The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTONE'S RESOLVE ON TEE

RitiCORN QUESTION.

On Saturday a deputation of the /fancied Reform
liaise waited upon Hr. Gladstone to give him the
awarsoos of their unabated mollisoes in him, and
they preeseted addressee to that effect Hr. Gladstone
replied at some lova. He expressed his esteem.
regret at the present state of affairs within the walls of
Parliament, but he remarked HIM he wee free to enter
int* council there and elsewhere for the promotion of
the main:too mum. The oivision as Therredly evening,
he said, showed that the Liberal party me very 011'11
one, but he hooedthey wield pennet be the coots*. The
borough franchise, however, wee sow vet• nearly •
success: and, said he, "this mermen to Parliamentary
mosses is. is my opinion, the precise measure of its
distance from • settlemeet of the question. (cheers).
An arrangemert which it is proposed to found oft the
absurd, preposterous, tad mire:heroes distinction of
personal ratans as now regulated in this country for
social purposes I hold to be • totally volt bads for the
franclies—(aheers). Any meson, whieh rests on sash
• heals I wholly disown aid reject and if it should be
clothed with that perfect authority which belongs to
the law is this country, I Mould sombine my obedience
to that taw with the liberty to which every man is
entitled to endeavour by very legitimate means to
effect a change in a portion of it which I dorm to
be rio unjust to the people—(o1).0m). The passing of
such• Bill will be bet the commencement of afresh eon•
ilia, and Use signal for en latrine on • me strife—(ehee ra)
apeaking of hoveehold suffrage, be said that there are
are not Arty member* of the Home of Comm on
honestly la favour of it, and in respect of the BA
rating franchise he declared that at far as In was con-
sorted, the proposal was MN, nee ffid-Pre see the
circumstances under which it was to be revived.
He must, however, reserve to himslif•perfeet liberty
to do that which in his soomMoce he believed, taking
the beet advice sod cower he could get, to be for the
good of the ceuetry, and to carry out the great
object in view, of bevies mnsible„ but above aU
things an equal, jure, and impartial measure of
Reforni—(ebeers). "Our immediate object, however:.
said be is thermals of dealing with these inermalitka
which are Meet to be introduced into the law, with
the effect of setting landlord ageing tenant,
and Unseat &geniat landlord, deesering the
industrious and peaceloving lam from ob-
taining the hunches, and allowing. on
the other head, the weak-minded sad subservient men
to become the tool of his landlortilit the exercise of his
Political rights. To these eneetcoents, while they mis-
time to be on the loot of the House of Common; I
shell enntinue to offer an unqualifiod and unhesit•tiog
oppceition —(a/leers). If they become law, they
as I have said, have, of course, all the authotity of law'
but they will be those portions of the law of the land
which I shall sentinue to regard as those to which every
good citizen shoold offer a strenuous ontemitieni wad
which be should use every legitimate power which he
posemes for the purpose of bringing there boa speedy
end—freed cheers). Hr. Bright, is answer to mice
made fret him, spoke very briefly, urging that neetinp
should he held everywhere, and petitions poured in
against the Reform Bill aseseringle.