The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-25 00:00:00

HOUSIC Olt COIIIIO7OI

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1101111Af.-71,0 ATlVlllfrt moved the weed reed-
ing of the Jurice 11111. ft is proposed Met, except In cams of
trmoon end murder, the number uf persons required to
mattitute • Jury shall be reduced to seven, mad thst In came
of dimgrectimet the verdict at the maj.dity Mall he taken. It
Is further proposed. In onier to raise the Intellectual standard
of J rim, that a certain proportion names belonging lath.
.rect;ivailyjAtiLschall
l.sd by vrt 007. each o
Cb.mh.rd„in.az.J;yi The
nod lie.
Bill vu
Alderman Levering'. hut It was read • mond Um* on the
understanding that it should not be committed until after
,nter. In onamittee of triply the supplementary mtimstes
f,r the Navy end the Cie! Service were agmed to. The Bill
for leallsing marriaze with a deceased wile'. 210er proud
through commaPe aft*. which Mr Ilihbert. on behalf of the
Attorney•Oeneral. obtained leave to bring in es bill for the
f.fliwolon of one register for both Parliamentary tied Munici-
pal electors.
TURIDAT. —Mr. V ITARCY.IIIT. in proposing • romlutlnn to
the effect I ha. the pusent rate of public expenditure vs. ex-
cessive, and thet It ought to he reduced. with • view to the
diminution of the public burdens, °lettered that, hr no Medal
return just publehed, it appeared that the revenue for the
you emliog December lest amounted to 078.000,001 In round
figures, or • higher eum than was ever raised from the
propl-. even In times of war. It was true that of this amount
410.000000 was due to mown the( could not be proptely
called taxation.such as the Post Office, mimellentous revenue,
and matters of that kind ; hut the yield of taxation wee
£80.000.000, • rem of money of whkh no foreign conntry
offered en exempt...and the an/RA people had no experience.
81. years ago. for the year ending March. 1866, the reveaue
wee tee. 003.000 ; consequently in the yew just cmcluded
eight mlidons of money bet been raieed more than at that
time. If this vam income had s elided • large surplus he should
my little about It, but content himself with entering hie pro-
teet against the mistaken system of lees Ing unnecemare tone.
lion, whilst if the eurplua were distributed In the magiudon if
bunions, he should forgive the erroru of the past for the sake
of the benente to Le conferred in the future Butt. De em-
ber tut, •ben the total revenue was nearly 478.003.000, It
wee ennouneed that the country must mpeet no surplus, and
must therefore anticipate no reduction of expenditure, If.
thought, then, that the time hod rime wheri this state of
things dernandni inveni.ration at the bonds of the Rouse of
Comm,'.. The expenditure now amounted to three million.
and • half more then In 1806, and Moues, this had to be met
by • anymponding burden on ths people. Penner or later
that era• • fact of which right hen. and hon. gentlemen vr ould
have to give an ace runt to those who had sent thane there.
There might, be admitted, mbe roman. lii leming the On
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exuenditure which at not eel,* In 196 i, when these

pledges were mad.; but U the expenditure gull
not he reduced, 'cc them ayow it, let them cutlass
lhtt their declarations of lend were founded on delusis•
Wee. onto the state of the public finances, that they then
thouatat Ih, capendlture could be reduced, but nnw tmod
that It cou'd not, that their criticisms on their politital
opponents were unjust, that they were grilling to mth• the
amonsfe, and admit iiitt they felt bound to punue the sante
policy, because tbcy had disc,rereil that it was wise and
Ust. . . .

Mr. JACOB Baton r secondel the motion, and argued that •
considerable reduction of public expenditure might be tll.lO
without detriment to the sMciency of any department of the
public service, and that the state of the world was especially
favournble to the adoption of such a course.
Mr. Otatimoss adnoillel that Mr. V. Harcourt was right 1p
recalling to the min 4 of the Oivernment. the House, and the
country the public declaration. of Ministers In 18GB ; sod there
was not • doulot that. when they went to ihe country Kan.
these derlarati .ns wool I los recollected, and that by them they
would to • great extent be Judged. But sine* 1863 there were
Important elements of expenditure which weighed heavily
upon the country that did not con. under view during the
discussions of that year. For, example. there were •uch items
loaf, Menus of • million on the eelwation vote, the charge
for the abolition of porch... in thy army ; high prices would
add at lima baba-million to the nava 11.11•1 military estimates
for the present year ; and another half-milli aided to the
pay of the army represented the change is the value of labour.
Objecting to the mode of proosedine by abstract resolution,
Mr. Gladvione sad the Government were willing to aesent to
an Inquiry Into one branch of the publie expenditure. The
Interest on the notional debt was fixed' and cool I not be Int sr-
freed with, and the estimates for the army and n ivy Isere
&treaty prepsred for being sub nitted to the Houle. nut
,there was another branch of expenditure, that for the civil
Bemire, which, for insily reasons, a e.mmittee might inefully
enquire into. The first of these reason. was its immense
increue, as well as lie ardrgrate sasboot. lir it sm. rapidly
coming to 1..1,1 WA. two great branches. :be naval and
military, and reached &fleet a:N.000.000. Every seesioii the
House bad an opportunity of considering the naval.; fl military
expeellture am • whole, but this It was unable to do lath the
civil and inisosilaneous ealmates, and be thought that those
branches of the civil cx: enditure over which the Treasury had
the least control, trete the parts respecting which the
greatest results might to expected from ths appointment of •
committee. The legal and judicial expenditure wee the largest
under this head : it ma oleo the one over which the Treasury
had the on. lest control ; and upon it Use labours of • c on.
mitt. might be well employed, with • view of seeing whether
I reduction could not be effected. Ilia niggles I m was, there-
fore, that • committee striuld be appointed to inquire what
✓eduction, If any: could be made in the civil expenditure of
the country ; .l if Mr. duciort would accept his proposal,
be should be prepared to move as an amendment—, That •
alert committee be appointed to Inquire Into the expenditure
for zh. dell Service, other thou the charms for the Nati nal
Debt, the Civil Ltat, and the charge oath. Oonsolidated Pond,
ddraved out of votes by Parliament, with special raference to
those branches thereof which were not to.der the direct and
effectual control of the Treasury."
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After emo. dticuleion, the original motion Ina negatived,
and the amendment a Mr. Gladstone put mid amered tn.
WRIEISINDAT.—Th• ortond readlni 0 th• Kerrie Wommes
Property ALL Aineadnesnt Bill tram moved by Mr J. Mode
Painter. .

Yr. Gregor! moved that the Bill be read amend time that
day six months, which wes seconded by Mr. Lope..
Upon • divisiou there were EA. ths Bill, 114; against, 103;
isejority.
S UM/ M 3104 the mooed reeding of his last
yeses Agricult.inl Children'. Bill Be Mated that Its
main principle wag the application of the prorlei to 4 the
Factory Act in • mitigated form to children empLiyed Ia
grimitural work at • isise age than eight year., and that a
esteem number of attendanCes al echoed should he lodated on
between that age and 10 yew.. In this way the Bill indlready
compelled neglectful parents to wend their children to school
Be had inserted a suspeneon elan*, providing that in certain
...aeons. when work was Imponstive, or in other meeptiomai
circume.dices, the insgietastes she ,Id lave power to suspeed
Is operation of the Act.
Mr. PaLL exprewed hie opinion that people la On country
Ind done no noon in favour of education, that It would be
tenpin to attempt to form Schools Bowls on the agricultural
&Arleta Voluntary echo,le rendered that untie...arr.
becauseoslthough sunny hard word. had read been used against
the clergyman and squires. thole gentleman wen more useful
In th• cause of education than any Bnarde that could be
formed la the country on the b.a. of Me Birmingham
Lvodob
Ur Drams, beilirring title to be an honest endeavour to
promote education le the •gricultural d stride, would not
rote against it, but be telleved It waa a weak and loeffectusl
meoho of Mallon 'nth • great 1101. It would not touch
Mileiress between the ages of Sr. end eight, and would oat
affect those above eight who wee. DOG sent to work. In he
ottanion, dLect compulsion ma the only mode of dealing with
igeror'erna.. 1 recemn°' bcring that Mk was almost the same
Bill es received the cement of the Boum bet year, sad that
the time had 00,1141 for the exercise of Indirect compuleine In
UM agricultural district,, we ready to expren hie •Ulingniss.
to the adoption of that principle.
Mr. Musagt•La protested amino% this being thought as
adequate or ample insasuce.
Colonel IMMTGLOT denied the extremn of the igoranes
throughout the length an breadth of the land of which so
much snie said. Ile believed the ttill to be tensity unnene
MeV, •
The Blii was read • second time.
Tuunsiar.—Mr. Sumacs Borne called attention to a
pamphlet recently published by Mr. Plimsoll, la which charms
of a very MVO CDSISCISIT DOM OA& 11$11Lat ODDS Olatalbaa• of
the Lome 111 connexion with the of 0„...,r0nh,
ship.. Mr. Plimsoll, who evidently Lit the responsibility be
had incurred, explained that If be had done mything affecting
the character of the Bow, or Its privileges he had offended
unintentionally; and hieweenll to flex to. 111.10. ample
itpol.scy. Mr. Smith ex himself as quite witisfled, and
allowed tlis matter 1, drop. The charges an, heeling,
to toren the aubject of legal proceedings. • question wee
again asked as to the reported velem' of the Mardi°, and Lord
MAIIII.D replied that he had received information mat the
llama! Was dell in custody. A Bill for amending certain
defect. la the liabitmiCriininabtAct was read • emood.
The third reading of toe Bail to legalise marriajte with a
dens..ed ergs% ail sr haring been moved by Bir T. Cue eineas.
Mr. Cooties (for Sir M. beach), peopored that It be read a
third time on that day els mouths. At one, and without
debate, the House went 05 division, which resulted la the
third reading Ming carried by SS 1.&4, The bill was then
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paid.

Fainar.•-if r. linsorr. In moving for • select committee
to loquire Into the rater of the warm dormer and remit)
of coal, stated that h. had on tonere conclusion In the matter
but Ina MIMI. only thak the cold coneuern 'hyoid bare 011
record error of an undoubted character s• to the mow of
tbe primer high pros of “al. in order that they nelA kr, se far
es prefer, guard again.% them I.dr runs. He hoped hat Sir
widow As matron wee marten in Ins calculation Ur; the
coriehis would Le carried in 110 years ; hut he quite C 0..-
corned with him in the statement that the knurled price
amounted to • charge upon the people of at team L 44,000,000
per worn Indeed. he had heard the sociwait imated se
high so the whole taxation of the notantry, A feeling
he. been growing op in the worry that reruns. aliould be
tern to meet the evils irking hone the inward cat of
fuel; and while be did net expect the Government would or
°culd interfere with the ordinary laws of rUpply sod demand,
eliould expect and believed that public opinion couid do
very ,A,,,ch t randy the primer ere of th loge. 4,4.54, the
nar.e of this committee drawn the attrition of ear-
• __ merchants to the quadri, sod had already begun
to operate is • reduction of ciht and increave of supply.
eras alio • strong g growhig up In f *your of tne entire
prohibition of the sip •rt of ccal,and before mei • measure r
that were contempleled it was as well that the country roar
be al mai 04 the fres of the car. He Lad reo ived tern
lining that the tioveromene should arum' the contra of all
the cod...word Imo. In the country. Blr WWIom Arowitiong
told than thr the nue* of the prevent state f t Mugs waa
that (ho desired had overtaken the supply, and err hot •
nry urn icorn 110 44 lobular on the part I the work pcopie
would kualr old rehire to IMO. the &nand. Ouni-Own SW
had lowg been snare rat the reetririon l quantal y we. be
only way to Inman price, and their worknieu b d whored
that result for them. He rued sot aay from any trorortion
of which be wan in piaericee that th,rfl was any, rag like •
oombensUoti el c0....0men, but they had no on) ecUoe
to ran the rola rat g from the inanity of coat
He bed beton his. areineet, ler seeurecy of which be
could youth, of the output of mai at • Was, la wince be was
Inianoled, is the ilseili-rug Naas.
ths pike paid co pu leak was 6. to= Us, rid E

mastiff. wad ID Landau eh from lete to POu per toe. The
mien whiter were poid °oder ground sod shove preload—or,
In other words, the 0.4 of Prednetkin—trere 2 df.j pre ton.
During the Irk hie weeks the slam teal had been told at the
pit bank at from las to 2PO. pm too, which wan 12s. and if.
•lacom the price of Last tete ; end In London—die prim of
Wring. being anpot, S..—they went told at from 43e. to 640.,
and to the poor people pi If.. per ton, and seen more. Whet
had been the miners WV°. They ..tr• P 1134 3, lit Per
ton... /mane' Se. (44. eighteen months ago—Omar, hese).
There was an impreetbn in the hoots that the strike to South
Weer had • great deal to do with the iurreased price of coal.
There never was a greater mielage. Ile was assured, on all
heed., that ths 'tribe had rather Increased the topple of home
and 'teem coals. TM men who wero atc:aged in rei•ing coal
for the production of iron had roe into hoops and mean, coal
ph., and had reheat more onst, and consequently there had
been • larger mount if cal tent Into the market than waa
the co• prior to the strike The Cusl,l•lls. ha I &counted
the middle.men in London for putting into their pocket* to,,
• ton upon the cod they toppled. and if there was such •
monopoly In tie metropolis It oat time that it on. exi.oted,
and that means thould be taken to remedy It.
Mr. LIDINLI treaded the motion. bilievam that the com-
mittee would be the means of reurovint • gm" deal of mitoP-
prehention that prevaitrd in this public mind on the 'object.
He did not believe in the power a • detect Committee to
reduce the price of any article, hot it was in the power of.
Parliament to rel., the price by that Interference with labour
to which it had ehown of late too great a tenteocy. Uoleee
wiser counsels prevalleitimeh ligislation inlaid end In crippling
the produeUre power of the couvitry and banishing mph.' to
detain landa. Coalmensers, like nil other tradesmen, pre-
ferred a timely supply and fair price' te exaggerated nod
inflated prime.
Mr. H. Viten bad no apprehenston of thettimmtim of the
coal supply, a-d quite ogreed that, met disestrous come.
glance" would emus to ths manufacturing industry of the
country if the meant prices continued
Mr It. Evert motioned the motion.
Mr. Wlteeiaiuroe thought the committee thould connate, the
expedie.cy of • duty on the export of cal to those a:molting
With which we had not commercial treaties.
Mr. BAUCI believed the mpitalists had talon means to
Incense the producton of coal in order to meet the increased
demand, but Het there had been no correspondiag ex rd.!, on
the part ,d the workmen. The agited.on in the trete had
itself had to sone diourhance in the minds of the workmefl.
leading them to contes.t themselves In many cur 'nth three
days' work a week ; but he believed that public opinion was
leading to an improved Mate of feeling moons them. At this
memo{ th• production of coal wee probably et great as It had
been in ant preceding year. Hs did not wonder at the coal.
omen' taking advantage of the disturbs". of the narktt,
but he believed they "rooki moon discover ate* the high peke
by mralysiog industry, me • diedvantage rather lUD NI
vantage to them. English tramit.' tome might eke •
lemma train them of the Continent In the loononaled one of
rod ; and if the present high prim led to that malt, it wend
not be without advantage. The act of last year had not
'mewed the price by more the twopence per ton, while the
good moults of this Millman very much oounteetalanced any
pecuniary result Ile waa very glad, au tha part of the
Govert.ment, to accede to lb. proposed Inquiry.
The motion was then agreed to.