The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-03-04 00:00:00

Mart Count 4 Exprems.

DORCHISTER, MARCH 4t13, 1884.

THE WAR FEELING.


There can be little doubt that in the House of Corn.
noose itself • stronger sensation was produced by the
statements concerting tho diabolical dynamite °Warm
in London than by the brilliant speech with which the
Prime Minister introdnoed the new Reform Bill. Sir
W. Hmoourt had, • short time before he came down
to the House, inspected the boxes containing the Infernal
machines whkb had been placed in the Moak-roomo of
the °harbor Orme and Greet Western litilways, but
which, by some miraculous miscarriage, did not
explode in the same way ea the one plead in the
Victoria Station. The feeling in London can scarcely
be exaggerated ; and, knowing sa we do, that tb.gr.at
MIMS of the American people slaw with indignation
the oonduct of the despicable band of compiratore who
openly avow complicity in such plots, there should be
no difficulty about inclucin,r the American Government
to assist Us in dealing with the miscreante whose
aim is to destroy all good feeling between the two
nations. The critical coodition of the ErrPtintl
•ffaire supple). another discouragement to the Govern-
ment in dealing with the Bill, which we think Mr.
Gladstone correctly describes as one that the country
will deem "worth hearing," and on. that should not
be endangered by " warodering on the hill-t ms of
speculation, or into the USOMMIOII and gosgmires of
doubt.' We should say that there would be no doubt
concerning the fate of the Bill were it not that war is
"In the air," and the feeling grows that before our
difficulties in Egypt me over • sacrifice of peace
principles will have t be mode. It is undoubtedly the
ew, not the many, who share this °pint on. In every
greet aisle in foreign Odra there is always • Peace
Party whose minion appears to be to give a note of
warning I, the enthusketic, and I, throw the wet
blanket of discretion over a too-valorous desire. It
most be admitted that them prophets often prove true.
It is perhaps useful, then, that warning. should be
given, and that " retiring " should take place when
• 'rescuing" le no longer mossier. Such • polky,morally
speaking, Is undoubtedly right. But how amid it
agree with popalar clamour ? This la the rub. Are
the few right and many wrong? There is • question
which Mr. Matthew Arnold would find no difficulty
In answering. Not so, however, with the public at
large, although Ii should be borne in mind that many
of the great events of the peat were brought about by
the few. Theorem of the sixteenth end seveeter, tit cen.
turise:were the work of primee rather than of people.
Revolutions in nearly every land, which produced
undoubted blessings, were not In all cues the results of
public opinion. It may therefore be aseurned that if
the few were right in former times, they may not be
far wrong now. Oertain 111. that the 0101 IS import-
ant reforms have emanated from the few. All that
oan be said le that there 1. no rule. Brit if History
were searched, we are inclined to suspect that wisdom
has seldom been collective; that it has rather
bees the leaven acting on the lump; end the
fact should make as pause before condenoni .g those
of the present day who are not d' ported to
follow the multitude. In • national mese,
war is • dangerous state of things. The worse.
rather than the better, feelings are mooed thereby.
Above all, there la the pride which we like to minimize
by calling It prestige —• word, however, which Is not
• favourite one in Mr. Gladstone'. vocabulary. Then
there is attachment to party, which in reality means,
"If we do not do so and so, our opponents will
and perhaps it may be said that the fi tiling notion
of the general public) is, that the country has • mission,
the fulfilment of which it ware melee. to check. Ab-
etracitedly speaking, however, this is not wisdom, and
in the face of past experience it need not be sur-
prising that the few hesitate to regard it se snob, or
that they should think war to be a matter of
reasoning rather than of feeling.

EVICTION Or AUDITOIII.-11r IL. W. Hayrosn and
Mr. F. J. Holland have been duly elected Elcotive
Auditors of this Borough.
TIIR Rev. Ka. AITIERN, one of the most powerful
evaagelistio preachers of the day, le expected shortly
to pay Dorchester • vigil.
A new intermediate scale for forwarding through
the Parcels Poet is now being considered by the
authorities. the scale of which is expected to be 40.
for 31b., 7ed. for 41b., and 1011. for 61b.
Tee Hon. B. 001.11AIDOL —At • meeting of the
Conseil of the Sheffield Liberal Association, held on
Thursday night, the Hon. Bernard Coleridge, son of
the Lord Chief Justice, was adopted ias the second
Liberal oandidate for Sheffield at the guard election.
Flag.—On Saturday morning laid P.C. Stoma wee
on duty I Cornhill, and sew games issuing from the
chimney of the house of Mr. F. Harris, of the Grey.'
honrid.yard. The oonstable at once gave the
&lona, and, with bir. Supt. C mud, proceeded to the
house with the hose rail. The fire was promptly
extinguished by pouring water down the chimney.
Very trilling damage was done. The house le inroad
In the Commercial Union, of which Mr. Edwin
Barnett is the Dorchester agent.
DISORACI71:11. bittrwar DISTOREANCL—A most
discreditable disturbance between soldiers took place
In Church-street on Saturday night. The military
polka interfered and took several men in custody.
On. seas belonging to the Depot was attacked by an
artilleryman, who kicked him in the most brutal
manser, dislocating his jaw and otherwise injuring
Una. 'The wildest rumours were afloat in the town on
Sunday that the man was dead, but it transpire, be
Is going on satisfactorily under the oars of Dr. Knaggs.
A number of men have been put under onset for being
mixed up in the affair.
Tar Dail Or CU/BRIGGS AND 114ILTTART TRAINING.
—A special General Order leaned from the Horde
Guards., War Office, notifies that the Field Marshal
Commander in Chid desires to exprom his satisfaction
with the Moaner In which General Officers C 'almond.
Ing, Commending Officer., and officer, of all grade.
have assisted in giving effect to the military training
of 'soldiers prescribed by G. 0. 50 of 1883. Groat
Interest, his Royal Highness says, has been generally
evinced by all ranks in the company training, and con-
siderable progress made ; but much remains to
be dons. The following regulations will regulate
the training from Saturday (the course will be
Undted to one month). It will be oondocied between
Let March and 31st October. A syllabus of the
course has been approved, and will be budded
to all osseersed. This comae will be generally
adhered to, but where special airman Meek snob
as the absent* of proper training ground, eacessitste a
deviation from it, General Offioen will make such alter-
ation. as may appear expedient, taking we that the
whole of the Instruction is fully utilised. Coaaider
able scope is left to eommarading officers in arranging
details, to which their carotid attention Is directed. In
making thews arnagements Use principle will be fol-
lowed that each elementary eubject most be in turn
completely mastered before another is proceeded with.
When mastered, it will afterwards be only incidentally
reverted to In combination with more advanced sub-
leis Daring inclement weather inetruotiou will be
Omen in berrack-roonee by moons of lectures, implant.
Hone, and questions. To enable officers to sive instruc-
tion of red value, each day's work should be carefully
prepared previously by company commanders, and an
outline of it given to the other Amin sod non-com-
missioned caws of the company. Each practice in
field training will be based on • definite supposition
object, and will be carried out as far as possible under
the conditions of actual wadere. Explanation will in
oil cases precede practice on Um ground, and should
tom an Important part of the Instruction. butruction
will extend over four or flea hours daily, and for
practical work on the ground abort wades should be
avoided, • period of from two to three consecutive
hours being generally cleanable. Whenever prattle. I
able General Officers will personally supervise the
troops under training, and test the merits of the
Instruction imparted by exercising the companies of
different battalions against one another.
Logo filisrrnsecer. —At the Court of Commas
C amoil,Loadon, on Thursday ,11.r.L veridge,Clialrmail
of the City Lends Committee, proposed "That the
freedom of thie City, in • gold box, of the usual
ease, he presented to the Right Hon. Anthony
Aagarocoper, Earl of Skated:nary, K.G., D.C.L..
in teetimosy of the esteem and admiration of this
Court, in recognition of his lordship's lifelong and
sucosodul baboons on behalf of the young, the sailor.
lag, the degraded. and the oppreesed, and the
devotion by him of high position, wealth, time, and '
indiumce in the alleviation of human suffering, both
at home and abroad." Alderman Si.: R. Carden,
M.P.. seconded the motion, which was carried
anatilmously. It is understood that the presentation
will take plaos atthelGulldhall on Wsdneeday afternoon
next, prior to the banquet to Lord Shaftesbury at the
liirsasion Hoose.—From an able article in • London
contemporary we extract the following —"ln the
religious and political world Lord Shaftesbury occupies
a curiously dWeresat position from that which distin.
salaam most men. Asa Social Reformer, he represents •
rang and active principle, which has before it an
future. fie an old-fashioned Liberal and an
old-fashioned Evangelical, be represents only dying
creeds, that belong almost wholly to the poet
Evangelicalism, that wrought great things in its day
for the Church of England has, as far as that Chrarch
I. concerned, fulfilled its mission. It would
be almost as difficult to find • man under
forty who helmets to the Eocledastiosl Party
el which Lord Shaftesbury is • leader, as it
would be to fin I • man under twenty who belongs
so the **hoot of Lord Eldoo. This is a peculiar mW.
ton for any man to occupy, with on. foot on the
Ensure and one on the past; the recreseatetive of
one set of Ideas which are waxing, and of another
which are waning, every day. But so it is. With
the death of Lord Palmerston, the world saw the last
of the allies*e between political and Evangelical
Ltbscslism. Twenty yule ago this atoms was so

strong that Mr. Gladstone, though he had j dad the
Cabinet for the expires purpose of counteracting the
Influence of Lord Shaft.sbury, was powerless in
Its presence. Lord Shaftesbury was allowed to
make the Bishope. and in return for this pleoe
of patronage he prevented the Evangelical Party from
ranging themselves against Lord Palmerston. That
system has passed away completely. If it was worth
the while of any Primo Minister to purchase the
support of any goclessiestical Pasty on similar terms,
It would not be the Party of Lord Shot Wilbur,. That
is fading Into the past as steadily as hi, Lird,hip's
social and charitable principle' are advancing to the
front. It is on those, however, that his reputetion
will depend. His name will be remembered In
connection with the amelioration of labour and the
reclamation of vice bog after the Bishop* whose
preferment I. supposed to have been due to him have
been forgotten."