The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY. —Mr. Byltyn prop.mm, when the GO•11111•
meat bill for improsing Parliamentary and municipal
amities, mares on, to engraft the ball it upon it. Mr.
Reedlsm got from Mr. W. E. Forster that an Order In
Connell has been issued which will relax the existing
restrictions on the on °nation of foreign sheep; and
Mr. Bright Informed Mr. Candlish that it is intended
to introduce • bill, with an "appalling number of
clauses," to eonsolidste and amend the laws effect-
ing the inereantile merino, but he spoke hopelessly
of the chance of its being pissed this 114111•1011.
Mr. Neville-Grenville got an assurance from Mr.
Cardwell thatthe Tenn:nor, cavalry would not be elsited
by the process of retrenchment, but would be called out
this year. An important stafenient was made by Mr.
Chichester Forteseue to The O'Conor Don—namely,
that, after fall exsmination, it had be-n resolved to
release forty-oine of the Fenian prisoners now under-
going penal servitude in Australia and Greet &Baia,
• selection to be made of the hotheaded, the dupes,and
other more or less foolish persons who were loespable
of themselvai of doing farther mischief ; while the
leaders, and those who were the originators and real
misehlef-makers—in number 32—would have to expiate
their treason and treason-felony a little while longer.
To meet the complaint of the Lords, " that they have
no work to do," Mr. Hines announced that the bill for
the repression of crime, of which he had given notice
would be introduced in their lordships' house. Mr.
Gladstone made • formal explanation of the reason
why the Queen was unable to receive the House to
present the Address, and an order was made for its
presentation in the usual leas demonstrative manner.
Immediately afterwards the First Minister, apparently
with a sense of the delicacy of dealing with the subject
of pensions, sad so with some elaboration, asked
leave to bring in a bill to amend an Act of 1834,0 r that
part of it 'bleb relates to what are known as political
pensions, the object being to strike out of the statute
some °Mom which have beeorne extinct, and to Mead
others which have been created since the Act passed.
A series of bills was Introduced, Sir Wilfrid Lawson
opening with hls first attempt at restraining the sale of
honors, as he seeks to enable owners and occupiers of
land to prevent such sales in certain districts. Mr.
Gosehen propowu to provide for uniformity in the
assessment of rateable property in the metropolis, and
leave was given to bnng in a bill to provide for •
common basis of Government and local taxation all
uniformity of assessment all over the kingdom. Some.
what beseechingly, Mr. M'Evoy asked leave to bring in for
the th.rd time his bill to name! the Itordesiastioal Titles
Aar, and of enures Mr. Newdegate lifted up his coif's
with a replica of his arguments against it, for the benefit,
as he said, of the new members; and Mr. -77alpole,
also, indieated dislike, if he did not threaten positive
opsmaition. A select committee was appointed to
consider whether Sir Sydney Waterlow, member for
Dumfrieshire, is qualified to sit and Tote am • member
of the House, under the statute 22nd George lIL, e. 43,
he being in some sort a contractor with the
Government.

TOUDAT.—Lord Bury moved for leave to bring in •
bill to repeal the section of the Act relating to the
ni-election of members accepting offloe under the
Crown. The principle involved in the bill was strongly
oppoaed, and ,Mr. Gladstone advised Lord Bari not
to press it, whieb adrift he ssoepted. Sir M.
Lopes moved for a Commirion to inquire into the
incidence of loeal taxation, with • view to • more
equitsble re-adjustment of the present burthen• Mr.
Goeolien, on the part of the Government, declined to
'smut to • Commission, and after • long discumion the
inotexi was withdrawn. Mr. Monk obtained leave to
bring in • bill to enable Custom-hoses and other *Moore
to take part unreservedly in Parliamentary elections;
and Mr. Baines also obtained leave to introduce • bill to
amend the law of libel.

WEDNIVIDAT. —lir. M'Laren brought in his 131101111111
to abolish the &taunt, tax, or ministers' money, in
Edinburgh; sad Mr. ll'Mahon his bill for assimilating
the law of ratio( to the poor in Ireland to that in
England.
THOUDAY.—In answer to Sir J•Mell Riphinaton as to
recent charges in the Admiralty, Mr. Childersstated that,
whereas formerly the Board of Admiralty, connoted of
(oar naval lords, a first eecnteis7, and a comptroller,
there are now three naval lords, the first baring the
conduct of the prevent/, the second that of the
materia/ of the navy, while the third, in &rejoin.
tion with the civil lord, performs the duties of the former
Comptroller (which office is abolished) and attends to
the dockyards. The once seventeen superior officers of
the Board are reduced to thirteen, causing a saving of
121.000 a year, although some small addition, have
been made to Use salaries of two of the naval lords. In
regard to the reduction of clerks, though a saving of
£14,000 a year would be effected by the proximate dis-
mimal of Nome of them, it extended only to those who
had no work to do; while those who bad served sin
years would receive compensation, and all would be
Owed on a redundant list for reappointment in cages
of vacancy. The preseot Government had not dis-
charged any man from the dockyard,, though the
closing of Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards in
October would cause the transfer of • number of estab-
lished men to other yards. It was the late Govern.
meat which had discharged 4,629 men. This
parting shot raised cheers from both sides of
the Howe, each, apparently, having a party sisal-
Seance. The answer of her Majesty to the Address
nu brought up by the Comptroller of the Household,
as follows :—" I hove received with satisfaction you
loyal and dutiful Addrom I gladly rely on the members
of the House of Commons, elected by a greatly enlarged
constituency, to ce-operate with me in my endeavours
to promote the welfare and union of my people." The
chief matter on the paper was a bill introduced by Mr.
Goschen to remedy the patent evils which h ye arisen
from the oombiaed effect oft rating fronebi see and th
abolition of compounding for rates ;and be proposed to
adopt the principle that oosupiera for short terms—that
is, weekly tenants, to whom the Bill is confined, though
still to be rated and liable to pay—shall be allowed to
&admit their rates from their rent, that no rate shall
be collected oftener than ones a quarter, and may be
paid by instalments, net exceeding at any one time the
amount of two weeks' rent,. so that such tenants need
never be ogled on to pay • large sum for rates. Though
Witheringly slated, this appeared to be the actual
provision of the bill; and Mr. (kidney, who followed,
at ones said that it was intended ultimately to make the
burden of the rates fall on Use landlord. The pro-
position was, on the whole, well received, Mr. Lowther,
ez•seoretary to the Poor Law Board, on the part of thi
opposition, promising an impartial consideration of it.
Assuming for the none* his original obarainer of • friend
of the working dames, Mr. Bright, with some fervour,
urged the aoseptanes of the memoirs, as °tie calculated
to removers.' infinite amount of distress and discomfort
from the Oast to which it applied. He invited discusaion
' en the bill then ; but, on the contrary, as won as he
concluded, almost every one went away, and with but
the slighket convereation it was brought in. All that
nes done afterwards was Use Introduction of • bill to
, amend the law relating to the property of married
' women by Mr. Runtell Gurney, and a remirreetion
by Dlr. Thome. Chambers of the subject, by • legislative
measure, of marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
pluDAy. —Soaks anxiety expressed in regard to the
I arrival in London of some diseased foreign sheep was
I alloyed by Mr. W. R. Forster, who showed that it wee
' • Nee darm.—Mr. Gershon could no. promise Mr.
, Wheelhouse, the new member for Leeds, that hoepiteia,
' almahouma, and the like will be exempted from poor.
Wee—Mr. Sergeant Cox, of Taunton, then premed the
neceseity of legislation for trades' unions; and Mr.
Bruce undertook, when the report of the oommiseicio
which has been eating came in, to look to the subject.
Sir James Elobinstone brought on the subject of distress
at Portsmouth, mused by the discharge of workmen
from the dockyard. He was followed, in a like strain,
by several members for dockyard boroughs, notably by '
pis. J. D. Lewis, the new member for Devooport, who
made • smart little rpeersh • Mr. Stone, Mr. Wykeham
Martin, and Kr. Montague Chambers. In his reply,
Mr. Childers urged that the distress in Portsmouth wee
not canoed primarily by the Mailer's of lees thee 900
men by the late Government, who had been engaged
tempontrily for a specific carpal* by the same Govern-
...at, but to the general deProssion in the ship building
trade, which prevented the absorption of the =per-
,' men of the Royal dookyarda In a
= of stopondons lengths filled with illus-
trations whisk be bas made familiar to the °Ad
members of the Homes, Mr. He 'decal, moved for
• salad committee to Inquire into the law relating to
Roman Catholic charities, and sought to show that

that religious body systematically violated tbo law+ eit
Mortinain and of liegistratiote of Baskin Who. he
*sued there ress it shear of astigsotion an 4 relief, arid
no on* interferiag, a division Wu Mhos at sae, *Web
remitted in the ;motion being lost by Sb to 441. With
more or leo explanations mei dismintions. bills .601
brought in by Mr. 84 Aubyn to amend the law relating
to Mining Partnerships in ties Btannaries; by Mr.
Pelwin•lbbetson to amend the law of Lionising Beer-
bonier. The destruction of so.-birds was mad* the
subject of an vs nest appeal 'by Mr. Christopher Hikes
n behalf of milon, to whom, b. said they me a species
Oof
meteor pilot; and on that of deepvim fishermeo,
to whom them bin. act se a kind of seepointerr,
hovering, II they do over shoals of fish. He was
&Mooed to bring in • bill to assist in their preservation.
A. measure for •reendiag the Law of &Ames was
produosd by Hr. Deem en, and with some other formal
matters the sitting cionoluded.