The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-23 00:00:00

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DORCHNITYR, FEBRUARY =so, 1,4 A

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The 11111111S1 espectatioo now points to a diamlution
of Patlialll•Si in Jona Th. Irish question as
dednitely shelved until April; sied 1.1. now kaown,
Cunha to Use candour of Mr. Chamberlain. Olaf the
Cabinet hive not yet axed epos any scheme for the
eatielaotioo of Tantellite demands. The matter has
Plainly to be fought out in the Cabinet. lila aot
likely this It will be settled without wane resigns-
tics.. It OMNI hardly possible that say schema min
be proposaded which eriU satisfy both Um Whigs and
the Pareellites. A Government defeat in thy House
of GAMOW in April would almost eammitate an
appeal to the country, and eves if the Covernmeat
ware sucessel al is the Lower Howse, the Lords would
undoubtedly throw out any measure approsintating
to HUM ROIL in which ease equally an appeal to the
country would be seeseemy. No doubt the beet
change of prolonging the life of the Ministers would
be to deal first with the Land Question. H this wen
done the !long vacation might be reached before •
tiovernmant defeat took place. But Hr.
tolerate vel y demands that the question of *elf lovers.
merit should have precedence and unless he gives
tray, which be is not in the habit id doing. bin
behest mast be obeyed. The word has been passed
to politiesl organisations throughout the country
to be ready fur anotlyw election during the
present year.

Mr. Childers deserves CS1041;i11111rIliMI No Cabinet
Minister ever had so untoward an experience upon
his first day u 4 411oe. The incident could sot have
been more mortifying, and the Home Secrotary's own
account of the matter only rendered it mom ludicrous.
There is something comic in the fact that he was not
MI6 aware that anything was smile until the riot
was nearly over, seri that even then be only received
the information easually in a note about domestic
matters from his own residence. It is strange too
that Mr. atiklers supposed be bad dope everything
in his power to restore public confidence on the
Tuesday. It is isteresting now to know that there
was no occasion for the widespread alarm of Tneeday
and Wednesday, and that the paha and military were
in seediness to suppress the slightest outbreak. But
bow was public confidence to be restored by the
some al ceders, which were kept a profound secret?
A proclanzatton posted in the Omsk, a few lines in
the newspapers, would Imre immediately stilled the
general apprehension, and the shopbroptai of Lcadon
would hare been saved what was perhaps the heaviest
part of their misfortune, the lose of tinders business.

Thu rePreeestetion system hail always been full of
anomalies, and the extension of the Fraar.hisis, sa
proposed is the Bill which passed ita mood reeding
as Thursday sight, introduces more asomalies than
it removes. The Bill duels only with female house.
holders. Married MIMIC and lodgers are excluded
from its operation. The boaourable imitate of matri•
many will Ines the effect ipso facto of disfranchising
such lady householders as eater into it. Old mei&
and widow. will have votes, awl matrons will be
without them, ea though a legislature of men con•
sidered it a mark of superior wisdom on the part of a
wowsn either to abstain from mercies.% or, haring
married, to get rid of her husband. Then, again.
there is so doubts grave objection to the admission
of lOW* lodgers to the Franchise. It ia instiactirely
felt thee 14 would be eosins bona morn to enfranchise
an unfortuneee elms of women, who are for the most
part is lodgings- And yet, in mak ins this distinction, a
serious slur is inferentially passed upon the thouseode
of demist aid virtuous workwornee who are compelled
to live is apartments. Again, it may be asked why
the test el newels alsould be isdirectly applied to the
one sex and not to the other; and it may be pointed
ad that, altar all, the tent is ineffectual, seeing that
in London, at any rrite, a large number of en -called
gay' women are howeholders. So that it might
IMAM as though the rote were to be given to miaosa.
ml opurtesans, and only denied to thom an inferior
grade.

A great calm, says the tension rime*,
has aestled down at Waled., since the advent
of the pendent inanwer. &Ir. Sootier has not
only room/miss' the staff, who are now settle',
in Ilse', osniandiiiiil twos quarter. : but he has quietly
effected considerable improvements Ontsitio. The
South Western Csimpany has ceased to be
'spoken of as one or the wors•managed railway com•
pasties in England; it is steadily rising in public
favour. The oiaveniencie and cumfurt of the pleeent•
gets are now conaidereil, and, aa • rule, trains aerie*
and depart according to the adrertiaed time*. At
the holf•yearly meeting of the company last week, it
is satisfactory to Meer,* nearly 1:100,000 has been
spent on the washing stook, no enginee, tenders,
massager carriages and wainpus. Unions the work•
inn stook is regularly and liberally nsplenielsed, it is
impossible for a railway company to thrive. An
examination of the detail' of the receipts shows that,
though the third-clam pamengere im the South
Western bring I. by far the most money, the awed.
alas, tomes nosh There is, enterrpiently, no idea of
abolishing esoandeilese on that line. The total
receipt, oboe 5 iseresee of 00,11110 over those of the
correspond* bikil•year, and the average ligneous
received per ponengee amounted to 114, ao against
Ilid.

1. advisability of hobby; ip in the New
Fond lee tbe wilier, forces of Wilts, Hants, and
Doled, WSW of the nasal permuted duty, was
seder the consideration of the War Of Bee for some
time. but beton the late Hevensted left dies the
pealed fell through es roseest if dasseial diSsulties.
It was proposed to hold the amp at Lystlhoret far
days, either al tbe eod of May or emnatenemnent of
Jess. The euggedies wee highly popular with the
Tommy mimesis as teed. At present tie
IMO only gee one day's work at all similar to what
they would have to indorse is actual warfare, sad
whew Sb. qesetion arises GI giving them Si days' 0011.
Sal Wads, Is • good eronery, it should nd be
Indratsd, 16 Is Silt, by • eirsemparhyt policy prac-
tised as tin Hone Gated'. It is not certain yet
whether the prows! aorstainaill will mord lb*

proposal wills more favour dim their predecessors.