The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

Rabat an filtilitaq.

AN EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—Captain the Hon.
Arthur Auckland Cochrane, C. 8., who has been ap-
pointed to the Fisgard, for special service, is, it is
reported, to take command, as commodore, of a squadron
consisting of the Arethusa, 35, Constance, :39, and
Octavia, 39, frigates, for the putposie of enabling him
to superintend the fitting and working of a new boiler.
It is also said that experiments are to be made to dis-
cover which engine of the above-named ships combines
the greatest amount of efficiency with the least con-
sunption of fuel. Captain Cochrane is 40 years of age,
and has been employed 20 years at sea.

THERE is a scarcity of water in Liverpool.
THE PROBATE duty of the will of the late Mr. Richard
Thornton, the millionaire, amounted to £42,000, and
the legacy duty will amount to upwards of £lOO,OOO.
Altogether the deceased left £3,700,000 to his nephews,
relatives, and charitable institutions.

THE QUEEN OF TAB NETHICALAwDS.—Her Majesty
the Queen of the Netherlands embarked from Woolwich
on Saturday for Rotterdam. We understand that his
Royal Highness the Prince of Orange purposes ti re-
main some weeks in England. Before he returns to
the Hague his Royal Highness will visit Scotland.

A LARGE OTTER TRAPPED.—An enormous bitch otter
was trapped in the Derwent, near Melton, at the mouth
of Welham, on the estate of Mr. Robert Bower, last
week. She was three feet eight inches in length, and
weighed nineteen pounds. She was savage in the extreme
and the powerful brute fought for four hours (although
trapped) before giving in.
Ma. GLADSTONE, defeated at Oxford, has lost no
time in making his appeal to the electors of South
Lancashire. He appeared before crowded meetings
both at Liverpool and, Manchester on Tuesday, and on
Wednesday he addressed the merchants on the Liver-
pool Exchange. His speeches were for the most part
occupied with praise of the free-trade policy of the
Government and a denial of the right of the Conserve.
tires to claim any credit for the adoption of that policy.
The right hon. gentleman was warmly received in both
towns.

MR. DISRAELI ON THZ RRSULT OF Inc 4LEOTIONS.—
At a dinner given to the members for Backs on Wed-
Mr. Disraeli adverted to the results of the
__Aorta as far as they had gone, and called attention
to the fact that the Conservative, losses, as they were
called, were in most cases nominal; for while in the
last Parliament there were many self-styled Conserva-
tives, who on all testing questions voted with the
Government, the Coneervativos now returned were of a
more decided stamp. He looked forward also with
801119 confidence to gains on election petitions, and ex•
pressed his belief that when the House of Commons had
settled down into its true shape the Conservative party
would be as strong in the present as in the last
Parliament,
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE OP SUNDAY.—Between
the 54th and 59th degree of north latitude—that is to
say, between John o Groat's house and the boundary
line which divides England from Scotland, it is con-
sidered contrary to good morals and religion to play
musical instruments on Sunday, or to sing any songs
list veered ones. Within these parallels of latitude,
Whistling on Sunday is downright impiety. Get into a
, train bound for the south, and in two home' time you
will have left the whistling parallel behind you. You
'nay whistle now on Sunday; you may sing what songs
ypa please; you may play the fiddle, nay, you may even
deice, and few will challenge your pleasure. It is but
•12 hours' journey from Edinburgh to London. At 6
oiclock in the morning you are whistling over your
breakfast in Princes-street, and the Scotch lassie in
attendance is horrified. At 6 o'clock in the evening
re are listening to the band in the Regent's Park, and
thousands of English lasses are there, dressed in all their
beet, promenading up and down to the time. If you
were to bring the Sootcli lassie up and show her this
scene, horns blowing, drums beating, and 10,000 couples
sweethearting under the trees, she would draw in her
breath and exolaim, "Rb, mide be here, did ever °ay
body see the like—playing polkas on Sunday. I wonder
whaur they expect to gang to!" But now, in tarot ,
take one of these English Landes over with you to Pt.
move her from where the longitude is 0 to the
parallel east, and she will be as moth shocked to see ,
Parisiana going to the theatre on Sunday evening airt et
lootch lassie was to see the Londoners promenading
Itetent's Park and listening to polkas. A. To
Make a difference one way; a few
make a difference another. Go
,o-t whistle ; come south and you may
; move sideways, a little toward the
—at, and you may whistle, play the Addle, and go to
the play. Which parallel rules the right morality in
this matter I will not pretend to decide. —Dickens's
All the Year Itound.

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