The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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o the 11-me of Lords, July 11, the Dtrl of Malmesbury,
after alluding to the circumstances of the candidature of
Prince Leopold Hoher ',Vern to the throne of Spain, •-ked
whether the Secretary for Foreige Aft lire could give their
lordships soy hope that the present great danger of a
Europe m war won't be averted, and when he was informed
of the nerrt,atlons ?
Earl Granvitle said he received a telegram on Tuesday
everting, which first Informed him of whit had been
done by the Prov.sional Goveruntent of Spain. Next day
Ito received M. de Lavalette, the Fronch Arnhem& m, who
expres. ed the determination of the Emperor's Govern-
ment not to submit to the project being carrel cut. lie
trill the /unharmed, that he amionneernent hart taken the
Prime Mibister and himself by surprise, and that he wished
to reserve his on the nuiject He expressed re.
gret that strong language Mod betoa need at the °Uset by
the Government 1 the Emperor, but admitted the exisPence
of an excited public toeing in France on the question. Ile
would endeavour without dictation, arid tnithotrt Interfering
with the dignity of other cent vies, to press upon the
Governments if Europe the neeenthy of examining this
importeut questiou under all its plisses It was impossible
for him to vole ally as to Iv sat might ire the effect
of those effmts, IoP ha trusted id the moderation of the
rulers and statesmen of Europe to avtrt so great a caismify
as • war.
Lerd Slratford ole R,leliffe, in calling attention to the
atrocious murders of English and Italian sunje :ts In tlreece,
pain a high Pinot° to the memory of Lord Clarendon arid
the spirit • blt %hi h lir, hail ermducted these negetiatiom,
Referring to the exettoliu if. inm of the inbreeds and the
purenit of others, he th n,ht that all that Coeni b.,„ been
expected in regard to the perpetrators had either been done or
was In process of tier rines. He traced the history and camel
of brigmalace In Greece, and then paeaing to the
general stele of Greece, ex ritined the duty of the Protect.
leg Powers tow are• it lire prineut state of thirips could
not go on We must either interfere s ffec.ively ll' withdraw
altogether, and there was no reyson to believe that the other
}rottener, Powers would refute to cemerale with no. Ile
concluded by mmieg an address etpressing borer of the late
massacres, the necessity of punishing the guilty parties,
whoever they might Ise, irtal the duty of the Protecting
Powers to is% press brigandage to Greece, and remove Its
MIMS.

o.anvlPe, after fedling allusion to the Minister who
had sal dely addressed their TwtishPis on this suilect sail
it was a great naist.ke to n.ix up the massacre of iaxlish
subjects with the general question if the state of Greece and
the duty of the Pndectirg Powers The latter must be con-
sidered in conceit with these Powers, and the Government
were prepared so to c.a.( e,i• it, hut he declint d to go into
this question on the present occasion. In regard to
the loss of English lives on the ether hand. t'le duty primarily
rested on this c.outtry. 'The Oovet,meit had insisted on atoll
and complete inquiry, and le eulogized the moat net of the legal
agents sent by the G ivernitt nt to be present at the Investi-
gation. Ile expressed an tm t'pinion that Loll
Clarendott's death kni accehira'ed hy his iudiguation nt
the noisasero, his sympathy for the ileums and their
families, mid his deterni,ation to exact the fullest re-
paration. Her Majesty's er 'Per •nirnt knew their ,:uty In
this matter, and he lit vga.l lord Strat,ord de lioulebtfe not to
pressa m dion whidi on it'd weaken him instead a strengthen-
ing his bands In ti enset of Europe.
Aft, r remarks from Lied 4 'air.arvon,
Lord Result regretted U at Lord clarendoll's life hal not
been spared to coniplete thesetirmeistionst hut having lost his
services h• r alquoy mutt not have pLceil the seals of the
Poring. Offl el,, better hauls. it would in, better not to ft tter
Lord Grp vi le by the resolution, but ti leave him in the hill
exercise of his diFtretion, lie strougly it, hem cod the
duct of the Greek G..v,rnment in sending brigands and
felons to assist the insurrectimi in Cr, to, in v 191,0011 of the
Constitution, while they retuse.l to grant an amnesty to the
brigands of Marathon, on the plea that they cuild not ado-
late the Consti utlon to save the live. of these Englishmen.
All that the G,verninent c .uhl ti at {resent was to insist on
a full and complete inquiry into the causts of brigandsge in
Greece.

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Lord Stratford eelitTo. after the assurance. of Lord
Granvide. icthrated his r ?tidiness to wi.lntraw him motion,
and theirlortithips
In the If use of COMIIIOIIS, the Birmingham Water Bill was
real a third lime, and passed ; and the D,genham Thames;
Dock KM was read a If c.nd tine
Mr. Stapleton 0050 notice of his intention to-more a new
chose to the Eine ato.n Bill. giving peer to the E incati,n
Department to dissolve any board which fails to secure
an average 10tendance of children ar school.

Me Gregory wked the t'utl-r-Sezretary fr Foreign A ff drs
whether there ItPll any li.mbiation for the report which hid
appeared in c ‘rtnin ',modal] j 'waste. that Etna not had
expressed herself favonrable to the selection of • member of
the Fl,.nte of fiche, n I ern to till the throne of Sp 4il/
Mr. Otway Tut re Is no fuuudatbm whatever! Cr the re-
port 'cheers).
Mr. WI Item Butt wired the First Lord of the Treasury
whether her M y'sGurernmeut was aware that therriece
Leopold of hot erzollern.ftmaringen had been accepted
by the Gkmerbotent of gosh as a candidate for the tier ne of
that conutry, and the G wernment of the Kin of Prudtia
has, in any wty signified its amoral of such candidature:
whetter it ha Irene. HP pohiloly ailrge.i, that the GJvinment of
the Emperor of the Yrtnch tens eeelared that the election by
the Spanish people of the Prince Leer old as Mug of Spate
would be regraded by it as WI act Itwondstent with the
peace of Europe; and. whether her Maja:ty's G 'cerement
do not coasider it highly Important to exett all the In-
fluence of this country with Foreign Powers to preveat ally
such distnrhance of the European in,ce.

Mr. Glaostone: On Tuesday evening last her Majesty's
Gosernment. to tbe Ir no small snr..r.se. received their first h.-
telliger ce on this nil J.:et. That intelligences as to the effect
that Prince 1.,0p01d 14 iloher z Mern-Snanarit gen had been
accepte t by the Govert•ment if Spain as a candidate for
the throw. of that country. It was also to the Effect
that the Government ot the Empertr of the French had
declared tint the accession of this prince to the Spanish
throne w oil not be to`era.ed by tht an, but would be looked
noon as a risers quirk.; resort to extreme measures. flee
Majest)'.‘ G ,vernmEnt are not aware that the Prussian
Goveo t has c-amnitted It-Elf or blunci Welt to
any approval of this caro.idature 11E1' Mojesty's Government
have Exercised, d will exercise, any it.ffaeuce they may
possess, with due regard to the tlignity and seltrespEct of
every foreign Power, tar the purntac of preventing any event
so calamitous and deplorable as that of a great Earopeau
convulsion and 11111 0 'Ail. d art-tug out of clrcurna'aoces of
such act a -aaer (Sitar, hear.)
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The 11..1um then t in!o C,,mndltee on the Elucition
Bill, resuming chtuse 65, which relates to the attemieuce of
children at school 0:1 the last occrkion the committee, by
two divisions, refused to substitute geheral for permissive
comtultion, and Mr .1 lowthee, supported by Ur F„orcett,
DOW moved an amendment strikiug permissive compulsion
out of the cLuse altogek her. It can rosined by Ste. W E
Forster. ami the committee, en a d,vision. again affirmed the
wine is of prrmissise it input by 274 to liil.
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Afier several other elau.ea h.l but, discus,el, the Com-
mittee again ailjeurr ed.
Several tins sr we formally edam ced a stage, and the
House adjourne.d.
In the Mouse of L-rds. Ju'y 12, I,rd T.xens'end, in moving
the sreond reatlinv of hi- Co-I 0,, Diseatie• rriveutlun
(Slatropollie xpatiated on It-a b neflaidl operation of
these Acts in seaport and garrison town!, and loved that
the elamonr raised by a sniall nettibtr of persons sit, ht no;
to joreveat the sten sion of the Acts to th 4 metropolir.
Lord Morley 5-,id that alty al C intodision had bran is-
sued to ir gime into the operation if the existing Acts, and
that until it r.p riled it would ha p:emature to dh Cllll5 the
bill.
The bill was then withdrawn

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The Pi aye r Book (Le eirriary ) Bill went Into C mmittee,
when the word i• Lectlenary " was struck out, arid Table
of Lessons" substituted. A clause was added enacting that
no suit should be instituted fur the non-adoption el tho new
Table until Jannary 1. 1671 Oa the preandne,
Lid Shaftesbury, fifties kg that his eltatrust of the pre-
tensions of Convocation had hams confirmed by what had
happened in regard to the O;eumenical Conned, movcd to
leave out the recital that the etianges in the Table heti been
aprroved by Convocation.
The amendment was opposed by the Archbishop of York
and Lord Ne'son, and supperted by
Lord Cairns, who said that whenever the opinion of Con-
vocation was recited hi an Act it was added that it had been
anthotixed by the Sovereign to express such en opinion.
The Lord Cbahcellor defended the recital for the s ,ke of
peace and of sympathy with the feetnige of clergymen who
were c ailed upo to sanction a great charge.
Lord Grey opposed the recital, as involving the recogni-
tion of the dangerous princlde that the Legisla,nre had no
right to deal with any mitt.-, &fleeing the thurc's without
the content of Convocati. n—a body which did not even
fairly reprecerit the clt co of the Church.
rd Salisbury though, It su exaggeration to assert that
Parliament gave up its legislative authority because the
preamble recited that act new Table had the approval of
the Couvocati of Canterbury and the Comibitte of CtollVO-
cation f York .

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On a Division, Lard ShlftrsLull; ameAment was nega-
tived hy 60 voteg tg,thg,t 24, und the brit posed through
Commitoe

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The adjourned debate on the third reatillig of the Bene-
fices Reetanation Hill Rat resumed, and Mildly the bill ass
read ath r• 1 time. Some ameudutebts were th.n made ant
the motto, that the bill do pats was agreed to, am& their
lordships then adjourned.
The House of Commons had a moruirg sitting to confider
the artiehements made by the House of Lords In the Irish
Land liii.

The arnenamkute down to linen 3NI ere egret-el to On
Clause 3, which rtlatts to the sale of comp.'s/000 for ois-
turbance, .

Mr. It-reellitlimeeht that time staterneut should be made
by the Gevettemetet no tee the course they fettle:eel to take
With ret pent to the sheen. metes.
Mr. Gladstone said that the Government would gene-
rally same to the Lords' emendmeets. The principal ex-
ceptior s would be as (Wheww ey weuld premed to
disagree • ith those ameneimeres whieh PH, cted the scale
of crop e matien. They premesed to disagree to the amend-
ment wilmh concerned the term of lease, which was put in
the bill as air *ltem stive to the scale. They would agree
With some reluctaece to the amendment relating to the
building of cottages, and also the amendment In respect
to permissive registration of improvements. They pro-
posed to disagree to the amendment to Clause 5,
Which defined whet was ated what was not to be considered
ass dist nraanca by the landlord. Tory proposed to amend
slightly elaerse B in the Leeds' amendeneets. Those were
the oily exCeptions neceneary for bleu to detail. Tee y pro-
posed to accede to the mewed rneut weielt restored the term
of nudge from twelve to six menthe, end also to the rune eel-
ment to CI1111:e 6 I. with respect to the law of distr,ss ; and
generally to emit:nee to the amencheeets, with the exceptions
mentieme.i.
Mr. Fertereue moved th st the enesedment reelueleg the
amoulet of COMIALLAIOLI in aubtection 1 of Clause 3 he die-
agreed witle
Mr. Disraeli agreed with the fall Ell 'ment
Alter non e conversatint, the House divided :—For disa-
greeing front the Lords' Amenumeut, 146; against, 55; Ma-
jority, 91.
The birds' amendment was therefore diesel-eel f;om ; Bed
the fare her amendments connected with it were also cis-
',greed from wttl.out a eivielere
In the t reviles to the 3rel clause, which dlseutitles the
tereant to cermensaUen if he has part of the holdieg ill
COOlere,
Mr. Sonmelenn moved so addition. the object of which
was to exempt from the operation of the proviso neeldiegs
let in circa for the grossest; el jetatoes or other green
ere-1.1, the land being properly menaced.
Sr J. Grey moved that Mr. Semeseboo would not pr. os his
moths), but would leave the whole m Ater In the hand s of the
Government.
Mr. K eveusgh anpeemted the motion.
Mr. 61i:est..) cold Lot undertske to diseiteee to the
amendment entroduced by the [adds, or to risk the passing
of theme score by introducing unuecessery alterations into
the hill ; at if the g arena feeling e I the House was in favour
of Mr. Secnuelsorie psojxs.t on the Government would Lot
reeist It.
Let c U,.milten aupperted the amendment ; and the
Lends' emenelment, with Sir. Samueleou'a addition, Pia
agreed to.
Sir. feet( nye moved to aeree with the Lords amendment
which struck out from the armee the t rry or ell 'Wing laud
to to tel for the imileieg of lehourene cetteges.
Mr. Synan regretted tic decisioie to which the Government
had corer, and hoped they would yet be ineluoed to restore !
this Meese, In this respect, to Its original form.
Mr Giedatone sale the sul j tct seas every important one, '
but it utlght he merle rho "elect of separate and tpecial
legisleti. i, Ti e Irene Ist 'nes ormiteally tweeted it the bill
were loosed upon as an interference wills the rights of the
landlerea. end if retained they would become a whets ob-
stacle to tic passing et the bill Under these circumstaeces
the Geyer rem nt thought the best course would be to accept
the Lord,' antedmeme.
Sir J. Gray re gretied that the amemiment burl been intro-
duced hot was %killing to hare the matter In the heeds of
the Governmeet.
De Ball eupported the Lords' amendment, but thonght
that &riddance should be given to tic label:etre by epecial
en n
actmet.
After some further dlscel redo:), in which Si.Mequire, Cot.
S. K rev, Mr. klastwell, soot Sir J. Esmond took part,
the Geese divided .—bar agreeing with the Lorelei amend-
ment, ete; ; against, 29; majority, 367.
The ladds' emeedment wee therefore agreed to.
3- Mr. Fortescue moved that the Lords' amendment re-
timing the term of the lease under which a tenant may not
claim compensation under the eection from 31 to 21 years be
disagreed with.
Mr. Disraeli said the amendment of the Lords appeared to
him to be entirely justified. Twenty.one years was the
common term In England met Scotland, and it must be per-
fectly tedequete under ell the circumstaaces for Deland. To
be salted by the bill to grant a thlrtpona years' lease would

o be a condition of affairs highly undesirable for them to
I support and he should therefore take the opinion of the
1 -Howse upon the Lords' amendments.
0.1 diViSttil he numbers were—For disagreeing to the
amendment, 32; against, 186 ;nnij city, O. The Lords'
amendment was therefore disagreed to
Go the Lords' cause hr the registration of Improvements,
Mr. Samuelson suggested an addition requiring the joint
notion of landlord and tenant, which was adopted by the
Grvernment. Sir Roundel' Palmer and Dr. hall objected
that it made the provision inoperitive, but Ott a diviiion it
was carried by 21a to 186, and the amendment thus amended
was agreed to.
The last important disagreement mason the clanee defining
and limiting diaturbance II holding Vir. N'orteicue stated
lb .t the Government would age, e with the Lords lit adding
breach of any condition agairst assigument, subletting,
bankruptcy, or insolvency," to the causes of ejectment which
are not to be deemed d6turbance ; but they would not eters*
to the omission of the words giving the Court the power to
decide that shop shall be so deemed on special grounds.
Tee tint amendment was assented to without oppoiition,
lout on the SECMIri Mr. Inaraml called for a divistou and the
words struck out by the Loisls etre restored by 21810 171,
The amendments weie not concluded when the morning
sitting :Vas brought to a close.
At the evening sitting, Mr Sfundells called attention to
the ootration of the truck Acts, enecially In the .mal and
iron districts of Scotland, and modiet for a Commission, but
the Home Secretary having stated that the Government
was ready to ineltute a., eutpory in the wandr they thought
most likely lobe most effeciu il, the motion was withdrawn.
Bina were brought in by Mr. Stengel,' to consolidate cer-
tain of the National Debt Acts, to amend the Forgery Laws,
and to further promote the revision of the Statute Law.
On the order of the day for going Into Committee on Mr.
Johniticai'A Party Processions Ir, Load' Bill.
Mr. Ch cheiter Forte sene sate I that after the coil creep.
Von of his nwo lit -wh•ch ho isne-I he was not prepared
for—be did not ',teed to remind it Ph it lie fl', himself,
thereto ra perfeetiy at Met ty to oppose this loiS en its merits,
an I ace, r tingly moved that it be tommitted this &sr three
tr walls ill the present c indition of heel MI the Govern-
meat was rot Peeper, tile part with the pit were f the Pony
ace.is'oin Act. Mit lie did not by any lalealig regard it 11.
It'd , of the p raiment legislation of this country.
After some oboirvati,ons from Lord crichtom and Colonel
S Ktior, the House divided, when 46 voted for suing
Into Committee, and 121 against. The bill Is consequently
lost.

Tne Abscondiug Debtors Bill wa. passed through Coin-
iut,tee.

—Ther second reading of the Clerical Disabilities Bill wet
carried by 95 told.
The remainder of tile Lords' amemlments were emsidered
and spread to, and the House a.ijourned.
In the House of Commons, July 13, a large smasher of
petitions were presented in fsvour of the Permissive Prohibi-
tory Liquor Bill.
Mr. 0 Morgan moved that the order that the House go
into udnmittee or, the Sites for Nacos of Worship Bill be
discharged and the hill withdrawn Toe reason for taking
this course was, that the I. I,mentwry E location Bill 4:oa-
ten:ea provisions e filch would partially effect the object f
this bill, and that it sr, Mil he necessary to make moditica-
tins in the measure which r-nilered it desirable to defer the
considerai in of the question to rear session.
Alter stew words trout Mr. Newdegate, the motion woe
aweerl to.
Sr Wilfrid Lawson. In moving the siecunl reading of the
Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Bill, explain,ii Lit its pro-
press had been delayed by the promise of the Home Secretary
to hitt odlce a Government weasels, fl this had not beers
done, Ise now brought torso, d this no mare. Ile urg cl that
the experience of recent years hail proved that ele-
ment cry education WI nil rot give that self.control
which was necessary to prevent strui.kmotess. Through-
s.ut she whole ci untry, and nun* especially in Man-
chester, S uthwark, Liverpool, Lteds, and Birmingham,
drunkenness had been g eatly on the increase ; snit he maia.
tanked that the only way of checking it was by legialati as.
Public opinion was rapidly advancing upon the !subject, the
irily id 3 to 1 egainst the bill sidn.li hest introduced
having &en ased to 2to 1 'tiring the I sit ses,lon. the
I rii.mpsi Cause ml itrulikens.ess Wag the t, mutation put ill
the way of the people by she pri sent 11:eissilig system; and
the bat proposed that which was only just and tile, viz., to
give power to two-third-, of VA ratepayers of any district
in public meeting assemided to prohibit the sale of intoxi-
cating drinks.
Lord 13an.1 Hamilton seconded the motion, and urged that
the f,elis g of the cmntry w. &lomat unanimous in favour
of this measure

Mr. Wheelhouse deprecated lrgislation of this kind. To
force a Maine Vunior Low upon the people of this country
would lead to Mont evasion of tine taw, slid would reinter
lt i datim ineffmtual to creek ssil. Eno bill was • one-
sided piece of legislation in favour of the teetotallers, and
lie arked the House to support his motion, that the bill be
rend as, coed time that rai six moot,.
Mr. Olteili) Dense seconded the amendment.
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After remsi:lis from Mr Whalley, and Mr Kennaway,
Mr. Eruca said he believed that the Interest felt by the
country on the subject, and especially by the working classes,
WAS very deep and witle.sprea I. Ile opposed she measure,
ho .ever, on the ground that it was& most imperfect one, and
hecuum he thought the House was bOttlid to deal with the
whole subject. lie promised to bring forward in the mat
session a general measure, the intr.ltiction of which had been
delayed by the Irish land 11.11 and the E hication hall. In
the i.re sent state of public feeling they were secere against
any increase of publi,houses aid he thought that some
m asure of restricth is should be devised giving etfact to the
public VW. Ule opinion was that it would not be just to
suppress psibtic beerhuuses without granting compensation
to those whoP mi invested a large amount of capital in them
mai the bill made no provision whatever for this. Its effect
would be sweeping and unjts,. and he oppoied it as being
one-sided, incomplete, and unjust.
Mr hi. A. lines thought the hill far too sweeping, and
hops d that the Government would introlose next session a
measure which would meet whit the approval of all maderate
men.

—Alter a few words from Fir W. Lawson In reply, the
[loose divided—For the second leadirg, 90 ; agaiust Eli:
tn..j wity, SI. The hill was therefore rejected.
the ronOm of Mr. Wheelhou,e, the E location of the
BHA, Sc, Bill was read a second time.
Oa the rnotion of Mr. Hardelatle, the Churchwardens' Lia-
bility Eli was read a second time....

—ihe Burials Bill went ibto committee.
On Clause 1, which relates to the duty ef incumbents with
respect to claims for Interment,
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--Mr. Goldoey moved an amendment limiting the duty to
capes of per one having the eight of iisterniei,ttr toe naish.
0 a division, the amtvniment no, negatived by 143 votes
toed.

Mr Aclater.lboth moved an amendment to the clause,
the object of which was to e'inti.tate hom the hill that
provision which aliowed ministt ra to I er thau the Church t f
Et4'and to perform religious ceretnonlea in the church)ar I.
He red that the tit:et f the clanse would he to create di.-
cord and dlsturbanct,e ; and that It was a sup towards the
di•estah'ishment of the Courch of Englaltd.
Mr. E. IS tines warmly opposed the amendment, which was
calculate Ito make the hill a deal let tor.

Mr. 1103 gate, M. W. 0. I. J.. dM. Cave supported
the a stodnient. vial Mr. Megan and Mr. Bruce opposed It.
S Ulla further discussion ensusd, awl the bill was talked
on-. I.log I en heUur reported at a quarter t s sts o'clock.
the other orders of Ike day were disposed of, and the
House adjuunted.