The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-26
4 PEER CANNOT SIN.
So the British House of Lords Seems to
Think-Troub1e in Wales.
j7y Gable to the United Pressl


Think-Troub1e in Wales.
[By Gable to the United Press.l
LoNDoR, March 26, 1sS9.-The action
of the House of Lords in rejecti-
ing so emphatically the Earl of Car
naryon's bill providing for the expulsion
of any peer for conduct discreditable
to one of the hereditary law makers
is characteristic of that body, and has fur
nished subject for many sarcastic para
graphs in the press, Truth especially hav-
ing been particularly happy in several
illusions to the rejected motion.
1t may be safely set down that
the peers do not care generally
what the press or the common
people say of them 1t is impossible to
deny that there is something approaching
the heroic in the courage and indif-
ference to opinion of the English peer
Those of Scotch and Irish creation
of course simply follow the lead of those
superior beings, who would be perfectly
willing to be crushed under the ruins of
the social structure rather than preserve
it by the surrender of one iota of their
The Earl of Carnarvon, it is
well understood, was moved to in
troduce the measure which so sig
nally failed by several incidents which
uttft uttDpEuEll VI IfttC, anu CoPCCActllJ W
the mutual recriminations in the exceed
ingly shady case of the Marquis and Mar
chioness of Donegal.
| The seyenty-three peers who so promptly
sat down upon the noble Earfs measure
will doubtless for the future regard the
| fourteen who supported it as SO many
| traitors to their order, and Carnarvon
has already been practically boycotted in
several quarters. 1t might have been
| thought that the clerical element would
have thrown their influence in favor of
! the cause of morality, but they mainly
| followed the lead of the Legislators by
| divine right of birth. y
| plain. in no mood to make concessions.
Their own privileges are being gradually
retrenched and threatened on every hand,
| and they must make common cause with
| the mobiles who trace their descent from
| skilful robbers and subservient favorites.
| There has been trouble for the past two
| years in Wales and it does not diminish
! with the lapse of time There is not much
doubt that resort will be had to the SER
| vices of the regular army there if the dis
traint for tithes is insisted upon. The
| police cannot protect the emergency
| in the recent disturbances at Pen
bryn, and the local militia are in
sympathy with the recalcitrants. The feel
| ing among the Welsh is more violent
| than it has been, but the government
naturally dislikes to take. the initiative in
this nineteenth century in the shedding OF
blood in the name of religion.
The Daily NetUs, in a scathing leader,
points out that the utter collapse of Sir
Richard E. Webster is glaringly shown
by the fact that Mr. Charles Hall, @. G.,
Tory member for Chesterton, is the only
| lawyer in the House of Commons who at
tempted to defend him.
| 1t is noticeable that the Standard
makes no editorial comment on the posi-
ton in which the Attorney-General is
| placed.
John Bright has had another relapse
and is this morning very weak His ply
sician says that Mr.. Bright is gradually
nearing the end.