The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

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"Ezrarai" 027109, Monday Night.
Tint PITT POONCII, hay., authorised the bolding of
math market* in Well. from the 9th Inst.
Da. &MOP has bees elected Speaker of the North
German Porilameot. Ha reseived 127 cotes.

A TIVICIIILZ frees Toalon speak@ of a fearful honi.
ease on Saturday in the Galt of 14011% The iron-clad
Coaroona sru wrecked on tise fly‘cee Wands, sad
several of bet crew perished.

TBl PZINCISO OP W•LIEL—Th• followleg bulletin
was mood on Son4ay evening :—Tbe °neva senor of
km R .yel Highl.. es the Prioeem o Weles is making
lon gr.htu ; but the reamer, from the uffeetion
et the knee must nemormily be glow.

QUIIN Au never vet @pont more than ono night
at a time in 11.-indon eine* the death of the Prince
C.ensort. WI., Srwelap Glozeite, are now, however, glad
to learn 0..4 her ill ijesty bee deterinioed to toont• to
11,,ekineheln Palmas fora week. Her Majesty's arrival
will take place very shortly.

oommosnee of lb* motet resololloo of the lithos*
the propos d introdu lion of Fushariatio vestments into
eeversi eihneches in the diocese of Hereford at &stir
next win not be serried out for the nresent, though
Reny dee.), have resolved to continue the use of
embroidered stoles and "proper colours^ for sitar
1110•0110 p.

Tat fact Is certain that many ladies sorry about with
them in their "chignons" the mode of "ringworm" —au
intractable malady. Thrre is also • novel epodes a
f•loi Inir in the niarkat ; it it milled "churchyard hair,'
S,nit, not only of the sh•fra, but the root. also, end
bone • moot have bens pulled from them:mind the dead I
—Lancet.

Tat RID, WRITS, AND BLON.—TA th• atitoniehmeet
ol every °limner,l e little ship Heel, White, and /31. e
which arrived at Domm (rota Grammend nn the l•t
was towed net on Sunday, though it mu Naming • gal.
trma the miatmari. and • heavy ma running. The tag
Pa10...v.4,m shinned • sea Gluing her decks. Th. little
AIM, Ming ontvid• the Admiralty Pier, made sail, and
shaped her mune for Heels.

IT is said that the saunter before leng wiil he
-pen to witness trial nnyierelleled sin em the
time when the direetors of the Itomil Itnt..h Ronk were
pit in the dealt, the ,h,,b014„,... in
()emend, Gamey, and Co (Limited), ere determined to
bring • criminal notion egeinst lb* partnere In the
original concern, and, itiviold they do so, the trinl will
take pines at the Old Bailey.

Fix Amer's*, Ire learn that Cameos hos peened
th. Mutt. 7 Rsonistenetlon nod the Tonere of OMles
Bills neer the Pre ii. ot's Veto. No shuts* bee been
made in the Veriff Bill 'Rapt with resPret to row wool.
The brue of millions 3 per sent. loos tomb/ester hail
been adotiled ieitend of one of 100 millions (runbacks,
for ibis redemption of oomplind Interest Polio.
RACIPI —Tbii prospects of this farmirit•
roosting ors more favorable thou ever In odditinn to
the old est Ailiened stake., nee r.oe hu been added to
the proersinate—rit , the B.ll4sory Cop, vela. MOO, be
soh-eri.tion of £lO mull, to which then are already
nearly teensy soheorihers. There are 'weer& of slug
Boh.nribers to the Wiltshire Bisbee, which, with the Cop
and tonithut Stokes (Ilatdioops), alone and name on
Too-day.

Loan Rllnnen tlf ;s in fairroar of honsehnhi toff,re.
and he has written to Mr. Gladstone to that effect.
Th. venershle peer worm 'bat he proposed household
suffrage at the end of 1829, Jest b fore the chance of
Oneernenent, and it less no.eed to by the whole Librral
party presort at their private rneetinge--Lords Ore!.
I,,nurlowe, Redo r, nod John kutnell nmong the rest.
Uni.irtnuately. aays his lordship, et made no part of
the Rebno B ll,b.nanne itll were pore anxious to dm.
troy nosiaation and rotten boroughs than anything

E•riP•Mullrr.—On Thursday last. the only d.ughter of
e we•lily Sonsersetehite farmer, living under the ahmlow
if tni 111114. elated with a ...wont gentleman
of the same neighbonrhnod. Nothing wee heard of
the truant pair until Estisrday, when it was found that
they ar mod on Tim sv mullet at • fasionsble water ing-
ph). on the Bristol Channel. where oe the following
morning, they were in liasolably united in the bonds of
wedlock. The young lady is 01117 17 7Mrll of aft*. •• 11Ph-
/the form, and very pretty ; where*o the it., Lotherio
Is verging upon forty, and rides nearly fifteen atone.
Ws hem to &nominee the death of William Thompenn,
the Maori chief, ono of the most remarkable men tast
any mai., mose ho ever pro•laeed. He foutht against
we In the Waikato war, sod f mght with skill sod
gallantry. He conducted mili.ar7 operetione in a
which excited the unrruding admiration of
General Cameron, and 1,.., rind that be took sperm.
not because he hated the English or sras inlmieal to the
g 10•1., hot to defend the right of his people to their ,
land mid to prevent the extinction of their notional

Tuna poems I. he very little chance of the Abyssinian
*aptly., ever again swealnine tt•eir literty. All the
Lit 'opts made te ogmmenicate arith King Th.,40,
to far (tiled, the messenger, having hem, iotgg.
espied. intelligence, howevrr, bet arrived from the
Inter or mooning that the royal am, was lilted premed
by the r.b.41 on all sides, and that the captives had
been go utterly neglected that had It net hewn for the
timely amistancts nl the artisans at Gatti, islo mut
Ili.. • supply of money to procure tbe neemearies of
life, they must has. died of starvation. Wh-thar this
neutert was wilful or not on the part of the King does
not appear to be well aseettained, althoagh it w.,
apprehended that Hie Majeatv sea preparing some new
kind of torture for the unfortunate victims.

Ti half.yearly report of the Great Weekly' Railway
Comnany is pebli.bed. The recommendations of the
dawn., with reference to the dividend. on 'he ordinary
Stock have already appeared, but it seems that is con-
sego.. of an etoeptional appropriation of revenue to
tic. discharge of Inane, and to other eireutuata ors
at eine out of the late monotai7 peek, the boded are
•eompellert to recommend "that the paemont of tim
°dividend. on the nolinitry should be deferred.'
Although this ammo will be highly inconvenient to in-
dividuals, the directory stet. that ".1 is the onlr
nos by which the financial condition of thee norimy will
be Ward in a petition which will ins; ire puhl.• cis
11.1enee, and by which it. credit will be mainten.l.'
The extraordinary dere...ion in Great Western Igoe&
which he. occurred during the pot week is thin onl,
too well explained, hot now that the worst is known • favourable reaction may be satiMpated with some
.eonalense.
CAIIIIET ell•MOtIt.- -After the meeting of the Coldest
oo Sa'urday..he Earl Cernarvon, L .rd and Goner.' Pe.l pissed their reeign•tions in the hand. of herd Derby in eon... Tien., it is said, of • majority
of tho Oabinet having 1.1. w it. 0,;(joo;
.if. skthkehing 'he I °rough franchise on as egg...
Is a It is further Meted that Sir Stafford Norlbootc
ot, be a .pointed Governor.Gcner.l of India, in the
Ole. of Sir J"lan Liwrence, whom term of office ha. I W ogle egpiei The Mien.er says the c 0.., po,b„
b • loco filled by ..tateemen, who, it pc ewe; agree
.he policy of the remaining members of the
Gover..ment. TM. change is regarded by the &noisy
lut lit. nitnnval Of one of the two see-.
oh. nem towards an usffergioniling aroma parties
'No.* rI. L torsi, and Adeilamite, the other
lh jos cemented by tce B ight sod B ale. party. Toe
Time* nudefstaide the Duke of Richmond will mowed
Lord I'.' nary.., te, fleco•tary of State for the Goloolea.
Sir iftel od No.thet., outmode Ltd emotion.. Ur
Came will be orounot.d front 'he VP.Preaidericy of the
Bawd of Trate in eueoemion to Sir itefford Northvale.
The V.oe Pr, sideoor of the Hoard of Trade will b..
aboloh d b. the Bill now immune through Parliament.
...I it will sot Is.. neownery to 11l it tip for the few daj,
ogigg,.•••• hit to it. sir John Pekinston -n
shag.. the • ministration of the Piney for that of the
kfc orry is promoted from the figlue.tio.
Oleos to the Admiralty. The polo. willt Ti..' b lirtea, •loprogy• the appoistalente Lord Derhy pro
pews to sub.oit to or 111.jesty ; 0..5 says the sattab•-
ti eieb which the announcement of the (Mange* will
b • received will b.- principally due to the oonvietion that
the path ot It form e. ',orb field fruit the worst ob-
Hooke wait* obsansolted

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
DIRCHESTER, TUESDAY. MARCH 5, 1847.

REFORM COMPLICATION&

Titi issue of the past week's intense political
action is to place the question of Reform in a
*ery unsatisfsctory position, while the hitherto
(impact Conservative party seems on the verge
of being riven asunder by It, as was last year the
lege homogeneous Liberal party. The Ministerial
eeeret which was disclosed on Monday showed an
important deviation from the scheme shadowed
forth in the resolutions, for the fifth resoltition
bad coupled the extension of the franchise with
a system of plurality of voting, which, although
It has hitherto been unknown in Parliamentary,
has long existed in Parochial elecitions. Many
Conservatives, we understand, regarded this as a
saving element in the Ministerial scheme, and the
surrendering of it, while it showed the Govern-
ment reliance on that ranch landed moderation
and conciliation which was to be shown by
the Opposition, created a spirit of disaffection
In the hitherto compact ranks of the Mimi&
Serialist& and elicited the bitterest taunts from
the Adullsmites, who, having contributed to
place the Government in their present position
might now have reasonably been expected to
give them a helping band. On Tuesday the
gathering at Mr. Gladstone's served to show the
critical position into which the Ministry had been
led. The meeting numbered 289, for with the
tree Liberals came many of the chiefs of the
Adullacnites, mating a majority of sixty ever
1 the Conservatives. The decision arrived at
' necessitated an immediate change in the Govern-
ment plan, and Mr. Disraeli was ready for it.
The oonsideration of the resolutions was an-
nounced for Thursday, when Mr. Gladstone well
to move an amendment refusing to eiOn,
sider the resolutions and galling on the
Government to prods°, I Bill. In con-
sequence of this action on the part of the
Opposition, the Ministers were left in a trying
dilemma, hut desiring, above all things, to arrive
at a settlement of this vexed question stopping
the way of useful legislation, they resolved to
abandon their original policy, and fall back upon
what seemed to be the only alternative, is. the
introduction of a measure which might Satisfy
the pledges of the house, and yet be ttso moderate
to endanger the Constitution, leaving the future
to take awe of itself. Therefore, on Thursday
night the Chancellor of the !exchequer aonouneed
the withdrawal of the resolutious, and promised
a Bill, The Conservative party, however, felt

that this wail a second retrofire& movement, and
that tho vacillating policy of their leader was
snob that neither their pride nor their
priusiplee could submit to. Aocordingly.
a mi-elling was called at the Carlton Club
on Thursday, when there wail a large
attendance. They recognised the fact that the
Liberal party was now re-united and knew
its strength, that the compromise the Opposition
are willing to make I of the nature of that
Irish reciprocity which is all on one side,
and that heeceforth they would not accept
amendment after amendment at Uie bidding of
their advenaries, but would take a a igni tied
Maud, and suffer defeat and expulsion from office
rather than humiliation before the country.
We may, therefore, expect that on the Bill to
be introduced on Monday next the Ministry
will resolve to stand or fall. It is said that the
Government are inclined to propose • municipal
vsnohise, which is practically household suffrage
for borough*. and • £l4 suffrage for munties ; and the retirement from the Ministry of Lord
Caroarros, Lord Cratibonte, and General Peel,
whom hostility to all Reform is well known,
ivas it some measure of probability. At any
rate, we may be assured that the Governmeut
Intend to produce a real and satisfactory Reform
Rill.

REFORM AND ICDUOATION.

THE great question of Parliamentary Reform
which is now Uppermost in the minds of all
intelligent Englishmen, is intimately connected
with another not lees important question—that
of Education. Enfranchisement should always
follow the extension of Education, which is, in
fact, the capability of using the franchise in an
intelligent manner. It is because of the wide
extension of Education within the last few years
that the demand for extended political privilege*
has become imperative, and at the same time can
be safely granted. The franchise being not a
right (for if it were a man's right he could use it
1, as he pleased, and sell it to the highest bidder),
nor a privilege, but a trust confided to each man
by his country, to be used for the greatest good
of the greatest number, it is evidently necessary
that they who have it should understand the
responsibility of it, and the object for which it is
placed in their hands. Education therefore
becomes a matter of the highest political im-
portance. But how is the general education of
the people to be obtained I Not by oompuislon ;
the genius of the English people revolts from
such • plan. And yet without it Education will
never be general. The avarice and stupidity of
parents, with the natural indifference of children,
will always present insuperable difficulties to
universal education. But surely there are other
means that may be used, and the encouragement
of rewards will act beneficially where fear and
compulsion fail to produce any effect. The
Middle Class Examinations have proved what
may he done in this way, and through them our
prolessious have been strengthened and recruited
by useful and able men, who otherwise would
have never risen beyond the lower half of the
middle classes, and all their superior intelligence
would have been lost to the country. Why may
not the s.me thing be tried with the labourer
In tne manufacturing districts there is • market
for superior education which calls forth and uses
the energies of the mind ; and where large bodies
of men are gathered together, • better kind of
education can be obtained. But in our own
county, thinly populated, and almost entirely
agricultural, the *sae is different, Here the boy
is available for farm woik at a very early age,
and able to add to the scanty family income;
therefore his education, if ever begun, is never
completed. Is the case then of our agricultural
population hopeless Certainly not. As
agriculture becomes more scientific, and its
machinery more complicated and valuable, •
superior class of skilled labourers will be required,
sod when they are wanted they will be found
In the meanwhile it is the interest of all to
encourage education among the working classes,
as a preparation for their taking an extended
share in the Government of the country. Much
may be done by night schools in the winter—
much by employers taking an interest in the
education of the children of their labourers,
Every English child should have the chance, if
he bag the ability, of rising in the scale of
society; and if the franchise were confined to
those sufficiently educated to comprehend its
importance, but extended to all such persons,
the country would be satisfied, and a great
inducement would be held out to those excluded
to qualify themselves in the best possible manner
for that important trust.

between the local and central legislatures, woolen I
not have a repetition of them commercial and social
orandicts recently witoesesid in Australia It is
likely to he highly beneficial also to the trade of this
coponwn:yoftliaimtposonilnyg tdbe uti.Cenutpuoral Goimvpoernrxesiotithasi.
leis
10'14 to be swayed by petty interests. Therefore
it MOMS to us, the general principles of the .chime
°maned ready seoeptsose, though more perhaps
at present from the commercial benedts to be derived
from it than from its political importance.