The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THEIR
CHARI FY.

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otham,
eel that the time-table conscience
. ' would not necegaltate the with-
dr. loot dories the lase of religious
that , eject to his receiving that in-
etrui • tnat it would be practicable to send him
to re, instruction so a class-room. If it were not
practii to withdraw him from religious instruction only,
he w0u1... hare to be withdrawn from the school for the time
being.
In answer to Colonel North,
Mr. Mohsell said that the Information received to-day from
Canada was that all woe quiet along the frontiers. The
Fenian' were making their way home, many being conveyed
away in sheep and cattle trucks. Gen. Lindsay proposed to
relieve the militia from further service, and to reduce the
forces.'three of the enemy had been killed and ten wounded
is the action at Frelingsburg, and about the same number at
the Trout river. The Fenian et ree had been much wasted.
After the Benefices Bill had been read a third time and
rnased, the House went into Committee of Supply on the
Naval Estimates. it was two hours and a half before the
first vote ~X 779,090 for naval stores, was agreed to, and an
altercation followed, in regard to the purchase system, and
Included among other episodes a brisk skirmish between Mr
Vaxter—who was hacked by Mr. Manta and other gentlemen
below the gangway—and Mr. Samuda who criticized some of
the economies as injudicious and mistaken.
Votes of £4BB 173 for steam machinery and shipbuilding
by contract, of £744,233 for new work., and of .C 123,1538 for
Greenwich Hospital and schools were also agreed to.
Several bills were forwarded • stage and the House ad-
lourned until Thursday week.

The London correPpondeut of the Liverpool Albion
thus gossips:----
The Prince of Wales Is just now making himself very
popular. Twice this past seek he has been actively forward-
ing the csose of charity. On Wednesday he presided at the
annual dinner in aid of the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormondatr.-et. He spoke in graceful and familiar terms,
and when the business of the evening had been gone through,
his Royal Highness, instead of proceeding to a private apart-
ment to enjoy his coffee and cigar, walked into the room in
which all the other guests were served with them. Standing
before the Mffet in the midst if a crowd of gentlemen, the
Prince remained for nearly half an hour. He was the first to
light a cigar, but the esample was very speedily followed by a
bore or so of gentlemen Ladies don't usually visit the coffee-
room after a public dinner, hut on this occasion the presence
of a live Prince caused a departure from the rule, and several
of them did come, despite the smoke which rose in
cloudy fume+. The Prince of Wales contrilmted 100 to the
funds of the Children's Hospital, On Thursday he did a
still more popular act in presiding at the meeting in aid of
St. George's Hospital, and airing a donation of £1,0015 to
that institution. Curious it is that there has to be more
begging in aid of the hospital of the most aristocratic district
of the metropolis than of any other hospital in London Is
not this a strong proof that the poor are more generous
than the rich? At the dinner of tho children's hospital Or.
, West stated in the presence of the Prince, that such institu-
tions were always c•mmenced by the people. Ile said he
i believed that there was but one nstance of a hospital for
children having sprung into existence at the touch of what he
might call Ole magician's wand—the action of royalty. That
I was the establishment of a hospital for children ley Innocent
111. ! Ills Royal Highness elicited loud cheering by saying
that though the 003.1 family of England had toasty public
duties to perform, there was one which they never
would shrink from or shirk, and that was lending all the aid
In their power to the cause of charity. For the Princess of
Wales and his sisters be could promise that.

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See WO. This was EDUUATION BILL.
made as I • the The C••,--usinint Itlnvinirneuta oil the Education Bill,
0 ~1 .1." which haste been :m for with ien curiosity, may
niymit Ilitabsica.
-,• Mam wited tit t net rif the Treasury dgeoribeil as in silt sf &nen embodying what im called
ie to state what sters hove bean taken for t " t.yvt,in .• v.l` •+: re-
:at of • syetern 5 open competnton or an ligioustintt ruction Tu. 014,1115 t t.l -
in tte Coa! ienv.e. in a :eaco with the late• bft 'a the gem& ' • ely of • • .
out in I.• t- o. tny it an vivo.v.a u'vly, or by a
sun, •."t"-m.,""0, "Ie pnndgo given direct vote if the vettry is not elected, and arrange.
e Goveniment had prosecuted the measures
mv"" made for poling the nariabioners when
emlated and the arrangements connected
t •in and with the other elements of change necessary. but the most important amendment is that
temseives to the question of open cum- on Clause seven, which provides that every public
--iirat were now in a very forward state, elementary school shall he conducted in accordance
•v Ty short time he hoped to lay upon with the following regulations:-
0 onclnsive documents relative to the I. No child shall he required, as a condition of being ad
mitted into or continuing In the school, to attend or abstain
from attending any 4unday school or any place of religious
worship, or any religious observance or any instruction in
religious subjects in the school or elsewhere.
2. The time or times ducts g which any religions observance
is practised or instrnction in relit:inns subjects is given at
any meeting of the scholl shall be either at the beginning or
at the end, or at the beginning and the end, of such meeting,
and shall be inserted in a limo-table, to tie approved by the
Education Department, and to he kept permanently and con-
spicuously alibied in every schoolroom; and any scholar may
be withdrawn by his parent from such observance or instruc-
tion without forfeiting any of the other benefits of the
school.