The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-08 00:00:00

FRfIESS OF BUSINESS.

The following bills were advanced a ,stage :—The Regis-
tration of Births and Deaths, Sanitary Laws Amendment,
Endowed Schools Acts Amendment, Consolidated Fund •
(Appropriation), Valuation Ireland) Act Amendment,
and Laugh Condi, Navigation Bills which were read a
third time and passed; the Turnpike Acts Continuance,
Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police,
Private Lunatic Asylums (Ireland). Post Office Savings Bank,
Great Seal Offices. Fines Act (Ireland) Amendment, and
Expiring Laws Continuance Bills, which missed through
committee; and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act
(l 83 Suspension, Commissioners of Works and Public
Buildings, and Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Bills, which
were read a second time. The Commons' Amendments to
the India Councils Bill were considered and agreed to.
The sitting was suspended until five o'clock.
The sitting was resumed at five o'clock, when the Lord
Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack.
The Clerk at the table announced that the Commons had
agreed to the Lords' amendments to the Public Worship
Regulation Bill, the Endowed Schools Acts Amendment Bill,
and the Registration of Births and Deaths Bill. The Home
adjourned. . .

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THE LABOUR LAWS.
In the HOUSE Or COMMONS, Sir William Fraser asked the
Home Secretary whether her Majesty's Government would
bring in, measure on receiving the report of the Royal Com-
missioners on the Latour Laws now sitting.
Mr. Cross replied that when the Commission had reported,
It was the intention of the Government to deal with the
question at the earliest possible moment.
GOOD CONDUCT WARRANTS.
General Shute asked the Secretary for War whether he
would consider the advisability of extending to sergeants,
whilst serving, the advantages of the good conduct warrant,
which was granted to corporals and privates ass reward for
length of service combined with good conduct, or whether
he would propose any other scheme by means of which ser-
geants might receive increased remuneration in proportion
to their very responsible and increasing duties, resulting
from the Short Service Act, and the consequent much larger
number of recruits and young soldiers.
Mr. Hardy said the subject of the improvement of the con-
dition of the non-commissioned oMcers must occupy the
attention of any one at the head of the War Department, but
he did not think that the good conduct warrant in itspresent
form would apply to sergeants.
THE RECENT COLLISION OFF DUNGENESS.
Mr. Knatehbull-Hugessen asked the President of the
Board of Trade whether, considering the recent fatal colli-
sion between the Hank,oie and the MilLbanke off Dungeness,
and the great loss of life constantly occurring in the Channel,
lifi " " , Point

he was prepared to station a life.ship at Dungeness .
and to provide a landing place off that point.
Sir C Adderley said it was no part of the ditty of the Board
of Trade to place lifeboats on the coast. That board did
place a rocket apparatus and life line on the coast, and they
had, he believed, placed both on the coast near Dunge-
ness. It was, he believed, the intention to make a landing
stage at Dungeness point.
PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION BILL.
The House proceeded to consider the Lords' reasons for

disagreeing with certain of the Commons amendments to " e _ -- -- --- -
this hill tie wages sometimes as much as a third; but more
Mr. Russell Gurney stated with reference to the excision of tHan this, it is not an unusual circumstance for a firm
the clause inserted by the Commons with reference to college to become bankrupt at a moment's notice and turn
chapels and the chapels of Inns of Court, that there was ants- the men adrift without any wages. As to the
chniery that ivould apply to them and he did not think the peremptory manner in which men are treated, what
clause absolutely necessary. With, reference to the proviso will " Anglo-Amerioan " say to 1,700 men being
giving, an appeal to the archbishop, it is true that the majority
of twelve which rejected it seemed small in number, but in discharged in one day by the Erie Railway tom
the number of eighty members who voted it might be con. pansy from their works in New Jersey, and left in a
sidereal a fair one. After reviewing the reasons given by the state of starvation? Without multiplying these inn-
Locale for disagreeing with the amendments, he pointed out dents, let me confidently say that at this moment there
that twos for the House to consider whether the point was are itt New York 20,000 British emigrants in a state
of sufficient importance to justify their insistence upon of sembstarvation who thought they could handle the
the retention of the clause at the risk of losing the bill al- pen to advantage' that there are at least 30,000
together for the ',resent session. Taking, therefore into
consideration the fact that the removal of this power of skilled mechanics in a similar I 1001tion and that so
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appeal would still leave the operation of the main purpose of great-has been the supply of labour over the deniand
the Act In full force, he recommended the House not to in- that since October last the men engaged in the various
sist on its amendments. manufactories in the several States of America. both
Sir W. V. liarcourt ridiculed the pretensions of certain North and South, have been placed upon half-pay.
members of the Episcopal Bench that their powers wer con- 'This I think, will prove that instead of the hundreds
jeered by DiVilllC right, anal coetended that the exercise of of thousands who have emigrated to the United States
the superinten
utiondin the Churg authority of
ch the archbishop was the basis
nder both the canon and gladdening the hearts of intending emigrants they
nt the constit of u
the common law can tell tales of woe which would prevent others
Mr. Disraeli: I feel with the hon. gentlenaan the Recorder following their example.
of London that this is one of the greatest questions ever , As to " Anglo-American's " statement that "he
brought before Parliament, at least in my experience. The always mixed in superior society," let those answer
right hon gentleman has total us, In moving that the anienal- who have spent some time time in New York. With
meets should be accepted by this House, that upon our
decision depends in his opinion the fate of the blll. What v cry special introductions it is possible he could mix
is this bill? I have ventured before to describe it as with the creme de la creme; but without this he would
a hill that was to put down Ritualism, ant some mem- have been treated by his employers as a simple
hers of this House have accepted that description. I am hireling, and in a far more derogatory manner than
here to repeat it—(cheers)—because I believe that it is a employee assume in this country. Ile speaks from
true ad accurMe description of its purpose. We may he the elevated position that he was allowed to occupy. I
asked what is Ritualism. I thank the answer is clear and
short I mean by Ritualism the practice by a certain por- treat the matter as a man of the world who has studied
lion of the clergy of the Church of England of ceremonials I human nature in every phase, and I more than ever
which they themselves confess are symbolical of the doe- 1 affirm that it is dangerous for the working men in this
trines to which they are pledged by every solemn contract country to emigrate to the United States of America
that can bind men to their Sovereign and their country to with the hope of bettering their position.
denounce and repudiate (cheers), and of all the false pre-
tences of this body I have already trespassed too much upon your space,
of men there is, in my opinion, none
more glaring or vicious than the pretence that they are part bait in another letter I shall be glad of the opportunity
of the great High Church party of England. The most able of commenting upon the emigrant's position both in
vindicators of Protestmtism, and the m.eat able opponents Canada and New 'Zealand, taking the facts from my
of the Church of Rome are to be found among the High own observation.
Church party, and In the most critical period of the his- --
tory of the Church of England, when the bishops were sent
to the Tower, the majority of those prelates were men of
Sigh Church principles. This bill has been introdueed to
put down a small last pernicious sect (cheers who are as-
minting a position to which they are not entitled, and one
that we isight in t to allow them to retain without grave and
due considerdtioo There is also another reason uhy at this
time I all, A mOO.lOllOl that the House should not take
a false step in this particular matter. I have hinted beta al,,
MA 1 Hill now express with more elearnesa nay con-
viction that however tranquil may be the general state of
Europe—whieh, indeed, with the exceptean of illle un-
happy country is .0110 101 general trommility—there are
sinmeies at work in Europe that are preparing a Period of
great disturbance. it may not occur in my time, or while 1

While some coloured people were being baptised
recently in the river at Nashville, one became unmanageable,
and seizing the minister, who was a stall mall, threw Win
over his head, almost drowning him
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-'l'here has thin year been a great falling if in the
riorgratiou trade if the Mersey. The returns ha- the month
fb: July show a reduction of 3,990 emigrants as compared with
the same month last year, while the decrease on the year is
49,355.
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With a view of checking the use of spurious titles of
nololity the French Minister of Justice hue issued an order
forbidding all .Indies, Mayon:, and other functionaries to
add titles to their names uuless duly authorised