The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-04-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P ENT.'

In the Rollie of Lords, March 31, the Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincolushire Railway conipany (additional yowls) bill,
was read a third time and passed.
The Duke of Somerset had a notice on the paper cabbie the
attention of the Home to the report of the Select Corneliaee
in last session on the works In Alderney, ant prop+sing to
move for any minute or report which would exptiiin the
le fetal°, I 0 the Government in regard to the mainiteuance
of these works.
Viscount Halifax rose mid asked to he allowed lb state,
before the noble duke procoeded, tint a report n em the
subject had been prepared last matt. Since that time
some injury had been done to the breakwater, which Mr
liewkshew, CE, and another eminent engineer h it gone
out to examine. As their report would be presente before
Easter, he trusted his noble friend would postpetne his
motion Until after that time.
Tale Duke of Somerset cousented to defer
The Earl of Leitrim moved for certain pi
ence to an ejectmeet decree granted at the
sessions of 1071 in the case of Ilugh Teel,
the Earl of Leitrim. The noble earl went
into the circumstances of the ease, which,
tO a suit between himself and the adininiste
teuauta, possessed no general interest.
The motions was agreed to, and their:
in the Rouse of Commons, Mr. Stapleton
on Friday he would ask the Prima Minis
would take measures to prevent the raising,
of subscriptions for the Carffata.
Mr. Fowler aakel what progress had ben
settlement of the amounts still payable to re'
as compensation under the Telegraph Act, 1:
Mr. 31 onsell said that arbitratious were
Loin or eleven railway companies, and ft w
him to say what sums the arbitators would
Mr. Hanbury-Tracy asked the First Lord
Whether he Intends to take any steps for
body of the executive officers of the in,
obtaining knowledge and experience in
Mon, etc.
Mr. ()when said he did not propose to
change in the system tinder which ships ve,
to abolish the class of navigating officers, i
Lion of officers, an evplanatlon of the if eta!
• lengthened statement which, when the
committee on the Navy Estimates, he '
Fortuna) of making.
The nuts burliness of the evening was
Canal Traffic Bill, and in moving it into Con.
Mr. Chichester Forteseue siguided tue with
the important amendment moved in Clause
words which seemed to empower the Commissio
all the private Railway Acts. At the i
protested that he had ILO intention of giving
to these words, but had m-rely deeired to
teetions of the Joint committee as to Th.-
frustrated by reference to Special Acts.
the proviso to Clause 10, moved by Mr. t
Companies from having Imposed on them
they are legally charging for like traffic on
communication between the same points.
Mr. J. Ferlden opposed the further progres
the grouui that it was .a transfer of the pot
ment to a Commission, responsible only to I
What sort of a body the Commission would b
gathered from the ambiguous description in t
ridiculed the suggestion that it could mans;
More efficiently than the Directors. Etats
Utterly inoperative, or it would be the " tl
wedge,.• to bring about the State Purchase of _
Mr. Goldney, in seconding Mr. J. Flelden, also cataized
the proposed compositiou of the Commission, *lack he
feared would not command public confidence.
After remarks from several other hon. members,
Sir. Childers, in the course of a brief reply, argued that the
bill by no means Implied the future Purchase of Rename' by
the State, and was designed on'y to give the public a protec-
tion they did not at present possess.
Mr. Fielden's areendroent having been negatived, the
House went into committee on the bill, and was occupied
until after miduiglet in considering the clauses.
Verions amendments were made, but the most Important
were those to which Mr. Fortoscue had signified his assent.
In Clause 4, which relates to the appointment of the Com Ms-
stoners, the importance of Riving them a stetur mid a
nary Nhich would command confidence aud respect waa
strongly urged on the Government. Mr. Fortesenej in
reply to these representations stated that the salaries weeld
be £30,..a.) a year each, and that he was confident of getting
men iu every way fitted for the position for that salary.
Although he objected to change the qualification from ex-
perience in the law" contained in the bill to " a barrikter
of 14 years' static Mg," proposed by Mr. Charley, he risen.
tioned that the first legal member will be a barastet
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In Clause 10, Mr. Lancaster moved an amendment giving
hidividuals the same right as railway comparies of claim-
ing facilities for through Rates, &c. ; but it was opp red
by the Presidm-t of the Board of trade, and on a division
negatived by 109 to 40.
At the end cf this clause, Mr. Fortevicne moved words
providing that nothing in any special Act contained ekall
he construed so as to prevent the Commissioners making
Through „States. Mr. C Denison, Mr. Leeman, and ethers,
obJected.'to this amendment being consider° i at once,
and moved to report progress : but ultimately it was
agreed to postpone the Amendment until the Report.
Clauses IS and 19, which reit r to the salaries of the ComnSs-
closers tel their officers, were ptstpoLed. clause 20—the
Quorum of the Cominisaloners—was omitted with a view to
further consideration, and on Clause 21 progress was re-
ported.

The Ninthly Bill was read a third time and passed, anel
the Marihe Malloy Bill was passed through Committee.
Several otter bills were forwarded a stage, and the House
adjourned at 2>minutes to two o'clock.

In th.liouze of Lrd., April 1, upon the Ifouee going into
committee upon the Supreme eillirt of JudieAture 13W,

Lord Cairn. said it as obvious th.it 11,5C11111g011 upon such
a measure wnuld I.e more col.veniently curled on in • select
committee than in their lordship's bowie. Ile did not wish
to endanger the pas-ing of the 0111 In any way, and its out-
line and leading features had his entire approvaL Lord
Westbury, who was at present indisposed, had expressed
his anxiety to take part in the deliberations upon the
bill, and he hoped that by its being refereed to a select
committee, such an opportunity would be afforded.

The Lord Chancellor said that as his noble and learned
friend considered it the most Advisable collide to refer this
bill to a select c immittee, it went very far as a reason why
that course shoald be adopted. Nothing was more desired
by him the Lord Chancellor), and he thought It pribar le by
their lordships than that everything concrete I vi h this sub-
ject should be well done. (Laughter.) He hail every wi,h,
apart from any opinion he had formed to assist every plan
that would tend to obtain the end in view. Although
he was not nnprepared to grapple with the details of
the bill in is. full House, yet he was not insensible tithe ad-
vantages of dealing with them in a select committee. He
hoped they would get the beat services of their lordihips,
learned and unlearned, in the discussion upon the bill, So
that it would from its completeness stand a better chance
of passing the other ile use. He moved that the order of
the day for the recommitment of the 1,11 bu discharged, in
order that it might be referred to a select committee.

Lord Redesdale obj,cted to this Houma gtvhig up its juris-
diction am a court of appeal.

After few words from the Marquis of Salisbury, the
motion for • reference to a select committee was carried.

The Endowed Sebaols (address; Bill was read a sem.nd
time.

The Cuatody of Infante Bill vat read a third time and
weed.

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The Salmon Fisheries Commissioners Bill passed through
Committee, after some strictures by the Duke of Richmond
upon the careless manner In which the measure was drawn
up, and their Lordships then adjourned.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Pell gave notice that on
Tuesday, April 29, the boo. baronet the member for South
Devon (.4ir Massey Lopes) would call attention to the subject
of local taxation, and move a rewilution.
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Lord C Liam'iton gave notice that OD the 2tli inst, he
would call attention to the purchase of Irish railways by the
State, and move a resolution.
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Viscount Mahon asked whether it is trne I hst the Govern-
ment hos declined to send the Military Attachi, at .st.
Petersburg or any other English officer to accompany the
HWY& erpedition.

Lord E.uffeld replied In the affirmative.
In reply to Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Mr Gladstone said that
on 'Monday next, when the Chaneollor of the Exchequer
made hls flnancial statement, no resolution blinding the
judgment of the House would be proposed. The prcposale
of the Budget would he e -.entered cu the Thurslay after
the re-assembling of the House.
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Hr. B. Fowler moved a resolution declaring it desirable
that the Indian budget she aid be taken at a period of the
session when it can be fully discussed. In support of It he
referred to the anticipations expressed when the Government
of India was transferred from the Company to the Crown.
that the affairs of India would henceforth occupy much more
of the attention of Parliament, and contended that by de-
laying ttse Budget until the end of the session the House was
neglecting its duty to India.
filr D. Wedderburn seconded the motion, arguing that
Finance lithe one branch of Indian administration in which
the House of Commons can interfere with effect.. The in.
Hien people looked to it for an equitable adjustment of their
burdens, and unless their affairs were adequately discussed
In the House of Comm As, they would not believe their In-
terests were attended to.

Sir C. Wing&ld, seconded by Mr. Kinnard, moved as an
amendment that it be referred to the Select Committee iOW
sitting on Indian Finance to consider whether the end of the
Indian Financiai Year could not in changed front the hl,tof
March to the 314 of December. In this wet, he maintained
the Indian Budget might be taken not later than the middle
of March.
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After remarks from Mr. E twick, Mr. C. Denison, Sir
Nurthcote, era Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Fawcett earnestly
'advised the lions, to place Mr. Fowlers Resolution on
record, U only for the satisfaction of the people of India ;
and Mr. Grant Duff supported the amendment, pointing out
that it who the only alternative between discussing the
Budget at the beginning of the Seesion on imperfect Informs.
Mon, and at the end nf the SOlBlOll, as now,
Mr. Fowler's Resolntien was negatived, on a Division, by
130 to b 3, and Sir C. Wingfield's amendment was agrted to.

Mr. Laiug moved a Resolution in favour of the Abolition
cf Taxes on Locomotion. At the outset he guarded him-
self against the Usual objection to Abstract Resolutions
by pointing out that the Surplus in the current and
coming Financial Years, even- after the payinont of the
Alabama lads witty, would be four millior a and a I all,
which afforded ample scope for ths remission of the million
and a half to which the Taxes on Looomotion amounted. Next
he expatiated with mush iteration on the blessings and
advantages, commercial and otherwise. of lon emotion,
thallitins that to limit fa.lities by taxation was con-
trary to all 601111,1 principles of Finance, and quoted Mr.
Lowe In favour of the abolition of these Unties at the wheat
possible moment. Passing to details. be narrated at
length the history of the Duties un Rahway passengers,
dwelling on their anomalies and injustice, and showing
how they restineted the extension of railway accommo-
dation. 10 Reds.). Shariholders the tax amounted
to en additional Income-tax of 5,. in the pound, but the
public would benefit so a much larger extent from the re-
inlaid.] by the certain reduction in Railway fares which
would follow. If Parllaulent Lad no faith in this result,
and would not trust the Railway Companion to give the
public a fair share of this relief. nothing would be easier than
to Join with it some contlitiona in the Interest of the public
lo like niaener Mr. Laing descanted on the anomalies Of
the Elo, se and Wheeled I arriage Dillia,, and on the univer-
sal relict which would he felt by their abolition, and re-
commonoled his motion as a "crowning of the edifice" of
IN. Trade.

Sir G. Balfour ae th, motion, while
Sir. Gregory, on behalf of the farmers, repudiated all coo-
corn in the motion. It. ith 'id alit ace Railway locomotion,
and It was made solely In the interests of Railway Share-
holder. That they did not receive a large remuneration for
their outlay gave them no claim for relief, for this was caused
by the extravagant manner in which their enterprises had
ben executed.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer remarked that it was
any enough to make out a case Val!lSt Taxes on Lwomo•
tiuu, though in thecase of Hallways there WM this justifica-
tion for the tax, that they possessed a qualified menopuly.
11. was eu friend to these duties, but the question to be
decided was whether Hallways had the first chain to remis-
sion. On ktinday next he was to submit the Financial
Raiment. ii this reduction torment • part ,4 It, the Inter-
position of the House would be useless if it did not, the
House, by sc,eptilig It, would be pronouncing • judgment
by anticipation ou the FM/41CW Policy of the tiovernment
Without having the alternatives plso it before it. Ho appealed
to Mr. Laing therefore, to restrain his curbwity for six days
longer, and not Kees a motion which, If carried, could only
remit in financial embariseement.
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Mr scourticid protested arafind Abstract R.tolutions iu
matters uf Tasatiou Melly, Mr. alderman Lawrence,
and nr Pease made son. olgervatiors ; after which Mr.
Laing d his willingness to withdraw V. laioti.., but
the Holm insisted on negativing it.
The second reading el the Defamation 1011 was moved by
Mr. Rates, hut opposeib by the attoamey•General. ,It was
thrown out by 81 to ,V 6,11111.46
The other Durant.* was disposed of, and the House was
counted eat at ball-pall oat o'clock.

lie the House of Commons, April 2, the reading of the
Habitual Drunkards lelll was postponed until June 11th.
Mr. Charley, in moving the second reading of the Seduc-
tion Laws Amendment hill explained what took place last
session, when the House assented to the most important
Cause of this measure, the object of which was to extend te.
poor girls that protection winch the law already afforgis to
girls who ore maimed of property. He also proposed to
abolish the necessity for the plaint:ft in an action for seddc-
ti.m to allefie a loss of service.
Mr. C. ft.ntinek moved the rejection of the bill, on the
ground that such an atte,upt to alter the common law of this
country ought not to be made by a private meneher. He ap-
pealed to the Government for help to defeat the bill, arid
MI, Red that as such a leas of attorneys as Dodson and Fogg
were still in existence, it would not be politic to abolish the
necesalry for uproot oilers lif servlco.
Mr. Newdegate asked the !louse to repudiate the theory
that bills of thi• hind should not, be brought forward by
private members, but ought to be left to the responsibility
of the Government. He admitted, however, that too flatly
bills were introduced by the unofficial members, lie sup-
ported this bill because in it the bon. member for Salford
was T011..1114 In the steps of the Into Air. Spooner.
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Mr. Mondella supported the bill, and mentioned to the
!louse whet he had horned as an emplo)er of factory hands.
Lie asked the House still further to protect the children
who were emplu3ed in factories.
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Mr. Straigh' was anxious for the abolition of those diffi-
culties, which k to a false construction of the law. Why,
he asked, should a woman in these matters be placed civilly
in a polition different from which she would occupy if she
had preferred a criminal charge.
the Attorney-General said he could not object to the
second reading of this bill, a part of which had been copied
from a bill promoted by the Government last session. It
would, however, be necessary to make amendments in com-
mittee, because he could not consent to make the law of
England different from that of all other Eueopean countries.
After some further debate, the amendment was withdrawn
ami the bill was read a second time.

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Dr. Brewer moved the second reading of the Metropoli
tau Builebngs Act Amendment Bill, the object of which is
the improvement of private slaughter-houses In London.
The Legislature, he explained, had already establithed a
system for the inspection and licensing of slaughter-
houses and that system had been successful and bent fetal,
but in all places the local authorities hat not been edu-
cated up to the requirements of public heaith. This blot,
however, could be easily removed. At great length he opposed
the scheme for establishing dead meat markets In the metro-
polis, contending that such a plan would be adverse to the
health of the population and to the interests of the con-
signees, owing to the necessary irregularity of the supply.
Mr. F S. Powell moved that the bill should be read a
sec, wl time that day six moths, contending that it would
be detrimental to the health of the three millions of people
who live in L mdon to permit private slaughter-houses to
exist.

After remarks from Mr. Lucke, Mr. 11'Comble, and Mr. C.
S. Read.
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Mr. Bruce reminded the House that a Select Committee
had recommended that priv te slaughter-houses, should be
abolished. Wax it, thee, adv: sable to contmue these places,
which had had SO years' notice of extinction ? We on.tht to
take every means of Improving the condition ,d the metro-
polis, although the death.rate of the population was lower in
London than in the other large towns of the kingdom. The
experience of great towns which had adopted the system of
public slanghter.houses had shown that it was to the benefit
of the public health, and it did not increase the price of
meat. Under these circumstances he could not assent to
the second reading of the bid, but the question of the moat
supply of London was an important one, and be suggested
that there should be an enquiry into the matter before.
select committee. _
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Eventually, Dr. Brewer accepted the offer of the Home
Secretary, and withdrew his bill.
The order for the second reading of the University Tests
. Dublin) Bill fIV 0. WM discharged.
The Sites for Places of Religious Worship Bill was read a
third time and passed.

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