The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-05-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

OOO. A great Protestant demonstration was held last Saturday in the Botanic Garden", Belfast. Over 15,000 people were present. Mr. Jehnston, of Ballykilbee, occupied the chair. Strone speeches were del 'erect against the church Bill, and further measures adopted to oppose it. A number of resolutions were passed, amorig them one " asserdeg and maintaining the right of the Presbyteri. Church in Ireland to a continuance of the Regium Donum and other endowments winch it lets heretofore received." M. Mege-Mouries states that brown bread is a coin. pound of coloured matter, produced by the action of a ferment he calls eereolina. By preventing the action of this ferment, brown bread is converted into a while sort far superior to the common one. This is the kind provided for the poor and far workmen by the administration of public assigance in Paris., which every day sells to those cheres 50,000 lb. of bread, certainly better than that of the regular baker.. On dit that an interview between the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Russia will take place, at Baden, in the course of the summer. Fifteen steamer gunboats are now being built for the Spanish government in the navy yards of Coneecticut. Ihe eunboats are to be each 107 feet long, and measure 140 tons. live navy yards, each employing 100 men, will be required to complete the contract. The machinery will be constructed in New York city. A great strike for an increase of wages has con" menced in the coal-mining regions iif Pmoisylvania Many thousands of miners have stopped work, anti operations Pre at a standstill There was concerted actbor throughout the whole mining region, and the strikers behaved in the most orderly manner. This strike will cut off the coal enpply of a large section of country, and as both sides seem determined not to yield it will probably continue some time. Letters received at Waahington, from London state that the health of Mr George Peabody is not good, and that he is anxious to return to his home in America, and end there his days. Mr. Peabody has written to the town of Georgetown, ;Massachusetts, stating that it is his intention to supply all the funds needed to sustain the public library which he has given to the town, arid also presenting 4,000 dollars towards the permanent fund. The Pancurentata and Pettieoldiae Monthly is the title of a sheet published in New Itrunswick. Archduke Henry, brother of the Emperor of Austria, married a very popular actress, and w).B recommended by the Emperor to take unlimited leave and traveL By the Intercession of Ida nmther, the Emmen of tine French, and the Princess Metternich, the Archduke haa been forgiven, and Is Diva will henceforth take exalted rank at Vienna. —Court Journal. On Monday, Mr. Miall, H.P. was presented with a testimonial by the women of Bradford, and his site and daeghter were made participators in the tribute. The subseription, from which the event of Miuday night resulted, wan commenced as nit expression, on the part of the ladies of Bradford, of sympathy with Mr. Miall after his defeat in November; but Mr. Shah is subsequent election enabled his friends of the unenfranchised sex to turn their demonstration into the celebration of a victory. About £6OO were obtained, arid with this • library of books ...purchased for XI r Miall, a timepiece and candelabra for Mrs. Miall, and a pianoforte for Miss Miall. It is announced in most of the French papers that the principal shops in Paris will henceforth be c!osed on Sundays. Thin important social reform is nntthe result Oft religious movement, but has been brought about by the same kind of agency which, in Ertgltuld, has introduced the Saturday half-holiday. The Seciety of the Employes de Commerce inform the public that, with few exceptions, all the linendrapers, venders of ready-made apparel, silk mercer., and hosiers of Paris have consented to close their shops on Sunday, and the employ "appeal to the g.irn. will of the public to aid them in making the measure generaL" On Monday the volunteer encampment at Blackpool broke up, and those members of the corps who hol come trom a distance south were te depart in a special train due out of Blackener at Op nt. The mans of the rifles, hoe ever, Instead of waiting for their train, took absolute p.o.e'i of the 5.5 pm train—the ordinary passenger train, and the last from Blackpool. The excluded passengers remonstrated with the volunteers, hut to no purpose, aid the train left, leaving over 1,000 people behind. Quite a "sine" then took plme on the station platform, and when the special came up an hour late, and departed with a heavy load, still there were hundreds loft unprovided for. At length an eugim and a slumber of carriages were telegraphed for , from Preston, ant the clamourieg passengers were emit off. Two little boys at Maabro' having quarrelled, one gave the other a kick on the left leg. The skin ells not broken, and there was little to be seen beyend a slight id,coloration not larger than a florin. The Injured child, however, was subsequently found to be guttering from Ink Jaw, and died in great agony, having been three da3s with out food. Cardinal Bonaparte has left Rome for Paris. H Eminence is to officiate at the religiroun ceremonies to he liel at Ajacem on the 15th of August, to celebrate the centenar of Napoleon I. Cleverlen, the beantiful residence of the Duchess Sutherland, on the hanks of the Thames near Maidenlies and where her Majesty the Queen a year or two back smile short sojourn, is, it Is miderstood, about to pass into the hands of Lord Grosvenor, who is said to have purchased it from the Duke of Sutherlaud. Mr. Henry Starkie, who did a large business Liverpool as a pawnbroker and money lender, committed Suicide, on Monday, by cutting his throat at his house Upper Parliament-street, Liverpool. Latterly his mind has been much repressed in consequence of his having sustained a considerable loss by a lire which occurred on his liminess premises in Oldball-street. At the Vice-Chancellor's Court, Oxford, on Monday, three undergraduates of Exeter College, were chary. d with trespassing on land belonguig to Mr. Faulkner, at Hincksey, In pursuit of mime. It appeared from the evidence that on Sunday, May 2. the defenti•nts were out walking, when a small dog they had with them started a rabbit, which lie ran after the defendants follow', is, over the land belongicg to Mr. After a lengthened hearing, the Vim' Chau:Wier hned the defendaMe fa. eat*.