The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

DIPLRIAL rAAJ dAIriEP

In the House of Lords, June 7, the Earl of Devon presented
▪ petition from the clergy of Exeter against the Bill lor the
Di,entenhatmient and Dieendowment of the Irish Church, anti
id nt would be disingenuous on his part if he did not de-
clare that he did not concur in the prayer of the petition, so
far is regard* the rejection (d the bill upon the s• rood read-
in„ lie wa, iii favor of letting the measure pass its second
waling, mid napalming amendments into it.
on tig, order of the day for the third reading of the Metro-
politan Districi Bat .ey gip.
The Duke of Rutland moved the Insertion of • clause to
/*repel Me eompany 10 proVitle smoking carriages,
cp.o a divioun upon the amendineat the following was
U. result t —Contents, 38; non-content S, 75.
The illl was then read a third tune arid vowed.
bed Colchester asked the Cob ial Seuetary if It was the
buntion of the Otheturnent to ppopirae a measure for the
I, piton hi future of idslieps of a free Proreatant church
bite penalties if the Icicle natural Title.
gatl Granville curd that m the event of the irrah Church
,a it would he eecramry to amend the exist,-
fug re•erred to by Lord Cohhester.
To D.00.t of Arnerdinents to the Parochial Schools
wit us' consioeied 111 wlreh the
Ic.ce. of Stroll and it eliniond and b. di Annicer,
endci ousq took port, arose .41 tine imestlon whethir
the Conlin Board shout 1 volleiSt of three or seer.,
wid whether members should be paid by the
Crown. The Duke of Argyll was in favour of seven
the number, lint he give way, coufesseoly under
ftanbee of a threat by the Duke of Richmond that if seven
eirnoistet upon he all blii move the re.lecti 111 l of the hill
If, could not assent, however, to the proposal that all the
noinders of the Board should r, cries salarres, as urged by
the Duke ot Richmond mai bird Cairns Mid C, Ininsay. On a
the house deemed for pa)ilient 04 t„ 415.
&tiro. sat aho token cri an maicittlnierk moved by the
puke on Arty 11, to I Milt clailve 28 for the purpose of in-mltii
wine other clauses. The ctatm,e, which gives the el ett,n
nf k.,,f the in embers of the school o.4lll.leitteee to the hunger
wind*, was r, tained lu 73 against 45.
On the cer,cietice clause ,clause OS), the Duke of Argyll
again , esprecw d his full conviction tni the ihespediency of in-
id repudiated all responsibility of
the ▪
inverrment for them.
Tie Report of Ike Amendments was then agreed to.
Thr hoed Chan:ell, postponed hi, motion thot the (louse
ounid serve ill the addre*ses lif Ms House nI COnllooll3 to
Ere Majesty hi regard to cm el) etions winch have been de-
@hired ill, hi op:er that the form of the ftep-rt on the
e.vethUn might be comeniered by the louse tin
Torsday,
Co ,10,,,,politan Common. Supplemental Pull was read a
Weird time, and their Lormshipa atijourtird.
10 the 11.1 Se 0. CUSISMOSIP, the collllllooeeMeht of the
Sitting into innai k • .my II signiticabt commentary on a recent
pa,f,sl event. As Mr. Brace was ancwering a tplestion
Shout the Meld riot, 31r. Gladstone entered the llome, owl
Do sootier was he Well theft the Liberal vants raised a loud
and hearly cheer. and kept it up with unflagging virpiur lung
sitar tie had taken hhl seat.
Mr Montague Chambers gave notice that in on considers-
Bon of the trim Kalamaies lie shcold call attention to the
paid.n occupied liy the clerks, etc , of the Engineering
Peicrtuirot et the Service, and w. And propese that I hen,
taloa or emboss elititle I to Lembo,s edbuild be plied lor the
Same psition as that held by the otter lorauche, of the

• answer to Mr. Haut, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
ea that though the arbitra ions with the Railway curl
Telegraph C rimet lee hail made much progress, they were
lot sufficiektly advanceo to permit him to stai a when tlie
btil to rallying out the Telegraphs Act of last Session wk.uld
be Sough in.
The first two orders of the day were the two hills Intro-
duced Iy sir Gotcheu ,Asseasno Stud ill, and Mr. 1.1 B.
(Represmeatioc of tie P.ople Act, 1017, Amend-
ment itili), tor renittlyiug the grievances of the late coup.
posed householder"
Sir thel, hen, in moving the second reading of his measure,
'Ada ntd tee very impor art amitta no t. it which i.e means
lii introduce in Conan ttee In the first place, he should
pea,i to authorhe the leriv.d of the 1)5 mu of comp.runti-
..y sanctioning agreements between owners and
ethrseer• h•T the pry kkent of rates in noishitration
of a definite conk ii.ission if 25 per cent rho owners
of hoe vs under 420 forting In Lothltell and £lO in the
emery (though Md. lindt, he intimated, nrislit be changed
In ComnotteiS would not only pay the rates, out would lie
ly e• pomi We And ii kuak d against any
disalkildy or nag from this chauke the following preC4ii-
tions would be taken :—Owlit ra would be required to give to
the ovenieers a list of the ...copiers for whom they COM-
rill.ded porter pek ally of losing their corn., sshm ; ii penally
would he put on the overseers for every 118111 e omitt d by
them from the list : mid the ...Ampler. if left tlilt Of the tot,
Oughts° to Like Revising Barrister and clam to he put on the
meter. hi suppert el these propoqils, Mr. Goachen urged
that as personal pay meld of tales ha.l proved hupoasibie it
leas mineu to insist on it, at the certain expense 4.1 ninth
hardship and hearthurn log to the poorer classes, and atoned
th A tne bill would substitute a system more uniform than
taAupounding.
A long Ms:mutton followed on the merits and demtrits of
the 'compo.nder," the expediency of re viv ng him, and the
intric kte on ails if the !aloud s)s ern generally, in which
several hon members to it part, alter h,
lhe hill was read a secoml time, and Mr. Sheridan's Bill
Win 0 motrawn
A'ter the Diplomatic Salaries Bill had been passed through
Committee the deblve 011 the Metropolitan Poor Act Amend-
bil , adourte ii from Friday week, was maimed by
Mr. M I ullugh Sorrel e, whir. Matte arise forcible objections
It the pret•teett new hospitals. CUllteltilittg that the tattling
private hospitals, with suiwidies front the rates, Supple-
mented by a system of treating the sick tomr at their
hun. j
k , ...hid Ike the most udicious and effectual
mode of dealing with them Ile protested with much
warmth against massing the sick together in hos-
and for the children Ike teletPettled the system I.f
boarding out, withk-h had been successful inn Ireland. It was
not the duty .1 Parliament he insisted, to relieve the
working clitses of the charge f the r sick awl their chtdren,
and, ,econ• ed by Sir hi. Duke, he moved a Resolution
deteee'lle I. gislat t unti tune had been as inquiry into the
Seth:num of the present arc ttttt mislation.
Mr G. Hai ity defended anti espial eit the calculations
on which he had passed the Act of 184,7. Ai., eeing nil.
Many of Mr. Ircull gh forrtua• ideas as to the ga-
Lion of he alel mid the value of the dispensary syotein, he
▪ Itteltilloed that w. ritimuse hospitals Mere Iteerebtll, for
the •eatitute shk, who, for the most part, had no h ttttt .
ot their own le which they could he treated, nail th t
the oh man hospitals were Mien- ed for a totally differ
tut Mass T.. the I.ill Mr liar' y gm, e earn. support,
and Si ged the House not to draw hank from a policy wh ch,
Vi he it placed the sick and ege,l in bet, Along ettleft. I. would
mane Ins wurkbouens deterrent to tile vagrant and nillal

paupe..
Dr B-e,er admitted that Mr. Harr! y's Act was an infringe-
t • 11tcca1 setivArerLuteut, but held that It Pr.. 11 too late

to tritest.
Sir If Lopes maintaintd that legislation hi this direction
suatii to be accompanted by a resist°, of our 8)81,e111 of taxa-
tion.
A tel some Irl.r.ervations from Mr. W. 11. Smith, Mr. D
Dan) mph, awl Mr Sao oda, Mr. o..schen it plied, ad (11
Lynam Mr T.,mirs' amendment was (It feat.l by its to 13
On the ail. It of the Munn: n.I Fr.,tchlsn Bill, r
Jlll r alit procured the insertiou of a clauAt extending
the Itatith set., women
The Reerhouses But was read a third time, and the Moine
WI tinted.
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In the House of Lords. Jun, 8, upon the report of the
aineirdineets to the Lif. Peerages hilt being brought up,
The Duke of Argyll entere I upon lengthy remarks, attack-
ing the epeeches ef the Marquis of Salisbury ami the hi l of
Car 114,011, and whet tn.; Hint this bid could eon effect the
Object they lad in 'new inn ,n,reasing the her f the lions.
of Lads SO far MI thrireer doff this liner, It 11401 hot been
treved neve..., to produce with a hill as thD, to create two
Ice peereges a year vu by, then, aid lie cup, ort the hill ?
Simply ,nix t.,e ground ICU a bled It Wee d Owed by the noble lent
(Karl Rusin-II) If they did scud this hill to the House of
Common., lit it be put up in true grout d —not that they ex.
peon that It would add materially to the pr sent strt bath end
weLht of this Hull., }Mt Ia dder that Certain ilistnigitished
em, in girt iv admltted to this House without the lau den of
sir iiere..itary -rage
the Marquis of Saletbary frankly confes•ed that he had
liste and to the ..peech of the noble duke with everincreadog
pripexity. Ihe treble duke had taken a month to digest his
Icily to Lis (the mode ma, guts's) speech ; and ',ether s,
order to be consieteut, lie ousht no neve the aejouniment ot
the House for another nao tin, SO that he might Ilitee Mom to
reply. laugh er its gene believed that this House wan
iurported 10 the nat!on ; but 'mold ma nit ad to folh.w the
luible duke into its relations t.• the House of C. ~,,,, n.,
bet.ae they isould pi obably have to tread that ground melt
wtek
Loot Hougnton observed on the danger of exposing the
ri•tlution of thus Hmise to a debate iu the miner ll.,uee
The rely smell ad doubtful beuelflt to lie expected from the
pre,eirt bill was clearly net worth suit a ries. Ile thought
the constimetit elements of the House sufficiently complete,
even as It err,
1, 1,1 Ma:Me bury repeated hie cordial objectioite to the
bit Tire ailloiralulla elicited ..y the debate on I s prelrlollS
Pte.el, that the Howe was out of m cord *tit the general
belt g of the coue try, had alteady damaged the influence of
the House ; hot he disputed the admission: themaelves.
lie could liOt see why, if the charge that the House
was made up of bind..t ners were true, that iecaoach
treed it for leorlaiitig. but, In fact, it was not made up of
lam ushers exclesively. The lieuse had aler been charged
eith hot ,itllog long enough in the d .y. Brit ail that the
memo, was entitled to expect waa that its work should be
do. e eel With regsrd to the details of the Lill, he did
tot believe two suitable teen a ear would re f mid to accept
I. abridged a,, honour with ell It. incimeruitiem. lie moved
M. the rep rt In received that may six nitre the
Aft. r 0 .servation- fr.. L rd Stretford de Bede liT e, Lord
Call r,t, Lod Russell, and Lord Granville, Lord Malmeabury
wi ritew hi. motioti.
d• C et, Staehope, flarroseby, and ehelmsfotd made
Nome ~,,, ions in the amembilent toy Grid Grey, winch
was urn middy nemc Pied, end the parish g of a normal amend-
ment of the wettable, the kepirt was received.
The oxford University Sue titre Bill was read a sewed time
Otr th. motion of Lord Don tny ; ahni tire Metropolitan Cons-
mlrth Bill passed through Committee.
The Lord Chancellor moved that tire Homo should agree
with the House of C mains lu addressing I.er Majesty on
thorns ject ids elm:Dues which have been declared void. I
The outy eiffic,,lty, he explained, arose on the aim Mattr,li of
the 15 aad to Vic to the Dublin case. His own view was
that ‘.extensite corruptioe " was a proper Cello where the
cremption was wholesale though relatively It great, &lid
that a eerie tuieht fall under it where, for Inratoince,only a
butidred and tidy persons or so had been bribed in a cone
'Mimeo of many thousabils. The corru.thie 111 Dublin was
embnued, ihdeed, to the freemen, but that class conta.ned
Ire ween two awl Shine thoUßand persons. If the 15 and 16
Vic. were a cattle Pl.gue Bill, and the epidemic were re-
strict. d lily to the black cattle to any validly, would not
“titetist‘e " apply to that case?
Lad takes thought the power under the Act being 'distil-
tor y ,h0u..1 me r MA41110,1 litriolly, if the erentuhrsion were
iism it wtongfu ly, in accordance Willi ali addle. lif the two
hues..., reliant.. to .t wou:d be legitiu“te. heat" a Jude('
lies rep, ell that he has reaeon to believe that the cotrupt
pr.cocee have extebsively prevailed in auy city' roust nte
that the Judge ehould report his own belief, and not that the
duty .4 draN ilig • conclusion as to the extensivenets should
be thrown on nine Hone.
Lord Westbury remarked on the datiger of departing from
line wi me of the Act. The Act threw the obligation, not ou
Parliameht, lett on the Judge, of preilicamg extensive
mid this in respect of the whole, not of p trt, of the
bleu.ir or money ; and NIT Justice Keogh had carefully '
an tiled imputivg he effence to the city 1.1 Dublin at large.
De regretted to have found his friends near him so clearly in
ma wrong
I iriti Chelmsford argued that the power being etiVutoey
nest lie Implicitly fnrluoen d, and that, therefore, this Dublin
Ott:Lilo r nsa ho case fur it.
The Loot Chancellor believed that; the Act did apply
d nett, awl literally to thin report. Ile would not, however,
peels the twitter to a division.
1 he other five seldresses acre agreed to
Lord liar', why gave notice that on the motion for the
ri Wittig of the Dish thin ch Bill he sit, tild move an
Mem m itt to rad it a seciaal tinte that day tiv:e months,
awl iheu Lordships afterwards atij
The 114418 e of CUMII.OIIB gave five hours of • morning sit-
ting to fore Sri tine c0mm,,,... ,he Boihruptry Mil 'the
41 ass nonsu 'ered up to clad. 53 pita 41114 11,111 clause 28.
but lir astnemudtt,oets nt mausequeuee were made.
At the eve ~ ~ g sitting,
Mr I airdloh moved for a Select Committee to inquire intn
the en at close 111 the cest of the Ahyssiolan War ever the
ectimAres Without seeking to is the 'dame hit any Pere h,
in support of Ids nue !oil he lead a longetring if eztrects ft
tie speeches of Mr Disraeli and Mr. Utistinu movh g the was
forth. ever, and cc...rash-6 theirealculati Ins, lout trout three
a halt to five millions, with the actual cost. now ni-
twit:tied to he over eight millione and »hal.. The motion was
seconded lry Mr Stafford, Isortherde, who admitted on behelf
of the late Goveraiment that the desire Inc inquiry was I
natural and reaamta• de, and cnuld not hut be not NI in the
Write lutetest. They Mid the mule-t conederme that its
result would M moo tf ate the or plete bet. pfig .1 the
statements they Mel made to the Howie and the sufficiency of
the atoned., and also that the excess could la accounted for
by the ollcufll,t •inera of thew.. Of these he instanced the un-
known nature of the country, the expediency of dispatch, awl
the t eceesity for giving great latitude to those who orate-
;.l the expedition te 1114114. Sir stet! ,r 1 eulogised highly
the euergy and ahnlity nnf ir Seymour Fitzgerald,
il, the dillimilties with winch he had to contend ;
pet. g the iliquiry, he legged the House to suspemi its
led:Meet.
orrmundella demurred to the exculpation of the Bombay
etameht, mid, sou the aettiorita of gehtlerwn who had
birn't is "lune; hely, Conway, Deuntark, and

el,• klirre, pronounced the war In Its lavish tap...tire and
its defective °ionisation to be a disgrace to the country.
Mr. gs.twick, on the otha hand, anticipated that the
inquiry would end in reflecting credit on Sir Seymour Fitz-
gerald.
Sir C. Wingfield held inquiry to be needed Into the large
511111—L5,000,000 - swallowed up by tramport, and Colonel
Sykes asserted confidently that the explanation of the excess
would be found In the extravagant sums spent on such items
as hay, coals, nudes, dm.
Mr. utway a.sented to the Committee on behalf of the
Government, hut added a &Mit whether it well he so
creditable to the late 0 °remittent as Sir S. .Northcote antici-
pate°. This remark brought up
%Ir. F Walpine and dir J Eiptilnstone, who complained of
its unfairness. and of toe &es bity with which the motion
was prelate° on the other side, and threatened to move the
extension of the i ivory to Ma causes a the war
Mr. ay rton depict:tied this enlargement of the original
111"floolv and er genie.' that the present Govertinient n.
other wi-ti than that full Justice should be doe to their pre-
decessors

Mr Al•lerrnan I tole begged the House to reflect what would
hate been wool if by iwy neglect id •he Govertimeot a
tiisoster Owl occarred. l'aptatit B • turn tot also made Wane
rvat bolo toot Or- froth. wits the t aurewl to

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Sir NI Co eh he te oucl, i by 'Mr Ski area moved for a
Royal I ..... liil.Blllll to ir,iuiire hilt / the entioaet sehool, and
hale of So diand, bat I/11 the ...a:ration of the Lord.
Advocate the titsetinpion of it was itaj oohed wall Tliurad Ly,
the id ht flail for the halo he has aaroduced ileallug with
these habitations.

Mr. 11 If Sheridan 'seconded by Lord Milton) moved for
certaoi retunis which lie avowed wire a necessary prelind.
nary to a formal revival of the Imig.forgotten Sturgeon
claims Mr Ay don declined to give them, and on a division
he was su•taineti I.y a majority of !OS to Si.
Mr. L ohim el leave to hrlinz lo a hill to acquirelands
In the parish 114 8- Margaret's Westminster, for the concen-
tration Of Public tillieeS . .
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Orr the temoni tot of Mr. T. Chamhere' Marriage with a
Deceased Wde'e Sister Bill, Mr. T Collin. moved air inetruc.
riot to the Committee lo provide for the rimrriage if a
allow at h her brother. Ile pot the i° ,P- real 00
the around of the logic I commtenry or the h II and multl
Jua ice to both kitid. at si.ters-indaw. Toe discussion of tins
pr-pail was interrupted by a neition for wijournment, the
reamnableness of which ,at one o'clock) was Audited Ity tile
Home Searetery. lilt etrentionely re-ittied ny Mr. Chambers.
Ihe itsuat wrangle was prelenged for three-miartere ot air
hour, two motion. to adjourn the it -hate were made and
refeeted—oue by 113 to 63, and the saliiml by the die l ll ish
lug rnal•Lritv if 95 to 63—but Mr. Lliambers reluctautly gave
way t i a third.
The Creeillivan's Distil My Bill was withdrawn, and, some
other hills heving beett forwarded a stage, the Howie ad-
Jourued.
Inn the Heine of ro inThOnt, June 011, on the nrder of the
day for ening tufo Committee upott the Sale of Lemma on
Sunday ((relate,' Bill,
Sir Murphy rear eked that he tied a petition against
tee bill. signed by 6,5e0 pereons In Col k, to presort:. 1.,
Iris opinion the moue wilt_ h the bill proposed to ador.t
would obly Neer. ale the evil Instead of leesenine it.
V. rioue r trims had been male in the law three
the year 1533 and Many committee. bad end. avoured to
deal with elm question. Ile hslieven that im leette.
fiend alteration coirld be made until a chenge hail beau
eff,teil in the syeteni of licensitig, and iri support of this he
oUoled the evnience of Mr. Coionoesioner Lewle 0 Fart vit.
ire moult contend that, 1.0 linig at in .o:ers and ethers not
keeping itublic or beer honses were allimed to violate the
iew by selling liquor tie be timers on the premises, the
more the legitimate ways 13, obtainieg driiik are closed.
the more will the abuses grow froin the system
;of selling by grocers and others lire lave, as It
' at preseet existed, had been excellently described by Mr.
Commissioner O'Farrell, who showe.l that eh.le it was enacted
by the 27th and 28th Victoria that no icerise should be
greeted until the certificate of the magistrates had Irees
subnitifed to the Excise authorities; by clause 14 of the
Caine bill it was provided that this certileate need not
ire pr.e.rtril In the case of wholrnle beer-denier/4 thus
taking away the rest, ictio 5 previously impo.ed lie believed
he traeht say ie. 'chair! of the hemmed victuallers that they had
no ••iljectllnr to the home of i est riction of trine 0 clock ; hut
hey desired DO IliVirliolla dial imAron to be made between
town and coentry lie contended that since 1852 tlre
aniolint grf drunkenness to the case of houses which
had to old tin a magistrate's cettificate had decreased
dry nearly two-thirds. I was to the interest or those
establishments that they should avoid cases of aggravated
drunkenuess, for every ilfrdice was marked down agar at
them Ile believed the Rome Seer-tart iuten ad to intro-
duce In the lien session a tneasure to deal al h the lic.sieing
eystmo, ad he would appeal to hon members to support
his ui Lion, bn let the matter rest utitil thst ha I been dm.
Ile nroVed that malt the present system of licensine in Ire-
land no retnieleiled and placed on a new haos, it is, in the
opirdoll if this Bourse, inexp (Meet to proceed further alth
the consideration of this tell, and therefore that the order
for going 1,.t0 committee e di-charged.
Mr. Sherlock m 30,101101 the nmetelmeet.
Mr C. F-rtescue urged the hon, member for Longford to
withdraw his measure.
Mr. Nlagui re said he should have been much more Battened
if the Our eroment had pleilved themselves to deal with the
whole mater in one Inemttre.
ly critetlereil that his hill would, if passed have
the effect of pressing forward the alteration of the licensing
•ysi ern
After some fur her remarks the hill was withdraws, and
the order for going Into
Mr Blake proposed the second readiug of the Sea
Fisheries Or el di. ' Bill, which will transfer the fl.heries f
ire sod Item the lioard in Works to a riew Board .4 Inland
hsheries, and will realOte the restrictions upon the merle if
01011110 now in lon.. It also proVided for a 1040 to enelde
tidlermeti to erect proper curing homes and obtaining boots
and tackle
r terme discussion the bill was read a second time.
A nuniber of other bills were advanced a stage and the
Hume maliJurued.

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