The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-03-20 00:00:00

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EAST WORCES FERSHIRE ELECTION.

LIBERAL MEETING AT STOURBRIDGE.
A crowded meeting was held in the Corn Ex-
change, Stourbridge, in suppirt of Mr. W. 11,
Gladstone and Mr. •G. W Hastiney, the Liberal
candidates, on Tuesday evening last. Mr. W. El
Vernon presided. There were present Means. H.
iiu..:hts, F. Evers, J. B. Shepherd, C. Evers, U.
Green, C. Cochrane, J. B. Cochrane and 0, hers.
Mr. W. H. Gladstone on rising amid loud
applause, sail he was very glad to see a few ladies
among them. He felt it to be a very great honour
lia7Lig berm invited to eaud for the represent-
ation of so large and importanr, a oonstiluency as
Ea •t Worcesters'dre. He could a,sure them that
if wls most encouraging to him and Mr. Ilastin.
on lbat their first public rn•eting, to see so large' a
ON the 19th March, 1874, the ninth Parlia- holy ,ratered in that all to meet them, of goo.'
mEnt of Queen Victoria, and the twenty- sound Lil,erals—(hear, hear). He thought he wa;
tll.l.7ltitchlton,
a stranger no doubt to them and th ! county, on
first of. the United. Kingdom assembled at
the o:her hand the to -11 of Stourhridge was eo
'Westminster for the dispatch of business,
st--ang. place to him Ho othhadhthe honour to he
unite
and the same date in 1880 finds it within a
few days of its dissolution. It has had a
~
~,.
1 w!lii'e.ivith bile
long existence, for very few Parliaments run awgalesYsua: was a lool'ilisie.e do i
that county. It w.is perfectly true that six yea:,,
into the seventh year of life. Between now ago it was his lot to staid upon that platform side
and the day when honourable gentlemen "Y side with the presm, Lord Lyttelton. They
had ha a spirited fyeiga policy, and they knew
first ranged themselves right and left of the
now that
that efyo9ellit-rdlii ln
policy.'‘'e a Tvehreyen,i3cte little bill to
Speaker, in all the heyday and vigour of pi
Yi
legislative youth,' an age almost immensur- !reparations could not be far short of 12,000,060 r
able by time seems to have intervened, of money. Thy had tad a cry of "British interest,
Mighty issues have come to the front for in danger" raised, and under the plea, their money
settlement. For eighteen months after this ih' VI be
b 'e
ne
nwapsl tuend ,
~ebdlooi'nitohtia(tl least
stpilt,hal ant! they
Parliament assembled, scarcely a cloud ap- destructive wars: It was not heiasintenvtoi,
al ot;)(1) and
e,nt..i.
peared on the continental horizon. Turkey at length into the present fureign policy of the
was paying the full interest upon her bonds, Government ; but he would say that it seemed to
him to have been distinguished, as regarded Europe,
nor was there anything apparent in the
by
domestic condition of Russia, such as we see utter
eerafliliiiltute and
e•n,
utter
as
eii
I regarded As,
ed
Ti
ht t
knew h y
might
to-day. The old antagonism between Eng- thethetwo great objects the dovernneiyent
hwadthiagt
'land and the great Colossus of the North vinw were to uphold Turkey and oppase lin,siti.
slumbered and slept. In that same month They knew Russia hd not been opposed, 1101
of March, 1874, her Majesty Queen Victoria
Turkey upheld, and it hadbee')a failure. They
llientetewr.th elnfinsaotnicteh v‘A'afrsinaaluttioi set
padoliminyt toefd tt:i;
ebeGaoNdeea d
drove through the streets of London with
the newly-married Duchess of Edinburgh, meat seemed to have been sheer weakness 'arnn,l.
by way of presenting a new daughter to the incapacity. They allowed Viemselves to be driven
people. Six weeks later the Czar himself into war by Sr Bartle Frere. Lord Beaconsfield
paid a visit to this country, was a guest at
. . was unable to point to any positive results of lis
Government, and consequently he had raised th •
Windsor Castle, and was entertained .4-1
with cry, that they (the Liberal party) were aiming at
great magnificence at the London Guildhall. the di-in-egration of th,, United Kingdom. It wa,
Then, in the antuinn of 1874, the Empress an imputatiou which was entirely untrue--ch,er-)
and he hid taken the opportunity of reminding
of Russia came over to see her daugt t-r, and
with the Queen of England was -p—r,,-;sent at them
Beaconsfieldof thelisg.,(t_ ittle
t which he
troega,rded it. Lord
the baptism of the Duchess of Edinburgh's colonies. If
ta,)iirliveltewnaintfr.eede t
Adtelt ctom pose their
o gi‘e them
first child. As far as outwarki signs indi- popular Government, and to urge them to unite for
cated, the two nations whose interests on their own defence, was a policy of decompo-in: the
colonies, then he supposed the Liberals must plead
both Continents are so antagonistic, were on
guilty to the charge. And th en Lord Beaconsfield
the most friendly terms. Scarcely - -: 1
' 4-PP e had the audacity to represent himself as a peace
was to be seen upon the waters.
.maker. - Lord Beaconsfield promised what he called
The parliament was eighteen mouths old ascendency in Europe. Ascendency was, in his
before anything was to be observeZ of the opinion, a word of evil omen. They knew what
came of the seeking •rieendencv in the case of
re-appeara,nce of that Eastern f,„)iestion, Na,)' ' nI, and licev f '—,
-,1 hi his ruin and that
wllien has since occupied so Lz-...:-.3h (4 its . ~fW9Lc;.u. •:,•. ' ••••t- enc":-' '. ) :.. 1,• „. ~c,..,0.,• , a.; coe!, ~
attention. It was in September, 7...;;7,5, that that England shuu:d stand, •-s Mr. Loweput '
. •
an insurrection against 'rutkisli pal:e broke s .0,1 to none- withont bein6 superior to ally—
out in Bosnia and the Herzegovins. ; and (Ch.,ers). He ventured to say that as they 11.-d
done in the past, so a Liberal Government would ,
Servia soon afterwards followed eizi:_±, The -
' continue to du in the future.—(llear, hear). Their
ilaule gi ai§affecti9l4 *read iati9 Bulgaria.' / 1 hi t had b
----; 110.6 07-403 Q. —.... been te keliefit the Asticni at large,