The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-10 00:00:00

Pant Countq Expreso,

DORC RESTER, APRIL lOth, 1883.

The Birmingham and Isondm arrests and the
disc 'very of the dynamite arsenal in the capital of the
Midlands are as providential ite the detection of the
Gunpowder rlot, and perhaps, histories' ly, much more
Important. Deterinined conspirators, well backed
with money, bad apparently made privisho f.,r the
destructioo, not of the House of Legislature merely,
but of • great part of Is nion. But for the singular
astuteness of the Birmingham detective foroe—who
In teed have a criminal class to that with, smaller,
of courts), than that of the lifetrop ilia, but ou the
average immeasurably more skilful and clever—the
hideous c inspiracy might have been carried out. It hi
much to congratulate ourselves upon that we have been
'parade horrible massacre But the souabre reflection
remains that the same means which have been now
frustrated by • happy accident may be again employed
with complete 5UC6,9•11. 'there sr s black-hearted
scoundrels en nigh id.; destructive c impound.; may be
manufacture I at any time with rut mu ,h difficulty or
expense. Indeed, the police bylined that the Itirming.
ham factory is only one out of several, and, for any
thing that is known, there may be • down Latins{
ear Lipinski). csucsaled in the portmanteaus of Uri.
enapicious-looking trai eller*, or among the efLcts of
apparently sober aud piously-diepueed artisan.. It is
enough to make folks nervous. The ",resourcsa of
civideation" seem better adapted for placing
tremendous engines of destructi in Intl the hands of
murderers than for detecting or frustrating their
machinations.

S ,me Lf the French Ina 1-doctors are of opireon that
the bloodthirsty proclivities of Fenian', Nihilists, and
Commu lista ate due to a species of mania. It is said
that the object of the recent arreA of Louise Miobol is
to institute as enquiry it her mental condition.
kccording to Parisian Scientists women are most liable
to the epidemic of phrenzy of this species, and they
account on this grouud for the extraordinary ferocity
cd the female insurgents during the Commune. Louise
Michel has recently, by the way, been eogaged in
authorship. Before her arrest she WU writing a
romance, entitled 'The Daughter of the People." She
is probably her own heroine. She was originally •
servant girl, and the currently-received story of her
political aberrations is that she conceived • violent
attachment for • son of We house, in which she served,
was irritated beyond cnitrol by the social considera-
tions which forbade a union, and hellos wildly adopted
the principles of Socialism.

Lord Randolph Churchill has drawn firs; but in
this case it is not the enemy's guns, but those of his
own party, which are open on him. &rear, as it may
seem, his audzity in openly attacking the ostensible
leader of his own paity has rawn down on him the
grave remonstrance, not only of the Standard itself,
which we might be prepared for, but also of all sober.
minded men of the Conservative party. •• High ;inks,"
as we may call them, may be excused in a Churchill,
who site for one of the few pocket bmoughe left in the
country ; but there are limits to the indiscretions even
of the Duke's eon, and Lord Randolph going over to
play the part of a Dilke, and censoring the vvtie
passed for the It lyal l'slaots—this WM too much for
his party, and cannot be c3ndoned.

The railway haunt ii very strong in the House.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer it himself an ex•
Direc!or of the Lueloo and North-Western. Several
miniettre have been connicted with one or other of the
great lines, and, of c inn°, very many member, on
both aides of the If ise are officially, or as share.
holders, int,r.n.to I in tin railway system. Toe
ministry have found it expedient to do something to
conciliate Sir Edward Wst,tin and director.. generally.
At the expenu f offeu ling the Dubliner., the
Lon lou and N rth•Westero hes been Wen the Iri,h
mail c nitric!. Toe Chann3l Tonnel Scheme has been
referre Ito th e n.ileratiou of .1 committee, 'netted
of being at once kn cited on the head ; and passenger
duty has been remitted in the case of parliamentary
pusmy/A. If th 6 lut conceuion I. I llowed by a
reduction in third-clau faros, and an increase in the
number of workinen'a trains, no one will begrudge the
remission. But the probabilities are that it will
lacreas9 the revenues of rich comp miss without
materially beaelittiog the po war clam of travellers.