The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-02-20 00:00:00

SATURDAY'S MARKETS.

CORN.
'AAIISEIDGE.—Wheat wan in fair supply, and
mule l's. per qr. over last week's prices.
tAlLlMI.E.—Wheat and oats Iso,h a fair aiipply.
Sale Plow for both descriptions, at the unaltered prices
of I .st week.
ESTE UPI EI.D. —The show of wheat was not
large. and farmers demand advanced prices.
I 'II KSTEII. --Fair amount of litutineras slime at
to 2 I. per bushel inereaae.
(;lAIIItIESTEII—The market was firmer to-day,
and an advance in the value of wheat of aleint Is. per
qr. was realised.
ryTi AM. —There was a tolerable rupplyof
wheat, and the prices a ked to some extent checked
sake.. but eventually a moderate amount of busineas
wax done at per qr. more money than was obtain-
able last week.
OXFOltl). -Nnt sn large attendance an that of last
week, although the weather was fine, but trade was a
little brisker and buyers had to give an advance of la.
to 2s. per sp. for wheat.
REA DING. -Wheat made a large show on the
in the t'orn Exchange here to slay, lmt the con-
dition of malty of the simplex wria very damp.
Finest bits in dry sionilition briskly, at a trifle
over the extreme rates of hist week. Secondary and
other samples changed owners quietly at firm rates.
White wheat made 484. to (Wk., and red wheat 445. to
rok, per qr. The eopply of barley was abundant, but
Only the very best descriptions of malting were sale-
able, and these made former figures secondary and
grinding inrcels were the turn cheaper and slow of
'sale; best malting barley made 3145. to4Bs. secondary,
325. to ; and ',minding, Zts. to 32.. per qr. Oats
were plenfiful. and, with a ready demand, made high
laicals -225. 365. per sir.
INNCASTEII.—We hall an excellent show of
more and other bends, many good nsieful English lota
offering. Although there was 3 fair attendance of
buyers the largeness of the supply cauaeil prises to be
depressed, and seller, readily conceding a isdnt or two,
a large business was done at a small but uniform
reduction.
NoltWlCll.—There was a pretty gool show of
store cattle on offer here t..-.lay. Little change wan
note.' in prices, but a complele clearance wal not
maole. Shiortb..lll's were quo•iall at £lO to LKS, and
Irish at Ca to £I6 per head. Fat beast+, 10s, to lls.
per I Th.- sheep iWnii were fairly filled, but many
lots left the market although a reduction of
ls. to 2s. per held WaX aceepte I in some instances.
Fat sheep were quoted at fin fel. to 124. per 1411).
Norr I N H A M.- -Tli -re Was abOilt the vernal supply
of borneil stock ini offer to-day. and I joe.. was bY
no means fast. Superior cattle aohl steadily, and made
as much ~,,, nee es h. retofore, while inferior anini ihi
were dull of sale Of calves the 81110 W Ma's small, and
late rates. generally prevailed.

;said

It is said The Standard is about to change
hands, the ostensible purchaser being an
architect, well known in business circles, who is
acting on behalf of a Conservative 1. r. The
price paid is about £1i."0,000.

The wealthy who keep their balances at
Coutts' are somewhat nervous. The senior
partner, aged 8:5, died last week ; and the
management of the bank is intrusted to the.
junior partner, a raw boy of 82, with not more
than GO years' experience in the house.

It is said that tho Prince of Wales has fully
determined to carry out the project of paying a
visit to Australia and New Zealand, which the
success and pleasure of his Indian tour first led
him to conceive. The subject has not yet
formally taken shape ; but we believe that the
Prime Minister is cognisant of, avid approves of
tho projected visit to the antipodes. Who pays
the Piptr I

Dr. Rudolf Meyer, a Berlin journalist, has
been condemned to serum punishment for
having " libtAled" Prince Bismark in an article
which appeared in the Seel/ Po/itirn/ Correspon-
clews. The court sentenced hint, in virtue of
clause 186 of the penal cork, to nine months'
imprisonment. It is peril:qv; fortunate for
certain English intim:as that a Prince Bistnark
is not at the head of political affairs in this
country.

The Wild Fowl Preservation Act, 1876, came
into force on Thursday. The act specifies that
" any person killing wild fowl, or having in his
control or possession one recently killed between
the 15th of February and the 10th of July, is
liable to a penalty for every such wild fowl of
,Cl." The following an' free from the gun :
Woodcock, widgeon, summer snipe, teal, curlew,
1 plover, wild duck, wild poise, stone curlew, sea
lark, sandpiper, redshank, purr, pochard,
plover's page, lapwing, mallard, dotterel',
dinbird, oxbird, dunlin, gotlwit, greenshank,
peewit, phalarop, ruff, sanderling, shoveller,
stint, spoonbill, stonuhatch, thicknee, whaup,
and whimbrel.

WO Mint go to Canada for English news.
The following information is given in the
Toronto Globe of the 26th ult. :
"It in nail that Earl Dudley of England, who in 60
years old, has offered to bet 25,000 dols. to 25 dole.
thAt the son of Napoleon 111, will be officially pro-
claimed Emperor of Frame during the Earl's lifetime,
and that the odds were at 011 C-, accepted by the Prince
of Wales and by three other Mr/04M"

,
the matter, was also adjournetL
Joke and Janus dames, horse dealers of Shirley and
West Chickerell, were summoheil by the Superintend-
mot of pole*, for being drunk and disorderly in the
public streets, on the nth.— Mr. Weston who appeared
for the defenilanto, tail they had gone to France on
Important business, and could not attend.—The
decided to hear the tame in their absence. —P.D. Dunn
on the afternoon in question, was on duty in High
West-street, and otiwa Liege crowd i,f people assembled,
on going up u he fond thetwo defendants rolling in the
road. James James was stripped, anti blood all over.
They were wrestling as they were on the ground, and
used very bad language to the pe pie standing round. ;
He separated them, and found them both drunk.
John James the father of James, tossed up his hat and '
offered to fiiht arty man in the fair—fly Mr. %Veston
They >l5l not complain to him they hail been assaulted
by other people. Ile did 1111 t see any blows pass.—Mr.
Weston lid nit deny the defendants hod been trying :
the Ihirchester beer, but he was instructed a soldier ;
struck the son in the month, and he at "nee stripped.
The father wisheil to restrain him, and they certainly
went down on the ground together. He could not dispute
the ilrunkenness, but it being fair Ilay he asked the
Renal to deal with the case as leniently as they could.
Fined ss. and cost" each, the Mayor remarking hail the
fact of fighting been proved, the penalty would have
been much more serious.
(knew Tr-rut, a labourer i of Winterbourne St.
Martin, was summoned by Eliza ('rose, of Dorchester, I
to show cause,—Mr. Howard for the defendant.—The
complainant said she Wasn a servant and With delivered
of a boy on the lot if March last, and the man present
was the father. The first faux pan took place on a I
Sunday when she was coming home from Dewlish I
from her father's. She did not write or send to the
defendant informing him of her condition. She had
often met him in the street. She made no application
Trevitt about the support the cluld until three
weeks after its birth. She wrote to him and he gave
her an answer, in which he sail it hail nothing to do
with him, and he uht,til,l not call and see her as he did
not into' I to pay for another roan's child. The
letter came nearly II months ago and she hail taken
no proceedings until now, but hail supported the child
herself. She did so now b !came her mistress wished
her ti,-----'he mother gave corroborative evidence of
the defendant having brought her daughter home and
spent the Ilay. I Oefenilant, who hail been summoned
a% a witness on the part of the complainant, 'ail he
lived at Martimtown 311,1 WM{ a working chap. He
knew the young woman by seeing her, that was all.
He denied positively that anything improper hail ever
taken place between them.-51r. Howard contended
that otmplaina>4 had not been corroborated in any
material particular no required by law, and having
dwelt upon what he termed the improbabilities of the
ca-e, he sail it would be a most outrageous thiny for
a man to be convicted on such evidence.—No order.

This is pleasant under present circumstances.
MAjor-General CoUnison, RE., an authority,
has been delivering a lecture on the present
facilities for the invasion of England, ai.d he
tells ns--
"'

'The total strength of the fi,d.l army on the out.
break f war would probably be under 110,000 of all
branches .4 the conbatants, =dor all classes, rtsiulars,
militia. and yeomanry-, whereas 260,000 combatants
were required altogether for the whole °Ott army
collo by the in .bilisation scheme. The new elements
of danger which had arisen to our island fortress in
the course of last generation were -First, the immense
cue of modern armbs. Se.s.n.llv, the great number of
merchant steamers that bridged that streak of silver
Kell on which this country bad so long 41epen4e4 for
security front war. The force* of the enemy might
move with a regularity equal to that of railway trans-
port Thirdly, the few ironchels possible, owing to the
enormous expense. Fourthly, there was an absence of
coast defence in England, for while the coast was the
line of defence at which we might expect to cause the
chief 4lcily and trouble to the enemy, we hail really no
defence prepared for it, either of gun-boats at sea, or
meo and batteries on land. Fifthly, the paucity .4
reserves. Sixthly, there was a want of I gal authority
fir defensive measures. Whatever alanns there might
be, it will 11.4 4144 in these days b leave it to the
moment of .Linger to discuss theta, or the House of
.44111111•4118 W 441141 Stall4l a chance 44 being interrupted
in a debate he do, arrival of a hostile general in
Seventhly, there existed 1441 defences at
Cleeleue or London worth mentioning. What MOS
reqainsl wit a that the natioo. and especially the
uteri...utile part of it, should rueognise the change of
arc111114:41141c. iii Eilriolle, aol in ourselves, and see the
mice-city if establiAloo our amity and navy on •
sounder and more naturra system.
Of course, when the horse is it. lon we shall
lock the stable tutor ; hut then the discussion of
a tiile is far more important than that of the
safety of a nation.

By all accounts, the Liberal leaders do not
yet fleU their way to action on the :Eastern
Question. It would be clay en 411 to impeach
the Ministerial policy up to the end of last
SePsion ; but then there came a change of
policy. Lord Derby had been interviewed by
his " employers," and hail told them, almost in
the words of the Kentucky candidate for
poli•ical honours, that if his policy did nit suit,
he could change it. lie, accordingly, has done
so, :is the Blue Book abundantly testifies, and
the question is whether so cautious and even
mol moms a M. • ter, who has crept into his
sht!', and there awaits events, can be safely
att .eked. We have seen a porcrAit of a spzisiol
barking at a hedgehog, and yelping with im-
potent rage because he is unable to draw blood
or touch one of those quills on the fretful
porcupine. Such is Mr. illadstonCs attitude to
be t Derby at present, and it is laughable
en.••igh for those who have 11,, personal interest
in mm mere change of Ministry.

THE DORCHESTEIt CHARITIES,
In March, 1874, a memorial was presented to the
trustees of the grammar school, signed by a very large
number of the inhabitants, asking for a re-,rgantzation
of the school, the same having been all ,wed to become
almost valueless to the town. This memorial was in
dile course forwarded to the Endowed School Com.
missioners, whose function s are flow vested in the
Charity Commission, a corresp,onden-e has ever since
been carried u between the Commissioners and Mr.
I'. Newman, which has at length led to an investiga-
.tion of the condition of all the edueational charities of
the town, and during the past week Mr. Fearon, an
assistant commissioner, has been making a most
searching preliminary enuniry as to the schools and
endowments. On Wednesday he invited Nil% Newman
to meet him with a deputation of the memorials, when
the following attended at the Town-hall :- Messrs. T.
Newman, W. Osmond, R. Hill, W. How, W. H.
Bradley, J. Anderson, H. Ling, J. Patten. The
Mayor (Mr. H. Lock) wcompanied the deputation,
and is doing everything in his power to promote the
object in view, viz., to provide a good public school
for the middle classes in Dorchester, where a sound
education may he had a reasonable cost, it being felt
that the system ,1 education obtained in private
schools is not now of inch a nature as to enable boys
there eshicatad (although at a great cost) to compete in
after Life with boys educated in the National schools.
The meeting was most satisfactory, and we may fairly
look forward to the construction of a good Endowed
School for Dorchester.

Comer/ PPM Sliesion*, Saturday.-Before Mr. Herbert Ides shoot Christmas. Loot evening oohe and her
fnon3et Coulitti expreris Williams (chairman), Mr. E. Pearce, Mr. A. Bankes, Mr. bael•nil were having tea when the pOciner ease in
A , a Warry, and Mr. E. Kindersley. "tight" and he oeke I her Inishaut to drink knowing he
, Sydney Robed., of Fordington, nos summoned fur • we.. a teetotaller. Ile re'usisl and prise iiirs.d.l if he did not
game trespass. Mr. Weldon prosecated. Defendant did hi: would throw it over him. P. iiiiiisr then "dere it to
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1107. not appear, and P.C. Healing proved the iwrvice of the the woman with Cie woe rem k. Sue told lie had
....mons. Mr. Homier g keeper woe on the road from hotter, :o.d then to: Poree it or. r her oel slipped !VT in
- Bockliampt,,n to Tineletin, and he raw a van rolling on th.: face and rallcil lyre w-. s.O throw her tea OCt
NOTES OF THE WEEK. the road It pulled up, and a man g... out with a goon. Ilion and he then struck in the isc.i with annethin.; -Iro
and he Nunn...wed beating the furze for rabbits. filo ilid lod know what -Tli win with whorl. the woman
The Queen is expected, according to a tele-
seeper went after him, and he ran away, hut he was over- II voe cave ii.ieroloirstive e,, awl said ho lictive I the
gram from Berlin, to pay another visit to t.k.•i, and the con taken (min him. But it WAS given up Id in wao indicted sith the pint cup from.shich the pH-
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d API the ti him on his saying he hail a license. lie gave tie liaise simer was drinking. 1: •VIA not the first time, hi: hwl
Germany this year, Elster lining flie
of John Haskins. On the keeper going back to the van, (omitted them. -Artlitir Eilinond Deck. a lee heal tract,
probable ''ate (of the jourrney, Her Majesty is he there found a ill= named 11101114 S Adams sitting with Donee duly qualified, deeribed the wound. Very severe
said to have expresaed a desire particularly to the gun already pointed for a hhok -Fined 10i. and Colt% end from its coritir.u..n evidently inflisted by mine illlCit
lie., or two months imprisimment. Adams paid the instrument. The bones of Die nose were broken Pr,-
nisi en and Gotha. fine, sooner in his ilefeace complained only two Witnesses were
John Trerii, w.AI summoned for smiles-min: in pursuit called sirloin there Id in the room. lie had kept com-
et rabbits on the lands of Mr. R. B Sheridan, II P. Fined ,any with the woman two or three nights and the
DA. and In, ,Nts. , r.smits hod heeu to bring about the unplea.satitniiss. She
Mona., Mop, pleaded guilty to having been found on WM Vefy violent. and he hail all he could do to defend
the highway drunk. A wedding had took place, and he himielf.- Supt. Coward hen at the station the pri-
had had a little drip, and he had a hail job Moat the same miner threatened to do for A:in.-The Bench said It was a
time, he had his pocket picked. Mr. ;Supt. Batty gave disgraceful assault, and sentence him to three months
him a wood character for general sobriety. Defendant hard labour.
hoped they would lie as mild AA pos,ilde.-Chairinan: Pay
Is, we remit the co-to, and don't let uo see you here
again-Defendant : Much ohl iced to 'se ; hope L shall
never see you live gentlemen up here again; thankee;
good inarnin'.
Adelaide Jefry. for I.eing drunk and helphiss in a gutter,
woo tillqi ss. or Coven days. I'. (2. In luckily found her,
or she would have been deml. It transpired this WY the
day after the fair, and the magistrates:generally expressed
a wish the Corporation would fairs. They were
• curse to the country.
Bcinurnit PLITT Stin-rIONS, yesterday, Monday.—
Before the Mayor (Mr. Alderman Luck) Mr. J. F.
Hodges, and Dr. Aldridge.
Charge -IP" stonecutter, of Upwey, Was summoned
for tiring drunk in the West Walks, on the. 13th. P.C.
Carter proved the case. Fined E.N. and costs.
Robert Puree, "f the Railway Tavern, was summoned
for permitting drunkenness on his premises in South.,
street. In conoeptence id the i thew 1,1 P.( Pomeroy,
3lr. Supt. Coward applied for an adjournment.
Granted. Mr. Weston was for the defendant.
The case against John Nriol.nrq labourer, of
Fordington, who was charged with being concerned in

MR. JOSEPH ARCH AND POLITD-4

Joseph Arch, the well-known unionist, on Wednes-
day last, b dog Dorchester hiring fair, took the
opportunity of giving an at tress to the labourer-. on
Yordington-green. Previous notice had been given
this by large yellow posters, and the services of a fife
and drum band were chartered for the occasion ; but
the attendance of the real working man was but small.
Joseph, however, Lad a very respectable audience "f
some 200 or 300, but the blue favours of the Union
were but sparsely distributed amongst the crowd A
waggon served all the purpo-es of a platform, awl the
hour filed was two o'clock. Mr. W inter, a delegate,
and Mr. Mayor, the district secretary, were at their
posts at the appointed time, but Mr. Arch kept the
people waiting for a good half-hour. The interval was
occupied in singing a Union ditty " Pull for the
shore, labourers." When at last he arrived, Mt.
Mayor was voted to the chair, nivl in the few words
he spoke said no less than £56,000 htvl been brought
into the pockets of the lalsturers of D ,root through the
Union ; but, the great hindrance to the work was
that the men themselves did not come in as fast at
they ought to. He also incidentally menthated that
he had bad 0,000 of their money pass through his
hands

Mr. -WINTER. the delegate, then .poke. He Raid be
was once an m,ricultural labourer himself until he took
up to advncate the cauw, and in that cause he had
fallen a victim to cruel and betlieh laws. once he
was in the county of Sussex, and he was then m dented
by the police and the farmers, and they actually drove
him off to the lock-up—(laughter) —and he hail one
night at the expense of the county. (Renewed
laughter.) He then went on to move- the following
resolution :—" That this meeting having confident
reliance en the patriotism and good NellBo of the
agricultural labourers hereby expresees it., tering
desire for the asehnilation of the borough and county
franchise as a means ef 'wearing the rights a the
labourer, and the well being of the country, and
pledges itself not to rest itatittfied till this object
has been attained." Their British Parliament, he
wilt on to say, was not constituted .1 sense or brairei,
but, bricks and mortar—(laughter)—and had it not
been for the agricultural labourers we ',held(' now be
plunged into a disailtrous war. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ARCH, who was received with much cheering,
new to second the resolution Having affirmed that
the Union was now stronger than ever it was, he
referred to the Union which the farmers .if North
Essex had recently, formed among themselves. New,
he heartily wished the farmers, all over the country,
would form Unions, for then they could meet them on
a Board of Arbitration, and settle queetiene with. ut
1 strikee and lockomte. (Loud cheers.) Still he felt
very much surprised that the farmers of North
Essex ehould attempt to establish a Union to put
theirs down after the battles the labourers' Union
had fought, and the victories it hail won. While they
bad been carrying on that campaign in North E.tsex
they had spent something over £3,000, awl that with.
out touching one single penny which had been placed
I to their credit at the bank ; but, in addition, they hail
placed in the hands of the trustees another £3.000
during the time they were fighting. (Applause.) lie
was not there to say the farmer had no grievances
—(cheers)--or, that the labourers' was the wome case
in the world, for he was confident of this that if the
labourer choom to take his labour to a better market
he hail bitter chanced of ding so than the farmer who
might feel dispreed to shift hie quarter's (Ileac,
hear.) lie would now come to the political ride .if the
questi..n. He hail been asked ;he hail been implored
by gentlemen of the clerical faculty to be very careful
hew he touched upon political questions. (laughter.)
He hat been told that it would he unwise of him
to mention politics. (Laughter.) Now he would like
to know why the labourer should not have a voice in
politics as well as the parson. (Hear, hear.) They
were all aware that, at the present moment, both In
town and country, there was a ..treat cry out about the
Dimstablishment and Disendowntent of the Church
of England. Let them then suppose that the clergy
like the agricultural labourer hail to-day no votes,
what would be the upshot? They would hear a
clamour from every pulpit in the kingdom. (near,
hear, and laughter.) What ! Illtieetablieh 11A when we
have no votes or voice in the matter. If then they
would not like their association interfered with, when
they had no vote, was it not enough to make the
labourer cry out fiir his rights when lie saw, the
common lands stoleu from him, awl the e hication of
his children oppremively unforced, while he had no
political power ? (Cheers.) The present Government
had been placed in power under very extraordinary
circumstances, and he did not think in the most
honourable way they might have been. (Hear, hear.)
Had proper precautions been taken, aud had the
agricultural labourer have had his vote, they would not
have been placed in power at all. (Cheers I Ile was
there that day, politically speaking. a ligulicaL
(Laughter.) He did not believe n your Whigs. They
hail enough of that in Dorset in '32. At the Bute of
the last election he was certainly surprised at the
farmers; allowing a Conservative Government to be in
newer. He was travelling a good deal et the time,
and what did he find was the watchword of the
farmers? Why, "let's have Disraeli in power and
then we ehall have a Tenant's Rights Bill." A
question they often talked about in their Chambers of
Agriculture was that of direct repreventaticn. Now,
they had an opportunity not long ago in Da.et
obtaining it, but, what did the farmers of Dorset do?
Why, they turned their backs upon the celebrated
?dr. Fowler because lie married the daughter of an
admiral. (Much laughter.) At least, he esippOsed
that was what It was for, he c..uld not think of any
other reason. lie believed himself the Goveniment
was placed in power through the political stupidity of
the farmer and an unholy alliance of the parson and
the publican. (Cheers.) No wiener ili I they
rommence business than they male one of the biggest
blunders a Government could make. What did they
begin to sin? Why they began to reform the Church,
with the Church Worehip Regulation Bill. Now he
held that they began at the wrong end. If they had
intended to reform the Church, and wished her to
appear honourable in the eyes ef every honest
Christian man, they would have begun at the other
end —with the Bishops with their thousands a year, and
added a little from those enormous calories to the
stipend ..f the po ir curate, who had to go nn.l be for
clothes for his youn,,,, ones. (Much cheering.) 11114
was a fine ecclesiastical star in the midst of England's
glory, that one salaried officer of the Church puts his
131,000 a year into his picket, and anther a miserable
etie. (Hear, hear.) He snip ...oil they paid the
curates according to the law of supply and demand.
(Laughter.). But they found the Government were
now making two more Bishops, and therefore he
hoped when there were more in the market, the
price of Bishops would go down. (Laughter.) Well.
they began by touching this very exploitive piece of
machinery, and no sooner hail they applied the fuse
than there was an explosion all over the country—the
bishops, clew, and legislature scarcely knew what to
be at. But, why was this Bill neeled ? Did they not
know that a lot of those clergymen who were bound
by oath to uphold the Protestant faith 01 the country,
were getting as close to Rome that they could wit tell
what they were. (Hear, hear.) And the country was
determined to make a very strict law. They sail
'• we won't have these mummeries and these buff., in' We won't have men like Tooth doieg what
they like. After 300 years of quietude we now have this
naughty boy hand"—the result was they had
to Rend him to "quail" to cure him. (Hear,
hear, and I'vughter.) But, he believed, he would
come out more a Iladical than he went
in. Some people said it was a rotten Tooth, and
he judged the old hely hail a good many in her.
(Hear, hear.) Well, that WAS the filet groland piece
..f legislation Ilya C'onservative Geveminent. Another
important matter was the Farmers' Agricultnral
Holdings Bill. He found there was not a sinv(le-
landed proprietor in the House who advocated a
compulsory me:wire. When it was passed, well, 'sail
the farmers, we have got a little bit, and we must be
thankful for small mercies. But, no smelter did that
become law than they found the landlords nearly all
over the country, sending little slips to their tenants
contracting themselves out of the Bill—)hear, hear)—
and the farmers hail to assent, for, if for one moment
they disputed it, they would be very likely to have
notice to quit. It was thegreateetinsult a tenant farmer
had ever had thrown in his teeth; and that by the
very Government they clamoured so to put in power
in 74. (Hear, hear.) Then the next piece of legis' la-
tion was a very important nuttier. He did not know
how many debates there were about it. It was time
question of making the Queen an Empress? (Ironicaly
laughter). The Empress making was a fine piece of
business. He did not know how the politicians of
Dorset felt about it, but, he knew the Liberal
politicians of England cried shame against the time
honoured title of Queen being stained with the addi-
tion if Emprees. htut, if course, it was the old story,
" make you an Empress, and you make me an
Earl." (Roars of laughter.) old Diu'y knew what
he was at? Now he would ask the fanners what they
thought of their statesmen. When the I/view-ere gist
their political rights, they would have better states-
men than that. (('heers.) And now he came to the
third, and, to his mind, the greatest question of the
day, and if they thought that what they did was worth
the money it coot then he diil not envy them their
feelings of liberality—he referred to the conduct of the
Goternment, with regard to the Eastern Question.
No doubt, they heard C inservative gentlemen eing
out—and saying it was a piece of folly for Liral
politicians; and y .12 men of En Jand to call public meet
tugs and pare resolutions tu harass the Government in
its work, but, how in the name ..f common sense could
the voice of the public harass the Government when
they were doing nothing. (Hear, hear.) There was
this one fact—that the stupidity of the stupid party
had shown the people they meet have a voice in such
matters; end he did not suppose there had ever been
an instance in the history of England when a Gover-
ment was so compelled to bow to the voice of the
people as Lord Beaconsfield's had been. (Hear, hear.)
They would be told, and, no dou)it, some would
believe, of what a great interest the Government took
In this Eastern Question. But, how had they shown
It' They would not forget the emintry had ebunoured
from one end to the other for the re-assembling of
Parliament, and he maintained that that was what
the country hash a right to demand, and the Govern-
ment a duty to concede. (Hear, hear.) They had
read how on some of the estates in Dorset a thousand
head of game had been shot in one day, and this,
by gentlemen their representatives, who took
such an Interest in Eastern affairs, that they were