The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-16 00:00:00

Forget Con* Expres

DORCHESTKR, MARCH tam, 18104

Sates.

The Home Rule discussion still goes on in the
cobamna of the Seessessist, and Mr. Gillen, having
taken the ides up, pumice it with the intensity with
which Scotchinee take up idea, when they once have
got firm prieeresion of the mind. In this respect •
statistical ficotchomn is • being after Mr. Gladstone's
own heart. There is not the slightest doubt that all
that Ur. Gillen writes ham the Gladstone impeinedoir
on it, and the public need scarcely wait for the early
days of April to know what Mr. Gladstone really
means to bring forward. At the same time be is ton
okl a parliamentary band to show his cards a day
before he is obliged to do, and be looks not without
reason to the effects of Mr. Giffen'a discussions in the
NieeteraftMerry sad the feonotaist. Englishmen
are slow to come round, but they are comirg round
to the conviction that if the land question only were
settled and a peasant proprii•tary set up W. 1,1,13er...4
their own farms, the Conservative instinct of proiperty
would nuke Home Rule • much less dangerous elteri.
incest than it is at

It i. clarions what itclarcct etfcca - Sr. lat•oltaccal by
the panoujj a sclacua...4 laxliui..vuitary aa.la.trilantaan.
Until lately the altcruatise 'plan 14.110.01 111 /I /I
CUM to that of or great ,gnicipwlity fur all 1.. yin,
was the ciestion of dovtlnct municipalibe. 111 the
several Parliamentary bormighli ; but the old borough.
have been abolished, and the new l'arliamentary
divisions are admittedly too numerous for each of
Mann to have a separate municipality. Sow some of
the members of the School Booed for London ,seem to
have cense to the conclu.ion that the eleotoral
divisions foe that body ought to be reduced in sire
mad aramilated to thole for Parliamentary represeuta•
lives. A motion in this sense was made at the last
sitting of the Board, and stands adjourned for further
discuision. The chief opponents of the change pro
Pa.ed are likely to be the advocates of the " cunfula•
live vote." At present the School Board election%
furnish bewildering illustration,. of the working a
that principle, but the effect of the cumulative
system would be moth k.. in smaller constitnenciee,
even if that un English ..yetein of voting were 10510.
teined in any rearrangement of the present electoral
WOOL

With all the funds that are firing sulsweribml for the
relief of dietress in London, we are every day hearing
shortcomings in regard to the distribution .4 these
hands. Unhappy applicants for relief, while their
tame in being inquired into, die of destitlith in. or of
disease induced by demitullino, like Thomas Whit••
horn, upon whose body the City Coroner held an
inquest. Others, like Allred Spruktuan, who a m iliod
for relief to the Marlborough Street magistrates last
week, endure the ordeal .4 examination by the Charity
Organisation Society, only to be told that their case
ham been found a desersing one lit. a- it does not
come within the province of the society, auiplieation
had better he made to the Relo.slng officer. The
letter gives •n I jester for a bit f iiient mid • few
!naves; and no a further application offers a ticket
for the stoneyard reLlOd. a day to • man who Iwo.
bably Ass 5.e. ciffigt. ek to pay for one room. As
for the )4ansfi4greo applioont must wait
while the caw% of a thousand or iome previous
applicants are bring ui.qoirivl into. Perhaps ell this
delay and formality is neeesssry in di•triliuting
clieritable fund• ins plaue like London ; Isle it is ,ry
mad mud diPlieartetiing, not os;y to would he.reruiver,
but to generons givers, and inay iJerhitiut espial!' why
the Isord Mayor had to announce last week that the
Mansion 1f,,.,.. Committee Mel very neai•ly IAo
the end .if their re.00rc,...

Of the many solutions of our Ishour difficult it, II e
of the moat practical awl fAr 111,1C11111{C W 3. I hi.
suggestion of Mr. Bredlaugh, to whirl, Mr. Mun.blls
gave a reedy support on the part of the nom.' of
Trade The collecti tit of labour AtatiMiCs 0.1111 I'
much to equalize the distribethm of laleoit. And to
Ling hands where there was trinoloyilimit I. r
es well se drew them away from revue.. atoll as
Landon, where the population congtattur and thA
labour market choked. It is no uu denouncing the
sweatier/ system. .k. long 1111 then. so St. t:de., and
WhiSecharele, a. long will there IN. 111.....11.. a. . ii
toiling nn at fourpence a day task wot k. Hot tlaw
(a the men into the cuuntry and the oil we
shall then dry up the sweating system at ii..' .to.

The Provinces have gai—ned a soiosivli.it tinissrscted
sictory over the Metropolis. The Met rois.litan Parks
are to I w paid for by the AV, ..1 Is oul.osers, instead
of by luips•vial rotation. Thu.s what the
Thursday night really cornea to. flov al Part • •iinh
as Hempton Court wllit Is sr. it .1. London,
althongh a common re•ort it I..uuloilevo, are not
affected, and these nil lks still supported fruni the
revenues of the nation. The increa. npon I,tidan
rates will be • very formidable ni•tt.o. The loot I,
already winery that a further burden 'nay be viewed
as intolerable. It has been recoguised in the past that
the petition of Loudon in regard to such matters is
peculiar, and entitled to spezial consideration. The
West End Parks are enjoyed by non.f.ndnuers and
by foreigners to an extent to which there is no
parallel in the CAM of • park in a provincial town.
Übe East End Parke are eituated in neighbourhoods
whither the poor have drifted not only iron other parts
of London, but from all parts of the conntry. It
would be alutoet as reasonable to make the cost of Lh.
British Museum and the Notional Gallery • charge
upon the rates of the Metropolis. This at least is
She view taken by the Londoner.