The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

FRIDAY..

Lord ELIMIIIOIIOIOH MOM' that there he laid before
the House copies of all the notifications 'soled by the
thivernor-t:eneral of India in Council from the com-
mencement of IT to the present time relative to the
terms on which the Goveniment of Itidia would receive
money on loan, and to call the attention of the House to
the state of the money-market in India, as affected by
the more recent of such notifications.
Lord DEBBY regretted that the Indian finances were
not so prosperous as could be wished, and confirmed the
extremely lucid and accurate atatement of Lord Ellen-
borough. In respect to the question of open loans, he
hail great doubts as to their proprietv, for he thought
nothing could be more objectionable than keeping up an
open loan of indefinite amount eta specified rate Of in-
terest. He was sorry to inform the House that it would
be necessary to ask Parliament this oession for power to
raise a further aum for Indian purposes.
After a few words from the Marquis of CLANIII.
CAIIDE, Lord MoNrgani.e. and Lord A hitt:g.tithr., Lord
lithvitnifint.nit Inn& a few reillitrkll in reply, and the
niotion was agreed to.
The reports of amendments on the I 'olllpaldel (1,470
Hill, and on the Medical Act (1144) Amendment Hill
, were received.

'rhe Oath* Act Amendment Bill passed through coiul.
tuittee.
rho !low adjourned at 2.. tes to 8 o'clock.

HOUSE OF (1)11MONS.-TIVESDAY.

Mr. Jolla Lora k obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the Act Ath and iith of William I% ~ relating to
weights and measures.
Mr. JP:kens:we obtained lellre to introduce a Bill to
amend the law of Mcotland in regard to the relationaliip
of husband and wife.
The adjourned ilubate on the motion for the wend
reading of the Representation of the People Bill was
then resumed by
Mr. W wig, who said lie hail regarded this question
for a long time as one which it wax the duty of the
House as quickly as powiible to settle ; but this Bill
wag, in lois opinion. so radically bail, and iii, far from
being a measure of Reform according to tine principles
laid down in Inn, Simi so evidently a step in an oppo-
site direction, that he could nut vote for the second
reading. Of the principle* of the Bill, the uniformity
of the franchise and the diafranchiaement of the borough
freeholder* were alone sufficient to justify him in taking
that course. There wan nothing in the qualifications of
these principles proposed by the (lover 1111 l esit which
recommended the measure, and even under the specious
I:10 occupation franchise for counties there lurked • secret
design. The result of the measure was that, in the wain.
ties, there would be equal numbers disfranchiged and en.
franchised ; but among the former were the most inde-
pendent voters, while the latter would be the most
dependent ; and in the towns the meaxure would open
*door to the manufacture of fictitious votex What was
wanted woe the greatest iliveniity in the claxses repre-
sented, and if the qualification for the borough franchise
were lowered to or Lii, it would in sonic towns at least
let iii the wicking claims. Ile wax not prepared to SOW
sent to an extensive disfranchisement of smell boroughs,
which admitted to representation large clasties not con-
nected with laud, co 11111 l eroe, or manabictures ; but,
with an uniform franchise, it would la- impossible to
maintain these mall boroughs ; its eff•ct would be
merely to increase the influence of land and property.
Ho shonld vote for the resolution.
fiir E. B. LirToN observed that public opinion
required momething which, if not found in the Bill, was
certainly ilot ti be found either in tic amendment of
Lord J. Russell or in his xpeech ; it required collie
thing whirls no Whig Gover 1111 l cut would venture to
propose. The acknewledgeil evils were met in the Bill
by reinedieg which were fair questions for considera-
tion in committee ; their merits could be teaks" there,
and furnished no reason for refusing to read the Bill •
second time.
Mr. S. IllinlarßT observed that the Millie Was asked
to vote upon. this Bill under very peculiar eiremostanies,
and amid a coullet of opinions on both sides of the
House, perhaps in the Cabinet. He believed that the
whole system of party Government was at an coil; but
Ministers would be unwise to refuse to Bitten to the
voice of a large party in the House who tried to lead
thew in • direction in which they believed the safety of
the country lay. He asked the House what it warn they
wanted, and what they dill nut want. They wanted an
extension of the county franchise and of the borough
franchise, moderate in the former and large in the
letter. The object of the Government in axing upon a
I:10 franchise for counties was not to defer to the ex-
pressed wishes of the House, but to adopt the prin-
ciple of uniformity, divergity of fr.inchise being the
immemorial practice of the Constitution. Ile walitvd a
Bill that would last, and he asked whether this Bill met
the requirements. Looking st it with reference to tic
future, lie viewed it with Marin. everything Icing sacri-
ficed to uniformity. He dwelt upon the mischevous
ounaquences which would, in hie opinion, flow from the
adoption of this novel principle. By what
was it recommended ? Was it poileible to expect that
the borough franchise could be maintained at £.lO
Than the same turn of the screw that took down the
borough frimchime would retinou that for the county.
He had no party object In opien.ing the Bill and in vo-
ting fur the amendment. Hu felt that there was danger
in the proposition ; but be wanted wine aulietitute ; lie
wanted tip get a Bill framed on a different principle.
The House did wit know what the 4 hivertstitent cow
*Wired the principle of their lull, nor a hikh of the two
parte of thee resolution would be fatal to it. Was it
factious to mink thou to withdraw • Bill which wail slim.
tasteful to three out of the four portion" of the Hues...
and to bring in another constructed upon a different
principle ? If they would do eo, lie promised thein every
aosistanow In his power.
Thy 14. LI el 1.011.1 lanr HA 1. observed, if lie mall that the
anictidniont tel..led to *Mu,o, end embarrass the Howie
In the hisue Mere it, lie should only say that it accom•
libelled the end fur which it was designed. If it menet
anything, It Meant that the Holley 'should pace by the
Bill In order to affirm an abetrate reaolution on two
Isolated provisions in It, not touching the principle of
uniformity, which was Mr. 'forbore.' reason for voting
forth,. amendment. He proceeded to diadem the reao.
halm', and to reply to the objeetions to the 11111 ii 'ii
by Mr. Herbert and le.rd J. appeals', to the
ellarge uI the latter, that the 11111 eontalned a principle
of illefrauchisenient, the disfranchising provialona of his
own Hill of 14474. After calling upon herd John
Russell to may what would be the feature' as Rill intro.
ducal by bits, &Ott bow lie would sashay his nuw sup.

porter% on the subjects of the ballot, the redistribution
of seats, and other colice,,,,iwis which they held to be in-
divensable conditions of a measure of Reform, lie
observed that the people of this country would ask what
wam him real intention, and the object he jiroposcil
to
himself in defeating this Hill by an ambiguous and almost
irregular amendment, 'Hinz nobody and meaning
not hing.
The debate was again adjourned, on the motion of
Mr. Milner Gibson, and the House adjourned id halt-mist
12 o'clock.