The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-06-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

GUANDIAVS MEET LNG.—.lt a meeting of the Guardians there were present Messrs. G. Grainger (in tichair), Price, Fereday, Beckley, sen., Rhodes, Richardson, Chance, Brooks, Allen, Wright, Franklin, and the Rev. J. W. Grier.—Aanitted, into the house, 13; discharged, 12; dead, I ; rem.Liaing, 31r.) ; last year, 45. Relief : Kingswinford, 153. 6.1.; statirbrialge, £l5. at £ll 15, 6.1. ; total, £53 13s. ; last year, t6l 17s. d. Datum. Fes ravtra Es. fnursalay morning, the quiet village of Kingswinfard, was a !Weil° of sortie excitement, in consecrience of the marriage of T. d. Esq , M. D.,to Susannah Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. J. I reland. The ceremony was performed in the parish church by the Rev. K. C. Edwards. T approaching marriage had got buzzed aaout amongst Ihe parishioners, and the gossips assembled in strong force to wish the happy couple the customary compliments. The welding procession consisted of eight carriages, and when the bride and bridegroom stepped from one of them, the cheering was loud and long, and Inlay were the fervent " God bless you's" showered upon them. After the ceremony the newly married pair departed en route for the Continent to spend the honeymoon, while the guests and friends partook of a handsene dajetener at the house of the bride's faller, arid the poor pauper children likewise partook of the festivities of the day; bread, buns, and milk being served ad libitum at the Union. The friends and guests of Mr. lind Sirs. A übm then departed for Enville, where a pleasant afternoon was spent. Mr. Field's band was in attendance and discoursed some most elegant music. A ball in the evening gave Mat to the proceedings which terminated at a late or rather a very early hour yesterday morning. Thomas Coooer' a native of Leicester, and one of the most eminent lecturers of the day, is engaged, we hear, to give his highly popular lectures on the "Evidences of Christianity" during the next week, in • the "Camn Exchange,"" Wesleyaa Chap l,'". Methodist New Connexion Chapel," and the "Independent Chapel." Mr. Cooper now seeks to undo that mischief effected by him during the time he walked beneath the banner of scepticism. lie was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and by his close application to study he became a schoolmaster, at 23 years of age ; he alga held same poste on the reporting staff and became leader of the Leicester Chartists, in 1811; he lectured in the Potteries during the Riots in 1812, and was sent to Stafford Gaol; though acquitted on a charge of arson, he was tried for conspiracy and sedition, found guilty, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment ; here he wrote his epic poem, "Tile Purgatory of Suicides," and then followed many other works; He became a lecturer in London, on History, in 1818. In 1855, he lectured principally on the "Crimean War," and in this year he began to perceive the errors of scepticism. In 1856, he began a course of Sunday evening lectures, and from that time to the present he has been lecturing on the "Evidences of Christianity," and preaching it in the various dissenting places of worship. We have no doubt but that Mr. Cooper's lectures in this place will be largely attended.