The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-07 00:00:00

brat Gull' Expaso.

DOROMINTKII, IL&ROH 704 ail

TM bright side of the dark event, which occurred
last Thursday afternoon, and which has thrilled the
hearts ei all loyal and order-loviar Bogliehmen, is. an
was remarked by • rev. gentleman yesterday, in a
disamee full of esasesiose of deepest sympathy and
thew* to Queen Victoria, that it has tended to awaken
nal merely thread a:pregame of oondoleaoe and MS.
ladies at her ilajeay's providemial escape. but,
however tbe country may oongratulate Mat that
another miserable attempt to Mks the life of our good
Qom& hat failed, the congratulasions and joy it her
malts 611, almost mit-mitthed by the dreaded fact that
these nakappy attempts oa the lives of eovereigas are
so isiereadegly inquiet in occurrence, and by feels
aid aeleglviap as to thetas:a. The future, bower,
▪ In higher haads aid that our good Queen may be
preserved from the fell Ithad of the aissamo, to mercies
• good aid wise Witham In the altars of the nation,
Is, we are sure, the earoess prayer of ad. In Dor-
chester, as in every other town in Kaglaad, hare the
eapraniom of loyalty and sympathy been most
&Misdeal, special thankagiving bang glad In tug
various churches, and in multifarious ways were
the deep feelings a gratitude and the. hi alma
*rimed. And nut ugly is this the saes in hag
laid, and an every quarter of the Pritisa Empire,
bat In every civilised nation in the world.
It Is en snob oasis's* al these—fraught with
seek danger, had assapthied tiy the midst
memorier—that the worth of a sovemien is rightly
oistionsed, anal from the epiotemeone oUtherai of
tam end genuine loathe whim hae now beau evoked,
we can web aid truly judge of ta• desp-asami lore
mid teeirsOi within all mums of the community, and
all parties, divided though they be un most other
matter% beer towards the Qoallea. On farms sbnalar
momiess, when der Ileittety4 We hes been in danger,
she has bees pemerved usseathed, and in the closing
rare of her Meg and useful liis, her loyal subjeote can
only pray, In the words of the preacher above referred
to, that'• Teo Ws which has tam spared to no, may
still be devoted to the maims of Him who gave it, and
to tbe wathre of the people committed to her castes."

The magic of See words " Odds! Enquiry" will
timbales. induos our fellow-townsmen to fondly believe
fast the iodises subject of the Drainage Scheme will
be .deemed use more stage towarde Nut
happy and expensive period when the real work will
bine to be done. To each sucoessive Mayor who has
grated the civic chair, the accomplihment of an
improved system of drainage has been the foundation
end groundwork of all his good promises on the day of
aleotios, but one and all have been hindered by the
leinistamies attendant on each stags of progress.
The bat, arid perhaps the most serious of all obstacles,
has bow the aoquirement of land, but it is to aid our
ganektipal leaders in this matter that the forthooming
enquiry is to be held, aid it is to smooth away this
ressaising difficulty, that the providential provisions
of the Land, Olauses Llowtolidation Act will be put in
faros. And so, in good time, Dorchester may moon.
able expect to have her new Drainage Scheme, and—
to pay for it.

The Earl of Rombery is credited with haring in
bend • Bill for the reform of local government in
Scotland, and it has oozed out amongst the publicans
that amongst other questions the Licensing Laws of
Worth Britain are intended to receive moditcation.
When the English County Government Bid opines
forward, if indeed in these degenerate days it is
possible lorf • useful piece of legislation to receive
attention when it. scope is not limited to Ireland, no
doubt Sir Wilfrid Lawson will endeavour to graft the
principles of Local Option upon it, Indeed, the in ire
we know of the County Government Bill, the more
formidable proportions it presents. It is to deed with
• east number of subject., and the number is increm-
ing, so that it is in danger of hemming a convenient
zoosptacla for postponed legidadon. It will certainly
awe an astonishing political and social revolution, if
Ii mead in anything like the shape intended by the
Government.