The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-04-17 00:00:00

iirElliAL PARLIAMENT.

la the it of herds, MAU 10, Lord Waatbury laid On the ,n
tole s Bill f.tr the Consolit. Atm and Amendment of the j
of Ir. ilght, which was read.. drat time.
D. Tier Bill, the B. btk faltteittlt. Tot nes, 0,1 j
The
8001111,a, itsllway bill, and Um University College of j
;pane Bill were read a second time.
Tte of s.hrliaarough presented all Important petition j
usjett the Scotch Education Bill, and appealrd to the j
Gagerentrat to grant blether tine for the consideration c!.
this till itefore it was proceeded with in committee.
Earl Dalhousie thought it wae quite impossible for the bill
to he pnmerly considered at the present
The EDI of Airlie also thmight it would be desirable to
pone the committee en the bill, but he had no objection
mos
L, le principle of the hid.
The Belie of Argyll assented reluctantly to the course
prop,sed, and the bill PlAtPOnell Mita the 10th of May,
the Ellesmere and Glyn Valley Railway Bill and the Glyn
vaII ey Tramway Bill were read a second time.
tord Dufferin moved the second reading of the Salmon
yt•hefiel Ireland' Bill, which W. :treed to.
Tile tat of Kimberley moved the second reading of the
g,aaar Expenses Meeting bill. which was intended to
neav a detect in the Act of lad aeration.
—jilts Motion elm agreed
the gait Italia Irrigation and Canal Company Bill was read
a 0. vi tine and passed, and their lordstape adjourned.
in the Rouse of Commons, Mr Disraeli gave notice of a
wire of antendmenta on the Irish Church Bill.
Lord Barites asked the Judge Advocate-General whether
hi, attend.° hal been called to a par.tgraph is the Pull Mull
1:0 rat a Saturday. Idereh 20, ia regard to " branding "
with the letter D
d'a*'.rTrO' 'fLor'c"hl s tue "ai'dnybda attentt u had not been called to
the paragraph in qUelltioll 11, til the n-.ble lout had given
ice,this tp want., It was so far true that he had sent a
letter to the Adjutant-Uenet al on the queen on of re hrattaling
fters, nit it watt no correct that he had toned a strongly-
worded memorandum in th m e ters Wert ed to.
Tee first business of toe night was the c nstiert non of the
gadget it's' lutions in Committee of Ways and Means.
The Corn Resolution was the first taken, and on it
lr corratme remarked that the Chancellor of the Ex-
qur had failed to produce any kind of reason or argu-
e,. tO show that this remission would no into the pockets
I the c, nsouters, or would benefit the c.mmereial classes
hut In glad y accepted it, because it sealed the doom of the
Belt t •s.
lir. Barnet, also, was of opt' ion that the bakers alone would
benefit by the remissnat of the I 'orn Duty, and Colonel Kart-
{slot VtlllUrtil to pied et that the fanners would be tomtit-
tejon ug ea the disappearance of this tax, because
wioos
th it would go a leading argument for the maintenance of
the Banda.
In sr suer t. queati.,lllpot tip earl tut members, the J
Clutrcall .r of the Exchequer stated that the tnachinery for
registering the quart. ity of eon, imported wou'd not be die-
ted, thy the remission of the duty, avid that the remission
would c,u,ntuence, not from the pasting of this resolution,
but of the clause so the bill Maoist to be brought in. This
uncertsinty, Mr Crawford said, would be very unsatisfactory
to the trade, and he suggested that a precise day eh•mld he
ise,t—ay the let of June or the let of July, and Mr.
pronused to ettnsitier this.
M this point a long conversation arose as to the mode of
procedure. The Chancellt..r of the Exchequer asked the
Committee to agree to the whole of the Resolutions at olice
pre jormd—that he might bring lit his bill at onco—promising
that no one should be held committed to a single point in

theft,
Mr Hunt desired that the country shoul•I have time to
wander the changes in the scale of assessed taxes. lie
effeiesi to agree to the suggested arrangement n regard to
sli the Resolutions but the with—who h contains this scale.
Hs suggested to Mr. Lowe that he would save mu .h time by
dividing his scheme into two hills—the rem 15 tttt in one,
and the conversion of assessed taxes into licence duties In the
other.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer repeated that it was use-
less to seece to a part of the Resolutions only, for the de-
spatch lie desired would not he gained, unless all were passed.
tie god was supported by Mr. 1.1 sraeli in his oppoan ion to
this c.mrse, and, in the end, Mr. Lowe moved to report pro-
gress, upon which the discussion took a general turu oil the
merits of the Budget.
Mr. Hunt examined it In considerable detail, and, com-
mencing with the Incv me-tax, he argued that in reality a
peony was added and not a Denny taken off, and this was not
for the purpose of paying off the Ahys,inian war, but for the
sake of the other alterations he propos( d He repeated that
these remitsions were made at the expense of posterity, and
he contented that, taking the moms-tsr at the peace rate
of t mrpence, the surplus of 117011 would not malice for
them by i-4,4:1,0o0 fio the inconvenience if collecting so
large a portion of the reverdie at one time, Mr lima in-
sisted very earnesily—pointiug out that the balances would be
starved at one tine and enormously swelled at another, by
which the Govennuent would obtain an improper control of
the Trones-market.
Mr. Baring also dwelt on the disturbance to the money-
market which would he oc,aahnied by toe new mode of col-
lection, which, he maintained, violated two mportant
priruci-
tles—ihat taxes shoold be taken only Os tile &.Vernilletit
Deeded the money, and in the Manner most Convenient to
the taxpayst
Mr. CAVE, Me J. B. Smith, and Mr. Norwood also dwelt on
the since point : hut Mt crawford and Mr. Alderman Salo-
mot-s, on the other hand, th,digh asLiiitting that souse incon•
sentence night be experienced bv throwing a large portion
of the receipta into one moidh. tic obhut it could be easily got

Over
Mr Baxley sugeested that the Income-tax should he cot
Meted in twi, Instalments, ant that half-yearly licenses
shmild be issued. while air G. Jenkbpon recommended that
IS per c lit docount should he allowed for the payment of
taxes three womb. In advance.
Mr. Neville-Orsnville criticised the Budget as wholly fail-
ing to do anything for the poor, and showed that though the
rich We would pay about 36 per mnt. less of assessed taxes,
the poor man would pay 30 per cent. more : while Mr. Read
complained that nothing whatever was done for the farmer.
Mr Henley compleined that his constituents would be
salted on to pay 4.. in the pound every January ; and, after
some further remarks from or. 31.110, Mr. Charley, Mr.
Maguire, Me. Alderman Lust and Mr. Bonham- aaster,
The l'hancellor of the Exchequer replied that the new
Mode Of collection was essential, and to disturb it wourd
break up the Budget, That there might be some incon-
veniences in it he did not deny. but they were the price to
be pail for the remissions of the Buitget and for
the great admini-trat tee reform of the Assessed
Tates. But in reality there would be no injustice
done. The Income-taa atilt the Land-tax taken this
year would not be increased an I the £400,0.0 eiditional
Assessed Taxes would 1m repaid in tato years. Of the dis-
turbance of the nim e)-market Mr Lowe made very light.
It was not his business to study the money market, and he
kft it with connaence t lose c licensed in it to provide
agdost the in eoicted theooveniences As to the corn
Di'ies. Mr Lowe n. w pr .is ed th they elioall cease to
be levied tin the 1 t o Julie. and finally he acceptml
though not withimt a parti..g protest, Ste tholes ang.e.tion
lii agree to all the resolutions except the sixth, relating to
the wseseed taxes.
it F. Crossley and Sir. Alderman Lawrence held that the
hconreidence hull beett greatly exaggerated ; and, the mu-
till to report proomesa having been withdrawn, the revolt'.
im—the sixth omuted— were agreed to.
he Army Estimates were the next business: hat, before
going into Committee of Supply, Mr. Haitbury- Tracy brought
nn•hr consideration the expediency of applying military
labour to military works at all stations of Her Majesty's
Army. Mr. Cantwell replied that he was favourable to the
system as far as it could lie carried out with safety to the
regimeatal discipline, and he hal written to direct the ata
tendon of the three Guards on the subject.
The following Votes were enema to :
C 48.000, Clothirg Estatam merit.
£514 90ii, Barr ck Establialiaient,
£43 at)°, it rime Service.
£l,OOl. Martial Law.
£366 SOS. Hospital S•irvices.
£1 1:9,. 00, Military Stores.
£004,100 Superiutendence of Works, Blinding', and
Repairs.
Sot's 9, 9,10, end 11, relating to the Reserve Forces, were
pnatprinea until after the debate on Lord Pluto's motion on
Army Orgatuzatin.
The Seanirds' Preservation Bill was read a third time and
pas eil, a d the House after.ards ailjourned.
la the House ot Lords, April 13, the Railway Companies
Meetings Bill passed through committee, with some remarks
fn.] Lorils Salisbury 8101 R .desdale.
The Nasal Stores Bill was read a second time, on the
motion of Lord Camierdown, who explained, in regly to a
question from Lord Hardwhke, th st the bill, by repealing
certain rules respecting the inscription of tse broad arrow,
would enable the Admiralty to sell surplus goods to greater
advantage, anti their Lordships adjourned.
In the House of Commons, Mr Maguire brought on his
long Impending indictment wined the Irish Society and its
In tnagement of property in Derry and Coleraine Dia-
c' aiming at the outset ale idea of attacking the London Com-
panies, OD this occasion at lesst, he sketched. In a racy and
summing archteological re,uni, the foundation if the Society
M James 1., .41 its share is the pm...tenon of LT ster, and,
coming to more recent times, he narrated at length
the !articular' of many disputes between the society
mid its tenants The chief misdeed on which be
heisted Was its refusal to grant perpetuity or even
long leases, and neutrally he inserted that it had ob-
structed in every way the progress and prosperity of Derry
and Colei gine, and haa failed to carry out the conditions
of
its charter. The relations if the Society towards these
towns were an absurd and useless anachronism, and he con-
cluded by moving tor a Royal Commission to inquire bow it
administered its property, antrio consider whether the re-
commendation of the Commission of 1854 to abolish it should
not he compiled with.
Mr. Alderman Lawrence prefaced his defence of the Irish
Society by some sarcastic remarks ou the chutes throng,
which Mr. Misodrea motion had palmed The society, he
maintained, spent sir sevenths of its become in improving its
estates, awl it had assisted with a liberal hand in pu die
mobs, such at brolgea, water communications, port ard
Inriseir improvements, clic One cause of this attack, he
hinted was that the society acted as an utipleasant emir on
other landlords in the •listrict, and compelled them to he
ft,'re littera Ile pressed the Government not to moment to
this "random motion,. and he warned them that w hatever
was done iii this camp must be a precedeiS for the treatment
51 mily of the London Companies but of priest. latollor
ts
Mr. DOWre answered an argummit of the Alder. tan that
no e tm .laint had been heard from Derry by proc'aiming
liliiiti'lt an " incarnate c mplaint," for he had been sent by
Derry to Parliament for the rioulde purpose of disestablish-
ing and ii isendowing the Irish Church and Irish society. But
he amerted that the tenants of the society and the citizens
if Derry had never lot an opportunity ot complantiog of
Its managemeut and it was the 4.1 y subject on which men
of all creeds and politics there agreed. The society was a
Warms for public wijects, • rid, in the opt, ion of the Cost
Mission of 1934 i. the London Corporation, if its trusts were
disnartred it could have no surphts.
Mr. Peel Dawn . tins of opinion that the diattibution of
the funds fir local purviews had wit been eatisfactory, and
recomnimided this, the Society •hould he recome ituted on a
more liberal basis, or that the Puma should I, hoeled iiver
to local management ; while Colonel Flatlets maintained that
the esta es to the Society were atimmahlY Manned.
Mr. R. Gurney denied that the Society was merely a
trustee for public °Nees ;_ it wets trustee for the twelve
city onion& s of any surplus which might arise after cer-
tain public objects hail been cared for. In a few years hence
there wo• Id he a sul.tantial surplus, but that, he main.
taim•il, would belong neither to the Corporatiou of London
nor to Deny, but to the London Companies.
Mr C. Vorteseue admitted that there were many things in
the con•tit ution of the Irish Society which could not be left
on their present footing ; but whether Inquiry would be
neeeed hefore legislation, and how it should be made, were
points which he askel should he left to the Govern-
ment As there was no need fir motile haste In the matter
he requested Mr 51 iguire not to press his motion
Mr craafora, Sir it. Crete, Sir F. Ileygate, aria Mr. Dense
improved the cour•e proposed by the Government, and Mr.
Magnire. eccepting ti is advice. with rew his ntothin.
The receet appointment of Colonel Lowther as Lord-lieu-
tenant mai Cu to. Km tab ot.sit of the comities of Cumberland
and eta:Wooer land was hrought under the atteotion if the
Rouse by Mr. C. Howard, who a week or two ago presented
a petition on the subject. Ile found fault with the appoint-
ment tor vandals reasons. Firs'., because it went tut make
the office hereditary in the Lowther lanoly—f or it had been
held liy members of that family for 130 years—next he ob-
jected to the accumulation of the offices of Lord.Lieuteriant
and Cmitim Rotulorton in one person, and ate, to the junction
of the li/tite,nancies of two counties But chiefly he oh-
jected to the time of the appiiiiitinent, for It wae gasetted on
the very day the late Govenonent resigned. He concluded
by 810811,8 an Address to the Crown praying for the revoca-
tion of the appointment.
Mr. Domed defended the appointment, which, he con.
tended. it was quite within his competence to make in the
ltlaeett hie resitniatii in and the appointment of Ma
sum:woe This conat ban nal di aline, to which some
',Maher seenieo to demur, Mr. Disraeli efiforeed by citing
shuilar appointments made hy Lord Ripmell and Lord
Palmerston at the same criets of their official calves.
Ile auced with Mr. Howard's ohjectiona Imth to the
0 of the two tamales and the converaion of the
Litul'tleiiteutamtcy into a hereill•my office, but after
the mist careful examination he could find no one
hut I onziel leowther, either in Westmoreland ter Cum-
terland, who possestel all the qualifii•ations for the iiffire.
Into the time and manner of the appointment Mr. Disraeli
went circumstannally, and incidentally lie gate an interest-
in account of the circumstance of the resignation' of the late
Government From thus ace tit appeared that he had
Kul Lori Laisdale's resignation in his hand. for many months
hthose, arid might have filled tip the office long hsfore there
Wit Any question of the late Government retiring
Mt W. 14./8011 40,1 Str. Potter supported the motion, and
it.. as oppmed by Mr. J. 11111 and Mr. W. N. Hodgson Mr.
Imtehe, in &tomer to an hyped from Mr lilialgeon, stated
• that at least two-thirds of the magistrates in tile counties