The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-09 00:00:00

linnet Conutq Express.

DORCHESTER, JANUARY 901, ISO.

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer has
retired from the War-office • ith the reputation
et a successful •dministrator. No doubt, he
has effectually carried out the short-service
system, and he deserves still higher praise for
the comparative freedom frum blundering with
which the Egyptian campaign was conducted.
But in some of the minor details of his adminis-
tration he made mistakes, and he has had the
sense to acknowledge and to repair his errors.
The regiments of the line clung more tenaciously
than he had supposed to their numerical desig-
nations. Prinui facie, an esprit de (-Dips might be
supposed likely to be better preserved by
territorial names than by mere numbers. Lon-
damn would not care to replace their street
nomenclature for the ordinal system of New
York. But the regiments felt as though their
identity was lost, and the territorial titles were,
in many oases, ludicrously inappropriate, through
the contingencies of casual recruiting. Again,
our soldiers were more attached to the slight
distinctions in the "facings '' of their uniforms
than • merely philosophic War Secretary had
calculated upon. It is now decided, in accord-
ance with Mr. Childers' final opinion, that the
numerical titles of the foot regiments are to be
restored to them, in conjunction with their now
local ones, and the cheap but highly-prized
braids and pipings are once more to be made of
their primitive colour and inateriaL

According to an announcement made to-day
(Mitnd4), we learn the Queen has been p!eased
to ' her intention to appoint Field-Marshal
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
IC.G., (LOB., to be a personal aide-de-camp to
her Majesty, in re,...plif ion of Mr streicrA rendered
by his Royal Highness in connection with the
Egyptian war. (Save the mark
I
The Jews have, no doubt, produced an extra-
ordinary number of great men in modern
European history, es Disraeli was never tired
of pointing out in his novels. But there is a
disposition to attribute Hebrew blood to dis-
tinguished persons who have no claim to it.
Evan Bismarck has been said to be a Jew, and,
now that Gsmbetta is dead, the Jewish World
what was occasionally whispered in his
Virttme, that he was of Hebrew ancestry. The
Jewish Chronicle flatly contradicta this. And we
hope the Jewish Chronicle is right; nit because
the bet would be any discredit to him, but
because it would have been a great discredit to
him if he had been the first to have ignored it.
With so courageous and chivalric a nature as
his, It seems impossible to doubt that he would
MVO gloried in -belonging to an oppressed and
despised nationality, instead of being ashamed
of it. Ganibetta's nose had, no doubt, some-
what of an Israelitish curve; but the Italian
Vps of features is often somewhat Jewish, and
!Aultbetta was, like Buonaparte, half Italian in

,
Moot
--
Young Mr. Brett, K?, is talked of for an
Under-Secretaryship. He is only • little over
30 years of age; but he has served an
apprentioeship to office in the capacity of private
secretary, and has exhibited a marked capacity
for public affairs, His father, Lord Justice
Brett, is a staunch Conservative, but would feel
cola.. pride on that account in his son's political
advancement, which might, in • manner, console
him for the sad death of his other son, the late
Lieut. Brett, • promising young officer.

The late Archbishop's olive-branch to the
High Church has operated like a red-rag upon
the Evangelicals. The compact by which Mr.
itackonochie made it up with his ecclesiastical
superiors is pleasantly described, in a resolution
of the Church Association, as a reproach to the
Episcopal Bench, a betrayal of the Protestant
religion, and & dishonour to this gospel of the
grace of God." The Church Association eau
come out strong in epithets, whatever may be
their deficiencies in Christian charity.

THE DORSET BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.
J. Player, Esq., M.P., takes the chair at the
enewstal meeting of this emaciation on Wednesday.
The progress made during the year has been satis-
factory In every way, and wo believe the report of
the secretary will be • source of gratification t.) the
members. Shows have been held and lectures given
la various parts of the county with beneficial results,
sad the inoreses in the number of members is steady
and istitactory, being nearly 130, as against 9G last
year. The aescoiation has achieved great emcees in
the my quarter in which its efforte were directed,
iris., the promotion of beekeeping among meteor",
and the committee are especially delighted to welcome
into Use society cottage beskeepers. A very sensible
and excellent segoetioa will, we are given to under-
stand, crop up at the meeting on Wednesday, and
as. which, we hope, will be adopted, and that is that
one of the medals usually awarded at the annual
show shall be ceafegred on a cottager. It may be
remembered at the last annual meeting considerable
matilation wee given to the subject of establishd g
&oats for boner in connection with the association.
We regret to bear the movement proved • failure,
owing, marvellous to relate, to the Impossibility of
salting • supply of bee-keeping goods. The committee
hope to tide over this inexplicable barrier in the
Mare by setting to work earlier in the yesr, and they
have already secured the co-nneration of tradesmen in
Dorchester, Blandford, and Wimborne.