The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-03 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The polling at Kiddertuinstar on Tuesday resulted in
the return of the Government candidate by a majority
of ten the numbers being White: 229, Talbot 219. The
contest having been remarkably close and keen, there
was considerable excitement in the town. A wan was
killed in attempting to prevent the passage of a cab, but
upon the whole the struggle appears to have been a
peaceable one.

14 appears that we are to have a repetition in the
House of Lords of the financial criticism we have
recently been favoured with in the House of Commons.
The Herald says that on the committal of the Customs
and Inland Revenue Bill, in the House of Lords, Lord
Derby will criticise the whole financial policy of the
Government, and " • fresh proof will be given that the
leaders of the Conservative party are not disposed to
acquiesce, without • protest, in the culpable extrava-
gance of the present Administration at the time when
the necessity for a prudent husbanding of our means is
so painfully apparent."
It hiui been decided not to fill up the Under-Secre-
taryship of State in the War-offiee, vacant by the death
of Sir Benjamin Hawes, but to revert to the original
organisation of the department before the appointment
of Major General Sir Edward Lazard as an Under-
Secretary of State,—that is to say, there will be two
Under-Secretaries and an Assistant-Under-Secretary, in
the place of three Under-Secretaries; and Capt. Gallon
F.R.S. who is now in she department, has been ap-
pointed by Sir George Lewis to fill the office of Assie-
tant-Under-Seeretary of State for War.
CL[RGY Bauer Biu..—This Bill of Mr. Bouverie has
emerged from the select-committee with some altera-
tions, and stands for discussion on the 18th of June.
The declaration to be made by a clergyman desirous of
being released from his clerical status was originally
proposed to be one of "conscientious dissent from the
doctrines of the Church; it is now proposed that it
may state his dissent from the doctrine or the disci-
pline of the Church, or from both. It was provided by
the Bill, when introduced, that, although released
from clerical obligations and deprived of clerical rights,
he should not for a year be qualified to sit in the House
of Commons; it is now provided that he shall not be
qualified to sit there at all.
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On the motion of Mr Bass a return has been made
stating the trades and professions that pay licence
dutiea. These taxes produce above £1,500,000 a year,
and the amount may inc few years approach £2,000,000:
The larger portion is paid by dealers in spirits, wine,
and beer, and by brewers and maltaters. Dealers in
tea, coffee, and pepper, and dealers in tobacco and
and' snuff pay a small annual sum; makers of tobacco,
soap, paper, vinegar, • larger amount. There are
also the licences for horse dealers and persons keeping
horses or carriages for hire. Attorneys are in the list,
but not barristers; and the other professions are not
represented at aIL Bankers, pawnbrokers, hawkers,
pedlars, medicine vendors, and plate dealers are
liable to this tax. Auctioneers were brought under it
when the auction duty was taken oft; they pay £lO
• year, appraisers only £2. The latest additi in is that of
house agents, who canoe upon the list in 1861, and pay
a a yeur, • change was made in the stamps on
agreements to let furnishei houses, and it was con-
sidered necessary to keep the agents under the view
of the Revenue departinent. In most trades the tax
is the same whether a man does a large business or a
small, but in some there is a sliding scale.
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LAY, OF PARTNERSHIP.—The 6;11 which Mr. &hole-
field has just introduced into the House of Commons
proposes to allow persons lending money to traders on
the terms ef receiving • share of profits as interest, and
registering the transaction at the Joint Stools COM-
ponies' Registration-office, not to become general
partners, but only "limited partners." Only the
general partners will be liable to bankruptcy, but in
case of such bankruptcy limited partners are not to be
paid till after the other creditors; and in case of
bankruptcy within 12 months after ceasing to be limited
partners, they are to be liable to refund money repaid
to them within that twelvemonth, for satisfaction of the
claims of creditors who were such while these persons
were limited partners. The Bill also proposes that the
names of the partners in • firm are to be registered if
the title of the firm does not contain them all, or
contains the name of a person net really in the busi-
ness.