The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-17 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTONE'S_LETTER AND THE

"TIMES."

Referring to Mr. Gladstone's letter, the Pea
Mall Gazdte remarks, we may be pardoned, perhaps,
If we doubt whether this is really Mr. Glad-
stone's last word on the subject; and It is not opposed
to the hope that on all great occasion*, all considerable
imeasions (that is to say, as often as it is the
habit of his rival to interpose in debate), Mr.
Gladstone will be heard. Meanwhile, the Pall Mali
notes, public attention will be addressed with almost
equal cogency to • leading article in Friday's Times.
This article is one of those which ieovey to the reader's
mind an idea that it is more or less inspired; and
unquestionably certain things are said in it which
ought to be said upon the highest authority
alone. After analysing the opinions expressed
In the article referred to, the Pall Mall con-
eludes :—A more temarkable manifesto than this we
cannot recall to mind. It is not the habit of the Mies
to print such wonderful stories without good autho-
rity: and yet we fancy we detect here the intrusion
into its colomns of some political gossip, revealing
loom table talk and siting to its publicity and import-
ance that will earths the original utterer. However,
there it is; scandal (we do not use the word in its
more opprobrious sense) of • very serious kind.

RIGHTS OF RAILWAY PASSENGERS.
The Wilts County Mirror reports a case of import-
ance as affecting the rights of railway passengers, de-
cided by Mr. Lefroy, the judge of the Salisbury
County Court. The plaintiff, Mr. Taylor, was •
gentleman residing at Bristol. On the 15th of October
List, be went to Salisbury, accompanied by two
ladies, with the view of reaching the Isle of 'Wight
the earns night. The South Western Railway Com-
pany advertised a train to leave Salisbury at 4.25
p.m., which it was announced in their own time-
{ .bles would reach Southampton at 5.29. The plain.
tiff took three tickets for that train, which did not
leave Salisbury until five o'clock—thirty-five minutes
late —and ooneequently it did not arrive at South.
anipton until 6.lo—ten minutes after the Cowes
boat was advertised to leave the pier. The plaintiff
called the attention of the Southampton station-
master to the delay, and asked if there was any
chance of his catching the boat? The station-mister
replied that if he and his Mends liked to tr he
would send them to the pier in • cab, and pay f r it.
A cab was called, and the party were driven as rapidly
as possible to the pier, only to find that the boat
bad left some five minutes before. The plaintiff and
his friends returned to the station, and the station-
master directed them to an hotel, where they remained
for the night, and went to Cowes on the following day.
The damages were laid at three guineas. The de-
fence set up for the South Western Company was that
their train was delayed through the non-arrival at
Salisbury of a Great Western train, which carried
a great number of passengers who, with their In
had to be transferred to the South Western.. His
Honour : "The Great Western Company should, in
him's. to the public, have kept their time. Two
wrongs do not make a right." Mr. Haines (the corn.
pony. solicitor): "Then are we to be punished for
the delay on the Great Western?" Him Honour ;
" Yes, because you are not bound to wait." His
Honour said there could be no doubt that the company
had guaranteed by their time tables to arrive at South-
ampton at • certain hour. The ticket involved no con-
tract, except to convey a passenger to • given place on
a given day—it might be by • luggage train. He felt
bound to hold that the company ware guilty of negli-
gence in waiting for the Great Western train. Mr.
Heine. said if they had not done so there might
have been twenty actions instead of one. Ilia
Honour said punneers by the Bristol train would
hare had no remedy spinet the South-Western. Theis
remedy would have been against the Groat Western.
Sven notice in the South-Western time-tables did not
release them from responsibility for negligence. He
must give a verdict for the plaintiff on the gr3unil of
non-arrival at Southampton at the time advertised
In the company's official time-tables. There was •
negligence of which • sufficient explanation bail not
been offered in evidence. The negligence of one coin-
pany did not free another. The judge granted • case.

MR. GLADSTONE'S PATRONAGE.
It would be impossible to give a complete list of
all the instances in which Mr. Gladstone, exercised his
right of patronage in the fire years and two months
during which he held office. The following, however,
may be accepted as an approximately correct statement.
Including promotions in the ranks of the Peentge, he
bestowed no less than 33 coronets, viz., one dukedom
Westminster), one niarquisate (Ripon), two earldoms
Dufferin and Sydney), three riscountmes (Ossineton,
Portman, and Cardwell), and '.../ baronies (Ilatlierley,
Lawrence, Penzance, Howard of Cimino, Castletown,
Acton, Roberto., Wolverton, Greville, Kildare,
O'Hagan, Liagar, Sandhurst, Dalling, Burdett Courts,
Blachford, Hamner, Selborne, Wavoney, Abenlare,
Lanerton, lioncreiff, ilajoribanks, Coleridge, Enily,
Oarlingfonl, Cotteslow, and Hammond. Three of
these Peerages- Hatherley, O'Hogan, slid Selborne
—were conferred on Lord Chancellor.; three, those
of Penzance, Iloncreilf, and l'oleridge, on Judgcsr;
one, that of Lawrence, on all cr. Governor 6,..-a a
India; one, that of Sandhurst, on au able military '
officer; one, that of Burdett-Coutta, on a ve.ilthy ,
and philanthropic tidy; two, those of Kildare and
Luierton, on the heirs apparent or presumptive to
Peerages already in existence: three were conferred ,
on his colleagues in Ilinisteriol office—namely, Aber-
dare, Emly, and Cardwell. In two cans, Lord En-
field cud Lord Eliot, Mr. Gladstone called the eldest
sons of Peers to the Upper House in their fellers'
baronies; and in three more, Lords Blachford, Cot-
Wipe, and Hammond, he rewarded long official
services in the civil employ of the Crown.
'The rest of the titles may be said, speaking
generally, to have been distributed among t Mr.
0' hulstone's political supporters in the house of
Commons. Mr. Gladstone, or his Chancellor, has filled
up the following judgeships :—the Chief Justiceship of
the Common Pleas (Lord Coleridge); two Laird Justice-
ships of Appeal (Sir W. Ililbourne James and SU
George Hellish); three Vice-Chancellorships (Sir
Junes Hann, Sir John Wickens, and Sir Charles
Hall), and the Mastership of the Rolls (Sir (ieo. Jessel).
Besides these, Sir James Hansen lass been promoted to
the Probate and Divorce Court, and the following have
been added to the hat of Poises Judges on the Eng-
lish Bench :—Sir W. it. Grove, Sir George Honyruan,
Sir George Demean, Sir Richard P. Amplilett, Sc
Hobert Collier, Sir Thomas Archibald, Sir Henry
Keating.and Sir John kQuaiii. The Prime Minister has
also nominated to her Majesty the present occupants of
10 sees, namely—Winchester, Dr. Harold Browse;
Illy, Dr. Woodford; Exeter, 'Dr. Temple; Ilan-
obtain, Dr. Fraser; Bath and Wells, Lord Arthur
0. Hervey; Carlisle, Dr. Goodwin ; Salisbury,
Dr. Moberly; Chichester, Dr. Durnford ; Bt. Asspb,
Dr. Hughes; and Lincoln, Dr. Wordsworth. He hu
also appointed the new Dean of Winchester,
Dr. Bramston ; Rochester, Drs. Dale and Scott;
Manchester, Dr. Cowie; Lincoln, Dr. lilakesley ;
St. Paul's, Dr. Church; Ely, Dr. Marinas ; Canter
bury, Dr. Payne Smith ; and Durham, Dr. Lake.
He has filled up Canonries at—St. Paul's, Liddon
and Lightfoot; Westminster, Kingsley ; Canterbury,
Rawlinson ; Chester Tarver; Ely, Lowe; Bristol, N.
Wade; Rochester, Miller and Hamilton; Worcester;
Barry and Seymour; Windsor, Courtenay. And, lastly,
be has given away three Regius Professorships at
Cambridge, and three at Oxford, a Canonry at Sly
being attached to one of the former, and Couperin ix.
Christ Church Cathedral to two of the latter. Of Mr.
Oladstone's leaser patronage in the Church we do
inet pretend to give account here. To the list of
Baronets Mr. Gladstone hos added no less thou
thirty-four person—namely, Sir Ilaziere Brady, Sir
Baud Salmons, Sir Thomas Bader, Sir Francis
Seymour, Sir James O'Gorman, Sir Titus-Salk Sir
Joseph Whitworth, Sir William Fairbains, Sir Hard-
man Earle, Sir William Jackson, Sir James C. Law-
rence, Sir James W. Monereiff, Sir James Paget Sir
Richard Wallace, Sir J. Cowell Stepney, Sir
Chriatison, Sir Thomas 0. Brim, Sit Alexander Mao.
doonell, Sir William W. Gull, Sir George Pollock Sir
Sills John Gibbon; sir John Rose, Sir Sydney IL
id
w.rir„,
sir
urorse Kiateeb, sir William Miller, 84
Merles Forster, Sir Thomas Framer Grove, sir Matthew
Wilson, Si, Thomas ll'Olure, Sir Jobe Senthenne
Amory, Sir George Burrows, Sir Richard Green.priee
Sir Harry S. lileysey-Thompeov, and Sir Charlie E. Tee:
welyan. As during the peat Ave years 13 Poem.
and 21 Barouetcies have become extinct, the net ad-
dition roads to the House of Lords by Mr. Gle,teto3.4
may be reckoned at 16, and that to the order a
Baronet, at 13.

From • Parliamentary paper lust butted it
that las year the quantities of spirits duly.= er.
biota for home consumption was 28,908,501 gallons,
and In the preceding year 26,872,183 gallons.
A New York paper states that • new expedient haa
been resorted to with a view to get the bonds of
the Salt Lake and Portland (Oregon) Railroad en-
dorsed by the Government. An offer is made, ja
return for such endorsement, to carry the mails free.
The Increase in the importation of petroleum ia
remarkable, as oppeare bt the return issued on Satur-
"7. In the last runt the declared value was
£143,911, against £33,515 in the sarne period last year.
In the last two months the value wu £264,855 ; in
the sante period last year, £59,353.
Mr. fatuous Hall, • wealthy cotton spinner, who
emu extensive mills at Black•litne, one of the ex-
tremities of the town of Radcliffe, near Alanchester,
has offered • donation of £2,000 towards the erec-
tion of an episcopal church for the locality, on con.
dittos that an additional £l,OOO be raised by the sad
of the parent year.
9. the Ylst of Faireery, Is Banta Oros istaloth
&Idols* Mr. F. Gilkey an 4 Dr, G. Z. Cleveland fired
as 4"i' other, Lee both fell deed. There bad bees •
had betwee• there, and both were drank at the tau cf
the "tragedy?
ISIS reported that the Government ham deterialood to
issue a Royal Oommlestos to inquire late the operation
a the Modsors' and Bervaete dot. and the law of con-
spiracy in relation to eratraete. The instrenission, it is
said, will be formed In melt • manner as to satbil the
fair demands of the working aim In mud to She is•
partiality at its eonstltatfoo.
HOLLOWAY./ Gianni! attp Prtfa.—Carse Paltry&
tisge.—At all seasons of the year the rail of mortality
frame diseases of the loop Is very great. Holloway's
Otataseat well robbed epos the obeek aided by his
arrests an atleshief. Those Monolog mediousenW
ilards• • ••••• gailltarY and restorative toilsome over
the satire otiobeate of the pastoral Gayly. Alt tabu,
arms, blood veinsie, sad all other *sus feel the
wbelettessouvepoi more partiesfarli In
thole puffy's( emus sad arterial
Wood It 7 flo'stedog the free eireniaties ef air. Neither
Otateseat DOE Mkt 'retain say spokes lagredleat what.
am, but tisk behead* molars searihas rather than
irritates the eyelets, and kindly subdues aabeward
apepteleolll silk well wee nom.