The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-27 00:00:00

WHAT THE "WORLD" BAYB.

Her Majesty is expected at Osborne House &biol. July
lith, and, if the weather is not unmasonable, will not
1e.,. again till Stptember. Tee Ptinoe and Prisons of
Wake and patty will j its the R tyal yarht Osborne od
Cowes after ttl gelerood ; and the Dukes of E tinbargh end
Connaught will reach Spithead with the First Reserve
Squadron the last week in July, when they will be met
by the Ducheeses. Hmly in August the Royal width p-
men will return home in H.B.S. Bacethente; and en
illustrious compact will receive that corvette. it to ing
understood that their Roy.' permit,. and other members
cit the reigning family, will most Panes* Albert Victor
and George of Wale. in the Royal yacht Osborne down
Channel, it being also probable that the Qua's end
Priacees Bestince will cruise off the Isle of Wight in the
large yacht Victoria and Albert to accompany •be
Bacchante to her temporary anchorage, which will be
Cowes Instead of the Spit.
--
I regret to hear that the Duke of Connaught has lam,
much Indisposed, and ban been ordered by his physicians
to take • cruise with be R-tyal brother, the Duke of Elin•
burgh, in 11.11 ironclad Hercules. If it be true that the
symptoms tram which Has Ilayal Highners s.ff rod w, re
decidedly thole of tnciplent typhoid fever. sod 'igniter to
those which recently, an the case of the Duchess • I Cone
naught, gave rime to great anxiety. I shoed fear tilt, V •
defects in the draieage of Bramhot Park have not le ea
actually dealt with, ear thet at was during hi• stay there
for the Ascot rano' that the Dube! Conr aught c tntracted
his Hine.. If this be so, it would be interesting to know
skate to blame for such a disreputable state of things.
A marriage is sold to be In cony mVation between •
nobleman ot the bigheet rank, and coustderably adeanced
Is years—iu tact, so °door:mien—sod • widow lady who
resides in the southern county where Lis beautiful estates
ere 'duetted. and herself no longer young.

A lady who has recently died at A tth has bequeathed to
the Lmdon DioC4oola Home Mission Society • bssam a
1.106.030: and the fact that k 25,000 does not fall in at
once is a very trifling draebatiL

There to a growing practice ammg the clergy who
sdr.icite temperance principle, of iviing wine for the
11.1 y Gimmucion which l mi.l to be non.aleohnlic, a
pre:tic, loriiiilden by the Bishop of Lincoln se illegal:
kit it was probably reserved for a Kr. Button t. meow-
m as be did in Nowerris Chinch on Sunday week.
this nun.alroholic Leverage as Imitable " for family
nen."

The Bishop of 13,dford's serm,n to members of the
Ssivation Army at St. Faith's Stlke Newington. is by no
means the only elampi. of erommul int emit in that body.
Toe aged and cautious Bishop of Llvodsly, in • letter ter •
llsnchesrar clergyman. expressos Mattel( as much .Mork
by the movemlat, which foreva on him the canvict'oa
that tea Ceuta needs simpler *orrices to attract the
maws. Unreel Ii oth hat rec•lved at an
audience the Bishop of Truro and Canon Westcatt. who
called on him to inquire about the views of the aim,.

The Eon. Evelyn Ashiry has prognieed to introluce a
Sunday Closing Bat for the Idle of Wight on the lines of
that for Cornwell. llfr. committing himself to this
task, he wanted "clear and unmistakeeble evidence that it
weir. a the good wish., of all classes in the inland." Such
evidence was soon lorthccming. A meows wee made ;
eighty per cent, of the inhabi,anta were in favour of the
movement, and even Mr. Tennyson, though refusing
•itniasion to an unfortunste canvasser, wrote that it
would be " an egos:lent thing" ,f the puVehousee were
dosed on Sunday.