The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-19 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, NAY 19, 1868.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

We observed laet week that the debris of the
Parliamentary battle-field were being cleared away,
and tnat practically something like • trues was
established. But once then we have seen various
tokens of an inclination to break the
especially among the guerilla captains of the roe:.
Mr. Hibbert's amendment on the Boundaries Bill
at One time threatened us with a general engage-
ment, but that difficulty ha", for the present at
least, been got rid of by referring the disputed
items of the schedule to a select committee.
Whether that expedient will ultimately prove
effective is doubtful; but if the difficulty is
not permanently removed, it is, at any rate, covered
up for the preriect But the temper of the free
lances of debate was shown when Mr. Gladstone
asked leave to introduce his Suspensory Bill, and all
the little technical impediments which could be
thrown in the way of a private member were cast,
one after another, in front of the right bon, gentle-
man, although he is known to command • majority
in the House, on that subject at least. The naive-
ties" with which Colonel Stuart Knox, Mr. Howie-
gate, and others, ignored all the former proceedings
in Committee on the resolutions, was annng, to
say the lead of it; and no was the blunder of the
first-named gentleman in attributing to Mr. Glad-
stone an assertion that the Irish church could not be
destroyed "except by the vote of a reorient senate
and an apostate nation," whereas the passage was
from • speech of that uncompromising defender of
the church, Mr. Whiteside. An apology for this
blunder was among the usual medley of Friday
proceedings on the following evening; but this
apology was preceded by another matter of
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direct vote .frtihwlhen:
of confident*. It tern. out, however, that the
learned gentlemen is sating entirely on his own
account, and that the bulk of the Liberal party axe
"Ixiimitslinngrtehebsil On Friday. but this WM net 1°
not prepared for so decided and factions a move.
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be; and now that her Majesty departs for Balmoral
swiy in the year as the 18th of May (with the
purpose, it is. understood, of otholadium hse visit to
Scotland in time for an autunnel trip to Germany),
the fashionable world has probably seen the leet of
the royal !presents in Londoe for IEI6B. II seams
altar that the Queen's public appearances en yeiso
essay personal soorthose on hoc perk made with no
, .hMk effort.

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In this connection Vie MI 0000 Sir Colman
O'Loghlen's motion on Friday. night respecting •
r0_,14, residence in Ireland. The "IL gentleman
mennlY contemplated a residence of some weeks
annually by Her maimay ja pecan ; but anyone
who considers the condition of the Qosen's health
will conclude that Her Majesty could not undertake
the physical sod mental exertion, and bear the
etoitement which such • worse would entail. But
that the heir apparent ihould, as Her Majesty's
representative, have • residenoe in Ireland, seems
reasonable and erdient ; and it is rather • dis-
appointment that r. Disraeli had nothing to say on
is point, although he intimated that her Majesty
was much pleased with the reception worded to
the Prinoe and Princess of Wales, and desired each
royal visits to be not %infrequent. But if • more
direct 000rett bad been determined upon, and the
House of Commons were asked to vote money for an
establishment in Ireland for their Royal Hig
It would undoubtedly comply cheerfully with the
regent.
Financial reform, which WWI such • prominent
topic of discussion • few ysan ago, is now not
thought much of, or we should not have had •
House of abases members voting the heavy amounts
for fortifications this year, or one of twenty passing
the Abyssinian vote for three millions. It is curious
that upon the latter vote not • word was said by the
twenty gentlemen present when it was pared,
although it afforded • convenient peg for • little
minor oratory to be hung op upon. Perhaps the
twenty were all "silent members," waiting till the
Howe should get • little thinner before they could
say anything beyond "Aye" or "No."
The Byre prosecution has provoked a joke that'
Messrs. Mill and Taylor, and their associates of the
Jamaica committee, are about to send out • private
comminvion to Abyssinia to get up evidence against
Sir Robert Napier. for the murder of Theodore,
and • number of his black subjects. The pro.
osedinp of these persistent amateur promo.
tors attract considerable interest, though it is more
in the way of curiosity than approval even with
, parsons who condemn Mr. Eyre's conduct during the
I Jamaica revolt. The penisess of tilleresent
charges against the ergovernor, cote with
• those originally made, takes everything the dignity
, out of the pragmatics • and the patmos of his
enemies gala. syuipstgy for lit. Byre to quarter,
where his own case would not do so.