The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-08-22 00:00:00

Porset email Expreis.

DOROEUMITER, AUGUST 22ad. UM.

The Perliamentary Session, which has been so
tangy appropriated to Irish legislation and Irish
dimensions, wee doomed to be disturbed in it. last
hours by the introduction of another Hiberniest bone
of contention in the shape of the Gray cam, which was
only postponed for future consideration, Mier no little
little amount of present ventilation. Among the out-
side public there are many who say that Ms. Gray's
.ishatent is undeserved, sad more who say it weeimpolitic. Mr. Justice Lawson's severity will, it I.
represented, only serve to exasperate the= of
disorder. Incur opinion, there Ls nothing so
and in the end nothing so impolitic as the sentomeuM
ory which is raised the moment the Irish authorities
show IrOlii &mimes and decision. liven if Mr. Gray's
imprisonment and flue are severe, regarded apart front
all the circumstances, they ant not too severe having
regard to the great issues which depend on tm proper
Aa7t=mt of the Crimes Prevention Act. II that
there is nothing for it but the hiartisl Law.
Lad it it the steadfast purpose of the editor of the
Preenee's Journal to secure Its failure. Mr. Gray's
tom wee considerably lowered when he appeared in
oourt, and. unless the Government should spoil everl.
thing by repudiating Mr. Juatios Lawson, a whole-
some impression way be pm:lead.

The ablest Conservative Irishman In the House by
• long way is David Plunkett He has eloquence and
clisardseadodnesi, and a knowledge of men. But
hitherto he has not made the success which was
anticipated when he entered Parliament. Few maw
have been so favourably receive& bird Be sconsfield
greeted his maiden speech witb • flattering reference
to the eloquent son of an eloquent lather. tle was at
owe acknowledged at one of the few orators of the
House. and rapid distinction seemed to lie in his path.
He disappointed the late Premier, beiroVer, iii ono
knows exactly how or why. And in opposition be bee
out a much leas distinguished tisurs than Hr. Gibson,
who carries fewer gnus and of miff° our range, but
whose readinese and aesiduliy cave dttri,qr recent
Sessions made him highly valaable to the Uollierve•
tires. Whether Hr. Plaskett will be in tbe next
Conservative Administration is doubtful. Afore lane
doubt about Hr. Gibson.

Some of the offices °outlasted with the Houses of
Parliament are too dignified, and at the same time, too
neatly approaching sinecures to be given to young
men. Yet it seems a pity to appoint such very aged
and infirm persons ea some who occupy these posts.
Black Rod le now eighty years of age. He totters
feebly and slowly into the House, and gets out back.
"saran with evident peril to his life. Toe fisrjeant-at•
Arms is as bent and unwarriorlike as possible, and his
resemblance from the rem to a magnified black beetle
PuncA so mush when it was discovered during
tand radlaugh enconater, that the joke has been
repeated almost without fail in every number since.

Irish Osvaldo's, foreign complications, and above
all sensational episodes and personal scenes in tits
Hones of Commons have absorbed so much attention
that the few measures of permanent imprtance, which
are the offspring of an almost barren Session, have
mate is the lilillenniam is to come, "without observa-
tion." Yet one of theism scarcely noticed pIOC.II Of
kg Walla; the Married Women's Property Act, 18S1,
Wats a social revolution of no little magnitude.
By a few strokes of the pen whole vo'umes of law are
rendered obsolete. The civil charact end effects of
marriage are largely transformed, and a married
woman becomes henceforward as much the mistress
of her own property as a spinster an Isqually responsi•
for her own contract.. For good or for evil, a
vast stride has been taken in the direction of the
Woman's Right. platform.

Ostawsio would not do much sightseeing until he
had had his interview with the Queen and with Lord
Kimberley. And since the object of his visit has been
obtained he hat maintained the same indisposition to
aee and to be seen. The fact is, he has required • few
days to recover from the reported debauch with which
he end his companions celebrated the news of his
inteoded restoration.