The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-23 00:00:00

ALVELEY.

CHURCH ASSUCIATION.—At the April meeting of
the committee of the Alveley and Claverley Branch
of this Ass iciation, the fol owing resolutions were
unanimously adopted l'hat this meeting of
Churchmen having considered the provisions of a
Bill, now before the House of Commons, to abolish
the Bishop's veto in certain Ecclesiastical cases,
and backed by Col. Sandys, M.P., Mr. Henry
Wardle, M.P„ Mr. James Joicey, M.P., and Col.
Saunders() 1, M.P., considers the Bill worthy of the
supp ,rt Jf all tru • Churcutnen, and earnestly invites
the Member for this Ihvisiozi to giie it his most
careful attention, and to facilitate, as much as
possible, its passing during the present Session;"—
(2) "That this meeting J 1 Churchmen having con-
ei.lered the piovisions of a Bid, now before the
House of Commons to substitute Deprivation for
Imprisonment in Ecclesi,stical cases, and backed
by Mr. H. Whiib-y, M.P., Col. Sandys, M.P., and
Mr Henry Wardle, M.P., Mr. James Joicey, M.P.,
and uJol, Saunderson, H P., considers the Bill
worthy of tie support ~f all true Churchmen, and
earnestly invites toe member for this Division to
give it his most earnest attention, and to facilitate,
as much as posible, its passing during the present
Session."

PRIMROSE CELEBRATION AT OLD HILL.

SPEECHES BY MR. A. SIAVELEY RILL, M.P.
AND MR. BROOKE ROBINSON, M.P.

The Conservatives of Old Hill and district,
celebrate a Paimrese day on Tuesday by a largely-
attenied meeting at Tiinity Hall, Old Hill, at which
.the principal spek-rs were Mr. ;I. Staveley
Q C., M P., and Mr. Brouke-Robirame, M.P.,
Tne cornmodioes hall was
fiolf p en
led with audience comp eed c defiy of working
men, and considerable enthusiasm was manifested.
The majority of those present wore the usual floral
emblem, while the platform was decorated with
natione. trophies, and a dark erapery a n which the
letter "B' was en wreathed in primroses surmounted
with tie Royal crown and the motto "Peace with
Honour." Mr. A. f.. 1; Bassano presided, and amongst
those present were, in addition to Mr, Stanley Hill
and Mr Robinson, Drs Ker and De Denne, Messrs.
W Bassano, W. Whitehouse, W. Willett, H. Darby,
B. Underwood, E. Burgess, Barker, Walker Higgs
Waleer, E Pewtress, Taylor, Addenbrooke, and
others.—T •e Chairman, in opening the procee.iings,
congratulated the meeting on the strength of tne
' Conservative party in tb at di . riot and the patreitism
which bee induced tete Unionees to support their
cause. He also congratula ed them on the suoceee
of the Government in the important division which
took place in t-lal Hone of Comm its on Monday
' evening—(cheers)--and spoke hopefully of the
future of the Conservative earty in England,
Mr. Stacey 11 11, who was received with cheers,
said he knew of no bill that hat been more grievously
mis epr asen-ed tan he (Manes Bill, In Scotland
they had a syst-en ef law a hich they might well
a opt. in England, vise. that when a clime had
ta,,en place the magietrates—.vi hout waiting to
h ve the t rimer bsfor teem—had tower to call
witnesses to see in what way they mignt eet the
pewers of the law in motion. That did not exist in
In h law, but it had coteidered that it would be a
go d and sure means of putting the police upon the
tza k of those sccutelrels who had been guilty of
some of the ba.s-st if crime —fhear, heare Did
any mon say that wei an infringement of the
libsrty on the subject ? He maintained that it
was rot.—(cheers). Years ago, when the poi -oner
Painter was on hi: trial, t e vet no was charagsd
from Staffordshire to London on the petition of the
prisoner's solicitor, in eonsequeece of tee excited
feeliegs of the po, elati n. and in the same way it
was wise hat accused prsons arrested for outrages
in Ireland should be remove) from the soil of Ire-
land to the irelepend nt je ligment of a special jury
in London. Th.- third p art was that ~vh -re ther-
were certain crineet committed the accused persons
should b- tried at summary juri dietion ; and the
fourth part of the measure empower d the Lord-
Lie.ltenaut to prevent the assemblage of associations
formed for the commission of crime. Even the
alterations it the law were almost in their entirety
only to be carried out in districts which the Lord-
L'eutenant should have proclaimed Such pro-
clam ions would be maie under careful safeguards,
namely, that they must be laid on the table of the
House of Commons within one week from the date
of their being so proclaimed. Wi, h that bill the
Government would proceed—(cheers). He was
told there were 600 to 500 amenemen te to be brought
forward, but let the 0 iposition bring them—
(cheers). They were ready to meet :eheemd,,
and
would keep pegging at them, and, supported
as they should be by Lord Hartington—(cheers) -
Sir Henry James, and others, they would take care
that the liberties of Ireland were projt
that she should come out from the great conflict
not in the alcetroyed and lowered condition to which
Mr. Pam ra 11 would reduce her, but to be a fair
compatriot and partner with England in the
administration of the British Empire (loud
apple Referring to the recent disclosure relat-
ing to the Pooenix Park murders, Mr. Hill said that
if such a ahi ge had been made against the Eeglish
and Scotch members of the fleuse of Commons as
had b en made against Mr. Parnell and it were
false not one hour would be lost before a solicitor
would be on their track for libel—(cheers). Suck a
co use was demanded by the persoa himself, but
it was due to the position of the House of Commons
that no man .vho was a member of that assembly
shoull allow himself for one moment to remain
under the bran I of such a cha-ge if it should be
false—(hsar, hear). Time Parnellites said "No ; we
are not goi•ig to bring an sctiou because it wall be
tried by 4 Loudon jury." He (Mr. Hill) should
ti ,k a London jury woul 1 be faieeneu.h, but then
Mr Parnell might go to Cork if he pleafeaal and
tr ng his action ttere. and he, for one. as a member
ef the House of Co.nmons, w meld say—in the old
word—" May God send him a good deliverance"—
( oud applause).
Mr. Brooke Roeinson, on rising to a,ddresi the
meedeg, was warmly cheer° I. After some
preliminary o a•servations, he remarked that th- Par-
neldtes had always evinced a remarkable deter
inivation to obstract by every possible means the
prre,edings of the House of C.eninons, and to bring
Parliamentary iestbutions into contempt. But
what could they may of the Sep artist Radicals ?
They expressee a desire for legislative progress,
ammo yet when la .y entered Parliament they for:ot
trier speeches :led joined hands with the Pa-nellites
in deliberate obs,ruction If Separatists con.
tradictecl that statsment, he might refer them to the
letter which Mr. Jesse Collings wrote some days
ago to Mr. Arnced Morley, the whip of the Radicel
party, in which he sad that he was so disosted
with the coaduct of the Radical party and the way
they were obstructing proceedings in Parliament,
that he begged Mr. Morleyto desist seu ling him Par
liamentary papers aa d notices. He was certain that
nothilie tut a stern sense of lie duty, and intense
dissatisfaction with the scan aalous proceedines of
the Separatists, ceuld, have induced him to wilie
such a letter. They saw that policy in matters in
which there should ho no two opinions. For
instance there was the Cal Mines Regulation Bill,
which considerably affected that district. He
believed that measure passed into law it would be
found to be a measure of the highest importance,
and sstisfactory alt. e to owners and men, and
r.o man had endeavcured to do mote to achieve
that great parpese than Mr. Matthews, the present
home Secretes; —(cheers. Mr. Rotainson after-
words referred to the 6 cal policy ot this countr
being eaten) out. He said thet foreign c ampetition
had Lot te ought ab ,ut the d fficultiee in the tetadley
chain trade, bu it had been brought abon- by the
destruct i n of the wrought nail trade. which eh as ed
that they could not destroy one industry wit. out
hrioeing about cengestion and confusion in the
other industries '1 he (Amos in in the wrought
ii it trade was brou.:lat about by free importation of
nails fr m Belgmra, and the last straw which broke
the back ol that trade had been the arrival within
the last half-dozen ,ears of enormous quantities of
nails fr m the Continent. Then, with regard to
the irce, trade, he might point out that more than
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ago
teeyneszpo(irtetdarfsr. whomtkilies cottuenytryonnlyo
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imp. reel 23,060 tons. hirty e ears ago they
30 Ot h
(nevi.. C6O MO tors, s hertas last 3, at they only
eel:erect) 4e,000 tons, e hile teey imm ore dno lees
tle n iiOotio tuns—("elianie* ) Mr. Rubinson
ml et wt m $ coradeaued the policy of the Irish party,
am d ept lie in tavevr of tie recent measure in-
troduced, concluding a cepital speech amid loud
erplaese.
hr. W. Bassano subsequently submitted ~.
e: olu lion ef t.cuficience in the Government 11,
thdr Irish tolicy, which was iecoudtd and caiiitti,
11. e ptcosedings stiortly *tornado tamizated.ba