The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

imptrial farttamtnt. .

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MOIDAT.—The attendee°e of pews was very lams,
7:Ily on the Ministerial side of the House, and the
161eged sesta were crowded with foreign ambeceadors,
members of the /loess of Commons, sad others who
possessed the right of Wm. The Earl of Derby moved
the mooed reeding of the Bill in • 'pewit of eonsiderable
=lln the muse of which be reviewed the attempts
.b'
eat various times to deal with the question, and
expressed his regret that Sect yeer the want of tact and
eonsilistint manifested by Mr. Gladstone prevented the
late Government from paring their Bill. The noble
earl asserted that on no owasion. either In 1854, 1880,
or last year. had the Conservative party opposed the
amend reading of their oppooents' Bill, bat in 1869 the
same indulpnes was not an:lorded to their Bill, and this
year it was only through the refusal of a large emotion
of the Liberal party to sot with Mr. Gladstone that the
second reading of the Bill was not opposed. The noble
earl warmly declared himself in favour of the lodger
franchise. condemned the proposed amendment of Hari
Grey, and made an eloquent appeal to the House to
support the Government and peas the measure. Marl
Grey then moved the resolution of which he bad given
notlee, and criticised the provisions of the Bill at greet
length. Ho complained a its democratic tendency, arid
contended that the Government ought to have adhered
to the CIO franchise, and have devised other means for
admitting those who were considered entitled to the
privilege of a vote. The noble lord became so exhausted
tweeze], the close of hie speech that it was with much
diffloulty he could make himself beard. The debate
which ensued was of a lively and interesting character
and was adjoarned.

TOPIDAT.—The adjourned debate on the Reorteenta-
lion of the People Bill win resumed by lb. Earl of
Shaftesbury, who made a sposeh—etrupge for his liberal
lordship I—a the traiitional "high Tory' stamp. He
especially objected to give the workiog classes political
power is if it were their right, instead of teaching
them to earn it by industry and sobriety; be eon.
damned the lodger franchise es an approach to universal
suffrage ; and finally, he declared that ape demooratie
lateen's created by tbe Bill would not work with ea
iterechial7 peerage end monaradeal inattiatious. He
belioved • that • House of Commons elected by the pee.
pondering alma would be dangerous to the old
lions of the country, and that it would ask prejudicial,
to the Established Church. That House might resist
some violent and unjust measure, but would soon be
told that the people wore to govern, and not a eel of
hereditary peers. Ha did not think that their lordships
would be put out of exietenos by a violent act, hut they
would be made to disappear with the elegant softness
of a dissolving view. Beyond theee there were questions
of social import's°, which would be premed—questions
a to the relationship of eapiial sad labour, and the
sacumtaation of property in private halide. Al to the
redistribution scheme he was satiated it must be so-
opened. All this tended to a republic. Everything in
the present day was gigantic. noy had gigantic ships,
gigantic c impanha, and be was afraid they would hare
• gigantic downfall. In the meanwhile let them indulge
their imaginations, and picture to themselves the rising
out of this wreck of British institutions the glorious
{Maui/ of Comparative democracy. The amendment
was opposed in agonies speeches by the Lord Chan-
cellor and Lord Cairns, but the Bill was sharply
eriiiideed by Earl Russell, who preferred a Hi or P 6
rental franekise to the franchise contained In the
Goverment measure. Karl Grey peristed in premiss
his amendment, but it was negatived without a division,
only two voices, his own and the Earl of Harrowbfe,
tieing hoard in it. !aeonr. The bill was then read a
aseamil time, end the eotamittes filed for Honda,.

THIMSDAY.—The serious performance in the Hoene
was relieved by a comic interlude, in which the Marquis
of Westmeath anet.ined the principal character, the
dramatis persona being • Mr. IHarper, oonneetel with
an Orange Society. and • reporter for the press, name
unknown. The action of the piece, as narrated by the
Marquis, took piece within the precincts of their
lonishine' hone., the time being the other day, during
the &Ws upon the Trensubetantiation Bill. Uwe
that 000s.ion Lord Westmeath made certain remarks,
which, as he complained at time, had been rely partially
reported by the papers. It appeared that Wan their
delivery his ally, Mr. Harper, who had bees in ambush
in the Mamma's' Gallery, emerged therefrom,
and, watching a eon* of reporters going into their
room, managed to overbear case my to the other, "That
damned old idiot, Westmeath, hoe • loeg notice cm the
paper, but I'll Lae care sot to give one word of what
he says." The faithful limper subsequently trashed
his victim to the gallery, and herd him— at
Meet he believes the speaker was the same man—say
to a sympathidng friend, "What • pity it is that there
Is no one to send that confounded old idiot to • lusatie
asylum." The latter expression of opinion seems to
have been road. after the Marquis's speech. Both
remarks were reported to his lordship by his wily
instrument, and DOW formed the subject of complaint,
the marquis isonceiviog them to be of an objectionable
character, and calling attention to them se a breads of
privilege. Their lordship., however, were melded
enough to receive his story with • roar of laughter,
which was recessed when helmet on to eater more fully
into the grievance. Lord Malineabstry tried to stop him
by declaring the subj-et unworthy the diginity of the
Moue, an opinion which was much applauded ; but
Lord Westmeath declared that be would not be
.'elsonted down," salt wee an importing matter MMus ;
not that be cared, however, for such ribald nonseses I
Ha was proceeding in this way when lord Yamashitay
again interposed, and declared sure condust to he
extraordinary, considering that there was no motion
before the Helios So, yielding to them remonstrances
and loud cries of "Order" from all quarters, Lard West-
meath at last subsided into private life. A great deal
of business was gone through, but the principal pert of
the sitting was occupied by a debate upon the Teets
Abolition (Oxford and Cambridge) Bill, the third
reading of which the Duke of Marlborough proposed
should be postponed for three months, On • division
the amendment waa carried by 74 to 46; so the Bill waii
het.

Femur. —Tbe Hallway Companies Bill pored
through oomznittm, but sadly mutilated, the eeleot
ecommittee baying streak out all the denies relating
to the sale of insolvent lines with milard to which no
arranpment could be effected between the parties
concerned. It sees resolved, however, on tbss motion
of Lord Ceirns, to reinsert the words exeieed by the
select committee relating to the rights at creditors over
ruling stock