The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-16 00:00:00

lioroet Conutti Express,

DOROKSISTE SEPTEMBRA 11th. IU4.
DOtto.

When Parliam.nt meets on the 23rd of October
" fir th deepatch of divers urgent and imponant
&Heirs," according to the proclamation in last Friday's
Gazette, one a these affair" wdi doubtless be to add s
seventh figure before the tom I £300,000 voted for the
Ehartocin expedition, the ain.mat of that figare being
likely to rise in proportion as the Nile fella. There
will probably also be a guarantee for so Egyptian
loan of £3,000,000 to vote, according to the recsnt
intelligence that Lord Northbrook has offered such •
gaarantee to the Khedive on condition that the
Vakonfs Department chill be placed under British
oontzol. Altogether, therefore, there may los • pretty
little Egyptian bulget to preemie to the II ma of
CuMlll,lll which will excite more intermit than the
Indian bulget, because this country will have to
provide the money. Talking ol India, L ,rd itipon's
retirement froni the Viceroyalty is badly regretted
even by his warmest friends, widist Lord Dufferiu'd
appointment is haildi with • perfect chorus of &collima-
tion'. The two men are a 'insider contrast. The
plain, solid, common "epee which enriched the house of
Rubinson whil-t it remained i bur 1,.,., and
which since it I. 10k to, p llt,c. his ea s• pie I It I.
fill almost every Cabinet allied with dull, dem orLus
&fruity, to earn all kinds of title., aud t • merry
Into sod annex the patronymic of the ancient
family of D.! Grey, might nays been expected do
shine gicuously In the Government of fintieh
India, where tile brilliant Ulla hes olden (kite Lord
Elleaborough and Lord Lytton) proved thd worst
'basemen. Bet loan unhappy MAD sat Lord Biwa
felt impelled to be eensational, and he was out of his
element is sensationalism. lie ha. not stronigthsn• I
well it he has not seriously weakened go
Kaglish rule by premature sail tgaixotic liber•adin.
Lord Duffer's. se Prowls had It long ago, is " the
right air anywhere," He is quits se brilliant • man
MI either Lord Ellenborongh or Lord Lytton; for is
he not • Sheridan? Butte Ws case a p :do Warns-
Mon is so exquisitely tempered by . ststamsoillke
earialty cad sell-oantrol that be ha won for himalf
already the false of the most sucotodful Pro-oonani 6n4
diplomatist of the clay, and his appointment to India
I. looked upon a* • certain sugary of prosperity.
Yr. Chamberlain and 'lr. Jesse C have

undertaken the came of the endowed 1.. Gallo let.
late. The Charity Uommiselon have I icennrally
converted them into school', and thus
diverted their revenues from the poor, whom they
were intended to benefit, that the mischief is U., the
most part Irreassiiable. Mr. Mundane is now pre.
pared to submit • Bill to Parliament whereby such
radoestional 00000 nee as have u it yet been dealt with
by the commissioners "hal, be transformed into
endowments for Bosrd Solsool scholarships. I' the
Bill pewee, we are &frail there will not be very m soy
such scholarship" loon led.

It Is • loathe' whether the Traniory ha I m.it
bettor allow the rurviyirs nf the hVgaelisote to
rem•la cern lestel. Posoility it wo'.ll hoso been
better If Captain Dailey eel fib c 411 h
kept tbsir terrible atiry within tb••ir ~on bre•.t...
But since the dory was .liocbosed, nue woul,l hove
thought the vetoer plan w .uld have hoer' to avoid •
prosecution In .blab the law Involved is In Its oiler.
exceedingly rleubtful, eel in whloh the general senti-
ment of the public mnel be one .if sympathy fir those
w 11) are, II at all, only ia• technics' sena% guilty ut
warder. In soy case, it le extremely unfertunsteth .t
the matosiotlng details of the canal' allow of the p or
castaways sheuld have to be brought again no I solo
before the newspoper.rewilag pahlie, eel that • 11111).
PO full of ouch morlii.l burr ir 'hold I be made a tork
11 eager controversy.

Whet hu biennial f H.fS. Thll idorar which the
Weymouth people used to know so well The
country Ina certainly not b 3 I arch value Ii Its
money out of this vouel, which out Close on half •
million -toning, including £340,000 for construction,
an I fi140,003 odd for repairs She wee launched in
March, 1872. at Pembr Are D ickyard, but was
oimmiesioned until Await. 11576. It was on her trial
trip at the measured mile, in this month, that one of
her blilere buret, killing between forty and fifty
of het crew, anti wounding m ire than twice that
number. She thereupon returned into duck for six
mouth.. After being at sea with the Mediterranean
Squadron for rather lee, than two years, in January,
1872, one of her 38 ton guns buret In the after-turret,
while at practice, killing six and wounding thirty-two
officers and men. Since that time, however, this
magnificent ironclad, one of the most powerful
afloat, has been lying.up in Malta Herhour, • sh. r
hulk, with her stew transferred ts the p wt.-admiral's
fiag-eitip. It WWI surely • ecentlalons, nay, more, a
criminr' waste 01 public property ant money, to be
constantly laying 4,u and estimating 1w new war-
ships, while a reseal, able with his eieterothipe the
Devastation and Dreadnought. to sink any six war-
vowels in any PAY?, ia left to rust end rot, einq ly
because sailors have • prejudice against her, and lo tit
upon bra a. an unlucky ship,"