The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-13 00:00:00

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In the House of Lords, on Monday, Earl Forteecue
called attention to the importance of a physical train-
ing for officers in the army, and expressed a hope that
some steps would be taken towards giving effect to a
recommendation in the report of a \Vac Office Com-
mittee to supplement the literary examinations for the
army with physical competitions. The Duke of Cam-
bridge having declared his opinion that the present
system was working satidactorily. the subject shortly
afterwards dropped. Earl S moved the
mov second
reeding of the Elementary Education Bill, the object
of which was to enforce school attendance throughout
the country. The number of children who did not at-
tend school was still very large, especially in the rural
districts. If the School Committees did not pass
by-laws before the end of the year, the Council on
Education should do it for them.—ln the Commons,
Mr. GI idetone, replying to Sir W. Lawson, said the
collapse of the confederati in scheme at the Caps
changed the position of the Government towards Sir
Bartle Frere. Mr..Childers stated, in reply to Colonel
Williams, that 71 per cent, of the sergeants in line
regiments whose six yeare of service had expired in-
tended to remain. lb. Gladstone intimated, in reply
to a question, that when the malt duty ceased, three-
fourths i f the money paid for the malting licenses
taken out from the Ist July would be returned. Mr.
Baxter asked a question relative to the Afghan war
charges; and Lord Hartinn, in reply, said the
excess remaining to be charged to 1880-81 was

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F3:370,000. -
MR. GLADSTONE AND THE IRISH LAND ACT.
Mr. °Odd me laid down with the utmost clearness the
principles on which the Government have framed the
measure. Three great{ questions had to be answered ,he said,
by those who prepared and introduced the bill. First, is
the necessity for such • measure strong Next, is the
remedy carefully adapted and limited to the necessity?
hai there been sufficient precaution taken against
the Government being betrayed unaware,' Into the
establishment of • dangerous precedent? Mr. Gladstone
is able to point to the enormous increase of evictions in
Ireland within the last year or two. He spoke in • tone
of something almost like horror about the "armies of
agents of the state and the regiments of constabulary"
who are at present employed in carrying out these
evictions in Ireland. Dwelling upon the stringent
manner in which this measure is limited to exceptional
cases, and the legal difficulties which surround it on all
sides, and prevent its being made int. • precedent for
action which the Government have not in contemplation,
and which is not called for by urgent emergency, he
admitted frankly that it does modify to some extent what
is called the right of property; but there are times when
the introduction of some m. on of that right is the
only means by which the elrlciPle of Proierty Can
possibly be preserved. The Irishlend Act of 1870, created
a property for the tenant which did not exist before. There
was in the most prosperous parts of Ireland, we might say
in the only
wprosperouso parts of Ireland, such a debt of
property ex' and recognired in fact, althnugh not in
law. Mr. G Act accepted that right of property
on the part of the tenant wherever it found it, and made
it permanent as law.
The one exception made was in the case of eviction for
non-payment of rent. Even in that awe the Land Rill of
1870 was passed by the Commons with • recognition of a
claim on the part of the tenant far wider in its nature
than that embodied in the Compensation for Disturbance
Bill. The Reuse of Lords modlW the Land Rill in this
particular, and the Government did not then see their
way to resist the modification. Therefore the Government
were acting strictly in the spirit of the Land Act of Ino
when they framed the bffi of MK and were merely
developing its principle • little more undo strictly limited
conditions to meet peculiar and exceptional distress.
Lord Randolph Churchill's denunciation of the Govern-
ment was nothing more than a revival of the smouldering
hostility against the Land Act of MO. Mr. Evelyn
Ashleyxzerted the bill ; Sir IL Bence denounced it as
On • division the second reading was
=d by a majority of 78.
I ALTERATIONS OF THE BUDGET.

On Tuesday, on the motion to go into Coin
on the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill,
lug Mr. Gladstone Gtelraadetoitniodezetail:_said.ThEebeximreguistipropTintowifiriauemalbrierestrhederrmuofoleldowbeto-
£lo, and farmers' land will not be included. The
allowance for waste will be 6 pn• cent., and the
collection monthly. The standard will be 57 per cent.
for duty and likewise for drawback on export The
deduction for presumptive charge will be four per
cent., and the drawback to the matter will be paid
in one sum. The private brewer will be allowed to
brew on his own premien. The wine duty clauses
win be dropped. The billiard-room will stand
exactly as he does now, but the relief to will
not apply in those cases where the hotel in a separate
part of
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a resolution to raise the duty on public-houses
according to • scale of £5 per £1.06 rising at over £lOO
and upwards, instead of stopping as now at £lOO,
Tbe bill red through committee jsro
rea.
In the mule of Commons, on Wednesday Mr.
Chaplin moved the second raiding of the tricuitural
H (England) Act Amendment which
proposed to deal with future tenancies only, and
merely with oompensation for unexhausted improve-
ments, leaving other matted to the discretion of the
two contracting pasties. He admitted that the Act
of 1275 had not fulfilled the expectations formed of it.
Th. debate was adjounsisd.
In the House of Lords on Thursday, Lord Dunraven
inquired whether the Government had come to any
determination as to what steps should be taken to gi ye
effect to the decision of the late Conference at
In the event of the Porte declining to accept It. Earl
Granville said the Collective Note conveying the
decision of Conference had not yet been handed to
Turkey and Greece; but the POWS= certainl
expected that their decision, when oomni
would Dot be dien b 7 the Porte.
In the House of rnms, informed Mr. Norwood
(who inquired whether the Government would Instruct
the law officers of the Chown to defend Mr. Bradlaugh
against him) that no application of the kind had been
, made. Mr. P. Taylor elicited from the Government
that they would consider during the recess the question
of the desirability of a general measure to provide for
the extension of borough boundaries. Mr. Chamberlain
wiiraated, in reply to Mr. Finigan, that it was in his
opinion prejudicial to the publio service that civil
servants should join the direction of commercial under-
takings.
In the House of Leeds, on Friday, Earl Spencer
moved the second reading of the Education gndow.merit (Scotland) Bill, which follows the lines of the
Err=Act in aWication to Scotland. The second
was agreed to, and several other Bills advanced
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seat for Evesham. In reply to a question from Sir
Henry Wolff, the Prime said some days
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mittee en the OomEeneation for Disturbance ( relswij
Bill, Lord formal proposal that the preamble should be
. Towards the end of the third hour Mr.
Urns, intimating, amid prolonged HinjeLerehd
i cheer.,
that no measure of waste time would in the sightest
.1. justify the Government in abandoning measures
which they thonOt neostea e
ry for the w liars of the
country. Hr. Naar opined that if the bill pawed
with Mr. Law's amendment, it waa not to be wondered
at that the tenant-farmers should resort to "a certain
amount of physical force." In such a awe as that of
Lord Leitrim, for example—" and," he aMid "there
are many landlords like Lord Leitrim still in • Ireland"
—he did not think the tenant-farmer was acting
unjustifiably in using "a certain amount of
fond." Mr. Forster interposing, and remincuig the
Chairman QM the oerteta amount of phydicel 1'