The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-25 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHIONTIM, TUZSD AY. JUNI U. Mt

NOTES OF THE WEEK,

The Whit Reform Bill hes made suhsteatial
propose dating the pest week, nolkwititstending
several dMermised efforts at obstrootioa by an
adverse vole as some leading feature in the
Ministerial programme. Mr. Disraeli resisted Mr.
Laing's ameadeasat for giving a third member to
six large barns (with a motion in proved for
munelative Teeing), to the sztess of threaeseing a
dissolatice, sad that Intimation, with all its conse-
quences of enreeklag the Reform Bill, renewing the
agitation on the sebjest, and media' the Opposition
to their onestituenoies as the obeirselers of • larger
nemenre of eaframohisemsnt thee • Liberal Ministry
aver proposed, bed the easel of eseetriag the votes
of upwards of Sweaty of the indepeadant Liberals,
and Ur. Glider:44'e party ematination
though the inakeity of eight in ?e'en, of the
Miaisky wee remiss defeat reek* too olose le be
plisses% while it is sow said shot the Home will
Nola be tested on the Nubia* The mogul salon,
halthsertedly proposed by 11r. Disraeli, betimes
the Mentopolitan sad vigorous University of Leedom
and the sectarian sad old-world Dublin Usivereity,
was ateptifed ahem • Wks of divisioce oontrery is
their regatta But the molt imporiatit debate of the
week was on Use ambjeot of voting papers, though
frost the trek it was not setialpated this
feature would be adopted by the House. The
plm that the Perflif•lT'l ills of Toeing palms
would giro facilities to electors otherwise
usable to rote, and would at tl. raw timeineetlf
reduce the travelhae impasses of voters which
area
heavy berthas on candidates, itres greatly outweighed
by the grave aliseadons —that snob • system (meld
grimily Memos* personation, would In enitely
aggravate the prorates of intimidatim, and still more
inorease bribery by making It soh, for iwiteed of the
briber gritting a mere promise he would get the
vote itself. and the clams wee rejected by the deci-
sive majority of 38. The labours of the committee
are now fast drawing to • aloes, after 'Mob there
will be the report of the ootomittes to receive in the
House, when the Bill will be " oomidered as
amended." This will give an opportunity for Mr.
Lowe to makes find protest against the adoption of
homehold 'Mirage, the principle of which, ea be am-
reedy remarked when the franchise clauses were
under dismission, has never been discussed in the
Hones. At this stage too, there will be a number of
small maidens* ohielly corrections of verbal in-
accuracies or obemearitim, for the ROOM to 0004d1b,
sod this will take li.rhag. two or three night& The
third reeding amok tb.rsf'rb, well come off omit
as early day in Judy, when the Bill will, of °ogres,
be immediately passed op to the other Houma What
their lordships will say to the measure we cannot
gam, but we feel tolerably sore they will not say all
they think of It as they happen just now to be oa their
good behaviour, and will not be disposed to mildbit
an obstructive policy. To stop the hula agitation
that hes been got up respecting themselves, their
lordships will now be glad to mei • mown that
would have excited Arms opposition among these
at any other time.

The postponoment of the Irish Reform Bill is
flatting Donn commotion imong Irish Liberal
numbers, and it le mid that thoy will on this
account natk• SO attack upon the GOVornMelli by
mews of • remintion ; but thins is little doubt that
they will be voted down—first, houses tho stows
that Ireland is not at present in • pollticei coaditioa
to receive a Reform Bill will be endorsed ; and,
secoadly, becalms the,. would be no tans to min
seal • measure this sessica, however desirous lb.
Covsenmsnt sod Parlimnont might be to do so.
The Boundary Commission proposed by Mr.
Disraeli, consists of Viscoant Bromley, Mr. Walter,
Brmston, Sir John Duckworth—till formerly
membors of the hoass—Mr. Hormone, the member
for Kilmarnock ; Mr. Gamey, the member for
Southampton and Recorder of London ; sod Lord
Prompt ; and the amendment proposed on chose 31
f the Reform Bill in order to their appoiatontst,
thus dollen' their duties : —"to inquire into thili
temporary divisions of (mantles so constituted by
Ibis act, and as to tho places appointed for holding
warts for tho sisitioa of member, of such division,
and to report whether, having regard to Um natural
and legal divisioos of such county, and the diatribe.
lion of the populstiso thorein, any, and what awe. I
tains should be mad* in such divisions or places"
But tam oosetitraion of the oonsaisdon Is objected
to on both sides of the House. It is complained that
lbws is not ono gratlenian on it who can be said to
irripressat that pablic feeling which hes made a Tory
Governisont mho the business of Reform in hand
MA • single member who has ever shown this Ito
oared a lotam• . oh.* H.. 1...4.4 6.6....
is miry stroogly ropressoted on the Commission,
while the Rename@ selected to represent popular
opinion are, of all men in the Hones, Mr. Borman,
and Mr. Walter, the bite member for Berkshire,
boa of shorn are discribid by Mr. Masai as fg.,
Ileaten of "(loaded liberal convictions."
opposition will doubtless mak* • grand diversioa
against lb. appointaiont of the Commission se
proposed, and will probably be suessedal in affeating
toms change.

"Whither Is Protastaatiara drifting?' is Ow
pertinent inquiry of the Wedgy Register, • Roman
Catholic journal, in stew of the declarations of the
Bishop of this diocese in his recently delivered
charge ; and it thus answers the question :

"Boma days ego we heard the Bishop of
proclaiming. ex cathedra dottrine• ettbay
Catholic in spent and essence that the first qtiestion
which occurred to the mind of • listener was—can this
loan be • Protemtant prelate! His lordship declared
his unreeerred belief in the supernatural priZes of
the priesthood, in the power of vicariously ening
sin, and in the doctrthe of transubstantiation. t more
could a Catholic Bishop, surrounded by his clew sod
in the right diacharp of his duty to his God and his
conscience, do? We confess that the kernel delivery
of such opinions,pronounced in sash • place
Immediately diop.il.4 a oertain scepticism previously
entertained, as to the depth to which Catholic
"prejudices" had penetrated the stolid Protestant
Intolerance of the nation, an odd or • coura-
geous incumbent, here or there, had endangered his
position by saying certain thing, in direct hostility to
the fluctuating traditions of the Establishment. The
Protestant body looked upon men of this cast as
monomaniacs, or eccentrics— persons who had been
fascinated by the attractions of what has become to be
celled emiesiaatimal ministry to the extent of losing
their mental balsam. But it now appears that the
Episcopacy im not Inaccessible to mob appeals to the
i tion. e Bishop of Salisbury has out-Heroded
traet& Th
tualials in the extreme length of him views."

Tbe recent riots at Birmingham are greatly to be
deplored both in the in,ereste of Protestantism and
of order, and Mr. Murphy is mash to blame for
what hia happened. His defiant and irritating
addressee, while they were by no means calculated
to help in this oosvertion of a single Catholic, were
on.. to provoke to fury the ignorant and the bigotted
members of the Boasiab Communion who beard of
them. We appelid • few extracts from hi.
sposithes:—
" Before be bad finished bia lecture. be would prove
to the people of Ettrmingbam that every Popish priest
wean murderer, a cannibal, a liar, and a piek•pooket
—(applause). They knew him, and they knew that he
o %id prom what he said. He was
_prepered to meet
any Popish priori, from Bishop lllMthorne to the
biggest ragamuffin in the lot; if ever there was p rag
IPA bone gatherer In the universe it was the Pope
himself- (laughter)—and what Ite saki was not true,
let them prove it. Prim& (add Mr. Mustz) asked
him why ke was going to risk his life in
His answer was simply ibis, his life wasipestris
hutch of God—(a voice: "AA. it le"). He wes
eternal until Ids work wee dese—(hear, hear). Thep
calitit threaten him with bludgeons and with sticks.
but when the bludireoss and the clicks were going to be
fired at him, the Great Bietnal I Am would direct them
another way :fr God wee stronger thou the
not God had raised him for • perpos. be believed—
(heart. They should walk over hi, dead body In
birmlegbasa, or he should have his Om weeks' say."

H. had tot • boiled( that was • wiled @salad
Popery and trestotail elhiarissig). It wae
building that was • wil en. for de right of speed and
liberty of adesissee —(rri•S shosslug), That right he
would awry out although they disild walk over hi.
body as • sorese—(elsesn)."
" The Roman Catholic priests said that they had
Power to make God Almighty oot of bread and wine.
They ought to be able to tuns all the pebbles into
sovereigns, and not make their HvW out of pew
people. When all the • pieties' were black in Ireland,
why did they not say • hood pods over them, and turn
them into good food I—naughtier). Father dlook
might say • hoed pocus over tied, and tarn them all
Papiste—(leughter). He proceeded to nod from the
itornish miesal that if the pried vomited • wafer—tifr.
Murphy If ha had the etomadmilse—(leoghter)—be
was compelled to eat the pieces. That 101 l he vomited
Jesus Christ be warn oigupd to Os& hial up V*
-4
oh). And if the wise from ix winter, they to pot
It, Or Jena Christ, into ballot water. The
of Pamplona on this point won klowileal with than
of Itonanienn. /4 e Good prove that Weep Maisons
and all the priests in Birodnghem ate themselves every
Sunday monting—tlanghterl. For they maintsined
that they were one and the same with Christ, whose
body they ate every Sunday enorni-4 ). The
Catholic pried did not believe in rid'illtfte le th°
wins no..—( voice: "They like t ? too mu Yes,
they like it to well themselves—toppled.). • poor
PlOOll were treated by the priests as if tk
They were Ailed to take for
granted—{bear, h 004.5

Thies violent twangs., we are told, wan received
with aril. of Hear, bear," "sliest. of applause,'
lantern'," with the ejaculation " ills's" strangely
ML Whaler. it P., bas also addsomed aa
assembly in slo• " Tabansaida," and be bas wits.. •
bog Isitse dmisnic_bk madlase Ss submit ta any
smpansibalbt, 84411 11144 bn. pima* 0 nsalekie

PooWWI froatota of spook Asothor solot who
ham agora IS than Isooblwes a Oolosol Brookhssa,
who is mortal lo have
"At Lewis, Bussox, be had am pidlron. whisk
woo keg:: • fiesfe prison thoi liad steed in the market-
the tins, of " Bloody II•ry." On that id-
tt many of their forefathers had besn roastred to
holy foibles, in accordance with the Romig%
of wet to the knife against all Protortant
That cry called forth the reponse from in
Protestant. of "No poses with Rome r
He thought they wanted • gridiron in every town
where their Proteelant principles were dogging. The
Romish priests were • dark-coated serpent rthe—
(cheers).
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Can we wood*, that sash language, wounding tbe
deepest sosooptibilitiee of the Catholic population.
should bare molted in the tosses of wild diaorder
which we read or as secnrring in • town se noted for
the pugnacious tusdesoiapor its Inhabitants as Shef-
field is for its Trades Union satraps t To our
mind theme addresses, thosgh Dever an true in reek
are painfully intolerant in spirit and sadly envies,
and, while eminently calculated to protolte rioting,
are quite ioomablo of tortbotioi the biters*s of the
truth.

---1;; horrible wiefeatioas before the Trades Unica
Commission at Sheffield eclipse in interest all other
topias of the week. It would seem that, some-
times dipping is the owe of Belt:airy Commissions,
the witneeme bass hien oily too glad to disburden
themselvet as soon they could doe° with impunity.
the most anxious outreges, and even "murder
most foul," are cioalemed with apparent eagernese,
sod, distills
that le some small disurepatioups in Oa evidence,
it is at Sheffield trade societies have
habi ly resorted to Ulnal violence, sometimes of
the most aggravated kind, for the enforcement of
their rules. Hallam with hie terrible bat only
natural emotion, Crookse with his cold-blooded
aelf-posesseioa, and Broadhead with his "I regret to
say" apologise, all agree in the main 6ot, that the
Bbefileld Wades bendable Muo MISS. to seem their
arbitrary regulaticas. We Into* It all sow, at
Lb. pnoe of granting imptisity to at lead three
murderer.; and, after gaining our information at
this cast, We ought to make each um of it that any
Snare trade menages in Sheffield will become
impracticable : indeed, the simple disclosure of the
'sodas oper midi of this organised ruffianiam will
make its detection easier for the future, and so
Wad to prevent it. Mtn will hesitate to takii part
in gunpowder plots and sussesinations, now that
Ow maharanis bold the key which will enable them
readily to make l.s.stigstlo.. Into snob maul's.

The battle of Waterloo la still remembered in
Prance eith bitterness, if we may ja lore front lb.
following singular note in the Situation, a new
Journal at Paris :
" This day is the anniversary of the battle of Water-
loo, June l& Let us not for that date. We have
avenged ourselves on all fore ars who crashed us by
numbers in 1819, 1814, and 1815. We conquered the
Russians in the Crimea ; we defeated the Austrians
In lisle; WO did better than conquer the fluglish—we
saved them at Inkerman We have taken vengeance
on all except the Prassians ' NThen will their turn
come?"

An attempt has been made to invade the Papal
States. A band of 200 armed ma were ease by the
Wilma treoPe to be approaching the frontier at
Twig. Several were arrested, and the remainder
withdrew into the mountains. The troops ham
been reinforced, and are carefully watching the
puma into Me Pontifical territory.

The Emperor of Austria has Jost lased • pre.
clamation in virtue of which all persons seutesoed
for politioal armee sum March IL 1848, should be
Ml, amnestied. The mainly also includes all
penwas guilty of political offenses between the
shoee.named date and tbe amnesty granted on the
15th December, 1866, butagainst *boot Prowwwllll6o
ooald not be taken on soooent at absence from tb
imperial dominions. They are now permitte
free return without any disadeantagesne legs
results

A oollective note from Frame, Rosoia, Prussia'
and Italy, has been prolonged to Use Porte,
urging the suspension of hostilitios in Crofts
and an inquiry tato the grievanese of ths
islanders by commissionors appointed jointly by the
Great Powstro and the Porte. Neither the British
nor the Austrian Cabiost appears to have Lent
support to this proposal.
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President Johnsoe, who is making a tour in the
Southern States, awns to have been gonerullv
well received, especially in his native 'tat, of North
Carolina, and to bar* carefully abstained from
making politico.' speoches.

Maziot-ilion bats soot Ibis Masiogo to the Emperor
of Auatrio :

Isms priaonar of Isar: but do not be afraid. I
am treat.d in a manner which in DO way violates the
laws and customs of civilised nations.-llnuniusn.
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The latest intelligence from Na. York elleowooes
that he kat Imo eeotasoed to •cile, ha' left for
Europe, end will lewd is Emden&