The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-26 00:00:00

THE IMMINENT RESIGNATION OF THE
MINISTRY. `1"7"

(Prom ths Eneetiar.)
After the speech delivered by Lard Beaconsfield-TATte
Aylesbury Cattle Show, the reingnation of the Ministry
cannot long be postponed, with whatever formalities it
may be carried out. Lord Beaconsfield no longer affects
that his pricy is in accord with the Irbil's* of the country.
"The country," he "has in some of its exhibitions
completely out-Heroded the most extravagant con-
ceptions. They tell us that noting will satisfy them
except the expulsion of the Turns from Europe and
the institution of Slavonic Governments whether
Imperial, Royal, or Republican. I am at a lass
to know. Now Her Kalestr's Government, and as I
brier the Government of every country, are perfectly
aware that if such plans are attempted to be carried into
effect we shall be landed in a Groper war of no slight
duration. I throw ride for the moment all Wien-
throthc. all moral, all abstract opinions of any kind; hut
I say this—that it brag the °pint cot ocly of Her
Majesty's Goverment, but of ell month that
these schemes are impossible and can only lead to
great war, is it the wish of my friends who are her:
isrt. or of any sensible Men in any Oar assembled,
that that is the course which we ought to take? Can
we do more than act with the other Powers on the
avowed basis laid down by Lord Derby—tiamely, that
we should now proceed to consider the establishment of
satisfactory resauons between the Porte and Its Chris-
tian subjects,and to lay down also the general principl
err which that settlement_ can be founded Is it rat:
that we should allow the uoverament to go on and to
sorry, if they can, these_plans into effect Or not That is
really the imestion for nngland to consider,' But that is
the question which the country has been oonoklaring with
the utnsost earnertnees for some time, and they have
come to the conclusion that it would be most unwise to
allow the Government to effect any settlement which
would leave the I t provinces under Ottoman
administration, because they are now convinced, past the
Reed of any further erases, what the administratlon
sheens. They have prelesled to the most emphatic way
that they will not coma to a temporary patching up al
the filfilculty, that they can no longer trust the promises
el the Porte. Andifix. Disraeli frankly admits such
tithe answer to his question, " for,' he rya. " it would
be affectation for him to ipretend that Her ear's
Government is at this moment backed by the cotiih.-
This being so, we know what we hart to from
Iged Beficonsfield. It never has been
_part =trolley
to defy the wishes of the nation. He has left it to
of the stamp of the Iron Duke to brave popular
ru!iy. If the Duke at Wellington had been head of the
Ministry, and had found the other Governments of
Europe, or at least the Government most directly
Interested, porsamed by "a sincere desire at roe, and
without any unneceseare waste of time, to come to
conclusions upon the subject," and to "favour
general
principles of the settlement " favoured by the English
Government, he would not have hodtated to set the
popular will at defiance. It is now • known fact that the
Russian Governmentlise a Government, is willing to con-
sent to a rspidrex. =mlitoshLatch up the present
difficulty, and j in Ottoman minis-
tration with new promises of amendment; and an
English politician of old ideas would cheerfully have
joined in such • work. But Lord Beaconsfield is a
politician who thoroughly understands new fare, and
who has always preferred the policy of the unbending
oak. He will yield, we may depend upon it, to the
Cr:istorm. He would not have confessed to lmowing
rll of the country if he had intended to resist it.
We may be certain that with Lord Besoonsard it is
now only • question of the course that he ought to take
before resigning. It would no doubt be an Innovation
upon Parliamentary forms if he were to accept the will
of the nation, as informally declared in public meetings,
even though his has not pretended to mistake the import
of those meetings. We all know that if a general
election were held within the next few weeks, the verdict
of the country would be overwhelmingly hostile to the
Government. Still, it would be an innovation to take
that for granted without • general election. In 1868 Mr.
Disraeli did not wait for the reassembling of Parliament
to tender his resignation, but he waited till the country
had formally made it apparent how the Parliament was
to be constituted. That was an innovation. Is Mr.
Disraeli capable of • still greater innovation I The necessi-
ties of the time stem to demand it There was no particular
reason why Mr. Disraeli should not in MOB have waited till
the distrust of his Ministry was formally expressed by the
representatives of the People- There is at Peewit •
very urgent reran why he should abide by his inter-
pretation of the mind of the coun=rhithout waltru
r f constitutional expression o He knows well
enough° that in a country which enjoys • popular Govern-
ment, • Ministry out of accord with the popular will, is
at • great disadvantage in negotiation. Patriotism,
therefore, would counsel to him an immediate resigna-
tion. Besides, his succonor in the leadership of
the House of Commons has committed himself to the
admission that the oonstituencce may be better
informed in matters of foreign policy than their repre-
sentatives. At Edinburgh, on Saturday last, Sir Stafford
Northcote affirmed that the people at large knew nothing
about foreign politics. But this statement being on-
favourably received, Sir Stafford qualified it by saying
that it might be that people at large were well versed in
the exigencies of our foreign rslationA but that certainly
he could not say as much for the Rouse of COMMODS. KO
knew the House of Commons, and he was sure that Its
members were imperfectly aoqpalnted with foreign affairs.
Why, then, should not Lord Beaconspeld, with his usual
dieregerd of precedents,
th at once accept what be believes
be to the fee of e country? He has nothing to gain
by in at suck • moment, and if the Eastern
Question I. surrounded by insurmountable difficulties, he
may hope for • solid triumph by allowing a Liberal
Government to try their hands at solving it.
Lord Beaoonsdeld tried to dismay the country by
raising before its eyes the spectre of a general war. Mr.
Gr's scheme, he said, we might try if we liked;
but the most awful consequences were certain to follow.
Other European Powers, by which it is supposed he
meant Rues* would go to vier rather than accept it.
Now Lord Beaconsfield and his Cabinet have, of course,
=oar facilities for knowing the views of the
Goverment They know that the Czar and his
Prime Minister would be glad to see the present difficulty
patched up. But in assenting to such • proposition, our
Government would only be playing into tne of the
Russian Government It is plain enough that at this
moment the Russian people are animated by generous
Impulses which traverse the policy of their Government,
and our Ministers are not doing their duty if they allow
this fact to escape their notice. Even in despotic Russia
the will of the people has of late years become • force
that must be considered. The will of the Harlan people
I. favourable to a final settlement of the Harem Question,
and we shall be playing • vac, sh r well as a
mischerous game if we consent atalitritadperary patch-
ing up.

Amoorst the multifarious duties which devolve upon
forester, that of making charcoal is not unfrequent In
the hop-growing district of England large quantities of it
are used, in combination with coke, for drying or curing
hops. In Kant, Baum and other counties, where bops
are extensively grown, burning wood for charcoal Is both
a large and important work in the rural districts. Char
cog is made from all descriptions of wood, but the follow.
izes.marhrei;idtlys relied
productive
of indioncassitingand eir
bedreiathrequality
of dismal for powder manufacture, and the last as suit-
able only tor furnace settnitago
waxy's, sad ordirryi
mehorim7r=um,:— boxwood, sweet chestnut,- oak,
holly, walnut, beach, sycamore, elm, willow, poplar,
birch, alder, ash, basal, mountain ash, sooteh pin*, larch
Of such species 1111 the sweet ifiestaut, walnut, and oak,
It is the beast-wood only, ard not the sap-wood that Is
referred to. In addition to the species above enumerated,
there are many others of equal and corresponding value,
but they are so said.= used that it is unnecessary to
enumerate them.
Charcoal is used for a great variety of purpoese besides
those or ordinary fuel, such as the manufactur, of wire ;
converting iron into steel ; making ivory-black, varnish,
and bleak paint, of which It forms the basis; it is used in
the manure of ink, in = colour, correcting
odours, wines and other
fignors, guritsining and also in many medicinal
"mai
application& In farriery tis alas successfully used, as
for cracked heels in harass when powdered and mixed
with linseed meal and used as a linament. The most
extensive use of it, however, is in the manufacture of
wrier, which is of two qualities, and termed rock or
beg powder, and gun of spatting powder. Another
and by no means unimportant appibostlosi of charcoal is
sea manure; for this it may be used in a variety of ways,
but the f= composition is Modally eommended :
SOIL of 41b. of night-soil, and Ilb, of urine,
mixed together and applied either in a dryer liquid state,
according to the state of the weather. If used in the
liquid state it should be diluted with tank or rain eater.
or If with urine from the yard a little quicklime should
be added to correct the acidity. Another excellent mix-
ture for general use is composed of Inb. charcoal, 121 b.
night-soil, 40th. cow-dung, and Sla saltpetre, mixed to-
.ber and reduced into powder, and sown upon the land
similarly to guano or bons-dust Amongst florists it is
also used in its simple form, being reduced to coarse
powder and 1
iug nt:sithe ground like ashes ; it is said that
it not only the growth of young einiod delicate
plants in a degree, and induces cu to strike
root, but that it has a powerful Maumee In toning
the colour of flowers generally.
Wood cut for charcoal should be in lengths of three feet
or thereby and if the billet. are over three inches in
diameter thief should be cleft, so that the greatest
diameter of any piece may not three inches Hy
practice is to per it all the saw mill, and reduce
ri to the maximum diameter two and half inches. The
wood &Kochi be cut in winter, carted to the sawmill,
up, and erected in ranges to thy. If stacked in It
is usually dry and tit for coaling in the month of Ague.
U for fine gunpowder the bark ts all carefully shaved of
before WaMf„ but for heating stoves, drying Hops, and
domestic purposes, no such nicety is required.
Having the wood all properly Prepared, and at least half
seasoned, the next thing 10 00 is to prepare tor burning
It. Assuming that about seven cords of wood is to be
bunted In one pit, or may fifteen cart-loads, the foundation
of the pit should be formed about 18 feet diameter, sad
raised a few indica above the level of the ground, with It.
centre *bout three inches higher than the outer edge. In
laying the wood in order,. three billets are so laid in fir
centre of the circle as to fonn • triangle braving a clew
open space in the centre. Tier after tier is thus laid, till a
wait equal to the length of the billets set on end is
resteltal ; when this is done the billets are all set round
sbmg it, but bunging slightly inwards at the tap. After
all the wood is laid in mins and the Pile, which should
stead about six feet in ltebiblib oompletadoi thin orrerins
of strew or litter is laid over all the wood, and above it a
covering of sandy soil or charcoal earth is laid live or six
Inches thick, all clorilY and. firmly Racked together. The
open centre is filled with inn wood, and • little
charcoal at the top to induce to it ignite quickly After
=fairly lighted, holes are formed all rouna with a
sheep poia, so as to induce the are to burn down-
wards. when the changed colour of the smoke to. dark
blue shows that the upper part is entliciently charred,
another set of holes Is made lower down and the upper
ones ciceed up. This is done Main and again, and the Pik
wwatched closely by day and night till saftriently bur
d ned,
which it les in about seventy-two hours. When
ProParlY burned the holes are all closed up, and a few
new ones made all round, but chiefly at the tot; Into
which six or eight bucketfuls of water are and the
ham again dosed up till the next CR eucce. day, when
the covering is taken of, and the charcoal taken down and
stored away for future we C. T. MAU, Cease Horse,
Claim Ssytember It

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