The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

agriniltural Etna.

THE TEACHINGS OF EXPERIENCE IN

bewritYs and enattered the loam her Prime& It
JOorset eountq press is strange that while we have • name for the wood
• suntmer—which is aim at alien from our climate—we
have DOM for the second
nter—which although
TUESDAY. APRIL & IS it always comas as • surprise, nevertheless almost
always comes In March or %coil, accompanied by
NOTES OF THE WEEK. maledictions on the part of the customers and treat
activity •moiag phisicians. Our necon4 winter.
THE BUDGET, which might fitly be known u the rt Laele-rlar
It has talc= some days before the Budget ha; at all Winter" or "the Winter of Our Lady" (saving
Pyotestanttles), has been this veer very nearly.
not received the thorough going criticiem which it deserved.
quite. as wiser* as our 17h.itoneas winter I
The %Dribblets' orPaa Ifraskalp, ofMUM' On Friday believe considerably morn snow fell in London last
sundas with CM %Ma ChOnte of Praise, and those of week than during Teutlientideshteteprloongetw.ted, bowelLrer,mesevemant
the OpposiTtteen
,litils.."'Vethanbe.t,tbLinileddesto, that onnowFt'rldhaayvebyfdarlyroval saint* of thunder, and we are
ricttleinlove.a I hanciallor of faint compensated for a long perim of remarkably
ou, He dry weather by April @bowers of unusual heaviness.
kind of pity.w.b.rictiothakine
Ili:a...v.:rpm. bath., whipst fate, grappling with April showers hare been intermingled, however,
is star breasting the waves of circumstances,* doling th• last day two or with November fogs. The
. . n tbe uirt of happy chance." Phe Deily months do lend and borrow of one another curiously
if°rile •
coe.wegamormtoecpsitai." cd7 to colleagues. Sir Mittaist'ed(ar dinaysth6or shayower. Laatand sunshine amid amnidn'hi.'der mnsorebynaatnfralew
the We, party, it observed, and the spending depart- and congenial fP. She is now repaying her debt
meats and, in fact, every member of the Cabinet but with surly honesty.
himaelf, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would
deserve a good word even from the organs of tb•
Liberal party, but as it is he maid abhor tbe disgrace
a his party', and since ways and means will be the
aim of the Tories, it is not to be expected that the
Liberal party ere to waste any WWII 011 the Budget,
which is another nail in the coffin of the Conservative
Reaction. This may be the orthodox view of the
Budget from a strictly party point of view; but to on
to whom Whig and Tory are mere names which have
lost their power either to charm or terrify, the success
or failure of the Budget is a very different matter.
We cannot regard the financial break-down of the Con-
nervatives simply aa • step towards the return of the
Liberal, to power. If we are croakers about • Budget
like the present, it is become we are financial frogs,
and cannot help observing that what is sport to others
may be death to us. There are Conservatives who
are consoled for a five-penny in-come tax lei the
millions flung right and left to the spending *part-
mints, and which, in one form or another, bring pay
and promotion to the united services and their blends.
The Liberals even may draw consolation such as it is
from the Let that every such Budget tends to wear
out the credit of the Conservative party, and thus
brinp nearer the inevitable day of reckoning. But
what consolation is there f ir the poor tax-payer who is
not within the strict hives of party warfare, and who
'bag no thirst for glory on the one band or for office on
the other? We have only to grin and bear it ; to put
up with a prolonged crisis, fears of bad trade, and now
to crown our other troubles by an additional twopence
Income tax. Admitting even that the imposition of
these burdens was inevitable, and that we must pay
for armaments which we are sot IlkelT to use, it is
still open to question whether the financial 'crew has
been put on in the right directi in. The Ministry can
never forget its true friends are of the music-hall clam,
and that but for the poblichouses its war policy would
not have met with the support which it has found in
the country. But, for all that, another shilling in the
gallon on spirits would have been patiently borne
with. But the fear of the "Victuallers" and their
organs, official and semi-official, beg been too strong
for the Ministry. It Is another inntanoe that gin is
king in this country, and that no Ministry with any
prudent regard to its popularity will touch any I 4 'be
Interests which cluster around the drink traffic. The
moral, then, of ths Budget lithe simple one that the
spending Department and the publichouse interests
are supreme nder a Conservative Ministry. The
upper and middle claw must find the means, while the
upper ten and the roughs find the ways to spend the
revenue.
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Round Robins were once in fashion when a number
of subordinates wished to address a superior, but no
one had the audacity to head the eddies, and thole
appear as the chief offender. Every one remembers
the round robin to Dr Johneon, entreating him to
write his epitaph of Goldsmith in English. But a
theological round, robin is something of • novelty.
The question of future punishment haa become the
ruling topic in certain religious circles. Strong and
need opinion* in the direction of broad theology
pronounced
edamalred certain review,. and the conaequence
is that their rivals have thought of • plan of giving
all parties a hearing and letting heretics and orthodox
play ar against each other. This is a repetition of
the all remark that in the multitude of councillors
there is safety. For instance, the Cotemporary, which
has lately gone in for orthodoxy against the latitudi-
'laden Nineteenth Century, has a round robin of this
kind, in which aome eight critie Miscues Canon
Farrar's book each from his own point of view. It is
an amusing trick of an edi.or to shield himself from
responsibility for giving forbidden fruit to his reader.
Mr. George Augustus Sala—the initials of whore
name, curiously enough, spell gas—has pot his
"facile pen" (that is the phrase) at the service of
many new notions which are in need of a little
judicious puffing. Among the last novelties of that
' enterprising sasprneria is • series of word-pictures on
Cameron's Afro travels, and write geography on
the principle of never having visited the country that
we have to 'lee wills is admirsble. It reminds one of
Sydney Smith's Adria, to a young reviewer,
read the bark which he was invited to criticise
" Such re' ling." as the wit went on to say, "only
tends to prejudice ths mid." Mr. Sala among his
other staininz merits hen thin crowning one; that he is
•
never troubled with prejudices.

We remember a capital story of an ignorant old
woman in an out-of-the way Somersetshire villseth
whose little eranrichild was dying of peritonitis. The
Yinne. ',He kindly looked in to administermeh •Dirltual
and material comfort a. the MA. admitted. The
unhappy bahv was lincrerine in tad torment;. and the
kind.hearted Isti• compassionately remarkei th ut bo
seemed to enfl.r very mneh. " Yea " the old wornsn
ropl .1 solemnly, "he snffered stymie', !yew little
thing. Rnt it plows the Loud" Thi• is. we cannot
hnt think, the view which the stricter sect of the
Rabhatarisne take of the gn .dev. tinnier. they
think. “mrht to ho made a. wich Ik• pottelide a day of
ennorsnee, tedium. vevition. and welrinesa The
M merman ;moot wry, we are to tske no pleasure.
The pohlioli nem. it is true. are to he open entrain
hones. hot reepectshle. orderly people who want to
enjoy a h •liday—w ich is, he it n 404. identical bolt
in tierly.tion and mend', with "holy day" or red.
letter day—are to he driven into church her the simple
pr,ceas of 'hotline on all other places of instruction
and smn•entent The pron.." mar rlierru.t sensible
men. not perhaps with religion in itaelf, but with
relldon se it i• profeseeti and peactisei. Tr may
weary them. It may render their life been% of lb..*
innocent pleasures without whic% life is hardly worth
living.

TrITIN TALK.
(Pram' a London CorroponAnd. )

There is still talk of a dionlation after Easter. The
Premier is a man wh • seldom drops any project he has
made up hi. mind dpno, and it Is well known that he
has resdred upon. Should the country hold on in its
present mood of erica diali'te of Rnesia and suspicion
of the Testy of San Stefano the Premier will play hi.
trump card an I dies .Iv.. with an appeal to thee mot ry
on peace or war. There I. only one way to dish the
Premier. hut it is n d likely that we shall set our
friend the enemy to oblige MI In that way If Prince
ltortechakoff were to become cosnifestedly mill and
pliable, and ta eiedl all our demands, so that we
could not decently refuse to so into Congrees, this
would dish the War Party. But it is too much to
expect Prince Onetechekoff to cm. to our help in this
way; 110 We .11411 probably hare an appeal to the
country with the whole of the We Party—with the
D.T. at their head—voting Blue.