The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-29 00:00:00

Drat Conutti expo.

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1 gra

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The Queen, it is expected, will remain at
Osborne for about another month. Her Majesty
will then prooeed to Balmoral for the &toucan,
staying at Holyrood Palace for • few days en
routs. Later on Her Majesty will reside fer
eight or ten days at lnverionhy Coati°, near
Fort William, the Highland residence of Lord
Abiuger, and afterwards visit the Duke Lod
Duchess of Argyll at Inverary Castle. During
her stay Her Majesty will probably take the
Empress Eugduie to • pio-nic on Ben Nevis.
The Royal marriage is, it is said at Darmstadt,
to take place in January, at St. Petersburg, and
it is added that the Queen contemplates making
a visit to that capital in order to be present. The
probability Is that • proposal somewhat similar
to that which was made when the Queen's eldest
child was married fifteen years ago will be laid
before the House of Common' next session, and
that the keepers of the public purse will be asked
to grant a dowry of £50,000 down and £B,OOO a
year to the Grand Duchess and to increase the
Duke's income by 1:.5,000 a year. The bride has
£.50,000 a year in her own right. The marriage
ceremony will, of course, be performed with the
rites of the Russian Orthodox Church. The
Romano& seem to have two distinctions pecu-
liar to themselves among European Royalty.
Under no circumstances of marriage do they quit
the National Church, and they are all Honorary
Colonels. The Czarevua probably finds no
essential difference between the high. •t form of
worship in the Russian Church and that Lutheran
Church in wkich she and the Princess of Wales
were educated. The Grand Duchess Marie
Alexaudrovas, who is chu'itiess destined to be
a great favourite in England is, of course, a
Colonel in the Russian army; and a corres-
pondent of the Times, who is, probably, not
more p.lite than he is truthful, says that when
her Imperial Highness appears "in the uniform
of the gallant troop—the Yambarg Regiment of
UhLuir--czipka on head, with the white sultana
gracefully hanging down, she is the most charm-
ing officer in the service of all the Rumble."
After all the labour bestowed on the Rating
(Liability and Value) Bill in the Commons, the
tippet House has seen fit to reject that measure.
The public however will not blame their Lord-
ship. much for exorcizing their discretion in this
matter. What we want is • more comprehensive
scheme, dealing with the present onerous in-
cidence of local taxation.

Mr. Gladstone's avowal—elicited by Mr.
Trevelyan's Household Suffrage in Counties Bill
—that "the extension of household suffrage to
the counties la • matter which is just andpolitio
In itself, and one which cannot bug be avoided,"
Is referred to by Conservative and Liberal
papers, which regard it as • new cry. "Right
and left (says the flour), from priest to Radical,
Dissenter and doctrinaire, they have asked for •
lead, and the member for the Border Burghs
has at last given them one. The Standard is
quite faostious over the message from Mr. Glad-
stone. The Daiiy Neu' believes the communi-
cation will be read with satisfaction all over the
country. The enfranchisement of the county
householder is now an integral part of the
Liberal policy, it says The Daily Tslegraph
says that 'the House broke up with &conscious-
ness that the political situation had considerably
changed; that there is a large piece of work
before the Liberal party; and that, if the reflec-
tion occurred to any of them, hope had been
breathed into the breasts of those spirited rural
labourers who owe BO much to the courage,
fortitude, and sagacity of Mr. Joseph Arch."
The Premier is going too fast for the Whig
Mc...sting Post, which holds that It will require a
very strong repudiation on Mr. Gladstone's part
to persuade the country that he has no intention
of appealing to the constituencies on a poli-
tical programme of which • new Reform
Bill will be the principal feature. The
Spectator says :—" The cry is found, and it
Is • good cry. The House, in trs. sting Mr.
Gladstone's note as a message or manifesto, or
declaration of purpose was fully borne out by
all experience, more especially as the stern
criticisms which followed were in no way repo.
dieted. Whether the dissolution oocurs in
1813, or, as we hope, in November of this year,
it is quite clear that the Liberals will advance to
the cobflict pledged to remove the last morsel
of injustice in the distribution of the suffrage,
and therefore to • new alliance and a new
Reform BilL betting aside for a moment the
effect of the manifesto on the next elections and
on the great question of redistribution which is
bound up with equal suffrage, the measure is,
at all events, unquestionably just. The Tories
may cap the move if they have the courage, but
Wile's they do, the election will be fought under
circumstances of which the pessimists, ourselves
included, never dreamed. 'No Tories and no
serfage,' That will do." The Saturday Review
observes—" file labourer is to have • vote, not
only because he is no more unfit than some
people in towns, and because his intellect may be
quickened by a new source of power, but as •
reward for the pluck with which he has combined
against the farmer."
Amongst the Civil List pensions there is one
of £3OO to Dr. Livingstone, the great African
discoverer. The grant is one mode of doing
honour to a man of worth and courage. Dr.
Livingstone's work has already brought about
the virtual suppression of the slave-traie Iu
north-east Africa, by our own country operating
from the east coast, and Egypt from the north,
If this were the only fruit of the Doctor's mission,
he would have performed a greet service to
humanity; but his geographical discoveries and
the information he will bring respecting the
commercial capacities of the countries he has
visited, and the practicability of opening them
to missionary enterprise, will be other valuable
results of his labour.

The outcry which haa been so generally raised
against the new rule for the compulsory registra-
tion of letters containing postage stamps hu
received a satisfactory answer by the publication
of the instructions sent to the different post-
masters to guide them in carrying it cut. The
object of the rule is merely to protect carriers
from undue temptation, and it is only letters so
Incautiously made up that come under it. pro-
visions. If oorreapondents will use such thin
covers as that the nature of the contents are
clearly visible through the envelope, or if they
send them through the post unsealed or insuffi-
ciently sealed, so that the envelopes come open
during the transit, then the folly or carelessness
of the sender is properly punished by the exaction
of a double registration fee. The rule is in fact
to operate, not a& a tax upon the public, but
only as &penalty for gross negligence in exposing
the employ& of the Poet Office to unnecessary
temptation. It does not prohibit the transmis-
sion of postage stamps through the post, but only
directs that care should be taken.

The line of defence constructed by Dr. Kenealy
for the Tichborne claimant, Is first to prove that
Roger Tiohborne was a black sheep, and than to
show the similarity of moral hue displayed by
the Claimant 1

Three years to • day from the commencement
of hostilities th• German army his finally quitted
Franoe, and the country, save that part which
has been ceded, is once again free.

SHAFTESBURY ELEI7FION.

The death of Lord Wolverton beWer k.own at Mr.
Geo. (I,n. thereat banker, hae fallen noupeetedly on
the electun here, who have only been contemplating a
general eleniou and • fight between their old and
valued member Ms. Gem» Granfell-Wyn and • young
neighbouring Squire'', Mr. Stanford, origins ly Mr.
Feu, then Mr. Bennett, and now Mr. Feu-Bennett.
Stanford. This gentleman comes forward ceder the
warm petroaage el Lady Weetainster and her doubter
Lady Theodora, and u the Wardmiastrie interest has
hitherto been paramourl in the borough, some wrung
DOOM to forget /kr Ballot, and to fancy whoever is the
nominee of Motoombr moot be M.P. for Ohaftealtarr.
Mr. R. B. Shields., of Frampton, Mr. W. H. B.
Portman, and Mr. Glyn owed seam to hie Inductee,
which in oil Lord Weetminster's time &worded with
In. opinion of the inkooluott, and was stsmilly Liberal;
now it se vehemently Tory, and settle" en the favoured
head of Mr. Stanford, who, however, In his
address dealers, himself to be a Liberal Coneerva-
tine. On Saturday be was hi the market and
addressed some two dosin fanners and other' at
the market ordinary. • In. smooths ego the thoughts
lithe Liberals turned to Mi. Lelia Ashley eon of the
Lord Limit of Dorset (Lord Shaftesbury), and the
private see, and nephew of theists Lord Pelncirstom,
ass probable candidate ; but Mr. Ashley had such good
&anus in the kW of Wight that when the vacancy
°atoned he wee not named. It vas hoped (sad we
may add, feared by the other side) that Sir Richard
Glyn, who lam much property in Ulf) borough, would
soup forward as a candidate ; but on Saturday, Mr. H.
D. Seymour, the lAte M. P. for Poole, aliatuhosd his
Intention of trying • spell with the Moloombs &varies.
Mr. Soymosr's address will probably ite issued after
the funeral of Lord Wolvertoe. Re is a preetked
politision, • very duet speaks:, sad able nuts, and has
bad Gnaw uperisuos es under seeremry for Isdis. If
Shaftesbury mut assure Ms nerviest, it will be able to
amend as mob as possilde the great lam it swilmtes by
the renewal of Mr. Gin, ens el ths most mugs*
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TAUT TO Ti MOON CHILDLIA—The children of
the Dorchester Uaion workhense ware taken to ibtlfoo-
- on Wednesday, the 23rd. They ware einvPli•d
with a espital dinner on arrival, and then rambled oa
the ellffs, marls, erid about the town, after which other
creature comforts, shah as currant crake and tea, were
supplied them. The railway company, through the
Whispers of Mr. Mears, sent a cerriege for their use,
and eonveyed than to sod from at a very low charge.
They were under the care of Kr. and Mrs. Doren, and
the schoolmisrreen The boys thoroughly enj,yed their
dip in the pea, and the girls fogad equal delights In
other ergs. The +bpi° erepenee was defrayed by sub-
scription" relied by the heater, Matron, nal Schn,l-
rolstreee, sad the trip roes happy break in the name-
sarily routine hie in the poor-hos...
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AnnilaL liorinaioe.-03 Tontolay the eitployft Of
Yr. James F. Hannah, of Condi'll, to the number of
nearly 20, bad their anousl "eating." They stsrtod
from Dorchester ander the guidance of Mr. Holland,
by the 5.50 OW. train, af.d strivort et shout
nine, they had breakfast, after which they strolled
throsgh Bristol to the Peswells, sad thence to Clifton,
where the Saapension Bride's. kenning &from • abeam
of shout 600 feet, sod, 'me S5O feet from the bed of the
river, was the subject of admiration. After stroll-
ing about the beautiful walks adjarient till dinner time,
by shish time all had a Item &petite, they had dinner,
after which they ware driven over to Inapeet the .&l-
known schools oondneted by Kr. Willer, of whom so
Nandi his bees heard, and from theIICIO they refereed
to the Ztologleal Gordon,, Clifton, where (mustier.
aids Urns was spew. They afterwards had tee at
Cifton, and then strolled to the station, anti las
Bristol by the 840 train, reaching Doreheater just
after 10 o'olock, all tired, but confessing that the day
had been one of the moat enjoyable they bed ever spent
together.

BOROUGH Parry fill Milne. litortday.—Before Mr. G
Canoe, Hr. IL Davis, sod Mr. J. F. Hedges.
William Adams. driver, R.H.A., wee brought up,
handcaffed, in the melody of • guard with drawn
sword*, charged with having stolen • !Ladner
Jacket, the property of Driver William Cook.—Lient.
Poole appeared to watch Hie ewe for the proems:Hon.
Driver William Cook eali he noenpled the some
Wreak room aa the prisoner. On Fridey morning last
be missed a dress jaeket belonging to him ; it had
been taken from • shelf over his bed, where be
nivally kept his kit. Other men who weepy the room
ileo kept their kit ea the shelf. On Friday evening
prisoner wee brought I. the barracks I. onstedy of
Corporal Hewe St. and be was then wearing the
jacket he (witness) had missed. The jaeket now pro-
duced was his property; he knew it ea his name was oe
the sleeve, and hie regimental number on the beak
lining, Since the jasket had heen token three goed•
cmadast badges had been removed from the right
sleeve If the jacket had not Wen found, he 'add
bare had to get another at his own expanse; he oould
not have replaced it for lees than 10s. Whys new the
Jacket would cost 28s. or 301. He (wits..) was a
married man, and slept out of the hernias. He last
sa• prisoner on Wednesday afternoon.
Beret. Foederiek Ashby said the prisoner belonged to
his sub- livisloo. On Friday morales, at six o'slook, he
was Masotti from stable drill, without leave. He next
saw him on Friday evening, when he wee brought to
the barracks in ouetody of Corporal Hewett. On
Thurelay night he answered to the roll call at half peel
nine o'clock. Prisoner had been for some time re-
stricted from !savior the barrack.; his name was ea
the mite, and tharefore he soa;d out pan the parry.
Corporal Jobe Hewett said on Friday he Proceeded
to Bridport, by order of hi. commending Ai Nor. He
Nand poisoner in the Bridport look-up, le the custody
of the pollee. He resolved prisoner from the eeceovemt
of polio*. Prisoner was in the cell when he first saw
him, an 1 the dregs-jerkin 'volumed was hanging up
on'eidoi the door. Poisoner hid no j•cket on at the
tans, and euhicoitently drowsed himself le the Jaskol
new proolueed. He afterwards brought prisoner
back to Dorchester. he wearing the jocket. On arriving
at Dorchester he heard Viet Cook not lest hi. deem.
L .oket, and on asking prisoner he said it was Cook's
Land
he bad on. Ile founi that three good conduct
' dies hid been reas.vsod from the poker, and the
. badges were subsacisently found la the clang-pit et the
barracks,

Prisoner, io answer to the Bono I, said be cams from
Bristol, mod. b.rins duly osutioned. plasiad guilty.
Statwooed to two months imprisoorasot with lard
labour.