The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-06-03 00:00:00

ODDS ant nb•.

THE PETITION.

The Tories have soured knit lileod in this matter.
Mr. Justice Monisty ha, decided that although the
cheques iif Messrs. Young and Smith may be kx-rfectly
good, yet he would rather have "the tiller. Ao it
might not perhape be quite convenient to those
gentlemen to pill down a thou." at IL trionwet's
notice, he ha, very considerately allowed them five
day. in which to do it. The matter of the preliminary
thousand ix not the slightest obstacle to the further
promotion of the petition, I ant told, for • certain
alderman who has been • strong mover in the matter
would readily add another "0" to the " £lOO " for
which he has drawn • cheque. But the matter does
not conclude there. In the event of defeat, the
promoters would be called u in for another imooo
for expenses. Setting aside altogether that valuabie
old adage, "Discretion is the better part of valour,'
the Liberal leaders have to consider whether at this
:tcey tr.,bLexwistencehile toof thbet rest ft:veer:int it ix
lions to the contrary, ar
think my resge"rs will end
before another number of this paper reaches their
hands that what I have said all along—that the
matter would ultimately be allowed quietly to slide—
is right.

What is to be gained bY*-further proceeding in the
matter? According to the Conservative organs, the
Tory Party have arranged to throw out the Fran.
chic Bill an the at all events to prepiwe
inch amendment, that, to use a common express ttttt ,
he mother won't know her own child, and thus
necessitate an appeal to the country, which they are
desirous should take place before the harvest. If this
ecision is adhered te, the two political factions of
Poole will within a couple of mouths have the oppor-
tunity of fighting their battle o'er again. "Butwe will
teach them a lesson in political morality," say some
of the "aggrieved ".. Avery proper and a very
noble sentiment, no doubt. But, let me ask, may it
not be imparted at too much expense to the teacher?
What did Mr. aadstine say in his famous speech en
ntroducing the Franchise Bill on February 2tith ?
" Speaking roughly, what will happen will he this:
smaller horou, so many of which are in the South
of England, must yield seats for London and other
great towns, &c." From that we may safely infer
that in a brief future Poole must be content to be
grouped with a numher of iwighbouring boroughs.
Would Poole like to have the Gladstoman sponge
drawn acmes its name? Revenge may be sweet, cut
it may be purchased tin dearly. Some consideration
, should be felt fir the younger citizens who are
approaching the time when they will have a voice in
the national policy. But it may unbmitstingly be
said that if there is any more washing of dirty linen in
public, Poole will be left out in the cold for many a
long year. I fully and firmly helieve that better
arguments will prevail with the Liberal Party, and
that now, having succeeded in making a number of
gentlemen of a deeper shade of complexion than
themselves exceedingly uncomfortable, they will be
content to let the matter drop.

Ilut,after all, from what fcan hear, there never was
such a remarkably pure election fought in any borough
in England a.. this la-t in Poole. "My dear fellow."
said a prominent Liberal to like the other day, "I
could have turned the election At three o'clock for
1.10; but we had firmly determined we wouldn't bribe"
"I don't know what the other side did," confidentially
remarked one of the chiefs of the Conservative party,
"but we never gave away a penny." So that you
see, after all. Poole has vmdicated her character for
(political) purity just as the Herald'. poet ha that of
"the lovely girls ns.le :" and nothing re need
really be said upon the ilutt.Cer.

One word more upon tÜi subject and I have con-
cluded. Let me suggmt that some of the cheques
which have been so airily floating About during the
past fortnight may tind • better destination than in
.tirring up bitterness if feeling and ill-will. The
Hon. Mrs. Portman would no doubt gratefully receive
ILA many as are writ her in and of the " Mediteval
Market," to be held in an ivy-clad ruin at Knights.
bridge on the 18th, 19th. and 20th .4 June next in aid
oif that h afflicted class, the deaf and so-called
dumb. These unfortunates, of which there aee ouly
too many in the United Kingdotn, need no longer he
dumb, they can be taught to speak and to understand
the conversation of "then. by watching the motion of
the lip., though hawing is denied them.

" The forefinger of an Alderman' as Aferesiio
phrases it., was recently held up in selenin rebuke to
a Poole police-court audience, which had ventured to
give expression to findings of disapproval at the
pressing of a second charge against a defendant. The
rebuke was not undexerved. but the froquenters of
our police-court have considerably improved in con-
duct of late. Even the (Itieen's Bench vision, how-
ever, is liable to these manif.tatiorm 44 feeling, and
the Lord Chief Justice had, the other day, to remind
those who applauded a verdict giving Mrs. Weldon
ZOO damages against the London correqsindent Isf the
Peru Avers, that they must please to recollect they
were in a court of justice. I notice, however, that
judge* and justices, as a rule, object to these ebulli-
tions when they are not exactly in consonance with
their own sympathies. During the hearing 44 that
lengthy action, Belt v. Lawes, the plaintiff was con.
applauded, and the judge did net attempt to
check it. His intnuning up showed he took the woo
view of the care as the public.

Hol. Oevendieb•Beutinok, M.P.. raised • loud
leash in the Flouse on FrMay night. chicks those who
ksow the ex-Judge Advocate Cersirral can folly under.
stand. It seems t that Mr. lionelme, the member for
Co-nivall. had written • leiter, which 'appeared in lb*
Wages Moraine Nam, and is which be referred I.
the mead), for Whitahaven as " • man who openly
speaks of tempersom adeastc as h•pocritra." Mr.
Cavendish-Bentinok calk! the attentins of the Horne
to the 'settee. and, in denying the soft impeschniest,
cl-clared—" I here never deocancol tempsranos
advocates as brpoorkes, sod oertalely not Immure I
bees been • temperanos edvocate Tim
House almost west into ocandsioss.

A eorrsteoondent wishes to know who Is the Grand
Duke at He..., whom the Mosso has just brought
home with bar. I can't answer him better than hy
the following extracts from • " society " paper which
relates to this elan :
" Princess Alia, in bet letters, speaks of the com-
fort of being at tire side of bet Webbed, just.. Betty,
or Sally, or Janina :night my it, fibs goys,' There
I. earth • feeling of asetuity, and we two ha... word
of our own when we are together, which nothing can
touch or intrude upon, My lot le, indeed, a ble.en4
one, and yet what have I done to deserve that warm
ardent lose which my darling Louis ever shoes me?
I a !mire his good .anci noble Nowt more than I can
say.' 1.. th. Inc. of them refreshing eo I fro.k lieee
we le.ro that •i Dor very t erliower of
a wife like this was marrying hie child, the daughter
of so god and so logos a mother, he contracted a
left-banded marriage with • divorced woman.
thrill ot indignatioq_gmeed over England at the
annouomment Where I. • the good and ebbe heart'
of which the Prince., spoke in the 14ter we b•se
p. 4ted, if the aelebratlup,pf to- weddior 41a deuebfer
of the woman who thought this highly of her
husband was merle by him the 00C*61,41 ,1 • leo 4nd
solo.? But this is not all. The Grand Duke
came back to F.ngland with the Q leo,. As the
Grand Duke of Mime .hris ontd hlmeell to •
divorced w 4a4 4n, the peopli'al I .rze are entitled to
sek the 8 .wereiro who banish.' Valentine 114ker ant
el-Bed ostracism up ro the shoull-14 of a • ili., who
left hia wife for the society of • Jammer, why the
' favour of the Court ' has been ex•ended to the Grand
Duke 01 Beene, The Omuta of Vienna, Bolin, and
St. Petersburg are shocked at he &Mamie Equally
in Moslem!, thousands are eeandelleed that a husband
C' ad so soon, mid is each a way, forget a dead site.
Tbe excitement in Dermot* It him not yet setbsitel,
the inhabitante of the sedate little lows were
shocked when th.y revlised that the msrriage had
actually taken piece, the memory of the late Princes.
Alice being held in the very gr. Mast re aaaaa ce by
them. ?Jr .ocum time, society Imo assigned the Doke
of Hems to the bawl of Die Prisms Beatrice, and
Oh. erh,eh Prier's 101. e 14,4 rose lu
Um Boon of Lords in favour of Lb. Binseneed W
Sister Bill were conoecrei with this lot.re.mos
mean/Gwent. The Grand Duke woo app4rently tired
of welting f.., thee eversion of the Eu.llall Biatiop-."
I may ad I thst, ace 4..i.0r to the free-and..nse min
which prevail. a ..4.0g4t U yslty, the usarri.gs has
elaos be... manu'led.

PARASTOXB.

Asovggs wall-knows parwhioner h posed away.
Sir WlNieto Brown. C.R. after an Moos, ohne
recurring, sad lately wren to be •ithoot hope of
optoratioa, died serly hist Moods,. ntairsdeet. As st
other t mak be hors hie last illnees calmly and
patiently. Sir William Brown had lived at Parlatoy
for smolt 11 years. During • considerable part o• that
time be worked with the Vicar as his churchwarden.
To him, so trertearer of the Church Re-building Fund,
the inhabitratto of Perk tone owe • gr at dud of the
sucos-• of the scheme which hoo4 I. ti..
of the new church in 1877. He took all the trouble rd
collectiag the portal sahsceiptions out of the Vicar's
h...., weld's giving mach 1t... and att., otion t hie
oaks se treaeur.r, sod hie own rveramal oostribstion•
to the fusel wore wort Biwa. The path& ham In Wan
1 -t on. who hoe In these and othor ways been • very
helpfol friend.
R anima at .raron dens el. Demise ;
R p.rp.to• la • t en...
The funeral took plat* In the churchyard on Monday
afternoon.

AMID PORT.
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