The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-14 00:00:00

Monet (DUN elpttlss,

DORCHESTER. AUGUST 14th, ISM

IMPROVED DWELLINGS.

It will scarcely be said of this generation that efforts
11111, not made to ameliorate the c 'edition of the
lower classes. No section of the community dideed Is
allowed in our day to take ware of itself. The poorer.
looked after by the philanthropic, and wellito-ilo
artisans are legislated for and male to receive the
benefit of co-operation, while the rich by force of grow-
ls' intelligence and fresh discoveries are irreaistibly
pressed into the march of pr evens. In nothing is this
external influence more clearly visible than the prseent
condition of dwellings. Although or people in the
world are fonder of home than the linglish, until
within • few years none were so carolers as to its
arrangements and condition. We were contented if
our houses were our castle.; that is to say, if we bad !
full liberty to keep them in whatever state we cir
It was • fortunate thing "vb. owe discovered that there
are duties as well as rights. and that domestic re or
vernier cc and morality we convertible term.. Yet how
long before we found this out! Over.crow.ling in the
country, imperfect sanitary arraseg-ments in towns,
were evils unthought of till • c imperatively recent
time. The imates .4 small a ittages and pent-up
tenements were piCe I; bet they were n helped.
Thanks, however, to the Peabolys and Waterlows of
modern day.. • hsneficial change is in action, and
every year bring, with it some new scheme, some
philnothropC 'Auer," or some scientific discovery
tending to the improvem nt of dwellings The N iel
E.tate, which was open d the othrr day by Lord
Shaftesbury. is an thee step tower is the desirable
reform. I' I. intended to build about 1000 hiiuses in
that licality forithe working dower., in imitation of the
whims which haa worked so siroceerfully at Shaft. s-
Park. These dwellirge will be constructed
bury
every regard to convenience of inmates. and to
the requirements of recitation. In the latter respect,
working men have granter advents/re almost than any
other clam. 'I he dwellings in queetion will be
subjected to the closest supervision, sod are intended
to be models of neatness and suitability. The effects
of such conditions ars now generAlly acknowledged,
and where, as in the two instances name -I, ginshope
an rigidly exclodsd, moral improvement is of a most
marked character. We mid Just now that even the
mer areuences are connot alonesy.°hafv‘re lasndieUrinnt
some velnebis lessons from the residences; built for
labourers and artisans. A process of levelliog:01
has been going on, which will in time perhaps n
the palace. To the latter, neglect has shown itself in
very Awing indexing's of lat. years. Windsor Castle,
Sandringham, and even the residence of the Duke of
Corinatight, have reve•ted dangers from which tbs
inhabitants of Shaftesbury Park are free. The good
that Ma been done Is gratifying in the extreme,
though the f act that there is • vast deal yet to do
may well 01614 some misgivings. As In the case of
education, the middle class, who from the largest
portion of the community. ars likely to be the worst
off. The rich are feat imitating the poor; the rest
are left to shift 110 beet they can. There is, of course,
ordliary convenience ; that is to say, space and
casement, and even means of ventilation • but with
regard to the higher requirements of sanitation, we
suspect if middle...class houses were examined, some
gross neglect would be discovered—a fault not to be
remedied probably until compulsory action is still
further developed.

In the House of Lords, during the diecassion of the
new Agricultural Holdings Bill, much wee raid about
the mutual relations of kindness and friendship now
!misting between landlords and Wyman'. In spite of
ofuleal assertions to the contrary, such Wallace do
mkt, perhaps in more instances than is generally
believed A paragraph has just appeared announcing
that the Earl of Yarborongh has recently granted a
permanent redact on of rent to his tenants, having
lamely for some years returneil rent ts the total of
LIDA() a year. It I. no more than right. If any man
In the country ought to do the goner us thins to his
tenants it is Lord Yarbomugh. Ir,are ago he was in
heavy pecuniary difficultly.. from which he appeared
to hare no means of extrication. 111, tei.ante tniit
together and voluntarily subscribed an amount which
completely relieved him. He ought to be a good land-
lord, and apparently he In.

The pnbliehed statement .4 the fees paid by the
Archbishop of Canterbury upon hie appointment hal
startled and rather scandalised those who were
unacquainted with the exactions .4 petty State and
ecclesiastical offices, which appear to be rapacious in
proportion to their obecority. It is not .nly Arch.
bishops, however, who are fleeced in this manner. A
man caan.t be trade a knight without having to pay a
heavy list of fees. Thirty year. ago an eminet.t judge,
now long deceased, who did not 111 iOh to be knighted, but
was compelled to acatipe the honour. steadfasly
refused to Fell), the fees, and was, we brlieve, finally
suceessful in this re•istarce. But honour, of that kind
are not usually thrust upon a mui. As • rule, the
recipient of a dignity is wiling to pay the piper with-
out enquiry as to technical right. After all, LW is
not much out of an income of £15,000. But it must
be remembered that a newly-appointed ecclesiastic
dues not at once enjoy his full income. Under the
DAIIIO of Firet•fgulte the ri,st year's profits g, to the
Crown, or rather, since the reign of Queen Anne, to
the Queen Anne's Monty Fund. Usually this
imposition is arranged for by charging it over four
years, so that Archbishop Benson, for example, will
only receive three-quartets of this income this year
and the neat three yetra

Considering everything, the late Duke of Mu!.
borough has been able to provide well for his son,Lord
Randolph. It is plata now why the two g, eat family
libraries were sold. In addition to the moderate
Inc in, which he now enjoys, Lord Randolph will
become entitled on his mother's death to • sum of
£70,000.

The long Macknoochie litigation is far from ended
yet. In the tortuous WI ungodly jumble' of
ecclesiastical law—u it might well be called, for it
deserves Cromwell's opprobrious epithets better than
the Common Ltw—there Deems to be no certainty sod
no finality. It is, it appears, a debatable point
whether Lord Penzance his any authority as an
ecclesiastical judge until he has rewired • new com-
mission from the new Archbishop, or any authority
at all to eentsnce a person to deprivation. The Bishop
of London bulletin to act upon the sentence recently
pronounced, and the next move in the ix,mplicated
= 603h:will an appliosUon on the part of the Church
for a mandamus to compel him to turn
Mr. Mackonocible out of fit. Peter's.