The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

!up ial Vailiament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAT.—n• marquis of Westmeath introduced a
Bill to emend the law for the punishment of the offenoe
of rape, the titletes being to include whilst, ng where it
was proved that more .0141 person had been con-
cerned in tho commission of the trittle.—ln reply to
Lord Chelmsford, tho Duke of Somerset stated Mat the
distribution of the Kertch prize money had been made
in accordance with the proclamation of Marcie lffel.
'lire legal adviser. of the Crown had not been con-ultsd,
wbuiththteri.netoli,imey...jhaltbrniesdiQait.ri,bui„itednoinchexaLttcoternsfornyi..itryi
(transitle eallid attention to the report of th• relict
committee on railway schemes within the limits of the
Tilt.nriaitirum.rsy'l,E4L;nohaenndndoknma"meniatinill •Thitihrestanykl,hevD:Vdfobiertedra-rosirittiareriesdttaalio.ri.Caftyyd.
Ch•ring.troas ( Northern Railway, Charing-moss
(Western) Railway, Tottenham and Hampstead Junc-
tion ittilway (Extension to Charing-cross). London
Union Railways and Tottenham and Fartingdon.street
Railway Bills, be not proceeded with this session ; that
the fees incurred in respect of those bills be remitted ;
and that the report be referral to all select committees
to which any railway bills within the limits of the
metropolis may be referred in the present session. The
tion was agreed to without &munition; and their lord-
ships adjourned at half-past Mx o'clock.
'it rem. t. —Ea-1 itnestll, in reply to a qoestion of the
Earl of Derby, entered into an explanation of the
Present pmition of We quarrel between Austria arid
Prussia and Denmark, of the negotiations set on foot
by the Government. To the proemial for a Conference
without an armistice Austria sod Freesia bad agreed,
but the answer of Denmark had not yet been rewired,
though it was especteel at the end of the week. ff,
when that answer was received, it should appear that
Denmark acquiesced in the Conference, fresh negoti-
ations would be entered up..; on the other band. if
the answer was in the negative, then the war would be
continued on a new footing. The Earl of Blienbormeh
and I,rd Stratford de Radcliffe both eepressed a hope
thst before the Easter recess Government wield redeem
the pledge they had given, and abate what was the Anal
decision they bad arrived at. Earl Grey raid he had
read that portion of the Daniah papers already delivered
with fa hogs of deep humiliation. Karl Mansell rephed,
and said if the noble earl thought the Government
ought to have acted differently he meld at once more a
vote of censure; whilst, if he thought they ought to
act differently now, and, without negotiation or know-
ing what the papers oontained, should at ones rush Into
war, he had only to propose • resolution to that eff•-ct.
Ministers would not make a war when the safety,
interest, integrity, and independence of Denmark could
be secured otherwise, and they would not neglect any
means by which that security and independence could
be maintained.
THUUDAT.—The business transacted was unim-
portant. Their lordships old only 26 minutes.
illIDIT.—The Earl of Malmesbury brought in a Bill
for the amendment of the beams and Sales of Settled
Estates Ace—The Earl of Cork gave notice that on
Friday next the Marquis of Clanricarde would move for
copies of any correspondence which might have taken
place between Her Majesty's Government and the Go-
vernment of the Confederate States of America with
regard to the removal of British consuls from those
states, end the consequent cessation of their consular
(written'.