The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-11-30 00:00:00

land Conntti Cxpregs.

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1875.

MARK LANE.—Tms DAY.
Wheat close 4 qui.tly but firmly. Malting burley
drooping; erinanng unaltered. Oats sixpence dottrel on
the week. maize, beans, and peas quiet, but firm. Flour
nactive.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, MIR DAY.

About 4.600 lieutc, including about a thousand foreign.
Trade quiet. et le. 4.1. to fk. 4d. About 10.00) sheep.
Trade quiet, at M. 11,1. to 7e. 44. 4'alven cold at 4*. 64. to
es 161. Pies mode 4*. fel. to 6a. At Deptford there are
rune o,ono cheep. The annual Christmas market will he
held on December I.3th.

ILLNESS OF MR. JUSTICE MELLISH.
In conmeglienee of the indisposition of Lord Justice
Mellish the sitting of the Court of Appeal was suspended
lat luncheon time this morning.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Gerard Sturt, one of our county members
speechl la l: l, a ,
no f w
hßartoandewwitisoeurn
do
his
has been sharply taken to task by the Rev,
PhShereaabftesernidabergiym
and particularly for his large-
( o were
hearted expressions with regard to Noncon-
forniste. "He would say to the Nonconformist
minister, If any of your (lock express a desire
to buried
be bued in my churchyard they can be and
. the weather was stormy and inclement he
Tt
that
tt this
et the
rhzoyn
shouldm inb:hr
would say 'There is the key of my church.'"
aanpdp eo
nn dt
he de i
ra
as
tut gi
tgl tei oonf
"No surrender" in regard to the Burials Bill.
All this was said in the good-natured rattling
style for which Mr. Gerard Sturt is everywhere
famous, but nobody who heanl him, and nobody
who has candidly read his speech, can imagine
for a moment that his remarks are to be taken
as a declaration that, as Mr. Malan says, "lie
will vote for Mr. 3tonzan's Burial Bill." We
should rather expect to see him the clergyman
he fancied himself so well suited to be. But we
take it Mr. Sturt meant to convey his opinion
that the day for refusing any concession is past ;
and, if his statement he true, as no doubt it is,
that many Conservative inembers have resolved
that their last vote has been given in support of
a policy of "Na) surrender," then the timely
removal of burning grievances is surely the
wiser policy, lest a worse evil befall the Church.
If all the clergy were as conciliatory as Mr.
Sturt's model parson the hitter feelings which
this burials question have aroused would not
have been evoked. That either in the next or
the following session of Parliament this question
will be solved none can doubt, and it will
mainly depend on the hostile or conciliatory
attitude of the clergy whether Mr. Osborne
Morgan's Burials Bill is passed, or some measure
less hurtful to the amour propre of the clergy.
In speaking at the Dorchester Ruri-decanal con-
ference on the Burials Bill, Mr. John Floyer,
M.P., obviously contemplated some modifica-
tion of the existing law by which Nonconformist
ministers should be enabled to bury the dead of
their own denominations in the churchyards
with a regular form of service. The hon. mem-
ber rather deprecated the providing of cemeteries
for Dissenters, and simply insisted on a burial
ritual as against an extempore service. No
doubt this is the direction in which concession
will be made, and the declarations of both our
county members, making allowance for their
difference of style, are substantially the same.
The agreement is suggestive of special know-
ledge of the direction in which the Government
are thinking out the subject, and if the clergy
sulkily stand by their old privileges they will
not save them any the more, and will lose the
sympathy of the nation. Their rights are State-
conferred, and may therefore be withdrawn or
modified by the State. Let them take heed lest
it is the former and not the latter. As a punish-
ment for Mr. Stud, and in warning to all Con-
servative members, the Rev. Prebendary Malan
says that he shall not again vote for him, and lie
knows another clergyman who will do the same.
But here is Mr. Floyer following hard in the
wake of Mr. Sturt; and if so devoted and
cautious a Conservative as Mr. Floyer thinks the
time has come for concession, the clergy will de
well seriously to review their position, and con-
sider whether like Laud and Charles I. (who were
quoted at the Dorchester conference) they will
maintain their pretensions to the last, and--:-
lose their heads, or, at least, the special privi-
leges they now exercise.
As the Agricultural Holdings Act comes into
operation on the 14th of February next, it is
beginning to be seriously canvassed in its prac-
tical bearings. Mr. Robert Damon, of Dor-
chester, whose wide knowledge of agricultural
affairs, and keen common sense, constitute him
a high authority, is strongly of opinion that
without great caution the Act may becciee a
"snare and a delusion." He says,—
"As to security, the Act, rightly or wrongly, ex-
cludes all contracts except yearly tenancies and
tenanta at will. This Act ensuex into operation on the
11th of February next, and all such yearly tenants and
tenants at will come under it, unless within two
thi after that time they give to or receive from
their landlords a notice in writing to decline coniing
under it. How, then, I would ask. does the Act give
arceriq; for investing capital? I believe it is framed so
little in sicconlance with what the tenants think their
interest that a much larzer proportion of tenants than
of landlords will decline to cone under it. At all
events. I hope the tenants will consult their s
as to the hearings of the Act on their holdings before
they run th. risk 1 being involved in the endless
arbitrations, references to county courts, dispotes with
their landlords, /cc., which mar ensue. 'rimy would
do well to take the advice of Mr. Disraeli, given two
years since, and make contracts for thou.!, es with
their landlords to have or to Rive two years' Heti°m to
quit. To adopt the Stint Tenant Right (which will
always avid honour to the mime of Stud) is infinitely
letter than any security offered under the Agricultural
Belding* Bill of last Session and judging from Mr.
Sturt's speech, I persume he would not object to add
tu this Tenant Right that all g•mansi mime should he the
ieint property of both fotsflord mid truant
This is plain and practical; and, besides meet-
ing the vexed question of Tenant Right in a
simple way, also settles in a manner that should
be acceptable to both landlords and tenants the
no leas troublesome game question. Ground
game are the late noir of the enterprising farmer,
but if he had an equal right to hares and rabbits
with the landlord, while enough would be main-
tained for sport, there would be such a keeping
down of the vermin that whole fields of wheat,
barley, and roots would not be so frequently
laid waste as they now are, to the annoyance
and loss of the occupier, and the destruction of
more valuable food than the ground game them-
selves supply.
Speaking at Blandford, Mr. Floyer, M. P.,
took exception to Mr. Damen's reading of the
Act. The hon. member pointed out that it only
comes into operation in default of other agree-
ments upon the question ef unexhausted im-
provements, and is but a perinissive measure.
He thinks it an improvement on the Sturt
Tenant Right, and hopes that the Act will be
generally adopted. But his warning against
arbitration and County court settlements
reminds us that after all the Act will not
supply the place of that "good understanding"
which at present so generally subsists in this
county between landlords and tenants, and that
it is by mutual forbearance and a generous give-
and-take policy alone that the farming of the
land can be satisfactorily and profitably con-
ducted.
It has been suspected for some time that the
financial embarassinents of the Khedive of Egypt
would force him to adopt some remedial
measures. The Viceroy owns 177,000 of the
400,000 shares of the Suez Canal Company, and
his Highness, it seems, has beor! endeavouring
to raise money upon theta both in France and
England. Taking tiine by the forelock, the
English Government made an offer a few days
ago to buy the shares outright for £4,000,000,
subject to the approval of Parliament ; and on
Thursday evening it was announced that the
Khedive had accepted the proposal. The pur-
chase by this country has, of course, been deter-
mined upon for grave political reasons, and the
importance of the step can hardly be overrated.
The Times says—
"lt may precipitate much and prevent much. It
may hasten the crisis which awaits Turkey. and itrCatly
determine the fate of Egypt herself. But all w
depend mn the conduct of States for which we are not
responsible. If they should be aggressive, we must
take precautions for the safety of the Empire. So long
as they do not imperil our naval issattion in the
Mediterranean, and consequently the safety. of the nevi
to the East, our poesseasion of the Canal will be of
much the same half mercantile kind AM the hold of the
East India I'..mpany was on their factories at Madras
before the aggressions of Dupleis..-'
The press generally cordially approve the action
of the Government, and the Continental papers
connnent on the purchase in friendly terms.
The Government is stated to have complied
with the request of the Egyptian Government
that a Special Commissioner should be sent to
Cairo to advise the Khedive as to the reforms
necessary in his financial arrangements.
It was thought not improbable that the
Govennnent would call Parliament together on
the 15th December, the date to which it is ad-
journed, to consider the Suez Canal sharea
purchase, but it is now semi-officially stated
Cauttot Aso DLISMIT.—Aft many stonily m ea-
public opiniou has so emphatically endorsed
eg
=whew and touch acrimonious feeling on both side., 1 ,n 1 Derby's action in the matter, that there is
the Richmond Select Vestry decided some thee ago to ' no necessity to appeal to the House of Commons,
build • Nonconfurmiast mortuary chapel in the new , have been .to
case,
if uny influential
Cemetery. The building is now completed and wee opeird as might
on Saturday. The following aosyt.pondence hiss, according opposition to the purchase of the Khedive's
to the R i 41804,16,1 sad Trielsestem Timrs, passed between interest had been threatened.
the Burial Board and the vicar (the Rev. 11, T. Procter) on The Queen returned to Windsor on Wedues-
the suhiert " Dear Sly —I am instructed by the Rich-
mond Burial Board to hien,/ you to attend a dedication day, after a long sojourn in the Highlands. A
service to be hell in the new mortuary_ chapel at the Council was held by Her Majesty at Windsor on
Cemetery. Grove-road. oa Saturday, the 9,lth inst., at three
Saturday, at winch Sir R. Baggallay, It.
o'clock In lie afternoon—Tour faithful errant, LERSD
• Wools, iterk to the Burial Board." 'Gentlemen.-- Couch, and Mr. Cavendish Bentinek were avert'
ker to acknowledge with courtesy the Utter of your „,„„,bers of the Privy Council. Mr. H. is
clerk. +win datsitlnd November. off& It is, however, al soli o I •
the new. c r- enure , was intro-
it • imouwahle that we can acnept your invitation time G iffaru,
it is altogether contrsry to the doctrine mad discipline of du - to her Majesty, and received the honour
the Church of Rngland that either her clergy or bee faith- knighthood. The Queen and Princess
Int laity should attend • service in a dissenting chapel.— "
H ` u is stated, spend Christmas at
We ""La g.kilettes. our. faithfully, C. T. Psocrita, Beatrice wi
Inca of ltiehummm4 mx.wALTILII Mimi.. curate ;T. thme Osborne leaving Windsor Castle for that pur-
Cowl& curate()Lamm Tr 1.104 ousts.—
November 96th. ins." about the 17th of December.