The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-08-06 00:00:00

Voroet &until Expren.

TUMIDLY. AUGIJBT 6.

NOT= OF THE WEEK.

" Beaconsfield" Is tbe same ol a bone mitred Ice
ant yeses Derby. He's • deck bane

Mr. Marvin has written to the Daily Naos a irMar
in width he declares that that. mints not only the
Secret Agreement at the 10th May, but another and
mare merlons mast agreement of the Mat May, Maki'
IMOD he dare not reveal. What la it ?

Art we to have a dissolution The Conamvatives
▪ "so," and the Liberals—or many cf tbson—my
yea." flit takes plea at all this year, it is likely
to be in October. Me !natter Is entirely in the hand.
of Lord Beaccolegebl, sad the hest judges declare that
he is not likely to make op his mind for another
week. The fact, however, that public admiration of
Prernistr's foreign policy has replied • douche by
reason of the Ay/to-Turkish Convention, may lead
the Government wire-pollen to pause Won the 7 go
to the oonstiteencies.

I do not complain, says the Warfel, of the money
voted for the Duke of C manned, but would venture
to suggest that the principle upon which these grants
are made should vary with the varying oircnindeacee
of the Royal Family. For 'edam*, the encommion to
the Crown being abundantly securd in the Royal Ilse,
one need not be. id althusian to feel that the indefinite
lot:ream in the number of needy prince* is conducive
neither to the public welfare nor to the dignity of the
Throne. I would, therefont, agree& thak with
respect to the nest Renaud n the practise should he
abandoned of inaseeder a tince's allowance on the
occasion of hie entering to the holy state of
matrimony.

There has been much whiapeimg during the past
week, among those who are in the secret whenever
there IN a secret, of an alleged intention of Lord
Hartingkes to retire from the leadership of the Liberal
Party. Ibe supposed intention bee been attributtedl
to various onus—to Mowed at the whole Ming ; to a
dabs to make room for the ratan; of Kr. Gladetose
to the leadership; and. Pally, to Lord Hartlegton's
desire to be quit of all Liberal has in order that he
may draw nava to Conservatives. Thu, however, is
held to be altogether too good to be true. To lose
Lord Derby and gain Lord Harlington In the same
year would be. it is said, too (rota piece of fortune
111•02 for Lard Beeconalield.

The bill of cods paid by the Blackburn Town
Council amounted to £3,568 la. lid., on account of
Lb. Ista riots The folowlng e the items :
Provender, /254; blankets and towels, £66 lie
£4B £3l 3e. ; beer. Ell 194. ;
maintenance of soldiers at esting•houses, 112,093 9.. 91. ;
tobacco. £9 se. ; hay and straw. £260; dinners for the
police, £631 ; railway fares, £4B 15e. 3d.

Th. following was the gate of public business on
Monday, the 29th of July :—Th• number of Govirn•
ment bills introduced this session has been 91. Of
these, 41 have received the Royal ailment, 13 have
passed all their "tags. and only await the Royal mint.
four age welting for the consideration of Lord.' or
Commons' amendments U aro In committee, 12 are
waiting for second reeding, and the remaining sight
have been witlid'asol or dropped The number of
public hill.introdueed this realm by privet* meaaben
was 1311. Of theee. 19 have received the Royal merut,
12 have pared all their .teres, sad will receive the
Royal assent In duo commie, four are now waiting for
the consideration of Lords' or Commons' amendment.,
12 are in committee. 11 are walling for mooed reading,
and the whole of the other", 80 In number, hays beg
withdrawn, dropped, or not .11 for six months.

The marked rape lorby of women over men is on
few points more remarkable than in their superior
rowers of smelling and tasting. A woman will doted
the haslet odour of tobacco, when • man, even though
• non-sinker, often fails to discover any symptom of
It, A. with smell so with taste. Women an
marvellotely &cote and fastidious in the matter of
sauces and all devouring ingredients. This faculty
has been reoorrised in a most pleasing matins- by the
compodtion of the jot, who are to decide In Paris on
the merits of the mustards of %minus 111A0116. The
mustard congress is to *meld of twelve gentlemen and
an equal number of ladles. This arrantement, it is
owed, is owing to a ragweed= that the palates of
men NV vitiated by smoking; whores. women, who
do not as • rule indulge in that pernicioun habit. are
likely to be better qualified to form • correct opinion
on the merits of condiments.

The bill for our recant diplomatic triumph has been
presented to Parßepaint in the form of • supplemen-
tary estimate for £1,6115 500. Of this 11100,000 is
debited to the war we have been carrying on with the
natives at the Caps; the rest, more than a million and
a ball sterling, is set down a." Army services rendered
necessary by the war between Rm.& and Turkey."
The nay of the Reserves is not shown, as it should
have been, under a separate heed, but is clamed with
th• pay of Ali the extra men, which reacime E 190,000.
The estimates for the Indian troops have already beam
; but for huts at Cyprus MOOD Is needed, and
seems that £96,000 haa been spent in improving our
oilonial defences—all on account of the war cram.
The supplementary Navy estimate shows the war
expenditure to have been £678,000. Thus two millions
and a half have beau added to our nati .nal bill, bring-
ing the total extraordinary expenditure for the current
financial year within about a million of the cost of the
campaign in Abyssinia, and our total expenditure more
than eighty million•—nearly five oiiUooa more than
was f sand neoeseary in the year following the
don of the Crimean war, and only eight millions les.
than we had to pay during the year 1856 itself.
The Liverpool stipendiary has given an important
decision in the interests of the Publicans Those who
have the public morality so much at heart that they
will prevent, if possible, a shilling raffle, cut believe!.
innocency of clubs gambling, summoned a landlord for
allowing betting in his house, It was proved the beta
were made by the p.toian, who dii • little businee
"on his ottn hook," the landlord not being present on
the occasion in question, and the magistrate dismissed
the charge, to the intense disgust of Mean. Chadband
and Co.

The OonttoElated Fund is a haven for titled
i npecuniosity. It is a venerable widow's craws. Her
Malan v's Civil List is charg dto it. This amounts
to £355,000 a year, £60.003 of which goes into the
Royal Pr vy Purse and, w ) take it, stops there. The
same fund is charged to the tune of £157000 a year
Cr the maintenance of Her Mai* lye children,
cowing au4 auctin.law. It will now have to bear an
additional £l6 OCO • pwr for the Duke of Connaught
and his future wife, and the Primers &Istria, and
Prince Leopold have still to be' provi led for." Then
the wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse has £6,000 per
annum from the nation. though her husband has a civil
list much lager than that of he Bing of Denmark.
If we are to bars • Royal family it is perfectly evident
that we oannot for our own credit allow the members
of it to go to the woi Idiom-. It is not tit ir fault they
were born to Royal idleness. Yet we do think that
they coul all live on a little lea, and might Inman
their income by some legitimate ewi loymant. Where
I. all this pensioning to stop? Among the_ pensioners
of the British Government • the Duke of Cambridge,
with his £12.000 inclusive of official salaries and
ri:Va) ; the Dueness of Tick, with £5,000; and the
d Duchess of Meckinburr-Stralitz, al sit bar
husband is one of the wealthiest of ti German
Sorereigne—one ball of the country Of 527 square mitre
being his own private estate, and in fact the whole
State revenue belongs to Mtn. These Ow.* latter
pensioners are grand children of George 111., and
stand in the saute relationship to the Crow. as do the
grand children to the Queen. May we mot be afraid
out-door relief will be inked for them bye-and-bye.
Hawkins, in addition to rapidly acquir:ng a character
for • vindictive harshness, that ODO wmuld hope had
passed away with Porsaa and hawks, seems also
destined to earn a reputation for a puerile affection
for ludic:Weems pronertimi when the
celebrated force of " Jumbo." At , a day or two
ago, the High
_Sheriff appeared In 6.. in
morning
dreee, as he had no right to weer either a ORD or •
*nue dram, and 'Any threatenel to fine him 12500.
He would linen to no excuse, and the sheriff was
obliged to borrow the clothes of a volunteer captain,
and then 'Airy looked is pleasant as he mild manage
to do.