The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-05 00:00:00

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Sri, —Following the example of the Rev. Mr.
Radcliffe in his letter which appears in this week'.
Chromatic, I would, with your permission, draw the
notice a your readers to this extract from a
letter of Mr. G. A. Sala's, which appeared in the
Pt *Weeded London News last year, but which I quote
from the reprint of it in The Firers& for June last.
The letter is dated from Scutari, and runs as
follows :

" The Indies of some eight thousand Englishmen
moulder peacefully in this (Scutari) graveyard. I remem-
ber the episodes of the Crimean War as though they had
happened yesterday ; for then, as now, I was earning my
daily bread by literature and journalism, and the war
brought me eiery day fresh materials for my pen. Can
you not recall, you who are midill.eaged, and whose
memories are good, those two miserable years between
the ii.dr at the Alma and the fall of the Malakoff I Do
you remember when, on the Cliff at Brighton and the
Marina at St Leonard's, you could scarcely walk ten
rices without meeting groups of ladle, and children clad
In deeper mourning for their fathers, husbands, brother.,
or sweethearts, slain in that wretched Cherso' erne, or who
had sickened and died in the cheerier wards of the
, Sentari hospital? Are we to have these years of private
agony and bereavement, of public blundering and mis-
management over again! I suppose so; glory is a very
line thing. I am only a Win, • civilian, and I know
nothing about dry; but I confer that my Mood runs cold,
and that my heart sickens, when I bear politicians pretty
oratiug about the 'arbitrament of the sword,' and war
clearing the atino.inhera. and so fork, I met such
glory yst, and I don't know what he, or she. is like;
but I hare had such war faces to face half-sdren times
in many countries. I have looked into the whirr,
or' rather the mesons, of hie eyes, and I hays
Er:upon the Sisters who follow him wheresoever
et. They are three eiders, and their names Sr.
'Rapine,' Dreams' and 'Death. This ia, of course, •
miserably craven an spiritless way of looking at war.
I I have seen only war's madness and wickedness, it.
fool-
net, and squalor. To me it has represented nothing but
robbery and prodigacy, but famine and slaughter; and I
can but think that if the war-like politicians were to
witness just half-an-hour of actual warfare, as I have
witnreed it in America, in Italy, in Mexico, ill Franca,
and in Spain, their martial ardour would cool down a
little, and they would not be quite so prompt to blow the
bellicose trumpet,.*
I do not say war with Russia may not become a
necessity. It is impossible aniidet the confusion of
voices to form an ~pinion for oneself on the subject,
but it does seem thoughtless, to say the least, for
people to descant upon the probabilities of war, and
the necessity for England to assume a war-like
attitude, without apparently bearing in mind the
calamity which war would necessarily involve.
Possibly they don't take the trouble to think much
about that. But war is something more than an
exciting time, and before we embark upon one, we
ought in common fairness to our fellow creature@ to
be very careful that "the gas, is worth the candle."
H. S.
Dorchester, 2nd March, 1878.

HUNTING APPOINTMSNTS.
The Blackninor Vale Hounds—Tuesday (this-day),
Poddituore ; Fridsy, Green Man; Satuniay, Westball
Gate—at 11
The Csttisteek Hounds—Tuesday (this day), Rimini-
Awn ; Friday East Compton; Monday. Winyard's Gap •
Wednesday. wards 13. Nether COrtle Friday. Hunk. 15th, Look—at 11.
Lord Porintan's Hounds—Tneeday (this day), Culttrdatt Abbas; Friday, St•Pision Corner—at U.

Kr. It Bright. ore of the member for Let Somersek
died on Pri4a oi.Jj Rs will brt be remembered for
his Dudiatic powers. the dr of his " Nombeatios"
MOM- AY Cle• Maria had to mit the ellkiessey 01 ids
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