The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-28 00:00:00

Boroet Countq Express,

DORCHESTER. AUGUST 98tb, MS.

Mr. Gladstone has proved himself to be more of •
sdraria-working prophet with regard to Parliamentary
bonnie' than the story represesta Mohammed to have
been in respect to the mountain. The former has not
had to soy that as the butanes, would not conform
to his time, he mint conform the time to
the business. The work of the session was
artfully completed within the stipulated week ini&-.g
on the fflth of August; but. as the Yankee remarked
oe scrutinising his Mugby Janotion sizpenny-worth of
brandy, " they must have put the hydraulic meow on
some to get it equou up into so small a oompasi."
Yet there MIS 00r much apparent sign of hurry and
wassail at the end; and the little that did occur was
rather fortuitous thou inevitable. It had been
arranged to get the Appropriation Bill through
Its lan stage in the Lower Honoi as Thursday
evening in time ti sand it to the Lords before the
dinner boor; but, arrange a. Mini,ters might, some
free-lawns of the Taira sod th. Fourth Party took
owe to disarrange. Sir 11. 11. Wo'ff drew the Premier
for the last time in the stead in over the Madagascar
business; sod Mr. Callao seemed to think the third
reading of the Approprialon Bill an eppropriate
occasion for tolling out an Irish grievance, in the shape
of alleged packing of juries. Tuo consequence was
that the wand *Nimbly of Peers had to adjourn
'duriag pleasure." and make the beet .4 the resources
of the ideasantest club in Lonioa till midnight, when
the awaited and weighty measure at lest arrived.
Tale one late sitting, and • brief action of an hour
and a half on Friday while the C 5a01..1114 took holiday,
repressor's:l the only manifest pr ware put up.. the
Peers in getting the business of the *elision oonclu ted.
" All's well that ends well," says the adage, and
most persons will be inclined to no egoist an as
esemplification in point the manner in which the two
Houses of Parliament came to an agr enfant over the
two Agricultural Holdings Bills (English and Sc itch).
Of course the outside people who were denouncing
the peers fur audacity in peaposing important amend.
seents to those measures, will now tuna round sad
taunt their Welshing for presillaseirnity in surrender.
hog to the COOMOIIIII and the Government So
we shall have had an wirierseesore hubbub in two
because people will intervene la a 000trovarsl
phases
Is soy word for their presumed sandman.
The Lords ham how to give way over the Agricul-
tural Bills, while, ps reseutchr, they exercised their
authority by throng out the Scotch Local Government
Bill width* Irish Begistretion Bill, which represented
rather &natatorial fade than party views.

We bad the other day the statement of lir.
Gladstone that the Government have so prompt
leolinadon or intention to resume negotiations with
hi. de Laieepe. Nevertheless, It is jut as well that,
before the dose of the meeka, enaction WM publicly
called in Parliarmat to the omission of the Convention
of 1860 from the reprinted papers on the subject.
Without imputing to the Government any deliberate
motive In suppressing this paper,. one may still be
allowed to regard the document Well as lb TOry import-
ant me with regard to the lava rights of the Cunt
Company. In expels terms of limitation seem,
Indeed, self they had been intend. I to own and pre-
clude any such claim of monoply ea hi. de l
lately put forward, and our Government admitteirrt
will be interesting to have " occuteel's opinion" as
formed by the light of the fresh papers which are now
to be printed for presentatioo to Pulkovo'.

Nothing became the Lo—odon daily papers bettor, in
their descriptions of the Cimte de Obantbord's last
Ohms, than their brief reports of his actual death.
To the prince who would have given the rest of his
life to be King ef France if but for a day, it was • poor
notoriety to have his digestive organs diagnosed day
by day in the European press. As for the deceased
Comte, be mired his mark, because, in aiming at
long range for • throne, be refused to take into
account the strong breezes of modern popular feel-
ings. Just as he pared away, the French journals
were rickoning up the fieares of the elections for the
Conseil* Of Aran:, which show • gain of 133 seats to
the Republicans, giving ths 1 tter now • majority of
about five to two in these Provincial averubli
instead of the minority of 14 to 15 which they possessed
In 1874, while there was still • chance left for
Legitimism. In face of thee@ election returns, the
Orleans family n:11 hardly deem It politic to *carol
publicly their royal inheritance in nistitas and will
probably prefer to play a waiting game.
Now that our Imperial Indian Government have
undertaken to subsidise the Ames, of Afghanistan at
the rate of • lakh of rupees looms £10,00J) per month,
the news of • general rising of the tibia d tribes
mama our ryM prottpi will perhaps be considers! of
more concern to this °wintry tbs.' would otherwise be
the case. It is bee ming apparent that in striking a
bargain with Abdurrahinan we have n.. 4 settled
aooonnts with all the A fghanistan people. Perhaps
we shall now have to take the Obits si chislls 'nto our
pay, and so encourage some other tribes to rise and
got paid od, In rupees instead of bullets.

" Alive and kicking" NOM to be so appropriate
phrase for daimibing the present condition of Cone
wayo's relitirus. Tao daily monarch evidently has
some equivalent in his vesnecular for the English
"Never say die," for be ia reported to be gemlually
gathering a large armed force about him, with which
to maks another blow for his barbuic throne, and as
his late disc unfiter, Usibspu, hu already been was.
cptialted In hie turn by one of Cetswayo'a allies, per-
haps the latter'. attempt to mayor his recent position,
and improve it back to hie old one, Ls anyth'sg but a
desperate venture.