The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-18 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER. TUESDAY. JUNE 18, HST.

NOTRE OF THE WEEK.

We have sow bad the arooad Redistribatiou
scheme of the Government for several day" before
us, sad it bee been analysed in all aorta of srays ;
but few people prebsod to moguls' soy "Tory
dodge" is it. 1011,0111 of givieg ball the re-allotted
seats to borough sad ball to eotruty Ommtitoseoloe,
sash. forme whim dids the sew om, it is (MP,
gives SS be eouotiee and oaly 90 to tome ; bet than
half of the cmaties selected for ommedissumat
remand predominant muslestprusg or
beiseMlj
interests, mod tbeer.fourtim of the new ou
repreesalatics is to be eves to largo's'sa
oomiseuial, or sea•port towns, chiefly in t: earth
of Ilegleud, tb partially redressieg the inequality
of rept mestatios between berth and south. Tbo oaly
swim opposition, so far m wo can disoeru, Mb&
the Goverment have to expect to their proposals,
will be in favour of Mr. lusag's idea of creating a
number of new "three amend" oomtituassise ;
and the favourers of the cumulative Me, which the
Times has meetly bees writing up, will of itome
support Mr. Laing. However, is the Ministry do
not profess to steed or fall by tide abeam as a
whole, that, will doubtless be plenty of minor
arasuclemate op it; sad before it come out of
mankisaes, it may be se mob modified ii the Brit
part of Um maser"
Is is slated to the Glebe that Parliameat will sot
he prorouged maid the end of August, and that
a general eleotioa may be expeoted seat liming.
Mr. Disraeli has made a smith in defame of the
operas which the Tory party hes takes in dealing
with she quentioa el Refertn. The bill of the late
Goverment, be mid, would have seriously injured,
if se. destroyed, the Ceoservative party, while at
Wm is.. time it would not hare eatiefled the nsqiur.
matte of the State. Os the other livid, the inthahe.
which now awaits the desisioa of Farliament will
not injure the party is power, whik it will satisfy
Mae mood sad %ore important condition.

Although the House of Commons has abolished
the Compound Householder, kw is still the subject
of mach discussion. The parishes of the metropolis,
in particular, are greatly dissatisfied with the new
order of things, and anticipate most serious iOWW• in
the matter of rates. A deputation of essay clerks
representing most of the bistropolitlan parishes,
recently waited upon the President of the Poor Law
Board on the subiect, and urged that the landlords
of onapoued property will cot lower their rents
ikken relieved from the neconsity of piping the
compound rates, and the tenant' who have now in
many instances to be "bunted up" every Saturday
, sight or Itiorday morning for the rent, will be called
1 oufotYrussg2tojts year in the shape of rates
they do not now pay, which the deputation coo.
tarred in saying the rate collectors would never be
able to pt. Icon. parish it wee believed 25 per
mot, of the rates would he irrettoverable, and
Islington calculates on a lows of £6,000. Rates are
regarded ea at abomination by ill Gleams, and by the
lower class of boitseholdere as little In. than an
imposition, and it will essuredly follow that in every
parish throughout the kingdom great Items will arise
through the impossibility of obtaining the rates from
the poorer householders, and this will vatted an
additional burden on ti • ratemers who bold
houses on quarterly tertne.—• burden that in many
OWNS they are unable to bear. However, the London
denotation got no noinfort from the Earl of Devon
hi. Board Wd• nothing to do with the clauses in
question, he had listened to their observations with
great pleasure, and would convey their views to the
proper quarter. They were then politely bowed
out. Getting no official relief, they turned to Mr.
Gladstone, but he was unable to assure them of aoy
present redrew though be admitted the soundness
of their representations, vide :

"There had been," said he, " • great dad of idle
talk and jeering about the compound householder, as if
be were a chimpannse or an ourabroutaat, whereas
three-fourths of the population were holding houses
under ilO. For his ewe part he said, he was convinced
that before gee years had passed they would return to
the present s At present it would be much
better to ask Parliament for power to make • volun-
tary arrangement rather than a compulsory one; and
when once • voluntary arrangement had been made
the security would be as good as at present In con.
elusion he .aid, 'Any proposal for relieving the
parishes of this diMculty shall for my part have every
prejudice in its favour. I Poirot speak stronger than
that.'"

Th. Diabop of Ripon (Dr. Biokersterb) boo mad.'
a spriseb before tbe Ilerobant Taylors Company,
mina of Obis time is ospornally W• 10011111, se it ofearly
iodioatos tits riot position Um Chun& of Vagiond
tionapios in this country t

The /4tional Church," he says, "ii conatruaied on I
a conipreymosive basis. It was intended to include
many varieties of thought and feeling and opinion. But
one point is to my mind unmistakably door, and that
is, the distinctively Protestant character of the Church
of England. That Church has no locus stalvii in this
country except as the Church of the Reformation. I
trust the itishops of the Church will never be wanting
to maintain the Protestant principles of the Church.
and then I am confident they will never lack the sou.
Aden°. of the Church and the country."
The Rev. R. P. Blakener, LLD, incumbent of
Christ Church, Claughtoo, bee rendered good portion
to Protestantism by showing in the Record of last
Friday, in a eeriee of parallelisms, that the three
avowals coneerning the Reel PIIIMOIN • made by Dr.
Fumy and others is their manifesto, which we
published last week, precisely accord with the teach-
ing of the Rootlets church; that, 111 short, as to the
*Uwe of the body present, Romanist. and Ritualists
are perfectly agreed, and, as to the sacrifice of the
Maas, there is not even • verbal difference between
them. We must regard-, be shys, the presentation
of Dr. Pussy's document to the Primate as a
challenge to the Church : if its daitrin• be allowed,
the Established Church will be involved in fatal
idolatry, and he hill is certain.

'rbe Mexican Empire after • chequered existemas
of five yours is no more. The eity of Queretaro has
fallen and the Emperor Maximilian is a captive io
the hands d his enemies. The latest intelligence
Mates that the Emperor bee bees tried by a Cow..
martial bald secretly, but the reenli—jail whet we
are all anxious about—i. not even. The bet of •
military trial bespeaks • curtain daliberatioo on the
part of Juarez co the subject of sisootiog which is •
favourable sign for the captive, and then is yet
hope that his life may have bias 'pared. Bet
should the worst have happebed, there will be hot
op. feeling of pity throughout Enrone forth. mid fate
of this most unfortooate winos. Whatever we may
have thought of tbe widsom of his enterprise, thews
can be but Doe opinion ail to the manner in which
Maximilian has borne himself in the oondoot of it—
of his chivalry, hie valour, and his unselfishness. If
it bad bees possible the; mob an enterprise could
snowed, be would have earned ROOMS and have
4eserved it.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times
gives a gloomy amount of the state of the labour
market in the United Stales. Huntirwle of
tboamsda of working men, he toile us, leave been
thrown out of employment, sod "is all the Wm
oitiee there are hundreds of young men uneeemenfully
seeking emplmosent ea merchants' clerks." The
Atte York Tunes 'make of "the many proof."
which it Bads of "the wide-spread stagnation of
bushman, and the redundancy of labour in many
departments of trade."

In +pita of prevarication and Mimeos in vitamin,
the Trades Union Oommithon at Sheffield is bring-
ing wino ugly flute to light. Not only have several
trade secretariat sad officials been obliged to ack-
nowledge their virtual complicity with ordinary acts
of "retaining," mob as casing wheel-thuds and
biding toots, hat coo of them functionaries ia declared
by the actual perpetwitan of fae
outrages to have really instigated them, supplying
the gunpowder to be sod us blowing up workma'a
dwellings and omployere praline.

The iset Bank returns and • highly stimulatisig
ebareekr, and point singly to tin probability of a
(shut the vane of many to • still lower point la
the course of the neat kw weeks, especially in view
of the large reasittaeose of gold now on the way to
this °wintry fume Amain and Australia. At the
same time, the weather is very kvourabk for the
crops, and the corn merkele are declining. Of the
prospects of serionhariels in this county, Professor
Book man, of Bradford Abbas, writ..:—
The mild weather of the last weeklies had a decidedly
beneficial effect open the meals, but withal wheat is ,
very patchy and uneven, and visit we term in Dorset
a roast, Le. a level unbroken piece, is ran indeed, as
much was starved in the severe winter, and in spring
the wire-worm was unusually busy. The early-sown
crops look the beet, and the...,. now Just bunting
into ear. The later frosts at first turned the Wades
brown, and than they got to yellow, in which slate
rust was ponounud to hare ounnienced ; but mere
genial weather seems to so far ban pat masers
to rights in this reepiet, and if we have a warm dry
summer we may yet hope to avert this came of • poor
yield of light-weighinfortereat, which was so heavily
felt Inn roan gisoold , a wet cloudy summer
euitiane, a deikient hornet under t circum-
stance. ii certiAed Dorset, as wenieenvery other
&Arid we have ',endued into.
Becky has been mostly injured by frost, and much
of it looks 7•llcm and siekiy. Maar promises
weL Pea kik al Co
firwari vtatst boall.:*l4;•bi frig! in therphy