The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

RXTRA-P&B.LIAMENTARY UTTERANCES.

The past week has been prolifie In extraparliamentary
utterances, in which the Reform Rill, the question of
Education, and the Abyssinian difficulty, have been
freely commented upon.
Speaking on Monday, at the closing of the Coventry
Industrial Exhibition, the Berl of Clarendon said the
working num was about to be entrusted with a power he
had posesseed before, so enormous power for good
or evil, and he believed the m.jority of them would
use it not selfishly or maliciously, but judiciously for
the public good. The working mac needed industrial,
and to • large extent wrientific education, and he would
also need political education ; but no education would
be aatisfactory that did not include religion. The work-
ing man also needed liberty. He wanted his industry
to be free end his energiet unshackled, so that be might
be at liberty to turn his labour and his skill to the best
account. His lordship fully admitted the benefit of
association, and did not deny the legitimate rights of
combination; but he firmly believed that if working
men and eniployers were both freer, it would be found
that within a given period the division of profita between
capital and labour would be more equitable, and the
: funds available for the nmuneration of labour more
abundant than under the system which had hitherto
I prevailed.
The Earl of Flarrowby attended a meeting of the
South Staffordshire Educational Association, at Walsall,
ru Monday afternoon, and moved a resolution expressive
of satisfaction at the Introduction of the Factory Lets
In that district. Hitherto, he ssid, there bad been a
difficulty in inducing parents to make a sacrifice of their
children's earnings for the more distant advantage of
having their children educated. Now the new act,
said that children should not be allowed to undertake
employment unless they bed received, or were receiving
certain amount of education; and it also said to erns
ployers that they should not, under heavy penalties,
employ children unless they had received a certain
amount of education. Thee* acts would make • great
change in the question of °donation, and, in fact, in
society generally, es was the case in Lanceabire. When
the act, were first introduced there, parents said they
could not do without the wages of their children, and
employers mid they must have the assistance of the
children, or the several branehes of manufacture carried
on there most atop. These difficulties were. after some
time, overcome; and now there wee but one chorus of
general satisfac,ion on the improved condition of all
classes in that district.

The members for Northampton have hiss addr
their ounstitueoti. Mr. Gilpin said be could ncrain
would not join in the eulogy which bad been bestowed
upon the conservative leader, for giving us this Reform
hi I. Re would not bow down his knee to B.4—
(cheers). lhat hill had bum adopted by the Tory party
by the eating of more dirt than had seer been eaten
by a political platy since parties were known in
&child—pond cheers). The Tories hod adopted the
Reform Bill by smarting boldly, and without standing
in • white sheet, a. they ought to hose done, while
deolmine it, that that which • few months ago they
mowed to be black was unmistakeably white. He did
not doubt that some behaved honestly, and that all
were not so some of the perty Madera. They bad
previously denounced the bill of Mr. Gladstone, who
was a truer reformer than •11 the Tories pet togeth. r—
(cheers)—as baying revolutionary tandeeides. They
denounced the working dames trot m being unlit for
the franchise, and then as being not desirous to have
it. That those men with the heigh presto °Ube gnat
magician should torn round as they did was opitsioly

I thing that reflected most seriously upon the shareeier
of public MOO and upon the boort, sad sioestity of
*bitumen • it had struck • blow at our minimal bonus,
from whici. It would be long before it movers& It was
Mr. Disraeli who was doing all this; he who said,
"Sir, her Majesty's Mienters will never essemit to
household suffrage pure and simple' His
elongated their son and believed hint—(laughter
cheer.). Before lose we should bear Mr. Disraeli come
forward with renews to subjects very deer to the
hearts of some of es—church-rates, for instance, pad
any, "Sir, her Majesty's government will never consent
to the abolition of ehurehratee," and wit'tin one month
we should have them abolished- (bear, and cheers).
Then it would be, "Sir, her Majesty's government,
de with reaped& to the °bora establishment In
Ireland -(loud sheers). By the way Mr. Disraeli was
, very shun*, jut now, and expiated to die in the odour
of sanctity, no doubt—(loed laushter). But as sere as
Mr. Disraeli made hie abatement that no meddling with
the Irish church would be allowed, so soon and so surely
would the Irish etyma die, as it ought to die, a• •
thing antegooistia to the very Christianity whose name
it bore -(loud cheers). Although a voluntary in the
matter of education he was bound to oaths@ that
voluntaryism had failed, end he was earnest in advocacy ,
of • national system of education. He was extremely •
grieved at Earl Russell's proposal to endow the catbolies,
and thought the declaration of their bishops gooortog to
be written in letters of gold.—Lord Healey also
d tied the Tory leaders, and said the question as to
personal payment of rates must be considered in the
next perliunent.
Mr. Decant, M.P. for North Essex, speaking at the
annual dinner of Mu Hine:ford Conservative and
Arrimiltoral Club, argued that oomprehensive as is the
Reform Bill, it loin accordance with the ancient lines
of the constitution, and he concluded, hitherto it has
been the proud boast of the Englishman that his
constitution united the solidity of ad.-Nettie' with the
freedom of a democracy, avoiding alike the tyranny of
the one and the license of the other ; utd let on before
we deepsir we whether it may not be in the fetuses it
has been in the past. Let us see whether, in the peace-
ful and bloodless Atop wbieh we have effected—cell
it revolution if you will—we have not strengthened the
roots and infused new map and vigour into the
branches and trunk of the 'tree of the eonstitutioo, and
added to its chance of retaining its hold upon that
fruitful soil in 'chi& it has flourished for oecturiee—tbe
loyalty and &Bunke of • greet, • prosperess, and •
coetented nation. As regards the Abyssinian expe-
dition. he regretted all wars with semi-barbarous
powers, but be believed in the present Instants. the
counts pursued by the administration was absolutely
necessary for the =anatomic, of our prestige in the
East. .

The Earl de Grey sad Ripon. at • civic banquet at
Ripon, replying to the toast of " the House of Lords,"
said the broad result of the Reform Bill was to place
the institutions of the country for the first time on •
democratia basis, and he hoped that the great experi-
meet that had been made would prove to the advantage
of the nation.

The Right Hon. S. Cave, M • speech at the
Sidmouth Agrieultural Society's meeting. referred to
agricultural statistics, "Nothing," he said, "'mold be
more absurd then • reluct.noe to send in the.. return;
than which nothing could be more valuable to the
country. The farmers feared that the returns would
cause their rents and taxes t be raised, but that was •
delusion ; to avoid making them was like the ostrich
hiding its head in the sand, fancying that nobody °mild
see it. He had just received some returns of the
most interesting chrracter. They were returns of the
imports of various kinds of agricultural produce during
the last fifteen years. Of stock, the number imported
had increased from 100,000 to 238000; sheep, from
ElO.OOO to 798.300; wheat and wheat flour, from
17.000.000 to 28(8)0.030; barley. from 2.000 000 to
8,000,000 ; and oats, from 3,000,(8X) to 9,000,000 cut;
egg*, from 108,01/0,000 to 438.300,n00. Of rrtielet of
consumption sager has increased from 2131 b. to 381 b.
per head—this wee an enormous increase. Tea had
inereesed from 21b. to 3ilb. per head. The English
fernier had little to fear from the competition in foreign
cattle, but he had a good deal to fear from competition
In foreign corn.

The ;embers for Hull addrseed their constituents on
Wedneeday night. Mr. Clay regards the Reform Bill
as triumph of radical principles, for which the
people have only to thank themselves. Hitherto the
attainment of their wishes bad been a teak of treat
difficulty, now the voim of the pe pie, which formerly
bad but a feeble utteranee, would make iteelf heard
without an effect. In that lay the great value of the
Reform Rill of 1867. Mr. Norwood hoped to see
further improvement. as regards the ratepaying clause
and the redistribution of seats.

Mr. IL K. Kullake, at the annual dinner of
the Colchester Conservative Association, said he saw
two important benefit likely to result from the Reform
meson,. passed last sewrion ; first, the tie between
employers and employed would be drawn closer; and
mondlv, we should not have three parties in the stare.
We should have no coquetting or shilly-shallying with
dem tasty, for men with broad acres would feel that it
we. dangerous to Utter the people. They might loot
all that was dear to them. There would amply be the
conservative aide and the other side—those who wished
to maintain England as she was, and those who wished
for alti.ratlon• which could only ultimately end in a
demooracy brought about by Woodshed and revolution.
Mr. Joni+, M. P., remarked that • great deal had been
said about "e leap in the dark,* about the enormous
change wlikob had been mai" in the constitution, and
about the working °lmes. Well, be bad seen the
working men as • labourer in the fields, no • soldier.
and •• a mechanic, and he had always found that he
wia ••••J, to eat with thou under wham he served
wb required. The mechanic, the soldier, and
the labourer had the same lot rest in the country as
the upper class. This was the view with which he
eupporto I the Reform Bill of this year, and the view
with which the great majority of the ooneervative
party supported the bill, as they felt that the great
means of restoring the conservative indoence which
had been broken by the bill of 1832 was to bring
employer' and employed together.
Admiral Walcott, M.P., speaking at Christchurch,
said the Abyssinian expedition is stones hum•ne and in
every respect worthy of the prestige of our country.
The adventure, no doubt, is perilous; the oiler on
which the expedition sails is to dare all hassid in the
attempt for which it is fitted out. The ohstacles will be
great, for they are preparing to invade • kingdom which
is surely ai all known to us, bot by the blueing of God,
those obstacle, will be overcome, sod our sailors and
soldier" will return to their country, I venture to say,
carrying renown to that country for having undertaken
• cause which is worthy of it.—Colonel Pane, ILP.,
said he felt some apology was due from him, as a Con-
servative, for the votes he had recently given, bat, as
he said at Portsmouth the other day, there was no
alternative but to put • stop to the agitation respecting
Reform. He did not altogether agree with the present
bill, but he believed it was really • necessity.
The newly-elected member for Br•dford, Kr. Thomp-
son, addressed • meeting of his constituents on Thursday.
There was nothing remarkable in his speech, Mr.
Thompson being simply a hum-drum rank and Si.
Liberal. He expressed himself in favour of the ballot.
At Coventry, on Thursday, at the inaugural dinner of
the Working Men's Conservative Association, Mr.
Adderley, M.P., said the Conservative party have passed
a bill for the country at large which the professed
Liberals wanted to secure for ono class alone, and having
done so the reformers at once turned round and blamed
them for having passed the measure at all—(hear). In
judging of this question we must remember that in
every party there are Iwo extreine•—Contervatim
ranges, - what shall I say?—from Newdegata to Disraeli,
and the radiant party ranges from Russell to Bright—
( hear, hear, and laughter). It is quite true that in
the process of bringing about the present reformed state
of things the Conservatives have bad to change their
ground, but they have not, in so doing, given up say
question of principle—they still fight for the mixed eon-
siltation of the country, as the opposite party lett for
the aupretusav of democracy—(huar, hear).
Mr. D. Bromley li. I'., speaking at Coventry, on
Thursday, to the Working Men's Conservative Associa-
tion, mid they all knew what the Reform Lagos was
—(bur, hear). At all events they were acquainted. in
some degree, with its component parts. He would
speak only of one portion of them; and he would say
that portion we. tompoud of the most dangerous
moteriale that Bless possible for any coantry to produce
—(bmar boa). Among them were to be found
professional agitators, convict•—(oh, oh)—yea, convict..
who were the very scum of London—the garroter. and
the thieves of that great metropolis (hear, bear). There
were among them some men who were driving, not for
• Reform Bill, but for revolution—(i4,er, bear) —and
for revolution after the Funob model—(buar, hear).
Look at their symbols, look at their promotions, look
.t
their Saga, look at their banners, look IA their musics.
Their barmen and their mottoes were under the cup
of liberty, which had been the moot Woody symbol of
the French lievolutiou ; their music was the still more
bloody Mareeillaise (hear, hear, st.d applause).
And amongst them there were not wanting those fools
who raid publicly what the Ithriputural fool said only
in his heart, "There is no Gol"—(applituee), Thus
were the men who were prepared to inscribe over their
churchyards the horrible sentiments of the Fussell
Revolution, " Death is an sternal sleep.* He did not
with them to suppose that he intended to inside in
them, words the whole of the Reform League, bat it
did include ruob men, and he said that the League
should have excluded suoh men with contempt and
ignominy—(cheers). He wished to eonolude with
the earnut prayer that the English working men, who
had now been admitted to so large • sham, in the
fraothise, might atand true to the eonatitattani end
got fail in reeogniaing the great blessings of the
glorious inheritance they bad reerived from their
ennaatatilo and that all freedom of expression of opinion
and unity between all climes in the kingdom might
G:birirlulor(Rag.
stration osdn, addressing the
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said he would give trade unions the protection of the
law, but he thought they had • right to lay down a
..my way
ttb. that
liberty
eyudniollushr as rewaa persona
should not initerferre.in
my w.y ib s
who did not belong to anions—thou, and cheers).
Mr. Guildford Orislow, M.P., met his constituents at
Guilford on Wedneoday night. The hoc. member.
Minding to the new Reform Bill, said that the Tory
party had abandoned their long-boaated principles in
assenting to its provisions ; and they were now strutting
about the country in the clothes stolen from the Liberal
party. The prominent members of the Tory party were
not political converts ; they were political impostors.
They had hoisted false colours, and robbed the
Liberal party of Ito plumes to suit their own selfish
ends. They had been called upon to give up their
principles or their live*, and they had not hesitated to
give up the first Weave the last. Lord Derhy Weigel(
had in effect said that he had accepted officio to appease
his hungry crew, who were shivering and shaking out-
olde the doors of Downing-street. The new bill woul t
neceaaitate the adoption cf the ballot. He had voted
for the abolition of Church rates on the ground of justice
: to Diuenters ; and he should be prepared at the proper
time to vote for the abolition of the Episcopal (Mundt
in Ireland, as he believed that that step would do more
to annihilate Fenianisso then six-barrelled revolvers.
Referring to the Abyssinian expedition, Mr. Onslow
said that it was illoadvised and ill-judged, and nothing
would be gained by it. It would oast the tueotry
• thousands of valuable lives and million, of money. He
' believed that the whole offair was • blind to Dour some
intention to seises portion of the COOli adjuseit to the
From* canal opened on the Isthmus of Seem It wee
1 the old tale of epulibritum of power. Bee lisald Mostly
r oppose this expition as foga

Court inli fuhigmbh Intaimcg•

Tim Qum a expeoted to —Lave Bawd for Winds*
dmiog the Ilree week of November. The *aim to or
from S. ootkad mete upwards of 113.000 I
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Puma Anion hes bees exiliriarg from • modified
MU* of waell-pos, whisk he is believed to have might
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the orioles co bis fast have elsored eating,
Tim Deka of &Kabul* is errivia; at 4ld Osim ii
Good Ralik bad • nod eathasiseeie rewifibioa Is
which eleiwee tied with ow soother Is the Martian@
of their weleoeto

GOON? UM? me lhintoe or W.—Tbe PANG
el Wales, who haa jar returned from the 0011161111114 se
our readers know, bus already been enjoy* the Peivi'
' loges of • free preen The London coneeposeeet of the
Wavers Moraine New. who haa always manifested •
tender rooted for the Prises, sad from lout to last hie
eirentatei • considerable quantity el nay areip rewordi-
ng him and his ongoing, real or seaweed, is at his
Royal Higbner again. " Tbe Prisms of Wales,' be
r ye, "hoc returned to town, sad the been haa returned
to the Prince of Wales. It Wilk fee laiseeet et the.
Prime's ondiminiabed devotion to the ragegoaree; how
having attended all the grad restimill of the galainar
grew be boa got beet to Reglart Just in thee to he
present at Newmarket, where his roma
w r=ez.
'ere' two jockeys, spoils ram, end ruin •
The town tan toot bow in his love for that leWeared
noble aninitl, the llnoe was actually to he sees at
stley'o, where NW *doh Noniron goes Womb Use
part of Nampo& Bush devotion on the pert of ow re
Illustrious is really rowans, since I. this Mersa it
indexed His Royal Highness to endure what awl tare
been • severe trial to • mind so reined as his—the
spectsele of snaked woman exhibiting handl to midi&
Nor princes would have bre deterred by seek • eight
as that, but our Prince has • sold far shove such marrow
nreples. His love for beeriest oversaw rest hie
repugnance to • amnesia whose enters proves the
otter 14•10161211•11 of the Lord Cliszaberlain's semeorship.
There has been totting aci touching in the history el
recar42 Woe the &nem Claudius made his bores
of Rome. Who knows I Perham we shall live
to sae Fordhen Prime tinnier. sad Caster*
Clueseellor of the &deers. Why set?
Ludwig of Bavaria made Wagger, the ledisktaa.M2
Premier. At 'Auk be would have dose se only the
people would wet seder it, cod blemished Www, ark—
very Dearly banished Wegmer's munder." This is, eit
the late Ananias Ward would lune geld, "aortegrar
very