The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-11-04 00:00:00

I3oropl Coatitti expreso.

TUESDAY. NOVEYfillt 4. lett

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Her Majesty, airoompanied by Prince Leopold
and Princess Beatrice, will, acoording to the
most recent arrangements, leave Balmoral on
November 22 for Windsor, where the Court will
remain until after December 14, and then
leave for Osborne, remaining there till after
Christmas.

We regret to announce the death of Sir
William Bova?, Lord Chief Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas. He was in the fifty-ninth
year of his age. He was appointed Solicitor-
General under Lord Derby's Administration, In
July, 1866, and upon the retirement of Lord
Chief Justioe Erie, in November of that year,
succeeded him as Lord Chief Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas. It is believed that he will
be succeeded by the Attorney. General, Sir J.
D. Coleridge, who will be succeeded by Mr.
Henry James, the new Solicitor General, whose
place would probably be filled by Mr. V. Har-
court or Mr. Watkin Williams. It is said that
the death of the late judge resulted from an
attack of gout. The death of Sir William Bovill
will thus probably came two elections—one at
Exeter and another in the Denbigh burghs. The
Cons:rvative candidate at Exeter is Mr. Arthur
Mills, who sat for some years for Taunton.
In home politics the most interesting matter of
recent occurrence has been the coutrovelay
upon the English Education Act raised by Mr.
Bright at Birmingham; and it may be asked
does the aspect of affairs justify the gratifieation
expressed by Lord Lyttelton on Friday, in
delivering an address at a training college at
Saliley, that the principles enunciated in the
speech of the right hon. member for Birming
ham were not generally materialised by Her
Majesty's Government 1 When Mr. Bright
spoke, many perilous might have thought
thus, for Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Fonder,
_to
mention no other minister, were both eredited
with a leaning to denominational education, in
spite of the Premier's Irish University BIM
But now Lord Ripon seems to have put a rather
different face upon the matter. As Pnaideat of
the Council, he was the formal chief of Mr.
Foester, though the public usually look to the
Vice-President as the real Minister for education;
and the noble lord represents his own partiality
for denominationalism as having been &Relent
in giving a tone to the Education Bill opposed
to the undenominational predilections of Mr.
Forster. The fact that the Bill, in passing
through the Commons, was virtually taken out
of the latter gentleman's hands by the Premier,
and the further fen that Lord Ripon's retirement
from the Ministry was coincident with the
announced return of Mr. Bright, seem to con-
firm the view. But how about Mr. Gladstone?
Has he changed his opinions, or was he ever a
denominationalist I On the whole Loa
Lyttelton's satisfaction doss not nem to be bassi
upon very good grounds. Of course we gannet
take Mr. Baxter's utterances to his Breekin and
Arbroath constituents on Friday as committing
the Ministry, or they would be committed by the
bon, gentleman to household suffrage in town
and country alike, to equal electoral districts.
to disestablishment of the church of England
and that of Scotland, and to various other
Radical meisures, as well as to repeal of the
famous 25th clause. But Mr. Baxter is not yet
a Cabinet Minister, and may be allowed a
certain personal latitude of speech. But, suoh as
he is, he Is Mr...oladstone's trusted coadjutor.

The letter of the Comte de Chambord io
Chesnelong brings to an end the oontemplatoi
Monarchical restoration. If it does not illustrate
the saying that the Bourbon. never learn and
never forget, it as least means that the royal
writer has nothing to °once& and will accept
nothing until be is restored to the throne of
his ancestors. He says :—" I was not affected
when public opinion, carried away by a current
which I deplore, alleged that I atlas! consented
te become the Legitimist King of a revolution.
I possessed as my security the testimony of a
man of feeling. I resolved to remain silent so
long as! was not compelled to make an appeal
to your honesty: but as, notwithstanding your
efforts, misapprehension, accumulate which tend
to obscure my policy, though it is u clear is the
day, I owe the whole truth to that country
which, though it may misunderstand me, yet
does homage to my sincerity, because it knows
I have never deceived it, and never will. lam
asked now to sacrifice may honour—what can I
reply, but that I retract nothing, and curtail
nothing of my previous declarations," The
Coate de Chambord still claims to govern by
Divine Right, and will admit no preliminary
compromise of his authority. He upholds the
Hag of his Flousa and of his principles; and it
Is France who must concede to him; not he who
will make CODOINSIOI2I to France. In conclusion
he szys :—" My personality is nothing, my
principle le everything. Franoe will see the end
of her trials when she is willing to understand
this. I am a necessary pilot, the only one
capable of guiding the ship to port, because I
have for that a mission of authority. You, sir,
are able to do much to remove misunderstandings
and prevent weakness in the hour of struggle.
Your consoling words on leaving Salzburg are
ever present in my mind. France cannot perish
for Christ still loves His Franks; and, when
God has resolved to saves people, He takes oats
that the sceptre of justice is only put into hands
strong enough to hold it." This puts an end to
the fusion of parties wig& followed that of the
two branches of the Royal family of Prance.
What wilk be ths upshot lean Interesting question,
and until that is solved French politics will
have more interest for us than our own tames
affairs.

For a fortnight the Tichborn• trial remains In
abeyance, and then it is to be resumed and
finished. Now that the end is approaching
people are beginning to count the oast. It has
been suggested that the question at issue is OM
which affects only private interests, and that it
is a scandalous waste of judicial energy and
public money that it should be made the sub-
ject of such a protracted inquiry. It is obvious
that, if the question is to be tried at all, it ought
to be tried so is to secure a decisive result, and
to leave no room for its being re-opened in any
other way. In Inquiry to be decisive must be
exhaustive, and, if exhaustive, it must mom-
eerily be tedious. As to the interests involved,
although they are immediately only those of a
private family, they are of the gravest import-
snot to soaiety at large. Ills Impoesibi. to
imagine any Milne short of murder whit* strikes
more deeply et the foundations of social order
and security than that of which the Claimant is
amused, or that of which some others must be
guilty if he is Innocent
. _ _

The Registrar-Geaeral s department of the
Executive, like the Post-office, sets • good
example to most other ilovernmeat departments.
Official returns are genendly published so long
after the time to which they relate that the
public interest In them Is greatly diminished by
by their staleness especially In ooreparison with
the constant freshness of news in thew days. Poe
instance, it was only the other day that the
Wreck Register and Chart for 1872 was published,
but now we have a return involving far more
labour and care published only a month after the
time to which it refers—we mean the quarterly
return of the Regietrar-General. This and the
still more prompt publication of the revenue
returns, show what might be achieved by other
departments of the public service with activity
and proper organisation. As to the return
itself, it shows that the quarter ending on the
30th of September was healthy—the mortality
being low in town and country; small-pox fatal
to very few children measles, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, and whooping-cough quiescent;
fever less prevalent than in previous yews. The
births in the United Kingdom number
266 246, and the deaths 150,736, the natural in-
crease of population being 115,510. The births
being above the average, as well as the deaths
being under, the increase of population was
rapid. The large number of marriages (130,678)
duting the quarter implied general prosperity in
the country, although this prosperity was not
evenly diffused, being most marked ill the coal
and iron districts, less so among populations
engaged in the cotton and wool manufactures,
and warmly at all in purely agricultural districts.
To remind us that In our national prosperity the
poor will be ever with us, we have the returns
of pauperism, showing a alight bureau in the
number of indoor paupers, but a considerable
diminution in the average number of recipient.
of out-door relief. As the former are to groat
extent persons incapacitated for labour by age,
disease, or accident, and the latter more cam-
moldy able-bodied, the lesson to be drawn is
obvious—the neceuity of providence to the
working cleaves in time of prosperity, if they
would maintain the independence of themselves
and their families.

The Bank rata wax advanced on Saturday to
eight per omit. The movement Ivrea gawkily
expected, consequent on the withdrawal of more
/oil for America. The lame coomiort on witioh