The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

imptrial Parliament.

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HOUSE OF LOILDS.

MONDAT.—Lora Lyttlittera called attention to certain
pro of the report of the Mutation Comusisaioners, and
Asked whether Gm Government intended to propose
ally measures in Parliaineut, or to issue any minutes
of the Coi 1111 l ittce of l'r:vy Council on Education, in
pursuance of the recommendatieux made by the com•
missionere.—E irl Granville replied that those portions
of the receinmendutione of the commissioners which re-
quired legidation to carry them out had not yet been
sufficiently considered by the Governineut ; come-
quently, they were iiiit•preimed with any measures
mem the aubject. A minute of council on education
would. however, be shortly drawn up, in reference to
such of the recominefelations as were of an administra-
tive nature. He also made several suggestions with a
view to improving the system of middle class education,
especially an extension of the system of inspection of
middle-class schoole.—The Duke of Newcastle observed
that the commissioners had Out dealt with the question
of middle-class education, Inconsequence of basing
been appointed chiefly to consider the best means of
extending said improving elementary instruction. After
animadverting upon various portions of the recommen-
dations of the commissioners, the noble duke denied that
these gentlemen had been indifferent to religions educa-
tion On the contraiy, they were of oriiiion that reli-
gion not only termed a material eleuiant in, but by at
the base of all mono' MIUC.LUILI.
Earl De Grey and Ripon named the
second reading id the East lulls Council Bill, which
had conic horn the House of Commons, and the objects
and proviai.n,s of which Ire briefly explained.—The Dirt
of Ellenborough expremd himself adverse to these
frequent chnuges in the government of India, and argued
that the Bill went beyond what was required by the
necessity of the case. India ought to be governed
through and for the people of India, and so thinking he
was of opinion that the Bill was in its very principle
defective and objectionable.—The Duke of Argyll
supported the Bill, and it was ultimately agreed to.
I.III:IU4DAT.—The Marquis of Westmeath inquired
whether, in consequence of the late finding- of the jury
in the case of a man kill upon the Staffordshire
Railway, the Government intended to introduce a bill
regulating railway speed?—Earl Granville replied that
it was not intended to introduce any measure on the
subject, sex it was not politic to relieve the companies
from the responsibility which now ranted upon
them.
FIIIDAT.--Lord Stratford de Redoliffe, in moving for
collies of correspondence between the Foreign De-
partment and Her i Majesty's Einbasity at Constan-
tinople, on the subject of financial or administrative
reform in Turkey, since the late Sultan's Haiti-
humayoon of the year DM, prefaced his motion by
vindicating the policy of this country in Turkey
during the reign of the late Sultan against sonic
remarks of Lord Hardwick in a recent debate: It was
of the greatest inipertanoe, he considered, to England.
in a commercial view, that the reforms so often
promised should be duly carried out, while politically
the preservation of the Turkish Empire, which hurl
been a matter of solitude for more than two centuries
to this country, depended upon a thorough Adminis-
trative Reform. Recent accounts from 'rudrey justified
the idea that the present Sultan, by his acts and pro-
lamatiens, was fully alive to the importance of
economical reform. In sputa of the admitted danger to
which the Turkish Empire is exposed from a long-con-
tinued system of maladministration he contended
that Turkey had exhibited decided progress, to an
extent fully to justify the policy of England. In
order, however, to carry out the reforms which have
been promised there must be a steady, friendly, but
sufficient pressure upon the Turkish Government. In
addition to these reasons for supporting our old police
in Turkey, we were bound by every tais of honour Co
give her our full and vigorous support in case of
need, and to help her to carry out the teforma which
she had undertaken.—Lord Wodehouse said that, con-
sidering the recent change in the reigning Sovereign of
Turkey, and the declaration of the Sultan that he was
disposed to inaugurate his reign with salutary reforms,
it would he better to wait and see whether the Sultan
persevered in the course he bad commenced, than for
the British Government to deprive loin of the credit
which would be duo to him by tendering unseasonable
and premature advice. Judging front the measures of the
new Sultan it did not appear that he intended to con-
fine himself to WOrdil. Already important economical
changes had been made, and lie thought it would be
wiser to allow the subjects of the Sultan to uuderstaud
that the reforms iiiaugurated were not pressed on him
by foreign Powers, but were his own spontaneous acts.
He would not object to the motion if modified so as not
to include the correspondence with the present Sultan.
—Lord Ilardwicke reiterated hill opinion that Turkey
should be allowed to conduct her affairs without the
interference of foreign Powers, and expressed his plea-
sure at hearing the etatement to that effect of Lord
Wodebouse.—The motion being modified as suggested,
was agreed to.—The Labourers Cottages Bill was lost
on a division, the numbers being,—for the meow! read-
ing, ; against it, 16.