The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-04-26 00:00:00

::APERIAL" PARLIAN.ENT.

In the House of Lords, April 21, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Upon the Uouse going into Committee up b the Mutiny bill,
explained the alteration it was propoeed 1 make In what Is
to be the 40th cilium of the Act 14 he reas a soldier was
formerly exempted from the mainteniume of his wife and
children, legitimate and illesitim .to, it was now proposed to
deduct from the put.tive tether. If • reeeco.eruieeione.l
oific, r. a sum not exceeding 81. per day, and If • private, not
more than W. a day. Due precauty us would be taken against
collusion.

The Marquis of Salisbury thought the bill as amended,
should be primed.
After discussion this course was agreed to, and the
ilions.e resumed.
The House then proceeded to consider the Commons'
Amendments to the Lords' Amendments to the Bastardy
LAWS Amendment Bill. Certain new amendm- nts were pro-
posed by the Marquis of Salisbury and agreed to, and their
lordships adj dusted at twenty minutes to lii o'clock.
In the House of Commons, the first business was the
Dublin University Tests Bill, and Mr. Fawcett, in moving
the second reading, referred heftily to the present position
of the question, and the sit pa through which the bill had as-
sumed Its present shape. It wee with great reluctance that he
had reduced it to a mere Abolition of Tests, but he had no
Choice for without the assistance of the Government it
would be impossible for him to pass the bill this year.
Moreover, there was a practical object to be gained
in passing the bill before the next election to Fel-
lowships in Trinity College, and petits/tidy if the College au-
thorities acted with the .0316 sagacity and liberality as here-
tofore, they might drew up statutes which would indu e
Parliament to leave the rest of the question to them for set-
Hew at Discussing the amendments of Mr. Mitchell
Henry and The Donoghue. which he held to be equally
Irrelevant, he maintained with regard to the first that
• It lid Commission was not needed to ascertain
Whether Dublin University should be treated on the same
principles as Oxford and Caruhridge lie agreed with The
o r in.ghue that this hill would not settle the question. itut
he re he parted company with him, because The D'Donoghue's
grievance could only- be remedied by concurrent euitownient,
which was utterly hopeless.
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Mr. Mitchell Ilinry moved, as an amendment to the
Second Reaulng, a Resolution declaring that before Legisla-
/lon there should he an Inquiry by means of a Royal Com-
mission into the opinion mut wishes of Academic Rothe, and
the Irish people generally. In support of it he ridiculed the
Idea of a mere abolition of Tests remedying the istj.tice of
which the Irish people complained. For one reason
It would be at least 40 years before any Roman Catholic
who might flow be elected a Fellow could obtahn
emy share in the government of the University ; slid as for
the Scholarships, there were already more Scholarships open
to Roman Catholics than there were applicants. the com-
mluion if appointed might report neat year, and the in
formation it would collect would otiahle the House to do
justice to all parties and to promote the prosptrity of the
country.

Mr. Heron, tithe only member in the House who had per-
sonally suffered from these rests, seconded the amendment.
Public opinion in In land would not be satisfied a ith this
bill Roman Catholics would abstain from sending their
sons to Trinity ullege, and the Roman Catholic Prelates
Would naturally refuse to trust tom education contlucted !‘y
Protestant ecclesiastics, for it must be 25 years at least
before this bill could affect the government of the Univer-
sity. Personally, if sateguards could be taken for religious
education, he was in favour of young men of both relief $
being educated together but there seas no such provision
In the bilL

After remarks from The o.DoooOne, Mr. Agar.Ellh, Dr
Ball, Mr. Pau, Mr. Plaskett, and Mr. Butt,

Mr. Gladstone, among other objections to the amendment,
pointed to its utter novelty—fiir this was the very drat time
• Royal commission had been proposed as machinery for as-
certaining opinions. is to the Bill it would be strong. If
She 'IOUS@ should refuse to do for Ireland what it had
done for Kt gland and Scotland. where the con-
nexion between Church and State was still main-
tained. lie dimeuted altogether from The U'Uono, hue's
contention that the question WWI to be dealt with on purely
local and domestic paunch,. Nor was it likely that
Parhament, having refused to recognize any convent, n
between the State and a particular form of religion
In Ireland, should hand over the control of high
educaUou to any religious body. That the bill was
limited is its scope was not necessarily an objection to it,
and he accepted it ass practical boon. But he agreed that,
It could not be regarded as a settlement. Thera count be no
settlement which old not give the whole Irish people access
to the University of Dublin, and it WU impossible for U2em
to have that access through Trinity College alone.

Mr. Munster and Mr. Redmond spoke against the bill,
and, Mr. Henry haring withdrawn his amendment, the bill
was read a se:ond time.

The House then went into Committee of Supply on the
Chil Servt..e Estimates, and the first twenty.three votes of
Class 1., Cut.lie Buildings, were agreed to.
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The Register hr. Parliamentary and Municipal Electors
Bill warn further coLsidered.

The other business was then disposed of, and the House
adjourned at hiltipost one is'elonet.

in the [louse of Lords, April 22, the Brighton Aquarium
Bill was read • 'wooed time ; the themes Enibeogrnent
(outh) Bill w.l read a thrd time and passed Toe Mutiny
Bill, and the Marine MUM) Bill were read a third time and
passed.

Ou the motion of the Martinis of Stlithury, the Esti of
Duch, anti the Earl of Cirnarvon wt re on led to the Select
Committee ou the improvement of Land, and their lordships
adjourned.

In the House of Commons. The &Honor Don frIVB notice
that on this day month Sir it. Bleuuerhassets would move
for Pave to bring Inn bill t provide for the purchase of the
Irish railway@ by the State.

Mr Mundell rave notice that on this day rnhoth Mr.
Dixon would move a resoluti in declaring the opinion of the
House that the Etinc,ition Act thou! I re &matted hy making
the attendance of children atd the formation of tchool
board. compulsory, and by the repeal of Clause O.

Mr. Bourke asked whether the Government would give
the 1.1, use some information upon the subject of the Zabal-
bar mission.

Lord Enfiel.i said there would be no unnecessary delay in
producing the correspondence and papers relating to the
mission, but at the present moment he was not in a position
to give the information that was asked for.

Sir Massey Lopes asked whether before asking the House
to assent to the pr, loosed remission of imperial taxation, the
Premier would state in what way the Government proposed
to give effect to Vle decision of the flame of thmmons last
sessi..n with reference to the relief of ratepayers from
charges imposed for the administration of Justice, police
and lunatics, since no provision for this purpose has been
made in the estimAts or in the financial statement of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Mr. Ole istiine skid it was not in his power to give the in.
formation askeii for. They could not d. al with tne matter
as a whole Suiting the present session, and In the Budget
they had done what they thought would he most “listee
tory to the country. On Thursday the House would have an
opportunity of expressing its opinions on the sub)...ct.

Mr. Cross asked whether the Government was now pre-
pared to give the names of the proposed railway commis.
elonen.

31r. Chichester Fnrtescue said the arrangements were very
far advanced, but they were not complete, and, therefore,
he was nit able to make a statement.

Mr. W. 11. smith asked wheth, r there would be any in-
terval between the statement of the names and the thud
reading of the bill.

Mr. Fortescue did not feel sure that that was a matter of
necessity. and would rather not give a positive pledge upon
that point.

Mr. OoMiley said that helve the Easter receas he under-
stood that the names were to be given to the Moose before
the th!!,l reading.. .

fortescue avid he did not give any pledge on the sub-
pct. He said what he hoped to be able to d.., but it was not
cloy to make arrangements in a matter of this importance.

Ilr. Smith said he should oppose the bill on Its third read-
ing unless the names had been previously communicated to
the liouse.

Sir M. Lopes postponed his motion on LfWM Taxation for a
month.

Mr. A. Herbert moved for leave to introduce • hill to limit
the compensation awarded on abolition of Fed° wships
In the Colleges of (oxford an brld ge. He proposed
that In the case of all Fellowships accepted after
the passing of the bill the compensation should be
limited to three years' value, and he to lc the oppor-
tunity of developing at considerable length his views
on University E tucatlon He condemn. the present sys-
tem, by which o much stress was laid on examination, and
such large resources wasted in rewards in the shspe or Fellow-
ships, and contrasted it with the German plan of drawing to.
Ere ther as large a body of teachers as possible, and of giving
perfect freedom to academical teaching.

On a division, however. the Home refused leave to intro-
duce the bill by 107 to Al.
Mr Bastwkli n,xt called attention to the state of affairs
In Central Asia, ai ;I moved for copies o, papers relating to
the Missions of Mr. Thomson and Rjih All to K hiva,
and the employment of Pritlah officers in Persia
In 1862 and 1663. In a long and minute hidorl-
Cal narrative Mr. Esstwick traced the relations ~f
Russia with Central Asia from the time of the
Mr ngols up to the present moment The view he took
was that, notwithstanding all protestations to the contrary,
Emilia had no intention of stopping on her Onward
march; brit he felt no alarm at it if it were only met
by u• with firmness and straightforwardness. He re-
gretted the recent negotiations, and thought thorn en-
tirely unnecessary, and directed to the wrong point.
The Foreign Office, he maintained, was unfit to deal
with matters which affected India exclusively. Among other
modes of meeting the advance of Russia he recommended
that we should make ourselves thopuody str fld at Pes-
hawar, should occupy Qu. ttab, and look carefully to our
alliances with K &anger and Persia. Abov'e all, there ought
to be no mystery as to the course we intended to take.

After reruarka from Sir C. Wingfield, Mr Grant Duff, and
other hon. members,
Mr. Gladstone, after explaining why the Government could
not grant the particular papers moved Sr by Mr hastrrick,
stated that there was nothing in the correstandence whtin
'imited our right of interfering in Afghanistan if we deemed
It Deese...l.y in our Interests. the correspondence might
be said to contain three thi,oir—a negative pledge n the
part of Russia that Afghanistan was outsice the sphere •
her I, thence hi Awn, a settlement of the houndurimi of
Afghanistan, and a pledge by this country to use Its influ-
ence to restrain the Ameer from aggression This last engage-
ment, %Ir. Gladstone said, only referred to moral influence,
and did not obilte us to coerce him

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—Mr -Dodson asked whether tier SNe,ti'm G wrernment had
repeated their own understanding 14 the engagement In
replying to Prince Gortchaln if. Interpretation, to whkh
Lord Enfield replied that no answer had been returned.
bir.Eastalek then %withdrew [demotion.
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The whey business WILI disposed If, and the House ad-
'owned at • quarter to one o'clock.

In the House of Commons. April 23, Mr. Bereeford Hope
moved the second reading of the Canouries Bill. which wan,
he said, simply a permissive bill, that would allow private
benevolence to du what it thought per .per. By an Act paoied
In the third year of the present reign there was it Wire
suspension of eanonries In ell cathedrals ; but pow.- r
was reserved to revive them, and this his bill pro-
posed to do. The measure, however, was not one to
provide additional feather beds for aged clergymen,
as he loeke upon cathedrals eminently as ounlibiba insti-
tutions which came in to supplement our parochial system,
which, though admirable, could n..t do everything in large
towns there was ft great want of a body .4 missionary clergy-
men, not attached to a particular parish, but able to go to
any place where they were most required. liter.
were, too, other duties, such as the Inspection of schools,
which such clergymen conlel nndertake. He wished to
allow private benevolence to endow canonries to he held by
such clergymen. Seeing, however, the jealousy with which
tying up land in mortinain was now viewed, he did not pro
pose to allow any endowments of that kind. This bill might
have extensive operation ; he sh old he glad lilt had, for it
would tend to make our venerable c.ithedrals real centres of
spiritual life to Lenighted millions. his commended it to
the House as a measure of sound reform which did not
put a farthing of taxation on the pribile, but rested on the
broad buds of private munificence. "the bill, however, might
have only a small operation ; in that Cllde it could do no
harm, and In any case It would not introduce any difficulty
Into the working of the existing system.
Mr. Bruce was understood to say that the Governments.,
no objection to this measure.

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The bill was read a second time.
Mr. Cawley moved the second reading of the Locomotives
on Roads Bill. Having explained the existinc lay; 011 the
'abject, which he said was merely temporary, he expressed
his opinion that the time had arrived when it shoule be
made clear and permanent. Commenting on the Opposition
of which notice had been given, be declared that locomo.
tines for use on main roads could be so constructed that
they would not frighten heaves, and would not be so dan-
gerous to the public as the heavy loads which were now
allowed in the streets.

Mr. Cire.fory moved that the bill should be real a second
time this day six months. He urged that ft would he danger
°us to allow heavy traffic to he driven through streets at a
rate which could not possibly be limited. It might be true
thi ro would he no danger, but thd public should nest lie
15.141,1 ne that IN,lnt, aid theh the huh rector It
Salford might ask for some relaxation of the present re.tric-
Oboe. ,

Sir E Colebrooke seconded the amendment, and said he
feared that tramway companies would he the tint to use
locomotives, which he regarded as dangerous.
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Mr. Stanley hoped the House would scree to the second
reaiiing of this toll If locomotives could bo made inoffen.
Five, why shoal I they be placed In a worse p, 611100 than
otter vehicles as to the use of road.? To put it on the
lowest ground, it would not b • to the interett of the owner
of a locomoiive to work lion road. if such use would exp..,
Motto the the liability of having to pay damages for acci-
dents.

Mr. Bruce said the present law was only a tentative one.
and cities it had been pasted there has been a great improve-
ment made iii locomotive, which were designed for use on
roads; at the aline time there rto mid be great danger in their
uwontrolled use in the croaded streets of towns or tit
Populous village, There was no depsrtment of the Govern.
volt which had the power of nick ng conditions for the
regulation of Atoh trt fti Detslis were the very essence o
the matter. and 11l regarded them the House had not suni•
dent information. Ile advised the hen member for Salford
to withdraw this tell, end to move for a select committee to
inquire Into the subject.

The advice was (wee ted, and Mr. Cawley gave notice of
his intention to move bra select committee.

The bill was accordingly wit) drawn
I‘lr. Butt moved the second reading of the Municipal
Franchise Tyeland, B II .

The bill was pp 1 d by Dr. Ball, who gave notice that he
would div de the !louse amend the motion to go Into com-
mittee._

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Mr. Bruce supported the bill, which was read a second
time.

--Ina °ration Chapel Marriages Legalisation Bill was read •
thi.d time and nassed.

he •iaim,m i.heries Bill pssseil throngh committee.
The Intestate Wldewa aud Childrea Bill was reads second
time.

Heron obtained leave to bring in a bill to establish It
Curl f..r the local le,ialation of the United Kingdom, anti
the House adjuurueiL