The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-07 00:00:00

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•;OTE:i OF THE WEEK

Sir loniser wittts to a noc..sical con-
tenaporerj , tLe moat COD-
traiceti, tlicrepl:t *Fri' her Miirsity's recent
i) ~,l 1 re.T3cc:ls.
Roe The r his lc —lth :iv:eh • ,Ffsztiott
that the Queen 13 convalc,ceut, being able on
Sunday, for the ti.st thou oince her stay at
Balmoral, to canoe downstairs to dinner with
her falsity. tier Majesiy is expected to cetera
to tVinilsor about the cud of the month.
parliament bee bees further proroeued to
Wednes • the lri'th of Dr :•amber next. It is
rumoured a othai .m. 4 that it will a unable
at the eiel of Jalas.j.
The Royal Wa .aut has beau issued this week,
consume wag the abolition of purchase in the
army. If, as tau Tine,. niailtaius, all considera-
tion of Cie advaistaes of a system of purchase
have
pea,,ed sway, and the country has been con-
winced that whatever co .ateral advau...ages belong
toil, a is boonapatioie w.th the org.,nisition
now required for national defunce—:f, we say,
there is really this incampatibil'tY, the officers
of the aray will soon samit 1., and will settle
dowu without prejudice to the study of the
cliali.;es that conte kite existence tinier this
War.-aut, which is dived Oc ober 30,
After a week's consideration, there is • wide-
eprea 1 feeling that Mt. (:hailstone is by no means
a Fife man as regs-ds the maintenance of the
hersocittacy. preciph3 in the Howie of Lor..
. _ _ .

71;:efore:" 110 st.d, "I a4cee, and before 1
Ir't SUir I 1 cipaitv, Lain the !Ivo ,tv of Lords
the heredity principle, 1 wlk thnik once, 1
wI t biuk twic.3, Iwin oven tb;ni. tur,ce." 1111
is very Gladstunian, awl it it equilEy charac-'
ternit;c of the n:ght hon. geutleinin to " think'

with very great -rapidity.
-
It is said that among the measures the Cabi-
net are cousideriug is one for sicaplifyilg aud
cheapening considerably the system of Perri.-
mentary procedure with reference to what are
called local and p,:vale Bil's.
It has t sen discovered, with some alarm, that
the little volume of irseti/ from which Mr.
Gladstone i his Greenwich speech qii.od •
verso with the refrain • • save yourselves." is
•• The Socuralists' Wirer' of Songs and Cere-
monies," which 's direced not niare4 to the
negation, but to the blesphernoes ridicule of
the Liety and of all forms of rolig on which
have the Bible for their ba•is. Yet the Premier
applauds the "good senses' of some of the verses
ie the volume, though he is coustraiued to say
its contents are "questionable." Such a halting
commentary on the creed awl hymn book of
the National Secular Society, is not re-assuring.
We should say that this hymn book is un-
questiouisbly vile ; and, if refei:ed to at
all, it rhould have been uncompromisingly
condemned. The burden of the verres iii the,
cAlectiou is that working men are shamefully ill
used by those above them; that reliion is only
a dodge of the upper cl -toes tor set vs) their own
ends; and that, if the people desire t I be better
elf, they most assert the milht of numbers, and
help themselves to whatever they want. This
is the obvious meaning of the parody on the
National A uthem of which Mr. Gladstone quoted
the first verse, which he said contained " much
good sense.- 'rho succoodiu.; verses ',Joist that
the people a7o rlundered by employers and land-
lords ; that the aristocrats must be made to
support themselves by their owa labour, imply-
ing, of course, that their other tesources wII
be taken from them ; and that it is f ott the
working o'itsses to take matters into their own
hawk, and "save themselves." An " Address
to the Upper Classes" assorts that their houses
and lands are held by "direct fraud," and belong
properly to the people, who will hereafter rise
and redre's their wrongs.

We hive leArnt tha .tartllttx
It wo witl, we oan b, free,

is the refraia..of another piece, Lsgioning

. _
" Ts:ants uall ; and there is no room for
doubt as to the kiud of freedom aHiod at, and
the run of liberties which l• the people" are
inelted to take with other people's property.
While the political philosophy of ttte Secular et
hymnal is of 'till noitioos ned dangerous
charazter, the blasphemous riballry of some of
the piecca relatiui to religion dotios qu..tation.
A verse from the " Now Doxology' u this
volume w!li, however, i 'licit° its .If.tulous
charaJter

Prai w C•nt, from which our riclies 113 w !
Prom I, yo "olm,cs" hora boIu!
Prnico al, yo nob,- —• mighty 4,c:on !
Praim Enthcr. Soo, sod Holy G.104t !

It is quite iticoucoivable, says tho itetr,fa
Krvv, tt auy other public mm u should have
marred tho oiled of a prudent old modorste
speech by wantouiy goiug out of his way to
a Iva irige VI obscure book of the most mischie-
vous Atka otiouiiva charr.cter. •

'lie Republican agitators of London have
resumed work for the soision. I bey had a
mooting at the Cannon-street note! on Friday
evening, caned "a conference of represantaavo
woraiug men," to pima° too itoparatiou of
Cdurch and State, at which • coin n'ttse W 94
appointed to cat:y out the object. No doubt
operatians will be about at tu.cestful
have their efforts to obtain nal.ional cultivation
of waste lauds, direct representation of labon •
in Parliament, the aPianoe of Conservative
pearl for socialistic purposes, and nutnerottaothee
objectt upon whion they have set tueir minds
from time t time under one name or another.
k,:eat Tiohburne We is to be resumed to-
day, and if it goes on in the old fashion, good-
ness knows when it will end. It should have
begun on toe 9th of May, but for the cl!iliculty
of get.ing a special ju y togetner ; it ao.ually
commenced on the lite, and the c'aimant was
cslled into the box on the ;;Oth. rho croft-ex-
amination began on the '2,1,1 of J une, and las;ed
until the licit of J ily Of courae, hia was the
piece ds rc,istancc of the (-tut ; but at,ll them
are scores of witnesses to be examined if the trial
goes on as was at first arranged. and we must
not be aurprised if there is another adjournment
over Christmas.

The Lon,lou School Board ha, at last settled
the troublosoum question of psymont of sehool
foes for a ye sr, by the adoption of a tomproullse.
The paymeot of foos for parents out of the
Board's fonds is to bo ii exeeptional is possible
—this all desire—anl each case is to ba brought
separately before the riJard, and ba judged on
its own msrits la this manuor it nal soon be
seta what mason there is to give serious atten-
tion to the outcry against payment out of rates
of foes to donommational sehoolt

The loss of soother oi tho l'ouinsular and
Oriental Swain Navigation Company's splendid
steamers is a great misfortune, and, Imo the
recent Admiralty accidents, the dis..ster is inex-
plicable. The rook on which tile 1:a tgonn
struck is just outside Gallo Urban r, and is per-
fectly welt kuowa. A pilot was on ui,rd, yet
the vessel, worth 1:78,00J, and her cargo are
lost. ilisppily six hoes lutervoutl before the
vessel sank, and all the pS!SdUOI and part or
the ins,' were saved.

In the Iluuapar.ist journal L'Utdre currency
isgiven to a rumour that Upon the flee. .ig of tho
Preach Arieusbly at Versaiiles M. Taws will
resign office on tho 6.:ound of hi age aid i
tirw-
tiou, aud ,the Duke of Auurile be brought for-
ward all President of the Republic.

Inferenc2s upon taistworthy promises do
certainly ofton lo 1 men wildly astray, bet no
ono will caro to give himself much thought about
the pot ilblo early outbreak of war b.euo tho
German Govornment resolves t., lock up in a
military chest a cash reser. o of ai x millions ster-
ling. Financiers have a shrewd way of raading
motives, however, that msy well cause qaiet folk
to open toot,. eyes with aurazament. Whst does
looking likr the money mean they ark. The
German explanation is thst tho along lAA by is
to rive a • writi ze in raising lln Is on ..ay iii,lileu
anumincoueut of war. But suppose time worst
cans° to the worst, it would uot ci.st i;crmuluy
wore than ii, nation per cant, on
the value ot time stock, to raise six &lions in
cash on asy emergency. Tuo toA of interest i
three years on six milhiurs sterling locked up
would I 3 more than that amount and thus the
startling question—Does the Garman Govern-
ment actually c,utowplatoauOw war within thAt

'fut. new Spanish fiovetamont is silos .1g i#9elf
anything but favourable C3loir J. The
Minister of Ftuauco btu, proposed to the Cortes—
alld a counnittco has approved of to proposal
—t<, levy a Likx of no kin than 18 per cont. on
the ,:oupous ut the pub:ic debt; in other wonh,
to rob thu publtc cretittar of tuora thou oho-sista
of his property. The scheme hut been de-
nounce/ in tue boucten Stock Exchange as one
of the grossest broaches of feith ever te,:ot dud ii
the auuala of tipsuein tins/ice, ludas they are a
trickery and evasion.