The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

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Idoxnar.—Mr. S. Fitzgerald called attention to the
want of due protection to British interests at New
Orleans, where there was always a largo amount of
British property, and urged the Government to secure
a direct communication with the authorities of Wash-
ington. Mr. Layard assured the hoc. members that
Her Majesty's Government had not been unmindful of
British interests at New Orleans.
TUESDAY.—Mr. Villiers moved for leave to bring in
a Bill to enable the Boards et Guardians ila certain
counties in England to meet any extraordinary demands
for relief. He did not mean to imply by this motion
that the law was not adequate to meet the case, or that
any further powers were necessary to enforce the law;
but the measure he proposed was only a precautionary
one during the recess, and he proceeded to state facts
that appeared to him to justify is. Ho showed from
, returns the amount of distress that existed in the prin-
-1 cipal towns in Lancashire in consequence of the want
of employment and the expenditure for the relief of
the poor, remarking that the number of persons de-
pendent upon the rates was no criterion of the number
destitute of employment. The deposits in the savings-
banks were now, however, nearly exhausted; the dis-
tress was increasing rapidly and extending, and there
was no prospect of its diminution but by the revival
of trade. Looking to these circumstances and to the
prtnciple of the existing law, which sanctioned a rate
In aid, he proposed by the Bill to give vitality to that
principle, so that any parish or parishes, overburdened
by extraordinary local distress and pauperism, might
claim a contribution from the common fund of the
Union, or, under certain cireumetances, one Union
might call for a contribution from the other 'Onions in
the county. He explained the principal enactments of
the Bill, which he proposed to continue for a limited
term, till the Tat of March. —Mr. Gilpin observed that,
looking to the actual and increasing distress iu Lan-
cashire, Goverment would have failed in their duty if
they bad not toads preparation to meet the emergency. I
Leave was given to bring is the Bill.
WEDNYWIAT. —On the order for going into Committee
upon the Night Poaating Prevention Bill, Sir. G. Grey
said he should not oppose the motion that the Speaker
leave the chair, though, looking at the five pages of
amendments of whieh iititlee bad been given, ho did
not know what the Bill Mould be. Some of the
amendments, if adopted, veritild materially alter the
character of the Bill and improve it; but there would
still remain objectionable provisions some of which he
indisated.-Mr, W. Forster appealed to the Howie whether

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a Bill so iinnortent, which was acknowledged by its
promoters to be se imperfect that it requirod to he COOP
pletely re-drawn, ought to be hurried throngli at this
late period of the geasion, and urged its postponement
till next year.—Sir J. Paxton moved to deft r the Coin-
mittee for three months, and this amendment wee
seconded by Lord Henley, who expressed hie belief that
poaching would he increased, instead of being diminished,
by the Bill.—Lord Stanley said, althoulfh the Game
Laws, in his opinion, r quired amendment, they ought
to he dealt with in more comprehensive manner, pre-
ceded by • Parliamentary inquiry.—Mr. Walter doubted
whether the Bill would enut the object which all had
in view—the putting down of leaching. In principle,
the Bill did not go far enough. If game was property,
poaching wee simple theft, and should be made siniple
larceny.—After POMO observations by Mr. Knightley,
Lord Grey de Wilton, Sir 11. Leighton, and Sir G.
Grey, upon a division, the amendment was negatived
by 139 to 49, and the House then went into Committee
upon the Bill.—The first clause, with its numerous
amendments, continued under diecussion—occasionally
rather wertu—during the remainder of the time allotted
to debate, the Chairman being ordered to report
progress.