The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-08-03 00:00:00

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

We have now got to the beginning of the end of the
Parliamentary session. In little more than • week the
door, of ht.. Stephen's will be domed, as we may hope,
for six months to come. The last dare of the session
are, aa usual, being employed 'chiefly in doing formal I
work— in gathering up the fragmento of legislation,
that es little as poesible may he lost: and it I. wonder.
lul what progress is made with measures when half the
telhere are away, and the other half are anxious to get
off. Especially noticeable ie the rapidity with whit*
the Lords pass Bills which have been lingering for
months in the Lower Rouse : so that if Parliament
-Aways worked at the rate, we should soon get rid of
those "arrears of legislation" which every seasion leaves
over to the following. The.. arrears are not very
alarming at present, for ministers have managed this
year vicarry out their procromme almost intact, and
the " measeere of the ionooents" will not be a very
,er.o. • one. lint amulet the general tamenems of the
U.ag-end of the negation, one little feature is remarkable.
The House of Commons has voted away in Committee
of Supply many millions of money almost without quell.
lion, and it is only when the odds and ends of the Civil
Service E.timates wale under consideration that the ,
economists are heard to demur, sad to propose petty
little amendment& The fact seems to be that non-
official pencils cannot grapple with the great figures of
the great services; so that, to keep tip their reputation
as economists, they must direct their attacks against the
little votes.
The London season is now eltneet completely broken
up. The Prince and Princess of Wales have left in.
and everybody who can get away has followed their ex.
ample ; even the families of many members of Perlis.
who are obliged to remain for • few days longer have
left town ; the Opera.houle is *but up ; the concerts
of the year are over ; even the Crystal Palace, which is
generally the last place to confer that the mason haa
ended, held on Satunley its last summer coneert, and
will now begin to cater for the lower classes; and as
for the West End streets and squares, the Ring and the
Row, if 'disbud is not yet written upon them, there
glory is as nothing compared with the biilliancy of •
month ago, and is visibly diminishing every day. In
fact, London is subsiding into a very quiet place, and to
the man of fashion is becoming little more than a
deserts, though, with the frequent reinforcements which
excursion trains are now brinsing us from the country.
we shall doubtless manses to keep up three millions of
japulation until our migratory thousands return to us.
What is called the emptiness of London in the off-
season is indeed a oomparative term, and is entirely
relative to • person's life and habits. Tbe .niividual
who never visits the West End nor any fashionable
plaices of amusement or resort, will find this big town
as full aa ever it was ; but the man of fsahuse will
pereeive aleadation and emptiness at every tern, and
will he impatient to depart to more congenial scenes.
From London to Edinbergb is • distance of RIO
mile., and • coach used to take as long to anoomplitli
this distance ee a steamer does now to cross the Atlantic
from Liverpool to Armories, while the journey by rail
from the English titie Scotch metropolis can be made
in a few hours. It does not, therefore. much startle us
when we bear of a gentlemen, one lit. Kilaniroth, doing
the said journey in six days on a bicycle; though the
rate of travelling (oeer 66 miles • day for six days)
proves the, the new velocipede is an invention of no
paltry et erecter. The test was • severe one, the dis-
tance being the,longeet yet user-takes on a bicycle, and
eLovre that guest nor only of physical powers is secured
by the use of such echidna, which have now become
something more than a hobby, and an constantly to be
suet with about our suburban roads.
SPECTATOR.

A YOOllO woman named Orline Lybarger died suddenly
in her room in the Kirtley-houm, Waterier, Indiana, on
Tuesday afternoon, from couvulaiona *bled by tight-
Ineing.—Nrie Yuri Tim,., July U.
The Horne Secretary bat decided to recommend the
reprieve of Manny fur the murder of Heidrun at
l' (bridge.
Tee RerRIMISITATION Or HALIIMPIT.-I(r.E.
Hoiiiime,o e.. tor Mali.litin ha, horaniie ti the re.
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• ne Mrate attentiiin t.. hi. ;mbar aa acon•Utto
him •• tinibaullt ciinm4ent awl Intelllornt will naturally
t•mot, are itt.aina mamma hound tutted.- Mr.
it,. Ilea tie ted lor the ',them! intoned In July.
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1.. the premint ant gi(her government.
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K. ityvke the C.itiar‘atiee umMilate at the la 4 eleellem,
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Minot he Mall rod rite a Isethom iiiieeiltke, to the prenent
tliivernment. he Mould set "Kam any extreme /immure Irhleh
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i.i.itral4e I. extireuteel of eilutation, and • re...tuition
.4 OM Ilaii0f1•1 emienditure. 'The writ hir tl,e ma
revels,' In Maiabury liamaday mortally'. The !tape bag
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