The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-26 00:00:00

BRA en* Express.

TUESDAY. MARCH IS, Icll

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The fashion of giving princes a qualtficative addition
to their titles Iv .reviving in our dav ; the Russians
have their Alexander the Liberator, the !Lilian' their
R 2 Galantronto ; and we, though we did not find it
out till it was rather too late, were one, blessed with
an Albert the Good standing very near the throne.
The example of this Prince has borne fruit in his
fattily, for 00011 one of the many quali,ies that went
to nicks up the sum of his comprehensive virtue has
descended to eaoh of his eon& irooane44 is studious;
If such high destinies swait-d him we c ,ul,l instantly
supply a foreign thnine with a L void Ike Wise.
Goodness is ; we cull at a moment's notice
despatch an Alfred the i Aril!? to teach Greeks or
Bulgarian. haw to pay their way. Finally, goodness
is no shi,ker of work and there is every probsbility
that the succanor of goeen Victoria will be known as
Albert Edward &he Indus:Hama to all time.
From a recent theatrical diepute, the un•initiated
public may learn that "juvenile ladies" range from
about 30 to 40 years of no,"

Mr. • Charles Edward 'lnward Vincent, just
appointed Superintendent of the Detective Depart-
ment of Scotland Yard, I. a remarkable man. If.
served seven years in the 23rd Welsh Fmdliers, after
which be got called both to the Engli-h and French
bars. If. speaks no lees than 13 language., and is the
author of several important military works Perhaps
it would not be &MAU if he first brought his detecting
abilities to play "at home."

The telephone has hems in•trummtal in saving the
life of a diver who had been engagwl in receiving some
ballast on Her Majesty's Ship Vernon. Whilst in
the water he suddenly became faint, and tailed out
"Pull me up." He did not sigmal with hi. rope, hut
WWI bean' through the telephone attached to his
helmet, awl w. at once brought to the surface. The
man ban recoveled, and blesses the telephone for his
restoration.

Such is life! A Balaklava veteran named John
Richardson, who has bled I w hie country, is now an
inmate of Birmingham workhouse. A certain
erinr-an veteran, who objected to any sanguinary
exp.:adman is now clothed in purple and fine linen.
Quite right, of enures, Don't we always act upon the
principle—"Ferat qta *unfit pafatent."

The Spectator learns from • private letter that the
telephone bad been adopted by the Chia..., the
telegraph being melees an they have no alphabet.
Whatever would be said to this by the old lady, who,
when told there was no " W" in the French language,
wanted to know however they spelt waggon.
One of considerable weight in the world has gone
the way of all fifth. The great hippopotamus at the
Z.,u died kat week. It arrived in London when quite
a baby in 1849, having by false pretence, been induced
to quit its Wand home on the Whits Nile.

A good story reaches us which the very refined had
better not peruse. A young fellow whom. native
hamlet is situate SA they say not a hundred miles"
from Dorchester, has been acting as a flunkey for
some two or three year. in the great city. He
recently came home for • holiday, and of course began
to astoni.h the natives. One evening he was enter-
taining a select circle with a vivid but perhaps some,
what imaginative description of the glories attendant
Upon a connection with " the hopper succles."
when as a climax, he remarked the ladle, never sat
down to dej neer (l inner bee niesconhlugly explainon)
without their gloves. This was a clencher.
mouthed silence reigned for some seconds. At le't one
obi dame nervously engitired,
"Bur. messier, how .1•• (nor pick thoir
The utter vulgarity of .uch a proceeding was pointed
out. Another pane., and thou a still more sturtlin.c
query.
" But 'ow about, tocsin they get anythin' stuck in their
teeth r

The by "By-"Tingo'spirit seems to be evidencing
itself pretty unmisttlrablr. A.ghly, counwtod
w ing the I,bm e. K yal NavAl Artillery
Volunteer', ha" inform'd the Admiral Superintending
:caral ltesr•rve. that the bri4ade are ready for any
du y whenever and wherever it may be required uf
them.

The private bank. have hut something like a ran
upon them -inc e the failure of Wilds, Percival and
Co. The old country geutlem •ri and well-to- lo persons
with large balances, wb . are now Alta .st exclusively
favounet by these estabishinents ix. far al to bs
allowed to keep th ir money there, were staxifered by
the sudden e •Ilapse of • bank which had existed for a
hundred and seventy ye for thee have always
fondly imazined t..at solvency iocreases with age
Many of them have caisequently withdrawn their
balances.

Her 111ajostv the Qusitt has a very whol.sritne dread
of loot se, opin4, and there ie welbunderst..l rule
that th..s. who peencli before her are hot exp..eted to
exert I fifteen whim a in their 41i.ctur-e. Neverthe-
few Sn aye a4o. the Itersien,l Francis Plgou,
rhaplitiniu•Orilinary. took .a mean adrantao of an
opportunity aff trded him of itnpartin; godly 'untrue.
lion to his monarch. In order to preach for three mortal
gnarters of an hour to her Majesty again*. her allies
the Turk.. and to prove, or seek t prove, out 4,f the
Prophet Daniel that they must be brought to an end
and swept away.

We sympathise with the Editor of Vanity Pair. He
writes :

I orb .1611 y aossile.l by feen.lo who eitber on their own
marmot, or ou acc. .l somebody clod, implore ice
the name ..1 friendohm to -koep- rich on I curb a thing
"out ..1 the paper." Being of an analoble disposition, I am
always inclined to nt IWO, them hut it really must bare
• Brut., for if it war. on I obeli either lute, to preoent toy
readers with a buidoonie Monk page, .r I moot take
the good adMos ccc given to an editor, to " have no
friends" "soil live In a cellar.
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We Can practically endure. what be says. Were we
to Helen to every one with • grievance our reader.
would have to be almost content with our advertise-
ment columns. If we report a care, wilich the hero
of it would rather se* out ol print, we either in
sp ismodic grunts get per. wally "couch at," or a
peremptory order is cent for the stoppage of the paper,
an if a peony • week involved the putting up of
shutters; on the other band if in • nt anent of kindly
weakness we omit it there are always plenty of
"demue I good natured" friends to ask what • news.
paper is published for.

General glr Arthur Boron. K.C.8., has now been
offered and hes accepted the Governorship of Malta.

The affairs of the "Good Templar“ organisation are
not At preeent in a very 4464w:tory state. The dis-
genii .ne which occurred in referenc- to the admiwion
of negro.' as member* have not yet been Aettled ; and
I)r. P. It. Lees has cominencs.l an action to have it
dec'ared that he, am " Grand Worthy Chief Tea2Pim
of England," I. entitled to have charge of the charter
and rituals of the Grand Lesize. rh., dignity of VA,
"nice will certainly not be maintained by such trivial
disputes.

At a meeting of the metropolitan volunteer com-
manding of% ere the Imb-committee appointed to
enquire Into the feaaibility of bolding a field-day on
Euter Monday pruented their reput, in which they
stated • that all their elf ale hul been unsucceuful.
The Euter review may, therefore, be considered u
again abandoned.

A committee is in the come of farmition with the
object of making an acknowledgment. b. Ksul Russell
of the services which he rendered in ii 23, and for
many yews afterwards, to the col.e of civil and
religious liberty. iii. proposal to present the
able statesman with an • Idrefi on the fiftieth
anniversary of the day on which the Bill for the
Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts became law
—the 9th of May.