The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-09 00:00:00

LORD DERBY ON AGRICULTURE AND
THE LAND QUESTION.

fence of his flag. MI merilfty. ancient and modern, all
civilization, Cagan and Christian, the consciences of man-
kind attested that the Manchester rescue was a deed of
heroisni. (Loud cheers.) If these men were eriminal then
he was als.• erisnlsial. fiv with the exception of taking hunian
life he hail done as they did. 11r. smyth concluded by say-
ing that there were 111011 of threescore years present who
would witness the reopening of the Irish Senate Mouse.
Mr. Butt declaimed against the " miserable excep-
tions" that had been made in the granting of an am-
nesty to the Fenians. With regard to the Manchester
men, he would say nothing about the taking of the
life of Sergeant Brett ; he believed that not one
of the men who went out that slay intended to
take life ; but, 1 ever that was, upon what prin-
ciple were the Inen now in gaol cons icted of the
crime? Upon a principle of law, perhaps; wise,
but certainly very harsh, that when men met to
Ito an illegal act, such ItS 60 rescue a prisoner, each WAS
responsible for the acts of all. Therefore, if six Or
seven went out in that way, and one took a human life,
though the deed might have been abhorred, the entire
party were guilty in the eyes i,f the law. 'Upon that
principle these men were convicted, and, putting that
before the Prime Minister, he would ask is there any
circumstances in those cs.ses which justified him in
keeping these men in prison when he kail proclaimed a
general amnesty?
The resolution ansl petition were tulopted. It is
stated that the Queen's name, whenever it WAS men-
tioned in the speaking, was cordially received.

The Earl of Derby presided at the dinner of the Man-
chester an& Liverpool Agricultural Society, held at
Liverpook, on Tuesday evening, when a large and in-
iluentoth company IVA. present.
In 'proposing the toast of .• tier Majesty the Queen," Lord
Derthy said they all anew and all reeretted that the state of
brie Majesty's ilhhealth rendered it impossible for her of late
1, canto perform, ewept in a Minted degree, the ceremonial
duties 14 Melt belorezol to hurpoaltion 3 but when the history
Of the last 30yeari came to be written it would be sail, alit
with truth, that we have had a SoverePxn who, in a time of
fittest escitemeht and change, had never stepped one inch
beyond the strict limits of her constitutional duty, and had
Orelt fair play itipt equal justiee to Al ioistets of both polit teal
peaks laser, hour. whow house had been a model of good
order and management, Sint on WhOW private life no tbailow
of cal 1111 l ny or suspicion had hoer rested. (Loud cheering )

The toast of the •• Prince and Princess of Wales and all Pm
Royal Family was next given from the chair. Lunt Derby
epoke 14 the peculiar position occupied by members of the
Royal Family, Wel said the tluties they had to perform and
which they did perferitt with greet illingness, were, fo,r the
newt part, of a social Allll ceremonial kind, which, though very
useful and in &society like oum not unimportaut, were-not such
as to call forth nny great 'vs rise ,4 intelleetual powers by
those pm:Miming theft. ee hate as men illil their duty in
the restricted sphere to which we confined them we were not
justified it, criticisine them legteeuee, from political MUSOIIB,
we Miglish people had thought it neceßsary or desirable that
their sphere of they eheuhl be so limited. 'the Prince of
Wales especially. he said, never *wired himself trouble or
fatigue when hie meet:nee could lend dienity to a public
~,,esion, or whet! it Was poneible for hiut to atm.,: in his
neaher's piece.
After proposing "The Army, Navy, Militia, and tethm-
leers," and "The Bishop oral Clergy 81111 Ministers of all
we lions," which toasts were duly acknewledgeti,
The Earl of Derby, In proposing the toast of the eveeing—
e Prosperity to the Manchester and Liverpool Agricul-
statistice showing that the
tural Society”—after giving
society "is doing Pa work and holding its n," went
on to explain how important it Is for a fernier to know
hew to make the most of MA land, remarking :—" elf
course 8 111/111 may go en after the fashion of the (testi copiers,
seratehing the earth Mr a bare subeistence—but that is not
fanning and I am only repeating an Si Well I have
expressed before, an-1 a Inch I hold very strongly, alien I say
tied the copier, the pennant cultivator—Menet awl hide,
trious and frugal as he they lost as much chance Of
holding his own against the it Ideation of capital and
science as bows anti arrows hare of superseding breech-load-
ing rides, or hand-Mem weaving of driving the power louts
out of the field. Awl do net let any one imagine that this
iiamtion of skilled or unskilled farming is a small one. It
may very well be that the enormous wealth due to alternate:-
hires and commerce, thewealth which is reprement.l by eeo
millions yearly of British exports, the wealth for which we
lay the whole world under contribution, should make us
comperatively indifferent to a hat we get out of the soil,
and, apart from that, there is a claim which may be put
forward, and which, within fair hiiniiis, is a very reaeonable
claim, for the pi eeervaiimi of a neelerate proportion of
our little isboul f, purposes of beauty and enjoyment,
whether to the owners or to the public. High farming is
apt not to be pictures me, and some sacrifices of proet may
reasonably be made in the interest of that kind of test°
which we all desire to see more and more extended.
Mut, after setting apart all that wan 1,, required for that
purpose on 8 liberal allowance. the fact still remains that
we do not get. as yet, out of hinglislm math int half of what
me probably might with advantage if all our present re-
eirces were brought to bear on the soil. Mr. Ilechi, Wllll,
11'11110,4 of you know, is rather enthusiastic In this luatter,
pits the catenate nmelt higher, but I don't want to over-
etate my case. NO 11011bt there has lieen, and there i,.
great improvement. We hear talk now and then about the
netaimition of waste heel, and it is eiseleavomed to raise a
Cr) oti that subject. Why, ever slime 1 can remember, we
have been reclaintieglmr waste lands in Lancashire, without
:my Miss or noise about it, and ill tush a century We 118Ve
pie Ile well succeeded in eltenging the fare of the country
awl if any one complains that this priness of improvement
does not go On fast enough they must remember that in
in the nature of the ease where tenant fanum•s ate (.011,
lyrlll.l it 11111 st be a gradual me,. . There are other besides
come:Meal uonsideretions which affect Us. We may WWI
that WI our tenants bed capital and science and energy, but
I think that very few landlords would choose to lay it
down as a principle that any ore not possessing these quali-
fications should he turned elf front a farm on Si hi. he Wel
Illn fathers before hint have lived. We want to move on,
bid we waut ats,,, it possible, to move min together- to
live and let live—net for a few to make fortunes and the
rest go to the doe. ; and I still add that if this
work of agricultural improvement is to be carried 1111
as it should be, it is the landlord, quite as much no the
farmer. who newt put his shoulder to the wheel. It may
be said that he has net very often the capital requited. Well,
believe that what le wanted from the lanillonl is much leas
that he dead.' put a large amount of capital of his own on
to the mel—theimle I,f course, that is de-arable—than that
he should other tie obstacle to its licing put on by the tenant.
Security is tee first requisite, and I hold that any tenant
good enough to he kept permanently on the land ought to
hive a lease if he weeds one. I sey • kept permaneittly,•
le:cause there are, of couree, c0.:4 where tenantn are re-
tained from kindly f :clines, tleeigh not very et to di justice
1,, their fermi, :lull ici ste the leiellord may Yews.-
ably desire some elite k liven unetniumeennie. As to con-
ditions of letting' they would vary in sire. cel places, but
have not altered the ..eittleit which I expre, eeme years
a,. that an a rule they tateht to he few Owl eimple. if
a man Is not able or w Mine to de the work he is is the
wrong place, and sinful he better away, though I admit that
11l practice you cannot always act upon thut view. If he to
fit for his buAluess, he silt probably do it best le Ida own
way. Then there is that ticklish question of gante—it word
lam almost afraid of uttering on aude an occasion, theeelt I
do not think f shall have any thing to any upon it that con
provoke teettreversy. I have always thought it us Inlentloll
st hich with moderation and good men, on bet'i sides vol elit
not to give trouble. Nebody can doubt that there is a great
deal of over-preserving in l.nghannl.auud that tO emne places it
has been carried so far as to almond to a pnblie nuisence
Mear null when that is the case I lodil that what is tii befit
In net the love ef sport, but a leveof estentation and display,
mel it can hardly assume a more objectionable shape
(Pear, hear.) We are told that there is to be seine legisla-
tion on the subject. Now, personally, I all not a very k.ii
sportsman, and I shall acquiesce heartily in whatever Parlia-
ment May decide lint I a-oubl just point out that it is
peseible for you to go so for as to defeat your own object.
The absolute sweeping away .4 the power of keeping game
on fames. however brought about, would, of uourse, iii
under their changed COntliiillllB, a general eametiee for
rents, rued loy that OtNeratioll the teo ..; t :fn!) :,•
be a gainer. while In other " 1. eeeey :
this.—the rich Mell, fond gti their el,ll. 2. i-s,.-
rdleCilleeB ill order to keep it, would t neea• mei :,.•.:
their estates Into their IoWII 11.1111 S in 01 dee lu enjey t
amusement undisturbed That would 11.4 be an mem,
meet, I think, ter the bemelt of pity ly.
hear ) flue thing, I think. the tenant re :tile hea in tinny
cees to eumplaiu hf, rush that is the Ante...Vey I netkine
a fair bargain with his landlord where glee is Colleurn.
becaliee, we knowing what the imentity 14 it Will 11•,
be eanind halil an eetimete beferehand, as Is' the pee-
bability of loss. (Hear, hear.) If that can he remedied.— SUICIDE OF MR. WALTER
and Ido not see why it. should not be—l eilllll4 see tied
there is airy injustiee ie. ;elevate, rein:unite; se. for es thet MONTGOMERY.
is coneerne,l. I ought to upil ha. the ',meth at which I On Friday eyening, in last week, Mr. Walter Mot:t-
una detaining you, hut there is a far whim, and aravir 11111,- r,nerv, the well-known act( a:, idaid hinismdf at " Shll-
ti
am which many hove for years pa. 4 been cliscussing nt punlic „ s otel "S • , tafferci-strert, London. Only on the
noadings, and which I do Ind like ten lame entirely um molio.i
I menu the mineC lin, it ownership of the soil. I have bet previous Wednesday he married, at St. It et irge's,
little to trouble you Si ill,reg. 1,, it, and I Amp,refultvver-square, Miss I,alean Ihmrpee Bigelow, an Atom:item
med.' touching on anything Pen can be considered political lady, 1111,1 had M'd been in Ids apartments long, mein
ground Whet 1 st mesh te f Met out the curious returning from a I irk( wedding holiday-, behem the re-
imacertainty as to the feels of the case lit h
ee n port of it istol apprised hie newly made wife in an
and the expediency ..f tieing something to have that hill-hill-1: • • - p • -
etening room 1/t the peinful deed which he haul corn-
certainty removed. I have seen it repeated again and again
nutted. The slued:hie. incidents concerning the suicide
that ithe whole :mil of these isedels is in the hands 14 lea
than ao,uoo pore-us. lett it I. perfcctly well kitown to every will be learnt from the subjoined report of the coroner's
one much intereste.l hlt .11,111118tErrs Met that assertion riot inquest,
on a mere mi itake—on Gie
r'r:sreinifug of a stetement made in Ihi Saturday afternoon the in q uest was held
iccadilly beforat
this census of reel. In 1 hat Crimes only almut persone " Slieffev's " I hitel, Albemarle-street l'e
d themselves the head of lawlowiters, theme:et •
°Tatty Coroner for Westmitpter.
majority who held land 'teeing entered themselveA, as they
were free to to, under other designation, ilnll the best preof Mr. Henry Melton, of Princes-street, said I have known
if the fallacy of the figuree to this,—that t),000 out of the the deteaeed for some years. Ile was an Meter, and
whole no returned wen: women. New, we know that half resided et the thne of his death at No. 2, Stalfordatreet,
the land Is not in female hands, unttl that probably not one, howl-street. Ills age was 54. I saw Ile:eased on Wethica-
tenth of ottr lamb owner., if s.• many, are women I won't It day last, on the occasien if his marriage. Ile appeared very
guess against guess, but if I were compelled to do no I should well in health and epirits at that time. Nothieg that I know
say you might multiply the Metre I have given of :Aeon by , of was likely to depress him, or induce him to connuit
suleithe the had made arrangements to sail to America with
tint least, and still be below the mark. Another fallacy .
constantly repeated, 811t1 which I can with similar confidence hi wife an the 7th t Met, anti their passage out had - been
contradict, even frolll my own linii•ed experientre, is that it paid. The fact of his expectations not being fully realised
1a e very difficult matter for any one to bey a landed estate, whilst the Gaiety was under his management might have
that hueh is to locked up thet it cannot be lire:milt into the colidueed to a depression of spirits calculated to take erred
niarket N.cw, inaemuch as people haviim estates to sell are upon hie brain. He never threatened to destroy himself,
fend of preseing them on the notice of time: whim they sep. and was net euldect to depression of Borns, hut w 55 of a
pose may wish to buy. I have 50111, perstmal Mem- ledge id that most excitable tempentment. I was sent for last night
(Friday) at twelve o °leek, and, on going into his bedroom.
matter, and I Olen. with contlelenee that there is at this,
saw hint lying inn the floor quite. dead. I believe his brain
moment hardly a conntry in Imgland where a man looking
, must have hoes overtaxed, or he would never leave committed
fire landed inventment cannot thel what he wants. If it
were otherwise, we should have „toot, of compialot, from the dreadful act. aml I can safely say that the applitation he
I has gone through not late years would have been hard study
the capitalists of these parte but- the fact is, 1 believe,
that et the present time there are, of the two, mere sellers fmlr Ids 11101-
than buyers We live in days of change. There are a 31re. NI untgomery was next called, and the scene in court
great many people who prefer to have their property wheig was ot a very painful desmiption, the poor lady trequently
they can, at a few hears' notice, move it to any pars of t breaking delve in her evidence and sobbing bitterly. She
world, and that Is a feeling: mere likely to Increase that stated 11. fellows .—At 1.15 on k'riday evening nay husband
diminish. It may he the taut - I believe it is ...not , was in the bed-roont, and I intim sitting-room adjoining. Ile
man who wants only a few aeres dece net alwnye I told me he was looking fiir some clothing. He had been
lii
anti depressed ill spirits for the past six weeks, but mom es-
It easy to 'my them, lest if there is any real demand for
. small freeholde, seedy it would be werth the ahi le .4 penally during the last two days. Ile has never to time or any
one else, I believe—said he would commit suicide, hut often
latent to bay up large eetates ee they c iiiii e tido ecereet
, mentioned, when depressed, that he ivas afraldof what might
um' to sal them imain pieeemeal. If that is cut Mow.
be his end. ( know. of no cause which could have induced Min
the only reaeon can be that it !lees not pay. Mem, Imare
to tlestroy himself. Ile was exceedingly ill on numbly
Tie there is another uetien afloat—that estates are um,
tending to become freer in number and bigger morning, but cheered up at twelve o'clock tat Friday morn-
e- That is the point tii at Itieli no nian's 01.;erva- ing, and nppeared hatter than I have seent hint for sometime.
I, wide enough to enable line to epee:: with eer- I Whilst he WILY getting Ids clothing on Friday night I sucl-
• . mit I greatly doubt whether the fart in 80. SOMe deuly heard Mtn say, " Lillie, dear, good-bye, God bless you,
. des, no doubt, are growing, but many alas breae len gone, Fin gone!' and immediately afterwards the re-
, ~, I the one process re °teddy balances the other. Near I port of a pistol rang thniugh the house. (The witness was
, tn. tellA. especially near lenelen, there is certaitily, RA a Its overcome at this point that she sank luck in her chair,
-. more of disruption) than of accumulation. My belief sobbing violently.) I never knew he had a pistol before
-.though I give It only as a things which seems to rue then, anti never saw one in his possession. I screamed ler
probelde, not an a thing proved that both very great Wel assistance, and Mrs. Shore came, Wel we went into the bed-
very small propertiesare Lever, s.nl tbo, room and found him lying en the ground dead. I feel SUM
middle. site MOM numerous. I.ollr landowners biller tell that he was of unsound mind,
per cent in Ironic to tee per cent from land—they sell ! Mr. Frederick Shelley, landlord of "Shelley's" Hotel, Al-
eii Mt, h:edness and, on the other hancl, there is , bermarle.vtrect, sahl t Yesterday evening, while standing at
sib my door, I heard a report of a pistol, and the screams of
~ emit 1.e.0el which most men do not desire to extend
Mrs. Mentiemtery. The landlady requested me to go al,-
sr hohing ud what Is eseentially an aurenumerative in-
stairs. I went up and found the deceased between Um bed •
Rut why .110n111 we be left on this subject to
-re speculation I It ie itepealide to got at the facts Is and the dressing table, and mith the assist:wee of a ymlng
O Domesday nook netre difficult now than in the tlayA of the man lifted hitu up that he might hreathe, and the young man
Conqueror ? (Hear.) If what is called the Llllll tpmestion is found under a chair a pistol. I then sent for a doctor Red
Lu eelUe to the fn ont, us I suppose it w ill, surely we the pollee, and a doctor arrived, but the deceased dic d
mieht to iliacuss it with 89 11111011 In omit ive knowledge.. we Can institution, msly.
Litt, to bear? .flear, hear h al. :tot Maensible—no man The pletel am then produced ;it Wan a small breechloader
oho, keep., me eyes open rail no —tic the value, in a social of American inake.
Imilit of I iew, of havine a Unlliert I.ely of inee pneerned The witness added—As soon as Sirs. Slontgemery 8119 the
Inc land ..eoiee. Sly ciintentif,n is only tide, that the supply d"e'-'"eds h"'lY she was deeldr affccted.
id 18101 ni the market fully equals the peeent demand, and William Maslen, 'lt, Archer-street, Leicestereemare, soil :
tbat the pepalar theory, that this so Inekell 11/1 that 1101104 I saw daceased re up in a cali to his house, oppmite the
can buy, rests rn 1., solid foundation. The nudge lord ru- house where the neatest was twines held, 111111 about a cinarter
of an hour after nits ordered to go up stairs, being Lehi that
slimed seat aiced great applause.
the gentlemanhe ha.l sled himself. I went up and in a back
The " Health. m 4 the diairman awl Patrons of the room RAW t IleeellSCll in a sitting posture: with his bead
Soeiety '' were I-C' tuml IT 'Mr. I luti 104 Turner, lying down on one side, and blood oozing front his month
M. P., and briefly inrenowledged by Lord Derby. and I also found a pistol under a chair oil Ills right hand
side, and 1,1 l t.
iiereral other b.-1.3 followed. Pr. H meenry Hardiujmnn:4e, M.P., of Grafton-street, Rend-street,
sae called to see the body of the deceased.
It ass earn), but life was extinct. I maw blood 1m the shirt,
and thew was blood oozing from the molith, anti a wound
into which I credit intrude nty anger in the roof of the
mouth, Rod i was shown a Maid which had been need for the
Turpose. and on haling a 'met mortem examination Mend
that the bell bad passed to the forehead, end rebnimiled to
the bark. Itelgiice in tine brein. 'll.e ball was completely I
flattened. There were no extt rind marks but blood. Deeth
must have been Instantaneous, in armsequence of its
large vessel. The act mind have been the act tif
the ileceamed himself, 81111 Irian the nature of it It watt not
natural that it should have been done by any one else.
Mr. John Beery Stringer, td Thanet-plate, Temple-bar,
manager to the deceased, Being the last person
who sew the deceased before the sad effete, I felt It my duty
to attend itiel in say that we were at Tedifineton together on
Friday, and that he was in good apirits, hut Much excited.
'The ilecenseil had hail lesees at the attiety, lett I .fin not think
they were the cauee oi his destroying himself, he having
...ugh money to ulear any claims; but I conebler over ex-
citement time cause.
The Coroner : Wag lie m 4 an excitable temperament?
Witnee, Ile wait.
-The Coroner Ile Was llnt Unhappy?
Witness t 'mm, overjoyed t yet he was strange and excited.
Itched huh el ysfpelas, and had used a lotion preecribed for
4 Junius. I heliet,-.1.e was minded tei Wednesday last
WHIM?), s That wee the
The coroner 5 It it s very distreaeing ease, the more
especially so as the deceased was only married Wadnesday
last. The evitlenee of the doctor and the other willomanmi
proved it was the decemed's OWII aet, and there is no evidence
lo show that it was caused through money matters. The
eviiite.ce sh..ws that at the time the Ilerellflell was in an un-
sound Ftllte 1/i 0.1,1'1, slid I shall advise the jury to retutn •
verdict to that effect.
flue jury at once returned a vestliet in accordance with
the eoroner's suggestion.
The greatest interest was felt in the matter, and
wverat well-known gentlemen connected with the
theatrical profession were in attendance.
Mr. Montg.,mery'a death, under any circumstancea,
would have been deplored bye, most extensive circle of

As the mob rsturned from the Park, about six
o'clock, they assailed the police, 'who were in consider-
able force patrolling the quays and the streets in the
neighbourhood of the Park. The mob attacked the
police with stones and other missiles, awl when dis-
persed again and again returned to the attaa, a sort of
pitched battle raging for upwards of four hours. The
police, in endeavouring to quell the riot and disperse
the nod', used their batons, mil the mob used stones
and other missiles freely. The chief scene of the en-
counter was at Queen-street and Bridewell-lane, there
Icing a police-station in the last-mentioned place,
whereabout the police were in reserve. The mob first
attacked a patrol at Queen-street bridge, and rein-
'foreements of police having conic from the station a
fierce tight ensued. 17p to midnight fifty-two police-
men were relorted more or less seriously injured, and
some s'f the nod' are also injured. The police had up
to the same hour ninde about twenty prisoners. One
public-loaise situate at the corner of Queen-street Was
compls-t,ly wrecked. The owner, it appears, laid
givea, or AVM suspected of having given, information
of a:mg.:roue missiles having been thrown at him.
-
Nearly 30 of the rioters were charged before the
police magistrate on Monday, with throwing stones
and beating policemen. The Court was crowded with
sympathizer's ith the excused. The Chief Magis-
trate regretted, for the character of the city, that such
a disgraceful outrage should have occurred. The con-
duct of the people wits the most disgraceful he had
ever heard. There did not appcar to have been the
slightest provocation given by the police. In every
ease in which the !fence charged was proved, the pri-
soners were sentenced to six months imprisonment,
with hard labour. The magistrate regretted that this
was the severest sentence he could pas,;. Several pri-
soners who took minor parts in the riot were sentenced
to three months' imprisonment. As the prisoners
-left the court they were cheered and the police were
hissed.
The houses near the scene of the riot are wrecked,
the street lamps broken, and the district generally
presents a dilapidated appearance. It appears that
the attack on the police was premeditated, and that
women materially assisted the rioters by providing
them with stones.

Referring to the meeting, and the improbability of
any good ever resulting from such " demonstrations,"
the Deify News nmarhs

It is lard to say who is to blame, except the lawless rioters
themselves, for the l'oblin riot of smiday. It is unite clear
that the lesson of the former riots tail been learned by the
police, and that 'nothing was done on their part to provoke
the hostility of the mob. Nor can we charge the responsi-
bility on the promoters id the meeting. There was none
vi dent speaking, but no very violent counsel. Mr. Smyth,
M.P., indeed, made a speech which would have been better
left unsaid To glorify the murderers of Sergeant Brett. and
hold up the inm:etnitors of the Manchester rescue as heroes,
Was lialigeriillB teaching to a finil, which hild only a few
weeks before had a seriinniage with the police. Still, the
police ware not i.resent. They had resolved not to obtrude
themselves on the meeting. Probably the mob regarded
their absence as a sign of weakness, and would have gone
home In maul order, if not in good humour, had ilime of
thC detested uniforms been met on the way. But they
were met, unit could loot he met. The pollee could not
run away, even to prevent a collision. The people who
eonstit uted the meeting bad had 11 1111 their own way in the
Fifteen Acres, and tiny coahl not expect the pollee to abandon
the streets at don. approach. It Is evident that the mere
sight o !the hated pollee was the signal for the riot. A
spark will cause an explosion when there are condonstible
materials about. The attack came from the mob ; and though
it was probably accidental, it was kept up us vigorously as
though there 101 05 some organization behind It. Fortunately
the victory remained with the police, but it was purchased
at a very serions cost. There is but one consolation about
the affair, and that in the proof it supplies that the collision
which occurred during the presence if the Pricier of Wales
In Dublin was purely a quarrel between the populace and the
notice. Them 1.a.4 been ion direct political cause for either of
these mib•rtunate disturbances. They arc probably connected
together, if one is nit cause and the other effect. At the pre-
vious 'met log some wet ks since the police WCre clearly out i.f
place. 'Ploy haul been sent there tmlistnth a really legalgather-
ing. It was in resentment at that interference that the mob eon
Sunday interfered with them. There are obviously two
things which the Irish Executive has to learn. It must
never felt itself in the wrong, and It must never show weak-
ness. The police must never be needlessly intruded on the
people. hut they must loe vigorously handled and supported
when they are in the right. The severe comments of the
Dublin Bench Oa this most unprovoked outragc will have
the full syim,iti,y of the lu!,lic. We may aho till the
I 1.11, tho Irish pee;ole that a oiet
sereeo, o f iblbblw I, not likely too liberate the pri.
f.or fl ii tLey ,hoolit. The oneene mr it ti• of elay w. a
. . .

f.:Our, in if; but it was maito doubly a faiinre by the
vhdel cc w filch came out Id it. It is absurd to ask the law
to be lenient towards its riolat,s, and then moceed to
violate it in their mune. The petition to the Queen, which
the meeting ado' ted, 4,11,5 hi tnlon,l endorsed by a riot.
which proves at on the ii:lpolley and the hnpossibility of
acceding to its prayer.

admiring friends and the melancholy tidings will be
received in Australia and America, as in evm, huge'
English town, with feelings of the deepest win It is
not only in the theatrical profession, of which he was a
distinguished member, that Mr. Montgomery WM
knoivn and respected, for in the provinces it might
perhaps, more than of any other actor, be said he was
popular by his Readings to a public that cannot be
described as "play-going." Mr. Montgomery threw
his whole soul into his profession, and set before him
self a task which but a few days ago at the Gaiety
Theatre, London, he essayed to accomplish, namely,
the lifting of the "legitimate dramato a position
from which he strongly held it had been degraded.
Such ate, rnination to a career which has been marked
throughout by a cow,: of professional and personal
conduct which all have respected is inexpressibly sad.

On Tuesday, the funeral of the late Mr. Walter Mont-
gomery took place at Brompton Cemetery. Although us
pains had been taken to give publicity to the circum•
stance that the funetal was to take place, .the desire
of those most concerned being that it should be con
ducted as undemonstratively as possible, shortly before
two o'clock a number of persons, notably many con-
nected with the theatrical profession, assembled, awl
both about the chapel and grave awaited the arrival of
the I mocessi on. Thjs WAS wholly unostentatious, consist-
ing of a plain hearse and two mourning coaches, while
three private carriages followed. The chapel was tilled
to overflowing, :tha q• 1 those who attended followed
the body from thence to the grave.