The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-17 00:00:00

WIIAT Mt WORLD SAYS.

The Prince Imperial (for al he will continue to be known,
despite the existence of th. ltepuNic) bee been unfortu•
nate in his African expeditim. Ile haa lost not only the
good healtk be took with him, which be km since
rocovered, but both toe horme—one cm taus voyage, the
other shortly after Withal—bat neither them has be
recovered. He bee been helped to another charger, better
melted to the climate.

Ills all very well for the Duke of Bedford, with his
eno-ntais Loudon route. to remit half • year's rent of his
farms, but it is searaily Lilts to neighbouring landowners,
erbo have nothing but their farms to live upon. At Llra
Brownlow's last audit dioner the other day • fanner got
ny and pioposed that, instead of drinking as usual to the
health of their landlord, they should drink to the health
of the Duke of Bedford, the farmer's real friend.

If the revert is true that Baron Rothschild haa left
behind six million, of pemonal estate, it will be quite a
windfall for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the ro
bate duty rill autuuta to no lees than 138,500. It will be
rementoered that the duty is .03.500 on the first Million.
and C 15,000 for every million elterwarde. But as it is
only payable on personalty within the English jurbodic-
Mu, it is essy for cosmopolitan financiers to elleviate the
burden by a dexterous manipulation of the testator's
meets.

The Chief Butler. on behalf of himself and the rest of
the discontented valstaills. explained the sad reason of
their deperture to the Marengo. It gra. not that they
disliked her ladyship's gentle rule, or that they objected
to (wady prayers twice a day—toot as oiureirs ; but they
respectfully did object to being sent to the dressialrele
three times • weak
" I wish the country would sand es some young lawyers
Ilk. that," said Mr. Diaraeli, when Mr. Herechell made
his first appearance in the House of Commons. It moms
that the country has so far failed to send lawyers like Mr.
Herschel' to the Conservative ranks that the Government
has been obliged to fall back on Hr. Herschel! himself for
a judge. Of course he ref used the oder. He Is young and
vigorous, has • tolerably were oat in Parliament, and
would make an admirable law-odicer in • 'Abend
Administration if Sir William Harcourt should receive •
non-legal °dice. It was not likely that, with these
propecte, and an income at the bar considerably exceeding
who was offered, he would take a panne Jeannie.
hope the oder wee not made, knowing that it would be
refined, in order to coo a political appointment

It was on the oscasion of • contest betwesn the late
Reran Lionel Rothschild and Lord John Manners that
the Paatinaeter-fieneral pain* mainted the sentiments
of the celebrated couplet-
Lot laws end le•rnin& wealth and commerce die,
But leave us still our old nubility r
One of the Baron's supporters moored • point by quoting
them, whereupon the penitent Young gaglander rose and
exclaimed, " Ratlier would I be the Loolporionced youth
who wrote those bora than the man of mature leare who
ham so_ ungonerouviy quoted them against me. By the
way, Lord Beaconsfield re-echoes in a light fashion pert
of his friends sentiments about dead learning sad live
lords when ha says that the chief virtue of the British
aristocracy is that "It never reads."

Si: Gsmet has not gone out to • bed of roses, certainly.
This is what one of my Cape papers (the Natal Celeste°
said • few weeks mo—before there wee any serious talk of
his appointment to command—about his Mat diplomatic
mirWou among them :
When Sir Garnet Woieeley same among us, smooth,
bland, courteous, and Battering, treating us at our own
expanse to our own champagne, writing laudatory dor
patthes about us, but at the same Una stripping us of our
rilsts, fixing political fetters upon us, and steeping us in
me be was molten rof as • man of high honour, es Eng-
land s gyms band and right arm, as the Queens trusted
me...user, and the like. Heaven save us fur the future
from such pleusible deception, from such low mania&
from such dishonourable treatment r
Clearly the Zulus are not Sir Garnet's only opponents In

The usual festivities which mark the dors of the
summer twin at Oxford promies to he &s plentiful this
year as wind. Balltol College, the home of intellect and
sacetic ideals. Is Ong to desert for the moos its
Idiosyncrasies and give a ball next Friday. The usual
Commemoration Ball will take place on the 1611 i, fol-
lowed by 111a00111C hilarities and Christ Church hospi-
tality. The degree of D.C.L. will be conferred, se meat
on 'gatemen, artists, and noveliete ; Lord Duierlsi, Sir
Frederick Leight,n, and Ivan Tourgeniee being amoog
the number of recipient& There is a ruenoor that the
Duke of Connaught and Prince Iwopold will visit the
Cominemorsuon this yes,: bet this need. ecallnostlon.
And meanwhile the Oxford Association for the Higher
lidocation of Women will solemnly examine some seven
candidates for admission into the mysteries of collars.
And yet some men talk disparagingly of the mots of
departed learnini

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SVYFERERA from any theism should make baste to take
PILLS. They do good, invariably relieve
and often cure at once. It is now conceded by all claim'
of medical men that BRAPIDRETIOI Pti.te are the beet
cleansing mcdiciue, taking hold only of what to needed to
be feIII.VOLI from the bowels and blood when we are rick.
And such eife removal usually cures. Sold by all
chemista See "I 811.41/11,11=11" On stamp.
Tog! Mums. —Mr. Lowe am just given Lord Oranbrook
• "lacer." In hi. Sheffield epoch, last week, the latter
had the modesty to say that under the late Mnistry the
average of the income-tax was 41.; while daring the
present admieistration it bee been only 3d. Mr. Lowe
reptile to this in a letter to the noses, and his rejoinder to
simply crushing: —"Lord Cranbrook"(savelffr. Lowe) "does
not Pate that the Government which preceded the late
Liberal Government left to them the iseome-tax at dd.;
that the Ijir ral Government kit it at 41. together with a
surplus of lye millions, which enabled the present
Government to reduce it to 3.1. ; that the sugar duty and
the hone duty were remitted out of the lams earplug;
and that Ligation would now be much higher if we were
not borrowing to melte lie our diadem:l', hashed of
mamas each year hosestly bear the bunkum of it. Kph-
ditera"—Dristoi Mercury.
The Wwir or &rouse &NlL—The ceiai hquidaton
will not, It is feared, obtain so large • earn for the head
offices in Bristol as they anticipated. They had several
offers, but none of them reach the reserve pries of 550,0131
The examination of the hooks of the hank in Loudon la
not completed, sad no farther steps hue been Mims in
tahepromeution of the directors. In the meantime, the
subject is being warmly dimmed of In the Wert England,
.
some strong remarks In the Banseteple paper have,
provoked • letter from Mr. Kurt* Recorder of Barn/maples
and son of the chairman of the bank, complaining that thy
cam &phut the directors has been unfortunatelt
prejudged in • manner calculated to do them peat
Injustice. The liquidators have suffered considerable
Inconvenience from the report recently published that no
more calls will be necessary. The statement was unuthor-
Wed and inaccurate. Another call will certainly be
(Nutria, but it is to be hoped a smell ono will suffice. The
statement, too, that the payment of 4.. in the ia the
result of premium to manifestly absurd, and those who
'mumble at es midi • dividend cannot be aware of certain
fact.. It will be remembered that an sedan as, brought
by the liquidators against Mr. lirsinwhalte of Bristol, e
shareholder, to recover the calla, which Mr. Brainwhaite
wee said to be paid out of • credit balance to him by the
hank. Mr. Justice Fry's decision being against Mr.
Bralnwbaite, that gentleman has given notice of
Then Mr. Brows, of Barnstaple, who, having pilrhis
call in advance, asked far • moiety of his deposit, like
other creditors, has also appealed *Most an adverse
&dawn and until these two cuss, which govern several
hundred of others of creditor *as sad elect •
very lams gas of swohar, are settled the Jeetioes,
the heads of the ligahletere will be tied too eseadeceble
exteat.