The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER. TUESDAY, MY 18. 1887.

NOT OF THE WEEK.

The visit of the Primo of Weiss and the bake of
Wilshire' to Paris amen to hive been highly
pleasing to them, and ettremely gratifying to our
neighbours; bat their Royal Highaessea had •
marrow move of bowing the knee to Dam or of
seesniag to *eat the Preneh netion with seperciliose
piety. The Preach Derby, i.e., the Muslin, rens',
marred, of comas, on Sunday, and the way In
which they eillamed oleo, of attending at that sabot
(which it was ant r..crtsd they did atteod), was
Ibis—they were boun& come what might to he in
Landau on licaday roloffileig to take part sac groat
ceremoay, * *l6 DOI morel, national, bet had
also its own PeCuliar hearing in relation to all the
Royal Family, and especially to the Queen's eldest
mon Hese* the Priam Deeded to invent no elm*
for nonistioadonoe at the French Derby. Not that
anybody would approve of each aa investica ; all the
Quaint askjecaa would doubtless prefer to snob oh •
, onmstooose a simple Wood to attend Sunday rams
to a courtly ozone • but the French are too asonible
to expo* repreantative a personage as the Priooe
of Wales to ao6 contrary to the mind of his wonky
in wok • natter, and therefor* they would be as
little likely to-invite our Prolosimet Prinos of Wales
to maid at this enthroniastioe of an Arahlithop of
the other Church as to ask him to assist at Quiotilly
os flooday. A mew contemporary. the &hoes /rem
the Chas, indulges in • very differeat vies, site—
"We do not say however that Shenk Sabhateriaaism ought not to prevent the Prince of Wales
from behaving • gantletnan In Pram*, where
Sunday ia • of • day of torture. Is the
future King Engtrtio be afraid of the Earl of
Sludtesbury and Exeter Hall Let him .how right
regal independence of such paltry influences, and go to
Chictifly when be pleases."
We seed not my that. Prism or any other MIMI
may be a geollemao, and yet respect the Fount
Oomasaodasent ; nay, it he possible for either, even
If very food of. bores-reoe, to iodides In this in.
nosiest *mare without breaki)eg the Sabbath or
ruining counter to the *aims of those wham minds,
not bolas pervaded by the gloom of Jewish Bah
hatarbusium, and reoognisiog the Christian Sabbath
ass day for rest and rejoicing, are yet determined
that they shall also so keep themselves on that day
as to render it truly • holiday. There are Plenty
of other days in the week for =oh areammeote as
twee, and, trifling as it may pppear, us thiok there
I. • principle involved which renders the gentle.
manliness of Indulging in them on Sunday not •
mere matter a geography.

'Caning to col; ;on- Derbyday, It Was one that I
will long be remembered, both on amount of the
drawiful weather and the utter contradiction of the
racing prophet, by the iron logie of ergots. A
piereing east wind, gushing 'Merlin of rain, hail-
stones, and snowstortnn Made op • world out of
doors which snit datthed tbe almost irrepressible
mirth of the crowds of holiday maim n who visited
Epsom on that °cession, while the greit ran oroated
au immense sensation from the circumstance of the
prise being taken by a horse as little erpeete4 to
be the winner as any outsider that over ran. Even
"lb. Oaks" told tbe mine tale against the prophet&
But it is amusing to note, notwithetanduig their
ill-look in prognosticating, how blandly then no.,
happy sears explain their mistake.. It was the
soaking rain, say they, that did it alt and robbed
fleet-fouted bones of the victory in garner of thou*
who bad more " stay" in them, as the phrase goes.
Bat this will not scommt for the moons of Eippia
in the Oaks, for, on Friday, we are told, the ground
was in good oonditioo. The plain lemon to bb
, learnt is total didn't of them propbetie gantry. Trie
mosey changed hands over this year's Derby must
be something enormous. Everywhere we hear of
small fortunes being WOO, and, of course, lost. A
few magnatee of tbe sporting world it is said have
lost Mariann for which they will hod it difficult to
give • chain payable to bearer, for whim even •
millionaire nobleman loess at the rats of 00 or 40 to
1 in thousands, betting becomes all expensive
scausanant, and leads 15 "died bones" in the
shape of morigagos which it may take • ruination
or two to pay o And all this is done under th•
guise of promoting the good brawling of
bones

In a speech remarkable foe its gabled, an
thoughtful. hopeful, and generous is its tome, Mr.
Mill brought before the House of Commons a motion
for admitting women to the franchise, and though,
as was to be expected, it was defeated on a division,
the fact of 73 memben voting in its favour, shows
that our legislators begin to distrust the old notion
about men being the "lords of the onetime'
est women their proper subordinates, and are
affected by the natural working of the social equality
of the mak which exerts so refining an inficenoe
upon society. The question, however, is a new one,
and hampered by many social prejudices, so that we
may expect it will be long before it has any practical
, outcome. We append the leading points of Mr.
Mill's speech: let our readers judge of their weight
for thenteelven It is not right, he Aid; to eiolude
women from the pale of the oonstitnition, bemuse
it violated the old oherished maxim, that taxation
and rekiresentation ought to be on-es tansies. But it
WU said that politics were not women's business
and that they were represented by their male rela-
tives and connexions; but, said Mr. Mill—
" Politics were not • man's business unless he ,
happened • to be paid for attending to Hien; Or was a
member of either House of Parliarnett. The few hours
occupied by the majority of male electors in attend-
ing • polling-booth twee in a few years did not make
therilels,eat their shops and counting houses ; those
who votes were not the worse merchants, lawyers,
ph or olergy. If none could vote who did not
devote nearly all their time to politics, we should have
• very limited constituency. Indeed, was not the
object of econstituency the control of those who made
• business of politics by those who did not
He admitted that women had already great social
power, bit ha wee anxious to make it • responsible
power.

"He was lIIIXIOUS to interest a woman's conscience in
the honest exercise of • direct power, and t, prevent
her from repzding political honour as • mere means
for personal patefiestion ; he wanted her power to
maim itself felt by an honest and manly interchange of
opinions, and not by osiolery—flangbter).
Were WOlll4O rirtently protected at prommt ? Hs
denied it—

'They were not living in Arcadia, but as they had
been reminded, In face Roessiii, and 4 that region work-
men needed other protectiot thin that of masters and
women than that of Men. He should like to see • return
laid before the ROOM of the number of women who
were annually beaten, kicked, or trodden to death by
digr male protectors; he should like that account to
contain in an opposite column • return of the sentences
in those came in which the dastardly aiminal
reseed
t get off altogether, and in • third column a
oompsrative view of the amoUnt of p , the
unlawful taking of which had in the mama session or
assizes by the same judges been thought worthy of the
nine degree of ptinishment—(hear, hear). They would
thee obtain an arithmetical estimate of the value set by
• male Legialature and male tribunals upon the murder
of • woman by habitual torture often prolonged for
years, which, if there ware any shame in man should
make him bang his head—(cheers).

Unmarried women of education were debarred
from earning their livelihood eltrept in one way, t.l
governs") and school tailor profeniou. Min
Garrett bad lately, after trying the medical bodies
all round, got into the profession through the
Apotbeoaries' Company, bat she would be the fins
and last apothecary, as even that door had been
clue direnly it was sees that a woman weld pees
through-
-that Irie the treatment to wideli ungianjed women
were anbject And then at td the women, they,
it might be aid, were not concern jut e amendment
which be had moved, but it did concern many who had
been married as others who would be married. By th
ODIUMOR law of England everything that a woman harl
belonged absolutely to her husband, who might tear it
from her, spend the last penny of it in debnuchery,
leaving her to maintain by her labour both herself and
het dadme ; and
unless oh. was ju If funtion de earned
enough to put an for their future support,
y separated from him, he sould
pounce upon her sevinp and leave her penniless.
Such oases were of very common occurrenoe—then,
hear). If men were besotted enough to think such
things rOt, there would be some excuse for them.
But they knew better. The richer classes had found •
way of exempting their own daughters from this
Iniquitous stale of the law. By the contrivance of
marriage settlements' they could make in each case a
private law for themselves, and they always did so.
Why was not that justice provided for the daughters
of the poor which they took good care should be done
to their own cteref Why was not that which was
done ha every ft.* .lar awe that they personally tur•d
for made the general law of the land, so that • poor
man's child, whose parents could not afford the expense
of a settlement, might be able to retain any little pro-
perty which nught devolve on her, and might have a
vein in the disposal of her own earnings, often the beet
and only nelleble part of the maintenance of the
faintly r
Lad he eemeleded by saying es follows :
"Grishame, hie then borne by women, when
suffered by Glenn, had provoked revolutions; and we
voile not he helm wheatsg, of the security we had
a in
sash eunsequesses their sea, to withold from
&lerted class of WM'S that dopes of participation
In the essatiment and Imprement of our laws which
thh motion solicited for them, sad whin would enable
him to throw In • few male repTeseutatives of their
views and feelinp into the great council of the nation.
We ought not to deny to women what we were now
osaUmr to every 'law—the right to be consulted in
the canoe of • representative ;we ought tot to deny
Loam= the right we wen now pasting teoverY=
Inds or protegees of bovine a few Massbers of
Mitt who felt themselves ander • menial tun to attired
to agar Womb lied he OM eat 6111 memo In which
ear latorodo may alfealed
h.SU WM. et lie Is.
oxf arsoped aherehighe Bo men Um Ude
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