The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-06-30 00:00:00

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In the HonSs OF CommoNS, S. C. Buxton took his seat
for Peterborough in the rosy', of Mr. Whalley, resigned.
Mr. Gladstone, in reply./ to Mr Broadhurst, said that the
question whether Parliment should revert to the old prac-
!lce of meeting late ir
the autumn, taking a long holiday at
Mristmas and prer, jgning in June, was one for the consider-
ation of member,
the House of .of both Houses, but especially of those of
,emmons. It would be the duty of the Govern-
naent to folly:, any definite indication which might be given
t__the ellPf,ect, provided they were fully satisfied that the
ire of -the House would be i u favour of change.
air- 'Broadhurst thereupon gave notice that he would
"'se the earliest Opportunity of calling attention to the
tliVjece.
, Mr. Goshen brought up, amid cheers, the report of the
Standing Committee on Trade, Stnpping, and Manufactures
on the Bankruptcy Bill.
THE CORRUPT PRACTICES BILL.
The consideraticn of the Corrupt Practices Bill was re-
sumed in committee (fot the elghth time), and Clause 5,
Providing for the punishment of a person convicted on in-
dictment of corrupt placticee by imprisonment, with or
Without hard labour, for a term not exceeding one year, by
a line not exceeding £2eo, and in addition by disfranchise.
'neat for seven years, disqualification for holdimr any public
et ludicial office for a like period, and disqualification for
election to Parliament for ten years, was agreed to with
some slight amendments.
On Clause 6, which declares certain classes of expenditure
to be Blegal, Mr. H. Fowler MON id to omit the words pro-
hibiting payments for hiring carri,ges or horses for the con-
veYo'nce of electors to or f ern he poll, but after three
hovers' discussion this was w idrawn.
Lord G. Hamiltop next m pied an amendment restricting
rto the case of boroughs the piohibition or the hiring of con.
veyances for taking voters ta the poll, but this was opposed
by the Government, and on a divisinn was negatived by 200
te 105.
The clause was still under discussion when progress was
reported.

The Companies (Colonial Registers) Bill was read a second
time, and the other orders having been disposed the
Rouse adjourned at ten minutes to one o'clock.

In the HOUSE OF LORDS, June 26, the Earl of Redesdale
Droposed a new Standing Order similar to that adopted by
the other House permitting railway companies, under cer-
tain Specified conditions, to pay interest out of capital
during the construction of their lines.
To this Lord Auckland moved an amendment declaring it
to be undesirable to alter the existing Standing Order until
a Bill had been passed to amend the Companies Clauses
Ooasolidation Act of 1845; and after a discussion, in the
course of which the Lord Chancellor and Earl Granville
aPoke in support of the amendment, both it and the pro-
Dosed Standing Order were negatived.
Lord Carlingford, replying to Lord Sandwich, said the
'Government had not yet given up all hope of getting the
Alvan Conservancy Bill through the House of Commons.

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The orders of the day having been disposed of, their lord-
Ships adjourned at ten minutes to six o'clock.

In the MUSE OP COMMoIiS, at the Morning Sitting, Sir
11. W. I'dley brought up from the Standing Committee
the report on the Criminal Appeal Bill and a special report
on the Criminal Procedure Bill, stating that the Committee
:bad proceeded as far as Clause 11, that there were 390
amendments on the remaining 120 clauses, and that, finding
lit impossible to report the Bill to the House at a time of
the session when it could be adequately discussed, the
Committee bad determined not to proceed further with it.