The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-07 00:00:00

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To-!ay in ti Ii f I'oll2l*M+, replying to a question
put by Mr. lb, , I Secret Ley explained that
lb • r• • •:/it . :dal reli.4 ilimmatitiel Vie recipient
fr ,It.r; and the
revising lankier havin..; decided that the persons earning
money by ,tone-breaking during the South Wales lock-
out were so disqualified. he could not interfere in the
matter. A motion by Captain Nolan that the induce-
ments to enter the ranks of the army ought to he
iwireascil, having been negatived without a division, Mr.
Wanly :ululate,' to the llonso the Army Estimates for
the year. With rA•renc,i ti ono subject, he was glad
that the Purchase e ontaissioncrs would not require so
much this year a i last by .C172,:r0. With respect to
the yeomanry, it was intended they should all become
light cavalry ; and as tithe volunteers, it was proposed to
increa-o tb Cite for ,
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' that department of the country's defences. As to the
reserves lie propiscil to increase their pay, bidet the same
time he lir posed to increase the Adage:icy of the condi-
tions of their service. With reference to the militia, ho
was aware of the burden ivicasioned by the billeting
system, but he was in hopes th,t it would he gradually
got rid of by the buil.limt of ii,rmanent barrack.; and
his proposal wool," involve ionic of the militia regiments
being brought to headspiarters. Profe-airig himself to be
as peaceful a War Minister as eyer held the meals of office,
lie nevertheless urged the necessity of keeping the army
in such a state as to be prepared for whatever contingency
might arise. It was proposed that the 21. a day, kept
hack from the soldier's pay should ho given to him on his
retirement—not in it lump sum, but in two or three
instalments payable through the Post-odic° Savings
Banks; and that the men on furlough should receive
ls. 6.1. instead of is. W. a day. lie concluded by moving
a vote of I:t2,ieil men for the home and colonial establish-
ment. exclusive of India, being an increase of 3,0113 on
last year.
Mr. insit.tEm assented, and the motion was agreed to.
FRI DAV.

TIVE BURI %IA BILL

Mr. Osiumsr. Moans,: made an effective speech in
support of• hi ititipu. declaring it "just and right,
while ',hiking proper krovidon for the maintenance
of order and il•••• •n to permit inteiments in the
parish churchyard., of Euglind and Wales "either with-
out atic burial Set nr with burial services other than
those of ti, • Cipireh of Etiglan I." Ile pressed home some
very prictical arguments, and was net wanting in good
declamatory appeals. Ile furnished fairly the evidence of
that substantial grievance which persons in office anxious
to oppose all reform are usually resolute to deman•L Ile
made it clear that there was no real strength in the argu-
ment which would have it that the parish churchyards are
already ne illy all clued up, and that therefore the object
of rontriversy is I of. Mr. Morgan oh-,wed, as
fairly as any combination of figures could do, that the
grievance of which complaint I, mimic is not visionary,
but sulistantiol ; is not intinitesim •I, but of considerable
bulk and imp 'dance.
Mr. Cams over and over again, claimed, and ever wqh
increasing emphasis, the liberty, 11.1 he called it, of the
Ditablishcil Church to retain its building and churchyrls
for the use. of its own regular members. "Is she, he
ask,sl indignantly, "to li:the only religious body within
the realm which cannot appropriate her own churchyards
to the use If her own member.?" . .

The sanitary amument way used by no less a
person than the Pates MI stsrre., and Nonconformists
were warned against overcrowding the churchyarda
Sir WILLI tm HARCOURT'S speech dealt very vigorously
and conclusively with some of the arguments which
opponents o: Mr. Morgans resolution had endeavoured to
found on law and Constitutional practice.
Mr. RAIKE4 lowered the tone of the debate when he
talked of the controversy as one stimulated chiefly by the
jealousy of Nonconformist ministers, who felt aggrieved
at the superior social tewitioa of the parish clergymen.
sin the Division being taken, Mr. Morgan's resolution
was negatived by a majority of 31—r9 to 248. The
announcement of the numbers was received with prolonged
cheering and counter cheering.