The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRFSS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, AUGIJST 1, 11465.

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NOTES OF THE WEEK.

_ I,—THE Osborne returning from her west-
ward trip with the Prince and Princess of
Wales has landed the loyal personages at
Portsmouth, first paying a passing visit to
the British Gibraltar—our remarkable island
of Portland—u a fitting:finale to an excursion
of no slight novelty and adventure on the
part of the Royal pair. They had seen ex-
amples of the iron-clads both of France and
England at Plymouth Sound, and had borne
testimony to the truth that as Milton has
it:—

"Peace hath its viotories, no less renowned than was."
They had not only skirted the extremity of
the Cornish coast and became familiar with
the weird-like form of St. Michael's Mount
and the Land's End; but they had descended
a tin mine fathoms underneath the sea, and
had given occasion for a strong spice of
Cornish flattery in the observation that it
seemed doubtful whether in her !pining I
attire the Princess did not look prettier than
ever. And now after scaling the Verne
heights to observe the progress of the foetid-
calm, their, Royal Highnesses embarked in.
a truck plepared for the purpose, and were
carried on the Portland Breakwater by Mr.
Coods'il engineering skill, a couple of milee
Tgic
ir)sea by railway, to witness the foun-
of the north fort, or battery of
- England's future great naval poet. Almost
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in the words of Professor Wilson's famous
song of The Admiral—

" &range Wisp cum up to look at thew,
The creatures of the deep."
For it would scent that the divers, having
somehow had intimation of the presence
of the Royal party, opportunely made
their appearance upon the surface, and
thus rendered homage to the heir of the
Crown "from the bottom of the deep blue
sea." On Wednesday the shores of the
Bristol Channel will likewise resound with
demonstrations of loyalty. Prince Arthur is
on that day to appear upon the Castle-hill at
Tenby, for the inauguration of the Welsh
Memorial to the Prince Consort. The selected
site is a beautiful sad picturesque spot,
commanding ettetisire sea views extending
on the one hand to the entrance of the
Bristol Channel, and to the Devonshire
coast opposite. Prince Arthur has been
delegated by Her Majesty to appear in
this instance as her personal representative.
ll.—Tas struggle of parties is over for the
present. The Liberal majority being an
established fact, the lull of political eteitet
ment is wonderful. The Conservative re-
action is dead and gone, and in its place we
have the reaction of inanition. With a good
working majority in hand, it remains now to
be seen bow far a policy beneficial to the
country can or will be carried out by the
party in power. That it will be chiefly
financial we have every reason to anticipate.
The progress and prosperity of the country
we have cause to hope will furnish continued
grounds for the ruction, amelioration, and
remission of taxation. As for the two great
questions that agitated the huttings more or
less of them we are sure to hear, but it does
not follow from the experience of former
elections that they will by any means absorb
the attention of the House, on the contrary
our impression is that Reform will be
sparingly ventured upon, and Church Rates
treated with becoming deference, as a ques-
tion at once difficult and delicate, and the
less susceptible of settlement the more
susceptible it is found of creating excite-
ment. With Mr. Gladstone's new com-
mercial stimulus to personal exertion, and all
Lancashire at his back, commercial legislation
may in fact be expected to supersede all
other movements in Parliament, andespecially
the revision of our taxation, itd incidence,
equalisation and mode of collection, on which
last point Paterfamilias, has already com-
menced preliminary skirmishing by "writing
to the Times." We presume that the latter
may since the defeat of Mr. Walter, in Berk-
shire be hailed as a confirmed Liberal; we
remark at least that the Conservatives are
now spoken of in the leading journal as those
of "the other side." We don't care a straw'
for political party ourselves, and are apt ,
enough to say with Mercutio, "a plague on !
both your houses ;" for we think that there
should always be one element of public
opinion favourable to the cause of the
general good and unbiassed by the paltry
motives of faction; and what is to hinder
that element being found in the Public Press P
But why attempt to count mitt chickens before
they are hatched by discussing probabilities
which after all are not to come off before
November, when it is expected that Parlia-
ment will meet for the dispatch of business?
It would seem as if the country after
settling the representation to its entire
satisfaction had m high spirita sbandofied
itself, favoured with thil glorious harvest
weather and by no means a bad
harvest either, to its own amusement.
Agricultural shows great and small, and
volunteer assemblages from camp and camp;
fires of Wimbledon to those 'of Lulvvorth
solemn antiquarian owling in every ivy bush
inhabited by the bird of Minerva, and by
way of contrasts those extremes of popular
rejoicings known as Foresters and Odd
Fellows fetes—all these and many more too
tedious to mention in the Bills of the Play,
fall in so rapidly as to keep up a perfect
succession of novelties until we can hardly
keep pace with them by way of reporting,
large azid Varied as our staff may be. Sing-
ling out only one for illustrative comment,
our Dorset "fellows" down at Lulwortb
were undoubtedly entitled to the palm
awarded them by that blunt but hottest
! soldier Colonel Bruce late of the 3rd Buits,
, their reviewing officer, last Friday. Walk-
ing through the tents on the last day of the
encampment no one could have believed
, that with everything visible in such apple-pie
order, it was not their first day instead of their
' last; and when on Saturday forenoon the
' 3rd Dorset "with their martial Cloaks around
• them"mardied again into Dorchester from the
' Railway Station, the men, all brown and
blistered as they were—looked as if they
had just got themselves up to Mount parade
instead of returning frotti nearly a week's
, hard drill. On the review day we saw the
, whole 600 for three and a half hours under
, arms, and can answer for almost every corps
, in the battalion that they must have come
out of it equally well. Judging ftom what
• we saw and beard otl.r Dordet dltnter
, proved thetnaelves perfect fire eaters. The
Sherborne corps fired a bad volley on the
first day. But the volley firing on the
review day would have gladdened the hearts
of Waterloo men; and when the skirmishers
thrown promiscuqusky up from the valley
lined the hedge and began to fire upon the hill,
the spectators were literally stunned. One
old lady was perfectly frantic. She first
tried the effect of her umbrella as a shield
against the smoke of gunpowder, but
finding that it was not iron-clad, rushed
: to and fro' in despair along the bank and at
length rolled fairly into the ditch. Invigo-
rated in health Mid dambined with that
' blissful feeling of esprit de corps nhich
attaching man td man, enables men to act
together, if ever the emergency should,
arise we are quite sure not only that
the volunteers, but that the volunteering in
Dorset derives great advantage from their
encaffipthents.

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tansy to her, and she
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husband to be balked •
wife and as there were
in regard to the alleged —.malt,
ire ise.a.
Diesaarion. —On Saturday Charles Don:tiny
- alums, were obarsel before the r
cleterting their ship, the Alberto.
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