The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1875-10-09 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

AND INFLUENCE. of ground over which the improvements are to extend is The annual soirée of the Croydon Working Men's about 104. acres, and the cost to the Board of dealing with it Club was attended by Lady Bowring, who in the will be somewhat over £200,000, of which rather more than half may be looked upon simply as invested. The yearly course of the evening delivered an address making loss on the remainder will amount to £3,466, which will have  The Times (on Tuesday) published the following letter :  Sir,—My son was sent by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative at Pekin on a special duty to make way for and conduct Colonel Horace Browne's mission from Burmah to Shmighai. Mr. Margery was no less than the Queen's Envoy, relying not only on the Chinese Imperial safe conduct, but also on the_protection of his own Government, while he was alive, and on their sense of responsibility regarding the deaths of their servants, should they be .caused either by the effects of their exertions, or by murder, while performing public ser`viCe. When Mr. Margary was sent forward by Colonel Horace Browne, on the evident scent of danger, he accepted the position, as it were, of an officer bearing a flag of truce. He entered Manwyne peaceably, and was well received by the inhabitants; after which he was decoyed out of the place by Chinese soldiers, sent by the Governor of Momein, th,e,ir commander, having orders to arurihilate the whole 'of Colonel Horace Browne's party. Of this fact Colonel Browne had overwhelming evidence, and he reported it through the Chief Commissioner in Burmah to the Viceroy of India. By this vets, force, or a large portion of it, Colonel H. Browne's party was attacked, and he knew who commanded—viz., "a nephew of Lee See Hie" (sic) from their own mouths—" of all this there is no doubt," says Colonel Browne. A Chinese English paper said, my son-was dragged from his pony, killed by decapitation, and his head exposed on the wallsof Momien. I heard through the Political Agent at Bhamo that the Chinese (no others) speared my son to death, and then cut his head off for exposure, and threw the rest of his bodyinto a stream to be eaten by fishes, birds, and dogs. Ido not call for revenge, but demand of my Government that the cruel massacre be avenged according to the laws of God and man; and then there remains the outrageous insult to Great Britain to be wiped out of which I can speak as a British subject only. My son was murdered not merely in "cold blood," but, if I may coin the expression, in "iced blood."  special reference to the influence which should b-e wielded by women in educational matters, and to the various employments in which she thought they might engage with advantage, but fr-m which they have hitherto been excluded. Her ladyship said she felt that men might gain much in softer manners and more genial laws by their association with women, and that women might learn much in business life and mental training from their association with the other sex. These, matters had perhaps been too much lost eight of. With respect to the emplmyment of women, she did not find women here, as in France, acting in the restaurants, where they invariably met with all the deference and politeness due to them. In France women were also employed as clerks on railways, and were seen in shops keeping the accounts, which she understood they did with great exactitude. She could not but think  to be provided from the Rates. By this outlay a proper site. will have been secured for buildings which it is hoped some one or other of the expting Societies will erect, and the ground will be handed dyer to them on terms which'Will' permit of the further expenditure being remunerative.