The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-10 00:00:00

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I. the general conduct In the Rouse of the noble
lord who repreesuts the diminutive little b Tough of
Woodstock to be ascribed to impudence or Innocence?
As • rule, a reader of the debates would pat d. own hie
continual attacks upon Mr. Gladstone to the former;
bat &gala at time, the subjects at which he tilt. are
Po utterly opposed to what might have been expected
from him thet one feels prone to give him credit for
an almost childlike simplicity. F r instance, net so
very long ago, he expreseed himself stron.ay sgain t
pensions that shout I embracr more than oi.e life,
apparently forgetful that since the first grant of •ha
pensions of £4,000 a year to "0 rporal Jon,' in 1710,
bis family have drawn Pearl, L 700,003 from the
pe.kets of the British ratepayer.!
• •

On Monday night in the House he warn equally
unfortunate In his selection. He and hi friend, Mr.
C. Leiria, the Londonderrfsolioitor, chose, up .n an
amendment to one of the clauses ..f the Corrupt
Practices Bill, brought forward by Mr. lAh.arch.-re,
to throw in the face of the Government and Mr.
Gladstone the fact that Sir Hacourt Johnstone was
made a peer in consideration of his having v .cat..d his
seat in 1868 in favour of the Marquis of Hartiogton,
whose presence Wall required in the C‘binet. This
alleged act of bribery he coradeinnel in until .asu•ed
terms. Mr. Gladstone's answer was complete, but
for that let me refer my readers to the Parliamentary
reporta.

Still, there is One littl;.m- atter which has a Plight
bearing on the subject, of wnich I should like Lord
Churchill to he reminded. Three years ago woe there
not conferred a peerage by Lord llemoonsfilld up
distant relative of the noble lord'.? And in con-
sidered I) of what ? NA, because he had rriolered a
public service in vac •ticg a sat t imeet the elieocie•
of the 0 mernment ; but I, cause be had spot those
thousands in vainly c intestin; others, which, had Vile
bill been law at the time, he would have been compelled
to keep in his p icket. Lor I Rao lolph shout I certsinly
endeavour to be more happy in his choice of eubjects
upon which to attempt to ba 'ger the G.O.M.

If there is one matter for sttisfsetion in the .1 j..ctidn
of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. it is that the Inslinps
have virtually, by their action. sign.d their own poll I.
Cki death warrsnt. The raid of their pre.rneo P. the
House cau ..nly bee question of time. When weigh or
matters have been dealt with they will be pditely
shown the door, and sent home to do V,e work they
are paid enormous salaries for—to I ...le aft..r their
diocese.; not to flock in • body and, as supposed
Ministers of Peace, to vote £0.000,000 for • do.' !-
thirsty war ; or to upset the expresse I wish. s of the
people.

The effects of the petition forwarded fr m the
t own t o the authorities% protesting &reknit tho pr geriaul
alterations in the c Mention of the (lust oise hs
resulted, as I ventured to predict at the time it would,
in a case of labour lost. There im no seutim ntalisan
in olllDecti,n with real hope, and it is perfectly
certain that if the powere that he coneider they on
transact their business more conveniently by on *king
sundry alterations they will make them even if they
wound all the cherished traditions in the w ,rld. r.,
further pro'est, a. a contemporary suggests, would
only result in a eimilarly polite reply to that publiabe I
in another column. All that can be done is to accept
the inevitable, and be content with what comfort is
to be found in the official aaeurarce that the dignity
of the k own is not in the least detracted how by the
transaction.

" A Poole publican," who sends his name
and address with the remark "that we are not
quite such an illiterate It as our enemies
would made u. out," writes melting we to
find room under "Olds and Made" for the
following paragraph from 11.or.te Augustly. •tel,t's
" Echoee of the Week" in the I !Emigrate 1 London News.
I as willingly .10 so as I would any c .1111t111111Ca iou
from the opposite p %int of view. G. A.. in alluding
to the Liceused V.ctuallers' Feta recently he'd at the
Cry•tal Palace in behalf of the orphan ages of the
trade. He says
The result of the entertainment was a subscription hot
amounting to some gee thousand torso hundred gamin's. I
supp,,,, the We, ,U411.,r, .611.1 tin that t o lioensed nee-silent
aro a charimb e boy, Perbaiss they think that charity is the
only virtue of the publican. and that ha will leave as
Conrad in the Corsiir,
A 11•100 to other times,
Linked w.th one sinus rid a thousand crimes.
To my thinking Boni ace has a good many excellent qualities
1,. addition to his abounding charity. and I deny the number
and the ciorun•y of his Grimes, the most unpardooable of
which (In the eyes of In. teetotalers) seems to be that he does
hi. best to upoly the waits of • people who have been drink•
mi einnethins stronger than water for more than a thouemil
years. ,rad who are now (avonionf he teetots Ier•)
so idenly happy and moral and virtuous by being compute rill,
breurht down to the pomp. Mae the .tempt made the
teet,tal Mohammedan happy. mo al, and vi tuous ? Ara
morality and virtue iiniveisally pr.v.ivnt emu g the strictly
abstinent Spaniards?"
My correspondent adds," Many thanks, G.A.B,

A good many years ago I writer in the Times
said :
" How the reasons for matrimony ever got into the
Maniacs Service we do not happen to know, bet they
lar with ',nod, feeling. and are certainly needless, con-
sidering whom they are addressed to."
This was forcibly brought to my recollection by •
little incident at • marriage which was being cele-
brated at • church situate not • hundred mile. from
Poole • short time ago. Jost am the officiating
&warn= had arrived at that particular meant which
coulee a painful blush to rime to the cheeks of most
brides, an Infantile yali-h,h re-echoed through the
church. "Take that child out," said the c ergyman.
" Yairh-ti," responded the abomination in long clothes.
'Take that child out at owns," repeated the minister.
This was done amid the suppressed titters of the con-
gregation. Bat how about the feeling, of the poor
bride? Surely this passage should be expunged front
the service. And would it not be better if those
respectable ,id geotlemen in town stayed at home and
endeavoure I to render both our Bibles and prayer
books decent, instead of showing such an affectionate
and unasked for regard for our wives' sisters?