The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-17 00:00:00

WHAT TUE WORLD SAYS.

I am informed, on excellent authority, that to insolent
spioch which Gvneral Kauffiusan ia reported to have
recmtly delivered at Tailikend is • pure fabrication.
Esmorny bat been entered in the pretraineie of Inn!
litaconalleld's ivernmant for in lotus the green
with w;lich 1111.1,1 the cintideration of Pmlia-
m •itt u.s It, be tie I up it to las laholislied. Thia will effect
• ieving of mom, fifty pion& • year —eimi.thing to be
uproariously grateful for in them extravagant times

I have beard of managers will receive payment for per.
mittiog actors to make an •ppearanee on their blad.,
And k would appear this, are proprietors of tuagaslnes
who are orn to do business in a similar way. The
fokorrine adreitwinsent appears in the cument number of
tie A tkorbarrm:... . .

" A dements of three pounds will he given to Any gintla•
rash who cats srcura the publicathin of a abort story in
me of the popular magazine.. Address," lac.
A story is sent to me alsot the late Mr. Mcliabh
C motor of the E linburgh li itanical Gardeng When
Duhufe's celebrated paint age of Adam and Eva were on
exhibition, bfr. Mellott we. Wren to ace them, and was
asked for Lit opinion. "1 thiak no great tis mpg of
the painter," said the great gardener. " Why, man,
Eve** tetuptin' A lam wi' a pippin of a variety that wee
na known until atisot t minty soars ago r As genuine a
hit of criticism as that of tho farmer who told George
Itortand that he had never stefil eight little pigs feeding
without one of them having his fat In this trough. Mor•
land altered the picture.

It i• of • rar• occurrence thet a person will prove his
own guilt; but a came of the kind occurred 'act week in
the TY•,orce Court. The wiro. who hoot previously
obtained ado cree of Judie al eop &ration ou the ground of
the cruelty of her huchsod, an odt-wrowint of the police,
preeented • renand ptition thermos horn with infidelity,
the suit being undefended. There was a difficulty ID
',ravine the c. 0., owing tu the absence of wit 5.....; hut
the hurbanol, who wait in Court. intimated that he woo
the respondent; whereupon he to. sworn and examined,
when he frankly ackirowleclood that he had been unfaith-
ful. and • decree rriai wou pronouncsd.

Many • doe lady hu had to lenient the Inas of her
canine pet, only to recover blvi at Net through the
medium of some detesteble dewy-run, at an expense re-
prverated in respectable guineas. Of course all valuable
dogs, and especially ladies' tiets, a,s !bible to be stolen;
hut there is no reason why we should handicap ourselves;
in favour of the thief. The system p issued In hlontresi
w.n1,1, I think. give • fair chance to skay dogs of being
sent b we without falling into the hoods of lb. good
Sant.ritan dog-stealers by the way. Every owner or •
dog pays a tan to, the municipality, call. compelled to
have • collar on the dog with • number correeponding In
the hooks with the a 61110 an Iwidresie of the owner. A
ite,y dog uithout a cillar is forleltot A dog with a
colhd is easily restored to its owner. It appear. to me
their, is something in this.

Tur BoAtti...p TRAPS RETURN.I.—The diminution in
the imports ix over six millions sterling, or not far from
per cent; which, acronllng to the orth.lox economical
view proves an alarming reduction in our purchasing
power. As, however, a third of this decline is due to the
reduction in the import of cion, which I. nearly 41 per
cent. kits than last year—a result which is to be directly
traced to our better harvext—there ran be no doubt that,
instead of being alarmed, we ought to feel gratified. The
Harems balance of trade in heavy enough even yet, and
over the eleven months of the year the imports still show
in,resse in the total, while the exports manifest serious
So far as the latter are concerned the decline
has been continuous now for years.

We have done bigger things in the past than beat other
roiantries with their own weapons ; and even if we had to
bring our coal from America we might still run the
Anicricane hard in many manufactures. But, in order to
do that, our producers must cease to flood foreign machete
with alulterated wants ; our financiers must abandon the
illusory task of keeping profitless trade going by reckless
advannes Ow has been the case with our trade in the East
thatalts to the City of lilaegow Bank) ; our merchants
must learn again to make an Engliehman's word ail good
m his bowl ; our labourers most give • fair day's work for
a fair day'. wage, and not use every device to diminish
their output ; and politicians ant diplomatists must
replace ahstnsct dogmas by practical common sense in
their dealing, with foreigners. If these things were done,
we should not dread any decline of English industry, what-
ever the fat* of Emilaad•coa:-beds might be.

Tom POWER OF PANlC.—Thare has seldom been • more
glaring illustration of the power of panic than is furnished
I.v the compulsion tail upon the Caledonian Bank to go into
bluidation. It bas had to stop business, and its share-
holders have probably lost their capital, because it held
four gill() shares of the City of blisagow Bank. Its Auditor
WWI perfectly sound; its capital was untouched ; its
stability was not suspected; and it is morally certain it
could have continued prosperous and flourishing, doing a
sole hank ng business on sound princip'es, and meeting all
its liabilities with the utmost ease, those resulting from
the Glasgow bank calls included. But people would not
above it, sad their disbelief compelled the directors to
put up the shutter.
What was to be expected has taken place OD the Paris
Boum, the great market for the National Lottery tickets:
the high prices ruling at the beginning of last week have
brought immense numbers to be sold both from Paris and
from the provincoi ; and the supply far exceeding the
demand, tickets if the first series, which sold for et a
fortnight age, only fetch 34. The usual price for the
Istwr series is If. fook. There is • regular gasubligclz
them, speculators of the loweetesth th esp call out e
they will saber buy or sell at " Twentywlght and • half,
twiinty.nine ;" seething they will give 284 sous or take MI
sous. It is to be remarked that the quotations are la
sous, which have br many years been legally abolished;
butsucti is the locoed habit, that they are still usually men-
tioned in popular bargains. In the course of an afternoon
bundles of tickets will. change hands • down times or
more with • gain of ball • sou (a fel thing) per ticket, and
'whips • maple of shillings may be the ultimiste reward
of a day's work. Doss the Government of the Republic,
and mincipally dose the Ministry of Commerce, think It
Is raisins PUblie morality by introducing this new theotes
of gaulbling amongst the lowest classed of society, a few
frau*. being all the capital required t