The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-04-24 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

TRE PRIVILEGE MITEDLE.  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 interpretationsent 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 ;haler have committed the miter for contempt of court or have flung the epistle into the waste-basket. We shall At at present inquire whether the committee really deserves Mr. Morgan's censures, and whether it has been usurping the functions of a court of justice. But it Mat least clear that the recent motion will, es Mr Herman said, be regarded as an implied censure on Mr. Lowe and his colleagues. Mr. Childers did well to protest against such a censure, on the general ground that the responsibility ast on the chairmen of committees is already so heavy as to make the position far from enviable. We agree with him in thinking that they should not be exposed to the disapprobation of the Moore except for grave reasons such as it would he ridiculous to assume in the present case. But there is far more serious ground for objection to any implied censure on Mr. Lowe. The present committee IF, we are all told, ae-ailed by peculiarly powerful enemies. Several members have stated that there has been ' I. ' to s :eh an extent as to have called for special denumiation in the House itself. It is useless now to discuss the question as to precedent for Ruch a committee; the body formed under the guidance of Mr. Lowe has begun the work of disclosure, and it is bound to 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 used mission by the committee respecting the publiev tion of the letter would be usel as the basis of a formal vote of censure, we should regard the de eisien come to soy the House as a matter for regret. But we may safely trust Mr. Disraeh's sac:Reify to save the House from a resolt that would be die' tastof .1 to the majority, and unpopular vith the public."  The death i- announced. at the sge of 82 yetts. ot Miss Cunningham, the sole surviving sister d . .  Allan eunuinghlm. The ionvict Charles Street, sentenced to death for the murder of his uncle, and reprieved 013 Saiurday, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. and will be sent to Pentonville. List week, a heavy goods train crossing a duct on the Glasgow and South Western Pailwal was thrown off the rails, and left hanging over the edge of the viaduct, which is 180 feet deep. On Saturday afternoon the Princess Louire, aceomParlied by the Marquis of Lorne, laid the at stone of a new memorial church in the grounds of Kensington Workhouse, the gift ot Mr. J. A. France. RAILWAY ACCIDiNT. —An accident occurred to the 5.45 afternoon train from Oswestry to Liverpool on Saturday, owing to the failure of a hre.k near Gobowen. From 15 to 20 passengers were more or less bruised and shaken. Mr. Pownall, wife of Mr. Pownall, chemist, Bolton, died the other day, and her death is said to have been caused by injuries eystained in a collision which occurred between Victoria and Salford stations on the 19th September last. The Berlin correspondent of the ,t.at ar,l telegraph, that Prince Biamarck "poke twice la the PrusFian Diet during the abate on the but Is reteretwe to State churches. He defended the net's" sity oft bill on the ground that *he Pope had no* become the Church. and Prussia could not brook any fereign ruler en her soil.  BREACH OP PROMISE CAbE. AN