The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-03-14 00:00:00

Dote's.

"Great my, and little wool" sums up the Puila-
mentary busiases of the put week. The debate on
Army Recorisnizatlon bag been 011ri ie." on night alter
iallibt with great spirit In the Commons, amity by
Imuitarp sm. The principal passage of arms was
witnessed 09 Thursday night between Lill Dello and
Captain Vivian. Lord Elam twitted the Financial
Secretary of the War Office with having his "pure
virgin financial mind corrupted by office and debauched
by the Secretary of State ;" sad Captain Vivian re-
plied that Lord Elcho, had he lived in the titue of
the Deluge, would hevo :dosed to enter the ark, and
persisted in paddling his own canoe, and that while he
boasted of being the only " unwhipped" member, he
mad be reminded of the phrase " Spare the rod and
spoil the child." The !till does not seem to find any
entniisimtia admirers, ia the House, and very many
a um, public .v,f) with the spirit of the resolu-
tions proposed as the large !needing at St. Jemea's hail
on Friday night, over which Mr. John Stuart Mill
inaiddad, and whiede condemned • plan of army catca-
lling, and rteuhltaon that added three millions to our
roma mit army expenditure to obtain only •
moderate lacrosse of strength and efficiency. However
when it comes to • division no doubt the Government
will have a large majority. The Lords have consiilrriil
the probable "effacement of England" and bullied 0.,
Government for the Fenian amnesty.

What did Mr. Disraeli mean? Had he scented out
another secret tresty--one between Prussia and itus•ia
—or was hls question merely • bait? Further•
lie. Gladstone say all that could be sahl about the sub-
ject ; or, did le, in his rather curt answer, merely
speak in an offleial sense, and thus announced that hs
had no cognisance of the existence et a treaty The
New Arne Prue of Vienna has only inereamA tic
mystery by amosensing that a formal alliance betas, en
Husk and Prltillii was concluded at Ems at the fret
indliestion of war. And the telegrams or congratula-
tions sad thank, I—What do they mean Earl
Oranvll umawdect upon Earl Oarnarvon us Thursday
night by sift if the Opposition, who seemed to have
some knowledge of the existence of a treaty, could
afford him say information. Earl Carnarvon, however,
"knew nothlag."

The Cabinet changes have been singularly uotortu.
nate. Instead of Introdneing new men, the old men
hams been shuffled about. Mr. Chichnter Forteseue
bee bOOll taken from Ireland, and made President of
the Board of Trade. Hr. Fortosene knows a good
deal about Ireland, and nothing about trade. The
Margit, of Harlington bas been [moved from the
Poet-offles, snd sent to Ireland; and Mr. Mona.!!,
who wffl have been a grit-rate Irish Secretary, is
rice the Marquis of Harlington.
ralttawb,traroseben, who knows something about
finance, sod aMb about the Poor•law, but nothing
shoat naval matters, is made First Lord of the
umitraiy. us warmest supporters of the Govern-
beet are Wad !

The Beinionid believes that owing to the increase of
to army aad navy ortignatse Mr. Lal/0 will hare to
Wa by additional taxation, •
wa deficiency a

The annottnamment by Mows. Rothschild of • new
union loan of £l2, ,000—proposal to be "'mad at
WA• time when • Conference was esosulerini tbe
GE Roads's " insulting dcmasd," las Provoked •
rosi issaonstratlon of patriotism on the Stock Ex•
min So great was the indismitiou that on '1 hut's-
a bonito was made of the application Niles. A
Dion against the loan wao freely circulAtca it Situ
ty, and the following Uses wore posted on tho walls
the Stook Exchange :
Soft Judos) Bun,
Your ull 1. full,
Which Rlll4ll Im SO needing ;
bdo cannot not
TO Mg thfilje Ntaraight
Ern) the w oak! be bleeding.
Bat sanely, John,
She tiiee 11 on
ID vale, while thing. look murk..
,
Or with your eokl
You'll had you Si cold
Yourself, as well a. Turkey.
Ho• r, the monied public do not share the sentiment
of nimbus of the Stook Exchange, and tho loan
sta. one premium, aad, it Is said, has been all sub.
ram- for. And quite right ; six per cent. can't be
got • •7 day in the week.

!tv, cows from Paris Is atill ominous- The
Guard continue their armed plc-air at lion t-
wst 'correspondents say that there is a striking
LA titian in the Parisian people to settle down to
y work again • and we are told that hostility to
ti -mans is inoreising. The fact is, that the popii•
I the city seem to have been completely de-
ed by the long edge, the surrender, and the
;ion of the place; and this is especially true of
I' I Republicans and Socialists. The state of the
r'• shown by the fact that the National Assembly
it has resolved to return to Vocalise, con-
e ' the advisability of Fontein bleau u its
10.4 place of meeting. Para now requires France
CO: 4 her rescue even more than when she was
1,6 d by the Germans

The cost of the war on the Frank side cannot be
las Uan 100 millions sterling, and the Germans take
590 millionsas indemnity ; but the effect of this will
not be merely to thermals the French national debt by
300 : :Mons of stock. The French rented now stand
as li,ce over 50 ; and if France goes into the public
marl- .1 for money, they will be depressed to at least
this 'tare. It is important to oonsider this in com-
',mina the future burden which Franca will have to
tsv. o‘ :Mb our own national debt. Oar 3 per cent.
Ac.. - stands now at til or 92 ; but the Freneh will
have :4) issue stock at little more than half that rate,
rr tr. -sine their interest on new stook to. any, 5 per
cent to obtain kali front the public the priori at which
ours stands. In either case the immediate addition to
the i.:irden of the French debt will ba squiv.L at
500 .nillions of oonsols. Adding this to the l'a)0
atillioas which France already owed when the war
nonamenoed, we have a tremendous weight of debt for
MG a great and rich country to bear, and which
Indoor!, can only be borne by means of great economy
Is administration conjoined with heavy taxes. To
mars the one thing, anti to impose the other, what
esposplally is wanted is a strong national government,
width is able and willing to maintain itself without
imv military force or expenditure. Aid this very
deratam France is yet wanting.

Thla is the sort of Republic which non in other
pliwee than Fiume would like to see established. "An
orator of llontmatre recently slimmed up his idea of a
=tby nying it was that form of government
ett every citizen. whether he worked or not,
should receive from the public parse :30 soua a day for
himself, 15 sous for hL wife, and 5 eons for sash
child. This he considered his right; and for that he
would die."

It was announeed the other day that " On Tuesdsy
morning, a body ol men went to the residence et Mr.
Howe, of Rialunond, near Nenagh. and bred lire shore.
Mr. Howe is a stream and is mush respected." So
we should imagine ; or he would hardly have received
so !lettering a piece of Irish attention. The only way
to got on comfortably in the happy sister island,
evidestly *onside in beings native, and in being—evil,
wet wash respeeled.

There has been some talk about the origin of the
phrase " A 1106 MI of shopkaikers." A correspondent
writing to an evening contemporary produces an earlier
authority than anyone yet quoted. It is Josiah Toon, or,
wbo, he gays in one of his trads on the American
sliflioultass, mitten in 1774, or at any rate before the
War of Imimamadooos, remarks that a shopkeeper will
sot Maly his customers, and "what is true of • shop-
keeper is teas of • sAopkccpisj nation." Timken adds
Me miter, was sauna free-trader before Mom Smith,
mid mem to have anideipated the Cobden dootrine of
laionatiosia morality.

Some of the writers la archarelogioal papers °option*
le 'calif; wasting with old rodeos that have long
&toe laded away. In DOMAinhowever, the observance
of Shrovetide is maintained full brae, and on Pen•
sake Day this year many doors were &mailed with
" potshards." Troops of youngstere were seen end
heard la various pads of Dorset end Somerset carolling
eat the verse—

Here cow. I
I've Iwo here before;
If you don't gl I • pancake
Bang goes your door;
And hemijaidid go tho door in many piece. In opu
insiense under our own observation the polioe
wan summoned to the help of tho &nicked hour-
=Aed we repost a case of " Panshard "
in our paper to-day from the Sturminster
division in this sounty.

Tan AIIaItIMUZIMAL Barman for Cheat Britain have
jest been issued in their oomplete form. The acreage
ruder wheat last year was lean by nearly 200,000 sores
than is 1)169; but there was an increase of 120,000
acres under barley. Fla: onitivetion has extended in
bet has considerably diminished in Ireland.
In the total acreage returned under mops and to
Fir is nearly 7,000 ewes more than in 1869. There
is an busmen of 1,780 agree under corm of 2,423 sores
ander green Grow and of 8,847 nedcr Mover and
grams in rotation ; and thero are 5,756 sines lett of
permanent pasture. Under corn there was 873 acres lees
wheat, and 2,061 WU more barley. There are nine
owes leas flex thou in 1869, and one sore of hops is
returned. The live stook returns for this county in
1870 show 3,175 more cattle, 1,308 more sheep, and
4.551 MOM piP than 1a1869. Hew far these returns
are sosarste we ean't ten, though it is to be feared the
Islam. el the Winn power in the country prevents
lemma universally hem supplying the required Mho-
matiea , end essinquently say WI memos derived f row
then NMI be meepted with caution. However, we
hope the Donee agriculturists are too wise to withhold
ensh simple but important national statistics; if they
he so, the raisins prove that last year there was
masted progrem in the agrloniture of our county.

Li eid.6eldened elnuchman who had been reading
the resent eesiseledisal decision of the Privy Council;
reinasked that he wee glad Is est that Purchase wad to
be pat a step to is all aura ea well am in the army.

A corpse we' found ia tie Avon on Tuesday which
proved to be that ot • man namel Thomas Reading,
who ogliodowsly &appeared from Wanda/inn three
swaths ago. A Toadies at " Found drownsd" was
retuned.

60etretast dates that erreittem okwsymen hare
availed thrometvo et the relief afforded by the prwthame
ad the Otero DirobUittre Bill. flm trowels Mill
la boa sear& Mi. Month! Rogan is amowg those who
yam thereseimmi the Medial ohanakar.
A NOM= Itutacia.—Tbs Rm. Caaoa Tandy, of
imam to the Tsbim to ray that on the 6th
:Irlaiati. two alma, wbo where mate Whims from
In lie lip, via& the Amber my ao hope of
were lamleatraeowily restored to pada* Imola
by mall glow at web.. soak eifiasykras by
Obi bibrorgos id our Lady ol Louis%

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