The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

w DEBATE OF THE FUTURE.
Imperial Parliament. Monday, June 21, 1876.

The House met at tour o'clock, It being the Hebrew
Chaplain's turn to read prayers, that ceremony was performed
by the Rev Dr Adler, whose magnincent Imonation exalted
much admiration.

Petitions being no longer presented since the manufacture
of those articles was suppressed, the !meeker, the Right Hon.
S. 11 Walpole, who had been unanimously elected for his
great knowledge of Parliamentary practice and for his
affable and hydniallo manners, calked for any questions
which members desired to put.
In answer to Lord Stanley, Si, The Bright said that he
was furnishing the British Army as rapidly a. possible with
the new fulminating powder, sad as War Minister he was
glad to say that he believed the novel invention would he
most destructive, though, of course, as a Member of the
Cabinet, he trusted the war would be avoided.
In answer to Lord John Manners. Sir Ernest Jones the
Solicitor-General) said that It was the intention of Govern-
ment to proucute the persons who held • riotous political
meeting on Shakspeare 11111 (late Primrose 11111) and had de-
stroyed the oak. Be regretted that Comervatives should so
misconduct themselves, but they must be taught to respect
the law (Cheers )
In answer to Mr. Whalley, Sir Goldwin Smith (the Home
Secretor)) said that (ho endowment et the Raman Cathie lC
priesthood in Ireland was working exceed ugly well, and
that Her Majesty's Government was cc t inclined to disturb
existing arrangements.
On the orders of the day being taken,
Lord t'rantoorec moved the Second Reading pf the Bal for
giving vides to l'aupers to Workhouses.
Mr. °igen motel that the Bill be read a second time ttat"
day ale months.. -Ile condemned the revolutionary, code et
of the Tory party. The franchise bad been made quiteeex-
Joules enough by the Reform Act of 1867, and he shopld
oppose any endeavour to give political power to thou elle,
were notorleuly unfit for Its exercise. To have become a
pauper implied, in the majority of case', either indolence,
incapacity, or Immorality and either of these nonditlerdi
disqualified a men from suing a vote rightly.
General Peel said that the honourable Member talked
cussed ttODPADM. (Order, order.) Well, he withdrew the
expression, and would substitute unimaginable bosh. Many
persons had become paupers from no fault of their own,
but from the working of • system which they desired to be
able to alter. The Honourable /dember had no sense of
religion, or he would not speak in that way of the poor.
Many of them were very lolly chaps.
Mr. Beale& said that this might be so, but jollity war not,
per or, a qualification for electoral rights. Gravity and
sobriety were better claims. The couree of the so-called
Conservative party reflected little credit upon them, end
they would not be allowed to overthrow our venerated
Institutions Lord Dleraell had said in the House of Lords
(Order, order)—in another place, that we were "drilling
into oligarchy" It wee perfectly untrue, tout oligarchy was
better than anarchy, and he for one would be no Anacharsin.
Lord John Manners said that when the Premier was
simply Lord •noberley he had used very different language
from that of his present subordinates and supporters, but
ever since he had taken his seat beside his venerable father,
as a peer of the realm, he had hidden all true Ilherality in
his gilded core net. Even Earl Gladstone had more advanced
view., and he I,lshLil that noble Earl were in the C•binet,
instead of conieulug himself with translating Confucius.
Mr. Bubb depreceted personalities, which he observed
always came from the aristocracy. Earl Gladstone had done
enough when, as Governor.Generel of India, he had re-
arranged the finance, of that Empire in such a way as to
make India prosperous, and provide for the speedy ex-
tinction of the National debt, which was now inconsidentble.
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Sir John Blight replied that be wished the boatelwahl• sod
I 'client Member would talk only of what be 11•041Piteed.
I though &Sibs cost of the Moue being deprived et lb ander,
I in almost every dept.. The Army—and he "Multi add, the
Navy, taking leave to say what hie honourable fraud the
First Lord (Mr. Roebuck.) ataid soy much latter, were
among. the noblest wof profai but fightlawgz........
to de eke were- Walla lb Willer
to support the weem that gave it, and let had
gladly Curled the. PRl'dbfranCisisista ever pthif plat
and low This IMU was of a revolutiefeup.•=wkr:
theobjeot qf ta pronsotue was Ps pet'
He had an canal good Wed to avoeitain Wriethgrithep *add
not be proseaujell for sedition:' (flaw, Marl I
Sir John Troil6po aid that his brother Barge& wily •
little hard on political antagonising, to whoa he might at
least concede the...od intention. whit% they had Wrayl
conceded to him. (Cheers.) Why thread not epenper have
I coat Did briberieria he admated that thaw might be
danger, but bribery having been aside impoullge by Mr.
Panch's Patent Invisible Franchise AU, he saw do isaims in
giving thews poor men the right of voting.
Mr Lucraft said that the pauper was without political In-
&ruction, and unless therwere prepared to sapplr the wait.
booms with the seveaty.liwo morning and ninety-tire evening
daily papers, an expends which hio friend the Chancellor of
the Exchequer (Mr. Lowe) might not view favourably, be
could not sanction the manure, even were It genuine,
Instead pl m manifeetation of Tory spite against our Consti-
tution.

. •
Earl Grosvenor war no enemy to the Constitution, and
indeed walked up Constitution Hill every day of his life.
(Ironical cheer,) lie had no doubt that allusions to the
Park were distasteful to many honourable Members, and be
was glad that they had the grace to be ashamed of ocrtsin
passages in their hlatory. Ile should support the 11111, as
poverty was no crime.
Mr. Mill begged to protest against the It proposition of
the nol(le lord To profess compassion for poverty we. need-
leas, all good men had that, but poverty repreeented crimi-
nality somewhere, as logic would show the noble lord.
Would it not be better to wait until poverty should be
extirpated, as there was every reasonable hope it would be
after • few years working of the lielf-Maintenance Act?
Sir Darby Griffith hoped that poverty would never be
extirpated. What would benevolent people have to do, se.
pecially females, if their pauper neighbours, whom be might
may they preserved, like pheattntg, were taken away? lie
hated this new-tangled tlylng in the face of nature, end con-
sidered that paupers, If kept in their places, were nigh.,
conducive to the benefit of society, as affording • held for
tits exercise of patronage and charity.
Sir Emelt Jones had yet to learn that we had a right to
keep people In penury that We might practise virtue on
them. As for this lila it was a bit of popularity hunting
and clap-trap, if not of the darker character ascribed to it
by hit honourable friend the Minister for War.
.

Lord Cranborne would not occupy the House long with •
reply, and he would avoid the personalities In which
Ministers and their friends had indulged so disgracefully.
The Cabinet was tyrannical and Its Mends were insolent
Of thin be Old not complain, for be expecte4 notnthig better
But he did compteie siert Wens in ravens or the helot..
and the oppressed were slandered as this had been, and he
hoped that at the coming elections the people would notion
who had sought to extend the franchise
Sir John Bright : We enderstand you—so will the people.
There were loud cries for • Weldon, and the Bill was
rejected by 492 to M.
The Punch Testhnonlal Bill, the Abolition of Bells and
StreekOrgarui Bill, the Folkestone and Boulogne Tunnel
Tolls Bill, the Night Balloon Truffle the Limnos on
Wings Bill, the Private Moons Bill, sod the Lunar Railway
Bill were severally advanced a stage, and the Rouse ad.
journed,—Punch.