The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-01-16 00:00:00

j3orset ennithi (Erfrego.

TUESDAY, JANVARY 16, 1872.

NOTES OF TLIE WEEK.

The anxiety of the country respecting the
health of the Prince of Wales will be entirely
removed by the last bulletin from SAndriugham,
, and will be replaced by solicitation and hope
that His Royal Highness will soon be able to
I appear in public to reoeive the congratulations
of high and low. In the case of tho Prince's
I severe and dangerous illness, as with most es-
!amities, we find that some good arises out of
evil, and in the present instance the good is
considerable and two-fold. In the first place, the
loyalty of the groat body of the people, latent
for want of a tangible and visible object for it
being presented to them occasionally, has been
revived in its fullest strength ; and we may
hope that the happy reaction in liar Majesty's
mind will nerve her to make such public appear-
anoes as will keep this loyalty in vigorous life,
whereby she may "confound the politics," and
"frustrate the knavish tricks," of tho insignifi-
cant republican faction, who rather than boar
those trilling "ills they have," would "rush to
others that they know not of." In the second
place, the illness of the Prince of Wales has
stimulated an intelligent crusade against the
canik, of typhoid fever. There is now a palpable
movement in favour of sanitary reform, from
which we anticipate the beat results.
Wo note that a poem on the subject of the
illness of the Prince of Wales la promised by
the Poet Laureate next month.

Lord Derby's common sense speech at Liver-
pool is the event of the week. The Times.
Americanising, says it is " poart and chippy."
Whatever that may suggest of smartness and
solidity was there ; but the great point is, that
the shrewd commenta upon every subject before
the public, commend themselves as the common
sense , iow, and conservative. Lord Derby has
proclai.ood himself at last, and all the dreams of
certain politicians of the now Lord Derby as a
Liberal leader of a new school, are dissipated.
The Earl of Derby is complacently Conservative.
He appears in fact at Liverpool as a new Lord
Palmerston, only on the other alio of the politi-
cal arena. Cheerful, confident, clear in all he
says, recommending as the right attitude of
" tier Majesty's Opposition." reliance on prin-
ciples and quiet action, without too much eager-
ness to take the reins of Government, and he is
well satisfied that time " which doth all things
else impair," will secure victory for the Con-
servative minority. After all, this will only be
• sew reading of the Radical's aphot iin—that
"minorities are invariably in the right
When the Navy Netimatos for 1872-73 are
laid upon the table of the House of Commons,
the Timm understands it is very probable that
they will be found to contain provision for the
construction of a vessel the armament of which
will consist of torpedo artillery carried below
the water-line.

Mr. hil'Culhigh Torrens has resigned his seat
on the London School Board because he finds
the debates lead to nothing but increase of rates.
This is his opinion of education, which we heartily
endorse. "All instruction out of books is nothing
as compared with instruction out of the ways
and works of life; and his complaint against the
Government was that, whilst they were devoting
millions to bo,k learning in every part of the
kingdom, they were withdrawing the people
from the habit of administering their own
affairs."

A. ought be expected, the prdtest of many
eminent men in the medical profession against
a too free use of aloohol as a medicine, has
started a professional newspaper controversy.
Of course the generalpublic do not very minutely
examine tho theories and deduz.tions of M.D.'s
letters in professional phraseology, but we hear
a movement has been started to found a hospital
In London for the treatment of patients without
alcdhoL Now we should suppose that to tee-
totallers who have lived in the modest belief
that aloohol ought properly to be labelled
poison and used only medicinally, this must be
a very astonishing proposal, though to be sure
there are an amazing number of persons who
take a little wino for their "often infirmities,"
and people who hold the doctor's shop theory
would create a wonderful trade in poisons.
What the doctors are saying about alcc,hol must
not, however, be pseud by. Dr. Forbes Watson
amens on good authority that many families
hive chreod the day that the late eminent Dr.
Todd entered their houses, bocaueo chronic in-
temperance followed the to free administration
of stimulants in the treatment of dimes.). This
is a very serious statement, and one that appears
to be supported by much similar evidence.
One way and another a good deal of amuse-
ment has COMO out of the reported excision
from the pantomimes of aU allusions to the
troubles of the Cabinet. There was contradic-
tion and there was proof; there was the
Tele/rap/6 with tears protesting that there was
not a word of truth in the whole story; the
Lord Chamberlain preserving dignified 'ileac*,
and all the theatrical critics amusing themselves
with facta about excisions in this year and every
other year from the time that Simon Drivel in
1830 struck out the fisherman's cry, "hay my
live sole," as profane swearing, to the present
objection to allusions to Mr. Lowe's matchless
budget. llowever, Mr. William /3odham Donne,
-xn,niner of stage plays, writes at length from
.Lo Lein Ciainberlam's owe to say that he had
no instructions at all • that he did this year
what he has donator the last fourteen years, and
what Mr. Kimble, his predeceuor in office did
—uniformly cut out "personal or personally
political question'," and passages likely to give
ottonce on religious and mural grounds. 'The
seniativenca" of the Government thus reposes in
Mr. Doane.

Thu trial of thu
m .:ielity.NuVaii,taop,u,affuuri
thu murder of il IS wife, wi t
lucileut of the wook. opiiiious will no doubt
differ very groatJy as to the propriety of the
verdict, but those who condemn it must acknow-
ledge the jury were placed in a position of very
great difficulty, with thu diamotricaJly opposite
ovidenoe put before them. How is it,
we should like to know, that tho doctors
appointud to oxamiuo the miserablo culprit on
behalf of tho Crown ahould all agree in OLIO
opluion, and thief) called on by the defence
should all iou,Air iu another? Were there other
mediosi moo oa each uniployud whom it was
not deemed uxpedient to call as wituussua If
not, scientific evidence has ouoo mow been din-
credited. Much communoratiou will be felt for
the poor old man, who ala gentlemen, a scholar,
and an author, if not as a clergymau, has won
no inconsiderable renown, and everybody, we
=would ghat) pee the Jury's roccoul-
n anted upon.