The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-04-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ENGLAND. To say this was, he feared, a very cheap method of obtaining credit, but undoubtedly it wati his belief that eonsidemble changes were required in the procedure of the House of Commons. He wished to state now what he- had puiposly avoided stating in his opening speech. It wius matter of justice to all his colleagues that he should state what he had stated- repeatedly before, that no mall could be more sensible than he of the great disadvantage which the Liberal party had long undergone, from being led by a person of his age. (Loudcriesof " No, no.") The heavy burden that had devolved upon his• right hon. friend, Sir W. Harcourt, and his colleagues, in making good his deficiency, led him also to the obligation of saying this, that he could not continue with a good conscience in the position which he still held by their favour, were he not aware that no detriment occurred to the ' cause, to the party, and the country, under the able conduct of his right honourable friends. He learned his strength was I nearly run dry, but while that strength remained lie would not cease in unity of heart and purpose to do , the beet in his power to fulfil his obligations. (Loud cheers.) He would do as much as his strength would enable him to do, and when that failed, and his absence from the House ICU dictated by prudence and necessary, he left the affairs of the House and Government in the hands of Sir Wm. Harcourt and of his able colleague. EXECUTION OF A YOUTH OF  THREE Or THE LONGEST GOVERNMENTS he had ever witnessed had smaller majorities than that which supported the present Administration, although he admitted that two of those Governments were not in periods of very sharp or continuous party contention, but one which was a perfectly fair instance to quote was the Government of Lord Melbourne. That was a period of the sharpest political contention in our country since the Reform Act until the Home Rule question had come up. It was a period of contention as sharp as it could be, but Lord Melbourne's Government was the longest siniee the Reform Act. It lasted within a month of six and a-half years, and was the only Government that had so long a life, but the majority which supported that Government never amounted to ?A), and it dwindled so that it was not so much, and certainly it was not exclusively the amount of the majority that determined its force as the spirit which-prevailed in it. (Loud cheers.) Not in any deference to any merits of the Liberal pnrty, but on deliberate consideration of the tTiles tune; the Government had in hand. and I At Exeter on Tuesday William Williams (19) e public interests involved, he believed was executed for the murder of Emma Doidge that the spirit of unity and self-discipline bad been raised to a very high point, and that the and Frederick Rowe. The culprit was the son of party had no reason at all ,o be discouraged on i 3 miller, of Peter Tavy, near Taviatoek. The lad the ground of the smallness of the Government's! kept company with Miss Doidge, but the majority, which was larger than the majority intimacy was broken off. After atteeding ehureh which sufficed to keep in office the longest on November 13th the culprit was heard to Government since the Reform Act. Now to . threaten the girl, who walked away with THE IMMEDIATE PURPOSE for which they had met together. Sometimes Rowe. Williams, however, followed, and, these meetings were held for the purpose pouncing upon the couple, ehot i oth atally. Ile afterwards attempted suicide. of considering legislative dilemmas. Ile nee I The culprit slept fairly well, and received the not a word to say to the meeting upon any I chaplain at an early hour. Just before legislative subject. The party's bills were eight o'clock Billington, the execution, r, too numerous to allow it to be supposed entered the condemned man's cell, and Williams that upon any one of them on all its points there submitted quietly to the process of pinioning. exist.l exactly the RIMle feeling in that room, but He walked firmly to the scaffold, and the bolt he looked at the general scope of those measures, was drawn almost directly after the clockhe looked at the moat important of thosetneeisurce struck eight. Death appeared instantaneous. —for example, at the hash Bill—and after that No reporters were admitted to the execution. he did not think he could take a fairer specimen Billington was the executioner. The exeeution than what was called the Local Government Bill, as carried out quickly and promptly, and the and sometimes the Parish Councils Bill. It was I was ylprit walked to the arraffold and met for them to consider entirely how far the objects his doom culprit remarkable fortitude. Before the they had in view were drop fell he was asked if he wished to say anyWORTHY OF A