The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-09-06 00:00:00

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POR4PCS IN 'fitg RECESS.
1r Met DiSZWE W/10* Crfree declared that

iv.- urns. '`not np to politic.% in September."
'Mot wav, many years ago,. before he had be-
e rrte an Earl, a Knlight of the Garter, and
Prime Minister 01.Ennd. Bathe was then
as he bad been far a long time, and after-
wards remained leader of a great political
party in the State- Ile knew what it was
to fie& Battles in the Hesse of Commons,
and could appreciate the recreation which
the recess brought_ To do the Conservative
Chief justice hevery seldom did talk politics
in September- He did not often address
party gatherings teat of his own county of
Backs, and when he did so it v, as not in the
month of barley_ harvest_ Then if he met

the fanners of Aylesbnry he preferred to
speak of the 'breeds of sheep and of the con-
ditions attending the pursuit of agriculture.
His 'great rival in the Parliamentary arena
not quite so much at home with the far-
mer. True, like Mr. Disraeli, when in the
House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone now re-
presents a county; but his only experience
as a. Knight of the Shire previously to his
election for Mid-Lothian was durieg the
three years and. a quarter he sat for South
Lancashire-;--from 1865 to 1868. But Mr.
Gladstone Cannot:fie said ever to have been
a farmer's man. As one of the members for
the University of Oxford, his legislative
duties were in thorough accord with his
sympathies; but there are many things de-
manding the attention of a country member
which cannot be attractive to a double-first
of Oxford. South Lancashire can scarcely
be called an agricultural constituency at all.
Before its division by the Reform Act of
1867 into south-east and south-west, it in-
cluded the populous cities of Liverpool and
Manchester, so that Mr. Gladstone was for
one Parliament the county member for both
these vast towns. Those who do business
in the Mersey docks or in the warehouses
adjacent to the Irwell, know or care very
little about the cross-breeds of sheep, or the
different kinds of grasses, or whether it is
more profitable to possess arable or pasture
land. Even if they had, Mr. Gladstone, al-
beit a county representative and a country
gentleman, could have said to them little
that 'was practical
,on such matters. He is
pot much more at home in Mid-Lothian; in-
deed, it is difficult to. see how thelOcal
tereits of a county can be attended to be a
statesman holding 'the the exalted position of
Prime Minister a England; who has the
burden of a mighty empire upon his shoulders,
and is expected, in the words of a familiar
quotation, to "survey the, world from China
to Peru.!'
Mr. .gladstone's visit to his constituents,
whom he had not seen since the days when,
to use his own words, he was in a position
of greater freedom and less responsibility,
is made at a time of considerable public in-
:le: cit. He was to have delivered addresses
in Mid-Lothian_in the winter of 1882; but
the fatipines of the winter session were too
exhaustive. , It thus comes to pass that the
Premier has not talked polities in'the coutkty
of Edinburgh since the month of April, 18),
when Lord Beaconsfield was in power. It
is only klittle more than ten years ago, not
much in the lifetime of a maturely-aczed
man, the smallest possible speck in the his-
tory of a State, with. centuries behind it an,i
reettrria* yet before it. But yet in t.Y.s
period the man then at the helm has been
gathered to his fathers. After forty-five
years of a Parliamentary life, varied alter-
nately with storm and calm, success au!!
failure, he sleeps his long sabbath of repose
in a vault beneath the church at HugentLea,
surrounded by the quiet rural scenery which
is such a characteristic of the county which
returned him to the House of Col.lllllons
many Parliaments. Mr. Gladstone, l‘ith
whom he fought so many intellectual duels
in the House of Commons, is now the on'y
survivor amcngst the men who have file:'!
the office of Prime Minister during the pre-
sent reign. Melbourne, Peel. Russell, Der.
Aberdeen, Palmerston, and Beaconsfield aye
gone. Mr. Gladsto e remains; but nsh
began his official career at the Treasury fi
years ago, even his time of State service ea.t
scarcely be a prolonged one now.

THE IRON TRADE
Wolverhampton, Woinesdly.
Tct-day's market Ilrai produ.:tiv,3 oi s,„ij 1,0-j
nese, titongh prices were fairly well sitsta:ni. I.
Various merchants were ansious to obtain eOO
'applies if bars and sheets of scud quality. Cota
mon sheets were in demand by th: galvan: sem Coin
of wnom are tolelably busy, Unt prices are still 1•
Best stamping sheets, hoops, and strips commiLuei
fair trade. Most of the wills and forges um
moderate gear, though specifications on rfni
delivery account ore limited. lhe sales of pi; iiil
are recorded very slowly, and medium mO;,-,
chiefly in request. '1 he mineral agents ant
ducers of manufacturing fuel are doing a eteadiy;:
trade.

BIENINGHAN, THURSDAY.
The iron market was rather more animated to-d3v
and a steadier feeling was imparted by the s..ttl .
tams of the wages question for at least two mont) R.
This enabled mamufatturers and merehents to ent.
Into contracts with greater cortidenee than has
isted for some time p3st. Though the amotmt
business was not much in excess of past rut etio.l;,i
still there was a brisker inquiry, and specifications
were given out more freely. Pig iron was in i.
proved request, and makers, as a rule. quote t ha!i'
crown a ton advance fo- most deserip lo.is. Sevei
transactions took place in Derbystdre and Nil- L-
upton pig of from 400 tons to 1,000 tons in a lir
the former being quoted at 455 a toe and the latt r
half a crown lei; Cinder pig hlso waA cold ii
fairly large lots, and prices were stiffer. Finishvi
iron was firmer in value, and it was evitle t th:tt
t.,e receding tbndency ol pries has lean cbecke
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Unmarked bars were qu ttd at £6 and SG 2s 6,1
• ttrtns wilzo a ago would have arcti ted £5 17
a too. In no casos conic_ i; on 1,,e got at 1, n
mono than ldpt week, wh lo in a,.nie insta-ac,
I,ttyers bad to col cede an advanco. Tbe cleionn
for marked Oita w,ta limited by the rPla i:ely
mar, in exirting betwren them an i unmarked irl,
Sheets ;veto in no,teraie a in nt by the galyanist,
but prices, wern not mart-raliy altermi A c n!tr•
slice of collina.ters delegates, c,,nven..

y th• Tr of 'h.- Fbrmingl am -ltade3 toiiiii
an lat which the Mayor mid otn.r geotbmen t
• dim:ay cuunected Imo the coal trade were ',res.,
wits r rid dam • the afternoon ,st emi•ii
• If •nd.• wi h view to *.rng a bs,.is fir iitlliig
Vie 'trice in that todugtry. It was evel.tolly
64,4 subject to th consent of the hotly of maq s
luta miners,' to refer tie question at iqstie to :1 ;
01 Am a the men to ret,,tii to work • t ow, to t.
at the rate • • ;wee to he determin by ib
igised. An arrangement of thl4 c,.artcter ought L.
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be acceptable to both dide., and thereby lea to
terminsti ai of this ulifor oust. dispute.

• Flollowny's Pills Are the medicine most in rrpate
during the vk mAisd es which sttAek
then we• end eat,' weather gives platle .0 moee
tetoprrwa,..a.l huiit, tYeee 1
f ot beinn an aintwinte remedy in
'ills afford relief. if he:
ah the dtiar,rhl
eircul‘tio,.. digestion, and 3ervou4 energy, whieh a•
woos oppress* vast portion of the populatifm.
. the whofle.ome„ purifying, and streng hem. ,g p 0.8r4
exered by thiton excedeut hio, the tongde beelrue,
the. appetite imeroves, 1, ojetcem,c cjd
. go:m:10mi render perfect. U)l:o4.)'s medicine
peeeeelre the h.gh y ebtiniebia p-ol•e,tyel-a;iiutjtt,
whole mean of bind,-h ch 1- is leoffv Led
e arties etrenatb. c,11.:11t on,
anti vigour io very timeue
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that those wing them -boul vi t ii, omen b tt:e
Seined from a vend -r bearing Lb.' o a firm of re-
pute. Thee soli by tile agents of JANi e..e '6 nil.,
Co (the first eatablished floinw -po.ttiu Chem is in
kaalaad) have a label over the cork with their nutng .1,11
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'ADVICE TO DYSEPTIC;."—Symptoms of .D..spoi.s
ladiireation, with sp,cial advice as to diet.— :hi:, i..ti
'Art appeals forcibly to those who have .1,110..*A tu
le to decide everything for them, and have . aid ttoi t
liable penalty_of their follv."— Globe. Sent for one-- fan ti
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