The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-19 00:00:00

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Where is hs, _
So blunt in memory, so old at heart.
At such a distance from his youth in grief,
That, having seen, forgot :

What a Ruy Mai lie WWI thought of his entrance in
the valet's garb, the Fallantry of his bearing to the
Ministers, the fire of his devotion to the Queen, the mar-
vellous picturesque attitude, with one foot on the chair
and the sword waving in his hand, in the last act. I
thought of all this when I saw the part attempted by M.
Mounet,Sully • month ago. I saw Pechter first in the
spring of '52, when be and Doche were carrying all Paris
before them in the Dame sax Can 414.11, when he was in
the prime of hie life and his genius. I saw him last—took
• final leave of him—in New York in 'T3, prematurely aged,
bloated, with all his spirits gone, and his temper moored.
Rumour, there were then of his intemperate living; but
here in England he warn the most abstinent of men.
The two actors who, above all others I have known, had
the ball at their feet, and might have done what they
would, kicked down their chances and spoiled their
Ines.

The Parisian monde WI oa s'essuss has just been put in
• state of excitement with the tragical end of a foreign
youth, Don Enrique Salaw-Marques, who for some
months past had been the cy=ire of all eyes and the
pink of fashion. round the I About • year ago he
had taken up his quarters in Paris, with • capital of about
two hundred thousand pounds, which he was said to have
Inherited quite lately in his native country, Mexico. He
lived in a grand style, bought • house in the Champs
Eiysees. and was soon widely popular at the clubs and
theatres, lie was alleged to have undergone heavy
luises on the turf and the Stock Exchange, and to have
very little left of his money when be started on •
journey to Italy some time ago, in the company of a well.
known actress. The news has just leaked out that in
consequence of • guile at beeeere played at Naples, in
which be lost his last penny, Don Enrique and the lady
have committed suicide.

It in natinfactory to learn that the hotel-keeper who
supplied the unfortunate young Mainwaring with cocain
of drink has been punished. His pocket has not ruiffered
much, but his reputation probably km. Thin holiday
rieanon is a good opportunity for speaking p!ainly on this
subjert. Let the seaside visitor walk into any irt the
hotel-barn of the town where he may be sojourning, and
he will be sure to find, at any hour of the day, young men
drinking the vilest compound• that the Assommoir ever
provided, handed to the unfortunate victims by a leering
Hobe specially engaged by the landlord for her beauty
and impudence. It in from these reeking rookeries, half
baro.ni.;4
he half brandy-trap, that our youth depart
in mind and body. It ought to an cell eeetl7
reposed of by Government. Let no drink be supplied,
exclit in the public rooms. Public opinion has its
weight, even with dipsomaniacs. If Sir Wilfrid lAwson
would for once in a way appear to be seriously in earnest,
and not make bad jokes on • matter which the best
joke ill becomes, he might do some good service.
Ex-President rlyssen Grant is first favourite for the
next Presidency of the rnited Statea lie owes his
prii,rent popularity, it is said, less to the services he
formerly rendered to the Republic than to the marked
attentions which have been shown to him by foreign
potentates during his prolonged tour through Europe and
to., Detailed reportn of his program are regularly
telegraphed to the American paws, which are read with
the greatest interest by the free and enlightened citir.ens
of the l7nited Statees. There seems to Ire • secret
hankering after "Principalities and Power." in the
hreant of the niany-headed boast ; and if General Grant is
not the ruse, at least "it a cr,rir pre., /fats."

sir I.arnet We/irelcy. has it appears, some work still to
do. Ile will not find it easy to lay hands upon Getaway°,
and until the Zulu king is secured the war cannot be said
to be at an end. But it now enters upon • practically new
phase, and will degenerate into • guerrilla warfare of •
very troublesome kind. The chief reason of our recent
succour has been that we stuck together and fonht in
compact bodies. If our forces are to be distributed over
wide area, such an active and enterprising enemy will
have numberless chances of surprising detachments,
and inflicting more small but complete disasters. The
general exodus, moreover, of those officers who have
gained moiC experience irilt befell, Such men as Wood
and Buller cannot fail to be missed. Sir George Colley,
m ireover, who has joined Sir Garnet as chief of the Staff,
is a heat in himself. He ham served previously at the
Cana, and in thine very parts, and, while the country and
its people are quite familiar to him, has a deep and
profound knowledge of war.
It is well known that, immediately on Sir Carnet
Wolaeley's appointment, Lord Chelnidord's brother, the
Lord Justice of Appeal, sent a telegram by special steamer
from Madeira apprising Lord Chelmsford of the fact, and
urging him to do etormatafu at all hazards. What was the
result! Instead of waiting for • few days longer, which
after these months of delay he might well have done, for
the proper development of hispiano—which were that
GenmrslMrselock should make • Rank attack with his
brigade, so as to catch the Zulu army in a trap and
utterly rout it—he maku a precipitate advance, snatches
a partial and transitory success, immediately afterwards
making an undignified retreat ; and all this to serve
simply his own private interest& and thwart thou of Sir
Carnet. If this is not so, then the other born of the
dilemma presents itself. After all, this great Zulu army
was a mere wind-beg, which one well-organised brigade of
English troops, properly led, could pierce and dissipate;
and all this waste of men and treasure is due to the
incompetency of Lord Chelmsford himself.

As Lord Chelmsford has gone up in the estimation of
the Natal colonists, so Sir Garnet has gone down. The
explanation is simple enough. The former was really an
immense benefactor he paid away the British sovereigns
freely enough, and brought into the country large
reinforcements', all for the benefit of trade. Sir Garnet,
as we know, is proceeding upon the opposite tack. What
with the regiment. he has already ordered off, and those
which are
loyal
to follow, the harvest-time will won be
over for the lo and public-spirited colonists, who have
been growing stand prosperous at our expense. Next,
Sir Garnet will cal upon them to pay their share of the
bill, and it remains to be seen how they will respond.
But it just least certain that the heal and front of the
whole offence will be Sir Garnet Wolseley, and he may
expect a rich return in local unpopularity, perhaps in
abuse.

Success In the Ulundi light is now generally
acknowledged to have been due mainly to our formation.
kut no 0124 appears to be alive to the irony. It used to be
our proud boast that British soldiers were the only troop.
that could fight In line Since the introduction of breech.
loaders we have gone further, and declared that ',pares
would be no loam necessary even against cavalry. Yet
lure we bare • large force, not only fighting in that
ionisation against infantry on foot, but actually moving
in it for miles across the open. There is very little doubt
that the Zulu "mare" we. ourgeneral out there