The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

Conoerning the future of ministerial power in Eng-
land, Mr Roebuck observes :

" The present administraeion are there by no power of
their own—they came there in spite of themselves, and
it is our duty to give them a fair trial —(beer, bear, and
cheers). As far as I arn concerned, they shall have
• (sir trial—(cheers, bear, hear, and bravo). I believe
the result will be this, that two great parties, now divid-
ing • state, will be united in one—(bear, and • voice
" Pray may it he so"). There is no difference between
the two—(a voice: " No," and cheers.) excepting some
small rags of bigotry and intolerance which stick unwill-
ingly to them. Let them throw overboard the talk
about Chureh-rates ; let them throw overboard the talk
about universities, and they will do it—(hear, bear). end
we, the Liberals, the moderate liberal party, will join
them, end fomi such a ministerial power in England
that will enable us to maintain the power of England
throughout the world, that will make he feared by her
enemies, loved by her friends and the protecting power
of her people (applause). lam quite sure that Lord
Derby will disappear; I hope Lord Rummell will disappear,
and that other men will ri.e up in their placed, repre-
senting the united feeling of the people of England. and
that then we shell be enabled to preserve the people
of England front the control of ignorant,' with which we
are now threatened; and, in spite of all demagogum,
the people of England will rise triumphantly—(loud 4011
continued applause).

THE TEACHING OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE..
The cattle plague ought to teach no the necessity of
looking round us and seeing what means are Available
for providing abundant food for our crowded popule-
Mons, which shall be as nutritious as that which we now
prise so highly, and yet cost leas than half the money.
In many parts of the Continent, in nosily every colony,
and in all the South American countries, there is •
superabundance of animal food which is actually wast-
ing because no market can be found for it ; while in
busy crowded &Aland there is a grata scarcity, which
is felt more and more lively year. A leg of mutton
can be had in the River Plate country for ten-pence,
while here we should pay tenpence or a shilling a pound
for it; and all other descriptions are odd in joints at
equally low prices. It is estimated that on the River Plate
alone there most be twenty-two million cattle, and
thirty.five milliion sheep. They are reared for their
Irides and their wool, and the meat may be lmoat
literally had for the expense of slaughtering. Why,
then, cannot we share in this profusion, and thus pro-
vide for the poorest, wholesome and inexpensive food
This then is the difficulty. What we want is some
means of preserving the moat during traosmission.
The report made to Parliament from Buenos Ayres
details three schemes, and our attention has been since
directed to • fourth. Morgan's system ie the name of
a process invented by Professor Morgan, of the Royal
College of Surgeons, in Debbi). lt is based on forced
infiltration. The animal is so killed that its body is
not injured, after ethic& the chest is sawn open, and the
heart exposed. The blood Ii then allowed to escape,
and by means of tubing, carefully prepared brine placed
at the neceuary altitude is injected, and courses through
the veins until it comes out quite pure. This in general
terms is the whole process. An ox can in this way be
cured in ten minutes. Baron Liebig's system is omens
tinily different. Instead of being preserved as a whole,
the meat is reduced to an essence, and has the objce.
tion of requiring the use of a large amount of labour
and machinery. The pls., is to allow the meat first to
thoroughly cool, and then to reduce it to • pulp. The
pulp L. then soaked in water, and afterwards placed in a
sieve trough, through which the gravy runs into another
vessel. This gravy, when skimmed of the fat, has only
to go through two or three finishing touches., when it as
allowed to cool and harden, and is then ready to be
packed in tins. The third system is totally different
as it is based upon the intention of preserving the meat
in its fresh and raw stet* for any length of time, and to
make the casts so trifling as to enable it to be profitably
sold at fourpence or five penes a pound. This is known
as Sloper's process. All bone is removed from the meat
when t is placed in • tin, from which the air is ejected,
and the vacuum filled by a certain gas, and the case is
then carefully waled up. "Redwood's Proems" is the
fourth. It consists of the immersion of fresh meat in
melted paraffin for • sufficient time to concentrate the
juices and to expel the air, after which it is covered
with a coating of paraffin, by which means the air is
excluded and decompos Con prevented. So far as we
know, these are the only processes which are in
operation, and which have been proved to be of utility.
It so happens that each plan has been deaigned for •
different object, though all have the same ultimate end.
welMorgaesiplan is for preserving the carcase as a whole
and is therefore eminently schipted to supply merchant
and navy ships and the usual trade of large towns. Than
Baron Liebig's nothing could be possibly be better
adapted for the use of the army, particularly during
marches. It is also well suited for hospitals, as it has
the advantage ef being sully stored and prepared. In
hlopers process we see some chance of meeting our
natural prejudices. A stalwart labourer would not
much like the idea of taking to • spoon over his dinner,
and the better class of mechanics have already expressed
• eusdieion of jerked meats But by this third plan car-
ouser could be received in London with ea froth an appears
ance as our own butchers' meat. If this could be done
extensively and regularly there is no doubt it would be
largely in favour. Professor Redwood proposes not to
export preserved cattle, or to put thirty-three pounds of
beef in a small tin • Wish would go into one's pocket, or
to make beef and mutton retain its original appearance
after months of travelling ; but to preserve a chop,
or a steak, or • joint in such • manner that we can
tumble it in anywhere, keep it how we will, and ea long
as we please, and then cook it almost as easily as
though it were but • day old, and find it
almost the relish of fresh English meat. e cannot
give personal evidence of the success ',blob attend all
these several plans, but we have heard the first two
spoken highly of. The Parliamentary report tells es that
the Vice-Chancellor of the Argentine Republic and
the members of the Government partook of •
banquet in April last, where all the meat CMS from
Eoglandserved by filoper's process, and the guests
avowed it was as fresh as the day it was killed.
We ourselves have eaten a Redwood chop with consider-
able relish, and failed to discover in it the slightest
Amur cf paraffin,—Star.

MR. GL ADSTONE AT. SALISBURY.

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have each day been invited to meet them at the Palau.
The Liberals of the city have seized the opportunity to
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• public meeting for the purpose• There was • very
autumn attendance, and Mr. Gladstone received •
pail, at ovation. Mrs. Gladstone. who woe also Prement,
was very heartily cheered- and Professor Fawcett, M.P.
for Brighton, who is a native of Salisbury, received a
cordial greeting. The Mayor presided.
Mr. GLarserogg, in responding, said, for forty years
he had had the honour, and, if it were not his own fault
the advantage of an uninterrupted friendship with
their venerated bishop--(bear hear)-and if be did not
jetxtlitisbecate uulll:::::thublechrontfrericlhirtehatioar of that eminent persolltes
ehhnardedpalliyhidilaagngathropy of the latewthSPasidrareP°drnylli-(ltieee'lrhnbeetar.roccallki:;),,nagnance'nddd
ecpressed an earnest wish that his children may be
brought up, as be felt confident they would be brought
up, to walk in the way of their father, and to nomad
them of his virtues. Coming to the matter of the ad-
dress he said I own the generosity with which the
country at largo has on every occasion seknowledged
the honest endeavours of its public men to render it
service. Those public men are grateful for those
acknowledgments, and, rely upon it, they will form
with them • fresh motive to exertion. I am
happy, gentlemen, to think that I may, in return
sincerely and cordially congratulate you upon
the Feneral condition of the country. After
enlarging upon that topic, he proceeded: Well
gentlemen, you advert, and! cannot wonder that you
advert, to that question which has been the absorbing
question of the present year-I mean the subject of
Reform - (cheers). Upon that subject, gentlemen, feel
that the country is unqueationably not in the dark, so
far as soy opinions, desires, and intentions are concerned
-(bear, bear). No one has accused me if any undue
reserve in the business of putting my countrymen in
possession of all that I had to day- (" hear, hear," and
laughter)-so far as it might be regarded by them as a
matter of interest. In truth, gentlemen, I have had •
task to perform which I fear, has been beyond my
strength- ("no, no, ")--end to my defective performsnee
of that taak-("no";-I don't say you-(laughter)--but
at any rate many impute, as they ems a perfect right to
impute if they think fit, the failure or the miscarriage
during the present year of that great question. I may
not, perhaps, wholly concur in the opinion-(laugh(et)
-but at the same time I feel that it is an opiuteo
which they have • perfect right to entertain if they
think fit, and which if they entertain they do better to
expiate it-(hear, hear). However gentlemen what I
observe is this, that there is a greet disinclination to
express any aversion to a further reform of Parliament
-("bear, hear," and cheers)-and there being • great
divinclination to express plainly that avenioo, other
modes are adopted for accounting for the failure
that has occurred. One of thaw modes ham been,
as I have said, so personal to mymilf-Gaughter)
-that I think it better to pass by that topic altogether
only assuring you that if it be my fate to take a furthei
part in the prosecution of that question-("hear, hear"
and "cheers")-I shall honestly endeavour to avoid any
faults which I may have heretofore committed, and at
the same time while endeavouring to avoid thou faults,
I shall also endeavour to avoid any of those half-hearted
modes of speech and action-(" hear, hear," aed great
cheering.")-which undoubtedly are in favour with air.
tam n portions of thetoommuoity-(laughter, "hear, hear"
and cheers). But, gentlemen, there is another charge
that has been made, and which does not affect myself
alone, but affects the Government to which I lately
belonged, and on which! will certainly say one word with
very great confidence. It is sometimes stated that the
failure of the measure introduced by her Majesty's
Government for the extension of the franchise, aa the
first and most important of the measures connected
with an improvement of the representation of the
people, was due,to the careless, rash, and hasty manner
in which that measure had been framed. Gentlemen,
it is always open to a political party to treat as impotent
the efforts of its opponents; and in speaking of
Government there is no extent of disparagement to
which its opponents may not with apparent fairness
resort. All that I can say, gentlemen, is this-at any
rate the members of the late Government were men
who were the oldest and most experienced public ser-
vants of the Crown-(hear, hear)-and if they really did
frame a hasty and ill-considered measure, it was more
blameable in them than it could posasibly have been in
anybody else; Mai( haste and rashness are to be measured
by the ordinary tests, then I must say to this charge
against the Government that no measure which has been
introduced into Parliament since the greet Act of 18.12
in relation to Reform ever was prepared with one half
of the industry, care, solicitude, and patient examination
*high was bestowed by the late Government upon the
bill that they introduced lute Parliament for the reduc-
tion of the franchise-(bear, hear, and cheers). It is
true, gentlemen, that the bill did not contain • great
multitude of provisions. We wished to make it &simple
and intelligent ineasure-(hear, bear). I believe that
in that object we sumeeded-(bear, bear). I believe
that the epithet of limier, which you have bestowed upon
it here in you addrees, where you call it a judicious
measure, mien epithet deserved by its provisions-(bear,
hear). It is true that bill has failed. Don't therefore
suppose that the question is likely to remain long
abeyance--(cheers). After • few remarks upon the
members for Salisbury and the good service Mr. Lambert
had done in examining into the whole of the biota con-
nected with the actual state of the representation of the
millpei.seendoicomplimentit.n.g.t.hent
Professor it. tate satilbuc.7.l7: the
entertain the hope that the stirring events which have
occurred in Europe are likely to result in the realising
of great and solid benefits for the friends of general
peace and prosperity. What we in England want to mu
is Europe tranquil, flourishing, and industrious-
(cheers). The days are gone by when that idle and mis-
chievous delusion prevailed that the streng.h of each
country was to be sought in tbe depression of its neigh-
bours--(bear, hear). We wish to see the United King-
dom of her Majesty strong, bet we wish to see it strong
in conjunction with the strength and well-being of every
other State in the civilised world; and we wish to see
it deriving mull of its strength and much of its pros.
perity from that beneicial intercourse of industry and
trade with every other country, which not only increases
wealth by wholesome and aelutery exchange', but which
knits together the hearts of men in the several countries
of the earth, and helps to make those one in spirit and
In feeling, whom the providence of God Almighty hu
made one in race and nature-(cheers). Well, gentle-
men, the short and decisive war we have seen, goes to
invest Europe, no far, with the blessings of solid,
well-defined territorial divisions, and promises to leave
the administration of Steles and Governments in hands
well suited for the teak-(eleen) -with the people of
those States attached to the persons under whom they
are to be ruled, and the rulers themselves competent to
discharge all the duties that are conducive to the main.
tenance of general peace and order. As to ourselves, gen.
tlemen, we can hardly say that the results of the legiala.
tion of the year have been satisfactory. We have got
• great unsolved question on our hands, and I think that
question of such importance that I would not, for any
consideration, sey one single word that would tend to
impede or to prejudlee its solution, irrespective of the
quarter from which that solution may come-(laughter).
If • good, honest, effectual measure is proposed by those
now invested with the responsibilities of Government,
let us embrace it with all our hearts-(cheers)-and let
us say nothing and do nothing at this time either to
drive them onwards or to drive them backwards. Let
us leave in their own minds, and in their own hearts the
discharge of the responsible duties which they have
courted and ustunel-(laughter). Looking first and
foremost of all, above and beyond all, to the satisfactory
solution of the question which bits summed • magnitude
far above everything personal, far above everything con-
nected with the immediate interests of party, whiela has
become national and imperial in the truest sense-(hear,
hear, and cheers)-only this I will say, while there
should be no haste, and no precipitation, it is important
that the solution should not be too long delayed -(hear,
hear). There is a "use in the minds of the people of
this country that the subject has been trifled with-
(hear, bear)-and the manifestations, especially among
the working classes of the community within the last
two or three months, have been such that if I were to
look at them with reference simply to the promotion of
the views of the late Government, I should hail them
with an unqualified eatlefeetion, for indeed they must
have been amply sufficient to c 'neince those who per-
sisted long after conclusive evidence to the centred,
in the idle assertion that the nation wu in.
different to Reforni-(hear, hear, and cheers). Bat,
gentlemen, I frankly own that I am not one el
those who desire to see this country perpetually
torn by agitations and discussions upon questions of
organic chang•-(hear hear.) I think that if we were
wise-I think that if we addressed our minds to this
subject in the spirit of moderation and of juistiee-in
that spirit, centime°, I presume to say by which the
late Government at least endeavoured to be guided, and
by which I am persua led its members will strive to be
actuated hereafter-it is in our power still to effect a
satisfactory settlement of that question-(hear, hear.)
I think, however, It iv a time to make cautious men
reflect, when separate chimes arc so much called upon
to act is their separate capacities,-why are we to have
all this separation between the working elutes and other
portions of the community 2-(" hear, hear," and
" bravo.") This attempt to draw that broad and
invidious distinction, to cast suspicion upon them with
regard to their motives and their competency, has
naturally reacted in a rigorous, distinct, separate
intelligible reaction upon their part-(hear, bear.) I
think it was imposeible but that such mast be the re-
sult-(cheers)-but happy shall I be when the day arrives
when all such separate action will coins to a close-1
(hear, hear)-and when we sea united community, ale
deuce under their several and distinctive name., by
they richer or be they poorer, be they higher or be the
lower, shall look upon this question of the franchise as •
question of national and imperial interest far above all
narrow considerations, and shall unite in offering an
extension of political privilege-an extension ado indeed,
but liberal and effectual to those who have been,and who
still are t xchided, but whose competency for the ex.
erciu of those duties I think none, at least, of those
aueinbled in this room can doebt-(hear, hear, and
cheers). Gentlemen. I tract that solution may be
arrived at, at an early peried-(a voles: by the ballot.)
Oar efforts-I spook for myself, and for thou with
whom I have the honour of acting-will not be wanting.
I can give no pledge on their part, and I believe you
will ask for none, except this -that we shall endeavour
to keep in view the interests of our country, and we
understand thou interests in the manner and in the
woes in which we have hitherto endeavoured to explain
and enforce them-(cheers). And now, gentlenien, I
have no more to do, except to render to you the ex-
pressiou of ruy gratitude for your great kindness -
(cries of "go on.") I appreciate the kindness of
that wish, but at the same time I cannot
but feel that there is too much from circum-
stances of personal relation between this question
and myself_(" no, no"). The guitar:in will be
beet and most fairly judged by the people of this country
In proportion as it is detached from every personal
consideration- (hear, hear). The weight of public
opinion, the weight and value of all its indications,
would be disparaged if it could with justice be said that
the Ministers who have been politically overthrown,
were using their endeavour, to inflame the public naiad
-(hna, boat). I own to you that 1 think we have done

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form to the expression of public opinion. With you,
gentlemen. for the present—with you, aa a 'ample of
the great British public—the prosecution and handling
of this great %minion lief. When the time for Parlia-
mentary exertion comes, rely upon it that if we have
done our duty in the past, so we shall be prepared again
to do it in the future—(lond cheers).
Profereor Fanegrr, X.F., for Brighton, was glad to
have the opportunity of expressing his gratehil end
heartfelt thanks for the flattering expressions which Mr.
Gladatorte bad used towards him. He believed the
hopes of the Liberal party mainly depended upon Mr.
Gladstone's Invest and straightforward efforts (or sm).
li. felt that they would be wanting somewhat In
tude if they allowed that meeting to separate without
expressiag—he might gay on behalf of the country,
their acknowledgments to Mrs. Gladstone for her heroics
conduct in the dreadful visitation which had lately
come upon London—(much thet.ofi He was sure
that not only those whom he add but the country
at Large, appreciated those efforts, and he was proud to
say that their great statesmen had the inexpressible
good fortuoe to have as a helpmate • woman whom
sympathies were so allied with everything that philan-
trophy, charity, and love amid dicitate—tobeers).
Mr. U. D. Simons, /CP.. in response to • general
call from the meeting, offered • few observation., in the
course of which he expressed his belief that the happy
and harmonious future of the country depended mainly
upon the passage of • liberal and judicious measure of
reform—Chem C.
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Mr. GLADHTO/111 said be desired to acknowledge with
feelings of sincere gratitude the declarations which bad
been made by Professor Fawcett with regard to his wife.
They would surly understand, however, that that true
subject on which it was not very easy for him to speak,
at least to say before a public assembly all that he felt in
mpzi to it. He thought those were very much mis-
takes who supposed that courage and fortitude were
virtues Waugh)/ to man more than to wernan—(hear,
heal). Perhaps they would allow him also to my, what
he knew his wife would wish him to say, that she had
numerous competitors in the duty to which Professor
Fawcett had alluded. There had not been wanting
those who, though living in the West-end of London, in
the midst of comfort, of luxury, and even of splendour,
had yet not forgotten in the day of need their follow.
countrymen of the East-end —and who were ready to
brave all danger of pestilence in ministering to their
relief— (cheers). For his own part he ventured to believe
that in a polities' meeting these things wen not wholly
out of place, because the foremost tie that bound society
together was, after all, the resolute, kindly, and Christian
discharp of every personal duty by one human being to
another--(cheers). The right bon. gentleman concluded
br proposing • vote of thanks to the Mayor of Salisbury
for presiding.

This was carried by acclamation, and his worship
haring briefly acknowledged the compliment, the pro.
mwelinms terminated with three cheerajor Mr. and Mrs.
Gladstone.