The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

Imperial giarliammt.

ROUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY.

Their Lordships met at 5 o'olook.
Earl OBANVILLE announoed the resignation of the
Ministry. The decision of the House of Commons on
Friday but left the Ministry no alternative hut to ten-
der their resignation to her Majesty ; it had been so-
oepted. and he understood that the Earl of Derby (who
WRIP not present) had undertaken to form a Government.
He believed the Earl of Derby wished, as a matter of
convenience, that the House at its rising should adjourn
till Friday next.
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The E;rl of NALVESBURY stated that the Earl of
Derby was then engaged at the task entrusted to him by
Her Majesty, and that it was certainly his wish that
there should be an adjournment till Friday.
In answer to &question from Lord LYNDHURST,
Lord CAMPBELL Per sated his opinion as to the liabi-
lity of aliens to the penalties of the laws of England for
crimes committed within the realm, which by a state.
ment attributed to the Attorney-General in the House
of Commons had been misrepresented. By that state-
ment it appeared as if Lord Campbell had declared that
a foreigner might in this country do with impunity what
would be crime in a native. This, he dealared, was no
the law of the land, and it was important it should be
known it was not the law. Within the realm the law
made no distinction between the natural-born subject
and the alien. While within the realm the alien was
within allegiance to the Crown, and for any crime could
be tried by the same procedure as a subject. An alien
coaspiring to do anything matues in se, in this country,
could be tried for the crone. He approved the Bill of
the Government, and should support it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it very probable that
the Attorney-General had been misrepresented.
The Havelock Annuity Bill was read a third time and
passed.
Their Lordships then adjourned till Friday next.

FRIDAY.

wh.a.

Their Lordships met-a-t-To7CI-oCk.
Lord Redesdale, chairman of committees presided.
The Marquis of SALISBURY, who, coining from the
Council, wore the Ministerial uniform and his ribiuid of
the Garter, and occupied the °entre of the Treasury
Bench, dated, on behalf of the Government, that the
Earl of Derby wished for a further adjournment of the
House, in order to have time to prepare his statement of
the future policy of the Ministry.
Earl GassviLts, who spoke from the Opposition
benches, said, on the part of his lata colleagues, that
they would raise no objection to the adjournment. It
was of great important* that the new Government
should have time to consult the rmouments in the res-
pective offices, to consider their polio'', and prepare the
statement by which they would mike known that policy
to the country.
Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday (yes-
terday.).

HOUSE OF CO_MMONS7MONDAY.

Mr. ROEBUCK, agreeably to notice, presented a peti-
tion complaining of a breach of privilege by • member
of the House (Mr. Isaac Butt), in having entered (as
alleged) into • corrupt agreement with Ali Moored
Khan, under which • sum of money had been paid by
the Khan to Mr. Butt; and be moved that the petition
be printed.
Mr. BUTT protested against the course taken by Mr.
RoebaJk. He denounced the charge Id false, and was
prepared, he said, to prove that it was the result of con-
spiracy. He demanded of the luatioe of the House an
immediate investigation of this odious charge by •
public inquiry at the bar, or, if the House objected
to this course, that a select committee be forthwith
appointed for that object, to sit on Tuesday. He then
withdrew,
Mr. Romulus having withdrawn his motion for
printing the petition, after a long and rather ember-
taming discussion respecting the proper course for pro-
ceeding, it was agreed Vitt • select committee should be
appointed forthwith, and the members were nomi-
nated. . . .

petition wu ordered to be referred to the oom•
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Lord PALAIIIITON rose to make a statement with
respect to the coulee whieh Her ilajesty's Government
had thought it their duty to pursue in consequent* of
the vote of Friday. The vote, he mild, had led them
to the conclusion that the only amuse they oould
sue with a due regard to thoie own honour and the re-
speOt dus to the Howe, woe to tender their resignations
to Her Mojeety, who hod been pleosed to wept them,
and they held Ace only until their suousors were up.
pointed. He moved that the House at its rising do
adiourn until Friday next,
The motion we. agreed to.
On the order for going into otniamittee upon the East
India Loan Bill, a conversation arose, in time tome of
which
Mir H. WiLI,OUORIT pressed for 101:111 'Animation
respecting the condition of the Indian revenue, which,
he contended, could not stand additional charges or be
materially incireaud p how the Interest of the loan IVII
to be met, end whether the English Illoohequer wee
immured against being called upon to pay any put of
the debt,
The CIIMIOILLON of the MltottioUtli hold he would
give the required explanathm ID the oommittme.
After some reworks by Mr. AYNTUD and Mr. WAlo
• tho House went into committee upon the Bill
when
The CINANOst,t,OR of the ExONIQUIIII said, the Eill
merely enabled the bat India Cowpony to False money,
either by debentures or by bonds that it involved no
new principle, and it wee doubtful whether the COMP
pony now needed any Pirlialoonlary authority for this
purpose. He stated the estimated deficit of the Indian
Exeliequer se the end of the Anonolti yes: 1/6/114 at
N 7,800,000, And that the (lompeny had othaustod their
of borrowing in the Indian monermarket. He
non proceeded 60 lIITUD from the gross amount of the
Indian revenue, the amount of the Indian mid home
debt, and the shag* upon the revenue, that there was
no 1.11111100 to doubt that when the revolt was quelled,
and the country had been teetered to its ordinary elate,
the !nal= Government would be able to defray all the
expense, of it. own government. There wee nothing in
this measure., he said, to bring any proudlye charge
upon the British Exchequer.
The clauses of the Bill were agreed to after mueh
dleattesion the amount of the loan being limited to
es,poo,ocos,
The House, after soma further businem, adjourned
at hall peat I o'olook to ?May,

nIDAY.
Writs were ordered to keno for lb* elsotion of mem•
bore to LI the mete masted by the new Minklon on
the somptanos of otos.
Sir W. JOLLIIM 'peeking from the Trossary Benoit,
moved that the Home M its rising do edjourn until
intimating Qat it was intended to mows tho

further adjournment of the House from that day until
Friday, the 12th of March.
Sir R. BETEMLL entered at considerable length into a
vindication of himself from an accusation made against
him in the other Home of having misstated the law in
the debate of Friday. He declared that he had never
dreamt of laying down the proposition that an alien
coming to this country was not amenable to our law,
and that greater misapprehension and consequently
misrepresentation of what he had said it was impossible
to conceive. He repeated what lie did say upon the
occasion, and re-affirmed the position which he then
laid down. He accompanied his vindication with some
rather severe remarks upon the judges who did not con-
fine their declaration of the law to the appropriate place
—their own courts—after deliberation. .

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Mr. WARREN attempted to discuss the question, by
citing the speech of Sir H. Betliell on Friday, but was
stopped on the ground of order.
Mr. WHITESIDS maintained that the expositors of the
law in another place had stated the law as it actually
The subject then dropped, and the motion for ad-
journment was agreed to.
A short discussion arose upon the report on the East
India Loan Bill, in the course of which
Mr. V. SMITH explained what he had stated in a
former debate as to the moral obligation of England in
regard to the debt of India.
Ultimately the further consideration of the report
was postponed until Monday.
After some further business, the House adjourned, at
6 o'clock, until Monday (yesterday.)