The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-10 00:00:00

CHAT FROM MAIPAIII.

Lord Colin Campbell has I hear, deprived the
House of Lords of • new recruit. Had Mr. Malcolm
younger, of Poltalloch, carried Argyleshire, his
venerable father would have got the peerage he was
promised. Still as Po'talloch bee give& up • wife seat
at Boston, and lost about £17,000 over his campaign,
un,lese the Argyleshire landlords subscribe handsomely,
something ought to be done for him by the Govern-
ment, He has been shabbily mislaid.
A great deal of Ingenuity has been wasted in trying
to account for Lord C lin'e victory. It le simply •
protest on the pert of the farmer, against the dosninn.
tion ot "the !Abdo" and the parochial clergy. The
fact of his being the duke's son would have bees fatal
to him had it not been that the p °pl., though they
love not the Mao-Callum Mohr, have • still stronger
antipathy to the " Junker party," or squirearchy of
the county.

Tbe new member for Argyleshim ham won not •
family but a personal vim°, F. His extreme youth, his
handaoms Noe, gallant bowing, and graceful manners
went straight to the Highland heart. A. • smart,
clam, incisive speaker, too, he made • great impres-
sion Until his first address at Dunoon, the wire-
puller, looked upon his attempt to stand spinet
Poltalloch as Quixotic madness. But after that they
went about saying to each other—" Dod miss, the
laddle can f •emi. We can gar him gis Poltallech a
fieg on way." Poor PololloPti had no chance with
Lord Colin when it cam* to tongue-fence.

The mostoorious thing about the Argyleshireelection
Is the extraordinary interest women have taken in it.
All over the country Lord Colin was the favorite of
the ladies, who 11,icked to his meetings In such numbers
that the agents, unaccustomed to demonstrations of
the kind, did not know what to think of them. They
say it was the pretence of ladies in strong force at the
Liberal meetings that rendered them so mach more
ieoarous than some of thole held by the Tories. In
all the coast towns of Argyleshire Lord Colin's colours
formed an indispensable portion of female frippery.
Travelling from Thames Ditton to Waterloo last
Tardily I witnessed an amusing incident. Into a
smoking carriage stopped two young ladies, much to
the diarist of the same number of gentlemen, who
were enjoying " Wonder why ladies well
get into s "_
_growled Senor Major, in
an undettone to Senor Minor, making his voice
distinctly audible throughout to everyone in the
carriage. 841001 Minor replied in audible aside that
'it was really a shame, you know." Here • clear,
I bell•like voice made both
_gentlemen look round at
their fair neighbours. "Will you have one!" said a
pair of laughing brown to • pair of dancing black eyes,
handing at the same ,moment to her via d via a Li&
putian morocco cigar case. In another instant two
small dainty cigars—not cigarettes' but "al bun"
tisare—were reposing between two pairs of ripe red
lips. and Sense Major and Minor had collapsed.
Her Majesty's Government are, I know, not above
i receiving Mote calculated to smooth the way for
mabitaining their majority at the General Election.
Here's one that has more in it than meets the eye.
I Let them, without farther delay, remove the wreck
of the Vanguard. I met the other day a sturdy fisher-
I man of Kinsale, whose political liaison is Halted by
the bearings of this wreck. He told me that the
, fishermen, not only of the east coma of Ireland, but
' of the Isle of Man and Lancashire comas, are Indebted
to the Vanguard for the loss of miles and miles of
their nets. The wreck See in the middle of the fishing
ground, and the nets drifting down on it are torn to
shreds. My friend was inclined to take a favourable
• view of the Ministerial policy on the Eastern Quai-
-1 than. But neither he nor thousands of his companions
can support a Government responsible fur the non-
' removal of the wreck of the Vanguard.

"W. came bare to occupy Bosnia," observed
General Philiffovitch, the day attar the cpeore of
Serajero, "and now Bosnia is occupying us.
The Gorman police are dealing vigorously with
"simpocted" Soo6line. Since the first of Juno more
than • thousand years' imprisonment hare been in-
cted upon those unfortunate mon, women, and even
children, who have been incan loan enough to ha their
tongues run away in their heads.

The fashionable West Ned Club, which from being
an interesting soda experiment has become • practical
swedes, id a very interesting place to ',Wt. But I
should like to know whereunto that door leads,
situated near the billiard-room upstairs, which never
opens save by • signal known to the initiated, end
then only from as sea& It likewise struck me as
that several doors in the u corridor should
=lee " Keeled," like the forestalled oarrtailes
I al aim Isola swam