The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-23 00:00:00

imperial arliamatt,

110UsE OF LORDS.

—The Tra•le.' Unions ftill, and the Criminal Law
, iii el) log the clauses attsilo.t i til.diatlon ant
• chidh wino at first included to that moa,ure, passed,
.otross,
C•onmittee. The question SR to the pn•priety of hold-
SI , , Conference of Loudon upon the neutralisation of the
Sea an,' the value of Its labours wee rab..4 by Lord
pratheien, but it led to no result.
1111.D11.—The Hulk Holidays' Bill was in committee, end
the marquis of l•talisbury got a clause inserted providing that
1.111. falling due on the days appointed to be kept as h.•lidays
.h„hl,l be payable on the day following. There was an attempt
to make A,onsion Day a bank holiday, but it wee dafeeted,
andtie bill pared through committee.
11.1,TnrtTTttis being Ascension Day, their Lordships did
not noel.
ElllDlT.—Several Bills were advanced • atage—ineludn ilia
pliaing of the Trades Unions arid Criminal Lens.

MOUSE OF COMMONS.
MeaDAY.—ln committee on the Army Regulation BUI long
leliate took place on an amendment by Mr. Runts, to the
°fleet that the country should not be cello.' up TI to grant
011111.011111U011for the pa3ment ot over-regulatlon prima Upon
• .li, WWII the amendment am negatived Ii) a majority of dZe-
-2fo to 195, a result st hien was warmly cheered by the sup-
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port, ri of the Government.
'hit/DAT .—The morning sitting waa almokt wholly devoted
to the adjourned debate on the bill for the better protection
hte, and property In %leatmenth and some put+ of tbe

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adjoining counties.
It was opposed in an energetic speech by Mr. liming, the
recognised relies:anat.:re of the Nationalist party, who accused
the Government of bringing forward the bill in the " very
wantoorma of despotism." Ile declared that the Irish people
siouid never be reconciled to being subjects f the liisgilxh
parliament. They were quite ready to remiln subjects oF the
queen, mid good subjects to the English people, but they
aould never submit to the Illegal and unanstitutional treat-
to which the English Parliament was subjecting them.
The debate was adjourned until Friday.
When the House resumed. at nine o'clock very few mem-
!. rs hid amembled, cad shortly afterwards a count-out took
rbo%
anNVIDAT.-11r. Baas deseribeel • petition from "
of Manchester, who and • moderate amount of attain-
Wll4 liquor absolutely neer...miry to their comfort and health,"
as containing a certain number isf signature., but as " fien
'ark long, and Nibs weight." Several other colossal pal-
ings core promoted,
sir WILFRID LAWRON, In moving the second reading of his
pennissive Prohisitury Liquor Bill, dwelt with his accus-
bowl f roe upon the evils of drunkennesa, and anerted that
11,,' trniptationa offered by the existing ayetem of public-
,. „, practically couipel• haee any appetite for
drink to become drunkards. The measure itself he described
~o.iy an instruction to magistrates to consider the wants
▪ wishes of their poorer, as they already regarded them) of
their richer neighbours.
Sir.WillillalOC*ll, who moved the rejection of the Dill, made
. great isiiiit of a placard described as "A Publican's Prayer,"
•Iveli hal been very largely looted in Bradford, and in which
▪ the petitions of the Loris prayer were grossly parodied.
At the ileallind of some meanbers, the lion. gent.eMan read the
lint 'cords of this decginent--''Our Father, which art in hell" ;
lot this was quite sufficient for the Ilimae, and general cries
„4 "order, order," assured him that he need go no further.
Lord C. 11A.WILTOX seconded the motion for the second
Dr. J. Local eunfirmel • statement which had been suede
by SIT 11. Sehrin-lbbetson, that already drinking houses,
...Nod by public 'no who had been refused their licences,
~,re being estiblishod under the title of "Working Men's
aod predicted that the adoption of such • tricalUre as
this •ould largely increase that evil.
Mr. llsten frankly admitted the disappointment and mond-
&anon which the withdrawal of the Licensing Bill had °ee-
l.' • to himself. The measure before ',he house he chase-
.„ este which, by rainng false and illusory hopes
g lance numbers of the people, really obstructed rather
than liromotni the Proillees of legalatiou for the restriction
of the liquor traffic ; aud, not despairing of such legislation,
lie ilecidenly refused to support the second reading.
rir W. lisirgis warmly remaliated those imputations ; and
tolls' audibly expriused delight of his friends in the Speaker's
sal Stringers' Gallery, announced his intention to persevere
with this agitati..n until he carried his point..
The House divided, and the Bill was rejected by • majority
e 172-11.0 to 124-• result which was cheered by both the
valued and the losing side.
DUIRJUILI was Meted With Cheer/ when he
iroa to mdreas the Howe upon the motion to go into OM-
Wilke upon the Customs and Income Tax Bill. He went
Into a history .1 the financial proposals of the Government,
a. c-' pinned that the House had not • fair opportunity of
„,,,enigring whether it should not Mee the tea duties instead
of inereming the income tel ; and be concluded bla speech,
shieh lasted about an h ur and • quarter, with • panegyric
ins. the irtues and atrugg'es of the lower middle clam whom,
'cording to the admission. ef the Chancellor of the Exchequer
ail the Prime Minister themselves, that impost so severely
he".
Mr. Lowywhe was pretty well cheered when he rose to address
the House, complaintsi that be had been male the subject of
spratkal jiike, but admitted that he was pleased that at ter the
tory and minatory termed his notice Mr.Dleracli bad "con-
fined himself to • few technicalities." He explained the reasons
Inch host li.duciod the Government to change their Budget
schemes. The Howse did not receive their proposals with
!atom, and so they substituted othere • instead of, like
petulant children, throwing up their er'elixonsidered and
matted scheme of army reform.
Allot a few words from Hr FAWCITT and Mr NRWDROArg,
Dr. B. ORDOR3II described the debate as a post-mortem exam,
pillion of a iiefunct Budget which had committed suicide, and
ben buried at cross-roadasnd drew rapturous cheers from the
opposition by declaring that the Ministers,ll not, petulant chil-
dren. were spoilt children, spoilt bythe obseiul ma majority
• hich at at theaback, and was ready to be dragged through any
mire that the Government chose. The real reason for the find
alteration f the Budget was. he maintained, the demonstra-
tion id the matchmakers, and characterising the speech of the
Cliancellor of the Exchequer as • lame mology, which was
calculated to hens the Goverment into contempt, he cloeed
with the remark that that right hon, gentleman, so far from
Is g a petulant child, had arrived at years of discretion,
• loch taught him "rather to preserve his place with our
limiget, than go into exile, carrying his own schemes with
After some hell-dozen little speeches, the Speaker was
allowed to leave the chair.
In Committee some time was spent In diesuseing•-occesion.
ally with • good deal of warmth-a proposal by Mr. Hermon
to collect the income tax half•yearly instead of yearly ; but in
the end the clause intendel to carry out this q... 14,1, •as re-
jected by a Naaj,.rity of 32-70 to 37, mid the Bill was rejort.d
unaltered.
Then the House took up the consideration of the Army
Itegillalion Bill, and Colonel Mao* moved the 0111il•-•kal from
the ....cowl clans., of the words "prohibiting the papuent of
pigmy for exchanges."
The amendment, which was opposed by Ile CARDWILL, as
being contrary to the whole principle of the Bill, led to a
g of diecuesion.
The amendment was negatived by a majority of 37-183 to

144.
iIIIDAT.—The debate upon the second reading of the Wrat-
tnrath Bill WY MlllllOll by Mr. Jous Maxim.
Tilt SOLICITOR
if!. chicly in defence of the measure. Al "no Irishman,
hcaring every mark and token of being an Irithinan," he
especially ridiculed the claim of Mr. It rtin, or any one elm,
speak of Ireland with especial emphasis "My country."
With an obvious but unexpressied reference to the celebrated
story •.f the eine, he remarked that Mr. Ihrthes suggration
that the peace of Westmeath might Ira preserved by arming
the inhabitants, would have come tort apdropriately from
the tnember for Kilkenny and while pointing out that time
mud enlace before the remedial measures of the last. two
Sessions could bear their full harvest of benefits, maintained
that the Bacon ve were b iund to take care that there should
be some people left In Ireland for them to benefit.
Amid perpetual interruptions Mr. Whalley denounced,
loon'coo,the teachings of the Roman Catholic priesthood
in Ireland.
The Howe divided, and the OT,onor D pranceal to omit
from the measure the provisions continuing the Peace Preeer-
vation Act was negatived by a ma) wity of ICS- 340 to I°,
Lord Guiles, as he took occasion to explain, voting by mistake
with the minority. Then another dividon *as taken. and the
s n ecod reading of the Bill MY carried by 132-293 to, It. The
committee lam fixed for a morning sitting on Tuesday, and
almost immediately afterwards the sitting was suspended.
A. won as the Speaker took the chair at n to o'clock, Mr.
Pts carried out hi. threat to "roust" the House' but the
scent attendance of members was speedily reinforced by •
sufficient influx to make up their number to 40; and, after •
brief delay,
Mr. CUADVICII moved for a Select Committee to inquire into
the mode of emceeing the Income and Property Tax. Lie urged
the Ma-qualities and ii.justiees of the income-tax, and pressed
11p4,11 the tiovernmen: the demand of "44 Chambers of Com-
merce" for an inquiry into the subject, which he proposed to
distritrite under no lee than thirteen different beads.
Mr. Lows "dmittal that there were many matters connected
with the income-tax that might well be made the subject of
inquiry, hut objected that the saseion was now too tin advanced
to permit of the commencement of such an inveatinstlon by
Seim. Committee. Under these circurnatancee, he offered him-
,it to inquire Into some of the practical suggestions offered
by Mr. Ch.dwick, and recommended that the more abstract
tium4.lollSehould he left over for ditscusaion next year.
tin • division the motion ens rejected by a majority of 0-
14 117.