The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-22 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, MARCH El, 1839.

HONESTE AUDAX.

LORD COWLEY arrived in London late on Satur-
day night from his mission to Vienna, and had
a protracted interview with the Earl of MALses-
BURY on Sunday. His lordship returned to
Paris on Wednesday, and on the following
morning had an interview with the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and, it is believed,
with the EMPEROR also. The latest intelli-
gence states that the results of his Lordship's
mission have been highly favourable to the cause
of peace.
In the House of Lords on Monday the LORD
CHANCELLOR introduced a Bill, empowering the
Court of Chancery to pay £4,000 per annum out
of the suitors' fee fund to the Society of Lincoln's
Inn, as the rent of buildings which they propose
to erect for the sittings of the equity courts in
the vicinity of Chancery Lane. On Tuesday the
Earl of MALMESHURY stated, in answer to the
Earl of CLARENDON, that in accordance with the
notice given last year by HER MAJESTY'S
Government, the treaty with Hanover relating
to the Stade Dues will expire on the 14th
August next. On Thursday the Debtor and
Creditor Bill was read a third time and passed.
On Friday Lord CLANRICARDE moved for cer-
tain State papers relative to the correspondence
with the GOVERNOR-GENERAL of INDIA, and
Lord Dseer promised they should be laid upon
the table. The Enclosure Bill was read a third
time and pasied.
In the Commons on Monday the House went
into Committee on the Title to Landed Estates
I Bill, and agreed to three of its clauses. Some
progress was also made in Committee with the
Registry of Landed Estates Bill. On the
motion for going into Committee of Supply on
the navy estimates, Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved as
an amendment that the estimates be referred to
I a select committee. After a long discussion the
amendment was negatived without a division.
On Tuesday Sir JOHN TRELAWAY moved the
second reading of the Church Rates Abolition
Bill. Mr. Bsessrmin-Hore moved as an
amendment that the Bill be read a second time
that day six months. On a division the amend-
ment was negatived by a majority of 74, the
numbers being 242 to 16$; the Bill was then
read a second time. On Wednesday, on the
motion of Lord .1. RUSSELL, the Bankruptcy
I and Insolvency Bill was read a second time.
The Lunatic Poor (Ireland) Bill was referred to
a select committee ; and the Oaths Acts Amend-
ment Bill passed through committee. On
Thursday, in answer to Mr. RIDLEY, the CHAN-
CELLOR of the Exciteousit said that in the
Government Reform Bill, as amended, the rights
of all existing freeholders would be respected,
but the freeholders in boroughs would have the
option of voting either in the borough or county.
Mr. Grammy moved for a select committee to
inquire into the reorganization of the British
Museum, but, after is long discussion, withdrew
his motion for the purpose of altering its terms
as to the precise nature of the inquiry. Sir J.
Tert.swxv's motion for a 'elect committee to
inquire into the nature and extent of the privi-
leges of the Guards was negatived by 1:15 to :31.
Mr. SHERIDAN'S motion for leave to bring in a
Bill to reduce the duty on fire insurance was
negatived by 112 to 102; and Sir C. NAPIER'S
motion for collies of letters from Sir B. WsLitre
to the Admiralty on the state of the Navy wits
negatived by 177 to 26. On Friday, Mr. Rog-
neve endeavoured to prevail upon Lord 'lolls
ItvssrLe not to persevere with his amendment
to the Reform Bill. Lord Joim RUSSELL rc-
plied that the discussion raised by Mr. Rot:-
tiers was irregular and premature, and went on
to censure the Government for the add mid
sneering despatch which Lord STANLEY had
thought proper to send to the (tevrittion-
t;SNr.l:Al. of Is a sentiment in which Lord
Ps LllstisvoN strongly concurred.

A eLKAIt stage and "no favour" are just what
tho Demo, Government will have the honour
this evening (Monday) of enjoying to their
hearts' :content. The Opposition is arranged in
A compact mass, and resolutely bent upon
action. The three formidable amentlinenta pro-
posed respectively by Lord Jour; ltumaut.L, Mr.
and Mr. S. Woienxy present the most
immediate danger to the stability of the Cabi-
net, while the internal dissension of the
Ministry and their partial and disingenuous con-
cessions exhibit a still more dangerous condition
of existence. The fall of an Administration
scarcely over before seemed to be so completely
sealed as is that of Lord DaittlY ; and the hopes
of a party were never before so thoroughly
crushed as those of the Tories of the preseiA
I day. Their own recognized organs turn away
I from them in disgust, and the hired advocates of
1 the Government in connection with their w-
eaned Reform Bill, grow weary of their onerous
task, and as the decisive hour approaches, they
shrink from it with an apparent sense of the
ignominy and worthlessness of their labours,
and would seem to seek consolation in assuming
1 by degrees a more honest and a healthier tone.
The Tory Prua is an example of those journals
to which, in the first place, we here refer ; and
the Times, the " leading journal," will furnish
an illustration of the more questionable conduct
on the part of other organs of public opinion.
The Tinto, the boasted champion of liberty and
progress, has been assiduously labouring for the
last three weeks to disguise the DERBY Reform
Bill, and has put into requision the vast intel-
lectual resources at its command to render an
obnoxious and delusive measure palatable to the
people. But the Times has found to its cost
that it has been here not the exponent but the
antagonist of public opinion ; the country has
seen through the trick sought to be played upon
it, and has denounced the fraud with a feria
and unanimity which cannot be misunderstood.
The Ministery is tottering to its fall—there is
no hope for it : accordingly, the occupation of
the Times is gone; and after having had recourse
to the most fallacious argument' in support of

the Bill and in palliation of the back-slidings
of the Government, that great journal has no
difficulty in turning round—a feat often done
before with equal agility—and bringing the
Government to shame by confronting it, first,
with the "modest truth," and afterwards
bringing to bear upon it its terrible artillery, ren-
dered more destructive by the force of justice
and sound arguments. Thus, the Times, in its
happier mood, holds up to public view the
rottenness of the Cabinet—that sure precursor of
approaching dissolution, acting alone, without the
aid of any external influences whatever :—" The
Government of Lord DERBY has been enfeebled
by the losses it has sustained, and discredited
by the sacrifices it has made. The secession of
several of its members has not left to those who
remain the legacy of mutual confidence or inter-
nal peace. The bands of party discipline are
relaxed, the animosities that always wait on a
losing cause are inflamed, and no confidence is
felt that when so many have gone the rest will
have resolution to stand their ground." Passing
from the contemplation of this unfortunate
position of immeasurable difficulty, the Times
addresses itself to the provisions them-
selves of the DBRBY Refumi Bill, and
coolly repudiating all that had been written
in ink, scarcely yet dry, says with undoubted
truth :—" The pertinacity with which Govern-
ment continues to cling to the principle of dis-
uniting boroughs and counties, to which it is obvi-
ously impossible to give effect, and a not un-
natural doubt how far it is possible to invest a
Government so feeble, and a measure so
unpopular, with even the faintest semblance of
strength and reality, have gradually driven the
more moderate Whigs to join in the contem-
plated attack." Unquestionably, the party
views, clearly intended to be subserved by the
Bill, have done more than anything to knit
together what must prove to be an overwhelm-
ing opposition; and, not only so, but will go far to
destroy public confidence in the DERBY Cabini-
net as eligible Ministers of the Crown in the
eyes of almost all parties in the country. Then
the Times, after having applauded the conces-
sion made by Ministers as an evidence of patriot-
ism and sound policy, now reads them a moral
lesson on the inadequacy and danger of those very
concessions :—" Nothing is more dangerous
than an insufficient concesaion. It sacrifices the
strength which is to be gained by consistency
and offers no equivalent for its loss. It dis-
courages more than it conciliates, and renders a
second concession more difficult than if the first
had never been made." These are very plain
but trite truisuni ; and nothing seems wanting
to the force of such virtuous admonitions but
what sometimes OCCUFB in the case of "unholy
pastors"—that is to say, nothing but an uni-
formity of character and rersonal example with
the doctrine of the preacher.
We must not omit to say that there is one very
dangerous provision in the Reform Bill, which
seems to have escaped the notice of ill whose
criticisms we have had an opportunity of seeing.
We allude to the door which it opens to cor-
ruption in the issue of voting papers. Any "two
friends" are to take the signature of the
elector in favour of his ciuididate, and such
signature, so signed in the presence of these two
persons, is to be constituted a legal vote. Why,
as it has been shrewdly suggested to us, any man
with a purse long enough and a conscience
strong enough may be said by the possession of
these voting papers to carry the election in his
pocket. There is your voter ; here is the in-
strument to fix him, and there also, in the
voting paper, is the receipt for your money.
What could be more regular and satisfactory—
what more businenn-like in the judgment of
those who have a mind to traffic in votesl Say
no more about the pocket boroughs, here is the
floodgate of corruption opened wide throughout
all the counties in England. This is only
another proof uot only of the specious hollowness
of the Reform Bill, but of the absolute danger
to the liberty and independencJ of the people.
While professing to extend the suffrage, it
cramps and complicates the right of voting ;
and, under cover of creating facilities for the
honest exercise of the franchise, it puts into the
hands of the aristocracy a handy piece of
machinery admirably adapted for the effectual
subjugation of the muses, and their
utter demoralization as "free and independent
electors." The landed interest will be very
ungrateful to desert Lord Derby in his days of
sore trial which are now passing over him. his
Lordship has really studied that wealthy section
of the community with very great care, and with
no less affection. If in inclining to the popular
will he alarms the landlord, he pats him on
the Lack and whispers the word "compen-
sation." Thus it wits to have been in respect
of the borough freeholders ; thus it is still with
the £lO voter in counties. " Never mind, my
"Lord So and So, don't be afraid of these ten
"pounders that I have thrown in among you :
" look you, they may have roiing papers
"you will know what use to make of them."
And certainly the " twq friends " will soon find
the voter out, and the bargain will scarcely fail
to be sealed, signed, and delivered, in the most
approved and methodical style imaginable.
But, happily, this wretched scheme of "Reform"
will never be put into operation ; and it is clear
that to other hands than those of the great
country party must be confided the important
task of extending the political power of the
people and at the name time promoting and
encouraging political intregrity among them.

DoRefflINTVIt l'iTellEff .1)1IN M %tticKT.—Flatur•
,lay. —The supply of wheat at market tieday wao
Ii la'ral, choice wampluo finding pureluwers at full
rattle; haulier ones eeula nut he exeept at a
neluction of le. per quarter. Burl,/ am! oats 101 lamt
week. The demand for rood vory slew, sit rather
etvier rates.,

Aiiiiiercrra xi. Mewrieil ix Is4io.—A sub.
scription him been begun towards the expense of the
meeting of the bath anil West of England Society
next year. Tho three Comity !goobers head the
list for 4:20 a piece, Mows. Williams give £lllO.
Eldridge Mason, and Co. £O. air. Floyer £2O, and
Mr. Fanjulutreon £541.
Mire Ai. imritovy.mENT S.wirrY.—A prize liar.
Mg been offered for competit g the niconlorni
of this society for thu bunt essay, on "'Elle three
greetest evils in (in-at Britain," Mr. Cele has car.
Heil off the laurels for his misty on this subject -the
three greatest evils being considered by him to be
"Intemperance, Intolerance, and Inactivity." Three
essays only appear to have been sent in, but the
writer of one of thew having left the town, the
arbitrators declined to rend his production, so that
the honour of the content was limited to two
aapinuita—Mr. Edwards and Mr. Cole.
Lord Shaftesbury has proposed to set on foot a
Calonan's club, consisting of a provident society
reading-room, inceting•rouni, kc.
Mr. John I .111 C against whom the bill was ignored
with reference to the charge of embezzlement at
liateonilm, on which he was
:old which has mums' such excitement in the neigh.
isiorhisal, but against whom a bill was found 011
IthUr case, was the day after the close of thu
amizee liberated on hail, himself in .1:2011, and two
wtreties, Mr. (I. Crocker, of Dorchester, and Mr. .1.
Lithgow, of Montan, in .ClOO each, for his appear.
mice at the next assizes.

SPECIAL SICHVICK.4.—TUINITY CUP RCM --Prea•
riser, the Rev. C. O. Mayne, vitar of Nlidsomer
Norton, Somerset. The teat was taken (rim He-
brews, 12th chapter, part of 9th verse. The rev.
gentleman commenced by observing that the greatest
design of religion is to bring us to 1:,s1, but in order
to this we must be sul 'naive to his will and his
providence. Man is a fallen creature and a rebel
against the power and authority of Ibid, yetliod has
designed for him a plan of silvation, without ile-
outing from his character of a rigorously just God.
The plan adopted in the councils of Heaven is atone-
ment by the death of there incarnate Son, and
though we are offenders, God has been pleased to
send us by his blessed Gospel, the nitassge that he
will be reconciled to us through his blessed Son.
There are two great interests in this world—God on
one side, and Satan on the other--all belong to God
by right, but Satan has usurped the dom. of God;
all are one side or the other. There is no neutrality.
There is the narrow way that leadeth to life
an 1 the broad road that leadeth to destruction.
Jesus Christ has many servants on earth, hut the
ungodly are the slaves of the devil. He hoped that
' many might be become tired of that hard task.