The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

BOTH Hot ises of Parliament adjonnied on Tues-
day for the. Easter holidays--the Lonls to Tues-
day, the 11. th, and the Commons to Monday the
16th inst. In the Lords on Monday the Income
Tax and Stamp Duties Bill were passed through
their re:nisi:ling stages ; and on Tuesday they
received the Royal assent. In the COMlllollBui

Monday Lord J. Russell moved that on TlMlS-
days after Easter, and till Whitsuntide, Govern-
ment orders of the day have precedence of
notices of motions. The motion was opposed by
the leading members of the Opposition, and
ultimately Sir 0. Grey proposed to meet their
objections by adding wonls to the motion mak-
ing it Thursday instead of Friday a Government
night, and giving Friday to private members,
and moved an amendment to that effect. After
a protracted discussion, the House divided on
this amendment, which was carried by 150 to
126. Some further discussion ensued, and the
House again divided on the original :notion as
amended, which was carried by 142 to 117. Lord
John Russell laid on the table further papers
and despatches relating to Italian affairs, with
the reply of Her Majesty's Government to M.
Thouvenel's despatch in reference to the annexa-
tion of Savoy. His lordship also announced
that he had advised Her Majesty to recognise
the recent acquisitions of the King of Sardinia
in Central Italy as forming part of Ida domi-
nions. The second reading of the Reform Bill
was again postponed from the 20th to the 23rd
Inst. The House then went into Committee on
the Customs Acts, when the Chancellor of the
Exchequer moved his amended resolutions. The
first resolution imposing a penny duty on pack-
ages, entries, and animals per head was agreed
to after considerable discussion. The second.
changing 10s. per £lOO on the warehonsiag
and removing of goods from Ismiled warehouses.
was met by an amendment that it be postponed I
for six months. On a division the ainenduient
was negatived by 64 to 50, and the resolution was
agreed to. The adjourned debate on the second
reading of the Refreshment Houses and Wine
Licenses Bill was then resumed by Mr. Crook,
who moved that the Bill be read a second time
that day six ttts. Mr. Digby Seymour
seconded the motion. Mr. Ker Seymour sup-
ported the Bill, Mr. Hardy opposed it, and on
the motion of Mr. Ayrtou the debate was again
adjourned until after Easter. On Tuesday Mr.
Hennessy obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
facilitate the improvement of land in Ireland,
and Mr. E. Bouverie obtained leave to bring in
a Bill to abolish the jurisdiction of the Ecclesias-
tical Courts in Ireland in case of defamation, and
in England, Scotland, and Ireland in case of
brew ling.
Accounts from Madrid announce that a Cellist
insurrection lmu been attempted at Tortosa, near
Valencia, by General Ortega, (lc vernor of the
Balearic Islands. The attempt has proved a
signal failure. The troops who hod been deceived
as to the object of the movement, refused to
march, and General Ortega immediately took to
flight, closely pursued by his own men. An in-
surrectionary movement has also taken place in
Sicily. The insurgents attacked the troops at
Palermo, but were repulsed with loss, and tran-
quillity was speedily restored. The Sardinian
Parliament was opened or. Monday by the King
in person. His Majesty. in the speech from the
throne, referred to the late events in Central Italy,
and said that in return for his acquisition of ter-
ritory it had been necessary to make some sacri-
fice, and he had therefore concluded a treaty for
the " reunion" of Savey and Nice to France. He
declared that be was, like his ancestors, firm in
the Catholic religion raid in the respect due to
the Supreme Chief of that religion, but if the
ecclesiastical authority should make use of
spiritual arms for temporal interests, he should in
safe conscience and in the traditions of his
ancestors find strength to maintain entire the
civil liberty and authority for which he was only
indebted to God and to his people. He concluded
by saying "Italy must no more be the Italy of
the Romans nor that of the middle ages: it
must no more be left a field open for foreign
ambition, but it t, on the contrary, be the
Italy of the ltaliana."
The Revenue Returns for the year and quarter
ended the 31st of March were published on
Monday. The general result is an increase of
£5,612.386 on the year, and an increase of
£5,019,200 on the quarter.

itsczwr dvices from France inform us that the
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Thouveuel.
had informed the Municipality of TllOllOll of
the intention of the Emperor to protect the
commercial interests of Faucigny and Chablais
by establishing a commercial zone in their
favour similar to that existing for Gex.
Commenting upon this fact the Times says :
'• Switzerland «nannies in the state of dis-
quietude into a filch she has been thrown by the
sudden appearance of an army of 600,000 omen
upon her frontier. This is her real position.
The whole force of the French Empire is, by
the occupation of Upper Savoy, brought not
only to the frontier, but to the open and
unprotected frontier, of Switzerland. This
alarm will scarcely be alleviated by the Emperor
Napoleon's generous promise to protect the '
interests of Chablais and Faucigny, by establish-
ing a "Commercial Zone," and the whole
matter is so distinct from the annexation of
Nice or of the French slopes of the Alps, that ;