The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

SATURDAY, SEPTFIIBER 3, 1870.

by William Pearson, of Red Hill, fitourbridge, for ill,.
gaily demanding and taking toll of him on the 14th ult,
while going to preach. Mr. Clalow appeared for the
complainant.—Mr. Pearson Raid I lire at lied Hill, and
am a local preacher of the Wesleyan body. On the 14th
I was going to preach at Wombourne Common Chapel.
Have been properly appointed by the Wesleyan Minister,
and on the Circuit plan. Toll was demanded of me by
the defendant. I refused at first to pay it, and told her
I was going to preach, and she had no right to take toll,
and gave her my name and address. I paid it under
protest, and said I should summons her, and have done
so—The defence was that she was not aware that corn.
plainant was going to preach, that be was exempt, or she
should not have charged him. She would not do no
again.—Mr. Spooner : You have no right to charge any
person going to preach. I have decided a case of this
kind some time ago.—Mr. Clulow: Yes, in February 6,
1867.—Mr. Spooner: I will not fine you this time, but
shall order you to pay the costs.—Mr. Clulow said they
were anxious to have the decision, on account of the
body of Wealeyans. Defendant then paid 9s 6d costs.
DESTROYINO CLOTHES AT THE UNlON.—James Davis
was committed to Stathird for one month, for destroying
MS clothes in the Union, on Tuesday last, William
Reightley proved the CUSP.

possible for men to stand against them—(hear, bear).
He believed that if this one great campaign were satis-
factorily settled, a general disarmament would be insisted
npon—leheerej—and if that was the case the 3 WOlll.l not
again have such sorrow devastating the earth as they now
saw, and men would be able to turn to legitimate and
peaceful occupation during the natural course of their
lives, without having to dread the chance of being sud•
denly called upon to die on the field of battle—)clieers).
He did not know that, even when we were deeply in-
volved in war, there was ever a time when the army and
navy were of more importance than at the present time ;
and that we were ready for any call had been made clear
by what had been stated in Parliament only the other
day. It had been supposed that because of our policy
of nonintervention that we were not prepared to stand
by the treaties we had become parties to; but the one
thing did not involve the other, and if any nation on the
Continent imagined that England was not prepared to
carry out her treaty obligations, that nation would find
itself very much mistaken indeed. The few words stated
in Parliament towards the chew of the session made that
perfectly clear to all : but it gave him the greatest pos-
sible pleasure to declare that there Was POW an danger
that this country would be drawn into the contest, and
that whatever our state of preparation, the fact was that
we should not be called upon to move one single man or
tire one single gun—(cheers).
Major Cocks replied to the toast.
The health of the Lord Lieutenant of the County was
ass proposed by the Chairman, and, in the absence at
Lord Lyttelton, was replied to by the Hon. C. ti.
Lvttelton.
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The noble thermion proposed the toast of the day,
" Success to the Worcestershire Agricultural Society."
Ile did not hesitate to say that the success of the society
was being weighed in the balance. It had been tried at
Worcester, the capital town of the county, to which all
nes of railway and road converged; and he thought he
was telling them nothing new when he told them that it
bad been the story of a long struggle to keep it going.
But there was a certain number of gentlemen who, aided
by those who really and truly could come to the aid of
the society more effectually than gentlemen—the tenant
farmers—he said that, aided by a camber of leading
tenant farmers, an attempt had been made to settle the
society on a new basis. There were many among that
class who felt that though the shows did not come up to
what might be hoped, there was yet a truth in them, that
good was done by them, and that there would be a posi-
tive loss if the society was put an end to—(hear, hear).
He was one of those who felt strongly that the county
should have that pride which wood make it keep up such
a society; and though the county was more a corn-bear-
ing county than a cattle breeding and rearing county.yet
there was a considerable quantity of cattle reared, fat-
tened, and brought to market within its borders. The
county was purely agricultural with the exception of one
corner, and he considered that if a society of that kind
was started, and was acknowledged on all hands to have
the means of doing good, it ought not to lack a generous
support—ihear, hear). He was not now talking of the
support given by mere eubscription ; but he was talking
of that support given by presence, by sending to the
how all that was worth being looked at, and by courage
under failure and a determination to do better. And if
the shows were reduced to nothing but what they them-
selves sent, if they were merely local shows, yet they
might by comparison, not odious but valuable, do some-
thing to promote the interests of agriculture in the
county. An effort was now being made to see if they
could infuse new force into the society by making it peri-
patetic ; and that was the first place to which it had
come. He was bound to say that when the matter was
mooted the response of Kidderminster was prompt and
generons—(cheers); but he hoped that the good that
might be done would not end in the society, hut that
there would be a return to Kidderminster, and that the
borough would not he a loser by having the show of the
society within its limits, because if that were the case
they would not have an invitation from any other place in
the county, and if they hod to fall hack upon the old sys-
tem of holding the show in the courtyard at Worcester,
could not hope for any more success than they had had
in times past. He could only say, in conclusion, that as
long as the county would keep up that society he for one,
with many others who had the seine feeling, would give
it his heartiest support—(cheers). He would go our body,
but that it ought to be supported and helped by all who
felt not only that there was something to be gained in
the way of knowledge, but that it ought t be something
of which the county might be proud, something that
would never be accounted as loss wherever the show might
be held.

Mr. Dowileswell replied.
Sir T. E. Winnington, Bart , proposed The Flo ises
of Lords and Commons."

Sir J. Pakington, Uset., M.P., on rising to respond, 1,111
received with loud cheers. The right hon. baronet said
that the committee of the society had upon that occasion
as, if he remembered rightly, they did last year, dealt
rather hardly with him in trusting it to his hands to ack-
nowledge that toast. They had asked him to acknow-
ledge that toast for both the great branches of the Leg-
islature. Now, he really did not feel equal to that task;
and he could not presume to deal with what he consid-
ered to be the great merits bath of the House of Lords
and the House of Commons, more especially when he
was restricted upon so large a theme to the very little
space of five minutes—(laughter). He would not, be
could not attempt so hopeless a task; and therefore dur-
ing the few minutes which were allowed to him be would
prefer to acknowledge the toast rather in its local than in
its national bearing. He preferred rather to bear in
mind that the members of the House of Lords and the
House of Commons had local iuteresta in which they
shared, and local duties which they were bound to dis-
charge—(hear, hear). When the fvtigues and labours of
the Parliamentary session came to an end all the mem-
bers came to their country homes, and when they came
to their country homes, it became their duty to mix in
those local gatherings, and to do what they could to pro-
mote the interests of those amongst whom they lived,
whose properity must be their:prosperity—(cheers)—and
whose adversity would be their advereity. And he knew
not any mode is which those who had the honour of seats
in the Legislature could better diachargo their local du-
ties than by doing all in their power to assist in the
prosperity and success of gatherings of that kind—
(cheers). He had been delighted to hear what fell from
his hon. friend Mr. Dowdeswell ; and he hoped sad be-
lieved that the new system of travelling about from
• place to place would attract new interests and new at-
tachments to the society, and that from year to year they
might look to a successful future—(cheers). As regarded
' the present show he quite agreed with his hon. friend.
He did not think it of any importance that the number
of things shown had not been so great; at all events he
thought it of much more importanee that the quality had
been better—(applause). He had been delighted with
the quality of the stock exhibited; but he confessed—
whether he was not uttering an agricultural heresy when
he said he knew not—but he confessed that in his bum-
ble judgment the pigs were a little too fat—(lond laugh-
ter). Ile should be very sorry to see a friend of his in
such a prosperous condition as these pigs—daughter)--
and he could not help thinking that the kindness they
had shown their pigs verged a little too closely upon
cruelty to animals—(renewed laughter). But be that as
it might it was a good show, it was a good gathering, and
be hoped it gave promise of long success—(hear, hear).
There was one more word that he must be allowed to say
before he sat down, and it was this—that we lived in a
happy country—(cheers). We were bound together by
strong and happy ties ; but never within the recollection
of any man alive was there ever a moment when Eng-
lishmen of every class had so much reason for deep grat-
itude and thankfulness as they had at the present zoo-
ment—(cheers). It wae very true that we were now at
the close of a very remarkable slimmer. The greatest
drought had prevailed that he believed any man could
remember, and the consequence had been that cc re-
garded one element of agricultural prosperity grass had
been very short. But somehow or another the dry stud
seemed more nutritious than the green stuff—daughter)
—and the cattle were not so very thin after all. But
what else had we to be thankful for? The harvest had
been fairly Rood ; the root crops, strange to say, after all
the drought, were not so bad; the harvest had been well
gathered in, and here we were from day to day aseemb•
IMg in our harvest homes and our agricultural mmatiaga
and enjoying happiness and prosperity. Bid if we looked
across the Channel what did we see' We saw the fertile
plains of France almost depopulated; we saw their crops
destroyed lest they should feed the advancing enemy,
and we saw the blood of those who but the other day
constituted the population of a prosperous and happy
country—we saw that blood How like water on the fertile
plains of Prance. Let us be thankful that that was not
our case— (cheers). Let us earnestly hope and pray that
it might never be our fate. He was inclined to think
with his noble friend that the prospect of our not being
involved in that war got better from day to day. God
grant that we should not be involved; but he would say
—let us be prepared—(loud cheers). He said woe to
that Government--under whatever political name it
might be known—which allowed the national defences of
England to fall into disrepair—(cheers). Let them hope
and pray that these defences might be so maintained
that no foe should dare to set an invading foot on Eng-
lish soil—(cheers). In conclusion the right hon. baro-
net thanked the assembly for the manner in which the
toast had been received, and resumed his seat amid loud
•
applause.
Mr. H. W. Knight, M.P., proposed " The Mayor and
Corporation of Kidderminster."
• Mr. W. Cowen (the Mayor) replied.
Several other toasts were proposed and responded to.
The third day was also a success, • large number of
persons visiting the show. During the three days the
untiring energy of Mr. Buck, the able secretary, aided
most materially in making the shows success. His un-
wearied exertions created for him a large number of
friends, and in closing our report we must not forget to
mention that we are greatly indebted to him for his
courtesy in giving us valuable information.
We have not been able to obtain the number present
on each day but believe the whole will be a success.
The band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Mr.
Dan Godfrey, was present on the ground, and played an
admired programme of music, on the first day. The
second and third days the Band of the Scotch Fusiliers
played a fine selection of music.

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