The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-17 00:00:00

LORD JOHN MANNERS AND THE
"WORKING MAN:"

The Metropolitan and Provincial Working Classes'
Exhibition and Festival, which has been open some
weeks in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, London,
was formally closed on Monday evening, by Lord John
Manners. Since the opening of the Exhibition about
550.000 persons have visited it, and of these upwards
of half-a-million paid for admission. Goods to the
value of :WO/. were sold by exhibitors, prizes to the
value of 100/. were distributed, and a balance of 8001.
remains to be disposed of.

The Morning Star of Wednesday hen an article on
Lord John Manners' speech at the closing of the
Islington Industrial Exhibition. If the working man
could live on praise he might have found sustenance
for a lifetime in the rich encomiums which Lord John
Manners bestowed upon him. The Star over and over
again said as much for the working claases, although not
in such fine language as that of the sentence about the
virgin flowers and the Christian fruits. But how oomea it
that when Lord Jobit Manners spoke last sesaion in the
House of Commons on a question vitally interesting
to the working classes whom he now panegyrizes, he
' never remembered anything about their virtues and
abilities and their sacred influence over the rest of the
community? The Star liken a wan to be one thing
or the other, and is sorry that Lord John MIIIMINTI
did not, before he net about eulogizing the crorking
men in November, rdiect a little upon the probable
value such eulogy would derive from the nature of his
speeches and his votes during the Reform debates of
last June.
, The Standard, noticing the vehement applause with.
which Lord John Manners was received, says possibly
the working,men prevent had not forgotten, amid the

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storm of obloquy with which the noble lord and his
party have been visited. that Lord John Manners am
one of the sturdiest champions of the Factory Ac
and in him individual capacity strove to besi•k
the incessant round of grnding toil, by reliving
'' national holidays" for the lack uf which the w rk
e in
L:oolarnltojtio.aehlhei:iiigar: tnatdei i life
than twenty
tt:Tnritey becausenyea Saturday
ao. hth.7
holiday is but a tardy c 101 arguments whi•o
were laughed to sc prooonnoed

ACTION AGAINST A SURGEON
A very curious case of assault has been before .
tice Blackburn in the Bail Court, in London, t•
'seek. The defendant woe one of the surgeon. at , •
Great Northern Hospital, and the plaintiff a se,
stress who suffered greatly from toothache. The 8'
ment of counsel on her behalf was, that she went •
the hospital several times, but refused to have at,, it
extracted, and when she was told that by ~f
chloroform she would escape all pain, she st,ll
resolutely declined, stating that she had some years
ago been under the influence of chloroform, arni
greatly injured her. At her last visit she wee tel t
open her mouth, and upon doing so she was so 0n....
tunate as to shut her eyes also, upon which a han
kerchief was placed over her month and no.e, • •
became insensible, and six of her teeth were tl • •t
extracted by defendant. This was in the sum., •
of 1864, and it was alleged that from the effect t
' treatment she had lost the use of her limbs as well 4
; her teeth, and she appeared in court on crutches. 1 •
defence was that the course pursued was the be t • t
the patient, that her debility did not arise from ' ••
dentistry she had undergone, and that she was gull v
of "malingering." The judge, who did not appear n.
be acquainted with the language of the Aricles ••t
War, inquired what this word meant, and was
informed by one of the medical witnesses that
was used in the sense of "shamming." After a v•-•
lengthy trial extending over two days, the jury we ot
discharged at a late hour on Tuesday night without
giving a verdict.