The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-20 00:00:00

" EXTRACT OF PARLIAMENT."

MONDAY.
Those who cross the briney, may fairly take it as a
matter of chance, whether they go up or whether they
go down. At least one would think so, from a question
put in the House to-night, by Mr. Ashley the member
for Poole.

He wiked the Prcnident of the "leant of Trade whether
the department was informed of the case of the ..hip
Thema+Ma al'i.ellun, which, carrying pae-engern, nailed
front Lebdon for New Zealand on June Id lank laden
with 532 tons of coal and with SOO kegs of gunpowder,
canen of mat,lien, and turpentine, all stowed in clot*
proximity to the coal, and that when shout nix weeks tot
the real ignited, and the ship WAN only nave.' by throwing
overboard all the gunpowder, and hy taking her into the
harbour of Rio, where the remnindier of the inflammable
care, was dincharge,l, the cost •,f the jettisoned gunpowder
hat tug been ehar.red to general average, no that the lons,
Instead of falling on those responsible, ham to he borne by
the ownern or the rarei of their underwritern : and.
whether the Board of Trade does not consider keel(
authorited anti bound to stop a vessel so improperly
loaded, . . . .

Sir C. ADDERLEY replied that the facts were as stated
in the question, hit the vessel not being an emigrant chip
did not come under the Passengers Act, and was not pro.
hibited from carrying explosives for shippers, though the
Explocice Sohstance Act WM certainly violated by the
mode of packing the good..
That extremely able first L.o.d of the Admiralty, who
from his experiences—just the re ee rse of naval—hut been
selected to lo,k otter the most vital interest, of the
country, presented his " estimates." Business did not
progreol, further than that the exce,s vote of
1.75,511 for the year 1875-6, was agreed to._

TUFAnAT.

In the Lords the Duke of Richmond introduced his
Burials Bill—" a small mercy" for which Dissenters
do not feel particularly thanlifuL An far as mpears
from the debate, what Government prop Ones t 0 110 is
to transfer the powers at present exercised by the
Home Secretary to the Local Government Board, and
to authorise the latter, on certain representations
being made to it, to compel the fonnatiou of a " Burial
Authority. mei the formation of a new burial ground.
Compitlnory pet.r will be granted in awl eases not to
the burial, but the sanitary authorities., to enable them
to acquire land for the ',unwise. Where the burial
authority, which may be either the vestry iir
mitten of the sc.dry, neglects it. Ilotion, the sanitary
authority of the district will have power to interfere •,
sod hoaßy, pr ..vision will he made for the interment
1 of Dissenters in churchyarrbi without any religious
service being %alit over them.
In the Commorui the Radical member for flinuinv
ham, Mr. Chamberlain, moved i—
" That it ea+ desirable to empower the town C,11T1,11,1 nf
boroughs limier the Municipal Corporations Acts, to
acquiire, couiwithirily, on payment of fair compensation,
the existing interents in the retail sale of intoxicating
drinks within their respective didricts, and thereafter,
if they naw fit, to curry on the trade for the convenience
of the inhabitants, but so that no individual should have
any interest in nor derive any profit from the sale. In
submitting this proposal the hon. member explained that
It was the system known an the Gothenborg, which had
been almost univevally adopted in Sweden with pest
success. Ile acknowledged that he hail little faith in
legislation aa a means of changing the social habits of a
people, and that the practice of temperance was best pro-
moted hy moral suasion, but drunkenness had attained
such gigantic dimensions in this country, a. proved by
the statistics of crime and the revenue returns, that some-
theng ought to be done by legislation.
Sir H. Johnstone; above, all others in the world,
supported the motion, lint when it was put to the vote
it was rejected by 103 to 51, so, that unless Mr.
Chamberlain has the same tenacity as that tea-pot
legislator, Sir Wilfri.l, we have probably heard the
last of the Gothenburg scheme bur some time to come.
Wguttganay.
. _ .

An attempt to interfere with free trade in
was upset, to the .discomfiture of its promoters, by an
overwhelming majority.
Sir Robert Anstruther moved the second reading of
his Intoxicating Liquors Bill, by which
In the first place it Is proposed to restrict the granting of
future licenses until there was not more than one license
to every 590 of the population, and when that limit had
been reached it wee to be in the power of the ratepayers
living within WO yards of the publiehouse to say whether
they would or would not allow another publichoune ti be
erected In the neighbourhood In the second place, the
Bill proposed to make an alteration in the mode in which
grocers' licences for the sale of spirits were granted. In
Scotland, grocers were at liberty to sell any quantity In
an open vesseL It was, therefore, proposed to assimilate
the law of Scotland to that of England in regard to
grocers' licences.
On a division the Bill was thrown out by 253 to 00.
THURSDAY.

In the Commons to-day Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, had but a sorry excuse
to offer in defence of the cowardly and brutal conduct
of a man—no! • person, named Ancketill, who
happen* to be on the commission of the peace for
Ireland. The Belfast papers record that
"On the :list August this Ancketill was driving about
the hour of midnight through the village of Eniyvale,
county Monaghan, when some dogs, aroused by the noise
of his gig, barked, and, u he states, frightened the horses.
He thereupon pulled up, drove to the police barracks, and
induced one of the police to accompany him in a search
for dogs in the houses of the sleeping villager. Neither
r he nor the constable knew the dogs which had barked,
. but they went to the houses of people who were known to
own doge. They Went to the house of widow Armstrong,
and one of the inmates wee roused out of bed. In reply
to inquiries, the man stated that Mra. Armstrong had a
dog, and that the dog Wall in one of the outhouses. Mr.
Ancketill requested the servant to bring out the dog that
he might see him. The dog—a valuable dog—and ono to
which widow Armstrongg's family were greatly attached,
was brought out. Ancketill cauaht up the unsuspecting
creature in his arms, and with a pocket-knife severed the
throat from ear to ear. The police-constable was present
when this was done. They discovered another dog which
belonged to a car driver named Peter M*Anally. Ancketill
soisod him and cut his throat"
Mr. Sullivan very naturally wanted to know
whether Her Majesty's Government considered the
man who killed the dog any longer fit to hold a Coin.
mission of the peace. This is Sir Michael's attempted
evlanation :
Ancketill wax driving home late at night, when some
dogs frightened his horses. The horses ran away, and the
carriage Won damaged. The police hearing the noise came
out, and Mr. Ancketill foolishly and improperly, though
naturally somewhat aggravated at what had occurred,
killed two dogs, that appeared to he amongst the
aggressors. The result was • summons before the magis-
trates."
Mr. Sullivan, we are glad to nee, has given notice of
further enquiries.
On the same day the member for Northamptonshire,
whose inexperience in Naval matters, of course,
peculiarly qualifies him for the poet of Firet Lord of
the Admiralty, was eked whether there had not been
a great deal of bullying practised by the Cad-ete iin
board the training.ship Britannia. at Dartmouth.
Mr. Ward limit was obliged to admit that there had
been; but he declined to lay any official papers
relating to it on the table, on the ground that
'1 should be very lorry
i myself to see all toy school.
boy delinquences reported n a blue-book.' (Laughter.)
We very much fancy Mr. Ward Hunt would alio
object to a bluebook containing minute details of his
three year' in office.
FRIDAY.
Mr. Whalley almost deserves slicers, for hie very
persistency in the came of the " unhappy nobleman,"
whom moat other people rarely think of. Undaunted
by the recent rebuffs he has sustained in the flouse
on the same subject, the member for l'eterborough
again put the Home Secretary to the torture. He
rose, amid ironical cheerio, to call attention to cories-
pottderice with the Home Office relating to the
Tichborne Claimant, and soliciting inquiry into
the affidavits of Charlee Orton and Mary Ann
Treoiget.
'The hon. member. apologising for intruding upon the
House with the motion, said he was bound to do so in
consequence of the allegations contained in the petitions
of above 300.000 perpons, who believed that the present
convict had not ha 4 a fair trial, lying disregarded upon
the table of the House. The petitions contained charges
such as no judge had ever yet allowed to lie without
demanding an inq and which he me. Whalley) was
prepared to The lion member added that
the lest fifty were . by hinuell, and con-
cluded by sa
~,a,..,_ House though It might con-
lab*
eider him ea this mai* bad taken
a deeper hollMlCirelizip, patriotisai, he might

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Tuesday. March If, 1577.