The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-08 00:00:00

Imperial farlianunt.

THE AFFIRMATION BILL.
THE DIVINION.
M4IOIIIIIT MIAMI' VIZ GOVIIIPMOIT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TB iffigOAT.
The House of L irda did it t sit on Thursday. Ia the
House of Commons there was a (A alien Immo for the
questions, of which some half hundred were put. • oar
inderable porporlion blind in the name, OE Irish in•mberer
Replying to a question by Kr. N orthoote. the Attorney.
General slid If the existing state of the law did not per.
mit Kr. Brainwash to tilts the Parliamentary oath the
Affirmation Bit would not alt ,r the et ate of affairs. If
it did it would give Mr. Bradlaugh the option of =diking
affirmation. Kr. Callan proposed to ark the Prime
Minister whether the eleetton of Mr. Brailaugh as a
member of the National Liberal Club had been post-
poned. sand whether it ems Astarte I with the object of
areertainisug tis fate of the Adi•mation But. The.
which war apparently intended for .I k lost some of it.
p ent from the el:comet inn that the Premier took no nett**
either of the qu slime or the qu slimier. Mr. Neerdegate,
Halos to reaume the dehetr on the second rerdiog of the
Adl-to•tion Bill. Kr. hid: me tore at the same time,
sot was proceeding Ii address the Hoose when the
interruption
ia. not tibo.r North War.
cproed
j.dupownith.Kr.
Trihriew.deefueb,ter
wickrhire praise led at -ow, length and with profound
solemnity of meaner to dirt's Kr. Bredlaugh. He
prefaced hie speech by an era tunt of the litig.tion by
which, ash. said, hu had endeavoured to vindicate the
author., of the Hone 'of Co omnne It, wal particularly
atoxi.rue for it to bel au lent mil that in toe matter of cost.
not Mr. B &Haug% ova, the bit toe p -reon.ge
whom be alluded lose" the member for North Warwick-
shire."
Ti, I 8 .licit Q.-Gl...rat delivered a climely-reasoned
argument in favour of the coed reading of the Bill. It
the Bid p.m.& he seal, the oath wood continue Ii be
triton by the vast mai •rite of meathere. A few might
affirm who, lithe law were n it alt-red ant if they were
unbelievers, would be cos wiled to take the oath. "Would
you." he asked, amid cheers from the Liberal side,
" declare that tt farce those who to not believe In the
oath to take it was • meterial recognition of God I" It
was sell that tie carrying of the 8.11 would do serial,
injury ti tle religion o• the country. Waa the religion of
the country so puny a thing as to he Immo-DUI by the
omission of the words of the Parliem rotary oath, or even
by the admission of one atheist to the House of Commons!
Kr. °asinine utt wed a series of molars denunciations of
"this moot bleomened Bill." Mr. H. Fowler gave the
most unqualided dented to t'm statement that the great
mai write of the Wesleyan body are opposed to the Bill.
Mr. O'Brien opposed the Bull, not became' It offered or dia-
toms.' with teieratioa o' the nr., dist kin t, but tmoeuse
it watt juet as fez es es rename In the Liberal paractsatt,
the moment re ot required. Kr. D Gri ea repreeentiag
• million people, would vote for the B It. Kr. U anthem
opposed it in • speech which oral e 111,1•11C1111 literally 10
an empty Howe, th-re being no other member proems
-saint lb., Soeater in lb t essir. A few azimut ra tstar
half • dose,. Ulettliiere errs, in, but the boo.
gantlet:can's au-Iron,, at n, title •Xleeilitfi •
doe. n. Kr. lidron•ll.xwell observe' th et it was
sometimes said that titth Preelyterians were narrow in
their preiju hors. Tofu, were, h ewer ir, not narrow enough
to forget the principlee of civil and religioue liberty. Time
hon. centigram commentel sharply up in some of the
'seethes from the opposite die, and de.cribed Kr.
O'Donnell as "culling phraaes from the kitchen-garden of
recoric." Sir Massey Lmps .t.rt.l with the assertion
that there sal nothing new tube stemmed in the way of
argument, and proved it by dividing hie diarbouree under
two head., one bang dee iterl to demonstrating that the
Bill was devised to bring in Mr. B-adteugh, the other that
it was an attempt to destroy religlom in the Conalitatioa
of the countrr, to auchristianire Parliament, and scan Je-
lin the meta In. The hen. gentleman .t one time railed
ttt eomewhst dull aseetu'dy by d clneing that issatlemee
op posit* were about to vote for the Btll against their con-
ecteatioue C Coiont. There were Wale cried of " With-
drew r an. ererei ty • .t trdy cheer from Kr Aldermaa
F Bit it wee not the met that the matter was
worth pursuing Sir Mouser L /pee was himself hOtalle••
ally disturbed by members popping up from variousrkr:l
of the House order the impresiion that he had tubbed
his speech, an idea fat wed by he hon. gentlemen's habit
of psa.ing after a more than usually elaborate sentence to
pick up the next one.
The discussion was continued amid depressing stream-
atesCes as far as the *odiouso was c Jocenzed by Kr. A-
O'Connor, Mr. 0' S mughnetly, Kt Ritelle, Sir J.
Mennaway, Mr. Welter, Sr John Kewbray, and Kr.
Go.chen, who heartily mop rrted the Bill- Just bolsi,
midnight But Stafford N irthc roe., the Rinse at this
time beiog full in anticipati to of toe dividon, About •
dozen pr-rs had come down, half lilting their portion of :
the gatlory, all the otan benches appropriated to strangers
belies densely crowded. A great number of members who
bad not ellettred seats on the door of time H use thronged
the patentee on bah sidle.. Sir Stafford Norte.: ote, who
did not speak at great length, devoted himself chiefly to
explaining how, haring on more than one occasion declared
that the question ought to he dealt with by leguhttion,
was now nominally leading the Opposition to the only
possible form of heeislation. Lord Harlington. Into roes
twenty minute. after midnight.. was receivel with loud
cheers from the Liberal benches. Lord Hartingtou
replied on the detests, coneluding his speech shortly
after one o'clock this morning. Lord Krnsington
telling for the Ministatt el side coming in first fore-
b ideal the lame of the division and the excitement
grew in intensity. When Lord 11 chard Oroevenor. telling
for the other aide, appeared ant walked to the right to
take the position of the defeated teller the truth was
known, and a will clue, went up from the Conservative
beechen. Mr. Ceiba, sten ling amid the throng at the
bar, insisted upon shakin hand. with Lori Heory
Lennox. who stood near him. When the figures were
announced, eliowing thot the amen meat had been
carried by 292 votes agelost 2%, • some of frantic excite-
ment followed on the eousery•Cve benches.
Members leaped to their feet on the bunch,. and waved
their hate One enthusiastic gentlemen threw his hat
up and swirly lost it in the gillbery. Kr. Callan and Kr.
013 emelt holly called fur Mr. 0 • Istone but the
Premier quietly went on wriCni • letter on hi; knee ant
taking no notice. Toe next Bli on the orders was pro-
seeded with, bat, contra., to thm practice of the House
after • late division, member. rem used seated, apparently
expectation of some mote onto. parte Kr. Bradt Met.
Bit that geoid :men had dig .ppe trod I,lll3lwlistoly after
the alloolloC mint 01 In. di•iiiiol, and toe rmaining
order. disp used of, the Hearne adjourned at 95 minutes
to two.

There wai a very lam attendees, al membeis.
especlslly oa the Coneervativs aide of the Hnom. The
Peers and other gallirien were alio densely crowded.
MR BRAS/LAUGH AND THE HOUSE.

_
At helf-plet four o'clock the Spuiker roes and slated
that be hit received • letter from tile hon. member for
Northampton, requestinf him to call the hoe. member
at ths proper time ti the table for the purples of tek.
in the oath requirot by law, and also thtt in support
iif the claim he might be bawd at the her. The right
hen. gentleman added that before be would comply with
the regent he should r quire fresh instructions from the
Houma

—There were loud Tory cries of " Gla to me." "Gladstone."
but the right hon. geo leman mate no sign.
Sir 8. N subcsite said that as the leader of the Hones did
not Irk. the initiative, he should offer no apologies for
Catalan forward and taking the *aro' course that he had
done on prowl ots 00 ,111i012l. H. WOUI4 NW.. that those
Who had suisested the resolutions which he had before
proposed remained of the same opinion eta and he woold
propos, the ••me reeoleti in. the effect of wh.ch wool.' be
to exclude Yr. Bradlaulth from taking the math. With
now: to the request of Kr. B-adlangh to he hemd at the
her. he himself saw no objection to it. The right hoe.
gentleman then handed to the Speaker • resolution to
thS effect above stet ul.
Gladat,oe. who was under the Impression that Si,
S. Northoote had moved tkitM.. Bradlaugh be heard at the
bar. expesesed his aptirovai of the course taken.
Sir S. Northcote explained that he bad not done so, and
Mr. Gladstone gave way.
Mr. Labouchere f ermolip moved that Yr. Bradlaugh be
heard or the bar.
Yr. Waitangi% steadies at the be,, then addressed the
Lesveing briefly to the citounletene/a unites
Which ho °wised t., take hot seat, he aeleicl iodulgrnie in
the unplement position in vrlnch be to ui hime If. He
bad enj 'Ted the privilege of an uniwcro m..mber, and
beim in bearingof everythioe that had taken placl in the
debate on the Affirmation But, while he had been pre-
cluded froin expresses diluent, no matter how false he
knew the chorea' made mtainat him to bo. His con-
stituent. hvii the light t tete • does and two votes.
(Hear, hear.) They had chosen him three times in this
P.rliament VW their member. and if he were a. vile., some
member. had choeim to deseribe hum that vilenem imposed
no legal disqoaliacition. and no one within thoe, wan
had • right to obailsaga the return of hie constituent..
(11. m. hese.) Th. 1.. required him to take hi, ~a, and
np mei a penalty up so bias If he di4 not do so, mid any
hiu•irmaN. to his taking his sat which was not imagined
I by lea WY a g meant wrong 17 whoever committed. The
mere fact of • msjority of •0 cgs in one chamber having
revealed him from ellfulaing to the law In no muse
the isjostios sad illegality of the (sot. Zs had