The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-26 00:00:00

Varliauuntarg liroccatingi.

On Monday the crisis in the East would have given
rise to another debate in the HOUM of Lords had not
Lord Derby pray.aile 1 up n L trl Campbell and
Stratheden to with lrave for the time the reeolution of
which ba had giru notice with regar I to the R
terms of peace. ili lord.hip said that since Fri lay
the kips with regard to • Comp...se or Con.
terrace bail not silvianced • step. He read * drepttch
from gr. Layard, indignantly denying the cli trges
brought against hlei by Server Peeks at Adrian pie,
and reported by the correspondent ..f the Drsi'y News.
In the House of G/MMOMS qoastlons were put Ity
Maiutti, of liartington which elicited from Sir S.
Northcote replies eimilar to those given in the Upper
' House. In both Houses it wild sta'wl theta despatch
lon the sollect of the occupation of Gallipoli hall kust
hes.i received fr.on th • RIV.illll Government rhe
debate on the secon I twirling of the County U. erre.
went Bill was resumed, and occupied tho greater rut
of the sitting, ending in the Bill being carried by 231
against 83.
On Tuesiay, in the Howe of Lord., the Earl of
Derby, replying to the !hike of trgyll, said th at he
had no further information ti give with respect to the
occupation of Gallipoli.—ln the Commons, several
questions of an uninteresting character were answerad
by the Government. The attention id the House wee
called to the restricted nature of the borough franchise
In Ireland, as compare 1 with that existing in England
and Scotland, with • view of establishing a fair and
juat equ,lity of the franchise in the three countries.
A lengthy debate ensued, during which Mr. Bright
spoke, and urged the Howie not to let slip the oppor.
tunity of showing to the people of Ireland that the
British Parliament warns. desirous of rendering them
justjce as complete as they could look for from any
body meeting in Dublin. On a division. the resolution
was negatived by 184 against LK the ann..uncement
of the numbers being greeted with great cheering by
the Home Rulers.
On Wednesd iv, in the 11..nee of Commons, the
second reading ..f the Waste Lana. (Ireland) 13111 wail
moved by Mr. ItlVarthy, but, being opponl, was
th ..wn out on a division, the numb vs using: For the
second reading, 118: against it 147. The consideration
of the Queen's tlidleges awl University (Ireland) Bill
occupied the rest of the .itting.
On Thursday, in the House of Lord., the Earl of
Derby, replying to Earl Granville, explained the
nature of certain communic-tions which bad
between our own Government and that of passed
essia,
With reference principally to the occupation of
Gallipoli; and an understanding, it was stated, had
been come to that neither British nor Muscovite
troops should be placed on either the E
Asiatic shore* of the Dardanelles plintan or
the
Conference to be held at Baden-Baden early in
The Earl of Beaconsfield !novel the second resting of
the Consolidated Fund (E 6,000,000 and the Exchequer
Bonds till and a debate en.ued, in which Earl
Granville, the Earl of Ibinraven, and other noble
to .k part.—ln the Commons, the Marquis of
interrogated the G.0101'11101,11 t as to Wilether
they load any further statement to make no t . the
!m-g in itions with regard t., t e affa.rs in he KAM.
Toe Chaticello- of he Etch-quer slid that c .urncloi
c .ti 'us hat tia.se.l het h-r .vern client
.d tit .t ..sis, .nil that the latter had nn ler.
t then not to occooy any p of the peninsula of
Gsllipoli or the line* of lt .ulair, provided that Great
Britain did not disembark troops on the European or
Asiatic shored, of the Dardaneles. The House after.
wards considered the Factories and Workshops Bill
in committee, and a number of amendments were
proposed.
On Friday evening, in the Howe of Loris the
Consolidated Fun.l (1.*.000.000) Bill and the
Exacheqner B .n.la and Bill. Bill were read a third
time, and the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Bill •
sec° ii line.
on Friday evening, on the lionse going into Coin.
mittee of Supply, mlr. Trevelvn moved 'That, in the
opinion of Chi. it WOUIII be desiralde to establish
throughout the whole of the United Kingdom •
Household Franchise similar to that now established
in the English boroughs." The debate occupied the
whole sitting, and at the close Mr. Trevelyn's motion
was negatived by 271 to 219.

THE FUTURE OF THE VOLUNTEER&
We my deliberately, that whether a commission or a
committee of inquiry Is or Ii not appointed, it Is full time
For wane of those who are recognised as the representative
men of the volunteer force, in or out of Parliament. to
.peak out. and tell the Government and the nation that
thy must not be mided, either by the spectou. argu-
ments of newsp,iper writ irk or by the hot-heeled seal of
moue of the younger in, when of our holy. If the
volunteer army di t exi.t at all, after the preisent crids
is pa.t, ito old lin,, of foundation must be scrupoloody
adhered to. Th-re is not in the world • more loyal or
enthusiastic body of men. As .Is, If a Pinch
comet.. their will 44 an.thina. For instant..., we hive
wryer .1.'04.4. fir.t, th.t if garland should he en r teed in
wr, sr. the volunteer, veil. not only rive spontanY milt' a
deem deal glare time than they give at present to Indi.ary
.x•oriors. hot that if there is any need a milt -host
nouilwr of them will tie found ready to offer then e'ves
lot any garrison duty that may be require-I. But the-,e
dittie, hut,?. not clads ton much with the chin, of civil
btu and any attempt to-enrol men generally in pews
iiitse for such duties cus only need, in the ultimate lou
-ito very grest p irgon of oar 193.000 men. Again, most
men serve yoltint Grilr for. at lent. three year.. but they
will not esita.ie to do no, ..nd they ...mild he unwise if they
Id. The country ntu.t satialled substantially with
what it get. now, a, far at the rot wears are concerned.
They have more than fulfilled their contract, an-I they
will fulfil it in the hour of the country's peril, leaving
their wive., their children, and their civil env.' iymenta.
T., aidt them to ritglatto to make those Rat-tiaras before the
country is in dahror In ho islt more thatt they con or
ought to ann.—Potent eer Senri.v Oesette.

Tax Carraz Waa..—Tarahenki the chief of
near B tlotwav Queenstown, hal joined the revo',,.. A force
of 600 Burghers which was sent agstintt him had a
desperste encounter and ever 100 Croires were killed.
The Dutch fought splendidly. The enemy retreated on •
opeintein (artisteo. and were rollow•1 : but our force
with their ammunition all spent had to retire. The
tnavittrate of Queenstown calla for more men and
supplies.