The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-15 00:00:00

AN ELEC'I'ION ADDRESS ACROSM THE
CHANNEL

Our readers with recent harangues fresh in their
mind will feel an interest in rending an ace mut of an
election speech Tim& a few days ago in Paris by a
"Citizen" who was seeking to win the good graces of
the electors :

Citoyen Accola-, who is ..aid to be a law professor. Ile
tie little man o' about 50, with a long nose, and long
auburn hair, whim la falls over • large collar a Is Gamier.
Pages. He got into the reetralll to explain his programme.
Ile began by warning the meeting that the novelty of his
Ideas, and the war he would have them put into practice,
might probably astonish some of them (cries of "Pei
much the better r' " Let us have something new r "w 0
are tired of old to addle I") He was not in favour of any
existing Governnioit—(hear, hear, and cheers). He could
not distinguish the hest from the worst —(renewed cheers).
What he preferred was • direct Government—(c:ries of
What's that 1"). As the essential condition of direct
Government he demential the Commune —(loud ap-
Rause). Ile woohl abolish all the churches. (" Yes,
yes—we don't wsnt any : away with the chumbes,
and the lunatic asylums too.") He would also suppress
the army and replace it by a national militia. (here the
meeting began to show signs of opposition sonic cried,
" No, no: that w eit r and others, " Yes, yes ; it's all
right.") Ile wanted to knew how liberty was possible
with barracks full of soldiers at the disposal of the
eseeutive power. (" Bravo ! Right you are! Go on !")
The speaker was here quite interrupted by a row that
'rote out at the end of the room. The chairman got up
and advised the meeting to turn out the interrupters.
"Come and try y iurself," was the reply: "there are at
least BM of them However, having amused themselves
to their bent, the rioters calmed down, and Citoyen
Aecebss, who had been tearing his long hair in despair
' during the scene, r,sumed his speech. There was another
new world to The old world must be abolished,
and replaced by another in which the grand and immortal
ideas of It.) and '7l —(" Enough, enough !" "Let him
speak ; it's his right as candidate n The speaker here lest
himself, hut after a few seconds wanton to say that it was
necessary to give woman the same rights &A moan—("Are
you married r No; he's a bachelor," loud laughter and
ironical cheers). Every working man ought to be his own
ma,ter and enjoy the full benent of his Labour—(' Yes,
yes; he's been vmetimised too long n The safaris( was
only political slavory— (hear, hear, and applause). The
chairman—or, as he is called here, the president—of the
meeting, gently re 'nested the speaker to come to a con-
clusion of i. 01130 s wt. This remainder evidently Irritated
Citoyen Accolas, sm ho, alluding probably as much to the
chairman of the meeting as to the President of the
Republic, proceed- I to declare that he could not under-
stand the existen,e of an Irresponsible president in a
Republic Constitution. This somewhat treasonable re-
mark brought the Commissary of Police OD his legs, and
Citoyen Accolam w is forbidden by the arm of the law to
say anything more. The audience now divided into two
camps, for and aza;nst the Commissary. The tumult and
shouting were Indescribable. A pitched battle was on
the point of beg' ing, when the Commissary of Police
rose, put on his hat, and summoned everybody to retire,
or bear the consempsermee. Preferring the former penalty,
the meeting broke asp in the midst of confusion.

SiVERAI. Pgiuos, have been fined at Glow for having
exposed for sale v dentinei which were con.blered by the
authorities to be " olfenslve to good taste."
HER MAJKITT ii named liatonlay, Mrh 2. , RA the
date upon which she will probably leave England on her
visit to the Contiiiimt.

THE POISONED MILK-In addition to 12d persons at
Eaglet', about 441 others in Bolton are suffering from
typhoid fever an blood poisoning. All the patients
received their milk from one farm,

• OM WZD RADA r a tarZon—a Ain—all..teluzier was pr•xeedint
flown the Medway when her boiler ound. A man named
Streeter and a hoy were killed. The body of the lad wax
blown into fragmetas, and no part of it has yet been re-
covered.

.._._.—
tionirrtipto unit FowL —The Liu Scot* Joiirnal says
that a bootntaker in Gloucester is the poesessor of • hen
which lays the remarkable number of eleven eggs daily.
The fowl is • pullet of the Dorking breed, and the Journal
says the eggs are laid in the open air, are of large size, and
that the !bells are all cif different colours !

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THE WARMEST con4ritulations of the nation are duo to
Captain His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
G.C.8., for the able manner in which he navigated the
Alberta scram the Solent on Monday. The nation was
sure that the Prince would he able to do it at last, if pleasure
yachts would only keep safely in harbour.—Pigaro.
THANKS to the iinctnne which preaches the necessity of
economy in high places, her Majesty has recently sold her
servadta' old clothes. The State uniforms of the Royal
servants which were used at the procession of Tuesday,
were, it is said, entirely new, costing, thanks to the
embroidery and bullion and la.e, nearly 1.10 apiece. The
cast off garments which have done duty for nearly twenty
years were sold to an enterprising Hebrew for .Cl 2 apiece
all round. Now is a chance for • Christy Minstrel
troupe. —Figaro.
Tug canvass at Manchester on the part of both candi-
dates is bents prosecuted with much vigour. Mr. J•cob
Bright, having been attacked on the ground that he was
In favour of a low scale of wages to workmen, has thus
replied :—" I will give £l,OllO, Lc anybody who will show
that I have ever said that Its. a week was enough for a
working man. I an, in favour of men being well paid. I
believe that well-paid labour is the cheapest labour. If
you care to go to our worksst Rochdale now, you will find
women who are earning between Ws. and :Ms. a week.
The Tories ars afraid they cannot beat me at this election
by fair means, so they are trying foul. They are endea-
vouring to accomplish by the force of slander what they
despair of doing by reason." The number of electors on
the register is about 1111,000.
A Downie LARK. —A collier, named James William
, whittle, was on Wednesday charged before the Chorley
magistrstes with throwing a quarter of a pound of gun-
powder on a fire at the Springfield Inn, Connell, with
' Intent to do zrevious bodily harm. On Monday night
prisoner, along with several other., was in the public-house
and he began to play with • flask of gunpowder. While
the landlord's stepdaughter was warming some ale the
prisoner threw the flash into the fire, and there was
immediately an explosion. The young woman WM blown
t,3 the end of the room, but strange to serail° was uninjured.
Prisoner when asked why he hail done it, replied that it
was a lark—He was comtuitted for trial at the Lancaster
sexism.
ONE OR TWO Incidents of Tuesday's Royal procession de-
iserve a notice. Dr. Kennedy's band, Pasting up Fleet.
street, was playing ". Tom my, make room for your Uncle."
Theis strains were evidently intended to reach the use. of
the Royal Family, who were expected to make room for
the real monarch of those later days, Dr. Kenealy.
Another amusing circumstance* occurred down at West-
minster. Some unfortunate man got in the crowd with •
bag of eggs He tried to steer himself clear of the pre*
sure, but failed. As the mob closed in upon him, he found
himself crying out for help. The policemen came to his
amistance. He end his eggs were extricated, and marched
I between two con.tables to the railway station, amid the
I risers of the spectators and the encourgiug shouts of
' some mem who were
Miaow I 4 " nut apparently very anxious that the
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