The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-18 00:00:00

BELOW THE BELT.

The result of the Oxford election is probably destined to
have • great deal more ionise:lce upon party politics than
may be g lly supposed. Mr. Hall. indeed, has little
reason to Its proud cl the triumph Ise has won. The whole
struggle has been thoroughly diereeditable to the Conger.
relives engaged in it, and the victors are not justified by
their suCt4oll. In • lows in which
_radiating have more
power than parsons or priest., Mr. Hell is suPtente over
the publicans. He is • greet brewer and an extensive
owner of publichouse property. Hie chief 111490fier Is
another gentleman who answers to the mime description.
Prodigious efforts have been made to develop all the
latent or the less agrressively prominent, faecal of Beer
and Bible flue Ills that the candidate of the publicens
and the clerics has been able to wrest the met from the
Home Secretary. If Mr. Hall were • gentleman of a little
more chivalrous tone of wind; if he Poscesslid in reality
those great and generous qualities which have been
claimed for him by the political special pleaders whose
services be called in ;if he were. In • word- =hie of
rising above the merest portliest motives, he er never
have provoked the contest with Set William Harcourt It
Is now se much an establistvad print of honour that
Ministen shall not be opposed on their re-election, save
fee exceptionally flagrent misconduct, as it is—or rather
am it once wa- —that gambling debts should be paid. It
the Home Secretary, being returned by • Liberal majority,
bad occupied office under a Conservative Government,
Yr. Hall recoil have done hts duty in challenging him to
the combat. As it li, Mr. Hall has thought right to avail
himself of • technical disadvantage imposed by the letter
of an obsolete law upon Sir William Harcourt; and the
character of the procedure is not altered by the circum-
stance that he has just contrived to win.

FACTS AND FANCISS.
crio. P.A..)

Paista."—The doctor's daughter. "Janet,
We yO4l Oirrar ;dog to Isles off that unbecoming old
bonnet t"—hged Well. mite. I've wore it bx
thirty /earn and the vicar mys I may be took any
hour t
IsuoursaY Coarnaunom. Tory brewer. Tbo
oouservaffves are showing their mettle at Oxford.—
Liberal do. Yes—bees metal—though with the Rail-mark
on it.

THI OLD AND TR. NIPV. —Kasten' Freddy OMER Z
"Wlast lots of merry you've got, grandpaps l"--01111
papa. "Pretty well, my boy, for my time of Ufa"—
Master Freddy (languidly). "Oh, but energy's such
awn, bed form, you know I"
Hamra 'raw Honors is Don.-8(r Gorgius Midas
(who haa not been made • Peer). 'Why, it's awash to '
makes man tutu radical. 'timed jilt ain't, to think of
sick servicos as mine beta' rewarded with no litter title
than what's bestowed on • imminent sawbones, or a
Mummer, or a littery man, or men a successful
hartist I "—Mrs. Proasouby de Tomkpia (sympathetically).
"It does seem hard I But you're only to bi f• your
time. Br Gorging. No man of your stamp need ever
despair of • peerage I'—(And Mrs. Ponsonby di Tank, the
1., as usual, quit* tight.)
m= MODO."
.Iliu
—Prlnes B "But, I say,
Oranvilla—how about • aseaudenoy: sh I" Bud O.
(blandly). "Well, Prises, we shan't call it by that
name I"