The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

The Nouse of Lords met on June 13, for the first time after
the Whitsuntide holidays
Lord Stratford tie liedcl,ffe gave nottle that on Monday,
the 27th lust ,he should bring before their lordships a mo-
tion respecting the affairs of Greece.
Lord Granville, yielding to the appeal of Lord Stilsbury,
agreed to postpone the Committee on the Irish Land Bill
until Thursday, the 23rd inst.
The Attorneys and Solicitors' Remuneration Inn pasPed
through Committee after a brief c ,uversation, in which the
Law Lords took part, on the necessity of giving clients
adequate protection in legani to agreementa made with their
solicitors.

On the report of the flight Court of Justice Bill,
The Lord Chancellor explained the con...lons he wee
willing to make in order to meet the views of the opponente
of the bill. It was impossible to bring the new Courts Into
operation until the close of IS'il, and, Instead of leaving the
code of procedure to be settled by the Privy Council, he now
proposed that the rules and regulations of the various Courts
should he drawn up by and under the e uperiliton of the Lord
Chancellor for the purpose of being submitted to Parliament.
The present bill might be pawed during the present Section,
but it would not come into operation rintll thenule of procedure
hail received the sanction of Parliament. The new Courts,
he intimated, might in this manner come Into operation by
Michaelmas To m next year. Ile was also willing to bring
the Appellate Jurisdiction within the general Judicature
system, and to make it a branch of the High Court of J necks.
It was the intention of the Government to appoint a Lord
Justice of appeal lu the place of the late Lord Justice
Selwyn, curiect to the changes carried out by the bill Ile
had struck out tile clauses relative to the abolition of the
Home Circuit.

Lord Cairns expressed his satisfaction with the amend-
ments, aril forbore to press his motion against the further
progress of the bill.
The report, with the Lord Chancellor's amendments, was
received, and the bill was ordered to be read a thirst time on
friday.

The Appellate J nrisdletion Bill aim passed throngh Com-
mittee, after explmotions had been given by the Lord
Chancellor SA to the salaries and duties tt the Judaea of the
Court of Appeal.
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Lord Str'Arden called attention to the want of some arbi-
trating power when too Petra rose to speak at the same time,
but did not pr“a ha motion, and their lordahips afterwards
atlp,urned.
In the House of rormons, several private bills were read
• third time and pawed.
Mr. Alderman Lawrence gave notice of his intention to
move anew clause In the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill
to place temperance hotels and c, free house. upon an equal
fool,iog with respect to the house tax with licensed houses,
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mid also • clause exempting from inhabited house duty houses
In which only a servant might reside for its protection.
Mr Cries. sAced the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
to inform the House what progress has been made in re-
gard to a new treaty of commerce with Spain.
Ur. Otway was unable to any that any progress had been
made since a question had previously been addressed to him
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on this anbjcet. The 01.jrcilons then entertained, on fiscal
grounde, to an alteration in the nine duties had Out yet been
overcoire

Mr. Gladstone, answering& question from Lord It Montagu,
promised that Ow cemmltee on the E location Bill should
be taken as far as possible deli, in di.m, and list gave notice
that for this purpose he would ask the House from Friday
next to have two nu ming sittings a week.
The House then went into Committee on the Unlveraity
Tests Bill, !Old setter several clauses had been discussed, the
Committee closed with a sharp triangular skirmish Mr.
Eerily, in rewrving the right of cpposing the bill on the
third reading, claimed the thanks of the Government for
the esasistance the tipposition had given them in resisting the
pressure of the extreme party, to which Mr. Closchen replied
by thanking Mr. Hardy for his opposition in former years,
without which it would not bane been possible to obtain so
liberal a bill. Mr. Mowbray retorted that Mr. Goichen was

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premature In his jubilations, ter She bill was not passed yet,
and Mr. Fawcett, for the gentlemen below the gangway,
claimed the credit of having educated the Government and
brought them op to the proper pitch.
The Stamp Duty on Leases till was also considered in
Committee, the omission of disuse 2 being the only amend-
ment or importance made.
The next bill on the paper was the second Reading of the
Ilerchant Shipping Code Bill, which was read • second
time.

Sir John rekineton, Mr. Greece, end Mr. °owlet had
notisee on the pi.Fe,r to Toi!e_ the
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portions of the fini to a Se.eet Committee, but Mr. Gladstone
asked for a little delay to comdder the best course to be
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ponued, and the oneation was adjour tied for a week.
Revere' bills were forwarded a stage and the HOLM
adjourned.
In the Bowe of Lords, June 14, there was a large atten-
dance of peers on both sides of the noose, and the benches
were better filled than on any previous night during the
present session.. .

- Earl Granville In moving the second reading of the
Irish Laud bid glanced at the circumstances of the case
as affecting both latilbres and tenants, and asked how

the existing state of circumstances came to pass, lie next
contrasted the la.. to land in England , which had grown
out of the old feudal tostem with that of Ireland, In
which country It was imposed by a stranger., and
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he showed on 'what d.fferent principle. improve;neate on
farming occupatiot.s were effected in the two countries.
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Passing on to the administration of the law, he argued that
In England the policy of the law bad been to mitigate every-
thing that tended against the tenant while to Ireland the
cue was exactly the reverse. In giving a short acc,unt of
the attempts which had been made during the past 35 years
to deal with the question of land in Ireland, he complimented
many of those who had brought forward airnilar bills but did
not admit that they were worthy slush of the present measure.
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Having gone over'a monotonous list of attempts at legisla-
tion, he Came to the time when the present Ministry cane
-Into office, and gave • pledge to the country that they would
make another attempt to settie this difficult and Importmt
question. Last Si.loll the Government bill on the subject
was pressed for, hut experience had shown to him that
pehlte opinion wan not last year ripe for the discussion
of this measure. Ile was certain that it would have been
Impossible last year for the Government to have prepared a
Pill which they could with honour and satisfaction have
presented to Parliament They night have created a
momentary enthusiasm, but they would have rendered
practical legislation impossible, for if they had offered a
binned and feeble hill, which would not have settled the
question, but would have created • feeling of indigna-
tion that would thrown Into the shade all previous
excitement. As to the present till it might seem in-
vidious to praise one's colleagues: but having belonged
to several Astruinatrations, he might be permitted to remark
that on no other measure had be seen so much time arid
labour expended, not only by the Irish Government, not only
by the Prime Minister, but also by all members of the
Cabinet, both individually and collectively in order to make
the bill fair to the tenant without Nice unjust to the land-
lord. The noble earl then proceeded to explain the main
provisions of the hill.
The Duke of Richmond said that while regretting that
melt a measure should he necessary, be yet could not conceal
from himself that the Irish people and the land-
lords were anxious that the bill should pass and he
therefore declined to take upon himself the respon-
sibility of throwing it out, lest It should be suc-
ceeded by a worm measure next year. Assuring their
lotdships that he could not attempt to upset by a side wind
the cardinal points of the bill, he concluded by stating the
nature of the amendments which he should propose in Com-
tattle°.
Lord Russell eirdially supported the hill as the only
measure that had ever adequately met the evil, because It
was the only one tbst gave a tenant compensation fer the
loss of occupation. The noble earl, loin eloquent peroration,
congratulated the S ,vereign, the Minister, and the Parlia-
ment whose good fortune it WWI to he enabled by this bill
to prove to the Irish people that their just complaints would
he attended to. and said that to produce such an impression
was worth a far stronger bill than the present.
Lord Dranmore moved that the tell be read a second time
that day six months, mainly upon the ground that It con-
taineci principles never yet accented by any Leolalature, and
that its Wang would hate no effect hi putting down agrarian
outrage.
Lord Portinnoeth iupported, and Lord Lifford objected to
the bill.
Lord Dufferin, as one whose material interests were bound
up with the prosperity of Ireland, stated the considerations
which induced hint to entreat their lordsh pI to pass the bill
'without sty material amendment- He replied at some
length to various objections urged 'elitist the main clause.,
contending that the hill was not only coneistent with the
lista f properr y, but with previous
:Ores Grey and Salisbury rose together. Neither peer
eeemleg nem mil to give way, Lord Stanhope moved that
the latter tie heard, and the motion was put and carried.
Lord Salisbury, dividing the dances into white, gray and
hutch, he classed among the first the provisions giving com-
pensation for improvements, which, he said, he heartily
adopted. The black clauses of the bill he considered to he
those which in certain contingencies took one-third or one-
Swarth of the fee simple of the land from the landlord in
o Wen to give it to the tenant, and he drew a gloomy picture
of probable operation of this part of the hill in Ireland,
and !WPM the Government that English optimism Was not
the ,f,hettip by which Ireland was to be redeemed.
Lent ininiberley showed that Ireland was • country of
small holei`oge, and denied that the bill called upon Irish
landlords to do more than good Irmllords now did ashen
they dispose. *4* their tenants. He disputed Lord Sails-
hury's staler ept that Trish disaffection was coincident with
English cone, 11101
Land Bannixa, ~rjected to 1.1110.11 chutes of the bill, while
Lord Monck gave a general support to the measure.
On the motion of Lord Cairns, the debate was adjourned
until Thureday, and their lordships then adjourned,
In the House of Common., the Cardiff Om Bill and the
.Leveringt on Rectory Bill were read a third time and passed
The Liverpool Street Tramways Bill was read a second
titme. Melly asked the Home Secretary whether he proposed
to Min es forward the measure for the regulation of Trade
velem, this session ; or, if not, whether he intended to bring
In • bill .extendines the operation of the Act to Protect the
Funds oft.-adee' Unions from Embezzlemeut, which expires
In august nest
Mr. Bruce t 'melted that he should not he able to intro-
duce the promised measure In the present season ; but he
would bring in a hill to extend the casting act.
Mn Buxton mewed for an address to the Queen praying
sabot she will he pleased to invite the President of the Tutted
States to concur with lair Majesty in appointing commis-
sioners to revl.:e the authorised version of the Bible. He
said that he had deferred bringing forward the matter at
the request of toe Governmert ; but, as • committee of
'Convocation had been appointed to commence the ye-
-vision, it was now too late for the Government to inter-
Were Should the House, however, decide that the
Work ought to he undetteken as • national work, Con-
raration would submit to the decision. Whilst giving Con-
w,estion every credit for the liberal views with which they
bad Wiwi up the matter, he could not admit that they were
fit to Widertake a with so nearly affecting every English
apeakin,e-pseriple in the world. The most learned men of all
churches melt to be associated lathe work on a perfectly
eq,rnifooti,;‘, The committee of convocation was imperfectly
constituted, mainTdisitinguished scholars, the laity generally,
and the whole proximo of York being excluded. lie con-
tended that, as 3 was nuose desirable that the greatest confi-
dence should he had 111 the approaching revision the work
Mould not le nonrated to a Charch or a nation only, hut
should be underteken by the must Waned men of all nations
and sects,
Mr. Percy Wyndham seconded the metier,
Mr. Gladstone said that the question WU not altogether
new to her Majesty's Government, and they were respon-
sible for hash's dleennreged the attempt to throw into the
hands of the civil authority the work of revising the ori-
ginal text or the authorise 1 version of the Scriptures. If
the Convocation of Canterbury, comprising by far the
larger portion of the island desired to acquire popu-
lar favour by undertaking the work of revising the
:authorited version no one would he willing to lessen it. ho
isglemnd could he shown upon which the necessity would
'whet to draw funds from the public purse, and that beteg no
ill wan better that the funds should not be provided nut of
Mite purse. The Government were of the opposite
epinus. d04,h0 hon. nienffier, and held that the work would
be he'd, most safely, most satisfactorily initiated by those
perions who coviai pot pretend to public anthority.
.kfter remarks lvOris Other hon. members, Mr. Buxton with-
, Tree ht. motiou.
Colonel French moved for a Committee to inquire Into the
. Increase of Meal taxation in Ireland , but, on Sir. Chichester
Fortescue objecting to it as premature idla inopportune, he
did not press it to • division.
While Colonel French was speaking an attempt was made
to "count out' the Home, hut 42 members were found to Le
present. Greater success, however, attended &second attempt
made • few minutes after, while a motion by Mr. Rados on
the greviances of the medical officers on the West Coast of
Africa was under discussion, and the House than adjourned.
In the House of Common', June 15, Mr. A. Taylor gave
noire that on Monday he would ask the East Commissioner
of Works if his attention had been directed to the unsatisfac-
tory accommodation afforded in the House for reporters
and whether some improvement cannot be effected.
Mr. Hardeastle moved the second reedit g of the Repro-
eentation of Minorities hill, the object of which, he
-explained, was to repeal the clauses of the Reform
Act, by which what was called • "minority mom'
hour " could be returned for certain constituencies. He
objected to the dairies because they were an indirect
-way of giving t.. the ndnority in tertoin constltuences a powe
which onaht to belong to the rasj• unity, because they hail
signally failed in their ohject, as illustrated notably tn the
Ca e of the city of London ; and liorause they formed pet of
Mr liare's scheme for pf muon. lu
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Mr. T. Coiling thought that the House should, under
all the circumstances of the can, pronounce an opinion on
the bill; and he therefore moved the previous question. He
urged that the subject was mie which onght to be dealt
with at the same time as the whole question of the re-
distribution of seata, and therefore moved the previous
q iest ion.
Mr. Morrison seconded the motion.
Mr. Gladstone entirely agreed with the hon. member that
this question was not one to he treated with reference to
considerations of 'may. [ho advantage which had resulted
to the Liberal party did not in any degree compensate for the
b dance of argument against the principle of the minority
clauses. The principle Id giving more than two votes to a
voter existed before the Reform Bill. and was the ancient one.
lie fully admitted the claim of minorities tulle represented.
but hie contention Was that they were already represented.
10 places where there were more than one member the repre-
sentation was often divided; and in the case of two consti-
tuencies the majority or one we, the minority of the other.
Looking at the state of public opinion, and the vexatious
manner In which the clauses had worked in certain con•
%Himmel., it was hardly advirable to continue their opera-
tion. One grcat objection to the clauses was, that
in the event of sr cret voting being adopted, greatly
increased power would be given to the minorities,
by depriving majorities of the natural defence which
they now possessed. The Government bed not con-
sidered the quention to be of such urgency as to nen
cesaitate Its being dealt with by them at present but an the
honourable member had, without any prompting or en-
anuragement from them, thrown cut a challenge by the
introduction of the present bill, lie (Mr. Gladatone) was not
Prepared to refuse logo into the lobby in favour of the bill. I
He thought that the Reform Act would stand firmer without
this extraileous provision, mei he should cordially support the
second reading.
Mr. Morison strongly opposed the bill, whilst Mr. John
Hardy and Sir George Gray suppored the amendineut.
After remarks from several other hon. members,
Mr. Dineen gave It as Ms opinion that on the whole It
would he the most prudent and profitable course to support
the previous ipiestion. When the question was first intro-
duced to the House the scheme for the redistribution of seats
had not been settled or approved by the Hon.. Had this
principle when first brought forward by the present Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer been adopted by the House, the sue-
cess of the motion would certably have been fatal to the
Reform Bill ; and on that c myktion he had felt it necessary
to reslst the motion with ail the ii dunce of Government.
Ile did rot hold with soy of those refilled and fantastic Sr.
rat gements for the ,presentation of the people. Ile liked
what, in agricultural language, was called the custom of the
country, and the custom of the country Was to bow to the
feeling of the majority. lie did not now think it iv lee or
prudent to reverse hastily the former decision of the House,
nut by sum ort,ng the merlons question wore time would
be allowed for testing the wisdom of what hod been already
done without pletigiLg the House to any course.
Mr. Henley and Mr. Ilibliert supported the bill

The Ilona divided :—That the question be now put (Joe
the bill ISt ; for the previous question, 181.
The members were therefore equal.
The Speaker said that the House having given leave for the
bill to be introduced. and now having some dittilulty as to
its decision, he could not undertake to give his vote to say
that the question should not be put. lie therefore gave his
carting vote with the Ayes.
The question was then put. and the House divided,—For
the second reading, 175 ; for the previous question, 183 ;
maj.uity against 8
The bill was therefore lost.

The other orders were ditposeil of, and the Home ad-
journed.