The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

M.NOAT. —Mr. Walpole, replying to • question from
the O'Dooightle, oostredieted the rumour that is is in•
tended to Proclaim martial law in Ireland. A special
Comesis.ion was about to be eppointed at once to try
the prison re under the ordinary law of the land. Mr.
Hunt's Valuation of Property Bill a. red • second
time, and ordered to be referred to Select Committee,
Vhe next five hours of sitting were oes•pied in consider.
ling the Metropolitan Poor Relief Bill in Committee.
Only a few withal amendments were made. The
Shipping Local Dues Bill was read a third time and
pared.

TUESDAY.—Me. &met moved for leave to Woo to o
Bill to open the benefita of an ednoetion in the Unbent.
tiost Of Oxford and Cambridge to etudeote without
obliging them to be member, of. tutelage or bell, being
his ntotion on the example of foreign and &etch UM-
end on the importenoe of dimirishing the
expense of University education. hermfmd Hope
protested euinat them prevail:Poi attempts to dry-ouree
the Uoivvreities, and aerated that at Cambridge an
lea t the University suthorities hmi sires • y ample
teeters to admit external students if they thought it
desirable.—Sir W. Heathcote remarked that at Iliford
the authorities were now deliberating on the practise-
hility of • scheme of this sort.—After some renserks
from Col. Sykes in support of it, leave was given to
bring in tles Bill.—On the motion of Mr. Ifi'legae, •
Sel.ot Committee wag appointed to inquire Into the
existing legislative pr..visi ~,, a for the protection of life
and property against fires in the United Kingdom, tied
the best ussslSS .4 ascertaining the causes end preventing
the freq•ancy of firea.

WID,i•DAT.-7Th• manna reading of the Libel Bill
wax moved by Sir. C. O'Logblen, mhos:plains.' that ita
mmo pemelple is to es A.. the ipasker of libelloes
117utillmh° ut.er sol'inagfaliiathbfleui and accurate ales% "mheie..retPoorint
IT:It'll; tthae
of a libellou. speech, unless be shall refuse to pnblish
an explanation. It also provides has • plaintiff shall
oot meow costa 111111101 he is awarded more than £5
damages.. and (attending the principle of Lord
Ca npbel 'a Art) permits • Attendant to par • aim of
molt y as damage. into enact, and thea.by —if the jury
should think the turn aufficisint—entitke him to reamer
ensa from on unsuccessful plaintiff. It I. also provided
that, earn money is to lodged in onset, a ledge at
Chambers shall have power to annpel lb. plaint if to
give reouri.y for costs before promeding further. The
other clauses of the Bill relate giddy to points of
pleading, the most important clause being timi whivh
pakibits in 'Milner le for libel being preferred without
tho loavg of th• Atiorn. yaCierieraL—Toe Solicit..r.
General gave • resnd absent to the principle of the
BIM though thinking that in some respeste the
eat...sive towers proposed to be fives to the pees.
r.tion. For uettner, the public
u tw"tipillogmis to"irswhcpniehtid‘he exemption Ives to apply would
ho•o to he more strictly dellned, for men not math
the art of an ac.ion might go to public meeting* fur
the purr..e of making libellous ataternestm and the
sting and damage .4 their etatetainis I• in the
polo soati.n end wide simulation of them. Its con-
ca.re4 •arestivedly io the protasesl to make the
iumaker but auggeated earioes points— geol. as
I Ow Provelana resealing casts, arid requiring the e at.
mat .4 It's otter." y4:3•..eral to indietintotta or ',w—
on the Bill was strotatib'• of smendm at.-111r.
Newdegate eas opposed to lightening the r, si osisav
ot n• proprietora, believing that to slut sillu
of Wlly 110 high tom ef the prim ia MO,

0011007, wall very much owing, nod pointed oat tint
repottess were pasnally better pulses of what was
libellous than apeaktra The grievant* lay rather is
the publication of • libolloas Reseal than in the
mere utterance, arld be veined the pre. ttiat by
claiming too wide • limo*, it might destroy it. present
freedom. As to the clause bimetal/ indictment., he
prefere d that the diserstton should be s till the Court
..1 Q,lol.ll'd 1:101.00 Tether It as with the Attorney-
U•neiral.—Mr. C. Buxton tainted out that • rewspipes
editor .1111 only relieved front his rmponoibility when
report was seenr•-• and faithful, and slier be hot.
intimated his willingness to imere an asplenation.—Mr.
been made oat for the kW, and local:mist& the
I'. Chambers tentarked that nn grov•no• bad
...20,ftity 01 giant cantina in enlacing the socuriterso
usid.r which the prom entlod In present
Koehn k supported tb. Bill, rein•rking that IR
provided all the opportunities for explanstion and
aindogy winch an boneet mut eould desire, while it •
would de/erg the devices of dishouset stt...rns); who..
only obj.cte were to get tip actiona and swell costa.
ilr. Baits. maintained Ueda he who nrigimilly uttered
• blander wee 11.0 OMR to be punished, end not to
newepa,nl proprietor who republished it in perfect good
(ditto, and ponilotl oat thst the knowledge lust •list
&bey were Baying would be printed mode speakers more
aLd it. pablillaLltol of alanclere in • definite
form prevented exaggeration of them—Mr. Kw I-,
expreweed Waal bla itotiou in assenting to • prop al to
ettault its• penalties of libel to merely spoken Word.;
and after souse tibesirvetion• from Sr G. Bayer,
Sy au, aid Mr liiiner Gibson in auppnrt of it, the 11.0
on. road • second time, and, on the sug•estina of Kr.
Walpoie, was ordered to be referred to • 601000 Cow.
mitts.

THURSDAY. —The first business was the Navy Beti•
mates, bet before the Home got into Coaniontee of
nu..ply theni was • sharp nisomegon, turning at flrot on
the nemmity of pro inane farther Reform etnuaties,
but chiefly on the plopriety of proaseding with the
Navy estimates is the &homes both of Mr. Cony mad
:air J. Pakington.—Mr. .ladmone asked whether the
Moran 8.11 would be printed by Tue•doy (to whieli Hr.
Disraeli answered "Yes" semen the table).- -Lord H.
Lennox explored the Naval Itetimatee. At the outeet
be stated that this year 1:10,926,266 could be &Mal—
awian:o., totting into eminent • oupplementory Esaiumle
tamed last year—would be an etas., of £491,000•n r
the argued expenditure of 10.6-67. Tato iitor the
effective servals would cost £9,S67,7so—being an in•
entime of I:480,000 —and the oun•alcetle. services
02,000,000, but owe( many item. of these novice , bush
its bellopay, pensioss, noisy transport, and the like the
• druirsity bed no contruL Too number of men was
rednived from 37,500 to 37,013, though from wartime
rens.s the not Lad only mink trona £1,990.863 to
£1,982,0110. On the Ant vote of 67,300 moll nod buy.,
Alr. tiladetione renewed his protest egiAnst proceeding
with the Ultimates in the absentee of the responsible
bead of the Aditaralty.—The Chancellor of the
chequer sequisseed in the poets one meat of the etee,
and, alter • *holt discussion, the Glickman was orJeted
to report progiess.—The Mele..politsn Poor Bill was
read • third tune and primed.— the otitorneyolleneral
brought in throe Bills for the amendment of the Low of
Balltruptey, prefacing his explanation of them by sa
elaborate review of modern legisbn ion on this tsbjest,
down to Load Westbury', Acit of 1861, *blob he re.
marked had not in all points worked well, the Mutt
compluot agoinat it being tom it Interfered too much
with eredilore, and did nut leave them 'athirst!, at
liberty to inatiago the meets of an waste alsoig the..
selves. He proposed, therefore, to adopt nor servedly
the reamandation of Mr. IL ffett's Committee, and to
allow ortelitoni to appoint • trustee for the manadecieut
of on estate; and, to provide for those numerous came
In which the ereditors were supine, there would be pro-
visional trustees (the Begiotrare of the County Overt),
who would aso have vested in them all estate, between
Om adjudication and the appointment of the trustees by
the creditors. Hat proposed, else, to abolish imprison.
meat for debt, szatept in certain came of frond, sad to
extend the Small Debts Act to sums of £3O. Debte
would be proved and dividends declared before the
trustees, with all APpesl where nrotertarl ; the adjniii.
. cation would be made before the Kegionera, and the
proof of disputed dobts, the final examination and dis-
charge of debteos, would be the fun-Boos of toe legal
tnbonal, which he propmed should be the Pointy
Comte, with an appeol talk. Lords Justices. On the
mode of making • man bankrupt on his own motion, he
proposed that • debtor should petition the Court, upon
which the creditors should be coll, d together and decade
whether he ohould be made bankrupt; the arrangement
clauses would he left undisturbed, with this addition,
that • debtor [1•11111 Ills a deed in the Conn dineribbig
the amount of his debts, the names of hie creditors, and
his essets, sod lilt should be assented to by • iu•jmity
of hi. creiti,nre repamenting three-fourths of his estaae,
the Court should have power, after it bad remained
three unsettle without being challenged by any of the
ersditors, to declare it valid. Cm-Anon, however, whom
debts were secured would hey. to deduct the amount of
their security before their debt was mainputed. On the
95.5110. of discharge be propo-ed to follow the (aria-
Hideo of the old Insolvent Debton' Court, and to gave
the Court disereli.m to make the future property of •
benkrupt liable to • limited extent, unless lie had paid
• dindend of 10e. in the pound.-1 he scheme WAS
critioised, and vezMns suggestions were offered.

FIIIDAT. —ln reply to Mr. P. A. Taylor, Mr. Walpole
had to admit that the Mr. Churchyard who him
recently been made a magistrate at Dover was thy smuts
per•on who was, @OEM 7•Are ago, reported to li••• been
coneernyl in bribery. On the motion for going into
comini tee of supply, Mr. Ilibbert raised • diacoassua on
thl manner in which life mutest». on convicts are
can led nut; and, subsequently there were short mamma
on the removal of troops from Ne• Zealand, the to.
accuracy of Board of Trade return., loans to Irish
railways, flogging in the Ann, (which was abolialud on
• division by 108 agsiust 107), ha