The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

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Alirr JOettliaifLondt-rn Virtue and Co.), so ems
shady np rite the higbest commendation for the richness
of its eegrovings, and the value of it. article, in pro-
moting the true in high art and the beautiful in art.
induery, that itie only necessary for on to in.lieste its
°entente. The February pert has three dhoti rations on
steel- " Driltewreek from the Armada" by P. it. Norris,
@mute. 41 by C. 11. Jeeps, repreeeetlnt • Ismile Koinfl
homeward with freepost of war, end plate, and gorgeoe.
robot: "A scene of the deluge" from the group of
sculpture by Luccoirdi, depicting a terrible episode—•
man sustaining himself And his wife eed child on
point of rock up which the " devoering flood" rushes
with remorselms power of dietruetion, he convinced
that wimps is hopeless, she looking up to him for
eornfort, the child looked in the arum of both ',wettis—
h is • grandly conceived group, and the plate gives us '
• vivid impression of it the "Procession of the
Virgin,* by G. Bethel, engraved by J. L Knob; this is
from an altar piece, and displays bootity of (learn and
reverential feeling. The literary contents include a
thoughtful paper on, "The Christian Ideal in Art." in
which the eller urges that die artist must use his
powers ma trust with reverent carefulness; an article
en the legend of the Holy Omit- • notices of the pi
galleries of Milan; Hard with Hall, one of the series of,
'Steil Homes of England occasionally open to the
people, beautifully illtutrated ; • most Important
paper, being the second of • series, on, "The adopt.
'Way of nor native plants to purposes of ornamental
an ;" the first of • number of papers on the " Museums
of England," beginning with the Mayer Museum," at
Liverpool, and Its remarkable collection of egyptise
antigeities, ke. Altogether this 1.. part not excelled
by ony ,4 its many valuable predecessor..
llamenceift. GAriith—flir J. H. Lethbridge, Bart.,
.J. P., county of Duren, he., has published. in • second
edition, " Considerations" addressed by him to Her
Maj. sty, on the subject of magisterial oaths, founded
on the and of Jesus Chri.t, "Swear not stall,"
with • char ,curristie preface to the Earl of Devon. The
pamphlet et.. t-rth that Chnstian legislation Is the
beet tosses for rational advencement, and that the law
of oaths is a departure from and derogatory to such
legislation ; with the ease of Sir J. H. Lethbridge, Bart.,
as mn otOcial grievance which calls for legal redress.
The removal of Mots and disabilities is • gradual process,
but we have no ilcubt that ultimately the imposition of
the "level rook" Sir John here deprecates will par
away as have done other reeks lees tolerable.
W•FITS LABOUR TO WAS'S LABD.—YeAT after year
unskilled labour becomes lees and le., useful in this
country, yet the number of such worker, is simmingly
greet, ark looking the scanty piiternee tiny can earn
wino m 1107411 thiy fall into peec rim), misery, and
mime. It social eon i•rea,es veiy heavily upon our
altillnl 'others who are competing with all the world,
for British IletiSlSSafe more heavily taxed than those
of ant t ther country, while the existence of s body of
needling idlers in our midst hods ill for the common.
wealth. How to utilize such unemployed common
labo,rers Ms problem meriting the deepest trinsideratioa,
awl the INDUSTRIAL EIIPLOTIILIa Amocianoi
Parliaturnt,street, London, S.W.) propose to answer it
by a comprehensive adoption of the policy of applying
" wait, labour to waste land." Of the existence of
" wants labour" there can be no question ; and lot
wrote land" we are directed to a schedule published
upon Governmental authority, proving it estate, more
on lens, in every county in Great Britain and Ireland.
The suggestion is that upon these Lands children and
tle 4mb-bodied poor could be pat to work Immediately
and profitably, ad Gist by their opadeshutbandry, the
forme might be brought up healthy is body and mind,
imp sing so burden upon the rates, but producing the
*oat 1 their maintenance and edueetion, and the totter
AO earl' at least subsistence money, notti " times mend,"
end untdormint at their usual avocations is once more
to be hut by those who may prefer it. We are satiated
that eine such scheme as this is far more practleable
end infiniely prelersble to anything like " nati inal
emigrstion," foe it would be emotes. to send to the
plumee unsinlledeorken, and of skilled labour we have
none too much. llow hest such a project meld be
earned out—whether through the Guardians of mob Union or esberwi.•- we me not prepared to say, but It
is a scheme deserving thought ,
and hearty
commendation.
Wolllll surinaiiii.--Miss Becker has seat as the
eireond annual report of the exeentive committee of the
Manchester National Society for thiff
which represents the progres of the movement as most
imeoureging. There to no just moue& that we ale
aware of, for excluding women Tatclmfers from the
Parliamentary franchise; at the same tires, the mb c
4
is ndt overwesuing importance, and Beele
it maiutze
Parliament has lees imperative work on
be well to remove the electoral disabilities of .0.4.
Till ANIMAL WORLD for F,ltrnarY cont.st • c.rirty
of interesting papers, excellently illustrated,
lated to promote the humane treetment ofonimals,
which is now so often choughtlesaly disregarded.
Gus Own IrtilltrilUi (London : Hunt and Co.) has
been enlarged and improved for the (torrent year, and
we are glad to learn from the February number that the
additional exterum has brought many more subscribers.
It it one of the boot sixpenny nosgAtiors for family
rt.silnig; intertatini:, practical, and sound are its con-
tents, and they are visrisid to Bull the needs of
the members of • housenold.