The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-01 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

ME. GLADSTONE'S SPEECEL

Mr. G'adstone rose at • moaererant six on Friday
weenies/ to support the s curd rating o! the Albano.
tion Bill. The House of C demon. ma. crow I'd In
ewe Part. From the earibst Lour of the Deena/ the
galleries had heen full, sad all night Inc linseed strangers
remained outside with that carious'y mantilla. disposition
which seems t prevail on theft oecelone and t Asia the
form of bell -I that some of those who have sec reed places
lit, gallery grill. FOODef or later, be tric.n 111, led out,
and so maga room for ...there. The Peers gallery was aro
crowded. As Me. Gladdens spoke hire opening gees mega,
Sheeler y bit appropriated soar on thefl ror of the II rO5,
filled up. M•mbers crowded in the gsfery opposite, end
even in the gallery behind. With io ten urinates the Home
presented that thronged and auluate.l appeararco which
it only wears n grist am ',tote.
blerriymair7:ll:loDage. ththe debate hod
at though the
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been proloaged by the introdu lion of *items one 01 dier.
Oae of the statements mode by toe opponents to toe B II
was that as atheist was not %untitled to take a seat in the
House Of 03131111011111. " OW. Vie eight hop.
emphatically declared, " there liar keel power to prevent
an atheist duly electod from riming in this II its.s if he
chose to take the oath. " Ti. odd c injunction
of aims, peers, aol fr lon., " is being persons
precluded by the law from taking a sat in
the House of Commons, evoked some mere oast, In
which their lordships in the gillery j duel. Mr. :lewd '-
got., Interrupting shout this stage with loud c retradiction,
Mr. Gladstone observed that he r c dyed the Interruption
with the respect with which h• viewed all the act. of
the boo. gentle nen. Ii toll 10 lid of th rir caneoleatious.
per, but he be 01401 him to Mar his orgument., and
thee judge Tile ephode ri I .te I 11 the Premier'. seer.
Goo that dorm to 1818 than, wes nu intention in the
administering of the oath hermt that of areurint some
assertion of stinker., to ths Cr aro. Lars warn, latent
tr introduce • roligioue eit, -ad there we theo, erie now,
no diptudification of ih i unbeliever by the omions re law.
Referring to the noughtr of width:nu that bat been pre.
✓ated, he admitted that there was • strong feeling in the
country against the Bill Dot did hon. gentlemen opp -site
mopess that the Government did not know that, and did
not feel how difficult, all but impossible, it wee for them
to do their duty I "I believe." be said, • that every one
of us intending to vote for this Bill feel., In the first pier,
that ill. indeed decal to do jostic r under such cir.tuom
stances. Bat the difficulty lithe measure of the duty and
of the honour; and, Not it if wa were In the jury.tpx
and • person stood helore neon • criminal charge, we will
put • strong hand of restraint upon °erosive., and we will
take Me that fall ittstice, nothing more and nothing less,
shall he awarded hi may citizen ot Ragland.'
He had the greateet respect for the motives of those
who signed the petitions. He believed that the leaflike,
of the great miss of the people were usually right. Brit If
he were to make a dietincten he would soy that e
would trust throes instincts more where the people's
practical interest. were °Jemmied than in qiiestions
where the prepoesemioas of religion bad sway. Hs
denied that the Government lad rendered any assistance
to Me. Bradleugh. What they had done was to endeavour
to keep the prooeedines of the Hells within the b tends
of the low end the Constitution. Sir R. Cross bed said
that he hat abdicated his p side, is leads, of the
Hour. What he had dons was to support the Ilgecutive
authority. But as I, taking unon himself the respoogi-
bility of applying 0.01. of the If ruse which he believed
to involve practical end making himself the
instrument of carrying suoh • cots tot, effect, tort eat
what he had deciored to du. What had the Liberals or
the Government to join try this strugele / Did the
Opposition suppose that in every case of coot rated eloction
that has come up he did not know that the Liberal.. had
loot votes and the Goeheermitives hod g taped them. Ti..
Liberal party had suffered and it soffiaing cat this
account. Sot not for the first time in its history. On
every que.tiom relaque to toleration the Liberal parry
, had 'offered. Yet it wee not the party which during the
' half century had Mir the le-.,r b rid upon the country.
They had fought the tattle of the civil libertim of the
Roman Catholics mud of the Jews. He hoped that at the
present junctere the Liberal party would not he deterred
by temporary losses from woikiog in the path of eiveity
and justice
" Let us,' la said. "get at the heart of the argument."
which was affirmed to be ore of religion against no
religion. He eitoted in sermon of this Mr. IlleCullagh
Torres, flir Harding., (Mart anl other speekers,
including Sir Henry Wolff, who, on • former occasion, had
demanded that. man prerem lox himself to take he seat
in the Hones of Commons " should believe in some deity •
or other." There were, he remarked, no cheers now when
he repeated t 0,.. slat 'moot,, though they had bre
loudly cheered when fiat made. He presumed that there
were apprehensions of what be might be going to do
with them. In a keenly argumentative par rge be
showed that by this pacer of reasoning gentiernen
°enema+ woold have been able to admit to the II ruse of
Commons Foliate, who belie,i d in a Got, and would
have cheerfully taken the oath. "And for that," the
Premier said, amid ringing cheers from the Liberals,
"you ere working up the cormit.y, and have mode ed
for • great rehab:owl war." Whether they were to be
defeated or not, they would not decline the war nor
shrink from showing that tier interest. of Ohrietianity
did not find their defeniers on the other .id, of the
Hour. Ile thought it time this Bradlaugh controversy
should cease. Ile hod no fear of atheism prormilni in
the House, and believed theta firm and courageauo appli•
cation of the pre:lcier!. of jostles would be the best means
to prevent it,
The right hon. cultism at sat down amid prolonged
cheering, at twenty minutes to eight, bevies rinken clews
moon an hour sod • half. Its was followed by Mr.
Stanley Leighton, at sight of whew members on troth
sides of the llama fled, and 'the man from Shropshire."
es Lord FAmond Fiamturiee once called him, declaimed
with unabated rat rto empty benches. Amongst other
members., who spoke at this potiod of the sitting were
Lord A. Percy. Mr. D ckiP.iddle (who repeated Dr.
Webater's statement, made on Monday, that public
opinion in icotlenit was aSsobitely in favour of the
Bill), Lord I. aviebano. and Mr. Inderwick. Mr. Gibeon,
riser dimly slt,r ton o'cl .ck. the Hour Fein; • little
less than hJf full, deelared that so far from the opposition
to Mr. Bradlaugh's ent-ance to iloe Hour failing, it was
stronger and to rr. vigorou. noe than during any period
of the last three yea-s. The majority of the Scotch
members would not be found voting for the Bill ; nor, he
ventured to prophecy, wou'd three Irish members he
brought Into the lohby "in any shape." He had listen.ead
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to be left an open qurstion or I,re m inhere to be sehject
to the conscientious off eq of the Irgh•ornied whips I'
Mr. Osborne Morgan somata.' tit. cooed
Lord R. Churchill mooed the adjournment of the debate.
which Mr. Gladetone assented to. with an exprrsti..n of
regret that it rhoul have been 113 prolonged. The debate
was &retrace, adjourned.