The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-20 00:00:00

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DOBOICISTIR. NAZAR 10th. 1883.

POLITICAL DYNAMICS.

The meat explodes al Whitehall leas callel attar.
ties to Mr. Gies/steno's random remark, thrown out,
by the way, on • railway platform when waiting for
the teals, to the effect that the explosion at Clorken-
well had opened his eyes to the amenity of dealing
promptly with the Irish Church. It is a lemon to
statesmen that there Is weight in their lightest words,
sad that • certain proud reserve with regard to the
stogie by which they are e bloated is their imperative
duty. "My Schools and Schoolmasters " is a charming
title for a gossiping book of autobiography such as
the late Hogh Miller pat together. As a working
masa& who rose by his own energy and what Is now
gelled " self-help" to .high rank as a writer on sub-
jects on the borderland of 'dance and theology, such
disclosures have an air of charming frankness about
them. But Mr. Gladstone, who his been in many
sehoole and has pained through many schoolmasters'
beads, from the stern and unbending Toryism of the
Duke of Newcastle to the last type of advanced
Libmalism of the Birmingham Canons. should make
no such admissions. Candour in • statesman le not
praiseworthy. We cannot have too much °papoose of
mind awl that willinoess to learn, them to the
extent of turning his back on the teachers of
his youth. This is • quality in which Mr.
Gladstone has never been excelled. In this respect
be is antrasted with Sir Robert Peel, who shifted
his centre of gravity, or, to change the metaphor,
varied his course, twice in his political career, but
hook OM in neither cams to take his party jut, his
aselideaos. HA trimmed his ship and changed her
COMO witkont taking even his chid °fibers into his
Dielichoos, sad the malt 1. 1815 was • split in the
party, when the Derbyites an! Poslites separated,
never to come together again. lir. Oblast pie's
mind, more impulsive, or, rather, more immina.
We, thane Sir Bober* Peel, has • feels in the
opposite atisme. A plodding WhM of the pedee-
idea type, snob ae the Barnette and Cavesdishee,
would never have dreamt that there wee the faintest
emineottoo between • Flimsies explosion at Cleiken.
well, and the Direst•blishment of the Irish Chard,
Nei so with Mr. Gladstone; to him it seemed the most
&Mord thing in the world that statesmen should move
la matters of reformou the revenue romp during three
yews, by leaps end bounds. Ms own intellect was
explosive. Forms slept there in the cells and recesses
of his braise, such as the forces which sleep in the
molecules of nitro-glycerine, acid which, when liberated,
boxes* gigantic, like the genii imprisoned in the
bottle. This is the delete of his qualities which
&elm* from Mr. Gladetose's commanding influence.
Sappily, his mind is so candid and open to argument
OS all sides that he is willing to work with the party
which he has undertaken to lead, and to ) mark time
wimp the Cabinet feel that this is the tone of public
oplakm. The firm way in which Mr. Gladstone pat
Ms foot down the other dsy on Mr. Parnell's motion
was, doubtless, the expression of a decision of the
satire Cebu's& in which Lord Spencer's opinion WA%
no doubt, duly regarded. Ireland, ab ire all things,
wants • policy of rest. The new Land Act must con-
solidate. Even if there are defects in the Bill, which
no one disputes, they are not vital. We demur,
thee, to Mr. Bryce's metaphor that the
vessel should put into p irt an I refit. As
• matter of fact, all new ships are cranky for • voyage
or two. It is only after being tried at ma that we can
find out in what respects they are scarcely seaworthy.
Foe those 11111/00J the Cabinet have wisely decided to
let Mr. Parson go to America, if he likes, and to
treat his threats of agitation with the contempt they
deserve. It Is certainly suspicious, then, that the day
after this reiectiori of Mr. Periodic proposals the
Wash brigade, as we may cs'i the's Popham of
the O'Docovandtossa type, step out with a fresh
attempt to extort concessims by terrorism. There
should be no leaps and bounds in Irish policy, or,
'tidied, in policy elsewhere. The m at° of Goethe
•'n.histiolf clorsetitle should ha our motto.
Steady timely action would have saved us the bitter.
sem of feeling, that, after making vast cmcsesions, we
get no thanks for them. We mast not repeat this
mistake, and above all we must disabuse the people of
the impression that conspiracy and cc nes ',NJ the
pioneers of civilization in Ireland.

There is existing amongst us • Mission of which we
hear but little, but which, in its quiet way, is carrying
as an exoellent work. lii. the Diocesan Itinerant
Minion, of which Mr. H. B. Middleton, of Bradford
Parnell, is the MINIUM'. We have been favoured
with its first aminal report. The object of the Mission
Is to provide some kind of spiritual mlnietretions for
the wandering population, numbering (it is suppow3)
2,000, who, a drovers, showmen, hawkers, gipsies, and
oecupente of moveable habitations, attend the fairs,
sod travel in the counties of WUte and Dorset. The
missions, is the Rev. T. IL Holt, and be bee attended
96 fele", bed& horse TICON, parish learn, and similar
gatherings. Mr. Holt is admirably adapted for his
dacult post, and displays much tact in approaching
the tramillog population, which is by no means an
easy task. A. clergyman gives the following 111300911%
CI • visit of the misaloosr to • fair in hie parish. He
writes :—" Mr. Holt arrived ben yesterday, and
came with me t, the site of the Lambert Castle
lair, and, going from van to van, Mr. Holt addressed
Ishoself individually to the inmates end drivers, and I
was mush struck with the tact and readiness with
whisk he did so. He addressed himself very kindly to
these poor people, wishing them Poi luck at the fair,
sod airing V had anyone ill among them, or any
child that woman ptized, which, however, was not the
caws. His explained his minion to them, and gave
eaels one • tract, or, ea he called it, • "bit of reading."
All without exception reserneed him in a friendly and
even cordial manner. In the only instance in which
be met with anything like bather—good-humoured
banter however—he turned the tables on the Jester by
kinioerry retort, much to the amusement if his oom-
dal!which be plainly produced • favourable
Them Mffig his stand under the dialler
well, where • number of women were
suppers, fashion, he addressed
Ltiagallt2telp sad I=l them to Join in the
make that he would hol I, if they deedred it, nor
did he proceed until they expressed a wish that the
navies should be held. This they presently did,
and then we gang • hymn, and Mr. Holt offered a
termed eannaprne prayer, and reed the 53rd chapter
cif Labile to them, after which he delivered a very
affectionate and stirring address to them about
• Jesus MAK and Him crucified," which WM Maenad
to with.the greatest respect and atteoti sn. Most of
the owe on the field gathered round as the service
proceeded, and all behaved with propriety and even
111•010011. WWII Png heartily in the ecooludioe
hymn." Pada are needed for tide work which must
isomensed Itself to all sections of the community.
Mr. Middiston will be pleased to receive setheoriptions.,

T.larp banks, as • rule, though tkry be rich and
posperlos, are net always proverbial for their
It is, therefore, ell the more pleasing 101
nodes that the dhvietore of the National Provincial
Beak bare annosseed their intention to give • gratuity
if one mouth's pay to easb of their staff, in cionsider-
Mims of this being tlw fiftieth sonlvereary of the
getebtlehment el the book, and in appreciation of the
elate of the staff to rides the bank to the high position
It Dow occupies The gratuity will be paid on the 31st
lastaat.