The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1870-09-17 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS,  CRITISII AND FOREIGN.  I have always a weleome for thee !" as the Spider mild to the Bluabottle.—Punch.  The report that Brasted-park, near Sevenoaks. had been told to the et Emperor ot the French is contradicted by the owner of the estate.  The French srmy i nnanimoul in declaring t at their " Intendunet, which is equivalent to our Control Department, has proved the most hideous fakirs ezperienc set In the war. The Rev. Principal 'Pollock preached before the Qneen on Sunday in the parish church of Crathie. Principal ltUloch and the Rev. Dr. Taylor dined with be? Majesty in the evening.  The refusal of the Admirelity to allow the use of a ship for the proposed eclipse expeditious to Gibraltar mid Syracuse hal made a painful Impression in 'dada* circles.  Land situated near Freshwater Gate, Yarrnoutb, isle of Wight. la now Nailing at from goo to £.600 per Aare. Aboutee years ago the price of land in this locality was only about £3O per acre.  All assets of French residents in London have ealablishtd a Committee of National Defence for the purpose of st-engthening the hands of the new Governmentin defendbig the soil of Francs from the invading armies. In London, on Saturday, the well-known swimmers, Coulter, Morris, and Pamplin, contended to the Thames, below London-bridge, in a £5O sweepstake, distance, one mile. Morris, who was the favourite at the starting, won the race.  A tradesman named Bowe, of Penzance, has been killed while emitting to excavating ground for the foundations of some houses In the town. A Bud° en fall of earth corned him, and he died almost 10 1000 as he was dug out.  The Colonial and Contiwntal Church Society have received so good a resp mile to their recent appeal that on Saturday they forme ded three large cases, containing linen, hut, cherple, Etc., to Luiselira, for the German and French Bich and wounded.  Among the articles of French produce most largely Imported luto this country, it appears that the stock of brandy at the present moment is unusually greet. According to a statement of Memos Matthew Clark and Bons it is equal to two and a half years' deliveries. An advance of price, therefore, seams unlikely. On Saturday morning in last week, a large vessel struck on the Goodwin ',ands, and In shout two bourn li,ame a total wreck. The Itaminzate lifeboat Bradford and a steamtug went out to render assidsuce, but nothing could be learnt as to the fate of the crew. The vessel wu to:eight to be about 700 tons. On a place of her stern which was floating about were the words "Sew York."  Henry Allen, a London bootmaker, met one day last week an old friend named Smith, to whom he was numb attached. and whom he had not seen for some years. Smith hailed him cheerily-, and Allen responded by a cordial shake of the hand, bet in the same instant fell forward helplessly upon lila friend's ehoulder. They thought he had fainted, but It was death; the sudden surprise (said the .urge ole at the inquest; had stopped the action of the heart, which was •good deal diseased.  On Tuesday morning • vi-itor named Charlotte E:iza Wicklson, a married woman, 36 years of age, of Frahm, conmoitted suicide by throwing herself from the Fort Green, Margate, on to the sands beneath, a distance of about sixty feet She received eome very extensive scalp wounde and • fracture of the skull, leer right leg was broken, and she sustained other thlurles. Death was instantaneous 'Her husSand identified the body about an hour after the 00CLAlTellee.  -------The Prlnce Imperial, on Monday afternoon, while walking on the teach at liaatinp, was surrounded by a crowd, and when the prince stopped a moment to look at the chips in the offing, a man came out from the tmwd, end catclung him by the heal shook it warmly, at the same time expressing his deep sorrow for the boys fate and that of his ii eons. Toe Prince appeared much bewildered, but was relieved of his embarrassment by the arrival of his tutor. This, it Is slated, is not the only Instance in which the Prince has been rudely treated by Inquisitive people. At he last meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Comnerce, it was resolved to memorialise her Majesty's! Government, to the effect that they should recommend to the favourable consideration of the European Powen ins addition of the following words to the resolution of the Cmiseesa cot Parse abolishing privateering:— "That the private ireperty of subjects and c. 11 zens of a Lelllgerent, on the high sees, should be exempt from wfzure by the aimed veuels of the other belligerent, except Übe contraband."  His Highnese. the-Nawah Nazim of Bengal, Behar, anti ()risen, accompanied by his sons and suite, are making. temporary sojourn on the sea coast at lieurnemouth, preparatory to utilising by a visit to the principal seats of mina facture and commerce, the protracted residence in this c- entry rendered compulsory on his Ilighnees by the unfortunate delay in replying to his memorial addressed to her Majesty's Sycretary of State for India, on the 28th July, n 69. A Southampton correspondent says that the Tanjore which arrived at that port on Sunday, brought one of the rnorst valuable cargoes ever landed at Southampton part. It was estimated to be worth £1,500,000, upwards of a million of which was in specie. She passed II