The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
nowEncernm. TUESDAY, KAY 14. M.
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NOTES OF THZ WIRE.

Ti. Reform Bill, so far as camerae the Immesh
franchise, has pared through im last oritial stags,
TllO Meyer compromise the Chancellor of um,
laelasquer devised in regard to Wm compound hoes*.
ballets, reedited it imponible for the Opposition
whip he got les party to vote with mob nannimity as
In deism Yr. Dierasti's prple of penuael rags&
espeeially after it had been declared this a nevem
vote 'meld pre:Spume se immediate dissolution Of
roolablONOi, %hereby isfintiag a suers/ Ise" on
beim seembees thee ever the souernand householders
trysizweesit would hove been sojamad to, if Mr.
had sot dimovered so er,4ol,sad equitaiki
0111 maps from the dilemma lip whid,
OP 104 Nom bia. B.in. I ble4orlii of di sie;

retresertra was 000ldeeed the weak= is the
t memare, is gnat triumph, sad it will
Mink =hum the reputation of the Cheeselloe of Me
geolopeer ea Wets polleiglem With • £lO
=Preach= coeseded, the pert sub. mama,.
to the bone* Iliesehie ta aew virtually
compile, and smotioned by the Lower Boom It
num, skinsfms, be eatieipalisel that the Coteinittee
war 'ousted@ thetr taboo" before Whit eintidi, fie
which sass the Lords will have the Bill =hire thorn
by the middle of is.., time 'esatigh tat It Is pain
into law by the =finery pitied for occluding the
meek= am the Upper &ego *here Lord Derby has
so nedlibeedlTApredolsinset kilos's= will merely
Mimi= to 'Oeseehir the Bill in =MIL If these anti-
eipabOas prole well-founded, it will be very seldom
able if 061 sapper's's of the Goverumest retain t
thor °Quaky oonetitesociee at the close of thil
811.011 elated sod jubilant at =vise /holed the
esetionest of • emotion, which haa aimed the over-
throw of Ministries, and bees the otosshat of his=
=healthy agitation in the body polish for many
years pest But the Opposed= hive sated • useful
Put, andi =edged 3relly to the measure being
Plead OR • he= Ilk y to he permanent; for the
Bill noW heivemes • very different espial; from
the pith Originally sketched. The dual iota., goim,
the two years' madame is goes, the mho= to fine
the composed householder ii gone, and oat, =moat
rating remains of the four leading prim:asks of the
Bill when firo kid before the Houle of Commons,
and, if Mr. Disraeli admits the lodgers as voten—•
prove= which be proudly claims to have originated
—ma posegal payees= of rata es • prieoiple will
he gives up. It Mows, however, how completely
the Ministry have pat =de party indigoes., end
how loyally they have fulfilled their prom= as dm
Onionesesoneot to deal with the subject in a patriotic
!pink deterring to the mise of the ROSIN all paints
In regard to 'Ai= they thought differeotly to the
majority, and the resell is, • memo= of sefraitchiew
leant that will make profeesiosal agitation as %lone
• most unprofitable speoulelee, became It is ones.
Wagon of electoral privileges which commends itself
to the good moss of the ems= o the people, who,
like ourselves, are prologedly Indiffereet whether •
mimeos samailes from • Liberal or • Tory Govern-
Oink so that it be a geed one.

I Tbe decision of UM-Government to Uwe a Royal
Colonial's to =amiss the Rubric upoo which
dispated qmstions of corestosial have arises, affords
great satianotios to the metropolitan daily pron—
to the Times in partisans% This journal menden
that on the whole lt it probably thelbest mums that
could hare he adopted, though ills not creditable
to the Church that legislatioo of such a character
Witold be neoessary at all. Ewen allowing that the
veatmanta and gestions of the Waistline are per.
outbid by the Rubric they rely on, mu 000teoporary
thinks they us still without the elightut justifies.
non for introducing tha.3 for If all the old laws
still unrepseled on the statizt•-books were repealed
to-morrow, th., Irkoie 000ntry might to turned
upside down.

The blundere of Mr. Walpole, cumulating in the
Hyde Park Auto, made the resignatioe of the right
hon. gentleman a Ministerial imemeity, tot tbey were
assuming an importonm menacing to the Uoveni•
merit itself. Mr. (Isthmus Hardy 'stow 111161 Mill the
011.1.0011 duties of the Kota Secretaryship, the Karl
of Devoe gore to the Poor Law Board, an ap-
pointment h not as yet made to the Chanoellorship
of the Duchy of Lanoester, which the noble Earl
vacates, though Mr. C. J. Selwyn, is.,. for Cam.
bridge University is mentioned sa likely to
take it; Mr. Walpole remaios a member of
the Cabinet, though without °Moo Foor persons
seem to regret the loss of Mr. Walpok as
Home Secretary, though it is worthy 4 rentark
that nobody of icy party hat in ill word
to say spinet the right ken. goutlootao in his
private rapacity, and that Men of all opinions speak
loudly of his poraosal merits. This feeling wee
obivalrociely sod emphatically expressed by Lord
Berhy it 2 announcing the resignation of the right
boo, gentleman. "We shall feel," mid the Premier,
"that we are parting with a man than whom one
more amiable, more honourable, more thorosgbly
comMentious. I have never bad the good fortune to
sot with." Yet most people had blame convinotd
that be was not the man to mate I good
Home Secretary. His isruplet aro to otos
for soob a pooh and lie allows himself
to be ialltienced too KAUe by expediency; and this
was memptiified as much, perhaps, in his lung hoot.
ation respecting Toomer's cost, NI in his vacillation
on too OCCII4IOIIII in regard to Hyde Pa k denionstra•
tiottu

What the Ministry may lose through Mr.
Walpole's remit *lnduct, or through the Cabinet
policy which it represented (for Lord Derby temple
the full responsibility of his lath hibordinate's
000 duct), will be amply made bp to them by the
moors of Lord Stanley in what we may oall his
Conference scheme. The noble lord we. modem
enough to rewlitte any diatioctive initiative in the
afiair I bet that the Continental Powers coosidered
him dm author of the Conferees* wae shown by it.
meeting under his presidency in Loodos. od this
Conferee*, eseured poem to hirope in one
sitting (the fltut sitting Diving of 000rse, been
merely formal) an aose tutparadeled achieverneot,
and perhaps quite so before • war. This will do
much, surely, to restore the prestige of Great Britain
on the continent, which we had almost thought was
lost. It is true that in return we have aompted the
obligation of a now guarantee, or more strictly
'peeking, have renewed the obligation of an old one
in • modified form. Bat all that we reaßy moan to
promise is to respect the neutrality of Luxemburg
on condition that all tbe Great Powers do the same;
and if we ever go to war on amount of the violation
of the treaty by a single party to it, it woeld be only
with • majority of the swigs as our allies,
amongst whom Is now ranked for the find time the
new kingdom of Italy, which hat been taken by the
hand by Lord Stanley, and at this Conference reload
to the dignity and rsepousibility of • great Utopian
Power. -In the meantime, some 01)11111.0111111 has been
canoed by the continuums of armament by France;
It is to be hoped now, however, that its forms will
be placed on • pacific footing, which will the beet
mapiranes to Europe of the Emperor's alleged
renunciation of all views of territorial aggrandise-
ment.

We have, heretofore, earefully abidaised from
giving • decided opinion on Wise important
questions which its agitating the minds of all
thonfhtfal persons within the Church of England,
and especially in this diocese. As Churchmen, truly
attached to the Church, we (madly hoped, that by •
tells prudatos and moderatios either side, the
excitement mifibt be allayed. The charade, of the
Bishop biome, led as to hops that b• would be
willing to pay some deference to the beings of
many of the Melee ani best of theme who live in
hi. dioome ; and, that bin apparent wank of courtesy
in his answers to tits various oddest's@ and memorials
promoted to hen, would be more then leased for by
a charge, which would aet at rest the fears of all but
extreme • a, and satisfy .II his clergy as to the
reality of his attachment to the Church it &gland,
onstititoted at the Reformation. We areanapelled
with sorrow to confess that we ars more --
appointed. With singular infelicity his Larcbeip
sets forth each most offensive fester. of the
medieval priestly character; claims for his clergy
regal as well as judicial powers: supporting
those claims by argameole and inherprieeticos
of Scripture, that base both answered a hundred
times over by our Iteformitn, sod which hare no
place whatever in this authorised formularies of our
Choral. And this hie Lordship costs in his lot,
for weal or was, with that extreme petty of moo
who an purothaing for themselves • alienable
notoriety, by their absurd preen/loon and their
utter disregard of those obligee:tone under which they
placed themselves when they became Ministers Of the
Church of Reglaud. He must not, therealitll, be
surprised to and his position in the dictum greatly
altered. Those who suspected him before are now
triumphing in this safeTtamels display of ecclesi-
astical prateetiossams. These who clung to the
hope of Wing still able to act seder sad with him,
are now sadly pondering what mane they ought to
take. This laity sapthelly will now units more
°peal le Pretesting thane this toned of priestly
messiption, and if his ',idol:lip sem his whole diooses
in an uproar, as we believe he win, be will not have
the consolation of feeling that he hall don* whit be
could to prevent it He is sowilthe wind, and he
must he content to nap the whir wick& We warn
his lordship that the people of u giand will not
have or endure a priesthood, each as that described
in the charge; sod they that would impose it upon
us need beware, leek in claiming too meat, they
lose what they have already. It Is saansely within
our province to enter into the matter of the whole
charge—when printed we doubt not it will be amply
elegised—but the points we have alluded to are so
prominently put forward, as if in defiance of all who
dared to differ from his Lordship, that we mance
help entering our protest against them at coo,. We
are Churchmen but not Ramseisle ; we nem* and
led uphold the clergy of our Church, but we protest
against the idea of taming than into • dominant
and domineering peisellood. We therefore invite
the intelligent laymen of Diesel to examine this
teary, when printed, carefully for theme/elves ; and,
who, they have seethed themselves IS to its bearing
sad object, we («Imre that they will doter% ill ea
nomistakeible marmot, their determination that the
Charolt of their (abet, shell be maintained in it,
integrity, and shall not be made the ealkiartarse
for bigotry sad intolerance.

Tbe inauguration of a Minable of Agriculture
for Warwickshire, was the oftenion of Lord Claren-
don dilating epee a 'misty of sabjeole peoulicrly in-
teresting to tbe farming inters* sad his 'Pew& wen
both abaci sad oomprchanoive. Drainage, farm
ludidiaga. labourers' omegas, agrioaltnrel pap,
game proserration, mad the oupaes lonise at musty
scpenditure end turrigike toile, were points which
his kodall! ""INd mina. Prim( VIM wahabis him, to au conturnod. W. aged two polotes
busting .pcg aubjecto of 000taworoy 0 the prowet

6itite. 10 rePAIS Vie:U.l.lnd Itedistice which daring
Ohs perS MOM. St of our meaty Farmers' Clam
remised meeldsrable MM.'S* hi declared :
"It was impossible to exrate lb. imierisees to
all person tater...led in Iculnure, l concerned in
=T. of food for the people of this country, of
' infermation respecting the extent of
ladd an taltivatica and the relative sonar of the
difitirent descriptions of crop. in the United Kleirdeco-
Thom returns would become more valuable as affording
the means of comparing each year the annual and
periodical variations in the cropping of the land. Such
returns had been collected in Ireland for the lull.
years; the people there were fully alive to the ad•
vantages they derived from them, and the wWingneea
with which the Information was mmtribeted annually
called forth Me thanks of the Registrar-General."
Tim deliaste questimi.of exieseim game preservation
be refertsd.to frith the greeters frankness, and
ci-
a hattletecte which ws feel sues will receive
rum! approvaL Ho said :
_ . •

"The fact WIII indisputable that high farming and
high preserving did not and could not go hand-in.hand
together. Farming wee now-a-days a science requiring
not only great capital, great skill and knowledge, but
the nicest calculations as to their application, and it
was manifest that 500 or 1,000 hares, and rabbits osi
iskflaitice, were greet distortion of calculations. The
love of sport was genuine and general in this country,
and he hoped it would always remain so. Every tenant
wee glad that his landlord should Ind game on his farm.
No landlotd wished to enjoy sport to the detriment of
his tenant ; but the appetite for enormous returns of
game killed, which had latterly increased by indulgence,
went beyond the legitimate requirements of sport; those
competitive bags entered into the region of vanity; the
superabundant supply of Leadenhall.tnarket ordered
into the region of lucre ~ hence *Nee IrritatWA, 'Some of
it esaggemted, smite of is well justified, but which
ought not to etist, end which he was certain could be
remoVed by a fnendly discussion of facts between
oerners and occupiers of land in a Chamber of Agtieul-
tura whist was conducted in i Writ"