The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Manhood Suffrage Association bed • meeting hat
week, to stir up the Manchester public with reference
to Parliamentary Reform. Alderman Heywood, a
staunch democrat, ocicuried the chair, and thissaesting
iesolved that having witnessed the bachwardsees ot
Parliament in dealing with the all-important question
of Parliamentary Reform, and believing that there is no
hope for the people except in their own united eforte,
it pledges itself to unite and WM all legitimate means bv
obtain such a measure of reform is will neve s full
and fair representation of the people, whieh ean only
be done by conferring the franchise upon every wan of
sane mind, and not under conviction for crime, by
guarding its free exercise by the adoption of the ballot,.
and such a re-distribution of Beanies will or. • majority
of representatives to a majority of the population.
It is stated that the Liverpool licensed ricessensis are.
to apply for • local bill to regulate the groats, of
licenses. The chief features of the proposed measure
are that any person of respectable character, sad occu-
pying suitable premises, may obtain • hoses. if his
premises are rated at £5O • year, and by paying £3O per
annum for his license, the £3O to be appropriated to
the borough fund ; and that, before applying for •
license, an applicant must advertise for three weeks in
the newspapers, and give references to two or more re-
spectable householders whose premises are rated within
the borough at not less than £5O; and that these
householders shall give a bond for the payment of Imes
for misconduct, &c., incurred by the person lionised.
The bill provides that persons already licerned shall no*
be charged a higher scale of duties until 14 years after
the passing of the act, and shall be exempt from the re-
qulrementa as to finding securities; and further, that,
they shall be entitled to the renewal and transfer of
their licenses, as at present. The bill also makes pro-
vision for dealing with objectionable houses which en-
courage disorder, and proposes that infractions of the
law proved against beerbonse keepers thrice in the epees
of three years shall be punished by the beerhouss
keeper's license being taken away, and not renewed for
three years.
The Queen has approved the appointment of Sar
Charles Trevelyan as a member of the Council of the
Governor-General of India—Times

Mr. W. H. Ashurst has been appointed solicitor to
the Post-office. His claims for that position were sup-
ported by high commercial testimonials cadi
strengthened by the recollection of the services of his
late father, twenty-three years ago, to the cease of Poet-
office reform.
Mr. Deeded, RP., has publicly stated that this
rumour of his intention at the close of the present Par-
liament to retire from the representation of the &astern
Division of the county of Kent has been propagated
without his sanction, authority, or knowledge. He
also denied the truth of a rumour which, he was in-
formed, had been spread abroad, to the effect that he
was a confirmed gambler.
WINLOCIC CL1113.-At the annual mending,
which was held on Monday, Sir B. Leighton, in, re-
plying to the toast of " The County Members," *peke
at some length in defence of the Highways Hill, end Ws
remarks appear to have been received without *Wes
tion by the audience. He did not, however, verdant to
so much as mention the new Game Bill.