The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-11-28 00:00:00

WHO THE "WORLD" 801.

I best that of all the welcomes on Saturday that
given to Evelyn Wood was the I ,udest. Sir Garnet
came too early in the throng, and was missed at hr-at
among the surrounding cocked hats. Evelyn Wood
stopped to shake ha, 'C with an Essex man he recog-
nised in the crowd, and was nearly pulled off his horse
—a handsome animal, one of the stars of the SeWoe
sale of 'Bo—by fervent admirers.

Another little incident of the day was that, after
leaving the Parade-gr mod, and taking leave of the
Queen, the Princess .d Wales, with her daughters and
the Duke of E liohurgh (afterwards joined by tin
Duchess) took up their station on the pavement just
at the bottom of St. James's-street, sod stood there
almost unnoticed while the troop. passed the spot A
foreigner WS, much struck when told who it was.
There are not many countries where a Royal princess
could or would stand among the people so fearlessly,
and in such perfect safety.

A really scandalous abuse of patronage haa just
taken place. Ths living of &deacon, near Oborley,
stated to be of the vales .4 more than £1.300. has been
conferred, by • private patron. upon • Mr. Bretherion,
a 8.A.. of Trinity College, Cambridge, wbo was only
ordains.' last year. What experieme can this young
pinion have, and with what feelings must three who
Ease grown gray in the Church's 'stria, road of his
motel meat ?

At the quarterly meeting of the Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel, on eriday, under the presidency
of the Bishop of Lichfield, a motion to refer back the
new constitution and rules.' the Society to the stand-
ing Committee was negatived by sm-ty-six to forty-
four; and subsequently it was resolved to take more
active steps for promoting missionary work in Egypt.
though the general feelind seemed to be that It would
not be right to treat the land as an entirely heathen
one, but that an eff ,rt ehould be made to assist the
Coptic Church in rat- ing itself from lie present debased
and inefficient condition.

The Prime Miniater's grant from the erown of rno
to the most 'moorage *Amu lising—Franoes Maria
Kelly, now in her 93rd year—is a graceful tribute to
the dramatic art, sod one that will he heartily appre-
ciated by every member of the profession. Bearing
In mind that we are approaching the close of 1882, it
Is startling to remember that Miss Kelly actually
made her first appearauce on the boards f Drury-lane
before the end of the last century. For it was in the
December of 1799 that, u a little creature nine years
old she took part in her uncle Michael Kelly's
operatic spectacle of" Bloahmard " Curiously en, ,u,rb,
upon the same .4:region Edmund Kean, who was three
years her senior, also first faced • London audience.

The Duke of Edinburgh has been an efficient and
Popular AdmiralS .perint,uident of Naval Res.-rves,
sad his wain' services in that important appointment
are to be officially to ognieel by the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Achnirs,ty. Rear-Admiral Sir A. H.
Hoskins, as succepor to his Royal Highness, is • good
selection. The Duke is mentioued as a prospective
Sea Lord, but I thick quits tirena•urely, f ir it is more
probable that his Royal Ritthawa will hava a well
from active service. He is, however, a favourite for
• home appointment which • few promotions will in
due C 0611113 render vacant.

Ho, ho I who would not like to be • member of the
National Liberal Club? There, " when the long
hours of public are pest," and the Radical elect,
plater from Birmingh.m and the Secularist dealer in
" closed uppers" from Northampton, and the members
of H.M. Ministry 'meet with champagne and •
chicken at last," en pciii cositi, there will be really a
delightful symposium. Then will the " grand old
men o emerge from his collar, and delight the
company with the description of corns of his nocturnal
wandering.; then will Lord Harlington shatter the
popular notion of his dulness and Ma morgue.
and convulse the audience with his sporting
storks; then will Lord Derby, hitherto sup-
posed to be rather heavy in hand, but in reality
one of the most volatile of triflers, go through his feats
of legerdemain, and show how easily • coat can be
turned; and then will the Attorney• General prove
that whatever there may be of the " oiled and curled
Aegyrian " poodle about him, it is merely outside
show, and that, far from professing any of the "inso-
lence of office," be is the real good fellow who creates
the roar in the insokingroom at Tulchan, and le the
oracle of testa at Geyton.

Th." pay the Members" Fund is a dead failure.
The Irish electors are tired of the hat, and know their
elect have had most of its conteata. rather than the poor
tenant', for whom it was given. America cares
nothing for oonstitutional agitation, and will not give
the members a red cent more. I think Mr. Sexton
and hie fellows will hare to go book to the familiar
desks and counters for • maintenaom

'nue month is interesting in the matter at mints
preserved in our calendar. November 25th is con.
**crated to Bt. Catherine, God bkoss her I Why? yon
ask. tithe is the patron saint of all the pretty girls in
the world. fitte was a lady of brilliant genius, which
she tempered with an admirable modesty ; and on her
fete-day nrestmista, pada. Perhaps toffy, but every-
thing that may be teemed wad% Is la tbe aeorated.