The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF commoNS.

Ifteen•v.-- Mr. Ftscetrt made a motion for the preservation
of Epping Forgot as a place of recreation for the people. The
Itotterrond3 ..... L *hewed that legally the Government could
not do it. A storm threatened, which Mr. GI. Games calmed
by undertaking to act In the Fettle if not the temp of the
motion Mr: HaanCaMte introduced his Rill for abelibing
the minority clewed of the Reform Act- Mr. LeAvilln
brought in his Ballot nmesure. The form of voting propmed
Is by ticket presented to the voter, due care being- exiontieed to
prevent personation and as wide privacy. Lord fi .ftrxerow
hoped ito further program could be delayed until the Corn.
mitt-se on Election had reported. Leave wee given to bring
I. the Bill. Mr, Sete Limes moved a mammy to consoli-
date and amend the laws relating to merchant shipping.
Traso•V. -There au a full House to her Mr. Gledetone
move hie Land Tenure (Ireland) 11111. He traced the history of
'ciliation on the eel, ect of land In Ireland. Statistically
and historically he not Iced the changes in the condition of that
country during the Past ten Seers, dispelled the prejudices
agalnet the Irish as • Celtic race, pointed out that the (fauna of
legislation had altered the statue of the occupier. for the worm
especially the making of ejecsment cheap and easy. The mat-
ter to be dealt with was that insecurity of tenure which para-
lysed the energise and the hopes of the occupier. Touching on
the terms of remedy which had been used -such as perpetuity,
Salty, security, dabili.y, and certaln,y- he observed that the
three lad meant something solid, without Implying change of
minsership. In a quick &Moment, am put ad& Mu notion 141
Pet'
fly ; and caught applause front the Opposition when he
riorstf this system as feadiag fe make landlords fat possesses.*
rff Mere rest-etarpos OP Mar Mates; and them, we. mere ap-
proval when be aimed passionately objected to deprive the
landlords .1 shoe. antics which he elospiently canape-
rated., belonging to them. and declined to undert•ke a change
of land tenure which would produce • social revolution, and
the trander of the land from one class to another,
with consequences which he net forth with such animation
and emphans that he whole House re-echoed with pleudits.
An elaborate definition of " Insecurity " a 41 its incidents suc-
ceeded, the (portion how it wee to be remedied was begun to
be discussed, and the proposition laid down that, looking at the
exemplar of Ulster, it was pondble to obtain security of
tenure without striking at the root of propsrty. A compre-
hensive and brilliant sketch of Ulster, it. history, and modal
condition, then followed • and next he proceeded to propound
the Bill which he wee Introducing. Speaking find of the
acquisition of land, and expressing regret at the absence of Mr.
Thamell and Mr. Bright, who were authorities on thin point, he
read • letter tom the latter dating his approval of the
moderate and comprehensive clurseter of the measure, The
firat principle. he recommended were not to be confined to
Ireland, but be applicable to the United Kingdom; namely
the giving greater facility for the transfer of land, and the
re euceemion to land In camas of intimacy ; the
en=e of
nt of the poweers of leases by owner.; sad that
easidance'be given to occupers by loans of poNle money wee
next spoken of. lisle' amistance would only be given to
occupier. willing Whey irom landlord, willing to sell. Further
facilities would he given by herd to Whse wade lands, and
assistance given to the purchasers of such lands from landlords
who may reclaim. It was proposed to provide a judicial
machinery for the adminidration of tide meteors. ; arid this
would be either Courts of Arbitration created by Use choice of
panic., or the existing Civil Bill Courtin. Came nettled by
arbtaation would be without appeal. In the Clhi 11111 Courts
there may be appeal, and that o the Judges of Andes; and
there will he three madams instead of two, aa stow. Resides,
there will be an ultimate Court of Appeal called the Land.
them Court. The Courts will have considerable discretionary
powers to conalder the equities of case., though the provisiods
of the Act would be distinct and complete. In this
measure consideration is given to the Ulster custom
of holding-to holdings nearly analogous to them to
yearly tenancies without the protection of any custom, and
theft holding. where landlords have given leases. Theprovi-
Niofll will apply onlv to agricultural occupation; the Cider
curt -m will be recognised as it le and converted into law. aM
will be left to the administration of the Courta. As regards
the other customs outside of i leter it will be provided that they
shall be upheld, by the Courts, but with restrictions. Thus
the tenant& may claim &beau(' compensation only when they
are disturbed by an set of the landlord ; the tenants will not
have the benefit of any oustono without payment of rent;
they shall not cob-let without the consent of the landlord,
except in the cars of 'cottages and gardens for labourers.
Arrears of rent or injuries to the land may be used aaa set-off;
and landlord. may bar customary rights by giving a Imre of 31
years A wale of damages for evictions will be established. A
(raw of It yearu is now, above £3O will bar these damage. If
the landlonl undertakes improvements. In applying the scale
regard will be had to the Improvements mule by the
occupier, and the lose sustained on ejectment-- in the
is nee of compenestion• -especially and particularly on
erections of buildings and reclemation of land. Damages
not exceeding eves, year.' value mar be awarded to
tenants of £10; between elO and I:5). five year.' rent ; and
glee and aleive. two year.' rent in value. It I. propnaed to
advance money to landlords to meet demand. for linprose-
inenta by retiring tenants. It II intended to legtelate distinctly
on improvements, and improvements were defined as thingn
that will nixie the value of land, and are sultabl, to the holding.
Theee will he presunied to be the work .1 the tenants, and It
will be left to the landlord to chow that they are not their work
-if they are they will be the tenant'. property, which Is
exactly the reverse of the premed law. Thi* provision will
not lie proem...live merely, bet extend to improvements already
made, with limitatioes ton. years before the Act, unless they
are building, or rechunation of land, and In omen of contract
to the contrary : and the Court will rim/der the time when
'owe.% einem+ were mule, and the nature of them. Leases may
be girt.° for :11 years, with compel, ation for tillage and
manures, lotildings and reelemations ; the term, and coven
ant. to be approved by the Court. If the tease is not re-
newed at thy end of the term, the tenure will revert to the
condition under which it was placed by the other provisions if
thy measure. In urea where contraets exist *inch in their
nature cannot be fulfilled, eviction for non-payment of rent
will not be • dietorlance of the tonency. At the discretion .4
the Court, an outgoing tenant may receive money for his
interest (non an incoming one: and if the landlord objects the
Court may award the aum asked. Notice to yob mod be for
twelve months indeed of six, bearing • stamp of 2. ed. Thin
announcement caused great laughter. County ems will be paid
In moiety by the landlord and tenant In new holdings and In
obi holdings. under it the payment by the tenant thall realm.
This conclude] the statement of the provisions of the Bill ;
after which the co-operation and assistance of all clamo a
membery wee asked to make what was felt to be an Imperfect,
• working, measure. In concludon be mid- If I no. asked
ohm we hope to effect by this bill, I reply, we hope to effect.
great change in Ire'and, accomplished by gentle means.
Every line of it has been studied with the keenest deem that it
ehould import ea little AA pomible of .hock or violent change
into any arrangement now raiding between landlord and
tenant. There is no doubt, much to be undone-there is much
to he Improved; but what we desire is, that the working of this
bill should be like the work of Nature hermit in reparation,
where she goes and restores the facie et a country which has
been laid wade by the wild and savage hood of man. It is
iversecuted without noise, it admoces from day to day. Its
operation is quite gradual, but its result is dire. We with to
alarm none. We with to Injure none. What we with is that
where there hem been deepondency there shall be hope, where
there hoe been mistrust there than be conitdepooe, where there
has been alienation and hale there gradually shall he woven
the ties of attachment between tons, and loan. It is not that
this can he done in • day. It has reference to nil, which have
been at work with their roots jar back in the course if by-
gone centortes It Is egdinet the ordinance. of Prot Mame--
It I, against the interests of man-that Immediate
reparation should In such caeca be poeible ; for en. of the
main restraints of misdoing would be removed if at any
moment the comequences of lobbing could be repaired. For
such operation and soch effect we look to this bill, and we look
for them not the leen surely and confidently because we know
they mod be gradual and slow, &nit because we also know that
there may be • hope of it. entire *oceans. It must not pees as
&triumph of party over party-(chmes)-not id • triumph of
class over elem.-not ass the lifting up of an deign to record the
downfall of what hart been once treat find powerful, but as
common work of love and goodwill to the amnion good of
our common country; and if In such a spirit.. that this
House adders.. Itself to the work to sustain the future effort.
of the Government, my hope at teed will be high and ardent
that we shall live to see our works sweeper In our hoods, and,
In that Ireland which we desire to unite to England and Scot-
land by the ties of freewill and free election, we shall end peace
' and order, and settled and cheerful industry will diffuse their
blessings from year to year, and day to day, more and more
over a fending land-Aloud cheers.) It seemed, from • state-
ment of Mr. Hardy, that there would be no real Impediment
to the second reading, which mu fixed for the 7th of March, .
and leave wag Immediately given to being In the BIM Tbe
House wm nearly quite cleared when Mr. Cardwell roes to
mote a Bill to re-arrange the War Department. It wee received
generally with favour, and was brought In. The rest was
merely formal.
Watt IaDAT.-.41/ T. Chamberis bill 101 flegalising a
with a deceased wife's eister:wee read the second time,
r.
Jacob Bright obtained leave to bring In • bill to remove the
electord inabilities of women.
TiiCassisr.-Mr. W. F,. Narrate moved • bill to provide for
public Elementary Education in England and Wales. He
commenced wllt &wonting that the desire for and the
responsibility of a ms-tours for promoting education was
shared by all parties, and stated his belief that there was every
disposition to deal thoroughly. but edely, with the aubject.
The &mould of elementary education was to be estimated by
about a million and • half of children, though with a very
variable scale of attendance. A eulogy on the local managers
of existing schools and the clergy fo, their exertions elicited a
warm cheer on all skim The point that in tact only three-
fifths of the children of to. working clams were receiving
education was maloteily dilsted upon, and the deficiencies in
this mimed in Livmpool, Wombs:stet, Leeds, and Birmingham
specifically set forth ; and the whole argument went to show
that there was much imperfect education and • large amount
of actual elucationa &alit ution. lie observed that the system
of national grants, In which those ,inly were helped who
helped themselves, often resulted in aid being denied to thollo
eh nowt needed it. The first problem to be Imbed wag how
to obtain • complete system of school education. This RIM LO
be done with the least possible expenditure of public money,
with a careful avoidance of destroying existing Institutions and
of undue Interference with parent& The country would be
divided into oistricts In which the educational facilities were
found efficient would lie left alone di long as they continued
in that idols The es-hoote receiving Government mid would
have to tome up to • certain standard which Parliament from
time to time would set up; the inspection, indeed of being
voluntary, would he Imperative; and • co...cience clause would
be attached to every echool a.. necessary condition of the
grant. Coming to the compubsocy part of the bill, Mr. Fonder
stated that where the school accommodation ass insuMcient it
would have to be supplied by load eompulsory taxation, sup-
plemented by Government grant., Local boards of manage-
ment would be created, and it was considered that in town,
the born council+ would Ire the best agency to abet them,
and in the *elect vestry, these bodke being left perfectly free
In their choice of the persons to constitute the boards.
Coming to the question sus ts how the echuole were to be
supported. he mi.) that the Goierninent wail no. prepared to
give up school fee.: but in exceedingly poor and destitute
district. power would he given to establish free ',chub., and
alas free tickets to those micas who ymuld not afford to ;ay
the fees. The rate for supporting them ochoolswoldl he levied
with the poor-rate, but whenever the clierged exceeded three-
pence in the pound it would be euppktuented by • public
grant. With regard to religious instruction, it was n.d
Intended to interfere with the discretion of the local boards. .
The Government believed that the great bulk of the parents of
the country were in favour of religious instruction of one kind
. or another, and it was felt that they ought not to proscribe
this desire. To ed-ure the attendance of children at school,
Government, Mr. Forster mid, was in favour of direct
compulsion, and power would be Mien to the omool boards to
frame bye-laws and to compel the sittendance of every child
between the age of five amid twelve, utiless some reasonable
excuse were giver for abeam.. A short discussion followed
the intr. duction of the bill, mid altogether itn Kid-triune were
favourably received by both side, of the Houle.
FRitiar, Thy Eon India (Laws and Regulations) Bill was
read over a second time. The Dissolved !Auricle and Unions
Bill Wa.4 got through committee, and the Provincial Orders
Hills (Committee.) were read a thirst time and p.esed. The
select ceirunlittee on the Alnetinian Expeditiou of last year,
of which Mr. Candlisib WM eh drman, was appointed. Mr.
Groohon introduced his 11111 to provide for the equal distribu-
tion over the metropolis of • further portion of the charge for
poor tenet fir. Plimsoll brougot in his proposed Bill to
,suttpel railway companies to provide but water tins for third-
class carriageL

AT ew inquest bald by 1)r. Lankester, a few day
todi. oi two children who died from the effects
through sucking wane Weiler matches, the coroner
stld," Had the matchen been Bryant and Mays, the children
would not have been polsonned." It cannot be to generally
known that Bryant and May'. Patent Safety Matches are not
V=lawr
sada:bit they light only on the box.—Vkle fahlation