The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

RONESTE A ODA X.

Tux Revenue Returns for the year and quarter
ending on Saturday show an increase of
£5.727,014 on the year and an increase of
£326,918 on the quarter. The only branches
of revenue which show a decrease on the year are
the Customs and Miscellaneous, the decrease in
the former being £262,061, and the decrease in
the latter, £413,351. The only branch which
shows a decrease in the quarter is the Customs,
in which there is a decrease of £375,641.

In the House of Lords on Monday the Duke
of Marlborough, in spite of appeals from Lords
Derby, Granville, Shaftesbury, and other Peers,
who urged him to delay his motion, moved a
resolution expressing the opinion of the House
that the authoritative exclusion of the Bible
from the Government colleges and schools in
India ought to be removed. Lord Brougham
moved as an amendment, the previous question,
which was carried without a division and without
discussion. On Tuesday Lord St. Leonard's
moved the second reading of the Masters' and
operatives' Bill, the object of which is to estab-
lish Courts of Conciliation to decide disputes
between masters and their workmen. Lord
Ravensworth moved that the Bill be read a
second time that day six months. After sonic
discussion the Bill was read a second time on the
understanding that it should be referred to a
select committee. On the motion of the Duke
of Newcastle the New Zealand Bill, the object
of which is to establish a native Council, under
the authority of the Crown, to which all dis-
putes in reference to land may be referred, was
read a second time. On Thursday, on the order
for the third reading of the Highland Roads and
Bridges Bill, Lord Redesdale moved as an
amendment that the Bill be read a third time
that day three mouths. On a division the amend-
ment was negatived by 35 to 33, and the Bill
was read a third time and passed.
In the Commons on Monday the second read-
ing of the European forces (India) Bill was carried
on a division by a majority of 229, the numbers
being 282 to 53. On Tuesday the Mines regu-
lation and Inspection Bill and the Tenure and
Improvement of Land (Ireland) Bill, were again
considered in committee, and several clauses
were agreed to. Colonel Lindsay's motion for a
select committee to inquire into the claims of
seven Major-Generals to the pay of General
officers was opposed by Mr. S. Herbert, but was
carried on a division against the Government by
108 to 94. Captain Esmonde's motion for a
select committee to inquire into the present sys-
tem of nomination to cadetships in the Royal
Navy, was negatived on a division by 81 to 24.
The House was shortly afterwards counted out.
On Wednesday Mr. Hubbard withdrew his
Church Rates Law Amendment Bill for the pre-
sent session. On the order for the second read-
ing of Sir G. Lewis's Highway Bill, Mr. Hodg-
kinson moved that the Bill be read a second time
that day three months. On a division the
amendment was negatived by 203 to 120, and
the Bill was read a second time. The House
then went into committee on the Dealers in
Marine Stores Bill, when, in deference to the
general wish of the House, Mr. Spooner con-
sented to withdraw the Bill, on the understand-
ing that the subject would be inquired into
by Government.
On Thursday Lord J. Russell announced that
in consequence of the violent proceedings of Gene-
ral Harney in the island of San Juan, the President
of the United States had ordered General
Harney to he recalled, and matters to be re-
stored to the state iii which General Scott had
left them. Lord Palmerston moved a series of
resolutions (which will be found in another
column), in reference to the recent rejection of
the Paper Duties Repeal Bill by the House of
Lords, declaring that the right of granting aids
and supplies to the Crown is in the Commons
alone, as an essential part of their constitution ;
that the exercise by the Lords of their power of
rejecting Bills relating to taxation is regarded by
the Commons with peculiar jealousy ; and that,
to guard for the future against an undue exercise
of that power, the Commons have in their own
hands the power so to impose arid remit taxes,
and to frame Bills of Supply, that their right as
to the matter, manner, measure, and time may
be maintained inviolate. Mr. Collier and Mr.
E. James having withdrawn the amendments of
which they had given notice, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer said that he should support the' I
resolutions as a simple declaration of the pri-
vileges of the House, but at the same time he
thought it desirable to vindicate its right by
action, and he reserved to himself entire the
freedom to adopt any mode of vindicating that
right which might appear to him desirable. Mr.
Disraeli said that the resolutions moved by Lord
Palmerston were wise, calm, impartial, and
statesmanlike, and would receive the entire sup-
port of the Conservative party. Lord J. Russell
admitted that the technical right belonged
to the Lords of rejecting a Money Bill. but
expressed Ws opinion that the rejection of the
Paper Duties Repeal Bill was a rash and unjusti-
fiable act, which might be followed by others if