The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

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imptrial farliamrnt.

ROUSE OF LORDS.

HONDAY.—Lord Brougham directed attention to the
! subject of the Speni.h a... trade, °towels; that it
' was with the utmo.t grief and displemaretbat he viewed
the ninduct of Spain in eve hog and Petting at naught
the stipulaii.ins•hich had been rade between European
nations for the suppression of that nefarious traffic, and
in giving encouragiemeat to the eaportatien of negroes
to the Wan( of Cuba. The conduct of the Brazilian
Government had nobly eontraated with that of Spain
on this question, and Mr. Christie himself, though n.i
friend to tl-at novernment, readily admitted that. The
noble and leirned lord added the expression of an
opinion that there warn a very strong cow for repealing
the Abenlein Act, and denied that that. was
the sligl teat symptom of a revival of the
slave trade in Emil, where, front the Emperor
down to the smallest planter, every man was
opposed to the elate tend*. Dui Ruoll reoliad
that arceesaive foreign ministers had mad* repreeenta•
lions on the subject, to the Spanish Government, whit*
had ellirowed its willingness to join with otter countries
in putting down the slave trade, bat staked that owing
to the °bitted.. interposed by the planters in the
calamine, their endeavours had not yet been attended
will He could only further my that her
Majesty's Government would remit no effort for the
purpose of putting down the slave trade. The Earl ot
Malmeehory concurred with Lord Brougham that the
Beasilian Government had done all in Heir power to
discourage the traffic in slaves, and expeeseed the Ittin.
prise with which be bad heard it. caulduct impugned in
the other Howie of Parliament. Several Bills were then
read a second, and others • third time, and their lord.
ships adjourned.
Fortemme moved the wood
reading of the Weights and Measure. (IlletrM &stein)
Bill, which had come up with the eancton of the
Common..., and the oventagee of which the noble earl
iiilated upon as being very coneiderable alike in a corn
mercial and etientific point of view. The ILirquis of
Salisbury opposed the bill on the ground that it wee an
inooluelete end unsatisfactory attempt to sultatitnte a
French equivalent for the Imperial standard by the
u e decimal point. that wont.' not be understood, •nd
which could not touch the multifarious weights and
.e1.11r1l• that did not come under the denomination of
impaiiial Believing that the meoure woold be utterly
impractioable, he moved as 55 amendment that it be
read a second time en that day three months. After.
short debate, the bowie divided, and the bill warn read
a sip ond time by 341, 23. Several bills were forwarded
• stage, and their lord.hips adjourned.
FRIDAT.—Lord Strettienl de Bedell& called attention
to recently publiehed correepondence. and the rumour,
relating to a supposed revival of the Holy Alliance, and
oh creed that the present state of the Contineat warn
such that any event of that sort must be dangerous to
the liberties of the rest of Ramp° end arouse fears of
those coneequences which the efforts of our great
minister,, had always been directed to avert—the success
of despotism on the one hand. and of extreme democracy
on the other. Earl Eu-Pell admit& d the important*
of the subject referred to by the noble lord; hut
expressed his belief that the correspondence which had
excited his apprehensions eras not genuine. As to the
piehability of a revival of the Holy Alliance, he
remarked that the farmer Holy Anomie never
constituted any formidable danger to this country;
and although there could be no doubt that the Govern.
meet and people of England would condemn the
principle of such • compact, the practical effects could
not in any way concern on. He believed that nothing
would be more conducive to the welfare of Europe than
• good understanding between France end England,
and that the important consequences Mewed to by hie
noble friend would cement and eonsolidate it. But he
*mold not imagine that the other Ritter', seeing the
changes of the times, would ever be PO ill-advieed as to
revive the Holy Albanoe in the faced all BOTOPS. The
other betimes on the paper was then disposed of, and
their lordships adjourned.