The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCULESTER.. TUESDAY. APRIL 90. VW.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

During thlll brief respite of the Home of Commons
from the onnaidemtion of the Reform Bill, the
question of the amendment of the representation has I
bees dimmed with all the fervour of popular oratory
at essemblies in all parts of the country, under the
anspioss of the Reform League. The rank is some-
what curio... lo many mass, while the Govern•
meat Bill was unequivombly denounced in the
resolutions, the whole manor of the speech.' was in
favour of the household suffrage Mins of that messers,
with efforts directed to removing in committee the
two years' residence qualification, and placing the
compound householders in the matter of paying
rates on the same footing mtbs misting eleotom
At Birmingham, Mr. Jobe Bright made a great
speech. Re remarked, is a satirical vein, on the
changes which bed come over the Tory party in the
Home of Commons concerning reform slum last year,
be contended against the rating provision, and he at-
tacked the residenee chime, observing

" If • man comes into a house on the Ist of August he
imansot vote for two years and four months if the bill
POMO • and if • man comes to Birmingham from London
sokai;obaseer, and takes • shop in your beat striset—a
semi duo not Ow. • vote without • resideoce slim the
314.1 Jaly, 11367—h0 cannot have • vote until the lat
a Desesber, 11370."

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He elaboestely Grimed that there was no compar—
ison between Mr. Glandstones bill of lest year and
Mr. Disraeli's of this year, and be said—

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" I as, not in favour of pursuing phaetons'. I have
spud 26 years in public life and polities] onestioes, but
who are my greatest opponents. wherever they
easy be fatted, will say of me that I have always pursued
solid and great objections in my political warfare.
phanitoms which Illy as fast as I can perene. I
was • solid and great object to struggle far the disoli.
lion of the Corn-laws It was a rest object to labour
for the correction of the enormou. and multitedinoue
abeam; of oar tariff It was a great obieet 441 strive for
the mnabeipatior of the newspaper press It is a great
object tauten,' the Alerting" of our anuient and noble
Inetitntione to the 'rest mem of the peeplill—(ehson).
I would therefore rather sot now 'begin to Pursue
phantoms which fly as fast a• I eon purse. I
em not about ton y tt-st there should he no rental, no
value, no limit—that there should be nothing other
than absolute manhood muffrage ore pure and simple
Iseraseheld mama*. I net any man who desire* man-
hood suffrage to come with tee and my colleague to sit
for a woke with as and see what there is in front of
is, what there is behind, and what there is wound us
of rottenness and ineeeurlty_(obs.,.n) end wb.e
you
bare seen all this I undertake to is. 7 that you will
be rh•l to strive for and to aesept any real, great, and
sisbetantial gain for the people, although it may not be
the whole thine, or near the point to which your
empiretions eztood."
Re dimenanoed "voting ropers," upbraided tit* in-
dependent L.berds, and generally pee the Hones
a horribly bed abstractor, ride
"This Rosen of Commons, I will undertake to my, i
by far tls most corrupt that his been elected and
seeembled sines the Reform Bill. I as, not able to say
what it has trot to mat the 630 lavishers in that
Ham, bet if I said It had east them and their friends •
noillion of mousy I should be a long way under the
mark. I believe It has met more to teat those 1160 men
there than it has cod to seat all the members of all the
other representative and legialative asiemblies in the
world that are now in cantonal in different countries
of the globe."

Ho urged fee mown tlbst bed slrewl• attended
thew distionetretione in compelling the Government
40 bring in a Bill mut be followed by still greater
mostiato :
"Tho rich people in the west end of Lon•en cannot
Owed perpoOtally the exhibition of fifty or a blanched a
• handrail sad fifty slimmed ewe amiss .kg
artn, "In obit ad from lb* CoosthoUou Of our

country; We ore lot Woking to Injure you. We are not
men of stole:me of whom bon need be afraid; leek theme
is the Coastitudon, and wedeln ander tee eosodtiltion
to ban the right to vote for metabers of the Rouse of
Commons.' Let Mr. Beaters orll lib friends in London ;
litthe working men evety*bere by great meetings--the
greater the bettor --spearmint aod orderly meetings,
pussies Domed and rational and firm reeolutions—let the
make 10 appear to every person, from the humblest in
the I.nd to the Qseen upon the throne, that there is a
general, a wide, a universal, and a etreegthenlng senti-
ment that what stiffs is not longer tolerable, and that
something better mast he established. I give you my
word—l never saw anything with n more perfect eon-
114enee—that I speak the truth, that you have only
thes to meet sod tbas to speak, sod the harriers which
stand before you wilt fall at your words, sod before
loog, it may not be this session, it may be next—you
will he adveitted to •frank and genera.i and liberal sod
sathoisetory es emir, of tbe elector.l franchise guarenteed
by the Constitution of your eountry—(lotid cheers)."
The West Riding of: Yorkshire held a oreat demon.
stratioa at Leeds on Tuesday, and pared resolutions
declaring the Government Reform Bill to restrictive
and strange admizture sympethising with the woes
of Ireland. Mr. Beaks denounced the Bones of
Commons as • "tree and corrupt Parliament," and
laid :

'These were not the times lte winos matters, and he
' told then% that the temper of the people was now
&neurons. They bad been almost tried too far, and
they were goiag to Hyde-park again on the Bth of May.
, They weee tried of what bad been going en in the Hot.
of Gammons, for the members of that Rouse seemed to
think that they were the sole insiders and arbiters of
the constitutional rights of the people. It would not
do for them to trills with them matters mush longer.'
Mr. Forster, M.P.. followed, and spoke trickly
sod fairly of the Government 111111SSIWIL
"It was the good part of the Bill," said he, "that it
was given, under certain tonilltions, to all householders,
whatever might be the value of the house in which they
lived ; so far. it eras good ; and he 000ld not di-guise
from blutmlf that the time for a C 6 rental or a £5 rating
, Franchise WM now passed. He thanked the Tories and
, the Government for having done this much—that they
II! not base the Franchise on the ware of the hones in
which • man lived, but upon a for better penc!ple—tbe
Principle that the head el a fattily should have a vote.
This Bill opened the Frannbree to 700,000 householders
under £lO Ltd so !'sit It was fos.d."

Mr. &scareld, though not so outspoken as Mr.
rorysir, did not differ essentially from him
"e is not prepared," he says. "to make the present
II equal to what the Liberal party themselves might
have breath' in, but still it is possible to make it are.
ful and acceptable to the country.'"
Mr. Baines urged his hearers hot to I‘e ntented
with the present Bill Miles* it *ere very 'seriously
held modified. A large nernher of meetings have been
in varlets plaosiofletenr note, amongst them Yeovil
and etreet, in Botnereet, and Bridport, in Dorset.
At Yeovil the Government Bill was "denounced
with great unanimity," but at Bridport the resole.
tine spoke of appreciating the efforts of Per
Majesty's Ministers, but objecting to petuottal rating
and the two years' residence sealiffeatlon. There
was no word of approval Tor Mr. Gladstone's £5
rating scheme, indeed!! vise by implication regsrded
as altogether ensitisfactory—manhood suffrage being
apparently the end desired by the speakers
—the principal of whom by the bye, were
in no way connected with the town. Bet the
Reformers have not been allowed to have it
all their one way. Of late, as a counterpoise to the
League, Conservative working tnep lormed
associations in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Dahlia, Htdderefleld, Wakefield, Derby,
and other place' in the north, the supposed strong-
hold of democratic opinions. Demonstrations have
beet held in connection with these to furnish
evidence of the "spread of constitutional principles.'
At Wakefield, Sir H. Edwards, M.P., in contemning
the aspirations of the League with throe <if the
sweetie° Working Men's Ansociatiots beta that the
ultimate intention of the Leases iris to plant a re-
public on the ruins of A inotearchy which had stood
for • thousand rears. lie was loud In his praises of
the present Dovernment, and he asked with
triumphant dledain what had the Liberals ever done
INT the working men of England Mr. Powell,
1i.?., also lauded the Ministry. Mr. W. Monday,
who repreeented South Derbyshire for tote years,
was presented with apiece of plate hod candelabra
at Derby, on Wednesday tileot. Here the present
agitators for Reform Were denounoed as men who
were unable to "appreciate the constitution under
which they lived and moved and had their being, any
more than the rats in the sewers of the city under
which they lived." "The House." said one speaker,
"would always grant, not what the mob asked,
but what the • C,onstitutionalista,' snob as the pre- I
sent company, which he regarded as the bone end I
sinew of the country, desired." The emelt of the
week's meetings cannot be regarded with entire I
satisfaction either by the Conservatives or the I
Liberal& The Government measure presents
features which have been vigorously assailed, but it
has been impossible to ream any enthusiasm in
favour ot Mr. Gladstone's £5 rating scheme. It now
remains for the wisdom of Parliament en as to amend
the measure that its objectionable features may be
removed, and its clauses be framed noes to constitute
• Bill which shall effect • final settlement of the
question.

Parliament has now to tncounter the toughest
bit of work of the present session or many previous
ones. The labour in Committee on the Reform Bill
is likely to be arduous and protracted, in bpite of the
decision in favour ot personal haing and the with.
drawal of Mr. Gladstone.* amendment.. lithe Liberal
party is not to light any more pitched battles under
its recognised leader in the House of Commons,
there will be plenty of guerilla warfare, ard in some
oases we are likely to have what the Americans call
a "free fight" in the Coestoittee—of • more moral
character though, and not of a physical one after the
fashion of Coegresa Though the question of personal
rating is settled, Mr. Hibbert's amendment to
enfranchise compound householders on their toder•
biking personal payment of the cotpiMod, instead
of the full rate, has still to he eonsidered. Then
there is the question ofretitience, and we may expect
a determined efirt to reduce the term from two years
to one year. The lodger franchise, also, is likely to
occasion not a little discussion. And on none of
then questions, if they are put to the vote, can the
Government depend on the same majority whieh
supported them on the question of persona! rating.
However, it ie maid that Ministry will not insist
further on their own proposals, but will defer to the
manor the Committee. Bothattbe Bill will passafter
a searching dieeitseion of its details, and without
changing it into • Gladstooian Bill, bemuse the
personal rating qualification is in itself sufficient to
characterise Mr. Disiael's measure.

The Luxemburg question we are glad to learn is
to be nettled amicably, being referred by mutual
consent to the arbitration of a London sonfisrenoe,
and Europe is spared the terrible slaughter which
would have reunited from a struggle for European
supremacy between France and Russia. The moral
pressers exercised by the great Powers on the Berlin
Cabinet in the interests of peace, and the fact that
Queen Victoria has exhorted the King of Prussia to
spare Europe the m.lamity of a war, has no doubt
led to this happy result Princes it is stated, will not
agree beforehand to the conditions of the neutralisa-
tion of the territory of the grand Duchy and the
evacuation and demolition of the fortes= ; hot she
engages to sooapt the terms upon the proposal of the
Conference, and upon the understanding that their
execution be placed under European guarantee.
From Vienna, it is stated that the Duke de
Grammont has declared to Baron von Beast that
France has no desire for territorial aggrandisement,
and demands only the evacuation of the fortrees of
Loremberg, and that when this has been complied
with France will observe the most conciliatory oon•
sideration for the military susceptibilities or Prussia.
The Cheererr congratulates humanity on its temps
from • war which mold only bring disaster to all
Europe and calamity to mankind. The Time.
expresses great satisfaction with this solution of the
difficulty, and says, " As lovers of poetical justice
we might wish that 1867 should repair the blunder
of 1839. At that epoch, we know, Luxemburg was
divided into two parts, not because its Eastern
inhabitants showed greater attachment to the
Netherlands Government than their Western
brethren, but simply because the tide of revolution
broke against the ramparts of the impregnable
stronghold, and the Prussian garrison upheld the
righta of the King of Holland, with
those of the German Coofederation. As (1„,...y
is now ready to waive her . titles, and the
King of Holland, by his eagerness to
• sell the Lc:embargoes,' has forfeited the dignity
of • true sovereign, • re-union of the dissevered
members of the small province, and its entire incur.
potation with the Belgain Monarchy, would seem
the simplest as well as the most equitable arrange.
monk"

The importaat question of Accidental Death

Insurance, raised by the non•payment of Mr.
Jefroook's policy, on the ground that the voluntarily
incurred risk of death and thereby vitiated the
• I. still the subject of correspondence. The
Secretary of the Company in which Mr. Jeffoock
was insured, writes in defence of the nonpayment.
He gays it frequently happens that insurers have
two professiona—the on. dangerous, the other not.
They pay the non-liasardone rate of premium, and
then, if they incur an accident in the avocations
against whose perils they have not insured, they
expect to receive oompenntioo as if they had so
insured. It not onfrequently happens that, where
risk beyond that insured is incurred, the company
pay, especially if the, be a widow and children
involved. Bet in this ease there is neither widow
nor children, and the money would go to build
a ()bomb, and the directors, therefole, have
a perfect right to exercise their discretion in favour
of their proprietary. The secretary goer on to make
the following startling statement, whioh mans to
imply that there are a large number of uodisoovered
crime of the most heinous kind constantly
lag —" I vesture to used Ilia the mow& 1714.
company could dining lons of the wank nolowook

of egisidist Ihibied death, and of the yet higher crime
eh:oh this or any age has ever witnessed. An
elaborate machinery has enabled no to detect such
mimes, and racist the claims founded upon them.
It is not in the interest of our business or of public
Imorality that we should proclaim the detail.. We
venture to demur to the last sentence, if it means
that the pichlic interest would not he mewed by a
discovery if them mordant. Booloti qerit Ply can-
not benefit by hoshiog them Alp. On ale either
hand we fled that the Railway Passengers Assurance
Company, of which Mr. Vian is secretary, recognises
murder as an accident, when unprovoked and not
the result of brawling and fighting. The late Mr.
J. Pune, of Birmingham, recently murdered, was
insured by this company against sooidents, and will,
we are told, be 'castled to the £l,OOO, for whioh be
had insured.

The Cattle Plague lingers, notwithstanding that
on several occasions blank weeks have been reported.
There was no case again during the week ending
April 13, but the return for the week ending
Saturday, April 20. reports two fresh outbreaks,
embracing five attacks. One occurred on premise,
containing three °owe, in the petty setsional division
of Bauewell (county of Derby), and the other on •
farm hasten a stook of 25 cattle, in the petty
esesional division of Barton on.ilumber. In the
former case one cow waa attacked, and less hired
by order of the inspector; in the latter, four steers
contracted the disease, three ri! whisk were killed
by order of the inspector, and one died. The total
number tf cattle reported to have been attacked in
Great Britian time the commencement is 253,902,
and 52.703 animals have been slaughtered healthy
to prevent the spread of the disease.