The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

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MOIMAT.- The Chancellor of the Exchequer laid on
the table the fint portion of his little Abyssinian bill,
amounting to t 2,000.000, In reference to the Ritual
Commission the following took place —Mr. Monk—l
wish to ask the Secretary of state for the Home
Department whether he is prepared to state what
course her liaje.ty'a government proposes to take with
a view to carry out the rroommendations contained in
the first report of the ritual commissioners? At the
same time I wish to state that I am sure the public
will hear with satisfaction that the commissioners have
recommenced their sittings, and that they intend to
sit twice a week {loud cries of"order.") Mr. Hardy.
lam not prepared to Mate that her Majesty's govern..
ment has decided upon the course it will take. Neither
It nor anybody else is in a position to do so; for I do
not think that the oomusiasioners have yet sufficiently
reported on the subject—(B6lms).

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Tumo•r. - The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved
a vote of £2,000,000 on amount of the Abyssinian
expOition. asonalag that the war sonsmeneed and
ores carried on till the -ad of April, about which time
It would be expedient for the English troops to leave
Abyssinia, the ri.ist hon. gentleman muted that it moil!
Mammary to incur on esp-nditure of thrm and • half
milli.ens, which would be inereaaed to 23.800,000 if the
Government were sidled upon to replace the native
troope in India by Earopeana. Mr. Lowe attasked the
Government for the hasty and precipitate manner in
which they had acted in Rending an expedition to
Abmainia, and pointed out that their deelaratioss
shortly befor• the prorogation of Parliament •On
groesly ineonsistett with their subsequent conduct. -
Lord Stanley gave a lucid history of our quarrel with
Theodore., and justified the course taken by the
Government. Th. debate was eiontiimed by Mr.
Horsemen, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Layard, Sir Stafford
Northeote, and other member.. Tbe vote warn agreed t

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WILDRZSDAY.—Tbe second reading of the Libel Bill
Wu postponed till the 12th of February. Yr. Newde.
gat* obtalnod leave to bring ins Bill for Um ammuni-
tion of Coorsh.rates.

Tiouaeosr.—kfir. Hunk in the obsess, of Um Chan-
esellor of the Exchequer from indisposition stated the
mode in which the Government proposed to miss the
£2,000,000 which had been voted towards Um Abyssinian
war. The Chanoellor of the Exchequer, in his 611•11Cial
statement on the 4th of April, estimated the surplus at
11248.000. Some alterations were made by whieb the
surplus was milli:led to £2115,0110. Deducting that nut
from the £2,000.000 which had been voted, about
111,800,000 would have to be provided for. They pro-
posed to impost an additional income tax of a penny in
the pound for the present financial year. This would
yield something under £1,500,06. It wan not expected
however, that more than 1340,000 weld be nolleeted in
the comae of the financial year. leaving £680,000 to he
collected afterward.. The sum of £160,000 would have
to be advanced from other sources, and they proposed
to take 1t... won from the balance in the Rubequer,
which would leave that balance on the 31.1
1868, at £6,654.000. Some permits thought that the
whole of the expenditure of the war should not be
thrown on the payers of income tax. Their objection
would be met in some measure by voting a portion of
the calomel from the balances in the Exchequer, by
which they were practically applying, so for, the
general taxes° the country to the expense of the •ar.
—Mr. Gladstone remarked that at would have
been objectionable I. have raised a loan, and still more
objectionable to have postponed the matter till the next
Gauls' year. The proposal he thong,* on the whole.
was a judicious one under the eirounatenesa—fiir G.
Bowyer thought it most objectionable to increase the
income i.e.—Mr. Laing accepted the propose'. an
should not have objected to the income tax being in.
Grossed by twopenee in the p.und.—Nr. White entered
his urnest protest againat ILD icoreue of taxation. The
country did not want more taxation, but more economy.
They were expending eighteen millions more now then
they were expending in 1850 —Mr. Hulsey obeerved
that the cut of the war wee estimated at four millions.
where., they were only providing for two. He objected
to reducing the latencies in the exchequer to •be
fieure.—Lord Stanley. in reply, said they had es yet
only expended two million.. The four millions wool,'
be wanted only in case the war lasted • certain time.
but they did not know that it would —Mr. D. Griffith
did not think the country would be afraid of facing the
expenditure. —The resolution was then agreed to.—Sir
Strafford Horthute then moved a teeoletion for paying
the troops employed in the Abyssinian expedition out
of the revenues of India. He admitted that, too cer-
tain extent. Government had overstepped the provisions
of the Act of Parliament la requiring the Government
of Bombay to provide the troops and make advances
towards the preparatioas of the expedition. But they
not only had the precedent of the Government of Lord
Palmerston in so doing, but the policy had expediency
of the worse pursued was no obviou. that he had no
doubt Perliament would readily sanction it. He justified
It,. proposal of the Government on the ground that tbe
Indian Governmeot could well spare these troops for a
limited time, and did not wish to make any profit out of
their employment. It was true that India bed no
direct ooncera with the muse of the expedition, but one
of the main reasons for it was to support the prestige
and infinence of England in the East, in which India
had an important interest. The arrangement, there-
fore, was not unreasonable when regarded from this
point of view.—Mr. Faweett protested against any of
the cost of the war being thrown upon the unrepresented
millions of India and would take the sense of the House
upon the proposal of Government.—SP H. Rawlineon
defended the notarial, and polioy of the war.—
Mr. Gladstone denied that the Government of Lord
Palmerston, in reference to the China war in 1859, had
violated the Act of 1838, for the Act said ths troops
might be employed in • sudden emergency, and that
was a sudden emergency. The nearest precedent was
that of the Persian mat. But instead of following the
precedent of that war, the Government proposed to
make an enormous difference by exempting India alto-
gether from one half of what was called the extreordi.
nary expenses, which expenses in a case of this kind
became an enormous proportion of the whole. Iberia.
foie they had relieved India from • great proportion of
the bargain to which it would have been subject if the
precedent of the Permian war bad been followed. The
adoption of the resolution would not make India •
shilling poorer. What it weeld do would he to with.
drew front India a portion of her available force. There
wan in India a necessary martin of disposable fora
which, if not wanted for India, might be sent elsewhere
with a solemn pledge to India that if wanted in India
they roost return thither. If a eommittes were sp.
pointed to inquire into the distribution of the charge of
the army and navy between England and India, his im-
pression wasi that more would have to be 'barged to
India and less to England. The proposal seemed to him
to be moderate in amount, unfonnable to preeedeot,
with • tendency to greater leniency than rigour, fair in
principle and well suited on the whole to the jostle*
and equity of the ege--(hur, bear).—Mr. B. °oboes'
earceetieelly commented on the objects of the war, and
hoped that a strict watch would he kept over the ex-
penditure of the Government, which had been guilty of
greet waste aiready.—Lotd Cranborne protested against
the motives which had been usigned for this war. It
was wicked to go to war to prodoce an effect on the
immination of vertigo persons. He saw no injury to
India is this Tradition, but he feared it as • precedent.
—Colonel Sekee protested against the argumente of
Lord Orsaboroe.—Go s division the regulation was
carried by 198 to 23.

FairsaY.—ilr. C. Forster asked whether the pay-
ment of rates by • Landlord was a payment by the
tenant. A discussion followed oti the subject of com-
pounding, in whieti Lord Henley, Mr. Warner, and Mr.
Healey took part; and Mr. Oladstoeit who decollatd to
discus. the gaieties, said be was quite willing that the
new system of ration all occupiers should be put to ths
teat of experience, but be expressed a hope that it would
not be treated se a party quaation.—The AttorneyGoneral stated that • payment of the rates by the
WWl°of as theingentof the tenant would for the Myren
of the sot, be • good payment - Mr. Hunt moved that
Ito °entreat, for the onoveyases of the mails between
this country, India, Chloe, and Japes., with the
Peniesalar and Oriental Steam Navigation Company be
approved. A discussion ensued, ahli the beam divided,
when the motion wee carried by ad to l& _

tiATOILDAT.—On the motion for the second reading of
the Inoome Tax Bill, Mr. Darby (SriSibs said the raising
money in this short trey was very objectionable, end in
feat he looked upon it in a sort of political luxury.
The argues. Me that bed led to this expedition were
of a diplomatic kind. As for clerks and employers with
mall impalas, it would appear that the abstract
Ittn)ur of the kOnotry was a great obstaele to them.
In committee he should move that persona with 'mouses
not exceeding C2OO per annum should he exempted from
the operation of the bill.-111r. Hunt gild he had heard
a great lea! about luxuries and about neceseaiies ; but
b. had aaaaa until then heard it doubted under which
sategory the Abyssinian expedition should be placed.
Hie would aak the hoe. gentleman to reconsider his
determination, bemuse be should remember this wee
a supplemental bill, and that it would be exceed.
laxly Ineonvenient to make any epetaial aXialapttoaa in
this bill. The amendment of which he had given
notion yam well worthy of consideration at the proper
time, bet it would hardly apply to the eupplegiegeet
tax, and in fact. he doubted if it would be poseibi• in
this bill to alter the terms of the (alpine], and the
basis upon which the tax wee then imposed. The Bill
was then resd a second time. The Consolidated Fund
(C 2,000,000 Bill was read a wooed time, and also the
Havisioas Bill. The amendments of this bill were
consWeeed and speed to, and the bill was read a third
time and paned.

Ctrrtur HALL, the Annie explorer, lies advised his
friends in New York that he will winter at Reptiles
Bey, and in April nest will start with eight wee for
King Land on his search for Bir Jeho
Franklin.
Illasoarria ELOYFION. —The pall.' took pima at
ll•eohester oe Tieseday, when the esti wit@ to • state of
great excitement. The following was the result :
Bright (Radical) 11,100, Beenett (Conservative) 6,4011,
11.nry (Whig) 642; majority he Mr. iheob Bright,
1851.