The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-01 00:00:00

Imperial Varliamrnt.

In the Roues of Lords, on Monday, Lord Delawarr
brought in • Bill relating to the liability of employers for
injuries to their servants; and the measure was read •
second time. In reply to a question from Lord Stanley of
Alderley, the Marquis of Lansdowne said it would be
impossible to preserve discipline in the Indian prisons
without the lash. Lord Northbrook, replying to Lord
Houghton, said that the Admiralty had decided to appoint
• committee who would inquire into the Atalanta"
stability, seaworthiness, and eaciency.
In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain dated, in
reply to Colonel Walrond, that he would bring in • bill
d with tithes which he trusted would remove all
complaints relating thereto. In answer to Mr. Baxter,
Mr. Gladstone said the Government would be prepared to
grapple with the difficulties surrounding the land question
after they had considered theni, and they would not allow
the recess to pass without Sir W. lIIIMOOII gave notice
that he would move for an address praying for the recall
of Sir Bartle Froze. Lord Hartington explained that
while it was the anxious desire of the Government to
bring hostilities is • close and withdraw troops to India,
due regard must be had to the health of the troops and
also to any engagements entered into in the name of the

Quesn.
The adjourned debate on Mr. Bradlaugh's rice was
resumed by Lord R. Churchill, who argued that Mr.
Bradlaugh ought not to be allowed to take the oath after
having declared that ite language had no meaning to him.
Mr. Thorold Rogers had no sympathy with Mr. Bmdlzugh's
opinions, because he had always found atheistic opinions
coupled with Toryism. (Laughter) On • division. Sir
IL Wolff's motion, that Mr. Bradlaugh ought not to be
allowed to take the oath, was rejected by 289 votes to 214
—majority, 75
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In the ouma of Lords on Tuesday afternoon, Lord
Oranmore presented a number of petitions from various
parts of England and Ireland against the appointment of
• Roman Catholic Viceroy of India,
In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone informed Mr.
Balfour that Mr. Goschen's instructions were not
completed.
Replying to Mr. Cowen, Mr. Childers said that as to the
abolition of flogging in the army, on investigation was
now going on, but would not be finished in time to carry
through Parliament a new Army Discipline Act this
session.
Mr. R. Power moved the adjournment of the House
over the Derbpday. Sir William Lawson (who had
signified his intention to oppose the motion)" was always
meddling with Hung, of which he had no experience ;'
and he created considerable merriment by reminding the
House that of the 05 members who voted last year against
adjourning over the Derby-day, 33 lost their seats at the
general election.—Sir W. Lawson, in opposing the motion,
said it was not for the honour, credit, or dignity of this
great national assembly to adjourn for the sake of a horse
rum. It was said this new House of Commons wante t a
holiday, but it should be remembered they bad only as
yet sat IS dam and they had done nothing except in
swearing themselves and trying to prevent other people
from swearing. (Laughter). It was said it was • noble
and manly thing to go to the Derby, but what was there
manly in going and sitting on • stand —(a laugh) —in a cloud
of dust for hours, surrounded by a crowd of bawling
blacklegs, looking at 90 jockeys galloping past as fast as
they could! The hon. gentleman had said he (Sir W.
Lawson) had never been to the Derby, but be could tell
him he had been to the Derby before the hon. gentleman
was born —(great laughter) —en.l he knew the sort of
company that went there and who would be there to-
morrow. —The numbers were :—For the motion, Z"5 ;
against. 11.5—majority for, 100.
Sir R. Fowler deprecated the disarmament of the
Basuto* in South Africa. Mr. Gladstone defended the
action of the Government in recognising the annexation
of the Transvaal; and reminded the hon. member that
the Basuto disarmament was not a forcible one. The
right hon gentleman also referred to the relations of the
Government to Sir Bartle Frere, to whose past colonial
policy the Government were generally opposed. But the
scheme of confederation which Sir B,srtle was now
engaged in carrying out was an important and peculiar
work, and the Government would not be justified in doing
an which would damage its chances of success.
In the House of Lords, on Thursday, the Lord
Chancellor introduced the bill promised in the Queen's
Speech to amend the law relating to burials, and said
all her Majesty's subjects had a civil right of burial in
churchyards, but it was fettered with ecclesiastical
conditions which affected large numbers of persona in a
manner inconsistent with the principles of religious
liberty. The bill which he was introducing was based
upon the lines of the amendment carried by Lord
Harrowby to the bill introdaced by the late Government
in 1877. The bill was then read • first time, and the
second reading was fixed for Thursday next, Lord
Stmtheden desired ta kno* whether the revival of the
Turkish Parliament was embraced in Mr. Goechen's
Instructions. Earl Grranville hoped shortly to give the
Information.
In the House of Commons. • new writ was ordered
for the University of London, in the room of Mr. Lowe,
created Lord Sherbrooke. In answer to Mr. Mscartaiey,
Mr. Gladstone said the statement that Lord Ripon was a
member of the order of Jesuits coqld not be true. Mr.
Fawcett stated In answer to Sir B. Leighton that
Inquiries had been made with at view of extending the
Post-office Saving Bank system in the rural districts.
Mr. Gladstone intimated that he was unable to fix a
time for bringing a bill dealing with local government in
counties, but it was • question they would not lose sight
of. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre stated that the subject of flogging
in the navy would be dealt with in the same way as it was
intended to deal with Bogging in the army. Sir William
Harcourt subsequently brought in the promised bill to
modify the laws affecting game. The measure proposes
to give occupiers of land an indefeasible right to destroy
ground game on their holdings. It was read a first
time,
In the HOUle of Lords ea Friday night, Lord Oranmore
made an attack on Mr. Gladstone for appointing the
Marquis of Ripon to the post of Viceroy of India. The
appointment was defended by Lord Gnuiville and Lord
Northbrook, and approved by Lord Napier of Ettrick, and
the matter dropped
In the House of Commons, Lord Riche gave police that
he should oppose the Government Bill for dealing with
ground game. Mr. Labouchere having asked if any secret
agreement with • foreign Govensment had been made
during the last five years, Sir C. Duke maid it was
impossible to give a full answer to the question. The
oountry was under no engagements for the future except
those known to the House. Ur. Chaplin having asked
Mr. Gladstone whether be had termed the Anglo-Turkish
Convention an insane agreement, the Premier replied that
he had undoubtedly done so. He was not able to retract
any epithets he had used in speaking of the Convention.
At ths same time he would not repeat them, because,
whatever he might think of the Convention, he could not
deny that we were not free to get rid of it.
The Brodlaugh controversy was revived upon Mr.
Gladstone nominating the members of the Select
Committee. Mr. Childers stated, amidst much cheer-
ing from the Liberal benches, that the composition of
the committee had bowl agreed to on the prwrieus
night by Sir S. Northoote through the month of Sir
W. Hart Dyke. Sir Stafford having made an explana-
tion, and walked out of the House, the Opposition
motion for an adjournment was defeated by 258 votes
against 100. Mr. Parnell condemned the vote of
1.15,000 for secret service, and two divisions took
place, but Mr. Parnell only got 20 votes.

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the general election, however, put an end to Mr.
Gladstone's lease of power and six successive years
the self-styled "farmers' friends" held a deaf ear to
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this proposal, he was defeated by a majority of 199
against 119.
The ground game bill does not propose that hares
and rabbits should he dropped out of the category of
game, but the right of making private oontraots is so
far interfered with that occupiers are disabled from
divesting themselves of the right of killing ground
game. No contract, lease, or other agreement by
which a tenant undertakes to forbear from destroying
hares and rabbits on the land in his occupation will be
valid. Every occupier will therefore have the right
by himself, and by persons properly employed by him,
to kill the animals preying on his crops, whether the
landord have reserved the right of shooting or not
and any contract to a contrary effect will be void in
Enthusiastic fox-hunters, indeed, profess to be in
despair. It is asserted that foxes cannot exist unless
they are provided with an ample supply of food in the
shape of ground game. If fox-hunting can be main-
tained only by impoverishing the farmers and curtail-
ing our supplies of food it is in a hopeless case. It haii
been stated by experienced men that a rabbit, which is
scarcely worth fifteenpence, costs a fanner five
shillings before it is worth shooting for market. But
Is the fifteenpence is to be swallowed by a fox instead
of going into the farmer's pocket- -?—Bristel Mercury.
The destruction by the late Government of all
papers at the India Office relating to their intentions
In reference to Afghan affairs suggests that there was
nothing which they felt they would be lately to be
woud of, and nothing which they felt they would be
likely to desire to refer to in future years as a confir-
mation of the wisdom of their policy.
Twenty-one Conservatives owe their seats to
raisrities under fifty thirty-five owe their Beate to
°due, under 100; and 3,334 votes prop.rly
distributed would have excluded fifty Conservative
M.P.'s from the House.
Reports from Scotland of extensive damage having
been done to the turnip and other crops by " storms
of dust." Whole fields will have to be sown over
again.
I have observed at a great many fancy dress balls
lately that the most expensive dresses were those worn
by the men, who seem vain enough to seise this (their
only) opportunity of arraying themselves in silks and
satins of. the most gorgeous descrietion. This was
particularly the case at the ball at Richmond given by
the Archery Club a short time ago. I suppose all this
desire to look pretty is the outcome of -pumps and
embroidered 14°01611P—the lowest form of offembmoy.
Boarirm.