The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-05 00:00:00

Sotto anb Rinto.

The money coot ..f the Zulu War up to the end of
July, has beam estimated lay the Chaocelke of the
lix&equer hall a-mill ion a month to Britain ,In memory.
The cost in late, and the cost to the Zulus should he
calculated by that advocate of modern zuis•lons, Sly
Bartle Fret...

Some b.ver of Imperialism is detarminted to put a
statue of Louis Napoleon, jun., in Westininsteu. Abbey.
It may be safer there than in the country which his
family so long affected to rule, and the value is only
sentimental, after all. Let those who yobs* West-
minster Abbey decide what they will pack away in
that, which, when it ceases to be reserved for those
surrounded by glorious associations. wiU sink to be
merely a plate of rags, stoner, and bques. Nelson is
said to have been inspired by the desire for either' A
peerage or Westminster Abbey." What would he
think of one or the other, with Disraell-Beitoonsfield
sßari, and Young Louis Napoleon's statue in the
cilapsl of Henry Seventh'

A plea has been advanced that the matchless chapel
belongs to the Sovereign. Suppose It be so, and that
Lb. monument be erected than to youpg Lola, in
defiance of the rejectima of ho fatally by Fronce, what
shall we think of the friendlinere of our own Royal
family to Francs!

It we. when France was Republican that the
crowned heads •,1 Europe combined egainst her. The
free nation, though weakened by • wasteful and cruel
reven4e on its aristocrats, yet hurled its enemies from
it on every side. The little corporal became • great
general, then, intexicattal by military slaughter, he
made himself an Emperor, and Wapiti' cf bis wonderful
military genius, be drained France of blood and money
till she was as exhau,ted as in the times ia he Grand
Louis, when the female peasant we. often found
starved with the half.cliewed grass in her mouth.
gurooe wearied even of the Great Bonsipirte, and
though the Little Napoleon tried to emulate bun, the
NeM4lOll of hie bloodabedding slept not for ever; but
hie last great failure broke his heart. His son repre-
sented nothing if sot the Bonapartist idea, and to
attech any importance to him is to show respect for
the Bonapartist idea, the curse of modern France.

" Humbugged the Sale" was the tart but terse
derription by Mr. J. B. Cole of what the
Corporation of Weymouth did with regard to
some papers offered by Mr. Sherrie for sale. They
weemeci to claim the °worship, after a discussion
In the council which certainly seemed to have a cUffer.
eel conclusion, and by their action at the auction, they
appear to have spoilt the sale. We believe that, had
Is not been for the late Mr. Sherren, thews documents
would not be in existence at the present time. In the
early days when things were not so closely looked
alter as now, the documents were weeded
out from the rest of the Corporation archives, and cast
out as waste. They would have been burnt or rotted
but that Mr. Shame rescued them, restored the dre-
jails sierra torich other, cieaned,patched,and finally
bound up the documents. Thee they were not only
rescued from destruction but made serviceable for
reference, and no doubt much reliable history of Wey-
mouth has been complied therefrom. The documente
have been to • certain extent open to public use, and
moat assuredly their whereabouts has oot been con.
coaled, so that it is not as if the council have arrived
at • sudden discovery of a tremors trove. And to
attempt to claim them now would certainly result in
brMging upon themselves an action at law. The
council had Mr better take care of what documents
and Fickle they have than attempt to "bounce' out of
a mans executoi• the profit fairly earned by a very
large expenditure of time, material, and labour,
united with high skill.

Perhaps tbe council wish an instance where they
are uow allowing public rights to be obacured and
eadangered. Then let them look for the sited Rodwell
Pond and Well, with the rath around. To my the
,r• least, the public had the right of user of the
auto's, and, more than that., they bad the right of
watering :masts in the pound, and drawing water from
the welL The whole of the site, and a eery coosidee-
able triangular piece it wrs, has been melosed in Mr.
Devenish's fence, and although Mr. Devenish, in the
fairest manner, has offered to throw it open at any
time they require, yet the council ma as if they
prayed him to keep it. Yet the piece, by a
small outlay, might be mails one of the most useful
nooks for the routing plain of the tartiestrian seeking
the fresh air on the liodwell rord.

Then there is the gaging at the bark id Polteuey
buildings, where the (r eat Western actually propose
to build sheds, and erect more steam creu. There
is the matter of the Quay Walls of Nleksimbe, sad the
heavy trains of trucks, of the doubling of one line In
defiance of the councirs prohion, and the occupation
of the Quay by trucks, self they were a station yard.
When the council have dealt with these mattere, then
they may haves trifle more consistency in seeking to
els= a lot of documenta rescued frou their anceators,
who bad consigned them to the mud.