The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-07-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CUII- 0- .7'l-E T;1 r•  A snatch 1,1841 Made during the past week. at News Market for the umprecedented stake of 10,0001, betwees the Marquis of Hasting's colt, Brother to Monarch of the Glen, and the Duke of Hamilton's colt by Newmlnster ont of Early I'dcho. Mr. Rowlands acted on behalf of the Duke of Hamilton, who is reported to have gone out as • spectator of the war in Europe. _ .  The military mass at the Camp of Chaloan *IS interrupted iltat suunay ny an accident a hien occurred to Gen.tal Itorilhaki, whose charger, frightened by the drums Latta I,t a rex cha,ops, made two furious hounds and threw the general, who, although stunned and severely injured, bad presence of mind at once to desire a Oeneral of Brigade to. take the corn. mod, and attempted to walk to his quarter". All his powers of ryrr ch were suspended, and the general's state is very serious. . .  Mr. Wilts, a respectable farmer of Leckhampstead, has been found dead in a pond at Caleot, arid the coroner-4 jary returned a verdict of "Found drowned." The deceased had been engaged to he married to a widow, who, on bearing of the occurrence, committed suicide by banging herself. Kossuth has issued an itddreas to the Hungarian soldiers, In which he says that they owe no ledy lily to Austria, and that if they remain under her flag they me de,-irtyra from the national C.019e. The address Is timed from the head-quarters of the Italian army, and liers the date of June :It The 600-pounder Elswiek shunt rifled-gen Mei bunted at Shoeburyness, at the eigth round. Fiyetutiored  pounds. plus considerable et cetera., a shot is dear expert: meriting, and wouid make war handsomely costivfor even the British nation, if artillerists could indeed he induced to bring such weapons Into position. Happily there is a pro.pect of a change in these matters. The following charming answer is recorded of the Empress Eugeine to a Marshal who expressed to her hie admiration for the courage she had displayed during her recent visit to the cholera patients at Amieisi —" Monsieur, c'eet noire maniere d'aller au feu"—;" Sir, it is thus wage under fire'). Lord Efartinztnn's last act an Minister of War was to order 30,000 Enfield rifles to be converted into hreechloaders, in addition to 20,000 previously ordered. In the financial Year ending with March, 1866, the duty on probate of wills and letters of administrationnmount to 1,580,7761., an increase of nearly 70,0001. over the previous year ; and the duty on legacies and successions produces' 2,604,3311., an increase of 260,0001. The Florence Nazitme of the Orb, pnblishes an offi• dal list of dei Italian officers wounded at the battle of Caltom. The total number of the wounded on the Italian side amounted to a little more than a thousand, of whom 00 are now in the hospitals at Brescia. It appears from the weekly return, Wined by authority of the laws of the Privy Council, that a further reduction in the number of attacks of cattle plague is manifested. During the week ended 301 h June the number of attacks officially* reported In Great Britain was 2c,fl ; in England, 3in Wales, and Sin Scotland. The niimiter,