The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26 00:00:00

Coughs, Colds, Sore Throats, and
Bronchitis.

This Ointment is irresistible in the cure of these throat and
pectoral complaints, which when neglected often end in
settled Asthma or Consumption. The Ointment well
rubbed upon the Chest and back, night and morning,
penetrates the skin, and thus absorbed, is carried directly
to the Lungs, where, in immediate contact with the whole
mass of circulating Blood, it neutralizes or expels all im-
purities. By these means all pulmonary complaints may
becured with rapidity and ease.

Disorders of the Kidneys, Stone and

Gravel.
In any of the above complaints more benefit may be
derived in twenty-hours, by adopting the followitg simple
means, than could be brought about in ax months by any
other treatment. In bad cases, if the ointment be diligently
rulibtd into the small of the back, over the region of the
Kidneys, it will quickly penetrate and give immediate
relief. Six or eight of the Pills should be taken nightly
acc ,rding to circumstances.

Gout, Rheumatism, and Stiff Joints.
This invaluable Ointment excercises a more obvious control
over tout and Rheumatism, than any other Medicine. No
one need remain uncured, who will in good earnest make
a vigorous application of this infallible remedy—according
to the Printed Instructions affixed to each Pot. All settled
aches and pains will bkomse be banished by the same treat-
ment.

bkin Diseases, Scrofula, and Scurvy.
The beneficial effects of this peerless Ointment are truly
wonderful in cases of Rin',worm, Scurvy, and ::crofnla,. or
Si,g's Evil, and its powers are adequate to the removal of
the most inveterate Skin Disease to which the human frame
is subject.
The Ointment and Pills are sold at Professor HoLzow.ir's
Establishment, 533, Oxford Street, London; also by nearly
every respectable Vendor of Medicine throughout the
Civilized World, in Boxes and Pots, at Is ltd, 2s 9d, 4s ea,
us, 225, and 33s each.
ull printed directious are affixed to each Pot and Box
arid can be had in any language.
N.B.—Advice can be obtained, free of charge,
by applying at the above address, daily, between
the hours of 11, and 4, or by letter.

T"K SOLD BY TENDER, about 3 aeres
of weli-grown UM)ERWOOD on Bodenhain
• ate, next. Silatt-,rfcird. Mr. Harvey, the tenant. or
u,•Lw-y,the keeper, residiUg at Solcutu, Lear Biaaes-
C.:, will poiut out Me underwood. 'renders of price
r are to '.7.e sent to Oates, Perrens and Wooldridge,
igeuLd, Stocu bridge.

WANTED, to PURCHASE a FREEHOLD
RESIM4IN(.;D: in or near Stourbridge, with
not less thao four bedrooms.—Address with full par-
ticu:ars, Brown and Donnelly. Auctioneers and Estate
Agents, 4, Hag ley Street, Stourbridge.

UOR SALE. a quantity of ASPARAGUS,
SIKL DOUBLE a. 1.1 :-INGLE WALL-
FLOWERS, CARNA GOLDEN FEATHER,
BROWN lON STOCKS, IiOLLYOCE`, DAIsIES.
PANSIES, ARIBIS, -GriEEN and VARIEG %TED
AN RHICU , PEN STE MONS, I:11U BABB,
ROO VS, and others; cheap.—Samuel Cox, Seedsman
arid Florist, Eagle), Road, Stourbridgo. Estimates for
hayiag-oot Gardea4, on appheution.

'fo BE LET WI rfl ISIIIEDIITS POSSESSION.

TEIE LAWNS, HAGLEY ROAD,
STOURBRIDGE.

ADE P A CH.-2A) Fawily RE'SIDENCE,
with Ex ,eiterjt len3, Larcuo, htahlicg, ar d
Coachhouse, ;vuhu avuutd.i wuk of the hoturbriOge
RAilway Station,

For rent and parti'alers, qy to Mr. a KING.
Lan I Agent, Stourbridge.

iie'*ottrbribge qYoserutr.

SATURDAY, JA \'UAP.Y 26, 1876,

THE WORK OF PAaLIAM6ST.

it is sufficiently c,ear that the time of Par-
liament will not be ex, lusively confined to
debates upon our Lrei_pi policy. That these
will occupy a considerable share of it there car.
bo no doubt, as inked would be natural
expected, coosidering that the L gib' ture wa
assembled three weeks earlier than usual in
order to be reaiy to vote a special sum of
iu,)ney for tho protf.ction of British intere:sts
iut East, should the necessity for such a
:11!hougla foreign utfairs art
1,1A.14...,e0,1:;ant, there are sul:jecth
ailimiliagLU GICHUODUO iIatVIVAIS WO pinto

which cannot be overlooked by its lawgivers.
War or to war abroad, the world still goes on
at home, and the wants which the wear and
tear of age make prominent have to be sup-
plied Accordingly, the Government will deal
with such practic:il questions as couaty govern-
ment, the consolidation of the Factory laws, the
summary jurisdiction of magistrates, and the
prevention of cattle disease. All these are
very good and useful subjects, and will re-
ceive the attention which they undoubtedly de-
gerve.
There is one Bill before the House of Com-
mons. the introduction of which was received
with some merriment, but which is, neverthe-
less of some importance as affecting the
destinies of many numbers of a populous corn-
timnity. It is a measure for abolishiog the
time-honoured institutioua of actions for
breaches of promise of marriage. There
is an act upon the statute book called
the Statute of Frauds, which proviies
that no action whA,.)ver shall be brought
upon any contract when the period for its per-
formance is more than a year from the date of
its making. Now if this principle were applied
to actions for breach of promise of marriage, it
would follow that every such action would have
to be brought within a year from the actual
date of the alleged promise. By the old rules
of common law there was no necessity, in order
to constitute a ground of action, that a contract
should be in writing. The consclaence was
that fraudulent, or quasi-fraudulent actions
were frequently brought, to which, if they were
supported by plausible evidence, it was very
difficult to find an answer. What was a unto
to say if it was alleged against him that he had
promised in the presence of two or three wit-
nesses to I e surety for the plaintiff, or to grant
• him ten 3 ears hence the lease of a valuable
farm, or to purchase of him goods to the value
of a thousand pound:, ? It was to obviate
fraudulent auita, bas al upon alleged pron.ises
of this kind, that the statute of frauds was
passed, and its operation has been most bene-
ficial. The question which will be put to the
Legislature this session is, whether a promise
to marry is as important a contract as one for
the sale of goods over the value of £lO, and
whether an action at law should be allowed
upon such promise unless some docuruentary
evidence can be adduced on its behalf.

It will not, however, be over actions for
breach of promise of marriage that the Legis-
lature will spend so much of its time. There
is one measure mentioned in the Queen',
Speech which will be watched with great
interest, not only by a particular class, but by
the body politic generally. It is the Bill
relating to the prevention of cattle disease in
this country. There can be no question that
the food of the people is a matter as important
as any which could engage the attention of its
rulers. Most of us remember the enormous
waste of animal food caused by the ravages of
the Cattle Plague in 1866. It was not so much
the actual mortality as the slaughter rendered
necessary by the stamping out process, whereby
if One beast was attacked a herd of a whole
hundred had to be sacrificed. It was that dis-
astrous visitation that sent butchers' meat up to
a price which has become a prohibitory one in
the case of large numbers now who have either
no work to do, or are insufficiently employed.
In the course of last summer there were some
isolated cases of cattle plague in England, and
after the experience of 1866, the alarm was
taken, and the stamping out process was applied
in every case. This seems to have the effect
of staying the progress of the distemper, which
formed the subject of inquiry before a Select
Committee of the House of Commons. That
committee recominended the prohibition of all
imports of foreign cattle, that is to say, al.
cattle brought from abroad were . not to be
allowed to mix with our own flocks and herds,
but were to be slaughtered at the port of land-
ing. In the recess deputations from the Royal
Agricultural Society awaited upon the Prime
Minister and upon the Lord President of the
Council, asking the Government to adopt the
recommendations of the Select Committee, and
to embody them in a Bill. The provisiow, of
the Ministerill measure will, undoubtedly, com-
mand the interest wb.ch attaches suLjt •
so important as or, affcting he supply Si the
most valuaule au.i nu' riLiiUs food which Provi-
dence has furnished to man. What is of more
service to man, woman, or child, than beef and
milk? Whatever may be the necessity for
protesting our herds of cattle against the chance
of being contaminated by association of foreign
beasts, it is earnestly to be hoped that a
measure which will interfere so materially with
the laws of demand and supply will receive that
attentive consideration wnich its great im-
portance demands. At all events there is one
advantage, and this is that the Legislation wi::
not be in a panic, and thus of a hasty character,
for from cattle plague the country is now for-
tunately free.