The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-12 00:00:00

Monet eon* Expren.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12th.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The last of the causes arising out of the failure of
Sedlades Tipperary Buck, Kingston v. the Executor!'
Eyre, carom before th 6 L wd Chancellor on Thursday,
end was again adjourned. The snit Its. been on fog
thi,tv years, the costs on one side alone smouatiag to
£15,000. A single winter was under crose-examin.
maim' for nearly firs year*, sod one of the asunsel
spoke for nine months consecutively, the Jude
log that harin4 in view the commends of the issue. he
did not COIMICII4, too munh time. This 1100MOU5
litlirSti,lo was caused by aloso of FAO 000, subsequently
Increased to £lOO,OOO. 6drsoced by the Tipperary
Bank to the Earl of Kingston upon the security of
his land in Tipperary, now known so the Buckley
estates.

A great deal has been written and geld of late about
the en' ray-smut way in which many people live. There
I. doubt's= • close connection between commercial
frauds and domestic shuns. The heeds of families
rush into all kinds of haphazard speculations, and
wink at the ruinous proceedings which take place at
home. Appeareaces mast be kept up. However
rotten the state of aft sirs may be the proems of
veneering cannot be dispensed with—nay feel! the
more neosetery to hide the corruption which is going
on. Sons are brought up in public schools and
possibly sent to one or other of the Universities,
where, as • matter of course, with the example of
reckless Improvidence before their eye*, they get into
debt and disgrece. On leaving they booms* idlers
about town ; frequeLten of billiard-room.; loungers
at bars and admirers of barmaids. Destitute of solid
learning, they cannot te.ch ; unacquainted with
baskets, they are unfit for • conntinglioase ; taught
to believe that they are destined to inherit
great wealth, they permed' the Jews to make
advances at an enormous interest. and MS*
go altogether to the bad for want of some-
thing to do. Daughters are sent to • College where
they are put through their paces according to rales
made and provided for the mental and physical
nature of girls born with silver spoons In their
mouths. A ads French, lege German. • ;ttlieof
Italian, with " dhaltespere and the musicali
the pianoforte, haply the harp, and lagoons from •
deeding master, go to maks up the curriculum, and fit
them for the dude' of life. They also dad out how
to tires,; aoquir• • knowledge of the "latest novelties,"
and learn how necessary it Is In faehionsble life to vie
with neighbours In ostentatious display. In doe
course the daughters come home. They may be in
some sense ornamental. bat they are of no utility
whatever In the household. Possibly they may not be
ton languid to scold the servants, and are seldom so
fatigued as not to he able to indulge their te4.l 'r
Instrumental or vocal music. Pet dogs abound in the
family mansion, and come in for a large share of their
attention When not enraged in talking sandal. they
amuse themselves be preparing dodoes and emblems
for the Minaret, church la which they go through the
forms of public worship. Curate., when are
not at hand, conduct them to or concerts,
and, brooking no control, they go in and out whenever
they please. Mamma is • good easy soul, and almost
sleeps her life away, while peps when at home is very
reserved, says nothing about hie affairs, and bears his
troubles with • celm front. Ruin stares hba in the
face; be knows full well that the bobble, looser or
later, must burst; that the day Ii 000110 ff when his
bills will not be renewed ; that the boar is at hand
when the bank will stop payment; that t. edema are
getting tired of paper, and clamour for money; and
that the substantial fabric reared by frond on a
specious foundation of false pretence is about to topple
over only to involve him and his belongiags in disgrace
and rain. Still be vouchsafes not • word.' It would
be of no use if he did. the wife could not be =dot°
understand the podtion, and any efforts in the way of
retrenchment, even were she willing to make
them, would be fruitless to avert the impend-
ing crash. As to the children, why should
they be made miserable before their time? Why
not panne an epicurean policy—eat, drink, and be
merry, for to-morrow we di* I us • mad world, my
masters, and it jogs on with retribution ever at hand
for wrong done The sword of Damocles in suspended
Over he heads of thousands apparently In the
ion of wealth. "Unconscious of the butcher=
the lit.'s lambkins play." Presently • large house
fails ; the keystone falls out of the arch °omega-acted in
open defiance of the principles of honesty and truth.
Paterfamilias goes home and intimates that he, too,
must stop payment. The 'snail get into a state of
cousternation, and reproach the husband and father
Is bitter terms. A scramble Is made to •ave some
thing from the wreck; finery, and what Mr. Micaw
her called "portable property,' being first of all
mired upon; the unhappy man is left to fate angry
creditors without sympathy or counsel from those who
should be neared and deereet to him. He has no
place of rest, and the neighb nos, many of whom are
pursuing the selfsame course and are destined to a
similar end, nod their sagacious heads, protest that
they have all along foreseen the result, and pass the
vanquished votaries of faribion and frivolity by upon
the other side Whet becomes of the sone ? One or
two may enlist, another will 'crape a few pounds to-
gether and go off to the at tiporles. The loiterers live
upon pity, and perhaps pick up • living in billiard
' They have no knowledge of any profession or
trade, and for the most part are simply ou asberers of the
ground. And the daughters / They ive not fit for
g.vernesses I "they toil not, neither do they spin." If
-
and lifted out of the mire. But the others must win
their bread. If they essay to become sempetrmess or
aseistanta in shops they are distanced by girls to the
manner born, and who, instead of inheriting damaging
traditions of fem., splendour, know how to make the
most of a little money, and eujoy the fruits of honest
labour. The fate of girls thrown from • position of
supposed affluence into • state of helpless poverty is
sad indeed I And yet this is going on around us
every day. People, by thousands, In almost every
sphere of life, are grasping at the shadow only to lose
the substance. They strain at gnats and swallow
camels. They live in realms of fiction, inhabit castles
In the air, believe in the unreel, and display an ardent
fondness for shams of eree7 kind. Society is
that stability which is the surest guarantee of triZ
worth. Failures may come, trade may use depressed,
disaster overtake adventurers, upright commercial men
be involved in ruin wrought by influences over which
they have no control, but the masquerade of fashion
and folly must not be checked; the carnival of
frivolity must ffo on, and appearances must be kept
up,.even at the cost of personal riegredation, the loos of
honour, and the forfeiture of sell-respect.