The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-24 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

TTN TIE Further Notice, EXCURSION
TRAINS will run to WORCESTER and MAL-
VERN Am follows : On SATURDAYS, from June 22nd,
from Lirmingham (Snow Hill) at 2.10, Hockley 2 15,
Handsworth 2.20, timetliwick Junction 2.25. Oldbury
2.30, Rowley 2 36, Cradley 2.44, *,tourliridge 2.52. Hagley
2.58, Kidderminster 3 12, Wolvelliampton (low level) 2 5,
Elkton 2 13, Daisey Bank 217. Princes End 221, Tip-
ton 225, Dadley 2.30, Round Out 2.35, and ltr,ttell Lane
2.40 pm. On MONDAYS, from June 24th, from Wol-
veiliampton (Low Level) at 10.0, 'Alston 10.8, Daisey
Bunk 10.12, Princea End 10.16, '1 ipton 1020, Dudley
10.25, Hound Oak 10.30, brettell Lane 10.35, Stourbridge
10.45, Motley 10.51, and Kidderminster 115 a.m.;
returning in each case on tie same evening.
Nor farts and full particalme see Handbills.

WORCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL

S ll OW,

At -STUTIRBRIDUE, AUGUST 28th and 29th.

FIRST, SECOND, and THIRD CLASS
RETURE TICKETS will be issued to Stour-
bridge each day at SINGLE FAIti.S for the DOUBLE
JOURNEY, by certain Trains from Wolverhampton,
Stratford, Moreton, Evesham, Worcester, Hereford,
Shrew...bury, Bridgnortli, Tenbary, and other intermedi-
ate Stations, available to return by certain Trains on the
day of issue only.
On TIMIBDAY, AVOUST 29th, an EXCURSION
TRAP-. will leave Worcester (Shrub Hill) at 9.35, Fear-
nail Heath 9.41, Droiteich 9.49. Hartlebury 10.2 a.m.,
for STOURBRIDGE ; also from the above-mentioned
Stations and Kidderminster at 10.11 and 10.28 am., for
BIRMINGHAM ; returning the same day.
For fartlitr particulars see
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington Terminus.
HORN—

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i [GUNMAN'S PURE TEA has ful.::.oyeni been
supplied five front lhe injurious faciny powder
generally used by the Chinese to disguise
inferior leaves, consequently it is very
STRONG, reliable in QUALITY, & truly CHEAP.
Sold only in pael“..ts, all genuine are
signed VlWllominna/Wo. LONDON,
Original Importers f the Pelee Tea.
LOCAL AGENTS
Stourbridge, Clarke, High-street.
Hewitt, Market-street.
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Hiv,h.street.
Baker, II igh-Oreet.
Half:ewe*, AfIRIDS. thenli`t.
Brierley Hill, Geary, Chemist.
Pervalett, W. Beebe, Ch..mist.
Blackheath, Barlow Chemist.
doves. Chemist.
W."191,Y, Tamer, Chemist,
Kiailermiaile;•, Hewitt, Chemist.
Malay, Rapti, Chemist.
Birynirgham, Banks 8011-st.
Nether'l.o, Foilyleve, •t.
Beettell Lane. Collie, clitmlik.
Bingr,-;kfor,l. WWII, CIO_ 'llia.

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Organs, in either sex, acquired or constitutional, Crave:
and Pain. in the Bacit.—noid in boxes. 4s 64 each, by
all Chemists and Patent Med tir,e t.l,l,Fff ; or start to
any address for Crl Sttimpot Ey the Maker. F. J Ca.aran.
l•ernist, Higl,-sireet, Lincoln.—Wbolerije
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Houses.
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But I must hasten to conclude, as some clergyman I
say about half-an-hour before they finish, and I 'hall
spare you those few practical remarks by way of con-
clusion which I fear Sr. so often seed thrown on barren
ground. From Cambrai to Lille, from Lille to Calais,
from Calais to Dover, from Dover to London, what
can I say particularly interesting about this unro-
mantic journey? I dareuy I ought to have gone
farther on the outward trip, I ought to have rushed
about Switzerland. or scampered about Italy; but
during my short vacations I abjure rushing and for-
swear scampering. My chain is not a very long one,
and "I do my possible." If my jotting° about this un-
eventful and lazy little tour have given any of my
readers a scintilla of the pleasure I have derived from
it I must not grumble.

A LITTLE TRIP IN FRANCE.
(By Our London Correspondent.)
The short railway trip from Compiligne to Noyes Is •
very agreeable one, the line priming through some de-
liciously wooded scenery, and the view of the Forat de
l'Aigue to the right being charming. But much of
the pleasure of a railway journey depends on your own
mood, the character of your fellow passengers, and
many other trifles. A handcuffed prisoner riding
through beautiful scenery does not much admire it, I
were ; while a young gentleman seated next the girl of
his heart, and enjoying love's young dream, is apt to
think every day scenes very delicious, especially if
there are a good many tunnels! My trip was rendered
somewhat uncomfortable by a travelling "gent"--a
snob of an Englishman, who was on his home journey.
When he had embarked at Cabin, shortly afterwards,
he would have hat six days and a half, all counted, in
France, where he had never been before, and where he
vowed he would never go again. I hope he won't,
for the honour of my countrymen. With a Cockney
twang through his turned-up nose, he talked in the
loudest, most offensive, and most blatant at le of the
manners and customs of "these here French," about
whom he positively knew nothing, and gloried in being
abletto insult them with fancied impunity, as no one,
he thought, but your humble servant could understand
bins. I ventured mildly to differ from him on many
points, wishin; all the while he would change the
abject, and fearing that some of our fellow-travellers I
would understand him too well. At last a Frenchman, I
who spoke English infinitely more correctly, though
much slower, than this vulgar, ignorant snob, joined
in the conversation, and would have utterly disposed
of bias "in a enlist sort of way," had the soil snob
possessed the sense to see that he was in the wrong.
But facto and arguments were equally lost upon him,
and he continued his gassy bombast till I had the un-
mitigated pleasure f coldly bidding him good-day at
Noyon. Not knowing or caring to know his "local
habitation or his ,cone," I can only hope, in the savage-
is-as of my heart, th it, he is now laid up with the gout!
Noyon is a charmingly eituatcsl little town, built
chiefly on the side of a hill, and its gardens, its vines,
and its pretty cottages combine to produce s lovely
landscape. There does not appear to be much trade,
though there are manufactories of leather, linen,
cotton, &c. But it is a pretty town for a lounger
. The cathedral well repays a visit. It is said that King
Pepin erected one in the fourth century, but no
remains exist, the present noble Romanesque edifice
dating from the 13th century. Two of its bishops
became me of mark—St. Msidard (associated with •
supenstition similar to that of our St. Swithin)
and Pope Innocent the First. If you cannot agree-
ably spend an hour contemplating the nsble interior
and the monuments of this grand old cathedral and
meditating on the past, why it is a pity you came.
Frotn N )yon to St. Quentin the railway trip does not
offer such pretty views as thoae you have passed
through in coming from Compiegne, but the country
is agreeable nevertheless.
St. Quentin is a lively, bustling town, for a French
provincial town, desirably situate, as auctioneers would
say, on a hill between the river Somme and the St.
Quentin canal, It dces a good trade in manufactures
of cotton, thread, linen, silk, tulle, muslin, machinery,
&c. Its early history is of course a troublous one. A
local guide book tells me it suffered smiaresnent from
the Vandals in 401. I daressy it did, just as we suffer
from the Vandals of 1872. Our old friend Attila. King
of the Huns, who inspired such terror wherever he
went that he wax called the Scourge of God, was also a
pretty considerable scourge in these parts half a cen-
tury afterwards ; and the Normans, the Burgundians,
and other savage warriors of their several periods, in.
dulged their fishting propensities in and near the
town. which WWI taken in 1557 by the Spaniards under
Philip, the Imaband of our Queen Mary with the san-
guineons adjective. Philip, the morose and saturnine,
had induced the Queen to join him in declaring war
against France, and the King Consort, "for that was his
name," I believe, Was personally present at the sieg,e and
capture of the town of St. Quentin. After this battle,
however, he became so sick of fighting that he vowed he
would never witness another battle, and he kept his
ward ; and moreover he showed his gratitude for obtain- ,
ing this victory by founding the splendid Facurial. Some
old ramparts remain to remind the peaceful inhabit-
ants of the town of its former stragsles and warfare,
asd I read that there are still to be seen remains of
three It, man ways, but I did not see them, as I pail
more attention to the ways of the hotel-keepers,
restaurateurs, and St. Quentinians generally. I like
the town, and think you, too, my courteous readers,
would like it. It contains some nice lively streets—
very different to those of Paris of course—and some
well-stocked shops the keepers of which display that
good taste which Is almost universal among the class.
The llatel de Ville, built early in the liith century, is
a fine Gothic structare, with a beautiful fac vie and
arcade, and a lantern tower ; but why there should be a
peal of bells in this civil and secular building is a
thing which no English fellow can understand. The
principal church is also a fine Gothic edifice, and its
handsome porch is peculiarly worthy of notice. The
Interior is very spacious, and I counted twenty
'liaise's, some of thcm most elesantly fitted up. Part
of the church was under repair—of course ; tbe.se old
lSothic Arne' urea always are. And there was a theatre.
at St. Quentin, hut when I was there it was closed
this elGture seems to last a long time in these French
peovincial towns) and I saved my money, and had a
quiet stroll in the sillsurba. And very pretty walks
there are about this ancient-modern town.
The railway ride, of some twenty miles, from St.
Quentin to Cambrai presents nothing specially re-
markable in the way of scenery. Given fine weather,
neither purse nor stomach empty, a g sod cigar
(supposing you like it), good company, and a good
conscience, and you can enjoy it. Take away
these things and substitute disagreeal des, and you
can't My companions were an old and ugly woman,
who had come from Bordeaux, and WWI going to Le
Cateau, who had no luggage and didn't want any, and
who seemed equal to travelling any number of miles,
provided it Were in France, with nothing but a little
money and her eternal umbrella ; a consuls- oyageur
who had business at every station, and grumbled con
ouniedly at the trains being so few ; an elegantly
dressed young nom who spoke to no one, but who
sedulously devote I himself to reading poor Henri
Murger'a "Vie de Bohisme ;" a John Ball sort of
Englishman who, after a little holiday, was taking
back his boy to a school near Galais ; and the boy
aforesaid. It was a fine thing, said the father, to
have a boy educated in France—Rot that he under-
stood French himself, but he wanted his boy to speak
it. The boy had only been a year at school, and he
could already nay the Lord's prayer in French. I
deferentially remarked that this was not exactly what
Was required in a commercial house ; and that
should the boy arrive at a railway station in
France, and want to go to a good hotel, it would
hardly be the correct thing to go up to a railway
porter and commence saying the Lord's prayer in
French. John Bull knew that; I ought to know that
people must have a beginning; he knew what he was
about ;he was no fool, he. From the boy—who in
this respect differed from his father—l gathered that
most of the boys in his school were English ; that he
always spoke English (which was the less surprising
as he could not speak anything else) ; and that he
didn't like French, and didn't believe he should ever
leans it—the only sensible remark he made.
Cambrai is rather a dull, sombre, tranquil old town,
with that medley of historic memorials and modern
features which is a charm for the tourist and student,
and which renders a brief sojourn very agreeable, espe-
*lolly to any one coming from the rush and war of
mighty London. It was once strongly fortified, and
may be still in theory, but the strong arguments of
muster° siege artillery soon dissipate the theories
of Vauban, one of whose citadels is a notable feature
of the town. Ca-, bras has been many times taken
ad retaken—by Spaniards, Austrians, (during the first
French revolution), and by the English, in 1815, under
fierce-al fortiasations, its I'lace
d'Armes, and ita fine military hospital are identified with
what the French have had a great deal too much of—
la otnere. The fine old cathedral contains a monument
of FeinSlon, Arelibshop of Can bray. He was a mar-
vellous mean, was this Archbishop—an eloquent preacher
at 15, and one of :he ablest polemical writers, and one
of the moat zeslou, pcstora and pis lates of his day.
tint wlno reads his works now ?-_very few of us—unless
kbo that everlasting "Tsl,,malue," which little school-
boys and schoolgirls have cried 0,-er any time during
the last century and a half. The subtitle of Cambrai
are not particularly picturesque, but the disteict is well
cultivated or devoted to pasture, and shows signs of
prosperity. It is from the name of the town that our
word " cambric " comes, and there is still a consider-
able manufacture of it, as well as of linen, thread and
lace. There are some good shops, a pretty theatre,
and some well-arranged cafe's, but in the matter of res.
tam ants the stranger is likely to be disappointed.
During my little trip in France I had abundant proof
of the fact that the French press has not improved
under the Republic—looking at the prow rather as the
diesemihator of news than as an agency for advocating
political opinions. In the smaller towns there are still
the same loeal papers that I had on former occasions
noti ed, and they are the same wretched productions,
a* compared to our own press, as ever. The new, is
mere outline, names being frequently conspicuous by
their ab-ence ; and as to leaders, special correspondence
and all thsse features that give such interest to an
English paper, you may look for them in vain. You
may skim through one of these little French news
papers (to be courteous) in a quarter of an hour, and
the, you know very little more than you did before.

PROFESSOR FAWCETT ON 'ECONOMIC
SCIENCE AND STATISTICS."
At the m.eting of the British Association at Bightns
on Thursday in last week, the address on "Economic
Science and Statistics" was given by Professor Henry
Fawcett, M.P. He called attention to the way in
which the present unprecedented general proaperity of
he country was attended by an increase in the prices
if the chief necessaries of life, such as coals and
butcher's meat, which very sesiously affected the com-
fort of large chimes of persons with fixed inixmea, and
also of persons engaged in callings in which the increase
of prices referred to did not entail any immediate
increase of income. He referred to the great in-
crease in the production of gold and silver during
recent years; and said that, although the increased
supplies of gold were for a time absorbed without any
decline in its value, it could now scarcely be doubted
by any attentive observer that there had been a
very considerable depreciation, and that this is in-
dicted by a m rked rice in prices, which is erro-
neously sum eased to be due not to this cause, but
to general- activity in trade. The rise in prices which
has 'tiered since 1850 is estimated by very eminent
authorities at not less than 40 or 50 per cent. This
partly an:omits for the fact that the augmentation in
the production of wealth has not produced a greater
influence upon the general well being of the country.
If, for instance, we (Hanover that durime the past year
10 per cent, more wealth, estimated in money, was
produced than in the prevail. year ; mei if daring the
is sone period there has been, owing to a depreciation in
the prices of the precious metals, a rise in prices of 5
I per cent., it is at once obvious that one half of this
supposed inereame of wealth is not real, but simply
nominal, hematites the price of all commodities has ad-
vanced 5 per cent. It is not, of course, intended to be
implird that there has not been a very large and
real increase in the production of wealth. The Pro-
feseor continued : -
" The reason which induces me to refer to the present
general rise in prices is threefold. In the tint place, I wish
to point out the hardship and suffering which it will, at any
rate for • time, cause to certain a diens of the community.
Secondly, I with to show what precautions should be taken
in order as far as possible to mitigate the influence of a
similar cause in future. And, thirdly, I desire to draw the
practical conclusion that at the present time certain chines
who are most unfavourably affected by the pecular economic
circumstances of the country are the very people upon
whom the burden, troth of Imperial and local taxation, falls
with peculiar severity and Inequality. With regard to the
first of these three points it is scarcely necessary for me to
make any farther remarks after what has been previously
stated. I shall be detaining you far too long if I attempt to
describe the manner in which the great supplies of gold
already yielded have been absorbed, or it I endeavour to
trace the varieus effects which have been exerted in different
countries. No one has written on thin subject with more
ability than that distinguished economist, Prolemor Cairns,.
Without entering Into the more intricate question' discussed
by Professor Cairnes it Is obvious that if the rise iu the
prices should continue the loss which will be endured by
those in receipt of fixed moeey income, will also continua
" This being the case, we arrive at the second of the three
points enumerated, and we have to seek • reply to the
important practical question—what can be best done to
mitigate the consequences resulting from such a loss?
Ever since the gold discoveries were fleet made people have
been warned that what is now happening would very pro-
bably occur. They were from time to time cautioned against
the risk which they were incurring in making provisions for
their families on, entering into other arrangements based
on the principle of fixed money payments. These wanniegs
have been to a great extent disregarded. No one who ob-
serves what is now taktng place can pretend to say that it
would not be highly imprudent to disregard these warnings
In the future. I have carefully guarded myself against
making any thing likes positive prediction. It cannot, how-
ever, be denied that even ifs continuous rise in prices is not
a very probable, at least it is a very possible contingency,
and therefore all who are maklitg arrangements for the future
should keep this fact steadily in view, that they ere in-
curring a great risk if they make these arrangements upon
the basis of fixed money payment on the assumption that
prices will remato unchanged, for there are circurnstencee
which inalcate that an ieceme of £2.00 now nray, before 10
years have eaine by, lose a considerable portion of its pur-
chasing powers, or in other words, may be greatly reduced
Is value, although its nomin .1 amount may remain the same.
" One or two practical conclusions may at once be drawn
from these considerations. lathe first place, ills hazardous
to tie down trustees or executors to invest money in some
security in which the rate of interest is 11 50,1. If the money
is invested in say kind of property, or in shares which re.
;resent preperty, the nionsy valne of the pope, ty and of
the shares will advance with the rise in prices. \leak men
and others who can only make very small iire estmeits from
time to thee prey, it it thotight, have a greater difficulty
In finding such iteetstmeute as those just recommernled. It is,
however, at once evident that if they purchase their dwel-
ling-house by joining a building society. or if they invest
their money in the shares of sime co-operative undertaking,
they would avoid the risk of finding the value of the savings
depreciated by a depreciation in the value of money, and
this risk they would run if they set aside a weekly sum to
purchase an annuity to conovence some years hence. It may
se em that some oftheeesuggestit ms afford an argument against
life insurance, bit this a really not the case if a judicious
choice f an Mee is made by those who insure. Many offices
divile their profits, eve a c.rtain fixed percentage, a-nong
the ',hey holders. If, therefere, the money is judiciously
invested ry the compoiy, the money value of their property
will increase with the rise in prices, consequently the amount
lobe O istriouted enema the policy-holden will increase, and
this will afford a cerepensation for the diminution in the
purchasing power of the policy when it is paid.
"The third point to which I wish brit fly to direct
your attention is the following. We have ascertained that
in the present eireinustare.La 01 the country the posseesers of
smell fixed incomes are those who participate beset in the
atlvettazes resultine fr in activity of trade, 810 are also
th..so who sitter most it in the present rise is prices.
Further inquiry will show that there le no class upon whom
the burdens of load sod imperial taxation probably fell with
no wrath severity. As examples, take a widow, a °leek, a
curate, or a half-pay officer, with an income of teat a year.
In the fleet place, they are liable to the incorne-tax. the
Income tax is not only mails a pi rmanesit part of our fiscal
system, but a precedent was set last year for defray hug I x-
ceptioual expenditure by means of the income-Lae. In the
second place, many of the prisaeuors of tenth iIICOIGCS are
obliged to keep up what is called • respectable appearance
No class probably has to spend so large a proportinn or their
income in house-rent and it is, after all, upon the occupier,
of houses that by far the most crushing effect of local taxa-
tion falls. But the most serious iejustice that seems to be
done them Is asseciated with cur Poor-law in dem, and the
restore of this i duel, can be exemplified by what is taking
place at the present time.
" I have already referred to what are the leading charee•
teristics of active trade In those branches of induetry
which are exceptionally prosperous enormoes profits are re-
alized, and a great advance in wages is secured. The ad-
ditional wages are to • great retest spent and not saved.
They are spent in the perchers° of more beer, spirits, meat,
butter, or the other articles of daily use. The price of roma
re these articles advances with this extra demand, and the
pot gessoes of fixed Incises suffer accordingly. I trust no
one will do me the injustice of supposing that I do not re-
joice in seeing the workman receive a better remuneration
for his labour, mid have an opportunity of enjoying more
leisure. But if his extra wages are all spent, anti nothing is
laid by, what may happen! —Why trade may become dull
Hitherto industrial prosperity and adversity seem to go in
circles. Instead of there being the present active demand
for labour, testa of thousands of hands may have to be dis-
charged. Nothing having been saved in prosperous days,
how will they live without work? They will be able to claim
the right to be maintained out of the rates. From what
source will these rates he °Male ed ? Why, to no small extent
they will be contributed by the very class—the possessors of
small fixed incomes—who do not now share in the present
prosperity, and who find the cost of living increasing. This
is the injustice to which I 'allude.
" Not only does th lejestice exist, but there Is too much
reason to fear that it may be increased if some tendencies
which are beginnieg to exerelee a marked influence upon the
Legislature are not promptly checked There is a general feel-
ing at the present day that the burdens of local taxation press
unfairly on certain classes. Admitting that some reform is
needed, it must he borne in mind that, unless we are very
careful, we shall, In strivinc after pester equality, secure
great inequality. It has, for lostance, been proposed that a
portion of the charges now borne by local taxation should
be paid fOr out of the consolidated Fund ; in fact, some
have gone solar as to suggest teat there should be a national
Poor-rate, or, in other words, that the support of the poor
should be made an Imperial char :e. If such • scheme were
carried out, all the metrantees for economy would be to a
great extent neutratized, and ench • fatal encouragement
would be elven to improvidence that, before many years had
passed by, there would he the most serious deterioration in
the general condition of the people, and England would have
to bear a far greater load of pauperism than that with which
she is now burdened. But even if such an extreme pro-
posal ass national Poor-rate Is not carried out, there is, as
previously remarked, a demand, very powerfully and in-
fluentially urged, that many local charges should in part, at
east, be defrayed out of the consolidated fund.
" Without re w attempting to decide whether inch a pro.
posal ought to be carried out, It should be remembered that
two very serious dangers are associated with it, which ought
certainly to be most carefully guarded against. lu the first
place, local anthorities thiek that public money Is no money,
and consequently, localities 11. uid vie with each in getting ea
much out of the consolidated Feed as possible. This might
so seriously weaken the guarantees ter economy that the
aggregated amount spent for local purposes might Ire very
greatly increased. But if this were .1 case, a very im-
portant consideration at once see( i From what
source Is the extra money recitals e. I I I provided. I
have felt it my duty on mire irk, n cis occasion to warn
people against supposing, an t Icy s 1 I seem to do,
that the Consolidated Fund is a port c • of wealth
kept perennially eupplied I to, spelt.' 1 bounty of
nature. The Consolidateo C tl r epresents taxation. It
more money is obtained from the consolidated Fund for
local peritoses, what new taxes it is proposed to lee,! or
which of the existing taxes ill, proposed to increase 1 Let us
remember, that this question will be &Lowered by the electors,
the majority of when are not the payers of Income- tax. Let
us remember that they have beta encouraged by what has
been done in the past to throw the whole extra charge on the
Inctime-tax. Let us keep in mind tha temptation which will
be always present to a Minister bitleina fur popularity to do
this either than to sugmeet the duty on seine article of
genct at consemption. Let all these consnlerations be kept in
view, end when, at the same tine, so remeni her that the in-
come tax would fall with the greatest ineltualita epon the
possess, Tadf small lined incomes, who are placed in the most
unfavourable position by the general cc :atomic circumstances
of the country, and I believe you will think that these few
precautionary remarks are neither superfluous nor un-
necessary.
"Allusion has already been made to • remarkable rise of
prices which Is going on at the present time. This rise,
especially in the cases of coal and meat, is partly due to an
increased cost of production produced by an increased de-
mand. The nee is also partly due lathe depreciation in the
PV.1.111 metals. So far as the increasing deemess of com-
modities is due to such natural gum as the demand. of •
larger population, it would be neither possible nor desirable
to attempt to control it. Indications, however, are not
wanting that the coot of producing many commedities slay
be artificially augmented by the incessant demands which
are constantly being put forward, demands which Parliament
and Ministers are far too willing to concede for unwise,
meddlesome, and triscalevous legislative interference with
industry. If Parliament, by imposing injudicious regulations,
hampers trade, the cost of production is at once increased,
the commodities become dearer, and the logs ultimately falls
upon the consumers, who already find that everything they
have to pinches* is sufficiently deer. If I had now
time to examine the various measures which were intro-
duced into Parliament last year, and the various measures
with which we are threatened next newton, it would not
be difficult to show you that, unless we are very careful, we
shall find some Government regulation daring us in every
direction; we shall find the Game Office obtruding !Melt
everywhere we shall discover fit.to officials acting as If they
know more about each man's business than he knows him-
self we shall see men and women treated as If they were
children, not knowing how they would like their is paid,
or how many hones they should ilk* to work. TIM remit
Will be than industri will be tempered by 511 Ws Mato later-

' That in the opinion of thta meeting, the game-laws and
land laws are the cause vf the present dearth of pro-
vision.;
" A second resolution 'that a ayeat demonstration be
held this day three weeks'—the price of butchers' meat
being unfortunately left to regui.Lts ps-df in the mean-
time— and ' that a preliminary meeting take place on
Clerkenwell-green next Sunday morning.: was passed
before the dispersal of the meeting in Trafalgar-
square; and afterwards, at a very stormy con-
ference in the club room of the Blue Pig,' it was
resolved, in amendment of the first motion, agreed to
on the pedestal of the Nelson monument, that the de-
monstration three weeks hence shall be held in Tra-
falgar-square, instead of Hyde Park; the reason given
for the change ben'g that it would not consort with
the dignity of the people ' to ask per Assion of a Ger-
man to use their own park for the purpose of public
meeting and discussion.'"

femme touch In the same way as simachine would be if nand persons attending any public market or following any
were thrown among its +NNW Such lessening of Industrial lawful trade or calling, or attending any theatre, may
efficiency would Inures', the cost of producing commodities. grant to any licensed victualler or licensed keeper of a
and the great mass of the people would have greater refreshment-home, in respect of =eh premises in the
difficulty than they have now to obtaining either a sal-
clone, of the necessaries or an adequate supply of the com-
fort' of ills." trade or eamag, Or of
such persons from
any such theatre, an order exempting .. ,
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thimemediapmoten.nfelgabourw
inch
lawful
mulch market or phsm where
DEMOCRACY AND BUTCHERS' MEAT. d uring such time
of his premises on such days. an
the provisions of this Act with re/Ira to the montnif
Housekeepers having faith in the moral influence of except between the hourswof
1.11%,,i,
"outdoor d.....trat,...„ may begin to look for a re- in the morning, an ular
duction in tits ir butchers' bills since the prevalent There are
'Pa
orders in the Metro-
grievance of high prices in the meat market Lae been "local authority "to grant such .
edtw.i. o oifnet.heocrdlo:s.
Metro-
taken up by the Weet Central Democratic Club of POilli is thePePn ioner subject to the ap-
g, the provisions. The
the City, th
London—remarks the :Daily Telegraph. This hitherto P oaritticeesefoo:::::i:
Lary of State; in e e
probation of the Secretary
... .
d 'in other tees
monspected political and social power, at a weekly City of London Police Commissioner, subject to the
meeting of members, Mr. Pottle in the chair, would approbation of the Lord May s., an . .
seem to have formed the resolution thus embodied in two Justices of the peace in petty session assemb
Democratic English : Intoxicating liquors are not to be drunk at refresh-
" That we hold an out-door demonstration in Covent- meat-houses during the time they should be dosed
garden on Sunday evening, August 18, to protest against the if they wore inns. The law is amended as to refresh-
high prices of butchers meat and other necessaries of life, ment houses occasional licences may be granted by
and adopt such measures as may be found necessary to oh- local authorities to exempt from closing during certain
tare a proper reduction."
hours. Licences are to be forfeited for repeated
The Daily Telegraph continues :—" It tells very convictione, and premises to be disqualified. Cons
strikingly ot a high rate of living that any order of stables may enter premises. A register of licences
' persons should need to be reminded that butchers' jg to be kept in a licensing district, and may be
meat is not a 'necessary of life ;,' that life is maintained inspected and extracts made. The next branch of
sufficiently and contentedly by scores of millions in- the statute, commencing at section 37, relates to
hal-Ming a vast portion of this earth, who abhor the the Licensing Cdnimittee of Ju.tices in counties;
flesh-pots; and that in these Bi itish Wee down to then as to the Licensing Committee of Justices in
a period of no remote date it was quite con- boroughs, with regulations, as to new licences and the
sistent with popular ideas of family comfort
and a certain decent dignity, to transfer of licences, with renewals, &c. An annual
cliaeArd n" value is to be ascertained to obtain a licence. There
thought of eating fresh beef or mutton except on are various provisions as to the penalties and other
the few high days and holidays of the toiling matters to carry out the Act. A moiety of the penalty,
year. The West Central Democratic Club, however, if the Court think fit, may be awarded to the Police
looks upon butchers' meat as decidedly needful Superannuation Fund. Regu'ations are made as to
to human existence, and is no doubt unanimous in the retail licences to wholesale grocers, and there is a long
opinion that Democracy itself —which has been other- interpretation clause. Certain of tbe provisions are
wise defined as 'the despair of finding any heroes applied to Ireland, and fully mentioned.
to govern you, and the contented putting-up with
The second schedule of the Act states the extent to
your want of them'- -is so eminently a governing
which the recited Acts are repealed. There is no day
power that it can take upon its shoulders the
mentioned when the Act is to take effect, and, there-
troublesome teak of governing market prices. It
might have seemed to man
i common-ace people,
interested fore, it became operative from the 10th of August
who are quite as anxiously y
in the cheap instant, when it received the Royal assent.
supply of sirloins, brisket-, saddles, legs, and shoal.
dere as the most ardent democrat can be, that this
is a question rather of a practical and domestic
than a politico-sentimental kind, and must get
settled, if at all, by other means than street c •rner
rhetoric; nor would it do to imitate the levity of the
French Prlnceee who suggested cakes SR a substitute
for the deficient loaves of an angry, because hungry,
multitude, were any one to point out the fact that,
though the flesh of oxen and sheep is rather dear at the
present time, venison is cheaper than in former years.
Really. when the representatives of Democracy do not
find it irreconcilable with their exalted mense of man-
hood, to come into the open streets and grumble at the
puce of mutton-chops, it scarcely. seems an arrogant
rebuke to recommend hashed venison as worth their
trial in this hour of extremity.
" Weather being propitious to the plans of the West
Central Democratic Club, it was to be expected that,
should the obstruction of thoroughfares be allowed,
the public meeting called by Mr. Pottle and his
friends would be held in due course; that speeches
would be made by the mover and seconder of the re-
solution we have quoted, and by other democratic ad-
mirers of the international biftek ; and that a disputa-
tion, or " discussion "as it is the habit of speech to c'ill ,
every debating-bout--though, of course, it seldom or
never happeng on such OeNtßiollB that anything is in a
true sense discenteed -would naturally follow. But
Covent-garden Market is hardly the fittest place for a
democratic demonstration against that purple tyrant,
the butcher. Neither by local association nor by mere
adaptability of space, was it the right spot for an
, assemblage of democrats and others concerned in
bringing down the price of beef. So, when a hun-
dred persons, more or less, had been got together
on the vacant flagstones which, after a few of the
night hours had passed, were to be invested by
: King Carrot and his vegetable myrmidons, a move
was made for Trafalgar square, as affording room
for the larger assemblage expected. Certainly, a
, gain in numbers was the result; for the well-known
, eight of a swarm of dirty little boys and girls on
the heads and backs of Sir Edwin's lions is always a
sufficient signal to attract idlers, by the intimation it
affords of some oratorical display, at that time in pro-
: green. Still, the meeting was decidedlly small in
, comparison with those assemblages that have been
arrayed under other banners in front of the National
Gallery. Tbe president at last evening's (Sunday)
proceedings was Mr. 11. Pottle, chairman of the
' previous meeting at the "Blue Pig," in Long Acre;
and the epeakers were gentlemen equally known to fame.
; The crowd was at no time overwhelmingly large,
1 but it was excessively noisy ; Mid, though the voice of
I every orator in succession was exerted with praisa-
; worthy energy, the impulse of all the surrounding
' democrats on the granite platform to speak at once
' rendered the hearing of any single harangue a matter
of difficulty. The first resolution, passed with voci-
, ferons approval, was