The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

MISTROPOLITAN GOSSIP.

LONDON, Saturday evening. —All London is jest arr.
out of town. In truth, all recess who son do so ars
reeking sway with all imaginable speed. The doge.
trains are crowded beyond precedent—some going east,
for the Continent, some north, for the moors OIWI lakes,.
some west, for the Welsh mountains, and some sea*
forth. scroosst. Happy at this time of the year in the
Ml'. who is really indepeedent, who is Dot boned by
the remembrance of past fevoeirs, or still men by •
lively mins of favor' to come, to obey Mr. Brand's or
Colonel Taylor's request to stay behind and help to maim
• Hmiao keep • House, aWI cheer the Minister or
az-ditto. Happy such a man, provided always he be
not on. Pareentary Committee. If such a man hes
not by this time put front two hundred to one thousand
miles between him and the great Babylon he deserves to
be reduced to the condition of the gentry who protests
the Duke of York's column. or to that of OD
driver on the Metropolitan Itaitway. or, went art:
that of the speaker of On Howe of Cenemema
A be illi.nt summer is no doubt a very pleasant
but it has its disadvantages. In some phases !1 st
Bristol. and Taonton and Yeovil, it reduces the ishatii-
tants to half rations of water. In others it calls forth
evil smells from sewers and rivers. Everywhere it
dries up the pastures and Talon the ones of butter,
which in these melting days is a woodenness with
house-keeper,. A few days sines I went by railway he.
Somarsetehire, and foetid everything burnt up to •
pitiable degree. The fiats that eboobt b. .....,
were more like cornetukblee. The hungry mettle.
were in vain trying to crop the minty herbage.
Is wine phsces the ponds and springs were
dried op, and I heard of a farmer in the South Dowse.
who has had to spend £lOO in supplying his lin-eleek
with water. Whether the crop of turnips dependes ma
legs of mottos), as Chariot Lamb declared, I am net
sufficient agriculturist to deterusine. But It is likely
that if the present drought continues, both tendPB Old
lep of mutton will run short by Christmas' time.
Speaking of the country, permit me hen just to re-
mark, that it is to me one of the greats* weskits
iininagistabh, that the inhabitants of Yeovil are not all
swept away by cholera or POND other malignant Menem
I know something of the town, and when I wse teems
the other (ley, the stench from ths ditch MAI& rams
along at the bottom of the town was intolerable. Bin
far won* than that was the open ditch which cane*
down behind Mr. Foen's DOW bowies, and runs under
Mr. Willis's Railway Hotel. But as though iblii St
Rolf was not salleitint, the officials; in their wisdoet
have preserved an ocean( to this drain in the read, to
enable every passer-by to enjoy the Wariest {odd white
runs from the pig-sties, oempoole, and dreier of the
whole of the upper part of the town. Coellanimil
people must the Ytosillane be to put up with Mil •
state of thing, as this, and happy the Coreation Geis
haa so docile • people over whose to rule
Rut great as this yew's heat bag been it is not pill*
so twee as that of IS6e. Then. even "sittingLiires
skeleton," as Sidney Smith said, would not se •
owl. Fortunately the effete thereof ea " ether
Thaws" was so bed that Loedoners resolved they men
do something with him, and spire hits these draught,
with which they fed him, aid which made hint se
malodorous. In spite of the oold, wet, sweet summer
that followed we stook to our purpose, end es we
V.....i5i11e for coestresPing sewers and subseking Um
With unexampled activity the facilities gives
be thew bills were at once pot in fens, owl
by this time sows mores of miles of esters
have been somOnteted, cu-third of the eons that
seed to pear into the Thames, on the earth ode, has
been diverted from it, and the war_- embank-
ment are In full promos. The wewet net,.
million sterling, bet what is that amen rest millions
of inhabitants? The "laying of the foss dation stone,"
as it I. celled, rattler inappropriately for a read mere
than • mile long, was hid on Monday by " Eine
Mantes, assisted by the first Commissioner of
Wake, Mr. Cowper, and the ex-ditto, Lord John
Manners. Thew panne= had an opportunity
of experiencing what subaqueous life is like, for
they wee* down a ooffer.dans far below the
levaltbf liquid mad, with its aomesories of dead dos.
dead cats, and, if we are to believe Our Mutual IFTODIWI
—dead men. The contheckirs talk of inishing their
work In two years, and if they do, we may sceselinie
Is the =mean of 1805 see dirty little boys Smile(
Into the Thames and owing out clew.

Printed sad published for the Propeledeli .by CLM
Wirmitaao MULLED, of Dorehesier, fruiter, at ths
Odles al The Dorms Cowry /sprees, Chiszsbistrosli.
Deirshisstsr, Tuesday, July ft, MK