The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-21 00:00:00

division it might confer great benefits on Ireland. Ott the
question of education, replying to Mr. Morsman's remarks,
he denied that the Roman Catholic laity required protection
against their hierarchy, and Bhowed that in asking: for deno-
minational education, primary and university, they required
no more than was claimed by Protestants. The first object.
thins to the mixed system of elocution came from the Pro-
testant clergy, and though the Roman Catholic bishops had
condemned the principle on "Mil the Queen's Colleges were
bar :it, they bad not carried their oppoeition to greater
length. But at the bottom of all Irish difficulties lay the
state Church, and, speaking as a Protestant, he reoommentled
Mr. Bright's seheme to the comideratiou of Protestants.
Personally he was in favour of the en ,ovforetit of the three
denominations in Ireland ; but he acknowledged that public
opinion was against endowment.. Simply to sweep away the
Church would to an uustatesinanlike sedation, and must
leave much bitterness and animosity behind. Looking to
the great difficulties which beset the question, its settlement
must be attained by a compromise, and one item of that
compromise ought to be the conveyance to each denomina.
lion of a lamp sum, with a condition in the case of Roman
Catholics that a part of it should be applied to the purchase
of glebe lands and manses Ile exhorted the enemies of the
Church to be content with dirt-establishment, and avowed
his wish that the question should be deferred until the new
Parliament, which would deal with it on a larger basis.
Among other remetites he suggested direct diplomatic rela-
titda with the Pope, moderate loans of public money
for improvements, and au improved administration of
railway..
Mr. Conolly augured much good from the practical turn of
the debate, and while maintaining that Irish Protestants
were not indisposed to a calnt and just settlement of the
Church question, intimated that he should oppose Lord
Mayo's Land Bill if it was like that of tint year.
As Mr. Conoliy sat down more than a score members
sprang up to continue the debate in all parts of the House,
but chit fly on the Liberal benches, and the Speaker called on

from Birmingham, signed respectively by 23,000 and 32,000
persons, with a similar prayer, and several from Sheffield to
the same effect, containing altogether 31,000 signatures.
Mr. J. A. Smith, in moving the second reading of the Sale
of Liquor. on Sunday Bill, said he was well aware that he
hail undertaken a very Important task in pressing suot a
measure atom the consideration ed the house But he felt so
persuaded of the many advantages which would result to the
con...unity at large from the adoption of the change which
he had to propose, that he could net decline to accept the
responsibility which he then assumed. Nothing, he believed,
couol he worse than tlie present state of the law upon that
subject, lie did not approach the question in an asset°
arra. He hail no desire to diminish the already too limited
means of indulgence and enjoymmit possessed by the
woi king classes Ile felt the warmest interest in their
Well being. Ile was ready also to admit that no man
could by made moral by any parliamentary enactment;
but he was not the less strongly convinced that the
morality and welfare of the working classes might be
materially promoted by wise legislation. Ile would riot have
attempted to deal with the subject if he dld not believe that
the working classes throughout the kingdom were, on the
whole, greatly In favour of his measure; and he had reason
to know that many of them could not unreservedly accept it,
because they were persuaded that It did not go far enough.
Reverting to the paid legislation upon this question, the hon.
member first referred to the Leer bill passed in the year 1830,
and which was amended in the year 1042, and said he be-
lieved it was at present universally admitted that that act
had been a failure: Various other measures were subse-
quently passed before the law was placed in its present con-
dition, and that condition was, he contended, one of a very
unsatisfactory ilnscription. Ile proposed to amend it by
providing that all public-houses in England and Wales ehonlil
be shut up at far as drinking on the premise. was concerned,
while he would leave them four Mums namely, from
half-past twelve to half-past two in the early part of the
day, and front eight to ten in the evening for the sale
of beer over the counter, lie founded his proposal upon
the four following principles First, that the amount 1
of drunkenness was in proportion to the public facilities '
afforded for the sale of intoxicating liquors ; secondly,
that all restraints in that case hail been attended with
beneficial consequences thirdly, that a most salutary
change bad of late years taken place in the wishes and feel-
ings of the working classes in reference to that subje-t—a
change to which it was desirable that parliammit should now
give effect and fourthly, that it was indefensiide in theory
and in policy to keep public houses open at the time when
the effect of such a system was most noxious and to make an
exception in their favour on a day on which all other traffie
was iiiterilicted and every other shop was closed by law. I
The hon. member proceeded to adduce specific proofs in
support of each of these prepositions. Ile referred to ire ,
fact that an extraordinary increase in drunkenness hail fol-
lowed the adoption of the abolition of the licensing system,
anti the application of the principle of free trade in liquors
icc the towu of Liverpool as a justification of the statement
that tutoxication was prompted by the increase of the facili.
ties for its indulgence. In defence of his secoeit proposition
he quoted stating,s to show that the Forbes Mackeesie Act
had operated most beneficially in Scotland, ant tie
stated that since the passing of the measure the quasi.
tity of spirits drunk annually in that country had
decreased by 2,000,000 gallons, or about 30 per cent.
Ile mentioned the resolutiens passed at various public
mei:Vega as a sufficient indication of the happy change which
has of late taken place in the feelings of the working classes
upon that question. Anti with respect to his fourth pro-
position he said its truth was so obvious that he could only
accomit for Its violation throughout the country by the great
influence possessed by our publicans. Ile had no wish,
however, to join in any cry against that respectable class,
and he was lmppy that many of them were earnest sup-
porters of his MIL The hon. member passing tic a notice of
the enormous sums expended tic this country in the purchase
of intoxicating drinks, said it appeared from returns which
had lately been obtained that there had been coneurned lu
England last year £2.0,811,000 worth of British spirits,
£0,415,000 worth of colonial spirits, £10,7L14,000 worth of
, wine, and £18,599,000 worth of malt liquors—making a gross
total of £55,619,01/0. In conclusion, he asked the house in
' the name of moral, religious, and economical program to
accept the principles of this reasonable and moderate rnea-
, sure, and thus to save the unhappy victims of intoxication
from a temptation which they had nut themselves the
I strength to resist.
• Mr. J. Locke rose to move that the bill be read a second
time on that day six months.
Mr. Labouchere seconded the amendment
• Air. Ilibliert said that he could not agree with the amend-
ment, because it was directed against all change in that
matter, and neither could he aupport the bill, because,
although be was in favour of restraining the sale of Intoxica-
ting liquors on the Sunday, he would not carry out that
principle lathe manner proposed by the Mon. member for
Chichester. lie believed that the bill as it then stood would
be impracticable, and he would recommend that it should
then be read a second time, and afterwarda referred to a
select committee.
. .

Mr. W.ll. Gladstone, who, in a very euccessful maiden
speech, argued that the circumstances of Ireland remered a
holder treatment than the Ministerial programme.
Fenianism, he held, was not so dangerous as the
subdued and smothered feelings of discontent, which
prevailed extentrively, and in which It fed The eaues
of this discontent he defined to be the illiberal polity
we hast pursued towards the Irish people both as
cultivators of the soil and as It-loan Catholics Ile
advocated a system of certain and liberal compensation
for improvement., awl this lie would substitute for the
tenant-right custom, which he did not altogether approve.
Deeply regretting that the bkivernment had no policy in
regard to the Church, he insisted that en time should le lost
by Parliament in pronouncing for the principle of religities
equality, and he emnbatted the plea that to disestablish the
Irish Church would strike a blow at the English Church,
shoeing in how many circumstance. the two differed Ihe
one was au insult to the vast majority of the population,
while the other was in entire accordance with the feelings of
the people among whom it was estabbehed. On the question
of education, thionth he should have preferred a fusing of all
educational establishments into oue University, he did not
disapprove the plan of the Ouvertiment to charter a Catholic
*University.
Lord Castlerosse complained of the timidity of the Govern.
moist in uot dealing with the Chun ch. Unexpressed a strong
opinion in favour of a measure for compeusatiou to tenants,
and predicted that Parliament would not concoct to the plan
of a Catholic University.
The discussion was continued on the same side by Mr.
be la Poor and Mr. Syr.; by Colonel Bruen, who argued
against the establishment of fixity of tenure by law, and ap-
proved the endownient of a Catholic University : and by Mr.
Kendall, who justified the course of the Government on the
three points—Land, Church, mid Education
Mr Gladstone, who rose just before ten o'clock, and was
loudly cheered by the Opposition, pointed out that, numerous
as had been the blots hit In the Ministerial programme, their
greatest error of all was that they hail failed to realise the
grave fact that we had reached • crisis in the Irish question.
Ireiand had an account with this count] y which had endured
for centuries, and in the opinion of every enlightened nation
In the won't, much as we hail done, we hail not dona enough
to place ourselves in the right. The most recent proof of
this failure of the Government to grasp the gravity of the
occasion was Sir Stafford Nurthcottes speech, for the impar-
tiality of the Executive Government, to which he trusted,
was bet suflicieut to counterbalance the injurious effect of
unjust laws. Time, his second palliative, hail been tried
sonic centuries, and of the third palliative—justice—he re-
marked that Sir Stafford's Idea of it included the elan.
tenancy of the Irish Church. Admitting that Lord
Mayo's account of the state of Ireland was, on the whole.
accurate, he argued that the coexistence of materiel
progress with widespresd discontent was a proof that sonic
unsatisfied necessity still existed, and in enforcing the
gravity of the political crisis he pointed to the depletion of
Ireland by emigration, the repeated suspension of the Habeas
Corpus, anti the invasion of &mined by Fenianism. Mr.
Gladstone next discuseed at length the adequacy of the
Government policy to the exigencies of the case under six
heads, viz t—Parliamentary Reform, the Repeal of the
Ecclesiastical Titles Act, Railways, Education, Land, and the
Church. The lint three he dismissed very briefly, and on
the question of University education he remarked that the
Roman Catholics had a real grievance. He defended the
action of Lord Russell's Government in Deleon thia subject, and
in discussing Lord Mayo's suggestion he ineisted, with mnch
emphasis, that Parliament had never voltudwily undertaken
the support of dello:inflations' Universities and schools; but,
on the contrary, of late years it had been sedulously endea-
vouring to get Yid of all votes of a purely denominational
character. elr. Mermen mu. know as well as anyone that
such a scheme as this could not be carried into effect; it was
a mere idea in fact, which hi reality was dead before it hail
lived ; and in the absence of atty information sate the views
of the Roman Catholic bishops it might be described as
another "lea,, It, the dark." But it was impossible to give a
Mel opinion on the University question until the view of
Parliament on the Irish Church was ascertained, for if a
sweeping policy were adopted it would he necessary to COls•
shier how far Trinity College could be made available. On the
latel question Mr. Gladstone asserted that the real grievance
the Irish people had been acknowledged by the Devon Com-
mission, which had recommended a messnre of compensation
for improvements. A just land law he laid down to be one THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE
under which, in the absence of any contract between land- FESTIVAL OF ST. PATRICK.
lord and tenant, the improvements effected by the tenant
should be his property, and he preferred to trust rattier to For very many years a number of Trish noblemen and
the operation of each a security than to any measure for gentlemen have celebrated the festival of the national saint
fluty of tenure. Commenting on Mr. Bright's plan, he of Ireland by a dinner in London, given for the benefit of the
pointed out some difficulties to It: he suggested that if the Benevolent Society of It. Patrick. In whose schools some
Government took possession of the Irish (hush propery, I hundreds of the children of poor Irish parents resident In
the esperiment could be tried there. Passing to the church the metropolis receive education and other advantages. Bet
question, Mr. Gladstone congratulated the House on the on as former anniversary of this institution was there so
twilit advance of public opinion, as shown, perhaps, micro numerous and brilliant a gathering as took place on Tuesday
forcibly hi the defence of the Church than iu the attack. at Willis'. Rooms, St. Jernee's, when the Prime of Wales
After condemning strenuously Lord Mayo's hint at an presided at the dinner. As will be seen from the report of
increase in the Itegium Donuts and a subsidy to the the proceedings, his Royal Highness did something still more
Roman Catholics front the Consolidated Fund, and t than honour the society by accepting the post of president of
riolii uling the Goverunient pleas for delay, he an- the day. Be evinced a sincere interest in the welfare of
stemmed, amid loud cheers from the Oppwition, his Ireland, and spoke of the pleasure with which he looked
opinion that the Church, as • State Cl...eh, must forward to his approaching visit to Dublin, where he is to be
eelse to exist Religious equality must be established, dif. Installed ass Knight 01St. Patrick.
Mina though the operation might he; but he decidedly con- The London Irish formed a guard of honour in front of
demned the principle of erteging up other denominations Willis'', Rooms, and upon his arrival the Royal president
to the level of the Church by grants from the Consolidated was received with every demonstration of respert by the
Fund, mid the plan for redividitig her revenues among the company assembled in the great dining room. When the
clergy of different denomination.. Those plans had long cloth was removed, the Prime of Wales ruse, amid loud
passed the point of practical possibility. On the whole, he and enthusiastic cheer ing, waving of handkerchiefs. he. Ile
tweed very much with Mr. Bnight's mode of effecting this ease —My Lords end Gentlemen, the first toast I have the
Crest operation lie recentmended Mr. Maguire to 5 ith- honour of giving in my capacity as chairman is One that
draw his motion, but he intimated that unless Mr. Dieraeles requires but very little preface. It is always the first at
speech Mitered altogether from the speeches of his .1- meetings ifthis kind, and, therefore. it is one weth which
leagues, it would be the duty of the Opposition to ask a de- you are familiar. I ask you to drink the health of Iler
cided opinion from the House on this question ; and it must Majesty the Queen. I give you " The Queen."
not be a more empty declaration, but It must be attended by The toast was received with hearty and respectf ill loyalty.
some practical step which would show the Irish peeple that The Archhishnp of Arnuigh then gave "The health of the
Parliament was now in earnest. Princess of Wales anti the rest of the reiyal Family," and
31r. Dewed', who was also loudly cheered, commenced in doing so expressed a hope that the by was not far dietant
by ironically bewailing the unhappy fate which made when her Royal Highness would be able to honour Ireland
the commencement of Ids Sitiosterial career coinci- with a visit. That the reception given to her would be in
dent 'sib the imperious ileceseity of immediately every way a gratifying one no one who knew Ireland could
settling an account seven centuries old. Examining the doubt. (Much cheerieg.
°tementes of the Irish crisis, as stated by Mr. Glad- In acknowledging, the Prince of Wales RAH 5My Lords and
stone, he showed that all of them had existed while he Gentlemen, after the very kad terms In which Itut Grace the
was in °Mee, .d that no attempt had been made to deal Archbishop of Armagh has proposed this tout and the ex-
with them. Conintencing with the university project, he de- ceediugly warm manner in wheal you have received it,
fended the Ministerial programme in detail. The object of the feel bound to say a few words. I heartily thank his Grace
proposed Charter was to extend to the Irish Roman Catholics and the entire company. lam certain that it the Princess
the opportunity they had long desired of giving their children of Wales were sitting here she would witness this scene with
the benefits of a higher education under the influence of their very simere pleasure. Both myself and the Princees have
own priesthood, and the sarcasm of Mr. Borgmann that it was reason to he much gratified, not only at the feeling evinced
meant to conciliate Ultrammitabism was absent as he showed towards her when she first eame to this country, but still
bps recapitulatien of the facts relat log to the Queen'. Coliege, more by the sympathy shown in her regard during the long
which 31r. [foreman, he reel, had totally rnisrepreeented and painful illnesa from which lem happy to say she is now
Ile vindicated next the land policy ol the Goveniment, almost entirely recovered. and prolonged cheering.
premising that in this mei all other points the Goverement I assure you I join in the wish expressed by the Archbishop.
had propused, not that which was theoretically perfect, but I should he glad that she was able to pay a visit to Iceland,
which was practical and practicable. They had picked out and I am sure she is most apnoea to do so. (Renewed
all those points on which there was a general agreement that cheering.) Having been there so often myself, and having i
legislation was pmsible, a bile they hail referred to a Corn- spent so pleasant slime there, I can judge of the feelings of
rniseton those pints only which were not ripe for dechion, the Irish people on this point. I am certain that in the
and he characterized the assertion that the object of the Emerald Idle the Priecess of Wales would reeeive as cordial
Conllllo4lon was delay a. " the lees and reduce of factious a greeting As she did from the people ot Englmil when she
insinuation." Passing to the Church question, and admitting arrived In thia c.cuuntry. Enthusiastic cheering )
that tile Ireth Church was not In the position he should wish A harmonized Irish melody, arranged by Mr. J. Hnllati,
to see her, having in her communion the majority of having been performed by the band, the Prince of Wales
the people, Mr. Disraeli discussed and defended the mind- said ,--My Lords and Gentlemen, the next toast is one
pie of ecclesiastical endowments Ile denied thet the which is 'lever omitted on festive occasions like the present,
spirit of the age was opposed to mittoe meets, as had been anti I hope it never will be. It is the toast of " The Army
laid down by Mr. Bright, who, with the aid of and Nmvy, the Militia, end the Volunteers." I think that
the philosophers, had apparently converted Mr. Glad- we in this country have reason to congratulate ourselves on
stone to the same opinion. He warned the House that it the state and efficiency et our army. It is true that in re-
was not the comparatively II ntited issne of the trial, Church sped of solitary matters we have been undergoing changes,
It was the principle of ecclesiastical endowment, an entire and it is probable that we shall have to undereo still ficehluer
revolution In the national habit and character. which was at changes. But these are a consequence of the improvements
stake. Drawing from the Ministerial benches lomt and con- which the progress of science and the results of experience
thhous cheering, he denied the moral cempetence of the are bringing about, and they afford no ground tor dinette-
House to decide that issue without an appeal to the country. faction with the administration of oiler. army. (Cheers ) At
It was a question which the country HlOne could decide. For the preseut moment we are engaged in operatione in a dire
Id years the Liberal party hail been in power, nut what 111111 tent country, where our troops nay meet with many dim'
they done to prepare the public mind for such a revolution gullies which it be necessary for tlient to surmount.
This Parliament, he held, oeght not to decide It; it ought to But I have no misgivings 441 the subject. (Cheers. I feel
be reserved for the new and enlarged conetlinencies. Being certain that the British soldier will do his duty in Abyssinia,
personally in favour of ecclesiastical endowment., he strongly and that, whether the campaign be a I,mg or a short one, its
objected to the destruction of the Irish Church. The result will be as glorious to the arms of this country as that
violence reel confiscetion with which it must be accent- of any previous operations In which our forces have been en-
pan ice' would be a great detriment to Ireland, where there gaged. (Much cheering. )Ae regards the navy, I believe we have
had already been violence mid confiscatien enough; but he Yealen Ow to be satletitd ith the ni.nner which that branch
reserved to himself the right of considering the labours of of the service is conducted. Happily, we have no occasion at
the commission now sitting, and at the some time he ex- prment for our ships to be employed in aggressive proceed-
pressed a decided °pie!on that the moment had arrived less; but, at the same time, it is necessary that we should
when there must be a comeiderable change in the ...Wien keep pace with other nations in their naval improvementt
of the utter:dewed clergy of Ireland which would elevate (Hear, hear.) Last year. or the year before, we might have
their influence. By this he did mit mean what was vulgarly supposed that our ships were as perfect as they needed to be;
called " psy ing the priests," melting them the stipendiaries but now we Mel that very much more ei wanting. (Cheers.)
of the State, of which he strongly disapproved. Referritig My lords and gentlemen, I most net omit to mehtion the
to his oft-quoted speech of 1844, he maietained that, Militia—a very vein:dile auxiliary to the army-111111 it NOUN
though expressed, perhaps, with the heedless rhetoric which be ano less Moat mistake not to recognise the merits and
appeared to be the appimage of all who not below the gang- the usefulness of the Volunteers. (lieter, hear ) It is ex-
way, the sentiment of it woos right, and he coudeded by tremely gratifying to find that the zeal displayed when the
avowing his belief that the Ministered tirogramme was the Volunteer movement first commenced has in no respect de-
commencement id anew policy for Ireland. terinrated. (Cheers.) What once was called a national move-
The motion and amendment were withdrawn, and the meat may how be called a nationel institution. Great
delete came to a close. cheering.) Sly lords end gentlenien, I give you the toast of
In Committee several supplemental votes in the Civil "The Army and Navy, the Militia, anti the Volunteers,.
Service Estimates were agreed to. couplicig with the Army the name of the Earl of Longford,
sonie other bualness was disposed of, and the House ad. Under-Secretary for War, with the Navy Mr. Corry, First
plumed. Lord of the Admit ally, and with the Volunteers Captain
In the House of Lords, on March 17, the Marquis of M. man John O'Connell.
The toioit was drunk with all the honours.
Canricarde rose to move for a select committee to inquire
d
into the constitution, jurisdiction. and procedure of the The Earl of Longford briefly replie
Quarter Sessions Courts in Ireland, with a view to their Sir. Corry, in responding for the Nfor the Army.
avy, said ha belteeed
that St. Patrick had never been so far south as that flue
improvement and to the further assimilation the civil
14,11 C Imes to the C.,unty Courts of England and Wales. harbour which was "slate, bone fida cerinis." She was glad
The noble marquis explained that his object in doing so to announce to the company that on the occasion of the
forthcoming visit of the Prince of Welles Inc Dublin, a divieion
was that part of the administration of the law In Ireland had
of the armour-clad vessels of the Channel fleet, wider the
been neglected, and he believed that the alteration proposed
command of Admiral Warden, would he stint to the Bay of
tniebt mile without any increase of expenee.
Dublin, where, weather permutieg, the ships of the divialon
The Lord Chancellor admitted that the nodded was one of
would anchor anti remain during the time his Royal High-
great importunes Ile had no &mitt that considerable
uess was to in Ireland. (Chen's.)
bem flt would arise from
elangiving a jarisdictMn in equity to
the
C stay
eptain 31. J. O'ConnelL in rettsming thanks for the Volun-
Civil Bill Courts in Ird. If the noble 111•14illiS chuse
leers, remarked that in the London Irish there never had
to bring forward a bill embodying the views that he haul
been any political or polemical disputes.
expressed the Goverement would fur no oppontion to it.
At this stain, of the proceeding. there occurred a scene
In reply to Lonl Stanley of Alderley, Earl Stanhope Said
thoroughly " racy of the evil" of which most of te e-
the Irish Church Commission bad already collected a great
men and gentlemen who. were present ate natihve,no Tblhe
deal of evidence. children, of the echools were brought into the room, and
Their Lordships then adjourned. St. Patrick's Day" having been struck up by the band, the
In the Home of Comnions, Mr. Cranfurd Rave notice that boys 81.1 girls proceeded to make the circuit of the tables.
on Friday text he stinted ask the First Lord of the Tremery The national air of Ireland told alike 011 the benefactors such
If his attention hail been called to a meeting held at the Red the recipients of the charity. The children looked with
Lion Inn, Cambridge, en Sean...lay last for the purpose of glisteuing eyes on the compatiy, and the latter, as the young
remitter a Conservative Regiatrstion Society, at which the ones named by, losdett them with fruit and cakes to su ch ell
Earl of Hard wicke, the Lord Lientemint for Cambridgeshire, extend that befere the juvenile procession had made its exit
mei a peer of the realm presided. Anil he shimid 'minim if from the apartment the tables had Men cleared of the entire
such minded was permitted on the part of • represetitatiee dessert, which was a very liberal one. The boys and girls
of her Majesty. raised a leud cheer as they left the room. and the entire
The Earl of Mayo gave notice that on Thuredey next he company, including the illustrious President, appeared all
shonlol hitroduce the new Representation of tbe People the happier for bevies/ made the festival the means of so
(Ireland) Bill. unusual a treat for the little sons end naughters of poor Irish
Mr. it. A. Bruce obtained leave to bring In a bill to pro- parents struggling for their liv hug in London.
vide for einmenitary education in England and Wales. The After the performatice of a erlectien of Irish aim,
hill, he said, differed eo far from the bill he introduced last The Prince of Wales again new and said,— My Lords and
year that mislead of being permissive it contain. provisions Gentlemen, the Sexy toms which I ehall have the honour
to secure Its enforcement. It provided that one-teitth in 01 proposing to you is the toast of the evening. We are
number or sable of the ratepayers might cation the Educe- heed to eight fir a very excellent and charitable purpose.
Donal Cr mmittee of Privy Council to institute an inquiry The objects of the Benevolent Society of fit Patrick have been
into th• state of education in any district or place. mid if so °fie, atiier!---go many aide speeches have been made at
they bound that eu Mete nt meanie for education were not pro- eci mem, succeesiveaneiverearies of this festival, that there is
v idea, the act should be brought into operation, and under very little lett ter me tin say d but having acieipted, which
it the municipal commit, Cr the commissioners under any I did with plemure, the post of chairman this evening, I
local ad. might levy rates for the snipped of the eshool feel it Is due to the institution and to then company
Bill, wire also Introduced by the Earl of Mayo to amend that I should make a law observations. (t hetes.) 1 may
the hewed bating to reformatory schiroe, hid Irslartii, arid my Sir as w, 11 at once say that I am about to call upon you
jihn Pa kington to ann nil the Contend°. laseeses Act, 1848 to drink prosperity to the Benevolent Society of St. Patr.ck.
the House then went into committee of supply, and two Hear, hear., This society was instituted in 1704, with
votes cure taken to melte up the excites of expenileure in the object of relieving the necessitous children of Irish.
the army and navy estimates. parents resident in LOOdOn. One of its first patrons was
The Ses Fisheries Bill and the Fairs (Ireland) Bill passed my grandfather, the Duke us Kent. (Cheers ) I have alwaya
through committee. understoml that he took a very great interest in the society,
The Comity Courts [Admiralty Jutintlction) Bill was read a am) I may further observe telt several of my grand uncles
second time sod the lieuse &dinned. cted as presidmts at yo sir an mini dime rs. H an.) At the
resent MUMMA I belle,. Ho, schools ace in Wi.l4 may be
In the House of Commons, on March 1., ',end petitions
etlied a fleermiteug condition. They sifted education to as
were preeented for artd against the Sete if Liquors on 'many as 41u1) childresi. That the boys and girls are in good
Sunday BM, and among them one in opposition to the
health and thriving is, I think, pretty evident, from the sp.
miaow* signed by 11,000 lababitants Manchester, two

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Mr. Gladstone expressed his approval of the suggestion
that the bill should be referred to a select committee. Ile
was very unwilling to do goed to the working classes against
their own will; and It was, in his opinion, advisable that the
promoters and supporters of the measure should have an op-
portunity of adducing evidence respecting the real disposi-
tion of those classes upon the subje,t. Ile was also in favour
of granting to publicsns, at a proportionate diminution in
the amount, sin days' licenses: and he hoptil that if the
suggestions of the hon. member for Oldham Mr. 'libbers •
were adopted, they might ultimately arrive at asatisfactory
settlement of that question.
Mr. J. A. Myatt said he should be ready to refer the bill
to a select committe if it should then be read a second time.
After some further conversation, and much hesitation on
the part of the opponents of the bill, the motion for the
second reading was agreed to without a division, and it
was next agreed that the bill should be referred to a select
committee.

The order for the third reading of the Compulsory Church
Rah s Abolition Bill was postponed until Thursday, and the
Rouse then adjourned.