The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

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KAGINTIMI•L QUALIFICATION.—In a Paritembery
(West Virginia) paper there recertify appeared the fol-
toeing : —" Vote for General Karns, for mayor, who win;
ten years old before he either wore pante or Whom:

A FIXIAN deputation has waited upon Presides.'
Johnson, and (if the New York Herald be oorreet)
reply to their request that he should recognise it
belligerent rights of the insurgents, Mr. Johntse said
he would give the question his sod serious eensider-
stion, such as was necessary to decide a waits: of so
great importance.

'Tam" Litenurvons.—The average baiths
menthers of the rsited States Senate la 5 feet 101
inches ;14 are over 6 feet. Mr. Cowan is the tallest;
he is 6 feet 3i inches In height; and Garrett Davis is.
Us shortest, lei heist 5 feed 5 inches asly. Mr.
Sumner is 6 feet 3ti inches, and Yr. Wilson 5 fist 10
inches. The average olrenmfereses of the beads of
senators is 221 Welles. The largest heads, however, are
not the bed.

Ma. STURM 71 TEM Pait Wm.—American papers
slate that oath. 17th ult. /h. Chapin, Speaker of the
Nebraska House of Repressatativer, made several ob-
noxious decisions, wharmrpon his °Mee was &dared
vacant, and Dr. Abbott, of Washington county, ideetwil
by the Haase to ea it. Gnat ezeiternent ensued, and
the ex-Speaker drew • pistol and threatened to shoot
the Sergeentat•Arms, but that carer firmly discharged
his duty ; the new Speaker took poenowdon of the chair,.
sad quiet wee restored.
A 1712TheLle.11 Worrazo.—New Year's day was in-
tensely hot in Australia, tbe temperature at lielbounarr
Observatory making 96 deg. in the shad*. But the
, 12th of January was still Wier. Al Ifelborne Obser-
vatory the mord was 105'4 deg. in the shod*. sad 145
deg. in the sun on lb. artifice .11k. ground. At
Ramada, South Australia, the thermometer isdkated,
115 deg. inch. shad• on the /atter of these days. 111• Dy
bush firm were mused in the more cultivated distriels,
the grass sad mops being unusually lazuriast, sad the
trait erop was mush injured.
Ds. Lrirsoirross.—The Post says. It syqvan from
despatebes received by the Oeverumant. OM the As•b
menchante at Zanzibar so** dishebev• tie alkwy al
Dr. Idviogshooes death. Murtha letter In the rusea,
from Sir FL Mertitinsos, lays the fag el Dr. Litrinastortir
must rest in *shit suspense until some ems *this faith-
ful negro attendants, who eseoped the alleged
slaughter, ratans to Goodrum Um tele of the Jamas&
men. 1111.8. Wasp has base met be Wiwi, with Dr.
Seward on board, to eadeavonr to seessisia lb. Intik sus-
to the murder of Dr. "Maybes,.

Cinakto.nr.—Tbs idieryareardos Omaha
charaater tarnish as isszkaastals subjoin for the
Freesia preen The graeral has Wally appeared ia the
Ws of a lay 'sinister. Oa kr roeset arrival at Verona
a countrywomen' presented to the 'lwo of Ca " a
„v bon ask with Sir rota* that be baptise
Oaraheddi forthwith Wetraird thoorenioay lath.
fouiviag cliessatoriska tonna :—" I baptios Ursa is the
nano of God and of the lawgiver Christ. Bo virtrions.
&had the weak, sad light against tyrants. lave thine
Nuak, and reader thyself worthy of the seam I give
sue, ohfossi." The name is that of a reboot Mad ita
the last campaign in the TyroL

Tee ALUMNA Cmdia—The Amerieim Cieversmes
have ad needed with wilding like osediality the
proposals of Lord lidaley for an arbitration as the
*labium sidles. They even object to our lird
lion, that the prelims points to be submitted for
to an arbitrator should be Ind deartitet/ greed to by ib•
Americans and ourselves. Not =lSt:, Yr. Sward
&dually makes • sesaler prepo.si that the first
nestles to be referred should be • wit the English
Oovspusst soaked in deossisisa the rebel
slates ben r This, of ewers% l.aprcasl
so sionetrona that it is impeseille to ut.
&lthouili. however, on the sodas% the Mations
bdweesthe two Glevernmend are net spumes* sash
as we amid wish, emedhelses it is aerlds Ohm the
Cabled of Wadded. .either &Ops nee le la •
medics to einitme es Milts& of healiktp. Hp Irvine
the pesding quietism to the islteeness of
Use, sad the istieshriess bulta=seispimi dioissapem,,.
we may be sierdis that the defited is
diatandon win be addiskeily

imptrial iiarltamtnt.
HOUSE OH LORDS.

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MONDAY. —The business eras or a purely formal
cli•racter.
TI.7ISDAY.—Tte Ilatropolitan Pool' Bill was read •
aeceind time, and the Bill for tbe itegulation of Trails
in the Metrono reported and weed to. The Rail.
wee Traffic Protection Bill, was withdrawn 'atter
short debate.
TUUMIDAY.—In committee on the Trades' Union Bill,
sera amendment. Were agreed to, and the Bill puwed.
lllDAT.—rbere was • long diseuseion in referent:le
to the position of the onion Mi bishoprics. The Duke
of llockingham said he hoped in the course of. few
.I.tys ta be able to propme to his colleagues a Bill upon
this important question. The Motrololitan Poor Bill
.used through committer.

HOUSE OF COMMON&
Moenae.—To hear the Reform statement of the
(limn/eller of the Exchequer the greatest possible
anxiety was displayed. Every seat In the House wag
occupied, the galleries were crowded, led e tmue
number of peen were present. The Maria.ejlee of the
Exchequer came into the House just 'afore half-peat
four, and walked to his place slowly arA solemnly. Mr.
Demob, who, when be rose to tor... hie sememem_
was received with • obese, in the hegium.,
of
hie speech, said the Bill ri,"‘ the um,ermem
would have in view the bestow A of menhir nervilegas,
and not the admission of dem Anmie With this
view it was ptimmed to be * the borough franchise in
accordance with the deci Aua of lest year on the pay.
meet of rates. They .'posed that every householder
paying rates end he. mg leaded two years should be
admitted to vote. %hie would admit Z 07,000 men who
lire in honer... De° It MI and pay rates, leaving linen.
franchised cooittr4 honsebolden not paying their own
rates. But ev, A.. _
famitty would be given to compound
householders Inllaius upon themselves the payment of
their own nil* and to obtain in consequence the right
of "tine, After an elaborate argument upon the £5
f ranch, et, lidnish he strongly oondemned, ehareaterising
it IP . • Bortionian bog, sod snorting that its logical
AA in ninny places would be manhood soffroge, Mr.
Amok tract announced that the Bill would confer
like franchise on payers of El direct Mies (not in•
a:kidnap licenses of any kind), and householder. (in
towns only) ,eying El direct taxes would be allowed
to clergies time franchise in respect of both suffrages.
It would also contain an education ennobles mid
would give the (nimbi.* to the holder, of savings-
beak deposits and landed property Cu the amount
of £5O. The direct ter franchise would add a
number greatly exceeding 210,000 (though this was
only an estimate), the edusation franchise 35,000,
the fended property franchise 25,000, and the saving,.
honk franchise 45,001; in all more than 1,000000 would
be added to the borough constituency. In the mantles
the franchise would br fixed at £l5. Rating, which
would add 171,005, and the latent franchises would
bring the total additions to the county constituencies to
some 3010000. 'The Government, Mr. Disraeli,
said, had carefully eonsidered the plan of of cumulative
woune and three-cornered constituencies, and bad tried
it sit every point, but had come to coordasion that
‘n. was arrow:cols in principle and would be pernicious
in practies• and. peeing to the Redistribution scheme,
be Renoested that it was subetentially the tante an that
-4 the lel: of the 25th ult.—vit., that 30 seals would be
,redistriltated, 14 to new boroughs, 15 to counties, and
• one toV.be Londou University, lie defended it from
the ek large of inadequacy, pointing out that these was
norredium between constructing • new elestotal map !
of 'f'ogland and seining opportunities as they arose of
•-enelying pressing inequalities by giving members to
new boroughs as they rote into importance and by
adding to the direct representation of important eon-
ate:incise ; and after dwelling on the sacrifices the
Conservative party had made to agree on a practioal
measure, and on the personal theme and mortification
he had undergone, he ormeluded by expreaing a hope
that ibis Bill would he fairly considered by the Homo,
and a befit f that it afforded the means of • lasting and
satisfactory rettlement —Mr. Gladstone ridiculed Mr.
Disraeli's sudden reverence for the principle of rating,
which be showed would act very tnegularly, condemned
the redistribution scheme as i.o.deeeme, and on the
Ins) vote he emphatically &Awed, meld loud cheering.
that he was implacably 'postale to It that it was •
gigantic engine of fraud,, ang the peomemetion of a oar
of .1"."-. W. '.leatberste said the impression he
bud "'flat"' of the. Bill was unfavonrable.--Sir W.
Bowyer defend., ewe., arid condemned drl/41 voting.
—.Mr, • tra,all7, regarded the dual vote as a piece of un-
"""entk". Mischise—Mr. Roebuck thought Mr. Glad-
`l°°" ntiocelcas to the rating might be emend Is
°°w-istilitee.; the dual vote, of course, was impossible. He
:mei the House to bear in milli that if this Bill were
*ejected and the Government thrown oat (for he did not
!believe in • dissolution) • dead loot would follow, and
be advised it to reel the Bill • second time and deal
with it in Committer. —Mr. Beneford Hope denounced
the Bill as • two-failed business, which might prove so
restrictive that it would take away with one hand what
It seemed to give with the other, or else would entail
household suffrage in • moat dangerous forra.—Mr.
Butler•Jobestone supported the main features of the
Bill, excepting the Dual Vote.—Mr. Sandford expressed
.se opinion that the Bill was inconsistent with the Ream
,lutione, and that the Dual Voting, was illuaory.—Mr.
B. ()thorns hoped that the Bill would be read a second
time and dealt with in Committee. On the merits of
the Bill be expressed )iionelf decidedly oppeaaa to the
Meal Vote and the Redistribution scheme.—Loed 'Crate
ihorne said of the two oompeemtioos piopmed_Diter
'Voting and personal payment of Rater,—the Ara would
not only be utterly ineffective, but it wee*: unpalatable
that it had no chance of asceptanciel End the mooed was
certain to be swept away by the wiry drat Parliament
elected under it —The titanorlior a the Exchequer
made an animated reply, attookitig Mr. Gladstone for he
inconsistency, damsdiag the accuracy of his figures, and
asserting that it was eidumny on the working man to
assume that be cartel resent the connexion of the
Conatitlitiolink nlidgesion to pay Rates with the politieal
privilege of wo'sitie. Replying to an observation of Lord
Omni:erns, he declared with mach emphasis that the
klororotnalt would never introduce household suffrage
pure and Ample and b. urged the House not to listen
*to whet lb' hinted was the object of Mr. Gladatone's
-elaborately prepared speech— the rejection of the Bill
'Went its second reading. Leave was tam givee to bring
is the Bill, sod it was subsequently read • first time.
TOZODAT. —Mr. Mill gave noise of • series of amend-
'mots he intended movie: fa committee on the repro-
notation of the people Bill, oce of which was to omit
the classes relating to the redistribution of meta, and
Inserting in their stead dames embodying the principle
of personal rapreeentation. In reply to a questiou,
11,, Chancellor of the Exehequer intimated that be
would introduce, before time Easter holidays, • Rill
for the better prevention of bribery at elections. Mr.
Bright then asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if
he intended adhering to that clause in the Bill establish-
ing dual votiog,for an answer to time question might sleet
the mune of many gentleman on that side of the
House oo Monday uext.—Mr. Muesli replied that the
proper time for answering the question would be when
the limas lame to discuss the mond reading of the Bill.
—Mr. Gladstone put menial questions to the Govern-
ment in reference to the Reform Bill—The Chansellor
of the Exchequer said that if the questions were
pot upon the paper be would =ewer them on Weather
day.—Mr. Sheridan moved • resolution for • farther
reduction in tbe fire insurance duty. The
encountered the opposition of Mr. Gladstone Trirs
Chancellor at the Embequer. and it was detailed by •
majority of b 9. A long debate afterwards ensued on •
motes Fir the removal of Mr. Charchyard from time
conlaliesion of the.pearme for the Wraith of Dover.
WIDNIIIDAT.—Tbsrs were three Chants Rate BEY
on the paper—Mr. Hardeastiem Bill for total Abolition,
11r. New 'e Cementation Bill, and Mr. Hubbares
Church Regulation Bi/l. The first takes was the
total Alsolitims Biß, the emend rectsX2 of which was
moved by Mr. Hardemette, who ennorily over
the cuitomary argursewts evilest carob Rates, traced
the progress of the eautroverey, and dwelt on the
peculiar facility of • settlement being effected by what
Wee probably the tan middle-elan Parliament—Mr.
Baines, in suppating the Bill, intimated his readiness
to support a compromise which, while it abolished cam-
puberty rates, would not leave those who objected to
suluistarry rates the power of interfering in spending the
rat/A.—Mr. B. Hope moved the rejection of the Rill.
He was willing to abolish Church Rates on Dissenters,
but objected to deprive majorities of churchmen of the
power of taring their fellowelburchmen.—Mr. Oont, In
seconding the emendinent, dwelt on the less which
would be inflicted on the poor in rani parishes by total
abolition from the inevitable diversion of the offertory
to the repair of the (thrift —air 0. Grey supported the
Bill, but intimated his willingnees to support in eons-
unites Mr. WalderreveLealie'sclasses, obieb could
marry out a eompromin munthing like Mr. Gladstone's
Bill of last par.—Mir W. Heathoote pointed out the
inconisteney of presedieg a compromise by_triviell •
second reading to a Bill for total abolitioa.—Mr.
looking at the question from • tenant-farmer's pottl
view' maintained that the buiden of the rate fell on
the landlords, and suggested that the three Bills should
be referred to • wise committee. The dimension was
sontinned by Mr. Boossrfield, Mr. Mills, Sir E. Leaman,
Mr Newdestata. and Mr. Akroyd,—lord J. Mumma
though sasions for a compromise, scald not soment to
preface It* • Bill for total abolition, and denied that
the leitleg against Church Raise was growing in the
coentry, for the returns showed that tbe number of
parishes in which the rate was levied, and the amount,
had increased daring the led few years.—Mr. Ribbon
supported the Bill as • thereliceasi, believing that
voluntary subsoripticms would supply the plass of the
rata—Mr. Hubbard defesied the principle of rating,
and, while willing be mental dficeettetee Welled that It
would be • spoliation ef the Chard' to deprive eberch-
men of 6110 It• Fir of ralisig thenteelvta —Mr. Neat.
Chought the should bays been deferred until the
new sametitimencies maw into operates, and supported
the otiose). of yr. Neci=em Bill to throw the
charge upon land.—Mr. asked whether the
Government eollatively would emend to a can-
promise, and urged that the best medial carrying it out
would be by inserting elates/ Hs this Wairkdi
maid the Government were prepared to stead by the
compress,.they MA proposed in 1860—to mosent to
th° trandet of the tax to the landlord, or to exempt
dissenters in some such manner as that proposed by Mr.
Hubbard's Bill, but they meld not agree to the armee-
diticiaal abolition of an limiest and legal charm) on
property.—Mr. Oladstore, niter disputing Mr. Walpnle's
amertioa that the 1/4: was on property and not on
persons, latloatnd lsriagy his intention to vote for tin
Bill, with the view of inserting in couimittee the
mashiairry for voluntary rating eontalsod In Mr.
WalliMpuve-Leilie's Althea Oo • divierre the wood
reading was earned by 21 to 187.—Yr. Need/gate explathed the provisioas of his Consentetlen Bill, and
on a divisios it was throws out by 177 to 45.—Mr.
Hubbard postponed he Bill until next Wednesday.
The Religions, kg, Building, Bites Bill mused through
committee.

TEDIUM& T.—ln orrnation ban asked for rewrooetine
the Cretan question, Lord Stanley laid on the table the
el.spateh of the Tartish Government anmenshig the
reforms it would curry oat towards it. Christian sub-
jects. His lordship Mated that the Preach Goverment
had reeomnimided the Porte to aide Candia to Orem,
but he was rot oertain that Austria and Russia bad ea p-
Crigs* reoommendation.—The Chancellor of the
oquet aaswered the swiss of questions pat by Mr.
Glaciates* oat Tuesday Tim Government does
sot Wth 'Mind, in e nefosrvisll
they have introduced, to
interfere with any of the privileges con& rred by the
Act of 1832, and Yr. Diarash stated, with regard to
length of maidens, required tc obtain • vote, tbat'they