The Potteries Examiner : — 1875-05-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SATURDAY,IMAY 8, 1875.  The masters and men in North Stafford, we hope, will be able to settle their dispute without a strike, and conciliation dispel the clouds that overshadow the dis. trict. _ _  In Parliamentary matters, the Home Rulers are baffling the irritable- Premier most terribly; he seems quite losing his head., and Mr. Gladitone and Lord liartington this week have given him a severe wigging. A crisis is impending. According to a Bilbao telegram of Wednesday's date, the partisans of General Cabrera have risen againat the Carlists in some parts of Valencia and Catalonia, and one of the Carliat leaders is said to have joined them.  Looking forth once more from our watch tower towards the four cornen of the earth, we observe that Russia in still busy to the East. There is a flying rumour that China ana her are going to war with one another, but we scarcely think that Gog and. Magog see going to try conclusions just yet.  A correspondent at Berlin explains that under the Convent. Abolition Bill, as amended by the Prussian Government, the purely contemplative orders alone, which number 176 members, are to be immediately suppressed. A four years respite is granted to orders teaching in schools, while those attending hoepitals are allowed continued existence, subject to the pleasure of the Government.  A meeting for conference on religious subjects, called by its promoters, "The Christian Convention," was opened other Majesty's Opera House, London, on Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Kelman, of Edinburgh, bore testimony to the effects of Messrs. Moody and Sankey's work in Edinburgh, and the Rev. W. C. Van Meta gave an account of the religious results of the freedom of Italy. A plan for the formation of a Central Committee in London, with branches all over the kingdom, was discussed.  America—the rnited States, we mean—is looking up again. The Labour Nowa Commissioner, writing from there, reports that the current news that wend the round of our daily papers some time ago about the great distress existing in the large towns during the winter months was very highly coloured and greatly exaggerated. Quite of a piece with the tactics usually employed to frighten our working men here to accept enforced reductions of wages. Brasil is thriving and prospenaus.  Entering a train while in motion is a proceeding fraught with rick; but a Mr. Rudolph Holscher, who was before the Manchester Police the other day, has discovered a still more dangerous manner ot initiating and undertaking a journey. Mr. Holscherhadoccasiou to travel between Oldham and Manchester, but found the carriages of his intended train filled. In preference to waiting for the next train, he stood on the footboard of a third class carriage, and in this perilous manner made the journey. Defendant, who was fined 40a. and costs, only urged in extenuation of his foolhardy conduct that he had pressing business in Manchester. The most trifling disappointment seems to be regarded by some persons as a justification of suicide. A young man, named Christopher James, living at Condon Gate, near Bishop Auckland, was on Tuesday wishful to go to a neighbouring public-house, in order to procure liquor, of which he had already partaken somewhat freely. He asked from his mother the loan of 25., which she refused to let hint have; whereupon James proceeded to another room in the house where there was a loaded gun. He deliberately placed the muscle of the weapon in his month and pulled the trigger with his foot. Death was, of course, Instantaneous. Cholera has broken out in several places in'lndia. The call of that fearful scourge is set your homes, drains, sewers, arid general sanitary regulations in order. It originates in filth and bad conditions of and is alone perpetuated by a wilful and wicked r of Disraeli's famous maxim, " Sanitatus—sanitatus.. If you put your finger in the fire you will burn it, even so if you encourage dirt and filthiness you will breed fever, disease, and death. The laws of health and  4 Me, neglect  disease are as unerring as the ebb and flow of the tide, the rising and setting of the sun, and the waning and waxing of the moon. The laws of nature are uniform, inevitable, and unehangable.  Looking in the direction of Europe, France is rising like a Phcenix out of her ashes, and is doing a splendid trade. We expect she will be a good customer to us this summer. Prussia seems alarmed at her marvellous success, and there are painful rumours afloat about her seeking to pick a quarrel and have another rush upon Paris. We believe notwithstanding, that it is all con. jecture, and would devoutly pray, "Scatter thou the people that delight in war." Ultramontanism, or high ecclesiastical pretensions and ambition is at the root of it. When will the Church mind her own special bust. ness, and leave the State to do hers, and vice versa? Much arbitrary power, and persecution, and intolerance prevail still in the German Empire.  The home labour market has undergone few important changes during the past week, though symptoms of a settlement of the South Wales crisis have begun to show themselves. It the -North of England rail and finivhed iron manufacturers generally are better employed, and prospects in these branches are now better than they have been for some time past. At Barrow, steelmakers and shipbuilders are busy, and at Hartlepool the yards are also fairly employed. At Newcastle the manufacturing trades are again fairly engaged, and at Middlesbrough the works are also well employed. In the cotton districts some factories are in want of hands, and mills generally are in full work. In the woollen districts manufacturers are working well to order, and at Nottingham machinery is well engaged. In Warwickshire, North Staffordshire, and Somerset, shire, miners' wages are likely to be reduced, but there is no dearth of labour for strong and able-bodied men throughout the country. Bricklayers, masons, and others in the building trades are specially in demand, and many railway works are put back from want of navvies. Under the head of emigration further depar. . . . .  tures for Queensland from the 'agricultural districts may be noted, and an increasing flow of labour from Ireland is reported. Advices from Canada do not indicate any special demand for labour except of the agricultural class, and in the United States no great inducements to emigrants can be held out at present.— Labour News.