The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-10-21 00:00:00

WHAT ram WORLD SAYS.

Midlothian is not so very sound. after aU—to the Liberal
cause, at least. As the result of the revision of the
mno
=lr. it
Arrenoutildy warrir no
iratCraadttotte can win
county by a very small majority, supposing .11 the
electors, nominally al the Liberal perms/Lion, remain
laithfuL

The Ctagervatives of Chelsea sod Kensington have at
last found • second candidate to their mind to comsat the
borough in conjunction with Lord la centrie. He as rich
Australian. of the name of Broom, who lives in one of the
new large houses at South Ksnaingteo, and has been
encouraged by the succees of his brother colonist, the
Right Hon. Kr. Child..., to seek • test in the Imperial
Parliament at any cost. He insists on issulag his addrem
Independently, but it is weU linden toad that he undertskes
the whole expense of the election beyond the limited sum
which has been found for Lord laverusio by lb. party.
The Conservatives are occident that they have a sufficient
ensj wily it South Kellailij(tol3 to MUD P the Radicals of
Ch-lsoa sad to carry both seats But Sir Charles Mike
wiU be bard to beat; sod if "to. genteels" of South
Kenaingtoa Sr. driven to chores between • lord and a
Brown, we may he pretty sure that it is not the lord who
will go to the wall.

As 1t one piano were not punishment enough, the
amaogentent of a (Amami* t.r slant pion,* and 16 par-
nt,re—vis• 160 lingert—eas plapetrated at Kirkman's
on B.turday last at two o'clock. in broad daylight 1 Wawa
were the pAice I

Cannes hal been again recommended to the Impress
of Buda, who strived there en Tbureday kat The
.011 known advantates of the place an • winter
Marion, as pointed it try Led Brougham more than half
mastery ago, irthat iii. protected against the continental
win, by an emphith+mre of bills looking to the booth,
wliiist oven the re b• ewe, dovs not reecsi the lower height.
mom wt.ici umt of th coermiiie Pilots are wituete.l.
Then Wee, boast thot the avast temperature of the olace
by two or Vireo degrees, high, lb.. thse of Nice.
6.mos, Pies, ltirence. and even Wipler, .1 laugh I am
n ov!te .11..1 mt tvo litter polar. llt there can
bi n, doulv a. to thy portent tuddueat aud avenue...of its
%rooter. I remerub-r core. eponelin* the months of
December wail J.tooary there. when the thertnotnette
fell %lode, 47 dergrer•, and mover tube enure 74
degree% Cle the tither hi a dull., pinni, to lien in I
do not know in the *bolo &viers. Woon one kiss taken •
walk or two on this mut...minty bills, ent.red tie Cards
Naut.ou.., and viei,ed the famous oaviliou of the confer-
iion.•r st Lae freuirie. Lim ploeile.* of the locality ate
fully exhan.ted. And then ono oaten with tat many
bath-chute 00 the Ratted. la Plage.

Piirstin Pauline It lumina, who, notwithstanding all
the ill-natured thinan true sod untrue, which are said of
bar, is always copied in the grand swede (sometime. also in
the drasq,hse dart ',mod a ms-alon for shooting. Her Hinbn.
le J met now staying at Prince Hobeolohe's piece in Styria.
whir.. distinguished party are assemble!. She has gob a
shootiog-costume Irons Worth. which is quite one of the
neatest "got to. It satirists of a green-
braided gray mend jacket. a short. Keay. t peturoef,
reaching to the knee. gray-cloth Wmt.rs..nd &latish leoe•
up ',opt.. A grey Tyr4eaaa bat, with cook-festbers and
complows the costume. which is sure to fetch
the other grandee dames terribly.

MR. CAIRO, 0.8., ON THE DEPRESSION.
Mr. Card Metcalf is playfully twitaid by his friends
with being "Conservative iti everything but politic,;"
but if these taunts be notified, he is • Con...ensiles of
what his American friends would call • "new aria."
On the present depression of English agriculture big view*
startle without inspiring Panic- Profoundly amPleintedt
both as landowner and es farmer of others land, with
every nicety of the agricultural question, he takes DO
pains to conceal his opinion that the preant depression is
part of a great rcvolution brought about by the gradual
cheapening of transit. A new condition of things hai been
caused by the lowering of rates of freight between this
country and America, and between Western America and
the Atlantic ataboarda For lonic after the abolition of
protective duties on wheat the Mitten farmer enjoyed
what may be called "natural protection;" that io, the
barrier set up by vast diaances only to lie crayoned at
great expense In MR the natural protection of English
Agana American wheat oat, io conaquerice of high
freights, so considerable as to cover the extra outlay on
high fanning. Feta:sant( the production of an acre
under wheat •t twenty-eight bunch—the recegniad
average in England—it is tett difficult to arrive at the
previa value of natural protscUon. In Pal it cost three
chitlings I. convey a bushel of wheat from Chicago to
Liverpool, a rata which gave natural piotection to the
English farmer, amounting to four guineas per acre In
1g79 the coot of conveying wheat between the two places
I, one shilling per bushel. and the natural protection left
is thus only twenty-eight sbil ings per acre •
sum insufficient tn enable the English fanner to
compete, except the land he Lonna be very good,
with the foreigner. Thu two pounds sixteen shillings
make the difference on poor rr intlilerent land between
profit and toes ; and lithe argument be purthed to the
end, wheat-growing is, except under very favourable
conditions, no longer • profitable pursuit. This being
recognised, what is to become of English agriculture I The
answer has already been given in the line which Mr. Cainl
drew down the map of Ruston,' to distinguish between
the grazing and dairy counties and the wheat-growing
counties. In the former wages were, and are, her;hig
prosperity has been, and is, greater than in the latter.
Tbis difference is likely to continue until the wheat.
growing counties see the error of their ways, and lay to
their hearts the truth that whoa-growing, as dlatinguithed
from the production of barley and oat 4, is a bygone
industry, so far as England ix concerned. Wheat is the
most cost y groin to produce in England, and can be irlo,lo
over a wider area than other cereals, while barley—as the
market price, show—cannot he grown everywhere, and
may long remain a pnffitable crop in many parts of this
realm. Thew are as well known to brewers as the wine
districta of France to wine merchant& and the produce of
particular f anus, like that of particular eadtactus has •
well-ascertained value. It is true that for distillation
maim is rapidly coming into toe, and that bailey is
conaquently lees required: but the demand of the brewers
still keeps, and is likely to keep, barley at • high pries as
compared with wheat.
But barley—it is urged by the best shot of the party—
cannot It. grown everywhere, and what lathe farmer to do
who atom& grow it / The answer is ready: he must do
what other people do—produne what is salable, observe
his market, and ask himself what to wanted, not what his
forefathers have done. There are many things with which
England can hat *imply hertelf. America may, and will,
',end her cheap wheat and maite—the former for her men,
the latter for man and bout ; but despite low freight. and
icetchambers, there are many things which cannot DO well
be imported from abroad. Let it be recollected that sine'
tenths of the cost of food is for things other than bread,
and that our fanners have left to them, besides barley and
oats, the production of mat and cheese of the finest
quality; of milk, cream, and butter; of lamb and veal,
besides mutton. Their intelligence should be directed, not
to the weary tan of getting something out of poor clay
soils, but to making the beet of practicable farina Flog-
ging at poor land in the hope of improving it may be put
down a sheer leas of money, for one effect of stem
communication is a duel between tranoit and mauue. ita
manun no can be done oo cheaply that the lowed f nigh
cannot beat its product in price, well and rood: but, as •
rule, this is not the case, and the result will be that poor ---- -
clay soils will go out of cultivation Finally, it will only
pay to cultivate the hest land, and England will become • Tug Cogolutosriomm. limo:. of England and Wales
vast dairy-farm and market-garden. tbe farmers working Mooed Ma thirty-ninth autumnal meetot Cardiff on
for an immediate tole of perishable nada ; Thursday, when pigpen were reed on 8 maaaa for
The phrase, "out of cult/ration," elicits a groan from I the Revival of Slnninal Life fAdabe Willa. and Mbar
the chimney-corner end • suntan, "What is to become subject. The aaeldbly Pad to reaNaraead to the
, /the conducting of
d the landowner.. On this whim; di. Cale. opioirms miligidpnition a um. county
are V clearly defined new u they weal when he soted as ainieSai 'nisei.'" by meneeselner:ian "Id si l'eerSindd eefeenet
Ti..,. Oommiaioner. In his °Pleated letters be foretold at the same time suggesting that the Council of the Church
some thinrs which have come to pees, and some others • Aid and Home Missionary Scanty might render some help
which he &inks are just a dually unavoidable, although : in Una work IS nag earemir inirminied Sisal the mimics.
they are not yet (unite& A fall of rent. cannot be : mast not be °I • ieteetweel character.
averted, and this must bring with it • great racial change I iUS F.AIL Or COM' ON Ten GoValUillawr —At the
There is much wild talk Just now of reduction.' ranging I annual dinner to- the Evererevedi Agricultural Society,
from 55 to 30 per cent; but it is needlest--exona to the i held at Shepthe Mallet, on Friday, an intareetieg letter
flighty persons who think aLi per cent reduction of rent us. mad from the Hai of Cott. His MfdalliPt MSIIff
mini is • lose of one quarter of personal income or regretting his onavoitable atreoce, obeerveiLthat the .
"spending braso"—to explain that a Ten' large propor- looms° of taxation ovine to She •=teleite "liell' •
lion of English landholden will not survive • reduction cilium ought to he prawn oz tba • of three who '
of 25 per cent in their rent-roll. Still fewer enjoy • war, now 'Medially aural liam the earienit'rel Wide
present margin of 35 per cent; and it may edely lip at rilWll7 interested' n footway. Lad Cork theadd
predicted that • production of this maviitude would the neat:, bid beard am touch of fre4e° and tee little
bring down the landed esistocral with • rug. There lof home afar& and he hoped that on dor existing amuse-
however, no doubt that a heavy reduction inns; he : stances the Goveroment would be Induad to aka a more
-h.
effected; but, as Mr. Gird ;amp out, this loos and I dimnt real tormaaiii, time they bad hitherto fellalit
suffering, like the Irish Potato Famine, which abolished , There wee Min to ezpect from the chgricalturel Owl
the Corn Laws, will bring a strong tarlatan yet salutary, I Mat, ahem report wee probably Lei° /rake r' t4lttre'
reform in its wake. No violent Wound= —no fu. 1 sad it was cold contort to be atketk Id OD SX for •
surrectionary tempest—ie necessary for the reform no to. LihetitiWrtaverurhent Rd% UM an lea Proved herbal-
Ism adecting land. • beery reduction cd Mtn vii ista . .
IL 1... addressed hie constituents at
bring thine unhappy landowners who are crippled vri 1416
eeiiinnenlet S i Ma mega of bistaltruPtee : 'and Pontefract on Thursday ht. The right boa. gentle.
Encumbered Estates Act for Englandiits that plead for : am a strongly ooacismad the polklt of annexation
Ireland will be the result in this most succeed the which had of La years been lao_peed la "ittli =
abolition of the law of primogeniture, and mak matillea- i ..d in ',Wm, in the latter of whom nostutri kr
lion of the laireopitertlement re entail es will her the ' i;e„, (he "id) practically hats to ettnex Afghalthein.
"tying op" of for Om lives, and than bring down e.,,; en. vet cotraticados bdt neneoeseary.
that rotten ace feurtallian under which the hand ,•aigpT,
of the dead is unwisely permitted to stretch forth front nit, ue °gene _,.._....tP in ei....P'rt7 which°6 rti°l.. °r
the tomb to fetter the Rang, When ell this rithinek infrenal .to tikaFdaas".o"-- We .4 finik•
tumbles down, and is carted seer, it v-ill lo mange la nii with °dia. A dread of male t
farming to be conducted Alm ear other hnd refusals toentangle this coati ey tbVt4
unhampered by thildith distimutiam ot td rote/tens cimilitarX monarelthm abileixt Wire Ping the 1
mope; Lod the land will. like 'or other property, and its rt itagr Eked intautt be the paiicy et go I
way iota the hands of those who hare capital and Claw T j ha ettottoltat al .He v
to put it to the bat toe. At the p t moment It., .1' -°941.1__ _s , - Nightliee'''
m *lug li IVonuaitt ;ha akcjje ...- 411-
ta:laippei out of the rem: and he 'r a a 101.1
I situated, in comporinon will pec ly l WIZ lle the- ~,untry and
net ie ja
oco:OrtsLor
elu% . 4aiiip ready for witch dif b
may perhaps bring lu thil=B tivoitati Zjai jiiteeeteet el "ti
tas
-gut • practical
...ad agitation would be
who, it should be ,_ quite twee Mileaelle ..,ot clause a the Land Act,
!rhimaVor"tterM de ressolar4, zre go be. a ot-o- ~. the rlabZ.7.l would be brtre es"Zu.Ploothoet
er.-
g=iti:sidtbe.,2.24,l4ll.%. t..aoi be
ProtocUon
...,..:Litzdfranohise, the reform d the lead law, with
reference to cheap treader, and tie of
bag ell owneril SOMA ID Pe Ilifilike • ....41 sr
pruprty.—lforld. ~ os4 d their isthi Aot. Aar attompt to reams to
could rely Ind In Ware sad dlnsisr.

The legacy duty oo th I ite Guist 0 tome Karolyi's
I aurounte to 1.110.000 florin,. Hui lily,who ie
&beady very weelthy, when be beer.' a Me agate of the
duty, pathetically remarked that it won fortunate he was
a nob mao, orherwim two such (Orion.. would reduce him
1., prowl. Th deosseed atia.inorst other iotereet.
lag colloctious, on. roumet,og of over 250 amerschialm
plonk valued at 36,000 donne. Th • was his favourite
hobby.

If anyone is nwptlcal ss tu the future of th• electric light.
Ist him &ire or walk Iran Westminster along Ills embank.
moot to Blackfriiir• SIIII time across Waterloo broke: be
will be well repaid, aud his scepuc)sos must vapid,. Th.
elfoct of the electric lentos el this entire routs is sltopir
magnificent; Its like us.spolisht, before which the leable
gas-je,s pals their ineffectual light. When gas brat came
in, country folk used to rise up in crowds to see 80u1h-
work Bri.ise lit up. Events repent themselves ; and I
should not is ourprlsed to sew "specials" adeertiled to
carry peopla up Loses Waterloo 'kir:liens vow illuminated.
nod it really sn noble epseterls, worth coming • long wsy
toner. It took gas shwas years tosetsblieh 4.'11: and is
sloven y..•rs what strides may not the electric light hare
wads niter :kis nosy-ilds demonstration of lii capabili-
ties I

I have become accidentally poisoned of tab* fallowing
letter. which t. correct copy of coo lately *dare...id by
a corporal of unwise. to hi. nil.. Irmo a reseal which is
at precept .A.tieneil of the nee. c,.t of Afrioo

" was (rosily surprised to bear from you
(through lily impugul. I had forgotten that I was married.
end, to tell riu the truth, I had entirely forgotieu you.
I should bare tbought that • handonne young womso the
you would bars Moan eie,ve apPlY,ltil to • Poor marine for
b•lp; !think you hare been guided by your mother in
thle metier, as you have been in all °there—well. I ehould
Ilk. you to set upon my advice for 000 e ; that is, to take
no notice of your mother, do the hest you can for yourself,
and if possible get married again. It might he bettor for
you. I cin swore you that I will never troubl• you as
10n... I live. lam vroy omnfortable in the *Groh.% and
there to no doubt but that I shall stay in the servim for
the nezt 16 years. My captain geld he would not inter-
fere with my private elleirs, and if I bed soy trouhle with
you to take no notice or it. I imuit now conclude, and I
don't think I shall ever we you or Kstiokliestor mais. for
I have greater attn.:Moos in Portsmouth than any other
part of Endand. - I remain, to -P.S. I cannot return
your letter, se ilia losi.".

••
In this letter the sternness of the warrior and the pro-
verbial los ineuincy of the sailor are fearfully and wonder,
fully combined!