The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-04 00:00:00

%set enutti Express.
TUESDAY. JUNE 4.

NOTEB OF THE WEEK.

During the past year there has been a decrease of
between two cc three thousand in the number of
nmg°l,4", in the Wesleyan denomination throughout
the United Kingdom.
The case of the Baesrve men who left a eituMian In
Holland and came over to join the «doors has already
attracted considerable attention. AS will be resnan.
bared, be wee lam In reporting himself, and he was,
I therefor*, neoemarily tried by court-martial am a
deserter. The sympathy which had been excited for
however, was vi great that the court let him off
all punishment. He was, therefore, sent into the
ranks t, resume the service of the country—and he
has now bolted with his own kit, his counriMs kit, and
generally with everything he could lay his hands
upon.

The oommittee of the Turf Club held a meeting on
Thursday last, to consider the conduct of Lord
Huntly and Sir Robert Peel with respect to the
huiguage used by them to each other in the Club on
Tuesday of last week, and, after full consideration of
the circumstances, instructed the to write to
both gentleman requesting that they will withdraw
their names from the Club.

This decision, hard as it may Deem, appears to be a
proper and necessary one under the circumstances.
Lord Handy, as la understood, had delayed payment
of a debt of honour to Sir Robert Peel, but had
subsequently explained the delay to the .addiction of
the Committee; Sir Robert then sernmed to delay
payment of a d•lit of honour to Lord Handy; and
upon this Lord Handy adopted the violeet proceeding
of denouncing Sir Robert In a full ro in as a
defaulter,'' while Sir Robert retorted by declaring
that Lord If untly wee " a d—d liar." Miro may
be excuses suggested for one or both tbees gentleman;
eufficient excuse for holding such language to each
other in public there cannot be; end the Committee
of the Club have taken the only coma* adequate to
the oceadon, and one which will exercise a most
salutary Influence upon the manners and language of
club We.

The gossips have another subject about which they
are much exercised just now. It is noticed that the
Prince of Wales was not at the Grand Windsor
Banquet given when the Crown Prince and Princess
of Dermanv came over here, and which was 'iv..
Partly in honour of them, partly to signalise the
bethrothal of the Duke of Connaught It is wanted
that this eery marked omission 1. dne to the Royal
displeasure at the Prince's very friendly remarks
about France when hewn. in Paris. Equally strongly
marked is the omimion of Mr. Gladvtone's name from
met of the Court festivities (it appeared in the State
Rail list) Here. main, the absence is smumed to be
'lee to Royal displeasure, which, great before. has
been greater still since the ex•Preinier declared that
that elaborate manifesto in behalf of the Royal Orson
-
rule. which &wears in the Qua, terly Remito, ought
to he burnt by the c mutton hangman. One of the
Society joornals ears thst the Queen mint Lord
Beaconsfield a huge salmon for hia State banquet last
Saturday. So to the Premier the Queen gives salmon;
to the ex-Premier the cold shoulder.

The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany are
making a prolonged stay in this country, and dined
at Lord Besconetield'e on Ssturday. So much the
bettor. They have been labouring hard for peace.
The Prin., than whom England has no better friend,
came here to communicate the views of his father
upon the Eastern Question, and it is understood that
those view, were by no means entirely favourable to
England. He, it is believed, warned our Premier
that the Emperor William would not be able to see
with indifference his nephew. the Ow, seriously
jeopardised. The Prince is supposed to hays strongly
deprecated the breaking out of hostilities upon • mere
riece of diplomatic etiquette. Upon both sides be
has urged conciliation awl conwsion. In this he hes
been aided by his wife. Our Princess Royal ham great
Influence with her husband —an influence derived
from her high character and great abilities. We
English people owe her much for mitigating the
Wadi!, feeling which prevailed in the highest quarter..
All the while England's sovereign remains secluded in
the distant solitudes of the Highlands, England's
ministers have to meet daily in consultation, and. It
I. preaumel, there to prepare despatchee awl make
momentous decisions, with all of which Queen Victoria
expects to be made acquainted. The telegraph must
be kept pretty vigorously at work. All the Cabinet
Ministers remain in town; not one is at Balmoral.

An ocean steamer arrived at Queenstown, from
New York, the other day, just at the time when the
anticipation of war between England and Roads was
at its highest. Among the passenger. were several
Americans. and two English officers. who had been on
a tour in the United States. The moment the pilot
came on hoard, he was eurrounded by the American
passenger., eager for the latest new, and the latest
newspaper. wild with excitement about the war
prospect& About a quarter of •in hour later one of
thee* Englishmen asked if the pilot had brought any
news. 'That," said this American, when he narrated
the story, "is a type of English coolness. The future of
these two men most probably depended on the news
from England, and there they were an composedly in.
different as if the idea of England and war had never
been usociated."

Just as the microscope increases the apparent miss
of objects, so the instrument called a microphone, and
which has just been invented by Professor Hughes,
intensifies sound and transmits it, so that it may be
heard at a great distance. The sound made by brush.
log a camel's-hair paint-brush over smooth wood, nay,
even the march of a fly over the same surface, may,
by this instrument, be made distinctly audible
although under ordinary circumstances such sounds
ari of course inaudible. "The beating of a pulse, the
tick of a watch, the tramp of a fly, can thus be heard
at least 100 miles distant from the scourc• of sound."
Theo, marvels are effected by a few pieces of charcoal
arranged in a peculiar manner and connected with an
electric battery, so that according to Nature it is
possible to transmit clear and intelligent articulate
speech and to render the inaudible audible by the
mere impact of sound wares upon matter along which
an electric current Is flowing.

Consisteacy may or may not be a virtue, says the
Kraemer but there ought at any rate to be certain
limits of decorum to change of opinion however
conscientious. It J 6 matter of record how, when Mr.
Gladstone was in power and wee occupied in the task
.4 diaeetablishing the Irish Church, the Daily reie-
oropit - to use a familiar phrase—" wrote him up."
No praise was then too lavish for him; no adjectives
too hyrbolical. Indeed, as a matter of fact, the
Pindarica with which the Daily Telegraph overwhelmed !
Its hero did both Mr. Gladstone and his administra-
Son more harm than good. The British public has a
wholesome dislike of bunkum, and the bunkum of
the Daily Tclevayh passed all ordinary hounds. It
now, however, on calm reflection is inclined to the
.ipinion that Mr. Gladstone Is a very ascend-rate
statesman indeed, and not at all to be compared with
Midhat Psalm. The latter, we are told, is • statesman
of a "calm. unimpaesione I, and thoughtful type.'
Mr. Gladstone, on the contrary, is given to "heated
and declamatory onslaught." If he writes an article I
"it burns from end to end with the fiercest fires of
controversy ;" he "appeal. to prejudice,;" and I
although " towards the close of his article" ln the
current number of the Niaefeesith Como., he becomes
I • little law violent, narrow, and unfair," yet "the
; glimpses of candour do not compensate for the
venomous commentaries on India and her relation to
England, which seem inspired by the very spirit of
I iernagogism' There may he doubts, perhaps, as to
Mr. Gladstone's ability; there can be none as to his
sincerity. The attack which it pleases the Daily Tele-
grapeto make upon him is simply indecent. 'noes
who doubt this cannot do better than refer to • certain
memorable article written on the occasion when Mr.
Gledatone, driving down to the House on the first dan
of the Session in which he disestablished the Irish
Church, wee cheered by the crowd. "It may have
been well to diestimble your love, but why did you
kick me downstairs." Unfortunately, in Its sudden
enthusiasm for Turkey. for Midhat Puha, and for
Jingoism, the Daily Teeprepa finds itself unequal to
the teak of dissembling its love with due decorum.

A discussion is at propene going on in the columns
of the Manchester Guardian with regard to the
adequacy of the allowance of 6.1. a day greeted to the
wires of the Army Reserve. Replying to the arnertion
of • correspondent that It is impossible to live on rash
a rum, " Hotel Keeper writes :—I keep one of the
largest hotels in Manchester, and, having bad °oration
to reprimand my servants on the waste continually
goke on day by day, I took oorsaioe to remark that
It would do them good to live on 6d. a day end earn
It. One of my loyal band answered, "I should like
to see you do it, sir." "Would your I replied;
"you shall. Th• next morning I commesoid. My
breakfast consisted of tea, milk, and bread sad butter;
my dinner, fish, potatoes, and bread; my tea, as at
breakfast, except that I bad buttered toast, =don two
oocasions during the week an egg. Twice during the weak
I had three ounces of meat for my dinner, and at the
end of the seventh day I had only spent 3s. 3d. thus
having to the good 3d. Of ooureel bad nothing to
drink 'trailer than tea, and no cigar at night—the
only thing I rov•gted. But I assure you, air, I never
felt better at the end of • week than when I lived on
eld. a day.