The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1874-06-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A ineetinct has been .held, attended by about five hundred of the leading citizens of Berlin, for the purpose of forming a National Liberal Association in that city.  The Dutch Minister id Finance, in submitting his Budget to the Second Chamber on Monday. stated that he was not at present in a position to abolish the duty on sugar. The North German (Irrette learns from Russia that an Imperial Government messenger front the Russian MAMMY at Pekin was recently found frozen te death and halt buried in stool on his way to K lead., The Gazette describes the incident as 01le of no MICOMMOD occurrence. A correspondent of the S,•otrourn says that four of the competitors for the prizes offered by Mr. Edward Pease on the opium traffic are young Chinese writers.  An adjourned meeting of builders' labourers was held on saturw4 evening, at which a deputation was appointed to wait on te Executive Committee of the Masters' Association, with a view Ii adjust the wages dispute between the association and the Li!. 'u-em in London.  "Fifteen years ago Mr. Disraeli at Manchester received a deputation (nom Leeds, and promised to visit (lie latter town in fifteen years. That time having just expired, the Premier has been reminded of his promise and it is understood that he will keep it. '—Doily News. One of the Paris journalists has a grand scheme for wideldnx ' all his subscribers— at 30 francs a watch. They are to lie made at Jura."—Courf Journal. At the South Kensington Musemn is now arranged a very extensive ant complete collection. illustrating the various forms of enamel work as employed upon the onomentation of objects in metal. A deputation of the National Education Union had an biter, iew with the Duke of Richmond and Lord, Sandon .01 Tuesday, to urge modifications of the Revised Code in 1.:m.11r of ilenominational schools, restraints on the expenses of sthool Boardi and on the imposition of unnecessary burdens on ratepayers, and the definitive incorporation of religious teaching in the national system Their lordships promised to give the proposals submitted to them full consideration.  it is now definitively announced that the Duke of Eduborgu will visit Liverpool during the month of September. and will he present at the opening of the new Art 14allery aim the Seamen's Orphan Institution, He Royal Highness also purposes to attend the musical festival. A Parisian correqumrlent says :—" There is a new fashion hi Jewellery which I mast mention, and thnt is, that ladi•e wear pending to a velvet strip FOUnd their met, or to their brooch, the medals or e-reran a won by their husbands for the services they may have rendered their country. The gentlemen wear the ribbon only the ladies wear the medals.'  .. , The Lierppeol Mercury states that the London and The Tweed fishings have improved. During last - . North Western Railway Company are re.iniring their engine week the appearance of salmon on the coast, from tile 1111111. driven to Sign an undertaking Icy which they I lad themaeveral days the stations near the mouth of the riverg, had selves to obey all regulations now or hereafter to be put hi her id IL.II seen leaping, in the sea, was encouragin mid on inforce, to give a mouthai notice in writing on leaving. but to creased takes of both salmon mid trout. A'strmig northerly be liable to instant dismissal at the Minds of the loeomotive win itlew derat on Friday, and improveme at the sea t -coaat iswick, station. there was anne,...rinteildent. Many of the men, it is mid, have eigned a censiile nt. ACh on Friday, 87 eahnon and troeit were caught, and at Cheswick, 44 salmon this stringent regulation under warm protest. trestle trout The fishing on the sea-coast was not to gond " Whether it is clue to the excited state of public on Saturday. but there was an improvement at the stations opinion or the heat of the weather, it would be difficult to M the lower part of the riven say, but it is certain that an alarming number of suicides A t the last meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, have oceurred lately in Pane. On Tuesday no fewer than tan in London, Sir Henry Rawlinson, who Presided in the absence cases were brought under the notice of the police, and it is caper, d tha t for th e moo th the tig,nres will an nel id t o of Sir Bartle Frere, said that the meeting would like to hear what the Government would do as regarded the family of the . °- -'all Nall Ga2.4"e. late Dr. Livingstone. Sir Bartle Frere had already Informed . At Portsmouth, on Monday evening, at ten minutes the society that the pension of £2OO per annum would be after eight, the sunset gun was on the point of being fired continued to the family, and that an application had been from the Garrison Saluting Battery by a party of gunners made to the Government urging also a grant of money. The - belonging to the list Brigade R.A., when a boy named Alfred amount recommended by the deputation has been tioooo to ; Scott, aged seven yean, who was playing with some little £ll.