The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-18 00:00:00

HOUSE 07 COMMON.

TerlitguaT.—The regular attendenes,
and undistinguished, were is praeseseel
Lord Stanley, and tbe Goseranient gesiraU, were deb,
mustered • while, on the other side, Mr. Gladstone, Mr.
Bright, Yr. Lowe, and so on, were in their plena.
There came up a large crop of notices of measures and
motions. There was Hr. T. Hughes, with a renewal
of hie sande,' Trading Bill; Colonel Bartelott ermined
to revive his 00011041414 OR the malt tea; Lord Eeet.
Cecil and Mr. Tr...elven are to move in the matters
respectively of military educiatioa and pursbew, I. the
army ; and various others. dr. Disrieli rode, with a
certain impressiveness in his manner, to reintroduce the
Government bill for sossidering the laws relating to
election petitions, and the prevention of corrupt
practices at eleetions. He stated that the Govern.
went had intended to give full afoot to the recom-
mendations of the Select Commit:les of last Seseion in
favour of • treader of the jurisdiction of the Hones
from • Select Committee to the Court of Queen's Bench.
The judos were, however, opposed to the policy of the
rower* on eovintutiosal and personal grounds, gad
the G i
overnmeet did not think t right to throat these
&Woo upon the. *lanai their will. The Bill
thaiwkwo gragoaad to orsole a now Court, awl**

of thus Minahen,who are to be Paid £2,000 &year gr
to investigate all cases arising out of untroverted
elections and appeals from the decisions of the revising
seseral hon. gentlemen doubted the
policy of the Bill, and objected to Parlisment giving
op any part of its jurisdiction in caw affeetinx its °en
Kr, Blight (suffering dreadfully from
hoarseness), took the same line, and eagerly
denied that the eau of the House, in re-
gard to its power of dealing with election
matters, was so desperate that it should lose one of
it, highest privileges ; besides which, he suggested that
the real remedy for corruption was to be found in large
constituencies end secret voting. On the other band,
Mr. Gladstone was gentle with the Government, urging
that it mu easier to And fault with their proposition as
to an election tribunal than to suggest a better one;
while, as regarded the transfer of jurisdiction, he ears-
fully weighed the argument+ on both sides, and, though
without giving at russet • decided judgment, explained
himself favourable to the principle of transfer. Leave
was given to introduce the bill, and it was read a find
time. The Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market Bill I
was reedits second tame, and sent to a Select Corrmitti e.
FILIDAT.—With his usual esophagi* of voice and
manner, Mr. gandford required to know whether any
measure for the relief of the compound householder was
contemplated. In his answer, Mr. Disraeli, as he
generally does when replying to this hon, member,
assumed, as it were, a portentous style, suggesting a
covert sarcasm of that lower kind which is Dmiliarly
designated as " chaffing," towards his somewhat
pompous interpellator. As he spoke of the " unacitnity"
with whieh the House hail disposed of the compound
householder, and of the short experience of the advent.
age or disadvantage of his disappearauee which bad been
enjoyed, and therefore of the nomienslisues of already
impugning the opinion of the House in regard to him,
his audience apparently can .bt the humour by which he
was influenced, and laughed pleasantly with him. Mr.
in reply to Mr. Forster, that it
was the intention of the Government to introduee
during the rresent session a bill for the elemeetary
education of the working classes. A bill for the further
Lu,pension of the Halmos Corpse Am in Ireland was
id a first time.