The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-08 00:00:00

VANITIES.
(From Valid, Pair.)

The most amazing dellsion is that which has now
taken possession of men's minds with regard to the
proposed Afghan war. They say and believe "It is a
capital chance t, have a slap at Russia," and precisely
the same doctrine is insinuated every day by the
whole of those morning papers which preload to guide
us. There seems something especially beim in this
notion, that because we few to fight Russia, we
should take our revenge on Afghanistan; but the
amazing part of the notion is the conclusion it Implies
that by invading Afghanistan we shall Injure Russia.
It ought to he quite clear to evaybody, as it is to
Lord lAwrencelind to all those who know that country,
that precisely the reverse most be the case, and that
the one certain effect of an attack by England as the
Afghans, will be to throw them into the acme of
Muria, as their defender against the English, and to
furnish the Rumba Cabinet with the very fulcrum it
has always sought for action against India and in
India. If we want to have a slap at Ronda we Amid
have it in Poland, or in Turkey, but it is Ohs weakest
of delusion. to suppose that we can slap her by
slapping the Afghans.

I a morry to hear that. recent marriage is abort
to be followed by a most terrible financial " smash."
The bride had unlimited power to buy jewellery before
the weddl., which power I hear she .as to the
extent of Z 25,000. But this is not the moss el the
trouble. It Ls altogether a dismal and melancholy
story.
A friend who yea at Scathes* a short time Wore
Mrs. Bravo's death saw her driving her paths, ac-
companied by a woman with crisp black hair and dark
complexion. Who was this woman?

A few days ago the Colonel of • mimosa now
'taloned in one of the F.astern Counties was telling
off the prisoners in the orlarly.room, when one of his
men was brought before him on • ohargs of insubor-
dination. The prisoner was in charge of an Irish
Sergeant, and the following colloquy ensued
Colonel. —Well, Sergeant, what do you know about
this cams?

/rut —Well, Bar I I tooki the prisoner to
move, emil. would not; then I tould him to move
aran—and the only effect it had on him wee to nab
toe non sore dower than &don. So I waned him
The marriage of the Rev. Randall Davison and Miss
Edith Tait, daughter of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
will take place in November.
Mr. Walker, of Southgate, has selected eleven &st-
rata cricketers from our English clubs, and undertakes
to send them over to Australia in the middle of
October to play return matches. He pays all their
expenses, pcomism to ledge end feed them royally, and,
In fact, to give an opportunity of sal OM
countay and glorifying their own old onoYiniThirtheir
exploits at his own expense Lord Harris and .P.
LOCIIII are among the eleven who have accepted the
offer.

—A—trim' (a member of an old Orleanist family) write.
to me from Paris that the marriso of the Prince
Imperial with Princess 'Myra of Denmark is still
=L ir, that it is approved at Windsor and by the
of Wales, and that the Prinoms was the first to
capon it to her father, who at once invited the Prince
aturitlifiCrng offerenhdAtcgr.giveAgsanclietet: trgrer.estd,
of £40,000. A difficulty now arises =Mai a pro-
vision for the Prince. The ex•Emprew proposes to
sell her houses in the Champs Elynke (In 001 01 these
M. limiter lives, and pap no rent), but the proceeds
el this sale will not suffice to make an In. oompat-
ible with the position the
.young people will hold. It
though, generally behoved in Imperialist circles
that the marriage will take pleas. General Fleury
snaefted the marriage; M. Rather vehemently
opposed it, and thought it inopportune.