The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ItAITIXO 111. ATIIIOI,.

MONDAY.— The Hot.. SIC has log 1•141 upon the table
the new row. icimiug to I be delirery of public addremee In
the trek rater the Parka Regulation Act,
Mr. Rt Lamm. who had filmed on the MAIM raper • motion
of ornsore on the Chief CommiMoner of Wort... mid the way
In which the floternment hail rubetttuted them new rules for
the others amounted to • ante of rename upon the Chief
Commissineer. arid If that right hon. In nticosan. under these
remarkable and humiliating circumstances. Ism content to
hold the ernes. which enth respect to this grittiest-lion he had
by no means adorned, he (11r. itt lands) did not think he could
Make Ler imrressi-n on the mind of the Chid Commtaloner
by pressirg hi' motion—floughter).
HT. HARCOURT hoped that thgt would le the last occasion
tot •hich the House woo It hear of what had been a most
Ignominious tranitaction--(hcar, hotir. I do not think that
TI.. scree • hi, h has taken I Iwo to night, the rhouts of
laughter *Ph which the In edition of the rola has loon
receitell by the Rouse of Comelier., nee tikely to Inspire deep
Tweet for the enforcement f the law In this country. Now,
a saber thing— I am afraid .e 'hail not do the •iter thing In
thin Ileum—hut tile wiser bloc to do would he to repeal this
foolish act—(hear. bran Fr two hundred yeere the English
people have tem left slone : the Fnirlbh people bare demi
Mir well :and 1t... not ontl ou tinneceimully and foolishly
enefewv.nred to meddle with thing, which you would hare
Antes left alone that 0011 prnlined 'nisch:. if In public order.
Mid the greatest .1 all mischiefs which ran ever mem. In thie
countrt disrespect to the law and cootempt of tie action of
perliinunt. Now. Hr. who, them word. •• public addresses"
and thee (moral Ideal limitatione. which we hare heard of
to-eight. These word• •• ruble addreeses • mate a man
laugh to hear Mtn. We hare not vet begun to legislate for
private •eldretwes In the lark- (a laugh) : perhaps we shall
ewe t• that when constructive legislation ha• reached its full
development. Thi• hill and Its consequences are • monument
of modern legislative warily and of intrnintairstive capacity
—(laughterl. I do not know whether the Prime Minister eishes
to retest the provirion sealant • ring map In bething—flatighs
tee) Sir. the Room of Common. hat come to this, that It
belongs to Pa dignity nod najoaty to prohlidt people OW
bathe In the rark• from using msp—Oaughter,. There Is
leirtalsti,n, also, which we am 'eked to enact prohibitioß
&hit g In the Serpentine. That I. a eery Innocent

autusement—fiaughteil ; it door not very often aucceed—
frenewni langhterr It is generally attended with the plea-
sores r 4 bone. and seldom trrith the pleasured of memory—
(laughter). I have Peen boys derive great pleasure front It:
and here her Majesty'. government cow•forrewd and prohibit
boys from fishing In the Serpentine •• • thing IltAt belong. to
Cl. enhghteurd lernlstilon of modern Om,. Now look et
these ruler ; •hy they would make city author jet lone They
here gone ihrrwah frar edltions In KIK months--laughterl
They •re all contradictory The find aet of rule, elm. forTh
Hie Minerva, full armed, from the head of the Jtioner ,f the
Hoard .4 Works--(loud laughter). The Board of Works has
leen an unlucky failure fryn the WO nine. The first form
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nf rules we. •t inborn. We lute had papers presented to tot,
but they begin like tbat story chink comer red in the middle,
became the first peper begin. eith the otatemeat that the
rule. of 11th July are thereby cancelled. Where tire them
rule.? Pay liamett has never men them. I ant one of the he.
moms she pone • presentation cony of the rule. siPh the
compliment. of the author—( oud laughter) I shall preeerve
them.. log am 1 live as the %rimmed rule, of the Park A. t
—flaughter) They belong to a srell-known chapter in the
history of the Curiorities of Literature, and I am sure (h ,t ,
In r. fee veer. hence they *III be worth tso—(laughter). I
.hall bind them up and keep them in my library a• • mecimen '
nf the groat men of former time., and to time. what the
statertnen of the latter end f the nineteenth century email do.
Well. I heard that the ethinet ceourrd the Commisaioner of
Work, and overruled the rub.. The next dam, of the
in Is that that parliament o'er, and the Coning...ion., of
rere.X after being overruled by the cabinet. proceed, to men-
rule the cabinet. It. a comedy of errors from beginning to
end. What arc we to do under hem rlrcumetanoa ? The hen.
member for Werrington hat • very definite tobjlet—ts tato
out of the control of a person *bout we consider unfit the
government of • very de testa and important matter. That
might be secomplkhed either by taking the conimimioner
from the Mc., of Works, or the Office of Works from the
commimioner-Osughteri Government ham adopted the hitter
mune I do Dot object to it,except that it creates • new °Moe or
sinecure ; but if the commistioner is anthlied I do not see
by we should not be whiled. Every man le • Judge of his
torn honour. At the beginulr g of this parliament we set to
work to make cab regulation., which were full of philanthropy
and wiadom : hut they did not suit the cab-going public at •11,
the police woold not enforce them, ant the magistraten took
no notice of them, and after-a year then were gracefully with'
drawn. If Government would not take the remottable our.
of repealing the Parke Act, let them do with the park remo-
tions aa they dot with the cab regulations. We pee hundreds
of statute. which wind 1 he intolerable If anybody thought of
executinr thorn. An able friend of once mine published •
celebrated "Book of Non.en.e." but we publish every
year • bolt of nonseme—we publith • atetute book—Gage,
Mel It puisim the judge% and nobody cut underdand it,
If you allow thLs Park Act to become a dead letter no miachief
on come of it. If we were to endeavour to give effect to this
absurd legirlation we should have to emigrate and meek for
liberty in tome dmpotic c ountry —(laughter). The habits of
the English molds prevent legislation of that kfnd from being
go intolerable as It weed to be. I, therefore, recommend the
Nome Secretary to follow the example of the csb regulations,
and be will take • course which, if not dignified, will be, at
lemt, eensible—(ebeers),
ATRTON. 10 reply. t•rittlld Mr./111/COUrt with the mono-
pity of wisdom to which he :nada pretension., and denied
that there lisd been any breech of faith on the part of Govern-
ment toward. the House of Commons. or any tinderstandieg
that the rule. wore to be approved of by Parliament before
they came into operation. Ile also protested against the tone
and manner of the hon. member—miting up hie opinion. In
didadlo fashion, and leaving it to be inferred that all Use mete
of mankind were b.
TriSIDAT.—Mr. 1/MDELLS obtained leave to bkog in • bill
for the amendment of the Factory Act., ty reducing the hour.
of labour of children, young persons, and women employed in
raleing the me of children employed at half-time In
factories from 8 to 10 year., continuing the halfalme meatus
from 13 to 14 years of age, and aboli.hing the exemptiona in
favour of ilk factotim. The bon. member waked it to be
undentnod that be did not contemplate Interfering with male
ednlt labour. .

Mr. Touts& moved the appointment of a micloct committee
to lequile Into Um operation of the Endovred Scheele Act of
Offil.—Asreed to.
THU DIcIA”D sum:
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W Sir T C moved the !second reading
Dl the 81111.,e1,eal•slog marriade %frith a deeaseed eister.
Mr. Fearanato 11,,P% moved that the 131 I Le read a second
Urn. that dat sit months.
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14Ie H. Suiria•llallTso3 SCCOMIO4.I I Ise amendment.
The Howe divided--
For the second readinj . 12n
Against

Yu Bill via then ittireYeenld ti;te.

ThvnoDAT.—r, GLateroxe introduced the Government Bill
on Irish Univenefty lideattlea, to wed the " rethtioue gra,
ence." Be mid there wee no room for nupicion of Unmeant,
tane influenee, and that the object wee to are to Ireland the
foil bendlt of cis II equality on a looting exactly the rm. m
that shell eras granted to the people of every other religious
ps rose. n. the principle. on which the femme we. based
omprieed the abAltioe of teen. the throwing open of endue-
mono, the emminstlon of the University of Dublin from the
calcites, the estabilehment of. new governing b de for the
university. the introduction Into the eaverety of membere
not belonging to sny college, taxing the colleges for the benefit
of the university, end the excloelon of certain controverted
sondem from its Leeching. It in intended to Mud op Gale-ay
Colieee, sod to import the tioesn's University and the other
mince., as troll no the 'Vann Catholic Unlyealty end the
Magee College. Into the enlarge I sad remodelled Univereity
of Dublin, In which Important change+ will be made In rerard
to the govemtvg body, the majority of whom will be &metaled
for ten years by the Crown, the selection to be made not as
the repreantatlvse of religions bodice se such, but upon much
wider grounds and Imes acmes them persons it Ireland who,
front their medal knowl.plas and camas:me, their ability,
tharmter, opacity, and initiation might to lent quaked at
once to intard not to promote the work of academical education.
ho University we. not to be a merely examining ilaver.ity,
hut. teething as wet SA an examining body. It would have,
however, no chain in theology. In philmopity. Or In modern
history. Tbeee sere amonz the menthes provided be the
bill for commence ; soother mcurity no that no one should
br examined for hie degree In modern hi tory or philosophy
unless with Ws own tree will, and no attendance no the
Unbenity profemore would he compulsorily refrain:al of the
student.. me three eubJecte ntentloned winld am be
exclude I from exualostlou for the emoluments of the
Univers' ty. Fund. I, profemorth ipa , fell,,e.hlland rehear-
Alpe, will be obtained Dm the ecclesiastical propriety of
!reined. In coneleding hie Ihreo huura' operth. tee Premier
sad— OW teen important- I would my, comiderine the many
chase. of Myths it invibven an &moot Mann .object—(hear,
Len). It le Raman frost the MM. which are dependent
upon it. We bens wombed It with the deans of !Nothing
tied rot of exasperating. I hope In the lengthened address I
Me delivered as the boom I hem said nothing to off :nd
—them Item.) 11l had d no no it would le entirety contrary
to my iotelitioo and honest wish. We air, have done our best.
We have toot apared labour nod applicstion in the preparation of
tele, I venture to Ime,conspreinictivetplan—(ebeers from below
the arearav), We have sought to provide a complete remedy
for what we thought, and for abet we hero long held out to
• ettention ae • cambia grievence of conscience. But
we have not thought tint In rtMOVin the grievance we were
disehmiell al he- the whole or the main part of our duty. It
if on- thing to clad minty obstructions from the ground; It le
anetb".tord.. • Ithrie ;lied rh, fabric which we seek to rare
I, a enlethatlal orgephei system, under each al the eons of
Ireland—be their profsapm, be their opinion. what they may
—may freely meet in their own ancient, noble, historic tad-
minim for the advancement of leaning in the land—fame.).
Ws mit ibe house not to ennotrk upon, plan which can be
dmaibed m one of mere innovation. We ath you to aye
how that which has been rho long deeiref, that which has
Assn so alma attempted, that which hat never bee,. attained ;
and we ask you to give it to Ireland, founding yourealves
• the principles upon witch you lime Coady acted le
the universities of England. We commit the plan, dr, to
ehe predate* end ln the pstriotiest of thle house, which
we have so often experienced. and In which the country
m we wed know, entire c nildence. I will not
6y Arm upon the evil, chick will follow from its faller*,
from it. rejection, or the prolonged and embittered exaspera-
tion of matemerey that already hs. for too many yews 's.
toteml to exist. I would rather dwell up= more Marin"
prospects. 1 mil exprem my loofas, end I may say my belief,
that this plea may meet with the approval of the boom and of
she eAsmery. At any rate. lilt be your plestuse to adopt it,
It will enable Irishmen sada to rase their country toe tenths,
.4 prime and of culture which frlll be worthy of the genius ad
tiro people to that the. lal.y 'matt, the. earliest, end
balsam best traditions, of early Irish history of which their
Loomis ,lollrhirolree the UDC 41101) —(10411 awn).
lle.dnamasa . accessed a hope that the mood reading of
lha 101 l would not be taken for at least three weeks, but Mr.
Lissom. x ilamod Monday, Barth 3, f. r the purpose.

I.oloc/iellie 07fTAIMil
rallr. %mien& obtained lease to bring in • WU for facilitating
bai 1.14011 01 easti, said its Vander for cottages tor Lbs
mesa labour dam.
-Molina eras given by Ito C. MIAMI Of • feeOltitiOn
II Is. I r of. wore rod distrlbutloo 4.lpolltice penny.
Ht. AlluCri drew, attention to the position .1 Mr.
Ja. at tea Papal Court. awl toured (...r pagers.
mew explained Itr. Jerrosem was simply a clerk GI
the rote rig Mew if. had oo datleits position at Rams, be
mil sot aacrodluid Lo Paprd Ilse la se mew. but would
wP on t. ale Formica 011os aey teat might