The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-04-23 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE PRIVILEGE MUDDLE.  The London Telegraph says We do not believe , that the Prime Minister intends to do anything more than provide for both the Government and the House an escape from an untenable position, and we cannot doubt that he will be content with the scantiest information which the committee may care to furnish We must point out, however, that his plan may receive unpleasant interpretations out of doors. Mr. Osborne Morgan severely criticised the committee for having given publicity to M. Herran's letter. A judge seems to have said the ether day that if such a letter had been sent to him he would either have committed the writer for contempt of court or have flung the epistle into the waste-basket. We shall not at present inquire whether the committee really deserves Mr. Morgan's oensures, and whether it has been usurping the functions of a court of justice. Put it is at least clear that the recent motion will, as Mr Horsman said, be regarded as an implied censure on Mr. Lowe and his colleagues Mr. Childers did well to protest against such &censure, on the general ground that the responsibility cast on the chairmen of committees is already so heavy as to make the position far from enviable. We agree with hint in thinking that they should not be exposed to the disapprobation of the /I ouse except for grave reasons such as it would be ridiculous to assume in the present case. But there is far more serious gro.und for objection to any implied censure on Mr. Lowe. The present committee is,! we are all told, asFailed by peculiarly powerful enemies. Several members have stated that there has been lubbying 'to such an extent as to have called for special denunciation in the Mouse itself. It is useless now to discuss the question as to precedent for such a committee ; the body formed under the guidance of Mr. Lowe has begun the work of disclosure, and it is bound fo go on until that task shall be completely done. It is peculiarly unfortunate, then, that an implied censure' should be cast at this critical stage on any of its proceedings. If we could believe that an ad mission by the committee respecting the publication of the letter would he used as the basis of a , formal vote of censure, we should regard the decision come to by the liouse as a matter for regret. But we may safely trust Mr. Disraelds sagacity to , save the House from a result that would be distasteful to the majority, and unpopular with the public:'  The death i. announced, at the air of 82 yenrs, ot Miss Cunningham, the sole surviving sister of Allan Cunningham. The convict Charles Street, sentenced to death for the murder of his uncle, and reprieved on Saturday, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life, and will be sent to Pentonville.  T. vt week, a heavy goods train crossing a vie,. duct on the Glasgow and South Western Railway was thrown off the rails, and left hanging over the edge of the viaduct, which is 180 feet deep.  On Saturday afternoon the Princess Louise, accompanied by the Margins of Lorne, laid the first atone of a new memorial church in the grounda of Kensington Workhouse, the gift of Mr. J. I. France.  RAILWAY AIOeNT. —An accident occurred to the 5.45 afternoon train from °forestry to Liver. pool on Saturday, owing to the failure of a breyk near Gobowen. From 1:: to 20 paasengers were more or leas braised and shaken. Mre. Pownall, wife of Mr. Pownall, chemist, Bolton, died the other day, and her death is said to have been caused by injuries sustained in a collision which occurred between Victoria and Salford stations on the 19th September last. The Berlin correspondent of the efofulord telegraphs that Prince Bismarck spoke twice in the Prussian Diet during the ebate on the bill in re ference to State churches. lie defended the neees sity of the bill on the ground that the Pope had now become the Church, and Prussia could not by.* any foreign ruler on her soil.  A