The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

ASTOUNDING OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

The following has also been sent from the Colonial
Other :--

Further telegrams, of the same date as those already made
public from the Earl of Delmore to the Secretary of state
for the Colonies, intimate that the assassination of his Rot at
Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was attempted by O'Farrell
In pursuance of messages sent from conspirators in
this country which ordered the l'rince s death. It is
understood that O'Farrell was selected by lot to perpetrate
the crime, and that the attempt would have been made
when the Prince landed in state, but that an opportunity
of doing so without risk of injury to others did not occur.
The New South Wales Government offered £1.,000 reward
for the apprehension of each accomplice and one arrest,
considered to be important, has been made in Victoria
U. N. BRYANT.

-The Duke of Aritill strongly objected to the bill, because it
contained no provision empowering important districts to
assess themselves for the establishment of schools.
The Bishop of Lincoln thought that to make grants to un-
certificated teachers would be prejudicial to the future
character of the education of the country.
Earl Granville defended the revised code, and deprecated
any alteration of the principle, which had already worked
satisfactorily, of not paying where there were no results. lie
saw no necessity for appointing a minister of education, and
said full responsibility for all the acts of the Committee of
Council now attached to the President and Vice-President.
He ayproved of the introduction if the conscience clause _
Into the hill. and appealed to the Earl of Airlie not to press RECEPTION OF THE NEWS IN LONDON.
the amendment.
The Duke of Marlborough replied to the various strictures From the Morning Star of Monday.)
which had been made against the bill, and said the Govern- Probably no prince was ever snore popular than the Duke
meet did not sulanit the bill as A complete mea.sure, but of Edinburgh, or, as the peolde still love to call him, Prince
merely as an instalment to be followed by future legiss Alfred. his popularity had, perhaps. its first cause in the
lateen. pure accident of being just one too late for empire—an easy
The Earl of Airlie withdrew his tunendment, and the hill access to the favour of the multitude being among the few
was read a second time. compensations for being a younger son. But the large space
eeveral other bills were advanced a stage, and their lord- which he occupies in the hearts of the English people is
ships adjourned. chiefly due to his own frank, manly, princely qualities, His
In the Ilouse of Commons, Mr Dierrieli rose and begged early communiness with the sea gave him some of its own
leave to move an humble address to her Majesty, expressing, free grace, and redeemed he m n from conventionality ; and so
on the part of the House, its spnpethy with her Majesty. whatever he dint—whether he went tiger hunting, or shot
lie was sure that his voice would express the sorrow with pheasants, or went yachting, or made an after dinner speech
which the House and the country had heard the Odelligence —lie did it like, to parody a recondite (imitation, " a tine
of the attempted aseassinatiou of his Royal Ilighneas the young English gentleman," in whose soul there way net an
. Duke of Felinburgh atom if the prig. It is not a small thing that it can lie said
Mn Gladstone seconded the address He heartily con- with truth that, placed as he is in a position on which the
cured in the sentiment of sorrow contained in the addreee. blaze of publicity beats bright, and fierce, end incessant,
If the deed were connected with Fenianism, it added one 1 Rumour, whose breath reeks with scandal of those in high
more dark spot to the long list of foul deeds that have been ' places, has never dared to attribute to him an unworthy at
perpetrated by Fenians. It is not to Ise wondered at, therefore, that the news of the !
The address li-as then agreed to. dastardly attempt on his life should create mingled feelings of i
31r. Layant asked the Secretary of State for India whether . pain, anger, sorrow, and indignation in the minds of all alto I
the report of the fall of Magni:de and the death of Theodore heard it. The authentic account of the fact is quite had
seas Into. Al the same time he begged to congratulate the I enough to give rise to such feelings. But more than one
right bon. gentleman, and to express the admiration of the humourist has illustrated the tendency of reports to growl,.
!Muse and the country at the euuduct of the expedition by , they pass from mouth to mouth, and prior to the publication.
Sir R. Napier. i of the evening papers the most alarming form was given to this
Mr Disraeli, In confirming the report, rest MI extract from 1 unwelcome. piece of news. In the City of London a great
deal of exmtement prevailed Anxious messages were sent
the last letter from Sir Robert Napier, in which lie praised - •
the assiduity of the men under Ids commend to the offices of the Peninsular and Oriente.' and of the
The House then resolved itself into committee on the Diet' Panama line. and to Lloyd's; hut up to half-past one o'clock
established church, and resumed the pliscession on the first 1 they had received no information. In consequence of this,
of Mr. Glaulstone's resolutions, which Minns the necessity of 1 many discredited the report ; but it was widely enough ,
disestablishing that church believed to make the Duke of Edinburgh the one great theme I
of conversation. Dining-rime. and luncheons-wham f were
Mr. Watkin said he Munn' no fault with the resolutions ex-
cept that they were not sufficiently explicit He had always crowded, and the elaborately_ goVipierieningiCiay t ell . ergot
looked upon the Irish church as the greatest of all dangers for once to chaff the barmaid, at td t t rte I de a tention to
to the English church. But lie wished not to throw any the one all-absorbing topic. For a time ',useless seemed at
a stend-still ; stock was momentarily out of fashion ; a new
impediment in the Ivey of passing the resolutions, awl be
whine
obtained a victory over the thirst for gain. and men,
should therefore not tuove the amendment of as-huh he had
given notice. se intellects were nounshed . share lists and matured
Mr. Gond objected in tote to taking this or au other on
.prospectuses, . discussed the deplereble rumour with
question as a purely 'nib quest' . feelings into winch no interested consideratien entend.
Peep's: gathered iii knots, in Threadneedle -street, and rushed
Sir F. Heygete contended that they could not separate the
to the news shops in the Exchange • little before the hour
two countries in religious matters and maintain UniOn ill all .. ~ • ~
others, and moved an amendment to the effect that so long when the esteem, s papers come out. When they slid come
out they were bought up at once. After some minutes not
as the union between the two countries continued to exist the one was to be hail, and some persons—humble, but shrewd
principle of the established church should be maintained in speculators—who had bought a few dozen were en-
Deland and its endowment on a scale suitable an to the wants
of the population abled to sell them at a fancy price, which varied
from threepenee to eixpenee for a penny paper.
The discussion wan continued by Captain Grosvenor, Mn By and by fresh enmities arrived, and were as speedily
Dillwyn, Mr Gilpin, Mr. Aver-Ellis, Sir P. O'Brien, and Mr,
.„,,-, ---,et ;,1 iN, .• - 1 Deards with the ominous
Allen in support of the reeolutiou: and by 3lr. Dyke. Mr. e"'' .",. . •
words the assaseltri Tit the Duke' of Blinburgh,"
.or, in
Watrond, Mr. selwyndlibeteen, Admiral Seymour, 3ir E. K.
' sonic instances—striking a truer key—" the assassination if
Kerslake, and Mr. C. Bentinck against it. Prince Alfred," stared at you from every place available for
The O'Donoghne admitted that these resolutions would placards, or were flaunted through the streets by toys, who
effect a revolution In Ireland, but it would be of a peaceful Fuade day hideous with their cries. About half-past three
character, and carry blessings In its train. This wa.s a
o'clock the army nit newi boys in the City was almost largo
moment of just exaltation to the Catholics—their cause was enough to melte a respectable volunteer corps; some of them
triumphant. But it was not exclusively a Catholic triumph : $.O„ - ' ' • e • . f ti I A
seven ani eie t gimes n papers more lan lima . n
It Was a Protestant triumph as well. old lady wearing a large satin cloak, which looked as if it haul
Mr. Hormone said all sorts of arguments had been used been made in the tint. of Queen Anne, who, no dolibt,
for the maintenance of the Irieh Church except that it ful- animates' by the eommon anxiety. hail bought a paper, came
filled the object for which it exietenl. He denied that the rushing down Thremlipeeille-street after one of these by.,
present parlianient wrre not competent to deal with this insisting that site Mid been swindled, as there was notheig
question, and defended elr. Gladstone from a charge of In- eland Prinee Alfred's murder in the paper. The newspaper
consistency on the question if the Irish Church by quoting
boy has not epoch respect for old age. and instead of the old
comments from Tory and Liheral papers on the dehate on the .
lady getting the penny returned she got a great deal of
question in 1865. Ile taunted the Government with being badinage which most unquestionalay wanted finish. She
ready to make any sacrifice except the giving up of race. was' however, pacified by the explanation of a st.ping
Colonel Bantelot moved that the chairman report progress.
II e, t eine' as herself, and not unlike one of those shadievy
Mr. Gladstone appealed to the government to use their in-
geuartiors with which the genius of Lamb peopled the South
ffuence to bring the discussion to a rose this evening.
Mr. Disraeli declined to enter into any ouch arrangement, eot know Prince Alfred as the Duke of Edinburgh, did not Sea Home. Whether she could not find the telegram, or ilid
saying he considered it of importance that the subject should -
be fully debated. appear. She was pacified, auit vanished like a figure of old
After some discussion on this point, which led tons result, tapestry.
rue definite account In the evening papers greatly
the motion for reporting progress WAR agreed to. reFeved the anxiety which was at first felt, and as a
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the naiurel result the scoundrel who attempted the life of his
/louse adjourned. Royal Highness, and the effect the news would have at home,
In the House of Lords on April 28, the Earl of Derbe began to he disclosed. There appears no reason to doubt
celled attention to Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions on the that the would-be aseassin is a Fenian; and at this time,
Dish Church, and especially to the one which requested her therefore, when the Prince of Wales and his beautiful wife
Majesty to place at the disposal of Parliament her, interest have been so enthusiastically received in Ireland ; when
In the temporalities of that branch of the F,stehlishment. Parliament Is doing its best to repair whatever of wrong that
Fearing that the first of the Reaolutions, at all events, would country has suffered; when the heart of the English people,
be carried by a large majority. and reminding Earl Russell as Goldwin South eloquently says, is yearning towards Ire-
of the views Im had enunciated last year on the Church land; when a sense of political life and hope is once more
queetinn, he wished to know from the noble earl whether stirring in the breasts of those who till her soil : and all
he adhered tn the °Orden he had receidly expreseed that things seem combining to make her care not for the bad past,
a Minister who suddenly changed it opinion. on an tins piece of news was peculiarly jarring and unwelcome.
important political quest Mn seas unworthy the confidence probably no persons foil more indignation Rollin tho
of the country.. and whether the supporters of the aseassin than did the Irish inhabitants of the metropolis ; for
Gladstone Rrßolutiona itttended tn take atepa for obtain- whiD, in ennimon with hmen, Englis they remembered Hatt
Mg the conctirrence of their Lontehipe end the ection the cowardly act had a still more ridllimly character inmancil
of Parliament with reapect to them. Having tweeted oM to It by the fact that the fair young life which was aimed
the similarity if the present state of thinge to that which at had, lei far as it influenced the world at all, lettermen]
existent in Mee, when the famous Appropriation Clause was it kr good, they remenMered Mso DIM this was
carried through the House of Commene, Lord Derby re- another deed of blind, mad passion, the team of
pressed a hope that, no matter how factious was the Opposi- which their country would have to bear. noise who
Don, the Government woidd :dhow nothing to induce them b. have been attending the Central t'riminal Court, watelo
abandon their ditty of cempleting the work of Reform, and ing the scene which is being there enacted, feared I
insisting tied the voice of the new enlarged constituencies that in some way, this would would get in ri garbled form I
should be heard upon this mod important queetion ; and to the jury, and influence their minds. But there is no such I
that they would give no countenance tea pel icy. which could danger; and even if there were. the Lord Chief Justice, who
only introduce religious discord And animosity into Ireland, has throughout displayed such splendid fairness—showing
and create a serious and irreconeileable difference between himself to be the very model of ajudge—might be trusted to
the two Houses of Parliement. effectually remove from their thoughts all foreign coneidere-
Mel Russell, considering that the Heine of Commons was tie.. Some persons of, let us say, strong Tory proclitiließ,
on the point of deciding upon the resolutions, regarded the who were not very well acquainted with parliamentary pro-
course taken by Lord Derby as most extraordinary. To the gesture, thought the very Fenians were Waive for Mr.
charge of apparent inceimmetency on his part, he replied, as Disraeli, and that the Irish Church would be banished from
Mr. Burke once dill, that the inconsistency ef niceea win not men's minds end from Parliament. But these are pens.lis of
hicompatible with the eonelpitency if tile end. Ofle of the a too anxieus turn of mind. The Athemeuni Club filled the
chief objects of hie political life had been to odtablidi peace moment the rummy gut abread, and in many other dui. a
and prosperity in Ireland, and he justified his approval of similar interest was manifested. In the evenitig, at Drury
time reselutions, whilst an inquiry was going en which he Lane, at the Queen's, at the Hayinarket, end other heatres,
Milne'l haul prt meted, by the foot that that inqiiiry was not the national anthem e-as swig, and time audimices displayed
of yo extended a scope as he had asked for. He hesitated great enthuse:ism, of course regarding i as an expression of
wit to say Dust he had still a preference tor endowing the thankegiving for the safety of hie Royal Ilighnees. At Surrey
clergy of all penult/Mole in Ireleed, list finding that this wag Chapel yesterday the service was conducted by the Rev,
altogether kepi...Ali:able, he haul no choice but to vary Arthur Ilall, in the absence of hie brother. the Rev. New-
the means in order to preserve the consistency of the cent. man Hall. Ile preached from the text, '• Sly times are in
'to the quest'. if L. iril Derby, the noble earl replied, that Thy heeds." Ile said the deplorable event ellich hail been
it was nit intend.] to prop.. Mr. Gladstone's resolutions in telegraphed en Saturday illustrated the text, and showed
their lordships' house. The better way would he, if they that the lives and times of all persoio were in the haiele of
were carried through the (71111111101111, to embody them in God. It was through His providential interpneation that the
a hull, for a lull eummeted by a large majority of that house, deadly intention ,if the assassin was defeated and to lieu
and the sympathy ipt the greet bulk of the 'people, would be alone they should be thankful for the almost miraculous
far more likely to secure the assent of their lordsbips than escape of his Royal highness. At the close of the service a
any resolutions whatever. The noble earl alto uttered a hope special thanksgiving was offered up for his escape, and an
that the GOVernmellt Would not act upon Lord Derby's earnest prayer kr his speedy recovery from the effects of the
advice, for if they coun+elled the Crown to resist the delibe- seQutel. The public mind is even now not quite at rest ; nor
rate serve of the Commony, conveyed In a large majority, will its apprehensiene he fully allayed until further inform:l-
- would Came a cellieion beteeen tied Hoek and the tion is obtained, met the safety of Ids Royal llighnese is
crown such as had not been Witnessed for manyyreare. There placed beyond all doubt.
was no 'ninth., however, to ask the Crown to net upon the
request et one Meuse ; lett the iesolutions would be followed
by a tell, and he trusted that if the measure raise
up with the approval of a large majority, their lordships
would have the patriotism end good sense to accept it.
In the course of the disemeinn which followed. and in
which the lon' Chanceilor, Yoe (Smiled], the Duke of ArgYIL
/porde Halifax, liardwicke, sect Malmesbory took part, Lord
Granville inquired of Lend Derby what course the Government
were likely to take in the event of their haviaLa large
majority egainet them on the Residetlone in the House of
Commons: to which hold Derby replied that, not beings
Member of the Goveniment, he wept unable in .ay what their
determination might be, but he recommended that they
should not midge office, for each a Step nil that would not be
jmtitteit either by their duty to the Sovereign or to the
country.
The subject having dropped, their Lordship, adjourned.
In the House of COMllledel, the Reel of Mayo stated. in
reply to Sir. lIM, that the pro:eked hill of the Government
eclat'ng to the Irish land quadien alum pet feetly ready. but
he deeneet It useless to introduee Ike measure mikes there
vat a dem preseeet of LIS being NT? dictum/di; thePreent
AIWA, ia4 et ILE AU, Ifai MI. ilatitie St 110 attilitle.

The Prince of Wales received the sad news of the event as
he landed at Holyhead, and the Prince of Leiningen also re-
ceived a communication to the sanie effect. The Prince cif
Wales, as may readily be imagined, was deeply affected at
that intelligence, and there was a gloom caw on the Royal
party which could not be dispelled by the hearty welcome of
the large crowd at the landire,place. or by the general re-
joicing at the safe return of his Royal Highness.

There was fl-eat excitement at the Commencement of
business in tendon, on Monday morning At Lloyd's. the
Jerusalem, told the Jamaica Coffee-houses the only topics
discubsed were the attempt on the Duke of Edinburgh's life
and the defeat of Theodore at Magda's. At the Stock Ex-
change quite an ovation took place, whilst deep sympathy
was expressed lIIIIOIIa the members at 11w cowardly attack
spiel the Duke of Edinburgh ; great satisfaction was mant-
le:deck at the result of the Abyssinian expedition. The
National Anthem ~,Ts sun, and three times three cheers
were given for the Queen. 'The scene was one of mutt eat-
mutton, J t "lb ;Tally a Tarter o a baur t.ofora
11:4141w:so 0311 be powedeti "tit.