The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-08 00:00:00

MR. GL ADSTONE ON RAILWAY
MATTERS.

On Saturday the extension of the Metropolitan
District Railway from Blackfriars into the centre of
the City of London was completed, and, to ;ether with
tee enlarged station at South Keneirgton. and the
North Junction line between Kensington Dighddreet
station and the Addison-road station of the West
London Railway, was formally opened by the Earl if
Devon, the chatman of the District Company, in the
preeence of the Premier, the Duke of Sutherland, the
Lord Mayor, and other representatives of the Coy.
poration of the City of London, aeveral of the metro-
politan members of Parliament, end many gentlemen
distinguished by the part they have taken in railway
i enterprises of great magnitude. The inevitable dinner
BEGGING LET I EBB. wait held on the occasion, and after the usual loyal
toarte, the Clubmen gave "The Health of Her
At the Westmlneter Police-court, in London, on estur. Majesty'e Minieters."
day, If argeet Neggerpont. 23, but who appeared much Mr. Gladstone, who was recetimd with loud che.m, In ac-
older, is,. charged with attempting to obtain by false and knowledging the cornett/tent. said he thoroughly understood
fraudulent pretences a charitable contribution from Colonel the @Met In which the toast had been proposed in conformity
John Dugdaa Allen, of the Roots Feather Guards. with a well eatabiLthed usage, and he had ito surreptitious
Colonel Aetley, IS. Cheater-square, said the prisoner deetan of endeavouring to ondermine or encroach upon the
Cnthe to bie house with a letter and petition, both in nonacid indepeneence of any one present. &fore proceed-
the Panle envelope, r urportir gto come from the Rev, tgatoaetpits,itetwo tetiees tte:ett:orrw6ever6bgettr
that
he had
i
Ralph Neville Backtnester, of Holland-place, Kensing. opportunity of mentioning the approaching opening of this
ton. The letter recommended the person named in 1 lice to Mime Arthur, and that his Royal 11,ghness executed
the petition as a poor widow, thoroughly deserving, and : a most sincere ea,ize to take part In this can mony, and
the petition, after setting forth the circumstances of , nothing brit an imperatiee engsgercent connected with the
the gi,nfiratoiz to which
case, contained a large number of signatures of l he belonged prevented him from
different noblemen and gentlemen as enbecribers to the bad sioii,, been „iv,r.70),, tßrrZt","g..,t° m,,T: t::,t .thich
mth. he
fund for the benefit of the widow. Witneee had been ' confessed that, with regard to the special relation
so often imposed upon that his suspicions were aroused, I between her Mojesty's Welders nod the Metropolitan
Distect Railway, he scarcely knew what to say. the bad
but, not wishing to turn a deaf ear to a charitable
so %tit I: t, ter to e: adollicn es3fu, kr ie
appeal, heneat to make inquries into the case and
found that the ieh, le effair woe a tieeue of falsehOods-
- f:duence go l nte lt: m ulty i
renartabliedicsey I:rgm'lotinnallawg It
m7totßearls ha
When he gave the prirooer into custody. : the Heine of Commons teem their sews at a certain hone
. The Rev. Mr. Buckmaster deposed that he knew 'of the eventeg ilanghter) but he ins sorry to report, •,,d it
nothing of the prieoner, the petition, or the letter; he was the only charge he hui to melte against the con:many,
,
had not written it nor authorised aeybody to do so. that the conveniences off,red 5.7 the railway wore net
The Magistrate examined the eignatoree to the augttrl cHeVpetudbilinegiVattrehieraVildt It's'idei•RX:rel
, petition, and said it Woe one of the beet got up he had he c mid adopt any menu, es for the purpose of meeting Chia
lever teen ; not two of the same eignetures were written greet public evil A Imoh ) From tier Itijest)'. einduera
by the same percon, and different ink teemed to have the Metropolitan Railway C.mpany had never received any.
been employed in every inetterme : it was • one that thing more than justice. It he bit an intent In this rail.
ought interest had
ought to be brought before the ipublic on account of
never
Parliament. for whether in belbeen manifeeedle or out of vet by him ino. be had
the signatures being well calculated to deceive. atways thought it most prulcot to Molten from voting on ,
The priiioner, in answer tic the magistrate, refused gmatlone to which prLvae Interest was InVorred,
to give any account of herself. Having been convicted ilium.) Bet having said that, he could not tile- .
Of the offence charged, another case Wa6 proceeded guise the real and profound Interest he felt in the I
with, in which Lady Finch, of i 'beeham•place, had re. undertaking both on puislic Lid private grounds, he. ,
kindness of their distinguished 1
ceived a letter purporting to come from the Rev. Mr. eau"4 ''..through the
Mr. Fowler, he wits lint made aegnsinted with the 1
Liilde I, of Wilton-place, recommending a similar :
' Character and probable operation of this railway he wag i
ewe. This letter turned out to be a forgery, as well as I Convinced that they were hatimately connected with the de. i
Mr. Liddell's signature to the petition' but Lady ! velomnent of this vast metr,po.le. These greet works, re 1
Finch's butler could not swear positively to the eine , sinkable as they were in 11.11 et.slncerlng point of v:cw, were
sorter in conisequi nee of the difference in dress, littienriei.f rine! Illustrated the prennt
I yet more remarkable when contained in their sleet on the
The Magistrate sell it Wall very evident from the
artful clesignednesa exhibited In the document pro- , sociatt c,Ladrafteur,oet
foe an Increase In tie nr7lne ef'looM
ottlii:ne,aLtdia ea 2.1;,1eti
duced that the prllioner was not the only person cone snd uniteard.of resources which It was developing for
cerned In the fraud, and he remanded her on the first the plume of meeting this secant;. It seemed as it
charge, telling her that divulging the names of tier London had become too large to to contented with the en:,
accomplices would materially weigh with hiea in pats- face of the earth, end men appeared to he under an over-
powering neceseity of rising toward. the Monde and of de-
fog sentence upon her. acenalug Into the bowels of the earth. Although they might
The prisoner was then remanded, to give her an think they had gotlow enough (" No, no,") It was impossible
opportunity of disclosing the nausea of her accomplices, to sot any bonnie to the transmutations which this on.
hut she obstinately refused to give any account of them paralleled and enormous metropolis was likely to undergo.
or herself. The great advantatin arlalng from Ole undertaking were
obtained without cost to any but those who chose to take
On Tureeday she was bronght up again, when the part in it Aimee all, he looked with the profoundest Interest
to these works for the labouring
Magistrate CO mplitnented Colonel Aatley on having
• doe from their homaa to carrying
the eemployme populationnt. kl ol Lon.lear hear )
brought so cleverly concocted a fraud before the public,
Toes was no tax which could be imposed on a labourhig men
and, in Nosing sentence, told the prisoner she was only to heavy au the tax on his time when he was exhausting Ms
convicted of one offence, and that would not expiate strength over weary mile. In travelling to mod from the point.
all the others the had committed, al d elle would be where he wos to earn his wages Already at low rates—and
liable to be retaken at the expiration of her sentence, he hoped it might be f mnd inclinable to reduce those rates
She had remained obstinate and reload to give any etiell.tntibetri—nrtAne.l%ireorn.
Perg coMil 7i
ei,
,i,i,le the speed of
informetion, and all he had to do, therefore, was to these of his strength to begln' his daily tll. g i
iftetberenit'utd
deal out the law, and his sentence was that else be to recommend a principle for Ins mthagemeut of this raU
imprimned and kept to hard labour for three calendar way, it would be one which he thought might be eddy
osonths. applied to such Mat.rn with lea. limitation than It would
regnire In other circumetances, and he would humbly tap,
" Slick to the democracy " 'Laughter ami cheers.) They might
rely upon It that It Was the manes of the people on whom
they must depend for a remoneratlve Manic, and in cultivat-
ing that pertinent the tread they would find the surest, the
most certain, thd the most elaatle of all sources of pros
,rity. Cow. I Alter saying to much, In the sincere he.
lief that eine undertakloge were of the greaten public Im-
portance, he was not ashamed to add that ne had • private
IMMO in tills tall Way. fleeing become e elmtehrliler, be

REMARKABLE TRIPLE BIRTIL A remarkable
Instincc of triple birth has just occurred at Bonrce-
franc, Charente Inferieure. A woman named Pasteur
wso confined of a boy, and twenty-four hours after
brought two girls Into the world. I foe of the latter
died. but the mother and the two other infanta are
dOingita.