The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY. AUGUST 16, 1559.

HONESTE AUDAL

Ix the House of Lords on Monday the Marquis

of Normanby asked for information respecting
the project of pacification which had been trans-
mitted by Her 'Majesty's Goveniment to Austria
previous to the peace of Villafmnca. Lord

Wodehouso said that the only project of pacifi-
cation which the English Government had
transmitted to Austria was a French despatch
containing propositions for peace. but on which
they had offered no opinion of their own. On
Tuesday the Militia Laws' Amendment Bill was
read a second time after a short discussion, in
which Lord Stratford de Redcliffo complained
of the suspension of the ballot, and Lord Kings-
down thought that the pefences of the country
would never be in a proper position until Parlia-
ment resorted to something like a conscription.
On Thursday the ladia Loan Bill passed through
committee, and the Reserve Volunteer Force
of Seamen Bill was read a third time and palmed.
In the House of Commons on Monday Lord
Elcho brought forward his motion for an
address to the Crown, declaring that it would
not be consistent with the honour or dignity of
the country to take part in any conference on
the affairs of Italy. Mr. Kinglake moved as an
aniendment the previous question. Mr. Glad-
stone, Lord J. Russell, and Lord Palmerston
opposed the motion on the ground that there
was at present no intention of going iuto con-
ference at all, but that it would he unwise and
unconstitutional to fetter the ( loverninent should
circumstances hereafter arise to render their co-
operation advisable. Mr. Disraeli said that he
did not approve of the form of the motion, and
reeommended that it be withdrawn. Lord
Kleho said he was satisfied with the result of the
discussion, and withdrew the motion. On Tuesday
the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, the
Stamp Duties Bill, the Customs' Bill, and the
East India Loan Bill, were read a third time
and panelled. Mr. Mackinnon obtained leave to
bring in a Bill to establish equitable councils of
conciliation to adjust differences between masters
and operatives. On Wednesday Mr. Bright ob-
tained a select committee to inquire into the cir-
cumstances connected with the withdrawal of the
petition against the return of Mr. Overend at
the election for Pontefract. Tue Sale of Gas
Bill passed through committee, and the Euro-
pean Troops India Bill was read a third time
and passed. On Thursday, on the order of the
day for going into committee on the Charitable
Trusts Act Continuance Bill, Mr. Newdegate
moved that the Bill be committed that day three
months. After some discussion the amendment
was rejected on a division by 70 to 47. The
Bill then passed through committee, and was
read a third time and passed. The House then
went into committee on the Divorce Court Bill,
when a strong opposition was offered to the
clauses added by the House of Lords, empower-
ing the Court to hear certain cases with closed
I doors, authorizing the Attorney-General to
examine the parties in case of suspected
collusion, and extending the operation of the
Bill to Ireland. After a long discussion all

these clauses were withdra cii, and the Bill
was passed through its remaining stages with
oome amendments respecting the property of
divorced persons. The Sale of Gas Bill was
read a third time and passed. On the order
of the day for considering the Attorneys and
Solicitors Bill, as amended, the House was
counted out. On Friday Lord J. Russell said
it was the intention of Her Majesty's Govern-
ment to require the Emperor of China to carry
out the treaty, and to invite him to send an
ambassador to the British Court. Mr. Tito
obtained leave to bring in a Bill further to
amend the Act 18 and 19 Victoria, cap. 120, for
the better local management of the metropolis;
and Mr. Hennessey a Bill to amend the law
regarding Roman Catholic Charitable Trusts.
The House was then summoned to the House
of Peers, and the session closed.
The Zurich CUnference was formally opened
on Monday, and it is understood that one of
the first resolutiMis adopted by the Plenipoten-
tiaries was to prolong the armistim indefinitely.
Meanwhile the news from Italy is of a serious
character. Tuscany has refused to submit to
the restoration of the old dynasty, Modena has
voted annexation to Piedmont, and Parma
luta proclaimed the Red Republic. The latest
news states that the Pieduiontese have been
driven from Parma. that all the owners of
property and friends of order were flying from
the city, and that the French troops have
suspended their departure free Italy.

Tim Qualm's Speech on the prorogation of Par-
liament on Saturday last will be found in another
column. The progress of legislation during the
past two Sessions is there enunciated in official
language- The Times has dealt with the same
subject by way of • most perspicuous and able

review of the late Parliamentary prmeetlings,

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remarkable also for the spirit of fairness w iLh

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which the eminent writer holds tho balance

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between the two great opposing parties ill this
country. We feel that wo cannot do bettor at
this moment than connect a few of the salient

passage,s in that necessarily long article, as
exhibiting with equal clearness and truth those
powerful springs of political action which in-

fluonce the-tiestinies of Euro,?e.

At the beginning of the present year, says the
Times, the Conservative Ministers enjoyed the
credit which their conduct of affairs, under
favourable circumstances in the previous Session,

had not unfairly earned. Nevertheless, Lord
DERBY'S position was artificial and visibly luso-

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cure. The jealous rivalry which divided his princi-
pakopponents, and the irritation of their followers,
were certain to yield sooner or Liter to the steady
pressure of party influences. Notwithstanding
the individual popularity of smile of the Minis-
ters, there were no assignable grounds of public
policy for keeping them permanently in power.
Although they might be unwilling advocates of

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change, they renounced on every occasion their
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distinctive function of resistance, and when they
undertock the introduction of a measure of Par-

liatuentary lteform it was mnsy to foresee that
they must provoke the hostility of the legiti-
mate proprietors of the doctrine. They failed
and went to the country. The result of the
Elections confirmed general expectation by add-
ing slightly to the numerical strength of the
Ministers, while their general position in the
House was weakened. The general trial of
strength proved that the Conservatives were
still unable to cope with their adversaries, and
the-challenge which had been offered at the Dis-
solution fully justified thd determination of the
Liberal leaders to force their way back to office.

The chiefs of the Opposition wisely determined
to use their strength while it was yet unbroken,
and to take the decision of the House of Com-
mons on the real question of a choice of Minis-
ters. Two or three ingenious politicians, after
proving that support of Lord DERBY was the
fittest method of promoting Reform, received
hints from their constituents which ultimately
placed their votes in striking contrast with their
speeches. At the Division the majority had
scarcely a deserter to regret, and, on the other
hand, the Ministerial supporters voted with the
same remarkable steadiness which the same
, party had displayed before the Dissolution. If
the result had depended on a balance of argu-
ments the triumph of the Opposition would
have been even more complete. Whatever
might have been the exceptional circumstances
under which Lord DERBY acceded to office, it was
evident that after a general election all constitu-
tional

theory required the re-establishment of the
majority in power. As Reform is inevitable, it
will best command the confidence of the country
when it is brought forward by those who may
be assumed to understand and to value its prin-
ciple& The advocates of organic changes cannot
be too closely trammelled by the responsibilities
of office, nor is it a small advantage that they
will be jealously watched, and checked by a real
Opposition.
Another reason of grave importance for the
restoration of a Liberal Govennnent was derived
from the peculiar state of public feeling with
reference to the Italian war. There was some
reason to fear that the supposed leaning of
Lord Danav and of his principal colleagues
would stimulate the popular sympathy with the
Italian cause, and overbear the reasonable
jealousy with which it was proper to regard
the tortuous ambition of France. In one of the
most stringent dilemmas which have ever been
framed out of conflicting systems of injustice
the practical course of mere neutrality and inac-
tion happily furnished or evaded the neceasity
of a solution ; but it is impossible for minds
which are uurtured into activity by freedom to
remain neutral in judgment and feeling when
great events are agitating the world. It was
natural that the deliberate violation of Euro-
pean peace should excite indignant alarm, and,
on the other hand, reasonable hopes were
excited by the prospect of removing the chronic
oppression which Austria had exercised over
the Peninsula. There is no reason to suppose
that in any negotiations which may take place
Lord PALitintsroN's course will vary materially
from that which might have been adopted by
Lord Difaux. As Lord ABERDEEN once observed
with undoubted truth, there is no real difference
in the foreign policy of successive English
(lovernments. Since the change of Government
the public solicitude has been mainly directed to
the indispensable premilitions which are rendered
necessary by the turbulence of France.
With respect to the past, it is well observed,
that "two great debates and decisive decisions,
resulting in a Dissolution and in a change of
Ministry, have for the present satisfied the pug-
nacious appetites of the combatants on either
side." But, with regard to the future, the pro-
gress and results of the next Reform Bill are
looked upon with a singularly-mixed feeling of
hope, uncertainty, and apprehension. The
Times speaks of the coining Reform Bill as an
"unwelcome necessity," a phrase which does
not exhibit that high degree of confidence we
should feel when we find the measure in the
hands of the "proprietors of the doctrine."
"The universal apprehension of the Reform," says
our great contemporary, "which has become an
unwelcome necessity arises in some degree from
the certainty that it will break up political
systems in favour of new combinations which it
is impossible to define beforehand. The first
Dissolution after the passing of a Reform Bill
will be watched with an anxious curiosity, like
that with which alarmists anticipate the mutual
destruction of the hostile fleets in the next great
naval battle." Refonn, however, in the han,b;
of such a man as Lord JOHN RCS-SELL, mated
with Lord PALMERSTON, will not, in our humble
opinion, occasion so fearful a state of things asto
lead us to exclaim in horror, "Chaos is come
again." We rather think that the time is come
when the progress of the country requires to he
met by an extension of popular power, which
may now be safely and beneficially accorded ; and
we believe that if one set of men are more com-
petent than another to deal with this important
question, it is the men who have steadily
adhered to these principles—who have made
them the guides of their political conduct—and
to whom alone we are indebted for those reformed
institutions under which the country has
advanced to its pri..sent state of prosperity and
contentment.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN NI ARKET, Saturday.
—Our market was thinly attended to-day, the fine-
ness of the weather no doubt keeping farmers at
home harvesting. From inquiry we find that many
will finish this evening, and that another week of
favourable weather will bring the harvest to a close
in this district. Samples of new wheat and barley
were exhibited to-day ; the quality was good, but
we did not hear of any sales. Farmers are antici-
pating better prices.
MONTHLY SAL.—At the Monthly Sale of stock
by Messrs. Baker awl FAINOL in the Fairfield ou
Saturday, there was a short supply of beasts and
sheep, but all were sold. Beef fetched from I Is. Gil.
to 12s. per score ; ewes from :1.4. Gd. to 425. ; and
wetheni from 425. to 475. per head.
CoNCERT.—Ou Monday evening Madame Corelli
gave a riisoies unisieoie at the Townhall. There
was a fashionable and rather full attendiuwe, and the
, programme comprised a goodly number of popular
and choice pieess--several of which were of ladanie
Corelli's own composition—both for the voice and the
pianoforte. The fair cantatriee showed herself a
, thorough musician, and of the first class, drawing
' from the piano notes of such "Linked sweetness" that
her auditors, whether listening 14 her charming and
extraordinary improvisatioas on "Shells of Ocean"
and "The last memo( summer," or ber imitatiotisof the
musical box, the harp, and the violincello, or to her
dieciiptive powers in "The bride's farewell," or her
own little bijou .r, were delighted beyond measure.
She wive several well known songs very prettily.
Mr. 'Rubinson announces that he has engaged Madames
Corelli, with other artistes, for a series of munical
soirees to be given at his New Assembly Rooms.
The first euirie conies off on Thursday evening.

VISIT OF PRINCE LUCIEN BONAPARTE TO DOR-
CRESTER.-011 Friday Prince Lucien Bonaparte,
cousin to the Emperor of the French, paid a short
visit to our town. The Prince has been for some
time, we understand, engaged on a great literary
work on the ethnology and languages of the Western
races, and on the day named, havingarrived by rail,
he called upon the Rev. William Hammes, in South-
street, and did him tho honour to believe that the
rev. gentleman could be of 110310 service to him in
the prosecution of his labours. The rev. gentleman
accompanied the Prince in a carriage from the Ante-
lope Hotel to Weymouth and Portland, conversing
en sonic on philological topics chiefly. Prince
Lucien visited the Breakwater and Chesil Beach, in

company with our townsman, and proceeded about
half way up the hill at Portland in order to sec the
singular isthmus of pebbles which unites the rock of
Portland to the coast of Dorset. After dining at
the Breakwater Hotel Mr. Barnes and his illustrious
visitor returned to Dorchester, and the Prince

departed by the Great Western itailway for Devon-
shire and Coniviall. His Imperial Highness begged
his literary friend to preserve strict privacy with
regard to him until after leaving the neighbourhood.
We understand the Prince is about 44 years of age,
and bears a more striking aweinblauce to his cele-
brated Uncle than dots the Victor of Sulferiuo.

Prince Lucien is of very studious habits, and resides
inainly at Bayswater, retiring at times to tbe brac-
ing breezes of Brighton. lie is the son of Napo-
leou's only rebel brother Lucien, who fur many
years dwelt in great state at Rome, declining
thu Kingship of Portugal, and who died at Viterbo
in June, 1040. The Prince's father also puhlishod
in this country two pumas, the epic of eh At:-
wipe" and " Sava"

Ciassw tt. I los oc t:s. —We have the great eeasure

to —ail;ouitco...th-at tio.t on
_the h oltmc"cts.sful

competitors, at the Class Examinations
at Oxford. aul
_itaintstho smile of our

takated young townsman, Mr. Hooper TuWort, son
of Mrs. lioasey, uf 1./..reheskr. There were about
9M/candid4es for the new title of" A.A.," and the

printed list, which reached Derchetter yesterday
morning, of the,e v.ho have pa.,sed tha rit;iil ordeal
Li, we are happy to say, of considerable ILagth. Mr.
Tolbort, who is only 17 years of age, is cla-sictl First
in Engliali, autl Second. in Languages. ills tutor in
languages was that c«.reful awl popular Mentor, M.
Garston ; and his schoolmaster, the Rev. W. Barnes,
of South.street. The list likewise contains another
Dorchester name, that of Mr. T.. 1. l'itlield, who is
also only 17. His name appears among those
who have passed in English; and he is a pupil of the
Dorchester Grammar School, of which the Rev. T.
R. Maakow is head master. We congratulate both
of these young gentlemen on their well won honours,
and trust their career will be as prosperous as it is
' promising serving„ too, as a stimulus to the youth of
this neigl;bourhuoil to "go awl do likewise." Mr.
Tolbert underwent his examination ut Oxford, and
Mr. Pittiell at London. The certificates of the
" A.A." degree will be forwarded to the successful ,
students in about a ketnight.
GREAT NV A I 1.. W AV. —The half-yearly
meeting was held en Friday at Paddington, the
Chairman, the Right Hon. Lord Shelburne, presid-
ing. There was considerable discussion, but the
report was adopted by an overwhelming majority,
and a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent, per aumum
deekirod.
Tile PRINCE or WALE.-i. Mr. Herbert Fisher,
the eldest son of the Rev. Canon Fisher, the rector
of the parish of Poulshot, Wilts, has been appointed
Private tutor to his Royal Highness the Prince of
%Vales during his sojourn at Oxford.
The Marchioness of Westminster and Lady T
Grosvenor left Grosvenor House on Thursday for
Nlotcombe House, Dorset.