The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

1117 STOCIRTIRTDO-E OBSERVER,

session. As the hon. member tor lluddenlield hod deter-
mined to challenge the Government by pressing on this
bill, he for his part could not refuse to vote for the
hill. In former times he had been contented to treat
tie piestion as did Lord Palmerston—namely, to consider
rh,t, the whole community had a right to know how
rest coneded to a certain porti 0 if tie popula,ic 0 Mr
the good of the whole was exercised. The position of thu
question had, however, changed, and the basis upon which
the representative system had now been placed was no less
than the nation itself lie did not look upon secret voting
as an munixed evil—he con,idered it to be a choice of two
evils. Secret voting appeared to be required by the social
circumstances under which we live, and his vote would be
given unhesitatingly in favour of the MIL
Mr. Disraeli regretted that so important a question should
hi brought under consideration at the end of the session.
Tin Government had introeuced a bill, and had withdrawn it
for very sufficient reasons, and he could not consider what
would be gained by the second rending of this 1411 as it
could not possibly become low this session. Anything
like a hurr;wl and scrambling debate on the ballot
was a preceeeing not tending to the dignity of the
Moose, and would diminish the hold which the Douse
would have upon the country, in deciding upon a ques-
tion which very nearly concerned the future of England.
Ile considered the question of the indict to be of too great
Imp rtance, especially when brought forward for the first time
with the support and approbation of a powerbil Government,
to be satisfied with a hasty discussion. Let the House await
the mature measure which the Government had promised
for the next session. Discussion on the present occasion
would he cost unsatisfactory, and would give to the country
a most inadequate impression of the importance which the
liou,e attached to the lineation.
After sine remarks from Mr. Aeeheton,
The bill was read a second time without a division, and
was ordered to be committed this dry mouth.

gate-market, and they left the omnibus to go there. When
In Lower rhames-street they entered a publichouse and took
seals round a table In an Inner room, where they had mere
drink, the complainant, as before, restricting himself to.
lemonade. The trilrd man had prevously said he had had
A dinner party, and had given inch of the guests a sore.
reign on his producing a. 5. hie prisoner and the com-
plainabt smiled the story, at it challenged hint to make
thorn a similar offer. He agreed to do so. The prison. r
' the, produced a pocket book which appeared to contain 40
or 50 buck notes, and upon that the third man offered him
anew hag to put them in The prisoner put the notes into
the hag, and the other mall, throwing in what ap-
peared to be a sovereign, tied the nvnth of It up and
banded it back to him. The same ceremony afterwards
appeared to have been observed with the complainant'.
money, amounting to £37 10s. In gold, and then all
three left the tavern. In King Wllllani-street the
third man sent the complainant into a shop to inir soon)
tea, and when he returned with it the prisoner and he had
left the suspicion was then excited, and on looting into
lii. bag he found that a number of fictitious sovereigns had
been subatituted for hts £37 105 , and he was so much an-
noyed that he threw them away on his road home A few
clays afterwards he met the prisoner by chance in Victoria-
street, who on seeing him ran away, taking refuge at length
in en empty hones, where he was captured while In the act
of scaling a wall at the back. He then gave the complainant
and promised to return the rest. A policeman arrived,
and the prisoner was given into custody.
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Evidence wae given that during the last four or five
years the prisoner hail been a companion of convicted
thieves and skittle sharpen, and that while he had
been under remand there was reason to believe the
complainant had received hack tin remainder of the
£37 10s, of which he had ben defrauded. The Lord
May or, declining to take that circumstance into ac.
count, sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard
labour as a rogue and vagabond.