The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-27 00:00:00

Poet Cot* Expo.

DORCHESTER, JUNK 21111, WM

In oar own particular neighbourhood that. is no
dearth of temperance organisations and tempermos
promoten, but our attention has been drawn, by •
oommunication from the Organising Secretary of the
Salisbury Diocesan Branch of Its C.S.T.S., to the
question of drinkiog la the harvest fields. This is •
matter which bat not been so freely discussed in the
great ccallict now going on as it might have been.
The Dorsetehire labourer is, as a rule, • fairly
tradable Individual, and whether he will feel disputed
at harvest time to give up his tankard of foaming nut•
brown ale or hia hoca of' alder," is at present an open
question. Al the close of • hard day's work during
the harvest be has been wont to eye his glass of liquor
with especial fog:doer, but we don't think it un-
remonabie to suppose that the clinchisg arguments
of the great temperance writer. will ban their weight
with the labourers. The Church of England docety
km passed a resolution to the effect that ism grants of
harvest tracts would be made to any clergymen
applying for them for distribution among the men, end
by this means they bops to wean them from their
manual indulgeaces. It is net so much the ordinary
refresh:mat in the field that is so baneful as Ills the
eletolle of part pelmet in beer and cider, and it is
this nneatlidantory settlement that the society Me
particularly set itself to oppoes at this season of the
year. Without discrediting the good that the literature
may possibly do among them meo, we would give our
°vision that the good effected by the bravest tracts
will be nothing if out accompanied by the individual
exam* sod influence of the employer. More that
mything an the world, that too what they will be moved
by, and, therefore, perhaps the idocuty would du balder
if they ormaised a mason among the farmers
theameine

It rally, perhaps, Joists,* some poses' in this dis-
trict to kaow • meeting of the clergy laminated in the
emblem of Church Bell Hanging was bid List weak in
this diocese, with • view to the formation of • Dioosean
Assodaties of Church 801 l Bingen oorrespooding to
the Dioessas Choral Association. Without &dimpl-
ing to rival the great Paul u puma or some of the
noted willow, yet we hare in this diocese some ei.
eellsat peals, sad, doubtless, the material to constitute
• ant-cdass society. The °bora Association has
almost revolutionised the singing in the country
douches, and possibly charism equally @waft are
to it... for us in the way of bell-ringing. At say rats
It will be somewhat strange to hoer of Festivals of
Church Bell Ringers. There Is *truly • Guild of
Ringers in North Wilt', and they have expressed
their willingness to amalgamate with the proposed
Diocesan Assonlation.

The Lead of the Khedives does not exhibit much
reseaddance to the Land of the Pharoahe. The Nile
I, them and there are the Pyramids and Temples.
But the foreigners in modern Egypt are rather masters
than servants, and the exodus which is taking place is
desired instead of hindered by the natives. The
departing hoots, instead of spoiling the Egyptians,
have been spoiled by them, and the destroying angel
has visited the intruder instead of the denizens,
Possibly the modern Egyptians consider themselves to
have been visited by quite as many as ten plagues, and
in view of the great influx of French residente in
recent years, they might be tempted to aver that
history has repeated itself in the fact that "the land
brought forth frogs." Heaven forbid that the waters
should again be turned into blood; but peaceful
anticipations are not sanguine and warlike passions
are sanguinary,

During the long and excited period of the last I
Eastern difficulty the Conservative Government com-
plained that immeasurable difficulties were caused by
unreasonable Opposition Speeches. The Liberal
Government now say that Mr. Chaplin's and Lord
Bellsbnry's indiscretions encourage Egyptian hostility
sal threaten the successful issue of pending negotia-
Neu. The time, surely, must come when foreign
affairs must be put more beyond the range of party
politics than at present. A European Concert is all
very well, but for many purposes a Perty Concert at
home would be more advantageous to the t)tultrY•
Ito Government will be too proud or self.confident to
call in aid the counsels of experience I Opposition
Ministers in dealing with such intricate subjects as,
for example, the Egyptian difficulty. This course may
seem Quixotic; but it might avert tremendous mis-
chief.

Mr. Goldney is the new Remembrancer, appointed
after dee usual incidents of cameans, talUmonial-getting,
personal examination before a committee, and public
voting, whit* cannot be altogether pleasant for the
successful candidate. The qualifications for the
Bemembrenoership, besides a knowledge of law, which
is indispensable, are City influence, dignified appear-
ance and bearing, a rerclguised position In "society"
In the narrowest sense of the word, and acluaintsince
with political personages. The Remembraacer is the
iatevenediery and ambassador between the City and
the Court and Parliement. The position is an enviable
cue in messy map sett, and Mr. Goldney may well give
ap • respectable p *Rion at the Bar, with its; uncers
tefistise and vexations, te accept it.