The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT OUT OP SESSION.

Lord Iddesleigh attended a Conservative demon-
stration in Sherborne-park on Saturday, and made
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would take place in less than two months. He did
not claim exclusive credit for the Conservative party
in passing great measures, for many had been passed
by the Liberals. But it should be remembered that
Liberals advocated the Disestablishment of the
Church, the upsetting of the House of Lords, and the
crushing out of landlords. He denied that the Tories
had no policy, and, critieising proposals that have
been made with respect to land law reform, expressed
an opinion that if estates were distributad it would be
necessary to tax the land supposed to he given, and in
the end large holdings would again accumulate.
With regard to the Education Act, he contended that
the Liberals could not have carried it to so complete
a success had it not been for the help of the Con-
servatives. He advised new voters to think for them-
selves, and not allow agitators to lead them away.
Mr. Parnell attended the Wicklow County Con-
vention, held on Monday at Wicklow, for the selec-
tion of Parliamentary candidates. At the proceed-
ing, which were private, the choice fell upon Mr.
Corbett., M.P., for the county, and Mr. Byrne, ex-
M.P., for Wexford. Subsequently Mr. Parnell,
replying to an address of welcome from the local
branches of the National League, said that the
manifesto of Mr. Gladstone and the speeches of Mr.
Chamberlain had encouraged rather than damped the
demand for legislative independence. It was ad-
mitted that the present disaffected state of things
could not be allowed to continue, and nothing but
complete legislative independence ought to satisfy
the Irish people. In their own Parliament they
hould have power, for a time at least, to protect
8 ative industries, a concession which had been granted
n the colonies with satisfactory results.
toMr. John Morley, M.P., was present at a meeting
held in Westminster Town Hall, on Monday night,
in support of the candidature of Professor Beesly for
Westminster. Alluding to the number of candidates
now before London constituencies, he pointed out
that if there were no withdrawals there would
be a fatal misrepresentation of opinion in some
divisions.

Mr. Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P., speaking at a
meeting at New Swindon on Saturday, said that it
would take a long time to carry out Mr. Chamber-
lain's land scheme. Land law reform must, he con-
tended, follow on the reform of local government,
which must follow the reform of Parliamentary pro-
cedure. He called attention to the condition of trade,
which he regarded as a more important matter than
that of allotments.

Addressiug a meeting at Huddersfield on Saturday,
Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P., called attention to the im-
proved state of things in Ireland, which he attributed
to the firmness with which the late Government
probed and redressed Irish grievances with one hand,
while they repressed every kind of disorder and dis-
satisfaction with the other.
Sir Charles %V. Dilke, M.P., addressed the electors
of the borough of Chelsea on Tuesday evening at
Preece's Riding School, Mr. G. W. Osborne pre-
siding. In alluding to foreign affairs, he said the pre-
sent Government had in general carried out the work
commenced by the late Government, and Lord Salis-
bury had taken quietly enough the tearing up of the
treaty he had taken so prominent a part in making,
Lord Randolph Churchill, who was far more closely
in touch with the opinion of nearly half the people
than Lord S tlisbury, had put forward three points—
first, good administration; second, local government,
of which he gave no details; and, third, a revival of
trade by means of a Royal Commission of faddists
and Fairtraders. The Liberal party were prepared
to explain their scheme in detail. He was in
general agreement with Mr. Gladstone's Midlothian
address.

A heavy fall of snow took place on Monday on the
high grounds of some of the Higland counties. In the
morning the barometer fell very rapidly, and before
darkness set in it was seen that Ben Chonzie, Ben
Laudie, and Ben Voirlich, and many other well-known
mountains, were covered with snow from tho summits
downwards for 1500 feet. In the districts in which
this fall of snow took place there is still much grain
uncut.,
TIIII LAST Ns' ILL AND TESTAMENT OF A CELEBRATED
IRISII AGITATOR. —" I give and bequeath to my be-
loved wife Bridget all my property without reserve,
and to my oldest son Patrick one-half of the re•
mainder, and to Dennis, my youngest son, the
If anything is left, it may go to Terence MlCarty, in
sweet Ireland."
Delegate Sheats, of the Florida ConstitutiloneCow
vention, fought a reporter because the journaist called
him the educated ploughboy.