The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-08 00:00:00

Monet Count 4 Expreop.

DORCRIMICR, JANUARY AO. 11184

Mr. Labonchere's predictions in Trash of forth-
coming appointments are not often fulfilled. They are
frequer.tly predictions by way of advice, and indicate
the editor's notion of the direction in which Govern-
ment patronage ought to be bestowed rather than any
intimate knowledge of the intentions of those in high
• But in selecting Mr. Matthew Arnold as a
probable nuccemor of Sir Francis Sandford as
Permanent gocyseary of the It lac Mon Department,
Truth is likely enough to prove c .rrect. 11* would fill
the poet well, and he is • man who haa served long
and creditably under the Education Department, and
for whom, not only on that ground, but also on
amount of his literary eminence, the Government
would be glad to provide • good berth. With £2,01:10
• year be could hardly retain the £2OO • year which
has recently been granted to him out of the Civil List,
and thus that sum would be set free for some other
and perhaps more deserving author.

At last the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have suc-
ceeded in doing what • Bishop and an Archbishop
failed to In in the case of Mr. Mackonocbie. They
have run blot to earth, or rather tired him out, not to
use to sporting a metaphor of this much-hunted par-
son. The Bishop of London. weakly enough, con.
muted t his institution at St. Pet it's, Loudon
Dock., after haviog dome his best to deprivo him of
St. Alban',, Holborn, hut the Commis loners ref need
to par t e £3)(1 a ye‘r end .svenent to him. Mr.
Maokonochio accordingly has resigned on the ground
that he lore not wish to starve the parish, a.,d so let
us hope there will us peace at list,

It Is rather humillainr t think that American
fathers and husbands should be more j4alous of the
credit of their &bugbears and waves than Englishmen,
still more that the taste and feeling of American ladies
should in soma mitten be more retied and ladylike
than that of English ladies. Mon of us would have
steadfastly maintained this to be impossible. Yet we
have seen the name of " professional beauties" applied
to women of good social position and presumably
decorous life. We have seen photographers' windows
for years past stocked with photographs for vele of
Marchionemes and Countesses, and wives of
Commoners, ski* by aide with those of actresses and
ballet-deacon, the reel or supposed beauty of the fees
or figure affording the sole pretext for the display. No
attempt has been made to check this kind of thing.
Fathers and husbands and brothers have been °outset,
possibly prtud, to hays the ladies of their families
plead up at every street-corner for the cynical
criticism of the roue and the vulgar comment of the
Costermonger. But in America it seems that the law
can be Invoked to stop this kind of thing, and Kr.
Chamberlain*, the father of a New York beauty, is
Indignantly prohibiting the sale of his daughter's
photographs, and has all the better-clams opinion in his
favour in doing so. Americans like Kr. Chamberlains
wcald be astonished to bear of such a thing as the
"prize for the greatest beauty in Ragland, excluding
the Royal Tenafly," offered by a Loodon journal, and
adjudged by the votes of Rs subscribers, which sakl
prase, after a short oompetition between phe'ographed
ladies of fashion and ladles of the dessikaoade, was
adjudged to a dueness whose name has fi ;used in the
esandals of the Divorcee Court.

Mr. Shaw•Lefevr• is said to be eontemplating an
Important extension of the national WaSmile. If all
the corpses and monuments of undistinguished penons
could be removed from Westminster Abb,y, there
would still be roam for the ashes and the eflig* ea of
oar great men perhaps for centuries to come. As it
is, the vaults are becoming overpopulated, and the
Abbey itself <Molted with monuments. There is still
plenty of room in St Paul's Cathedral. But, some-
how. in spite of the present» there of the dust of
Wellington and Nelson, St. Paul's Ls not esteemed
go
honourable or magnificont a sepulchre as the Abbey.
Mr. Shaw-Lefevre proposes the enlargement of the
Abbey by the erection of • large mausoleum or
monumental chapel. No doubt something of the
kind ought to be done. The addition, if made, must
be worthy of the existing fabric, and whatever the
colt may be, it w mid be cheerfully borne by • nation
which is proud of its heroes, and which has heroes to
be proud of.