The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

IitrP.EP.IAL PARLIAMENT.

In the Mouse of Lords, on July 27, Lord Napier of
Magdala took the oaths and his soot. The noble lord was
introduced by the Earl of Longfoid and Lord Strathnairn.
The Earl it Malme,bury, in moving the second resoling of
It Elce,ion Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections
15 11, said he believed it to be the most important part of the
Reform schemes if tier Majesty 'n Government, because the
character of the Home of Commons was a matter Cl greater
signifies:lce than its organisation. The noble earl briefly
a iverted to the leading features of the bill. The question
was never) difficult to handle on aCCI amt of the divergence
Of 'pinion in men's minds, but was still one which concerned
the whole country, awl he would therefore ask their lord-
ships to pass the measure without delay.
Earl Russell much regretted that a measure Of this im-
portant nature should come before their lordships at so late
n period of the session. Ile agreed with the noble earl as to
the necessity hr the tcensure teemlng law.
In the House of Conotions, Mr. Roebuck, after moving the
adjournment of the douse in ltriter to place himself in order,
asked the First Lor.l f the Treasury whether, in considers-
tint of the great public services of Lord Brougham, it was
triv J 1401601114 the ltoverhtme,rt to propose the erection of
o monunient Pi his memory in Westminster Abbey.
Sir G. Bowyer thought the feeling of the whole country
would he gratified if the Government would take steps to
cense the removalof thebody of Lord Brougham from Cannes

to England.
Mr. Osborne [saw no reason why the country should not
erect a annulment to Lord Brougham.
After a few words from Mr. Buxton,
Mr. Disraeli admitted that no one had contributed more
than Lord Brougham to the progress of the times in NV hich
he lived. Ile had two qualities in which he was almost un-
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clinalle.l, energy a1.:4 ve'r:;ltility. The Government had the
.obj.',t water conshleritlon. 33 well as 3 proposal to erect a

Aille to the memory of Pridessor FaradaY.
Mr Gladstone was if ii in tlrit the gervlces of Lord
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lirtlhth.a; 'were of such It character that they demanded a

publit-, recognition.
Themotiou for adonrnment was then withdrawn.
In reply to Colonel North.
Lord It. Mont:upt stated that a severe outbreak of small-
ft had occurred among the sheep in Schleswiy-llylshlin.
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'rho Queen, by an order to Council, had power Co atop the
inipetition of aheep from 4chleswig-11018min, but no

advantage would result front the issue 44 such tui order, as
the sheep had come to this country through Dutch and
Belgian ports. The only remedy would Inc to enforce a
quarantine of ten days, and at present the Government were
considering the subject.
In Committee of the whole House upon- the East India
Revenue .4f-clouds,
sir S. Northeote brought forward the Indian Budget. He
proceeded to state that the estimate submitted last! year
fir the years 1567-68 was for revenue .00,783,000, and for
charge tun), expenditure, including the expenditure on
lid-lie work§ eitraordinary, £411,010,000, showing a deficit of
.t.l .5i7,000. The -accounts now received showed that
. the..revenues and receipts lot the year would amount to
443,.51-sS,OOO, being an impi.Ovenient of nearly the sum of
in null fon undo half, but on the other hand, the expenditure
ha also increased by „t 71.1,000 bciug £40,364,000 instead of
.fA0.610,000. us Originally estimated. the result was that
whereas a deficit of £1,537,000 had been expected, it would
only amount in reality to £1,100,0e0. The gum to the
revenue had arisen principally under three heads, namely,
tteease stamps, which had produced £668,000, instead of
£50,000 ; mudoms, edam which there had been an increase
~ver the estimate of £183,000, and an increase from opium
of no less than .61,106,0100 The increase in the expenditure
was also confined mainly to three heads. There had been an
lyerease in the ordinary charges iu India, which amounted
to £245,000, upon the net expenditure in England, including
stores, of £r..50,000, and upon the guaranteed interest on tile
cap tat of £OOl.OOO. These three items taken together
amounted to £3,505,000, which would nearly have balanced
the improvement of the revenue if it had not been for a re-
duction in the amount expended on public wicks extraordi-
nary. That Was not a very satisfactory statement, lint
steps were being taken to keep down the expenditure within
proper limits. The estbnate for tile current year 10138-9, was
tor revenues and receipts, g.Kt...5i1,000 and expenditure,
£49,010.000; leaving deficit if .61,026,000 £3,09:1,000 would
however, be devoted to public works extraordinary, which,
if not so devoted would convert the degeit of one million
into a surplus of two
The statement of the right hon. gentleman was criticised
by Mr. Laing, ID. Grant Duff, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Baxley,
Mr. Alderman Lusk, and others known in the House as
• old Indians." Ultimateiy the propositions were agreed to.
The Government of India Act Amendment Bill was with-
drawn. on the understanding that it should be introduced
early most year, and referred to a select committee.
The Governor-General of India ilitl wa also withdrawn.

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The Poor Relief Bill was further considered in committee.
The renmining orders were rapidly run through, and the
House adjourned.
In the House of Lords, on July 28, the Inland Revenue
Bill passed through committee, and was subsequently read a
third time.
The Appropriation Bill, the Colonial Shipping Rill, and
the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill were also read a third
time and passed. The Commons' amendments to the Regu-
lation of Railways Bills were considered and agreed to. A
large number of other bills were advanced a stage.
on the order for going into committee on the Election
Pet it hum and Corrupt Practice. at Elections Bin.
Lord Clarendon stated some objections to the measure,
which, however, he hat no intention of opposing. Ile con-
sidered that the Home of Cotillions would lose in business
habits, and in reputation, by iibandoning its ancient privilege
of trying election petitions. Another serious defect was the
difficulty of defining the offences aimed at by the bin,—
. undue influence and treating."

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Lord Malmeslinry expriissed his opinion that Lord Claren-
don's attack on the lall was an attack on all legislation on
the subject.
The 1411 then passed through committee.
The Electric Telegraphs Bill was also passed.
In reply to a question by Lord shaftesbury,
The Duke of Marlborough said the Government had no
intention of instituting an inquiry into the practice of baby-
farming.
in Strathnairn drew attention to the need, for the sake
of public peace, of an increase of polling places in Ireland.
Lord Mahnesbury endorsed Lord Strathnairn's views; but,
after simic eouver atbni, the subject dropped.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
In the House of Commons, Mt% Bailey asked the Secretary
for War whether Corm rat Peaks, who won the prize at Whn-
bleilon, but of which he was reported to have been deprived,
scan IA he otherwise rewarded ; and, in the event of a non-
regulation wad having been used, and contributed to his
success, whether that wad would be introduced into the
Sir .1 Pakington said the competition at Wimbledon was
tonducted under the auspices of a private association, of
which the War Office had no official knowledge. the was,
therefore, unable to answer the question.
Upon the order of the day for the consideration of the
Lords" Amendments to the Piddle Schools Bill,
sir S Northoote moved that the House should disagree
wilt!, the ameniiment respecting the increase in the number
of cinumissioners.
After a short ilenate, the Douse divided, and the numbers
were—For disiturceing, Ac; Against, 18 ; majority, M.
The amendment WM therefore disagreed to.
in tim CI apishly ration of the Poor Relief Bill as amended,
31r. Neate moved the insertion of a clause specifying the
rammer in which a union should be entitled to receive C.lll-
- from the general finals.
:in. 31. 11. Beach opposed the clause, which was with-
drawn.
The bill, after some further discussion, was read a second
Uwe and passed.
The birds' reasons for disagreeing to one of the Commons'
omendmenta in the Sale of Poisons and PilnitnnOy Act
ADlClnillient Bill were comidered and agreed to.
The District Church Tithes Act Amendment Bill passed
thrinigh committee, and was subsequently read a third time

and paFsed.
Tile adjourned debate on the consideration of the Lords'
Amendment in the West Indies Bill was resumed upon a
ic.,tion by Mr. Russell tiurney, to charge a RUM of Alll,eoo
oian the consolidated fund for the Archoleacon of Nlidillesex,
in Janaica, while acting as coadjutor Bishop of Jamaica.
The motion on 11. iliVitii4ill was rejected by ao t,•20.
The report on the East India revenue act:muds was brought
up and agreed to.
31r. Bearden moved for a Select Committee to inquire and
report to the House whether Mr. George Francis Train, an
American citizt Ti, now a prisoner in the Four Omits,
Si, slialsea, Dublin. under a judge's fiat for a debt.
tont w hieh debt it was sworn by Mr. Train had been paid,
31,M illvdolit by the.plaint ill's as representing the Ebbw Vale
cn oroany, but 311,101 i• mipany, it was alleged, at the
time of the Issue ut trurair flat, was in liquidation and in
course of being wound up under the Windingup Act, and
the arrest and iniprisoninent of Mr. Train illegal. Ile was
j,irrceetling at sonic length to read a speech upon the subject
when he was called to order by Mr. Serjeant Gaselee, and
The Speaker dedded that it was against the rules of the
to read the speech.
The motion fell to the ground in consequence of not being
seconded.
la reply to Mr. Serjeant Gaselee,
3lr, sclater-Booth said it was proposed that the Mouse
should sit at four o,'clock toduorrow, brit it was not probable
that they would sit on Thursday.
The House then adjourned.
fir the House of 1,1.413, on July 29, the Commons' reason 1
for disagreeing to certain of the Lords' amendments on the
Public Sl'llool4 was considered, and the amendments of
their lorobhips were nit insisted upon.
The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Inlaid Revenue, Election l'etitions and Corrupt Practices
ot Electiom3, Danube Works Imam St. Mary *interact's
1•11111,11, Leindon, and Colonial Governors Pensions Act
A niendinent.
The Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections
Bill came lip from the Commons with their assent to the
L dds' Amendments.
The !District Church Tithes Act Amendment Bill also came
op from tire Coninnus. The Lower !louse did not imist
oladi the amendment, which had been disagreed to by the
Lords.
Their lordships then adjourned.
Ir the Home of Coonnions, the Mines Aasessment
withdrawn, as snore also the Church Rates Regulation Bill,
mid tire Church bates Coninititntion Bill.
Mr. 'l'. Iluezhee called attention to the inaciairate state of
the standard of w eight and measure, and to the piesent
s.:‘ stem of enforcing the law, whereby half the penalties are
1/3ill to the informer. lie hoped the Government would
take the subject under conisideratbal oliiring the recess.
Mr. Stephen cave promise," the subject should receive
consideration.
31r. Serjeant fla,clee qnite agreed with the lion. member
for Lambeth. lie thought the law was too lenient as regards
tho,,e dishonest trailer,
Nlr. Bentinck moved for a copy of all the proceedings and
vidence in the information in Chancery, Attorney-Genet:ll
: r bloom& : together with the impel, relating to the Patent
tldies inquiry ; and in a speech of some length he detailed
tuvelincrent phaws of the case up to the present time.
The Attewney-lleneral said the subject was now under his
(MllSideniti4ll, arrri it would he very inconvenient to produce
the papers.
The motion was withdrawn.
On the motion of Mr. Sclater-Booth, it was agreed.that the
• HMISe at its rising should adjourn till Friday.
The 110U11.1 then adjourned.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILD
POISONING BY A NURSE GIRL.
The folloubel- tenNt extraordinary case of chill poisoning
by a nurse (kit I, Mary K emsbaw, has been heard by the West
magistratei at the Guildhall, Doncaster ;
The prisoner is a girl of 13 years of age, and entered
the sign ice of Mr. Hoolden, farmer, at Cantley, near
thineaster, on the 4th inst. A child 10 months was
placed under her charge, hut within ten days after she
attempted to poison it by administering to it a noxious
am! piisotious drug, known as " foot rot," which is used
by farmers in dressing sheep. The drug, if undiluted. is a
very powerful tole, ani caused the child's lips to swell and
turn white, and this being noticed by the mother, she at
once eharged the girl with having given something to
the child, but she denied it, and stated that another girl
hat givni it a cough pill. This, however, was found
hi be untrue, and it was afterwards discovered that a
portion of the foot rot mixture, which was contained
in a bottle to which the girl had access, had been
given hi it. So powerful is the mixture that the
child's chitheii upon which it hail fallen were com-
ph.tely destroyed. Fortunately, however, the mix-
Ore floes not appear to have taken any effect upon
the chill beyon I burning its lips and mouth. The
tipianner appears to be a girl of weak intellect, and
had been sent into the country on that account.
Her conduct since she has been with Mr. Houlden
would certainly seem to warrant this view, for from
the first day She came she seemed dissatisfied, and
on the 15th, the day before she administered the
poison to the child, she ran away, but was brought
hack by her mother, who lives at Doncaster. The
child also who previous to her coming was perfectly
healthy, also,
during the time she has been there, been
unwell, and hail a great dislike to the girl. The girl
also, on the 15th, inquired of the servants whether
laudanum was poison, and, after she had given the
draft to the child, whether it was dead.
Tine prisoner was committed to take her trial at the
Leeds assizes.

THE EARL OF CLARENDON ON
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The Earl of Clarendon distributed the prizes at
Leamington College on Saturday :-
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In the course of his remarks he argued that there never
was a greater necessity than at present for more knowledge
itiel a letter e lucational system, in order that our intellec-
tual should not as lee etofore bag behind our material pro-
gress, lie dwelt am the necessity of a head master being a
gentleman ii, tiaittsl, loa1:1,u1S, and education: a man exer-
cising t hat control over himself that guarded him from the
demorelisati.er which the exercise of supreme power was
apt to Prealece a man of unruffled temper, incapable of in-
justice anal a--alarm-c; anal knowing human nature so well
that Inc le esti ale uys appeal to its higher attributes rather
than to its baser amain ies, drawing by ambition and hope
rather than impelling by fear; even bearing in mind that
out of the rate mates ial, at lea), be had to elaborate a good
citizen Knit a 1111 ist ian gentleman. 'the great questions On
education were, a hat was the best ka iowledge to impart, and
how should the intellect best be disciplined ? Ile preferred
that which was modern to that which was ancient, anal that
which was practical to that a Lich was specolative. Ile
did trait alepreehtte the study of the classics or of ancient his-
tory. Ind lie thought every Pater fatuities would agree with
him it was I aetter that his son should be acquainted with the
history and i ust itet ions of his 10ell l,kuntry than with tissue
rat Home, anal that instead of being art taught Latin and
Geeek SS 110 i Ira be able to construe an easy piece in either
hiliguage, he sheulai rather, by useful knowledge, be hest
armed ter the battle of life in an age essentially practical.
The present system of pulalic school education, however
excellent f. a- the ferns:dims of charaeter and prisuiples. was
unsucee-sful in an intellectatal point of view. In support ad
this po.ition lie trial a long extract from Mr. lames
essay on a linen' education, and the Opilliollll of mane pepils
if a model public school, one of whom stated that there he
learnt nothing whatever but a general disinclination to learn
anything, anal a special loathing for Latin verses. Mr. Ferrer
hart I wen twelve years a master of Harrow, and speaking, not
Irate titer are !rot experience. his opinion was most valuuble,
anal was in perfect keeping a dh the testimony reeeived by the
royal c 1111 l mission. 111.1111011 WaS maw beginning tar bear
on public memo's, although feebly and considering
the cant importance of the subject. Seiellea Wail begin-
ning tole, attended to, and the modern languages were no
hanger treated with contempt. Greek aud Latin verse-
making must be abandoned—that is, nar those who had no
fitness for them. Not one-third of the boys at the public
schools went to the universities, yet going to the Trsi
ties was the pretext for indicting this pernicious system 011
two-thirds of the boys in order to confer a doubtful ad-
vantage on the remainder. The time now devoted use-
lessly, heavily, and painfully to Greek and Latin CORIpO-
- slraaulal be devoted to history, science, 111111 the study
of the language and literature of our own country. We
had nut so nuich to deal with the brilliant few, who
were aorta great, and whas would be great whether or
not they weitt to school. Eton, [farrow, anal West-
minster were but incidents in the boy life of a Wellesley,
a Canning, a Peel, a Southey, a Byron, a Palmerston. a
Reseed, anal others whom he might mention, and who
had innate faculties which would have inevitably made
them great, nature having determined them to be great, at
the moment rat their birth. We bad to do with the mediocre I
malty—the vast majority, who were without genius, whose I
talents w-as nactlerate and inaluatry shall, but with whom
education was the necessary of life, the only means by which
they could earn not only distinction but Isreed. How were we
to deal w ith the multitude? When it came bathe place where
it was told it was to be fitted for its multifarious future occu-
pations, it w-as bald that the making of Latin verses was
the one thing needful. .4 laugh; The multitude was
set down to COMpORe verses in a language with which they
were not conversant, upon subjects for which they that not
care, and in imitation of poets of whom they had scarcely
read a dozen pages. Three or four years of the multi-
tude's life was passed hi frantic efforts to find epithets
ad a certain size fitted for places of certain dimen-
sions. In arts merely necessary to state the practice to
prontatime a verdict of absurdity. Although beginning to
yield, it was astonishing with what pertinacity the system
Ulla still held to. Long before lie was connected with edu-
cational inquiries Ise had felt strongly as to the manner is
which time wits wasted, and boys were not educated at
eclund. Ile expressed himself strongly to one of the most
eminent masteni of our great publie schools. Ills friend was
too courtetme to avow his unutterable contempt for his (Lord
Clarendon's ignorance and heresies, but tried to explain that
It was the best discipline for the mind, and the oisly way of
learning the value and mututity of words anal getting posses-
sion of the language. Ile asked his friend if they wished to
learn German fundamentally and in a short space of time, if
the German master told them the only re al way was to pro-
duce a copy 14 German iambice every morning, would they
not SOOll illOk oat for some one who would teach thelanguage
on the principles of common sense? lie , Lord Clarendon
told the head master it was a great tyranny, or worse--1 or
it left its traces behind—to compel boys to sulamit to a system
which men would oast bales-ate for it nienumt, mid one which
was irrational 31141 indefensible. 'the desirable thing was that
the boy should learn that which the Mall would be glad to
have learnt The pretext of acquiring Greek anal Latin should
not toe urged tor seglecting other branches of useful know-
ledge. It was bile to say there was 110 Gine That was urged
/idea evens he fere the consmission. and it w-as said that these
things could not be properly attended to unless Creek and
Latin were excluded. The last thing he wished was that
Latin and Greek should be excluded. 'the glorious deeds
and noble thooghts recorded by Greek mid Latin authors
should Inc read in the tongue in which they were written, a
translation being but a feeble anal unsatisfactory reflex of the
original. If these langnages were properly taeght, anal au-
cording to a system Of 011111111111 Soiree, :1111( not according to a
systent which was anti. oi steal and ohealete, the authors would
be read whit immeasurably more profit anal ease, 111111 al nu,
slant time would Inc left bar other ituthors without overtaxing
the MilldS, or curtailing the relaxatia an of the I ways. Applause.
Public opinion was now beginning to work its way on palate
schools, anal they would see—he could mat exactly say " we,"
last their sons or grandsons would see—public schools attain
a more eseful anal honourable posttion, and Inc all that they
ought ba be. not only as plaves where honour anal truth were
revered, and where character and principles were formed,
but where also useful knowledge was inaparted, carried away,
and always remembered with gratitude.