The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-21 00:00:00

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Donaister, Is tempsay with Weymouth, Bridport,
Portland, Methane, Wareham, Poole, and other
towns a our county, hae met with the censure and
rameastranos of soma aiporteat Diocesan pleliOnlial,
who kW written under the titn of a " Linable
Inhabitant of the Diocese," complalang that the
Darastalas towns especially have faller:VW appal
those institutions recosunended by the Bishop and the
Bleed, lingoes who liven bin knows fall well, and
perhsps bitter thee the 'Hamblin Inhabiteat," how
maw me the Gale and claims on the purse a the
, benevolent and rearitebly-inciined, and bow orient are
She appals that are of tea made and as otter Mowed,
, but we ere inclined to think the individual might as
" well have reserved the blame h• has thought it
to attach to as. lie has grouped together the "Board
of lf,ducation," the "Church Budding Association,"
the ." Poor Bsondoe Augmentation Fond," and
" BithoPu=os' Church Union for Spiritual Aid,"
. all very aid impatient societies in their way,
apd be huniateithat, notwithstanding church people
- have ban rectigaild by the Bishop to make an saarai
collectioa for one or ali of them societies in all our
parishes, and At iiinbd, with its collective wisdom and
authority, has awed. that so 'they ought to do, still
thry have dialoyalls sad un wisely ailed to 'tippet them.
Of the 577 parishes, 110/ have subseribed, and II et the
largest pleas **Area hare tailed to contribute.
Ia this black Wighmle. Dortilierter. Although we
would not id a mament throw ;aid water on any
charitable aganisalipit, we think charity should begin
' et home, sad wain, thrown invaluablelestitutions are
allowed to imolai (or wait of the namary support,
' we don't think the people of tha town and neighbour.
hood will be very mai hart by the reproaches et the
"Heolde Labableaat 'lot failing to support snob *Qom.
paratively riniote society a. the Meinoakin Board. it.
inks to what pas condition a Wags is attributable.
" One or otheyst two mass, he says,oaa alone asocitutt
lag this litaf•b4
.41ags.' Zither the
aeolsam are sad may, bit ailowea,So die ; or they
NI lasalitineatly advosated." We imagine It is natincr,
bet rather that the whole of the f la* obtainable tot
obadhable purposes ate devoted to our own clisritlei
at boau which are adli inadequately supported, and
• which we obliged to lattice their good work on that
veal aomitat.

The WOOrieGall length of the debate at the Address
hss added renewed • pied, if any tiers wanting, of the
lierradtt 014eimis rieW kir el proceure. The delay
'high bee bees ocomiormid in bringing the proposed
Rules before the House Om, however, been favourable
to the caroms of the IRICONIS of the Gone:met in
Arabia their sorephaws. • via ago there we.
talk of • Goverament detest and • iliesolation. Many
Liberal members were kaown to be opposed to the
nl resoletioa. The coartitoenuies here, howerw,
some to the mons of the Government. Many
orgeskatioas hare spoken out on the side of the
Premier, sad it is now expeotad that no 'mime
dillenity will be experienced in securing • Government
majority. Whether it will be for the permanent
bomb of Liberalises to put so greet an loore.ee of
power into the hands of the executive is • pantie°
whke has not yet, perhaps, been sufficiently can.
aimed.

London, with all Its greatness, is a forlorn and neg.
hided region. It is not • city, though it eontaing two
Mika. It is not a municipality, though it contains •
congeries of Parliamentary boroughs. Ili' enormously
larger but the maxim of Euclid that the whole Is
greater than its part does not seem to apply to it.
Sympathies and .thargige are so absorbed in its detached
PoMions that they cannot be extended to its entirety.
Wes of ma'rk give to vestries what wee meant for •
tannlcipalky. • There seems sneer chance of a sweep-
ing Worth Mr. Gladstone hag investigated existing
thsgoalise. Only a little agitation Is required and the
existing order Of things is doomed. Ihe reform...
me in the field ; but they want funds. The"
League"
have Wood 20,000 oircuLers 'skin for gabecrip.
What has been the result? Thousand' might have
been anticipated in response to the appeal. As a
matter of fact, about £2 sterling has come In! !

Pinatas of distinction am more liable than other' to
have their names held up to ridicule by means of
Impudent forgeries. Lord Coleridge's position with
reference to the Irearnerux frauds is not without •
mortifying element in it. It is not pleasant for a man
In his position to appear in the witness-box of a police-
court and be subject to examination, possibly • cruel-
examination, at the bands of some polics-court
kr. As • rule, judges do not like giving evidence.
There would be more prosecutions for perjury but for
Illitok known repognanoe to becoming witnesses, and
Ike leo of time involved to tite public as well as to
themesives. It la remarked by Lord Campbell in his
"1.1,.. of the Chancellors" that occupants of the
Beech do not make good witnesses. B. instances
several historical exempliwobs most famous of which
Is the appearance of Lord. as • witness for the
defeats at the trial of Fergus O'Connor for tessom

The Ladles' Temperanoe Amonlatioo is the least
obtrusive but not by any mesas the hest effectual of
teetotal orgealiadoos. 'mated of holding public
mastbage, It arranges tot drawinproom asemoblages,
lairlialt the principles which it advocates are diamond
In a soml-coaversational manner, and in which
unbelievers in complete abstioinos principles ars given
flee opportunity of expressing their opmton.. The
mak objects of the emaciation are to induce ladies to
Cake the pledge and to abstain (tom offering intoxicants
La visitors or servants, and, further, to use their
Waseca with their male retaliate and acquaintances
ia lb. di:intim of total abstinence. la Use last
ofirestioa it was urged that they might produce unit
emnita tied no doubt they might, for we have it on
mood makesiO that the weak lungs of the earth are
amn to aonlosnd the mighty, and the foolish things
to confound lb. wise.