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DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1860.

HONESTE AUDA X.

IN the House of Lords on Mondiy the Duke of

Newcastle gave notice that in the event of the

address to the Queen on the subject of the Treaty
with France being agreed to in the House of

Commons, he should p-ropoec a similar address to
Her Majesty in the House of Lords, Earl Grey

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announced his intention to oppose the address.

On Tuesday the Duke of Newcastle stated that
as the House of Commons had not sent up the
address on the Treaty Her Majesty's Government
proposed to postpone the discussion upon it in
their Lordships' House until Thursday in this
week. The Earl of Ellenborough asked whether
any communications respecting the annexation of
Savoy had been made to the Great Powers by
Her Majesty's Government, and whether any
expression of their opinion bad been invited
The Duke of Newcastle replied that the views of
Her Majesty's Government had been communi-
cated to Russia, Austria, and Prussia, but they
had not been invited to join in any protestagainst
the annexation, nor had they given any opinion
on the subject. On Thursday a discussion took
place on the private correspondence which had
passed on the Savoy question between Lord John
Russell and Lord Cowley. The Marquis of
Normanby, Earl Grey, the Earl of Malmes-
bury, and the Earl of Ellenborough cen-
sured the practice of corresponding privately
on such important questions; and the Earl of
Derby expressed his opinion that, after the
avowals made by the French Minister in July
last, the Government had acted most improperly
in suppressing private correspondence and lead-
ing Parliament to suppose that the project had
come upon them by surprise. The Duke of
Newcastle in reply said that there had been no
desire to conceal anything from Parliament; if
there had been, Parliament would not have been
informed that any private correspondence on the
subject had taken place.
In the Commons on Monday Mr. Byng's
motion for an address to the Crown on the sub-
ject of the Commercial Treaty with France was
postponed to Thursday, after an animated debate
on the annexation of Savoy, in which Mr. Kings-
lake, Mr. S. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Roebuck con-
tended that the House ought not to go further
until it had fuller information as to the intentions
of the Emperor with regard to Savoy. Lord
John Russell, in reply, protested against these
irregular and irritating discussions. He differed
from the Emperor in his views respecting the
annexation, and was convinced that it would not
be persisted in if Austria, Russia, and Prussia
declared against, it- As to the Treaty, they
ought to consider it on its own grounds, as
developing the industry of the two nations, and,
by binding them in a closer union, preventing
the calamities of war. The House then went
into Committee upon the Customs Acts, and
agreed to eeriel. resolutions, repealing and
reducing the duties on timber, malt, and the
remaining articles on the list, with the exception
of paper and prints. The Savings Banks and
Friendly Societies Bill, the object of which is to
give depositors an absolute right on the Exche-
quer for the payment of their advances, and to
limit the power of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer to apply the moneys of these banks and
societies to the payment of deficiency bills with-
out the consent of Parliament, was read a second
time. The Settled Estates Act (1866) Amend-
ment Bill, the object of which was to give Sir
T. M. Wilson power to build around Hamp-
stead Heath, was lost on the question of the
second reading by a majority of 68 to 43. On
Tuesday Sir D. L. Evans's motion for an address
to the Crown praying for the gradual abolition
of the sale and purchase of commissions in the
army was negatived by a majority of 213 to 59.
In the course of the discussion Mr. Sidney
Herbert stated that the Government were pre-
pared to give effect to the recommondations of
the Duke of Somerset's Commission by abolish-
ing purchase in the case of all commissions above
the rank of major. On Wednesday Mr. Milnes
withdrew the Registrations of Voters Bill, on
the understanding that the Government intend
to introduce a Bill for the regulation of the
whole machinery of elections. The Coroners;
Bill was referred to a Select Committee. On
Friday Mr. Byng brought on his motion far
an Address to the Crown in approbation of the
Commercial Treaty. Mr. Baines seconded the
motion. Mr. Lindsay expressed his approval of
the Treaty, and in order not to endanger it,
withdrew the amendment of which he had given
notice in reference to the differential duties
on British shipping. Lord A. Vane Tempest
moved, as an amendment, the substitution of
a resolution declining to express an opinion on
the Treaty until the House should be better in-
formed as to the intentions of the Emperor of
the French with respect to the annevition of
Savoy. Sir Hugh Cairns stated that he should
vote for the address as he did not wish to over-
throw the Treaty, though he had strong objec-
tions to many of its details. Aft r some further
discussion, Lord A. Vane Tempest withdrew his
amendment, and the debate on the original
motion was adjourned.

PHI pertinacity of the Tory party in their cease-
less attacks upon the Treaty, and their violent
efforts in the work of harrassing the Ministry,