The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-06-19 00:00:00

Varlet Conntq Expreso,

DOROFIESTEE, JUNE 19cb. 1883.

THE BATH AND WEBT OF ENGLAND 800IETY.

It is now 12 years ago that Dorchester was
honoured by a visit from the Bath and Wait of
England Society, and we are sure the announce-
ment will be i.ailed with pleasure by the in-
habitants of the county generally that there is
a possibility of another visit in 1885. We
believe we are not exoeeding our privilege in
saying that although Brighton is the first in the
field so far as invitation is concerned, yet the
movers in the matter have been given to under-
stand the Executive would greatly prefer Dor-
chester sa the place of exhibition. The first
step will be to requisition his Worship the
Mayor to call a public meeting ; this, we under-
stand, will be done, and it is expected the
meeting will be called for Saturday, the day
on which a good represent Alva gathering can
fairly be expected. The matter is being
warmly taken up, and we hope the result will
be satisfactory. No ono can possibly over
estimate the advantages of such an exhibition
to Doreetshire, and we hope, should Mr. Durden
cell a meeting, he will be warmly supported.

The conviction of the Dynamitarde at the Old
Bailey has given unqualified satisfaction to the
general public of London, and no ordinary person
seems to question the Lattice f the verdicts or the
equity of the sentetces. From New York we beer,
also, that the remit of the tri,l has been received
with acquiescence. if not with approval. It remains
to be seen, however. whether a tendency will be
evinced by the NatioulliAt Party to queetion the
execution of Fptice in this coo, as in that of the
Dublin AUO&Sitiatioo.. Ii regard to the latter GOO
It may be uthered, from the nattire of qu-stions
which have been put to the Government from time to
time by ParrisUde members of Par!Lemont. that they
have not been overwhelmed with a 1101180 of the spilt
of the Invincible murderers. On the contrary, the
tendency of their interrogations haa been to elicit,
U possible, some fact* condemnatory of the manner
In which the conviction of the aineasins was secured.
The only one of the guilty men whose conduct they
have plainly and unequivocally condemned is Carey,
wad it is clear that his offence in their eyes is more
that he is an informer than that hale guilty of blood.
Mr. Callan has • Bill in hand disqualifying from
Intuticdpal office any person who, since May, 1880, bee
sdasitted on oath participation in an indictable
offence. The measure is designed to get rid of Carey
bout hie position as • member of the Dublin Tows
Omura Simultaneously, with the preparation of
this Ball, comes the report 1 Mrs. Pitmen's speech to
an enthusiastic Irish- American audience, in which she
expresses her " sympathy" with the "fine young
san" jag hanged in Lublin. Her son and his party
dare not, at the present time, use p ecisely similar
language in this country Of in iad: but, on the
other hand, they dare not ri k their popularity with
ship reckless Idleness by expressing the slightest
acquiescence in the Justine of the recent executions.

Whilst Mr. Parnell and his 'group" have for the
peesent atradonel any more serious form of obstruc-
tion in Parliament itself than the &skins of as in-
ordinate number of questions, they are pursuing their
old policy to some parpee in the Grand Committee on
Law. Their ttctics are, indeed, seriously imperilling
the Attorney-General's chances of ,:etting the Criminal
Cods ready f r pre.entdion to the Howe. Two days'
slitting. were Almost wholly monopol:zttl by long,
winded PArtiellite •tieeches op in o•te single detail of
the Code, and dill the c a•tse in quasi n is unsettled.
The pint in dispote is whetoer preldoioary interroga-
Woos in cams permitted by the C de should be con-
ducted b dare ordinary inmistrates or only before
stipendiaries. The Att•cney-tveiseral. hrisk and bright
as be generally is. is beginning to look rather fagged
ant. Grand-Cdmmittes work will make a great
difference in the position of the Chief Law officers. It
will Monet destroy their private practice, and when it
is remembered that the fee prescrib-d by etiqudte
• brief to an Att irneydieneral is £lOO.l • minimum.
it may be juti4e I that the pecuniary secrifice is u..t a
small oae. Sir Herding. Gifford is reputed to be
malting • later income toes either tins Attwooy or
.the Solicitor General.

Mr. Labouchere Imu lobe before the public in
some way or other, and he does not seem to care much
bow it is. He det3rmines to have at lervt a Clouse-1d
poriods' with of notoriety in return fr his risking his
£l,OOO to Mr. Irving Biahop. There was much dis-
appointment at the Bt. Tames's Hall meeting that the
bet did not cons of. Bet the event showed that quite
a ',amber of people have bask note, which they are
williag to dispose of to anyone who will read the
nemben without seeing them. Mr. Waidy, who took
the chair, appears to have lat £5 to Mr. Bishop
recently at Leeds. Mr. Charles Russell, who rem
present, volunteered to be simil irly experimented upon
to the same amount, and so cild several oth.-r peo;.le.
Bat Mr. Bishop betrayed a singular unwilliornese to
41112164 his powers. He weld have been inevitably
put down as an iinro.tor if be had not finally been
persuaded into winning a n.de from ono./ the audience
in this remarkably abort and easy method. But the
greet prise of £l,OOO has .till to be contends,' for, Mr.
Bishop can scarcely take exception to Mr. Labouchere's
latest offer, giving him a list of 50 eminent gentlemen
from whom no select a stakeholder.

The aura Tuxes advises the Bishops to renounce
their sesta In a /louse iniquitous enough to losss •
Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, threatens the Lords with
a speedy extioction as • legislative body, and plemantly
announces that marriage itself as an inatitution Is
hopelessly diagrace I. The triumph of this agitators
livery great, and well it may be, for they have w rked
lon and hard for the result which they have obtained.
"The more y u shout, the more you ere likely to be
beard," Is the moral, end agitators generally will take
the Leeson to heart. It is absurd to describe the Bill
as seed national important's or popularity. Average
folk era, and always have boon, apathetic on the subject
as not one immediately concerning them, though, at
the ammo time, if the thing were pet to them, willing
to admit that there was no particular reason for the
existing restriotion. The paining of the Bill has been
*enured by the persistent aloft, of • very wealthy
clique. No general enthudaana would ever have bean
awnswid upon the subject. As It wit, the measure
might have been still in iefinitely delayed but for the
salvo personal influence of the Royal Priam., who
Myer took any apparent interest in the subject until
• few years ago, and are therefore not unnaturally
believed to have In view the renewal of their family
.allianos with the Grand-Ducril Flotse of HMO.

A session which ban e.e,—m the practical repeal of the
10.13. Act, and the teasing by the Lords of the Doomed
Wile's Sister Bill, may probably no before its aloes •
material alteration in the Vaccination Law". Dr.
Cory's experiment upon himself, which has resulted so
disastrously no far as he is conceroed, is great capital
to the Antilraociottion party. It has produced an
evident effect upon the House of Commons, but it
had previously produced a deep effect upon Sir Charles
Dilke, who is said to have previously instigated the
question which was put to him si.on the eubject. Mr.
Gladstone some time sg gave the w ,rl,l a Post-card
Intimation that his mind leas open to conviction on the
srusediemy of modifyins the law, on I other members
of the Cabinet .4ro known t favor, in pert at le et,
the views of Mr. P. Taylor and Mr. Hopwood. There
1.. indeed, a spocisi aro:intent now f ,r an alteration in
the law. If, a tho d.otors say, there is a probability
of the increased ewea I of diawase ,hroush the P 11•1.11-
46.11 of the C.D. Act, there is all the more rem for
anticipating its communication by impure lymph, and
Dr. Cory's case seems conclusively to prove that it may
be so communicated.