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

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DOROSESTER, SEPTEMBER 9*, ISM.

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The vagaries of the Salvation Army are a sever
falling wince of wonder sod astonishment, but an
announcement just mile pots everything else con-
nected with the organisation in the shade. General
Booth bee now regitterti " Bloocl and F 1,." ass
trade mark for the Selvation Army went. Fancy a
religious body trading in perfumery. A Loodon
joaraal rather severely pots It thus :—" The
disgraceful riots canned by the action of the
army at Worthing ought to arouse the public mind to
the necessity of dealing with the unseemly Sunday
disturbaaoss which do duty with the army for religion.
It is sot too much to say that many of the health
resort. of England are being absolutely ruined by the
orgies of tide huge tra ling cowers. Invalid* are
driven away, and respectable people are afraid to ven-
ture out of doors. And the autharitlee ref we to
Interfere, lest the ready-made clothing and shilling
bottle of goat business of the General should be In.
j tired."

For owl impudence and scurrilous abase the Sunday
oration of Mr. O'Briee, M.P., at Csrriok-on•Suir,
conies off the palm. In proposing resolutions dealing
with the Labourers Act, he raid to Tipperary and
Weterford no &meat farmer would be found to pander
to the system of G ivernment prealled over by such
"umlaut( bamboo' as Trevinyeti and Spencer,
while Mr. Gladstone was the " moit reepro:..ble
cutthroat' in the Whig Cabinet. lie &dried to:-
boaters to devote their leisure to humilog landlords,
When Mr. O'Brien next finds himself in the IL mum of
Commons and la the company of gentlemen he will
be rather abashed Co meet the gaze of the sneaking
humbugs and the most nape:Mates outthroat In the
Cabinet.

Mt. Nowell, by the way, ill moaned of having tub -
0,1_,, ._•. ................, ~,..womswe moos ne netted kw
830400. If he dose not take care he will be taper-
solid la the lenduship of Irish diaadeotioo. 11r.
Healy Is making • strong bid for the plam. Ms
moat speech about spealdag by the throats oi
blundierbassee, and the rattling of slugs on the real-
side, ought to earn for him at teal& another ex months'
✓esides*, in gaol; bat it will probably earn for
him the applause and confideitos of his Nationalist
countrymen.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin no doubt coasidered
that be win oonsulting his own popularity by taking
no notice of the Duke of Edinbusgb'e visit to the
capital of Ireland. th explained his oonduct by the
observation that he had no official notice of the visit
of "Ibis gentleman," ash. otiose to designate a prince
of the blood. The Siva: of Cork, however, had no
offioial notice of the Duke's visit, and yet he prenand
an address, and organised no entertainment, in honour
of Rh Royal Highness. It le strange that Dublin,
which nylons two Conservative members to Perlis.
neat, should contrast so unfavourably in "se metter
of loyalty with Cork, which returns slr. P
The Judicature Act of 1954 was ehoro during its
peeing* through Perliament of some of In more
portant clams,. One of ita provisions is that
barristers sojoying patent of proo•derun may be j ,insd
In the Commission of Assize with the Judge, tbleen•
Counsel, and Serino* end Easy so be enabled upon
unorittacr, to sit am Jo 'gat of Aegis.. It has been
ennested that retired dodges might have been
included In this provisioo. Tone are ex-Judges who
would be glad to return to duty upon an emergency;
but, strange as It may appear, there In no power , I
tisatting their names upon the Oommiselon. In the old
aays the Judged were all aerjeautg, sod they dil not
lose that degree either upon their appointment to or
retirement from the Bench. Now they neosesarile
cease to be goema's Conissel upon their elevatiou, and
then when they quit the Binch they have no I gal
deans beyond that of stuff-gownsmen.
The Peoples' League for the Abolition of the House
of Lords do not sleeken in their agitation because the
Premier has prophesied smooth thing. concerning
hereditary legislators. They are busily engaged in
getting up a monster petition for the abolition of this
Upper °belabor. One of the leaders of the League la
about to publish • book entitled the " B 0.,k of Lords,"
In which the misdeeds, both public and private, of the
Peen are to be set forth with considerable dna
This is bringing their lordship to hook with a
vengeance.