The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-09-03 00:00:00

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Sir H. Holland informed Sir H. Tyler that he h d
received a telegram from the Marquis of Lansdowne
stating that a declaration attributed to Sir John
Macdonald that he would have no hesitation in asking
for the services of British troops in order to stop the
construction of a proposed railway through Manitoba
to the United States frontier was a pure fabrication.
The provincial Act for the construction of the railway
had been disallowed by the Governor-General, on the
advice of his responsibile advisers, on the ground that it
would seriously injure the commercial interests of the
whole country, which had submitted to lame sacrifices
in order to unite the provinces by a national railroad.
Itepl3 ing to Mr. T. Healey, the right hon. baronet added
that the statement that the War Office had selected
Winnipeg as a place for the concentration of Imperial
troops was also a fabrication.

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.
Tr, reply to Mr. Jennings, Mr. W. H. Smith said he
bad no information as to the literary servlces for which
Mr. Gladstone's Government had recommended the
grant of a Civil List pension to Mr. Mongredien. The
claims of the late Mr. Richard Jefferies to one of these
pensions were first brought before him in April last,
when, as the end of the financial year was approaching,
he was not able to deal with the matter; but he had
continued Mrs. Jefferiea's name on the list of appli-
cants, an her claim should receive the rucet careful
consideration.
CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.-THE MIMI VOTES.

The House of Commons then went into committee
on the Irish votes, and the first taken was the Con.
stabulary vote of £1.412,315.
At the outset Mr. Dillon went at length into the
figures and complained that the expenses of the con,
stabulary were unduly increasing year by year. The
Cost was four times as large proportionately as the
cost of the police in England, and he protested against
so large an outlay, which, he said, was not required to
put down cr4me, but to enable the landlords tn enforce
th payment of unjust rents.
Mr. A. J. Balfour, in reply, pointed out that there
had been very little difference in the vote during the
last four or five years, and although he admitted that
the outlay was large as compared with the cost of the
police in England, it was not larger than the exigencies
of the country required.
Mr. T. Healy made some discursive remarks, in the
course of which he protested against the police being
used to carry out evictions. _

Mr. Sexton, in the course of a long speech, demanded
to know the names of the persons receiving police pro-
tection, and, referring in an acrimonious tone to the
circulation of the articles in "The Times" on " Par-
nellism and Crime" in the police barracks throughout
Ireland, saked whether the Government approved police
stations bemg used to circulate libels on the Irish
members. Lie also asked what the Government
intended to do to maintain social order in Belfast, and
wsrned them that the vote would be resisted until the
Government gave an assurance that the bill now before
the HOUEA would be passed this SeFsion, and also under-
took to give the names of the persons receiving police
protection.
Mr. M. J. Kenny moved the reduction of the vote by
£3500, being the amount of extra pay, on which
objection was taken to the system of employing
noliremen to take shorthand notes of speeches at
Nationalist meetings._ _

Mr. Chance pressed for a pledge from the Government
that the reporters should write out their reports with-
out reference to the newspapers, and moved to report
progress. This was negatived on a division by 112 to
56, and after some farther discussion the amendment
was negatived without a division.
Mr. Sexton repeated his former speech, upon which
Air. A. .J. Balfour expressed his regret at being unable
to give the names of the persons under police protec-
tion; and as regarded the articles on " Parnellism and
Crime," he declined to lay down a rule as to what
literature should or should not be available for the Irish
Constabulary. The Government, he said, were anxious
to pass the Belfast Bill, but he did not consider it so
pressing as Mr. Sexton seemed to think.
The discussion was prolonged rtntil two o'clock,
when the vote was carried on a division by 107 to 50,
and the Committee adjourned until Tuesday.

PEERS AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS,

In the noun OF LORDS, on August 30, Lord
Milltown gave notice that early next Session he would
call attention to the report of the Select Committee of
the House of Commons in reference to the interferenco
of peers in Parliamentary elections, and would move e
resolution thereon.