The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

EDN E.'4l) A Y.

Mr. W. EWA ItT. in moving that the Professimal
Oaths AlmMien Hill be read it second time, he stated
its object— namely, to get rid id oaths imposed by
statutes either 011S1.1ete or unneceswary.
Mr. A. MI4III smaported the 11.11, considering that
this was oinsply a measure of legal returns, which was
tar hue.t by high authorities.
Mr. 114:Nu N ob, auppirted the Bill.
Sir G. Lswiss su„ led that, as the second reading
Was 111,1 "Plowed, no advantage could tilt' f • pro-
longed of Ito principle. lie did not attheli
importance to proinisoory ; his objections to the
Bill were proper for the 'ttee
After mono further discussion the Bill Was read a
second time.
Gin the order for going into committee upon the
.Aggravated Assaults Art Amendment Bill, moved by
Imril Ital N11.1)1,
Lori Es iiiiii moved to defer the committee for three
mom ha. Ile it,iuieil the averment ui the preamble of the
Mil that theemat hg law hail failed : he urged that the
intlietion of the hrh was repugnant to the humanizing
prizoiple of modern legislation, and that, if passed, the
Act would he inoperative.
Tido amendment was sec led IT Mr. HARDY, Who
insisted that there was no IVASOII to believe that the
present law let I failed, and that it should be carried out
in its full stringency before the power of inflicting
a severer punishment woo given to a single magistrate.
Mr. Pat ii.. Mr. Eav ART, and Coitillei Nolan spoke
against the further progress oif the Bill.
Sir G. 1.1,1 V IS observed that the feeling which bad
actuated the Iliium in lamenting to the micond reading
if the Bill was a manly one. but it must not marry them .
too far. The policy of Parliament for some years past
hail been to mitigate the severity of our c al code,
Alia thin police hail been found to diminish crime. lie
had musette:4 many of the police magistrates of the
metrotmlio, who were Minima UiuiLllllilU in thinking that
the propcAcsl punishment would tend to inerease the
offence. Ile was of opinion that it woulil not he wise to
promml further with this Hill, which was founded upon
a retrograde and mistaken policy.
Mr. lisimis and Mr. 1.111.}11 supported the amend-
ment ; Mr. Ltitanv recommended the withdrawal of the
11111.
After • reply hy Lord ItarNti Au. the House divided,
when the amendment wait carried by 174 to ; so the
Bill is loot.
The Highway% (South Wa:es) Bill was read a second
time.
tin the order for the second reading of the
Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Bill, moved by Mr.
HI. t fine nn,
Sir G. LEWIS observed that this Bill was of conaider-
able importance as affecting Scotland • bv altering the
basis of valuation it would have a bearing upon the

Parliamentary franchise. He suggested that the dia. I
cu.ion of its principle should be deferred until the
1,0-3
-Advocate was present.
Mr. Bt.Aug opposed the Bill, and moved to defer the
second reading for three months.
Mr. CKAUFUItII seconded this amendment.
'rho LottU,ADVM:ATI4 who had in the meantime
entered the !louse, explained the difficulties that
would attend the adoption of the principle of the
which proposed to take the net instead of the gross
val
Mr. MACK 817 lIN. in reply, defended the Bill.
tpuii a division, the amendment was carried by 116 to
69 ; so this Bill is lost.
Mr. DEsst N moved the second reading of the Felony
and Misdemeanour Bill, lie dwelt upon the objections
to the law as it stook and contended that the alteration
lie proposed would tend very much to the elucidation of
truth. . .

Mr. HARDY, not opposing the second reading, did not
expect all the benefit which Mr. Denman anticipated
from the Bill, awl thought the analogy suggested
lictween civil and criminal CaSet failed.
The S4/I.I(II4)K•4;ENEKAL eel.l, although the Howe
would, in his opinion, do well to consent to the second
rending of this Bill, there was very considerable force in
the observation. of Mr. Hardy.
Sir G. LEwis. Mr. M. Sum, Mr. S. Esvconwr, and
Mr. Count= spoke in favour of the principle of the Bill,
suggestinz amendments of its details.
The Rill was reml a second time. _

The adjourned debate upon the second reading of the
Ecclesiastical Commissi .... , RM. and Mr. Sefsevu's
atuendment, to defer the second reading for six tuduths,
were then resumed. . _

Mr. IlitstEr reviewed the objections raised by Mr.
Selwyn, and pointed out inaccuracies in his statement
of the amount of the rental account for lftlkl, and of the
expenditure for agency and management. The examin-
at in he had made into this subject had, he said, re-
ed from Ids • d the impression which Mr. Sel-
wyn's statement was calculated to make, and he should
vote for the second reading of the Bin.
Mr. l'xxstt complained of the small comparative
amount contributed by the Commissioners to the spirit-
ual and moral want+, of the people of the county of Dur-
ham, notwithstanding the large revenue denied Irons
the see. . .

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C. BENTINCK objected to the complicated state
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of the accounts, and asked why a plain. general state-
ment of the receipts and expenditure could not be given.
He pursued his argument upon the Commission and
against the Bill up to the time for closing the debate,
which was emisequently again adjourned,
The Tramways (Scotland) Bill passed through COM-
ittee.
Tim , ~timer orders havo been disposed of, the House
adjourned at 6 o'clock.

THURSDAY.
The adjourned debate on Sir C. Wood's motion for
leave to bring in • Hill to repeal the law enah'ing the
Secretary of State for India to raise men for Her
Majesty's local European forces in India was resumed.
Lord STANLEY, after disclaiming party or personal
motives, and frankly acknowledging the difficulties
presented by Indian questions, and the intricacy and
perplexity of this question in particular, observes' that,
knowing the .'pino.na of high authorities upon this
subject, he should think it an act of political cowardice
if lie hesitated to express his own sentiments and to
claiin for those of others • fair and full consideration.
Having noticed briefly the objection to the maintenance
of two European armies iti Indis—that it was a them
retical anomaly, he remarked that the difficulty of
dealing with this question was greatly increased by the
absence of any distinct plan to be substituted for the
existing scheme. In considering what should be the ,
constitution of the European army in India it was
inqswaible, he said, to exclude from view the native
army, which would suffer in its character by the re-
, moval of a local European force, and would become a
refuge only for those European officers wlm could find
no other etnployment. lie had never heard • satisfac-
tory answer given to the objection that, by the
removal of a local European force, the Indian
Govern...et wonld lose the valuable assistance of
some thousand European officers iinniliately attached
to the local Government. He thought, and this was the
..pini ~,, of Lord Canning, that it would be difficulty to
get Line officers properly qualified to stay in India ; and
young men, new to that country, could scarcely avoid
giving offence to the natives. Great stress had been
laid by Sir C. Wood upon the mutinous spirit exhibited
by the ilischargisl local European force ; but it must be
remembered that that force had been recruited by men
hastily enlisted in this country and imperfectly dis.
yiplincil, and lie challenged proof that troops of the Line
idaceil in the sun" circumstances mid influenced by Us*
same feeling, would not have acted in the same manner
Ile real te•ti 1111 l nies given by various officers of Indian
experience in favour of the military qualities of the local
European army, observing that, for high commands in
India, there was always an opportunity of getting from
the local service the best MOIL The jealousies and
rivalry between the two services had been insisted upon;
but the officers of the local army bait been excluded from
certain professional advantages enjoyed by the other
services; this hail naturally created a sense of injustice ;
the removal of the cause wont,' banish the effects. It
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had hem' Ilrgllo.l that the locking up a large European
force in India was inconvenient ; but he denied that the
Meal foree was " locked up ;" it had been and might
:igain be employed, in time of war, beyond the limits of

General Irl.l. stated tile grounds upon which he
had come to a perfectly different conclusion from Lord
stmiley. He had changed his opini ~,, upon this ques.
lion ; be could not get over, he said, the fact of the
mutiny among the local Europeans, awl there were
other reasons (which he datailed) that had cositriltuted
to the eking,. lie WAS convinced that there would be
no penury of qualified Line officers for continuous
service in India ; xml as to the expense of maintaining
a single army, he agreed with Sir C. Wood that the
st efficient force WAS the cheapest, and did not see
why the expense should ite greater than at present. lie
gay, hi, cordial support to the motion for leave to bring
in the Bill.
Col ~, .1 SYKEA contended that the grounds wired
by Sir I. Wood for the amalgamation of the two Euro-
pean armies were not founded on facts. lie palliated
the alleged ~,,, tiny of the local Europeans. suggesting
instances in which regiments of the Line had made a
statri against what WAS deemed injustice, and reed
strong testimonies to the character of the local army.
Ile insisted upon tlie question of expense, the conati•
tittienal question, mai the question of patronage, as for
lashing rtAlsolls why Sir C. Wood should not persevere
in his iiirasUee.
Mr. PEttategg said he was a partizan of a thorough
and enthe :tinalgaination of the two :moles.
Sir Jr. LACY Ex.t:.:.4 objected to tile form in which
the house was called Up al io give a vote upon the
question. whether there si hi be a local European
for.,e in I nihia. TIR. alleged cause of the Rill was the
mutiny of that force ; but he contended that the
soldiers hatl been led into the belief that they were
entitled to the bounty or their discharge by the language
of the First Minister of the Crown. lie condemned
in severe terms the conauct of the ruling authorities
towanis these men. and, adverting to the brilliant
services and high character of the local corps, he
expressed his astonishment that they should be now
stiglitatiZed as unworthy of trust. Assuming that the
amalgamation of the armies would augment the military
atroliage at home, tat exprotaied in very plain language
his distrust of the Horse Guards and the War Depart-
ment. . . .•

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Captain .IENVIS observed that this was not • question
of .ittialgatusting the two armies, but of creating a new
local force. He complained of what lie turined the
unwarrantable attack made by :fir De Lacy Evans upon
the Horse t:uards.
Leave WWI then given to bring in the Bill.
The Poor Relief, kr. (Ireland), Bill was read a
second time.
The Local Boards of Health, &e., Bill, and Ole
Local Supplemental Bill, were read a third time and
pasted.
The Anstruther Union Harbour Bill peened through

['manatee.
The lulend Boarding Rill went through the same

stage.
On the outer for the third reading of the Caledonian
it triune Canals Bill,
Mr. W. Woddaus hoped the House would not give
any further aid to an undertaking which he charac-
terized as a gross job, and moved to defer the third
reading for three the.
The CHANCY-EWE of the EXCHEQUER said the Bill
authorized no grant of public money ; it merely
empowered the Exchequer Loan Commissioners to
advance money on ample security.
After some discussion, the House divided, when the
amendment was negatived by 98 to 47, and the Bill was
mad a third time and passed.
The Law of Property Bill was also read • third time
and 140-ed.
On the order for the second reading of the Burial-
gn I. (Ireland) Act (Ittbli) Amendment Bill,
Lord Ft:101ov raised objections to the Bill, the object
and provisions of which he explained.
Mr. Ci ; a, Colonel Du E Y.. and other Irish Ulell•
bens supported the second reading. and, the amendment
being withdrawn, the Kill WAS read • second time.
The Criminal Lunatic Asylum Bill passed through
Co: Itee.
In the adjourned debate on the consideration of the
R.. 111411 Catholic Charities Bill, as amended,
The "Crvonaxv-IiKaItKAL, KY the instance of Mr.
Newdegate, explained the nature of the measure, and
the effect and operations of it. provisions, going through
and earefully expunittliThi Well of the sections.
Mr. 11EN LKY thought the explanation of the A ttorney-
;elleral so important that lie moved the recommit/41 of
the Bill, in order that its provisions ought be further
considered. .

This motion was agreed to, and the House went forth-
with into Committee upon the Bill, when a long and
somewhat angry debate arose upon the wording of the
first clause, whivh, in the not, the ATTuIiNKT-GENNIIAL
undertook to amend, ao as to obviate any ambiguity.
nixt clause, as it stood, war thereupon formally
negatived, and the committee proceeded to due em the
other clauaes.
The House adjourned at twenty minutes :0 Nor
o'clock.