The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-12 00:00:00

Varliammtarp Vroastings.

On Wedneaday, the diecos-eion of the Municipal Fenn.
eines (Ireland) Bill occupied the few member. Preavnt
-hroughout the lift,ronon anti aventually the .mooad
rat•ling w. reJeete i I.y a rutin-0y of Ave In • U...re -4
205 ueat'iera. g.*.. I-11, .nove-1 the opani tenant&
ihe Town Camelia, L.cl Boards. en, Bah and two
attempts at adjournment liroutht time to tut ininatee to
am, when, in accuriltusce with the rule of the Hums, the
Bail 4..1 over.

Ou Thursday. in the House of L •rda, the Doke of Aesll
Initiated a checti.einn on the Treaties of MIME in which
Lord Stanley of Ad•lerley, Lord Hammond, the Ral of
Carnarvon, the Duke of Somerset, and other peers took
thp:dLrtedent.tna•LUF:Lpoic:D:ntirnoi..dbetoi'panngr•:uutblinore,'ltj.h"anlirepp6itatthwn;;:ts:.l2-,:.c.L°b'our:;r::dchbebe
Great Britain would go to the Congress, he midst WY
Iwoadly that they wouki desire to have pesos settled in a
and not exclusively in a Russianmum • they
tr:lrilk as far aa circumstances permitted, urge the
bility of maintaining a balance of advantage 'between the
various races intimated in the question ; and they .0"1
endeavour to make the settlement as far as possible a
lasting one. It would, however, be unwise for him to
conceal from th4r lordships she conviction the, the task
upon which the Conference was about to enter was one
the Wile of whoih no tan could foretelL
In the Commons, in reify to Bir Charles Mike, the
Chancellor of the ll:chequer sold the Government had not
yin received any authenuc information am to the terms of
paste. The Factories and Workshop. Bill pealed through
committee. On the motion to go into Committee on the
County Government BU, Yr. Itylamis moved its rejecnon
on the ground that it waa soother step in the direction of
centrallaanott The motion was seconded by lord
Randolph Churchill, who declared that he "had
ransacked the • hole enema of denunciatory phrases and
had not found any that adequately ermined his intim*-
, tion—or rather his want of estimation—of the measure,"
I which be characterised as being "stuffed with all the
I little dodges of a Prendent of the Local Government
susrd when he cam* to attempt to !misdate with • 'treat
He could make some excuses for the Cabinet
Souse weeks ago their minds were eornimed with the
diSculty of getting Mew ships into the Dodanelles. Of
late they had been considering how they might get the
, ships out again. Amid this occupation they had consented
to allow Mr. Bolster Booth to come down to the Howse,
and with all the aopearanos of a greet lawgiver, to
endeavour to emend. in his little way, the British Con-
stiutUou. The effect if such Minkterial agency was sees
in the details of the Bill. which Lord Randolph mercilessly
criticised, calling upon those near to rally round him
whilst be raised the last wail of the departing Tory pity,
and did his utosmt to defeat this most Radical and most
democratic measure, this crowning dishonour of Tory
prieHoles, tisk supreme violatma of political honesty."
Mr. Chamberlain urged that Ma business of the country
should be conducted by a Board elected by household suf-
frage After a long discussion Mr. Slater-Booth "did
not think it incumbent op 's hire to is dice the remark.
of Lord Randolph Churchill, Other criticisms be answered
In detail, many of his observations being lost amid the
prevalent bun of privet* conversation. Eventually the
, debate was adjourned.