The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-11-20 00:00:00

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with railways, nor could he admit that rail
ways prospered best if left to free competi-
tion among themselves. Government should
certainly interfere as little as possible, bat
it was for the interest of the public that

monopolies, having trading privileges upon
certain conditiocs, s!ionld be held to the
fulfilment of rlaose conditions by the strong
hand of the 6iat.e. Recoomising the un-.
avoidably- greater c..st of construction of
railroads in this country as an item which
could not but make the Cost of traffic higher
t'lan elsewhere, Mr. Mandell% contended,
however, that there was. a great deal of very
foolish competition, and excessive and unne-
cessary expenditure on many- of our lines,
and this, he considered, might to a great
extent be avoided by arrangement between
the companies. Mr. Mandella hoped that
when the whole matter came before Parlia-
ment it would be met in a broad and proper
public spirit, and that there would be an
absence of all bad feeling, and a readiness on
both sides to meet the just and reasonable
demands which both the trading and agricul-
tural communities are making. This is just
what the country at large is wishing, and if
the controllers of railway companies will lay
their heads together .to reform . themselves
up to the standpoint of public requirement,
they will spare their system rough handling,
and, while serving, their employers, the
people, add to their own stability and
material interest.

COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS.

MANY mem a Iw-were - -surprised- to find---

that on Tuesday Justice Butt Pronounced for
the petitioner in the Scett against Sebright
nullity snit. It was scarcely expected,
though there could be no moral doubt, 'after
the evidence, of the iniquity of the marriage
proceding, that the Court would decree
that a in oper and formal marriage at 'a
reeisirar'S office, to which both parties were,
asTfar as appearances could show, in full
consent, was absolutely null and void because
one was acting under coercive restraint, all
the however, being in command of
reason and knowing the grave nature of the
ceremony. "The knot once tied, all is
ended," so says old opinion, providing both
bride and groom are aware that the marriage
is a legal and binding one. Not so, says
Justice Butt, if either is forced into sub—
miss:on to the adjustment of the golden
fetters. This is a combination of common-
sense justice with law which the Britisli
heatt will thoroughly endorse. As to the
merits of the case, we need say little. A
"gilded youth " induces- an impressionable
girl, barely of age, to back bills to a large
amount without the knowledge of her rela-
tive'', and then under dread of exposure.
drives her into a clandestine parody of the
sacred marriage ceremony, in •order that he
mi.2,ht get a tighter grip of her wealth.
Su han one does not deserve mach public
sympathy if he is after all circumvented, and
hell ue,) for the world to witnesS as he is.
Ile will receive little, at any rate ; and,
bankrupt in honour as well as in purse, will
have to endure the centumAy of all true
men, and the detestation of every woman
with a heart. It is to be. hoped that poor
Mi_ss Scott, now released by English justice
from the trap which so cruelly held her, will
have the tender and kindly consideration of
society for the rest ot her days to come.
She has suffered intensely to shield one who
is branded by law as worthless in the highest
sense. Let the balm of silent piV hence.
forth sooth her "hurt mind."

SIR Henry Drummond Wolff comes home
to confer personally with Government as to
^ state of things in Egypt. It is as well
N
"Ra a roan of
_astEntenar-g_singt versed
ome diplomatic niceties as observed in
foreign Courts. He will doubtless
grasped the Egyptian situation. G 0..--
ernment have every confidence in his capa-
city. It is to be hoped that England will be
able to act upon the eonrse which he will
have to advise. The Turkish Commissioner,
Aluk tar Pasha, is also an able and under-
standing ran, and if, as is currently reported,
he and Sir Drummond are substantially at
one as to the necessity for a scheme of mili-
tary and administrative reform, all impar-
tially minded pecp!e would be glad to see
the Porte adopting on England's recommend-
ation the joint deliverance programme of the
two statesmen who have been deputed to
examine the whole question on the spot.
England and Turkey only are now concerned
in the matter. The rest of the Powers left
as to "tread the winepress" alone, they are
therefore entirely out of court in the settle-
ment. At the same time, we might assure
our French friends that, with all their ire
and envy, we shall be quite as glad to get
away from sight of the Red Sea, and the
Soudan desert, as they will be to know that
we have evacuated the scorching region
where so many brave sons of Britain are
buried. It would be more graceful on the
part of France, remembering her own cal-
lousness at the time when humanity cried
aloud for aid, if she strove to make Eng-
land's task of tranquilizing Egypt an easy
one, instead of embarrassing us as much as
possible by a succession of semi-official and
irritating utterances.

"1.

THE little incident of a visit or London
working men to Sandringham to express the
gratitude of the million toilers and their
wives and children who have, through the
thought and kindly consideration of his
Royal Highness, within the last few months
visited the Colonial and Indian Exhibition
at a nominal cost, was a pleasing one, This
drawing together of those about the throne-
and the common people is a Socialism much
better, more lovely, and more likely to be
lasting than the socialism championed by the.
Democrats who are striving to put London
into fear and trembling at all possible oppor-
tunities. That was a very innocent-minded
and. modest request on the part of the Feder-
ation people that Lord Salisbury should stay
in his official residence on Sunday that he
might experience the pleasure of a visit
from a batch of self-constituted champions
of the unemployed poor! Out of work, they
are so employed in searching for employment
on working days that they cannot then lay
their case before Government! The proposal'
was as presumptuous and impertinent as the
position of its makers WBs iinsuppotted by
the circumstances of the case. It was merely,
boy% ever, a hysterical flourish and a bid for
publicity by the defeated demagogues, V% 110
hive now been completely driven from their
tempoiary eminence by the dignified vindi-
cation of law and order by Sir Charles
Warren and his associates.

JUSTICE DAY is a courageous man, and pnr-
imes his searches after knowledge in the
grcat school of human nature Nvith an ar-
dour which would give pause to many of his
1..g:11 brethren. To pe::etrate into the
ig at of tht Rip Gang "7 at. Liverpool
on a
.Saturday Midnight, within a day or two
after he had sentenced some of the members
of that brutal saciety of thieves to hug spells
of penal !servitude, was a startling proceed-
ing, and not without risks. There is a teach-
ing to be had in such a visitation of celebri-
ties at home which can .not well be over-
estimated however,
.and one is heartily glad
that the judge met with no mishap in his
enterprising "slumming." The law must
get. a sympathy with the troubles and ditliL
galtieta .10W if Out of Wining thus closely

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