The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

There is DO 'mistaking the genuinenem of Me
welcome given to the Prince sad Priam. of Wales
iii Ireisail, and no doubt oan mire that the sojourn
of their Royal Highness's in the Grim 1.1. 1. more
like • tatumphai program then anything she But
there is much diversity in the way of accounting for
their eellausiairtm rnieption. Boum parsons dlrm
that Andrei= has Dever had the empathy, mach
hos th,. gm pport, of mon thou s cougadiorshio
miwirit, of peril*. and that the mum of Irishmen
have di aims bees thoroughly loyal übs.„..
dun waded a Ming amigos to display mit
IsysYq. Others may Mr. Gidatoode reemidido
bore works& Yr opporoody woodwfd Woodmen'.

tien ; while others, again, tell us that the reception
ad the Prime and Princess is only an outburst of
that gratitude which ham been defined as " • lively
sense of benefit' to come "—that the Irish am in
easessies bemuse of the iambics they expect from
the present and from future royal visits. And sti
we might go on to a soots of hypothesis by which
the deur on among* VI &vainly attempt to
account, socording to their &Sem predilections, for
undoubted fade. But why attempt to explain whoa
is, after all, lo natairal as the loyalty of a warm.
headiod IP•09111. to • family whioh can have no rivals
in the piece which they claim to hold in the hearts
of that people, and who are now doing their best to
ocmoiliste their Irish subjects? Let us be content to
know, se we do now know, and to »jogs over the
knowledge, m we do rejoice, that the Irish hawk is
thoroughly sound at bottom; and that it is with
loya fellow subjects, not with disaffected or treason •
able men, that Me Mae to settle political questions
which are neither disposed of nor prejudiced, one
way or another, by the gratifying personal reccipaii-
tiow by Maroon of those whom they most regard OA
in all probability, their future King and Queen.
From the royal reception to the Irish Church
question is but • step, but it is as vmpleahmit a one
as we often o:perm°. in this issonth —a tranaition
from a bright sky and sonabine to gloom and chilling
rain. The azottemenk is running pretty high on the
Church question just now; but it would be much
more intense only that we have a week's respite after
are Wider, 411.z/re:llia the comparatively tame
subject of the will occupy Parliament, end
that it is, moreover, now getting to be generally
felt that Mr. Gladetone's attack can have no practical
area this Session. At the presoak moment thice is
kept up a continual Sr. of advanced skirmishers,
represented by journalists sad newspaper oorreepon.
dint.; but the second, and probably for the women
delays general engagement, will not come oil till
Monday, the rth. -We have heard a deal about the
precipitancy of Mr. Gladstone, and the impropriety
of settling so great • question out of hand without
adtvilite dimmed= ; but the matter which has
in oar newspapers on the subject, in on•
G""":: other, is something enormous. There is no
fear of the Irish Church perishing for want of meleee
defenders, or surviving for lack of rigorous amailants.
If the ead is not to be yet, it will not be through
default of diammion„ but through the peoulim
' condition of political affairs. As it is currently
! reported that Her Majesty le unwilling to pert with
any portion of the prerogative or the Royal
Supremacy without an appeal to the nation, se the
Lords cannot be expected to give way without such
appeal, and se the Government is said to be
determined to postpone the dissolution until the
new constituencies can be registered, unless a direct
vote of want of oonfldenoe ii passed &pima them,
Liberal journal* are beginning to Gained a postpone-
ment of the Church question after the pnnoiple of
Mr. Gladstone's resolutions hm been affirmed; and
if that journal whose motto ought to be imports
nudasetur, di., 'Meld prove itself as good a weather-
cock as usual, no practical attempt will be made to
give immediate effect to the resolutions.

Among the preliminaries of the corning battle, the
Liberal demonstration at fit J&MII Hall London,
on Thursday last, with the counter-demOnstration
by the Conservatives on Friday, deserves notice,
although the two meetingi have proved nest thing
to nothing, as one was just about a counterpoise to
the other. 80010 interest, however, attached to the
first gathering, because aa old political commander
—a veteran general of regulars, and late oommander-
in-chial of the Liberal forces—came out in the
character of a " tree lases" in alliance with Mr.
Gladstone, to whom it is now clearer than ever that
the nod Liberal lord has resigned not only the
virtual, but the nominal leadership of his party in
Parliament Henceforth the two Earls recently at
the head of the two great what are es-chanapioae ;
they may wood or hook their soccessors occaaiolially ;
but the nest great fight for the ohampionehip will be
between Disraeli and Gladatena.

The movement in favour of a national reoognition
of the political and oxtail services of Lord Derby to
his country is gaining some consistency, but it bas
not yet at the bead of ii the names necessary to
secure that public support and general co-operation
essential to the SICOISII of the object in view. If
Lord Derby is to have a testimonial, it should be a
truly national ones and for that purpose it is
neceseary that a number of prominent and eminent
public men should come forward as a oommittee ;
and no practical etepe seem yet to have been taken
in that direction. But, by the way, is not the other
se-champion, Lord Russell, to have a testimonial?
We have not noticed any saggestiou to get one up
to him; but, doubtless, if the other project assumes
the appearances of mons, it will provoke emulation
on behalf of the Liberal se-Premier, and we shall
have two Richards in the field.

Mr. Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica, might have
supposed that by this time there would have been an
end to the attempts to pressen% him, or persecute
him, whichever expression may suit the reader. But
Nemesis, represented by Masers. Mill and Taylor
(what • drop-down for "this greatest thinker of the
ak,e, Mr. John Stuart Mill," as he toed to be called
in Parliament, to be mentioned habitually in this
bald fashion!) still punnet the ex-governor; end
since there seems to be no hope of convicting him of
murder or manslaughter, the last applicatinn at Bow.
Street, on Friday, waa sissply for a summons against
Mr. Eyre for having iseured an unlawful proclamation,
and having acted upon it beyond the time during
which any necessity existed for extra legal measures.
There seems to be DO good purpose to serve in time
worrying Mr. Eyre. The public have already
wudoned the Jamaica business ; and even if the
ex-governor could be oonvicted and sentenced to
perhaps six months' imprisonment as • Bret-olsan
misdemeanant, what a lame and impotent conclusion
that would be to the whole business, and how like
the reverse of a warning to British officials in the
colonies who might be tempted, in times of popular
commotion, to abase the power vested in them.
Such • conviction, on a mere legal technicality, in •
question where homicide with maim prepense was
drat imputed, would be far worm than leaving Mr.
Eyre to be dealt with by public opinion and by
history.