The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-02-09 00:00:00

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rlCllPAY.—Parliwuctit wad OVUM."' to-day, and though
there is but little attract in the MP y when the
queen is represents:Ll by C 'ssionem there was eu this
occasiou at, lIIIu.UaI attendance of spectaters. There are
gent:11111V a few heti. present, I.llt 110 W the number Wad
sufficient to crowd tb., hack benclitti on the Opposition
aide, leaving wily the I runt !smell fur peers, mid there
were also 0,11113 felt' upon the Ministerial side. The
Strangers gallery WAS, as usual, tilled, and chiefly by the
for on. In West' ster•hall, a.rowd had assembled,
apparently under the imprmeion that the improved health
OS Prinee Leopold would induce her Majesty to return
her intention of opening Parliatuent in person. The Ismda
Cuionnasioneni. the Lord Chancellor, Earl Beauchamp.
the 1111.4Uia of Mart:Surd, the Earl of 31a10iesleiry, ls,id
Skelniersidale -Wok their seats at,. few minutes atter two
o'clock ; and immediately directed the Usher of the Rim*
Rod to SUMUIOI2 the House of 01111,110111. There were at
that time about S peers present% including Lord
Ilediaidale, Lord Wintuarleigh, the Ilishop of 'Amelia!,
Lord Cottesluis, the Earl of Longford, and the Earl of
Shrewsbury.

-.CPlier having appeared at the bur, followed by
the nenteant-at .Irioa and forty or fifty member* of the
°a ad lluusc. LIAC Chancellor announced, in the
customary font; that ha hail her Majeaty's command to
known that, it not being ixitivillpient for the queen
to to present in purloin, *he had thotWt tit to delegate to
the Prince of 11, sles mut ethers, .1.11.113111,,i 4444 th.lUtY
of going all thin& nevaiumay for the opening of 04011C...it/a
et Parliament. The taulge and learned lord then proceeded
to read the

QUEEN'S SPEECH.
MT LORDS AND GENTLEDILN,
w ith Mat NathitAction that I again meet you,
and resort to the advice wet amietauce of my Parlim
moat

I continue to rewire alisurances 44 friendship fn.= all
foreign Powers. peace of Europe has remained,
and I trust will remain =broken. To preserve mid
consolidato it will over be a main object of my ondefa-
yours. .

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The conference held at lirwisela on the laws and usage*
of war has concluded ite sittinga. My Guvernuient have
carefully examined the report of its proceedintui ; but
bearing in mind, UR the one hand, the Importance of the
principles involved, and, on the other, the widely
divergent opinions which were there victimised, and the
improbability of their being reconciled, I have not thought
it right to accede to proposahi which hAVO been made for
further ne,totiations on the subject. The corraspondeniat
which ha* passed will be presented to you.
The Government of Spain, presided over by Marshal
s,,mtno, has ceased to exist, and the Prince of Asturias bait
been called to the throne, under the title of King Alton.°
XII. The question of formally recognbang, in concert
with other Power', the newly.restoreil Monarchy. is at
this moment before my Government, and its decision will
not he long delayed. It is my earnest hope that internal
peace may be speedily restored to a great but unfortunate
country.

Th.tioo of toy naval and consular sorcants ht the
reprtqviion of the East Africtui slave trade have not been
relaxed, and I confidently trust that they will bring about
tim complete extinction of a traine equally repugnant to
humanity and injurious to legitimate commerce.
The <linen:nixes which had arisen between Liana anal
Japan, sail which at one time threatened to lead to oar
between those States, have been happily adjustej I have
oath ploa.oro that the goall/Itier4 of my Minister
at Pekin have been largely instrumental in bringing about
this rtmult. . .

The last year 110.4 leliol one f ktheral prosperity and
progress throughout any C,amial Empire.
On the Gold Coast • &toady advance Lam been nude in
the establishuient of civil government. Pesice has been
maintained, e.n,l I have procurini the &daunt a the
protected tribes to the abolition of slavery. lloncefor-
wgrd, I trust, freedom will exist there as in every part of
my!
In Sakti, Chave found myself under the necessity of
review jug the sentence which had been plumed upon a
N:itive Chief, and of cumadering the condition of the
tribes and their relations to the European attlens and my
Government, I doubt nut that I shall have your concur.
reuce in any tina.unia which it may become toy duty to
adopt for ensuring • 0105 and hinuane system of native
administration in that part of Smith Al rice.
Papists will la Lid be tore you on thina sevend matter•
The King :uml chiefs of Fiji having :mule :I new otter of
their island., unfettered by isnelitions, I have thought it
right to accept the manna of o territory which, imlec
1,,,,,h,nt1y .4 its large natural TesoliTeLNL utfera important
maritime advantages to my thot in the Pacific.
An ample harviat has restored prosperity to the Pr*"
vinces of my Palatern Empire which last year were visited
: with famine. By the blessing of Providence
Government has been able entirely to avert the loks of [ifs
which I had reinion to apprehend from that great ,alamity.
GENTLEMEN 01 TIIE 1101.M1101, roMMONE,-
1 have directed the estimatai of the year to be ',Mare.'
and presented to you without delay.
My lamps WM GENTLIIIIILN,—
The condition of the financial is astisfactory.
The trade of the country during the past year has moue-
what fallen short of that of the year before; but the
general prosperity of the pimple, supported as it has lson
by an excellent hanosit, as well as by the great reduction
lately made in taxation, has led to • steely incrinue In
the consumption of all the nennisaries of life, and of those
articles which contribute to the revenue.
The various statutes of an exceptional or temporary
nature now in force for the prawn ation of rmre In
Ireland will be brought to your notice, with a view to
determthe whether sonic of them may not be dispensed
with.
Several measufts which were unavoidably postponed at
the #llll et last Session will be eosin ilia's...local Among
the must ilup.)rtacit are those for simplifying the transt.er
of land and completing the reconatructiun of the judica•
tore. bilk will Is, also laid before you for facilitating the
isnprovement of the dweliinga of the working ciao.", IC
large towns, for the consulelation and amendment of the
Kriazmitary Laws:. anTf or the prevention of the pollution of

A measure has been prepared for consolidatlnt nd
azuendin4 the laws relating to friendly societies. It
object will be to assist, without unnecessarily interfering
with, the laudable effort. of my people to Mika provoion
for themselves atuinist some of the calamities ol lite.
A Rill for the amendment of the Merchant Shipping
Acta will be laid before you.
Your attention will be moreover directed to 1140doCk°6_
far Use better security of by subjects from Prr...'•

You will also be invited to consider • measure for im-
pc o ing the law as to agricultural tenancies.
I commend V. your careful c.,osideratlon these and
other ItleAMlre4 which tiny le submitted to you, and pray
that your deliberations may, under the Divine bles.sing,
result in the happiness and contentment of my womb:.
Ason a- the reading of the speech had concluded, the
Speaker awl members of the House of Common., with-
drew, and the sitting was suspended.
The Address in answer to the Royal Speech woo moved
by Lond flosoconsoits and ...rondo, by Lord RAYLEIOIL
Lord (iammixt.t said the value of many of the measures
announced would depend on the principle, upon which
they were founded. It Is gratifying to learn that we shall
be invited to consider the law with reference to agricul-
tural tenancies. A Conservative Government that has the
confidence of the landlords, and, to a great degree, the
ousiiidenco the fanner% ought to be able to teal
with the subject in a satisfactory Inanner.—(hear, hear).
But there was no mention in her Majesty's speech of a
great measure which agitated Parliament, and was the
subject of much discussion out of doors—that affecting
heal government mid local taxation. Its would not
trouble their lordships with a list of the division., which
had taken place in the other house upon them, but lie
remembered a very distinguished deputation indeed wait-
ing upon the Prime Minister after he had aceepkol owe,
and when they had stated their ease, the Prime Minister
toll them that he had brought the subject before Parlia-
ment di years ago, that he had since then kept the subject
• ivitly alive, and now that be had a real majority at
his bek, his arts wean be lia.cl upon his words But
this ,n' it s4lbmet had found no place in the Royal Speech.
That meant one of two things—either that they intended
that a sutu of money from the Consolidated Fund should
be handed over in rather • rough manner in aid of local
lanai um, or that no mike at all would be taken in the
matter this session. He thought the house and the
country had a ri.bi to know more clearly and definitively
what were the inteutimis of the Goveniment-Shear).
The Liberal party had so (expectations of throwing out
Mar Majesty's Government —(cheitrs), —and he might wld
that they had in. wish to do so—(hear, hear). "A short
At' (to quote the words of • facetious friend) "of Conser-
vative Government would be useful to the Liberal party'
--trter).
iliDuke of RICIIIIOND said it was their earnest desire
that the Lord Chancellor's Land Bill should WI through
Parliament, and he trusted that the measure respecting
Agricultural Tenancies would prove satisfactory, though
he remarked if it does it will be one of the most singular
measures on roxird—(cheers and laughter).
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110 USE OF COMMONS.

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Mr. 5T470101% moved and Mr. WHITILtW Nee!E:lß4.l:trtiie
Wares,.
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The %Minis of lIMITINOTON, on making his first appear-
lure so Le:Oler of the Oppaition, was very warmly cheered,
and commenced by an appeal to the forbearance and
favourable ronsideration of the House in hut new petition.
lle remarked on the abaence of the usual alusuranne that
the estintedas would be prepared with a due regard to
ectst 11111 l y ; and with regard to the general programme of
the Session, he asked whether the time of the House would
he really devoted to the measures mentioned in it, or
whether they were to be thrown aside, as in the last
aession,for sensational measures which were afterthoughts.
Especially. he avltel w bolter the Endowed Schools Ad
- was tube dealt with again, according to prpmi-e. Of the
measures proposed to be intnalinel he ei proord a general
approval, thongla he thought that sanitary legislation
would have leen faellitated by improving our beat tolmind
btu-sines. In the significant 1111 l issiou from the Speech of
the told," of local taxation and local government he dilated
at sosne length, quoting from Mr. labwatelfs speech in 141
WI to the urgency of the gustation. and warned the Govern-
ment of the discontent which well he caused, even
among their own supporters, by &longer delay in tar-M0.1,g
with it. The general policy indicated in the speech nag
wise and lenteriounk and the Oppontion would co-operate
In carrying it out -though, as he ahowal in a humorous
contra-t, it was thametritally omens' to whet any owe
wooll have concluded whose information was derived
moiety from Conwervati,e speeches and newspapers while
the party war in Ol,position-04nel tern Let such gone be
informed that the fsnetervative party has been returned to
Parliament by a gm-at majority, and then asked what he
thinks would be the poticy announced in her Majesty's
Speech at the opening of the tint parliament In a hieh the
Conservative govenstuent has ha•l full time to prepare
their tneasurns. Ile will find turn to Ireland, and will say
that that enfortunate country most Ise in a dreadful con-
dition. You Issue abolished the Church and religion, and
Distrai, utast have disappeared, and that crime lollat lin
more frequent in that country than before. You have
reblv.l the Loollonls of a great portion of their Property -
(cheers and router cheera)--ansl you have encouraged the
people ..f that r,untry to believe that by a little more
a :nation they will get a little inure, and no doubt the first
measure that a Cowers alive government will have to pro-
ps. will 1,, to dull,' the cis:vita, of Ireland and proclaim
iv:ulna law. It. would then turn Inns, Ireland to the
army. and way that the late ituvernment have so bundled
and plundered the otlicers that they lout I.e iu a elate not
far removesl iron, open mutiny --(hmar, hear) -and m for
the hattaliquw, llity must he almost empty. aail that the
liand prop...il of a consernative government would be to
auk h,r lar„o tool tubliti I istitu.stes t notietly the
grievanee. of the oilieers, mid fill the ranks Ity cousin 41041
-(..11.,0, and c00114.1* cheers). Turning (nous the army to
the navy. lAD assulsi say them cannot possibly he
than tWo or three irunduls that can float, awl thsee of the
antitsuated dentription, and all that possibly could he
• w;i: to nitipo.n a large 10.111 to build other ships.
Lookint. to the colonies, he would my these people have
hums its Mice sive or six year., :dad they most lone alien-
atel Ihe alferti-e• of every one of them, and that they
were on the brink of separation. land there to no island in
the southern lowa misgoverned as would invite the
British ....vernment to undertake its government. Atok
flis would look at home awl say that la the midst
of all this slesolatiou and ruin, bratight about by the It,,
government, there were prospects that whatever happened
-whatever might be mid of the its' -violent that was
going on-there was one consolation, awl that was that
the fanners awl ratepayens of the country would at Lest
get relief Into those friends who for the last tw may-live
year. have loen talking of their grievances -pr..kthly
Use extent of between Mee and six Mill h.y time hiuslee
▪ of a sixpenny iliConie tax --(hear, hear/. I have
drawn a picture -seacculy an exaggerated one - (non the
materials at my command. •upulied in the declarations
that have leen mash, in thosilands blice.lion all.l news-
paper artbies, both during the existeliee of the late
r veruluent Ind la tie time of the last election-telosers).
• Ito the house the careful Colinideratiuti of the
.1111.•rettee lanween the wum and temperate pdiey actually
lifrorntoi by her Majestir • government for the cousislerte
ln o iof this house ant that 'thick I think is the logical
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IliAltb.t to IA! JrAW it front their speeches and a ratings—
(lonal Oaten).
Mr. I fisititii, who was also very warmly cheered, began
by expressing the satisfaction auth which Loral Martine-
t/1111'Snominatiou, h. the lead ad the Oppteition had teen
receivnl aan the alinisteral side. Replying to his criticisms
striarim, Mr. ltiaaraeli pointed out that it WAS impossible
to guanintate the exact performance of the Qiieen's
message. All I can say is, that at prompt it is our nitre.
(ion, with tile aid of the house, to intnsluce and paws
thee: IlleAdtlll.ll. 1111 t you may have revolution (laughter).
You may have great catastrophes. You may have
ecclesiastical inisconneptions (great laughter). You may
have a revival of those burning antwtions which were the
pride of the ministry of the noble lord anal his colleagues.
I cannot atrawer for what may be the consequenoes if such
unhappy circumstances occur, but at present this is our
progra 11111111 l anal I tru.t that the business of the session
wheum it i over will offer upon the whole a fair fulfilment
of the expectation. which we have held out (hear, hear).
AA to the }:n.lorred Schools Al, it would be necescatry
to hate more experience of the norkin Of the present
Conseil.," before troubling the liaise with the subject
again . nor ntukl the Goverinuent make any 'misleads with
regard to the Labour Laws until the Royal Cominission
had reperhal. On the sul%ject of Local Taxation anal
Administration, Mr. Disraeli reminded the Rouse that
last year • very sel.tantial relief bad been glom to the
lona taxpayers, anal pointed out that several of the
measure, to be introduced dealt incidentally with Local
Administration anal would lay the foundation for an im-
proved svtletti. To the latter part of Lord liartington's
speech Mr. Disraeli made a lively reply. I will not attempt
to vie with the noble lord in that masterly picture which
11, drew of the contra:4 afford.' between the ministerial
in..asures brought forward by the ContenratiVe DOVerlllY4lllt
AWL the em.eorh.es maale I know not where, anal in articles
written, which I never read, by what he rails the Coe.
iterative party (laughter). It is a moot inconvenient
thing in a debate, which I have noticed amongst many ot
the hon. gentlemen opposite—and the noble lord has
asaurnol the habit to-night AA If he were burn to it—that
of seeking out the moat violent speeches mote by the
most einufluential persons (laughter) in the moat °lncurs
plaeca and in the twat absurd articles appearing in the
dullest awl mama uninfluental nes spawn, (great laughter),
anal then say these are the opinions of the great Con-
servative party (renewed laughter). I think the opinior s
of that party were very legitimately and very fairly
repreaented the bench opponite when we were enjoying
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that freedom which is the noble appenaAe of those who
U, - sit apposite to lei (great laughter). The utterancte of
the opinion.t of the t ministry are lI.IW lIIMO
from this tench, and we are responsiLle for them and
will uot 4brink (ruin that responsthality (cheers. 'tut I
t protest agaiiist the grotesque reLLIiI26COLICCI of the
made lonl (laughter).
The Address wv, agreed to, andthe House adjourned.