The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-30 00:00:00

Beret en* Express.

DOROMMIETZE. SEPTEMBER MB. IBM

DOttli•

fere is a signifies-A article in last Thursday's
Tunes, the sistematte in which abottld be mad* knows
to Dorset Ijokansiters. In the course of his remarks
the writer says .—" Perhaps it le not • much to whole-
'ale ebonies al to smaller rebate that fanners will
tars is their present extremity; sod eons, of these
may be foaled be aa estate' in of practices already is
vogue is the bad for tertian localities. Thus • South
Berkshire oorrespeadeot of the Agricultural Gszette
points out bow well the undulating lased with sandy
noises of met eia districts is edepted for the remise
of early lambs from Dorset breed ewes, the lead
befog always warm and dry on ths surface, sod for
ties most part 'haltered by timber and woodlands,
so useful hi the rearing of early lambs. And be
add" this pertiseut remark It is to be remembered
that them satly lambs sufi er lege from foreign oorope-
Mks than dam most other stook rodeos' The great
sennel mart for Somerset sad Dorset born ewes is
Powldbury Fair, to be held at Dorchester oe Idoaday."
If our Dorset sheep elsould go into another pert of
Itaglend, breeders will not need to be told • revolntioa
In the trade will be effected. There were many
" etrataters " at our great fele to lay. but wisithey
they Weeded in moose, to the suggestion of the
wits, we have quoted we have not yet learnt.

Mr. Gladstooe's speech at Perth may be [weeded
as the most serious political erect within living
mammy. During hie Sootoh progrees—f or so it may
be more appropriately described than as a campaign—
the Premier displayed extreme oration in hie refer.
sass' to the House of Lard' until the lad moment.
It was ." ...Al his Perth °ratios that the Hones
of Peers were gives to %mainland that they must
either give way upon the Redistribution Qoiset; ,-a or
see the Liberal Oabinet oommltted to a d.diaot
policy of revolutioa. It is hardly possible for Mr.
Dledstoae to withdraw from the position he has no
&nib& reluetautly assumed. It is hardly creditable
that the Pll4llll grill yield. Rum Lord Cowper, who
is doing his best to eat as mediator, seems almost to
despair of avoiding a orisis. It is hardly doubted now
that the retention or abolitiou of the Upper Chamber
will have to be decided twos. aye or nay, by the
nation, and that at. very early date. The Woes are
more micas thee either party imagines. lii. the mkt.
formes of " politke by public meetings " that each
side sees oaly its own strength. It may be said, for
exempt', that IdEr. Gladstone Is taking too much for
granted In painting to the manifest opinion of the
large majority of Sootahmen as absolutely o adage'
of the views of the masses. We may be ocrisidered
rank alarmist, for the muesli ans. but we think that
a revolution witlait overthrows an Rotate of the Realm
mutat even in these days be altogether pima& I.

Want home affairs ars so threatening, the outlook
abroad le Mallen!, tuiplasteant We bare now only
the thin and almost impalpsble fiction of the
Khedive's authority steadies bet ;me our policy and
the awry protest of the gre ' Power.. A spark
might in gm present cal ,ric c 'edition of the 0 'otiose-
tat atmosphere kindle • bugs European nfl wration.
It is to be feared that In Franoe • wu modest us, par-
ticularly • naval war, would be popular ; and for more
thee one reason it is Prime Bisouirk's policy ti foment
the existing in-feeling.

Nothing happens abroad erdliont an Englishman
Wag in It In ate way or another. It there le • war,
there are always English volunteers on one side or
both. It Is the same with pestilesos and f mm. al
with war. If • famine befalls there iv immedistdy
• relief expedition as well as • relief comm,tte3 and
fund. If a pestilanos occurs, the Brit la most be on
the splt. The Mansion House Fond for the benefit
of tbe Nespllltan solemn is not more char.cteristio
of our country than the dip erture foe Naples of • bind
of young medical men. together with other philso-
thropismanded persons for the express purpose of
studying the °holm& epidernio and doing what is
poseible to promote more favourable hygienic o
dittoes la the slums of the stricken city.

Toe natal crop of c/a:empire ocamisitura is ripening
for the approashing term of Use Lsw ()port.. The
'writable Mr. Labottchare, the very ealamander of
lawnnifs, is up, as ovoid, for libel, Bishop, the
thought-reader, being the plaintiff. Then there le
tbe throw& ore, to which hike Forteseue, alias
Flow, seessees the damage to her affections at no
light gum. After many attempt" it compromise, the
mitt, to omits on, and there will be • long exposure
of the reaeose for Lwd Garisoyle, nodes parental
preeenre, wlthdrawiag from the engagement. Those
who like that kind of readlog are promlni I • O. 'oty
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