The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-28 00:00:00

Porat Contg exprisol

TUESDAY. NOV/CURER 28, 1871,

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
The Queen, Prince Leopold, Prince, .1 Bea-
trice, and the ladies and gentlemen of tl' .e Court,
arrived at Windsor Caatle at nine 'o'clock on
Saturday morning. The Royal tra- venue left
. Balmoral shortly after ono on. ler day It is
said that tho return of tbe Court la do little earlier
than was intended on account of the illness of
the Princo of Wales. The Cour t Circular says,
that " although still weak auda, iffering from the
effects of her late very sever° .
iness her Majesty
bore the journey well."

Telegrams from Sande.ngham intimating
that the Prince of Waif,' ja suffering from
an attack of typhoid ferar have filled every-
one with concern ' • for, as the illness of the
Prince took Sir Williarn Jeuner to Norfolk to
add his advice to that of Dr. Gull, Dr. Clayton.
and Dr. Lowe, tholigh the symptoms are not
unfavourable, it must be mere than a slight
attack. We particularly lament in this county
that his Royal Highness is ill, because it has led to
the postponement of the visit of the Prince and
Prinoeu to Mr. Genard Sturt at Crichel. How-
ever, we hope it is only a pleasure deferred, and
that his Royal Highness will soon become con-
valescent.

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Sir Charles Dilko frai again spoken on
Royalty at Leeds, bu', his address was a mild
apology for what b. 6 said at Newcastle. Be
made an attempt however, to defend hie obser-
vation that the r,ju'een does not pay income tax,
and in answe'. to the statement of the Coroner
of tier Mv.jesty's household, who affirms that
the tai has been duly paid by Her Majesty
from tfr,e date of its first imposition to the pre-
sent 'Lime, he remarked that she does not pay on
ev-d—ry thing. It must not be thought, however,
that the Chelsea baronet is unsupported.
"One long psalm of joy" over bun has been
uttered by no less a personage than Mr. Odger,
at the headquarters of Republicanism in London
—so reports Mr. Robert Coningsby, who last
week interviewed, in company with an American
journalist, English Republicanism at its head-
quarter' the " aud came
away with the impression that the great senti-
ment of the Republicans is—the Throne may
come or tho throne may go, but our Baronetcy
shall go on for over. Mr. Coningsby professes
to be the beat man to describe a visit to the
head-quarters of the London Reds. Where he
a Frenchman he would ho something like a
Communist; he was one of the roughs present at
the fall of Ilydo Park railings ; ho has seen
Germane go into battle, and Americans "go for"
Indians, and he writes to the Times satisfied that
the only earnest Republican in the assembly was
Mr. Odger, "and that Britons never, never,
never will become crotchet-mongers, or
go in for tho 'Great Symmetrical Untried,"
even te please the Chelsea baronet, And
we believe he is quite right. The yearning
for republican institutions is at present confined
to abstract thinkers and to the politically un-
educated. The former are always pining for
perfection; the latter desire a quick method of
redressing their fancied wrongs. Ever since the
time of Sir Thomas More there have been un-
practical men who, dissatisfied with the roughest
results of human political aims have desired to
begin afresh on purely theoretical principles.
Such men are amongst us now. We need only
name John Stuart Mill, Professor Fawcett, and
Goldwin Smith as a sample of these dreamers.
On the other hand there is a section of the com-
munity just as visionary though by no means
so erudite, who believe that honest men,
polically speaking, do not enjoy their own—that
kings and nobles have no just right to their
wealth and position, and that the people are
down trodden and oppressed.. The one section
errs through excess of politicallearning the other
through the want of it. When it becomes Im-
possible to redress political grievances in a
legitimate way, when authority becomes so
corrupted that it refuses ,to make efforts of re-
form, then and not till then, will be the time for
tho people to pluck Monarchy up by the roots.
A large majority of the people for the present
prefer seeing the machinery of legislation
gradually reformed. If there be any practical
defect in our constitution, let it be remedied,
but the nation as a whole, even if it became dis-
affected, cannot forgot its monarchical instincts.
Tho prospects of the coming Parliamentary
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conclusion that the Government, at whatever
cost, must deal at once with the Public-house
question, and stand or fall by it, just has Mr.
Gladstone is reported to have declared he will by
the appointment of the Attorney-Geueral to the
Privy Council Appeal Committee. The probable
return of Mr. Bright to Parliament is raising •
good deal of speculation as to the position be ,
will oocupy. It is, of course, extremely impro-
halals that he will again take OfflCl3, but it is •
strange indication of the state of public opinion
when the return of Mr. Bright to Parliamentary
life is generally viewed with favour, on the
assumption that he will keep the more unruly
Liberal members from getting over the traces.
Age, retirment, and office will have combined to
moderate the opinions of the right hon. member
for 13'..mingham.
Public interest in the great Tichborno trial is
oeitainly flagging a little. The similarity of the
evidence during many of the latest days leads
one to think that you may have too much even
of such an extraordinary romance as this is, and
a new phase in the evidence arrives, there
is little for the public to do except to hazard an
opinion that it must be very marvellous if all
the persons who have identified the claimant are
mistaken. It is almost impossible to carry in
mind all the points of this protracted inquiry,
and by-and-bye there will be the cam for the
defendant, and then half the newspaper readers
will forget what has transpired In court lately.
But one thing is certaiu—whatever, turn the
case takes, the Tichborne estates will be encum-
bered for at least one generation.
The recent legal changes have occaaioned:two
elections of the first importance in the past week,
and 'he results in both cases indicate much
inertness in the Liberal ranks. For this rem sons
may soon be found. Mr. Gladstone's majority
In the House of Commons is so large that the
Liberals feel they can afford to let some seats
slip and yet their principles be in the ascendant;
While the muddle the Ministry made of venom
important questions last session, has made many
of their supporters lukewarm. Besides this
there is the fact that the great questions of the
last few years are settled, and the Liberals,
aforetime so ardent, are chilled by the vagaries of
Sir Charles Dilke and his Republican con-
federates., Again, the Liberal party embraces
many of the crotchet mongers, of the day, and
the advocates of the Permissive Bill, or the
opponents of the Contagious Diseases Acts,
frequently suffice to wreck the chances of •
Liberal candidate. Hence the loss of •
Ministerial supporter at Plymouth. Mr.
Rooker unwisely committed hione" to the
POCW;1111iVO Bill agitators, and its effect was that
one-fourth of the Liberals abstained from voting.
Mr. Bates, on the other hand, thereby secured
the teat beer interest and polled 24./0 more than
the Conservative candidata in 1803. So the
Opposition won the seat by 242 votes. At
Dover, however, Mr. Jeasol was wise enough not
to listen to the appeals of the teetotallers, but
rested his claims on board Liberal principles,
sad won by SS—a sufficient majority, it is true,
but not enough to warrant exultation. Here,
too there was a considerable Liberal secession,
but according to the Standard, 601110 of the
loaders of the Conservative party riquiesced in
the return of the Mir 'Aerial candidate, and there-
by "grossly &hued their position and influence."
Noting the Liberal disatlectiou these elections
have betokened, the Doily News trusts that next
Session the Government, by a sagacious and
generous policy, will suce.eed mu reconciling
wounded friends, and confirming the allegiance
of wavering supporters.
In face of the protests that have been made
by the Lord Chief Justice and other learned
judges against the appoiutment of sir Robert
Collier to the Judicial Committee, that appoint-
ment has been carried out. Something more
will doubtless be heard of this matter when
Parliament assembles.
Very little more, we opine, will be heard of
the new social movement, A conference took
place on Saturday between Mr. Scott Rumell and
the "skilled workmen's" committee, when a
resolution was adopted, postponing any further
steps in regard to the "seven points" in the ab-
sence of any definite proposition from the Legis-
lative Council for mutual action. It may be
taken for granted that the farce has now been
played out, much to the chagrin of both psi kiss.

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