The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-09 00:00:00

MPERIAL PARLIAMEN'i

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.he Rouse of Lords. July 4, the Lord Chancellor stsied
t was deairable to proceed with the Prayer-11,-k
nary Bill, and he proposed to more the second reading
irsday.
I Clanricardeit. Moving for correspondence relative to
,1 River rebellion, entered into the circhmetanchs, aid
r ex plenations.
.envi ile, while declining to enter Into the poneY o'
rring the Red River sett'etnent to the Dominionoo-
ut, explalhed shit the military expalition hod not
conquer rebell inn, but to mein In the phadeful trans-
Le province front the Iludserfli tray Company to the
in, Without defending CI! the acta of the 11,1121111011
nent previous to the Insurrection, they had, he
, since acted With singular Judgment, caution, and
Wu, and in perfect accordance, moreover, with the
GovernM.ent.
!broar.,on expressed his sattifsction that the Closet h•
•ed the utteir an Imperial question by mailing
trools*.o the It.bi
'fee Duke of Marlborough moved the second reading GI the
Benefices MIL which renders Illegal the sale of the next pre-
sentation to en edrowson. Ile admitted that the bill later-
fend with the rights of property, but contended that this
We Justified by the itnjuty anti diveredlt iidlicted upon the
Church by the traffic carried on tinder the present law,
Lord Camoys pointed get th it Roman Catholics were now
enable to present to any livings of which they were owners,
and the present bill would anioUnt to a confiscation of their
Properly.
A diemieston ensue,l in which the Archbishop of York and
the Melton of Winchester lump rted the bill, while I.,brd
"sires and 1.,r0l Salisbury bail great tiotibts its to so sellotra
no interference with the tights of properly. Rventtially the
bill waa read a StCOllll Cute, on the understanding that the
114,11410 n of its principles should be reserved Until the Com-
mittee.
tin the report of amendments to the hermit,. Resignation
lid!, the 'Bebop of Winchester Plll,l it had been I t rlllf 11 up by
the clergy aarepreeeided in the Lower Howe, f Conroe Ilion. I Ile moved a Osti.ee to elect the case ot lunatic clergymen,
which wee agreed to.
The !t nuestration hilt tem read • third time. no the
snotion that it do miss,
the iiianop of 1X inchester expressed hie extreme regret
that, consequet ce of the upposii ion of Lord Cairns, he saw lan chance of parehig the bill hi It, original shape. lie was
now "burred to accept only an instalment of the principle that . benefices (-Anted lot the her tilt if the parishioners and not ,
of the dent/men. lie Moved amendments striking out the
notices dealnitt with the deprivation of the benefice in came Iri h eikrioptcy, but giving the Bishop the mower, in canes of j sequeetratlon, to appoint the necessary number of curatee, I
wah suitable .elaries to be paid out of the funds otherwise I
",11.'.10 for the payment of the creditors
.Al,l Cairns defended the part he had taken in amending
the bill, which then parsed.
The Medical Act :lon, Amendment Bill passed a stage,
af nr a otscu•sion It which Lords Lichfield, De Grip, and I
8N In. ury took part,
Other bills were forwarded a stage, and their lordehlps
alourned

In the House of Commons the sitting opened with a lively
conversation on the position of public hulloesn and the recent
"count. 'lit" tit a oilstone commenced it by • small in-
etalment of the "Massacre of the innocents" Tne Real
Estate Strceeston ND, the Enclosure Bill, and the Mer-
chant Sid ppine Code Bill were given up altogether : anti in post-
pening the second reading of the Farliamen tars Elections Bill
Until Thursday week Mr. Gladstone remarked, in ambiguous
phrase, that while the Government could cling as long aa
they c odd to the hope of passing it, it woe not • very sari.
tultie hope The Lord Advocate also announced the with-
drawal of the Feudal Tenures and the Lands l'aluatione Bills,
With the Itssurance, however, that all the other Scotch bust-
hese would be persevered with.
Mr. Nykyll to k the opportunity of protesting on behalf of
the private member., particularly of those below the gang.
Wrap on his own side, against the recent "counts-out,- and
appealed to the Government to give them an opportunity of
elf aring the paper of their notices Ile was supported by fel-
staling—Mr. Ilibbert, Mr. R Fowler, and Mr. 0 Morgan.
Sir It. Hoare, on the other band, regarded them as • protec-
tion for wearied Cabinet Ministers against the long speeches
and tiresome crotchet. of would.belegislatorsl
Mr. Glatistone admitted in general terms the duty of the
Government to m•ke a" House " at the evening sitting, but ,
In extenuation of Frida)'s "break down " he urged that j
they had been sitting 4, hours last week, and he mentioned
also that this Session, owing to improved facilities for loco-
Motion ,presurn•bly the Metropolitan District Retiree, the
Power of the Govcriiment to keep a House in the middle of I
the evt nine had sentohly decrement!, and they had been fre-
quently indebted to the compasalos of independent
members.

lierseli deprecated a change In the rule. of the House,
preferring to trust to the good sense of members and the
tAet at tie Speaker But he suggested that at the nine o'clock
sitting there should be at least A quarter of an hcur'e grace
before secertail Mg whether a quorum was preeent.
The House expreised its gratification at Mr. le.irster's pro-
motion to the Cabinet by loud:y cheering him as he entered
the House.

---it.4..t-i'sideration of the University Tests Mil, as amended,
occupied the Hoene 111Itli put eight o'd. ch. In the lint
place a claws, was moved by Mr lientioek ex:epting from
the bill offices intended by the founders to be held by
members f the Church of Kialand. Ile was supported by
Lord J. Manners and Mr. Newdegate, but he did not preu It
to • division.

Lord' irilternanrlce's amendment on clause 2 which
brings " Heads of Houses" within the scone ,d the b;11, bei..g
accepted by the Government. was carried on a dtvistou by
205 to b 43.

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The moat important discussion occurred In regard to the
prospective effect of the hill. Mr Vernon Harcourt had oriel.
natty given notice to Include in the hill all colleges founded
hereait-r ; but he now moved a clause repairing that no char-
ter granted to a college ih ail he valid until it has been before
Parliament 30 days. Sir 31. Beach proposed to extend this
to Ireland, which led to some sarong criticisms on the
presumed Intentions of the Government with regard
to recriminationsl colleges in Ireland, their oppositinn
to Mr. Fawcett's motion fir opening Trinity College, Dublin,
and the Supplement.il Charter of 1066 bell g brought up
against them. In the end Mr Gladstone undertook to bring
In a separate bill dealing generally with the conditions tinder
which these charters are to be granted for the United King-
dom, and upon this assurance Mr. Ilarcourt's clanse and it,
M. Beacn's amendment to it were both withdrawn. The
point, however, aruse again imme,iistely after on an amend-
ment moved by Mr. Sinclair toun, to omit the words
which built the hill to " snhallitlyg colleges," and on this the
Mouse divided, rejecting i by 139 tot!. home minor amend-
ments were made an the bill, and
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The House ,st this time verythin, proceelel with the Com•
mittee on the E luestion Bill. and alter ...me little progress
had been made, the Committee again adjou-ned.
The Extradition hill was comsidered in Committee, and,
the utter orders having been disposed of, the Boum &d-
-immed.
In the Home of Lords, July 6, the University Tests Bill
we, read • first time.
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Lord Slott t“hury announced that he was not in • position
to proceed with the Ecclesiastical Court. iiill this Sessioo.
lhe report on the Irish Laud Bill was received, and Miele
lordship, then proceeded to deal with the amendments, and
after a few alterations of • minor or verbal characte, had
been made in the rernaluing clauses, the b ii was gone
through.
The third tenting FAS proposed by Lord Granville to be
taken on Thursday, on the ground that it was desirable the
L,tls' amendment should by takeu into consideration by tee
other !louse on Monday. At the instance of Lord Grey,
however, the bill was ordered to be reed a third tinie on
Friday.
Several kills were forwarded a stage, and their lordships
adjourned.
in the House of Commons, on the order for the third
tea- tf.g of the University tests Bill,
Mr. Greene tin the absence of the member for North
Warwickshire, who, however, entered the House directly
afterwarif rose to move the rejection of the measure. Feel-
ing, as he did, very strongly cm this subject, he thought the
question to he one of such vital importance that it should not
be decided without some expression of opinion upon it. Ile
did not orject to the bill on party grounds, hut he protested
against the interference with the governing bodies. The
whole tendency of the bill was to make the colleges purely
secular. He therefore moved that it be read a third time
this day three month..
Mr G Hardy, having taken a division last night upon the
extreme part of the bill, had not thought it wife to chalb nen
A division up-in the third reedit g. The House had accepted
the measure by a largo majority, and he 111 not think it
would be advantageous to take another divisien. The period
at which the provisions of the bill would come into operation
generally must he comparatively distant, but enrol its imme-
diate results would he to introduco into the Universities a
larger amount of controversial teaching thin had previouely
islet& there. In the smaller colleges thete might be almost
imntedlatrly a serenity for a purely secular system. No
provision had best, made that the re!igious tecching should
ho under those who were MeMben of the Church of England.
Much more had been conceded lathe Nonconformists than
they had oligh•ally asked for. Ile asked that if this bill
should be poised that the Universities should be allowed to
have rest, and to devote themselves to the carrying out of
the work of education, which had been much hindered by
agitation. Whatever might re done arnuld he hoped, be
for the bent fit and advantage of the country.
Mr. Pinker suppotted the MG, and urged that if it were not
passed it would be succeeded by a severer meaanre.
Mr. Flyer complained that the princ:p'e of conciliation
and compromise, without the exercise of which no vexed
question of this kind could be satisfactorily settled, had been
oeparte d from. They han neon unfairly dealt with, and
under these circumstance s he joined his protest against the
bill to that of his him. friend.
After remarks trim Sir M. II Beach Mr. Vernon

lla‘.r7i...;ui;ilr.—jiowbr;l74, and Col Beresford,
Mr. New degate said he or posed he hill, because it tool
away from the Church of EI gland It right, and it, pro.
petty, and trued to diseever the education at the l'idver.
eines from the Crairch Enough had already been concedei,
and be, en his part, would concede no more. The bill was
of a very peculiar character, and it was Poinded upon the
principle th it no lay n ember of the Chinch of England ought
to be considered entitled to claim, in virtue of his meniber.
ship, any r reference In the universities. whilst it pretended
to reserve to the clergy the privileges and functions that they
held as teachers In the uhiversities The principle was that
of the Church of Rome, and the bill might well have been
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drawn by • Jesuit.
The House divided—For the third reading, 247 ; against
111 •. majority, 134. The bill was then read • third time and
passed.
TM, Home then went into committee again on the Eciume
Mott Bill, which was again adjourned.
Mr. Lambert brought on Ins lonsppendingmoilon milling on
the 1101.0 to take some decisive step for minim:Bally and
gradually reducing the Natio.' deb!. Alter dwelling for
some time on the crippling effects of a heavy debt, and ex-
union gin detail Mr. Lowe's figures on this subject in the
hat huoget, Mr Lambert developed a planet his own for the
reduction of the debt, the easel coot which was the imposi-
tion of a special Income-tin oh 9d. or ti, by which the debt
would be entirely swept away in 35 or 44 years. We be
showed by • series of abstract calculations would enable the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to secure additional benefits for
the country by operation In the money-market and further
reduction of taxation
Mr. Pollard-Urquhart agreed entirely with Mr. Lambert's
premieres, but not with his conciliate., arguing that the re-
dection of taxation would be felt by the people more rapidly
than the redaction of the debt.
'the Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted fully the pro-
priety of reducing the National Deht, but he remat ked that
taxation was not an abstract science, but • practical opera-
tion, In which, among other things, the tastes end
prejudices of the tax-payers hod to be consulted. Mr.
Lowe proleseed Phased equally averse from both extremes,
front applying all the surplus to the redu,tion of taxa-
lion or to wii ing out tee debt ; but this certainly
was not an opportune moment for taking ally such de-
cisive step as that indicated by Mr. L.imbert, and his
finencial courage shrank from rich a task At the same time,
he pooled ien that within the last few years notch Pail been
done to tw:uce the dela. SIDI r Atoll 1 IS6n, some £7 4,0. WO
had bent c'earol 'II, and £4,000 0(0 odd this year In stile
port. too—or rather in extenuation—of the opporte pt-Icy
—reduction of t.xation —Mr. Lowe mentioned that though,
aince June 31, li•OU, £2.100.000 of taxes had been taken off,
the revehue had only teat onwtmith of that sum, £2,0,000.
Ile offered, however, to agree to the motion omitting the
ambiguous terms ''decisive slept," and merely affirming lin
general language the duty of gradually and substantially re- I
doing the Natio.' Debt.
Mr. Aid. rman Lawrence and Mr. Mace° accepted the I
amended resol,,li to, and
Sir John Lubbock, •lille deferring the itieeneelen to • more
pract.cal occasion, which be assumed would occur at the
very beginning of next Session, expressed an opinion that
the policy of reduciug the debt by terminatile annuities was
throwing dust In our own eyes, sod produced no morel t filet
whatever.
Mr lllingwor h was averse to • large reduction of the
debt if It were i fleeted out °I the ordinary 'editorial resources
of the country, but mistreated that the land should undertake
the burden.
After a few words from Mr. Liddell the restlution as
amended by Mr. 1.,,we was @greed to
The Life Assurance Comp odes Bill wan read a third time
and passed, and one or two bills having been formally ad-
vanced a stage, the House adjourned.

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In the Clouse of C 017101013., Jl 8, the Littlehampton
Water Bill awl the Ponlico. Peckham, and (trien etch Street I
Tramways Extenalons, &c.) Mil were read a third time arid
passed.
A. 11. Brown, In mowing the recood reading of the
Poaching Prevention Act Repeal Nil, explained that Ile ob-
ject wee to repeal Met pnriloo of the Gams Laws contained
In the Poaching Prevemion Act of igel That Aot bad tho
few{ of tango, polloomon Into psookoopora, oat by gfrlog

• .• to the police—gave rise to muy cases of
at the same time it had done nothing to
pci • lg. In the five years previous to the praising
01 vs° , ens no Increase 01 1.175 car,, of Poaching'
tel .re after the measure became law there had he, , '1,5 00 cases. He asked the House to re-
li• it had failed to do whist it was intended
an immense &monist of irritation in the
e •, seconded the motion.
• oVed at an amendment that the bill be
.day three months. The Act of logs
, 4 improved by the House of Common.,
•.m majorities. It had worked very
. : •
abling the police to seise poaching
,ken up the gang of poachers and
• He was not an advocate for over-
t he firmly belleVad that to repeal
t k, ird greatly increased facilities for
b
, to piecemeal levislation on this •
fro that as the 0 .verurneut had
pr. further waste of time should he
to of the bills on the sill :et
Shot •up. • . next session.
Ai, win, from Mr. W. Egerton, Mr. Andrew John.
Mr. C. 8. Reed,
Mr. ecretery Bruce said that if he hail not been pre-
vented front loin gin the House at the time of the Patti op of
the Act he shoubl have given It the most determined opposi-
tion. lie had, however, received no complaint of its wont-
ing, and it had tended to decrease the pillage of
farmyards, and to suppreu night poaching. All he
could unuirtaite to up on the part of the Government
was that, adniitting the strong desire on all side• of the
House thst tome reasonable solution of the difficulty should
he (cox& the Clavernment would take the subject into
their serious consideration ; but from the large number of
pressing questions which must be dealt with, he was not ran-
gullse as to using able to pass any measure lathe next mutton.
Ile hill.' that the hon member would not press the bill to
a Web ton which must go against him.
Atte • few words from Sur J Trelawuey,
The !louse divided, when the numbers were—For the
second reading. 62; &pallet, 110; moictity, 78. The bill MO
therefore rel
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Mr. T. ticghes moved the second reading of the Sunday
Trading 1311. Ile said that it had already passed • second
reading four times in that House and twice in the Mouse of
Lords. The present Mate of the law, including the Lord'.
Day Act, which aided from the time of Charles 11., was
practically a dead letter, and this bill being len stringent In
its provisions than the existing Act, would be likely to be
Carried out with p benefit to morality and to the due ob-
servance of the Sabbath
Mr. P. A Taylor moved, as an amendment, that the hill
be Traci a second time this clay six months. Ile urged the
house to pause before they legislated iii such • manner Into
restrict the comforts of the poor; and contended that Sun-
day trailing was a neceselty in the case of persons who did
not receive their warts until late on Saturday night, and who,
therefore, hail no opportunity except that afforded on tLe
Sunday of purchasing necessaries for their families.
Mr. Ryland& seconded the amendment,
Mr. J 6. Talbot supported the bill, pointing out that in
Shoreditch and other localities. Sunday tradli g was by no
Meant coulined to neon Searle& In almost •11 cases em-
ployers now paid their employ., e on Friday night, or early on
the Saturday. so that the necessity for Sunday trading
was entirely removed Ile maintained that the seventh day
of rest, which was so much required by the small tradesmen
and those inc their employ, could only be obtained by legis-
lative interference

—Th 111 w.. opp's4 by Mr. 1141,aren and Dr. Brady, and
supported by Mr T. Chambers and Mr. Bruce, and tter a
short discussion, the House dividtd—For the second reading,
li 9; against it, 64; majority for the bill, 45. The Mil was
then read • second time

The adjourned debate on the second reading ot the
Vac, Matto], Act 18,i7) Amendment Bill woe resumed by
Mr. Candlish, who moved that the order for the second
reading be discharged, aa the Home Secretary was willing
for a lull itivestigatinn into the subject to take place.
At or the subj.ct had been diacumed, the order woo dis-
charged, and the bill withdrawn.

The Juries Bill passed through committee; and the re•
rosining order, of the day haring been disposed of, the
House inljoureed.