The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

Emprrial liarliamcitt.

W EI)N ESDA V.

Mr. Ate iies, in moving that the Church-ratea Coat- ;
imitation Bill be read • second time, explained that it I
was a measure purely voluntary, and that it empowered
pCrSoliti to :barge their estates. or to gins land or I 1111 l icy,
for the repair of parish churchea, under the authority of
the harities I outinissioncrs,• scheme which lie thought
much preferable to that of the tlovernment for creating
corporations composed of incumbents and church-
wardens.
Mr. Cot.i.ten moved to Ilifer the second reading until
Monday, and this amendment was ultimately agreed
to.
Mr. I' it Lien moved the mound reading of the
Elections, /sc., Dill ; hut subsequently withdrew the
motion.
tr.her Itills which stood for A second reading were,
after some conversation likewise deferred.
Th, ii,„,„,. hay log will.' into t ominittee upcm the
compensations to be granted under the Manor Courts
' (Inland) Bill, A resolution charging the compensations
upon the Consolidated Fund was withdrawn, and
another imposing a stamp duty W.kA Agra.ril to.
111.A1,e thou l went into Committee upon the 11i11,
;whi,n this, Nf•VevAl ChilleAA underwent much discussion,
and received certain amemduients, one clause being
; postponed.
; The Ilouse adjourned at 10 minutes to ri o'clock.

THURSDAY.
Atter a great variety of iineirtions bad been &metered
by the fliiverninebt, and after a notice by Sir .1. Pak-
regarding tlie buaibeas fixed for Friday evening

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and Monday,
Mr. WAniirx entered into a very long personal expla-
nation, mill ultimately forbore to move a string of repo.
Ititius,iif which lie had given notice, relative to native
Indian education, to salutes and marks of honour to
native religions, to mite, and to the propogation of the
Gospel ill
Mr. 4 ilKli moved a resolution, that it would be
advaiihrequs to the public interests that Government
I ..111,1 ascertain mid publish periodically the agricultu-
ral statistics of Great Pritain, in no fir MI they relate to
the extent of acres under the several crops of corn,
vegetables, and grass. Its appealed to strong testimony
to the importance of such publications, awl anticipated
and answered objections. These returns, ha observed,
were of peculiar value to this country at the present
time, when appreheitsions were entertained of • Euro-

peen war.
The motion WAS FlTtmdinl by Mr. GARNETT.
Mr. I.IV.MTINCA opposed the motion. The HOWe had,
lie said, refused to psis a Hill uni,n rine subject because
it contained a compulsory clause, and the principle
could not be carried out without such a clause. He
objected to a resolution that would virtually thrown an
WIILI upon the Goveniment to give it effect.
Mr. HENLEY reAirtr,l Abu motion. Compulsory
scheinee. he remarked, met will, general iluahike, and an
abstract resolution world not facilitate the object in
view, but would have the effect of keeping iditre a feel-
ing of repugnance to the proposal.
Mr. WiLsoe supported the resolution, which eon-
taiiie.l, lie said, a simple proposition, free from the
.objections urged against Mr. Caird's Hal of last
year.
Alter aroma further dissuasion, the motion, upon •
division, was negatived by a single vote, the ayes being
182, and the noes 153.
Mr. flitirritit obtained leave to bring in a Hill to
regulate the expenses to be incurred by persons serving
the office .4 High Sheriff in England and Wales.
Ms. !Senior novel for leave to bring in A Bill to
aniond an Act of the 17th and leith year. of Her
Majesty, for allowing verdicts on trials by jury In civil
I, causes in Scotland to be received, although the jury may
nut be tins t i ttt ous.
After • few words from the Lunn AVVOCATN, leave
was given.
Mr. J. Firtardiaidi moved that the !louse do resolve
itself into a Committee to cuileider the Act 10 George 4,
cap. 7, in relation to the oath thereby required to be
taken and subscribed instead of the (laths of Allegiance,
Siipreinsiey, and .thjuration, with A view tII Obtaining
1..V1 to introduce a Hill to I.laec Human t'atilidic
mmmcmii-
! hers in the same pinsition as other members', when
taking the Imtli at the table, by expunging certain pas
',ages in the form id the oath contain...l in the Act of
Emancipation. Having reed and co tttttt tutted upon those
paasagoi, mud having auggested the 'motives which hail
induced Sir Robert Peel, in 114211, to introduce them into
the Belief Act, lie contended that smile of thou were
degrading And insulting, otliera wholly unnecessary inal
futile. Anil, with respect to that part of the oath
which diaclaitued any desiiin to subvert the tormient
I church eatabbaliment, lie adverted to the difficulty of
putting a anistruction upon it, and initiated open the
expisition of the passge given by Sir Hubert Peel, who
declared that there WAS no intention to fetter KOMAR
l'atholics in the cartons of their privileges in that
House. In the !till he desired to introduce the taring of
the oath to be substituted for the present oath would
samariuml with those of the oath proposed in Ittfot. In
urging that the sopmeied securities contained in the ',rip
sent oath—which had been done away in our colonial
dependenciea—wire superfluous, he dwelt upon the tried
loyalty of Roman l'alloolice in all illations, upon the tiim.
flinching gallantry of our Roman Catholic soldiers, and
Ut.nl the testi' ttttt iy borne loy Lord la/lintioun to the
character of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, and
lu claimed, on behalf of the 'Lyman Catholic members
of that House, the right to be placed upon terms of jive-
fect equality with .(her members.
The mot Was seconded by Mr. FAG AN.
Mr. ADAMS regretted that a motion should be brought
forward calculated like this to disturb the liar...my
which now subsisted between the Protestants and
Human Catholics in Ireland. His ground of opissition
to the motion was shortly this : Ile believed that there
lust been.' perfectly well understood compact and agree•
went upon which the settlement of Itrlll WAS hosed
This proposal would interfere with that compact, and
lie believed it to be • breach of faith.
Mr. C. FORTIACCE, as an Irish Putestant, concurred
in the motion. Ile denied that the moot was a breach
of any bargain, or • violation of any faith He main-
tained that the Human Catholics load a right to come
to Parliament to be relieved (nun an oath the terms of
which were offensive. No one could believe that the
imposition of this miserable and insulting oath really
added to the security of the Protestant Government or
the Protestant religion.
Mr. WHITESIDE said, in common with Mr. Adams, he
regretted sincerely the introduction of a motion csleu•
lated to revive discussions which it would be the wisest
course for Homan Catholics to surrender to oblivion.
In reply to those who urged that this oath was no secu-
rity he showed that Mr. Plunkett, the great advocate of
the Roman Catholics, relied upon the oath as the best
argument for their admission into Parliament. The
opinions of Sir It. Peel, he observed, were not to guide
, the House upon this question ; it was not what Sir It.
I Peel thought, but what Parliament had done' yet dir
; Peel had, like Mr. Plunkett, offered the oath as eee of
the securities which the Homan Catholics were pre-
pared to give, and which be believed would be binding
upon conscientious men. The oath had been accepted
by the prelates of the Rowan Catholic Church, who,
after the Relief Act, hail declared that the Parliament
which had enacted the oath was entitled to the rever-
ence and love of Homan Catholics.
Lord J. RUMILL said the view he took of this ques-
tion was not the same as )h. Fitagarald's ; bat, as •