The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-24 00:00:00

WHAT THE WORLD SAY&

Thirty.f int thourield pound' were paid away in stakes
It the Aacot encieting last week. fourteen thouiend of
which Wtre Out of the reeenuet of the grand stand. But
liberality evidently pays, for the receipts were semi
hundred pounds in excess of any former takings.

The Aicot greet is usually prolific in marriage.: but
this year, owing. I sappme,to there haying Nen no spring.
many men have not lightly turned to thoughts of 1c..;
end the only engagements announced are that of lila
Beetle, • daughttir of Lord Norreys. to Lord Edmund
Talbot, who is • brother of the Duke of Norfolk and
extremely rich; Lod that of Lord Norreys himself to Lb*
Honourable Alice Howard, sister to Lady Bute.
Good a time as the bookmakers had at Ascot, the fly-
men were not far behind them, being allowed not only to
drive iever every one that liked, but to charge what they
Pleased. I woe much amused on Friday by the facie of •
• Baron bold" of enormous wealth, and (Ilk. all the
children of the Fstberland) of greet liberality. when •
" Jerrie charged him four pounds for what la town would
have been under an righteatipeony fare. As there were
ladies an the case, and most of the bystanders knew how
rich be war, the Baron raid like a man, but signallY Wed
W' look pleasant:

The old son* of "Jo. and the Cooper" received practical
illustration het week. There was a fracas at Ascot. in the
coulee of which a policeman was aseaulted and his habnet
knocked off by a noble lord whose name is not too
favourably know!! to thii public. By ftrlntlo6l exertions
the matter was squared ; " but the offender is said to
have Immo by no means grater ul to those by whom he was
reached from what might have been an awkward scraps

On tbe 7th November, 1750. the great Lord Chesterfield
wrote thus " )(sop carefully out of all @crapes sad
quarrels. They lower a character extremely ; and are
particularly dangerous in France, where a man is dis-
honoured by not resenting an affront. and utterly ruined
by resenting it." It will ho remembered that this
exeallent advice was given to Philip Staahope I Park
sap.

A cynical eorreipondent .ye: "One may hays last •
little too niuco of • good thing, and really this eternal
mut of the sayings and doings of Sarah Wirnhardt is
getting very wiarlioine. Madame Sambaed% is an
excellent actress, but she is not in the same claw with
either Rachel or Rotor'. She models cleverly in clay, but
her marble work in this year's &also are very inferior ;
she writes commonplace poetry and mediocre prose, and
elm is eccentric to tin verge of madness. Voila tout
I really hope that we have done with this lady's male
attire, her escretaties, her black !satin bed-hangings, and
her skeleton. Sven the French are beginning to laugh at
our Sarah won&

Chet quarrels are getting so (regnant. and the power to
expel a member claimed by committees and general
tasstings is ao warmly contested. that it I. beginning ho to
felt on all sides that an Act of Parliament is wanted to
deans the rights of member, of clubs sad the powers of
the governing body. Ls the law now stands, no change
can be made in the constitutional rules without braids(
up th• club; and the rules are actually to loosely drawn
up that they break down in difficult came If. court of law
I, appealed t It is so unsatisfactory that the decision of
a club on the conduct of one of its members should be
overruled through a legal quibble that, when the Matter
of the Rolls reinstated a member of the Army and Navy
Club on the ground that his expulsion wee legally invalid,
mme leading members of the club employed counsel to
frame • rule that henceforth anyone apping to a court
of law front the decision of a general meeting ceased Ipso
facto. Counsel. however, advised that nothing short of
en Act of Parliament could make such • rule binding on
existing coenibers : and it was thought too irivklimis to
subject now members to • rule which the met of the club
refused to accept.

The chmtenta In Bushey Perk have been a lamentable
failure ill. yew. lb. cold weather promoted the
blosomm I roro MM./Moe till very late, sod now the rain
has completely destroyed every methiance of beauty. By
Lb. way. "George Ranger" would do well to instruct the
policemen, who apparently take each interest in the
mous of the anglers, to reetrain the racing proclivities
of the bicyclists, who tear round and round the Maas
Pomo to the annoyance of coachman and horses Riding
is one thing, racing is another. On Soturday last I
Doting.' at Wort a dozen lunatics rushing round the water
at fall rived for over hall an hour. Tts• practice 111 both
aimless and dangerous.
The last of the Paris Exhibition Lottery. About 7,01)(1
prises. of lb. aggregate value of 470,000 trance, or alone on
LIBOR), renteln unclaimed to Otis day. They are about
to he sold by auction In the Pavilion de More of the
Tuileries, and the proceeds to be deposited at the Osiage
di. Depots et Consignations, that, to await propriety
qualified claimants.

The shareholders in Um Cobb.m, hares did not shout for
Joy on Saturday, tba averne• Pries fleshed by the pearling§
1 yip; considaahly over a hundred pounds Is. than last
raw Snot urn. The committee or nannapment must now
I.7gem that they dispensed with the services of Mr.
iniund TattersalL Salting • horn dogs not rusrely mean
putting the animal up and knocking him down. Mr.
Tattarsalrs thorough knowledge of his business and the
prestige attaching to his name are well worth the com-
mission which he charm