The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-21 00:00:00

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Imptrial vartiantent.

HOUSE OF lAMBS.
No!MAT. - The report on the Iligh Court of Justice Bill was
recur ved
TtraDAY. The debate on the second reading of the Irl.h
band Bill warr begun, but the weedieo were decorously dull
from the tact that object as they may the Bill will pass.
Dll%—bord totals criticised adversely Nome of the
leading is'estaions of the Irish Land Bill. liedid not object to
Mr. Bright's sebertie on principle, but he believed tht It
wuid not have the AM dl creating • middle or ensall-clam
to:o' prietary. He condemned the manner In width the law of
distress woe dealt with, objected to the este:hider of time for
giving notice to quit, dieapproved of the claw* which pre-
vented freedom of contract, and opposed the principle of
compeuration in the third clause.
The bill waa warmly supported by Viscount HALIFAX, EMI
Orter, and Lord Antler's urr.
The WI of Dew agreed with the trench' Prindria and
objects of the bill, but he disliked that poetion which had
reference to compensation for disturbance.
The Duke of Anent replied, and the debate was again
adjourned.
FIUDAY.—Tbe adjourned debate on the es, and reading of the
lnsh Land Bill mm r.ssurnel by
Lord Lomas, who caroortly advocated it in the interest of
the tenantry and agricultural labourers.
Lord PUSIAST contend id that the Bill was In some respect^
an intolerable Invasion of the Fichte of property.
Lord Gruevuts, as an Irish landlord, heartily supported the
second reading.
Lord LIBRIUM objected to the Bill as a measure for creating
discord In Ireland and exterminating the small tenantry.
Lord Irreurrato, premising that the probability of the Bill
being hereafter rased as a precedent for England and Scotland
made it necesory for the landlord. of Brest Brltlsn to examine
it, providoos very carefully, expressed a hope, a, the result of
such exanrination, that the Bill wool,' be pureed with an little
the.y and sith as few material amendment. as pasha Certain
alterations however, which or indicated, would be necemary to
prevent injuettere, diseentert. litigation, and the subdlrld on of
holdings.
Lord Cttsctart denounced the FIIII as onc cf path and
penal ties against the landlords of Ireland, who had done nothing
to deserve It.
Lord Powcascomer supported the Bill.
Lord POUTLIMIXOTOR thought the Bill however, contained
many mischievous provisions which would require amendment
Lord LANIDOW/US, speaking Sean Irish proprietor, called opal
their lordship' to parer • just and generous MIL which would
be accepted by Ireland in • similar spirit
Lord CalthAlivoll hoped that the Bill would do by law in
Ireland what was done by custom and kindly feeling in England.
Ile ~nee their Lordship, that If the Bill altered the status of
the Irish landlords their power and Influence would be
tranderred to the Roman Ottholie clergy.
The Lord VgASCIII.LOR vigorously replied to tile objections
urged against the Mil, which he defend4d upon the ground thst
it cm founded noon the highest respect for the rights of
property, and was in harmony with every reeownieed principle
of lowland of Immutable jostles.
After a few words from the Duke of Kt-11MM.
Lord ORAXOOIga amendment that the Bill be read • metiond
the that day three months, Inv' not prdmed, and the Bill Was
read a secood the without a division.

HOUSE OF COMMoNS.
.slownafr.—ln committee on the Cnisentity Tests Bill various
amendments were summarily dispased of, and there seemed to
be nothing 114 oripuriaed opposition to the measure.
Trltatist.- Sir. C. BEMs moved an eddress to theQuerh.
tr:riblie' Inumot "rencent iretsione
Statof the authorized melon of the Scriptures. In seresorg and out
of seaeon, the Illgh Church party had been inemently gaging
war against lay authority from which they were determined to
g."n themselves free. For n long time their aorta excited
nothing but ridicele, but they permered, and their resolution
was gradually leading to serceem, which had been crowned by
this ntantentroke of anticipating the amrlntment tin RoZ
Commistion for the resiolon of the atiWorived venion.
Convocation shown itself worthy of true*, It. notion in regard
to this matter might have been aequelsced in ; but there was
no public body existing in this country which had proved
Itself so entirely alien from the epirit of the age as Convoca-
tion. During the lad 60 years immense ttrides had been taken
in philological science- The *rem with which our authorized
version ebounded had been again and again exposed, and with
respect to fir the greeter number of them critics had arrived
at • general conclusion. Confidence In the authorized version
had Leen rudely shaken, and Mom to whole the Bible was
dearest, should he thought. be foremost in demanding that it
should be raved front the discredit which thoes disfigaren.enta
brought upon R. The errors, which might be counted
by thomutde, were derived .from two distinct sources.
One mut that the authorised version ma translated from amost
imperfect original text. The Hebrew and Greek text from
which it CNA ,aken was founded on M. of second-rate
authority. In the second ptme.thesse who translated the Bible,
great as was their ability and knowledge, bed not the *lll in
philology that were requisite for their task. *AIM objection
to our authorised version had often been alleged,— =lady, that
the English into which it had been translated had become In
some respects obsolete. Its did not feel the force of that objec-
tion ;Ito archaisms, in hit opinion, added to its picturesque-
ness without really making it obscure, and he trusted that
nothing whatever would be done except to correct acknow-
ledged errors. But with respect to the first of these points, it
was a startling fact that at the time when the Oreek test of
the New Testament, front which our version me translated,
was nettled, Dots single manuscript had been discovered of a
date even es early no the tenth oontury. Not one of them
Mandetolpte had been discovered of • date even no early as the
tenth century. Not one of Muse manuscripts had been di.
covered which were now trgardesi by cholers as the trust-
worthy standards of Biblical text. Our New Testament was
trandatei from • Greek test, which was mainly settled by
Erasmus In 1515, and completed by Robert Stephens, at
in 1560. As an illustration of the difiSculties with which
Eraminus had to contend it was mentioned that he had only a
tingle manuscript of the Apocalypse. and that an incomplete
one, and he made up foe its deficiencies by translating Into
Greek from the Latin rulgate the missing words and antennae.
From this partly conjectural source our version of the Apo-
calypse wee taken. Sines the time of Erasmus and Stephens a
groat many matiumipts had been discovered; flee of which
Were of the highest clam, end had thrown immense light upon
the true text of Scripture. Vas it rem:cable that we Mould
continue to give to the people of this country • translation of
the Bible which was taken from manuscript, extremely in.
perfect and wanting In authority when we had far better ones
at band ? 200 years ago, when the la* correctinn me made,
scholarship in England wg. still In • very elementary state. It
would be may for him to glee • han of illustrations of the dis-
astrous effect which them two mem of error had had upon
our authoriead version, sometime., but more especially with
respect to the Old Testament, In making It obscure, and some.
times in perverting its meaning or in disparaging its beauty.
Some of the most beautiful paes were so utterly bungled
In our translation that they contained neither nor seine,
Thin was the broad question at lime : —Should ranse
deliberately
determine to retain • distorted image of the plums, or
should they have them represented In our tongue as they were
actually written? To state such n question seemed to him to
answer it. A true reverence for writings so deeply Interesting
to mankind would surely compel them to the conclusion that
no palm ought to be spared to have them mirrored forth with
nil attainable accuracy, and to save their truth and beaut from
being marrebey tb.lolrldnem and ignorance."( their ws.

Mr. GLADII/OKl—thought at this stage the work am beet left
to private aorta end, mid when guithed, the time might 001114
for the Government to take It up. As to inviting the President
the Gursetitutien of the United States interpmed • practical
d I diculty.
Yr. Hotter believe the partite who are making this move
are unconsciously playing the gone of °theca What can play
the gamed Home Po much as discrediting the Bible? li.
you to consider that. What dose the do? She puts AIM men
of intellect who believe in nothing but themselves--(hear,
hear, and laughter)—and there Li nothing they won't diecredit.
When we have succeeded in discrediting the Bible, into whoee
bands will the people of thiscountry fell? I ask you to comdder
that. Therefore, now this queetion hes been raised, don't do
anything to bang It up. If one thing cuuld he more unfortunate
than another, It would be to have this business protracted, and
the people who are not +cholera and who want something
definite, thould have It mat In their teeth," Tot. hare got no
Bible ; it haa got to be revised." What left that is to he
revised? Is it to be the trenslation, or is it to be the text of the
whole, written in various language,? It you once let 18 or 20
very wise gentlemen begin to reject porta, what left to hinder
them rejecting the whole? I know not. If It I. to be tweedy
their scholarly judgment, and they are to reject this peonage
and that tomme, why may not they reject the whole? I deeply
r.ftvet that this matter has been artated ci LI I belie+ e it,
will un•ettle hundred of men's mind; it will do ten times mere
misilikf than all the leaching and all the preaching of those
gentlemen who Mi.+ not it going will ever do good. lithe
prelates who have undertaken this revision are to do it
thenuelysi, I don't me that we van hare any more demand few
an incomes of the Episcopate, geeing that they have on much
Idle time on their hande—(sughter.) If they are merely to
trust the work to two or three pence, and then gild It with
the sanction of their great names, not haring gone through It
what • horrible delusloa that will be. However, I hope what-
ever comes of what they are about will be done quickly, so
that the unlearned pert of mudded may mill have some-
thing they eon mist upon—which has been a comfort to them
here, and which, I hope, will lead them to • better place here-
after.

Kr. E. N. Nome& thought the House ought not to upset •
verdon which had 8o great a hold on the national affection_
(bear, hear.)
Mr. BIRRIVOND More laid Mr. lienley spoke of the Arch-
bishops and Bishops a. if they ought to be a sort of superior
churchwardens bustling about here and there. If the
authorised , anion Iran to he noised, some of the prelates of
the Church should take part In the work of revision.
Mr. KINN/IRD mid there wine good deal of the old Puritan
spirit in the United States. There •114 more of the Protestant
religion among the people of that Republic than 88.,, to be
found =mg s^me of the frieods of the hon. member for the
University of Cambridge—(e laugh sad beer.)
MreMecris said that a. the Government sanctioned by It.
imprimatus a version which, according to pretty general con-
curlew° of opinion, needed rendon, tee (interns:neat ought to
see that a revision took place.
Mr. NUMMI/TR mid when they were oe the ere of having
the infallibility of the Pope declared -{bear. hear)—was It.
time to disturb the une document which was so generally
accepted 1- (hear, hear.) it was, • work which Parliament
might sanction when it had been effected, but Parliament
should not order it to be done.
The mutton was withilmsrn.
WIDNZIDAY.—Mr. lIARDCASTLI moved the second reeding of
his Bill for repealing the minority clause of the Reform Act of

--Mr. Cottle, moved the previous question.
Mr. Otsoirrove, spesking for the Government mid they bed
nnt considered dot sufficient urgency to be included in their
grams, but me an Individual he intended to rote for U2O

The result of the division on the " previousquestion" wee a
'tie. 181 voting in each lobby. and the &smut decided with
the Ayes— is., that the "gelation be now put." A death
didion wee then taken, and the Bill WM thrown out by a
mabelty of eight-1113 to 17L
1 Mr. Ghtthrosm absented himself from both dirielons on the
minority clause.
I THCINSIAT.—On the order for going Into committee on the
Elementary Educe...kw Rill. Mr. °Landow decided the Inten-
tion. of the Government with regard to the bill. They felt
themselves unable to wee& to the motion of Mr. Harcoort,
that In the school. sadsted by public rates religious teething
should he undenounnational, and that Bite attendance should
be compubory. They thought the best cosine to pursue was
to adopt the eubetance of Mr. Cowper Temple's amendment.
that ' in whools hereafter unabashed by means of local rates
nomadism or religious formulary of any particular &nom-
inatioc shall be taught In the ede of wining denominationsl
schoola, their voluntary character woad still be respected, but
they would receive leas widener than purely secular schools,
and the Mount given to them woad be taken from the la-
chequer Instead of from the local rates. The time consignee
clew would extend to all sehoob receiving any &wristlets of
aid whether from the mar or the Privy Council, and local
beards would not he permitted to have any connexion with
voluntary Wools.
Mr. Meador anthsedverted emirely on the unprecedented
and unexpected preoredlng of the Miribear. He had come
down prepared to support the Government Hill, but the
statement just made converted this into an entirety new Bill.
Taking it for granted ahor Mr, Glasistunes ,Te, that our
national education I. to Le religious, and that no time waste be
*sated In barren discussions about mould education, Mr. Me-
lintt prof awed himself unable tow how religious education was
to be securest If the changes sketched out were made in the Bill.
The right hon, gentleman tilts us that he, for one, would not
be content with religious education In our elementary schools
if it merely connoted In reading chapters of the Holy Scriptures
without comment. Why, there are but few of us who rend
chapters In either the OW or the New Teetement who do not
require to bear considerable comment upon them —(cheers and
laughtee). nerd ore nothing wadi be more unfair than that
the children of this country, without any previous religious
, Instruction, should be told by Parliament that they duet and
I adequate religious Instruction in merely reading isengan from
the Holy Scripture.. I am, therefore, out at all surprised to
hear that the right hon. sunburn Is not Inclined to sancuon
such a course; but, en tar se I dm wertem from the speech
of the right bon, gentleman, the new ethane would be this—
that, although no creed nor catechisms of any denomination Is
to be introduced, the whodwater le to have the power of
, teaching, enforcing, and explaining the Holy &ripener which
he rewlL Now, be cannot do that without draw* some
inference. and ewe conclusions, and what will UK"
and conclusions be but dogmas V--(elseers). They may sot be
the opinions of the rector, We of the Pmebyeerisa minister,
nor of the Nonconformist minister, but they are the °plague,
of the tchoulmaeter—(ebeen and • laugh). You are ounisse-
plating the Medfield& of • dam Who moat be endowed
with great abilities, and who oertakoly will have to perform
most importhot fusetiane and to denim great pewees, and I
want to know in the present MY* et asks where them miltool-
masters are to be foend—(bear). You will not Intrust the
pneat or the presbyter with the privilege of expounding the

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the arum they bed taken, had
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as to deciding on It. Anxious es be Wes that the Dill the the
tuteoursrun a ruilllestit.l"ty
be Peered, paasible, thl• peer , • shun ,
than OoJIL
the difficulties by loose phalli* W..id b. W.r..
that the
On the whole, thane:ire, Mt. , fainannr nun"
nted and that
Bill should b. committed to fermi and 'TM
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the House should have someday' allowed to ceessider
new form.
Mr. email 11•111.COLAT Moved the adjournment of the
dehete.
Sir. W. 14. Inourrsa cotiteeted to an stnnurninent until lien
day, but preferred that the sm in
should be printed n
seperate paper, rather tfin the whole Hill.
On the order of the day lot col/adoring UM Connaan and
Inland Revenue Bill, es arneeded,
Mr. Bale thanked the Chencellor of the achequer for his
liberality In connection with thc sugar dutien, end hoped that
when he reduced the malt della, es he had half presebed to
do, he would behave in an epistle liberal manner by the brewers
in neglect of their stock In lawl of beer VI well as malt.
stock mprosented about e 2,00,000.
Mr. eagerness observed that his hon, friend had given the
Chaneetior of the 14:chequer an argument against ever relaxiug
the malt thaw.
The Citaxati.i.ca of the r. sCOlavis..—lrben imiec and
MAMMY were orsorersing <1", the AibiSlM CI poetry, lilac
described to Rumba all the quanhe required to make a giod
poet, and when he had ended. Ramehe add to him, "Enough.
enough ; thou hest persuaded me that no melt can ever be a
poet." And I say to my hon. friend, "Enough. enough; thou
bed por.u.ded me that no chancellor of the Excheyder ran
ever repeal the malt-tax"- (laughter and cheers). of
The sec,md reeding of the SW for the Disfranchinement
Sligo and Cashel wee novel by the 11.0LICIT0a-GassaAL for
latingo.
Mr. RAIKIM urged that while Youghel was left untouched it
was unfair to extinguish Sligo and Ouhel.
Mr. AI.thAIST rose to sower several remarks which had been
made about the unfortunate borough of Youghel—(hcar, hem,
and 'suede). It wan very hard that Youghal Mould Moraye
be picked out for aniteadvenion. No one could show that
Youghal wan guilty of corruption at previous eketions, and
ven at the lot election it wan found guilty, not of corrupt
;,peeekee, but dmply of a email Gine Of treating—(aughter).
Lie must protest against the practice of cryingdcwn Yougtal.
The Home divided, and the numbers were—
For the amendment „. • • • • " 23
168
135
The Rd was then read e wood time,
FRIDAY. —A petition in favour of uneectatian education arm
presented by Mr. FAII•IDII. from W eynsouth, and by Mr.
MUCH, from Bereingetoke and Wslthsaa.
A petition in favour or the Permisive Prohibitory Liquor
Rill wan presented, by Mr. fIeaSIILL OCIIOIIIIT, from Southamp-
ton Circuit quarterly Ilmting of the Primitive Methodism
In Committee the following vote. (a portion of which had
been taken on amount two month. ego) were agreed :--
fa1i,023, House of lords More , £49,1106, Howe Commons
oaken; £30,193, Tr many ; £87,012, Hoene Office; 1,61,614.
Foreign omen; e 31,323, Colonial (ace; and 2,17,240, Pricy
Council.
Mr. hflN•uren Toaastes moved a reeolution declaring the
opinion of the Mows that the continued want of employment
among there who Use by wage labour in many of the great
unrest of the kingdom calls for ita special consideration as to the
beat means for remedying the erase without delay. The parti-
cular remedy he propmed wen emigration to our own colon's.,
which he raked the Government to factilteste by providing
third.ciim emigrant shim which would caffy working men
scram the Atlantic for about ge per head.
Lord C. ItAIIILTON seconded the motion.
Mr. 0011011131, el* some stringent animadversions on the
respondbilty Kr. Torras had incurred in mein the House to
provide a remedy for want of employment, with no more pr .e.
Meal suggeetion than entigretke, toot bees in the broadest
end mad uereserved fanner with the pieture lit. Tomtits had
drawn of the destitution of the enuntry. and to controvert it
he went at length through the present arcumetances of the
principal trades of the kingdom in the mein centres of Industry,
reading extracts irons Poor Law and Factory Inapeetore, and
other authorities, and gathering them all into the general eon-
elusion that trade is rapidly zewlelng and work increasing. in
further condonation of the Improving condition of the working
damns, be referred to the Inc- ream in their consumption of
taxpaying entries., and in the production of exported article..
In the rime/ easingn banks dopants, and in the rapid improve-
ment of the Revenue, which In the last quarter amoun-
ted to ever half a million. He dealt next With the
details of Mr. Yemeni' emigration scheme, on
wheels be cat he mild 'Whale, as vogue awl ha
Impracticable. Turning to thet general policy of the motion,
be denied that overpopulation.ed to pauperism, instancitie
the United States and the Australian' colonies, which bed the
lame evil to complain ; and he maintained that e• hid been
more am:ended than other countrles in dealing with the am-
eppeseion between L.)..,ur and capital. Mr. hen had no
aversion to voluntary emigration, but he exhorted the House
rather to awed the Otivernment in removing the causes which
handicappes. the work tnan at home In his competition with
foreign countries, to dittrinieh the burden of Inwerial and local
taxation. to Improve the poor laws, and to eetablish a compre-
hensive erste= of edevatles. He concluded an effeclos and
loudly applauded speech by pnuestang energetically against •
resort to extmontinary nveasures out. an tame nuggenteof by
Mr. Torten; preferring to trust rather to the recuperative
energy of the country and the enterprising_ !spirit of the people:
Mr. MOUSY maintained that trade In lannaltire was not lea.
proving. Mr. Pease and Mr. Fothergill, on the other hand,
confirmed Mr. Goacheo'. ntatementn as to the coal and iron
trade in Durham and south Wales. Mr. Newdegate and Sir J.
Lawrence supported the morion, the latter arguing that the
revival of trade had Inade no on on metropolitan
pauperism. On the motion of MetZ4717.1 Smith the debate was
adjourned.
At ten minute. pate one the order of the day required the
House to go Into committee on the Clerical Dissbilities
For two hours a compact rein rtty alternately moved the ad-
journment of the debate, and the adjournment of the Hoe"
but at last allowed the House to divide on a motion of Mr.
Beraford Hope's, for referring thi bill to a select. committee.
This proposal was rejected, the House went into committee
pro/hawk Immediately reported proves.. and finally ad-
journed at a quarter to four on Satueday morning.