The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

.The.t[ollie of Lords reamembied. June 9, after the Whitman

V;iiilon7

Lord Grinville, In reply to Lord lanricarde, read • tele-
gram steong that the recent riot in Dublin was caused by •
mob of the worst "roughs," who took advantage 40 the tire
to break into large whisky stores in the vicinity r'hop dice
and mditary had to charge the mob several times. and the
result was that shout 30 prisoners were taken, and 30 soldiers
hum, most Athens slightly.
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Lord Russell vac t., lay on the table of the House • bill
for the better government of Ireland, and prefwed the ex-
planation of the provisions of the measure by an historical
view of the condition of Ireland in past years. While
admitting that iii former times Ireland had reason to
complain of the operation of harsh and unjust law.,
he maintained that to accuse Parliament of an en-
deavour in recent years to ruin the prosperity et Ireland
Was unjust, and that since 1847 there had been •
peat improvement in the condiqon f that country.
With respect to the peace of Ireland, however, there was
my much yet to be desired, and, adverting to the NAfast
✓iot., he blamed the Gvernment for apparently allowing
them to pas. unroticed until • Judge of Assize went down
to the spot and explanied the state of the law. Another
evil was that in rural districts assassination not an-
frequently occurred when a man, who perhaps could
not 63 trusted to cultivate the land properly, wee
removed from Ids holding, and It was difficult to secure
the coov!ctiou f offenders. Finally, be pointed out
that the minds of the Irish people were greatly disturbed on
the subject f education. To remedy the evils he had ad,
veiled to he presented a bill providing for the appointment
of • Secretary of State for Ireland, in place of the Lord Lieu-
tenant, believing that would par.. an advantageous change,
55 the Secretary of State would be a member of the Cabinet,
and would be aide to discuss with his colleagues In the
Cabinet any measures he might deem necessary for the
adminixtratiou of Ireland. Lie also proposed that, except
hs cases involving the punishment f death, the verdict of
eight out of It jurymen should be sufficient for • conviction;
end wish regard to education his bill would provide that
the Committee of the Privy Council in England should have
the power to redrew wrong when wrong was committed, and
to restore to his post any manager of a school who might be
Unjustly removed.
Lord Kimberley, in remarking on the observations made
by Lord Russell, said that with regard to the lielfut dote
they were Inch as had, unfortunately, happened before, and
the local authorities did not at the outset act with sufficient
energy, but unles• the local authorities were deprived of all
power, Ii would be impossible to make the Government re-
sponsible I. r the .ceues which had occurred. With regard
110 the preen .e of assassination, he observed that at the pre-
▪ n% moment th,re was a considerable decrease f agrarian
alms in Ireland, and, in reference to the course pursued by the
Connulsaioners of Education in Ireland, It could hardly be
expected that he would go Into that question when the
whole matter WU now referred to a Select Committee of the
Rouse of Commons. lie promised carefully to consider the
postilions of Lard Russell's bill; but, until he saw the
details, he could not of course pronounce any opinion on
Ms measure.
Alter remarks from Lord Cranmore, Lord Mundt. Lord
Cairns, and Lord Granville, the bill presented by Lord
Russell was read • first time.

On the motion of the losd Chsncellor, the Matrimonial
Causes Act Amendment BM, having for ita object to extend
gO sults for nullity 01 marriage the law with respect to. the
Intervention of Her Majesty's Proctor and others in
In England for dissolving marriages, was read a second times
anti the House adjourned.

In the House of Commons, to reply to Mr. WArthur,
Mr. Winterbotham aid that the new bill on the sub-
ject of building societies would be in the hands of hon.
Members during the present week
Cr. stated that he should postpone his bill on the
same subject until be had men on what lines the Government
WU was drawn.

In reply to Lord Echo, Mr. Cardwell said no volunteer
band waa allowed to appear in uniform without the donaent
et t. commanding officer.
Mr. Denison sated for some statement as to the public part
the proposed receptiou of the Shah.

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Mr. Gladstone said that a queet'on had already been put
Slid answerld In this Hound. There could be no detated
socount. or any account, rendered beforehand of any pro-
seeding', and in fact It wan usual to allow some discretion to
the foreign Sovereign hirasell when he arrived in thla
*pantry.

The main business of the evening was the Supreme Covet
Of Judicature Bill, and the Attorney-General, in moving the
Second reeding, reminded his hearers of the great authority
With wilt& it came before them, and of the numeroue dir-
enaaions a: 1 amplifies of which it was the result, and touched
briefly on 1. receding attempts to legislate, which had failed
chiefly because t hey had not enlisted a sufficient amount of pop-
ajar opinion in their favour The main deGcra of the present
govern intended to be remedied were the conflict of Law and
Comity, the waste el Judicial Power tithei Common Law Courts,
the nnmerous Interruptions In the legal year, and the imperfect
Appellate Tribunal. The first of these defects would be
remedied by the creation of one Supreme Court, into which
all erlsting Courts would be merged, and in which Law and
Equity would be administered e mcurrently, without the
necessity of sending the suitor from one Court to another.
This Supreme Court would consist of two Diviaions. the
High Court of /antics and the Court of Appeal
and with regard to the lint, replying by anticipa-
tion to Mr. 0. Morgan'e amendment, he ridiculed
She idea that the authors of this bill could be any
parties to the degradation of Equity. It was the intention
of the Lord Chancellor that each Division of this Court
should be familiar with the principles and administration of
Equity but he objected to having this enacted in the
• because it would tend to stereotype the distinction
between Lew and Equity. Next. after enlarging on
We anomalies and defects of the present Appellate
system, and particularly of the Appellate Jurisdiction
of the House of Lords, he described the constitution
of the proposed Court of Appeal, which is to take cognizance
of all cages except Scotch. Irish, and Ecelesisatical Appeals.
Finally, he touched on the other main features of the bill,
She provision for continuous sittings, the appointment of
official referees, and the schedule of price lure, and with
respect to Mr. Gregory's proposal to refer it to, a Select
Committee, be declared emphatically that he would be no
Dir.?to the further postponement of a bill already too long
yed.

Mr. Charley moved a resolution " That It Is Inerpedient to
abolish the Jurisdiction of the House of Lords usen Etiglish
Court of Final Appeal." Its based his opposition to this
pert of the eill on Constitutional grounds, and read opt].
lona from distinguished lawyers and Constitutional authori-
Yes against a change wh:ch, among other Mconventences,
would rudely shake the heist:co of power between the two
ROOMS.

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Mr. Bourke seconded the resolution.
Mr. 0. Morgan. in oppoting the resolution, repeated the
bonniar arguments against the Appellate Jurisdiction of the
BOUM of Lorda. But the most important leatuz f the tall
wee the attempted fusion of Law and Equity. If this could
bib effected It would be a great success nut he argued at
9001.1 length that, while It conferred equitable jurisdiction,
Um bill contained no machinery for carrying it out For
this purpose he urged that in each Division there ought to
be one or more Equity Judges.

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Alter remarks from other hon, members, the S
lieltor-
-0nr,.1 replied seriatim to the various objections, and
eernestly urged the douse not to consent to ary proposal
which would have the effect t throwing the bill over.
At this point, on the surgesiton of Mr. Gladstone, the
debate was adjlarued until Thursday, in order to mate way
tor the discuss ou on the Cape of Good Hope and Zinibar
RAI Contract, upon which the debate was eventually alto
adjourned until Thursday.

The other bnainess was disposed of, and the House ad
!earned at twenty minutes to two o clock.

In the House of Lorda June 10, the Charing crom and Vic.
Soria Embankment Approach Bill was read a second time ,
She !forth Metropolitan Tramways EMI was read a third time
mad pared.

Lord Henniker moved the second reading of the Apical-
lora Children Bill, the object of which he explained to be to
prevent the employment of children under eight years of
see in agricultural labour, and also to priside that children
between the ages of eivht and thirteen ahould not be em-
ployed in agricultural labour unless they were certified to
have attended school for • certain number of times during

Lord Portman believed that they were all desirous to
haprove the education of the children employed in agricel-
tare, but he th,ught that the bW to its present form would
not work well, and he 4,Jected. to the looee manner in senicts
the measure had been drawn up ate pulsed by the House of
Common.

The Duke of Richmond supported the bill, because he was
sure Hut it would be beneflcial to the !showbiz classes of the
country, but he suggested alterations which he believed
would Improve the bill.
Lord Shaftesbury said that he should be surprised if the
House did nut pass the bill, because in 1667 the House passed
a bill Identical with the present measure with the en :eptiou
or a few details.

Lord Kimberley approved the bill generally, though he
did not pledgA himself to a um:waive:ice la all the detail,

Lord iallabury said that no one c, uld disagree with the
principle of the bw, that education should he extended as
ter as poesible to agricultural chtldren, but he thought that
the Introduction cf the measure should have been deferred
until the labour market vas less disturbed.

After some farther discussion, the bill was read a second
Wm.

The Comity Authorities (Loans) Bill and the Customs
Ditties (Isle of Man) Bill were read a second time.
The Crown Lands Bill was considered In Committee, and,
atter a lengthened discussion on an amendment proposed
by Lord Carysfort, which was eventually withdrawn, the
various clauses were agreed to, and the bill pissed through
Committee.

The other business upon the Paper hsehag been diapered
of. the House adjourned_

In the 11,..nie of Comm.., Mr. Baines for Mr. Reed) pre-
sented 111 petltlona from all parts of the kingdom against the
nth% of Sun ay and ragged schools.

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In reply to Mr. Vernon Marc mrt, Mr. Gladstone said the
Government would look with favour upon any attempt to
remedy the defects in the law of conspiracy, whether it were
In the present or in the neat session of Parliament. If the
hoo, and learned member thought it necessary to go on
during the present seselon they would have every desire to
afford facihtles, but they must have reference to the par-
ticular object of the bill, and, consequently, he could not
give a positive answer until he taw the measure to be pro-
posed.

Straight gave notice that on the second reading of the
Public Prosecutors Bill he would move an amendment de.
daring the bill to be unsatisfactory, In that It does not pro-
vide for the Intervention of public prosecutors until after
ih• committal of accused penonu
The House had a Morning Sitting for the Committee on
yr. Stans'eld's Local Taration Bala but the Sitting was
practically altogether occupied by a preliminary discussion
*hither the first of them, inc Rating (Liability and
Valuatkn) Bill should be refirred to a Select Committee.
rum motion was made by Mr. Scourfield, seconded by Colonel
Barttriot, who utod In support of it that the bill [died alto-
gether to fulfil the pledge given hi the G.ivernmei. t in rekard
So air Massey (pens motion, that it was a skeleton measure,
that it c,,ntalnell no principles, and that time would be
saved in the long run by sending It upstairs.

Mr. Ward Hunt, who supported the motion, admittcd that
It. effect might be to postpone legislation until next year.
But he thought it better that the rest of the Session should
be spent in elaborating the bill upstairs than that on in-
complete measure should be passed which was nothing but a
"Jane, and would create the greatest cosfuslon among the
Assessment officials
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ltr. Gladstone opposed the motion, and, In reply to a
Martino from Sir Pease. stated that both this and the Valua-
tion Bill, being tatlmately if not vitally connected, would
be pressed forward this Session. to refer this bill to a
Helect Committee would be to delay the anal settlement of
the question. As to Sir Massey Lopeas Iteeolution, it was
Ee duty of the Government servilely to give sffect to
Intions of the House, but he maintained the Government
goue as far as they mule expediently at this moment.
ft. promised that he would be no perty to laying new
Charges on tool taxes until the pi Inciplei of ailiessment were
eattled.

112!!ntua1ly, after a lengthened discussion, tho Howe
armee, and Mr. Scourgelcrs motion waa negatived by 211
lo 181.
The liege* then went into Committee, and Sir. Stansfeld
opposed to Sage the tint two Manses. This, however, being
ellx.ted to, a motion was made to report progress, which
was negatived by 176 to 151. lance 1 was agreed to, and
the further progress of the bill was adjourned until Friday
M two o'clock.

At the evening Int .l; a xi the Paper
were for a Commission on " Skimp Boats,' by Mr. Cowper.
Temple, and for • Select Committee on the "Civil Service
Writers," by Mr. ()twiny. Neither of these two gentlemen
was in his place at the moment when the Speaker took the
chair at nine o'clock and called ti.eir names in due order.
They haatened in immediately afterwards, but the Speaker
had then called on

Sir John Ray, who moved for a Select Committee to con-
Wider the present systsm of Promotion and Retirement In
the Royal Nary, which was seconded by Mr. Henry Pracy.

Mr. ihomm iressey held It to be lm-posidble to And coa-
lition{ employment in the Nary forth. large number of officers
VS were bound to train, sod suggested Met other employ-
ments should be open to them, such am consulships
Anglo Torts, sarreyorships under the Board of Trod% and
111.11010afts of the Nand Volunisies. With Ws view he

maved as an amendment that the bumbles of the Select
Committee ne directed to this branch of the subject.

3dr. Liddell seconded the amendment.
Mr. hi!ders explained at length. and with copious sta-
tistics, the objects and operations of his Retirement Scheme
Of IS7O, contending that, as regards the reduction of the
Hits, the financial results, and the acceleration of promotion,
it had turned out most satisfactorily.

On a divielon, Sir J Hay's motion wu negatived by 81 to
84. and Mr. Brusey's was agreed to without objection.

The seeo33ll rtaciing of the Itmkeepera' Liability hiII was
negatived by 52 to 35.

Some other business wail disposed of, and the House ad
lonmed at &quarter past one o'clock.

In the House of Clmmons, June 11, Sty R. Anstruther
moved the second reading of the Resets and Bridges Scot.
Isud) Bill, which waa founded on the report of a Royal Com-
mission which sat in 15.59, since which time fourteen of the
Scotch coontles had obtained at great expense private Acta
to ebable them to abolish tolls, which le the principle of this
hill. He stated that it had been contemplated by Govern-
ment to bring in a bill to abolish to,b all over England, and
the drib of a bill for that purpose might be found at the
Home Office. He could not believe that it would be more
difficult to abolish tolls around Glasgow than In the suburbs
of London
Mr lire E•ing seconded the motion.

Mr. Crawford-moved an ametniment declaring that, as the
hill Involved a compulsory Imposition f new kocal burdens.
the House declined to entertain this MI untrthe tinestim
of the relief to be grant. d from Imperial funds to local taxa-
tion shall have been definitely ,ettled.

Lord Elcho seconded the amendment.
Eventually, on a division, the second reading of the RH
was carried by 124 votes to 115.
Mr. %fundslla, In moving the second reading of the Fee.
tory Acts Amendment Bill, reßretted the hour (ten minutes
put fourl at which he was obliged to commence a discussion
of such Importance, and which affected a vast series of
turtle industries. They employed a million of persons In
spinning, weaving. and production, resides which a
large number of others were employed in the finial:dna
of the productions and preparing them for the market. He
had meet carefully considered the economic side of this ques-
tion, and believed we were In a position to concede to the
women and children their demand for a reduction of the
hours of labour in factories. He denied that this bill was
prom ded by the trades' Wens in order to place difficulties
In the way of the employment of female labour. He con-
tended that the present system of factory life was little hatter
than slave driving. He referred to the enquiries which
had t.ken place, and said that the revelations as
to our treatment of Infant life was disgraceful to
Christians.] a civilised nation. Ile ireer a graphic picture
of the condition of women and children who were compelled
to go in all weather to the mills, where, frequently
wet cl dhes, they worked in a hd and stifling atmosphere
for sixty hours per week exclusive of meal times. Could
It be expected that after such labour the children
Would learn anything in the night schools? Almost
all the skilled labonmd this country only worked nine hours
per day, while women worked 10i hours What could be
the condition of homes and children under such circum-
stances' (Hear, hear.) He contended that this bill would
Increase the demand for female labour rather than dis-
courage it.

The hon. member spoke until twenty minutes to six
o'clock, when Mr Fawcett naked the G ,vernment to give
some facilities for the resumption of the debate, as he in-
tended to move an amendment against the bill. He waa
still speaking when the Speaker stopped him, and the debate
was adjourned.

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The ether orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned.