The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-03 00:00:00

THE PRINCIIIII LOUISL

The world wee looking glostny enough when the eyes of
the !MUM., Louise first opened °POD it. Within • month
before th-t liii•h of March on which she was born, " Mr.
Smith," Wiese Ludt Philippe, bad landed in much stress of
weather. senrat as well a. phy.ic el. on the English coast—
landed with shaven cheeks end green !menisci., and a
handkerchief of British magnitude carefully swathing hie
jaws. Witbn a month iiAr that day, Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte was parading ftegrnt,tre.t as • con.
stable under orders of his Captain of Di Major
viirVii
Weller. But, to eet against the many bitter for
which the year 1848 la notable, Englishmen tremors the
remegubraace that it gave thorn the most beloved of all
Primer. sees. The *sliest facts of her life, from her birth
down to 'WM. &porters for Ciusada last year, are so familiar
to everybody, that it would bean impertin- nee to reiterate
them hem. And equally impertinent would it be to
mimeses a sheen-ter such as here. One charm she has,
logr”er, which must be touched upon, for its so rare in
It. highest perfection that it may perhaps be called net
tweedier characteriatic. The charm is that "sweet on.
conwinume es" which, in the rams way that it supplies
the lut cr taming grace of beauty and the last crowning
USW of recto., supplies also the last crowning grace of an
relealleh princess. Consciousness or at lesst apparent
consciousness of any superiority, whether of rank, or
beauty, or poles, dims, in these advanced days, all its
lustre. To the Panora Louise he, position is neither •
borshes, es Cntlted rank is to SOW. weak natures, nor •
source of wow, v.:fleecy, as it often is to others. As she
never thinks of It--as it never weevils or elates her—abia
is es iersoable of affected hnsetUlp as of hastier. The
role dour of her position invade her with iui halo EMU*
the bet, but It Inert, her merely sac related light from
I the eoes-inus eyes of others Jr it not merely that she
, does not require any denionnratiin of the reverence which
' is her doe, but gueh • densonstratios, except in the very
; mildest form. irks her. It is tile more perhaps than any.
, thing else saints makes her name like • note of music In
, the sera of all those who know her. That a charm so
; delicate iss this, however, should be appreciated in circles
, of art sad culture retro than anywhere else is but natural.
Here there lieu one—high or iow. "gentle cr simple..—
.0 ',elev.,' as ohe A horn artist teself, tha severity of
trsininx impossible in • Prince. was'alowe needle 4 to rt,e
her • ,fittiart and recogebod Filme in pictorial as well as
Is plastic art Iler portrait of Mr. Motley, UN American
Minister. Is alone &ailment to show her gifts in por-
traiture.
That she should marry such a man as the Marquis of
Leese was in entire accord with the harmony of her life.
At the subiswity of snobbery is the denial pf • man's
claim to esteem on account of hia rank, we need not
ehrthis from saying that there lasso ZULU living with Purer
and nobler amirations than the Governor-00mnd of
Cimads, ; and his abilities are squid to the &Meads which
will inevitably be Made uPatt them Of hiss it ma;
.ha
inid that ha has that faith in God and belied la the MP'
duties of man without which mak is • vulgar wilasestr.•

in insult dung In the face of hosest and independent
men. That the Princeus sad her husband will both be
highly popular with the Canadians it la difficult to doubt.
And. with regard to the Princess. we cannot question that
the Canadians will realise the value of the prize they have
gained as fully es we Isslishmen realise the value of the
prise we for • titne bare lost. They bare robbed us of
hair our sunshine—these Canadians—and they teal know
how to cherish the " gulden " spoil.

"Notwithstanding all the dreadful fog and smoke,- a
foreigner of eminence once mild to no. "there are many
bright thingn to be swan in Leaadon, but the brightest of
all is the Pdoceee L'lllieo.ll smile. Fee freakiness. for
ngg complete isolable, it is—aa far m say
experience of smile, extends—unique. There was puma
unto of observetoon in this. and we told that ' dig
timakbeei foreigner" that be knew stood thing when be
law it. He might have gone on to my that the emits
she has to brstow %%Finn him or upo* any of the great
pe„....„„.. of Europe, if it diem at all from that with
which she greets meg Mantel's( artist of violin' or &serv-
ice man with whom she may be brought into contact,
day., only in the. that the latter is more frank
vg.gible—geors " sunny." Mid more genial than the court
know?.

Oar old friends the Sbakem are completely put to the
shade by the " Army of Salvation; which is at present
quartered upon toe town of Neweartlmupon-ri ne, where
the macce.teres which it executive under the o rurnand of
its "general."one B atta,have ezdted universal •11.1311011111 t
With the aid of his hod oquaril, the' Hallelujah !Atm,"
Eli aide-de-camp, the " °neared Capital'," and his band of
" Hallelujah Fiddlers," General Booth ball succeeded In
recruitiog the ranks of lA, fanatics with all the nit riff,
male and female, of Tyneside. As with the 14:.alim,
extraordinary groom Occur at them tetings of the Army.
Women dance till they fall down in ate ; men howl hy tont
till they can howl no longer ; while (gamines at the mouth
and hysterics usualll follow She chorus:
The devil and we can't lire.:
that. him, sad he hams me.

Bat the strangest Wog about the movement is the great
worlditoss intermixed with the retie ins fervour. In an
Handbook of the Army called " Wiles and Regulations"
there 1a,6 In a chapter entitled " loatructions of Feld
Officer% advice as to the " getting bold or newspaper
..tors, the hiring of the public rem r . cheaply. I.
wbich kyle me to believe that " General' Math is deeply
imbued witn the maxima of II schoive ; nor are the
of th, oynty purely collateral to workings of th,
spirit. Becetitly a "presiottati.m of vinare" anointed.
followed by • regular battle on the same Sondayat•plar,
called the Handbill, where out-door thooledians and vreat
preachers do meetly c negregate: With flap dying and
fiddle. playing the Salvation Army complotely swept all
the rival " Gospel-mongen" off the ground. leery now
and then a " destroction of idols" Is celebrated, when
women's feathers and ribbon., men's necktie. and pipm,
and other articles of luxury are collected and sacridorl t,
U,. Moloch of revived faith.

THE I:STATE MARKET.
(Front the Lew I Ayala Record.)

It is impossible not to recognise the hesitation with
which landed properties are now introduced for sale, as a
result of the preaent gloomy outlook in agricultural
affairs. The experience of bad seasons and times of
scarcity of money durtng the last forty years, fails to
point to a period of greater depression in this clam of
property than that which now exists. In 1877 the sales of
real property, officially reported during the four months
from January to April, amounted to For the
came period of Mg the amount stood at .C 2,1411,7 •
reduction of £1,016,270. For the Wane four mouths of the
present yesk the results of sales amounted to only
.1:1,641,77J—• decrease of no leas than cl.voxitz, as con,
pared with the sales of the corresponding perial of 18:7,
and a railing off of about half a million as compared with
187 S. That the official record can hardly be considered am
complete has to be reinanhered, lint its omissions are not
of sufficient importance to niaterially affect the real
issue. . . .

House property. commercial undertakings, building
lands, and really good farms, of not extenaive acreage, are
changing hands continuously at high prices, especially as
regards houses in London and t e South of England
generally. In the North of England this class of invest-
ment is totally unsaleable at any rearonable price. In the
North-Eastern counties, wompriving the Cleveland district,
Middlesbomugh, Newcastle and Gateshead, Irarliniton,
Stockton, Sunderland, Spennymoor, and the Durham
colliery district+, there are no fewer than "I.BOJ empty
houses, while many am let at a nominal rental, and many
at one penny per week."