The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-10-27 00:00:00

lOorset etinntti Exprtss.
04:11.011ER 27th, 1,485.

Sous.

It authoritatively stated Parliament will be I
d red on Wednesday, N.,rember 18th. Accord-
ing to usual procedure writs will be Untied on the
1 91h, and would arrive et their destination on the
0 lb. The earliest day for nominations will be the
94th, and the polling in the boroughs in all pro-
) • bility will take place on the 7.4 h, 26th, and 27th.
In counties, where longer notioe is required, the
nominations cannot be before the 21th November,
and the earliest polling cannot be before the 28th.

One may be allowed to doubt whether the oriuntry
is going to be sewed by allotments; but at the UMW
time Its unquestionablo that all existing facilities for
giving the agricultural labourer the chance of obtain
ing a small holding should be made the most of. The
Charity Commissioners are justly censurable for a
grave omission of duty in this respect, though it is
probable that but for the existing furore for allotment.
their delinquency would never have been thought
worth noticing. The statute known as the Allot.
meets Acts, 1882, expressly directs them to empower
Charity trustees, under new "schemes" authorized by
the Commission, to let out a portion f the lands com-
prised in their trust 44 IdtotlactitA. It is sail that the
Commissioners have not mails this provision in the
trust deed of a vinglo scheme, and consequently an
enormous amount of land in different parts of the
tountry is inaccessible for the purpose of allotments

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Mr. GB. Tanker, of It Farm. Wimborne, in •
letter to a London contemporary says —"A., •
practical farmer I have watched with much intern.!
the attractive baita offered by Mr. Chamberlain and
his followers to the agricultural labouring CiallOPS. It
armada well in electioneering spveeMe to bewail the
unfortunate lot of the labourer., and to point out how
happy they would to. were the I..goilatore to give
inetn the right each to poinna.• email tilit id land, but
when tbiv i. praetically tested it can at oflee
In. proved to be than iiwilets. Lard week I
made ao,vay awn an clior to p;migh, finil seed, drill,
add drop in three 0.vre..4 ;and —weldinanitreil, cheep.
folded, prerann iand wheat ;ti pay all rent.
ranee, and Varga if in return they would render me
thins year. ishour They all refund, and prefer to
remain without ame doubtful benefits, and to take
their wages a. usual. I will only add, if further proof
be neciensary, that my carter earns an WARMS of kV
per 114181(11. thus, in order to improve hie position, he
would hare to pull £l3 per acre out of his plot of
the,. serve of land, after paying rent, rates, and
tax... 110 W this is to be done, under the present
eircuinstiumee and prtnent prior, I and a great many
other farmers would like to know."

We ate on the eve of • great political struggle
(writes Deponet), and how are we onoducting this
preliminaries? Are we rising to the dignity of the
Situation? I fancy not. Are we men, we Liberals
and Tories, or are we hysterical girls, whose
notion of fighting is hair.pulling, face scratching, and
name calling' Rarely—and to our shame lie it said
has a great political campaign been inamisl in such a
petty and childish spirit. If it wore not himuliating
it would be laughable to pick up the paper. day after
day and read the schoollsiy taunts Hung by the states.
men of 0110 party at the statesmen of ths other.
" Mr. Chamberlain denies the statement ttf Mr.
Blank. the Gonservati, e c mdudite for Joessliire, that
be has placed a fisi•ltarreil gate across the 1.411 road
leading past his house.- " r. Bright has a rut in to
a friend to say that the assertion of !sort! K stelolph
Churchill, that Mr. Bright is the owner of a dozen
German factories* and 20 French ones, is • (bastardly
lie." "Lord Salisbury wishes it to 1,,. known that the
statement that all Jews found on his estate are
branded with a hot iron is a iniseraltle invention of
the Reform Club." " Mr. G 13.1.4,010 indignantly
repudiates the aasertion that lie is the went agent of
She Pope for the United Kingdom." Pick up any
day's paper you like, and you will find a Lilwral
statesman indignantly denying wane coat.. Tory
slander, Or vice reel I. Envy, hatred, anti all tin-
charitablenres —those are the demon,' which to day
stand on the platform behind the political speaker
and whisper in his ear. And the slanders iitt-rel
with mush withering scorn are
In ordinary times no sensible person would be .•% prim. I
to believe them. But at • political meeting every
idiotic innuendo 1,1 received with a wild ...quest of
cheers, It augurs ill for the future of the country
that it is to be entrusted to the hands of 'non who
think they have advanosil • political CAUAP by .Is-ending
nee statesmen of sending his washing to the eo-opora-
tire stores, and another of impwting hi*
direct from Germany instead of buying th in
W bitechapel.
--v,wers

Lord Salisbury war an awful failure at Itright,to
(says a correspondent.) Lator in the week I met
many Conservatives who hail attended his ionetin.r,
and they all assured me that they wore unali!,. to sit
the speech out, it was so cold and unint •rt,ting.
The present Prime Minieter hn, net the gilt .4
drawing all men', famls unto him. If. I. alwaylo th•
cold and eysietal tjtuirterly Reviewer, angl quarterly
reviewing on the platform is not a very exhilarating
form of entertainment.

The unusual exigenciox of electioneering are
now calling attention ti the utility of olf,i i halls.
Candidates for divisions of ....iiittio4 fir tliii first time
are boginninit to 10.1revi the v,,t,•r• in iii.• ..1 the
•illagea if the divisi.m. In some a Ilagi• hall 1,1 t..
found, in others only the schooles.m is s.auiaidu.
But apart from its usefulnoss for the purposes of
politic., a village hall is constantly of use for many
soJial !nirvana Where the halls exist they are found
to he .if very grunt benefit to the district, an.,
on-
iluuistiuinalily one should be found in every village.
If they are constructed witl t pretension, hut with
good taste, and in harmony with their surnoindintra.
they may be made a very pleasing feature of the
villages, and we look to the present tiler ziii, and those
which may follow it, se likely to giro an imlietuk 10
their aimetructioa.