The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-03-26 00:00:00

'glutsist Coutti Exirrto.

TUESDAY, MAROII 28, 1872.

NOTES OF THE WRECK.

1! On Saturday her Majesty left Windsor Castle
for Ilidon, travelling by the Great Western to
. Basingstoke and by the South Western to
ii,aport where the Royal yacht was in readiness
to t.ito her across the channel to Cherbourg, and
sailed ou Sunday wonting. I ier Majesty travels
through France IN the Countess of Kent.
The avowed purpose of the visit to Baden is to
pass a few days with the Princess Ernest
Christian; but the gossip of the Court are
whispering that there is another Royal marriage
on the cards, probably the marriage of Prince
Alfred with a German Prineas.
Her Majesty takes with her to the Continent
• vote of the House of Commons refusing to call
for an account of the expenses of the Royal
household from the Coronation till the end of
the year. This is practically the form that Sir
Charles Mike's long threatened motion on the
Civil List took, and the House of Commons, by
a vote of 276 to 2; refused to grant what he
asked, on the ground that Parliament has no
more right to call for an aocouut of what her
Majesty does with the £60,000 • year voted for
the privy purse than it has to call for the cash-
book of Sir Charles 1)11ke and to pry into the
mysteries of his kitchen and storeroom. Every
farthing of the Civil List, except this £60,000, is
appropriated by distinct votes of the House of
Commons to the maintenance of the Court and
the pageantry of State; and the A:60,000 a year
Is a personal grant to the Queen, as strictly a
personal grant as the salary of the Prime Minister
or the Lord Chancellor. The total cost of the
Court all through the reign of Victoria has been
£20,000 • year lees than it was in the reign of
William IV., and nearly £lOO,OOO a year less
than in was in the reign of George IV., and
since the death of the Prince Consort, ten yeas
ago, even the original grant of C 415,000 has bees
brought down to £385,000. William IV. DOM
drew lees than £436.000, and the average
allowance of George IV. was £530,000. Yet,
In the face of facts like these, Sir Charles
Lake tolls the mobs of Newcastle and Bolton
that the Coen now costa £lO,OOO a year more
than ever it did, and attributes to this vote of
£386,000 • year half the pauperism of the
country I
The Discussion on Mr. Fawcett's Dublin
University Bill, on Wednesday, though result-
lass and not very important in itself, bad the
effect of eliciting the Premier's predilection for
denominational education In Ireland, as he had
formerly shown it for the--s thing in England.
If Irish Roman Catholics are not in consequence
indulging in hopeful anticipations, at all events
the executive oommittee of the National Educa-
tion League have passed a resolution deploring
Mr. Gladstone's language in the debate, as
confirming their wont fears and suspicions
respecting the disposition of the Government to
comply with the "unjust, exorbitant, and
dangerous demands of the Ultramontane party."
And this is not the last that will be heard of the
matter from the extreme sections of the Liberal
PutY-
The Navy Estimates were introduced on
Thursday by Mr. Goa:then, and the country will
be glad to learn that our naval force surpasses
all others in the world, that men are readily
obtainable, and that • new clam of volunteers is
to be instituted—naval volunteers for coast
defence, who will learn their duties on gunboats
to be stationed at the chief ports.
In reference to the Alabama claims, the Daily
Telegraph speaks with confidence of the answer
Lord Granville delivered to General Schenck to
be forwarded by Saturday's mail. We are
assured by our contemporary that Lord Granville
does not now recede one inch from the position
taken up in the first English note. "It will
probably be found," it says, "that our Foreign
Secretary has gone fully into the whole question
of interpretation in such • fashion as will con-
vince the United States Government--supposieg
that conviction to be needed—of the perfect
friendlinen and good faith with which we
repudiate an unexpected and untenable preten-
sion." It has, moreover, we are informed, been
arranged that to avow any technical infraction
of the treaty the counter claws will be lodged at
Geneva by the prescribed date—April lb—with-
out prejli ti• to either Power in regard to the
indirect cleans.

The Duke of
u2yll has fixed the pension of
Lady Mayo at I.OQO • year, with a
grans ot t.:4U, to be ..s ...was corer
children; and most of our contemporaries are in
arms against this stroke of " parsimonious grati-
tude, as the Titers tersely and emphatically
styles it.
Mr. Peter Taylor has gone out of his way to
write to the newspapers that he was unavoidably
absent from his place in Parliament on 'ruseday.
or he would have voted with the minorlalsz
the Civil Let question. Lathan virtually r
the representation of Republican Britain to the
figure of 3, it appears to us that Mr. Peter
Taylor unconsciously suggests himself to every-
body ea a re-peater of the aolloy Street faros,
and • onus-peter of the cele tailors of that
locality.
Sir Travers Twirls has drunk the cup of his
humiliation to the dregs, and Mr. Chaffers
remains muter of the position. Lady Twigs has
gone "abroad," and Sir Travers has sent in his
resignation of the appointments of Vicar-General
of the Province of Canterbury and Queen's
Advocate and retires from his profession. We
appointments alone were worth aloes upon
£lO,OOO • year; and he has held them with dis-
tinction and success for many years. H.!. now
In his 62nd year, is • D.C.L. of Oxford, a pro-
found lawyer, and the author of many valuable
works on the Law of Nations, on questions of
political economy, and the Canon Law • but the
severe mental trial which he has had to go
through of late has shattered his health. He is
seriously iIL
"Sir Roger" is still under look and key in
Newgsta, and is doomed apparently to remain
where heis till his trial, for the bondsmen whose
cards were sent to the Solicitor of the Treasury
• few days ago proved to be UM of straw,
upon an intimation from Mr. Justice Willis
that he should think It his duty to look as
closely into the position of the parties offering
themselves as if he were about to accept a bid
from them for £5,000, and "Sir Roger's"
lawyers postponed the matter sine die.
The labourers of South Warwickshire are in •
state of fermentation. Two hundred of them •
few days ago threw up their ploughs, their
barrows, and their mattocks, defying alike mas-
ter, parson, and 'squire. Noe is this the worst.
They appear to be acting under the directions of
• rather wide-spread organization termed the
Agricultural Lsbourers' Union, which exercises
the same kind of influence over its members as
the Trades Union does over operatives. No
one can deny that, if the movement be not soon
checked, it will be attended with very serious
consequences. If man cannot live by breed
alone, it is oertain that he cannot live without
it. Agricultural labourers are not • class to
have anything in hand, nor can the funds which
they have contributed to the union from their
acuity wages, be large enough to keep them
long out of work. Unless terms are owns to,
therefore, pretty soon„ the workhouses must be
crowded, and public charity strained to the
utmost The farmers of the district, in the
novelty of the position, took the bull by the
horns. They held • meeting, and the sugges-
tion of turning out the whole body of their
labourers was the most popular of the schemes
proposed. Calm reason, we trust, has by this
time induced them to change their minds. No
atop could be more ill-advise& It would not
take much to make martyrs of farm-labourers,
1)...r.u.: well know. Persecute them,
and there would be a national feeling in their
favour immediately. The chief hope in this. all
In similar cases, lies In • compromise. There
must be giving and taking. For the farmers of
this county the lemon mama to be to adopt as
far as ever it is possible the piece-work system,
and also to encourage general liberality In deal-
ing with labourers as to the wages of their
grown-up sons, which is often • source of
grievance.