The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

REMARKS ON PASSING EVENTS.

The vote proposed this Session for stationery, printing,
and binding, for the Government lepart limits is .4:2,1 Lao, an
Increase of £19003; awl for the two Inane. of Panamint
.E 72.000 a decrease of £4,000. The charge for Parliamentary
printing at the time of the Crimean War reached more thou
.C100,04a. Thus high outlay caused a certain uneasy astonish.
meat on the part of both Government and erne went, said a
great reduction has since been effected, partly by reducing
the price paid to the printers which had at one time been
excessive', partly by reducing the number of copies of each
document struck off which used to be very extravagant), and
partly by introducing • cheaper awl less ostentationa type
and style in the papers presented by Her Majesty's command.

The Newport !Monmouthshire) magistrates have decided
an important case in reference to the ownership of wrecks.
Seven men were summoned at the instance of the Board of
Trade for finding and taking into their possession certain
wreck in the Bristol channel without giving notice to the
Receiver of the district. Mr. Cumberland supported the in-
formation, and explained that it was the duty of parties dis-
covering wrecks to give notice to the Receiver for the dis.
tritit, talon which Ito y would be entitled to one-third of the
value of the udue M amasses were called to prove that the
defendant, took a quantity of ship's rigginztrom a wreck it
the Channel, which they sold to a marine store dealer, rhe
magi,:ratts lined the defendants Is. each and costs, and they
were ordered to pay .cifi Co., being double the value et the
wreck they disposed of.

The expenses of the rost-onice Savings Banks, at recorded
In the estimates, now amount to a total sum of £53,730. The
establishment in London consists of one controller, one
assistant controller, two principal, 12 first-class 111)4i fog
other cleiks, And bum of x3,oi/ti is required for extra duty by
temporary eerks and others. The Receiver and Accountant-
General's (ghee rt e....ives a sum of £450, the Moneydirder
°dice £2,105 ; and the General Bost-offices in Dublin and
Edinburgh ;CHO for savings-bank work ; a sum of £1,21.0 is
allowed for services perfornied for conducting savings-hank
business at various peat-offices In London end the United
Kingdom ; and x:3,3,0, are spent in maintenance and repair
of. buildings, rent, rates, taxes, stationery, and Incidental
expanses, a total of 300 persons being employed in the
Loudon Establishment

Sir Colman rLnehlen's bill proposes to enact that in
future it shall not be lawful for the Sovereign to create Peers
of Ireland, but that the Sovereign is not by this to be
prevented from mailiog promotions In the existing Peerage
of Ireland. The till proceeds then to provide that the re-
presentative Peers iti Intern eleeted shall sit, not for life, but
only for the then Part tumult, a fresh election taking lilac., at
every dissolution ; and that a representative l'eer beeonii int
a Peer of the United Kingdom shall thereby cease to be a
vepresentave Peer of Ireland. The bill gives power to,a re-
presentative Peer to resign his seat by writing under his
hand and seal, directed b, the Lord Chancellor, and to be
laid before the 'louse of Lord,; and the seat of a represen-
tative Peer is to become vacant if it be certified to the Lord
Chancellor (the certificate to be laid before the House of
i.111,16‘. under the hand and seal of two lords temporal of
Parliament, that such representative Peer has become in-
capable of discharging the Julies of a Peer of Perilament by
reason of infirmity of mind. Writs for the election of reel,
sentative Peers are to to, returnable within fifteen days trim
the .este ; and every Peer entitled to vote at an election
Shall have as many votes as there are van:ander, and may give
all such votes to one Peer, or distribute them as he thinks fit.
No Peer of Ireland becoming a l'eer of the United Kingdom,
and as such entitled to an hereditary Feat in the House of
Lords, and no Peer of Ireland having at the time a seat in
the [louse of Commons, is to vote tor representative Peer
of Ireland.

A petition of appeal on the part of the promoter in the I
St. Alban'. case, " Martin u. klackouochle," has just been
lodged at the Appeal Registry, lloctors'-conimons, animus
no notice aa yet has been giveq to the defendant. The petition
will be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council. on which the defendant will be served with a cite- I
thin. The promoter ham appealed on the question of lighted
candles in the communion service, aud also on the question
of costs, as no costs were awarded by the Arches' Court
against Mr Mackonoctoe. The whole cau will now be re-
opened. Mr. Mackonochie will raise the questions as to the
elevation, the income, avid the mixed chalice. The subject
of costs, which must amount to a considerable sum, will •
form a feature for the decision of the Judicial Committee.
From the state of business before the committee as to
appeals the case cannot be heard for some moliths—prohably
not during the present year. There are appeals staetiseg
from the February sittings, and it is understood that the
sittings will not be resumed until June, and, therefore, the
vresent case, unless specially ordered, cannot be heard for a
I. ng time. Whether the practises coudentheil by the Court
c Arches will be renewed and continued pending the ap-
ral to the Judicial Committee la a matter of some ini- :
',stance

IL A . Wolff, one of the staff of the 1' igaro, has lately been
i London and has seen some wonderful things which he re-
lates for the benefit of his countrymen, but without any hope
Ong believed. Ile saw the chief of the London police
receiving people without fuss or ceremony in a modest little
•Mt e, without a single soldier as a sentry or even an armed
policemen; he also saw a magistrate at one of the maim-
courts sitting on the bench alone without any assistant, and
witjmut robes or uniform of ally kind. But his toes .•ere
evil more astonished than his eye.. Ile heard the L into
prefect of police deduce that he was only the arm of the
law, that the law was stronger than he. and that tic cituld
othing except under st ecitic legal authority :" and, most
wonderful of all, ho heard a police magistrate speaklug
civilly to the witnesses, and even calling them air."

On Monday evening a public meeting of laymen r, sidrut
In the ihrreese of Liehreld nay held at Shrewsbury, for tie
purpose of ler:rime the v mower of the bithop to • paytest
agaiast the establishment of the promae I synods, which
war rem nay 'tarred by 1.64 laymen i.e udiog the loitir
Ilea r• urn, of the county ,on f.v. warded to his 101,6,4.
After hearing the list op s I tier re 4.1, the fold ,wirg re•uliir
t was put to the mettlig :—" That to the view f iii,
no t,tirg ay nods are alit nether mune, mary and mu dled t.r
In the o Meese, bring retrogressive is their nut ore, slid tote ly
ineonsirtebt with the 'dibbles 41 the CM rob of Englmul as
by law estaK jelled.' An amendment, to the effect that
any decided opinion in on ti e proporml 63 011 t• ir premature
till after the firm memlnir of the ai ehidiaconal synod ot the
T3rd inrt.," was pot and lost The original MOtl,lll no, then
declared to be mu ned.