The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-26 00:00:00

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Our Yonbon Contspoubtni. , assent. But its indefatigable author never saw
it in operation. 'The prolonged struggle had - -
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. absolutely nugatory. The -duly hope for the Ultimate
solution of the land question was a scheme of put- Balfour entered the House at 10.45, and war
"u:fled the ii-ction of the Opposition. Mr
chase, but what chance would such a reheme have of
Chief O'Connor
Secretaryfoll owf eodr ~
-.. broken him down, and he died just before he succeeding if, at the bidding of a lawless agitation,
ELECTRIC LIGHTING BILL.
eWe deem it right to state that we do not at all times could be presented with a testimonial in recog- In the Horn OF LORDS, on March 21st, their Parliament broke the solemn compact entered into only
come in, he would put to him the clues
weeelfy ourselves with our Correspondent's opinions.] nition of his services by those whom he had lordships went into Committee on the Electric Light- the
years ago?. In the interests of the Union between tweinthsacidheneerws.
Oeee. . benefited by this action, and to whom he might
' The opening days of A Dril will see the fairly be said to have given his life. ment 'I. thlratr.thAe.
log Act (1882) Amend Bi lOn Clause 1, which bwhat provision the Govern
relates to the terms on which the local authority should
the motion of the right hon. gentleman opposite, but provi ment had mr
he two countries he urged the House not to accede to ready to put
.. at five o'clock in the morr
to allow the Government as soon as possible to take to make, for the better security of
assembling in London of a ga-thering unique in Volunteers of every grade have reason to be be empowered to purchase an electric lighting under. those steps which they thought necessary for the Belfast. '
the history of the British Empire. April 4is proud of the fact which has just been officially taking at the end of 42 years from its establishment,
exclude
ed
the
restoration of law and order in Ireland. Mr. Balfour maintained that thy
the date fixed for the opening of the Colonial I made known, that there are 46 corps in Great amendment,Lord Cam fie
ther d o w
object(fo r 0 Lord
w i
e Houghton)
was
e not to blame for the.
•fact that the
k Conference—or, as it is officially called, the Con- Britain, each of which trained last year more goodwill of he undertaking from those matters foer In the course of . subsequent discussion, Mr. H.
Fowler and Mr. B. Finlay spoke from opposite sides. h the Belfast Commission had not
ference of Delegates and Representatives from than a thousand efficient& Scotland headed the which the local authority would have to pay in case f On the motion of Colonel Hughes-Hallett, t
li the principal Colonies—and the Conference Room list with the Queen's Edinburgh Rifleßrigade, the such purchase. ° debate was adjourned, and the House rose at 2a over the Commissioners, eitY
of the Foreign Office where so many weighty total of which was 2341; Wales came next with A discussion of some length occurred on the minutes past ll o'clock. !? House. The Government her/
body. The minority report '
transactions have taken place, will witness the the 2nd Glamorgan Rifles, and its total of 9045 • amendment, which was opposed by Lord Tburlow, who
ST4ANeE SCENE IN THE CONRIONS. venient. The right hon. r
i first meeting. At that meeting,. as if to emphati- , has charge y
of the Bill Lord Bur Lord Bramwell, 'Lord
Scotland supplied the third place with the Ist Gri ' - '
mthorpe, Lord Rayleigh, Lord Crawford and Bal.
orally mirk the importance of the gathering, the Lanark Rifles and 1518 efficients ; and England was ea, res. and Lord Cranbrook, and supP which would have to
orted by Lord AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING.—THE CLOSURE refer to those recomme•
Prime Minister and other members of the fourth with the Ist Berkshire Rifles and 1348 Balfour of Burleigh, Lord Lingen, and Lord Stanley of APPLIED.
He would aesure the '
' Government will be present, as well as a certain efficients. These figures are eloquent in praise of Preston.—On a division the amendment was rejected The House of Commons eat all Monday night dis-
would receive his c
1' ' number of peers, members of Parliament, andby 45 to 10.—Certain unopposed verbal amendments cussing the Estimates. At about half-past five on
- t .1 the corps concerned; but a more striking fact to
other distinguished personages connected with those who know what volunteering really means htringhbeen introduced, the bill as amended passed Monday evening the House went into Committee of would be in his
• the Colonies; and it is hoped that much good is that seven out of the strong regiments referred minutes roug past sixcommittee. Their lordships rose at 20 Supply, and upon the Vote for clothing and victualling the remaining dissii
should be careful
will flow from the discussions which will follow cloclr. of Sean.en and Marines, a further discussion of a
ii to had not a single non-efficient man on their roll COERCION BILL.—PROCEDURE. course of the
.pr
th
general and discursive character occurred upon 3
upon the opening meeting, which will be officially at the end of last year. That is something of In the Housn OF COMMON% Mr. A. J. Balfour gave ge
f ,
represented, and several of these will send their Towards 11 o'clock asu estion from
Navy Estimates. . gg .
. which the seven corps are entitled to boast, and notice that he would on Tuesday move for have toreccmmenda•
$ i Premier or some other leading Minister to assist itmabh hopedf bring in a bill to make better provision for the proven, e ope that e number o corps the First Lord of the Tree .
Treasury that it was desirable
ment thou?
the House, we
their Agent-General in England in the various tion and punishment of crime in Ireland and for other to close the
hev o upont
,to
the right
similarly entitled will show a large increase at the proceed with t eon account o the. Civil Service,
purposes. This ennouncement was received withGovernw
deliberations. Those Colonies which as yet have end of 1887. Volunteering will never be un- much cheering from the Ministerialists and cries Provoked an angry controversy, which continued
t-t " left out in the cold, for gentlemen specially con- popular as long as it can exhibit such excellent fro h Irish
notice that
ri W. H
e would Smith sub. until hale-past twelve
on Tuesday member
results, for these could not be obtained without uen
Mr
no responsible government will not, however, be ra '
versant with their affairs will be invited to an amount of zeal and enthusiasm as well as of at 4.30 move thet Mr. Balfour's notice—and the was therefore resumed. Dr. Cameron (at 2,5 am.) •
attend not only the opening meeting but any se
perfect discipline, which speaks volumes for the subsequent stages of the Naval Vote was formally refused. The discussion
when a proposal to withdraw order
the bill should take pre- on Tuesday moved that the Chairman leave the chair EITI„,'
subsequent dismission where their local know- true efficiency of the force, and which must corn- cedence of all other business, including procedure, in order to enable the Government to state what they tr
' t ledge might be useful. In this way it is mend general respect. And, therefore, not only whenever they Are set down as the first business intended to do. They could not seriously ask the e
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hoped that a body of Colonial opinion are the volunteers to be congratulated, but the being he added n
a that in the event of the bill. Committee to vote another three and a-half millions
g brought in on Tuesday or Wednesday,
at that late hour without the possibility of proper
will be evoked which it would be otherwise im- country also, of whose defensive forces they form he would put it down for second reading on
possible to obtain. And something more so valuable a part. A. F. R. Monday next, taking the Procedure Rules on Thursday discussion. After some remarks by Mr. Jackson and
, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Labouchere said there were mar
precious even than this is hoped to be secured by and Friday.—Mr. J. Morley, who was received with •
the Conference—a warmer feeling, because based THE BALKAN TROUBLE, tumultuous cheering from the Irish members, gave Irish, Scotch, and Welsh matters to discuss on t
notice that, as an amendment to Mr Smith's motion, Vote of the Account, and he would have to speal
on more perfect knowledge, between England
THE PATRIOTIC LEAGUE. he will move that the House declines to set aside the it about thirty times. Mr. Goschen said it
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1,. 1 and those great countries which the industry of business of the nation in favour of a bill for increasing evidently useless to postpone discussion
her sons has called into being. A rnumber of meetings for the establishment of a .
the stringency of the criminal law in Ireland while no A. O'Connor and Colonel Nolan confine
Patriotic League took place throughout Bulgaria on
On Saturday last there was commenced in the effectual security has been taken against the abuse of discussion. Mr. Illingworth suggested that t•
, metropolis a Government inquiryinto the employ- Sunday. That at Philippopolis was attended by the law by the exaction of excessive rents.—Mr. Vote should now be taken, and the Vote i:e
ii i ment earnings, and her a *cul f the work-
, ot p rti ars o e
in g classes in four typical districts, St. George's-m- about 1800
.persons„ amongst whom were the most
• representative and influential people e the town an Balfour, in answer to a question from an hon. member,
fd • •
said the Government would at an earl date state their
district. " ff, dpresided, d • •
M. Teukmedne , deputy, an views on the land question; and Mr. Smith subse- be postponed. Dr. Clarke followed. ?
y . thought the Scotch members had spec'
the-East, Battersea, Deptford, and Hackney. first called on M. Toutcheff, President of the Gran I quently stated, in reply to Mr. T. 1V- Russell, that the complaint against the Government, for
This was done by means of house-to-house in- Sobranje, who delivered an eloauent speech on the subject would be dealt with almost immediately. duty to speak on several items on the
Mint. Dr. Tanner, Mr. Labouchere
quiries, conducted by enumerators, acting under patriotism displayed by the in-habitants of Philip- SUPPLY.
the direction of the local registrars of births and Popolis, who had at all times stood in the front line The House after this went into Committee of Mr. E. Harrington spoke againat
deaths; and it is intended that the information in defence of the interests of the country. He dwelt Stonily, and was occupied for some time on the Navy the Vote on Account.
unt.
divided.A !ter some
Lane, the Coirm!ttee
fit obtained shall be tabulated at the General on the political situation, which, he said, called for Estimates. On the vote for victualling and clothing L
Register Office, and in due course submitted to the establishment of such a body as the Patriotic
there was alongho tcommencedoodkisecxuesesitoino,nt o certain
obrytiMnr.s So eithwe• motion, 61; against, 199.
Colonel N
Nolan continued the
Parliament. If the means taken were sufficient League, charged with the defence of their Father- L
Admiralty Memorandum') which he thought unfair to for information as to submar'
—and it must be confessed that the information land against foreign intrigue. "Our motto," he
L Lord Northbrook's Board, while expressing general points. Mr. j. O'Connor pr
i# sought is of so extensive and delicate a character declared, "is . Bulgaria for the Bulgarians, approval of the future programme of the Ad- at Haulbowline being left i-
ird our patriotic
,sfforts
Ishhall have that device
that, to be worth anything, it must have involved miralty. He was in favour of a. Committee of He deprecated the actif
or their sole aim. Dr. c oma , off recently aP" Designs, and, dealing with the subject of dockyard
much more labour than the collection of census- Igetting pork from abro•
pointed Bulgarian agent at Athens, was elected Pre- administration, he advocated numerous reforms, and
papers—the result should be to bring before us an home of the pig. (7
sident of the League, and M. Teukemedjieff Vice- insisted that no system would be efficient which did
amount of knowledge concerning the condition thought it would be be
President. Two secretaries and 24 members of corn- not provide for the whcle civil control being placed
of the working population which has not previ- mittee, chiefly notables, deputies, farmers, and heads under one head. to break up old vesse
ously been obtainable. "More light" is what of corportions, were then appointed. At an early Captain Colomb adversely criticised the present by contractors. T
Goethe asked for with his last breath, and more meeting this committee will draw up the regulations Admiralty administration, which, he maintained, re. tentiou to three d'
light is what is wanted regarding the actual of the League, to which each member will be required quired strengthening by the addition of practical naval the naval mediee
state of the workers among us. There is a to take an oath of fidelity. The League will embrace men, and emphasised the necessity of a larger expen- that was irreler
diture and the improvement of the Intelligence De- that was out cr
ilf , great deal more talk about it than knowledge of the two Bulgaria& each town having an independent
partment. Haulbowline '
.it;and some of those who talk the most glibly committee, bat the "regulations " will be identical. Mr. Puleston protested against the general decrease leg, at 4.37,
actually know the least. If the Government, On assuming the Presidency Dr. Tchomakoff ad- of dockyard wages, while salaries at the Admiralty "That the
- therefore by this inquiry, can supply facts which dressed a few words to the meeting, concluding as were increased. divided:
will enable us to judge of the true condition of follows: "What we are doing to-day all peoples have Lord G. Hamilton, replying to Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, For
to do in a national crisis. It is the duty of citizens agreed that divided responsibility was undesirable
the metropolitan working classes at this A(
t moment, it will be of advantage all round. to defend their hearths, and this they can only do if whether at the Admiralty or in the dockyards, but
Thr
they defend their Fatherland against invasion and gave an emphatic denial to his contention that ,
One thing may be taken as certain to be the and
the Memorandum contained inaccuracies or had
. foreign influence of every sort."
outcome of the inquiry—that the general con- RUSSIA'S ATTITUDE. been conceived from a partisan point of view. His
dition of the working population of London willpolicy with regard to the construction of vessels, ,
I be found to be batter than it was a twelvemonth A St. Petersburg despatch says that: Relative to he maintained compared fevourabl with that of Lord
tee , since. That may not be saying very much, for a the contradictor reports of recent Russian Circular -
Notes on Bulgarian affairs, it is true that the Russian rook ti, on wich he commented 'at some leng.li !
aNnorthb , p . . ,
d argued that everything was being done by the
twelvemonth ago there was an amount of dis Government issued a Note to its representatives at preEent Board to secure efficiency. Referring to
r tress which was happily abnormal, but it is say- the Courts of the Great Powers, instructing them to Captain Colomb's complaint as to the want of efficier
ing something; and however small that some- make representations concerning the Rustchuk execu- organisation at the Admiralty, he was in favour
thing may be, there it is to be thankful for. tions, and to obtain the support of the Powers with giving to each individual lord as much authority
The winter of 1885 was a long and dreary one; the object of preventing further executions. possible, and remarked that considerable improve,
i the depression in trade had shown no sign of The Russian Government also issued a Note re- in the efficiency of the Intelligence Departmer
dispelled; and as the wear months rolled
being y questing the same representatives to invite the I been already effected.
Mr. C. Wilson advocated a more rapid te
on many an honest workman, who had never Governments to which they were accredited to co- i
; shipbuilding, and
.objected to the extravagf
known what it was to feel the pinch of operate with Turkey a Russia in an inquiry into
proposed to be paid for the hire of mercant
1 the cruel treatment to which the partisans of M.
hunger, began to be acquainted with what want Colonel Hughes-Hallett asked for fura
Zankoff were alleged h bsubjected.
to have been tion as to the communication of confide
k really is. It is easy enough for those who earn
good salaries, or who are otherwise in comfort- All the Powers, including England, but excepting t
Italy, received the Russian proposals favourably. , o foreign Governments; and after some
Sir G. Balfour, Mr. Jennings, who took
able circumstances, to say that in the days of The Italian Government replied that it regarded the lof the state of the Navy, spoke in far
good trade such men as these should have saved, inquiry proposed by Russia as incompatible b with i b the ment of Admiralty expenditure.
Many of them had done so, but, any who know confidence which it felt in the discretion of the Admiral Mayne objected to tbe co
the necessarily hard struggle the ordinary work- Regents, and in the proper exercise of their authority. , being begun in one yard and finis'
man always has in a labour market so crowded The co-operation of Turkey was secured by the
tdeprecated asi e
e
as that of the metropolis, are aware that saving Russian Government prior to the issue of the last-
d fitful extravagance;Pves' which,
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and Sir
to such an extent as shall provide against being named Circular, and it is on the understanding
' arrived at between Russia and the Powers importance f transferringthe
that the. o
out of work for months together is impossible. stations from the War Office
The winter which is now, it may be hoped, rapidly Consuls General at Sofia are now acting in accord. Lord 0. Beresford, dealin
France has actiyely used her diplomatic influence
coming to an end, though severe enough, did not questions which had bee,
to support these steps of Russia, which are declared bore testimony to the Pal!
begin to be severe as early as that of 1885 ; and in official nn-'-"-- to have been taken with the object
? - it has been brightened by an appreciable improve- . r the imprisoned and menaced would be derived from
ment in trade. The consequence naturally is , Arian opp'--'n. It is further ships in time of war.
that though poverty is as painfully prominent in sentet" .- 1 et'—" h be Powers, and not put his name tr
the labouring districts of London as it always has _ie... common ace e re .g a moderate , not been put bef or
heen, and jig unhappily, always likely to be, there L course to the Regent's in the present condition of Bul- be_hirad.r.noo time to
is nothing like the exceptional distress which a garia, ensures the continuance of peace, for the pre-
ci line anedmmtber P
year ago wrung the heart of every person who servation of which the Czar and the Russian Govern-
Sutherland, w)•
was breught into personal contact with it. ment continue to be deeply solicitous. . forms which
Remark has been made that the winter now - . Admiralty,
appears:to be rapidly nearing its end, but it only TRIPLE MURDER IN PA.RIS. , efficient ce
shows how. short is the popular memory that any ' appeal to
surprise should be felt at such severe snowstorms An appalling crime was perpetrated the other night demserryi
in,
canting so late as those which, beginning in the at 17, Rue Montaigne a Parisian street leading from
,•• after Y
( north and gradually spreading to the south, have the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore to the Champs mitt,
within the last fortnight swept over England. Elysees. Among the tenants of that house was a vote
FBT;, 'when we have anything that.can be called a woman who sometimes called herself Madame Reg- be
wiMier, there is usually a good burst of snow in nault, and at other times Madame Monty. Her 1 V
brifch to finish up with. There was one last year domestic establishment was an elegant one. She had
in her service a woman cook who slept in a gar-et at
as there, has been one this, and one of the most ' - -
a , appalling railway accidents in recent times w 'op of the house and a femme de chambre who
the . , : f . , ,
Y ' caused by a March snowstorm just eleven years
as with her daughter, occupied a room in Madam
Mont ' A 'o'clock •
Monty 's apartments. t about eight on t
_ ago. There are many to-day who have reason to morning succeeding the tragedy, the cook came d,
, remember' with sadness the heavy snow which fell as usual to begin her day's work; but after unlor
on an early night in the March of 1876. Signal- the kitchen door could not get in, because the
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it wires were broken, and- the signals themselves had not been taken down, as it usually was,
:o ' ' obscured;• and just by the Abbot's Ripton signal- chambermaid's daughter. The cook, whose
box on the Great Northern Railway a train left Toulouse, rang several times; but as no or
the rails. Comparatively little damage was done, she went down stairs to make her morning
4, • and returned about an hour later. Tb
and the passengers hurried out of the carriages to
secure' their own safety, and to attend to such of preventing her from entering the kitel-
their fellows as had been injured. But the worst again; but the prolonged silence in
ifi4,falarmed the
e cook, who warned the po'
effects of the accident were yet to come, for as'clock f
the passengers were standing in groups by the locksmith.t%ncl he arrived
o n t
naet
doorelevebneL g
for;
side of the wrecked train, another express--the Monty was found in her night-dr,
signals being useless—dashed into their.' midst at the foot of the bed, as if she l-
, and became itself a ruin. The result was ter- she was stepping out of it. Tl'
rible. marking out this catastrophe from the on each side of her throat.
majority of its fellows by the peculiar horror of disorder, and there were no
the circumstances, and showing how severe may small iron strong box place
,
,
be the effects of the far from uncommon spectacle been opened, hut it was Ellie
ot a snowstorm in March. the murderer had attem,
t) Among the many measures which have this was. found by the p9li
victim's pockets or r
. year been laid by private members upon the table
, boards of the apartar
of the House of Commons is one that will attract box was found to co-
t,much sympathy from those who have occasion to
about eight thouse
go down to the sea in ships. It deals with the In the chambe
provision of boats and life-belts, and it seeks to haps, even more
Y., make it compulsory on every English vessel ex- each of them r
I'. .
ceedin'ga certain limited burthen to be provided, had been kill
not only with such numbers but also with such i skull had be
kinds of boats, life-belts, floats, and rafts as the the left aid
1,. Board of Trade may fix, so as best to secure Her daug.
lb the 'safety, in case of disaster, of all who killed t
1 ' . • may be on board. In addition to this, every severed
1: vessel licensed to carry passengers would who v
be required to be provided at all times 'cc°
is r
with, a , serviceable life-buoy, or belt, for -
; each passenger allowed to be 'carried, as well 1
-o', as for every member of the crew: and
these life-preservers would have to be kept in
good order and in convenient and accessible
,
if`i 4 places in readiness for immediate use in case r
accident. These would be very drastic regn'
tions in the eyes of those who have to do v
0 ships, and perhaps they ask more than °wile
vessels are prepared to concede. But it ,
generally thoughtthat some alteration is r
in the present haphazard system of s
life-preserving apparatus to our ship'
know. that sometimes accidents ocr
cause a vessel to founder so sudde•
N best and most complete apparatus
wasihl, not suffice to save those
these are exceptional. As a rul,
is given to allow every one or
equipped
,with a life-belt, or r
4 if either is provided; and '
doubt that many lives nov
i be saved if only suitabl•
made before the vessel ler
But, however praisew
of this particular meat
the fate of the hun
All members' bills whicl
this session. It if,
do not always ap
of time and pat;
make. The in
, up" a subject
, turned, the
f which shall
patience
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assent. But its indefatigable author never saw
it in operation. The prolonged struggle had
broken him down, and he died just before he
could be presented with a testimonial in recog-
nition of his services by those whom he had
benefited by this action, and to whom he might
fairly be said to have given his life.
Volunteers of every grade have reason to be
proud of the fact which has just been officially
made known, that there are 46 corps in Great
Britain, each of which trained last year more
than a thousand efficient& Scotland headed the
list with the Queen's Edinburgh Rifleßrigade, the
total of which was 2341; Wales came next with
the 2nd Glamorgan Rifles, and its total of 2045;
Scotland supplied the third place with the Ist
Lanark Ri ffes and 1518 efficients ; and England was
fourth with the Ist Berkshire Rifles and 1348
efficients. These figures are eloquent in praise of
the corps concerned; but a more striking fact to
those who know what volunteering really means
is that seven out of the strong regiments referred
to had not a single non-efficient man on their roll
at the end of last year. That is something of
which the seven corps are entitled to boast, and
it may be hoped that the number of corps
similarly entitled will show a large increase at the
end of 1887. Volunteering will never be un-
popular as long as it can exhibit such excellent
results, for these could not be obtained without
an amount of zeal and enthusiasm as well as of
perfect discipline, which speaks volumes for the
true efficiency of the force, and which must com-
mand general respect. And, therefore, not only
are the volunteers to be congratulated, but the
country also, of whose defensive forces they form
so valuable a part. A. F. R.

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