The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

HIINT'INCI A PPOINTMENTS.

toed Foltimore's Hounds—Wednesday, Fortesham ;
'Thursday, Wyntord ; Saturday, Coker Wood—at 11.
Mr. Radelyffe's Hounds Thursday, A/unwell—at
11.90.
The Blackniore Vale Foxhounds—Tuesday (this day),
Ctietnole ; Thursday, Zeal' Omen; Friday, Temple
Coombe Station—at 11.
The East Dorset Hounds—Wadi:m:oday, Crichell ;
Friday, Holcombe Head—at 11.
The South Wilts Hounds—Wednesday, Grossly
House; Friday, Stapleford ; Monday, 11th, Wilt..-
bury—at 10.40.
The Tedworth Hounds—Tuesday (this day). Savernake
Forest House ; Thursday, Collingbouns Sheers;
Saturday. Vernham Gate —at IL
Mr. Walter Flower's Maniacs—Friday, Reda Irlas—at

futare—seek as those of ednostios, the Irish Man*
asd land tosant, tradsausiosieni, army names, AM
—rather than back Rpm the great qoestiou of Last
semi= and the seasionlMbra Lisa fkai ficable fad
the Irak Reform Bill will obtain little public sites-
Was seat year, feregowe oonalesions es they ere is
all bat details of mere local interest There is one
11151. manier, however, with reformat to the Scotch
811 l wkke is worth advertiag to. The Chancellor
of the Inclisquir still adheres to the policy of not
taking members from Finglarid to satisfy Scotland.
This will be satisfactory to the boroughs
Mat might softer ; but it is to be so that so many
re Wives simply added for Scotland will not
inequality to tbe mine 'Meat se the sante
siamher transferred from England, while it will
lead to disturb Um Mimics between Great Schee&
sad Ireland.

Reform and 11111i&IiillM ought not to be oonnectia,
bet some inembers of the Reform Lases persist in
than in the public mind. The
aympathy is Dublin that perherniAr
64:V1 it 050100,7 to @paw their prograulm• with •
enian aostimesta ; but what they may have
rlsln gend, is far rows than oononsrbalanced
hat th bey have lost in Ragland. Snob respea-
Radical politicians as Mr. Thomas Hughes, the
member for Lambeth, are making baste to disclaim
all connection with the Lows; and notwithstand-
ing that the Conseil have made ea attempt to re-
trieve their shersclw by friwiall • resolution re-
pudiating' any ampanity with asaanation or
secret orgssiimison for political ohjeolis" the cheer-
log of such sopranos' as Mr. frinhe's will more
than neutralise the effect of this resolution on the
public mind. This gentleman says, "Let Fellialf YID
go on ad prosper! "Let their words to the
Foams be words of obese, and lin than give that
benediction," ha Downright sedition as this is.
maay Peon's, no doubt, consider that the speaker
ought to be prosecuted • for, insignificant is he his..
self may be, nes his paltry fire-brands may be
dangerous with in much aombustibls matter lying
about everywbsrs. " Resist the beginnings of evil,"
is a mazum that is squally applicable in politica
goverument as in religions
The want of a waifs prosecutor, which tends
more than anything ales, perhaps, to give impunity
to snob esdition-wiegers as Mr. so great
grievance in ordinary criminal trials. Is releirenoe
to this mai**, Mx. Cave, who has brought to *Mos
Oh. lady-mandlor Galling boreal! the Honourable
Mrs. Geraldine Maurice, complains Mot he had to
loss seven days at the polionoosrl, "sod 01111111111
days In no small lam to a West-end tradesmen" ; and,
after wasting three more days at the Old Bailey,
waiting for the trial to come no, he finds that his
trouble and imams go for nothing, the trial having
been postpone 4 on the application of the prisoner's
counsa. • Here," says Mr. Cave, "is a person
against whom no fewer than fifteen indictments me
laid, and who is charged with having victimisrd
more than a hundred tradesman, who would
absolutely have escaped proposition at the criminal
bar but for the enterpries of ow private person
and he adds that it is really hard on trachoma'
"that they should be compelled either to see `the
guilty escape, or to pay roundly for the privilege of
wring than punished." But beyond the grievanoe
than inflicted on individuals is the injury dow to
society by the uncertainty of punishment for crime
thus produced, tradesmen often puking up with
their first lose maw than throw good way after
bad in • criminal prosecution.

It is greatly to be feared that the Romeo question
will had to a rupture between France and Italy.
The tone of the Marquis de Moeitier's letter to the
French Outgo d'Aifitires M !non's°, which was
published lo Satardey's Monigewr is menacing to •
degree to Italy, while it carefully guards %pipet
defining the intentions of the French Government.
Seeieg, however, the mestant despatch of troops and
war =Modal from Toulon to Italy, we cannot bat
regard the Imizial intervention with mach
appreheosim. time has come when the policy
which the French Emperor is pwulng mist be
taken Doti°, of by the other Grist Powers It
would be satisfactory to be assured that our own
Governmeet is proving itself a worthy representative
of Um national feeling and the national interest@ in
this orisia, and exeroising the just authotity of
England for the preservation of peace. When
Piament meets, Lord Stanley must ezpmt to be
closely interrogated on this subject. Our Foreign
Ministers have in past times spoken with moms
when they have desired to protect Italy from Om
exorbitant demands of her overweening patrons, and
what they could do must be rabbi now, even if lb.
powerful inflames of Pram ware not ready to be
exerted for the same Gams.

It is a gratifying fact that the action of the Privy
Council to the matter of the mule plague has
resulted so satisfactorily, that all danger has wowed,
and, from tine time, the troublesome restrictions on the
movement of homed stock which have been so long
in operation, are removed so far as Ragland and
Sootland are concerned, excepting only the
metropolis. Cattle may now be sold on the premises
of the owner without the observance of any special
condition., and may be moved from place to plea
without the necessity for any lionise whatever.

The meetings of ths Agricultural Society of Sher.
Weary seem to he remarkable for the strong
infusion of polities into their annual proceedings.
They don't go through the idle ceremony of
apologising for their introduction, but go into them
at oath. This year the Liberals had it all their own
way, and they certainly made good the of their time
Mr. Glyn, the chairman, ii,.. most people know,
the Liberal whip; ooneequeotly, we could not =peat
' from him much kind feeling towards the present
Government, or its doing,. No one ever knew •
henbalan or whipper•io, deadened for insole.
peeves, who did not find belt with the way his
thoosmor handled the pack, or who failed to
attribute any good sport they might oho* to his
own previous good management. Mr. Glyn, bow-
lever, must acknowledge that in spite of his elections
the Liberal peek "ran not" dreadfully during the
last esesion, indeed "they never were together"
from beginning to the sod. No wonder, therefore,
that the old foe got eaftly away from them, and is
now imegly earthed in the long vacation. Our
readers will peruse Mr. Portman's speech with muck
pleasure. 'l'here is • lane amount of common sense
nd good timper pervading the whole, with just
enough party feeling to show that iii. not humbug.
We quit* feel We the question of the Compound
Householder meet be reconsidered. Its present con-
ditioo is not the halt of the Government; nor, we
believe, of the main body of the Opposition,
but of a few bitter and personal opponents of
Mr. Disraeli, who, if they weld not defeat
the whole measure, were determined to spoil It.
The question of education must come on before long,
sad we are glad to the IL. P.. taking it into weeder.
lion. SOWS plans which have already been devised
are doubtless impracticable, but out of them a good
sad judicious Ball may be drawn up to meet the
present urgent necessity; but of this we will not
' meek more at present, as we hope to return to it I
I shortly. The chef featureof the residua's entertain-
I meet was the indignation of • clergyman, • relation
of the chairman, at having to return theaka forth.
bishop and clergy, coupled with "Christian ministers
of other deoceninations." Theme. gentleman forgot
that he we not obliged to speak at all • but,
if he did speak, common courtesy ehonJd
have kept him from finding fault with •
tome that the chairman proposed. As it is, be is
but • type of • large number of his brother
clergymen, who, like old Mr, Portineria, are
vainly endeavouring to sweep out the tide with
• birch broom. To divide the toast and refuse
to allude to the @mooed part was • simple set of
ignorant insolenoa We trust that this is the last
time be will be called upon to Inhibit humid( in •
position for which he is evidently not qualified.
His reckless and insane adulation of the Bishop,
delivered in soak • company, only makes as regret
that be shoeld have been called upon to pat jean
appearance. Altogether the meeting was of the
liveliest (earthier, end a marked improvement on the
generality of sash gathednie