The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-04-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS,  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  Her Majesty the Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr. Francis Ronald.. Roupell, the ex.M.P., is now an assistant to the surgec n in the Portland Prison Infirmary. A street crowd in London was recently "greatly amused" when the carriage. of •wedding-party were blocked In a narrow street by two loads of cradles and baby waggons. The 'New York papers express a hope that the victorious camiiiiiige mew will visit the United States and race against the Harvard Crew. The Irish emigration season has now fairly set in, and large number. of emigrant. are leaving Queenstown for the United States by every steamer. Miss M-rgan, au English lady, has proceeded to the degree of Ml) in the University of Zurich. tier thesis was read before an audience of over four hundred people, and was received with loud applause. "Wanted, by a gentleman, a housekeeper, with a view to matrimony, sh,ut 25; enclose carte—Address Randolph, Post Orice, Sheffield."—Advertisement in Manchester Examiner.  ...... A staff assistant sturgeon on board her Msjestv's skip Royal Adelaide has been sentenced by a court-martial at Devouport to be dismissal from his ship and to lose two years' seniority for drunkenness while on duty. A 'French bishop, in a sermon, recently ministered a phillippic to crinoline wearers. '• Let women beware," said he, " while putting on their profuse and expansive attire, how narrow are the gibes of Paradise." The connty of Cambridge has dismissed all its professional inspectors, and placed the whole inspection of cattle in the county in the hands of the police. Rear, Admiral Decree, the chief constable of the county, has been appointed chief cattle inspector. Accounts have been received at Des Moines, lowa, that twelve men were frozen to death in the north-western portion of the State during the severe snowstorm of the 15th inst. Sin others were missing, who wore supposed to have also perished. . . '  about  The Scotsman understands that the letber to Mr. Gladstone, urging that the Government should take up, during the present sesaion, the question of the ballot, has been signed by Epwards of two hundred member, of the House of Commons. It appears that cattle diseases have greatly de creased in intensity in Norfolk. The official returns made up to Monday chow that last week there were only seven cases of plehro pneumonia, and twenty two caeca of footaudonouth disease throughout the county. The corporation of Beverley have determined to oppose the fall for the dieranchiament of the borough, and the Parliamentary Committee of the Corporation have been authorized to take the necessary steps for the purpose. A man named Cockell, described as a dryealter, cosnmitted suicide on Friday lest, In Regent's Park, London, Icy taking e dose of poison. It was steted at the inquest that deceased had recently anti Peed from pecuniary difficulties, and a verdict of suicide while labouring under temporary Insanity was returned. " The Chancellor of the Exchequer refrained till the last moment on Monday evening from telling his bearers that he proposed to absorb the greater part of his surplua, exceeding lour millions in reducing the Income Tax by a penny in the pound, ad in taking off half the Sugar Duties." —The Times. A conference of the papermakers of Lancashire, Cheshire, and other counties, was held in Manchester, last week, at which it was resolved to raise the prier of all kind. of paper 10 per cent This step, they say, is rendered necessary by the increase which has taken place in the coat of raw material. Prince Christian presided, on Saturday evening, at the dinner on behalf of the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, at the freemasons' Tavern, London. It was stated that during last mason over £3,000 were expended In carrying out the objects of the *misty, which has funded property to the amount of £lO,