The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

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THURSDAY. —Tn. House met Hilt ev,ring for the Lit
tim • sines the reeeas, and their lordahips net ab •ut to
discus. elaborately Kr. Gladstone's Church-rotes Hill.
Altir ugh there was argument %live opposition, II et°
was an ex premien of opinion that the measure should be
referred to a select e immhtee, and it VIM eventually
rends sewn' time. 'I bit Earl of Derby mate his Arse
appearance in lb, Hones since his te.ignation of office,
and took his seat on the unattached beach below the
saogway on lb. ministerial side. He was cordially
greeted by the whole House, and saberneently male.
characteristic speech against the bill. His lordship
regretted that the House of Commons should, in sheer
Weariness of the subject, have amented to the bill.
The largeness of the majority by which it mimed that
House is the only reason for entertaining this
Wilkinsen. to show that be lint particularly caution
measure. It is no compromise. II is an air
solute and entire surrender by the church of the
position which she has hitherto templed. It is sot
denied that there is • legal right to have the fabric of
thechurch auppnrt,d eel of the rates. For this iii,
proposed to subatitate a volantaryeate ; that is to say,
notwithstanding the vote of • majority of the parish-
le oars, a minority is in future to have the right to
refuse to pay. He Gould not understand why that
should be permitted in the ease of church rate., and
and would not be allowed in the eye of ratee for the
support of public libraries or baths and waah-liouses.
The arguments in favour of the bill are based upon
expediency, and upon a false expedieney. It is •
step towards placing the Church of England on a level
with the other Whatever alterations may be
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nude in the bill will not pt rid of the vies Inherent in
II that it is an abandonment of the prineiple that the
Church of Ragland is the established church of the
country. In /Punting to it be mast, for his own part,
do so under protest.
FILIDAT.—BarI Russell said that he bad great doubts
as to the propriety of referring the Compulsory Church
Rates Abolition Bill to a select committee ; but, on the
understanding that the principle of the measure is not
to be attacked, he would consent to thst comae being
taken. The Bankruptcy Act Repeal Bill, after a Blight
dismission, paned through committee pro format aad
the same course wee taken with the Bankruptcy Bill
and the Judgment Debtor.' Bill. The Promissory
Oaths Bill paned through committee. The Oyster and
Reuel Fisheries Bill was reed a second time.

SIOUAN OP CollidONo.
Mourn,. —Tire meshing of the HOMO Oi COOIIOOOB
after the recess wits not gnalba4 in say Way; as the
..,,oariry, than ems a manifest deficiency of members
from first to last, and the proceedings generally were of
a routine and cocain oc place eh &raster. At his aosestemed
hour Mr. Disraeli cams in, but Hr. Gladstone *as not
present during the sitting. Sir Masesy Lopes gave
polio, of • motion for raising the question of node*
Ichuges on land. At an early hour and under the
vantageous circumstance, for the Government, of lees
than • quorum of members, the Civil Service Fetiosalles
were taken is committee of supply. Although the band
of financial reformers was small, they were sealins and
persisted, and it took a long time before three votes
were got; one—that for • mission-home at Teheran—
wee only obtained on a division by 70 to 25. Con-
scientious obstnictiveriesa Was continued through
almost every item of successive votes, and that for Si.
James's Palace was meted by a division, but it was
earned by *)to 8. A amend wading was given to the
Boundary Bill, without discusisioe, despite the earnest
protest of Mr. Berjeant Gusts, against its principle and
details.
TWIADAT.—TbiI 1100110 WM even more attenuated
than on Moodey. Mr. Shaw Lehorre's bill was intro-
duced for amaintiag the law relating to the property of
married women, which woke to assimilate the rights of
that class in regard to paraxial to those which exist as
to reel property, and generally to extend the Liking
end holding qualiecations which the lawyers term
/cum cosicrigs. When the Capital Punishments is
Prisons Bill, which stood for committee, was called on
Mr. Gilpin, with much earneetnem and consideraba
elaboration, moved an amterlment, which wag in effeet
an affirmation of the abolition or the puniihment of
death. Apparently, Mr. Gregory intended to be
earnest too, when taking the contrary side, but,
whether it was the effect of his speech or on, It
happened that the Home seemed to have no desire to
extend the debate; for, though impatience at Kr.
Neale was nothing particular, yet even when lfr. Mill
was delivering, in his most special style, an argument
In favour of retalaing capital punishment for the mine
of murder, there were intarropihnui and manifestations
for • division. The, bon. member spoke eulogistically
' of the efforts of the philanthropists in ameliorating
the severities of the criminal code until aggravated
murder was the wily crime visited with death. He
defended the ialiction of capital punishment, how-
ever, upon the very grouid on which it had been
possible adequately to deter from the (Time. in
attacket —namely, that of humanity to the criminal—
as beyond comparison the least cruel mode In which It was
endeavouring to discover • punishment leas terrible, and
therefore less efficacious, they might be far more cruel.
No one, he @apposed, would think of imposing •
punishment for aggravated murder less severe than
Imprisonment, with Nod labour, for life. That was
, the fate to which • murderer would be unsigned by
the mercy which shrink from totting him to death.
But bad it been weitiontly considered what sort of a
mercy that via, and what kind of life it led to the
enlprit! If sash a punishment could be realised in all
Its rigour by the popular imaginatioa, it would be
so shooking that it would be Utmost impossible to
enforce it Liter the memory of the crime had grown
dim. What comparison could there really be in point
of severity bitted,* consigning • mass to the short pee(
of • rend death sag immering him in • Being *web,
there to linger net what might be • loot life is the
hardest and most monotonous toil, without any of Its
elleviatioes or reward& While the punishment of
death inspired more terror, it was not eo cruel in reality
as any penalty that could be adopted as • substitute.
The House dividing, the amendment was negatived by
127 to 23. The bill was then committed, and several
amendments were suggested. but none were adopted.
Amongst them waa one from Mr. Neste, sugyesting
that the Crown should be empowered to order criminals
to be suffocated with carbonic acid gas (I) in lieu of
hanging. An amendment by Mr. Alderman Lawrence
forth. admiasion of newspaper reporters was rejected,
on • division, by 48 votes to 24. The bill
through committee.

WIDZOUDAT.—L DOW writ was moved for Bristol, in
consequence of the resignation of his seat by Sir Morton
Pomo. The Stet business was controversial in Its
character, it bslng a bill, for which Mr. Mansell is
responsible, to do away an alleged grievance in Ireland.
It consirts of the retention by the clergy of the
Betablished Church of the power—whieh they are said
to exercise pretty freely—to refuse permieeion to the
burials of Roman Catholics', Presbyterians, and
Dissenters, in the pariah churchyards. There was at
int • gecUe opposition, led by Mr. Lefror • WI Kr.
Greene becoming very outspoken' In. Protestant sense,,
and being beaked heavily, in a certain manner, by Kr.
Hairdo's* the discussion grew warmer, and by-and.
bye gentleman like Mr. Hubbard were beard saying that
the measure streak seise more direetly at the:oat of the
Irish Church than did Mr. Gladsterie's resolutions. The
advent of Mr. literden produced Its usual effect, every
one found himself laughing presently, although it is
an absolute fad that when be bepn to utter
"scandal against Q01:00 Elisabeth' there were genuine
deprecatory cries of ' Oh." There was a good muster
for the division' which resulted in the carrying of the
second reading of the hill by /4 to 5L It seemed that
Mr. Thomas Bushes anticipated he would be allowed
unopposed to pleas his Sunday Trading Bill in the
same position as it occupied last year, namely, that the
aeciond reeding should be piee4 and that it should
stand for eamtnitlea Ms was nearly done, but Mr.
Graham intervened, and airports:l by Mr. Peter Taylor,
on different grounds, moved the rejsetton of the bill,
which was, notwithstanding, earried on a diviodon by
58 to 81. An attempt, by a hill under the title of the
Comminute Anneity Tao Bill, to abolish a eon of Scotch
church rate option In Edinburgh, was made by If r.
M'Laren. There was a striae oppositon made by the
Lord-Advocate, and in the event the bill was thrown
out by 85 to 59._ . . _

Onto— •—e:----The traditional glories of Budget nights
seemed to have &pined from the Hesse of Commons.
There was no epeeial competition for seats in the
House. The Strangers Gallery proper was not eagerly
filled 51 soon is the doors clamed ; there was only coo
row of the Speaker'. Gallery par,tile:lar occupied ; and a
th single peer showed in e di o rats. Nor was
there any overfiew from the les under the gallery.
As to the body of the House, that was but scantily
"carded f' IAII from all appearanees, the matter in
hand might have been the Indian, instead of the Imperial
Bodget No doubt afterwards there was an increase of
the oodles.,', but at the time when Mr. Ward Hunt
commenced his statement there were not more than 100
members present. It may have been a dories, but the
014401110 t of the Exchequer kept every one anxiously
waiting until the preliminary business was quite disposed
of, and there had gone about a huts that there was to
be no Budget after all. At • quarter to lire, however,
the dasitasi of the evening walked slowly in, trying to
look unconcerned ; and so be got a cheer which perhaps
would not have greeted him If be bad come in at an
earlier moment, and not alter a positive pause in the
proceedings. At once Kr. Hunt began his financial ex-
position,in &sufficiently easy and assured manner, which
be preserved all through his speech. His exordium
consisted of a brief allusion to the preparedness of
the House for bearing of • cheek In the elasticity of
the or, and then he become arithmetical, romper.
log last year's estimates of revenue with seems! reseipta
Thai he showed that the estimate of £O9 970,000 had
been £370,000 short of the reosipts, which were only
£69,600,000 ; though, with the £640.000 voted in
November, L 68,870,000 had been realised. In the
Customs there had been an expire over estimate of
£150,000 ; in the stamps of £901,000 taxes of
£9,000; and in Crows Lands of £B,OOO ; while the Excise
bad fallen short by £636,000, the ineoms tax by
£663,000, the Poet Offies by £20,000, and the mis-
cellaneous by £1,400, snaking I difference in the whole
between estimate and receipt of 1:370,000. Proceeding
next with a eomparisou of the revenue of 1867-8 with
that of 1866-7, be pointed out that in the former
It was £69.434,000 and in the latter £09,700,000,
or £185,000 to the good; but this advantage
In 1866.7 was ensured by payment el Ohio& iodernntly
and New Zealand Bonds, together quite three-quarters
al a million ; and, deducting this In last year, there bad
been really an Increase of £915,000; and, couridering
the loss by reduction in duty on 144,74111 insurance,
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showed that in last year there bad been a positive
ineresse in the Customs of 017,000, a decrease i the
Excise of M 50,086, increase stamps of £125 000 ;
of E 160,000, in Crown lands of £15,000, aag decrees,
in miscellaneous of E 14.000. The bursae* in Cast* wag on the articles of corn, tea, foreign spirits,
liciwcod railways. malk •*.ta, and in hackney enddais carriages, while wines, is dem. -
legacy and suooeasioa ditties, and there was a La=
In marine laminae*, bills of a:sluing% end punbate
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interesh Mere tie right honourable geetheala
became very minute in seeonnting foe the Were= and
decrease of different iteisas the most notable potet
'Whig that the deliciously of £663,000 in the remota ~,,
' the irksome tax -as attributed to =colleen= enure
sad he wound tip his argument by a demonstration
tint, but for this eircauntanew, the difference bete.,
estimate end receipt of £370 000 would net 1„,0
occurred. It wee possibly something of a rel Let frm
the comparative dreariness of this pert of the ant,
runt when the estimate of expenditure ehich had been
made for 1867 8, and which ft= . •t 171,287,000, it
become &mown that only 171,236,242 had been anent,
leaving a baleen of 151.455. A oclunarinin of t,,,
expenditure of 1867.6 wills that of 1866-7 followed,
which showed as L 71.236,000, including two m Bine.
for Abyssinia • while that of 1064.7 woe 1:66.708,010,
making a difference of £4,155.000; an amount which
predated an involuntary groan from various torts of the
House. Next he proceeded to expound bow it was that.
owing to a difficulty in realising the money "(rod
in November, it had bee, necessary to mhos ti,
Wanes. in ale Exchequer:from 1V,231,, 000 to £4,7140.0f0;
but than that. had been no mount, for borrowing fOOO
the Bank. Some further detail about the dealing will,
the militia dein, the cancelling of stock, and the payies
' off and renewing of &chequer bill* aid bonds interveLcd
between the statement of the intimate of revenue for
the year 1863-9, which stands the& : Interert on debt,
£26.700,000 ; Coasolidated Fend. £1,515,000 ; am,.
£15,456,000 ; navy, £11,177,000 : civil servic.,
C 9,173.000 ; revenue deportment. £4,968,000; packet
I servies, 81,8190,000 ; total, £70428000; white Vas
' estimate of
£22,800,000; ezeine, £20,330,000 ; stamp, 114,639,000
taus, 13.540,000 ; ineosse-tax. Including erten.,
06 900.000 • Post.oMee, 14,650,000 ; Crowe I•nd.,
£360,000,; iieceilaneou £3.134,000: total, a 1,350;
leaving a samples of 1222,000, which was at dn. to
the &rears of ineome-niz, and which it we. intended
to raisin se ample& Ruining, ani sa it were,
girding himself up for the subject, Mr. Hoot
breeched the extraordinary espeeditare required for
the Abyssinian expedition. The House honed ropily
to listen while be stated that the two millicite voted ia
November was sufilaient up to the sod of lest year; bat
the estimate then made of • further =ergs op to the
end of April of three and a half or four millions bad
I been exceeded. There would be reptired for this year
I £600,010 a month. Here there was a marmar—it may
' have been of incredulity, or it may have been of relief;
but Mr. Heel proceeded to state figures, showing the
sums required for madams item. of Marge per month;
which made an exact total of £380,009; and onoulathig
that the upedielect wristlets@ all *raw by the end of Rap
—for, sa be rid, timid mach Laughter, by that time Sir
Bobs, Me*, would lave turned his back on Slag
Theodore—the wink ebize weld be severed by a
1.,...„___,..51iw of Iv. nava.. was appetutly considered
•""'"''''..7 mAisfintafl 1 t allesfiles eras &Moat
1 whew be Mt about to indicate he. this hum wile
to be atipplied. At ones he disclaimed, amidst fie little
eesentlng applause, any intention of disturbing trade tj
i temporarily charging dense os artistes of eossemption
I and, after Doan. calculations; =auto= that on income
, tax of 6d. in the r for the year would answer his pirpoar,
I Having explained the mode in which he Meant to get
In the money as fast u he wanted it, by means. d
siscerare, of Etehequer bonds, he annunarieed this
part of his financial scheme, the remit being that Le
would have a surplus of £792,000. Thee, with a "'mi.
poetical *sprain= of his regret that In was obliged to
stifle inspirations slum within him to do something
ireative se • Chancellor of the Eseherpter, he concluded
b,.apr,adap • bolls that hlsenainbitious Budget wouldbe
leo.spmable, Mt snore of its bikini inknigible. and founded
I es mead principle@ ; and certainly this description of his
I statement wart accepted, ireeeehis from the cheers which
be received as he sat down, having lipokee something
I kes than a hour and a half. All possible eirodit. is
even prelim, was accorded to Mr. Bent by Mr. Glad:
. stone, who aosepted the proposals and the mode 4
meeting the exigency in hand in most kindly and
, &sided terms ; but be proceeded to raise the question
of the inereaged expenditure of the country with much
earneetnem. This example was followed by 19ma
1 members who generally distinguish themselves as
financial reformers, notably Mr. James White and Mr.
Fawcett' while a good deal of Imprealive obeereatioa
I was made by other gentlemen on the importuce of a
~ tax on shepherds' dogs. The discoed= on the Budzet
I was got through 11300 after belf•peat eight, the only
formal business done being the re-imposition of the tea
I duty at its present rate.
FIUDAT.—Mr. Goldoey moved that, In the opinion
of this Hones, the expenses of the Copyhold Inclosnre
, and Drainage Acta, Charity Commission, and Lind
1 Registry OM= ou bt not to be borne by the pubic.
, Coulderable discussion ensued, in the onus* of which
IMr. Gladstone moppet= the resolution. Upon a
division that the Speaker Imre the =sir the number
were—Ayea, 104; Noes, 105; Majority, 1. As the
numbers were against the Government they were
received with great cheering from the Oppositioo, and
soother division at ones took place upon the original
resolution, when the numbers were :—For the resole.
tion, 106; against, 106; majority, I. Tim unoonoe-
cunt of the numbers was received with great cheering
from the Opposition.