The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-26 00:00:00

Drat Con* Expren.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1879.

Oats anli ;tints.

Captain Carey is not to be shot poor eacouroper lee
sutra, and even the finding of the court-martial is to
be over-ruled on the ground id illegality. Very
Lwtunate it is that this way has been found out of the
dilemma, between the danger of disappointing the
enraged ImperialMs on one hand, and military
Injustice on the other. The Imperialists would have
had it that Carey was bound to sacrifice his own life
and that of hie troopers for the young volunteer who
carried the savant' in hic veine, comuoin.sense would
exclaim against making our officer. into nursemaids
for every scion of ex-royalty that wishes to re-gild his
family's battered brass
The Daily New says : "The more than German
pedantry by which the sentence on Captain Carey hae
been withheld from publkatlen till his arrival at Ports-
mouth is from me poiat of view not to be regretted.
When the first news MIDI of Prince Louis Napoleon's
death, a noisy minority of the English nation would have
made it very difficult for men who had not stood nerves
and • strong sense of justice to behave as becomes
reseoeuxible functionaries. The cry which was raised at
that time was not one on which even thew who raised it
can look beck now with much satisfaction. The death of
• promising young Frenchman who had lived several years
In England was, no dould, a moat melancholy event,
though perhaps as F-nglishruen we may be forgiven for
(selling more regret on account of the English Milers
who fell with him, but of whose live. it was never
Fthtad that Captain Carey should have taken any
elder cam But Prince Louis Napoleon went to
Africa entirely on his own account. Ile had no
quarrel with the Zulus. Kven Sir Hartle Free., in his
wildest flights, never suggested that CasiiniY• we. •
standing menace to the French nation. A claimant to
the throne of a country which at present prefers a
Republic saw • chance of adding to the military distinc-
tion which his family derives from it. founder, and like •
brave and spirited young wan he took advantage of it If
It had been suggested that he was to be taken care of
and kept out of hann's way, the French would have been
the very last people not to see the joke.
Perhaps this wise intended after all, by hi* advisers
and their English friends, for the Founder of the
Napoleon Family was very apt at taking all thosse
pendent masseuse for saving the skin of the general,
of which three Riled-rations might be found In his
flight from Russia, leaving his army to perish on the
way, his early escape from the field of Waterloo, and
his surrender to English clemency, whereby he saved
the wretched remnant of a crime-stainwl life at St.
Helena, instead of suffering deserved execution on the
battle-field. Had the scheme for gaining glory with
been adopted by the young man, and been
re d to the French people, the satire of Paris
would have killed the 'Napoleonic ilea" as
thoroughly as has the young ex-Prince's death.

Some of the papers are r wing against Bank holidays
for the people, because there s danger of ..ome .1 the
latter getting drunk. The Evening Standard railed at
the holidays a few days ago, and now the World hen
joined the cry. It says :
' wish, when Bank Holiday comes round again, Sir
John Lubbock would devote • couple of bours—say from
eleven o'clock nt night to one o'clock in the morning—to
walking =tithe streeta, more particularly the main
suburbia and noting the general condition of tba
holiday crowd. fhe does not thereafter take steps for
obtaining the repeal of the Bank Holiday Act, I an.
mistaken in his sincerity and courage."

These upper-crust people are always (caring lest the
"frrolissugnr vsolew "should get too much pleasure; but
to seize upon the drunkards as pretexts for making
sober workmen have long hours of work is a little too
worldly-foolish. Teetotalers can propose a plan
whereby holidays would not be defiled with l'ans and
Satyrs in human shape, and yet more and more holi-
days be afforded by a people that doesn't let its wealth
rot. The subject is specially interesting at Dorchester,
not only because we here had almost the model of a Bank
Holiday, but because here can be provided the attrac-
tive little house-and-garden kingdoms that wean a
man from foul habits. If a " second Grove-buildings "
means, as I understood it, cheap houses for workmen,
with gardens attached, then would it be worthy of the
Town Council and the Duchy of Cornwall office to
compete in providing these homes for intelligent bur-
gesses and loyal sullect,, who could alway, be relied
onto do profitable wint. awl enjoy a holiday without

A Tory contemporary sCA:I especial appropriateness
in preaching about Paul s " ROlM.lllisum to an Eng-
lish Mayor and Corporation. The appropriateness
exists from one view of the subject ; yet is there a
lesson to be li2rnt, in these days of Imperialism, from
looking deeper than the surface. Paul was a free•
church minister whom the pricst-followers of the ilay
falsely charged before an idolator, who sent the min-
ister to the Imperial authorities, when he suffered a
lifelong imprisonment and a elm:Meath. We havenow
what look like Imperial authorities, who bully and
slaughter barbarians as the Romans did ; but let us
hope 'twill be long before the "especial appropriate-
ness'' of the discourse is magnified by a nearer likeness
of Englishmen to thc rives Romani of Nero's time.

One of the latest imitations of the old Roman
scoundrelism seems to he the attempt to hire murder-
ers to sLay Cetewayo. The charge has been openly
made in Parliament, and it Was hut weakly resi,ted
by Si, Michael hicks beach. This wa, what took
place in the I louse :
_

" In the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Anderson
imnired whether it was true that Sir Garnet Wolaeley
pkiaed a price upon the head of I !etewayo. Sir M. H.
Beach replied that as it was undesirable that Cetewayo
!should be allowed to remain in Zululand, Sir Garnet
Wolseley would no doubt take measures for his capture.
Mr. Andmon characterised this answer an extraordinary
one, and 'eked the Chancellor of the Kschequer whether
the Government concurred in it. Continuing his
remarke amid considerable interruption, the hon.
gentleman severely condemned the war, and said the
country was about to incur the still greater degradation
of employing brigands and amassing, and setting • price
upon an enemy who had only defended his country
spinet an unprovoked invasion. Sir 11. M. Beach
repeated his answer, and deprecated pulsing • hasty
judgment on the acta of eminent public servants sent to
• distant country. The Chancellor of the Exrbequer said
the Government had received no such Information as that
tottered to, and did not believe it." .

The Government would have been but humane had
their members expressed abhorrence of any such
brutal crime, and their confidence that Sir Garnet
Wolseley was far above such a base attempt. But
then they had before their memories the Imperialist
policy of Sir Bartle Frerc, and its bloody results, and
they might have feared what influence had been
exercised upon Sir Garnet by the cruel tone of the
colonists of Natal, who induced Sir Made Frcrc to
retake war by stealth, and found it fortune.

Our lord mien are not great in their reverence for
the Church of England as by law established if we
may jndg. from the attendance at prayers before the
One bishop and two lawyers! The
Head of the Church might well sak—" Where are the
Nine r Pagans would have more numerously attended
warship in an idol temple, and the World says :

"Ili; Envoy Extraordinary to th• King of Siam and
his cempedrior* who viewed tie oerenony of the Proroga-
tion from the gallery of the Home of Lords on Friday,
were rssUy stifled by the religious observabe• which
transectioe of mundane alfriirn There was
Bishop of Bt. David's In mottos. lawn, th• Lard
Chancellor in musty rid, and Lord Denman in decorous
black. Them throe oomprieed the Home of Lord.; and
knelt together whilst tie Bishop read prayers. The
Blames. Envoy, who has, among him multifarious
merienom been in • well appointed parish church,
coloot be aatms from the conviction that the Bishop of
St David's wee the clenryntaa, that the Lord Chancellor
was the beadle, sad the Lord Denman was the precentor,
whilst the congregation were represented by the throng
of welleiressed ladies, who laboured sad smiled sad,
gnmeral, Milieldng. conducted themselves just as if they
were in church, who sat in the seers below the gangway
as the Opposities side?

Advocates of the confessional will not he encourerd
by the remits of Miss Wyatt's "opening her grief to
the Rev. Newman Hall, although the minister most
honourably wrote to the lady's father and obtained
his consent. Although the lady derived "greet
pleasure and apparent ark antage from her friendehip
and correspondence with the minister, we have seen
how far that friendship was continued that it was
seised by Mrs. Hall and used in such a way that Miss
Wyatt has in the end no balance of pleasure
oe advantage, more especially when her brother ham to
publish bee iustificatiou in a public letter ending by
declaring that it hi Sot Miss Wyatt but another lady
whom Ur. Hall "has in his eye."

Weak-mlnded people who cra.e for auricular
tanismion shonki remember Who it ia that has said
" There Is nothing secret that shall not he made
nuudiest, neither hid, that shall not be known."