The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-29 00:00:00

Vorset &until Express.

TUZSDAT. MAY 29, 1R77.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

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Miss Thackeray, says the Examiner, write, from 11
Hyde Park Gate, South Kensington, to say that a
little help is needed for a party of young emigrants,
who are to sail on the 31st inst. in the Sardinian.
bound for Canada. They are at present at Miss Rye's
Home, at Peckham, where they may be seen playing
in the garden, and all ready to start, from' big Julia,"
who can make beds and puddings, to the last-come
Ade baby, with some adorning necklace of wooden
MlRR.on.reila Most of them, little orphans, have come
In from the streets, landed at Miss Rye's oasis by
benevolent cnrates, policemen, and district visitors.
For them gutter-children no allowance can be made
Iby the Guardians. The journey out and the outfit
i cost shout £l2 for each child. There are some forty
children ready to start, lodged at present at Miss Rye's
house, and if indficient money can be raised these will
all go to the Dominion, and their new fonnd mother
will go with them. We have examined into this work
of Mies Rye, both here and in Canada ; and we can
speak of it not merely with cordiality but in the
highest praise, not only of the way in which it is
' carried on, but of the admirable results which have
; been achieved. Any benevolent person who is fond
I of transplanting young human creatures, who, if they
remained on our soil, would grow up thieves, prosti•
tutes, and murderers, for the simple reason that they
I are the offspring of these, to a new soil, where they
will grow into useful, happy men and women, should
be glad of this opportunity id disposing of some of his
, gold, thereby adding to its value, and perhaps its
increase.

We have now the shortest staff for a bayonet of any
ariny in the world, and theorists say that it is of no
consequence, an the bayonet will never again be used,
but occasions will continue to occur in which hand-to-
hand fighting will take place. It does not, therefore,
seem wise to sacrifice altogether the cold steel for the
bullet. It is inevitable that the former will come into
play at the storming of field works or houses, the
capture of bridges, &c. Besides, the British soldier
likes to close with his adversary, and it seems a pity to
balk so laudable a desire.

The Very Rev. Dr. M'Neile writes from Bonrne-
mouth •—" How should the judgment of the Privy
Council be received by Evangelical Churchmen? I
venture to answer in one word—with thankfulness
Of the twelve subjects in dispute eleven have been de.
cided in our favour finally and without further appeal;
that the twelfth has been denuded of what made our
objection to a matter of conscience. Had the east-
ward position been allowed, and also the sacrifical vest-
ments the combination would have amounted to an
objective teaching of fatal error; but now the vest-
ments are positively forbidden, and the eastward
position teaches nothing but the private judgm.nt or
personal convenience, or both, of the individual cele-
brant. In this there is no sanction of false doctrine;
on thee ,ntrary, all sacrificial vestments and all postures
of adoration being strictly forbidden, the false doctrine
referred to is tacitly but most expressely condemned.
, Those extreme Ritualiata who have proclaimed the
I vestments and poatures to be matters of conscience
have now no other resource than a violation of the
law. Meanwhile, to stand with their back to the com-
municants as they have always done while reading the
Prayer of Consecration will prove a satisfaction to he
enjoyed without controversy by the large body of old.
fashioned High Churhmen. Only let us be of one
mind in giving practical effect to what is now declared
to he the law, and our Church may yet enjoy prosperity
and peace."

Rumour is busy with the matrimonial intentions of
the Prince Imperial. A London correspondent
announces that Prince Louis Napoleon is to wed the
eldest unmarried daughter of Isabella, the ex-Queen
of Spain. This story is said to have excited a good
deal of attention in Germany, and if it is to be
believed, Prince Hohenlohe, the German ambassador
at Paris, has declared that his Government will make
some effort to prevent such an alliance.

At a recent meeting of the society for promoting
legislation to control and cure habitual drnnkards, it
was estimated that the loss stistained by the nation
through the drunkenness was 270 millions sterling per
annum. Dr. Holthouse stated the results of his
asylum for inebriates at Balham. He said that of Zi
patients' six had been completelyctued, ten had proved
incurable, four were partially cured, two were still
under treatment, and one had died. It must be con.
teased that these figures are not encouraging. A
"partial " cure can hardly be considered a cure at aIL
Dr. Cameron's Bill to establish inebriate asylums was
explained by its author at the meeting, hut was by no
means unanimously approved.

It is intended to raise a memorial to the late Rev.
Sir Henry Baker, who was one of the editors of
" Hymns Ancient and Modern." A strong committee
has been formed to carry out the oblect, and it is
proposod to buy a Imrsonage house, and make it over
to the incumbent of the parish where Sir Henry was
so long rector.

Considering that Sir William Fergusson Wlll for
many years believed to be making L 10,900 a year by
his practice, his estate is but small. The personality
has been sworn under £30,000, and though Sir WilliaM
had landed property in Scotland, this is a very molest
sum, compared with the quarter of a million left by
another eminent surgeon, Mr. (*unison. Of living
surgeons, perhaps Sir Henry Thompson gets the
largest fees. He will not perform his chief operation
under £l,OOO. These large payments enable him to
have long holidays, and he takes three months every
year, and thus has time for those art pursuits in which
he FO much delights.

One of the schemes for re-setting the map of Europe
which is being talked about is the following : —Bomnia,
Herzegovina, and Semis will be united in one princi-
pality, under, not the poor young Prince Milan, who
is scarcely up to the mark, but the Archduke Frederick
of Austria, nephew l Archduke Albrecht, and there-
fore great nephew f the celebrated General Archduke
Karl. Bulgaria will become an Independent State
under one of the Russian Grand Dukes; and Roumania
would remain as at present, under Prince Charles, but
would be altogether independent of the Porte. Thus
the three northern empires—Russia, Austria, and
Germany, would have its share of the spoils, and the
three reigning families of Romanoff, Hapsburg, and
Hohenzollern would be represented. That would
hardly be the end of the redistribution however. Italy
would look for Dalmatia, Greece would want the
provinces that lie on her northern provinces, and
possibly Crete; England would want Egypt; and we
suppose France would claim her portion in Syria. In
any case the present war is not likely to close without
one very importunt alteration—the opening of the
Bosphonma and the Dardanelles to Russian ships of
war. When that is done one more proof will have
been given of the prescience of one of the most far-
seeing men of this century, though he never held
office—Richard Cobden. He always maintained that
it would be impossible to permanently shut up the
Russian fleet in the Black Sea.
It is not often that Dr. William Magee, Bishop of
Peterborough, Caves in, for he has all an Irishman's
love of lighting, and an Orange man's zeal for
ascendancy for its own sake. His last speech on the
Burial's Bill in the House of Lords was quite on the
"no surrender" linen. But a week's reflection has
sobered him down. He has addressed his clerey in
quite a different tone. He is now chiming in with the
Guardian, and is all for conciliation and compromise.
Lord Harrowby's motion, which is Mr. Osborne
Morgan's Bill under another name, is as good as
carried, and the question for that much muddling
Duke of Richmond, is how he will get his Bill through
on the only lines on which it has even a chance of
passing. Truly, with what little wisdom this world
is governed, at least by those who must tack and trim
in that narrow and tortuous channel of Liberal-
Conservatism in which wears at present threading our
way!