The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-05 00:00:00

Poet Couutq Exprtos.

DORCHESTER, SEPTEMBER sth. 1882.

As will be noticed from our report of the interesting
meeting of the Y.M.C.A.,an appeal is made for help to
extend the work to the villages. Being acquainted in •
slight degree with the excellent work carried on by the
Dorchester Branch, with which Alderman Bursae Is
so worthily amociated, we are led to add • word in
support of the appeal. Very few of our Dorchester
raider; we presume, have failed to notice the unpre-
tentious little building in Durngaterdrest occupied by
the Association, and fewer still who have not heard
the earnest ministrations of the town missionary oon•
nected with the Aasodation. We are fully persuaded that
incalculable benefit' are cool erred on many young men
of the town, and it is on this amount we hope the '
appeal will meet with a hearty response. It is not the
cause of • sect or denomination, but, as on the platform
on Friday, all are united to make the path of right less
difficult and smoother for our young men. Ur. G.
Williams, a noble philanthropist, and the earnest
secretary, Mr. Hind Smith, made a good claim at the
meeting, and Mr. Dixon, the Dorchester secretary,
who will receive subscriptions, will, we are led to hope
be gratified at the result of the appeal,
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While we are waiting for Sir Garnet WoMeley to
make his preparations for advancing beyond Kaisassin
Lock and fighting a great battle at Tel-eiliebir,
which may possibly be the decisive engagement of the
campaign, many people are occupying themselves
with hypercriticism of all the movements and arrange-
ments of the Egyptian expedition, and of the personal
behaviour of the leaders in it. For Instance, • London
journal has distinguished itself, snobbishly as we think,
by attributing personal cowardiw to the Duke of
anazsliht. The Duke of Cauibridge wee eiroluirly
during the Crimes= War, and probably
with equal reason. Indeed, those who actually
fought in the Crimes declare that his fault was undue
recklessness instead of cowardice. Such accusations
are easily and safely made, since it is impossible for
royal personages to refute them. As • matter of fact,
if • person in the position of the Duke of Connaught
were • coward, he dare not betray himself to be such,
As for the more excusable criticisms on the general.
ship of Sir Garnet Wolieley in pushing on detach..
manta In sdvanos of his transport, and inviting defeat
of them in detail, as it Kassasaia Lock, the defence
of his action contained in his own exculpatory
telegram of the let inst., published on Saturday,
Is perhaps the beet apology for • mode of procedure
which seems to have evoked deprecating inquiries
wen from the War Office.

From Ramses to Succoth—who had not read of that
first march out of Egypt, when, as it has been truly
said, history was born, on the night when a band of
slaves rose up, and, their kneading-troughs in their
hands, want forth in haste, for it we. Jehovah's Fri.-
over? It osrtainly makes the old world eosin modern
again to read every now and then of this Ramses as •
station on the railway between Ismailia and Zagazig.
The identification is nearly complete; at least it hae
seemed soto the best Egyptologists, and we are neither
qualified nor inclined to question their view.
"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war," is $
figurative expressionof our great poet, which seems to
hare suggested to a Neapolitan journal the preposter
ous story of a cargo of two thousand bloodhounds sent
out to Sir Garnet Wolaeley to hunt the Egyptian
rebels. "There go the dogs of war," says one English
tourist to another, as • palming transport is sighted,
" Ay, a thousand splendid bloodhounds I" responds •
compatriot. Literal interpretation by intelligent
listening foreigner, and hence the sensational news-
Parer paragraph.
King Cetewayo bee gone. He has been considerably
less nuisance than WM anticipated. But this was due
much more to his own good sense, than any indisposi-
tion on the part of the populace to make—as the king
himself isid—a Jumbo of him. Nothing became
CeWwayo more in this country than his unostentatious
manner of quitting it for his own restored kingdom.

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An old gentleman is just deal at the age of 86, who
I variously described as the Honourable Thomas
Pits-Harding., Esq., and as Thomas the 6th Earl of
Berkeley. He was the sth son of roe fast zari, tnougb,
according to the decision of the House of Lords, he
was the eldest legitimate son. His mother was the
daughter of a butcher. His father declared that he
married this lady privately before the birth of their
eldest eon, and again publicly before the birth of their
fifth son. The Peers, however, decided that there was
no evidence of the alleged privets marriage. If the
gentleman, now dee 'lied, hal insisted on his rights,
It Is said that he could have enjoyed not only the
peerage but a large share of the family estate, which
was annexed to the title. He had sufficient chivalry in
his nature not to avail himself of a decision which dis-
credited the good name of his mother. He repudiated
the peerage, and took no step to obtain the estate.
His eldest brother was subsequently raised to the
peerage as Earl Fittsliardinge. His next younger
brother, Grantley Fitzaardinge, openly declared that
II Thomas died without issue, he should assert his
claims to the Berkeley peerage. But Thomas lived t)
old age, as if for the very purpose of carrying his self-
abnegation into full effect. He left no issue himself,
and be survived his brother Cirantley and bath the
soul of the latter.