The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-06-10 00:00:00

Burnt Conti! Expos,

DOROHISTIFt. JUNE 101). MK

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The annual gathering of the Dorset Friendly
Society at Puldletowa has been one of the most ler
portent events that hare occurred in this district
during the week. Though then is • regrettable
demean in the members, yet the statement read by
Mr. E. Pearce, 'one of the oldest trims is of the society,
at the meeting shows the society to have weathered
the dorm, and that it it now as safe and secure as
such institution can be. Certain remarks hazarded
by Lord Nelson at the last meeting of the Wiltabire
Society have been • source of mania lassart-burning
and reseatmeat by ratitou of It. pactive teams:stens
and we trust his lordship slit have hi-. attention
drawn to the 11111SSOC, a, that he may have the oppor-
tunity of patting aureet on tbe back, as suggested.
Still, the society ia sultiaiently secure now alto neither
require Lord Nelson's patting or be affected by his
espersiona, but we would sug,est to his lordship,
possibly his OWO •ociety in which he takes so much
Interest might require all his attention.
Little as the dynerniterds can do in the way of
Intimidating even the aggregate population of Loudon,
not to mention that of the wtsole country, them
wretches yet manage to indict peculiar hardship on
As the Work, they perpetrate on pro-
perty come under the cotmory of "wilful damage,"
the inuracco c ouipauiet repudiate liabitity ; whilst
public compausati.m from the country rat; can only be
given for O&M kge OSSIS in an open and palpable
riot. do the victims of the recent oxidations
hare bad to repair at their own expense the
Comparatively lunitod in) dry to masonry, mid the
asionlve destreatioa of window glen, furniture, and
erockery. Is owtman woadd be only egaiteble to
sompessate aufferers from the Natioaal Treasury.
Is done by rata* or special Pe:herniate/7 IDOSOSM
In Ireland. liut SO pees a minder law for G:iset
Britain would seem to imply aa expectation of then
outrage* soatiouirm, and the Government naturally
shrink from this. It, however, we should be
unfortunately driven to this coons at last, the present
mad past visit/as will have a right to claim that Use
granting of compensation shall be made ntro-
tenths.
The Derby bad c ens and gone, and Whitsuntide
was jest over, when we began to be ?Lilted by the
plentiful showers which in due oourse—if there be any
duo warn in our climate—we might have expiated
In April, and were anxiously expeetlag all through
May. The long.lelayed molattue will have been truly
welcome in rural district.. Na sooner hal Perlis-
meat re-assembled after the Whitson holiday than the
obi question-asking and answer-evading game began
with respeot to every aepeot of Egyptian affairs. TIN
pablie are weary of this tedious verbal fencing, and an
out of humour both with pertinacious Interrogators end
'veal vs rem po ad eats. Thi qtIISSIOIII WV SO worded • to
suggest disaster all round, and there is nothing in tl re-
plies to give reassurance. It is not likely that our
Government is going to surrender Egypt to an inter-
notional control, to aband Gordon and the Soudan
garrisons, to tenor a defeat at Sortakim, and t submit
In Abyssinia to a new diploinatio rebuff. But then
there Is nothing to relieve the apprehension. excited
by the disquieting losiouttione of the Opposition. It
has been this 'tote of the public mind whkh ham given
additional effect to the uttoranon of Lord SaUabury
sad hia friends In the West The chief of the Oppo-
sition c mil not have choose a in rre suitable time for
opening • platform campaign against the Government.
But the substantial success of Gobi move will depend
very much both upon eventualities to come an I upon
explanations which miniaters may yet be able to fur-
nish.

The Government has now • good opportunity for
carrying oat the cooculiatory policy Indicated by the
"B" article lo the PorraigAtty. Fracas, after her
suoserafal enterpriase in Tunis and elsewhere. appears
to be intent tIpJII acquiring predominant:ll In Morocco
as well a. matured influence In Egypt. It looks very
numb as flour nelanb tort. delostsi In their hopu of
makiag the Rhine • French river, and area driven
from their partial bold upon that stream, wee. revert-
Ing to another Napuleanic sopiratiott—that of making
the Ma:literramean a Freaoh lake. But If they were
not allowed to 'noosed in this design when our way
to ladia Wlle roan! the Cope of Giod Hope, it is not
likely they will be permitted now , whoa our roots is
through thy dues CautL 3,lor•over, a great Italian
kingdom exists now, and both Koala and Attetria
have their ambition, with regard to the eastern part
of the Mediterranean. Colonial empire in Toagaln is
a safer game for Frain* to play at.