The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-21 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

Among the anewera given to questions,
Mr. LAINo stated that the Act relating to time bar-
gains being considered to be a dead letter, it was the
intention of the Government that the penny stamp
should apply to all transactions in the public funds ;
mid that until the financial arrangement before the
House had been further discussed, they were not pre-
pared to specify the exact date to which the payments
of 13,000,000 of Exchequer bonds falling due in Novem-
ber would be cut off.
On the motion that the House at its rising do adjourn I
until Monday, a long list of questions stood upon the '
paper.
Mr. MENTINCK inquired whether any understanding '
had been come to between the Governments of France
and of this country in the event of the Corn uiercial
Treaty not being sanctioned by Parliament.
Lord PALMERSToN replied that an article expressly
provided that the treaty should be subject to the appro-
val of Parliament ; and, anticipating that its verdict
woule he in cousforinity with their hope and expecta-
tion, the Government had not deemed it their duty to
00Ule to any understanding with that of France in case
of • failure which they did not anticipate.
A series of questions was put to the Secretary for
War, and answered by him on the subjects of the ann.
in; of volunteer artillery corps, the providing of grounds
for the target practice of volunteer ride corps, and the
permitting of officers of the Indian army to send their
sons to Woolwich and Sandhurst mien the same terms.
as in the case of officer,. of Her Majesty's other forces'
In reply to Mr. Ellice, he said he saw no reason to exs
pert that be should have to ask the House of Common
for any supplementary estimates in addition to the estie
mated for the army now before the House, which see
large enough, and there was certainly no intention t
ask for any additional sum, except for the disembodie
Militia.
In answer to Mr. COLLIER, . . . . .

The ATTORNET-GENEHAL stated what were the inten•
tions of the Government regarding the consolidation of
the statute law, and the measures in preparation for
that object.
Mr. ORITTITH called attention to the risk of propa-
gating infectious diseases by the use of street cabs in
conveying such cases to hospitals and other places, and
suggested that some legislative provision should be
introduced upon the subject; Colonel STEEN invited
attention to a report of the proposed transfer of the
business of the India-office to the Victoria Hotel, West-
minster; Mr. Gni:Goer made an inquiry respecting the
religious registration of foundling children ; and Mr.
Rineeecg another on the subject of forging of the trade-
marks of our manufacturers by foreigners.
Answers and explanations were given in return to
these and other questions.
Mr. STERLING asked why it was necessary or expe-
dient that the fiscal arrangements between Great Britain
and France, proposed in the Budget. should be made the
subject of a treaty, seeing that there exiiited no apparent
constitutional obstacle to the adoption of those arrange-
ments by the ordinary legislation of the two counties
respectively.
Lord J. HVICSELL said the question was of so large a
nature that he could hardly be expecie 1 to answer it at
that moment, anti he thought he should hest consult
the time of the House if he deferred the discussion
until Monday. He took the opportunity of adding to
the ststeinent be made ou Thursday. on the subject of
the annexation of Savoy to France, that the Emperor of
the French had declared that he should never tkink of
such a measure unless the people of Savoy desired the
annexation ; so that further cotimumications must pre'
cede any final result.
, Mr. DIeRNELI inquired when the treaty of commerce
with France would be brought before the House, which
ought not, lie said, to be deprived of its just privilege of
pronouncing an opinion upon the subject. On Monday,
it was true, the House would have an opportunity of
discussing the resolutions proposed by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, but it would only have a partial and
limited power of .mnsidering the treaty, in which there
were most important clauses—such, for mini*, as the
1:11,11 article, with respect to coals,—whilli would never
come under discussion Ili a Cul 1111 l ittee on the Customs'
Acts. He wished to know whether the House would
have an opportunity of fully considering the treaty, and
whether the Government would take the same course as
thrit pursued by Mr. Pitt in 1787.
Mr. 140118ENN remarked that Lerd .1. Russell seemed
to have misapprehended this drift of Mr. Sterling's ques-
t . What he wanted to know was why the Govern-
ment should have resorted to • commercial treaty to do
what they could without.
51r. AY HT,IN noticed certain omissions in the treaty

antler which the French Government could levy* duty
. .

upon raw silk exported to this country, and a duty upon
British silk manufactures imported. The House, he
said, should have the means of considering the treaty as
as whole.
After some farther dismission, in which Mr. New-
DEGATE, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, Lord H. VANN, Mr.
11"UVIIRIE, Lord J. Russets, and Mr. HARDT took
part, the motion for adjournment was agieed to.
On the order for going into a Committee of Supply,
Lord PALMERtITON, in reply to Mr. Diemli, said no
doubt it was essential that the opinion of Parliament
should be taken upon the treaty. The only question
was as to the order of proceeding. He thought that,
considering that the treaty involved • number of changes
in our Customs duties, if the Government had at once
proposed to take • vote sanctioning the whole treaty as
it stood, they would have been met by the objection that
they were not dealing fairly with Parliament, and ought
to proceed step by step, and afford the House an
opportunity of expressing its opinion of the treaty as •
whole. That was the course pursued by Mr. Pitt. and
that was the course the Government intended to pursne
giving each Howie an opportunity to express; its opinion,
•• aye" or "no," in approbatiou or disapprobation of the
whole treaty.
Mr. DDSRAISLI said the question lie bad put was as to
the mode in which the treaty would be brought before
the House, so that it might have an opportunity of
expressing its opinion upon each article.
Mr. YAM called attention to the great expense
incurred in raising and training a regiment of Militia so
as to wake it fit for permanent duty, and asked the
Secretary of State for War what arrangements be con-
templated to fill up the vacancy in the numbers of the
army that would be occasioned by the disembodiment
of the Militia regiments.
Mr. Gairrini called attention to the nse which
soldiers off duty are in the habit of making of their belts