The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-04 00:00:00

WHAT 711 R WORLD HAY&

Him of the— alma— -ixo— • .20 Mr. Eetkoff. the
well-known editor of the Moscow Asiitis, ishtch is oele.
brawl for its hostility to Emould. wee publicly rut by
the Emperor at • reception in Moscow,. it* MOWN/
Gazette ie now once more in receipt of • subsidy from the
G.2vernment,

Lel Saltsburre recent speech at Manehearter was an
awkward
where the strong language of the noble kr.l has couned
the greatest indignatioe. Lord and Lot, Dufferin were
just about to return to At. Petersburg. prepered to ngrati•
eta themaelve* with Russian society during the coming
season. The British Roabaser has Nava refurol.hrd at
great expense, and the social tastes and talents of his
occupiers led to the expectation that throughout the win-
ter it would be a centre of amactiou to the beau monde of
Ur. Northern setae'. --- .

The explanation given in B'. P.itorlmeof of Lird Salis-
bury's lunation. at Eancheeter to. that his speciii was
intended to rive the amp de grace to the already shaken
position of Prince Gortsbakoff, auinst whom 00 Many
intrigues have lately been directed. Bye frank and public
exposition of the situation into which the policy of the
aged Chancellor had finally brought the Empire of the Czar,
It was hoped that a decisive effect might be produced on
the wavering mind of the Emperor.
It wee quits time that a proton ehould be entered
against the practice of loud politicians airing their own
eloquence on special °custom' when Elsinore ,or ex-
Miniatere have bun invited ti address particular cunt.
tuencies. At Manchester last week the nuisance ossuoned
proportions which threatened seriously to damage the
farces+ of the visit of Lord lii•etington and Mr. Bright.
On Foiday night no less than tour speakers were down on
the programme to take precedence of Lord Herniae on
before an audience oPeelay gathered to bear him. If stun
bad not been taken to bring strongly home to theft gentle-
men • sense of the risk run of the miscarriage of Lord
Harlington*s speech on the telegraph wires if its delivery
were delayed, these speech.. would have occupied some-
thing like an hour, and worn off the edge of the audience's
patience. On Saturday afternoon two eminently respect-
able and wellonean.ny local gentlemon interposed between
the audience and Mr. Bright and Lord Rutin/ton, con,
fort ably setUinao themselves down or a half hour's speech
each. This the audience would not stand, and after
audaciously struggling ag oinst cries of "Time r Er
Leak. and Er. Armitsge subelded. The velf-conoeis which
impels really uniable nonentities to ihrtut themselves
forward on these occasions is wounding. Toe nuisance
•I• very real one; and in prupect of the long saris, of
great public mutinge which will pref... the general
election, it Is worth while considering whether it cannot
b. promptly put down wituout troubling the &adieu°, to
raids It, voice in torotvat

- I rem—oriiiee-ilietei—ciertain (anti man coonecte.l with
the Dahlia press need to boast (bet he induced the Prince
end Finesse of Walve to tint Ireland on on, 0004,012.
This rens how he did it. He was at his wit: end for news
for the English p.oere. to which he telegraphed Irish
items. and Ine happy thought struck blur to report that
great dinappointrnent was Sell at the ennounement in
Dublin that the Prince end Princess a Wales were not
going to visit Ireland. No one had previously spoken or
heard of any such init ; but the I uses published • leader
deploring the neglect of Ireland by Ft yalty. The Irish
paper+ del ditto, and the Prince of Wales determinet to
go to Ireland. By a similar system d news manufactured
the rumour Ls set eying now that Sir Arthur Guinness le
to be made a peer, and that Mr. Power, the distiller, is to
be the Conservative candidate for Dublin. Some one who
wants to see Mr. Power in Parliament evidently also
wants to see Sir Arthur Guinness in the HMSO of Lords.
I happen to be armee that at present. at all event.,
neither event is at all probe)do. There may be • change
in the representation of Dublin. but not on the Conserve.
tive side.

Advocates of the polky of which militarism iii leading
feature should reed the opening article of the IldisibwvA
Revive. From that essay they will be able to discover
what, Mild( a dozen years, militarism has done for Ger-
many. The statistio liven at p. 300 Pompom ati anything
but agreeable picture of the prevent condition of the Pap
ice libiliards. That the Views rh,ruld have passed over
tea show. article without nonce whilst devoting a leader
to the one on Afghanistan ls, under the dram:v.4mm',
tot surprising. Tbe former contains too many inconve-
nient stalest:mute of fact telling strop'', maims then. of
action favoured by the newspaper.

Those yew d in ruining mat Sri declare that it now nate
practically with the coalmorkers of logland —the hewers
of coal below ground—to gay whether the revival in the
iron trade shall extend to coal sad national prosperity
return with remunerative prices. According to sit pre-
ardent, twelve months most peas before the coal trade la
effected by the rim in the price of iron. If daring this
twelve months that. me disturbances of the labour
market, strikes or premature demands for sit.. In wages
before the markets of the world will bust It then to.
much.loggeg.for " good time will be infallibly delayed,
It their promise be nit destroyed.

Whatever diseppolatmeuto fortune has up till now had
In store for Frans Joseph I. of Austria, she hat this week
shown herself propitious and grant td bin one of hie long.
cherished desirre—s very high-flying one it must be
acknowledged. It has long been the monarch's wish to
shout • golden eagle, a quarry which caonot, like most
other game, be made may by losUuos, and which, i
'fiords irrefutable proof of the sportsman's skilrit;
other evening u his Majesty was returning to Godolo,
dew a thth's shooting, ono of these rare and handsome birds
rose. It eras • long shot, and by ill-lock only one barrel
was loaded, bat the Emperor took steady aim and brought
the bird whiving down to earth. The print was exhibited
that evening on a &olden dish on the sideboard. Hie
Majesty now wears in his shooting-hat one of the ethie.e
feather', and gays he will always do so in future.
The whigs have a tieing hope in Lord Frederick Coven-
dish. Had blind fortune saved him from the fate of a
younger son and put Lica in Lord Hartington's shoes, the
whole 1 taw* of the Libor., party might have been changed.
With a prospective leader endowed with laud Frederick's
awy gad, de go, his dash and daring, the Radicals, un-
checked by cool and doubting caution in the suppositious
vac, could have stormed the front bench ; and jested of
thawng his evenings as • mere ion= 01141111 for soother,
Lard Frederick, true to the truest whig principles, would
he,. been ewe to put himself at their -head at the right
miognent and wry them to victory. Lord George is about
to retire in favour of a third nephew, and with three young
Oavendishes in the field the conitltution will be safe.
The Great Eastern steamship has ones more found a
vocation, Urine recently been fitted up and employed
with die twit wirethe for carrying live cattle between
America and latewpoa They are landed there in &dab.
obis condition, and sold at a ridiculously low peke oon-
Meting the retail ;arias of meat What fortunes butchers
and dnalm must be zonkhag I A friend of mind—a land
OWD•f—essurlil ZO• be has MO fat sheep which he coati
not dispose of at the present time except at alses of kt
per head ; yet in the face of this the pries of butcher's
meat shows no pnceptible diminution. It is cations how
a use always springs up for this Greet Eastern. First
there was the transport of troops to Canada during the
'" Trent affair ; then the laying of AUante cables; now,
aa I have mentioned, the transit of liu-stock. What
next. Iweadert Well, I sbould not be at all sorprimed if
this leviathan of the deep was moored permanently some
quarter or half a mil* distant frogs the shore, and fitted
up and used ea s firetrelese marine hotel, It being au-
nested with the shore he • lusting Ungava., of soul.
kind.

FOOD ADULTIIAIIOII.—Dr. Tripe, public analyst
of the Hackney district. reports, "that all the Ni
he examined, except one, were sold as mixtures of
cocoa, wrowroot, ad sugar, the exception being
Cadbury's Cocoa 140111011, which was genuine. The
quantity al starch in the other maples varied betwesa
67 and 80 per Psi., so that allowing for sugar, there
wee sot is ease el Wes swore than IS par met of
seem Am Waal I toW. was ospuasMv7 saw
ss a feed.*

FACTS AND FANCIES.
(From Past)
OCTOBER.
" A southerly wind and • cl-teir shy "
For our op num 'norm hoorist I
A .leuco of a dew ; how the .cent will lie I
No chance of a " lose to-day.
Then burry up, lads, for the horses are round,
I bear them Impatiently pawing the ground.
They waist to be off like me.
se•vem good mini to the Willitou Gorse,
I &net Watt to hurry and weary my hone
Beton we begin, you see.
Woh ! steady, toy mare ! NOW we mount at last,
And down to the gat. we too..
Su. over the village. Wati not so fast
You inusn't —sobo I get hot.
We will go by the Bracken—it buil so far.
AM, meeting some others near Rockington Bar,
Emerge from the Crossley Grove.
And charming the vision the meeting present/
With horses and c,rriages, ladies and gents •
PA yeomen sod noblemen, farmers and sool;a,
Its harks and its ponies', its hunters and cobs.
A bicycle too, by Jove
A 'vu'. hub.!" and the dogs give tongue,
And on they rattle, both old and young.
Of the r park.
A hig dog fug go .• up LI.. hark :
One rapid back b.- • at 1.1 to 0.
He parts the fringe of rushes rook.
And down the other side he goes.
Off we go I Yo tally•ho I 0 one away—away I
View again by Meadow-lane—pace ii very good.
Hire • ditch an.l sunken fence bid the Maid stay;
Leap the AURA Gilley.brook, down through Burton
Wood.
Hares a check—he's lost lialMs I hark sway! • Bad I
Op he goes towards the feral—all the dogs behind.
Across the yard we pelt along amid • feathered crowd,
And down the seven-acre ffeld, which hasn't long been
"ploughed.
Br Jove, he is • noble for., he's heading for the hill.
Slips underneath that rasping fence—we take it—neer •
spill !
Op the slope he's running hard—he's rounding for the
gorse!
Hill get to earth for certain I No, the dogs will inter-
cept.
He's g. sting done, but on we ran without the last

reasene:
He labours dawn slots the hedge, and now the hedge le
leapt.
He isies us, and a Anal dash he makes for LmiSkf
Copse.
He's idaiost reached the fringe—he falters, tarns, and
grope,
That blg, long dog is on him—another—six—he s done
And fire of us are at the death,
Splashed nith mud aad out of breath,
From a filly minutes' run.

(From Peed.)
FIJIIALZ DINTISTiT —"lt. newly out; but my wrist is
so tired MA I muss really rat • bit r
A HOOllll THAT OUGHT TO II MOTID.—Tbo Staisdard
tells a. th.• neseent Parliament ha. wiaber good year to
run. Pawn would rather put it."has another bad year
to stand std.."
To. ficinsttrlc COl/1.--Colotasl (sternly, pointing to
large cobweb in • u,rner of the stabled " What dye call
ago, sirr Young Subaltern (fresh from the Academy/.
" That, or, is the web of the Arachnids Sodestaria
nomadic*, or common house spider. We conquest Wm
during the day, air, but he gem the better of us at night
He is considered a model of perseteranse I Of course,
sir, you remember the story of Bruce and—" Digit
Colonel, hastily, muttering something about the "Service
(vine—somewhere.

COLD COMFORT.
Austria held by Blemark's heavy hand
In an "offensive and defensive ' hand,'"
Not free to wink, or think, to star or stay,
Bat., he points his " blood and iron" way;
The German Zall.verein strict, stern, emphatic,
&mating from Baltic sea to Adriatic:
And John Ball left to twirl an idle thumb,
Wlmn his wares are shut out where German come.
000 will, one word, one influence alarmiag ;
Small osighbours quaking, and big neighbours arming;
Oa Europe's prostrate neck a heavier hint;
From armed maht to richt one len appeal;
For Farmland less hope, lees peace, lees euiploy—
Such Salisbury's "glad tidings of great joy r

CARDINAL MANNING'S VISIT TO RONK
Cardinal Nanning, it is announced. will Ware London
for Rom* en fith November. This sari. visit is attributed
labia hope to win the aslant of the Vatican to a lon.
cheraehed scheme, which. by admitting certain changes in
the external organisation of the " Catholic" Church in
England. will Iscilitete the return to "the true hate of
one important group of Mulish Protestant..