The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-02 00:00:00

3):cAon Courtspoacnt.

tiVo deem it right to state that wo to not at all times
Vontity ourselves with our correspoutleut's oyiuloos.J

The two leading, measures of the Session, the Irish
Land Bill and the Education Bill, are proceeding testie.
fautoriiy, and tin re is n ntinned reason to hope and
believe that bo'h trill become law. Should this com
rumination, moot devoutly to be wished, independently
of mere party considerations, be arrived at, we may
expect that all sitbsequent parliamentary business will
be hurrbd through as rapidly as possible. Wt are late
its the Sea .ion already, the summer is waning, and
no titers of the Legislature are naturally anxious to
get away. Signs of the beginning of the end are not
wanting ; the attendance in either House is frequently
minty; and, truth to say, the public are becoming
on ivy of the heavy debate, on subjects which are very
important, it must he admitted, bat which are certainly
abo very dry.
Tim charm has hen !Taken; " Quesn'e weather"
did not favour her Majesty's " Gerilen Party" at
Windsor. Butts this the correct term to apply to the
At fret it Wai spobea of. officially and otherwise,
to a" breakfust," which was and is an irremittibly comic
• lie'. The Court Newsman, in ids official account
emumenais with the words "Her Majesty the Queen
have e gsteden party," and winds up with " ievitaii ma
to the breakfast" welch are one sled the same thing.
but when we ate told that it " begaa at Inelf•plat four
emit lasted until seven o'clock," we at once soe how
litelnrous is the t-rm "broakfast." But whatever may
he the right appliettion of the affair it seems to have
been a most j liable one. I had not the honour to he
imam,. that favoured 800 persons who received invite-
times, but the accounts of it are Lone the has pleasant
to tori. Everybody mill react that rati should have
rr 4 th plowuroe of the day, altimugh rain was so
es !he wanted in other respects; but still tee Garden
+rty was evidonlly a meet aereeable one ;Nature and
Art combined their attractions; and all that wealth
coil! c or iusurnms and rofined taste could
ea...gest was male subservient to the hat pines. of the
guests It was a day "to be marked with a white

Arrangements for the Workinens' International
Exhilition here are y rweding s teifactori'y, and the
announcement that the Queen will probably be present
at the inaugural ceremony has been very pleasurably
rcc4ved.

Very pleasant news aril :es with regard to the health
of Mr. Bright. It is v t tted on the best authority that
he his gained c tasidarably of late in strength and
general hea't' f. It is scarc dy likely that he will be in Lis
place in Parliament again this &sedan, or undertake the I
duties of his office, but there is every reason to hope
aut his abstinence from • fficial and pailialnantary
imlits will only be to make assurance Cloubly sure.
From noire than one of this clerks in the Board of
'I rode I have heard most favourable opinions expressed
with regard to the pereauld character of its President.
fitrletly speaking the clerks in thic department have
bc.nf Itzreeably surprised. They looked for a rigorous
cutting-down of calaries and an ha-usually strict suer-
vision, but they have found great kiadnees and con-
eicleration. As to the public, they will be happy to are
Me. Briv lit back again in his place, for personal as well
as for official reasons.

A case of intimidating workmen here hen attracted
camaideralle attention, and the fact that it has
attracted attention is pleasing, inasmuch as it shows
that the intimidation of workmen is happily becoming
rare. A dispute in the tailoring trade at Cork having
indmed the masters there to endeavour to get some of
their wcrk done here, several j lurneymen tailors in
London have been charged with intimidating other
workmen to prevent the execution of orders. Happily
ths affair lies terminated by the defendants being
bound over to appear on a future occaaion—which
Means that we shall not hear any more of it, as of
course, the dt feudal:its will have the good Rolm not to
ex.xciss ..ny more intimidation, after the severe
magisterial lecture they have received, and, moreover,
after they have doubtless arrived at the-conclusion that
they would certainly be punished for intimidating
workmen. The whole case is worthy of rote as the
exception whivil proves the rule. It is a sour cc of
go r oral yetigan' ion that the relatims between masters
and men, and between man and man, are now on a
lot Cr footing than formerly. Doily the conviction
is gaining ground amorg working men that atrikes are
two-edged ravapofle wiridi cat both ways, and that
Orbit...don is the trOper remedy for trade disput, a.
azmogernent made by the pnblishers of "Edwin
Drool" is realiy the only eatilfactOry one that could
I e arrived a.. "By Charles Dickens" is t souse
a promissory Lote, which cannot be taken

extent 1;

and tie bi.l i& nut bid& eed. Mr. Wilkie Collins
nnebit ve-y well I, able t& finish tbe wok as he choose.,
but tubs would not be the work. Better let it remain
;runt. It will be I,ke the broken column that
wr see in the cemeteries, reminding no of the heavy
blow of deati, taegr&al; tle,troyer. Now that we hall
no more hear the mellow and flexible voice of Mr.
Dickens in resoling his own wmks, it is all the more
gratifsinsr to find that Mr. Bellow, who has been
eerier:sly iil, has recov&red, and has been able to re&
wooe his readicgs. Splendid readers are so Karce that
it WM felt to be denlily calarnit ms that while one was
j tut removed by death another should be I,dd aside by
il'ia es, and warned to abandon his readings for a
time.

There is a proposal to establish large swimming baths
on the (hating-barge principle, on the Thames. Why
not? Why should not the Taames have its bathe as
we'l as the Seine? I don't know that the former
although it is Co smadly abused is much worse than
thee latter. And there is no reason why the water used
for bathing should not be filtered, the bathers would in
the summer-time pay the expense over and over again.
I. is a great pi tev that, rot only in the metropolis, but
in our large towns generally, there are so few facilities
for Lathing, and still fewer for learning to swim. Every
year scores of people are drowned because they do not
snow hew to swim; and yet we era always being told
that WO ar e an insular people, a maritime nation, and
as en. In this latter respect, as well m for sanitary
remems and for the sake of the pleasure of bathing in
hot weather, it would be very desirable to have ft sting
baths on all our rivers. Atropos of bathing if any one
happens to he in the neighbourhood o; the Strand on a
hot day, and wants a really cold ha, h, let him go to
the old Boman baths in Strand-lane. I warrant be
will find that cold enough, and perhaps a gaud deal ,
too cold -in fact intensely cold, and nearly always at
the Mae temperature. And yet there are people who I
go into this bath every day (Sundays excepted, by the
Lye) all the year round,
see a droll took advertised " Marchepiol a la
grandes ConnaLtanees ; or, a French translation of a
Stepping-Stone to Knowledge. By a French lady." ,
I take French leave to say that this is not French at !
all—not even "Frenche of the erhoole of Stratford-
atte-Bowe," of which Cimucer spoke.
A most interelting nen° was to be witnessed at
the Victoria Hooke, on Saturday. Two large parties
of twig:ants embarked for Canada. The Tweed
took on boatel come 750 people—men, women,
and children, and the Ganges about 450 persons.
They are sent out mainly by the aid of the British and
Colonial Emigration Fend, materially assisted by Mr.
W. H. Smith, M.P. The sirests about the docka, the
docks tbera3elvra, and the river, were all }made and
animation. There were many earl and touching
features in the scene, but there was more, to a stranger
at eeatt, to pleace and gratify. As a rule, I thought
the view looked hopeful, if not happy, and the women
cad and anxious, but nevertheless trustfuL Tae smi.
graule, as a body, must have felt that they were
alnee-t to a certainty about to better their condition,
but Mill one cannot leave native land and friends, pro-
bably for ever, without a pang. Heattily do I wish
them all bon voyage temel happy and prosperous times in
the land of promiee.

The public mind he Low fairly roused on the aubjsct
of baby.farming, and the Treasury having taken up
the prosecution of two accused persons we nity be
certaSn that the caw will undergo thorough inves-
tigation. And it is high time that the 'subject
was thoroughly sifted. What is the extent of this
baby-farming, and what its results, we csn only
att:itnise from the cases that now and then transpire
the..tigh inquests or police proceedings; but thine ía
tOO oionh reason to fear that the system has ,for 3 car t
lit:en carried en toe serious extent. tVhat the ui•sle.t
of the pareicular case now under inquiry may be I will
vt!nttire to anticipate ; but, tl my mind the
irresisiAble soggeation it the tstablishment of foundling
hospitals.