The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-07-21 00:00:00

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DORCHESTKR, JULY 21st, 1)+86.

SOILS.

We shall soon have the opportunity of judging,
first, whether the Conservative Ministers will main-
tain the requisite" finances" in negotiation with Russia ;
secondly, *whether that firmness will suffice, as they
have asserted it would in the past have sufficed, to
deter the Remises from war. At present there seems
to be another deadlock. The Russians will not give
way on the question of the &lifter Pan., and the
question is whether Lord Salisbury and Lord Randolph
Churchill will give way. They hardly can. Nor at
present does there appear any rot liserfin of com-
promise, yet it would he from every point of new
in SWIIII thing to go to war just at this jucre
The war inizht otium-ne•-, artil in a few mouths a new
Parham •it 'night lv. r••••em•••1, oin.istinq of an
imm IA tioray 01 fol., ils
With wi ii I•• i••sin 1•••• e• • tnili4arlf
(.Jktfltl.iui. 1.. ,'rii.orkrl iiilll Ili the ise•anwhile?

While Mr. Parnell ha. ineui evil-ay...wing in l'arlia•
merit to carry a motion for ti general in.tijry
Irish cniniii*l twisrecutiinis t lw late I lovernnient,
and ha, setuallv iilIor.,(10,1 in ,41tainitig a promise
from the new ‘liiiiistry iif investigation into any
particular eases properly nialsnittnil to the Loril
Lieutenant, it in ndre•liing to know that there are
at bait a humane! Liberal )(embers"( Parliament who
bar.. th" nv *AI C- "WSW. littlntd the Spencer banquet.
Junt now, when Conservatives and Itwlicals alike Sr.
&rifling coercion, it in not • popular thing to do
honour to the statesman who accomnliahrd a most
olswitiuus task, and filled • twist unenviable
with grit diznity and unwavering fidelity hi rimy.
It isa fortanwite thin.; for the onantry that we h:o
gretit mrldien-ii left els. ae• not afr.ri•l it Irving
wasnedir, sii.l wk. nu' do With.iilt PV.wl th.. &want
approv.rl 1n.... 0r0... whom they !rare nerviel. It
li Ise I poen Wl.ll, I ti. it I: inserrativert and
alike could liar, j' its-I iii doing honour to
Karl SIPIIC.T. ILA the C..11..1.1.4tiVeil sirl• Plia now
full .4 foolish aintetillit for tlie en-Is ird Irientenant,
aml the Liberal mernliewn can only attend the forth-
corning banquet at the risk being branded by their
Irish and ultra-Radical constituents as memiunista.

The Tory Democracy are—working hard to "dish
the Whigs" again. They have taken the wind
out of the Late Government's tails over the Medical
Relief Bill. Even Mr. Jesse Collings declares him.
self outdoes, and Mr. Chamberlain is nonplussed.
How the Conservative peers will take it remains to be
seen. They will have as good an excuse, however,
for changing their mind. Aa that framed by Mr.
Chamberlain for his late colleagues. Until inquiry
was made, it wee not understood how great was the
diderence between urban and rural populations in
the matter of the acceptance of public medical relief.
The agricultural labourer has been accustomed to
Avail himself largely of the services of the parish
doctor. And to make this a disqualification for him
would be materially to limit the operation of the
Fraechise Extenaiis Act. There is nothing very
logical shout An electoral system, led it would be a
very patent absurdity for the acceptance of medical
relief to disqualify an English elector whilst it did not
disqualify an Irish elector.
It does not Kay much for the liberality of the
teetotalers that they cannot raise ElOO to help *dace
the declining years of old Mrs. King, widow the
late John King, am. " thc seven men of Preston."
About £lO is all the secretary has managed to gather
in up till now, and he is about to make • second and
Anal appeal. This i 5 somewhat • contrast to the
Licensed Victuallers, who at their recent annual
dinner put down ever Vl,ooo towards the mapport of
their almshouse.

The juilgment vrhich MY. given by the Vice•
C mnrellor in If,Mlin on fistiiril ey to he an
obstacle to reform .ri who are i•SePr 1,1 011,4 t I Lut.• 111•Ve
na•iiev for streets in towns. Ili* lordship aihrins thvt
under the Town I•nprmoviii lit Clan., .%c'. tho
of local ii I, iimert on whit nam •. are to
ba put up, anil when by •imre a vtiviot 1..1 avvriir
s georwally rveopiisel ilenominstimi. A corporeimi
would not Is juvtifiell in putting tip A different naine
milers tiny aim. specific all.! serious Mout.
rename, arisin r from i i,.lltilillin- • of the iise of the
01.1 nun., • N 11,11111.1.4 might lin rh in te I at the iliwn•-
timi 01 an authority. Mit streets arm to be named
law for all.

The School Howl Commianion on " over pre:.
sure" prefer to find little ground for the grave *tric.
turas of Dr. Crichton Brown and other', ; lett they
make rear...maculation. which anon to toll quite
another 'limy. If their report ix adoiced, the li "ir
many proariichool chiklnm will he rendered more en•
durable to them. The etandarda will not he wi rrwr•
caleasly inseate.l on. There Will lw provi.iotto for thr
omission of horne Manama in many inetanore, and the
I,nn7 dinner go iveitilent Will be muouraged wherever
ieverible.