The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-22 00:00:00

karat Conutti Expreso.

DORCHESTER, ILLY ?ad. ISIL

ANOTHER (ANAL
There are two engineering schemes before the world
at We present monuat which might be termed inter-
national. The Channel Tunnel is one, the second
Sees Canal is the other. It would he stamp, how-
ever, 11th. bitter feeling sought to be enoeureged by
the former should receive • check by the promotion of
the later. There is growing up • strong opposition
in !canoe to a mond Egyptian Cue], and it is not
naively that snob • scheme, If carried out, would
&atm that good feeling between the two countries
which has hitherto subsisted. The Suez Canal is so
peculiarly • French undertakieg, and U. Lumps is so
einesiiiily • Frenchmen, that the mere thought of
interference or competition is almost regarded as •
cams bali. Freocb ingenuity oonceived the Idea ;
Frew* peravasnos carried it out; french capital is
Invested In it. What better mean 000ld be urged
kw monopoly? What nation ham so good • right as
Trews to sole control and monogamist I It is true
England owns half the share.; it is also undeniable
UM the motor portico of the traffic comes from this
country. Most true of all, however, is the fact that
the Caul le its present oondition falls to afford the
0011•11116D011 which England herself requires. It is
neither deep enough nor wide enough, ft regulations
are not in all climate such es meet with our views.
'Flare is c utrequatly irritation, and once now and
them • decided 'Andres°. to our trade, which, consider-
ing the Interests involved, ought not to be experienced,
sad It can scarcely be wondered at that Enticed has
oescielved the idea of making • new Canal for her own I
especial use. The French cannot divest themselves
of the notion that our object is rather political
than commercial. They do not forget that we
we for the moment =sten of Etypt, eind
they nwarcire our militias, perhaps, by their own,
Imestrine that we mess to establish • permanent
lialtsmee In the country. In this respect they are
padoelly right. Isthmus we shell exert foe a long
Mine to come, no doubt. The mistake they make Is
In believing our latestioss with record to Egypt are
Me ennes as theirs with regard to Tuttle, and in their
semitivems they seem to leave out altogether the
end to which Egypt indeed is only the meass—tbey
kpoes the importance of India. But for our great
poessesione in AM, we should care little foe Egypt—
AM lens ter the Oanel. The traffic between India
sad England la inowartng to sorb an extant that •
limit I. scarcely conceivable. The buss Canal will,
In the course of • few yeses, be utterly inadequate to
our wants. We we compelled to look ahead, end if
U. Limps will not increase the accommodation,
there le really nothing to do but to construct
mother canal. Moreover, should he consent to do
what Is necessary, it is probable that England would
have to find the money. Is this Caime it occurs to
Englishmen that they might jug Ad well cut • fresh
cenal. The world does not Mad still. Just as the
mulffpliostion of railways biome neamary, so may
we expect minas to incases.. It is possible, indeed,
that evestmlly there may he even • second Channel
Tuned. M. Limps may depend upon it that if trade
demands another canal hie monopoly will be des-
troyed, and so better course could be pursued at the
pretest moment than examination by competent
persons as to the reel necessity of the scheme. If the
hooch view the metier poiitically, we do not, except.
ing in the sense of maintaining our great and growing
interests In India.

Whether it be that fish-eating and teetotalism go
logallbsr, or whether it be only one of many moot
indloations of the stesegth of the temperance " wave,"
08 It is called, the four hundred fi4herfolk entertained
by the Prince of Wales at Marlborough Hulse the
other day wore one half of them teetotalers. His Royal
Highs's* had to used out for ginger-best, lemonade.
stagerede, and drinks of • similarly feeble calibre
for thole detestation. It is unkindly said that the Prince
was wholly animate of the existence of the kinds of
drinks in question, and that they had never before been
eon inside the propitiate of Marlborough House.

filawbi-law of bishops are proverbially fortunate In
obtaining good ecclesiastical priferniesto The Rev.
Randall Devidson forms no exesotion to the rale.
The late Audiblebop did not, indeed, present him to
any benefice. At the death of Dr. Taft, Mr. Dm :dew
only held the olio, of Chaplain to the Archblehop and
Exassinieg Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham. Dr.
Barton, indeed, continued him in the former office;
but k• WS/ under no sort of obligation to do so. It is
do.' to the Queen herself, and, in part, no doubt is a
tags of 'aspect to the memory of the late Primula
that Mr. Davidson has been appointed Dean of Wind.
we.a. I. £ very yowl( man for eo high a post—be
Is only 35 years of age—hat he Is a preacher of good
ability, a Broad-Chorchman, and a Liberal. The
&owlet:seat is not one which need amass conch heart.
burning. Hs was thought of as the ameseser of Dr.
ss view of St. Pateds, Pimlico; but, as
DIOS of Windsor, with £l,OOO a year, he need Dot
snub regret having bees pawed by in that instance.