The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-02 00:00:00

1 Pii i; idi,IAL PARLIAMEN T.

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In the Runge of Lord.. July 2.8, a number Of public and
prtestk htilj erre tr.ped, among thorn ticibg the Exchequer
&rude (k 10.000,4,0 letettalu We., ue.1.1 Chi Wren, Trea-
sury (Net V. Coneolid.ted Finn (Ptrmanent Charlie.
Ri_demptio) MlMary tiannenvecc Tramways Prowl.tonal
(Meer ilontlesnAt•tw, Desirue Anil Imbrovemelit of Lend.
Lonaon friun•sys Nottinghwn GA& North British Rad-
way, Midland Rciwsy, Sc.
The Lord Chancellor announced that the Queen hid given
her consent to martiane between the Duke of Rdinbeggh and
Iler Inapt rtel Mg a V, to Priocres xLiry slexanorovna,
only .1 vie hter of he cur of Rote. proof.
'het the Qu an had received trona the House of Lord. left her
Ifeirsty doubt. of ti,ir roe •Ineae a) concur In the pnvos.l
Sr r making further plovision for his Roysl illghneen

kart Unwellle proposed that the subject should be taken
Into et n•iderativu the followille day. which was agreed lo

A Massage was brought down from the Crown in answer
to the recent A.Airest of the lionte relative to Purchue in
the Amy. iha Message concluded with a statement that
cot di. cues which have spouted to fall within the principle
of the Army 14giilation Act, though they were not formally
It ended within its worn, would he submitted In annual
votes 0 the tavouriabie consideration of Parliamtuf, and
this, her Ilejesty has alto l'irected that the allogatons con-
Wm it le the memorials of to ()Mums of the Army should
be cartfully trammed by • ii.oyal C minission, in oruer to
ascertain whetter any of them fall within the principle of,
and may be properly dealt with by, tee same form of pro
ceedinsa

Lord Stratheden called attention to the Mission of Sir
Bartle Frere, and, After expressing regret that the subj...ct
must now be discussed without the Adventism, fib. presence
of the late Bi.bori of Winchester, moved a itysulutiln de-
claring that I e:ebt rents to Ea.t Africa mider it desirable
Unit the Consular authorits of Great Whale to the Fortis-
guest., condition from Cate Delgado to D,isgoa Bay should Ie
esianlished. Ile observed that Sir Bartle From eludlnctly
semi, mended the measure point• dot by this motion, and he
thought it must ,ke Almactsel to by useless to evitiguish the
Slave Trade at Z ztter If it were allowed to 'loutish along
an extended line of seaboard in the East of Africa.

Lord Granville °ballet d that some time ago he announced
that the objects of Sir B Inlet Fre re'a Itinssion had bren
'Um:morally ace ,mp:lshed, lona one .xcepti n, sod that was
Oho failure to conciude a iro sty with i.e Sultan of Z enabler ;
bat sines then the dealred 01 j ct had been effeoed ny the
exertions of Dr. Kirk. A groat amount if valuable inform.
Sion had been collected tu Sir Bartle Sr, re That Informa-
tion wet now under the c msideration of the Government,
sod ho calls d to reconection that the Ire Bishop
of Wlnehakr, who worked seolously In favour of a
cause with which his fathvr's name was eminently connected,
bad on two occasion during the present Session made an
appeal to Lord Stratheden not to press motions of a similar
nature to the preaent, but to leave the matter to the die
mitten of the Government. ifs hoped, therefore, that Lord
Stratheden would tunt the Government to do the beat in
their p)wer to extinguish the Slave Trod*
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Lord &disbar, also appealed to I ord Stratheden to with-
draw the motto., and alter some oheervationa from Lord
Atratheden In reply, the cooth,u was withdrawn.
Lord Coicheattr called attention to the Report of the
Statdards Commission of 197 U relative to the inspection of
weights and iintasurtc and observed that in smile part. of
the country the Inspection was performed In a mtlafactory
manner, while In ottirr districts It Rave rho to great corn.
piniats Thla wee. matter which eiffectvd the welfare of the
poorer claimer, and he wished to itiv•w whether .y kgis•atlou
Was contemplated on the anbJecL
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Lord Cowper reviled that the suggestions of ths Standards
C 0111011161,11 on this important null et had come inVer the
consideration of ths Government, sud he hoprd that some.
thing might toe doue 012 the subject 111 the course of nest Seg.
don.
The Salmon Fisheries Bill passed through Committee, and
sane other bills having born advanced • stage, their Lord-
ships ejourned.
In the Ilouse of Commons, tir. btanley gave notice that
owl y nest session he should call the attentloti of the House
So the r peratiou of the Army EAistment Act of 1070, sad
move a resolution.
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Jo reply to Mr Alderman LPIITPIiee, Mr, Mourell mid he
bed made inquirltu as a,e abitug the sender ot a telegram to
receive • reply of ten words for Inman ea and was sorry to
say that in lie opintou of the eevartment it would tot be
advisable to take that course for tso Toni, to the drat
place, the truub cot sending a Tel ,y was ex .ctly the amen
muales the origival m•smse sod I& the •ecoed place,
the department old not believe that the number of replies
would be very much trimmed by the reduction.

In reply to Mr. R. Fowler, Mr. Bruce said that for tome
months anrai gement* had been in progress for lighting the
*elle at 18 stations hi the inner, and 19 in the outer metro-
politan districts.
In reply to Mr Callan, Lord Enfield said the lr.formatton
received from Madrid was necessarily meagre, but from what
the GovernmeLt had hearif, there was no doubt the Carhet
baud. had overrun a large portion of Spain hot marten had
not yet orrived at such a state that the Government were
Called upnn to ennahicr whether the Carlisle shnu.d receive
ecognitton.
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Bruce ;in the absence from indispoaition of Mr. Glad-
stone) brought downs M -stage from the tjuren announcing
the marriage 0, the Duke of Edinburgh, and lowing the
Howe to make s forth r r OA. 11 for his ft,.yal lligi ums. The
following day was One., !or ire consideraloo of the Mel age
In Commiit, e of ,I.e whole 11,..u5e, when Mr. Gladstone would
wore • lit,ohltlOu.
The faiths Bill was withdrawn.

The ilcum then went Into Committee of Supply, and the
remaining Votes tu the Civil Seivice rad Navy Eaimates and
sev.rel Itu,plenieutary Eetimatet were aareed to.
Oh the Vote for the New Courts • f Justice, Me. Ayrton, in
reply to ILin.ecr ot yeesti,r,s, stated that the WA. and
epsoldcatiohs have at hot been a ttled, that the .ntracta
Ore On the Dane 61 being tilgued, and the work will be em.
a shoed. On the Pat Office Vote, Mr. Monk fulfilled hie
Intention of calling attentbm to the recent Order regareh.g
the tr,B411111:011 cl Stamp+, Sc.. aid Mr. aionscli, after
vindicating the motiv s • I the Order, announced that as
much of It as relate& to Stmps and Bask Notes *LI be
withdrawn. . . . . .

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On the same Vote there was a long conversalier., started
by Mr. W. El Smith, ~11 the grleTiesces of the l'ost Office
letter-carriers, rirpecially those em..loyed in Oa rural di,-
tricts, and the N'..te for the Consular Service alto led to a
grients..ry discussion. In the Supplementary Eetimates, a
propot.l CO Tote Ei,54,0 for • further embankment of
the Teem. was unmated with notch animation Mr.
Ayrtoo, Sy whose Department the Estimate wim laid on
table, protested th‘.t he knew nothing about it, led
was in newsy responsit.le for it, except ad pertaining his
duty to the Treat. y. Ihe Chance) er of the Eschequer ex-
plained that the °rivet was to build offices beyond V ct Jrla
Tower, which worth to Bel ten the low property hi y •Ird
old to ac,onnuo.riste It pal Commissluns, and to the end the
Vole was agreed to,

The Endowed schools Act Amendment BM, the Crown
Private Eetatea 8.11, aud the tletchat4 Saipp ug Act Amend-
ment Sill were rwoi ottani time aLd peesed.
Several other bil Is were lorwer el a stage, ant the flume
adjourned at aye minutes last thrke.

In the House of Lord.. July 29, Earl Granville rose to
move that an adthess he presented to flee Majesty thanking
Mr Ur her most grect.us communication with respect to
the Intended marriage betwe, n the nuke of Edinburgh and
the tkand /niches. Alezatdrovna of RUPIIa. Tneir lorashiis
always felt the I.‘,lnnt interest In soy event contributing to
the happluen and welfare of the Ryot Fauitiy. It noble
earl crunched th..t this was ot the Brat occasion on which
it. had the horror to mop se such an address, and he had no
doubt that tleir lordshipe wiwin receive It with the saute
satisfaction that they had always shown upon similar
OCCILBi012•. The principle crialnally lald d a., by the
Queen and Prince C.hscort that the union of their
children should he meninges of &Motion lat been
moat f dLld all) observed In this Instance. Ile believed that
In this Instance the mamase was hived upon is ritual affec-
tion, sac would lead to domestic happinesa The time watt
goats by when such marriages had any political Mandication
St all, still tt •as eatislactory to know that there existed
most matisfactory assurance of good tomtits between this
country and Russia. (Cheers.)
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The Marquia of Palisbury said that, in the .bunco of the
Duke of Richmon t, It bee mu his duty to second the ad.
dn. wowed by the nob:e earl. He was can e that It
would be acceded to mut cordial), by their lordship's
Home, and tun illy so that whatever eat the pleasure of
her • elesty mint be tie Orsini» of all clamant of her
Illsjeety'a Attlee% by whom she was so intich beloved.
Die Royal Highness mu popular not alone personally,
bet from the profession to which he belonged. It was im.
poreible not to c ncur with the noble an in his observation
that Royal alliances did not aff tee, as they had done In
times put, the poticy of the country. This country wae now
connected with three great racer, the Scandinavian, the
Solavouln, and the ['colonic, and such out die w. re likely to
conduce to peace as they goosed the heople to look lo a more
Mendly manner on the pa pies It h whom the tovernign was
connected (cheers).
The addreu was then agreed to.

Lord Ripon moved the second readier of the Elementary
Foincathw Act (1s70) Ametdment Bill, and otter a short di.-
minion, the bill ass rends second time.

Lord Ilarrowhy moved an Address for a copy A the poli-
tica present.-d in the Upper House of Convocation of the
Province of Co:gee...my pt a)lng, • ~,,, ug other thing., for the
"raining •ba tleebelug of • body of cou,t,a i• I the Church
of Zealand, together with the tomes of the suoscrihere, nod
also. top) of the Report on the same resented by the
Committee of the Upper House.

In the course of some conversation which envied the
Opinion was generally expreemel that it would nt t be de, ir
able to make know,, the manes of the petitioners. its several
of them bad Melted the petition In Ignorance of AN real
object; end, as regards the It-port of the Committee, it teas
urged that it wouid be Int:roper t alt foe It, as it had not
yet been considered by all the Bishops. Lori Barrow. ),
yteloiqg to these repressntatio.s, witnerew tee motion, bit
expressed nice. eviction that some authoritative notice ought
po he Witte of ii, matter.
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?Le °Leer business on the paper haring been disp wird of,
ilse4 wrdsLlps mijourned.

In the home of Common., Sir IX Wedderburn gave notice
gut early next soselon he would move for leave to introduce
• bill to empower the adrerairia. of Scotland to admit
women to the studies necemry to qualify them for • medical
degree and to ow,!, r such dinars
In reply to Colon.! N•..,11 Mr. Chichester Fortenne said
It was not au essy mat, X, necnre an effectually general
compllance with the tot • f ISl3a, a, to providing the rains
of CADlrttniCatiOn S tween passengers end guard. on r 01-
ways. On the Ist of sugn,t he *llona withdraw hi...WM
SO the old rope /*ego) on every line, and it 00 the
oor•-dinha to propan °trier Ineil, u nnt he phould he ravly
to seatlm tha Ativirlasu tymem 1 crops In the Interior of
She carriage.
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In reply to Mr. J. Talbot, Mr. Tortescue said the electric
communication PldMcultl.l application to trains which
were frequent'y hreken lip, Init he we not &hie to eay
whether he an ilikon of the old rope system wa, lik .ly to
Ind to its adoption.

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f sa ply toM. Newdegote, Mr. Glydstone laid the Govern
wont & I no mtyptl i to Coll,Ul thel Liou.e of Commons
Up u the nil Vet of thc new French treaty, lactose they
Were r“nly coyiroolitic soy new boding engagement
which tyre upon the tariffs or the commercial low of Ihi,
COuntry with r• card to imymto and exports.