The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-25 00:00:00

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Mr. J. Hawkins Simpson la • letter, which appeared.
In last week's Tekgrass, writs. anent • recent " note "
of mine, in which I referred to the seclusion of the
Queen and the discontent it omissions, "It is Moon.
°illegible that it was penned by anyone the sterner
sex. I will at once disabuse his mind of the idea, if
he really entertains it, which be souiewhst ungallantly
insinuates, that the remarks in qusetion are so wicked
that they could only nave emanated from a founds
pen, by ',king upon myself the responshility. Tina
set. C.l Mtlil3.l appea •SO •r, i•:1114117 t exci's
H. ,L's split of toys ty was—" Surely it is time for
Queen Victoria to exhibit • little more Internet in the
living." Well, I think if that gentleman bad lately
visited London or any other of the great towns he
would have found a pretty wide-spread feeling to the
eame effect, and that, moreover, the neglect of Royal
duties, or rather the delegation of them to the hard.
worked Prince of Wales, has given rise to a emit
amount of discontent among the toiling mamas
to whom a real L 'lidos' season with the
Court held in the metropolis, would mean greatly
increased labour, and proporti ,nally better means of
existence. Mr. Hawkins Simpson ecleavots., to
excuse the ridiculous orders which render inn, ootoibio
to ever; one the stations through which the R ,yal
train pastas as being noces•ary to , moire V,or Majesty's
safety 'in these days of cows,. fly ,iyitoroigo
explosions." This assertion does out toe a moment
boll water. This kind of no-n olr.r-eyen-twlookupon-
. me system was rigorously carrkA out long brio,. any-
thing was ever heard of diro.,,oito or dynamite
spiratom Resided, Bet -Majesty can stroll about
among her Highland gilliee unattended. The only
inference that can be drawn is that it is suppoed
loyalty is not quite so deep rowed on the South side
of the Tweed as the other. I am quite awwe th.t
Her Majesty dn.. now and then real the Bible to
aged pemmute—in Sc ,tland—but can Mr. H. S. quote
• single butane, where an English labourer wa, chum
favoured. Th twirls of in,,, and women do the Mlle
thing every day of their lives, and would "blush
to find it fame" through the medium of all
the goodey-goodey picture boolts published in th•
land. One would almost fancy that such traits of the
fulfilment of Christian duties, wore PO rare in Borate
that when they did occur they ought to be V./unit:4o,ga
to the ends of the earth. Mr. Hawkins flimpeor, adds
" not many days ago, she desired Sir Charltrt ilke to
investigate the condition of the houses of ttot Lon,lon
destitute, and to repoit thereon ti harden," maul the writer is decidedly wrong. Sir Or
-melee Mike did
it after reading G. R. Sims' admirable letters on
Horrible London," and H.M. ler.rning that, sect for
the Radical Sart. to narrate wly„t he had seen. I have
yet to learn that the intervier, has resumed lathe very
practice' meth" "f eh'whic sympathy by means of •
cheque for E 50.000 from •:ue royal hoards. Again. Mr.
Hawking Simpson :.itributee to ELM. the recent
outcry against the pigeon butcheries at Burlingham,
and Wade be Mistaken. It wits the Princess of
Wales who *rot disc .untenanced those exhibitions.
Ittd•odi I do not see how if M. conecientimulY
could do so, seeing that she calls upon
the country to psy the Master of her
Brickhounda £1,700 • ye u. to torture unfortunate little tame deer. As Mr. Haw Mrs
Simpson concluded with an extract from the letters
of the late Princess Alice, I will do the same :—(Sh•
narrates a visit she paid to some of the houses of the
poor,)_" W. had some difficulty In finding the place.
At last we came to the hon., • small, dirty courtyard,
through which we passed into a tiny room, where the
mother and baby lay in bed. There were two r then
beds besides, the husband and four other children all
in that walked space. But the room was alias and
end had really no disagreeable smell. I seat Chiba,