The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

11!Al STOIMBRIDG-E 011SIITR,'77:R.

nations aft to the efficiency of the army and navy by Mr.
Cardwell,

---4"r-W7Larnion called for • division. and five members tot-
toned him into the lobby against 161. The vote was ac.
cordingly orrf rd to by a majority of 156.
Al the evening siting,
The vote of credit of £2,000,000 for the military services
was agreed to without remark.
On the vote of 1•:.217,5u0 Sr the Was Office, exception was
taken by Mr. Antlers n to the amount of the Commander Ill-
(Mete !salary, hut having received explanations from Mr.
Cardwell, he tlid not carry it to the length of a Division.
A vote of £21,450 was next agreed to for prep.oring the
Carey-street site for the New Courts of Justice, and provoktil
a brief &scansion.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a vote of £6 030
for the .w Natural History Slusuem. which it is proposed
to build on the ground at south Kensington purchased by
the Government from the Great Exhibition Commissioners,
Which, on uivialcn, was carried by 96 tO 34.
The vote for the compensation to the Foreign Office clerks
who have been deprived of their agencies was Cistuted by
Mr. Ryland., but carried en a division by 70 to 52 Sup-
plementary estimates for additions to the National Gallery,
new buildings at the science and Art Department, Roy ri
Parks anti Pleastire.grounds, and other purposes connected
with the noseellaneous services were agreed to, ATM at a
quarter part one the business of granting Supply was com-
pleted f..e the year.
the Meeting of Parliament 11111 was passed through Com-
mittee.

.evt rtl other bills were forwarded a stage, and the Horse
adjourned.

In the noun of Commons, August 3. the Sunday Sale of
Liquor Bill, introduced by llr Bylance, was, on the motion
of Alderman Luivretnie, rejected, the Second reading being
ilea:dived without a division.
Nir Loch withdrew his Game Law Bill for Scott unit.

On the motion ot Mr. it Gurney, the Lords' amendments to
the Married Worren's Properly Bill were
Mr. Gurney said the amendments made by the lords had,
In his Judgment, altered the bill or the worse, aid given to
married ~omen an inademuste remedy. At the came time,
lid at this hyte period of the session, he advised the House
to.iseeyrit
.thena.

--M-r—iii-elC.;:nTni also regretted the amendments, but thought
the bill was still a great improvement on the present law.i
After stew words front Mr. S. Lefevre to the same ill et,
the Llrds'ionentimems, with a few verbal alterations, were
agreed to. .

the i.-.;rds' amendments to the Tramways Bill were also
considered, aid, with one exception agreed to. One impor-
tant difference of opinion regarded the amount of notice to
he given to persons along the line of road. The Lords pro-
vided that each individual proprietor and occupier along the
line of way should have personal notice.
Nlr. a Lefevre objected to this, Sad proposed that notice
posted up along the line of road should be sufficient, and he
moved an amenduteut to that eff,ct,
_ .

Mr. Alderman Lawrence supported the Lorde amendment,
but on ait aiMon the &111.111114,11 t was disagreed with by a
majority of 35 to
Mr. Dodson called the attention of the House to a singular
provision introduced into this bill It prop. led that a tram-
way bill should not ha tutroduoed into either House later
than the let of May. This would be to regulate the proceed-
ings of this House by Act of Parliament, a here it haul al way
before been done by its own orders, which It could alter
at any time. lie proposed, therefore, that this amendment
should be still k out, and he would afterwards move a
standing order regulating the time for bringing in tramway
bills.

ihis was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Letevre proposed to aorninq the Merchant Shipping
Code Pt I pro forma, In order thAt it might be reprinted and
circulated due ine tine recess.

The bill accordn.gly went through committee pro forma.
The Lords' amendments to the On and Water Facilities
Bill were considered and agreed to, with the exception of a
clause similar to that in the Tramways Bill, liddting time
for ihtroducing such bills.
Tie Lords' amendments to the Piers and Harbours Chilli.-
mdtion of Orders Hill was agreed to.
Mr. J. Tatsot (in the abihnce of Mr. Hughes moved that
the House go into committee on the Sunday Trading Kill, and
...tiered, with a view to conciliate its opponents, to limit the
hill to the metrodolis.
Mr. P. Taylor moved that the bill be committed this day
three mouth,.
The motion ivy
was therefore

fh-e—tUdit-o.i; was negatived without a division; and the bill

.....
The report of supply was brought up, and in answer to a
questlt.n from Mr. W Duff,
.

Mr. Bast, said there ri;.'s no Intention to add to the men
in the navy. There was an abundant supply both of sailors
and marines. He hoped the House would not expect him
to go more into detail, but to have confidence in the Govern-
ment inner, hear lie explained the supply of coal at
Gibraltar was 6,411 tons of coal, while 6,0ti0 tons more
were chipped The same was the case at Malta, Hali-
fax, and other naval stations ; in fact, the supply
of coal was larger DOW than on any former occa-
sion. Ile might add that every article ordered under
the estimates of this year hail bten homrht, and they were
not about to buy ally more. The budding of shies was pro-
ceeding in the same satisfactory manner: and he would state
that there ea, a saving on the estimates of £55 000.
51r. Lowther asked if it was true that the belligerents
were new purchasing horses in this country at the rate of
1,051 a day.
Mr. Cardwell was not preparel to lay any embargo on the
export of horses.
The House then went into committee on the Foreign En-
listment Bill, which pasaed tnrough cominittie.
The Meeting of Pailiament, the Canada Loan Pill, and
the Beer-houses Bill were severally read a third time and
pa sot.
Tile repot t of the committee on the expenses of the French
Co.ii.mitssiou was agreed. tor_

Mr Glyn brought up the Appropriation Bill, which was
read a lirst time, and ordered to he read a ii,eund time to-
morrow, and the Houle adjourned.

who complain an 'namable. The condition 0( 000 country
locked in mortal conflict with another country is one not
always favourable for kindly and impartial judgment in mat-
ters which bear both upon interest and feeling. Yet us iniy
endeavour to motrish that calm anti practical spirit, that
impartial justice, that sentiment of expansive charity
towards our fellow-countrymen and fellow-Christians tn
whom this deadly contest has come. If we hem the words of
anger, I. tan meet them with the spirit of patience; let us
rest confidet tly on our desire to act uprightly by the one and
by the other, and be assured that even if a moment's wimp.
derstanding should prevail that misapprehension would he
for a moment only, and when it has passed away the
rectitude of our Intentions will be acknowledged and full
confidence in our conduct will lie felt, let us endeavour
no to comport ourielyes In our ditlicut circumstances as to
restrain the expression of hasty opinion, and to prove
the reality of cur ay mouthy with both these solderers on a
giant scale, and BO that we may be able to c int] Paste Borne-
what to the wsight of that voice of civilised mankind, which,
as we hope, may exercise a great and posslloy even a com-
manding influstra, first In n snowing and restraining the
sphere through which human misery is to be spread, and
secondly, in bringing to a close the operation of the cala-
mitous energies which Are given to the conflict of war. I
can assure you that In the generous arprectation which you
have made of the views and Intentions of her Majesty's
Government you have not gone beyond the truth. Tney are
men whit will not forget the honour 01 their country In
attempting to discharge their duties, but they will recognise,
and they do recognise, as time dominent sentiments of their
intuits at this painful crials—tirst, one of the deepest grief at
the calamities which they see are about to dentilotetine of the
fairest portions of Europe ; and, secondly, the eamest hope
that It may lie reserved for friendly Intervention, or fir such
other means as it shall plea.° Providence to select, to find an
opportunity of putting an end to scenes whirls, whatever the
j'met lie item that one party or the other may think they find
In the incidents .flf the case, must nevert hetes, in the judg-
ment of history Mid In the Jo lament I f posterity, be re-
garded as amongst Cu tornst mourn Ail and most inimeratld
that ever protected tinmseivea to the view of mankind.

"SIX OF ONE AND HALF-A-DOZEN OF
THE OTHER."
"When rogues fall out, then honest men may hope to get
their own,"
As w,sdom of our ancestors Is well and widely known.
Best another reading of the old saw hits truth as clean and
clear,
"When rogues fall out, then honest men may hope the truth
to hear !"

At peace Ji ON BULL was sitting, 'neath his vine and fig tree'
shade,
Mopping his hot brows, as he paused, awhile, from scythe
and spade
Counting his flocks, or planning work for shop and mart and
mill,
And praying that St. Swithin ha tanks and ponds might fill.
When sudden burst thniulerb lit out of the cloudless
sky.
And JOHN jumped to his feet aghast, and asked the reason
why—
Amazed to find deflancrshurled from Paris to Berlin,
Muster of arming millions, and dearning war-like dim

He rubbed his eyes and asked, What seed hie ripened to
such fruit
Must I accept the cause I hear, or backward trace the
root,
. . .

To the evil day when Germany on Denmark onslaught
made
To the quarrel 'twist the robbers o'er the plunder of their
raid;

" To the spollthg of the weaker thief by the hand of the more
strong;
To Prussian swift and sudden leap o'er bonnds of right and
wrong;
. . . .

Till friMe-; grew jealous of her growth, and fumed and
fretted enre,
That 'so/ d Bismarck' even ' vol de l'aigle' should out,
soar ? '

Till thinking of that four year? hate since Radowa amused,
He wondered less that into flame it should have buret at

Nor so puzzled o'er the smallness of the spark to fire the
train
That blew Europe's peace to tatters, and brought Chaos
back again.

He noted France's fury, fleet with war-lust ark with wine,
The long-f orbi Idea Mar, her fierce cry "to the
Rhine"
He noted heavier Germany, whose fire, to light more slow,
Burns with a core more lasting and an Intenser glow,
And he felt old German kinship. heating hot about his heart,
Anglo and Saxon fibril irk his being claiming part—
He said amen to German prayers, shared I; orman hopes and
fears,
As brother-blood spoke in Us veins, brother-tongue in his ear..

When, to ' a bul:a oe sudden turned on a black and base
intrigue
Shows two crown'et burglar% higgling hard over a robber-
league !
Taking and giving kingdoms not their own to give or take,
And by treaty duly settling how treAties best to break.

The German faith he trusted so, tn ItrßncKs keeping given.
Brittle's, n NAPOLEON', oath he fin 3, Ai easy rivau
He sits betwt en the Emperor and the stout old Prussian
king,
Sorry to (eel distrust of both, on both his scorn to fling.

"Pot not your faith in Princes," is the lesson in his mind,
As he cons the "Secret Treaty," for Belgium's doam de.
signed
But the ill-faith on both sides Is the Princes', not the folks'
By [leaven's mysterious purpose condemned to bear their
yokes.
Whatever dark-browed BISMARCK be, or maybes° thought or
planned,
Not less .I,diN Butt's heart leaps to them that rise for Father-
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r-
land
France strikes the blow that Germany is one man to strike
pack, . . _

nistcll:lncoll rttclltgence,