The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-26 00:00:00

1).8111, moved so amendment to
_defer the operation of

818 until the let of Ja uary, 174 The funetlana of the
London itch .n 1 Kited would ce, le 111 November next, an I h.-
thneght that the pe,•l•lons of the bill, which would Involv,
c0114.V141.& expel dilute for the pure we of school sites,
nilght Be left to be carried out by the Iles Board
Lor Lawton., deh.ndeti the bill, and repudiate I the
notion that the LO Alint sch•ed 13,,ard would but d more
tchoole than there exited a. meaty far,

The an. ndment, which wei sup,orted by Lrl Salisbury,
and opra,sed by t,v DA.- of C, vdand, Lord Harrow by, Bill
Lord Eve ale), slat was negatived, and the report of the amei.d.
MOWS MILS receive I.

C rtsio hills were adv. cad a stage, and their Lordship
au I timid.

The Ilona. of Commons had a Morning Sitting yesterday
for the purpose of forwarding the Elrmetitiry E issition Act
Amendment MIT, but more than to-third, of the sitting
were occupied hi red.:lmM% the principle of compulsion
and the 26th Clause.

Mr Dixon moved as an amendment t., the motion for going
Into Como& tee a it. solution declaring that no amendment
of the so: will he satisfactory which does not make the at-
tain:arca of children at school and tho formation of School
Wards compulsory throughout England and Wales, anti which
fails to reniove he o, Jet:llona entertained to the 25th Clause
Mr. Stapleton made souse observations, and Mr. V. Harcourt
advocated the repeal, not only ot the 25th, but of so much
of the 17th Clause as telatt• to the remission of fees.
Mr Forster made a ben I reply, deprecating a die-
cipsion by an loipation of amendmei is to be mate In C Im-
mittee, and on a division the Resolution was negatived by
129 to 15. The Hones then went into Committee, and Mr.
candlisn immediately renewed the debate by endeavouring
to Introduce Into Cuadra 3 words which would have the t fleet
of repealing Clause 25 Mr. Harcourt added to this • pro-
posal to repeal Claus, 17 also, and In the debate which fol-
lowed Dr. Playtate recommender the abolition of the 25th
Clause which was no longer needed, and wotch, indeed,
had never produced any results which could not be attained
with equal efficiency by private benevolence. Mr W.
Smith held it to be impossible to carry out compulsion
untrue; the parent were perniUted his choice of • school; and
Sir Satuuetsou proposed to get I,llt of the difficulty by com-
pelling Vie managers of Public Elementary Schools to take
I. digent children free of charge or at reduced fees. Ile
Hardy and Sir N. Powell warmly supported the 25th Clause,
and Sir Forster, who spoke in the same sense, maintained
:het it would no upon Dan to carry out the Voluntary prin.
c.ple it there were no alternative between puolatilag a man
I r uot .ending his child to school and math g a paiiper of
him. Mr Corrance and Mr. Miley made Nome ut.ervanions,
and Mr. (Heist die Informed the Conanittne that the Govern-
ment w•elld support hoth the Crosses, but If Ire were es.
pongod they woind vote for exponaing both In the end the
aniredinent was negatived by 20to 98 Subsequently Mr.
Samuelson pro'', led an amendment to carry oat Ms sugges-
tion that these Indigent nildren should be provident tor by
the Voluntary Schools, but title was negatived by 165 to 55,
and Claim, 3 was then agreed to.
At the Evening Sitting,

On the Third It ading7f the Supreme Cunt of Jodicature
Bill being moved. Sir D. Wedderburn interposed with •
oomplaint of the neglect with which Sewell intere•ta had
been treet.d, not only in this bill end the &ding B 11, hut
aiso in ',god to gene,' legislation thts year. By way of
protest he mooed • Remedial. a though he did riot press It to
a divi•l u, d claring that he juri.diction of the new Court
Of Apptsl ought to be extended to the whole of the Culled
Kingdom.
Mr Anderson seconded the Itesointlois.

Sir. G'sn,s,one reminded the 8,10 members that they
only shared a very general fate, an I though he would glee
no ph.dge cr next Stallion. he expressed a very decided
opinion that the bill, important as it was, would ,oe maimed
and incomplete until it was supplemented by a measure ex-
tending it to the whole United Kingdom.
The bill as then read a third time and passed.

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The 11, use next resumed the consideration of the Education
Act Amenement Bill lu C.onrentee. Clauses 4 to 10 Were
asreed to With only verbal amendment. On Clause 10 an
amendment moved by Mr. Salt, requiring the P. ivy C mom'
b. fore consenting to nes. school an .ommodnttou to satisfy
Its-If thnt it is absolutely waded, pr,,..ked a lor g conver.
satlon. Cdmplattita Were made that In some mos the De-
-1 artment bud sanctioned unnecessary espendltur,' and in
the end the amendruei t wca negative I by 116 to 71.

The remaining Clauses were agrerd to, 110 controversy
Arlen]; except on Clause 23 Ile re • motion by Mr. J.
Lowther to strike out the sub sec,ion containing penalties
tar nf ring compulsion WM negatived by 138 to 36 , and •
similar fate happened to Mr Cron., who wad beaten by SO to
19 in an endeavour to relieve the parent, who ten 's his child
to an) other huts Publi•• E ementary School, of the onto; of
proving that it ie an .111 lent school. Several neer Clauses
were prop,ell, but no e were accepted, aunt others were
postponed until the R port.

The • Oltr Orders were disposed of, and the House ad-
j aimed at five minutes to two °clock.

in the Monte of Canroons, Ju'y 41, Mr. Talbot love notice
that ear,y fleet stoiou he would move I r leave to lutrodu
a bill to . Vend the ton of the Sissy amt R
Scholia Act (1869) to ail public elementary Wu. Ws. (Hear,
hear).

In rep'y to Sir 0 Jenklnson, Lord Enfletd said he had
every ,14.011 to helmet, I at no correop,ndenee had passed
betvrevo her Mai-eq'. Gavomonent aid the Govornment of
Be!. low, or any forego Power which had guaranteed the
new ralqs of Belgium, on the question ot the reorganisation
of the Beigi cry.

Yr. Trovelran moved the second reading of the Household
Franchise (C 'unties Bill, awl ar,ued at great ler gth In
favanr of givmg the franchise to agr.cultural lahourers.

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Sir rishorne Mnryean secouded the mnticn, and warned
the Umse that th•s qu would come prominently before
the constituencies at in. nest e'ection.

Mr. Collins moved the previ was coestien, and said this
IT ,nse wanted fri Ii repreient ',tires, men of some ttriginality,
a, d not a mere parcel of dtlegates to pramote bills to carry
out crotchets.

Fir Jo II Kennaway second°, the am mlment.
After remarks from Mr. Cadogon, Mr. Beach, Mr. Dixon,
And Mr. N»wdegate,

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Mr. W. E. Forster, who spoke as an Initvidust, anti not..
• noontsr ot the Governteo fit, Itefewted Mr. frcvely•n lor
haeiflt at lent n brought forward a matter which was very
interestiog to many p•rts of the count, y The Mom., ought
not to disregard those who were hot r, presented in It.
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(Fit sr hest ) As to the estaollshment ol househ. Id suf.

huge' In counties, he had long an vocated that fran-
chise. The real question for the House was whether
the present ex lusion of county householders from the
franchise should be long continued He doubt.ol whe-
ther afp I .ultural 'shouters were less educated than
artisans in towns (hear hear), taking them as cla.ses, while
the turd populations were now beginuli g to ,ake an In-
terest in politic'. In the long run he expecte' Vie agricul-
tural labouree would be Conservative In their sentiments, and
he wondered why ti e Opposi.lon did not Ike up this qua.
lion. He eras glad to be able to vote in favour of this WI.
Cheers ) rue Prime Minister," added Mr. Yoster,
has desired me to express his regret at not bells: able
to be present Ills absence Is owing to ind.sposition,
which, I hope, will not long c nitinue. He asked
me to say that sh le the Government will not express any
opinion and will not make any recommenCagon on the
motor, •f d while he regrets that my hon. frielio's motion
should have been p etpone., so toes. toes° it the appear-
ance of an eetra t resolution, he retai• oplui is which
he as more ton once indicated, and he bell. vos the exten-
sion h.isellobi Sniff' lee t, the counties to lie a matter
which Is jtb.t end politic in Well, and one which cannot he
long ay dded.- (Cheers from below the gang rrsy )

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The dehate was continued by several other boo member",
and was eventnally ,nrned, and the other orders were
disposed of, and the Hones adjourned.