The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-29 00:00:00

WHAT Mg WORLD SAYS

I wimder whether the First Commissioner of Works
has got • niesery-garden full of laurels which he Is
inexorably conipelled to dispose of? Or what can be the
reason that all the 'brute in St. James's Park are being
grubbed up and laurels planted in their places Hereto-
fore the slunblieries have promoted a pleasing variety of
&Mice, lilacs, thorns, Am, but all ads is being changed,
and it would seem that henceforth we am to be doomed
to a dull uniformity of laurel. Why is this? And why,
a all months in the year, is April chosen for the operation
of transplanting?

One of the mi Id d issipation s of Bath in Easter-week is still
the rem. rdress ball at the aasembly.roorus, but it must
be admitted tint the numbers attending it show •
lamentable falling of. There was some hope this year
that, under the committee which has taken the place of
t.• Master of the Ceremonies—a venerable Mlles
generally considered to have become defunct with the
resignation of Lieutonast-Colonel England —there world
be some signs of • revival of spirit in the amusements of
the city. This, however, has not been the case; and
despite the showy advertisements which have of late
figured in the columns of the London newspapers, there
to not the least reason to that the old penis. UM
can be called to Iti• Kan. At all events the attendance
ig the fancy bell lad week—by no aliens a bad criterion
--wee the smallest for years put. Of those who did
attend there is litt.lo to chronicle some pretty dreams
were to lii Man. and some pretty women, who .(the
female elensea,t, as usual, greatly preponderating) were
too well provided wittilpartners. There were few fame.
I however, sad noletik or original costumes. The best
thing that den be told the ball refers to. gentleman
Well known in the eft, who naively entered on Pis card
In the sews set apart for " dress or character," the w'ord

The OliteonAtootkos eentoots am over at Monts Carte
bud moot of the Engliah visitors have list " the tabhe
! ism if not richer snen. Still there are a great
swam' there ; and amongst others stopping at the ITZ
lie Puts we the at-King of Spain, ?nate Amadeus of
Italy, the Dacha., of Montrose and Mr. Crawford, the
Marchioness of Camden, Mr. Henry Settle, Sc., who
I.reakisst and dine daily in the aptising noilturaul
attached to the hotel. Them hea not been eo mash high
Ole( e that mentioned is an &Kick in the World some
time ado, but one or two trifling incidents may annum A
kw days ago, Winos Amadeus was standing at One of the
reelett+ Wiles in the first room, when he not thousuld'
frame noes on the lam down ; ant twents.sis womZOO.
,owetly tid OW his wfitilnse gog. with w
I.
went MI to soother table in UM unseal ;wow.
uut Itew Winona otria on twenty-Man 'and spin Portia*
wrimand him In illustration at tin edam. "U
.1w•
lucky at play, mistortaite will happen to you ta (Abes
ways."

1!

The Commimary.Generas organisation is simply
marvellous with the email ate/ at kis oom ef mand, his chi
executive officers being clerks of the " ctii-chl" dela
When thaw., was first detormined on, several merchants
I. Dorben bought up the whole stock of meshes, oriudlea
corn, whigh is the chief food for men and haws In the
field, and doubled the rates. The C. G. bought oone, but
sent agents up and down the coast out of the province,
and shipped them in, and in one day the merchant's rates
1.11 70 par cent. The great want is transport The most
fabulous sums are given for wretched ponies which would
disgrace any eassWe cilassise, but both Government and
private individuals are glad to snap them up, One of the
sida. Is bought three for LllO which oartainljr would 134
dear at £4O.

AU the boys Mimesis to tbe regiments are left behind
bars. as abs poor little fellows of the illgh were found
bwmpwtmehooktbroughtbeiriewe—thbilmdbeendme
first, and then they were easegaied. tionas of Me seivivers
slabs 24tli caught • Zulu spy to tamp. new Borke's Drift.
soon altar the &salads, and. before May could be stopped.
bed done the maw.

B,m. psopls limn Thu ilygurnment contract £.5
a-baad tor landing bursas expires on 311th Aprll.
number usually lauded was twarity rear, but before
1879 is out to. contractors will !lays cicanal .C 9.000.

Them were 0011141 frightful meow of dm:Amnia among
the reel:Banta first landed, two wen being found dead in
the streets of Dubow ao now all troops arriving are
confined to camp for the few days which slope. Wars
=1.,g4 the front—the judicious attaageglient Of an
coloaeL

We understand that the present Intention of the
Government is to dissolve in the coming autumn. By
that time it is expected that the disturbances both in
Afghanistan and Zulntend will have been suppressed and
our supremacy asserted. In European Turkey waters
will also have progressed. The Russians will have retired
and the Ottoman Empire will again be an effective sad
independent Power in Europe as wall so in Asia. Such loved
remits, it IA hoped ty Ministers, will secure for the
Government the approval and renewed coolidence of the
constituencies. In tho event of the ganialniat nd
.sit:
evacuate Roo:melts on the 3rd of Kay. Lord
will probably at once dissolve Parliament and appeal to
the country to support hum in enforcing the observance of
the Treaty of Berlin.
I itte informed on the best autbori that the Govern-
ment are disinclined to move In the matter end
Intend to Let lonai.l doss he pleases, solemnly warning
him. howeve,. that he Wenn the "gravest responsibillty"
by kis acts. Thla is very bold.

An alarming rumour is afloat in clerical circles to the
effect that the alovat sinecure living at St Andrew
Under/lien, Leadenhall-arset, of the value of ‘l4OOO
year. Le to be conferred by to. Bishop of London on &Mop
Claughton. I hope this is not true, for. with all his good
Buslsop Claughton has got his glare of ecclesias-
tical plunder. This living ought certainly to be reduced
in value, and some poorer benefices, where there is real
work to be done, augmented.
"Cattle-lifting- was not always • paying game to Rob
Raw and lb. CI in Macgregor, not is it anything but vastly
in Nem& Ti.. little hell for this amusement kiss run up
to 70 lives; and really, pauperised no everybody is, it would
not ruin the country to pay for its beef on delivery.

The Opposition have now rated their crow completely.
Sir Julian Go',timid, who, I leer, is • lugs holder of
Egyptian bonds, ham taken Ismail 's country under his
wing. Hr. Diilwyn, in ardition II superintending the
Queen's private correspondence, has undertaken the
ireneral supermsion of affairs in Atighanirtan: the new
recruit. Sir B. bort Peel, looks after the Zulu .or Sir
George Balfour controls the toting of money in COM'
mittee of &KAY : sad the general financial policy of
Parliament receives the attention of Mr. Ryland', who
hns for his lieutenant the Right Hon. William Ew•rt
01a4s1one. tinder them circumstances the netion, I
think, is tolerably a ate

And Mr. Toole at Exeter Hall ! It is, they tell me,
quite on the smile. He declares he will have • theatre in
the Strand. and the proprietors of Exeter Hall are
eonsidering his offer.

This new portrait of the Prime Minister is from the
camera of Jsbez Hughes, of Hyde, and it was taken at
Osborne on the tied of last July " by command of MM.
the Queen." I have seen the Premier a few hundred
times, but I am free to confess that I have never noticed
the peculiar expression which his face wears in this most
recent of all hie photographs. It is almost a look of pain,
such as he might assume for a transient moment when
the Duke of Argyll is making a desperate effort to be
jocose on the foreign policy of the Government, or when
Sir Stafford is laying before the Cabinet the enormous
merits of some particularly "safe thing." Our gay
Premier 100 is worried, bored, disgusted with Europe
generally—as if he would like to hang the whole 'box of
tricks' round dear William's neck and sink both off
Deadly Head! Still, it is a striking picture, with
Mrs Langtry on one side, and Mrs. Wheeler on the other,
and Kate-Vaughan just below.

It is believed at the Cape that not all the twelve
hundred men missing after !mandate lie rotting, • prey to
besot and bird, on that fatal tel I, but that some of them
were taken prisoners "to wash the king's pots." These
rumours—which came in the first instance from native
sources, and must therefore be received with caution—
suggest many hopes and fears. It is poesible, on the one
hand, that some who are accoun'ed lost will finally be
found; but, on the other hand they may only have been
s on the field to meet death in • more hoble,
tr"nigla m
not leas heroic, fashion. When I say it is
notorious that comparatively few of the corpses at
Isandula were identitle I, I do not desire to raise wild
hopes in the hearts of those who were gloriously
represented there by husbands, babe's, sons, and brothers.
Of course, in the event of their being captives, an awful
responsibility rusts on those who conduct the campaign
against Cetewayo. Upon the method—even the accidents
—of the warfare will depend whether those brave fellows
will be rescued, or whether they will be barbarously
butchered by their captors.

nom THE WHIEFIIIALL istrsir. CHILI AND PERU.
Husequaariras, Dolmas, SIM March, 1879. The Milian Beaton Wednesday last bombarded Magna,
The greatest doe itidectim preemb in Natal at Lord and the guano shipping appliances at Hataaos and
Ctolindord still remaining in command, and molls' but Pabe!len de Pica have been entirely destroyed. Iquique
complaint.. No ut.rk toe contrast :—We are glad to be is still blockaded, and all sailing Teasels gone away.
able to give a most emphatic denial to tros statement of • Chaim workmen have fled from Peru. and business to
contemporary that Lod Ch,busford la about to take leave the interior of Peru is disorganised.
to Hogland on medical ccrulicate, sad that the Gomm- j
men& will in this way get over the afAcnity with mud
to hint When we beard from Durban by last sash his
lordship, we are told bail "every intention of rearguing
at his post, end only applied tor • Itleja-Gusera to be
sent out In order that the inconvenience might be averted
which would have been bound to have arisen had he sod-
denly become locapecluded k'Y Eames.' This statement
I. °alarmed as toe Wm 001 a, from whams we learn
that, "Fir hom Um Government desiring his lordship's
return, they have throughout repoeed the utmost coed-
demos In his ability to bring the wee against Kiss Gar
ways to a anoessatui termLatiou."

DRESS AND FASHION IN FART&
A few days of sunshine and warmth have as wonderful
an effect upon the fashions is they hare upon flowers;
spring toilettes suddenly appear in the alxrp windows,
pretty light-coloured chapeaux and deuairmieon mantles
take the place of the more useful but leas interesting
shawls linens. and damasks which have served to fill up
the interim between winter awl spring cortunies, arid we
all berin to make eager inquiries about the coming modes;
whether the Louis XV. coat, the feretittee cauttuin, or the
bilberry farthingale is to be the leading model;
Silk mid woollen fabrics are more varied than ever, but
the kind preferred is Pekin with stripes of satin,. plain or
brooaded with little coloured flowem Stripes w',ff be very
general, either camaieu or shaded in faint Louis XVL
buts ; plain materials are combined with Pekin satin or
Ti.. teeeppeetie styles of the Louis kV'. and
Directoire period. are both in equal vogue, so that Wise
may either imitate the toilettes woes by sgetie keteueme,
or those of If samttee isa Mereeillersra. • few yeas LW.
Paulen. whether for walking or evening toilette. are
dcridedly becoming pone's+, and are very pretty in .11 the
different style., for there is great variety even In these.
A lovely walking costume is of .oft velvety Indian
nooisamline de laine in Somerton colour. the bright brown
of • cocketrefer, csmatened with satis to match,
the neon being used Co line the deep killing at
the hack, to toin,le with the draping of the tablier. and
to form • rmette where the tablier to draped at the beck.
The bailee is made with long baroque§ and a smell waist-
coat of satin deeper than the Jacket, The opening at the
neck is ornamental with • wide raver. of satin em-
broidered by Land with little Sowers In bright colour,; •
bend of similar eisibroiderel satin edges the bisques. said :
the riven of the sleeves are also made of it.
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Aypcetlytolletl. with iers is of rtblied
end sacoloured velvt tin aman .n a new shade of pink called
eremite. ensiled shrimp. The back sod the sides of the
treat ars of nbbed velvet and cut in Princess form. The
front ol pleated satin ends in • square *Width. middle
of the corsage, anti the upper part ia filled in with a plain
piece of satin fmtened by three butte's. The 'quer* is
bordered by a pleating and a tinned down collar cow
pkt„. the CAMINO. The ads, of the front of the dress
forna below the waist puffed draperies ending behind the
hips in a dot of ribbon to match. A pleated coquille starts
front the top of the pasha and falls to the edo of the
dt II whirl) is tricumnal with • pleated flounce. The
sleeve• are ornamented with • combination of tba two
mate:sale, and the very small buttons are of crystaL