The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-05-28 00:00:00

COMMENTS ON CURRENT NEWS.

WHITSUNTIDE is on us, and wiil. the most
popular out-door holiday of the vcr it is to
be hoped that we shall have a pleasant
change in the weather; for the atmospheric
c )nditions through which we have been
called to pass of late have been of the most
trying s ,rt. May, the menth of which old—
time pots sang as the handmaid of summer,
the pleasantest period of all the year, has
quite lost its character. It has been a sea•
son of alternate winds, of cutting coldness
and of fog and frosts, killing the villa-
gardener's
tender geraniu ins, and ruining
the prospect of the fruit-farmer ; but sun-
sl.ine there has been little. With a Whit-
suntide on June's threshold we should now
speedily experience some enjoyable days,
when one may without fear cast aside the
overcoat and leave the umbrella at home.
And if the Whitsuntide holidays are only tine
and bright, the myriads of folk out for a
brief respite from their unwholesome urban
surroundings will forget that we have been
experiencing a winter which began in October
and which it is scarcely safe to say is over
yet.

PARLIAMENT has risen for its few days of
Whitsuntide surcease from legislative labour,
and for a time the voice of the Irish Nation-
alists is heard no more at St. Stephen's. Her
Majesty's faithful Commons were hardly
able to get away from Westminster for a day
at Eastertide, so they have well earned their
brief holiday. There was an all-night sit •
tint); forced by those who would not let
Government have all their own way on Mon-
dty ; and there is a talk of impending all-
night sittings after the recess, the pro-
longed sittings being actually proposed for
the House's acceptance by Ministers, in order
that the Irish question may be got out of
hand. Some such procedure will be really
necessary if we are not to have a deadlock
altogether. It took 35 sittings of the House
of Commons to pass 75 lines of the Crimes
Bill ; and as this left 370 more lines for
animonions discussion, it will be seen that
something serious mast be done. Such
progress as this can only be obtained by a
plentiful application of the cloture, much
to the indignation of Mr. Parnell's followers.

ONE of the most outspoken of the Irish
Nationalist leaders, Mr. William O'Brien,
who is the editor of United Ireland, and who
h ts, since he left Britain, once again been
elected a member of Parliament, met with a
very rough reception in Canada, whither he
went to preach the plan of Campaign, and
lecture upon h's view of the vexed political
relations between Ireland and Great Britain.
It is a pity— ,part from the question of
a3reement with either side—that the en-
etusiastic loyalists of the Dominion should
hive resorted to force in exemplifying their
dislike of Mr. O'Brien's utterances ; they
might have refrained from attendance at his
lectures. Shooting at him, smashine• his hat
with stones, and other maltrea:ment did no'
disprove the agitator's arguments, and such.
treatment was as disorderly as reprehensible,
Auch il,•ien's oratory is very violeat;
and his fervid words have moved the people
to action, but quite in a contrary direction
from that which he had hoped for. From
the Loyalist view-foint the attacks upon
Mr. O'Brien are a great mistake If the ob-
jectors had let the lecturer severely alone
they would have been much more likely to
stop his propaganda than they have been by
giving him the bold advertisement of a
physically hostile reception.

Mn. WILLIAM MOODY, if the story emanat-
ing from Seacombe be accurate, is certainly
a mo3t noteworthy individual, if not worthy
in any other way. and the sort of man one
reads about occasionally in novels, and hears
in sensational plays ; but whom, fortunately,
one very seldom comes into contact with on
the actual stage of life. Jack Sheppard—
so the romancers say—was somewhat of an
exquisite as well as a thief ; the late un-
lamented Charles Peace was a singularly ac-
complished, if repulsive, character, as N.vell as
expert at housebreaking; and fiction writers
have told tales of freebooters who have held
sway over islands in which were hidd2n
hoards of ill-gotten gain. But it is doubtful
whether eye ever saw or invention ever con-
jured up such a "character" as this Mr.
Moody is said to be. "Spider," in the
"Silver King," had an elegant and tastefully
furnished house, and wore the snowiest of
linen and shiniest of hats when not engaged
in his chosen avocation of "crib-cracking ;"
bat this Mr. Moody, we are told, actually set
up a yacht for purposes of combined pleasure
and profit. He is—or he is belied—among
the most accomplished as well as the least
scrupulous of thieves ; but when this enter-
prising burglar has not been burgling, or
paying the penalty of breaking the tmly
commandment for which such as he care—
" Thou shalt not be found out"—he has gone
in for investments in railway dividends and
the purchase of a yacht, on which he was
intending to visit Norway for the fishing and
shooting. His audacity has saved him from
detection many a time—for what policeman
would think of searching for burglar's booty
on board an elegantly-appointed yacht,
moored off the Cheshire shore of the Mersey,
and in char. e of an evidently well-to-do
gentleman ? Mr. -Moody's detection in the
act of common housebreaking by a woman,
destroyed all the irreproachable respect-
ability of his appearance, and that of his
yacht, and a search of his little vessel dis-
closed 3. pretty considerable collection of
v tillable property which had. been mysteri-
o...uly missed by the rightful owners. He
will, it is feared, have to go again into her
M).jesty's keeping unless he is able to put
quite a different construction upon matters.

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