The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-06-13 00:00:00

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run very forward, indeed if not returned the
winner. For the Royal Hunt Cup, run for on the
Wednesday, a good field invariably goes to the post
for this popular mile spin, and I consider tnat the
handicapper has again given
PRISM

a chance second to none. For the Ascot Gold Cup,
run for on tbe Thursday, fit and well,

ST. GATIEN
his only to go to the ppst and win. Although it is
generally reported that ST. SIMON may be expected
to run at Ascot, there is very little chance of him
meting St. Gatiea. however much the public would
wish to see that event come • off; but the Duke of
Portland's clinlier will compete for the ri•Jh Hard-
wick Stakes, and the ROll3 Memorial for which. he
should be anFwerable.—Our reiders can have our
Davelliug Correspondent's overaight selections
during the week by sending him 12 stamps, to care
of Sporting Tissue Office, Hull.

COMMENTS ON CURRENT THINGS.
The Gladstone Government has fallen through
Irish whisky. Mr. Callan saya so, and we are
bound to put faith in his knowleJge of the potent
powers of the spirit. AU the Irish Nationalist
newspapers echoed the howl of exultaion which
went forth from the Parnellite faction in the House
of commons, when the result of the division was
made known, and claim the defeat as Ireland's
answer to the Government of the Unitel Kingdom
for rAusing to allow the Sister Isle Home Rule.
Thus the agitator faction of Ireland are jubilant,
ancl hugh at the mischief whichean be accomplished
by a band of forty malcontent members.

THE Li'amen oppoued the Liberal Ministry, not
primarily becau3e of tt.e proposed alteration of spirit
duties, not because of the RAliitribution Bill which
sweeps away so many snug little Irish boroughs,
not even because the Crimes Act was to be renewed
in some form, but because lawland order and Con-
stitutional Government are. repugnant to their
natural instincts. They will oppos: the powers
that be, whether Liberal or Con:ervative, ami glory
in their ability to worh mischief so -gong as oppor-
tunity is left them.

ON the other hand, the derection of Liberal mem-
bers in absenting themselves from the division is
oointed to as the cause ot the defeat of Ministers.
Mr. W. 11. Smith and other Conservative leaders
who have since spoken regard this as the cause of
the crisis, and some of the London Liberal news.
papers charge the absentees nther severely with
want of loyalty to their chief in not being in their
places in the division lobby. One paper in particu-
lar lays the whole business to the door of those
Liberals who have disagreed with their leaders on
the matter of the Crimes Act, thus shiftinc, back to
the Irish ground to find the origin of the diplomatic
dynamite which has blown up Mr. Gladstone's
majority.

Ain GLADSTONE himself, in the speech before
the division, showed his own opinion of the matter
by expressing the belief that the storm of opposition
which assailed the Budget had been reused by the
Chancellor's boldness in interfering with the' death
duties, and invading the sanctum of landed property.
But what are all these speculations and claims and
beliefs as compared with the • assurance of the
Country Brewers' Society, who the other evening
congratulated themselves on having furnished the
7 mighty lever which hurled the Government from
office At the lico•isad victnallers' anniversary
• the announcement of the resignation of the Miuis
try was received with wild enthusiasm; and later
the chairman, after the tummtuous joy of the
company had mellowed down into an all round
smirk of self-sufficient satisfaction, roundly rated
the brewers of the metropolis for not having
'
properly supp,qted their provincial brethren, and
modestly asserted that the whole task of rejecting
the Budget had been thrown on the Country
Brewers Society I The
"poor man's beer" is a
powerful inspirer of elap-trap surely.

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