The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-03-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  BRITISH A ND FOREIGN.  The Duke of Cambridge on Saturday formally opened, for public traffic, Oharing.cross•road, the new line of thoroughfare formed by the Metropolitan Board of Works from Oharing, cross to Tottenham-court-road. The idea of boring a tunnel between the peninsula and Sicily has been revived. The estimated cost is ?aid to be 71 millions of francs, and the time required for completing the work would be from four to six years. It is stated that the depth of the .Sea is 160 mettes. _ _  The 29th of October next will be the hundredth anniversary of the performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni, and already arrangements are in progress in Germany and in the German provinces of Austria to celebrate the occasion by a jubilee performance of the great work ' On Saturday. before Mr. Justice Stirling, in the Chancery Division, a petition was presented to appoint official liquidators of the Bank of Egypt, which had outlasted its charter, and for the reconstruction of the batic as a limited liability company. The petition was ordered to stand over till Thursday week that notice of motion might be advertised and any objector might appear by counsel. At the London Mansion House, on Tuesday, two men were sentenced to three months' hard labour each for picking pockets in St. Paul's-churchyard during the assembling of a crowd on Sunday afternoon. Replying to a deputation from Sheffield the Home Secretary expressed himself as adverse to the appoint.. ment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the marking of Sheffield and other British goods. Sir G. Trevelyan, in a letter to Liberal Unionists at Aberdeen, declared that the Irish question must be dealt with thoroughly, radically, and remedially by a reunited Liberal party, and that he believed the moment was ripe for Liberal reunion. An inquest was held at Kingstown concerning the suicide of Mr. John William Cannon, aged seventy, landlord of an estate in county Galway, producing some £5OOO a year. He used to have pains in his head, and took chloral. The verdict was "Suicide while of unsound mind."  Mr. Justice O'Brien, in opening the assizes for the county ()Jaye, said he regretted to find a large increase in the number of undetected crimes, the nature of the offences denoting a disturbed condition of the country. He was concerned to find a great increase in offences arising from intoxication, showing a growing de. moralization among a certain class. it is now believed in Rome that King Humbert will atain summon Signor Depretis as the only statesman likely to command a majority in the Italian Chamber. On Tuesday aftemoon the Prince of Wales, by command of the Queen, held a Levee at St. James's by on behalf of her Majesty, which was numerously atter ded, and many presentations were made. Sir Frederick Abel, recently elected president of the Blackheath Arts Club, delivered an address to the members on Tuesday evening, in which he remarked that to commemorate the fiftieth year of a wise and prosperous reign no more fitting offering to a sovereign could be imagined than the creation of a National Institution to serve as a great central source of information on all parts of the Empire. He hoped abundant funds would be obtained for the _purpose.  he revenue 078c7e9i,v1e5, o d 1 from El,B m A7-p1ri,83117 natotehreo2t6htanh utlbte. amounts to z = 79,160,314 received in the corresponding period ending February 27, 1886. The expenditure up to the 26th w being £1,870,292 less than the expenditure LBOB 9,8f805P for the similar period of 1885-6. The balances on the 26th ult, amounted to £7,013,045, and on February 27, 1886, to £6,863,180. Mr. Bush, a chemist at Hackney, London, endeavoured in the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday to recover .£37 168. which he had paid for a horse at auction at Aldridge's Repository. It was contended on his behalf that the horse did not answer to a warranty; but Mr: Baron Pollock held that there had been no breach of warranty on the part of the defendants, for whom judgment was given with costs. Prince Bismarck has sent to the "North German Gazette" a letter in which he thanks a large number of correspondents for their goodwill and patriotic feeling in reference to the recent elections to the Reichstag.  Toe German Government is said to have ordered certain Alsatian choral societies to be dissolved, in the belief thet they furthered the aims of the French League of Patriots.  ,