The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-09-25 00:00:00

REVISING BARRISTERS:

The number of Revising Barristers anpninted
revise the lists of voters over England and Wales this
year is 97, of which 80 are allotted to England and
11 to Wales. The appointment of Revising Barrister
is in the hands of the senior judge travelling the
summer assizes, and is made annullly, but when once
a barrister is so appointed it is customary to re-appoint
him yearly. Every Revising Barrister must have
been called to the Bar seven years in order to be
eligible, he must not be a member of Parliament, a
Queen's Coansel, nor hold any office of profit or trust
under the Crown, except that Of Recorder, and in that
case he must not be appointed to revise the lists of
the city or borough of which he is recorder. Each
Revising Barrister receives 200 guineas annually for
his services, out of which he pays his travelling and
other expenses. As his courts, however, are held
during the Long Vacation, his duties in this connec-
tion do not interfere with his ordinary practice.

HER MAJESTY'S JUBILEE.

IMPORTANT PROPOSAL BY THE PRINCE.

OF WALES.

The following lettr has been addressed by his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from Marl-
borough House to the Lord Mayor of London:
"Dear Lord Mayor,—My attention has bean fro,'
quently called to the general anxiety that is felt to
commemorate in soma special manner the approach-
ing jubilee of her Majesty's reign.
"It appears to me that no more suitable memorial
could be suggested than an institute which should re-
present the arts, manufactures, and commerce of the
Queen's Colonial and Indian Empire.
"Such an institution would, it seems to me, be
singularly appropriate to the occasion, for it would
illustrate the progress already made during her
Majesty's reign in the Colonial and Indian
Dominions, while it would record year by year the
development of the Empire in the arts of civilisa-
tion.
"It would thus be deeply interesting to her
Majesty's subjects, both within and beyond these
islands, and would tend to stimulate emigration to
those British territories where it is required, to ex-
pand the trade between the differen; British coin-
mnnities, and to draw closer the bonds which unite
the Empire.
"It would be at once a museum, an exhibition,
and the proper locality for the discussion of Colonial
and Indian subjects.
"That public attention has already been forcibly
directed to these questions is sufficiently proved by
the remarkable success which is attending the Colo-
nial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington,
and I confidently anticipate that arrangements may
be made whereby the more important collections,
which have so largely contributed to this success, will
be placed at the disposal of the institution. ;
"I have much satisfaction in addressing this letter
to your lordship as Chief Magistrate of the capital of
the Empire and to invite your co-operation in the
formation Of this Imperial Institute of the Colonies
and India, as the memorial of her Majesty's Jubilee
by her subjects.
"Should your lordship concur in this proposal, and
be willing to open a fund at the Mansion House, I
would suggest that the contributions received be
vested in a body of trustees, whom the Sovereign
would be asked to nominate, and I would further
suggest that the institution should be under the per-
manent presidency of the Heir Apparent to the
Throne.—l remain, dear Lord Mayor, yours truly,
"ALBERT EDWARD P."

The following is the reply of the Lord Mayor to his
Royal Highness, dated from the Mansion House:
" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Royal Highness's letter on the 13th
inst., and, in reply, to express the great pleasure it
will afford me to give the heartiest co-operation and
aid in the formation of the proposed Imperial Insti-
tute of the Colonies and India as the memorial of her
Majesty's Jubilee by her subjects.
"Your Royal Highness truly states that general
anxiety is felt to commemorate in some special
manner the approaching Jubilee of her Majesty's
reign. There will, lam sure, be an universal desire
to give expression in a suitable and if possible
adequate way to the deep attachment, veneration, and
loyalty which the Queen's subjects, in all parts of her
vast dominions, entertain for a Sovereign whose long
and illustrious reign has been productive, under
Providence, of many blessings to her people and been
rendered memorgble by the striking progress in
civilisation and prosperity developed throughout the
Empire.
"Difficult as it may be to signalise in a commensu-
rate way the feelings which are thus naturally em-
phasised at the approach of the Jubilee of her
Majesty's reign, I am convinced that the proposal
which your Royal Highness indicates, and which has
the support of your influence, will be considered sin-
gularly appropriate.
" It will, therefore, give me much satisfaction to
open a fund at the Mansion House for the receipt of
contributions, as suggested by your Royal Highness.—
I have the honour to remain, sir, with the greatest re-
spect, your Royal Highness's most dutiful and most
Oedient servant,
"JOHN STAPLES, Lord Mayor."