The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

I OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

politias.we

In home , - have just now a greater lull theft
is customary even in the Euiter vacation=arising from
the fact that there have been no great questions con-
tested in the former wt of the Parliamentary session,
and none are expected to be introduced before the disso-
lution. To the latter somewhat distant event, people
4r.tylooking with more or less interest fora revival of
atruggles. Meanwhile the startling news from
~gisaarisa arrests the attention of even the most deter-
'holiday-maker, and &mission is rife on the
id credit to be given to the details of the
That Grant has occupied Riolueond at lam
is great fast that stoOds out prominently; but,
inforketately, there balm beta too many confusions of
degipbors in Anistissattedmpind for the figures which
repurand Lefinkas to readmilall credit without further
conliestaillemi Ingo not iray tbiat the Ncirthern victory
hesitation' Am greet as dematibod, as I have no party or
I 'other hang *birth would prompt me to disparage either
gt41514:01 amply express a feet when I way that le
10 adept the accounts by the Australasian as
navarigshed truth. The next mail is anticipated with
Ered-intereet, for the capture or occupation of
Richmond by the North is an event of too much im-
portance to pass from men's minds until they know the
full particulars and the immediate results. It is re-
marked, however, that if we may trust the barometer
0 the money market in New York, some revubdon of
Mang must have °warred even before the despatch of
the news of victory to Europe." Gold, which had de-
alined to 145 on Monday, the day of the occupation of
-,Riehmond, had arisen to 15) ,on Wednesday, as re-
corded in the very latest telegrams of the Australarian's
news. It certainly is curious that gold should rise even
to this extent in • few days, while we are told that
"unprecedented enthusiasm prevailed throughout the
North" over the Federal victory. Of the moral effect
of the occupation of the Confederate capital there can
be doubt; but the question people are asking each other
bore is, "Will it be • decisive blow to the South? Has
Grant really inflicted such material lose upon Les as to
prevent him retiring on • stronger position ?" and they
001 that, as in all important American news, they must
await a second mail to form anything like a conclusive
opinion.
Good Friday has been this year just what all other
Good Fridays are, only being modified by the weather.
Is London it is trine and sombre. Old Herrick, who
has left us nob charmiag little poems descriptive of
life in the Elizabethan era, tells us that Christams-day
lathe" joyfulled day of all the year." Surely Odd
Friday is the saddest. I speak not of it in a rellsimb
point of view, believing that those who speed the dal
rdWourly have the most pleasure in it; but I dal
InciEng at it as • day on which holiday-making, snob oe
Were OA utter stranger trend;
WillL=l:London °
= n Good Friday, be would I Mid our Sabbath,, said that we observed the
strictly; for shops are shut up to • far
elm extent than on Sunday; all business, except
ape that of the tobaoconists,, and, at certain hours
public-houses is rigorously suspended, though it is
• great day for the washing of the oetside of shop*.
With clerks, 'homes, &a, it is • usiversal holiday ;
and as there Is nothingi to see, nowhere to go to, and ,
no amusement or enterU-Inment in Londos, the principal
employment of the male population is to escape from
the metropolis. Accordingly, clerks, shopmen, trades- I
men, every male subject of the Queen almost --early
prepares for his departure. You may see knote of two,
Muse, or four aeries, with cane in hand and cigar in
mouth, mailing for the suburbs, all in high spirits—
with money to upend, though very little opportunity of
spending it. It is a great day for "traps" also. m
tradeamen has his light "shay carte cleaned up, taker
his wife sad daughters oat, and all 00397 thammily'
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