The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMON&

1110111)11r.—Tbo prreent It- Ilonailrehlkg weights and
eneseures was referred to by Mr. I u.k, and Lord
flusters' Cecil obtained front Mr. Hardy the Information
that • new bill on the ankles{ into be introduced in the
present yeasion. The Ch•natUor of the Eteltequer pro-
peed the onntinaatlon of thermal eittiage on Tueedaye
and Fridays throughout the peewit month, •tel after
some dieussion the trillion was agreed to. In oomenittee
on the Reform Frill there wet a long iliseerainn upon
Col on Grott's chore for taking awey county votes
from borough freybolders. Wes it • dilrenebieing
In settee or was it hot? There leis • greet deal .4
differenoe of opinion upon the question, and the
Cbeneellor of the Exchequer giving the ettight of
Goverment opinion spinet the proposal, it wee
eventual y negatived. Mr. Heats's amendment upon
the fourth clause, providing that persona should not be
entitled to vote is °mintier. by trirtue of any rent charge
created after the 31st July in the resent yrar—nith
some qualincations—ransed • great deal of diaceesion.
The Cbsocellor of the Exchequer opweed the clew* on
behalf of the Governm rot. mainteirring that no ir,eof
had been gives of the manufacture of vote*, upon which
supposition the dense was supported. He ientii.ded
the bowie, too, that restriction would prods.' manger ,
irritatiou mod greet vexation of spirit. Mr. 01141.t.e1l I
✓aid that there is no tessnion for proof of Meese in • taw
of the kinel—the objrct should be to prevent the need.
lelity. Ultimately Mr. Neate connected to withdraw
the motion for the present, intimatioc, however, that he
should reproduce it in an amended form at • future
terhid. Mr. Candlish came next with Ms pressed
erneodmett for drberriog parsons employed at elections
U erste, canvassers, oh eke, mermengers, be.. from
exerewing the franchire. To showing the neosseity for
• restriction of this kind Mr. Candle-1i sited tones which
wine open to suspicion of unfairness ; and for, mint wee
that 01 Mr. Neese, who, at • entitle election, bad
sem loyed 1911 persons. 152 of them rating inlaid favour.
In the end the oleuee ass agreed in. with tbs salsa
provision that the decimal Bastion shall extend to six
wombs before and after the election, and inelude every
kind ot employment. There was more talk upon Mr.
Horrlell'a motion ter the addition of the flihelanee of
...thee, to the effeet that melee horonyhs (Liverpool,
Manchester, •nd Birmingham). having meectively •
popnietion of upwards of 230,000, shell return thret
en-tubers to Parliament. The moat effective speech in
favhur of the propoetion was that of Mr. Bright. Tbe
Chancellor of the Exohequer soon gave • new eensetion
to the debate, by not only yield.na the full con of the
three bonewbs, hut throwing in Leeds be way of &Ina
Root measure. Mr. Di. 1111.11, however, iatinsatet that
eying the mem or to Leeds would neers-sitat• taking
one from Belford. Ch Deal Peel objected to tie
arrangement, and delivered biemelf of • phili pa
against the bill generally, prophesying terrible coo'
sequeneem to the Conservative party and the enuntry
horn the action taken by the ministers. Mr. Gladstone,
ebo amnestied I ist, while expressing him linieliutel lot
Leeds., pleaded for a remeno of the schedule which
would be more favourable to Belford, whh which
euppliostion Mr. Disraeli *pelmet disposed to comply.
The clans* was carried by 297 to 63.

?Urinal' —la ensanaiftine af On lb* Reform Bill Mow
was • clio Moe of • serious kind, onnonothest by Mr.
Roebuck. and eluded on mainly by Mr. Gledetoee and
Mr. Bright. Mr. Roebuck had ae odu that S. effield
might be included in then.. liet of favoured boroughs,
end with a view to • reutpideration of the Chancellor
of the Eseiteques pospositioe epos the sebj ot he
moved to report progress. Mr. Gladstone sea sled a
very pretty somplicition of the Government iolan—
nothing lees than allowing the house to settle the whole
redistribution question as far u enfranchisement was
°Parented, leaving the Government to provide for the
aeCeseary disfranchisement a.. it beet could. The deo
was eagerly seised by Mr. Bright, who proposed to make
thinn esti by the adoption of one of two 'quells
afilleelt oureer. Ti.. first was to voonsider the ethane
of amsoitsetion altogeth-r, end brine in another whieh
should inelade Mr. Laing's proposition in reference t
the ten additional mate. Then. stud was to deal in the
p cunt Bill with the entire subject of the franehise for
the United Kingdom, and reserve the eedistributioo. '
question, alio for the United Kingdom, until neat
e-aion. Mr. Disraeli wsuld not, of wee, agree to
either. The opinion of the honer, sa he mid, is in be
gathered, not from ingenious speesbee, even from
onfieential members. but from the motions and votes
Thew at he showed by refereese to the several deeieue I
&rived at, here pronounced in feeoer of the Govern- 11
meet plan, end it would be aloud to ignore those eon-
elusions, with the necessary consequent* of doing the
wink over main. The Government, he added, are not
prepared to support any further di4ranohissopw• is
borooeha, and there is not one proposition of the kind
on the paper which they will not oppoee. It is too lotto
for dreams and veguies, and be felt sure that the
howls, upon consideratioa, would fied it bee to support
the Government plan. Mr. Henley, who eougratulated
the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon hit ensues in
the setter, reminded the hues that impediments such
as had been sninfeeted imperilleu the paring of the Bill
thleyear. So the house wee persuaded to attend to the real
Undue. in band. Mr. Disraeli now proposed hie new
dams for the additional member' for Menabeeter.
Liverpool, Birmingham, and Leeds. Bat when it was
pet. ble. limifield made • demonstration on behalf of
Sheffield, and moved that it be included in the three
member arrangement. Mr. Berkeley pet forth the
deims of Bristol at of equal weight, and wished to
include that pleat in • revised ahem*. This led to •
great deal of tent. Mr. Boehm* &drugged the , lake.
of illtediniti, contending that • taint mastitis, is
particular perusen in that place should not b held a.
emn mouton( the whole oonatiteriwy. Ti,. Royal
Comonimion, he added, did not think Sheffield worm
than most other places. This assertion drew
fork • o demo postai from Mr. Thome. Hughes
himself a Royal Cononheioner—and enamoured Mr.
Glidisto at to route forward once more—whith he dirt,
with the deelaration that if we wish to strike at the
root of ontragre sea as those alluded to, we meet glee
more inenence to the pude, and w pima, them heyouf
the temptation of seeking it by irregular means. He
a onsluded by a warning that if we leave the reprearishu
tic • of please like Shen .1.1 and Bristol on tin-jr pr-sent
footing we shall also have cum for renewed agitation
and all kinds of unpleasant coonsegneues His arip°
saute made no impression open Mr. Dineen, who
firmly opposed the 'notion. There was opposition on the
Ministerial side to this now of the cue, which told in
the o brision that followed; bat the rapport from the
Ultima party was ult.-Mot to dispose of the amen.'-
meet by an overwhelming majority—the members being
122 in (annual Mr. Hadfield and 258 in favour of the
Government. Mr. Bakelite propead for the insertion
of Bristol .hared a similar fate, the outliers being 136;
for and 235 against it ; and the Clinneellor of the
Eschouser's amendment was agreed to. Mr. Beijoisat
Guelee moved, as an addition to the else.. Out the
four boroughs, for the purposes of election, shall be
divided into two wee 's ; but the amendment wan
laughed down. Mr. [light was desirous of knowing
how the additional members wee to be obtained, be,
the Cheneellor of the &Arguer deferred until Thunder
evening any statement on the sehjetot. Mr. lkiwit•
moved an addition to the 17th clause, with the object
of Irving votes to the members of eneporstiont, Dot
neither the Government nor the House would have
stunting to do with it. POOO after progress was
port 4 and the sitting was suspended. When lb*
Hoene reamed a long debate monied on a m 'lion by
Mr. O'Reilly for exempting English subjects from the
ooerationt of martial law, bat the °enceinte it gm
smenbrud led to its withdrawal Among the order-
disposer' of was tlw mooed reeding of Mr. Denman'.
benevolent 8.11 for abolishing the duty upon eternise'
°edifices% an emendmeet postponing the proceeding
for the fatal three mouths being carried by 87 to 66.
Bo the Bill I. lost.
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Waollitansi am, of Matrimony Bill I.
Intended to ',plain the meanies of wrens ends is
the Marriage AO of the 4th George IV.; to declare
the period after the seenod Leeson at morning service to
be tin legal Muse for th, pubHonion of bans, seeording
to the restos of more tbs. 100 nen ; to validate all
pan antarri.ges which any hen been declarer, null and
void merely on the around of informality in tbierespeet,
and to relieve ell cderigmen from the peseln the, oma
have incurred through the selensai-atioa et sorb
marriages—via, 14 yems' penal eerviiirte. Urea tit.
seoond reading, which stood int on the orden, Mr.
Bermford Hope moved • postponement for three month-
mainly upoe the groard that there cettki 1.. to lath
lotion epos the narks.. untd the Royal Commission oh
Bitusli.si bad made its report. A little ventilation of
the subjeet In dismission, however, inflamed Mr. H ps
to desist from la. Mg baud. upon the hill, which was
&wordiest, reed a avocet time. Th. Roman C•thclie
Churches, Eichoole, and Glebe (Ireland) Bill, the mooed
fa...disc of which stood nezt,maa Met oo adlvi.ion by 75 to
119. In committee on the Unif..rmity dot Amendment
Bill Mr. Neste moved • provi.!on that it shoed not an.
the nblimatioo of my polies* or hall to forsiotnio iioadf
n meneatioa with the Chan h of England. There was
very lone said on the subject, but whet • se 14111,0 ea.
decider, for the amendment was d by 92 to RI
There es. showier at this result, and the other clause.
were passed in poem
Tuusaaty.—Th. Hems, after • few qaestions had
been di.powid of, weal into committee on the R-foren
Bill. The Chancellor of the Rzebequ-r pointed 0.1
the neoesalty of rending the Ball to the Hones of Lords
at such • period as would give their lordshipo fell tim.-
to
conaidn it; sad he suggested that, after settling the
dame moved by Mr. Handel eith regard to the more-
...wke of large bomughs, the committee should et
once proceed to mender the schedules, the discumion
upon which would not, he thoorlat, occupy any great
length of time. The richt hon. gentleman also stated
that, after the alteratioas that had beea made in the
°oversewn whew of redistribution, it was not
babeaded to enfranchise the towns of Si, Helena,
Kriging. Luton, end Barnsley. This deforming', ion on j
the part of the Government was condemned by Mr.
Crawl°. d, Mr. Bright, sad othen, hut • genera desire
ans expoweed to aid the Government in creasing forward
the Bill. The committee then proceeded to consider the
&sum moved by Mr. Hibbert on Teseday for rendering
,Illegal the cement of the expenos attending the son-
mynas, of voter* to the noll. On • division the com-
mittee divided by 156 to 101 to reed the clause • menet
Mon Ur Hibbert he 1.1 mended to • seggestios ha
amine the alanes to boroughs, and to ineept the
boroughs of 864b111411, Glad.* Rae* Retford. and
Aylesbury, which are is the nature of 00filliiiS. A
dere by Sir T. Lloyd, enaellac th.t no nennaittee of
any casaidate shell mese seamy hotel, t ...vs, or patella.
imam, sad if there be a breeds of this ensetsamt lb.
return shall be nal sad void, also underwent much die-
.etending over • mind al nearly three boar.
by 197 to 911, they rejected the ohm. altogether.
--Jr H. Verney moved • elanse repealing the dis-
ability of formes employed in the collection of, ce
smumeing the remota. from vottnr.—The Chancellor of
the itx.beiorar opposed the immositioa, thinking it
would Introdues is the palish/ °Mem Llamas s from
width they mere sow free.—Mr. Gladness .les °poised
the stases, and it wee megatheed. —Mr. Lowe towed M
adrl • claims, roasting that at say souteale4 Amnion f.
a tousty or brreesit every voter shell be entitled so.
swab v of votes equal to the nusber if yam* essio.
Ow.sil••411 'sew 065 !Robias apr

distsibet• them moos the candidates as be ehinks AL 1
The system of inajority and ininurity, he mid, worked
well where there was only one candidate; but where
It,.'. free- two or Wore ii bad a teed-icy to make gi.
strong petty stroeger and the weak party weaker. AS
• matter of abstrret jaetice the minority ought to be
represented, end i.e matter of 'ape ti icy the howls
might to she measures to ensure that It wino. Be
belie, d that by these means there would be rowelled
inert of a different stamp a-d character from those who
would be returned by the democracy.- -Mr. Liddell
hoped the house would not determine this matter
hastily Re moved that Dui &airmen report progrees.
—After some oberyvatioto from Kr. T. Hughes in
misspent of the Wane*, Vie motion was negatived by 213
to 88, but Mr. C. Russell immediately moved the
asjonrnment of the dative, which was supported by
er. Nemlegat• •nd Sir R. Psliner, and oppomil by Mr.
tyysen sod Mr. Aldermen Lawrence', end the
Chancellor of the Elehegner baying consented to the
-notion. further progress with the bill on. postponed.
fillOtY.—Mr. Otwey gave node% of his istentine to
ask whether 111. the intention of the. Government to
recall the British Legatees from litexieo.—le coapnitier
upon the Reform Bill the dishes upon Mr Lowe's Manse
fee cumulative voting was resumed with mach spirit.
It wag opposed by Mr. Shaw We're, who said filet the
real gasetioe was whether or not there should be.
representation of minorities, end he was of opinion that
there should not.—Mr. Gant appleuded the clause upon
mediae ground., tint is to say the convenieeee afforded
by the repremintailou of minorities to unlade.... iel
member., who nould not otherwise get returned withon!
making themselves popular —and this, he said, mesh to
the amusement of boa. members, had • very demoralise
ing e ffcit. The repreesetation of minorities wee also
advo Mad by Mr. Illomion, upon the double ground
I that It would edema* sonstitueum.e end rub* the
I shares scot ISSTOSSI ' •! iv..., snit by Mr. Beach because
it would secure • fair representation eci every clue of the
community. Sir Robert Collier said the men.' result
1 of such • casinge would be that the large constituent:ie..
! would be precthally rep emoted by one member, and it
I would, he contended, feed to such • mate i,f lethargy
among eonstituencies as to be productive of most de-
pk,mbi. ee,,„,,,,ene.,,,, —Me Addetiey reminded the
Home that emording to the principles of representation
contabsed in the Reform Act, members are hound to
teeming the minorities es well as the mil irities of Miele
cooldeltwinoimis This, as 041 he supp old, did not
satiety ID. Fawcett, who writhed to mai onessounities
reprmeated, as far as passible, by the establishment of
a true democracy—that is to say, a denseersey in which
every one had equal power.—By a very different road
Mr. Newdegate arrived et the MIN position. He read
extract. from De Togueville showing that Government
may hope to regulate but not avert democracy; Ned he
, gave hie sappPrt to the proposal by way ef renegues the
!experiment of time "threecornered constiinencirs" of
1142 —A great Impetus to the debate was given hy Mr.
Bright, who denounced the fpeeition as the moot
violent attack neon the prima of repreeentatio• that
bad ever been debated in that Deer. The effect of ths
chows would be s state of stagnation. which would
dean, the vitality of our constitseesiee end be de-
Striketiv. to all impenv. meet. He combatted the Mee
that became two member, of particular politic, wen
returned. the minority was not mementos': hocense,
he raid, the mince ity loon. borough is represented bye
majority In another.—The propeition wag supported by ,
Lord Creaboree on the ground that it would :entrain
some of the evils upon which we are just tittering, and
he urged the lion gentlemen on the other side (those
at least who hod no understanding with the (ehmecellee
sill. Bache:pp r) to take a tel.' and oemorebessive view
of the eubjebt without fear of dissolution. Mr. Mill
ergued In favour o film Manse, end remsriced that the
" Conservative speech" of Mr. Bright had not coeverted
hint from an opinion which he bed held for ram
Mr. Henley opposed the Maus, on the ground that It
would do no good;_ sod Sir?. Banton sees motherhood
to aupport it, bet spun when grounds it would b•
di S telt to say, for be °paid not gets hearing front an
Impatient house. Order wee reseored, however, elm
Mr. Dier•eli wise to net an end to the debate. The
Cliensellor of the Exchequer, after It little banter epee
Mr. Gorses allusion to young some.. so •polimeble
to he owe case, noticed moony the •if it. 4 lbs etmege
the neutralisation of 'be ryinime of minorities. SIIII
the evert' ol crotebetty monies" t' to noose • opt
Anally be denied that the Goverament were nicking tusy 1
snob violent change as to render correction neemeary 1
The Ito. that the Hill would change the constitution 1
.4 tbs. sentry wee • now bugbear, in which he ...reed
hoe. sneoieere not to b diem,. The boars bed evideeely
made np ire mind oe the sethjeet, bee it ceemete4 to
hear Sir George (bey, who was favourable to the plan,
end Mr. Lose, ohs spoke In reply. Alter UM name the
dirisios, tbis resell of which wee deetrnetive to all ,
moment chance of the representation of minorities—the '
elan • bens ejected by 31410 173. The letting was
soon alter imapended. At she evening amine, on the
order for gig into 'apply, several "objects were
i discussed, end Mr. Taylor celled attention to the came
'of two men convicted of pomhing user fielittsury, but
' who were aftereard• proved to innoeent, and strongly
condemned the conduct of the miedetreees. Mr. Marsh
' and M. Hardy di fended the mmti-teetes. sad the hottoll
for correspondenee we. hot by 70 to 31. After some
unimportant betimes the Bones adjourned.