The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DqRCHESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1865.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

I.—Tug Queen's return from Balmoral
was marked by a journey of uninterrupted
celerity. Her Majesty left Balmoral on
Thursday half an hour after noon, and by
9 o'clock on Friday morning was safe in
Windsor Castle, after resting an hour at
Perth the previous evening, from 6 to 7, to
dine. Her Majesty held a reception at
Buckingham Palace on Saturday, and again
returned in the evening to Windsor.—The
Prince Napoleon of France is still confined to
his room from the effects of the carriage
accident, which prevented his appearance at
Court on the return of his Imperial cousin;
hut the Emperor has addressed to him a letter
of condolence stating that, although from
political reasons, he had been constrained to
accept his resignation and administer to him
a rebuke, personally his affection remained
undiminished.--A military plot just discovered
in Valencia threatens to shake the Spanish
Throne. It had for its object the dethrone-
ment of the Queen of Spain, with a view
either to placing the King of Portugal on the
throne of a United Kingdom, or of proclaim-
ing the Republic. The Col. and commanding
officers of the regiment, implicated, have been
arrested.

lI.—PARLIAMISNT has employed a few of its
last lingering momenta in undoing oaths long
supposed to constitute no slight_ portion of the
safeguards of the constitution. Not only were
the remaining Roman Catholic Oaths, relating
to the settlement of property, the Established
Church, the Protestant Religion and Govern-
ment, swept away before a small majority of 166
to 147, on Monday in the House of Commons,
novrithstanding the most resolute and eloquent
resistance of Mr. Disraeli; but on Wednesday
Ithe Oxford Tests Abolition Bill of Mr. Goschen,
' a Jewish member, admitting dissenters to the
English universities without subscription of the
Articles, was carried through its second reading,
by a similar majority, in a similar house—The
fact is that very strange measures have just at
present a rare chance of passing, if promoted by
members who are on the alert, and inclined to
take advantage of the absence of so many
honourable gentlemen wooing their respective con.
stituenciee. —Most unexpected of all,our favourite
topic of the Malt-Tax enjoyed quite another
field day on Thursday evening, when Sir Fitzroy
IKelly, and the other leading speakers in the
movement laid its claims with undiminished
vigour before the house and the country.
Nothing could have been better timed than
this discussion which renovates and revived the
merita of the question and sets it before the
r country in its exact bearing and relation to our
' existing laws—a gross and oppressive anomaly
'in Free Trade times and in a free country,
trammelling with absurd restrictions the
cultivator of a soil who has imposed upon him
the task of providing the principal sustenance of
the most important community in the world.
The debate of course arose upon Mr. Gladatone's
little bill, for rating the Malt Duty by weight
instead of measure—and this Bill is in itself a
curious illustration of the amelioration of one
out of, we think, about 117 tedious, sometimes
trifling, excise regulations that have all to be
gone through before barley can be duly malted,
and mulcted in the authorised duty. In the
House itself, the effect of this discussion
has been to narrow considerably, we observe,
the pleas on which the remission of the
Malt-Tax is opposed by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Instead of fighting all around, and
appearing as the uncompromising opponent of
a tax which, wording to him, only affects the
cost of beer to the extent of one farthing a
quart, the right hon. gentleman deprecatingly
put the case as a fiscal question entirely, saying
that the Malt-Tax was an important portion of
the "indirect" taxation of the country, and
, oonld not be dealt with, without endangering the
duty on spirits. This, however, is one of the
efttonfuted postulates of the enemies of
Agricultural emancipetion. Still, it will help
to plate the Chancellor perhaps in amore favour-
able light, before his own and his son's would-
be constituents at Oxford and at Cheater. We
the way that many of the widely
clerked constituency of the university,
• off from Mr. Gladstone in alarm at
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KILLER'S EXTRACT OF MEAT—We learn that Mr.
Woolston, of Cornhill, Dorchester, has now received
supplies on sale of this useful enamor for invalid
cases. We have also to aoknowledge the receipt of
a jar which we shall have tested and reported on. It
is so strong that a mere tea-spoonful to a breakfast
cup of boiling water, with plenty of salt, forms a good
proportion—alarge tea-spoonful is, however, equal to
a quarter of an ounce.
Tel BALLOT.—Amongst those who voted in favour
of Mr. Berkeley's motion on Friday night we find the
following hon members :—C. C. Clifford. Sir R. P.
Collier, L. L. Dillwyn, A. W. Kinglalce, Hon. A. Pon-
sonby t. and in the majority against the ballot, J. H.
Astell, R. Brernridge, Sir B. W. Bridges, R. Brooke,
Lord R Bruce, J. Floyer, J. Hardy, Right Hon. Sir
W. G. H. Jolliffe, W. F. Knatehbull, Viscount Palmer-
ston, P. L. Povrys-Lybbe. The following also paired
for the motion :—ltir. Tite, Colonel Tynte, Mr. H. Gore
Langton, Sir J. Trelawny, Mr. D. Seymour, and Colonel
Pinney.
i 00uurrnin TO 1116 Dolour COUNTY GAOL.—Hard
1 Labour: Henry Baker, vagrancy at Weymouth, 1
, month; William Moore, smelt at Sherhorne, 2
1 months; William Harrison, vagrancy at Bradford
Abbas, 1 month; George Elms, vagrancy at Portland, 1
month; James Bernee and Mary Barnes, vagrancy at
Whitoombe, 7 days; George Allen, assaalt at
111111mtborne, 6 months; James Meech, idle apprentice at
.11aselbnry Bryan, 14 days; William Whittle, stealing
loather at Powerstock, 7 days; John Ferquson, stealing
flower pots at Lyme Regis, 1 month; William Shaw,
'stealing a pair of trousers at Evershot, 6 weeks. I
SPOTS OE PRI SITF.—The solar disc presents a fine
'pentacle at the present time, viewed through a tele-
scope of moderate magnifying power. A large circular
-group of soots occupies the centre of the disc. Some
'ldea might be formed of the great and rapid changesthat
lake place on the surface of the luminary when it is
. stated that the diameter of the group of spots above.
saientioned is nearly one-fifteenth that of the sun, and
.the group extends over an area 50 times larger than that
itof the earth. The rapidity of the changes constantly
,going on in this vast region may be judged by the fact
;Ws._ t the forrn and position of the spots composing the '
; up (though unobeerved by us at a distant:l*ot nearly
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