The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-24 00:00:00

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The provisions am to closing were enforesil in the
borough of lieigate (which includes the town of led-
bill) on Saturday night much to the annoyance and
lotolly-expessed indignation of most of the f requent.erg
of the publichouses, although the result was to make
tho town much mote tranquil, and at tot tallier hour
than has been the Case I'll a Saturday night for 3 ears
pas,. On Monday, at the borough Uench the Mayor
Waterlow) took advantage of the preemic,. of
a large number of publicans to announce that the
magistrates, tooking to the good of the neighbourhood
and considering the powers veated in them, Lad come
to the concluteion that it was their duty to strictly en-
force the new Act within the borough.

At Exeter, on Saturday night, a large bady of roughs
assembled at the clubhouse, hooting and yelling. They
quietly dispersed. The riots were continued on Mon-
day evening, and large crowds paraded the streets.
Open-air meetings were called, but no spteches were
made. The roughs smashed the windows of a confec-
tioner in High street, and, proceeding to Cathedral--
yard, did more damage. A large concourse of persons
paraded the streets up to midnight. After that time
there were no disturbances.

At Maidstone, on Saturday last, after the usual
sitting of the Borough magistrates, Mr. Superinten ,ent
Gifford received instructions to inform the several
publicans and beer-sellers in the town that the provi-
sions of the new Licensini Act would be strictly
enforced from that day. '1 he Superiutennent accord-
ingly sent round the necessary notices, and at eleven
o'clock in the evening the publicans scrupulously
obeyed the orders they hat received by closing
their houses at that hour, instead of at twelve o'clock
as heretofore. By far the larger majority of persons
were not aware that the new regulations had come
into force, and the houses were as full as they
usually have been on Saturday evenings. The per-
emptory orders to clear out, therefore, took many by
surprise,' and this led t • loud expressions of dissatisfac-
tion and much noise in the streets. Numbers of men
went about from place to place shouting and &mann-
ing to be served with beer and other drinks, but the
publicans refused their requests, and, with the assist-
ance of the police, who exercised a wise discretion
by not interfering too readily with the discontrnted
men, the houses were preserved from attack. The
disturbance, which had prevailed principally in High'
street, Week-street, King-street, Wheeler-street, and on
Gabriel's- hill.gradually wore itself out. and by one o'clock
on Sun, lay morning quietness again prevailed. On Sun-
day night, however. when the homes were closed at ten
o'clock, the disturbances were renewed, and at one
time they threatened to develop into a serious riot. In
various parts of the town mobs of people, headed by
a number of soldiers, were going about the streets
shouting, and denouncing the Act in no measured
terms. Finding that the force at his command was not
autticient to cope with the noisy mobs, Superintendent
Gifford communicated with Colonel Miller, who is in
charge at the barracks during the absence of Lieut.-
Colonel Tower at the Autumn Manceneres, and that
gentleman sent down a picket of 20 or 30 strong, be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock, under the command of
Sergeant-Major Woolley, who succeeded in making 15
captures of absentees from the barracks. While con-
veying these men to the depirt, the picket were sur-
rounded by a mob of about 200 persons, principally
roughs of the town, who hooted and yelled at them,
but did not make airy attempt to release the men.
Three civilians were also taken into custody by the
police, and were conveyed to the station; but on find-
ing that one of them was a respectable, peaceably-con-
ducted person, Superintendent Girard at once dia.

The Leicester magistrates have issued notices order-
ing that all public.housts be closed, in accordance with
the new Licensing Act, by eleven o'clock at night, a
committe being appointed to consider whether there
should be an extension of the time after the annual
licensing session next week. On Monday night, on
She publicans turninr, out their customers at eleven
o'clock, a large conismrse assembled in one of the
priacipal thoroughfares, and openly expressed their
disapproval of the Act, and an attempt to get up a
meeting was stopped by the police.

" A Looker.on " writes to The Times
The LiCwnsine Jitetices blond the metropolitan boundary
have so much dint, tionary power given them alto the time
of opening and closing under this Act thwt I am of opinion
the police must find it difficult to perform their duty without
being in considrrable danger of mattiug Inktokes. 1 will
therefore Bugged that it would be well if every publican
were compelled to have the hours fixed for hi-ening end
.closing bit house shown or. his licence notice-board. Such a
rule would save the police, the pub!ican, and the public
much nnnecemuly trouble and contusion.

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" E. Q. F." writes to the Standard :
Altkough your correspondent "C. W." has to some extent
egpigtseni the meaning of the 24th clause, Section 1, as to
the hours of closing pnhlic-houses on ordinary days in the
London district, yet his explatiation is not sufficiently clear
to all, not from any want of discernment on his part, hut
really from the roof thing arrangement of that clause.
"C. W." says that as public-houses nennot be opened I
before five o'clock in the mos.-log" tiny must necessarily I
close at tsetse, as by keeping open live minutes after I
that hour the morning ws obi hare commenced. Your
correspondent is correct SO far as concerns the open- I
leg of public-honses, hut be cannot inform me trim
the reading of the bill the time public-homes are obliged
to close in the London district foiled, although not
positively stated, 1 do not sec but that the magistrate could
have the option of closing public-boluses in the London dis-
trict at eleven o'clock, for in Clause '24, Section 1, imine-
enately after referring to the closMe of peiblie.houses on
holidays and all solemn feast days at eleven o'clock at night
the clause reaus, "and on all other day 3 before Live o'clock
on the following morning" 'Flits daub has either been
made complicated to serve some Government end, or it is an
error of their printers. It doubtless is the latter, as I re,dl
from a copy of the Licensing Bill as first presented by Lord
Kimberley in May last, the hour of closing at night, and that
of opening letn morning.
Any information that could be thrown opon this subject
would be esteemed by many.

In noticing the Licensing Bill, amongst other re-
marks, "An old Magistrate's Clerk" says in the
Standard :
As to the absurd blunder In the set about "five
o'clock on the following morning," of course it is unin-
telligible and indefensinle. What seems to roe far more
Inexcusable is the fact that the statue came into operation
on its passing, so that parties became liable to all sorts
of severe penalties without the slightest warning. I have
just been preparing summonses against numerous per-
sons for being in public houses after ten o'clock List Sun-
day evening of course, none of them had the slightest idea
that he was committing an thence and incurring a penalty.
Subsection 4 of Sec. hi enacts that in all cases of summary
‘acoeeedinge un Cr this act 'the defendant and his wife shall
cerwmpetent to give evidence." This is, I believe, the first
ii rtauce of such a provision for the proc,voirgs under the
'tcw and Servants Act partsne of a civil character. The
g4rnizsp.4l of a defendant in a purely criminal prosecution
and his wife to give evidence Is a highly important and re-
markable Innovation, and one which opens a wide door for
future leglAlation in this direction.

Mr. STANLEY'S ACCOUNT of his SEARCH
for Dr. LIVINGSTONE.
The great event of the meeting of the British Asso-
ciation at Brighton last week, was the ace innt given by
Mr. Stanley, on Friday, of his "Discoveries at the
northern end of Lake Tanganyika." The ex-Eitiperor
of the French had expressed his desire tube present on
the occasion, if he could attend simply as a private
-gentleman, withcut attrscting notice or receiving any
special attention ; and Mr. tlalton, the President of
;the Section, wrote to assure His Majesty that his wishes
.n the matter should be respected. The Emperor not
came himself but he WAS accompanied by the ex- '
Euip.iess and by the Prince Imperial. although they
hat' otily arrived at Brighton from Scotian in the
midals 0,0 the preceding night. Their Maj. sties were
ex,'remely well, and manifestly hilly shared the
general inte.-est in Mr. Stanley's narrative.
Mr. Stanley, who .was received with loud bursts of ap-
plause, said,—La dies and Gentlemen,—f consider my self in
the lieht of a Tri'ubadour to day bringh g you a tale of an
old ,0.,„ tromping onward to discover the source of the Nike.
mean to tell you h,-w I found that cdd man at Ujill after
his travel I mean to tall you of his woes and of his sufferings ;
I mean to tell )0./ how he surto,' and how he hire those
sufferings with the Claiitian and patient endurance of a

hero.
Before I started for Central Africa 7 knew nothing about
that great broad plain in the centre of the Continent, alit
leered less for it. My ilety led me to the fields of jour-
nalism, my duty carried me far away from Central Africa
yet had I even dreamed that I shonld eiFit the heart of
Africa, I eh( uhf have smiled at myself While following my
duty in Madrid I received a telegram—" Come to Paris on
important business." I found Mr. James Gordon Bennett !
(loud applause), the young manager of the New York I
llerald, in bed at the Grand hid. I knocked at the door;
be said '• Cme in," and demanded my name, "My mane
is Stanley," I said. "Oh, you are the man I want; do you
know where Livingstone is?" I said, "1 declare to you I
don't" "Do you suppose lie is alive r " I really don't
Lien." " What do think ""It is past my comprehension."
e Well, 7 think he is alive, and I want you to find hint" I
thought it IVIIS a most gigantic task, but I dared not say or to
Sir. Iterinntt ; en I 'aid, "If you send me to the centre of
Africa I will go there" (loud applame), and he cold, "Wolf,
O. I believe he is alive, and you can Er,e.or " But," said I,
" lie, Bennett, have you the least idea how much that little
lourney will mat?" Ile WA, "What a ill it cyst ?" "Well,
Burton and Spoke's expedition cost something Dim between
.Rediee and £0000; are you ready to incur that expense ?"
Be said, "Draw. e-1,000 now, and whorl that is fini,hed
draw another e.1,00e, and when that is finished draw auJther,
and when that ie finished draw another il,ooo, hut find
Livingstone." (Loud applause.) Wont could a man In toy
position say, when he was determined I should go mid find
blm, and would take no anolnjes and excuse.? I said.
"What Is In the power of human nein, to do I will ; I
will hid you good night... 7 had N.:4),4 merely verbal
Instructions : I had never read In any hooh about Cen-
tral Africa indeed, I helieved Dr. Davi I Livintettone was
a myth, rather. (Laughter.) There wire books written
about him, aml newspapera were talking ataint mei
all men were glorying In him ; still the man was not living,
and I thought therefore, he must be a myth. Dowever,
that game night I was on my way; but teat of all,
had to go and discover the operations of the Suez e,nal ;
secondly, visit the temple of Solenum, undergrmud, where
you see the marks of the Syrian workmen ; then I had to go
to the Dead Sea, then up to Damascus, then to t, omtenti-
tople, then to the Crimea, then to tie Caucasus, thee to
the Caspian See, Persia, Bagdad, the valley 01 11:0 enphratee,
and really the Mauritius. When I reached Zanzibar, and
began to study books on Central Africa. Red to draw up an
estimate of the cost of my expedition in search of Living-
stone, I first put it down at 3000 dole, but I had to In... Jean
it several times until it reached 21,000 dole.
Mr. Stanley then related the diMmltles he had In teeming
among the natives and the em-
u), Came of the cnrrenny
flictina account. be received trom Arabs of whom lie inquired
ff they IGiew anything about a white man in Africa. One
maid he saw One at tjo, anti he was very (stand tool of rice,
and said a white man had been wounded when Z. was out
bunting When I got to l'ilyanyerobe, the ventral del et
of the Arabs. I asked the Governor where the white fat man
was. Ile said he lived at tnii and was a great eater of I
butter. (Laughter.) I thought that woe gond news, and sat
"Do you think he is alive, great muter " I don't any
be Is alive, because there has been n war there," awl he
Said he had divined on the Koran and found Living-
stone was dead. My next point was l'jij i. I had never Semi
1n Myles before. There was no railroads, ee telegraPhe, no
balloons, and there wait war raging in the country, and to
Ito 12711 I murt cut my way through this woe couotry.
We went on for two days, but on the third day we made a
Mod disgraceful retreat. All my men deeerted me. I then
Went to the camp of the Arabs, and mold there is a war going

on, and it is between the Arabs and the natives; I will end
nip owls re' to LlViligStOne " One of them said, "Oh
great master, pat must not do that. I must write to Seyd
Berghash, the Sultan of Zanzibar, and say that you are
obstinate; that you ire going be killed." All right,"
said I, "there are jungles, and if one way is closed, we CBll
try another: if that is closed, we can try another' and so
on the 23rd of September last year, I started off to Ujiji, and
went directly south until I came to the frontier of the ad-
j icing country, and when I came to the corner of It I found
there was another war there ; In fact, I was going straight
Into it. Then I had to go up north till I came to the aalt
par aof which Burton speaks. In crossing the river I had
such little incidents as an alligator eating one of my donkeys.
I came next to it laud notorious roe Ito robberies. I had to
pay heavy tribute In constemerice, so one night I called
council of my principal nien and told then, I could not
stand this trilmte.taking any fencer, for if I went on
for six days at the rate which it had been going for
too dais, I should have nothing left at all. They
ruked What wiii you do, roaster 1- I said, nothitig ;
the thing is to ge into the junellt and meke direct we,t At
the e, ad of night ci, went rut., the jengle, and en the fourth
use we stood on the last hill. We had missed the last stream,
we hurl tea...reel the last plain, tee had clinibed the last
enoretam, &TA Ujiii lay enib.iweccd in the palms nen, oth us.
(Loud applause.) Now, It Is customary In Africa to make your
precence.known by sounding and firing gnus. We fired our
grit. as only exuberant heroes can do; I sail ''l suppose
I alkali not find white men here; if I do not we must go
Renee the great Lske Tanganyika, and on to the Marq-
uee a country and If we cannot Pert him there we
go the Tougo, and it we unmet find him there we
mmt go to the Atientic Ocean, but we must lied this
white man. (Am louse). So we e.e firing assay, mid
sounding and biewlng horns, and hi sting drums. All the
people came out, and the great Arabs from Much° came
out, hearing we were from Zeezibar, and were friendly, and
brought newe of their relations. They welcomed us, and
while we were travelling down that steep hill to the little
town, I heard a voice any, "Good morning, Sir." (Applause
and laughter) I turned, and mei sharply, Who the mis.
chief are you?" "1 am a servant of Dr. Livingstone, Sir"
I said, What, is Dr. Livingstone here?" " Yee, I saw him
jun now. •I am his servant." I said, '• Do you mean to my
Dr. Livinestone is here?" "Sure." and tell him
I am coming," (Laeghter and applause.) Do you think
It possible to describe my emotions as I walked down
those few hundred yard.? This man, Divid Livingstone,
whom I believed to be a rry lb, was 1,, front of me a few
yards. I confess to you that were it not for certain feel-
Ines of pride I should have turned a sumermult. cfaegh-
ter.) I was Ineffably happy that I had found Living-
stone "Fin/8 corona? npl/8." It is only e march home ;
carry the news to the first telegraph station, and so give the
word to the world. (Applause.) Among many people
gathered round us my attention was directed to a spot where
a group of Arabs were sten Mug. In the centre of this group
F. a pale, careworn, grey headed old man, dressed in a red
shit t and crimson Jo he, with a gold band ruse! his cap, an
old tweed pair f pants, and his shoes looking the worse for
wear. (Laughter) Who is this old mast? I asked myself
is Livingstone ; yes, Ills. " Dr. Livingstone, I presume ?"
"Ira." ( Loud applause.)
Now, it would not have done in the presence of the grave
Arabs who stool there stroking their hoards for two white
men to kith inptlictr heels. No ! the Arabs must be attended
to. They would carry the story that we were children, fools;
to we walked side by side into the verandah, and there we sat,
the man, the myth, and I. This was the man, and what a
woeful tale of calamities that wrinkled face, those gray
hairs iu his le ard, those silver linos in his forehead, told !
Now we began to talk. I do not know about what ; I
know we talked. By and by came plebty of presents for the
Arabs We ate and talked, and whether Livingstone ate most I
cannot tell. I told him many things. Ile asked, "Do you
know such and such a one? flew is be, dead? Is such and
such a one alive and welt? Thankn he to God! Mid what
are they doing lu Burope ?" " Well, the French are kicking
up a fuss and the Prussians are round Paris, and the wend is
toloyi turvy. It Is all a matter of wonder for Livingstone.
There he sat with the packet of letters on his lap, listening to
what I had to tell him of what was goleg on iu the world.
When eseeing came he turned in to read Iris letters, andwho
shall stand between the man and the outer world?

I should like to say a great deal to you, but I want you to
find out one thisg, and that is what this man Livingstone
was, what was his character, that ho c.uld stand the
fatigues and brave the dangers and sufferiog of Cen,ral
Africa? What is there in him that makes him go on where
others turn back? What is it in him who has discovered so
many lakes and riwrs and streams, passed over so many
virgin countries and through BO many forests, that makes
him say, "It is not enough." 'this is what I want to know.
I asked him If he had been up to Lake Tanganyika yet, as
there had been a great deal said about that, tie said the
central line of drainage absorbed all his means. I proposed
to him that we should go there with my men and material,
and make a pleasant party of it. Ile said, "tam your man"
I said. "They think that we should go there." "Very well,
It shall be done, and to-morrow ; " sod to-morrow we went.