The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-02 00:00:00

WHLT THE WORLD SAYS.

I have the best reason to believe that the French and
English Governments ara endeavouring to untanise an
luternationd Financial C mnaiseion for Turkey at
Constantinople, and that Sir Rivers Wilson will probably
be the Eaglish CA:emission:gr. On returning from liattl
he came home by Constuituaople, and saw Mir. Gooch's.
Ref Majesty and Princess Beatrice left }Mineral early
hot week, and passed a few days at Glawmult Shill, Lich
Mulct. By the time the lodge was reached snow had
fallen, and the air was piercingly cold. But her Majesty
seems rather to enjoy the bitmg winds—unutially keen
for October—which bare been blowing from the hills
during the past week. Excepting the Royal
nearly all the fashionable visitors have now left
for climates more congenial.
On Sunday the Duchess of Edinburgh's birthday was
celebrated en familia, and was; distinguished by an act og
great kindness. The Dukes private secretary, Mr.
Rimbridge, who bad *cession some time ago to render a
service to the Russian Government, rec.ived at the hands
of her Royal Highness the Cross of St. Stmaislaus, fourth
class, a distinction well merited, because Mr. Bainbridge
Is not only a faithful and able servant to H.R.H., but •
gentleman of great artistic and linguigtfc acookaphat..
instate.

Th,„. were cow evenings at Kidwell Park ; H. R. H. took
to his dcar Rad. man. Arthur Suhiran was there to
accompany Km Ronaide sw.et voice, and the 11181•Ok
audience, not numerous, but dietinguished, had. thorough
enjoyment M music att mica.

An offioar who was in the battle of Malwand writes to
ma in high praise of the chaplains. Prottstant and Catholic.
Toe Reverend Mr. Gordon. who went out with the sortie
under General Brrvke, was one of the firrt men hlt—shell
entering his stomach and causing death within throe
hours. lather Jackson. who happily still lives. was
through the thick of all the battle., and rendered valuable
01.1 to the wounded during (lateral Burrows' fight and
night.

I hear that it was the Queen who prevailed upon the
Empreas Engel:de to give up her intention of going to
Arenenberr, and taking with her the mortal remains of
the late Emperor and of Lb. Prince Imperial. One of the
chief reasons for leaving Obistaboret, but not the only one,
wee the impossibility of erecting a mausoleum Mere to
throe whom the Empress bad loved end lost. The prime
difficulty was getting a site. There to, it Is true, to the
westward of the little church of Bt. Mary a field which
would have done ; but it is the property of a rich City am,
who, foe some reason or another, would not, or could no
listen to asp terms of purchase. It wee then suggested
that the Memorial Chapel might be built on the north
side of the church; but here a a Acuity of anoMer kind
arose: It is a superstition amongst Roman CM-001Ws of
come countries that the sun never ',hums upon graves
plimed to the north of a church. The plan had, therefor?,
to be abandoned; and it was than that the Empties s
solicitor bethought himself of Farnborough-kill, the
estate of the late Mr. Longman.
I hear that officers of regiments quartered in Ireland
have been allowed to go on their usual winter leave, on
the understanding that they keep the authorities
constantly informed of their whereabouts, so as to be
recalled at a moment's notice.

More than six years haa the Inflexible been building and
equipping, and now it is whispered that she haa swallowed
• mWton pounds and a trate more without being any-
thing like completed ; at lomat that sum will have been
expended when ell that is in her and on her des been paid
for. This is bed enough, in all conscience, particularly
when one remembers the alarming rate at which tit*
destructiveness of big ordinal is advancing. But almost
worst remains behind. In circles where rumour, is, as a
rule, only the precursor of an ackowledged fact, is In said,
with bated breath, that there las already gone, in her
cmstruction and on board her, • total weight nearly
equivalent to what her total displacement should be.

That vu rather • cruel joke that wag perpetrated on
the town of UalModer last week in the name of Lord
Easy. Letters were received by the proprietor of the
leading hotel and by We chief magistrate stating that
Lwd Rosy, the Llrd Advocate and a foreign prince were
to arrive in the town by • certain train. The °filmes felt
honoured, and the police commissioners Wife at the train
in • body with carriages to meet the dietingutsbed party.
The manager of the hotel incurred considerable expense
In order that he might give doe attentLon to hie guests.
and four young men were engaged to conduct the
strangers to the summit of Benledi. But Lwd Rsay and
his companions failed to arriver sad it was won discovered
that the municipal dignitaries of the little town lied been
the victims of a ,hoax.

Some interesting particulars reach me with reference to
the illness and death of Lord Justice Thesiger. It appears
that an attack of scarlet fever in his earliest infancy was
followed by • chronic deafness of the left ear. Three years
ago Mr. Dalby, the eminent audit, a ivised that the effected
organ should be artificially protected. The advice was
acted upon, and the patient experienced the greatest relief.
When bathing this autumn he was knocked by a wave on
the ear, which happened unfortunately to be unprotected.
Great pain and serious symptoms supervened, and Abaco sem
formed. Towards the end all pain disappeared ; but
congestion of one lung set in, spread rapidly, and appears
to have been the immediate cause of death, Lord Justice
Theeiger retained complete consciousness almost up to the
last.