The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-01-07 00:00:00

Moroi entrutti &gen.

TUESDAY. MEMBER 7, IR&

NOTES 07 THE WEEK.

Hee Majsety the Queen with the younger
meinbers of the Royal Family remains at
, Osborne. The Prinoe and Princess of Wales
hare returned to Sandringham from visiting
the Earl of Leicester at Holkham.
Mr. Charles Pollock, QO., • younger eon of
the late Chief Baron, is announced as the
steesesor of Mr. Baron Obannell in the Hour* of
Exchequer. . Pollook was born in 18* and
we Mr.
at Bs. Paul's School. He warn
called to the bar at the Inner Temple in
January, 1847, and obtained • silk grown in
1888. Like Mr. Justice Denman and Mr.
Justice Archibald, the new judge was • member
, of the Home amok.

After suffering for • considerable thne from a
*dui local malady, the Emperor Napoleon on
Thursday underwent the operation of lithotrity,
at the hands of Sir Henry Thor:envoi,
the
Thursday and also on Friday nights e
Emperor rested well ; during Saturday, waver,
some anxiety was aroused by the complica-
tion of his Immediate illness with other local
affections, which had some years before reused
wrest suffering. On Saturday night the
Emperor rotated less tranquilly, and on Monday
underwent • second operation, which was
attended with difficulty, but the results are
favourable

The Privy Donnell have refused the applica-
tion of the Somerset and Gloucester magistrates
for authority to compel every farmer purchasing
stock in Bristol Market to give notice of the fact
to the nearest polio, constable and keep his stock
in quarantine under the superintendence of the
' polio, for nine or ten days.
The Admiralty has begun the year by Increas-
ing our naval strength. Six vessel, of one sort
and another have just been added, and there
are twenty others in mune of construction at
the various Government dockyards and private
firms Other States are doing what they can to
keep pace with us. The rage of the Russian
Admiralty just now Is for augmenting the power
of their engines, and they have carried this idea
so far in the cam of the General-Admiral, now
building, that this ironclad, although smaller
and lighter than the Devastation, is being fitted
with a cylinder of the immense diameter of 130
Inches. The Manchester Examiner's St. Peters-
burg correspondent states that at least five or
six of the thirty-mix ironclad, e3umerated in the
lofficial list are as yet only on paper, sod are hardly
likely to be afloat for three or four years to come.
But it is unpleasant to hear of two of our
great ironclad. ooming into collision on Christmas
morning, and worse still lithe insubordination on
board the Aurora, which almost amounted to a
mutiny. It would be improper for us to
speculate whether any blame is attributable to
the Captain for stopping the have of all the
men beostuie a few had neglected their duty ;
but this point will of course be one that mud
be investigated In the meanwhile, it is not at
all comfortable to feel the "labour move-
ment" seems to have begun to infect the navy.
Policemen, postmen, and other public servants,
have already shown signs of insubordination,
As yet the army has been uninfected, but who
, knows how long it will remain so
Speaking of the labour movement, there
is DOW a strike of some 60,000 iron-workan and
coal miners ha South Wales against a 10 per
cent reduction in their wages, which had been
announced to them some time ago as to come in
operation with the New Year. All the iron and
coal works of South Wales, except the boom
coal collieries, are at a standstill; and 250,000
mouths will have to be fed by doles instead of
by honest industry till thews 60,000 bread
winners get a little mere mom and a keener
perception of justice than they have at present
Meanwhile, manufacturers and the general
public are likely to suffer severely from the
dearness of coal, and of course this will shorten
work, just when working people want most

Mr 7 Gladstone's answer to • renewed applica-
tion from the sympathizers with the Iranian
prisoners 'till andergoing punishment ought to
settle the matter. Instead of there being fifty
such prisoners, as alleged in the memorial to
him, the Premier says there are only twenty-
one. AU of these have been guilty of other
crimes than sedition or treason. Seventeen are
soldiers who broke their oath of allegiance, and
committed grave military offences, while the
four civilians were found guilty of grave crimes
other than political ofienoes. Now that the
true state of the mee has bean made knows,
we •re convinced that public opinion will sup-
port the refusal of an amnesty, and would con-
demn the granting of ooe
Once upon • time there was • good Archbishop
who, hearing everybody complaining of the
weather and among it, proposed that pious
men should pray for a change; which he had no
sooner done than instantly a great many people
began to cry out that there never was nicer or
more wholesome weather duos the world began,
and that it was • pity it should not Lest for ever.
For moths we have had almost incessant rain,
great trade of country covered with water, a
1 vast amount of property destroyed by inunda-
tions, and all kinds of agricultural work greatly
Impeded, if not absolutely suspended. The last
harvest was shad one, and there is reason to
fear that the next may be worse. Ordinary
people, have certainly found the ceaseless rain
sufficiently unpleasant and depressing; and the
Archbishop may be excused for imagining that a
little fine weather would probably be welcomed
as an agreeable change. But Mr. Bailey
Denton instead of feeling aggrieved at the exces-
sive rainfall, glories in heavy wet, and is only
sorry that it is not a great deal more abundant.
Be seems to think it necessary to provide for the
oentingency of our never having any rain again.
He says, moreover, the rain has been bene-
ficial in two ways. It has brought with it •
mild temperature, very favourable to the young,
the aged, and the sickly, and it haa also washed
the sir and diluted the noxious impurities of
the water we drink, One of the correspondents
of the Tinter who has attacked the Archbishop
of Canterbury for his letter to the clergy observes
contemptuously that the prayer which His
Grace recommends was written when men were
so ignorant as to suppose that rain was • mere
water-pot contrivance adapted to local wants,
and that there could be TAD in one parish with-
out reference to the state of the atmosphere in
the next. It may be observed that the Liturgy
does not profess to be • manual of scientific in-
formal= compiled by man for the guidance of
his Maker; and all that the Prayer for Fair
Weather asks is that God will send "such
weather as that we may receive the fruits of the
earth in due demon," without prescribing the
manner in which this result is to be produced.
Another ;Leman wrote to the Teem to
the straw bed which had supplied himglowria
rips fruit for Chrietmas dinner, from his own
garden. Another correspondent expressed his
amasencent that the Archbishop of Canterbury
should be so perverse and unfeeling as to suggest
prayers directed against the nice mild weather
which has bean so favourable to his invalid son,
and has rendered • voyage to Madeira unneces-
sary. Perhaps the most satisfactory frame o/
mind to cultivate in regard to the weather is to
take it as it comes, and try to make the best of
It. It is said of Mary Garth in Mickilariarck
that having early observed that life was not
shaped to suit bet convenience, she had accord-
ingly made up her mind not to expect it, and
wasted no time in astonishment or annoyance at
the fact. It is comforting to know that there is
so much to be said in favour of the late bad
weather, and that if it has made many miser-
able, it has also made others happy. We would
merely observe that the people who like it need
not lose their temper with mliwho do not.
They have had • very fair and for our
own part we should certainly not disposed to
object to • little dry weather if only for the
saks of • change.