The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

Cte ,itoarlyikqe Ofpertnr.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1868.

nistrict 3ctts.
440(al tutu

GREAT CONSERVATIVE MEETING AT
BRIERLEI HILL.
A meeting was held in the new Public Hall,
on Tuesday evening, to hear the addreves from
the Conservatii a candidates for West Stafford-
shire, Mr. Smith-Culla and Mr. Meynell-Ing-
ram. Adrais-ien was by ticket, but as these
were freely distributed, there was a largo meet
mug, the hall being completely filled. Alain:lg
those present on the platform were the Rev.
D. Di:ion, the Rev. C. J. Atherton, the Rev.
Brierley, C.lptain Mitford, Dr. Walker, Messrs.
Suiltl , 11. Sparrow, R. Price, P. Price,
l'ealley, J. llonifray, .1. H. Ifulberton, B. Wuod,
Chappell, 11. Freer, W. Waldron, Wellings, W.
Hawkins, W. Pargeter, E. Greve, Turner, J.
Harper, R. Drake, W. Bailey, T. M. Dunn,
Bird. Greenway, T. Fisher, G. Webb, and
Blewitt.
Dr. Walker, was voted to the chair, and after
a few introductory remarks called on Mr. May-
nell-Ingrani to address the meeting.
Ma. Meynell-Ingram, who was reveived with
loud cheer:, said: Mr. Chairman and gentle-
men, you must first permit me to thank you for
the kind and cordial reception which you have
given to me, a stranger in this part of the
world. I appear before you as one of the Con-
servative candidates for the Western Division of
the County of Stafford; and before Igo any
further I wish you to know how much I feel the
kind, and courteous, straihgtforward manner in
which our opponents desire that this contest
should be carried on. (Cheers). And I desire
most particularly to express my regret that Mr.
Foster is ill at this moment. (Cheers). The
first topic to which I shall call your attention is
that of Reform. Whatever opinion we may in-
dividually entertain with respect to Reform, we
must, I think, agree that the measure intro-
duced and passed by her Majesty's Government,
in spite of the
.great difficulties from the ob-
structions thrown in their way, has settled this
question, which for year after year, and Minis-
try after Ministry, had proved a stumbling-block
and an impediment to useful legislation, as well
as a cause of discontent at times in the country.
The next question to which I shall allude is the
one that now pre-eminently occupies the minds
of men—the propositions introduced last session
by Mr. Gladstone for the disestablishment of the
Irish Church. (Cheers). You know, gentle-
men, that I am most decidedly opposed to this
measure. (Hear, hear). The church property
has belonged to the Irish Church for many
hundred years. Much of it has been obtained
since the Reformation; and I wish to call your
attention particularly to one of the professors of
Maynooth on the point. He endorses our opin-
ion that the property properly belongs to the
Churchpf Ireland. Allow me to read to yea
what he says: " I consider that the present
possessors of church property, of whatever kind
it may be, are justly entitled to it. They have
been in possession for all the time required by auy
law cf proscription, even according to the preten-
tiors of the Church of Rome, which requires
100 years." That is the opinion of Dr. Selviu,
of Maynooth.
After referring to th e tpenses of the Army
and Navy, the speaker sat down amid great
cheering.
Mr. Smith Child then rose to address the meeting, and
was received with cheers. He said, after nuking some
remarks on the differences of opinion which must of
necessity exist in the minds of men on political topics
in general, that he did not find any fault with the strong
Conservative feeling which made some of them attached,
and worthily so, to the two gentlemen who were his
honourable opponents. They had long been friends of
his own, and he had always found them to be honest and
honourable men. He had a strong interest in the wel-
fare of the mining interests of this county. He had no
obi ?.ct in coming forward as a candidate except iu obedi-
ence to that proper rule of conduct which says that a
man's time and talents are due to his country, and ought
to be at its command. If they returned him he could
only siy that his endeavours, poor as they might think
them to be, would be at their service. His address was
before them, it was not a very long one, and he did not
want to go over the same ground again. He then dwelt
at some length on the cost of the Arm, and Navy, the
Bankruptcy Courts, and the Irish Church. He thought
the interests of the country were bound up in the great
principle of civil and religious liberty which they inheri-
ted from the Reformers of the church. It was the
church of the martyrs Craumer, Latimer, and
Ridley. Ste then quoted Sir Roundel' Palmer, the great
Liberallawyer, Mr. Thomas Jackson, the eminent Wes-
leyan Minister, and others in reference to the Irish
Church. The Church of England, as bylaw established,
was not faultless, and he should be glad to remove the
abuses that were within it. He had revered it through
life as the protest of the nation against the Popery by
which it was formerly sustained, and one of the bulwarks
of the Protestant religion—(applause).
After the usual vote of thanks was accorded to the
Chairman, the meeting separated.

days.
Darns AND RlOTors.—Miellael Ready was charged
hy Superintendent Freeman with being drunk and dis:ir-
derly on the 11th inst. W. IL Penney, grocer. proved
the offence, solid, Was admitted by the defendant, and
he was fined 2s 0.1 and costs ; in deliinit seven days.
DRUNK AND RioTors.—Martha l'itt Was eliargA with
being drunk and riotous on the Rh inst. Poliee.sergeant
Wigley proved the ollence. Fined Is and costs; in de-
fault tu.ven days —William SkislMOre was also charged
with being drunk and riotous on the sth, and was fined
5s and costs.
LANCENy CASE.—Ellen Cartwright was charged by
Sarah Cartwright with stealing a jacket. skirt. and bon-
net, her property, on September sth. Complainant said
the prisoner was her sister, She brought the case to
keep he sister from disgrace, not for the value of the
things. Prosecutrix said she had been living in service
at Birmingham. She left the above-named articles at
some lodgings, and missed them on the above date.
They were worth ss. Police-sergeant Jones proved ap-
prehending the prisoner in a brothel, on Sunday night
last, and that she was wearing the articles produced.
Sentenced to nue months hard labour.
TRANSFFAto OP Licitimma.—At the Petty Sessions, yes-
terday. the following traufers took place :—The Farriers'
Arms, Stoarbridge, from John Villiers to John James;
the Golden Lion, Stourblidge, from Thomas H. Richards
to Thomas Whiston ; the Boar Inn, Coventry-street,
from William lesions Baxter to Thomas Davies; the
Rose and Crown Inn, Lye, from George Brettle to Pris-
cilla Brettle ; the Falcon Inn, Lye, from William ?Sapp
to Henry Willem Jones; the Cross Inn, Cleat, from
James King to Charles Cox ; the Swan Inn, Hilley•
street, from Francis Heming to John Bristow; the Bar
ley Mow Inn, Wollaston, from Richard Matty to James
Priest; the Swan Inn, Lye, from James Hayes to Wil-
liam Hayes the Swan Inn, Longlands, from Mary Pal-
caner to Charles Commander.

_
HOUSEWARMISO I)TNNEII.—A dinner to inaugerate the waa
entrance upon upon the profession of a Renifece of Mr. also addressee so-
Lawlev, who has for several years superintended the of thanks had been steers._
Printing department of Mr. Me-rks'e printing establish- .......eseeseeeesee-
ment in this town, was held at his house. the Foresters'
Arms Inn. Coventryestreet. on Monday evening last. WORDSLEY.
The tacit elf the hense was formerly the " Old Round of Wrtert ID 01S.—At the l'etty Sessions, on Monday;
Beef." hut it has been altered by the present proprietor. last. before T. Y. Lee and L. Freer lesqe., John Cadman
who is a well known and highly reeneeted member of the was charged with wilfully damagiug a fence, the pro.
Ancient Order of Foresters, to the Foresters' Arms Inn, petty of the Earl of Dudley. on the 20th of September..
as being more appropriate. The dinner was an excellent Richard Peachy keeper, in the employ of the Earl of
one, consistin of roast beef, boiled mutton. barn, and i Dudley, sold that on the day in question he saw the dee
g
veal. with all tile Usual etcetera.. and was placed upon fendant break down abed'e and get through tt. Defend-
-1 ant pleaded guilty. The case was not pressed saal was
thea,v
etable
universalin a sßirt
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After
flitehwe
withdrawn on payment of costs,
the chair was taken by hfr. Sanders, acd the vice chair ,
i .sNoTillat OrritsCE.—Thutult Jarvis was charged
by the weetthy host. The Chairman opened the proceed- , with a similar offence, on the same day. Richard resell?
Ines by giving as the fleet toast, " The Queen." whirl' said he saw the defendant break through a fence, and
was eholy responded to. Toast arid song then followed get into a field belonging to the Earlof Dudley. Ordered
each other in rapid succession. The ttlast cef the eyeel- to pay the costs.
worthy
whaosstreesms.navnedd
ing, "The health of our worthy host and hottest, and '
saccess to them in their new undertaking," was drunk ,
with musical honours. Mr. Lawley, in responding, said : RALESOWEN.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I rise with much plea-
sure to return you me sincere and heartfelt thanks, for ParattniaTioll.-06 Satnrday, a purse sontaining
the very enthusiastic manner In which yen have drank £57. 75. was presented to the Has. James Kidd, noon his
to the etee/th of myself and wife. I must cache myself leaving the curacy of Hales Owen, after a residence of
from anything in the shave of a speech on the ground between four and five years. The presentation took
that lam n 3 orator, in fact, from the want of self-con- place at Townsend House, the residence of Mr. Moore,
fidence or from some other cause, I can never express, 011 e Of the eleurchwerdens, in the presence of the Ven.
in word:, my feelings. I mast say lam most happy to Archdeacon Hone (nectar), the Rev. C. H. Prance, Mr.
see so many old frlcroia around me, and at the same time , Alfred Burr (churchwarden), and other gentlemen and
\
I feel most thankful to all foe the supped I have re- 1 subscribers to the testimonial. The presentation was
ceived since I commenced businese, and assure them made by Mr. Moore, who allndeel to the punctual mid
that nothing shall be wanted on my part to render every- i faithful menner in which Mr. Kidd had cerfornied his
thing connected with it as it ought to be, and as every duties in the parisn —The Ven. Archdeacon spite feel-
good man would wish it. lam also proud to are some inuly upon the same subject, observing that thanks ::ertt
of my friends and neighbours in the public business also due to Mrs. Kidd for her salliable servises in the
here. It sheen great respect, and ebould I ever have an Sunday Schools.—The her. C: H. Prance, testified to
opportunity nf returning it, I shall feel most leapny. In unanimity that had always existed between Mr. Kidd and
conclusion. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, on behalf of himself during thelperied he had been fellow curate with
myself and wife, I return you my heartfelt thanks—. him, and the regret he felt at his leaving.
(loud applause). Several other songs anel toasts were —.—...—...-----
then given until breakingmn time, when all departed to
their homes haying thoroughly enjoyed a first-rate even-
ing's eaten t linment.
AtINCAL SEnnottS. The annual sermon, were
preached at St. Thomas's Church on Sunday last, in aid
of the Natienel Schools; that in the morning by the
Rev. D. Robertson. M.A., vicar of the Lee. and that in
the evening by the Rev. G. Rails, M.A.. Vicar of Clyne
Collections were made at the close of each service, which
amounted tA upwards of £l5.
Gavin liVstatiO CONCEnT.—It will be seen on refer-
ring to our advertising columne, that a grand evening
concert will take place in the Corn Exchenge. Tins talent
engaged ti ef it high order, and have gained golden
opinions through the Country. Those who wish a treat
will do well to attend.
Seneca or Ater.—lt will be seed ia our advertising
columns, that a course of lecteres will coninlence not the
above school, on Monday night next, and will bee favor-
able time for students to join.
HIGHWAY OFFENCE.—At the Petty Sessinns, yester-
day, before B. Littlewood. TT 0. Firinstone, W. C. Firnl•
stone, R. L. Freer, Esqrs., and Major Fletcher, William
Mercer, farmer, residing at Relleroneeletree was charged
by the Rev it. A. Womigate with unlawtedly p!Ougbine
up a Conte:Ale and dem:aging the surface by ploughing it
up. Mr. Ponten defended. Mr, Wee-ideate conducted
his own rose, and said the inforrnstion wog laid melee
the Highway Act, see. 77. Ile none forwerd on public
grounds. le fondant had ploughed up the land for some
Vine, and he had repeatedly remonstrated with him.
Ile should call two witnessee to prove his ease. Willem]
Wakefield said he was surveyor of the highways, at Bel-
broughton. He knew the footpath from Feirfield to
Bedbroughton. Some of it goes through Mercer's land.
and has been a pablie footpath for the last thirty or forty
years. Never heel any interruption. The road has been
plonghed up Many times. The last time about a fort-
night since, and obstructed the passage of people.
Cross-examined the surveyors have never repaired the
road, to my knewleelge. The road leads from Be:through-
tau to Fairfield. Ite.examined : I have never repaired
the road at the parish expenee. Francis Reed said he
was in the habit of passing through the field. On the
24th September Inc saw defendant ploughing up the field.
Mr. Ponton. for the defence, contended that it was net a
highway, and that they had ploughed it up for more than
twenty years. and had a right to do so. The case was
ultimately adjourned for a month.
Ca ARCH 1/1, AS,XI7I. r.—Maria Leather, residing at the
Lye. was charged he E here Chance with assaulting her on
,lie tith instant. Mr. Maltby appeared for complainant.
'efendaut was fined tu and costa; in delimit seven