The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-01-05 00:00:00

10 oto et Conntg Expreo.

DORCHESTER, JANUARY :mi, I.

'IOUS.

Canon Sir .1. E. Phillips has received the reward of
honesty, and has been rejected by hi brother clergy
in his candidature am proctor in the Lower Howe .d
Convocation. It will he remembered do, Canon,
during the late electoral struggle, wrote a letter in
la%our of Church Reform, if not absolutely of 1/is-
establishment, and he being considered unworthy, on
account of his apostacy, to represent the beneficed
clergy .4 the Diocese in Convocation, Canon Hutchings
was " run " in oppooition, with tie' result, a., w.ks
expected, that Canon Phillips went to the wall.

Mr. Joseph Arch will not, after all, be feted by the
National liberal Club, he being too ill to accept the
honour. Sothis success isnot the le. reins rkable. It is a
wonderful success this plain—very plain—agricultotrel
labourer haa achieved, to be teturned to Parliament
as knight of a shire. He has tried to get into Perlin.
meat before, and failed. We remember that at the
time of hit previous candidature a wellocoriducted
servant girl gave unexpected "notice" to her mistress.
" Was there anything the matter? Was she dieo
satisfied with her place?" "No; she was sorry to
Irate, hut her father was going into Parliament, and so
~he conld not stay in service." This was the datigloter
of the henourahle member for Norfolk. A notri.omo
circumstance accoutred just after olmorph's r. v.Ol
election. He was very much knocked up with his
exertion., and his friends anticipated a serious illness.
Just at this time there appeared in the obituary
announcement of several oof the London papeace the
name of Joseph Arch, Sydenhem. The age given
was nomewhet beyond that oof the inennler, who re.
tainly never lived at Sydenhnin. Many people,
neverthelves, for at least that day, helieved the mom
M.P. was dead, and we heard oromoi moi alising.
upon the vanity of hoiman found. ol ins.. this
supposition. Mr. Arch is not, as soot., prote,,,j,
miracle of oratory. lie is lloient, has a strung oiie,
speaks simply but earnestly, and ham not yet mastered
the difficulty of properly distributing his It's.

ISome inemliers of the Reform Clot have formed
thennielres into a "Voters' Protection Co 'tor.;
and this body is about to institute • number of
prosecutions against alleged offenders at the reeent
election. It is not many yearn ago since we wen.
immured that the Ball.it Act so onl4l It int, eee i e lAtion
to an end for ever ; owl it is difficult to imagine thst
effectual intiinidation can now easst where the Liw
properly tarried out. The prosecution% will be
extremely interesting. Mr. ; me 1,4* roundly
attributed COAAIII,AtiVe 1111CC.3.11A in the borough in
pert to bribery and intimirlati ~,, . Will these eharres
be substantiated ? If so, the result upon the is it
election, which cannot Is. far distant, Islay I sary
important.
Though the political outlook in gloomy, awl though.
to judge merely by the Recenne Retumn, much more
could not be said for the commercial nuthsolt, there
Its some signs of the long-flesiml revival f trade.
We have become accustomed t. look westward for
tokens of this dawn, and according to all late:tor...man
America is already enjoying 3 way,' if commeicial
proaperity. ThA infbiencs i.l transatlantic by ilines•
ii being felt an the city. Theri• is A 1110,31111.311 A111.31g
the "dry bones" of stagnant capital. Not only the
merchants, but also the manufacturers are lenefiiing,
and the array of unemployed workmen is I.e wing
reduced. If which hue ci sullenly 311. i
opened its tatAff, 41.3111.11 pro' the
commencement of a cycle of gresl trade, we don't
think that men will ves, thoir souls too much at its
possible political perplexities.

It is understood that the War ()dice authorities
intend shortly to establish Central ftecei•iiez
and to try to do without recniiting-iergeant.. The
meant system is undmilitedly ICioUA, belowz. to
an obsolete state of enciety. Amongst yokels who
could neither read or write tho attraction of the
numpeoloured rihhons and the glib isinutasion• of the
non-oommiseioned officers were an .'rcmal.lr expedient,
though tie. shilling sad drinks were never very
commendable seditctions. Ilia now that the Con.
atander-in-chief is regard.l as an .91311.103. Pr 14 lAtlvollr,
COMpt4ing in the inarket with other mindoyers
labour, and at a time when education is m„re gene,
ally diffused, the I.l.l•fashioned plan iant of place,
and reernits or. not likely te wore.. seldiere fin-
entering the Ann,' in a 'oilier awl respectable and
husiner.like ittiusner.