The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-29 00:00:00

Vorset eon* Expren,

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1879.
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What a goselping tOWII WO live in! Some people
will keep hinting to me that ohurch.rates are more
wily weed. if part of them is likely to be expended
among tradeemen for repsirs of the fabric and jobs
npsterial, an w II me on improving the parishioners'
spiritual stets. Hut that cen hardly be true of the
large farmers who pay the biggest portion in some
pivots..; they must contribute their large shares a
for love.

Jeremiah Is among us again; he writes from Stick.
Ind, and advises the oountry to save £7OOOOOOO a
year by drinking only half a glass instead of the whole
one. Ab 1 Jeremiah lif you propose iruch radios/
ransoms, you'll soon find some one to let you into the
mire. and it will be poor consolation to you that, at
the rate our rulers are wasting our subsume now,
there will be plenty of cast clouts and rotten rags to
ease your maul when you are pulled up again.
Why I are not even vagrants to be admitted to Om
Union Hotel at any hour of the night, if they are
drook The experienced clerk to the Guardians. Kr.
H. Lock, suggests that the police orbs are intended as
Tempt ,clee for drunkards. What I after patronising
a local industry as they must have done, and helping
to build up colossal fortunes, not to have even an
union porter for their servant? How much might
they have saved for themeless had they avoided such
a fall

I weary for the time when some other local industry,
such aa in a good factory, shall be established sear
Dorchester, to utilise the labour of its bumbler
population. We seem to bare abondant water-power,
and I fail to see why we should not manufacture West
of England broadcloth. There are, or ought to be,
sates for dwellings at the top of the town, without
gathering more of the poor into or around Milleitreet.

, Writing of dwellings for the poor, I WOl2lllll if it Is
I true that in certain district, the drainage is all
behind, and the Council do nothing to enf,,ros the
•ystem of the Bev. FL Morale. If it is true. 'tie time
they should be aroused, for all they'll gel fr,m the
Local Government Board will be Ins —" How
not to do it," of which Instructions we have had
Ohs, ion seta / yea, more than enough.
Lord Norton's Bill will make the providence of
working men available for the good of their wives and
tortillas, should the poor fellows themselves hays to
suffer the miseries of utter pauperism. That may be
a comfort to them in sickness; but to give the mosey
over to the Union would take the heart out of many a
man labouring for that Independence so be-praised by
patronising speaker, at club feast&

An extinguisher hu been dropped by the "Lord "
Bishop upon dreamers who fancied the Synod might
do something to put down the " contagion " scen&d.
The Lord Bishop fears • "liability of the subject
causing sensation." In the human body we have heard
are nerves of motion and nerves of aessation, and
when incipient paralysis attacks the frame, and the
nerves of motion cam to act, still hope raisins if the
nerves of sensation have not given up. In Synods,
Convocation, and Parliamentary treatment of Church
subjects, we have long doubted whether signs of
motion exist, and when an officer of the &debited:led
Church deprecates "sensation," we can only fear the
Escalate will increase. Absence of pain, when dames
present, may be the result of mortification; but
with such an offence as auricular confession spreading,
pain would bee Ida of remaining life, and perhaps of
the vie anticatrin.

Much wiser than the sensation-squelching Bishop
was Canon Lowndes, who saw the train of "Progress "
" looming in the distance," and would have turned the
points and gently situated the oncoming force. The
Synod listened to Canon ('odd and Archdeacon
Sanctuary, and, like the bull who dares the
railway train, ignored "the points." Synods are apt
to forget that, in cases of collision, it is apt to bee
" vera bad thing for the coo." Chemistry, pointing to
the body resolving into its elinnrate, says of the living
man, "He is not hare;" it were aid if burials—
such admirable opportunities for teaching the living—
should become only mechanical and secular; but
quarrels which point to a fondue' for fees and power
will prompt the question—" What do we lose by the
denial of that formals, which it is *ought to deny r
The public mind, looking out upon gallant soldiens
fallen in defence of their country, and whom bodies
rot, unserviced, on barbarous lands,—on sailors, the
pride of our navy, swept by sudden gusts into the
ocean grave, or travellers who were men indeed, but
who have left their bones bleaching on &worts,
will enquire —" What have these lost ?" And
the non.rarrender policy will be found, as
Canon Lowndes gagged', disastrous in the end.
And why disastrous? Because we are all too apt to
become absorbed in the struggle of life, and to take
insufficient heed of those who fall, or of the certainty
that we too shall fall, and because the absence of •
service reminding the living of the groat MI-Pervading
Life, their duties and their bonds to Him—such
absence would only increue the tendency to
forget Him who is the first fruit' of them that sleep
in Him. But Christian forms of burial Sc, more
likely to be retained as long as this count 7 lute, if
the suspicion is removed that the fight is about a
matter of power and of fees.
England's freemen will not lack lenders, in case of
any further encroachment of Dizzy•lmperialism. The
House of Derby, 8o long a tower of Conversatism, still
boasts • head who sympethiess with British fair play.
Had much nobles as erst•Lord-Stanley supported the
Government of all the Quarrels, England might soon
have found herself with more debts than she could
Joey, and more wars than she could fight. Mr.
Weave, at Bridport, spoke out • plainly,
apparently vastly encouraged by the of Earl
Derby. But the recklessness of our present Govern-
ment is not a matter to be resented by Disenten
alone ; it demands tho early resistance of all who are
not afraid to ask—

" Wbst it. monuments of bravery
Winne no civic virtue, bloom I
What avail In lands of slavery,
TropMed tamping. arch, and tomb I "
Our state is eves worse than that indicated In Camp-
bell's lines, for the tombs filled by the victims of
Dizzy-Imperialism are not trophted yet ' • but the
laurel.wreath is a bought one, and for the heed of a
stay-at-home.
--
Good Templar, of both Orders will read with interest
the accounts of the Negro Exodus from the Southern
United States. Freed in name, the poor people find
they are expected to endure almost as much as before
from the planters, and, to use the slang phrase of the
day, " %btu% good enough." They are not now
wiecripti glebn. and they go north, their fellow
-
worshippers help them as they can, chapels are open
to shelter the destitute, and so northward they plunge
into oold and hunger, and labour, only asking to live
and be free. If the debate between the Templar
Orders excites attention outside, we can at once lodge
that "the Britiahen " ace likely to win the confidence
of those who think.

Dzsaiars.