Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-05-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OUR SHOCKING DEATHS.—On Thursday morning the Barnsley police received information of four shocking deaths which occurred late on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. John Parks, brickmaker, Boyland, died at the Beckett Dispensary from injuries received on the railway near Silkstone •' Joseph Haigh, weaver, Barnsley, hanged himself in his own house on Thursday morning; Jas. Kellett, horse. driver, Barnsley, was killed by a fall of stone at the Old Mill Pit; and Francis Ramadan, collier, met with hie death in a similar way in Rosa Colliery.  THE SUSPENSION OF MESSRS  In the House of Commons en Thursday Sir J. W. Pease gave notice that on Monday he would ask the Secretary of StEta for the Home Department whether he had caused enquiries to be instituted iratothe statements made by the convict Fury, who was executedi at Durham on Tuesday last, as to the treatment Le experienced in convict prisons. There are still in Hants, it would appear, people who believe in ' the Claimant." Sir Eardley Wilmot presented several petitions from than part for further enquiry into the case of " the unfortunate nobleman now lsing in Dartmoor." If one may judge from the merriment with which the petition was received, its prayer is not likely to be granted in a hurry. Mr Joseph Cowen gave notice of an amendment to the second reading of the new Coercion Bill in the event of Mr F. H. O'Donnell's amendment being negatived, but Mr Speaker ruled that to du so was not in order. Mr Cowen's amendment, while admitting that crime must be repressed, demurred to penalties being imposed upon the free expression of political opinion. Mr O'Donnell was urged by several of his compatriots to withdraw in favour of Mr Cowen'a amendment, but made no sign. Reply iug to Captain Price, Mr Giadstone hoped the Arrears Bill would be in the hands of hon. members next day. A most melancholy piece of intelligence was then imparted to the House by the Premier. Unless very exceptional legislative progress was made next week, there would be no Whitsuntide holiday s. Even the Derby Day would be sacrificed, if necessary. This revolutionary proposal fairly frightened the Tory benches, the horse-racing brotherhood showing symptoms of the greatest uneasiness. The questions over, Mr O'Donnell rose to move his amendment to the new Coercion Bill. Part of his long amendment was ruled to be irrelevant, but this did not prevent him from delivering a pretty lengthy speech. It was the outrages daily committed under the law by officials with English sympathies that led to outrages and defiance of the law. Colonel Colthurst followed. He had opposed the Coercion Bill of la-t year, but the new Bill he could not take it on himself t oppose. The "No Rent" manifesto had brought ' murder and mutilation in its train, and these atrocities must be brought to lan end at all hazards. Mr Rathbone spoke with energy and excellent common sense. He deprecated making Ireland a field for faction tights, and maintained that the true remedy for Irish troubles was to govern Ireland through Irish opinion. Mr Bryce followed in a similar vein. His speech was academie in tone, but nevertheless it was exceedingly good in substance, and I was frequently applauded by the representsties of Irish ani English Radical opinion. His chief complaint against the Bill was that only one of its provisions—viz., that antSorisiug domiciliary visits—dealt with the real evil, the difficulty in detecting crim.nals. Mr R. T. Read, in a few wellchosen sentences, objected to the mixing up of executive and judisial functions in the person of the Lord-Lieutenant. Among subsequent speakers were Mr Labouchsre and Mr Macfarlane, the latter of whom made, for him, a very witty speech. Mr L sbouchere constructed, or rather made Mr Forster construct, an imaginary bridge by which the latter and his Whig friends should pass over to the genial realms of T ,ryism, greatly to the advantage of the country and the satisfaction of genuine Liberals. Mr Macfarlane was even less complimentary to the ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland. He compared him to an incorrigible Jonah, who, even a;ter he had been flung overboard, did his utmost to scuttle the ship. The spe..ch of the evening was that of the new Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mr Trove!) au rose in a full and expectant House, and every word he uttered was hung on with the closest attention. He commenced in a very modest tone, with just the slightest suspicion of flurry. Mr Trevelyan is not an orator, but he is an exceedingly articulate speaker, and he moved from point to point of his deliverance with the precision of a veteran in Parlia mentary warfare. If you are to 11 have a limb amputated, Trevelyan is the man to admthistEr the chloroform. He did not deny that the provisions of the Bill were severe, hut be maintained that Lord Spencer and himself would administer them in a spirit of I complete justice and humanity. He dealt specially with the clauses affecting the public. Every opinion, however adverse, however bitter, would be tolerated, down to actual incitement to violence and crime. In his concluding remarks he exculpated his friends and acquaintances on the Irish bench from the least suspicion of sympathy or complicity with crime. He resumed his seat after delivering a speech in which he displaye I undoubted tact, eloquence, and ability. •Mr Gladstone listened with marked attention, and frequently showed signs of satisfaction while his new and promising lieutenant was speaking. Mr Gibson was the next speaker. Ile was, on the whole, conspicuously moderate. Only one novel propos:tion was made—viz., to give a prisoner about to be triel without a jury in Ireland the right of demanding a trial at the Old Dailey with a Cockney jury. Mr Dillon subsequently denounced the Bill, but he was, everything considered, reasonable in his objurgation& On the motion of Mr Sexton, who is expected to make a great speech, the debate was finally adjourned.  Twelve persona have been drowned by the capsizing of a pleasure boat near Chicago. . .  A convict named Jones committed suicide on Wednesday in Portland Prison by banging himself. Shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday evening, us a mixed train from the Noah was approaching London-road Station, near Chalk Farm, on the London and Western Railway, sparks were seed issuing from some vans in the centre of the train. It was immediately stopped, when the contents of three trucks of hay burst into a blaze, the flames illuminating the whole district. The tire was, however, speedily extinguished, and the passengers got out unbuut, though greatly alarmed. . . .