The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

" TIIE PING CROWDS" AND "THE

TALONS OF THE BRITISH PUBLIC."(!)

" FEATHERED ti4TERI KS. "

Amongst all the curiosities to be seen during the
week by our numerous visitors to Dorchester, there
is one which might possibly escape observation if
we failed to call attention to it in these columns. The
curiosity in question is not one appertaining to
agriculture. commerce, the fine arts, or isrllss /dire.;
but it is a manufactured article, and a very singular
specimen, too. It is an example of the leader-
writing to be found in the Dorset Chronicle, a paper
bolstered up by a clique as ignorant as the writer,
and fully as pretentious and inflated. We cannot
think of pointing out serirtfint the mass of incon-
gruities and absurdities, extravagancies and con-
fusion I f ideas with which the whole article abounds.
The words printed in italics will be sufficient to
show that the writer has no knowledge whatever of
the pi oper use and meaning of words, has no clear
tzincepti of the points be wishes to discuss, and
is, in short, a brainless pretender to newspaper
literature, whose productions, we wish to say, are
by no means to be taken as a specimen of the ability
which marks the journalism of the county of Dorset.
Nor are the great and numerous defects of this
writer in any way compensated by politeness, or a
bee,,,,, respect shown to our expected guests ;
otherwise, he would have hesitated before he
stigmatized them as " gaping crowds," and raised a
warning voice against " the talons of the British
public." Without fu-ther preface here is the
precious article, which, with the other original
productions of the same genius. is, we are told.
" entered at Stationers' Hall." Notwitatanding this.
we take the liberty of entering it for public evhibi-
tion, and only regret the space it occupies. We will
just add, that the young student in English
grammar and composition way tplie this production
of the Dorset Chronic!, home with him ; and in
sonic leisure hour, taking WILLIAM Consery to his
aid. may amuse hiniself with an elaborate and
scholastic critisciam of it--to his own honour, and
much to the satisfaction and amusement of his
friends and tutors :

"THE APPROACHING EXHIBITION.
"ova ISAMU will perceive with gratification that all the
rn.preptbralythelons,x(ii,cd.dar nex;t
nod that
im.wreareh,aws asr
oil) v eiczuni.d
rig "with flying colours" on the oceaaion. The entries for the ,
exhibition in the Arts Detartutent—to which we have taken 1
necaston to allude in our local colainins--must not he deemed I
to afford any approach to • notice .1 the Mer ensemble ; nor is
It desirable to forestall the efeef• and anpriere e.rtadione
in general, by leaving nothing to he discovered by the visitor.
The General Show, of which the Art• Department is but •
corner, is in magnitude about ono-third the extent of the
Royal Agticultural Meeting—with, hove' sr. a complete Dew
awifif of all its leading Mauna, and with floral and other
addithms of • NOM ornamental and agreeable charaa-ter than
are to be met with in the more severely ayrienttural arena of
the nation& body. Machinery in motion composes the out-
ward circle. and never fails to attract gaping crowds. Maehi.
Miner!, and implements next display in plaenlity their beau-
ties and jurfertione or, the lane, and alley. qf Me loopiest eat
yard. There is &stockade nextleneing mysterious portion
of the ground ; but after two on To-slay, when the
mine pars have alone their sorb, it disappears like magic,
aral the noble Pr",inets of eleicato. at skill fa lire k become
accessible to their Tow wimirers. Enna that moment
up to the shilling day, the inio-hinery and implements eked
divided admiration "sly. On the last half.erowis day (Thurs-
day) and on the Friday. however, the great days of the show, It
s °old, in trut'a, be difficult to tell where the crowds Lavished
moat of their hatenat. Every thing Is seem soil. if possible,
handled ; although "touch not" is the motto In the Arta
! Islartinent in particular, and a very watchful v igilance re.
I mitres to be exerciaxl lo 'raw lA. faintis qt the British
Snlne cirCU kyr niarquees are screened IT during the earlier show
days, and lucre larks in a large area id ground martkec coda
feathered mystery. The ;money and the plosans usually
ox.eupy several tents. ',bated with great delight by all lovers of
quaint shapes and gorgeous plumage—for nothing in nature
takes on [...10ur like feathers. At length the vast and varied
extent of the exhibition. Mauling the flower Amax. public
and private. ha, mu acerswilile to the roaming Engliximan.
and Pi due weather no holiday promenade to calculated to
exhibit a gayer same than the gnmilds of the Rath and West
st England Society in the height of the exhibition. We tell
I our Metropolitan friends that they have twilling to r.ml..ueto
It(!) Cremonie and the Crystal Palace become niferainglea. and
, absurd in preen.— .1 gsthering • '.ere 3 nth, beauty, and
Fla.! m emannlngle with the h.:acacia, gentry, yeomanry,
trail:mien, and all ,asis. of inhabitantu of a sa,t district hoot
on the development and Improvement of native industry aid
Its resources (!) High on • grand stand appear In the afternoon
the glorious Ormadier Rand, and the music discoursed around
ix listened to by enchanted thousands with pleased and intelli-
gent ekternent-

When the Showyard closes, the two. ds draw toward, the
User.. partly in seareh of be refreshment and repose, ;wily
1,, the expectation if beb,cr Indulged with suet. 11111111Killellt..
7.41/ poem r I, temps. as the spirit. 1111.1 hospitality of the tow.
people, their entertainer., hao not fallei to pro ide. Of thaw
our column also afford Indteatione to which we refer. The fete
fit th.S part rescuable, more the Olii-14 400 C life and enjoyment
of roitinental Europe. we venture to say, than anything else
ever fotsnd In England. (!) Then conies the ;met/sena! repose.
It is perplex:llg to witness the Oak and Oterilflit in% of every
I:l7appronehing the ehareirter of an Inn. Seated on benches,
s, settle., anything. yards deep nronnd the fronts end
avennes of those twtablishuienta, may he seen men of all ranks
and descriptions In the agricultural world, relieving an for the
crowded rooms within. It has been said that wine t
merits ought to lime been made to facilitate the obtaining of
private Imlglngs in Dorchester. Bat aa... It worth while? It
I. so perfectly esklent that Weymouth, little as that town has
done to help the Show, must as a pines of tollginwt supply nine.
tenth' of the demand, that, although requested to urge this
point, we have not seen it expedient to ...Ism:ate the formation
of any register, or the placing of any restrictions upon the let-
ting of beds and sitting iss.nes. (9 these [Mow invariably find
Met,' own towel; and our townsfolk have the reputation of
being moderate ; o hilst Weymouth, in any such emergency,
well knot..., what to do.
With regard to conveyance the railway arrangement, Is ill.
no don't, from the standinet and short:dee of the London and
South• Western, and Great Nester. Companies, be perfect. The
Weymouth authorities h. Town COMICa re.-Anbled. appear Ste-
w ism to be quietly anticipating that Dorchester will reap them
a rob harvest 1., Mrs resprel, by attracting to their new Pile
Pier shoals of steamers fron. all quarters of the neat; and Cr
are glad to see that they base taken the precaution of order-
ing a temporary illl.lllllff stage 1., be provided for the OCCIISion.
111,1'41'41N turn out to, b: a dtwrth of cabs. as we doubt
' -re' • •Irr 14•Cif. kilt.W IPA der d of ai v
1 arangenient eahat:ate.l to secure the politic convening.: that
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