The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMON 6.

MOND&T.—Oos or two questions were put to the
Government with the view of eliciting some particulars
in explanation of the Reform resolutions which are to
be proposed on Monday next. The Chancellor of the
Exeheqner, however, declined to afford the information
Ii was sought to obtain, and in doing so hoped that it
would not be inferred that the Government had taken
up the subject for the purpose of playing with it, or of
povtponins a question which everyone now seemed
desirous of settling. Tee right hon. gentleman said
" they had put their hand to the plough, and would not
withdraw unless arrested by the House, until the field
was tilled" a statement that elicited .0011.1 cheering.
Mr. Gladstone regretted the determination of the
Government to withhold the information required of it.
and showed that the Hones would not be in a position
to consider the reeclutions if the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's statement respecting them was to be
delayed until the very day they were asked to discuss
them. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, however,
remained inexorable.

TUrinsv.-11r. J. S. Mill gave notice that in tie
event of the House going into committee on the Bill for
amending the representation of the people, he should
move, in order to secure the.real and equal representa-
tion of every elector, the expediency of electors being
conceded the power of voluntarily combining with
one another to elect their rennwentativea. Leave is
to be asked to introduce a Bill for the renewal for a
sheet periol of the simpension of the Habeas Corpus
Ash in Ireland. Mr. Seely brought forward his motion
on the inefficient management of the dockyards, which,
he asserted, arose from three mum; first, the constitu-
tion of the Board of Admiralty ; second, the defective
organisation of the subordinate departments; and third,
the want of clear and well-defined responsibility. The
bon. member went into a labyrinth of statistics with
the view of Nhowinu the extrasangance which exists in
the dockyards. Sir J. Pakington, after candidly
admitting that • board was, clumsy machine for a
great department, proceeded to answer the charges
advanced by Mr. Seely. He pointed out that his
deductions were erroneous, his premises unreliable,
and his conclusions greatly exaggerated. A long debate
ensued, and the motion was withdrawn, Sir John
Pakington having declared himself as not unfavourable
to a reconstruction of the Board of Admiralty.
WIXINZIOAT.—The only prominent banners in the
House was the rejection, on its second reading, of the
Edinburgh Annuity Tax Bill, and the reading for the
first time of • Bill to prolong the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Ant in Ireland. The former measure
was proposed by a leading Scotch Radical, and is only
of interest to Englishmen in *afar as it virtually embodied
an attack upon the principle of legal taxation for the
support of Ministers for the National Church. It was
opposed by Sir James Fergumon. the member for Ayr-
shire, on behalf of the Government, sad though sup-
porhid by the Radical phalanx, was thrown out, alter a
sharp debate, by 107 to 74.

THoettnaT.—Lord Naas moved the second reading of
the bill for continuing the Ilabess Corpus Suspension
Act in Ireland. The noble lord economist his regret at
having again to undertake this disagreeable duty, but
in consequence of the Fenian outbreak in Chester,
followed by the attempt made by a few looters to excite
• rising in Kern, the Government did not oonsider it
desirable that the extraordinary powers which the Act
eonferred upon them should cease. It was therefore
proposed that the Act should be suspended three months,
at the expiration of which time it was hoped all neces-
sity for it. oontinu•nee would have passed away. The
noble lord warmly eulogised the °Deduct of the Roman
Catholic clergy for their diode in dissuading the people
from joining the conspiracy, and intimated that the
foreign agents who had been the cause of the recent
movement would be regarded and dealt with as pirates
and filibusters. Major Stuart Knox made • very
pointed attack on Mr Bright for having gone about
Ireland eaeouraging delusivelropes. Mr. Bright warmly
replied, and after some remarks from other members
the bill was nod a ocond time. The Railway Deben-
ture Holders' Bill was read • second tine, and in con-
sequence of its crudeness was referred to • Select
Committee.

Bentinck raised a discussion on the
new Court of Juan*, drawing attention to the &sue-
penny between the original estimate and the estimates
given by the arehitests who bare recently mint in de-
signs. Having severely witted the sonauting designs
and the conetitrition of the committee of judges, be
moved • resolution to the effect that the Ceuta of
Justice ought to be built under the sd. responsibility
of ti. Government Tbe motion was supported by Mr.
Powell. Mr. Carneee, and Mr. Dillwyn, end opposed by
Lord J. Meaner', Mr. Cooper, and Sir IL Painter,
who urged that the original estimate was the
closest which weld be framed with the 'storms-
lion then possessed of the renuiretnents of the Law
Court.; that :wilier the Commission nor the Govern-
ment, wee bound by the designs end estimates of the
uchiteete ; sod that the responsibility moot rest with
the Government, and not with the Commissioner,.
Ultifttel the motion wee withdrawn. Sir H. a.,'i.-
I before the Hoses the contemplated aeons..
Hon of )(rime, end the renentappeal of the
with refereoce to the anoossmon of his adopted son.
Lord ()unborn' said the Government bad decided not
to sous Mysore when the Rajah died. Hot under
what conditions and restrictions the young Rajah should
be placed on the throne the Government had not yet
decided, bet all pains would be taken to give him such
• training and eduatioe as valid fit him foe his future
duties. Sir B. Palmer brought under the attention of
the Houma various defects in our judicial system by
which he believed the administration of justioe is now
Impeded. Mr. 13. Griffith asked the Chanceilor of the
filscheoner whether the Government intended to nob
tins House to some to • consinsion in I of the
reduction of the franchise 'rigout affording e oleer in-
dication of what that reduction is to be. The Chan.
teller of the Reobequer replied that on otooday, wore
asking the House to egri • to the resolutions, be should
state how the Government thought the prinales
to be
eontained in them ought applied. boo so
• note of the various nautilus which baboon addressed
to him during the tut tIIII dam and in due season
would answer them all. The Bill foi the eontinuanee
ot the pewee Cornea (Ireland) Suspension Act named
through eitinatittee, was reed • third time, sad pawed,
• clause being inserted, on the motion of Mr. langweU,
providing that pumas arrested under the Act she I be
rested as untried prisoners.