The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-10-16 00:00:00

brut Countti Expren.

DORCHESTER, OOTOBER 18th, 1883.

Lord Salisbuiy is known tube not only • trenebant
speaker but also a trenchant writer. Yet in an age of
literary party lea lire be eutains from authorship.
Tim fact is Hie Lordship once had too mach of it.
All the world knows bow Mr. Robert Cecil made an
Imprudent marriage on £4OO • year, and doubled the
amount by Ws contributions to the prem. But, sa
It bag been elegantly expressed, "It is OW thing to
write for breeches and another thing to write for
gloves," and the man who has been obliged t ) write
Is not always the man to write for mere fun or glory
when the mosesity has pawed away. The Marquis
has been induced t take up his pen again for the
purpose of londin.r his aid to the new Conservative
Review. An article of his is to appear In the neat
number of the National.

There Ii much ho.rt-butning am ngst the Irish
lawyers at the threatened extinction of the Lord
Chenoellorship of Ireland. Io pout of fact the
Chancellorship has of bee years undergone great
roodihcations in Go!). co Intel... The Baldish Lard
Chancellor has lode .d a Court marked with hie name
in the new L.w C .urts ; but it Is hard to say when he
will have °ca.,' m to use it. When a Lori
Chancellor has time to sit m • Judge of the Supreme
Court, he site in the Appeal Court with the other
Judges of Appeal. It must be years sine; an occupant
of the Woolsack sat by himself performing the
ordinary duties of • Judge in )pity. In Ireland the
Lord Chancellor hat been, properly speaking, merely
president oh the Court of Appeal, and slam the Union
be him hat no Parliamentary duties. The Lord
Chancellor of England is now pramicially absorbed
Labia duties as chief of the Home of Lords ; and as
one of hie sesistent Law-Lorde is, and will henceforth
be. au Irish Judge, the posittoo of the latter wil
moth:ldly supersede the Irish Chancellorship, as the
summit of so Irish barrister'. ambition.

It needs no power of prophecy to predict that
tralithig of a technical character is destined to receive
more attention in the future than it hae in the past.
It may be said to be the only safeguard against the
sempistition of the foreigner, and sufficient impeders**
has been gained to prove the value of there MMUS
for sustaining our national trade. On very high
ntbority it wee gild • short tame since that, in spit
of superior advantages possessed by foreign workmen
In the matter of technical Instruction, England still
holds • foremost position amongst the industrial
nations of the world. Bat this would hardly have
been the owe if she had not taken warning some years
ego, and used the means for acquiring exosilsooe which
Ocatinental operatives had long adopted. Technical
sohools here been attended so fee with the happiest
reendle. It would be folly, however, to deny that
mush remains to be done, end Manchester, as befits
bet high position as • manufacturing oentre. has
awakened to the neceseity of making 'waste efforts
Elbe ha. now • Technloal School at which the sons of
operatives will be able to acquire the rudiment@ of
mechanical engineering, weaving and designing,
carpent'y ant fiery, w 4
and printing. The 17;ohi": anklinnacisoritt:
ary education which young men wit'i fire I intention, as
to their future calling can avail themselves of with the
utmost advantage, while to those who are actually
apprentioel the opportunity is one of Incalculable
benefit With ett7ll means open to the rising genera.
lion, it will be strange indeci if the manufacturing
Industries of this country are not maintained in their
tallest exoellenco. It is gratifying to be assured
that our workmen are not less favourably
'Boatel than foreigners in their opportunities
for technical teminine. English operatives were
behind; but they have fetched up. The stimulus
which was given by the science and Art Depart-
ment of South Kensington some few years since is
felt throughout the country. There is scarcely •
town whioh is nit feeling the influence. Science
°trees ars now a general institution, and the smallest
village might, if it liked, avail itself of the privilege
referred to for instroction in agricult ire, electricity,
drawing, or any other subj. t. Of coarse, the
advantages are not so direct in rural districts as in
towns like M uschester and Birmingham, where
Instruction is turned to profitable account at ono..
Doubtless in the pursuit of knowledge an ounce of
example is worth a pound of preoept. The youth.
therefore, of the large centres we have mentioned
may be expert' I to rear, great advent iges from their
opportunities of testing the my with results on
the spot But let it not be imagined that the
use fortunate individuals of smaller places are
Without their chances too. We have mentioned
agriculture SA one of the subject. in which instruction
La to be obtained. What more imitable one could be
eelacted by the inhabitants of coral districts? There
mey come • time—though at present it seems very
distant—when the labourer ao well as the farmer will
find it to his interest to understand the nature of
plants, the capability of mills, and the constituents
of the fools be helps to produce. He works in the
dark now, and Is tolerably contented. How much
more pleasurable would hie occupation become if he
saw things through a technical medium, and bad
rsosived systematic training? It s gratifying to
think that If this high ideal is not within immediate
reach, or oven within measurable distanoe, it is becom.
log more and more capable of reallsotion.