The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY U. ISM

NOTES OF THS WEEK.

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Th. number of deaths in Great Britain and Ireland
m Quaken during laat year wee 308-125 males
sad 183 females. As the number of qua. ra is the
kingdom may be e oaghly stated at about 30,000. It will
be sem at our, that the mortality is a neiderably Left
than that of the population in gaseral ; and an exami-
nation of the &talk above conthurively that this is the
casa Out of the 306 there were only 19 deaths of
children under one year. The total number of deaths
under 30 years of age wee only 19; and out of the 308
the highest number in any one ten years of life was
in that which included dune whose eget were between
70 and SO. The next Iticheet number, 55. died at ages
between 80 and 90. Bight died whom ages were
between 90 and a 100, and the average ace. of the
members of the body in the last year, aooor&ng to the
official statement from which these figures are citZty
was over 58 years- To whatever cause this
sum of things may be referred, in existence is at any
rate chearrias of note.

The Town Council of Southampton hare fixed the
wary of their magistrates' clerk (Mr. J. FL likbidge)
ag £elo per mum=

It has been stated that the Wesleyan Connezional
Committee of Urgency was mimmoned lately to
madder the political position and to petition against
the rote of credit. This has given ries to some sore.
fl in the Methodist body, and this week's Watchman
contains a protest from 'A Thoroughly Conservative
Methodist' against the growing practice of making
nee of an agency for political orpoees which was
intended only for religions. Tb. same /owned is
greatly concerned at the Increase of rationalism
among the Congregationalists. "It is said by those
who might to know (says the Watchman) that deism
and rationalism are spreading among the Noncon•
'armlets," and • time of great tribulation and search.
big oil heart is said to be in More for them.

Pins IX. "lived to see they..,, of Peter," an no-
ted distinction, he haring been born in MAY.
,11 dr7 , u some say, two year. earlier. He was
made a Cardinal In 1840, d Pope In 1818, and
perhaps experienced a more and
and trying love.
Most, than any one of his contemporaries. From
the fall of the temporal power in 1870, be, with
characteristic pertinacity, moaned himself to the
Vatican, and tried to penned. the world, as he did
his followers, that be wee a prisoner there. His
heath failed only last autumn.
The Caps news may be pronounced on the whole
measuring. The insurrection is not spreading, and ss
Colonel Glyn. in an engagement, ha. defeated the
Cares, and the settlers are showing considemble
spirit in responding to the appeal of the Governor, it
is even hoped the wont may be peered without sub-
etantial difficulty.

Lord Beaconsfield show' the asme love for Dukes se
had Mr. Disraeli when be was last in °Sloe. He then
numbered six among his Ministers. glace he entered
Aloe in WU he haa had five, including the Duke of
Buckingham, who is Governor of Mad,..; the Duke
of Aberoorne ex Viceroy of Ireland, an Aloe now
held by the Duke of Marlborough; and the Duke of
Richmond, President of Use Council. He has now
himself vacated the office of Lord Privy Seal in order
to take the world by surprise and complete the
number of his select advisers, by introducing the
Duke of Northumberland into the Cabinet as the
holder of that °Bloc He entered the Howe of
Commons nearly half • century ago as M.P. for the
rotten borough of Beeraiston, and subsequently before
coming to the peerage had one or two contests, where-
in his name had probably more power than his
ability in securing 11111 return. In providing • snug
pleas for a septuagenarian, therefore, Lord &wow-
Sold can scarcely be said again to have shown his
approciatioa of youthful talent.