The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-26 00:00:00

NEW YEAR.

NOT IN OF TUE WEEK.

Her Majesty is expected to leave Windsor for
Osborne about Thursday next, but the children
of the Prince and Princess of Wales will stay at
the Castle to meet their Royal parents.

The Prince of Wales continues to make
satisfactory progress. His mental powers
we learn, are recovering their full strength, and
his oonvaleacenoe advances. When his Royal
Highness's health will permit, he will, it is
understood, proceed to Windsor Castle. it is
rumoured that Dr. Gull will be made a baronet,
and Dr. Low a knight, in recognition of their
medical services to the Royal patient.
At the Council held by the Queen, at Windsor,
on Thursday, Parliament was further prorouged
to the 6th of February, thou to meet for the
despatch of business. The commencemeut of
the session of 1872 will see some changes in both
Houses of Parliament. Mr. Chas. Buxton,
M.P. for East Surrey, died just before the pro
rogation, and on the 24th of August Mr. D.
Watney, jun., was elected after a cmteat with
Mr. Leveson-Gower. On the 30th of August
it was announced that Ciptain Vivian had boon
appointed Permanent Under-Secretary for War,
and the seat for Truro became vacant. Colonel
Hogg, chairman of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, was elected after a contest with Mr.
Jenkins. Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P. for Limerick,
died on the 30th of August. The nomination
took place on the 20th of September, when Mr.
Isaac Butt, Q. C., was elected without opposition.
In November, Sir Robert P. Collier, having
been appointed a judge of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, and thence transferred to the
Judicial Committee of Privy Council, Mr. Bates
was elected for Plymouth, after a contest with
Mr. Rooker. Consequent upon the legal
changes, Mr. Jesse', who was appointed
Solicitor-General, sought re-election for Dover,
and was returned after a contest with Mr.
Barnett. Mr. G. Loch will retire from the
representation of the Wick Burghs at the com-
mencement of the session. Mr. Denison, tits
Speaker, will resign his seat for the northern
division of Nottinghamshire. Mr. Tollemaehe
will resign his seat for West Cheshire. In the
House of Lords, Lord Dufferin, Chaucollor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, will take his seat as an
Earl. Lord Ohurston dioi ou the 4th of Sep-
tember, and is succeeded by his grandson,
Captain Buller, of the Scots Fusilier Guards.
Sir Fredk. Rogers, who has been raised to the
Peerage, will take his seat ; and the Right
Hon. J. E. Deuisoa will be elevated to the
Peerage on his resiguatiou of the Spe ikership of
the Llouno Of CuUIIIIULL4. Teo Earl of Chester-
field, who died a few days since, is sucaeeded by
his cousin, Mr. George Philip Stauhope, the
only surviving sou of tho late Captain George
Stanhope, of the 20th Regiment of Foot. The
Earl of Ellenborough died lost Friday morn-
ing, and his place is tilled by Mr. Charles Ed-
mund Law, son of tho late Hon. C. E. LAW,
Q.C., M.P. for Cambridge University, and
Recorder of Loudon.
It is stated that several religious denomina-
tions intend strengthening the hands of Mr.
Richard, M.P. in respect to his motion for
international arbitration. The aspect of Europe,
it must be confessed, is not very encouraging.
Italy is extending her armaments at a ruinous
rate to meet possible dangers on the side of
France. France hersel, under the auspices of
President Thiers, proposes to have under arms
800,000 men, fed by yearly contingents twice as
large as wore thought necessary under the
Empire. And now Germany, resolved to be
doubly safe against her late foe, is still further

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augmenting her military forces.
The report is revived that M. de Lesseps is
engaged on a scheme for procuring the purchase*
of the Sear Canal by foreign Powers. There is
little doubt that the ultimate transfer of the
canal has ever been present to the minds of its
promoters, and it has boon considered that 11,3
objection would be raised by England to the
European Powers acquiring a joint ownership.
The Times, however, .thinks that no moment
could be more inopportune than the present for
bringing the various European States face to
Lace in an attitude which could not but have
something of rivalry. It would be to create
gratuitously another Eastern Question—a thing
which British statesmen will instinctively avoid
It would be well, says the leading journal, for
the Suez Canal promoters, or any others, to
understand once for all that England will not be
easily brought to take upon herself responsi-
bilities, pecuniary and political, through fear of
other Powers acquiring further influence in the
East.

The first act in the Tichborne trial ia over,
and the public will have to wait until the 15th of
January before the aeoond opens. The
claimant's case closed on Tourslay, and there
wore unmistakeable manifestations of satisfaction
when Mr. Serjeant liallantine made the an-
nouncement.

At a reoent meeting in Loudon, to discuss
the question of our reserve food supplies in the
rraoniai, and to promote the popularization of
tinned Australian meats, it was mentioned by
Mr. K Wilson that in the Awitralian and New
Zealand oolonies there are at the present time
about 60,000,000 sheep and 5,300,000 cattle.
It is calculated that one-fourth of this enormous
aggregate should be available 'annually as sur-
plus stock, to be slain for food. This, at 59lba
weight per sheep and 700 lbs per bullock, would
give about 750,000 tons weight of animal food.
this were disposed of in England at 61. per
lb, it would represent a trade of nearly
42,000,0001. sterling. Yet, fabulous as these
figures may seem, this vast supply would only
represent about 11lb. of moat per head per week
of the population of the United Kingdom.
It is proposed to the people—and the people
include Mr. Ruskin—that they should Lob.
scribe to a fund for the restoration of Warwick
Castle, and the author of "The Stouea of
Venice" replies, lam an old and thorough bred
Tory, and as such I say, 'lf a noble family
cannot rebuild their own castle, in God's name
let them live in the nearest ditch till they taw '
This is a rather coarse way of putting what is
probably the general view with reference to the
proposed subscription. But a neater suggestion
Is, that if money is to pus, if the somewhat
antiquated principle of it,,U,s.te oblige does not
Impel Lord Warwick in the direction referred to
Mr. Ruskin, why not let um buy the historicAl
ruin as we have bought the Peel pictures and
the Elgin Marbles, or lease it, as Rochester
Castle has been leased I If our nobles won't go
to the ditch—as the Colonnas have done at
Rouse, rather than take a lira even for the oust
of the attendance in the wholly gratuitous ex-
hibition of their splendid gallery, why st,ould
they noun such a ease sell to the nation the
fragment+ of its history—a sale which would be
hououxable on both sides