The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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The House of Commons sat on Satunlay. nit I. to for-
wmxl the i'ornintittee.of
The Betting Bill 69 withdrawn, with a herniae of its re-
introduction next Session : and Mr. Ktaepoole gave notice of
Ids intention to I.ring in bills next year big the suppression
pigeou.slusding and to put down " crawlers." 31g.
Ectra-
foist ji„,gb gale notice that next year he will move It
vote of °omen. Ink Mr. A yrton's mintini,tration, which led to
the Interchange of sonic strongly-flavoured penonaltics
lootween him and the First ColllllliSSiooer.

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After 31r. Bruce had replied to some criticisms of Mr.
Eykys the constitution awl general conduct of the Aletr,,
politau Police force, the lIIIUNC Went into CAmmittee of
supply. The Navy Estimates were completed, met in
moving the British Museum Vote Mr. Walpole paid a tri-
bute to the AOllllOlB and faithful services ot the late Mr.
Grit., as a trustee. Some progress wag :Ilso made with the
remaining Soles is the Civil Service Estimates.
A motion totele toy Mr. B:,lamis coislemnbe; the practke
of ziumentiug Piplomatie and Foreezn (Nike yam, ks oot if
the ,•see,et Sin ice " Fiorl agrer,t ti irithoet oppo.l-
- re., and sescial till, hasing Oren fora :trail a shoze, the
Mouse adjourned.

lu the House of Lords, August ii, the Royal assent was
given hy commission to the follow ing ill.: Prince Arthur's
Amity, J idles (Ireland), ilas,?ow Coundary Private
Chapels, Municipal Corporation Act Amendment, Loral
lauvernment Poard, Public Librari..l Act 1:::bfd Amendment,
Judgments (Ireland , Clerk t.f the Pem e (('omity Palatine of
Lanuastet). Bills of ExchieNe and Pronii isory Notes Tde.
phs Money , $111.1111:111. .1 ttrisditt ion (behind), Nara ich
Adcra bistratichisement, Railway it,•auLttion Amendment,
Metropolitan T 11,1111113,1 (liters sa,pemd,m.
tramways Provincial tinier, Confirmation, and a 111111111er of
private loins.
The Lords Commissioners were—The Duke of St. Albans,
the Marquis of Ailestrury, Viscount Halifax, anti Lord de
Tabby.

eral lills uere brought up from the Commons and read
a first time.

The Earl id Shaftesbury inqUired of the Lull President I 4
the l'ouncil at it hat time it was probable that any schools
to be erected by the Nletropolitan School Board would be
ready fir the reception of children. The noble earl said
lan' believed that the new NCIIOOI,I would displace the
existing ragged schools, and until the new buildings
were ready the poor population were likely to he neglected.
If there was a probability that the new schools stutter the
board would be OPCned at an early day, he thought the sub-
scriptions to the ragged schools might be continued. Re-
ferring to the recent apprehensi 111 l ,f boys in the streets. and
their committal to industrial schools, the noble earl said he
thonght it a measure likely to pauperise a large section of
the population, for there was a tendency to take advantage
of the present law.

Viscount Halifax, whose reply was almost inaudible, was
understood to say he could not give any very precise in-
formation as to the progress the hoard was making in pro-
viding schools. A scheme had been sent into the Education
Department, WO was being considered by the Public Works

Earl towper move,' the second r,ading of the Merchant
shipping Acts Amendment Bill, the provilions of which he
briefly explained.

The hill was read a second time.
Lord Stratheden, in moving an address for a Commission
to inquire into the causes id the abandonment of the Berk-
shire Camp, dilated upon some of the military and political
lessons of the late war, aml also adverted to the abolition of
Purchase.

Lord De La are thought that the Government hail acted
wisely in modifying theoriginal plan.
Lord Truro sail that the Government deserved the thanks
of the country for having originated this campaign, and
thought that the plan, although modified, would give in-
struction both ii officers and 111101.

Lord Hertford thought that the time had mane by for a
Royal Commissi,m, but questioned the etheieney of the trans-
port department.
Lard Xorthhrank explained that the new maraeuvres were
designed to test not only strategy 1110 11 the plan ad the Prus-
sian autumn reviews, hut also the efficiency of the transport
department. Recapitulating the Milan ovements in Army ad-
ministration carried and by Mr. Cardwell, he appealed to Lord
Stratheden mat to press Ids motion to a division.
The motion was then withdinwn.

The Lord l'hanceNr, declining to accept the suggestion of
Lord Redesdale to I;ostpone the Reductions ex Capite Loth
Abolition Bill in 041%0111.1, 1;1 Lord IL'oliinsay's absence,
moved the third reading.

Lord Hedesdale gave the history of this hill as exemplifying
the evils of the small-honr system cf the other house, and
recommended that, as nothing could he known in Scotland
of the hill, It should I,e postponed until another session.
After a few words from Lord Halifax. the bill was read a
third time and passed, awl their lordships adjourned.

In the House of Commons, Mr. W. Johnston gave notice
that at the earliest possible opportunity he would call the
attention of the House to the arbitrary and unconstitutional
action of the Government in endeavouring to suppress by
force a peaceable procession of the apprentice boys of Derry
on the 12th August.
Mr. Dixon asked whether there was any fonnation for the
rvinour that the examiners of the Science and Art Depart-
ment. after having made their reports, bad the papers re-
turned to them, with an instruction to reduce the number if
successful candidates, as an intimation had be;al given that
the amount of the grant into upon those papers must be
reduced by t 2.0.400 : and, whether, it this rumour be correct,
the grants to which the teaLbees were entitled, ne,ordillg to
the understanding tip. Ii which they worked, would net he,
reduced to one half.
Mr. Forster said that no 5u..11 minion. hail reached the
Science and Art Department, awl there was no foundation
for it. . . . .

Mr. Bruce, replying, to Mr. Anderson, saint that it would
he seen from to-days papers that a betting agent had been
prosecuted and convicted and several I ,thee ca,es were
heing investigated, in ice to ascertain whether the evi-
dence would Justify proseen t ors.
Mr. V. Harcourt made a personal explanation in reference
to the recent fbate on the ltoval warrant. lie had in the
course .4 that debate stated tliTit the statute 11 diaries IL,
to which the Solicitor-general Mel referred, was repealed,
and that statement had afterwards bertl dented by the right
hon. gentleman, who sail that the part to which he referred
was not repealed. He had examined the statute book, and
found that Oa, only pint wl deli was unrepealed was a portion
of the prefou,de nshfnin had no legislative force whatever.
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The .*i.ealier the I Hoer !louse to hear the
Itii) al li,scat .aiveit by oiui,a to bills aAreed Cu loy both
If uses.
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In answer to Colonel North and Sr J. Hay it was explained
Mat Mr. I. Puff and sir 11. Storni that hre,ll-loaders have
I-I,wat h k India for all European Ira pa. besides reserves,
to4t.lllel° with ah,olt Slit l litililil r. mad, of :innaaniti..n.

Mr. C. seeley moved for is Royal Commiszii el to inquire
int the best filealis of rgising and mgailiznig our military
i"reeo, print only for home defence, lint adeqttately to enable
iiiir treaty obligations and maintain the
Interests of the c 'entry at as moderate a cost as possible.
Admitting there 40i40 110 chance 111 an invasion at
present, as we laid the einuplete command of the
sea, he p.intell out that the balance might be redressed
against us at any moment, and it behoved us to settle all
thew matters w Idle we had tithe. With the arrangements of
tho War Mike, nra far as they hart been explained by Mr.
tardwidl, he professed eSireille ilissatisfacti in, arguing flint
their propo,ils for ke:'phnre into lime f prn.nentinri, fin.ol.tain-
ing soldiers by short service by the incline of employment in
the Civil Service, Its.. were ton vague and inaccurate to be
relied on. Among ether advanta,ges to be derived froni a
commission he anticipated that it would compel the 1;i vern-
itient to state their views acentintely on these points of or-
ganisation. It might also settle what forces it would be
necessary to keep up it mialit also consider the probabilities
of an ins-ant 11, 110 W and by what force it would be carried
out, as well as such minor peints Ira how long It takes to train
is Mao, what sort id man makes the best soldier, and what
would lie tire l.ruallizatimi and eost of our army five years
hence. Anil, filially, lit. ShoWeil that a matins:nun would
neither create .1v1“:, re iieakemi the responsibility of the
tii.vetnment. . .

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Mr. W. Smith seconded the motion. insisting that an
emergency existed in the impossihility if getting soldiers,
and arguing strongly iigainst the short service system as
Oiling the ranks with p.ting men, and, therefore, ruining the
etticjency if the Army.
Mr. Cardwell, in a hrief speech, declined altogether to as-
sent to a i'ommission, taking sn the War (ace the whole re-
,isaisibility lin all tic-se feints, :not panting sat that mint
a them were unfit to be referred ti a eitininission. He
,Irnied that there wits any difficulty insetting men ; to the
rontrary, lam rank, acre full, and he defended once more
the short service systeni.
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The dist:maim wal confirmed by Lord Mello, Mr. Aytonn,
Mr. Percy Wyndham, Mr. Eastwiek, and Mr. Maelie, after
which the motion was withihawn.
The House went into Committee of supply on the Army
Eitthiates.
1,0 1, -to 9, a long fuel only slightly reportable discussion on
the workiwz..i the Contagious Diseases Acts WaS raised by
Mr. W. Fowler, who moved to 1 the pay of the police
employed under the Arts. He took the opportunity id di.
eussiw.± the revolt report of the Commissioners, and threw
from it materials for Impugning the principle of the Acts.
M, Denby also sp. kr earnestly against this legislat Pm, and
,rarni.:l the House against 41eptrting in these matters from
moral mincipb, founded on i'hristiamity.
Eruc.,, on behalf of the Government, urged that it was
thipmisible Sr..- thorn to sweep away th?se Acts at mice in the
face of the evklcin :IA to the 11110i1111,1,011 • 4 vice:mil disease
which they hail bronght slant, and of the admitted necessity
to replace them by legislation of a wider character, as to
which the Government hail not had the opportunity yet to
make up its Mind.
Mr. 'ripping approved the general working 44 the Acts,
and with much antiquarian learning—going back as far as
40 centurie&—ar.med that repressive measures lint always
failed. Mr. Mundell% on the other hand. 11/posed the Acts,
and quoted SOO.' of the nest unsavoury details of the evi-
dence against them.
Mr. G. Gregory complained of the unfairness of calling on
the House to decide in the absence of the evidence, and Mr.
Percy W)ialkain condemned the not always uLLi ll tentional
misrepresent:di°l.s of the opprments of the Acts : while Mr.
ft. Gurney supported the reduction of the vote with a view
a stopping compulsory examination and, titter some ide
weapons from Mr. Cardwell, deprecating preeipitate judg-
ment, Mr, ruwl,4,'a amendment was negatived by 56 to 44.
The renetinin.,,, Ariny Estimates were completed, and,
though many of them were minutely rally:Imo!, there were
Pinny coniplaints that the lateness II the period and the
thinness if the House prevented theni being adequately con-
ed. Mr. Eybuols' attempt to disallow Captain Welles-
ley's salary as Military Attaeld, at St. Petersham Wa4
defoated by 56 to 13, awl 2.1 r. Anders, oi ions equally lIIISIIC-
-I,s+fd With a motion to strike out the coloneleies held by
staff ink ers— being beaten by 57 to 12.
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After the Supplemental Estimates tor the expetmei of the
Arm, YorrhaAr comnile.slon hail been voted, the Civil Ser-
vice E.,,;:aatea were taken up and completed. and the other
rulers were 111,110 theti of, and the Ilona° adjourned,

In the llon,cf Amrust I, after a brief explanatiloi
fr,.m the Duke,! t. Albans, the Epping inrert mu was
read a second time.
The Earl of M..rley explained tia: provision:int the Metro-
polis Water 1311, whieli ova read a sus.nal time.
The Elementary Eincal..n At (IS70) Amendment Bill.
the Local Government 11314.0) Bill, and the Ttirnnike Acts
isontinuance, A:c.. LIII w..•re read a time,
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The Merchant Shipping A,:ti Amorlntent bin passed
through committee, awl their lordships inljoitimed.
In the House of Colliollril, Mr. straight gave notice that
early next se:tabor Ire should •ali attr ntion to the statutes
relating to betting, and move I.e a xt,1,1 committee to in-
nuke into their operati,n, with a vi,•w of foooolinz some in-
awl rousotilating
In reply to Mr. Eastwit lc, Mr. ill- tone add the feeling
a the Mouse, as shown by the di; -ice!i Friday, might be
a' opts.! as re 3.-1,1 :01y rotary for Foreign
Affairs Alexi,' reconsider the Imo a in f..roe wnli regard to the
areeptance tiii wearing of foreign decorations by British
subjects, in 0r4.,r to see if it were poseible to relax them.
In reply to Mr. 130.431i11a, the Marquis of Martin:don said
to had received a eorntinott..2 tb al (.111 Mr. tr Darien, a stipen-
diary magistrate, stating that he had not refused to grant to
eitizeis tif ltut,tl,r ri 1:11111111"11., axainst r, police-romtabh, fur
all weettilt alleged to have liven commuted on the 11th of
August li. the Ilion' x Park, lint merely used his 4cretionary
of ,ferriou. Wad about to he
rtietd. It Was not the prartien lit the it:..verioneirt to furnish
the Howie with cold.a of the opinion of the law officers of
ths Crown in 11A/11111 In. reference to the rights of the Crown,
and of the public to the use of the ?lands Park, Dublin.
In reply to Mr. Downing, Mr. Stansfeld said he hat eon-
tattered several renorte made by the Poor-law Commissioners
for Ireland in reference to the law of removal of de-albite
poor persons from England and Scotland to Ireland, and lie
thought It was worthy Oi inquiry whether steps should not Ire
taken to amlmilate the laws of the three kingdoms.
In reply to Mr. C. Seely, the ClemeOlor of the Exchequer
salt: it W 1.1.111.1 tljniCtile to give a mtufir of all Persons re-
ceivfois Payments front medic funds, and suds a retuni
would Communicate very little information. Ile would en-
ibtavour to have the extimates made more complete by
giving tlfri Dann!. Of persons In the receipt of money.
In reply& Mr. W. U. Smith, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer stated that a letter from the Inland Revenue Office,
intimating that chemies drawn In behalf of benefit build-
ing societies were Hulas to stamp dtitieS, was not written at
Ms instance, but a large sum of money was Involved in the
question. An otter on the part of the Inland Revenue to
refer the matter to the Court of Exchequer had been de-

viined, and otter the refusal he could not consent to post-
pone the decision of the question for three mouths.
Mr. Forster, replying to Mr. Denman, said that his attvio
tion had been drawn to the letter of Dr. Edmunds this moil-
ing with reference to an alleged case of Asiatic cholera In
London, ant a medical officer had been sent by the Privy
Connell to report. From his report there was reason to
believe that it wan not a case of Asiatic cholera, although
there were symptoms at tint which must have excited sus-
picions that it was such a ease. It waa a case of sporadic
cholera, and he regretted that Or. Edmunds had not aliV svd
the sanitary authorities, instead of causing :darn' by %riling
to The Time,

Sir S. Northcote said that the Friendly Societies Com-
mission hill hail been lir, aight in in consequence of the
mport of the Royal Commission, of which lie Waa chair-
man. Although the proceedings of that committee were
rather friendly to these societies, the bill had canoed
sonic alarm amongst the representatives of these societies.
Considering tile lateness of the session, he asked that the
bill might be withdrawn, sail he wished also to suggest
that two members of the Commiss,:i should he alhovtql
to he a quorum in making th6r
country.
Mr tot-el that the slit lion I, riot hiatt e,erci,ed
it iii ,e tom MOO' cilcionstanec,, and lie w otild
c.insent to withdraw the MIL and to adopt the smai,tion
with reference to tlie nUniber of VOlUalladlalelli who should
tuna a tillorinn.
11r. W. H. Smith gave notice that early next session lie
would move for leave to bring to a Idll for the appointment
of a Secretary of otate its head of the local 11.., erimient
0111..0, and tu abolish the Local tioverunient hoard.

The report of the Uotwaittre of kupply WAS brotight UP
and a,Terd

The report I It!e Committeto of Ways SIM Meang wag
brought up and agreed to.
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The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was broimlit
in anti read a first time. .

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011 the Lords Amendments to the AcMY Bill being again
taken into consideration, .

Mr. Fawcett delivered a powerful speech against the re-
sort to Prerogative, pointing an impressive warning by re•
lettuce to the use which might be made of it lip a Ministry
bidding, for instance. for I. lir:montane support in the
matter of Irish education or on such a question as the pre-
SerVathill I orell future Whilehe professed his extreme sur-
prise at the Radical sanction given to 5 step which enabled
the Executive to snap its lingers in the face of a Par-
liamentary minority, and to destroy every guarantee for
Parliamentary independenve and liberty. Nine!) as he ipit•
jected to an hereditary Legislature, he disapproved still
more strum:ly defeating the other House bv a weapon
which this Mouse would dislike to hare applied tnht.oelf -oat
further than this, if the House of Commons were to eine
Moue no its present footing of merely representing the
majority and not the entire emninimity, he ,loiald iavfer to
e the influence of the 5t0.11.1 Chani tier widened.
From this Mr. Fawcett diverged into au elaliorate
Plan for the reconstitution of the Rouse if Lords by giving
senatorial rights to eminent public servants in the military,
legal, colonial, Indian, and I other services. On this occasion
lie sympathized with the unwillingness of the Lords to pro-
ceed until they were satisfied that political patronage—which
was infinitely worse than Purehase—was not tin inc Mtn alueei
into the administration of the Army. If this act had liven
done by a Tory Ali ll ister it would hare net, passi 111 l ately in •
nonneed IT Mr. Waditone I the applause of the whole
Liberal party.
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The Attorney-aeneral treated as alisurd the fear that the
liberties of Parliament or the people were in danger now.a-
days from Prerogative, lint that was not Prerogative
in the matter. The Act of Ise!) gave the Crown power
to dispense with its provision i s n regard to commia-
filoll3 in the Army, out the Royal Warrant simply
declined to exercise that dispensing power any longer. Id
course It would have been more satisfactory had b.oth Houses
concurred in the abolition of Purchase, lint in the difficult
situation in which the 13overumant was placca the Roy II
Warrant was the only way left ti theta to get rid of an ad-
nutted scalulal.
After lengthened criticisms from Mr. Harcourt,
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Mr. Gladstone pointed out that to have proceeded by
Wanant at first would have assumed that the House of
Commons of its own authority Colliti compensate persons
who bad habitually broken the law. Reverting to Nlr. Dis-
raeli's speech of the other night, he admitted that it was
difficult to reply to his argutnent that the consideration
for which the house had agreed to pay a large sum of
money hail disappeared front the bill. and that Purchase
might be revived as it hail Iteen abolished. lint that, he
pointed out, was the doing of the Hon.: if lorils; and be
was content to trust to the vigilance of this !louse to prevent
any such act. To Mr. Disraeli's challenge to say whether he
had advised the Crown to issue the Warrant ou Statute or by
Prerogative, he replied that Inc had advised 11cr Majesty that
she was its possession of a legal power, and that au adequate
necessity existed for exercising it. Front lanli there hail been
a statutory power in eNistence authorizing the Queen to per-
mit a certain thing which she stow hail declined to permit.
There was a precedent for proceeding by Prerogative
after appealing. to Parliament in IS4O in a proceeding relating
to coolie emigration. Of course it was a grave proceeding,
but the great justification was the impossibility of otherwise
putting a stop to the flagrant and crying evil of over-regula-
tion prices. This Mr. Gladstone repeated several times, and
concluded by saying that, though he till not undervalue the
cirtsure of the Lords, he appealed to the public opinion of
the country for his justification.
After the discussion bail been continued for some time,
in which several hon. members took part, the Lords' amend-
ments were agreed to.
The Vaccination Act (15137) Amendment Bill WaS read a
third time and passed, an attempt to strike out the clause
relieving a recalcitrant front further penalties after Ito has
beco fined 30s. being defeated by Sr to 13.
There was a Anal hiacitsinit on the second reading of the
bill to amend the Glebe Loan Act of last year, which was olt-
jected to by Mr. 1,,t, Mr. Kinn:tint, Mr. Anderson, and
others ; but it was carried oil a Division by 34 to 34.
41n the consideration of the Customs and Inland Revenue
Pill, Mr. Miller made another endeavour to exempt fl.lll
taNatilla agricultural horses or carts used on Sunday for con-
veyance to church. It was opposed by the Chancellor of the
Excite,' ner tn line gnaind of Ins general objectiims to exemp-
tions, anti supported by Mr. NPLaren, Nlr. Kinnaird, Mr.
Parker, and others. On a DiViSioll it was negatived by 42
toil.

The (Imin (*aides and Anchors hill was passed through
Committee.

The Military 31an0envres Bill was read a third time and
passed.
On the Tools' Amendments to the Sunday Obsel,lllue Pro-
secutions Bill being considered. Nlr. (barley, to mark his
sense of what Inc considered to lies breach of faith on One
part sof the Government, moved their rejection ; but he 0,1,1
only follow 0d IJy 5 InvinherS W2ainst 44.
Mr. Bruce announced the withdrawal of the PriMlll Minis-
ters Bill, which was received with stoning expressions of in-
dignation by Mr. DONVning and Mr. Maguire. The Brixton
Prison Lill was also withdrawn.

The i'vtrokum aml several other liallS,lll.ol 11,11, far-
waraol a Stage, 111141 the House aajournol at 20 minutes
past tw4F o'chock.

to the House of Lords. August 10, the Loyal assent was
given by commission to the tollowing• hills :- -The Lodgers'
61.11,ds Protection Bill, the Industrial and Provident Societies'
Prot....Hon Bill, the Reductions, es ropihr Met, Alx.lition
Bill. the Church fluvial Rights Amendment Rill, the House
of Commons Witnesses Bill, the Limited Residence Art
1,71.1 Amendment Lill, anti a number of private bills. The
Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Martinis
of Ripon and Viscount Halifax.
The Epping Forest Bill, the Elementary Education Art
1h70) Amendment Bill, the Local Bovernment (Ireltuel)
Lill, and the Turnpike Acts Contimumce, Au, Bill passed
through l'ommittee.

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The Civil llt Courts Ireland) Bill awl the Expiring Laws
Continuance Rill were read a second time, iind their lord-
ships adjourned.
In the House ,t 1 Commons, Sir 11. Stmks, in replying to
Mr. Maelie, said that it was intended to use traction engines
in the forthcoming camp ot main euvres.
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Mr. Marne asked the Chan,llor of the Excheurier, whether,
if the Customs and Inland Revenue hill becomes law as it
HOW stands, he Willad allow carts and ln,rses kept exclusively
for agricultural puns noes to be used by fanners without hire
for the conveyance, to and from church or chapel, of them-
selves, their domestic servants, and their children, when the
weather or the roads were bad, provided such use, being
thus dependent on eircmustanues, was only occasional.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer could not arrogate to
himself the prerogative, as it was the fashion to call it, of
making such an exemption from the law. and if he were
inclined to 111 so, lie had T. means of knowing wluther the
weather or the roads were had, or whether taking persons to
church bong dependent upon those circumstances was only
occasional.
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The C hancellor of the Exchequer, in answer to a further
question from Mr. Mule, said that he did not think it desir.
able to act upon the suggestion Una Postmasters in general
should be made vendors of stamps, as it would cause some
complexity of accounts, would endanger the revenue, and
would involve extra expense.
The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Eill was read a
second time.

The House then went into committee on the Pauper in-
mates Discharge and Begulation Bill ; clause 5, which pro-
vides for the detention of vagrants for three days, was,
after some discussion, ordered to stand phrt of the bill.
A long discussion took place upon clause 9, which provides
that hoards of guardians shall provide such casual wards,
furniture, 'to., as the Poor Law Board may deem necessary,
and on the question that the clause stand part of the hill,
the Committee divided s—For the clause, ass: against, 25 ;
majority, 11.
The clause was therefore agreed to.
The remaining clauses were then passed through com-
mittee.
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On the for the third reading of the Customs and
Infant! Revenue Bill, .

M. M.Laren moved that the bill be recommitted for the
purpose of introlucing a new clause providing that the use
of a trailing or agricultural cart or horse on Sunday, for
carrying the owner thereof r his family to or from any place
Of worship, should not render it lieresiutry to take out a
licence.
Mr. 11. P.. Brand said that he had voted for the motion last
night on sentinnuttal grounds, hut as it had been then de-
feated he could not now siipmwt it.
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Mr. Made Palmer, Mr. G. Gregory, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr.
Parker, and Sir Massey Lopes supported the motion, whilst
Mr. Anderson opposed it.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the question
had already liven twice debated and decided upon, and it
waS it right that advantage should be taken of the forms of
the house to renew arguments which had already been heard
and rejected. If this exemption were agreed to it would
have to be largely extended ; and as 050,000 was dependent
upon the house duty, he declined to do anything whidi
...At jujuo e the pouibility of collecting the revenue.

DAIII.II thought the bon. member was perfectly justi-
fied insenewing his motion, it having been defeated on the
first occasion by a majority of only four, and onthe second
cc act... by a majority of one. The altemtions which had
been made in the law by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
bad caused the greatest irritation throughout the ecuntry.
TM, 1.1 always been an exemption hitherto, and he should
Vote fur the motion.

The Ilonse divi.leil,—For the third reading, 45 ; against,
19: maj 'city, 16. The hill was then read a third Hine and
passed.
ilonse went into eommittee on the Ghetto Loan (Ire-
land. Art (1070) Amendment Bill, :Ind the various clauses
having Ilenu egret-ii to, 011 UW11106410( the Solicitor-General
for ireland, the hill was read a third time and passed.
Colonel Clifford, the YA•eman Usher of the Black Rod
summoned the speaker and menilkers of the House to
attend at the tar of the Upper It ,nine, to hear the Royal
assent given by eoluniksion to bills agreed upon my both
tin uses.

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On goim Into committee on the Prevention of Crime fill
several clauses were agreed to.
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On Clause 9, M. MiMU pointed out that every year there
were turned out upon the world numbei a of criminals, for
whom there was no chance if lb ing respectably and honestly,
and hence arose the necessity for continued legislation upon
the subject. Ile hoped the Government would endeavour to
devise some means whereby tho=e who had been once hn-
',rimmed might have a chance of reforming their lives.
The remaining clauses of the hill passed throngh com-
mittee, and the other orders having been disposed of, the
House adjourned.