The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-16 00:00:00

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TU&SDAY, JULY 18, 1872.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Her Majesty the Queen, with Prince Leopold
and Princess Beatrice has quitted Windsor
Castle for Osborne House. The Court, it io
understood, will not return to Windsor until the
beginning of next year—as some extensive
drainage works are to be carried out in the Castle
grounds.
A garden party was given on Saturday by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster at
Cliveden-park, near Maidenhead, at which the
Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of
Ifdinburgh, Prince Arthur, tho Duke of Cam.
bridge. and the Duke and Duchess of Teak were
amongst the guests. Their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales, along with
their family, and his Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh, are expected to arrive at Aber-
geldle Castle on the 9.h or 10th of August next,
and stay on Deeside linger than in any former
season, possibly two or three months. But we
uave reason to believe that the Prince and
Princess of Wales will not go to Abergeidie at
so early a period, but will honour Weymouth
and Portland with a visit about the middle of
August, to declare Portland Breakwater open.
The compromise effected between the two
Houses on the Ballot Bill is satisfactory, as sav-
ing the waste of much of the session on an
abortive Bill, and as probably avoiding a deal of
disagreeable agitation daring the recess. Many
people consider that, on the whole, the Lords
have improved the Bill, especially in providing
for a scrutiny • and while advocates of the
Ballot cannot reasonably object to making the
measure experimental, that provision has con-
ciliated • great deal of opposition. Now that
the piics dc relsisiarere of the session is practi-
cally disposed of, the remainder of the absolutely
necessary work will soon be scampered through.
The principal Bills now before the Rouse are
those relating to Scotch Education, the Regula-
tion of Mines, the Liaoning, Thames Embank-
ment, and Public Health Rills With all thee'
measeres the Government intend to proem&
The first two have nearly oompleted their pas-
sage through Parliament; the Licensing Bill
does not seem likely to be threatened with any
formidable opposition& ; the Thames Embank-
ment Act refers to a question which calls for
immediate settlement; and, if the general
principle under dispute OM be agreed to, there
is nothing in the details of the measure to occupy
much time. The Public Health Act has not
reached so forward • stage as the other out-
standing Bills. But the importance of sanitary
reform is so urgent, and the question involved
so devoid of party bias, that it is to be hoped
the Session will not close without some attempt
to carry into offset the popular demand for
effective legislation on the subject. The only
other measures of importance under consideration
are the Merchant Shipping Act and the Local
Government (Ireland) ; and, if the progress
of those we have already referred to shoi
uninterrupted, there is good ground for hope
that the two last named Bills may Naomi law
before the Session is over.

In regard to a dissolution of Parliament, it
would appear from some half-jocular remarks
uttered by Mr. Foriter on Friday afternoon, in
reference to tie number of general electioni that
the experimental period of the Ballot Bill is
likely to include, that the Government does not
contemplate an early dissolution, and that we
shall have to wait a year at least before the
experiment of the Ballot can be tried on a large
scale.
The close of the session will, it is said, be
signalised by the creation of a fresh batch of
peers, and the names of the Lord Chief Justice,
Sir Alexander Cockburn, the linglish represen-
tative on the International Board of Arbitration;
of Lord Napier, the late Lieut.-Governor of
Madras and of Sir John Harimer, the Roman
Catholic M. P. for the Flint District. The
Chief Justioa ii, it is said, to be made an earl I
and the others herons, Lard Nape: taking his
title from • soene which is already famous in
literature from its emaciation' with Scott and
Hogg and Christopher North—littriek Forest.
At present, however, these are only rumours •
but the Lord Mayor has fixed his Ministerial
banquet for the 24th instant, and Mr Gladstone
now mikes this do duty for the whitebait dinner.
The Bth of August is the day popularly assigned
for the prorogation.
The Temperance people are not so prejudiced
that they cannot accept a new idea, though it
be an unpalsteisble one. It has often been
pointed out w enormous amount of capital
is invested air , tor traffic, constituting it a
Wilted interest, Sad that ziomienastion ought to
be made where the trade is suppressed. At a
°oviform°e of the National Temperance Union,
held on Friday, with Lord hlaaftesbury in the
chair, the usual resolutions were pared In favour
of restricting the liquor traffic, and affirming
the principle of compensation to Itoe
victuallers, should their houses be surpremed by
law. But how is this compensation to be paid?
Out of local or imperial funds? If out of the
former, the ratepayers, say under the Permissive
Bill, would haves strong indaimment for not
surpressing public-houses; and if out of the
latter, there would be a manifest unfairness in
one locality carrying out restrictive views at the
expense of another that did not agree with them,
or, we will simply put it, in one town getting
rid of its surplus public-houses at the expense of
another town which had always duly restricted
the liquor traffic. The question of compensa-
tion is not so simple as might be thought at
first sight
The horrible murder of the two women at
Hoxton remains a mystery, and no trace of the
murderer has been discovered. The polices have
not got even a "due," or taken the wrong Ma
as in the case of the Cannon-street and the
glabam murder. Is this new tragedy to remain
a permanent mystery like those?
Curiosity is generally manifested to learn the
truth, if ever the truth can be learnt, with
regard to that extraordinary narrative of the
alleged" discovery of "Dr. Livingstone, I pre-
sume, ' by Mr. Stanley, the correspondent of the
New York Herald. It is a notoriously difficult
thing to prove • negative, and to prove that
Mr. Stanley did not discover the missionary
traveller (more, however, of a traveller
than of a missionary, by the bye) in
decidedly difficult teak. But, from the moment
that this sensational narrative appeared, doubts
have arisen in the minds of people competent
to judge. It is quite possible that the
narrative is to • great extent and eseential
features fictitious, and every day that passes
without confirmation of it, renders this possi-
bility more probable. The hoax would be cruel,
but it is not beyond the capacity of American
journalism.
The Royal Agricultural Satiety opened their
show-yard at Cardiff on Monday, and with *
few fine days the exhibition may be one of the
most successful that the society has held; but
a single day's rain will turn Cathay, Perk into
a swamp, and in that case visitors had bettor
take a pair of stilts with them to see the stooks
The collection of implements is one of the
largest that we have seen. The prizes offered by
the Royal, of course, weigh to some extent with
the implement manufactures„ but the agricul-
tural strikes have put farmers upon their mettle
to economise labour upon their farms, and this
is perhaps the main reason why the Royal yard
at Cardiff this year is crowded 611 it is with na-
-1 plements in such variety. There is nothias
new, we believe, except Pickering's pulley stook
or hoist, which the inventor, a bit of a wag.
offers to the warehousezoen and agelculturiste of
the West as the best thing in tae world for
raising the working classes. The pieses awarded
on Saturday were as follows :
Parable Eartines.—nrst prise, £4O, Clayton sad
Shuttlerrorth, Lincoln; LW, &media' lens Works son.
poor (Limited); highly aornoseaded, Darer, Itamaa,
and Co. ; highly eonitneoded. Nankai. Soak sad Ow
(Limited): oornmeaded. Brown end thy.
Cars Drerins Coca, liarlestee, let.
£l6; Thee. Baker, 2od, £10; W. 11, )flaw. ima
34, Ed W. Itaialorth and Seas highly son-
..pded ; Corbett sod Co. oominsaled ; Jae. Siker,

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Coto I.:Ay. Bury St. Edmunds, LA
SLO 2.. liorsaby stt4 Son., 2nd. £1; Coj. man aad
Nortms as W. limalorth and Fiorm, highly oommeadmi ;
Th., osibens. oommeadad ; Pommy sad co, psi.
mended.