The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

EXPIRING LAWIL—A select committee of the House
of Commons has just returned a list of the temporary
laws of • public and gexeral nature which are now in
force ; the lawe of the like nature which have expired
since the last report on the subject, and the laws which
are about to expire at mirticular periods, ir in conse-
quence of any contingent public event. They include
the home-Tax Act, which will come to an uniiiiiely end
the 6th of April, 1860 Ourion,iy enough on (:und Friday.)
Militia Act will expire on 1.5.1 y-day, leed. The Act
for the government of the new colony of British
Columbia will come to on end on the 31ot of December,
1862. The report um, on Monday. The number
of temporary laws How iii force is M. The duration
expires at perits!, vat) in,: from 1859 to the end of 1874.

I THIS eillltaDED °ATM, Arr.—One of the Acts whim
received the Royal assent on Friday MOW to settle the
form of affirmation to be made in certain cases by
Quakers and other persons by law permitted to make
so affirmation instead of taking oath. Instead of tak•
ing the oath prowri& d in the Act of last session )21st
and :and of Victoria, cap. 4t4), the persons alluded to
are to make a solemn affirmation in the following words
--" I, A B, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare,
and affirm that I will bear true allegiance to Queen Vic-
toria, and toiler will be faithful %ping all conspiracies
and attempts whatever which shsll he made against her
lemon, crown, or dignity, and I will do my utmost en-
deavour to diadem. Slid make knowu to Queen Victoria,
her heirs, and aucorseora. all treasons and traitorous con-
spiracies, which I shall know to be formed against her
or theta, and I will be true and faithful to the succes-
sion of the Crown, which aucceseiou, by an Act entitled
'An Act for the further limitation of the Crown and

better securing the rights and liberties of the subjects,'
o so I ,tands limited to the subjects of the Princess
riophis, Electresii of Hanover, and the heirs of her body,
being proteatants, hereby utterly renouncing and rails.
jog any obedience or allegiance unto any other person
claiming or pretending a right to the Crown of this
realm; and I do declare that no foreign prince, person,
prelate. state, or potentate bath, or ought to have, any
jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or oath..
rity, eicelesirudical or spiritual, within this realm."

GOVERYMENT EitingsrioN.—The Government emi-
grant-ship North, 1,238 tone, Captain Andrew Boyd.
which sailed froin Liverpool on the 31at of October in
charge of Surgeon-Superintendent 1). B. North, with 51
married couples, 158 single women, 74 single men, 4:1
girls between the ages of 1 and 12, 29 boys between the
same ague. and 8 female and 5 male infants. malcir g •
total of 417 souls, equal to 36n statute adults. arrived
at Adelaide, South Australia, on the tith of January.

_
VOTING IN NEW SOUTH WAI.ESL-Mr. H. Berkeley
has obtained a return of the Act passed by the legislature
of New Sonth Wales, authorising the use of the ballot at
elections. The system there adopted is as follows :
large box is prepared with a slit in the lid, end this is
left open on stable in the polling booth for the inspection
of the candidates and the ecrutineers whom they may
appoint. 'When the hour for the election arrives, the
box is locked and the key entrusted to the returning
officer. Each elector then comes singly into the room
and is supplied with a voting paper, on which are the
names of all the candidates. This he takes into a corn.
partment partitioned off from the room, and strikes out
the names '4 the candidates for whom lie does not widi
to vote. le then folds up the paper and drops it into
the box. f lie cannot read, the returning officer may,
on his request, strike out the names to which he objects,
and vote for bins. If there should be any suspicion of
bribery, he is required solemnly to afßrrn that he doss not
receive any consideration, "expressed, implied, or
understood," forgiving his vote at the election.