The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

Vroctebings of Varlianunt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
MONDAT.—The Is of bankruptcy is the subject of
three bills 101 l ors the table by the Lord Chancellor.
.aod read the first time.
TURIDAY.—Tb• business of the Lords wee porelY
/onset, end oeeepied only the regulation gander of an
hoer aguish the Home I. bound to sit by Hs standing
.orders.

'rliftrallDAT.—Tbe Peers had a short Irish debate of
their own, apropos of the Marquis of Clanrioarde'a
Land Tenure Bill, which was allowed to be read a
second time, seemingly from • feeling thst it was of no
oeonsequenee what was done with it.
FIIDAT.—A skirmish both party and personal in its
ohm-miter being expected, the Chamber was filled in
that manner which once mused Lord Itedesdale to
'1""'"k of its sPPs•sxxicc in • very irreverent phrase, but
ye hioh may be described its having • family likeness to •
fancy fair. It was the peeps**, serried out with great
energy and • touch of bitterness, of the Duke ef Argyll
at once to impeach the policy of the Government in re-
geed to the pnneiple of a rating franchise, and to con-
tinue the controversy between Mr. Disraeli and Earl
Russell as to the "educating" of the Gonservative
party into extreme Parliamentary Reformers. As soon
as the Duke ceased, there did not appear the eonven•
tonal leader of the Rouse ; but the Lord Chanoellor
descended from the woolsack into the arena o( person°.
parliamentary strife, and, having pronounced an elabo-
rate argument in favour of the raring franchise, took to
defending the Prime Minister from the charges reads
against hint in the freest and sharpest style of debating.
illustrating his own conceit, that there are two kinds of
personal rating," with special incisivenevs. No One
onalci sorrow that Karl Rawl would blerich or give up
his opinion, and he showed that he was still wholly un-
converted by Mr. Disraeli's appeal by letter to the
public. The reaurrection of the compound honseholder
was preached by Earl Grey, and, on the poet of the
'Government Lord Devon said that the working of the
Reform Act, would be carefully watched, and if there
was say bitch there would be amendment.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MONDAY.—A few *mitered cheers greeted Mr. Ward.
Hunt's return to the Commons in all hia new diesity of
Chuicellor of the Exobequer. The Fines and Fees
(Ireland) Bill, by "'hie!, it was sought to make assured
the eight of the Tremery to transfer certain amnone.
Wed moneys to the Consolidated Fend, was vigorously
evemeed by the repreeeetatives of that eountry. sad
after considerable hesitancy anti the putting of the
question two or three times, Minister. suffered the
emend reading of the bill to be negatived without •
In the midst of a little oenfaiiion which
followed, the Hones slid into the consideration of the
Bcotoh Reform Bill. Tbe dimussion was initiated some.
whet oddly ; for Mr. Hadfield, with his special vehe-
mence of manlier, moved the rejection of the bill, pro-
testing against an income of the number of members
of the Bosses. zealously s. if it was • proposition for
a new religions endowment by the State ; and he was
sesooded by that peculiarly roving Irish member, Mr.
Bearden. For • short time it seemed soil the Scotch
members meant to let the second reading so as silently
es they did theism. stage of the measure of lies year;
but • gentle and soft-spoken northern member
(Sir W. Scott) intervened, and set the ball going.
IS was caught daintily by Mr. Haillie-Oothrants,
who pared it to Mr. Smollett who set about to tow it
In • mall eessaleis manner. In the main Mr. Semi-
lett's speech was abuse of the Reform Polley of the
Government In all its moods and teems. When be
spoke of being not sufficiently " edneatod" to sppreciate
household rage—of the "sham alacrity and zeal with
which the Ilikiglish Reform Act was pressed on," and so
en---vvary word seemed to be directed to the Prime
IffinisteL His illustration of the degradation of the
membsrdom of Scotland by the operation of the pro-
posed bill, by reciting • list of the famous men who had
zrepresented Edinburgh, was remarkable ; for be stopped
short, with no little significance, with Maeaulay, and
thee sketched his notion of the future House of Com-
mons with special emotion. In the next Parliament,
and the Parliament after, they would see many repro.
sentatives of the landed interest, as well as many
elderly gentlemen who bad made their money by
trade, manufactures, and commerce. With theni
there would be a few working men, the fewer,
In his opinion, the bettor for themselve•—(laughter).
If many working men were returned to that House
unless the principlee of the Charter were
adopted they would find themsilves as mush
out of place m if they were asked to dance polkas
at the Court of the Queen of the Saxon.. There would
be some of the lederi of nacho unions, possibly paid
out of their funds—some such ea the Broadhead. of
Sheffield— men with whom it would be dirigremble to
wine, and who. perhaps, it would be dangerous to
4hwart—(eaglitier). 11 40 additiosal members immerse
to Ireland, as one sapient gentleman from that country
bad proposed, they would have • carious set of repro.
mintatires tainted with Fenian sympathies ; if theygave
addltionil rsprasntation to Scotland they would have
come of them black diamonds who labour under ground;
and they would heos altogether such a compound aa
would be eximedingly difficult to manage. The in.
Buenos would be felt in the House ; the expenses of
elections would be greatly increased. The sonsequence
would be that men like kimeell, whose pocket. were
-not Used with hank notes, must go away and
maim from the House. Them were some of the
•ril.—(laughter). H. did not mean that his own
retirement would be an evil; but them were some of
the smaller difficulties that would arise from the
passing of the bill. He observed that on the third
reading of the Reform Bill those who sit on the front
Opposition bench were absent; the Government was
represented only by its moutbpisee, the member for
Buckinghamshire, the silence and lusubeious looks of
whose supporters showed how bale misitalietion thay
bad in • measure which was lottiuded to satisfy the
papkwif England. With just eo much joy and satis-
faction, end not one fraction more Of one atom lees, he
would vote for the second reeding of this bill—)laughter
and chews). Mr. M'Laren forthwith restored the
House to the gravity and seriousness proper to the dis-
Mission of • Scotch subject. For the Government pre-
sently Sir James Fergusson promised all reasonable eon.
cession ; and Mr. Reardon having failed, owing to the
interposition of the Speaker, in an effort to discuss the
ihe question of Irish representation on • Scotch Bill,
and Mr. Darby Griffith having pronounced in his
usual great judicial manner, Mr. Laing rose, and,
alter • preliminary comprehensive mew at all
extreme Scotch partisans, authoritatively declared
that Scotland proper would eacept this Bill,
amended by the granting of ten addition.' members.
aesertion, end perhaps his manner, seemed to be
quite roguing to many of the Scotch members ; for Mr.
Ellice, Mr. Cienfurd, and Mr. Kin:laird, amidst assent.
log cheers, emphatically declared an exactly opposite
expericimm of public feeling in Scotland. The debate had
thus become so comparatively animated that the Lord
Advocate appeared for Minister., and was really
georgette and almost vivacious. The unwillingnew of
Mr. lierjeult Genies to allow the debate to aloes with-
out his joining in it produised the inevitable result—
irrepressible Imighter. They were altogether, he said,
on a wrong tack. He recognised no difference
between Socalsed, Ireland, and England; and it was
a =betels that one Bill had not been introduced for
an alike. Had that been done, right hon. gentlemen
would never have made that dreadful mistake of last
mission from which they would never recover—that of
negativing his (Serjeant Gaselties) motion— (laughter).
A. nobody 'rapt Mr. Hadfield wanted to stop the bill
al this step, it was read seemed time. The remainder
of the sitting was occupied in getting the Sea Fisheries
Bill through committee, and introducing • number of
bills by the Government and private members, respire
*way, about railway amounts, raising money on &hem-
atite stock of the Rut India Railway.; and land writs
registration, titles to lands, and ecclesiastical buildings
and glebes, the latter three relating to Scotland.

TUZIWAY.—The House was crowd- ed in every part for
the Irish debate, which wee opened by Hr. Maguire in
a long and fervid speech. He sketched a gloomy
picture of the state of Ireland. although there was
searoaly an ordinary minis in the cosintry, it 1•111
COCO pied by an army as if it were • Poland or • provisos
of European Turkey. Constitutional liberty wait well
slier dead. The freedom of the irises warn on • per
with that Is Mexico or Abyseinia. A portion of the
British islands—an integral part of that which is
gelled b., a hundred orionial cities the "Math.,
Countr, =wee swarming with moldier', and oovered
with garrioona Some 25,000 soldiers and 13,000 police,
drilled and armed with the &wiliest ',espoused modern
times, hold bar like • conquered dependency ; ships of
war patrol all bar sees( gun-boats anchor on her quiet
and lovely rivers ; and the palladiam of individual
liberty, the Habeas Corpus, is enspooded ; so that Um
word of a paid spy, the suspicion of • oonsteble, and
the oath of a proved Perjurer is good against the liberty
of any marked man. Mr. Maguire spoke of a lard npoes
whoa adversity is settling like a bleak aloud—the
erops falling abort, the money of the farmers hoarded
In banka, the peausts flying from starvation at ho-se
to take their bitter tuatories with them across the
Atlantic. He pourtrayed • remaining population into
whose hurts &emir is entering--despair of any justice
from • °sate of Protestant landowners—of any sure,
littnet, perhaps, by bloody remedies. He pointed to a
Part ra Her Majesty's dominions where, against every
r'sdiple of religious right, the Church of the small
mamitY peewees all the seelesisetleal endowment,,.
a cue not leas gross sr intolerable, be said, than U
Archbishop idimefei ap.ptpd rho pomp of Rowse in the
face of the Protestant millions of England. with the
tithes to P 47 for it. 0,, on the strength of the handful
of Roman Catholic, MOUS us, want in procession so
offer /du in Bt. P.ar Thor .•otioo church" which
Iran denounced by lb%
cannot
h., up. (Hr.
Disraeli) twenty-four yeam",,, ge° an
os now be defended
unless it is to be proved that lie. Patrick won •
tut, and that all the tithesof.hriPrepoiet;
elven to Protestant.. nu Protestants of Ireland that
I. of the Established Cherish, only nuasbor 700 006 and
they have ell the Religions endowm,nt. of al try.
Suppose sub a state of Wog. p,pe.17°,,:„.1d
Exeter Hall be silent' The h memberfor North Warwickshire would be holding a
place high la some Fenian nrituisatiou
go intolerable an lejoslice - (great igoa-tor).
England would not stand it for • moment ;
people of Ireland will mot stand it longer, In sos
raet with this fat Church of the mall minority,
pimpared upon revenues sequestrated from Cathatok
the Cetholies maintain their own Church by the pease
of the " boys ;" and, while they asked to be delivered
from the insult and brand of an "lien Estaldishmeeit,
they not only do not ask, but they refuse endowment
The land, rack-rented by absentee landlords, worked by
taunt, who bare no security for investments but thew
landlord's good pleasure, arise in vain for laws whieb
will give back °outdone@ to the husbandman. and tempt
from the banks their timid stores of gold. Is the face
of the atrocious violation of morality perpetrated under
cover of the law, and in its sawed name, two-thirds of
the population which lire by the soil refers to believe in
any future. Eseely they note the inisehlnistions of
Fonianesca, and they turn to America with • perilous
air of hops. A Lead with fruitful mothers and • failing
population, with rich moil and empty graaaries, with
ainis-tenthe of te people Catholics and its revenue
escheated to the Protestant one-tenth—e land with
milliou living upon their paters@ of ground, while the,
love beyond even other Cellist ruse—lies at the
ofproprietors, whose the leer will help with ltiess,=
and dragoons to driven.., and woman, old and y
Into the workhouse or the midnight-drill Put/.
for moue political Prospero to NNW. Plotrit:lls
aeppisair, sod seise We MK amain libe psol I

In the United Stake people could hardly believe th
stoW of things in Ireland. He once conversed with an
American who thus expelieed his indignent wonder
" What! no lee."' so security for improvement; I
M.. and women bought and cold with the estates
Zanies reeked by London oompitniee and absentee
noblemen! And tbe thing goes on, aod you are not
quite sure whether you will wipe this incubus Church
' from off the face of the island; and whether you care to
save lour million psoplu from the absolute necusity of
; revolution. My God l" With Irish shrewdness the
ardent speaker went on to deprecate all delay and corn-
promise. Let us have no oomrniasion, he said, to eta-
oils. into that which everybody know.; we do not ask
whether a dean has too much or too little, or whether
• bishop is or, not starving on Bve thousand a year.
We demand to be freed from a Church which is the
hedge of our humiliation and historic mffering. Don't
plainer our wounds with Royal visits, nor wipe oar
tears away with railway grip; nor, when we ask for
land laws, give usfinigration Commissioners? Dia-
eetablish and disenclow this ecclesiastical tyranny, and
bestow the funds on the dertitute. Let the Protestenta
who are rich maintain their own church, as the poor
Catholics do, and let the Irish tenant be certain that,
If he outs his gold humidly into the soil he can get it
out again. Let this be done, the Advocate of Ireland
urged with passionate energy of convictioc, and you
need not patrol our island with shire of war, nor try to
silence her with tbe nadow of the inflows. Jsstk°
and English goodwill may keep her from the frenzy of
despair; commialons and solemn sham., guns and
Renown will not do It The member for Owl bade us
choose between prompt equity towards Ireland or
sometling worse than the worst yet seen in this
difficulty and divine* to Britain. Mr. Neste followed,
ridiculing Mr. Mill's remedy, which, he said, slowed
even leas practical wisdom than the proposal of another
revolutionist of earlier date, Jack Cade, that than
should be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a
penny, and that the three-hooped pot should contain a
quart of beer. Si, Frederick Heygate uttered • dry
series of Imes about which be had nothing much to
say; Lord A. Clinton is young, and wea juvenile; and
when he had been heard, and a little speech by Kr.
O'Beirne in echo of Mr. Maguire, the mune was akar
for Lord Mayo. Hia lordship mitundireil on hoot ball'
past o'clock till one, amid general weariness
Meg his former arguments, that Fennel= had no
hold on any clue in Inland exempt the very lowest, sod
that It derived its force from foreign agencies, Lord
Mayo added tbst even if Ireland were tyrannised over
the tyrants were Irishmen. The suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act received the unanimous comsat of
the Irish member., and wee for the protection of the
Irish people themeelves. And the arbitrary power
thus created was entrusted to local administration,
composed nicer et wholly of Irishmen. from the castle to
the constebolary. He denied the truth of Mr. Maguire's
dark description of Ireland. Daring the prevent
generation than bad boon • great names In the
177 under cultivation (from 13,000,000 to
000 acres), in the value of live stock (from
£21,000,000 in 1841 to £.50.300,000 in 1866) and in other
agricultural produce. The rim in wages, the rise le the
rental, the increased consumption of duty-paying
„oda., the joarp..a of deposita at the banks, which
had grown from £12,900,000 in 1863 to £19,300,000 in
1667, the diminution of fosPirisso and Wiwi=
Grime, were also indications of progress The
mode in which he sought Warps away Um several pleas
relating to land tenure of lfr. Bright, Mr. Mill, and Sir
John Gray, seemed to be felt as tether ponderous. All
this time, the suggestion of his speech was, that he was
leading up to an argument 'that very little or nothing
was required to be done for Ireland. Possibly the
evident failure of his voila indeed him to forego souse
further preliminary elaboration; and, as he began to
talk of governing Inland impartially, there was hope
that be was approaching the pith of the matter. Still,
however, under manifest physical dialculty, he con-
tinued to hover round and about the peados. At
length it came out that he propped to introduce
measures providing for tenants' sompenestios; for,int prey.
lag the nicest of leases by limited owners; and to
encourage written 000tra/4e in the letting of land. There
was • cheer at each of these propositions, but not the
slightent ruining of the Howe out of the quiet attention
which had characterised it hitherto. An announeement
that there was to be • further solemn inquiry into tin
whole state of the relatioas between landlord and Unapt
brought out what sounded very like • eontemptuous
laugh. With something like daphnia', he said after-
wards that be would
general
to deal with railways
before Easter. As to education, that was being
, ground through the mill of • oonamisition. Get of a
cloud of oireamlocutionott last there came a statement
that than is to be permitted tan erection of a Roman
! Catholic University—that is. a charter is to he granted
to such an institution I Without referring to the piling
up of rations for each a course, it may safSoe to say that
the question of the Irish Church is relegated to next
session, pending the inquiry now carried on hy a wow-
mission. So much as has has been stated, and no more,
was the actual result of over three
ihoers'ml.iannotnry
parturition. The adjournment of the awas then
moved by Mr. Hortense.

WIDNSIDAY.—Four Churelvrate Bills stood for con-
sideration. As soon ea the first wee called on, Mr.
Hardcastle, to whom it belonged, and who bad on a
farmer occasion acioepted that for which Mr. Gladstone
Ii raponsible, postponed the second reading to the
fith April; and, as that day will fall in the Easter
recess, it waa • practical abandonment of the measure.
Mr. Hubbard, who stood next, made a little half-
mournful speech, elicited by the approsning decease of
his bantling, and sought to give it • little longer
factitions life by endeavouring to get it referred to the
Isame committee which was to deal with Mr. Gladatooe's
Bill An effort wait made by Sir Stafford Northoote to
get Mr. Hubbard's weeklingdry-nureed in thin way ; bat
Yr. Newdegate, the parent of the third li_,_,. one,
gallantly repudiated any such expedient, end_
for it. being laid 'sonde Mr. licrstasstles by pnalP:73;
his asceed ',subsea.. as il.• Sib •priL A. Mr. Hard.
castle threatened, if Mr. Hubbard's Bill was engrafted
on that of Mr. Gladstone, there being no affinity whet.
ever between them, sumnsuily to cut it off agsin by
moving its rejection, and Mr. Gladstone himself utterly
repudiated Vie inooogruona association, though there
was a little wrangle—probably the final one on Church
rants--the proposal wee not pressed, and bill number
two wee also nominally postponed. The Howe then got I
into committee on Mr. Gladatone's Compulmory Church. ,
ratan Abolition Bill. On the first clause, which simply
abolishes compulsory rates, a division wee taken at the
Instance of Mr. Henley, but the ayes were 167, and only
30 opponents to the dense were mustered. The dis-
mission which ensued was to • great extent turned on
details. There was a good Seal of controversial talk, 1
and once or twice it went co far that the House was '
cleared for divisions, but none took plus, and the Bill '
emerged from committee amidst a loud cheer, perhaps '
of relief from both sides of the House I

THUILIDAT.—The debate on Ireland was resumed by
Mr. Norman with • speech wide* in one regard was
the best he has made of late years, inasmuch as it eras
the shortest It was an 'elaborate diatribe on the
Government, whose Irish policy vu described as in-
action to reference to the Chorale, procrastination in
regard to the land, and ratrogrieedon as to education—a
policy of inquiry which toevitably seasoned • recom-
mendation that the Government itssU should be referred
to • commission and Parliament prorogued till all the
oommissions had reported. Very dens was he on the
proposed Homan Catholic University and its sectarian
character • tolerably come wee he on Lord Mayo, who
was sketegrid as searching-in his despatch box his papers,
and in Mr. Disraeli's hoe for • policy, but analog non.;
and the speaker was sarcastic on the evident resolve of
the Government to do nothing for Ireland, which it op-
by their spontaneous hint of applause the
rZole Irish members highly approve. As to the
Irish Church, it was denounced as the deadliest enemy
of hotastantism, and very vehement was the demand
for the enunciation of a principle, which, as Mr.
foreman thought, should be that of complete religione
equality in Ireland • the marrying out of this, at least,
ought not to be shelved for another year. A. tremendous
House which Mr. /foreman drew waited—sometimes
_

apparen-- by —an- —Ol-0.11000 Of paneace—to his end-
ing ; and then, of mune, fied from Mr. Car-
who (*Bowed, only to brought beeh
rifrLoor• at. very inouveniest hour ; but his speech
wu worth returning for. eves half-dinnered ; for
rarely, if ever. has Mr. Lowe presented such a con-
tinuou Iliqooooo of his special oratorical charseteristies
as now. At first, speaking more eloely and roundly
than ordinarily, he set about decidedly to dieronneet
Feeianism, shish we. devised to roues neither fixity
of tutors north, sholitioe of the Irish Church, bat for
m plunder, fro the normal discontent of Ireland. Then
he assorted broadly that that ermatry was progressing
fairly, recei red the bused proportiosate share of the
money of the State, sad, in faith taxed Eagland rather
than England taxed her; and be argued, with •
mixture of logical severity and droll illustration, that
the main evil of Ireland wag the system of small
holdings of land. The part of hie apnea which was the
most amusing of all was that In width he depicted Mr.
Stuart Mill's scheme foe the settlement of the land
question. A dream of pitilet ridicule woe poured nue
the proposal; notably is Ids description of the State, or
rather the Government, as the sole landlord In Ireland ;
and immeasenible laughter followed a Meta of a Minis-
terial agent, on the eve of a general ethnics, suddenly
remembering the necessity of repairing • certain
picturesque "pig-shad" which had been Rojestifithly
forgotten hitherto. He was very severe on the pro.
posed "sectarian" Catholic University, unworthy as the
project was of • "truly Liberal 00•10110100 i," and
which he designated as an offering up of the Romeo
Catholie laity to the Ultrasiontane priesthood. In rr
formes to the Church he we. unmistakeably serious
and emphatic in his declaration that the tenth of the
property of the people of Ireland, devoted to amicist.
&lOW purposes, belonged to the people at lama and
ought not to be confined to one in twelve of hem. His
last words might be said to he a demand for short end
sharp execution on the Irish Church. Considering
that be ran a tilt against almost every section of the 1
Howie in turn, the cheers which followed the close of
his most interesting (in • vary 'lauded sense) sp.seb,
were curiously unanimous and loud. Premising that he
was about to speak of taunt right as • law, Mr.
Thome' Hughes, who succeeded accurately kept his
word. A speech was next made Ly Mr. Vases, which
was so quiet for nice an extreme Irish politician that
it suggested an Idea of bow desirable it would have been ,
to use an oriage which was 11071 r hint in order to freebie
him up, both by the contemplation of its colour and
the flavour of it. juice. Then Mr. Jamb Bright de-
livered his maiden speech, speaking neatly sad fiesetl7.
lint never for a 0•070.71111 exhibiting any ressenblense to
hie brother. After him Mr. Stuart Kill and Mr. Agar*
Ella roes together, and there was a smart soaliest got
Tip for the precedence of the former, and Mr. Bernal
9thOrse even took the unusual 000770 of moving
that Mr. Mill he heard. However, his opts:mut
CI( 70 his leis for a short time, and
his hearing. Altboagh direct and
ng as ever in his ideas of policy,
sad pointed in his phraseology, be
V-4-1 " thr rate, lees aunt than heretofore.
""', bswooer, he got to a idwa of hi. Led-plea for
especiallyland ey
when houd,ormd•ro runtd, end reedy in Muth,
to Kr.
b: rine, on necessarily impromptu,
so the 001•01077 Mketed l"rPl7. givl.l
speech of Yr. Oste. acea' " good the bi7Zhi. that of
Tb.
a padiacaaaaa,„ unathwe um is
miry booth Natasha, tootto"ading bah^ the Tra*.
was seas wsieblalases
for that indiscreet saying yoga. I.
y *vested al
hia'
II"4" Pen 7 "sesb lthrrelintakes • bat,
berried adistiaot statiessat ihse be nee mot at
russet with any proposities fee goam Irish
Ober* be did not emunit ltitto4no as edam,
Minim as his roam so Ala is

F/HDAY.—The Irish debate was remened by Ifr.
Chisheater Fortress& Though for two-thirds of his
si and wandering that be wag, No to speak, soling
asTht seralii of the chiefs of Opposition, be was sour-
' what .old and measured, seeming to eandemn nothing
wholesale, and positively to originate little if &mythic&
yet each phase of the Irish question was exhaustively,
and in some respect. suggeetirdy, examined. When,
however, ii. came to the Irish Marsh he we. emphatic,
pointed, and almost animated ; several times bringing
out boieterous cheers and oounter-ebeers. On this
mbjeet he made no uncertain sound, and might have
been supposed to be the precursor of decisive sayings
from the front Opposition bench. There WA% • shingle
for the n•st bearing between Mr. Butler-Johnstone and
Sir J. ll'Kenna, but the solidity of the position, podia.
mentry or otherwise, of the latter perhaps preveiled,
and he met in for istatistical speech, the burden of
which seemed to be that, given the fact—it maybe very
freely given—that Irishmen use elenhol in the form of
whisky, they had to pay for their whistle far more
In proportion than the English consumer of his
nation.' beverage. nee riyht of The O'Donoghne to
speak ',L. facilely accorded, and, beginning with
a quietly humorous description of tee( Igoyo,.
statements &boot the condition of Ireland, he
went on to my precisely what he might ham been
expected to Nay of whir be contrived to both, jest
demands of his country for priest sin, social,and
religious equality with the rest of the United
king-
dom, than address in which fine elocution, earnestness
of purer., and depth of conviction were felicitously
combined. Nor ter there anything in his demeanoar
which was, aweigh impressive, sot in the least
parionate, to lardy the, it might almost be said
erne. personal attack on him which Lord Claud
Hamilton foamed out in the beginning of his speech.
It may berm to most agricultural labourers, that Mr.
Herbert, the member for Kerry, told the House that
he tired to persons in his employ wages of 14a. • week,
with diet, whatever that may mean in Ireland. It
would rem from his deliverance on this occasion that
Newdegate has taken up, second-hand, Mr.
Whalley's notion that the Wotan Clatholie prieethood
are at the bottom of Embolism. His expression of his
idea, on the establlshment and endowment by the State
of* Roman Catholic oiiioeraity may b. ...fly pop.
rived that it is not rimeniery to rtempt • description
of ft. With singular rime= and precision
Bright began • speech by assertiog that, even admitting
that Mr. Maguire'. end Lord Mayes accounts of the
✓ate of Ireland were both USW, • amp was made out
for the dissuades by the Home of the Irish qrs.
Hoc Enumerating those who understand that pees-
ties, he serially mentioned Mx Disraeli, who,
he said, uudersteed it in the Name sense as he
did. After an elaborate declaration of hie entire
adhesion to the doctrine of the rights of property, be
argued that It would be clearable and possible to
establish to • certain extent • farmer proprietary in
Ireland, which would go fax to solve the question of
fixity of tenure. This be prepare to do, not by taking
away any one's lend, bet by an advance of money by
the State to enable tholes who wished to boy from those
who are willing to sell. In fast, be would make the
land the great savings bank of Ireland. He hoped that
after this explanation he should not rain be seemed of
wishing to rob any ors. If, be exclaimed, an American
Fenian spent as evening with • ler of each men as be
would create in Ireland, pressing rash Silty of tenure,
he would be treated as • mere madmen. It wise with
emptier@ that be deseribed • &kir in Somereetshire
In which some nub system had been adopted, owing to
the sale of the 'Mated an embernuned Duks—wbo WWI
not robbed—and where that whish had heretofore been
a desert was blossoming in an agricultural and
prosperous In a social seem. Hereabouts be fell
• little into his humorous vein, and or par-
ticolarly happy in • doooriptioo of a quiet Irish
electim in whiled' only three persons were killed.
Presently be rather hearted the merit of having
been really the person who had " educator the
Conservative party into Reformers, and he quite
slammed the aatborship of the Munch Rates Bill
which has been nearly settled •' then, amidst mush
laughter and cheering, he asked, in semi-comici"
that his plan for Ireland might be coneiclered,an
perhaps rospied. As to the Roman Catholic University
seheme, without meaning to be uncivil, it was • propo-
sition at once grotesque and imbecile, and no one was ,
la favour of it. It was about as good • specific for
Ireland as the pills which • mountebank, perhaps in
Sockingharnabire, said aa preservatives spinet earth-
quake. Sat he did not deal with this plan only with
ridicule, but also with onions sad esathing condemna-
tion, which soon rose into a lofty and earnest demand
for mere Instr. to Ireland. As to the Mak Cheri*
represent's( as it did Protestant ascendancy, he pro-
noun:4d in rapid and parionate tour that it was
doomed, while its dieser blishment must bmocompanied
by general religious disendowinent in Ireland. His
speech. as • whole was marked, not only by an un-
airreasave—usieg the word in its common sense—bet by
• kindly and sympathetic spirit; while his peroration
was, though studiously impressive, gentle almost to
Moderns... If them were fewer cheers than usual, of
• surety there were unbroken listening and attention
to every word be said. Sir Stafford Northoote spoke
for the Government, for about an hour, with sourly •
full stop; sod then the nramption of tbo debar was
claimed, and acquired, by Mr. MooselL