The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
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when the fabries of the churebes au banded over, es ToMmee.—Mr. Ached moved for a West eammittee
they will be, to Use governing body of Use disestabliehed to inquire into the action, with reference to agr.cultore,
church; while some will be placed in the hands of the of various public authorities, with • view to consider
Board of Works, to be kept op. Some amusement wit the desirability of recommending a department of State
paused by the half-oontemptneas way in which Mr. to deal
al with all questions relating to agriculture. In an
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Gladstone spoke of glebe hero as object,' of property, arid way Mr. Goldney half ridiculed the proposition, as
being valued, as they are, only at Cl,BOO a yesr for the leading to linmeasorable inqu ry without any result.
whole of them, thumb E 1,200,000 has been op nt on The propmal wee not partioularly well received by
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their repair. The houses will be handed over to the oonnty members ; and Mr. Bright took ocasion to make
new church, and tbe lani Kb out them may be bought • ir. ry Cr op speech, humorously deuribing the corn'
by the governing body. All the existing rights of burial prebetalre nature of the departmental dutiu of the
grounds will be maintained, and they will be placed in Board of Trade, adveing agriculture net to have miy-
sh•nte of the Wm.' of Guardians for genera ew• In thine to do with Goeernment *noted. • remark which
recurring to the subjeet of the grant toe Mayeockh, Kr. +as loudly cheered by the country gentlemen; and he
Gledstone declined to enter into theological isontrover- told in his heimiest intoner • story of • holy who felt
• es, and emphatically declared that he would deal im• no very well to health that she sent for • phyrOcitie,
partially with all greats, whether to Prehrterians or besiege she was the afore sure that something WO/
BoalaSl Catholies. The life interest of the clergy of the going to happen, which he applied to the complaints a
former in the Begium Donnie will be main' the agricultural interest. Besides, with mach unction,
Caned and eubjected to commutation. as well as he claimed to have been all his life the best friend of
thou of profes•ors of the theol 'gloat colleges of that interest; and, finishing his speech with a gentle
that sect. He did not now make any proposal dose of hope to Kr. Aolend, that gentleman withdrew
with regard to Trinity College, Dublin ' • but he his motion. Mr. Sheridan moved for li•eve to bring in
said most signifimutly that the tioie of the reform,- , a bill the object of which is the repaid of the ratepaying
lion of that institution would emu ere lone—an avowal denses of the Reform Act of 1867, which, with the
which brought out • heart ,' cheer. All this time there assent of Mr. Gladatone, was granted. A bill to
had been anah deep attention to the speaker that no one amend the Clamellaws was brought its by Mr. li'Lagen.
had any inclination to cheer, but here the eppleue WlDeltisDAT.—The . Metropolitan Street Tramways
was palpably involuetary -. and it continued, so to Bill wee read a second time by 209 to 98. Mr. T.
speak, to rattle after each one of the succeeding 1 Hughes's Sunday Trading Bill, which provides that,
sentences, in which he declared that the principle Oa , with the exception of certain articles specially named,
which he was about to sot was that a't of these endow- 1 which may he sold in the metropolis on Sundays up to
menu, ineifferentle and indiscriminately, should cease • ten o'clock, nothing whatever is to be sold between ten
and determine ; that life-interests would be valued lead one o'clock on that day, was read • second time and
and commuted at fourteen years' purchue ; so that retorted to a select committee. Mr. Fawcett proposes'
finelly end for ever all connection between these ! the second reading of hie bill to throw the necessary
institutions end the State would be cloud. The I expenses of elections on the rates. The motion was
Tithe Rent Charge would be vested in the coMmission seconded by Mr. Baines, who spoke in ita favour on
under the Act, and be offered to the landowners at the authority of his own experience. The dimension
twenty-two end • half years' purehese. This would be ran collie in party grooves, the bill being supported
done subject to • very complicated financial lre orally almost unifornsly (Lord Bury was no eleeptioo)
react, sib. said, and the exposition of which amused by the Liberal and opposed hy Conservative members.
the Flores much ; for, so far it the proposal could be Let, in the proceedings Mr. Floyer moved its rejection.
understood, it is that any buyer would be accoommo• it bad been argued that this bill would reduce election
dated with • toan on easy tenni, to be paid off in forty. exposit*, by giving the payers of coonty rates some
five years. with which to pay for the parodies!, le oontrol over election expenditure. But he denied that
regard to the Sale of Church Lends, there would be • this would be the case, because all they would have to
right to preemption in the tenants, who would be do would be to pay the bill which had been incurred
allowed to let three-foorthe of the money remain • by the high sheriff and his officer.. But even if the
charge on the land, to be liquidated by instalmeno measure did tend to redness election expenses, might
fanning over 22 years. There was what appeared to In •we not carry that principle too fur? Would it be a
mud.' annrovsl coming from the Irish members at this !good thing to discourage election contersta? He thought
point. Turning to the financial part of the : not, and for that reason moo ogst others he should move
subject, Kr. Gladstone said that the income of the , that the bill should be reed • seund time that day
Inch Cherish had bren variously calculated at '; six months. The Government wee reoresepted by Mr.
300 and £830,000 a year; but he pot it at Apton, who rather scolded Mr. Fawcett for his
shout £700,000. This was derived from tithe 1 assertion of private memberdom in taking his own
rout charge, wheels gave sine minds., leads of all , course, but still advised that the wood reading should
kinds six and • quarter millions, and there was •' be assented to. A summation of 'Mr. ()ethane Hardy
sum in money of about three quarters of • million, ,to piapoie the bill until after the committee on eon-
making • total capital of £16,000.000. By the pro- I ducting elution' had sat, was resolutely rejected by
pouls of the bill the charges on this would be. for life 1 Kr. Fawcett, and a division was taken, which notate,'
interests of bishops and incumbents, IA 900.1.03 ; for in the second reading being lost by 188 to 165. Judging
aerates, £800,000; the lay oompenution to parish from the exultation of the Opposition. Ibis was coimeivid
clerks, sextons, estbedral and eedesitsical °enure, ,to be • party triumph.
£POO,OOO, of which £lOO.OOO would be for advoweoes ; 1 THOligner.—The leaders of the Opposition broke
primate enchant:ant, 1500,000; building charges on glebe
homes, £250,); Keynostb College and Presbyterian •
ground ; for Kr. Hudy, on behalf of Kr. Diaraeli,
eve notice that, at the proper time, he would move
compensations, 11,100.000, of which the latter would
Iv.ve two•thirds, and tile former one-third, with cow fhe rejection of the Irish Church Bill; and Mr.
Kowbray, no • new member for Olford University,
pentation for building ; the oommission under the Act
would c ost 2200,009, and the whole charge would be intimated that he has taken on himself the duty of
giving a negative to the Universities Teats Bill. The
£8,659,000, leavieg a surplus of between seven and eight first deolare ion was greeted with tolerably loud Con'
millions. It was with intense interest that the Howe eerwettee cheer., end there was a suspicion 01 an
awaited the next phase of the opeeeh, in which Kr. sheweidna
Gladstone treated of the mode on which this surplus was ” jeer" from the Liberal side. On the
to be disposed of. There was loud applause when be motion for going jot. committee of supply on the
emphatically announced that it would be appropriated supplementary estimates for the Abyednian expedition,
to Irish perposes, bet not to recluastioal purposes. Mr. White complained of the scandalous diserepance
with !
There was perhaps here • little of that dalliancedalliancebetween the original estimates and the actual expends.
tore, and moved that the matter be ineeetigated by a
the imratience of his audience which is dear to en
orator; but still ever word was taken tip and cheered lulu* committee. After • statement from Sir Stafford
Northeote, that be and his colleagues acted wholly
a. he negatively dealt with the matter, declaring that , 6..4
ot he applied to education, to ambles ' fide, and on the best knowledge they had from
the surplus would o
India the Chancellor of the Exobequer gave a lucid
works, to railways, or to relief of raters. The reading ' statement of the out of the expedition, which
of the preamble of the bill was • rhetorical
hit, as it revealed • secret which only the mounted in the whole to E 8,763,000 ! At this
- annooneement, if there were not absolute cries of
Government knew, in its Anal statement—that th_ti
surplus funds should be applied mainly "Oh l" there were long-drawn breaths and 'emi-
t.° the relief w I whittle., while it might have been fancied that a
unavoiadable calamity and starrier, so that, it did cot; shudder ran through the House. Of this sere
touch property rated to the relief of the floor. It was 1 £5,000,000 had &treed,
been provided by the extra
with evident interest ani satisfaction that the
Plan of ' ipeeme•tax, and as there would be • geeing of £157,000
aiding the county rues in Ireland in reference to the In the wound of the War-office for stereo, he asked
support of lunatic asylums, °nutty infirrearime institu•
for a vote of credit for £8,600,000.£8,600,000. Mr. Gladstone
ons for the deaf and dumb and blind and idiotaand the;
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having pointed out that any delay would be prejudicial
training of nurses, and for reformatories and indestrial 'to the public interests, Mr. White withdrew his
schools was received; and it was • happy remark,thet i_i! motion and tbe vote was agreed to. Mr. Bruce, in •
thus appropriating the funds of the Church, it , -
was n'w ! comprehensive, though not by any mews long, speech
purely eemrisrising them, but was, in a manner, a rotate I —in the delivery of which he was unusually Runt and
to the ancient one of part of all eccieciaatical property. ; earnest —moved for • select committee to Inquire into
For all this the charge would be £311,000 a year.; the present meow, of coodnating peril...ohm. and
Mr. Gladstone cono'nded— I will not venture to i
I odgment of the liouse ; but I treat Municipal Elections, and, in doing so, gave an Ode
anticipate the
1 exposition of existing election habits, practises, aad
the committee is of opinion that it is a plan,
at any ' improprieties, and, in the event, declared, after long
rate, loyal to the expectations held out last year—
(cheers)—loyal to the people of England who believed consideration, his conversion to the ballot, and openly
avowed that the node object of the inquiry was to be
our pronsiam—(renewed oheerel—and I hope also they
may Whit that the best pains that we could give have to ascertain whether • system of secret voting might
Cot give security, tranquility, and purity to voters and
been applied in order to prepare end mature this measure.
While I say that, with great submission to the jade. tenting-. Probably startled at such • statement from the
Treasury Bench, and also by the burst of cheering
merit of gentlemen on this side and gentlemen on that
inn matter of leg side of the Florae, I also may that,a. which came from the Ministerial benches, Mr. Hardy
express
lation no complex and varied, I have no doubt expressed • hope that this ineuiry would be full and
impartial. and particularly be directed
there must be error., there must be coniasions. There , to the subject of
Intimidation by mobs and otherwise ; rand Kr. Gladstone
may be Many imereeemeeter and we shell welcome I promied that it should embrace every subject connected
from every side, irrespective of differences of with election
proceedings
opinion with regard to the general outlines of the committee wan granted. A new writ w and this in particular. Thewasordered_
,
measure, all the suggestions whites, when these outlines
are decided upon, may tend to secure a more benefield , without opposition to issue for Bradford ; but, on •
like motion in regard to Bewdley. • division wee taken,
application of those fund, for the benefit of the when it was carried by 128 to 65. Mr. W. E. Forster
of Ireland. I trust that, although the opereamo . got is his bill to consolidate and perpetuate the Acts
stringent, and although we have not thought it either . relating to contagious diseases of cattle.
politic or allowable to &peewit° diminish its stringeni ;
by making it complete —the spirit towards the Chur i FRIDAY—The Attorney• General brought in a bill to
in which this j consolidate soil amend the law of bankruptcy. ,He
a Ireland as • religious cominonity.
roomers has been con;idereol end prepared by my . proposes allowing creditors, tv manage
court.
in.:he::
colleague+ endways lf, han not been • spirit of unkind. ' men way under the superession
.etne
.Pi,O
own
petition.
nue- tureen,. Perhaps at the mosneut 1 ems lieedly r will not be able to make
.higiself hantruptaon.ntsrawnt
expect—it would be too much to expect—to obtain fell I The afteroequiret Property a bin: hP
credit for • declaration of this kind. We are undoula- I will be liable for his debts for six years, and note e as
edly expecting and waking a set of educated, highly I Mild 10e. in the po Any offences criminal in theirund. .
respectable, and generally pious •nd zealous men, to ' !_`'l'" ,wili he debit with Y.
h b the outlawry criminal
undergo a great transition. We are expecting and . tribunals. Imprisoement for debts will be abolished,
asking • powerful and intelligent minority
in Ireland, but leaving the present power of the county court judges
the laity in communion with the Established Church, to imprison. The bill met general approval.
not only to abate but to part altogether with exceptional
privileges which they have enjoyed. Ido not feel that
in making that demand we are seeking to indict an
injury. Ido not believe that they are o:elusively or
even mainly responsible for the errors of English policy
tower Is Ireland, and I am quite certain that in many
and vital respect, they have suffered from it. I believe
the free air they will breathe under a system of equality
and justice, giving scope for the development of their
great energies with all the powers of property and
intelligence whioh they will bring to bear, will make
that Ireland which they love • *emery not less amiable,
not lees beloved in its future than in the past. As
respects the Church, I admit that this is • cue almost
without precedent. Ido not know in whet country so
great • change, so great • trunition, has been proposed
and bas been embodied in alegialative proposition. For
the ministers of a religious communion that has enjoyed
during so many ages the favoured position of an
Established Church, I atu well understand that to messy
amongst them sash • change appears nothing lea. than
ruin and deatruotioo. From the height at which they
now stand, to the apparent abyss into which they think
they will have to descend, it is something which recalls
the words in " Ming Lear," when Edger endeavours to
persuade Gloucester that he has fallen from the cliffs
of Dover. He says, " Ten masts at each make not the
altitude which thou bast perpendicularly fell. Thy
life's a miracle." And yet but a little alter the old
man rallies from his delusion and finds that be has not
fallen at ell —(obeerst Bo I venture to trust, when
stripped of the fietitioas and adventitious ale upon
which we have too long taught the Irish Establishment
to lean, it shall come to plan its trust in its owe
resources, ill its own sacred mission, in all that it
can draw from the energies of De ministers and
its members, and the high hopes and promises
of the Gospel that it teaches, it will fed that
it has entered upon • new era of existence—an era
bright with hope and promise. At any rate I think the
day has certainly some when an end has finally to be
pot to that union, not between the Church as • religious
ageocation, hot between the Establishment and the
Stet*, which was oommenced under circumstances little
auspicious, and which has endured to bear fruits of
unhappiness to Ireland and of discredit and scandal to
England —(hear, hear). Sir, there Is more to say. This
measure is in every sense a great measure ; great ie its
principles, great in the multitude, not merely of its
teohnicel, but of its important weight and interesting
details and provisions. It is not • great measure only,
but it is i test meseure. It is • measure which will
show, to one and all of us, of what metal we are made.
Upon us aU it briop a great responsibility. First and
foremost undoubtedly upon us who oacapy this bench.
We are deeply chargeable, we are deeply guilty, if we
have either dishonest' as some think, or if we have
even prematurely or unwisely, challeaged no gigantic an
Issue. I know well the punishment which is due to
ragman in public, and it ought to fall in politics on
those who, with band, unequal to the task, attempt to
guide the aerial of the ma. But oar responsibility,
though heavy, is not exellutive. It passes on from us
to every man who haste take part in the discussion and
in the decision of this question. Every man who
proceeds to discussion is under the most solemn
obligation to raise the level of his vision, and to expand
its mope, in proportion to the greatness of the object.
The working of our constitutional Government itself
is upon its trial ; for I do not believe there ever was •
time when the wheels of the legislate machinery were
set in motion under the 000ditiona of pesos and order
and *Destitution.' regularity to deal with a question
graver and more profound. And more especially, Sir,
It the credit and fame of this great Numbly involved.
This assembly, which has inherited from so many long
ages accumulated hooour for numberless triumphs of
peaceful but courageous legislation, is now called upon
to address iteelf to a task which would indeed have
demauded all the beat energies of the very but
among your fathers and your ancestors. I believe
II will prove to be worthy of the teak. Should
it fail, even the fame of the House of Commons
will stiffer disparagement. Should it seemed, even
that fame, I will venture to say, will receive no smell
nor insensible addition. I must not ask hon. gentlemen
opposite to concur in thole few sentences, grateful as I
am to them for the kindness with which they have
heard a statement which could not be made more brief;
but I beg and pray them to bear with me for • moment
while, for myself and my colleagues, I lay we are
maniples of this issue. We believe this controversy is
near its end; and, for may part. I am deeply convinced
that when the day of final consummation shall arrive,
and when the words are spoken which give it., force of
law to the work embodied in this ineasure—a work of
pease and justice—thou words will be *shoed from
every shore where the mime of Ireland and the name of
Great Britain have been heard, and the answer to them
will some back ia the approving verdict of civilised
mankind—(loud cheers, amid which the right hon.
potlernan resumed his mat). There was everything
that was bland and courteous In the observations with
which Kr. Disraeli followed; for, though he dealared
that his feeling in regard to the Irish church was
anshanged ; be acknowledged that it was due to Mr.
Gladstone that be should have fell opportunity of
developing policy on the Irish question to • new Pula-
meet. He hoped, however, that three weeks would be
given before the seeded reading was brought on. To
this Mr. Gladden* did sot outsmart, bat fixed Thuri4l;ll;
the 18th Mgt, for that stage of the measure,
ems, more or Ism, formal bossism wiks Wog inbaidow,
the great BOOM milarlita

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ATTEMPT TO POISON • F•MILT.-At Sheffield, •
young man named Barker bee been sentenced to five
years' penal servitude fur attempting to poison his
mother and sist-r, by putting • packet of Battle's
Vermin Killer into. asucepan in which a rabbit and •
'leg of mutton were being cooked. Ile pleaded guilty.
Surriassiox or Big& Hoossa—The Arehbishop of
York beaded a deputation which waited on Thursday
upon Mr. W. E Gladstone and Mr. A. H. Bruce, to
lay before them • memorial praying for • withdrawal
of the power of granting beer•house licenses from the
authorities of Eloise. In reply, Mr. Gladstone said
that if a measure was to be carried it mart be by the
i ripeness of the public mind, and all that the Government
I eould do was to strike in at the proper time.

ML Edmund Beatty Loalfyer, one of the candidates
at the recent election for the Wick Burghs, hes been
menteneed to twelve months imprisonment by the
Elinburgh High Court of Justicisry for intereepting
and opening letters adireseed to Mime Sinclair, • lady
who seems to have been an old •weetheart of his.
Holmes, a postman, whom Loskyer t•mpted by bribes
to facilitate and share his crime, was included in the
I same indictment, and sentenced to nine months' tin.
prisonment.

THE AERICULTURAL iLABOUIII.—A conference was
held on Thursday morning at the Society of Art Rooms,
London, for the purpose of considering the establishment
of a society for the Improvement of the condition of the
agricultural labourer. The Earl of Dacia eresided,Snd
said he believed that the rendition of the egricultaral
labourer was far from satisfactory. The Earl of Litheeld
thought it would be saveable to uoertain whether it
would be advantageous to establish a gnat ventral
satiety. The general impression appeared to be
itediriduat action ayes all that was required, and •
motion to that effect was tarried unanimously.
PROTICTION or SBA BIRDIL—The text of a bill by
which it is sought to protect sea birds during the
breeding season has been published. It proposes the
imposition of a penalty, not exceeding Li sod costa for
y bird killed, wounded, or captured between the
let May and the let August. It also provides that
" this set shall not extend to any sea birds killed,
wounded, or taken toad fide for the purpose of being
used as food." An offender refusing to tell his name
and place of abode "to any police officer or other
person" is to be liable to • further penalty of ER and
costs. The act is to apply to all plata' within the
jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Englend.
CHARITABLE TABLRAUx VIVANTIL—Lady Edward
Howard having kindly placed her honer at the service
of the Marquis Townehend, the Honourable Lewis
Wingfield, and the other oonaniserators of wretchedness
among the Irish in London, • aeries of tableaux vivant'
was preented on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,
to crowded rooms. There were eight subieets, each
divided into two, three, or four picturer, the average
number of which was three, so that the cattalo rose
t times in the seams et the evening. First,
Lady Diana Beanclerk, as "The Spirit of the 'Waters,"
presented in succession three admirable poses, and,
beaestb • fiood of silver light, glittered with diamonds
as with dew. "The Spirit of the Waters," in fact, was
a spirit of the very first wa'ar, rained on by Hunt and
Roskell, with • sun-shower of the biggest drops that
ever spangled fair hair and floating gauss. The snood
subject, rendered in four tableaux by Mrs. Charles
Stephenson and Mrs. Hambro, was the tragical fate of
Fair Rosemead. This tale of terror to nurseries was
followed by a eoeple of Watteau pictures. Lady
&bright, mounted on • garden swing, in motionless
attitode of motion, seemed as if coming forward to be
caught by • constant semis, who, in a pals blue satin
coat, streathed wide his arms to receive this load of
bliss, hooped pettieoath, powdered hair, and cherry
ribbon. Other shepherdesses, on the daisy-dotted floor
of bright velvety green shaded by sylvan boughs and
quaint ostyew hedges, were lady Althina Duff and Mrs.
Gurney; tne Streets= or Carla in the cost of glossy
and dehisce, there being Mr. ll'Gregor. History one*
more in turn was illustrated. It was the meeting of
Queen Margaret and the robber, Queen Margaret being
regally personated by Mrs ditaffington Smith, Master
Gestapo-Bellew representing the youthful heir to the
English crown, and Mr. Valentine Prinsep looking the
part of the loyal and amiable outlaw to perfeetlon.
Three pictures told very prettily the sequel to the tale
of "The Sleeping Beauty." Count Maffei was prince.
"The Sleeping Beauty, both when sleeping and when
awakened—though the kiss that snapped the charm was
only "supposed to have taken plate," as the play.bills
would say, between the acts -had • perfect represents-
ties in the Marchioness Townshend. The Norfolk
ballad of "The Babes is the Wood" was thou shown te
three tableaux. The boy was nobly represented by the
Hon. Michael Sand's, and the soared rJund little fees
of his younger companion and sister, when the shades
of night have closed around the pair, showed a remark-
ably intelligent power of expression in kiss Barnes, •
child of six. Such a picture of infantile terror has
seldom been given in mere "make-believe," Four
thanes from "Guinevere," in which Visisountess
ton, Miss Harvey and Captain Stewart, sustained the
three thief characters in this "Idyll of the King,"
ensued. All the tableaux were strikingly picturesque.
Last thane of all, that ended this benevolent eeries of
groups for the help of Irish destitutioo, was "The
Reseue," an incident is the experience of the Metro-
politic Fire brigade, very agerilithlurepreesoted by
the Marchioness Townsheed, Lady Dleng Beimatiork.
and Mt. B. FliaPstrish.