and fall particulars ass baud bills.
J. GIiIiCRSON, Guars' Manager.
Paddington Terrines.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

Plisattancous

HOME FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A Ctni r ‘V ILL CASE. —'l he Brussels law
courts have just bad to decide a case under the f011..w-
-ing circumsto nee, —On the 2nd De,ember. IST?, M.
Thiry died in th z city, leaving a will, written en-
tirely with his own hand, in which was this clause
" I bequeath to my god-daughter, who resides with
me, all the articles of furniture in the bedchamber
which she occupies, and, in fact, everything that the
room contains on the day of my death." On an exa-
mination of the room after the decease, there was found
concealed in a statuette on the chimney-piece, securi-
ties to the value of 3i1,000fr., and the young lady
naturally claimed them. The heirs, however, con-
tested her right to the property on the ground that
the intention of the testator was evidently only to give
I her the furniture, and, after considerable litigation,
I the Belgian tribunals have adopted that view, giving
I as a reason that a general clause of leaving everything
I in a house would not be sufficient to give a right to
money concealed there, and that, for all legal pur-
I poses, securities must be placed on the same footing
1 as coin.

FOUND DROWNED:—The body.. of a gentleman

has been lying at the dead-house at.. Margate awaiting
identification and an inquest. It would appear that
on Sunday a man named George Wickham discovered
the body on the rocks at the east side of the jetty at
Rantsgate. There was a bruise on the forehead, but
death was apparently the result of drowning. The
deceased is about 40 years of age, Mt. Sin, in height,
stoutly built, with dark curly hair and black whiskers,
beard, and moustache. He was dressed in a black
dress coat, dark tweed vest and tweed trousers, striped
flannel shirt and cotton under-shirt, white cotton
drawers and socks, and sidespring boots of superior
make. On the body was found a watch made by
Bennett, of Cheapside, London, 19e. fid. in money, a
purse, a silk handkerchief, a bunch of keys, a tobacco
pouch, and a surgical instrument.
C CRIOUS ICHTHYOLOGICAL OBSERVATION.
" Aquarius " writes to call attention, as a striking
instance of natural adaptation, to the decided ten-
dency of the " loose fish" (Pixels larus) to get tight.
No doubt the creature has an instinctive sense of
its own looseness, and strives thus to remedy it.—
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

WHAT IS A FACTORY?

In the Court of Queen's Bench the cause 0 .Redgrave e.
Ito' has been heard, which case raced the luestion what is
a factory within the meaning of the kactory Acts Extension
Act of 1807 (30th and 31st Vie., cap. 103),

It was an appeal by an Inspector of Factories against
the 'I laud if a complaint against the proprietor •if a
cement manufactory at Hailing, in Kent, for not duly
hanging up a notice of the name and address of the
I.NA-tor of Factories for the district. As there was
no doubt of the absence of the notice, the sole ques-
tion was whether the cement works could be con-
sidered as cumin:; within the term " factory " in the
Factory Acts. There are about 200 men employed in
the works, in a great many different capacities, and
the premises are very extensive. The works occupy
ten acres, and they include mills. The basis of the
cement is chalk, which is taken from a space of three
acres a mile from the works. The chalk is washed,
burnt, and ground in mills, and subjected to
several ‘`' • • ,psses to make it into cement.
There are many °two in the works, most of the pro-
cesses going on in such open sheds or in the open air.
There is noseparate building on the premises in which
fifty persons are engaged, and there is only one boy
under the agent sixteen employed. There is no great
building in which men or women are employed together
under one roof. The mills and sheds are separate,
though part of one establiahnaent. The magistrates
did not consider that the case camewithin the meaning
of the Acts, and on the authority of a came decided in
this court in which a slate quarry was held not within
the Act, they arrived at a similar conclusion, and dis-
missed the information. The Inapector appealed. The
1 kat Actdefines a factory thus Any premises. whether
adjoining or sepatate, in the same ocenpaion, and
constituting one trade establishment in or within the
precincts of which fifty or more lemons are employed
in any manufacturing process."

Mr. C. Bowen ww: for the appellant; Mr. 351aniaty,
Q.C., for the defendant.

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The Court at once said there was no doubt the
making of cement was "a manufacturing process,"
and the question woula be as ts the other part of the
definition. The Court said they adhered to their
former decision in the case of the quarry, and they
could not distinguish the present. It was difficult to
draw the line; but Isere the work appeared to be done
almost entirely in the open air. They therefore dis-
missed the appeal and upheld the decision.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

HAGLEY.

litoeli SALE AND SHOW Op T.—TbiA sale was held
on Mond last There was a yes, good chow, not only
of tegs, at this sale, but of all cl of stock, and
prices realised were very good considering the state of thr
market. The prizes f r the best tags were awarded ar
follows:—First prize, £3 3s, Mr. W. Bache; hecoui
prize, £22, Mr. John Whittaktr ; third prize, £1 1., Mr.
Robert Thurston. It is rather notable that one pnrchader
bought to the amount of £6OO and upwards.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09

A CURIOUS QUESTION UNDER THE

WORKSHOP ACT.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, the cause of
"Cameron r. Fry" has been heard, which ease
raised a curious question under the Workshop Act
of 1567 (30th and 31st Vic., c. 146), which pro-
vides that no young person or woman shall be em-
ployed in any handicraft after two o'clock on Satur-
days, except where not more than five persons are
employed and the work consists in making articles to
be sold by retail on the premises. Then there was a
provision that young persons might, with the approval
of the Home Secretary, be employed in workshops
front two to eight o'clock on Saturday, provided they
had a holyday on the Wednesday. In the present
case the proprietor had got the pertnission to employ
his work-women on Saturday evenings, lout he had not
given them the benefit of the substituted half -holyday.
rhe information was for working them on the Wed-
nesdays, which was not prohibited by the bilL The
magistrates thought this did not hit the case, and dis-
missed the complaint. The Inspector appealed.

Mr. C. Bowen was for the appellant; no one ap-
peared on the other side.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said he feared the defendant
had found a hole in the Act. He should be glad to de-
feat him, but did not know how. There was no pro-
bition in the Act against working on Wednesdays.
The prohibition was not for working for snore than live
days and a half, but for working on Saturdays.
The laird Chief Justice said he rather thought the
defendant might have been convicted on an informa-
tion for working on Saturday evening, for the Secre-
tary of States permission was only conditional, and
the condition was not performed. Hawever, there was
no information for working on Saturday.

The Court were quite clear that the information
could not be sustain—l. and so diraniemed the appeal.