The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-06-01 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

STOUBBRIDGE OBSERVER.  from the Mayor of Sheffield, in which —that ,entleman states, in aleiwer to a communication from le Holum Office that he will arranee that the Towiehall and the  kcal 'police officers shall'he-a—tiCe-sen4; of tii.e-ec;n7 mission. A hreal outrage committee has been active in the preparation of work for the examiners, and has already sent in a statement of 212 cases, spreading over the last ten years. There are 163 cases of rattining. giving an average f one in every three weeks; 22 cases of threatening letters, 20 outrages, and four cases of intimidation.  By the decree of the Emperor of Brazil, all persons of whatever colour hereafter born in that kingdom are to be free, and all slaves are to be free in twenty years from the date of the decree. The Brazilian slave trade was forbidden by law in 1845, and it is to be feared that the prohibition of the introduction of more negroes has had a fearful effect in snultitjying the burdens of those already in the country. There are at present nearly 3,000,000 of slaves. The example of the United States has doubtless been the immediate cause of this gratifying decree. There has been no important internal opposition to the measure and there is none of that prejudice against colour in brazil which has produced such unhappy results in the West Indies and the United States. Cuba and Porto Rico are now the last refuges of negro slavery in Christendom, and there are many indications that it will sOOll be driven from these also.  Thursday's Echo of the Russian Press contains an interesting statement made by the editor in reference to the ('cur's contemplated visit to Paris. It is generally thought, he says, that the visit of the King of Prussia will coincide with that of the Emperor Alexander, and he adds :—"According to a well. accredited opinion, Prince Gortchakoff will accom. pany the Emperor, in the hope that France will join in an endeavour to procure a modification of the treaty of WA, as regards those clauses which are most prejudicial to the interests of Russia. The co-operation of Prussia in this endeavour is said to be already secured. The adhesion, then, of England to this combination would be alone in question." The adhesion of England to a combination winch aims at replacing Russia in the position she occupied before the Crimean war on the Danube and on the Black Sea will probably be "in question" for some time. The Emperor d Russia will not go to Chalons, as was expected, but a review on a very large scale will take place in the Bois, and the staff of the army of Paris are busy preParing, for the event. For this "military selemmty" more than fifty battalions, fifty a fuadrons, and eighteen batteries will lie massed together and exhibited to the 'ear.  The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mire says that the commissariat of the International Exhibition has vastly improved. The magnificent room on the ground floor of the club building has been turned into a colossal restaurant where everything is excellent and well cooked, and the guests have the additional gratification of good music during their dinner. The club, the Russian restaurant, and the United States bar and dining,rooms are now the regular feeding places of the Bite of the visitors. The United States establishment is thoroughly and honestly national; the Americans in Paris flock to it, and are perfectly satisfied with it.  Raid at the hospital to be going on favourably. and that he is likely to recover. Young Fossey was in the employ of a silversmith in London, with whom he quarrelled on the day of his attempted suicide. At home he was described as a lad of morose and stubborn temper.  A TRUE HERO !—The United ServUe Gazette, in answer to a correspondent, thus enumerates the very sufficient services for which the late Sir