The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

court anti ifasbionablt inttllfgence

MR. atiwio SUIT, 11. T., has left town for •
Continetta' tour.

LORD and lady Peltinsore have left teen ler Polti-
more Perk, Devonshire.
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IT is Is breed that the Queen's journey to Switzerland
ilI t heplaos immediately after the 4th of August.
I, oil Stanley, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
•laeeoini any her N jets, who is understood to have
ask In two villas new Geneva.
iRD NAPIti of Magailala and the. little son of the
late Klldt Theodora w re received. on Thnrsdays
by her Majesty at Osborne. Lord Napier left the Palace
on Friday morning, anJ Alamayo, after a second visit
to the Qui en, left in the afterns on with Captain Speedy,
to whose care he has been consigned.
A )I.IIIRIAGII is erranged between Miss Frances
flasbury, second daughter of Mts. Haubury Lee, and
the lion. Lionel Aahley, third son of the Earl of
Shaftesbury ; al-o In twee° Mr. A. Arbuthnot, son of
.Ir/snore and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, end Miss
Cuthbert; and between Mr. Oswald, nephew of Mr.
• Oswald, of Auehiocruive, and Miss Snith.Barry. - (ha.

prorubings of Varliamtitt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Onwae.—The Royal assent was given to mead
bill., among them bents the Irish and Scotch Reform
Bills and the Ilsiandsre Bill. The Revenue 01Barr.'
li..noirsl Bill was read • second time. The
Compulsory Itste. Abolition Bill was reed a
third time end passel, after protects from the B shop
of Gloucester and Bristol and Lwd Ltieltoe, who pr.-
!erred untionditional abolition to the ',resent measure.

TUEIDAT.- Th• Home went into committee, on
the Itsekrootee Ant Amembnent 8.11, hat the
oppositioa 11 sasevoisred in consequence of its in-
t:04,11.4e 'totaled Lord C,toth. the promoter of the
bill. to consent to progress being reported. Sev‘rsl bills
were then forwarded a stage.

T 11114410 .- The House was mainly occupied with
Br., roue deralion of a soure•hst miieellaneoris list of
orders. Th•re wa• snare conservation—originated by
Earl Grey—upon the mobjeet of the appointment of Sir
11. Starts to the &Ice of OrintrollerrOrrneril in the War
Department; but no new light was thrown upon the
poiirroo of shirt ff.11..t nilloer or upon the sutbority
white he sad General Balfour are to exorcise.

- Vsrious Bills were forwarded a stage.

1101IsE OF COMMONS.

MDT.—Her Msjoaty's reply te ths ad Item con•
grstulatir.g bcr on the birth of a daughter to the Priem
and Princes, of Wales was brought op by Lori Reyston.
Ihe "boil- of the ships" was again fought, the Govern,
op ut wirssing ; this discussion and navy estimates
emeupiell nearly the whole sitting.

MEAD %T.—The House went into committee on tbe
Corrupt Practices 1311. and made good s-- pew &fore
the siting was ou•pended. %.eral amendments were
proposed to the s•rous clans... by Mr. 11111, Mr. Serjeant
Gaselee, eget others, but all of them were defeated.

WILDNISDAT.—bir. Newd• gate's Charah•rates Com•
mutstion Bill having been with dun solemnity postponed
by the Iron. gentleman to the 22nd, the /louse was
!naked to go into committee on the Inn.stment of Trust
Tondo 84pplemental Bill, whereupon Yr. Serjeout
Gruel... proposed that the committee shoe's' be post•
roned for three month.. On • division the amendment
was carried by • m•jority of thirty•three to sixteen, And
Op. lull eas consequently ilefeate I. The 9.14 of Potions
and Pharmacy Let Amendment Bit passed through eon,
ruiner., and the consideration of the Mines Asses...moot
Hillw 411 postponed. A great wember of bills wee., then
advanced • •tage.

TUDRMAT.—Thore was re reel opposition to the
anioiriroient of a *elms committee to in•mtlgate
aileron,n• advanced some evenings ego by llnjor Anson
t lot me °Moene having the direction of the Royal Gun
Toct ,ry at Woolwich had submitted errmeous estimates
re the Ordnance Select Committee ; but Sir J.
P.k nton declined to serve upon the committee, and
It um nit imat-ly itnanged that the tribunal of inquiry
In toad of miusint ng of five members appointed by the
committee of selection Mould be oompoited of seven
inetuber.. to be chosen by the house. Colonel Jervie
then moved for the production of certain paper.
for the purpose of shneiog that differences
elided between Sir J. Pakineton end Sir Henry
Storks ex to the duties of the War Department.
Lord Elcho thought it could not be dimputed that
there wore too rival autheritie, in the War Deportment;
that various differences hid born the result; and that
there was • great want of hermony between Sir. H.
Storks and the Secretary for Wm. Sir J. Pakingtnn
declared that the cheages were wild, unfounded, and
unjoetifiable. The motion wee negatived without a
divi.ion. The House then wont into oommittee of supply,
and • vote was taken for hell-pay and military &nominees
to reduced and retiring officeri of her Illajealy'. eervies.
At the evening sitting, the Chaneellor of the Exoheqoer
brought up the report of tte 'elect committee on the
Electric Telegraph Sill, and notified that he would bring
the emendin. nts before the attention of the House on
Monday. A dimension then took place on the Metro-
politan Foreign Cattle Market Hill,
FRIDAY.— he a morning sitting the Corrupt Practices
at Election' Bill was diecussed for five hours, end oon-
eiderable rogrcas was made with the memoir,. The
bemoan !in the evening wan of little importance.

Savorn•r. —The HOUSO resumed the COMMitteo OD
the Corrupt Practices at Election. Bill. Seveial amend-
ments were moved, but only one, propoted by Mr.
Fawcett, providing that the espensee of the returning
officers should be paid out of the rates., wa• carried. The
Government strenuously opposed it, and their defect
was hailed with loud cheers from the Opposition
limning. The bill passed through committee, and the
report will he brought up on Wednesday.