The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28 00:00:00

RALF CROWNS AND FLORINS.

In the House of Commons, Mr Ileygete asked the
(bane- it of the Exchequer if he would state to the
House the general result ,1 the replies given by beaten and
others to the Inquiries addressed to them by the late Crud—
oellor of the SI Chrtgler k.• to the advisability of continuing
the coinage of half-zrowns and &lens.
The Cuencallor of the Exchequer eat! the late Government !
dtracted questions to be put to a number of baLkede. hr.
hundred and two of them had replied, and • at of these 46
reported In favour of the clrculetion of tiering only, 63 were ,
In favour of the eirculalhe of hall crowns only, and 103 '
favoured the circulation uf both. In consequence of that
Mi. late Chancellor of the Exchequer put an announcenornt
Into the 11.11..51,3pers that new half-erowns would be reissued.
and be4dfr S. orthcote) believed they would be ready In a
month.
Eilla were brought in by Mr, P. Taylor to abolish the Game
Lowe icy Mr. Ne adepts to appolat Commissions fur In-
gul.ing into Monastic and Conventual Inatitutions ; by Mr.
Agnew to abolish Ilypothee in Scotland; and by blr.
11l andella to repeal the Criminal Law Amendment Act. 1871.
The Second Reading of Ws list hill, Mr. Mendell.' Rid
for June 10, and Mr. Cross took the to portuulty of saying s.
few wends in v.milcation of the course taken by the Govern
meat in the appointment of a E. pal COMILI.IIIOI%,

Merl remarks from Wend other hen. roembw,
Mr. C ass said the Government had decided to oppose the
bill. He did not think that the House had been treated
fairly in having brought I,efore it • bill which proposed to
deist wtth every coostitnency in Roalsind, Ireland, .d Scot.
mud. when tin 0, Jen of the honourable uaror et was only to
deal wit, a few of the larger boroughs He (the Home
decralary) had read the debate. open hills stmllar to this
propose! In previous versions end needed oy large msj.vi.
ties, and het bear! no DOW argument brought fortoo, b.
day In Its favour. l' • grievance e Meted Ile thought tome
repreeentations eh •old have been made respecting It. In
the district he renreeented no demand had ever been made
fur this change hy the working men.
Mr. Forster said Ihere would be no alteration in the
diallot act. Sc the hours for polling were not fixed by the
measure. The expert, nee .1 the last election would remove
any tear of disorder from his mind by an extension of time.
He wished that the Governmer t hat c ~,,, tiered a Id tie in, ra
the r.preeentatlooof the me filbert for large towns. He would
vote for the secoud reeding, but suggested the bill be
I referred to • Select Committee, Lu r rder that the question
I nag at be determined as to what portal the kingdom it might
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Lord .1. Manners and M. Samude opposed the bilL
Sir C DIM@ exort-ssed his willinfodss to accept the suc-
gestioe 01 Mr. Fussier, and the Bowe divided with the
f..llde log result :--adr the sic.di I roe. ing, 116 against,
201 ; insf.dity, 76 The bill was therefere lost.
egOrOarD mufENSION OF 'NI 11118 H LARD ACT.
Leave eel granted ta the O'D3noghue to bricg In a 011 l to
extend the provialcus of the 1, tab LAW I Act of 1370 to &is-
land aid ricotiand, and the !donee ari weed.

TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION AT
EXETER BALL.
A temperance demonstration, under the auspices of
the '' Loodon Catholic Temperance League of the
Cron.," of which the Right Rev. Dr. Manning is pre.
indent, was held in London at Exeter Hall, on
n.ndey night. The League numbers nineteen branches
in the Metropolie, and the weathers of these branches
accoundanied by their bards and banners, marched it;
pa ceseidn from their several head quarters to the ball,
the majority arriving there Molly after seven o'clock.
Some of the bauners were extremely handsome, and
the leaders of each procession (who aub.eqnently acted
as atewards at the meeting), were decorated with gold-
embroidered green scarves, rosettes, and temperauce
medals and cruisers. Oa arriving at the hall, the bands
OA up potations on the platform and in the side
galleries, and prior ti the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, and in the intervale between the speeches,
played selections of temperance melodies and Irish
natioaal airs. By eight o'clock every portion of the
hall ass. densely crowded, mil it was with diffi tn. ty
that privileged ticket heldere who arrived after that
hoar could obtain seats 011 the platform. Several
ladies occupied seats on the platform, and in the body
of the hall was a large number of women of the work.
his-Masse& Shortly of tor eight o'clock, the chair was
taken by Archbishop Manning, who was received with
enthusiastic and long-continued cheering.
Archbiehop Manning said the returns of the Customs
ems Excites Departments of last year proved that the
consumption of British spirits distilled at home Ex-
ceeded by 2 000 000 gallons the amount distilled and
consumed the year before ; and there was a correspond-
ing increese—though not in the sauce prOpOttiOn—of
the amount of beer consumed. The increase in the
ceritumption of spirits was 7 and that of beer 3 per cold.
Now, a thrre hut been this great increase of onidue-
tion and consumption, there must ne wearily have
been a very great increase in the investment of
capital. It was quite certain that men would not
invert their capital in au neprofitatie tra ie. If
there was that eons imption of spirits anti beer
—he left out imp .rtci spirits and wines—he asked
them thia— was it possible two consequences did not
arise ? The first was a great increase of excess in drink.
If he said of "drunkenness," people would tell him
the oolice.courta did not show in His answer to that
was that the police courts never took notice of those
who were neither dangerously nor 'belpleeely drunk. A
mark might drink hiteeelf to stupefaction, hut if he
could reel home and find his door the police were very
glad to have nothing to do with Hui. But he warned
title@ who heard him, and he warned the public opinion
of this country, that the evil of drunkenness was not
to be measured by the police Cases. I he real evil which
was extending so the peop'e, which was invadiag
women and children, was the habit iif taking so much of
drink as unfitted them to be wives, mothers, or heads
of familiee—which destroyed domestic life and ruined
families and children. This was going on all round
about them, and the police courts had no record of it.
Therefore they had positive prod f that where there
was an increase of consumption there must he
an increase of evils. The other consequence was this
—ln the proportion in which money was invested—and
already £120000,000 was invested in this part cuter
tear,if not by individuals, at least turned over in the
wholesale and retail trate. So all over the country the
Meioses of distillers, brewers, aid puldicans, was
growing 111011, and more dominant over public opinion,
over the electors and the elected, and our Parliament
itself. (Cheers.) If this enormous dominion of the
traffic continued to extend itself year after year un-
checked, he boldly foretold this, that the day would
come when Parliament would be unable to cope with it
and unable to control It, and that its it fluence over all
classes of this conntry would be so strong that by it the
votes of ejectors aad elected would be determined.
(Cheers.)
Mr. Alexander M. Sullivan, rLP.. who was received
with loud applause, spoke bopefuly of the progress
which the temperance movement is making in Ireland,
and promised to advance the objects of toe League by
every means in his power. He called upon every
adulator of religion, every politician, aud every states-
man who wished to do any thing tor the people, mid to
maintain religion end morality as the basis of social
order, to grapple with the daily increasing evil of
drunkenness, by misting in the suppreasion or rude°.
hi dye of the liquor traffic, lie concluded by proposing
a resolution pledging the meeting to support the
League.
Father Dalton sec, nled the resolution, which was
is I carried by acclamation.
All A resolution pledging the meeting to mist in raising
". • guarantee fund to carry on the agitation for the mi.-
prftsion of the liquor traffic was eubseqiiently proposed
at a
and carried, and the proceedings terminated wiih a
bad
f the ; vote of thanks to Archbishop Mooning.
those

DEATH OF THE CHIMPANZEE IN THE
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
It is hardly a usual thlog to make the death of a monkey
the subject of a special soni.uncemint in a newspaper," says
the Daily Nem, and thus proceeds :
" But when one of the 'upper ten' of our poor re-
lations takes his departure for the happy hunting
grfiundo, it is only just that a passing notice should he
taken cal the event. ' Joe,' the chimpanzee, which for
three yearn has had the honour of a separate apart-
ment in the Monkey house at the Zoological Gar-
deep, was one of these apish aristocrats; mid the other
occupants of that uoioy dwelling are now in mourn-
ing for Joe, who recently died after about two months'
illness. Of all the members of the ape tribe the
chimpanzee is probably ths most tractable, and of all
chimpatzsdi Joe Wee perhaps the best-tempered fellow
that ever existed. The readiness he al w--ya exhibited
to learn any new trick the ing-nuity of his keeper could
devise was remarkable ; and she good temper he always
displayed when asked to pi rform them for the benefit
of visitors was no less surprising. He emulates( the
achievements b3th of Blondin and Leotard with equol
success, and seemed epecially proud of himself when
he was ordered to go through the series of gymnastic
exercises which embraced the feats that have made the
names of those men known all the world over. Joe had
the sense to know that it wail dangerous to play with
fire; whether or not he was one of the proverbial 'burnt
children' who 'dread the fire,' he never attempted to
explore the mysteries of the open fire- plane which was
generally furnished, f orhis acoommodation, with a bright
fire; not that he was devoid of curiosity, for he would
seriously exemine the texture of his vieitore. c.asts and
dresses, and make a paint of discovericg whether the
proffered hand, which was held forth for him to shake,
WAS capable of b raring a good hard sapterz.. Joe was
something of a critic of boots, too, or else he was in-
tereoted in knowinz whether any of his 'developed '
relations Buffered for their Improved atate by the in-
frction of corns on the feet. If a nut were prevented
to him he would not crack it in the usual way by the
Sr placation of dental force, but would place it under
the donor's in it, and assist the process by adminieter-
ing a sharp blow with his fiat on the Mee of his MAUR.
Pecting visitor. He alway a seemed devotedly attached
so Ws keeper, aid when shut up close in his
room would gammon him by repeated knocks at
the door, In the evehing, when the time for
bidding him Go el-night I' approached, he used
frequenly to go into quite a frehzy of grief,
teariug has hair, rolling on the flair, and screaming out
like a bad-toumered, spoiled baby with extra strong
lungs. kileererthelees he woe really good tempered, and
was never known to maliciously attempt to hurt any
oi.e, He would show his visitors to toe door warh the
utmost politeness, turning tne handle and opening the
door without aasiseanire, and shaking hando with has
departing guest. De morinii nil nut b.ontrea ; but Joe
had one fault, and we cannot help saying we hope no
pickpockets were ever among Joe s f iv need g!.1•
be might have taught them a lesson In the pilfering
line of business which would have borne dangerous
flea inc London crowd."