Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-28

Grace Darling and her father i'm their |
efforts. TO rescue drowning men and |
| handled the oars they handled so
often and $, well. When 10
there again will make
full notes of the various
objects OF interest and report them
later.
There have been no political develop
Inentss here during the past few days of
suiilcient Importance To more than
mention them. On Monday there was
a discu, sion in the house OF lords upon
the annexation of New Guinea by the
queensland government. Lord Derby,
speaking for the administration, said
the action of Queensland was illegal,
hence void, and could not be rccog
nized or legalized by the imperial gov
eminent. He said further that the
responsibilities of the government
were already sufficiently large aud its
| possessions so scattered MS to render IL
undesirable for IL either to increase the
one or enlarge the other.
The subject OF the ravages of the
cholera in Egypt occupied the atten-
ton of the house of lords on Tuesday,
and assurances were given by the gov
eminent that everything in reason
was being done by the British authori-
! ties to restrain and control il. French
| papers however insist that Great Bri-
tain is mainly responsible for its spread,
since the authorities there refused Ia
enforce the quarantine laws promptly,
| for the reason that certain English
ships would have been embarrassed.
Naturally, English papers deny the
charge, but IL is more than probable
that there is some grounds for the ac-
cusation.
The disaster on the Clyde was dis
cussed on Friday, but 10 definite action
in regard to it was taken. Lord Gran
vile said the matt would be dealt
with by the procurator fiscal in Scot
land. A lew days since the engineer
aud fireman in charge of the engine
of the Royal Irish mail train went TO
sleep at their posts, and came very
near wrecking the train. Investiga-
ton showed that they had been ON
duty without sleep for full fifteen
hours. This occurrence, gave rise to n
discussion, in the house of lords, as to
the average number of hours per day
railroad servants in England are re-
quired to work. Lord Colville of
Culrass undertook to say that very few
were ever engaged longer than ten
hours, and as the statement was salts
factory, the matter was permitted to
rest.
In the House of Commons some
thing really interesting now and then
springs up. Last week the Corrupt
Practice Bill" of which | wrote you,
was up in committee. 70 the four
teentb clause, which defines illegal
employment, Mr.. LaboGrchere was
spiteful enough To propose an addition
al "a I.,s ,f.,in 10,
being given AS a reward for electioneeI-
! ing services. Lord Churchill took oc-
casion to say some pretty hard things
about Sir Il. G.. Prices baronetcy, and
Sir Harcourt Johnstons peerage.
The charge was made that Mr.. Glad
stone is chronic creator and distrib-
uior of titles, and that these nnd many
others were conferred upon the parties
receiving them as rewards for election
ee1ing work done by them in the in
terest Of the administration party.
The baonetcy given Mr. Price is al
, legged to have been the price OF his res
, ignation of u seat in Parliament ut II
time when Mr. Gladstone wanted an.
other man there in his stead.
During the discussion of clause 30
on Friday, another spicy episode
amused the house no little. Mr.. Lewis
: objected to az amendment offered 10y
MIR. Samuelaon, and was told hat "h.
appeared 10 think that when 10,
, i0cutnS est tusing the word boss" in
its American sense there was nothing
more to be said on the subject Mr.
Callan AT once jumped to his feet to
express his establishment at the
, "bumptious member for Banbury.''
Then followed cross-1ive of motions
appeals, demands for withd avals, ex.
plantations, etc, which was followed
+ by apologies. Or, as a morning paper
, expresses it, then everybody with.
, drew everything, and the honorable
= members no doubt imagined they had
been engag d in the weighty business
, of legislation for their country
On the 9th of August there is prom
; | ised another interesting time in the
: house of commons The friends and
constituents of Mr.. Bradlaugh, who
, has three times been elected to paria
/, ment, and each time refused "a seat, he
'. cause he is an aSowed infidel
!, met at Leeds yesterday, under the
auspices of the Leeds Federation OF
, liberal clubs, to protest against his
= non-admittance. There were 10,0lt
, persons present, participating i'm an
!, open air meeting, and a resolution wa,
g ! adopted WItnOut ulSSeDt cOuueluItiup
. the action of the house of commons
:. Mr.. Bradlaugh, in his speech, said h,
!. would i'm few days again claim li,
!. seat, and it is understood that OH tn,
: 9th of August, attended by a vast ar
. my of his friends, he will move ON par
: lament. OF course his friends won
+ be allowed to go with HING furthe
:, than the court OF the houses of par
J lament. but they think they wi!
:. make such demonstration there a
:. will result in their champion securin.
h his rights.
n A few days since | saw the Duke o
Il Marlborough in the house of lords, ap
8 parently in perfect health. Thursda,
u morning he was found dead on III
h floor of his room. His successor Is tn
Il Marquis of Blandford, now nearl,
is forty years of age.
IF The death ofthe old duke and the ac
d cession to the title of the notoriou
e. Marquis of Blandford gave Reynolds
lie newspaper occasion to say some ugl
It things about both of them. Referin
II to the former 1t says:
"The death of the Duke OF Marlbol
nuuh l. nf ito, IN an event of M inpol