The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-30 00:00:00

WHAT nil WORLD SAYS.

There is another fallacy in the Aylesbury soma which
I n fact I- full of fallecies Lord &nomad.,ld tilustrates
qbq superiority of English over French agriculture by the
fact that the French soil yields only 14 biishels to the
sem whams the loglish yields 19 bushels ; and that
although the climatic an 1 othsr conditions of France
we far more revolvable than Zugland. But the Prime
Minister omitted to say that these 14 bushel. are the
French average sitar counting-in all the poor moil of the
country, cultivated uoder the system of pemant
proprietorship, most of which if in Zees ni would not
be cultivated at all ; whores the English 49 bushels are
the product of land of ordinary fertility. To get • (sir
tugsof comparime it would be requisite to throw out of
the calculaUon all those tracts of French land that in
England would not be cultivated. which would greatly
toenue the average of the yield in Francs.

Would it not be barker foe the Government to leave to
the atierapapera the work of suppkylog taformation about
to A'ithan war I Alter the mamas at Cabal they
ki.i;y ued,rtook the office, sad the multi, that they are
al.vsye a day late. If uot more. They have every admit-
t• vo Lavin: command of the wires, and yet the
SiAndard, with Ito rorreato mdeate at all beed ft -q
bro. Wein ono! 100011,-. For one instance out of umlau7l ee
rot the news of the outbreak at Herat to that paper on
Irrtday moron.. twelve hours lor the clock after it left Al
JUNO. The " odimal " telegram cornet out an Monday.
Bat by th &Game the newer. p a.tetn anticipated the
Government in announcing the euthemi ftuds tat/ Amax
to Roberta.

Midlothian is preparing to greet its future member, the
Right Hon. William Zwart GWlstoos, it November next;
Edinburgh town is for the occasion to be visited by,
the leading Liberals of Scotland, and a cardamum will be
held with the right bon gentlemen, the result, of which
are suiticipatsid to be as great a clearance of the Conserva-
tives from Scotland to wee made of the snakes from
Ireland by St Patrick. The noblemen of Radical and
other proclivities will alto,! am informed by one of them,
formally Mart the Scottish Liberal Club, which thence-
forth is to be the " Reform " of Caledonia.

Never have I seen • more painful performance than that
which is now to be witnessed in the old Exhibition build-
ing in Vienna, where Bloadin daily risks his life on • rope
stretched as the red dome at • giddy height Blondin
has expressly requested that no net be placed under the
rope to break his fall should an occident occur. lie rye
that he hea found by experience that the public do not
care half so much for his performance when the possibility
of • terrible accident is not present to lend a nest to the
show. He receives • large sum of money for every
exhibition ; sad the more daring his feats the higher are
his wages. He now traverses the rope without the
balmier, bar, welkin* backwards blindfolded. lilondin
is followed everywhere by • MT. Thompson, who has
made • bet of ten thousand pounds that the hero of
Niagara will fall from the rope end be killed ere he attains
the age of sixty. Sive years more, and the cruel wager
will be decided one way or the other, for 13 iondin is already
filty•flve.
Never was there each a triumph for the Liberals as the
plectra of Sir George KartMervon Grant for Moray and
Nairn by • majority of eh& But then it was a mere
unimonel, ersperble eret of Irinniph com-
pared to the muck nobler victory of Brodie. of Brodie, who
captivated and captured every female Wart within the coca.
bredeountre at Marty,N a,aad Banff. On thetspeyside.
bordering the Ballindalloch property, it is true • few
(male hearts remaised at large, but thie woo owing solely
to the feet that the voice of Use charmer never mme there.
Hind the franchise only extended to women, Use Omer-
retire ordidate would have won by an unprecedented
majority; as it waa, every hoar was divided against
itself, the husbands being for the most part Liberals, and
the wire Brodettr. On the following day trains and
electors were a hi. Sir George had his carriage roared,
and his brother was thrown down and had twenty men on
the too of bins; all dose in the inset friendly spirits The
spirits, friendly and otherwise, increased an the day ad-
vanced, and culminated in twenty-eix gallons of Glmsllvet
being turned on at Balliadalloch Castle at night. The
following evening, when all miserable uncertainty was
• Glenlivat twill, and the rest of Sir George's pro-
perty, was Mitre with bonlire while within the castle
walls her ladyship save a ball and welcomed all and
sundry, whoa even the liar of them her lista* voters
considered the wood Barrer& even better than the first.
The coming year INS I am glad to state, Is to be cm-
epirnmis by the rare peculiarity of bearing live Sundays
In isberry. Now aU weather.wise people have agreed
for centurion in considering the circumstance as one of
extraordirrily good omen for the harvest and trade
generally. So that if the famous depression does not come
to an end within three or four months, I really do not
know who will be to blame.

Iliac mistake to uurt that the Doke of Hamilton's
Mahn% the Princess of Monaco, it applying for a divorce
from her husband, for lbw Pope has no purer to dissolve
a marriage between Catholics which hu been validly
contracted. What she is soaking is a declaration that she
was never married to the Prince at all, which she doee on
Ike gronnl that she never gave her consent to the marriage.
The matrimonial contract, like any other contract, is baud
on mutual comsat of the parties, and is not binding OD
those who have not ow:muted of their own free will. This
was precisely the ground on which the marriage between
Napoleon and Josephine wee declerwt null and void but
auch protestations of nws•usent, made alter cohabitation,
are very seldom succeseful at Rome.

I learn from the Ern that • testimonial eat presented
to Mr. Harry Jacktou, at Liverpool, for 111. sueesestal
stage production of Mr. Charts. Itesde's drenta, Driret.-
The presentation took place after a " maenad luncheon"
at the Washington Hotel—which ha* now become •
temperance tarern—and the testimonial took the form of
• wine-cooler. In connection with a teetotal drama an
this seems singularly appropriate.

A very largo contingent of Dublin citizens and garrison
poured down to Howth Castle by road and mil, by drag
and wagonette. last Friday, to see the rather exciting
process of catching the red deer destined to be the quarry
of the Ward Union staghounds next season. This to done
by coursing the stags round the park with greyhounds till
they rush Into the toils set in the likely paws, and also
by means of Oro lasso, when a few "heath' have made
them tamer. Lord Howth waisted at the capture, and.
as usual. the most open•handed hospitality prevailed at
the Csstle.

The Empenw of Austria has Oven a great " chamois
Situ.'• near fladmar. a mountarinlodre of his 'Austad in
one of the grandest porta of Styria. A distinguished party
were gathered together for the sport. The morning of the
" Toed" his Majesty left the house at 4.30 with his guests,
and drove towaria the selected ground. at the foot of the
Walseenbach. Alighting, the party then proceeded on
foot for two hours up the ravine, where each took up
his appointed post. The heaters had been at work the
whole of the previous day, and had driven the chamois
into an soon of a square mile or two, round which they
formed a cordon. The ahooting began at midday, but
not much was dons before two o'clock, when the
rhawloiu began to make their appearance in coosiderable
numbers, springing wildly from rock to rock, es they were
driven down the ravine. lieven•two beasts were shot, of
which his Maiesty brought down thirteen, Crown Prince
Rudolph thirteen, King of S niny ton, and the 13rand
Duke of Tuscany six.

The French Minister°, War is 'busy attending 0 the
personal comfort of the re-organised army. He has just
ordered the distribution of spectacles to all the regiments
in France. It is spot:tally stipulated that the permission
to wear them is only to be given to thaw who require them.
Such a copulation appears strange, as I should not
euppoas thet persons would tithe to epretacleis for the
look of the thing, or would come to conrider them as •
mark of distinction. The number of spectacles in use in
each regiment is not to be regulated by the number of
blind or shortsighted solders, but by a hard-and-faet rule ;
two complete Feta per regiment of toot, of artillery, or of
engineers, and one set for other recimentt The complete
oasis composed of thirty pairs of ipwcurcies, Nos. II to 6 in
equal proportions. Should there be in a regiment of foot
• thirty-first soldier who may require spectacles, Gls to he
Presumed that, instead of giving them to him„ he will
have to be drafted into another regiment where the full
complement of thirty blind man does not exist. In the
same wey eome little occupation may be found in exchang-
ing from one regiment to another, so as to suit the men's
eyes to the numbers of the rpectacias at the disposal of
the commanding officer. The French used to lan6 at the
spectacled Germans ; but since the war sans areas shave
kW NU. and the victor, mast be copied in rveryettt
Should by any chance the Japanese ever heat the trench,
the latter would in all probability adopt umbrellas for
their soldiers.

GERMANY.
rams SISEAILK PROPOSES DISARMAMENT.
Nam, Wednesday Night —At the counting-house of •
great banker, who liss had official relations with Austria,
I have beard that Prince Biemark eubsuitted to the
Emperor Francis Joseph and Count Andreasy • plan for
a general disarmament Uhe is encore, the world win
have reason to thank him. If he is insincere. Ida project
can only lead to • general European commotion. Germany
Ii weary of her military Unmet and in her weariness and
exhaustion are to be found the canoes which produced
Haslet and Nobiling. But it is hassi to believe that the
Emperor William can odiously contemplate disbanding
those spenslidly-disciplised many corps in which be took
such pride the other day at Strasburg.—Dsilg Nom

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.
n.—The !Moreno, to me in the letter of " Natural's'
may be productive of inconvenience, unless you kindly
permit me to supplement it with a few words. The
variety referred to se ethane._ proof is beyond ell doubt
the meet valuable ever brought into cultivation. for in this
disastrous semen it hes escaped the blight entirely, and is
notable for ite tine quality and high productiveness. All
that I had to do with it **stealer:over in the thst instance
It. suitability for goers] cultivation. On my_ nmommenda.
ion it was purchased and distributed by Mamma Mutton
and Sons, of Reading, as "Sutton's 'Magnum Bottum,'
and under that name it is now widely known.
I am. Sir, your obedient servant.
SRI aizit Mangan,
Editor 040141•1111.
Let any patriot mak if the millions sterling which our
Tnry Government have squandered during the five years
of their recent power had been saved to the nation, the
trade and commerce of the country could possibly have
failed to be better than it now is I We know it is urged
Is some quarters that the burdens of the people have not
been increased; but the present income-tax does not bear
out the assertion. mid we must not forget that tb• whole
of the bills are not yet sent In. while them which are to
hand the Government have not bad the courage to Meet.
The effect is Mown by the official statistics from which
we again quote. From them we gather that in WO, the
first of the tea years for which we ham given the totals
of • xpeoditure, the amount of unfunded debt wen
A 5,761500. Before Mr. Gladstone wee driven Ivo Aloe
in 1874 he tied redeem, this to £4 CAMS Since 1574 the
Tories ham immaind It to £35.87100 I Surely tile
annenemery to say mom to show how utterly unfit the
preeent Administration is to be entreated with the
guidance of the Whin of this greet commercial auk it
would now at least seem to appear. agritedtgral country.—
Heats Oidepeedont.

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THE EVIL OP PARTISAN OFFICIAL&
no 0ur...db.., proceedings of one of the subordinate
officials of the Berton Regis Board of Guardians,
sr posed the other day bet ore the Revising Barrister, were
touched upon Friday at the weekly metier of the Boar&
The result will scarcely be satisfactory to ths pew, it
will be remembered that oats& working to.. Is th.
Havel!' district »oared some small relief front the rates
during the severe distress lest winter, but that the
assistance was regarded se exospfastal, end the names
were, therefore, not *applied to the assistant oversew in
ossapliance with the ordisery rola But it appeaNd
Semidry that the names of such of the mft rohoood
ware led lob. Liberals Were secretly 'haadad to r..
agents of the Tory party whun no
o;i:
laformation wee vouchsafed to anybodj reference to
the
won who tr., thought to be Cooservatives. it was
further theta hr taw ariltult "Anse* thatso aim of
tho Usks had made himself a political partisan, sag that
oomplainte were nude of Me rosining to and ire in Hot-
well-reed for political norethes. owing whose names be
could take of the list. The result of them exertions tree
swirl, by the objections of the Tory meats, who suooseded
dtoin,addosag Nene roes sected of Li
wnsup
ato aiitistara agents were deprived of the rblaliehn
&ging in the eases way with favoured Tories who had
otogaed quite as much relief from the rates. It might
have been suppoesd that. Board of
might be the politka 14he*ay tn
tiootirklisuckooo
rosily pealed over such a Eat it
, a very flabby discoed= la aa that
the relieving °Moen be directed to act cm the
&Wool* with ell red of relief—nee the
test censure Wind Ce, the who WI
WA teatical ko vie a peeMrarnape apop
Mervarr.

I Pia Case Lea Net-names. —I have had an etwelleat lot
under glass, of fair siae, imputly. al Early Louise (the
, best early Peach), Alfred, Royal
and Gros Mignowiaßarr=aooll I hays a very
tory crop, as regarde numbers, but they swell slowly. The
Princess of Wales, Dr. Rolm
_' Early York, Early Afoot (a
nal colourer), Nectarine Peach Noblesse,
Belleearde, Golden Fragrant*, and Riven'ange°M
Elmo Nectarines, are to the fora At ow time I despaked
of their ripening. For five weeks they liovid not ; but
since we had a little sun they program ; bat Mardis, think
they win attain their usual aim it they ripen not, I shall
have them preserved whole. The wood for next yew is
excellent, bat I have had great trouble in managing
wst.iares. I follow Mr. Grin's plan by cutting the slipolaro
in half. —W. F. Itadalgis,Okeferd litspoing,iss"
Chrefalsk.'