The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-16 00:00:00

Drat Conutq exprtn.

IUMMY, D 3061113611 16, 1843.

NOTES OF THE WEEIL.

Tho Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at
Windsor on Saturday night, to be there at this
twelfth anniversary of the Prince Consort's
death, on Sunday. The anniversary was observed
by the Queen and the Royal family by the usual
visit to the mausoleum at Frogmore. The
service, which was very impressive, wan con-
ducted by the Deans of Windsor and West-
minster. Her 11 ijesty and their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise of Hare and Primer
Beatrice were on Friday morning present at
the chr stoning of the tutint daughter of Mr.
Archibald Brown, brother of Mr. John Brown
of Windsor Castle. The Queen has, upon th
recommendation of Mr. Gladstone, granted to
Lady McClure, the widow of the discoverer of
the North-West e, a pension of £lOO per
annum from the ivil t.

The new Postmaster-General has been asked
already to make an alteration in regard to inland
regulations. The book-post servioe makes the
parcel standard eighteen Inaba'. This was fixed
two years ago, we have heard, to prevent the
transmission of somebody's bedsteads by poet.
Dr. Piayfair has bees requested to increase the
measurement to two feet, at which it previously
stood, but his reply is to the effect that it is not
exp.& at to make any alteration.
Mr. Lowe received two deputations on Satur-
day—one from the licensed victuallers and
another from an association of employers. The
licensed victuallers urged an amendment of the
Licensing Act, but Mr. Lowe did not think that
next session the Government would be able to
re-open the question, especially in the face of a
coming election- The other deputation was from
a Trade Union of Capitalists. The promoters
profess that their organisation shall be puiely
defensive, and kenos they decline to "emulate
the Trade Unions in expenditure." They pro-
pose to collect and disseminate throughout the
country information bearing upon industrial
questions, for which purpose It is in oontempla-
uon to establish a weekly ova fortnightly news-
paper. The federation will also watch over
every legislative proposal affecting employers
and employed, with a view to influencing the
same; it will encourage the Independence of
non-unionists, and endeavour "to give to educe-
tion, intelligence, and capital their share of
influence In the constituencies." It would,
therefore, seem from the rules and printed
documents of the federation that the employers
have determined to accept the gauntlet of the
working men unionists, and to fight them—if
that unhappy moonily should ever arise—with
their own weapons. The ob,eot of the visit to
Mr. Lowe was to oppose an alteration of the law
affecting workmen In the direction recommended
by a deputation from the trades. Mr. Lows
said he gave no promise to the workmen when
they waited upon him, and he should give none
now. _ _

The Ministerial defeat at Exeter does not
seem to have daunted Ministers in their career
of Liberalism, If we may judge by Mr. Standsld's
speech at Halifax. That gentleman foreshadowed
pretty clearly fresh legislation on eduoation in
the direction advocated by the Birmingham
league, and gives us to understand that the
famous 25th clause is doomed. So we shall
probably have next session • great party fight
on the education question, as well as one upon
the county franchise, and the Government in
both matters wilt endeavour to rally its party
by a display of decided Liberalism. It can
hardly be expected, however, that suooes• will
attend such measures in the present Parliament,
and ens would rather suppose that Mr. Gladstone
is anxious to have • defiude Liberal policy with
which to go to the couutry. The real battle on
both questions must be fought at the ballot-
boxes ; and it as well that distinct issues should
go before the constituencies, and that wc should
have • new Parliament elected on well-under-
stood principles.
The result of the Bizsine trial was pretty
generally foreseen, for the evidence indicated to
most minds that he deserved formal condemna-
tion for his military conduct. At the same time
it is satisfactory that he was recommended to
mercy, and that Marshal MsoMah ,n has complied
with the recommendation; for, besides an
aversion to seeing more lives taken in cold blood
in France, everybody mast have felt the force
of the representation of the Trianon court that
the unfortunate Marshal received the supreme
command of the army at • time of great
difficulty and embarrassment. One result of the
trial is that it has put the French on better
terms with themselves. It has been proved
that they were betrayed, and now they can
endure the idea of defeat more quieoy, and will
perhaps gradually lose their appetite for venganoe.
It is said the Marshal will be transferral to
the Isle of St. Msrgaret, off Oscines. He has no
thanks to offer for the commutation of his
sentence. In • letter to the President he says be
should have died without regret, since the
recommendation made by his judges vindicates
his honour.

The steamer VirginMs having been banded
over to the Americans, there need be no further
apprehension ot war between the United States
and Spain. The Captain-General of Cuba hated
an address before giving up the vessel, announc-
ing the agreement come to, and urging the people
to 'Omit to it, not that he thought it ressonable
apparently, but because, in the event of war,
Cuba would obtain no assiatanee from Spain.
The Cubans, however, are no sooner out of one
scrape than they are into another, for it is said
that the estates of the Acting British Consul at
Santiago have been burned.
With the settlement of this difficulty Spanish
prospects are much brighter, and it is announced
from Paris that the British Goverment purpose
to officially recognise the Spanish Republic.
Luie, alias Lundgren, has not only been
Identified by overwhelming evidence, including
medical testimony in reference to personal marks,
but, on searching his lodgings the police have
found the rest of the "liberty clothes" with
which he left the prison. So strong a asse of
Identification, therefore, his seldom occurred,
and Luie's evidence is shown to have been an
Impudent fabrication from beginning to end.
As for his trial, it can only be a formal affair,
but possibly he has something to tell which *
public will be glad to hear, if he will only make
a clean breast of it, The true story of his first
Introduction into the awe would, for instance, be
very interesting, for we can hardly now be
expected to accept that Incredible account which
he gave in the Court of Queen's Bench. On his
lest appearance in that court, one of the
descriptive reporters says that several times he
seemed to be on the point of addressing the
court, but each time his resolution vanished.
What would he have said, if he had spoken I