The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

LITERARY SELECTIONS.

"To love the beautiful in all things," Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton observes, "to surround ourselves, as far as
oar means permit, with all its ovidenoes, not only
elevates the thoughts and harmonised the mind, but
lii sort of horn:fie we owe to the els' of God and the
labouTh of

SRI PTML—Tb• hoe of the @elfish is C molten WU.
ror ; h reflect* no happinoss from others, and hes
none within itself.

CoNTIDENeIt AND 811IPT.TeTTY.—There is a wide
difference between the confidence which becomes •
Man, and the simplicity whieh disgraces • fool.
A misfortune, like • storm in travelling, gives seat
for the sunshine, freshness to the prospect, and often
introduces an egreeable companion for the remainder
of our journey.
FUrPorIITSY AND DlBArllrLATOlC—Hipoerisy Is
racy common—it being easy to acquire it; but hypo-
crisy is totally different from dissimulation; hypo-
cri.y is the attribute of low and aril minds.

1 e vie, in the same given time, can produce
nu re Ilan many others, has venue; who can produce
more and better, hat lieetai who can produce what
none els* can, has genius.

PCSILTANIIIITY.—W hat greater nuisanee can there
he of a weak and pusillanimous temper than for
man to pass 64 whole life in opposition to his own
sentiments, or not to dare to no what b. thinks he
ought to P

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with
invincible resolution, who resists the sorest tempta-
tions from within and without, who bears the heaviest
burden cheerfully, who is the calmest in storms, and
whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is
the most unfaltering.—lnt. CHANNINO.
An ITALIAN liZOOAß.—Another of these mysteries
we behold in the little beggar-boy at Isoletta. He
stood at the corner of of the station quite mute and
motionless during our pause, and made no sign of
supplication or entreaty. lie lets his looks beg for
him. He was perfectly beautiful and exceedingly
picturesque. Where hui body wee not quite naked,
his jacket and trousers hung in shreds and points ;
his long hair grew through the top of his hat, and
fell over like a plume. Nobody could resist him;
people ran out of the cars, at risk of being left be-
hind, to put coppery into the little dirty hand hold
languidly out to receive them. The boy thanked none,
smiled on none, but looked cautiously at all, with the
quick perception and the illogical conclusions of his
class and rice. As we started he did not move, boa t
remained in his attitude of listless tranquillity. As
we glanced back, the mystery of him seemed to be
solved for • moment; he would stand there till he
grew up into • graceful, 'prayerful, pitiless brigand,
and then ho would rend from travel the tribute now
so freely given him. lint after all, though his future
seemed clear, and he appeared the type of • strange
and hardly reclaimable people, he was not quite•
solution of the Neapolitan puzzle.—/talian Journeys.
TUN lIIDDIM HANDS OF HELP.—How little is
known of the private history of our great statesmen,
orators, and writer,! How very few of them have re-
vealed the secret influences, the little helping hands
that shaped and uplifted the lives of their genius!
If the truth could be known, doubtless it would be
found that every one of them, as ho struggled upward,
fixed his eyes upon some one human face, and knew
by its smile when he had won • success. How many
have reached heights they never would have attained
had it not been for little white hands, which the
world never saw, that were extended to them, when
the beetling cliff of difficulty seemed to bar their up-
ward way! The subtle lines of sympathy are more
invisible than the threads which sunbeams spin
through mid air. Thais between aympathetio hearts
finer than the finest tissues of light, have fed great
aspirations to glorious strength and issue. Wo know
what they did fur many of the old masters. Dante
had his Beatrice, and Potrarch had his Laura, and
Thomson his Countess of Hertford, as • better and
a purer inspiration to his genius. These were not
hidden hands; for each poet revealed the one that
helped him. But what they were to these
writers, othef bands the world never saw have=
to moo of every rank of distinction.—Elihu Burriles
Faresids Words.

A CONPERVATTVE ESITMATE lF SIR R. PEEL.
"The error of Sir Robert Pool lay in dreaming that
he could construct a great Conservative party after
all the Conservative machinery had been swept away,
without anything to supply its place; that he could
go on upon the old system when everything round
him was new—all the old sanctions subverted, and
all the old traditions so rudely shaken as to make it
unsafe to lean upon them. Mr. Disraeli compre-
hended the position. He looked around for some
other element of stability which should replace the
shattered edifice of 10M. He fiinnd it, as he thought, .
in the royal prerogative. The Whigs had overthrown
an oligarchy which the Tories ought never to have
adopted; and were endeavouring once more, under
the guise of a popular revolution, to impose their
own yoke upon the nation. Now was the time for
the Tory party, after humbling itself as in sackcloth
and ashes, to arise purified and strengthened to a sense
of its true mission and its ancient functions, and re-
store in something of its pristine vigour the national
monarchy of old England. A very interesting essay
might be written upon tho future of monarchical
government within the scope of which it would
fall to examine such views as the above. We must
content ourselves with poi oting out in this place, that
during the last twenty yoarstho progress of the Euro.
peen opinion has not, upon the whole, been averse
to what is called imperialism. Pnro democracy is
generally allowed to be impossible. The " device'
republicans" are the more shadow of a shade. Prne
tically our choice seems limited to one of two things;
either monarchy tempered by aristocratic institu-
tions, and to a certain extent independent of popular
opinion, or monarchy based upon the people, and ,
emancipated from the check of an aristocracy. On
the comparative merits of these two forms of govern- '
ment wo express no opiLion. But we may he sure
of this, that whatever we 'obstruct from tho ono
theory, is so much added to the other As democracy
spread, and aristocracy began to sinlF, the need of
some single authority, some pivot upon which all
might turn, would be more and more felt every day.
An age of centralisation necessitates a powerful Es•
ecutive. An age of equality magnifies the stature
of the Crown. And considering present tendencies,
there seems nothing very fanciful in the supposition
that some Prince of parts and courage might, even
within the present century, find himself in the exer.
be of prerogatives to which Englishmen have long
been unaccustomed.—KAbers EaglssA Statesmen.
THEGUESK ClitatCH. To return, however, to
the priests; they are divided into the white and black
clergy, the former being the secular, the latter be-
longing to the cloister. In performing service, the
dress of the white clergy is a white robe, bordered
with gold; their ordinary attire a brown coat and
wide sleeves, and • brown or rod velvet cap, trim-
med with fur. The dress of the black clergy is a long
black velvet tuuic, a tall cylindrical black cap, sur-
rounded by • piece of black ease. On grand festivals
the vestments worn exceed in variety, richness, and
splendour those of any other church. The Russian
priests are poorly paid by the State, but are treated
liberally by the people. The income of a metro-
politan does not exceed L'2oo; but there are ways
and means—such as the revenues of monasteries and
voluntary offerings—by which this is largely increas-
ed. It is pleasant to note the tolerant spirit by which,
fur the most part, the priests are characterised. in
the February number of Macmillan's Magasine, there
is au interesting paper by Dean Stanley, one of the
noblest of English Churchmen, entitled " Recollec-
tions of Philarot, Archbishop and Metropolitan of
Moscow." Al the close of their conversation, the
Dean tells 111 that the old metropolitan whispered
softly, "Deus benodicat tibi at ecologies rostra)." It
would seem that the same gentle and loving spirit
distinguishes many of the clergy. A German-Russian
Protestant informed& gentleman who visited Russia,
that if • foreign Protestant fell sick, and needed
spiritual assistance, or died, and required burial, it
was almost invariably, the Catholic who, in an in'
human and an unchristian manner, refused his aid,
whilst the Russian gave it without hesitation. In
strange contradiction, however, to this is • service of
the Russian Church, called, "'rhe Cursing of the
Heretics." Every Church appears to have its Mount
Ebel, and to forget the injunction of Him who said,
" Bless and curse not." And certainly the Russian
Church is not, in this respect, eclipsed by its rivals.
Political and religious heretics are named, and at
each name, " Anafoma, anafeina," is uttered; and
so on throughout a long service, the cursinggor on.
Dean Stanley says, in reference to Philaret, ' It is
not without Interest to remember that this venerable
personage, who has received the homage of English
prelates, and in his own country was almost revered
as *saint, has fallen directly under the anathema of
the Athanasian creed." According to the obvious
intention of that famous creed, the gentle and devout
Philaret "cannot be saved," but "shall without ,
doubt perish everlastiugly."—Buangslical Lagasins. I

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MARTIN FRatitiontlt, nrit NAVIGATOR.—Of his
early history we knew very little. Ile was • native
of Normanton, in Yorkshire, and wait about as old ea
Gilbert. Lock, in the memoir just cited, gays that
" he was born of honest parentage, a gentleman of a
good house and antiquity, who, in his youth, for lack
of schools thereabout, sent him to London, where he
was put to Mir John York, knight, being his kinsman,
who, perceiving him to be of great spirit and bold
courage and natural hardness of body, sent him in a
ship to the gold country of Guinea, in company of
other ships set out by divers merchants of London."
That was in the autumn of 1164. The expedition in
which young Frobisher was put to learn seamanship
was the tint, with the exception of a short teutative
voyage undertaken in the previous year, in which
Englishmen explored the western coast of Africa, and
followed in the track of Portuguese voyagen past the
Cape of Good Hope to India. Its commander was
John Lock, either the uncle or the brother of Michael
Look, and the adventurers, after traversing the Gold
Coast, landed and made a beginning of a prosperous
trade in elephants's teeth and African gold. They
returned to louden in the summer of 1666. For the
next 11 year, we hear nothing of Frobisher; but iii.
0011ftin that he continued the occupation in which his
rich kinsman had started him, and shared in some of
the expeditions which were every year dispatched
either to the west comet of Africa or to it. northern
shores and the district of the Levant. By the sum'
mar of 1566, at any rate, he had risen to the rank of
captain. On the *oth of May, and again on the 11th
of June, in that year, he wme examiued by order of
the Queen's Council on suspicion of having fitted out
&ship with the intention of usiug Gin piratical ways.
Of the issue of that examination wear, ignorant, and
we lose sight of him for five other years. We can
only infer that he continued to make way as sailor,
trader,and pirate—piracy being au employment which
in those times was either praisixl or punished accord-
ing to its value or inconvenieuee to the State. In
August, 1571, we find that a hulk we. biting built for
Win at Portsmouth, with the sanction, if not under
ohs direction of Lord Burghley, to be used in fur-
therance to Elisabeth's plans for the subjugation of
Ireland and the annoyance of Irishmen, and he ap•
pears to have been frequently employed upon Irish
work during the next two or three years. This em-
ployment brought him into close relationship with
the State and under the immediate notice of Queen
Elisabeth. It protably also secured for him the
friendship of Sir Henry Sydney and of Sydney's
brother-in-law, the Earl a Warwick att well am of
Sydney's favouriativ=ZnatArlfl ilue ,
Immo limier IM