Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1881-05-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LONSDALE AND CO., SOL 4 MANUFACTURIIIRS. 471 WEST STRAND. LONDON, W.C.  PARLIAMENT AND THE BEAOONSFIELD MONUMENT.  On Monday afternoon the HOUF43 of Commons, as was to be expeoted, was filled to its utmost capacity. The proposal to erect a national monument to the memory of the late Earl of Beacionsfield had brought together a crowded and highly interested House. ...rneiag, the distieguiehed strang.re over the clock was Master Oeningsby Diera a handsome, self-possessed locking lad, who seemed to feller the proceedings below with close and intelligent attention. The queetions and notices of motion were numerous, but comparatively unimportant. Sir Henry Tyler and Sir H. Bruce both intimated unflinching opposition to the Parliamentary Oath Bill, the former freely attributing to Mr Bradleugh Republicanism, obscenity, blasphemy, and other heinous offences. Mr Labouchere asked about the state of Ur Dillon's health, and was informed by Mr Forster that the member for Tipperary had his own physician to attend him, and that everything would be dune for his comfort and convenience compatible with actual. confine-1 merit—The paper beihi at last clear of prelimitary mter, Mr Gladstone rose to introeecOe the great topic of the evening—the Beacenefield statue. The right hon. gentle. man was in mourning, as were also most of his colleagues. Mr Bright was conspicuous by his absence from the Treasury bench. Mr Gladstone looked very pale, and his face were an expression of combined sadness and keenly-felt sense of rteponsibility. Nevertheless he addreseel himself to hie task in clear, firm, deliberate tones that showed that he knew exactly what he meant to sat-, and that he would say it. The duty before him was maul! lily one of the utmost delicacy, yet there are not two opinions as to tte manner in which he discharged it. Ii was a miracle of judicious treatuaeut. M the outset he struck a keynote which in a great meeeure disarmed criticism. The deceased bad played a great historic part, and that part he had played with the concurrence of Parliament and the nation. I his being so, the proposed statue wocei simply be an endorsement of what the nati:su had once sauctioned in proper Count tutioni I form. The firet half of the speech conaiste 1 of an elaborate vindication of the obligati: a laid on the speaker to make it, while a second dealt with the virtues of the decease 1 earl. Nothing could have exceeded tt evident sineeeity with which the Pritt te Minister besought the malcontents et his own party to avoid all bitterness in the op. position they might feel called on to offer. Throughout not one word WaS uttered by Mr Gladstone that by any possibility could be twiettcl into an approval of Lord Beacoueiield's political career. He spoke of his brilliant gifts, his patience and perseverance in the pursuit of his objects, of his eeemplary coeduct as a husband, mud his superiority to anything like feelings of personal enmity towards himself. A man of letters himself, he was generous to straggling talent, no matter bow his kiadness might be construed by political pariizatir. Mr Thomas Cooper, the Chartiet, author of "The Pm getory of Suicidee," he had befriended in his serest need, and he had never hesitated to champion the cease of his own persecuted race. Tune are the main points of a speech which Sir SLafferd N orthcote, who seconded the motion, declared would itself be a monument to the memory of the deceased, if no other were erected. —Then came Mr Labouchere with his antimemorial amendment. He spoke longer than either of the right hon. gentlemen, and he was by no means in his best form. Latterly the buzz of talk was so loud that his voice was well-nigh drowned in the din. There was nothing, he contended, in the precedents to warrant such a step as it was now proposed to take. The nation had taken the earliest oppertunity of condeemiug L rd Beaconsfield's disastrous policy, and were the Liberals to assent to the erection of a statue to his memory they would stand before the world self.stultified and selfcondemned.—Mr A. O'Connor seconded the amendment.—The House divided, when 380 recorded their votes for the motion, and 54 for the amendment. On the figures being announced, Mr Biggar, with the native modesty that characterises him, asked the Prime Minister whether he would I roceed with his proposal in face of the considerable minority opposed to it.—Mr Gladstone, with a smile, simply said that he saw uo reason to abandon his purpose.  The first business of note in the Home of Lords, as in the Commons, was, of course, the Beaconsfield statue. la laying the proosal before the louse, Earl Granville spoke with a grace and tact that left nothing to be desired. Ee can do such things almost idesi;y well, avoiding all that it is considered desirable to avoid, and briuging into relit and gilding artistically whatever argument remal ,s that is incontrovertible. Lore, Salisbury, who seconded the motion, appeared for the first time in his new character of leader of the Opposition in the Upper House.  He was not equ dly happy. Hie manner wee constrained to awkwardness almost; but it must be conceded his task was not an easy one. Needless to say, the motion was (mutually ugreed to without opposition.  The following are the fifty-four members who voted in the minority in favour of the previous qnestion on the proposal of tte Prime Minister to erect &national monument to the late Jar! of Beaconsfield :—Messrs Anderson, 3. S. Balfour, Barclay, Barran, 3eaumont, Biggsr, Briggs, Jacob Bright, Bart, Bryne, Caine, Charles Cameron, Jesse Collings, W. J. Corhet, Daly, Dawson, Baron is Ferrieres, !Jr Dill wyn, Hon. W. Egerton, Afr Ffflignr., Sir A. Gordon, Messrs Healey, P. Henderson, Hop4ood. 111ingworth, Sir W. Lawson, Mgesrs haycock, Leahy, H. Lee, Macdonald, Justin Mearthy, J. G. Mappin, Mason, Inane Nelson, T. P. o C moor, D. M. O'Connor, Peddie, Pennington, Philips, Potter, Ryland', B. Samuelson, Slagg, T. E. Smi,h, P. A. Taylor, Hon. L. Stanley, Messrs Thomasson, Webster, Whitsorth, S. C. Wl:liams, Willie, and Broadhurst. Tellers: Messrs Lahouchere and A. O'Connor. About fifty members left without voting. Mr Bright was not in the liCllBO .vheu the division took place. Mr CharaLerlain did Lot vote.  As A safe, permanent and warranted cure foe Pimples, Scrota's., Sum, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Disc&4es, and Sores of all kinds, we can with confidence recommend