The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Emperor Napoleor"has no intention of proceed-
ing to Ireland, or to reside here.
The Freeman's Journal is informed that Mr. Glad-
stone's proposed visit to Ireland has been unavoidably de
jeered, and will not now take place this year.
Tie text of the judgment which condemned the ,
pseudo-General Cinseret to death by default has been posted '
up at the gate of the ilinistry of War, that being his last
known residence in France.
"The roan who has robed a cabbage head has done
more good than all the legislators lathe Hopper House and
the Lower House combined," said a Radical orator the other
day." "Then," replied a wag, "your mother ought to hare
had the premium.'
A daring, but happily uneuccessful, attempt to rob
a jeweller's shop sou made in Birmingham on Friday in last
week • tray with a number of diamond rings was exposed
In the window. A gang of thieves pused ; one of them
drove apiece of wood against the window and broke It, but
the force of the blow pushed the trey with the rings eo far
Into the shop that his companions could not reach to snatch
It. No prove* wee Waning, but the thieves thathed.

The duty on licences for beer, cider, and pony,
granted by tbe tsetse amounted to tats,aos sd. tfl we
year ended the 81st of March last.
In the fire at the Escurial none of the works of art
were Injured. The loss Incurred to calculated at about
426,000.

The Italie of Rome relates that another precious
discovery has been made at the Prietorian camp—namely,
a doe head of Juno, almost intact, and with a remarkable
purity of outline.
At a meeting on Saturday of delegates of carpentem
and joiners elected to obtain uniformity of time and wages
in the London district, it was resolved to terminate the
movement.

According to German accounts the number of the
inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine who have chosen to re-
main French is 164,633, and of these, 89,000 actually oust-
grated; 12,000 had previously left.
'the Commissioners of Works, it is stated, inteut to
distribute this a ntu MU among the 'nor iv ihabitant o of Loudou
the surplus bedding-ont plants in the Royal parks and the
Royal Gardens, Kew.
A man threw hitnaelf off a viaduct which c nmezts
two str.ets in Paris, believing be woo jumping ado. the
Seine he boo since died, lie thought be aas insane, hut the '
public have decided the reverse.
Earl Russell is now engaged in writing a pamphlet,
in which, it is ,aid, the decision of the Geneva arbitrators
will be criticised, and the views of Sir Alexander Cockburn
sub,tantially endorsed.
A young woman has poisoned herself in Vienna. In
a note, which she hod left on • table near the bed on which
she lay, she had written : -"My last cigar draws very badly,
therefore ism tired of life. Good night."
Garibaldi has written to a correspondent in London.
declaring himself disgusted at the sight of France reduced to
Ice the head-quarters of Jesuitism. For him there is but one
Government in Europe, and it is that which has beheaded
the Jesuit Hydra.
At the sitting of the Spanish Congress on Friday
the Foreign Minister stated that Spain was desirous of en-
tering into a commercial treaty with England for reducing
the duties on Spanish wines. and that the Spanish envoy in
London had received instructions to that effect
M. Joigneray, an athlete of prodigious strength, is
performing at the Folles-Bergiire, Paris. Amongst other
exerciaes, being suspended by his feet from a trapi‘xe, he
lifted from the ground a real horse, by the more force of his
wrists.
A meeting of iron and coal masters has been held in
Cardiff, at which it was resolved to meet the claims of the
men by combination, and, as a result, notices have been
given at all eollerles and iron works in Merthyr and Aberdare
districts to terminate all contracts in four weeka
A smallware dealer, named Faulkner, has been
tonna murdered near Lead.. The deceased, who bore marks
of violence and robbery, belonged to :Macclesfield. A coroner's
jury have returned a verdict of "Murder" against some
person or persons unknown.
A portrait of the lady who hue just married Father
Hyacinthe shows, as far as outward appearance goes, the rev.
gentleman seems to have made • fair choice. The lady is in
a rather tightly-fitting riding-habit, which allows the form
to be seen, and but for a rather heavy cross which hangs
from her neck, the portrait would appear rather mundane—
that is, round.
A list of the members who are to compose the
Supreme Council of War in France has been published by
the Journal Ozjtciel. This Council is to be specially charged
with the organisation and administration of the army. Among
the members are Marshals Macktahon and Canrobert, General
Ladmirault, and the Due d'Aumale
Several Italian gentlemen have been staying at
Lincoln during the last few days, :heir object being the pur-
chase of horses for the Italian Government, Including some
riding horses for Kin; Victor Emmanuel. In several ease.
very high p' ices have : oen given—in two instances as much
as £3OO and I:350.
The new Damesda Boot- which is being prepared by
I the Government will contain the name and address of every
landowner worth au acre and upwards, together with the total
extent and value of each property, and the parish in which it
may be situated. This will be a publication of extreme
value in many ways.
The Santa Fe style is this—" Death," said a Santa
Fe paper, "with fleshless knuckles, rapped at the door of
Dirs. J. N. H's soul, and obedient to the inexorable call, the
spirit of that loved it man floated up, leaving her husband,
children, and friends to mourn over the mortal casket."
A Mill Plain (Conn.) woman was, says the Danbury
New, prevented from attending the funeral of her sister
Icy the non-arrival in time of a lace handkerchief from New
York The brutality of the express company Is severely
commented on by the neighnours.
A "Labour Representative iv to be started for
Sht Riad. It is stated that the candidature Sir George
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Howell for Bradford is occasioning serious differences
amongst the Liberal party hi that town.
A French correspondent tells us that there is at
Paris a manufactory of damaged china, which is marked
" N," and which!, sold as part of the Imperial dinner service
saved from the ruins of the Tuileries. There is quite • brisk
trade done in this business.
A Kilkenny sentry challenged an intruder on the
Irish encampment during the recent Autumn Stanceuvres.
" Who are you?" said Pat. "1M the elliew of the day," was
the reply. "Then, by the powers, what are you doing here
at night at all, at all I" immediately asked Pat.
It is rumoured that the Education Committee of the
Privy Council contemplate framing a list of school books for
use in schools subject to Government inspection. The em-
ployment of school books other than those thus authorised
will, it, is said, not be sanctioned.
The Figaro professes to have discovered that M.
Gambetta is of German origin. His grandfather, it says, was
named Gereperle. Ile came to France in the time of
Napoleon 1., and married an Italian Jewess. ('pun that
OCOBSion he changed his name to Gambetta.
The Sheffield hairdressers have resolved to increase
the price of shaving and hairdressing 50 per cent., in conse-
, emence of the rise in the cost of labour and materials. The
I chimney-sweeps have also resolved to obtain an advance or
i strike. Should they take the latter course, every trade in
Sheffield will have struck in turn.
"A tale reaches us from Ireland, of a nobleman in
disguise, who is roaming the country with a grinding oi ran,
in a douky cart. It is alleged that this singular excursion Is
tile result of a wager as to the sum of money to be obtained
in this especial line of vagrancy. There is no accounting for
taate."—M miral Standard.
At a recent festival, a boy, who did not get a fair
chance at the edibles. said some of the voracious visitors had
been starving themselves so long, in anticipation of the feast,
that they were hollow all the way down, for he "could hear
the Ord mouthful they swallowed strike on the bottoms of
their boots."
Early on Sunday morning the dead body of a man
respectably dressed was found fearfully mutilated on the
railroad, about a mile and a half from Colchester Station.
Near to the place where it was found is a level crossing, and
it is conjectured that the deceased was killed while passing
Over

- The trade and navigation returns for September
show that the aggregate of the imports amounted in value
to £26,539,421, or an increase of more than a million as con,
pared with last year. In the nine months of this year the
Imports were £261,310,336, or an increase of nearly '2O
millions compared with last year.
A gentleman named Upton, residineat Blackheath,
arrived at Dover by the Calais boat on Sunday afternoon, nod
after taking his seat In a first class carriage of the 3 45 p.m.
mail train for Loudon fell back in the carriage and expired.
On Dr. Colbeck examining him he found lite was extinct,
death having been caused either by alit or suppressed sea-
sickness
The Escurial in Spain, which was nearly burnt the
other day, is one of the most remarkable buildings in the
world; it was commenced by Philipp 11. in 1563, bit was not
completed until 1586. It is in the form of a gridiron, and
was nearly getting into the condition of one, that shape
having been selected in honour of St. Lawrence. According
ton calculation which has been made the total length of the
rooms is upwards of one hundred and twenty English miler.
Jo circular has just been addressed by the operatives
to the master millers around London, in order to draw their
attention to the great rise in prices which has taken place in
. all the necessaries of life, and they submit that their present
rate of wages no leeger suffices to maintain their wives and
families in the position to which they are justly entitled.
They, therefore, respectfully lay their appeal before the
master millers for an advance of sixpence per day, to enable
them to meet their increased expenses.
On Monday, the Danish Parliament was opened by
the King in person. In the Speech from the Throne his
Majesty said that the Schleswig question was still open, but
that he preserved the firm hope of a satisfactory solution.
By a revision of the law respecting the national defences the
country would be rendered as powerful as possible, according
to the means at its diaposaL His Majesty also referred to
the increasing prosperity of the kingdom, and to the cordial
relations existing between Denmark and Sweden.
An outrage of a fatal character has been perpetrated
In the county llppentry. A well-to-do farmer and publican,
was seated on his car carrying stead of turf, on the road be-
tweeu Templemore and Borrieoleigh. He reached a quiet
part of the road, eluded on either side by a quickset hedge,
when he was suddenly said without the slightest warning
knocked itjf his car by a terrific blow on the back of the head
with a large stone. The unfortunate mall, who was after.
wards found lying on the road perfectly insenaible, was
carried to his house some miles further on, but notwithstand-
ing every attentiou he died next morning.
A Paris correspondent says that the city looks very
gay, and that trade, it appears, was never more prosperous.
Great preparations are already making for New Year's Day,
and Articles de Paris are being largely exported to foreign
countries. Large orders, too, for ready-made articles of
ladies' dress come from St. Petersburg, Odessa, New York,
and San Francisco. Australia, since the opening of the Sties
Canal, has become a large purchaser of cheap Paris jewellery
and boots.
John Wildish, 22 years of age, is now lying in the
Kent County Hospital, suffering from a dreadful wound In-
flicted by his sweetheart. Yiddish had been keeping cnni-
pany with Eliza Castle, a cook. When near the Ashford
station he roet the young woman. and she asked him to leave
his friends, as she wanted to speak to him. Wildish did so,
and shortly after • loud scream was heard, and Wi 'd lab was
found lying on the ground, his clothes saturated with blood,
having received a fearful stab in the back. The young women
gave herself up to the police.
A strangely suggestive answer to the query, " Why
is coal so dear?" is furnished by a correapoud ,nt of a Man-
chester contemporary. "A day or too ago," he writes, "two
gentlemen were going by train in a first-class carriage north-
wards from Manchester. When the train stopped at one of
the stations, two colliers got in in their working clothes, be-
grimed with dirt and coal-dust When the train stopped
again the gentlemen called the guard, who demanded the
mee's tickets. They immediately produced first-class
ticket., and expressed their intention of staying where they
were. Presently they pulled out a bottle of champagne and
proceeded to drink It, boasting that they were 'on strike,
and had it a day allowance l"
A fair denizen of fashionable Paris, whose extrava-
gance bore rather hard on her husband's purse, was taken to
tank by him for Ler want of economy. "I know what you
ray is true," replied the repentant belle, "bat what shall
Ido to reduce our expense?" " Why, red ehere," replied the
husband, delighted with her submission, "you ride a great
deal; why not take an omnibus occasionally Instead of •
carriage ? That will save something, surely.' The wife
agreed, and, as soon as her husband was gone, she rang for
her maid. " Marlette, call men coach that 1 may get to the
omnibus to go to the Madeleine. I must economise."
The Nordin!, Post considers it probable that the
coming lock out in South Wales will be one of the most im-
portant and eventful movements in relation to the labour
question that have as yet taken place. It is absurd to sup-
pose tha men like the ironmasters and eoal-ownera have not
counted the cost of the deliberate action against the tyranny
of trades unionism. Nor is it to be imagined that, having
the matter thus in hand, they will withdraw from the battle
—for It is a battle—until they have accomplished their set
purpose. The public have unquestionably felt impatient at
the continuous though temporary auccess of trades' unionism,
and have greatly desired to see the mischief promptly stayed.
If the Post is not much deceived, the looked-for reaction
hu actually set In.
The Earl of Derby addressed a large and influential
meeting, chiefly of landowners and farmers. at Preston on
Saturday in connection with a newlye rmed Chamber of
Agriculture there. His lordship discussed the various topics
that now interest the landed interest—the labour qaestion,
emigrat.ou. co-operation, the game law., anii tenaht-right—
with ids usual moderation of language and clearness of
thought, and was listened to throughout with great atten-
tion. Colonel Wilson Patten, M.l'., and other gentlemen
also addressed the meeting.
During the week ending Satur lay last, 2,lrt births and
1,276 deaths were registered in London, the birtlm being 30
.d the deaths 115 below the average numbers in the cor
reepoudiug week of the last 10 years. The 1,276 deaths in-
cluded 10 from small-goes. 9 from measles, 2o from scarlet
fever, 31 from whooping cough, and 50 from aiarrhoca. The
mortality to London and 20 other large cities and towns was
at the rate of 23 deaths to every 1,000 persons living, the rate
in London being 20 per 1,000; in Liverpool, 28 in Man-
chester, 30; and In Oldham, where scarlet fever prevails, as
high as 48. The mean temperature of the air at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich, was 52 deg. 4 min., sad 1 deg.
4 min, below the average for the corresponding week In CO
years.

It is artitrated that Mr. Lowe will have a eurplue on
the year of live Milllollll sterility.
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The e ex• Emperor Fardinaucl of Austria is terious'y
UI from spinal complaint.

The father of the King of Portugal, though &event-y
years of age, hail recently produced a new opera
The Prince Imperial, it is stated, will enter the Royal
-Military Academy at Woolwich on a close of the winter vaca-
tion

Of a miserly man who died of softening of the brain,
a local American paper said—. His head gave way. but his
hand never did. His brain softened, but his heart cauhtlit.,
The Registrar-General of the colony of South
Anetralta estimateu its population at ididaummez, 1372, at
190,409. _ _

Oo the first day of the Al,atian exodne eighty-eight
thousand i migrants are said to have pawl thrutizit Nancy
on tilt& way to France.
The National Orthopouilie Hospital Lee received the
rem of £l.OOO from " E. D" This Is the aenothl aum of ittC,o
from the tame donor.

Glvet complaiLt .ontinues to be daily tumid of the
seßreity of sllvPr, thrra la•ing. It I uld, au Wag it uulvur:
dearth now In town and country.

"Sir Emutdelt ndoicr. it -is said, hes declined al
renmos.ration for his ,errices at Geneva lhe sum a &red
was £30,0,0 "—Court Journal.
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A strike has occurred at the ironmills of Strabane,
LOlldoudert7. A thousand parsons are thrown out of employ-
ment.

There Is some talk of starting in Lotnicu a compre-
hensive Church, hich shsll admit worshippers of all sorts
and conditions.

On a recent occasion, when a new piece woe pro-
duced at the Theatre Francais, in Paris, the ex.fimperor's
box was occupied by the manager of the Omnibus Compasy-
Heinlcmann and Rochuseen, of 23, Abchnrch-lane,
London, imported on Friday, per the Princegs Royal. from,
Rotterdam, the first cargo of Prussian coal,
The magistrates of London declare that the cases
of intoxication have considerably increased since the
Licensing Act has come into operation.

At a meeting of the Town Council of Hamilton it
has been unimimunsly agreed to present Mr. H. M. Riauley,
the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, with the freedom of the
burgh on the °cannon of his visit to Hamilton In November.
At the close of a sermon, by a casual clerical visitor,
lately preached within a hundred miles of the Duple, the
reverend preacher stated that a gentleman would stand at
the door with • plate for subscriptions, and if the sermon was
not worth a shilling, it was sixpence, but, it was not worth
that, he would give it again for nothing.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges ati
Conscience Money," the receipt of the first half of a £5.
note from OR. H." for Income-Tax.—ile also acknowledges
the receipt of the second halves of tour £5 notes from
"S. P. It., ' for Income-Tax.
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"We have no liberties." So exclaimed hldlle.
, a dressmaker, who tried to drown herself In the
some. When she was pulled out, instead of thanking her
preservers, she cried out, "Vl hat then they don t even
allow nu the right to drown ourselves "—"On ne pout done
plus.. Dover "
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From April Ist to the sth October, the receipts of
the Exchequer were £34,815,268, befog an Increase of
£2,263,673 over the corresponding period of last ye.. The
expenditure was £39,717 322 and the balances on the 6th
Ooteber were In the Bank of England, £1,118,633, and In the
Bank of Ireland, £1,266,643.

The Mayor !of Londonderry ha a received a letter.
In reference to the State purchaee of the Irish railways,
stating that Her !ilajestya Government are pledged 'to
consider the question whether they can or cannot make any
proposal of a general and geisha:fury character to Parlia-
ment on this subject."

At a meeting of the National Agricultural Union,
held at Leamington on Monday, Mr. Joseph Arch in the
chair, it was decided to found a colony in Queensland, for
which purpose the secretary was directed to advertise for
10,000 able farm labourers. A free passage Is offered, and
thousands of arable acres in the valleys on the eastern coast.
Michael Doolin has been committed for trial, at
Dublin, for the murder of James Cutler, in the hospital ward
of Richmond Bride.°ll prison, of which both men were
Inmate;. The prisoner attacked his victim In the presence
of other patients, and killed him before Ills anger was
appeased. The medical evidence was in effect that the
murderer knew right from wrong, but the Jury declined to
express any opinion vu the question of sanity.
The German Evangelical Union is now holding a
general meeting at if A resolution declaring that the
meeting place. itself on the ground of the profession of faith
of the Reformation, and holds out its Mandato all who cannot
yet comphtely subecribe to that, profession, w adopted. I/.
hope was expressed that an understandieg with the tild
Catholics may be arrived at, alai that they will aid in the
struggles against Jesuitism.
A Paris correspondent has discovered a man wheat,
effrontry is aublime in its itnmenfilty. This is the story
which he tells f—. A gentleman walking with his little hoy
on the banks of the Seine, the child slipped over the bank
into the water, and would certainly have been drowned but
for the courage of a man who was fishing, who jumped so
and saved the boy. The father thanked him cordially, but
asked him if he would add to the ohligation, as he we;
already wet through, by swimming out for his son's cup."
A sportsman who, during the shooting 'onion, had
gone to pass a week with a friend In the e iiintry, on the
strength of a general invitation, soon found. by a gentle
hint, that he would have done better to wait torn special
one. "flaw some beautiful scenery." was the visitor 'a first
remark, "as I came to-day by the upper road." "'son will
see still finer," was the reply, "as you go back tednort ow by
the lower one l"

Sir John Pakington on Monday evening dietrikuted
the prizes at the Leeds School of Art., and in doing 10
ro-
tarred on the benefits of mechanics institutes, which, lie
affirmed. were still in the hands of those for whom they
were designed, and had nut been appropriated by other
classes. Ile dwelt emphatically on the value of teehnival
education.

It is understood that the geological surrey of Great
Britain is about to he extended to Suffolk. Mr. Whittaker,
OR, of the Geological survey, has taken up his quarters
In Ipswich for the purpose of prospecting, and in a few
months a staff of geologists will arrive to assist. Mr. Whit-
taker Is at present inspecting the geological features of the
tract of country between the Stour and the OrwelL
The Church Congress assembled at Leeds on Tues-
day, under the presidency of the Bishop of Ripon The
Town Council joined officially in the preliminary procession
and services. In his opening address, the Bishop enjoined
on his brethren that their special business was to conalder
the extension of Church ministration, to the largeat possible
numbers. the papers read related to parochial work, lay
help, and church architecture.
The death is announced of Sir Patrick Montgomerie,
KU B, of the Royal Horse Artillery. Ile was burn In 1777,
. and was educated at Woolwich. In early lift he entered tho
Madras Artillery, and passed through the various stages. In
' 1817.18 he !served in the Mahratta war, and in the Burmese
war 1824.6. In 1840-1 he comnianded the artillery in China,
and received a medal and two clasps for Nagpoore and Ava,
and a medal for China, le was created C. h. in 16313, and
K.C.B. be 1866.
The Germans wish to erect some grand monumebt
to commemorate their success In the Franco-Prussian war,
and have been for some time paid looking out for a lit
object en which to exercise their ingenuity and patriotism.
A coirespondent of Tie limes, gifted with a religious spirit
which will doubtless MAO his proposition to lie well received
by the Emperor of Germany, proposes the erection of the
twin spire of Strasburg Cathedral, on the sides of which
could be engraved the names of all those who fell fighting
for Fatherland.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

VrFt. J. HILLMAN begs to inform his
..L.F.I Friends and the Public that the Busmen preti
nasty carried on in Newetreet, opposite Cannon-80,st.
a now Removed to his will-known Establishment,

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