Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-09-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COCIME'S ANTIBILIOUS  C°CKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, FOB LIVE&  THE HERALD.  SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1889.  Sow of our prominent statesmen have been enjoying their holidays this week by engaging in political conflict. Mr Chamberlain has been on the war path in Birmingham, and Lord Randolph Churchill is in Wales. Lord Ripon has contributed a weighty speech on the subject of misgovernment in Ireland, and Mr Lowther has responded in his characteristically lightsome style. But it cannot be said that political controversy is commanding : much attention at present, and nobody would be very sorry were the fighting politicians Ito allow their countrymen a longer trues than some of them seem inclined to do. But all our statesmen are not going about the country speech-making. Mr Gladatoae has goue to Paris, where his presence has excited much pleasurable interest, I and Mr W. H. Smith is enjoying life on board a yacht cruising along the Scottish coast. Of all our prominent politicians the one who least likes to make a speech is undoubtedly the leader of the HOCI4O of Commons, but for once Mr Smith was neatly caught for " a few words." One day this week he visited Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney, and the Town Council at once got hold of him, conveyed him to the Town Hall, and conferred upon him the freedom of the borough. Mr Smith had no choice; he had to acknowledge as best he could "the unexpected manner in which he had been received." His speech was not very elegant, but it was honest and hearty, and the Orcadians were charmed with the affability if they were not impressed by the eloquence of their guest.  Tux Trades' Union Congress has been sitting in Dundee this week. The roll of delegates in attendance has been the largest attained in the history of the Congress. The Trades' Unionists have every reason to be satisfied with the welcome the Dundonians gave them, and as to the proceedings of the Congress they were quite as interesting as could have been desired, and far more pleasant than had been expected. The attacks upon the Parliamentary Committee and upon Mr Broadburst, M.P., the secretary, did not collapse, for the men who had brought charges in the Press carried them to the Congress, and re. posted them there, but the attacks were easily met, and the numerical stren4th of the accusers was discovered, when the votes were 'taken, to be ridiculously small. The mountain had laboured heavily, but it only produced a very little and a very harmless mouse after all.  LAURIK, the young man who is charged with having murdered an English tourist named Rose, in Glen Saunox, in the island of Arran, on the 15th of July last, was arrested on Tuesday by a village policeman in Lanarkshire. Everybody is puzzled to understand how the fugitive for the space of six weeks eluded the police, more particularly as it now transpires that he spent most of the time in the locality where he was best known.  Ten question of the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland has °coupled much attention this week. The Tories are beginning to find that they blundered stupidly when they meddled with the question. The Orangemen are up in arms, and many of the Dissenters who are Liberal Unionists have indicated their intention of opposing the Government's proposal to the uttermost. Mr Chamberlain seems to be willing to allow the Government to carry out the scheme Mr Bal. four hinted at. The Marquis of Ripon, on the other hand, thinks the question is one which should be left to the Irish people to settle for themselves when they have a FarLament of their own. Asd that view is endorsed by Mr Gladstone, and is likely to be the one which will commend itself to the Liberal party.  AT the time of writing the London strike con' tinues, but there are many indications that the end is near, and that the result of the movement will be a vast improvement in the position of the labourers and others employed in connection with the docks. Already an agreement has been made with the whariingers, and at some o: the wharfs on Thursday the men were at work, having obtained their own terms as to wages—namely, 6d an hour, and 8d an hour overtime. The dock companies have so far remained very stubborn, but the men on strike have been equally firm, and their behaviour has been excellent, a fact which to some extent explains the depth and practical sincerity of the sympathy which the public have shown with them in their movement.