The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

WitIiNISDAT. On the 22nd inst. Mr. Bruen will
more for looTo to bring in a Bill for the more effectual
prevention of crime. Mr. Glowshen announced his inten-
tion to ask for leave to bring in a Bill to create
uniformity of assesmont on rateable property in
England. Leave was obtained by Lord It Montage to
bring in a Bill to amend and perpetuate the acts
relating to contagious or infectious diseases emorigat
cattle.

TtlUlllDAT.—The report of the 'althea in ieply to the
Speech from the Throne was brought up end agreed to.
Mr. Gladstone explained that it was • matter of serious
concern to her Majesty, that she was preoluded from
meeting the two liouses, and particularly the House of
Commons, chosen under cirennutanoes of such peculiar
and special interest, by the ansient method of opening
Parliament in state. But her Majesty hail been more
than usually suffering from were headache, and to a
degree which precluded her from making that exertion
at the period when the opening of Parliament occurred
in the present year. At •11l periods of the life of her
Mejesty. even of its unclouded happiness, and its
unimpaired strength, this particular effort, with the
lengthened ceremony it entailed, did always tan the
powers of her Majesty to the vary utmost, •Itliough it
is • ceremonial which she was, toils always desirous
to perform whoa slump venture to undertake IL But
there is another mode In whieb a great portion of her
Majesty's desire may be obtained, that is to say, she
Nagy have the satisfaction of meeting Parliament, and of
meeting the House of Commons, by receiving the
addreaces of Parliament in penmen, should the House
enter into her Views. The practice of the House has
been that when the Speech has been delivered by Com-
missioners the Address has not been usually received
by her Majesty in person. But there was an occasion in
the reign of George 111., when it happened that the
Sovereign was preveoted by • domestic sorrow in the
death of the Duke of Glom:ester from Willing to Parlia-
ment for the solemn and formal opening of the session,
and when at the same time it happened that there was
• publio and • national °cession of satisfaction which
rendered the Home desirous to testify that sialefactioh
at the foot of the Throne by presenting the Address is
person. At that period the occasion of the joy and
pleseure was the raining of a victory by the arms of
England at the battle of Trafalgar—this occasion now is
the celebration of. 'easeful triumph in the passing
of • measure which very largely extends the liberties of
the people—(bear. hear). As on that oociaaion the two
Houses attended the Sovereign with their Addrsues and
congratulations, so it appeam to me—especially when
her Majesty has been plumed to mark in the gracious
Speech from the 'Throne her peculiar satisfaction with ,
the passing of the Reform Act as an cordon of joy sod
satisfaction to the public—that this Howie on its part
will be glad to answer, not in mem weeds, that
expression of satisfaction, but by an act which it will
hem their power to perform—by resorting, headed be
you, Sir, and with the attendance of all such members
as may think fit to mutat:le the House, to the palace.
to ehich her Majesty will readily come at a suitable
peiical from Windex) for the purpose of receiving the
Addresaes--(bssr, hear).—Mr. Disraeli seconded the
motion.—Sir L Palk roes to protest against any course
adopted on this occasion giving any colour to the con-
clusion that the House congratulated the Queen or the
country upoo any politioial triumph that might or might
not have been sobieved.—(" Oh," and laughter). The
motion was then agreed to.
Flap/LT.—Discussion was promised On f atone occasions
upon the licensing of beerhouses, the creation of life
neonates. kn. 14. Otway, who made his first appear-
ance in a Ministerial capacity, admitted in answer to an
inquiry from Mr. Wiaterbothaso that • British subject
had been sentenced by &Portuguese court to banishment
for sic years for "being wanting in respect to the
Roman Catholic religion but as the case had been
carried by appeal to a higher tribunal, he declined to
commit the Government to say course of action. Mr.
Charlee Forster made an unsuccessful attempt to elicit
from the Prime Minister • dechastion of the intentions
of the Government with reference to the ratepaying
clause of the Reform Act, and the restoration of com-
pound rating. All that Mr. Gladstone could be induced
to say vu that the Ministry did not intend to propose
In word, either the repeal of the clauses or the restora-
tion of the eystem referred to, but boned to apply •
remedy to the practical gravanoe which bad arisen from
the abolition of that system. In reply to Mr. It.
Yowler, touching the kidnapping et Kaffir children by
the Boers of the Transvaal Republic in South Africa,
Mr. Mousell, the Under Secretary for the Colones., did
not attempt to deny that thousands of children whose
pollute had been cruelly murdered were halil on
bondage by the Boers. At the same time ha pointed
Ott that her Majesty's Government could only adopt
lsoltoebwrah I tomoans put an
er ecelto.ithis aboonmoinagersdble etateTho
but Promised that they would not fail tons.
Gov
erm'r a the. Cato had already been instructed to
prevent the Been from thro h that obtainl'ag arms and anununitioa
dose a Bill to ecaeg,g,theggug. ,• Fawcett got leave to intro-
ast
upon boroughs and ..."":48•62,11Peatee of elections
_ etar Norwood was
perniitted to bring la • Bill g. Immo. proceedings In
County Court..