The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-07-14 00:00:00

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DORCH ESTER, JULY I ith, VIM.

Dotes.

Mr. Sturgis preliminary campaign in ti.sith
set, so far am active public operation. are coticented,
In now concluded. Ile expre.nen complete natinfac.
tin at his reception in town and country, and he
entertains itanguine lielAw as t., the resoilt. It in
presumed both nidea will now accept an aruindiee
during the hared. at leaAt far the rural
districts are c,incerti.4l, to take up the tattle will.
renewed s igour At it,. dee.. We have had public
meeting. ed 114140,1 M, and we feel ...me oair readers are
heartily nick f the rei...rts that hate tilled our pages.
A lend f eel:war:tux,' edia ia ttow evtiected,
contending isirtien in the meantime making aitiiplete
pn:parations for the COI ii laa

Concerning certain hypercritical ,ati.sn, in our
or Condervative contemporary, iii. lte. /1„„,,„
Neese writes :—" Mr. Editor,—Your contemporary
id evidently thankful for is re .111:111 mercies ; hut I
think that had I been in the editorial chair I would
have endeavoured to conceal inv political naked,.
under .„,„,m..re decent covering. even if I had had
to appropriate cane article of the Liberal wanirolie.
As rewards Lord Randolph Churchill, I W A. 4 not ,
particularly anxious about hid deat, whether it were
lost or won; what I desired to dtate wan that the
labourer* and artidand of Mr.ddatock were determined
1., chastise Lord Randolph Churchill for hid utterance.,
respecting their unfitnedd for the Fmnehide. But if I
may stillventure to prophecy I would in, ilivo-ed to
affirm that if your contemporary cannot find more
anhitanted ground for criticism its pn.pects are
indeed glomiy.—Titonad Newt"...

The Duke of Argyll's indictment agaimt eterything
f aadatonian in his speech to the Peer. on Friday
not strut to awaken strong demon-tntt ions of grat nude
even front the ultra-Conservatise 'tenches. The fact
in " whipping the dead horse " is not an sisTation
which commends itself. Enough has been said and
done in the first finsh of their tritunpli to render them
superior to this sort of indulgence. The Duke of
Argyll and Lon! Brabourne speak and writs in
almost as diaappotntsd a tone as Mr. Edward Clarke,
Q.C.. M.P., but there is an essential difference
of feeling between them. Mr. Clarke frankly and
with borne good reason acknowledged that he is dir
appointed ; in the other cases we are left to inference.
Mr. Clarke " desired legal office " became it would
have given him " the oms.rtunity of ladling/ f.irward
those substantial measures of legal reform," which hr
believes would improte the condition of the Pm .1.1.'
and st rengthen our national ned it ut ions. heim are high
sounding sentence., Mit somewhat %ague. The threat
at the end of his letter to the secn•tary of the Comer•
vative Association at Plymouth ia more definite. Mr.
Clarke rejoices that he will not I,e trammelled hy
official respututihilities, "not Icing spry closely Isiund
by personal ties." These ar,e early day. for the forma-
tion ul " a cave " ; but at the 111.'10011. Mr. Clarke
1110961 as its sole occupant.

City magnates more than breathe again. With
news of a baronetcy for the Lord Mayor comes the
consciousness that Sir NVilliani Haro.urt's Nbinicipal
Reform Bill is destined never to pass into law. Ti
triumph of the league was short indeed. They
brought pressure enough ttp in the late Govenunent
to induce them to bring forward the INN. This
measure was coldly received in Parliament ; it was
hotly opposed in the city; it was only approved of
by the London prem. We infer now from Mr.
Chamberlain's brochure on local government that the
Radical secti )))) of the Cabinet was egotist rust a
schetne of coneentrati. n. At any rate we know that
the grrate.t. Liberal authority on local govt. lit,
deliberately prefers investing Ow different Perlia.
rsentary bonrogh. with mi. ir at. ape I hist kitten's.
Thia is the only memorable scheme. It is oneiii
whirl, the vity on nearly ail Vs king Metnosilitan
institutions would couleur. If the league had md..14.4
a temperate mid torheroie measure on it,..., li:sen.
London might it,: ti:il • I. • Tit,•
1111 l 111,/,:f.t:1131 • I. 111 till, iil •

.% Metropolitan Coroner .an Amato' halal an
inatutat a wianan alio, beim/ taken ill in the
street., was carried t. a waarkliona., medically
attended to theri•. and tha ii died. The limilismal of
the lAADIf WoMIAM, 11l Conyetitollo. of his wife having
retail vett " parish relief,- will lose hi. vote. Thi.
A lit•W alianger to the electorate.
Liberal and Con.eriatise ag.iii liystha•R.f. rat)
will lie constantly ..11 the watch for fainting his anal
aaxident., and clector. and their %i is... will Ire tivized
on the Alightellt, pros mat I. AI Anil radii.] into the
workli. 'lbw for medical attention