The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOPDAT.—There was some doubt whether the third
reading of the Reform Bill would go off quietly, or
be male the occasion of a demonstrat#on. Lord
Cranborne soon settled the question by the mode In
which he treated the subject. His lordship began by
deploring the course taken by the Government, an
talked of himself plaintively u the leader of a (odorn
hope, knowing that the,. le no help for the daemons
prodomioanes of in working claws whin be saw
before him, and the prospect which be also beheld
of • majority in the house of members with Conservative
instincts, but steeped to the lips Densiontia
principles. But the greater part of hislordship's spoon
was made of sterner stuff. It was bitter and
biting, and meant to be so, and did not pretend
to be above personality. His &liming were of mum
to the politisel morality of the Ministry. which be
estimated at. very low ratrahrowing onveryfree Miner
tins Moon "political adventaren," and dielarlag that If
the house entrusted its political Ohne to such porno=
Parliamentary Government will aranan into dust.
But Lord Oneness, though he made • far niter
speech, was very mild indeed ourpared with Mr.
Lowe who, in his weal level style, delivered himself
of what teemed to be a long-repressed stream of
eloquence, made up bye shamanistic combination of
'areas= and forebodings. The early pert of his snub
WU mere common phice about the nbetitation of the
Government of numbers for the Government of
haelligenos, the defects of the Bill in doing too much
for the suffrage and too little for the redistribution of
nate, and so forth. Then he same to prophecies of
renewed agitation, leading to changes which will sink
us into lower depths of Democracy, the enure of whisk,
to prevent misiakee, be pointed out. They consist,
It asses, of "Americanising orir inetitations" with •
vengeenos. The Government coasot be trusted to
sash a hone as will be soon r.tarned;a check and •
counterpone will be euestary, and the House of
Lords will not do; there mast be a emend eleetive
chamber, and very moon the Prime Minister will be
*looted directly by the people, shooting his own sub-
ordinate ; judges most also be chosen and diseaseed
by the popular voice; and the army will also be
demoralimd, for the men will soon demand to choose
their own officers; the same process will also be per-
formed with the Chunk, the result of the whole
will n—ltevolution. AU this was re wild as to fall
very dal .upon the house; indeed, Mr. Lowe searesly
got a cheer, wheaten Lard Cranborse had pined a
greet deal of apple's". Bat the speaker was more
stmeseitil when be got sereastis upon Mr. Bright, and
one of his thrusts was not bad. Taunting the member
for Birmingham with not going as far se the Gann-
ment with respect to household suffrage, he compered
him to Don Giovanni (" he was informed that Giovanni
meant John in Italian"), who mired the statue to
supper bemuse be believed it would not some. But it did
some in the on can and the other, and mused
equal confusion. He made a better hit, however,
of a serious kind, when he said that having entrusted
these immense powers to the people, our next care
must be to educate them, in order that they may
exercise that trust in a worthy mapper. We must,
In fact, said Mr. Lowe, insist upon our future masters
oondesooendiog to learn their lessons. His peroration
wet very ambitious, but not so effective as was Intended.
He said, that England wink wee wont to moque' other
nations, has gained a shameful victory over herself?
and oh I that a man would rim in order that he might
set forth in words that could not di* the shame, the
rage the scorn, the indignation, and the despair with
which this measure is viewed by every Englishman who
I. not • elan to the trammels of party, or who is not
decried by the glare of a temporary and ignoble
success I Mr. Lowe at down with only a solitary cheer,
end even this was drowned in the laughter
mused by the extravagance of the
ooncloding piece of declamation. There was a great
deal of curiosity to hear what would be said by Mr.
Bright who followed. But the member for Birming-
ham did not make a very great effort, motenting him-
self with a defence of his own consistesay. He has
always, he declared, being in favour of household
suffrage, and on that account was always ready to swept
any instalment towards it which had been proposed
from time to time. He had, however, been inclined
to think it better not to go to the extreme length all at
once, and in this he did not now insist upon being right,
for he admitted that it might be found more prudent
to take the curse which had been taken by the
o overnmant Mr. Graves, from the point of view of
a practical Conservative, defended both the Bill and
the Government, both of which were sneaked by Mr.
Gusset, who rose neat. Mr. Covmas rescinded bon.
members who wen frielitened at the Bill, that its main
provision had been advocated by some of our greatest
statesmen three quarters a century ego, including Mr.
Pitt. That fact did not recommend the measure to
Mr. Beredord Hope, who sutra it root and branch, and
indulged in a mixture of sarcasm and lamentation like
Lord Cruises* ; bet like him only in that retreat.
As a moderate Liberal Mr. H. Seymour approved of the
measure, with shish Mr. Barrow found as mesh fault
as be sinvenantly could. Lord Moho meth a long—
rather too long speech, in which be described the Bill
as safer and sounder than any proposition on the
subject that had every been before parliament. His
lordship dealt out tome mousing hits as pome of the
leaden, including Mr. Bright and Mr. Lows. Mr.
Lowe is called • " passionist of human nature," and
Mr. Bright he exposed very happily—especially from
an out of doors speech in which be had "pone of Mr.
Gladstone being Wined in the house by "drunken
blackguards" on the Otesservative side. Sash an
attempt to Male men's opinion Lord Mao compared
to "rationing" —declaring facetiously that he armed
to find some gunpowder under his sent? His lordship
received in turn, a greet maey hits from Mr. Osborne,
who taunted him with the bankropen of the Day, for
thanks of making a point about being equally bankrupt
I. political principle. Lord Riche, said Mr. Osborne, had
that he ',emoted the Bill but would he honer
It when it became due? Of sours" the Conservative
party came in for a great deal of sarcasm for what Mr.
Osborne called a oonvordon more wonderful than any
that had taken place sines Augustine. Mr. Disraeli he
doddered to be only the pantiee father of the Bill, the
peal went of which aa pronoun/4 to be Mr. Bright
In sonoludon, be WA up Mr. Lowe 's ides,
that as the my used to be "Register, Regteestr,l2:
must now he " Edneste, Macrae" in order to maim
the people worthy of the power with which they have
been inverted. After • little warning and remoastraner
from Mr. Sandford, Mr. Gorillas defended the Bill sad
the Government from a liberal point of view. After
this Mr. Reinstate and Lord Enters Cull undimmed
the Bill, and Mr. Lang supported it. The debate wee
brought to • oonalneson with expiated reply from the
Chancellor of the Inchequen wino v4Jlt.. the
consistency of the Gunmen, and iserunented with
playful IMOMM on the sneaked of Lord Onshore.
and Mr. Lowe. For the gloomy prognestketions of the
noble lord be had respect, benne he knew them
to be encore • but for those of the right boa. gentle.
man he confined be had an opposite sentiment. In
oonclesion be said : I do not think myself that the
country is in danger. I think England ix sale in the
race of men who inhabit bet—that the is safe in
something much more precious than he aceuroulated
capital—her accumulated esperienee--(theers). She
is safe in her national &Annie in her fame, in the
traditions of a thotmand year& mad in that glorious
future which I believe snits her. (The right hon.
gentlemen rammed his seat amid loud cheering). At
ten AMMAN twat midnight the speaker put the queslion
that "this bill be read • third time," which nil
agreed
with • hearty shout of "Ay.," the only " No";e7t
• very faint one from Colonel Williams, the member
for Marlow. The subsequent queithn, "that the Bill
do now palm" wee Carried =id load and general
sheering.
Tneeete.—Sir R. Palmer moved the mend readies
of the Increase of the Eplaeopate Bill, which was
opened by Mr. Gilpin who moved is rejection. After
a short delete a Minion took Olen, When there we.
a majority of eleven in favour- of the suced reeding.
The Tests Abolition (Oxford and Cambridge) Bill was
read a third time and passed, and Sir C. O'Loghlen then
moved the third reading of the Libel Bill. Mr. Ayrtoo
opposed the Bill, mad in the dune of his epee* the
House was counted out,
TRIGISDAT.—Into committee of supply, on the vote of
£41,479 for the nonionforming, sending, and protestant
dissenting ministers In Ireland, Mr. Hadfield objected to
the vote, and addressed the House at some length
against it, contending that all andowmeuts were
mischeivona He moved that the sum be reduced by
£41,113, leaving only £.166 for the support of the
widows of deemed ministers. After some discussion
In which Mr. Peel Denim Majoe Knox Sir C.
O'Leglain, and Mr. Hunt aok part, the amendment
was rejected by 106 to 83; and another anseadmeet,
by Mr. Alderman Lusk, tongue the vote by 1:316 3a. 44.
for new eongreptions having also been rejected by 78
to 41, the vote was agreed to. The vote of E 35,515 for
the royal_palaoes also gave rise to discussion, Mr. Ayrton
taking the opportunity of expressing his regret that
while ao large • sum was expended in maintaining royal
*sae total:dent emomcdation could not be found in
them for distinguished visitor,. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer said the subject was under the considers-
tion of the Government; but if all the provision that
was necessary was to be made, it would be requisite
that some addition should be made to funds pissed at
the disposal of her Majesty. The civil list of her
Majesty was much less than that of other
P"ar
There were not pecuniary means at the diapcsalrn
Majesty for the entertainment of royal sovereigns.
Mr. Gladstone remarked that if the opinions of the
Chanatlior of the &claquer were well founded, be
ought to make • formal proposal to make an addition to
the civil list. He mud say that hospitality had been
carried on by her Majesty on a wale little known in
former years. The vote of £100,325 for Um Royal
perks created some discussion, and an amendment wee
moved that the mount for repairing the damage to the
railings in Hyde Park should he levied on the city of
London and the metropolitan districts. The amend-
ment was efterwards withdrawn, and the vote
to. A number of other VOWS were talon In class 1,
or
public works and baildiaga
Fa/DAL—Oa going into "apply, liOne was a little talk
about a question named by Colonel Sykes concerning
the suspension of "storm warnings" by a committee of
the Royal Society, who have takes the, place of the
s.eeeoeologieel &liniment of the Board of Trade, On
the pert of the Government filr. Cave explained that the