The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Horseflesh in Paris has risen four sous a pound. It
wilt soon be as great a luxury as beef.

The Comte de Chambo-rd, instead of going to Am.
sterd.im, has left Breda for Cologne.
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It is stated that the Villa Cavendish, formerly ocem
pled by 11. Ensile de Giradin, at Baden, has been taken for
the Queen for sixteen days from the 27th instant.
It is said that very shortly telegraph wires will he
carried into the courses of all important race meetings. The
revenue derived from turf messages is enormous and is in-

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creasing yearly.
On Saturday the operatives in the woollen trade of
Lee,s held a mats meeting, and resolved to agitate for the
nine hours limit, and to support the flax-spinners nowt on
strike.
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A gentleman who doesmot wish his name to transpire
at present has presented the Corporation of London with an
equestrian statue of the late Prince Consort on condition
that they finds site and erect a pedestal.
In view of the fact that the reign of the Latter-Day
Saints at Salt Lake is about drawing to a close, it is proposed
that they now be called " Latter-End Saints."
It is said that the new French Army Bill prescribes
universal liability to military service for all Frenchmen from
twenty to forty years of age, abolishes the right of sub-
stitution, and prohibits bounties.
An interesting idea is ventilated in a Radical London
paper—namely, that if we have to pay the Alabama claims
the upper and middle classes alone should be called upon to
do it! .

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A venerable country gentleman said to a newsboy, in
the Strand. on Thanksgiving Day, " Boy, I Want to go to
Somerset House." " Very tvell," replied the boy, you may
go, if you'll promise not to be gone long."
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
"conscience money" the receipt of the first halves of two
£2O notes from "S.D. ," also the first halves of hank-notes,
amounting to £ll5, from "MS.," for income-tax.

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From the last Indian mail it appears that six young
Africans, who have been educated in the Saharanpur
Orphanage, near Bombay, have volunteered to join the
expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone, and have sailed for
Zanzibar.

A letter has been published in Paris by two of the
delegates from Mete who attended the Commission appointed
to inquire into the conduct of Marshal Buzaue in surrender-
ing that place. The delegates consider that the marshal
acted in a highly criminal manner, and say that his punish-
ment will be a satisfaction to outraged public morality.
A sad development of bribery in the election of
United States Senators has just been made ny the repast of
a Committee of the Kansas Legislature. The State is repre-
sented by two Republicans, and it appears that both used
corrupt means to secure their election. That election of one
cost over 60,000 dol., and the other candidate also spent, it
In believed, an equally large sum.
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In one of the law courts, a juryman being called and
not answering, the usual notice that he would be fined was
pronounced against him upon which a person who stood
by said to the judge, You may tine him as much as you
please, but I don't think that you will recover the tine, for I
saw him buried about a week ago."

Mr. Ingham, who woo apinanted by, William IV.
to the superintendence of the %.hole of the Royal gardens at
Windsor, Cumberland Lodge, Cranbourne Lodge, the conser-
vatory in the park, and at Virginia Water, died at his retired
residence, Upton Lodge, Slough, on Saturday last, in his
76th year.
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Mr. William Murphy, the Anti-Papist lecturer,
whose addresses gave rise to serious riots in many parts of
the country, died in Birmingham on Tuesday evening. Mr.
Murphy was very seriously injured in the riots which took
place on the occasi,n of his lectures at Whitehaven, in April
last, and to those injuries his death is attributed.

in;esion

The difference between the Birmingham Town
Council and the School Board of that borough has been ad-
justed by the latter body undertaking that no part of the
5:-4,000 required for educational purposes should be applied
to payments in aid of denominational schools. On thie un.
derstanding the Council have granted the money.
A Daily News telegram says that arrangements have
been made for the departure of the Pope on the 12th April,
Great pressure has been brought to bear by the Antonelli
party in order to induce his Holiness to stay. The struggle
of parties at the Vatican is still going on, and it la impossible
to predict the final result.
A return just published, obtained on the motion of
Sir Charles Nike, shows that the total number of elector, on
the parliamentary register in cities and boroughs in England
and Wales is 1,204)019; in Scotland, 171911; in Ireland,
49,025 ; total, 1,470,956. The total number of municipal
electors in England and Wales is 925,032 ; in Scotland,
161,462 ; and in Ireland, 14,071; total, 1,101,105. The total
number.of county votera in England and Wales is 001,109;
In Scotland, 78,919; in Ireland, 172,439; total, 1,055,467.
When the Mordaunt case was before the Divorce
Court in February, 1070, an order was made, giving Sir
Charles liberty to apply to Lord Penzance again if Lady
Mordaunt recovered her sanity. On Tuesday, however, the
petitioner, through his counsel, applied to be relieved of that
option, and the judge saw no reason why this should not be
allowed. He therefore dismissed the petition, but it would
be understood that in doing so the petitioner did not forego
his right of appeal, and of bringing under view the prin-
ciples on which the decision in the ease was based.
Falcet, well known during the first and second
sieges of Paris as a speaker in the revolutionary clubs, at-
tempted a few days ago to commit suicide by throwing him-
self into the Seine from the bridge of St. Michel He was
rescued by some boatmen, and although insensible when
taken out of the water, was with some difficulty restored to
consciousness. The motive for the desperate act is un-
known.
Pius IX. held a reception on Sunday, and made a
speech, in which he said that the misfortunes of the Church
principally dated from 1848, and that although it was im-
poliaible for two Powers to exist side by side in Rome, he
hoped tranquility would be reestablished. The report that
Kri:plorgonsess isareoumeeakminjealetled. Vatican for the departure of
Lord Albemarle has laid before the House of Lords a
hill providing that for the purpose of the qualification of
Justices of the Peace an income of £lOO a year from personal
estate shall be equivalent to an Income of the same amoun
from an estate in land; but that a person who has held the
rank of major in the army, or commander in the navy, may
be appointed a Justice of the Peace without any property
qualification.
A curiously novel competition was one of the aurae.
tions of a recent fair In Georgia. A prize of 75 dollars was
offered to the under-eighteen year-old young lady who
cooked the best dinner on the fair grounds with the follow-
ing bill of fare—" Roast beef, chickeipple, corn-bread,
plain biscuit, mashed potatoes, boiled rice, and one kind of
pastry, to be selected by the cook. Provisions furnished by
the directors; the young lady furnishes only an apron for
work."
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A parliamentary return, obtained on the motion of
Mr. Newdegste, statea that the total expenses lecurred by
the special committee on breechloading small arms originally
appointed by General Peel, from the date of the first adver-
tisements for specimens of such arms up to the termination
of the flint competition was £4,678, and the expenses since
Incurred up to the present time are £3,275.
The quantity of home-made spirits on which duty
was paid in 1871 for consumption in the United Kingdom,
as beverage only, was 24,163,644 gallons, being 1,550,154 gal-
lons more than in 1870; in El gland 12,874,732, In Scotland
5,671,477, in Ireland 5,617,435 gallons. The quantity of
foreign spirits entered for home consumption in the United
Kingdom in 1871 amounted to 6 895,883 proof gallons, an
increase of 490,031 gallons over 1970.
Near Covington, Kentucky, a railway train bound
from Louisville to that city, on the 23rd of February, broke
through a bridge, two passenger-cars containing 65 persons
falling 25feet in a maai of ruins, which soon caught fire from
the stoves in the cars. Nearly every tenon in the train was
Insured, the report being that two were killed and 60
wounded. The details of the disaster are heartrending.
The French prisoners of war who have been detained
in the Eastern provinces of Prussia for offences committed
daring their captivity, and who have now been amnestied
by the Emperor, arrived at Berlin on Monday, and were
Bent on to Erfurt, whence they will be forwardol home.
The only men excluded from the tenants of the amnesty
are those whose conduct has shown them to be unworthy
of it.
The Archbishop of Cantarbary has expressed a desire
for the formation of* body of clergymen and laymen for the
purpose of occasional conference on matters of interest to
the Church In his diocese, and his wish is now being carried
out. The conference will be composed of the Church dint.
tortes and delegates from the clergy and communicant laity
of the several deaneries in equal numbers.
The fines inflicted on soldiers charmed with drunken.
nen go to form a fund, which is placed- lathe hands of the
Secretary of State, out of which gratuities are paid to good
conduct men on discharge from the army. The amount is
large. Each man, when he gets "In wine" has at least the
counterbalancing satisfaction assured to him that he is doing
a good work Doublloor Pro 014E4 doiror.

Paris was absolutely without tobacco for two days
but week, the Government °Metals not having delivered the
usual supply to the small-retailers.
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The latest statement with regard to the miming
gUeSidil is that he was a member of a society whose degrees
are denth against those who intend to marry—or marry.
The laiSet AMPliCalltieM imported into the diction of
our own ancient and resk.cetable country i the word "Ms."
for bitsineu.
"Kettledrum," winner of the Derby in 1861, has
been sold to go to Austria, but wft not Wave EAgland until
the end of the season
Two heavy sentences—one of degth, one of penal
servitude for life—have been passed oil Communist psi-
sisters concerned In the burning of the Chureb of it. Blot.
The King of Siam hue sixty brothers and forty
.i.too, fits father had three hundred Ranees, and he Una&
has
It is a strange commentary upon the news given by
a Swine paper, th it Marsha was preparing an insurrestionary
ton of Italy, when, next day, his death was announced.
der Majesty held a Drawing-room on Tueeday at
.uckingham Palace, which was brilliantly attended. The
presentations were numerous.

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Buckivichatil

The London Gazette of Tuesday night announces
that the Queen has granted the dignity of a baronet to the
Bight lion. Sills John °Whom, of Sittingboume, Kent,
Lord Mayor of London.
A supplementary estimate presented to Parliament
gives the expenses of the High Commissioners at Washington,
and the cost of the presentation of the British case at Geneva,
as Jointly amounting to A 123,000.
" As far last ride together, then walk 20 minutia
(not less) straight west. Have father's blinds. Name time
or hours. Loltlelds ploughed for smalls. Booval boot amt.
—Neunamen.”—advertisement in The Times.

Dr. Pusey is reported as seriously unwell. He well
unable to preach the sermon announmd at Christ Church on
the "Jewish Interpretation of rrophecy,"but was announced
as better on Sunday evening.
The banker, Salomon Heine, of Hamburg, his left
his immense fortune to the widow of Seine, the poet The
lady is a Frenchwoman, and immediately oubeeribed largely
to the French Liberation Fund—g4o,ooo.

On Tuesday, March 26, there will be an examination
for four Scholarships, two of £6O and two of a year eaoh,
open to boys who were under 13 years of age on the let of
October, 1071. Further information can be obtained teem
the Head Muter of the Harrow School.
The Irish societies in New York have been making
extensive preparatiota for a demonstration on St. Patrick's-
day. These demonstrations are always impoaing, but it Is
Believed the procession this year will be the most elaborate
ever Been In that city.
Indian papers give full details of the assassination
and funeral of Lord Mayo. Some journals regard the act as
the result of an organised conspiracy, and animadvert on
the fact that greater precautions were not taken to prevent
it. occurrence.
The Athenrunz understands that a collection of
hitherto unpublished 'Letters of Lord Byron," edited, with
a preface, by Mr. Henry Schultes Young, of Orford Univer-
sity, will be Issued shortly by Messrs. Bentley and Son, the
London publisher..
The foot and mouth disease has again appeared 155 .
somewhat serious form in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon-
shire. lo the first-named county 200 sheep are suffering
from the disease, and nearly 100 with scab. In Huntingdon-
shire there are but 100 sheep affected, but these are fresh
outbreaks

A fearful accident happened on Saturday morning at
the Portskewet junction on the side of the Severn oppoillta
Bristol. Two children, aged six and nine years respectively,
were crossing the line below the station, when the 11.6
train overtook the children and cut them to pieces.
Advices from America inform us that profound
interest was felt with respect to the Thanksgiving cere-
monies in England hi commemoration of the recovery of the
Prince of Wales and copious telegrams were received an-
nouncing the details of the pageant in Loudon.
The following placard was recently posted up at
Versailles We are tired of those intrigues which will
lead us to priestly rule and to a war in favour of the Pope.
We prefer by for the return of the Emperor, the Empress,
and the Prince Imperial.—(Signed) An officer in the
Last Saturday night Lord Northbrook, the oun-
ce., to the :bvte.furd Mayo in the Govenior-Generahthipi'.
India, was entei:srued at a public dinner by the Mayor of
Win.hest,.. Mr pt,;,2 an eloquent tribute to the memory of
his predecessor, and slOched with some minuteness of
detail his own future policy.
A meeting of Irish memberY of Parliament favour-
able to Home Rule has been held, When. aftet some discus-
!Mon, it was resolved that a requisition should be issued for a
meeting to be held at the Westminster Palace Hotel on the
9th of April, 'to consider the propriety of bringing the übjec•
forward this session.
The disaffection of the Paris ourriers is increasiat.
, It shows itself against the army, as well as against the
Government. A very bitter feeling is openly manifested
towards the soldiers, who cannot go about the atreete ainglY
without getting insulted. In some instances they have been
attacked, and very seriously maltreated.

On Monday the joint Parliamentary Committee on
the amalgamation of railways had before them Mr. Allport,
general manager of the Midland Railway Company, who ex-
pressed himself in favour of all the railways in the kingdom
being In the hands of half a dozen amalgamated companies,
who should extend to each other running powers over their
lines ; thus the advantages of amalgamation and competition
would be combined, lie was opposed to the State managing
the railways.
A Frenchman who had bravely filled a place in the
ranks during the war with Prussia, recently sought eerploy-
went from a well-known general of his own nationality. The
private soldier had been unfortunate enough to have his
nose carried away in action by a billet, and his appearance
Was so singular that his late superior officer shouted with
laughter upon beholding him. " Where the deuce, my good
fellow, did you lose your nose 1" hawked. "I lost it, general,"
replied the private, 'in the same battle where you lost your
head."
The Grand Duke Alexia haa a good deal to answer
for. Read what a Michigan belle writes to her confidante :
" Out of the glare and heat and weariness of the great ball
given by Milwaukie to the Duke Alexis, I brought a picture
for my shadow gallery. The gaslight and rouge and pearl'
powder and hothouse perfume that surrounded It have all
fallen away, just as the dark calyx, that hides the beauty
and fragrance of the rosebud, shrivels into nothingness under
the unfolded petals, and left me a flower as sweet and
simple as ever bloomed in the summer wildwood."
A young, conceited, and very much indebted
Parisian received a note in a female handwriting, appointing
an interview at 8 p.m., when the Barone., would be at
home at No. —, Rue —. Don Giovanni went, was solemnly
received, as if expected, by the servant, and ushered into a
room where were two creditors and a legal authority, who
: found this the only stratagem by which the young one could
be got at. lie had, before the to'te-a-tfle was ended, to sign
' for 17,500 francs. It has made Parts rather too hot for him,
for the joke soon spread abroad.
About 500 building operatives struck work in Oxford
on Monday morning on to question of the nine-hour day.
The demand of the men was last week met by an offer from
the masters to make bet hours the week's work, and to
further consider the question when the movement became
more general. At a meeting held on Thursday evening, Pro-
fessor Thorold 17ogers in the chair, this offer was rejected.
and a resolution adopted to strike if the whole of the de-
mand were not conceded. At a meeting of the masters on
Saturday, a resolution was come to offering to receive a
deputation of one man from each firm, and promising to treat
their representations with respect and consideration. This
resolution was placed before a meeting of the operatives
held in the open air in front of the City Gaol on Monday
morning, bat rejected, and a resolution witepassed to Reels
out for a month.