The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

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the country. (Hear, heer4re 110 had taken his sera.
but a short time in the Houma of Commons when the
country was astonished to hear that a correspondeace
of a traitorone desaription—treaeonable to a power
With which ocir gracious Sovereign was on terms of
;frienchiltip"-was being carried on under raver of • the
address-and name .of &person high in the lovetn-
megat of this eouiltly. 'Th4 hot. gentleman alag
called to coconut 'hi !the House of Commons ; and
the result was that although in the first instance
majority decidedillt his frsvour, yet when the noble
lord at the bead of this government fraud he ,wcifldri
not be supported by all hi s friends, and, upon 41l!
inquiry, the riattire of that correspondence being,'
folly developed, then that hots; gentleman was obliged
, to retire frolsilimporition;i sad that &radon of the
government and of . the gopie of COM/WM Wee
ratified by the approval of the country. (Hein
hear, and a voice: *°Nerra, be waif, hunted '
death.") He would' not tefer till blitgarto the .-
hem Bootleg= Who left•thb gorarnment He
a ma* of high ability, et& andoebted power'. tie
(Mr. Floyer).naight bate differed from him on laltglY'
ef the questions in that-pertictlar department of the
govenament with which.he was liseraiated—he meatit'
the Right Hon. Robert Lowe ; Init he did not conorK,
in the vote that obliged him to give ep his °Moe, and
he believed that many of the. who concurred in 4
'that vote had since seen tramp to doubt the pro-
priety of that decision, and to regret the retirement
of that right hon, gentleman from office. (Hear,,
hear.) In the prat cession again committees of both.,
Houses of Parliament had been eseploytid daring 'a
considerable portion of the time in investigating:
charges against the highest judge in the land, and.
. those charges, if not substantiated against that eminent:
, persica to the full 'extant, yet they showed such a
,degree of laxity in the administration of Milos th .
he too wail obliged toretire from thap.etssa.wbictil
.he held. Meer, hear, add a voice—" That's a grelt
boost to the oonntry.") Now, in eill these natters'
be believed thanthe Conservative party had done good '
service to the country. Let it be remembered than
with the Conservative party these inquiries were fir*
begun ; but at the same time, on this last ocoraimi
especially, these inquiries were supported by many
of those who generally acted with the Governmenti
and the resolution finally carried Was moved by 4
, distinguished member of the Home of Common
who sat on the Ministerial side. (Hear, hear.) The
'Stehle lord who was at the head of the Government
in all thaw Maumee threw the tees of his protection
. over his .eubordinites. Hu did hot find fault with
him for doing that. He believed no man could lead
a party in this country unless be had orafidenoe in
'those under him; but he thought the noble lord in
all these instances carried the defence of his eubor-
dinettes to the very verge of prudence, and that he
was only rescued from being placed in • disadvan-
tageous and unfortunate position by the action the
great Conservative party in Praliament. (Hear,
hear.) Having alluded to some of the men who had
composed the Government he would rase on to two
or three measures which had already been touched
upon by those who had gone before Moo. The mea-
sures of the Government, as he bad before this re
marked, had been chiefly on questions of finance
and administrative reform. With regard to the
firancial operations of the Government, he had no
great fault to find, except in this one matter, that
he thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer in car-
rying out the principle of Free Trade, was hound to
have dealt Nvith that greet, important, and heavy
burden of the Milt-taw HO had always been a sup-
porter of the raposilefnlei Illeittax. He had- supported
it in days gone by,. q?hes,thet hon. and excellent
man, now no more, r. Cayley, need to bring it
forward in the Hope Of Commons. He had sup-
ported it, now it rats taken up by another excellent
member, Colonel Bartelott ; and he was glad to see
within the last few ,days that one of the ablest
members of the Conservative side of the House had
declared his belief that a portion of the Malt Tira
might safely be parted' With, he meant that distiu-
guished man Lord Stanley.' He had always sup-
ported the repeal because be looked upon beer, if
not one of the first necessaries of life, yet such a
reasonable necessary of life that should enter into
the ordinary consumption of the poor man, (a voice:
"What difference will il make in a qpart of beer,")
that bethought . the tax eaglet to be disPemied with
at the earliest opportueity that Offered; and though
it had been urged' by the members. of the govern-
ment; and nieothers who were opposed to the repeal
of this impost, that the amount of the tax could not
be dispensed with, yet he found that the government ,
themselves had given the best answer to that view I
of the question, when they made the boast—and
that not altogether an unfair one—that in the last
six or eight years they had repealed no less than six-
teen millions sterling of taxatien. Therefore, if that
amount of taxation could. be dispensed with, a por-
tion certainly might have been applied in the rapial
of the Malt-tax. (Hear, hear, and a voice: "That
will benefit the farmer and not the poor man.") He
did not say it would be a very great benefit to all
farmers as some seemed to expect. It might be a '
benefit to thew whe grew an inferior kind of barley
on bid soils. It also ought to be granted to fanners
on this ground, that beer entered largely into.
their expenditure in carrying out the work
and operations of their industry. On these
accounts, as well as on others, he thought the Malt
Tax was one of those which ought to be repealed.
(Hear, hear.) Now he would advert to a measure
which was passed into an act last session—the Union
Chargeability Bill. He knew on this question a
very considerable difference of opinion was enter-
tained among all chasm in this country.. He believed
, both landlords, tenants, and labourers, people living
in towns and people living in the country, entertained
very differeettpinidne oh this question. He opposed
that mearate, because he believed it wag not for the
benefit of the poor_ main—Lektheratiemember, in
the first place, it dealt to a very limited extent
indeed with the question of settlement and removal.
It only proposed to deal With those questions as far
as regarded the 'removals Within a toilet. Now
,those who were acquainted with the operation of
the Poor • Law knew that the removals within a
union had almost entirely ceased under the operation
of the Irremovable Acts—those acts which were
passed when he had the honour of a seat in the
House of Commons. To those- acts he gave a cordial-I
'support, and he believed, so far as the union wear
Concerned, that they had taken away the chigi
'pluses of -.ol4ectiou to the Laws of Settlement.i
[lnterruption by a voluble old man below.) Now
wberf ,Itie right bon. friend Mr. Healey proposed
to de away entirely • with the Laws of Settlement,
he was quite ,prepared and did vote with hira Hts
did - not thihk-,e' Partial maestro like that which
had passed was a beriefioial measure. He did
not see that it would be any advantage to the pora
man to have the right of relief, which he had from
hie perish, takea away, audit the place of that a
right of relief given him in the union. He said that
was no benefit to the poor man. (h. voice: "The
! High Sheriff and others send . their labourers and.
othersito lilee•M the town-".) With regard to those'
obeervatietia, which be tinteratoodtid be made from I .
the " body' below (laughter), be nerer cortid see
that any increase of cottage aoconmodation would
be afforded in the poor men by the passing Of this
bill. If he hid really thought that (t would lead to
the increase g tentage accommodation for the poor
, he 'would have 'given it his support, but he did not
, believe it would have, that result., 'Re could 2lot see
r that it would be for the benefit of the poor man,
!,lherefore he.ebted against the Bill. He would now
' reset to one' of two more questions affecting
,tbel `.li' stitritioinerif the country. These had
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brought forward by private members
h il : mof Comons. •In thia respect he did
"no t t ink' e Government had done it. duty. Take
r'ficrinstanoe each a measure as the Tests Abolition
(Orferd) Bill. The oonsequende of that maestro, if
carried, would' have been to do eway in a graft:
measure with the religious elemenfit the educatiral.
of the elver °lusts of this country, and if done spa*
with in the upper dames, then he thought they
`,l not donbethatothe. psineipte .would have been
ided, and that railigioes adtaation Would have
ignored throughout the land. (Hear, hear.)
he beheved that if there was one principle
, which men tif all classes were agreed, wheiher.,
i belonged to the Established Church or to thole
, ,inmenions which had separated from the Chmtift-
' and established congregations of their own—whethile,
- - were Ron= Catholice,'or whaterer religions
they might entertain—he believed they wee.*
' in thiSthat religion layat the very bass °fed,- '
*ln education was worthy the name thatiwra
.. u pori the prat pranotple of religious belieL
) Well the., he raid upon .• question
that it was the diitxiof the.g,rovereisaut, to have
e up its mind, instead of which they had
there of the Government voting on either side—
, going into Oil* lobby analsome intrrthat ; but
division Was Aira reifi -,ty one remarkable
rrence, . for the ill hadbeen brought forward
we succeeding. railesioilin,• and- they had the
- of the .Exthequelt ibling etie way one
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sililaigabillseli men hi she adt
Obenc,sßrcbequer,uer, whenhe was at.
the other day, *aid the Conservative party,
regard to some possible measures, looked to
future with alarm. He believed the rishtlinn.
man wsknever more mistaken in his. life,
should the Conservatives look to the future with ;
The great duty of the Conservative party .s
niaintain.our glorious constitution in Church
State. When chd that constitution stand
than at the present moment Had it not preei
is ciountry in peasiewhen many other countries
been plunged into the most dreadful wars I
not kept as in prouperity when other Ciogpl
suffering deep distress? Had it not preserved
glorious liberty of the country and pennioal free
such as win.eujoyed by another natiotrizi the
titi,n other countries were trodden down under ,
- ATI Mint', for want

of deepotismi- or Involve..
, power sufficient to direob the destinies of,
Argo Why' Aid the qoneeryativee •
future if ' rf they lOolcod wish
of the' right hos. Beetle-
cedZt MIA diothiguisbed
cou od with an eremitic