The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-05 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The Licensed Victuallers Defence League are
congratulating themselves that while "the
enemy last year spent £130,000 they did a good
deal of work with £3,000.
The Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicks Beach,
Secretary for Ireland, has accepted the post of
Secretary of State for the Colonise, vacant by
the resignation of Lord Carnarvon.

In this &stets on the War-vote, on Friday
night, Mr. bows essayed the rola of Uriah Hasp.
Hs commenosd his speech with the words—" 6.
thought it would not be thought presumptuous
in so humble a person as himself, iltc.." The
House roared. Sir Stafford NorthoOte's prede-
esserw's forte is evidently Lowe-oomedy.

Our contemporary, the Western Daily Press,
In a recent article esys, anent the physical
extension of boys who offered themselves in
1876 for the Navy, of upwards 2,000 boys
examined the larger kW were rejected by the
medical authoritim "Larger hail" may be,
familiar phrase, but it cannot be in any way
defended. If the result of a division is that one
portion exceeds in size the other, it cannot
possibly have been a halving, and yet people
make use of the a:promotion every day.

A most important decision to grocers has just
been given by the Queen's Bench. By the
Liscensing Act • justices license is requisite for
the sale of wine, as • wine merchant, but licenses
for the retail sale of wines to be consumed off the
premises are also issued by the Inland Revenue.
A Bristol grocer was convicted of selling wine,
empowered to do so by one of the latter only,
and his stock was seised. Against this he
appealed, and the Lord Chief justice and Mr.
Justice Manisty held that this appeared to be a
proceeding adopted by large dealers to stop the
grocers' trade in wins, and not in the interest of
order, therefore the conviction must be quashed.

The Agricultural Labourers Union luta 40,000
member.; £6,842 in the funds, and an annual
blooms of MO& The Durham Miners
Animation, with 38,000 members, posers.
funded property to the amount of £78,298, and
no lass an income than £44.1394.

The Government will publish the official
correspondence which has taken pleas on the
subject of Mr. Gladstone's letters to Mr. Negro-
pontis. The publication of this correspondence
is likely to present the British Ambassador at
Constantinople in • singular light. Mr. Layard
we uadentand, admits that he is the author of
the statement which imputed to the ex-Prime
Minister that he had instigated the Greek
subjects of the Porte to take part in an insur-
rectionary movement. It is a pity that, when
Mr. Layard discovered that he had been betrayed
into an egregious mistake, he did not at once
make the necessary retraction and apology.
But Mr. Layard, it appears, is not like other
men. He declined to avail himself of the
opportunity which Mr. Gladstone afforded him
of withdrawing from a false position, and in the
end he seems to have thought that the best way
of getting rid of a disagreeable subject was by
ignoring it altogether.
The Duke of Connaught has been installed. with
complete Masonic ceremonies, as Great Prior of
Ireland.

The Queen was graciously pleased to express her
wish to confer the vacant Garter on the E 4 of
Beaconsfield, but the offer was, with her Majesty's
permission, declined.
The London papers of Thursday say :—Th. Prince
of Wales and the other distinguished visitors of Lord
and Lady Alington shot again yesterday over the
home preserves at Criclud. and made some exoellent
bsgs of game Seeing "the distinguished visitors"
comprise the Prinoess and several ladies of title the
announcement ought to en, the greatest gratification
le the Mies Beckeeites.

A new vendon of the chorus to the war song after
lifacdsrmott hae been published as follows :
We deal want to fish' :
And by jinn) U we do
Well have two shillings income-tax,
And. good licking tear

Lord Beaconsfield may find an early signature of his
In the possession of a firm of solicitors clogs to Bed-
lord•row. These gentlemen cherish a deed bearing the
witnessing signature of "Benjamin D'lfsraeli, clerk to
Mown. Maple arid Co., solidtors, Old Jewry."