The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-03 00:00:00

THII •LAIIAXA QUIIIITION.

A very troublaeome question occupying the public
mind for • long time was the Alabama question, which
last year and for several year, excited great Interest;
sad not only the present but overlent Minitrack., have
tried to get the great question settled—they cried arbi-
tration, and you know the result. The matter went
on month after month and year after year, till aboat
this time lest year, when at the mteting of Parliament
the question had got to the culminating point. Amoebae
newnpapert set forth In bold figures that we were called
on to pay them R 100,000,000 sterling; and I need not
tell yen they heaped on no any amount of abuse into
the bargain. The Government WPM very resolate when
dimursing the question of al titration not to admit for •
ming!' moment the question of the indirect 1361m0--
they persisted in keeping aloof from that. The end of
It warn—and I am not going to weary you with the
details, for I dare say you are all very familiar with
them—we agreed to go to arbitration; and I for one
iun very much delighted that two great nations have
been enabled to wattle their differences in &mordants
with justlos, reason, and hurosnity—febeers)—• very
different state of thing. from that which took plaoe
across the water not very long since. lam not ',dog
to tell von I am pleated at having to pay £3,000 OCID to
the Americans. On the contrary I wish that the
arbitrators in their wisdom had thought right to say we
were not to pay anything—Othghter and applausi)—
but the spirit of arbitration, what does It scant? It
meant you leave your disputes to be settled by other.,
and when the award gees against you the better way
Is to pay and look es pleasant as you man—(oheers and
laughter.) You know the Lord (banoellor took • very
great part In this matter, sod In a recent speech be said
"the question of the settlement with America in a
question of money but we have net lost we tittle of our
honour." Now I know there are people who very moots
object—and of course there will be permit who °billet
to everything and look ea all matters In • very different
light to others. People °blest to paying any hide.
repay, stating we don't owe them anything and
we were right all the tires—very well, I my
than we had committed ourselves to arbitration and
there was nothing for us to do but to proceed with it;
but at the some time if you will only analyse and tnink
for a single moment, If we had resisted a settlement
what would have been the conseqneuist By keeping,
what is called the raw open for a oonsiderable time we
should la all probability have drifted into VW, and I
ask hew far would £3,000,000 of mousy go thee or
£30,000,000? A war would have sod £300,000,000 of
money arid tomato of bloodshed. lam thankful the
arbitration saved us such mtteries--(applause)—and
Instead of our haring lost prestige by this arrangement
I maintain the moral innate*, of Greet Britain has
ermaiderahly. I only hope every nation will
ittnloti the example of Ragland and America, and settle
their disputes on the same principle we have sdopied—
(Wks's).

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NOT PIACI AT ANT MCI.
U them are two ohareaterietios whioh boiceg to
Zog&hams more to.. any others they are I Milani
plea and eat -pospesion, and I ara quite ware we shall
sem he melting in hold*/ our owa —(bmar. hear). I
am sot • pease at any price maa—(appirms)--and
believe we mad always expeed Wiliam of money so
that we may maintain for ever levielate the heavy
sed well.beiss el war °pantry —(applanee). That
Alabama beehbem IN a very razed and anxious question
I am had to me oat et the way.

ULU 0E MI UMW.

I now oesse to what le gelled Parlisisestery week. I
sta sot song to wean you with all lb. Bills we paned
tierlap the essios last peer ; I bad quite enough of
thess—aninterl—for 193 pinto bins pared
welienest mg scab% of the gran wa weirtiftt
sag* passalap Bill, Bata ihiesados Bill, the
Maass Regulation Bill, the Regrinisalies of the amp
usa ye Fah& Baal% BM, whisk fent se %goriest
it of saosedrel galls Irrispootin of taw 193 Bin, I
Weal talk te you about, sad prove that last anion
Vs wen sot idle--(laughter sad applause.)

1111 IMLLOT.

The ,it measure I wait to dwell upon Is one apes
Width I am very earnest, sad that is the Ballot
;Irma I have say Bethel before ine—.(amr.
I yea whim I fret tame hers I was
Was sew at electioasering—l bad never canvassed for
wed/ or anybody else du I isese to Weymouth. I
teartllect very early being asked the questioe--and I
Mut thaw I rather hmdtated as to how I should
imply—es to what I thought about the Ballot lo
therwsrlng I mid I quits admitted it would be a very
geed thug to have • PROILIMVO Ballot, so that people
mho wished Gould eote la that way—(kthri) I wee then
guile new at elestioneering, es I have told you: but I
bad Dot been in Weymouth 24 hours before I beams •
*mg oonvert to the Ballot —(load laughter and
element ) I bad never thavainsd before, sod I 'eked a
gendlemen whether he would nipped nth on the
pethethise I professed In my addreee. I won't toll you
wirth took pleas or anything about B. aterPt that I
thimmiellately became an earnest supporter of the
lialiet—(langhter.) What I felt this on the
I believe MIII mor• at the present
lits....\rou know very wall the Conservatives gave as
beanshold suffrage—what they termed a vote to the
Mathias men, width thm galled • treat • but by Jove,
lam have sever trailed them with it—(laughtar' and
base) They wove fa every direction to know la what
way II UM votes. I maintain that if the law elm •
goo a vote thie law ought to protest that man es as to '
BMW him freely to exercise it—(grest cheering). I
ma at a lose to understand—and I hays discussed this
guidon over aid over wide, for I sin very 'vaunt
mem It, mid have pat It to many Meade of mine who
inso at. opposite Md. of the ileum of Commute—l am '
• ti kin to loom why It is the Cooerryatiese ere eo Innen
e Ballot, end I see only think it must be from
&atatthoti vs—that they wish to have power over voter.
Dat Irby do I advocate the Ballot? I darmay 'groat many
la tide room voted for me at the golleitation of others
.-4weise : "£2i will again")—and I hope you will do
II 'gab bat within% anything like elicitation on the
lest if say who may have any possible power of
thereritite voiel lee esi ; my wish is that you should
y te•• ho accept or naiad ath or anybody