The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-06-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BATUMI AY. JIM 1, 1846.  At ilarCel.tia the othe, night the prelude to tee fifth act of L'Afrizaine was 011COted five times 0,0 people of that locality ere m-breSTI•iIVI, ror them love ot neving heir money's valor hm for their levy of mime doubtless the former was the incentive to the.ftwcre.  - - • The marriag.e gift of Prince Tack to the Pr.oLeles Mary Adelake was a splendid diamond and ruby ring. The Irekrti for the bridesninids of the Princess were of cryttig, with diamond and rig,.,notiogramsof the Princess Mary an Prince Tech oil the surface.  A quaint writer says :—" I have Heen women BO delicate that they ale afraid to chic, for fear of the horses running away ; afraid to ail, for fe .r the hoat might upaet ; afraid to walk, for fear the dew might fall ; hat! never saw one afraid to he married, which ia far mars, iskfiti than all the °theta put together."  - The other day, in the dardin des Plantes, in Paris a man I.bi ,1 child of 7 years of age, and, in spite of Ms cries, ran if with it. Be told the crowd, while edging the child's cries, that he was only taking him horn, again, having left without permission By the time the servant in charge, who had been wandering in another part of the garden, came up the man had escaped. Biahop Colman° has commenced an action againat Mr. Olwintor e and the other treasurers of the Colonial lkshoprics Endowment Fund, to recover arrears of eatery, which were withheld at the time he was deposed from his see for heresy, by the Bishop of Capetown (acting as metro  • In extenuation of the "accident" of layiug out a child at a workhouse before its time had come, at, enlightened vestryman recently gave an anecdote to this effect, and we presume It Is not a cutting rem an American paper. "There was a subnrban rector who was laid out, and the curtains of his heal were closed. His daughter was sitting sobhing in the room. He w,a not, however, dead. Ile heard the nells of his own clinrch tolling, and calmly he put kin heal out frost the curtahis and sail, "For whom are the bells tolling, nly dear Elizabeth r Her answer was, "For you, dear papa" That a ill do.  A Drawing-Myrna waa held on Saturday last at St, Jarees's Palace by her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales on behalf of the Queen. The nember of presentations eras unusually large, bting considered equivalent to those made to le-r Majesty. The Princess, who was supported hy her Royal husband, the Duke of Rdinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Crown Prince of Denmark, appeared to he iu excellent health, and bore the somewhat fatiguing ems. money with great cheerfulness and untiring grace and condescension.  On Frid.ty a frightful accident occurred at a file manufactory at Sunderland, by the breaking of a large grinestone. A young man wan working at the stone, which had been In use about a week, and previously carefully tester', when owing to the velocity with which it revolved, about 360 times per minute, it split into three pieces. The deceased was strut* end Ming through the roof of the grinding shed, and falbag into the )ard, wae picked up dead, his head being shattered to pieces, and his brat scattered {nal directions. A great portion of the roof was also carried away. . . . . .  The death is announced of the Earl of tiainsborough, which took place on qunday morning as an early hour, late peer, owing to his advanced age 'eighty-tour, had for a considerable time past rarely Interfered in politics, but he was a Liberal of the old *chord The deceased was eldest of the numerous family of Sir Gerard Noel-Noel, hart, and Diana, Sar.;ll,lll:Arham the first of his three wives lie was born In lyot. His eldest son, Charles George, 'tiaras% Cammleii, was born September 5, tbl, and has a 'outhful family. Ile became, a few years ago, a convert to the Church of Rome. The Earl of Clarendon has been informed by the Austri in Ambassador to the English C ufft that it is not necessary for the bearers of Foreiga-office passports who may wish to enter the Austrian &mini 3T13 to provide themselves with the vice of the Austrian Embassy it is, however. at present advisable that all Britsh subjects wishing to visit Austria should be ',welded with pawnor's. A great sham Cilit and review by the volunteers of Scotland is t, take place in the spacious Queen's-park, at Stirling, on the ant of September neat. Mr. Parton, in the North American Reties, for April, thinks it probable that a method will be invented by which a bundle of newspapers can be shot from New Turk to Chicago in half an hour.  Five -hundred immigrants, from Europe stopped over the night of Mar 20 et Toronto, Can,41.9.. nel paused ot! not  oay Lou the Wssiern Stat." of the Union ; upon which the Toronto Lender asks, "Will our Ocvernment ever offer inducements to emigrants to remain in Canada?' Experinaents hare shown that nitro-glycerine may be rendered non-explosive by mixing It with ruethylic alcohol, ("spirit of wood,"; its explosive quality being restored IT andina water, which absorbs the spirit. That is evidently a valuable  Lord Pain ersion's prophetic words are quoted all over Europe at in, Bent, and his foresight does seem wonderful to have enabled him to say that, 'the questlon of the Dw hies will he a match which will ignite the whole of Europe." At Preston, the Coroner's jury have returned a verdict of " wilful murder againvt the man John Banks, , who last week so brutally murdered the woman with whom he cohabited. The immediate cause of death was rupture of the bowels, caused by the prisoner jumping upon the poor creature. "Let the Government." says the New York Herald, "treat Jeff Davis as my Uncle Toby treated the fly—open the door of JP, mega Monroe and let him go forth. Surely the world is large enough for .llff. Davis and the ratted States." It may be remembered that, alma few weeks ago, a Paris hanker was incarcerated at Mama for having circulated false notes to the value of 3,000,000 f., and bad attempted suicide The wretched man died on Monday of Ids selfinflicted wounds.  The Parisians have been very much 'puzzled by the news that Prince Alfred has become a crocer, eprettr having In France a social significance ap+rt from it. literal meaning. They asked whether it was an eccentricity, like Louis