The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Moirese.—ln answer to two questions which were
pat to him, Sir George Grey announced that the
Government intended to bring in a bill for creating a
better syotein for the 'append* of fine in the metro-
polis, and.that they did not intend to bring in any bill
relating to church rates.—Leave was given to Introduce
bills founded on the resolutions agreed to in committee
in relation to Poet case Savings Banks and tie tobacco
dein. The Irish Registration of Births and !teethe
Dille Was teed a second titre, and the Irish Illegitimacy
Bill passed through eommitne, dim some disousaiou.
The Drainage of Laud (Ireland) 818 wu ulftwud
stage, and now only awaits • second reading.—Mr.
Cowper moved for leave to bring in a bill to impose?
the 'making of a new aneetfrom the end of the proposed
Thames embankment at Bleokfriars-bridge to the
Mansion House. He said the cost would be about
L'600,000, which it wee intended should be defrayed int
of the Thames Embankment Fund. As, however, that
fund would in all probability not be large enough to
defray the entire cost, it would be proposed that the
coal duties ohoold be continued for ten year. alne 1871.
Time proposal of Mr. Cowper heathen most of the metro-
politan members to their feet, and one niter the other
they suggested delay in bringing in tse measure. Lord
Peltneroton, however, came to the rescue, said this was
only asking leave to introduce the bill, and urged the
importance of the work. Leave wee then given, and
the bill was brought in and road a first time. —The
Cbencellor of the Exchenuer obtained leave to being in
• bill to *tend the malt credits, after having declined
to pledge himself to any measure for reducing the duty.
The House adjourned at eight o'clock.
TUZeDAT.—Tne Liverpool Licensing 13111, which
sought to alter the licensing system in that town, was
thrown out after 11001 c dinunion bye majority of 124
to 188. The South Eastern Railway Bill we. also
thrown out on the motion for its second reading bye
majority of 122' to 111.—In reply to Mr. lkoitinck, Lord
Pelinenton said the Our rennet had no tether infor-
mation as to the naval action off Charleaton than that
whit!'" had appeared in the telegrams. He declined to
give an opinion am to whether, if time orousidanees
anted were true, the blockade had been legally raised.
—Lord Palmenton brought up • 'message from the
Queen, aoking the House to make suitable provision
fur an establishment for the Print* of Wales on hie
marriage. His lordship moved an address of compliance
in reply to time message, end moved that the Honey take
the etibject into consideration on Thursday. Mr.
Di** nomad* the motion. Inquiries were very
properly made by Sir Henry Willoughby and Mr.
Williams in reference to *counts of the revenues of
the Duchy of Cornwall, and the aocumulation• from
that source tiering the minority of the Prince of Wales.
The Chancell,r of the :chequer said the return would
be laid upon the toble in the farm required by the Act.
The address wee then agreed tn—Mr. S. Fitzgerald
called attention to the subject of commercial treaties.
He complained that the Government only sought to
'Aerie tr ivies with foreion countries, after Prance had
obtainidtted.ies with those countries and that then the
British Government only got the 14.10 coodition• as
thooe obtained by Frantz'. The result woo that in d-
amn every came no advantage war seined by our menu-
facturers. In the pending treaty with /tidy this was
particulerly the fact. The hon. gentleman snotee at
some length and with great severity of this course of
proceeding. Mr. W. E. Forster thanked the hon.
gentleman for bringing the subject forward, and made
mime further compleinta. Mr. Layard replied at great
l'sgth, and prontleed thot in the treaty with Italy the
interest& of British manafelettners should be fully con-
sulted. In reference to statements inede by Mr. Heonessy
during the recess to the effect that the trade of England
with lialy bad fallen off &ince the establiahmerzt of the
kingdom of Italy, Mr. Leveed quoted returns which
lied been received at the Foreign Office which showed
exactly the oontnuy to be the fact.
WKONEXDAT. - Mr. Hadfield'e Qualification for
Offices Bill was read a second time, by a majority of
eleven. Lord Raynham was not so fortunate with his
Aggravated Minolta All, which was negatived by
153 against 43. The siting lasted two hours.
THORIIDAY.—Lord Pelmerston, in committee of the
whole Hume, row to move• resolution for waking pro-
vision for the Prince of Wales suitable to his rank end
station. He adverted to the fact that in this country
we had the blessing to live under a constitution.l
monarchy. In the East we witnessed the evils which
resulted from the exercise of arbitrary sersy, and in the
West us saw the widespread misery and desolation
which were sometimes created by democratic and re-
publican institutions. Our condition under the mild
and beneficent sway of Her Majesty wee very different,
end he (Lord Pelinereton) trusted that we should long
*urines to enjoy the advantages we now possessed.
(Cheers.) The House was now about to consider the
question of • settlement for the Primo of Wales, the
beir apparent to the throne, and before they did so be
thought they should consider what had he* dace on
similar occasions in former times. Is 1195, whey Mr.
Pitt proposa an establishment for the Prince of Wales,
there we. included also a large sum for the payment of
His Royal Highness's debts. The permanent allowance,
however, we. fixed at £138.000. it wn not the int*.
tion or dories of Government or Her Majesty that the
present proporl should be founded on what was done
1795. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was
now in the enjoyment of the revenues of the Duchy of
Cornwall, which had been allowed to accumulate during
his minority. These accumulations bad been very
sonsiderable. A portion of them, amounting to
£230.000, had been invested in the punch* of
the estate for his Royal Highness in Norfolk, part
had been Net *art for the outfit of the establishment
of Hie Royal Highness, and part for the erectioc of •
mansion on the Norfolk estate,suitahle to the rank and ,
dignity of the Prince Making those reductions his
Wryal Highness would dill have an income of abont
1311,000 a jeer left. Her Majesty's Government thought
that the sum of £lOO,OOO would not be dieproportionen
to those expenses which would naturally fall upon the
person and exalted position of His Roy.] Higbee=
They therefore proposed to the House to grant • sum
of 140,000 • year from the Consoidated Fund for the
establishment of the Prince and Princes. of Wales, and
LlO.OOO • year to the Princess for her separate uee,
, making £50,000 a year in all. (Cheers.) In can of
' the Princess ountring His Royal Highness, it wee pro-
posed that the sum of 1:30.000 a year should be allowed
her during her life, which was LJO,OOO lees than was
to be allowed in George the Fourth', ctn.
agreed
re.) He might aid that the Prince of Wales had
consented to an act being passed to prevent the
' panting of leases in reference to the property of the
Dochy of Cornwall, or long leases with fines, and re-
quiring it to be managed in future in the way
in which all other property we. managed. Sir
H. Willoughby did nos object to the proposal, but
thought that the sum the lions. should be celled
on to grant should be limited to the £40,003 proposed
for the Prince of Wales himself. Mr. Disraeli
a:penned a hope that the resolution woaldi pass
n'iltrae coraracircente. (Moen) The propositioa was
• temperate and well-ooneidered propoeition, and bri
thought that no one could regard the amount as ex
-
missive. After 4011411 conversation, the resolution was
agreed to.--Sir G. Grey moved the seoond reading of the
Corrupt Practice, at Elections Bill. Mr. H. Berkeley
objected to the principle of the bill, on the ground that
it pun** electors instead of the candidates, and oleo
hoe** it was not only used* to prevent corruption,
but was the laughing-stock of every lawyer's clerk in
the kingdom He moved as en asnendmeat that the
bill he read a second time that day six months, but in.
trinated that he should not trouble the House to go to
a division upon the subject. Sir G. Grey admitted that
the measure would int be a complete and siestas'
measure against bribery, but their object was to render
bribery es difilcult as ponible. The (fill wee then read
a *mod tune.—Me. Villiers, In mowing the second
reeding sills. Union Relief Aid Ad 08321 Continuance
Rill, stated that, in compliance with the wish *primed
by various hon. members the other night when the bell
was introduced, be had convent* to limit the duratiou
of the bill to six months. He had also introduced into
the bill a clean which wadi allow loans to be repaid
In 14 instead of 7 years. lewd F. Howard thanked the
Government for the measure, which, he beleived, would
rive general *ideation, especially that portion of it
which would extend the time for repayment of
loans from 7 to 14 years. The noble lord recommended
that Government should lend money to the union. out
of the public funds at 3 or 34 per Cent.—Mr. Cobden
said that a rate in aid was en *abbe/led theory of poor.
law legislation, but the defect in the enemas system was
that the guardians of the dislatisfied unions were
hampered in their actions. Why, he asked. should they
not be allowed to menace their own affairs for the
next twelve months! Why should not Boole:14e,
for instance, in which *OOO s we re-
ceiving relief at the rate of ElOlrOOnfrre
per annum,
sod tin annual imemenient of whist, amounted
to £23.000. be allowed to raise £lOO,OOO, if so minded?
If the Government were indisposed to giving ouch
sample powers let them, at all events allow the
guardian. to *se, =loan, • sem trivalent at least to
one-ball the meant el Mee value of their pro.

perty.—After a few words from Lord I. Cavendish the
bill arm read a mooed time.—The Telegraphs Hill was
reed a reword tine.—On the order of the day for the
second reading of the Malt Duties' Bill, Cul. Hatt!dot
remarked that the procioloni of the Bill did not give to
the Initiators all the relief they were entitled to eclair.
He also expressed a Lope that alien the Chancellor I.f
the Exchequer came to consider the question of remis-
sion of taxation be would not overlook the claimed the
agriculturots, and would, at arty rate, grant them ISOM.
reduction of the malt duties. —The Chancellor of the
Exchequer declined to enter at present into a diemusion
of the inert* of the malt tax, and the propriety of re-
ducing or abolishing ht,—After a short and dormitory
conversation the Hill wee read world noun.
Matte of the whole House the Chairman, on the motion
of Mr. Seholefivld, was directed to more the HOUe that
leave be given to bring in a 111.11 to amend the law re-
lating to partnerships. —Mr. Locke King obtained leave
to provide for an alphabetical index to the register of
voters in EagLind sad Walea