The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-04-10 00:00:00

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Trade fan be eapplied with Sale Ooplee (ia deems
only) in eatleipetioe of all the Newspapers of the
week.

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
DORCHIRTRR. PITUDAY, APRIL 10. IRK

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

clireus's graceful letter to an
American subject, deserves the chief place in
our weekly record, and shall have it. A
casual observer of our Queen Victoria is
struck with nothing no mtieh a the liquid
gratitude that beams and flashes in Her
Majesty's eyes even in making the most
ordinary acknowledgement.; and whoever
'may have noticed this, will know instinctively,
that the following letter has welled spon-
taneously from the royal heart I

" Wiadeor Made, March it pea!
"I"be Queen beers that Yr. Peabody Weed. short*
to rotary to Minerva, sad eh* would ee earl that be
should lead Basked lathed being soured by herself
bow deeply she &portals** the noble ad of room than
princely munilleeess by dila he horn ',ought to relieve
the wade of the poorer aims of her sebjecte residing in
Londe.. his an sot, sa the Queen oelieven, wholly
without wallet, sad which will *terry its beet reward
in the meareerosnees of bade. matribeted so large!y to
the assistance of Ude. who ma little holp tree.
The Queen woad not, however, ham been estisiled
without demi Yr. Peabody some public mark of her
seam of him minidrama, mad ohs would gladly dale
moferred epos him either a Hartreetery or tadattrdizt
Cross of the Order of the ea th , but that she tin
Mr. Peshody to feel himself debarred from accepting
sad distimitose It only remains, therefore, for the
Queen to give Mr. Peabody thus severance of her pm.
load feelinp, whir* she woeld further deb to mark
by eating him to accept • mialater• portrait of hermit
which she will desire to have painted for hms, sad
which, whoa finished, od either be seat to hien to
America or givos to him on the return whidt, eh*
rejoiceo to hear be meditates to the cenuttry that owes
hire so mush."

This royal epistle demands no comment.
There are few so dull as not to comprehend
its delicacy none so devoid of feeling as to
fail to applaud the touehing recognition of
one of the most generous, noble and dis-
interested actions it has ever fallen to the lot
of a rich man to perform while living. It
seems as if, apart from national considerations,
rewards and honours bestowed on Mr. Pea-
body would only soil the lustre of his glorious
act of self-denial; and that the man who was
so magnanimous as not to think of bidding
t4e poor of London wait till he wail dead and '
done with this world, to participate in his
unbounded wealth, should be left as Queen
Victoria instinctively feels he should, to enjoy
that reward which is found in the simple
consciousness of having done good. It is
difficult to discover whether the Queen has
delighted the Londoners, at whom we, in the
provinces, can sometimes afford to laugh,
more by this letter, or by coming out of her
retirement to present as she has just done, in a
short address to the troops, her expression of
confidence in their continued loyalty, a set of
new colours to the 89th regiment at Alder-
sot, in lieu of those given them by Her
Majesty in 1888, when Princess Vietorit.
Had it been the fighting 88th, Who are all
Irish, it might have been thought that this
had something to do with Feniamsm, although
we trust it will never be found expedient to
pay to treachery any such compliment.—The
funeral of Marie Amelie, the Ex-Queen of the
French, presented a solemn scene at Wey.
bridge on Tuesday. The King of the
Belgians came over to this country to be
present; and it wu follosed by a train of
500 French gentlemen. extending a quarter
of a mile long, though walking four abreast.
'l he Ex-Queen wu interred b 3 the side of
King Louis Phillippe, ih the identical gown I
she had worn on leaving Paris, carefully
preserved for the purpose.
IL—Trials or four public orations in one
week from such men as Mr. C'ailyle, Mr.
Bright, and Mr. Gladstone redeem the Easter
Parliamentaty recess from its usual dullness,
for these are men who never speak without
exciting great interest, of one kind or another,
in all dames. As for Mr. Carlyle's rectorial
address, it is generally admired, even by thoilli
who difier from him on some subjects, for i 6
genial and heartily natural tone. Just those
modes of expression which some people con-
sider out of place in Mr. Carlyle 's writings,
are the very thing for effective extemporary
speaking, and of course we always read a
spee-h with the same feeling as if we were
listening to one. Without going into the
ecstacies of some journalists over the
oratorical performance of a "brother of the
press," it is sufficient to-day that the speech
has been regarded as a mental treat by all
parties. As for Mr, Bright, the character-
istics of his Rochdale utterances most re-
marked upon, are his persistent attribution of
base motives to his opponents, and the rel.
iteration of his frequent implied appeals to
physical force. These things are obnoxious
to thoughtful men, who would rather see the
Reform question settled by reason than by
passion; but Mr. Bright is a fanatic on this
subject, and especially as regards extension of
the franchis-. If he could only be nude to
see both sides of the question, to believe in
the honesty of his opponents, and to confine
himself to natural argument, he would
become a mere commonplace man. tio we
must excuse him his vagaries, knowing that
the- are part of his idiosyncracy. The most
noticeable feature in Mr. Gladstone's speech
at Liverpool is considered to be his repudia-
tion of the appeals to passion, of which his
democratic ally, Mr. Bright, is so fond. It
seemed to be almost personally directed
against the democratic orator. Of course,
Mr. Gladstone can never speak without being
eloquent, but somehow, when he is telling of
Reform, he gives one the notion of a man
working up hill, and excites nothing like the
'Arne sympathy in his audience as when he is
descanting upon his favourite theme—finance.'

ILL Mumma AND Memasas are arriving in
town, preparatory to the =0844 01 Par'Wm",
and the great Liberal meeting at No. 10,
Downing-street, which takes place at one o'clock
this day (Tseeday). Our Loodou oornspoodseit
impartially antes should say that this
ineetiug will be an enthusiastic one ; for if tie
low Pordi is to count for anything, certainly
them have been meetinp enough in favour of
ties Governmeut Reform Bill What is to be
the fate of this measure on the secood reading,
which Mr. Gladatoce is to move on the 12th, it
would be dilboult to prophesy. Tb•rvtcn-
•lllmativegtuis 0400 not yet been fired of and
a sostincous battery from tho Opposition ranks
may seriously weaken Lk* Government position.
At present, however, as far so eau be sine, the
Ministerial positic•u lcertainly better than at
Rio outruneocesome of ski roosts There are so
essay considerations sailed up withreLheatiomßak
liod so math will depend tire' its ce
soceptanos, that it is most &jcul to estolaste
probable malt Cl the divgireig
mesidie if • vest party

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