The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-02-19 00:00:00

their
.o..teers, said it was founded on the recommendation of
th'a Royal Commissioners who had been appointed to con-
sider the subject. They reported that it we.s important
that the mind of the civil -servant should be set et eas
as to his position in case his health broke &Own, or
that he was otherwise incapacitated i !bit, that when a
civil servant had spent the best part of life in the
public service and Was stuldenlY . incapadtated, they
thought public opinion would hot allow hiiii to starve,; atall
thlrtityAand4his was the Mein Orotnd on which he oasel
the measure2-iltat many persons *ere kept in the service
ten-thep—lnwil...heosomii—unlit- to fulfil- their- drltter-aimpt
cause Mir remo.Val wouhl be a hardship. Actual expo-,
rfenee of thelattei-kronutr had shown him the necessity for
some such measure as he submitted,to the consideration 61,
the House, and which he might say'he.did at the "reciitest of,
the Corporation of Liverpool. Alter some furthernbservt,
tions in support of the Bill, the hon. member said that the
'Bill was supported by nearly all the Corporations in England,
,It guarded against abuse by providing that the approtal of
the Secretary of State should be required fur ttk.n rant 'of a
pension; that the superanntiation shoqld not exceed the rate
_ Of pensions granted under till? teSt tables to public servants;
that the grant of a pention should be voluntary on the part
of a Corporation; and that no assent should be given to the
superanntation until it had been sanctioned by two meet-
ings a the Council. Under the Bill the Town Council might
also make arrangements to deduct a certain pertion a thb"
salaries and emoluments of its alms to forM a superannua-
tion fund, and he trusted the Itoute tould give its assent to
the second reading.

takee tiela," interest 4kEuropean politics and has The
Times read to him regularly. He governs, however,
with a strict hand. In Scmdiah's dominions killing a
cow is punished by two years' hi;ipilsonment. In Joy.
pore the sentence is still more severe. In Cashmere it
is death. These Princes would be rather horrified tikt
the practices of Elglish cettla-clet fejt, and rot- they
see no haslet fst Wild beast fights. In addition to ex-
quisite specimens of Jeypore work and photographs
taken by himself, the Maharajah presented the Prince
of Wales on leaving with an enamelled sword—a real
chef dVuvre.
"The journey from Moradabad to Nynee Tel was
very agreeable. The carriages wete hoi-sed laf.e the
Royal Artillery from areillk at six mile stages. There
was a guard of honour of the Royal Irish, with band
and colours, at the station. General Payne and staff
were on the platform and an escort of the 16th Bengal
Cavalry. At Barhiliee the Prince made his first ac-
quaintance with an Indian hunting camp, of course, on
-a soi4le of great magnificence there being nearly 200
elepnante, including those of Nawab of Rampore
and General Ramsay, 550 camels, 120 horses, 526
coolies, 60 oxcarts, about 1,000 native camp followers,
75 of the 3rd Goorkha Regiment and band, 20 troopers
of Probyn's Horse, camp police, &c. It was a craelsaa
city complete in itcelf, clean ae 6 nrov pin, and beauti-
fully organiteeh Having breakfasted in the spacious
mess tent, the Prince continued his route to Nynee
Tal in a carriage to the foot of the hill, where he
mounted and rode up. He arrived just in time to see
the snow peaks under the most favourable aspect,
rose-hued in the setting sun. It was bitterly cold in
the camp at night, and the natives from Southert
India suffered severely—indeed, a 'chorus of coughing
was heard all night. Blankets have been served out
since to all the camp followers, but they are black and
give a funeral aspect to them as they sit round the
campfires. Next day the snowy range was hidden by fog.
The Prince, on returning from Nynee Tal, waarnet by the
shooting elephants, and under General Ramsay's direc-
tion the country was beaten for tigers, which 14,tere
reported to be near at hand. It needs much patience
to plod on the back of an elephant in the sun in marsh
and jungle. After several blanks, the Prince and
party were posted round a patch of deep grass and
reeds with water near it. The elephants, formed in
line, were sent in to beat. Nothing was seen at first,
and, unfortunately, the Prince was shifted to another
place. Immediately after the Prince had moved, out
rushed a splendid tiger within 20 paces of where the
Prince had just been stationed, but whence he had now
removed some 50 yards further. The Prince fired, but
the grass was high, and the tiger, Which received the
fire of others of the party got off untouched. Sub-
eequently a leopard was started from the jungle,
which the Prince wounded, and which was killed
only after several balls had been lodged in it.
Deer were found on the way home, and afforded good
sport. The novelty of the scenery and of the life in
some measure compensated for the disappointment
in respect to tigers. Around the vast plains and
forests of the Terai the jungle extended as far as
eye could reach to the blue Himalayas. At night a
great fire is lighted, and the Prince sits, wrapped in
his cloak, listening to General Ramsay's stories of
Indian life, and discussing the arrangements for the
next day's sport. On the 11th, after having break-
fasted at the camp, thesparty was divided into two,
and beat the country across to a place called Peepup
Perow, 13 miles to the eastward, but, as on the
previous day, there was no luck. Tracks of a
tigress followed by three cubs were made out at one
place, but the most diligent perquisition by ele-
phants failed to discover their lair. The country
is swarming with other game. Peepup Perow
will not be found on maps, except those of the local
officers. There is no village there; indeed, there is no
fixed population visible hereabout at all, but in open
glades and spaces cleared by fire we burst upon grass
sheds which are built by people from the hills who
migrate here in winter to feed their miserable herds on
the coarse herbage, paying the Government for the
privilege. These people seem quiet, inoffensive, and
poverty-stricken enough. There are no roads—only
tracks through the forest; at all events, the shooting
parties do not come upon regular highways. But-
Kumaon makes great strides, and yields an increasing
revenue to the Government, though not by any means
equal to the amount it yielded in former days under
the Native Princes. On the 12th the camp was again
broken up, and the Prince, under General Ramsay's
direction, made a wide sweep through a singularly
wild district, but no tigers could be found in the most
likely places. It was dark when the Prince moved
into a new camp at Tendah ; but, though he had shot
no tigers, the elephants were loaded with game, in-
cluding fifteen varieties.
"As these lines are being written on Saturday nigh t,
the Prince of Wales is seated in front of a blazing
camp fire, listening to the music of the excellent bend
of the 3rd Goorkha Regiment. Goorkhas playing
Verdi, Offenbach, Donizetti, Mozart, with a chorus of
jackals and wolves in the distaace, clear moonlight
and stars shining, and this in the heart of the Terai,
the home of wild beasts, where the Royal Standard
was floating till sundown! The camp at Peepup was
broken up at ten this (Saturday) morning, when
three parties were formed to shoot on the way to
a place nine miles distant; but detours in the
jungle are long and many, and the distance ab-
solutely traversed was considerably more. There
was some appropriate tiger ground, which General
Ramsay beat admirably, but the landlords were not
at heme, audit is a drawback to a tiger search pure
•and simple that ether game must pass unmolested.
When the coverts were found void, the Prince and
his party shot on their way to the camp, and a great
variety of game was obtained—deer, several species of
wild boar, and birds. The two parties in charge of Mr.
Colvin and Mr. Prinsep got their fair share, of sport,
but beat for tiger in vain and were content with
sambur, -cheetah, and other large and small deer.
This part of the Terai is composed of prairie and
primeval forest intersected by • streams which in
places fotm deep morasses, in which tall elephants
.were buried up to the shoulders. The wilds teem
with strange birds, peacocks, partridges, parrakeets,
vultures, plover, talconiclm, snipes,, quails, water-
fowl, and an infinity of reed birds, some very minate
and beautiful. There are also wolves, jackals, foxes,
porcupines, four species of deer, and two of antelopes:
The gram is so very high that the course of the game
is to be tracked only by the waving reeds and the agi-
tation of the elephants. Only tigers are wanting to
complete a sportsman's paradise; but there are plenty
of them to come, and it will be a great disappointment
if at last a score are not killed before the Prince turns
southwards to Allahabad, where, by the by, there are
to be a Durbar and Star of India investitures. - The
people are very anxious that tigers should be killed, as
they cause enormous losses in cattle, and interfere with
agriculture.
"Every one is well, though all the visitors except
the Prince of Wales are somewhat tired by elephant
marches. At the river Sarda the jurisdiction of
General Ramsay ceases, and the Prince of Wales enters
upon new ground. Since the life of freedom from
lteves, fireworks, banquets, addresses, illuminations,
receptions, visits, and addresses began, the health and
spirits of the party have improved, but the parting
with those who did so much to render ceremonials and
State functions tolerable had its sorrows. There have
been separations, too. Captain Glyn and 'Captain
Durant left at Agra to look after the Serapis and the
Osborne. Prince Louis of Battenberg is expected to
join at Sir Jung Bahadoor's camp."

The motion 17115 opposed by Mr. Fielden upon the broad
ground that the system of pensions and superannuations
Ethic!: at the principle of independence, self-reliance, and
thrift. If the system were to be adopted in the case of
municipal officers, it would have to be extended to the e,3-
ploy& of local boards, boards of guardians, Wad school
boards, and the result would be arch an increase in local
rates as would make them unbearable.

Mr. Hankey sUpported the second reading, his opinion
being that pensions in such cases were really a part of wages.
Mt Anderson remarked that this argument was rather
against than in favour of pensions. If the bill were passed,
a number of men who had their salaries fixed upon a liberal
scale years ago would put a pressure on the municipalities to
get a pension. In fact, the door would be opened to un-
limited Jobbery.

Mr. Secretary Cross observed that he should vote for the
second reading, because his name was on the back of the Bill
whbn it was brought in in 1873, and be thought that better
men would be got for the public service.
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Mr. Bass condemned the me.sure as ft dangerous one; and
then the House divided for the first time this Session, and
affirmed the second reading by 101 to 94, or a majority of
seven.

The Publicans' Certificates (Scotland) Bill was read a
second time ; and the County Palatine of Lancaster Clerk of
the Peace Bill was also read a second time.
The House adjourned eta quarter.past eight o'dlock.

In the Houan r CoMMons, Feb. 16, Mr. Beresford Hope,
in moving the second reading of the Increase of the Episco-
pate Bill, said he did no with a great deal of confidence
because of the large measure of support it had received
both from clergy and laity, although, at the same
time, it was met by some strong opposition in the House.
The Bill, he would say, if not abtoltttely necessary,
was most desirable for the welfare of the Church of
England. The population of England was fivefold what it
had been In the time of Henry VIII„ yet there was
not the addition of a single bishop to the number of the
episcopate. The Bill was founded originally on the report
of one of the most grave and important commissions that
ever sat on ecclesiastical matters—the Cathedral Commis-
sion, appointed in 1852, and which made its report in 1855.
Having recapitulated the history Of this question, the hon.
member remarked, that he would not object to any specigl
Bill dealing with any particular locality ; his Bill would still
be necessary, because it dealt in a iliprehensive manner
With the whole country. 110 Was open to receive any can-
did and friendly lamination from one side or the other; he
was not wedded to the till as it stood, his only wish and
desire wee to send the Bill elsewhere, and help it on the
statute-book in as perfect a form as it could assume. The
Bill was emphatically, an enabling Bill ; it was a Bill to pro-
vide a more easy and cheap machinery, whereby sees would
be created where they did not exist. It would bring iu
the machinery most familiar in all things relating to
the Church the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; the
money to be found by private Munificence. The Eccle-
siastical Commissioners were prevented- from giving any
funds by way of endowment. Before they promoted
a scheme they must be satisfied that there was money
enough for the object. Then it had to go before the Queen
in Council, and then to come before the Rouse—in point of
fact, it bristled with safeguards. In case of a see being
diminished by the creation of a new see, the incomes of the
old bishopric might in part be transferred. With regard to
the objection that might be raised by some to the sees
being made too small, he suggested a provision by which
they should not be granted to areas below a minimum popu-
lation or area.

Sir J. Kennaway seconded the motion.
Sir W. Barttelot opposed the Bill, because he thought it
was a very bad one. He considered that if it were desired
to increase the number of sees, the Government had the
niesna at their command and could bring in separate Bills
to deal with the individual dioceses as often as they considered
necessary. He asked what proof there was before the House
that the public was in favour of the Bill. There had been no
great number of petitions presented to the House in its favour,
and he therefore objected to the sti.tement that there
was a great popular feeling in its favour. It would he
considered, be most unwise to give the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners the powers proposed by the measure, and he did
not think that that body, for which he had the greatest
respect, would care to be possessed of it. The less tamper-
ing they had with the constitutional Church of this country
the better; it was far better that matters should remain as
they were than that they should interfere with a body
which had done so much good during the last three hun-
dred years. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, though he
objected to this measure, he did not say that an in-
crease in the episcopate was unnecessary ; and he was
prepared to give his hearty support to any bill which the
Government might bring in to attain that end. They had
brought in a bill last year to create the see of St. Albans.
He had supported 'that, and was prepared to support the
separate Bills to create sees for Cornwall and part of York,
which he understood the Government were likely to bring
in. Holding these views, he moved as an amendment the
previous question.

After remarks from Mr. Monk (who seconded, the amend-
ment), Sir T. Kennaway, and Mr. Markle,
Mr. Mowbray supported the Bill as a member of the
Church of England, and not in his capacity as an Ecclesi-
astical Commissioner. He maintained that the question
was ripe for legislation, and that the most thoughtful
minds had already arrived at a decision with regard to it.
Re pointed out that while the number of bishops remained
stationary in this country, there were a Roman archbishop
and sixteen bishops created, and that in America, where
it was not ninety years ago since the first bishop was con-
secrated, the number was now twice that of the English
bishops. He thought the time had arrived when the House
should express is deliberate opinion upon the question, in
order that the Government might take it up Every Church-
man would, he considered, agree in the necessity for an in-
crease of the episcopate, and as a Churchman he himself
held that view, and gave accordingly a cordial support to the
second reading of the Bill. He accepted the general principle
of the Bill, bat thought there should be some limitations
its provisions placed in the schedule.
Mr. Dlllwyn opposed the Bill, objecting to the creation
of a number of highly-paid officials, who must sooner or
later be compensated when the disendowment and dis-
establishment of the Church of England tcok•place.
Mr. Hubbard said the obfect of the measure would give
once for all to the Church if England power to do her own
work in her own way, and he was at a loss to understand
the ground of opposition to it. With regard to the argu-
ment as to the payment of the new bishoprics, he pointed
out that under the Bill Imperial funds could not be used for
that purpose.

Mr. lienle* admitted that an increase in the episcopate
might be desirable to meet the wants of an increasing popu-
lation of the country. But he was strongly of opinion that
the machinery proposed in the Bill to supply that want was
not only inadequate, but might become highly mischievous.
Re could not support the Bill, which was of that import-
ance that any measure relating to the subject should be in-
troduced by the Gnvernment.
Mr. Knatchbull-lingessen thought the measure would not
strengthen the Church in any way, and supported the amend-
ment.

Mr. Walpole supported the Bill, as he was of opinion that
some increase of the episcopate was required, though he
thought that any measure on the subject should have the
support of the episcopal bench and the Government.
Mr. Cubitt also supported the amendment; and, after
some observations from Mr. W. Egerton,
Mr. Cross said he must congratulate the House on the ad-
mirable temper with which this question had been discussed.
Those who had had to deal with large masses of the popula-
tion could not but feel that the Episcopal Church was doing
zealous and excellent work. The bishops, it was generally ad-
mitted, were animated with the strongest desire to do their
duty in the most efficient possible way, but it was necessary
that they should be strengthened, especially in the most
populous parts of the country. With the increasing
wealth and prosperity of the country new populations
had been springing up, and there must either be a revision or
an increase in the number of bishops. The Government had
already, in the action which they had taken, given an earnest
of their opinion, and he trusted that the hon. member would
not, by forcing on his Bill, which was in his opinion a very bad
one, elicit an apparent division of opinion where none really
existed. No doubt the Bill provided a safeguard for the con-
trol of Parliament over the action of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners, but in his opinion it was objectionable to delegate
to them functions which Parliament ought itself to exercise.
Although the Government were inclined to consider a well ma-
tured scheme for the creation of a limited number of bishops,
he felt that such a measure ought to be introduced by it,
and with the concurrence of the episcopal bench. Some
time ago a generous donor offered to give Z 1,200 a year
during his own lifetime for the creation of a bishopric for
Cornwall out of the diocese of Exeter. This proposal the
Bishop of Exeter had met by offering to set apart £BOO a
year out of his own income if Parliament would consent.
But he (sir. Cross) had not seen his way as yet to make a pro-
posal on the subject to Parliament, although he trusted he
would be able to do so shortly. Ile trusted that a division
on this Bill would not be forced.
Mr. Hall moved the adjournment of the debate.
Mr. Beresford Hope seconded the proposal.
Mr. Dodson and Mr. Talbot opposed the amendment.
Mr. Disraeli trusted that the Rouse would, as an act of
courtesy, accept the proposal.
The Route divided—For the amendment, 174; against,
90 • majority, 84. The debate was then adjourned.

Some other business having been "diskosed
.of, the House
adjourned.
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ItoYal visits, and Jeypere felicitates itselcbecanse proykiThat hm been dons, But, uhder, G-Od'ablessing,
the Prince killed his first tigers there. There, was I look for gieater things set—that is, to see the long-
to have been .fight betsieeeall tiger and a rhinoceros fug desire of my heart accomplished—the ending
At Gllivalior, bat in the preliminary trial the latter of, the pureed slave trade in this region. I
killed the former instantaneously,' before 7 the write this letter in groat haste and send it down
Prince's arrival. The Prince does not desire these by a faithful negro, who was formerly in my
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all Oveilndia. -ehtaged in peculiar religions exercises .on a greatrand fine inland sea, with .700 miles of coast,
Withoiithindrance. There was no exhibition of the kind which you can get to from the sea coast in three weeks,
at Jeypore, though the Maharajah has a fine menagerie, now that communication is established. On the Lower
He cultivates the fine arts, promotes education, im- Shire there are thousands and, thousands of natives
proves the State by public works, and sets a good ex- imploring the PlngliSh to come to thhm. Oo there is
ample to native princes. He boa not th militar7 U.'.riteii do risk of hostilities from them. 'With the two boilers
of Scindieb, kto dotroteilitaiisell to social matters, and on board, the vessel was top-heavy • but fitted with
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one, as my very great friend, Mr, Y oung, of Kerne,
suggested, she is a fine sea boat, as I proved on Nyassa
in a gale of wind. Please inform the Committee that
I am still full of zeal for the cause of the mission."