The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

imperial Varlianunt.

HOUSE OF
_Loßpq.-.THITRSDAY,

After the other orders of the d.iy had been disposed
of,
Lor3 Tiro:tux moved involutions to the following
effect :—" That the HOUSO, desiring the settleuient of
the question of Parliamentary Return), is willing care-
fully to consider the petitions which have been pre-
sented in favour of manhood suffrage and vote by ballot,
as the linotlest basis for ti e e4ctive franchise ; also
that the House, hop4g to 14 able to discern those who
ought and ought not to have • vote, is therefore pre-
re.red to mem ))))) end such alterations in the Criminal,
Vagrant, and Poor LAWS as shall appear necessary to
cut off the register of voters all improper persons, and
that in this way the !louse hopes to grant the spirit of
the prayer of the petitions, not only without harm but
with great advantage to the common-weal." In con.
elution. he advocated the necessity of adding the ballot
to the right of universal suffrage whenever it might be
conceded, and insisted that the ballot was not un-Eng-
fish. . . .

Lord GRANVILLE Paid it would he impossible for him
or the 'louse to are with the substance of the resolu-
tions. lie concluded by briefly touching on the fallacies
involved in Lord Teynham's arguments on the ballot,
and by expressim• his opinion that universal suffnme,
more than any oiler system, tended to the destruction
of liberty and Vie introduction of despotism.
The motion was then negatived.

Their Lordships adjoarnod at fire minutes to eight
o'clock.

'FRIDAY.

Lord STANHOPE moved for a copy or extract of the
despatch from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to re.
gulate the diplomatic relations with the Court of Home
since the cessation of Her Majesty's Legations at
Florence.
. . . . .

•
Lord N 1 0DE1101781% did not think that such changes
would tend to improve the relations between the two
countries:_ . .

Lord NALMRDSCRY could not concur with Lord
Wodehouse, but thought that the more serious the
sffsim of Italy became the more necessary was it for
this country to be represented at Rome.
Lord NORMANDY concurred in the propriety of estab-
lishing an embassy at Rome.
The lion was agreed to.
The Puke of SOUICHSKT, in reply to Lord Dungannon,
said he had heard the French authorities, instead of
employing extra hands, had very recently discharged
4110 shipwrights from Cherbourg.
On the motion for going into Committee on the
Refreshment and Wine Licences 8111, .

Lord ti11.017..41WHY drew attention to the clause of
the Bill which gave the police power to visit tie houses
of confectioners and others licensed under this Act at
all times and hours, end denounced at as most tyran-
nical and unjust. In the fl-cent state of feeling, how-
ever. of the country, he should not make any motion on
thu Bill, as lie did not wish to bring into question the
rights and privileges of this House, in regard to what
might be called a • Money Bill," but which really con-
tained ninny clauses k. regulate refreshment houses aid
to confer power on the police.
After is few remerks from Lord Wiext.nw,

Lord I)w:out:misuse condemned the Biil in the
stongest language.
Lord HARRINGTON opposed the Bill.
Lord GRANVILLE defended the Bill, and said that, as
it was not possible to prevent persons indulging to
excess, it was far better to enabte them to indulge in
milder and more wholesome beverages. In reply to
Lord Shaftesbury, he said it was tree, accenting to the
wording of one of the clauses, that the police would
have the power of entering the licensed houses by day,
but the Goverunient proposed, if the Bill were passed,
to remedy that defect by means of a separate Bill.
The House then went into committee on the Bill,
which, after a very brief discussion, was passed without
an amendment.
The House then adjourned.