The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-10-16 00:00:00

THE WAR.
[AHD SALMI:TIT ON THI WAIL

In the course of his address at Bradford, on
Thursday, the Marquis of Salisbury said mean
that horrible war, and the negotiation which preceded
it. I won't speak —this is not the place to speak—of
the conduct of the Government. I will only claim for
us this, that if you Ray our action on thin or that
occasion was fruitless, and came to no result, at least,
it wan a testimony of the intense desire which we felt
that peace should be preserved, and our readiness to
make any exertions, and to undergo the ridicule of
any failure, rather than any chance should be left
untried for that preservation of peace. (Loud cheers.)
In the future undoubtedly the picscpest is not at
present promising. in one respect I think our
prospect. are better than they were—l mean in that I
respect whi h concerns this country, especially in its
own .elfish interests. We ale not an ambitious
country, and therefore our only danger of war is when
we think our security is menaced, and we entertain
apprehensions, and the only real peril of war that
threatens us—our greatest peril—is when these appre-
hensions are unduly excited by dangern which do not
exist. (Cheers.) Now, over the whole of thin country
for some time past I think a very exaggerated view
has been entertained of the aggressive power of Russia
—(hear, hear) —and that exaggerated feeling has
operated both in that country and in England to
prisoire apprehenei ~,, s and inditiati•Ms to military
action which otherwise would never have been felt. I
regard it as a great gain for the cause of peace in this
country that any overweening or excessive impression
of the aggressive p mer of Rusiiia has been, I hope, for
ever dissipated from the minds of Englishmen. (loud
cheers.) For the rest no man can predict wheth.r an
early peace or a protracted war awaits us. Until
exhaustion net, in, I don't myself believe in the
prollability id a drawn battle—a drawn war—for the
fortunes of war no man can prophesy ; but after all
apecnlati.ina of this kind are very valueless, and they
lead to no result. What I can aware you is, that the
anxiety you feel for peace is intensely shared by the
Government of the Queen, and that no efforts will be
wanting on our part whenever an opportunity suit-
able for obtaining the object shall present itself ,if
restoring the blessings of peace and repose to the
most sorely-tried regions of the world. (l 'beers.)
XID3.

RI`SMIAS

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Preparations are being made for an early movement
on the part of the Turks at Chipka. Deserters from
the enemy's camp describe the Russians in and around
Fort Nicholas as being in a deplorable state from want
of food and cold. Fine weather continues.

COLONEL MORGAN, M.P., ON THC WAR.
Colonel the Him. F. C. Morgan, M.P., speaking at
the Monmouth agricultural dinner, iin Thursday,
referred to the war in the Rant, and said his sympa-
thies were on the side of Turkey. He detested a big
bully like Russia, and was quite convinced that the
Chnstian pretences id the northern Colossus were
utterly hollow and hypocritical. Turkey was making
• gallant struggle against the aggressive invader who
had continually threatened the peace of Europe.
Nevertheless he was aware that the Ottoman power
was not altogether blameless, but that did not jastify
the covetous and unholy war which Russia had
provoked.

CORRESPONDENTS AT TIIT NEAT OF WAR.
A Bucharest telegram in the Standard says :
Several correspondents, both English and Russian,
have been ins ited to leave the army lest a worse fate
betel them. Out of the 60 who were there at one time
only two remain. The state f the army is such that
the authorities will have it kept secret at any cost.
The indignation of the army of Plevna against all the
authorities is becoming very dangerous.
Lord Bury, speaking at Christ Church on Thursday,
argued that Mr. Gladstone was responsible for the
war.
DISEASE.

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Mb. Nuon.,Point at Wind. State of Weather.
! Night.

Oct. •
8 59 36 N & NI? Cloudy
9 54 113 , 2I IL NE Fine
10 i 53 44 . N& W Gloomy, rein
11 55 4311&NW Cl-udy
13 165 46 2IW Fine, rain
13 56 1 46 j W Cloudy
14 , 68 • 47 ' $ Fine

A. ARTILLERTYAN lB TROUBLE.-At the Borough
Petty Sessions on Monday (yesterday) before the
Mayor (Alderman Lock), Mr. 3. F. Hodges, Mr. M.
Devenish, awl Dr. Aldridge. —James Irwin, a private
of the artillery, was charged with being drunk and
disorderly and assaulting the police.--P.C. Carter
on Sunday night last, about quarter past ten, saw
the prisoner stnpped. and offering to fight any man or
soldier in Dorchester. There was a crowd of people,
and a corporal and two other soldiers were trying to
get him away. Prisoner kept striking them with his
whip, and when the constable went up they left him.
Carter told him to go away, upon which the prisoner
up with his whip and struck him across the back part
of the head. He closed with him, and took the whip
away from him. With a great number of oaths the
prisoner said no man in Dorchester should take him
there, and struck him by the ride of the head with his
fist, threatening to do for him. With the assistance
of the corporal he took him to the station awl Irked
him up. He was very violent all the way. Prisoner
admitted the offence. It was the I kink that did it.

There isa psgultarfsem'iLibe imperial family He bad been a teetotaler three m ,nths, and had a drop
of Rola. known among the outer public 114 " imperial of beer which got over him. Lieut. MacLachlain, who
deem," -whisk is confined solely to members of the watched the case for the military authorities, said be
imperial house. It has no symptoms that can be recognised could say nothing in his favour; he was a bad
by the medical profession, but it always arises from the character Timm was a previous charge proved
same predisposing csuse—tho displeasure of the Czar. •
against him of assaulting the landlord of the Dolphin
When a crawl duke incurs the Emperor's displeasure, he
is removed, if it be possible, to some distant post where, last year, where he was drunk and disorderly. —The
nominally holding a high and distinguished coinruand. be Bench told him it was a pity to see a young chap like
is really in banishment from the court It is rumoured him in such a condition. lie would be sentenced to
in St. Petersburg that the Grand. Duke Nicholas is already two months' hard labour.
beginning to sicketz The Times military correspindent .
Aar Tat SAIIE TINE AND PLACE, linmphery Ball, pleaded
innocently confirms the report. "He is said," he writes,
, guilty, to having been drunk and dunorderly in the public
"to be suffering from liver-complaint, but when I saw
street, on Sunday week. It WIWI the first oflenoe, and be
him some days bark he WM
The fact is that a spirit of d very
oubwet and distrust of the W" tined Itte-• to include cost'
Imperial house is rising in Russia, which must cause deep Corrctsoar EDECATION.—The first of the prosecutions
anxiety to the Coat'. That title conveys to the ordinary ander the new regulations for the enforcement of the
Russian wind the idea of power, dignity, and invincibility. ' New Education Act by Two Councils where School
The Czar is to them the symbol of unconquerable Boards do not exist, for this Borough was heard yesterday.
strength. If, then, the Czar be proved so weak that he Mr. Pearce the Inspector for the Council, was unable to
cannot conquer the much-despised Turk, if the grand attend, but his brother Mr. Pearce represented him.
dukes in command fail miserably alike in Europe and in Michael Crate, a labourer of Fordinston, was summoned
Asia, the whole heart of the nation is shaken with the for neglecting to send three of his children to school, one
throes of di.belief. There are signs of such a feeling now. • boy aged 10, and two girls aged eight and six respectively.
There is no country in which revolutionary societies play • I He pleaded that he had to go to work, and could not he ex-
greeter Part, and thcir agents are now actively at work, pseud to stay at home to see they went to school. Fir had
Never had they a better ;prepared ground than at pre- received no notice from the authorities. He called his wife,
sent Upon all claws the war presses with appalling who admitted she had received an official notice, which
weight The currency it rapidly becoming depreciated ohs did not show her husband. She bad been unable to
Taxes and coat max must be paid in coin, but the Govern- mend them because they had no boots and shoes, , and ths
ment pays in paper. Eight paper roubles will buy five in eehool authorities refused to receive then.. The Town
silver. Business, except that of tho contractors for the Clerk told her they bad no power to do so, and if they did
troops, is almost at • stand-still. Even the Nijni fair WWII BO refuse, she would not be liable to be summoned. She
interrupted by a great levy of troops, which took away said they were now provided with shoe leather, and an
the clerks from the counting-houses, and compelled the order wes made that they be sent to the National School.
traders to return home to re-organise their affairs. The Joseph Seale was summoned for a similar offence. The
women of Russia have appealed to the Empress for help, service of the summons was proved by P.C. Gould, to
on the ground that tbe men who earn the bread are taken , whom the defendant said, if they wanted him they must
-- •- the war, on all sides the menace is gloomy, t fetch hits. He had quite as much as he could do to foil
all of superstition, knows well the prophecy food for his children, without wilding them to school.—
die while his country is engaged in a disastrous Ad ie.:Tried for the attendance of the Inspector.
is Pcarcely possible that he eari doubt that his The Bishop of Hereford was examining a school-
,at hand. may he that he win make one class the other day, and amongst other things asked
- ohlB.l 0-, win • •ietorY that nay enable him to
pt.,. before the he, the.. a what an average was. Several boys pleaded dviorance,
I the cessation of active hostilities. We but one at last replied, "it is what an hen lays on."
that he will withdraw now without eue This answer puzzled the Bishop not a little ; but the
to set against more than ay Simla defeat; boy psimisted In it, stating that he had read it in his
standee doe Shipka NAN bebt the far at little book offsets. He was then told to bring the
if 116. lad Wm' .retwe him Um, pod- little book, and on d so h pointed triumphantly
"of mindialm• irearkbeatapkwasum .ftwith.f.ftun't , • ••••••,-•••--....ph "e'e domestic lien lays
lb. limp then hann_withont on. ois as average fifty eggs each year. Who will say
iVeto roles. them plug amigo.. with after this that reading does not make a full man
amme most etberwlee be for ever On Saturday at tb• Count) Police Court, before Mr. H.
We amet believe tint be will Mom to face Williams and Mr. G. 0. Churchill, Samuel John Wiodsor
Sallwith se ilopldes ei soccer to and Charles Burridge, both of Weymouth, were brought
ermy gad lbaseed nis as the up in custody charged with stealing a quanti,r of apples
alit for all Vie Weed spilt of his from a heap in an orchard, the property of Mr. George
people. If be bee lbeseimil courage Able Gill, of Itsdipole. Windsor, having been seen cam-
mgmesb -maw laimis the jeaseeet and mitting those depredations, and having a had character,
hisiteumpe team isw pet be was sentence to one month, Surridge, having had a
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