The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-04 00:00:00

WHAT THE WORLD SAY&

After such a crushing defeat it would have been more
dignified for Lord I:flacons&id to retire without such a
shower of indiscriminate rewards, and this remark
especially applies to the large batch of new peers be has
crested. The Tory majority in the hones of Lards is
already very large, and this lavish addition to its numbers
insures • collision between the two Houses on the first
greet =Lithe
d %Milo jortaitOtaWa that
Ia
what
Is Buckingham Palace haunted, or are the drains out
of order, or what t Her Majesty returns in hot haste, by
special trains end steamer& to meet a great political
emergency and save unnecessary delay; but instead of
going to the official residence provided for her In the
centre of London, abe withdraws to Windsor Outs;
and so, apart from the labour involved to the statesmen
sonoerned, the crjals Ig prolonged Over many days, in.
stead of being ecUed, silt otherwise might hay, bean, in
the course of 48 boon.

The object of tits Prince of Wales in calling on Mr.
Gladstone was to assure him that he bad no sympathy
with ths hostility to she right boa. gentleman which
exists. or is supposed to eziat, in the highest quarter.
The Prince told the IProader that. in ths political strug-
gles of tho tioantry. ths position of the Court should b.
one of strict neutrality. and that it should never assume
all unfriendly attitude to any datottoott- rho Hair
kpponiut is • wise man in his day.

One thing of mums la already perfectly clear, and
constituter indeed the great feature in the present posi-
tion. Kr. Oladotene will be as saurian* in the
as lord Beaconsfield was in the tservative. Cabinet.
the sonsaissl and enbeedinetas will las of a superior
calibre ; there will not be the invertebrete amiability of
Mr Stafford Nortboote. at the noisy and impotent quack-
ing ot Mr. Cross. But Mr. Gladstone intends to be, and
will be, the master of the situation; and the Ltberal
Administretion of UN) will biter a curiously close resem-
blance to the Liberal Administration of 1& The grind
thing, however, is to have got rid of Lord Beationadeld,
and to have atalasaaeit his Administration for • Govern-
ment which, it may be hoped, will conform itself to the
customary traditions of English honour and honesty.
Lord Beaconsfield has systswetically degraded the word
Conservative. For the last air veers a Conservative
policy has been a miss of abeam and evasions and
After all, historical jusuos and political Provi-
dence ere not mere Actions of the Imagination. g,.7
goglishman who is lord to the beet traditions of
' Wok We should be supremely grateful that %Ile=
uous Arintinistretiosi which has ever managed the
Wish* of Ulla 00ellitrr Is at an end. Lad Betwonsfield
" took John Bull to Ormearne ;" and though the old
fellow rather seemed to like it, it is a great thing
that Kr. Gladstone should have the chance of
loading him back into th• paths of sobriety and sense.
It would be ridiculous to impugn the. personal halloo: of
any member of Lord BeeoopsUd's Gifts**. It oonsistad
of English gentlemen, just as Yr. Gladstones will; but
there is no doubt that a sentiment of universal and pro-
found relief will be experienced by the conactcrieness
that the honour of English gentlemen will 010188 to take
the colour of the intellect, and to altrats through the
medium, of a traoscendently gifted Jew.

To the world in general Mr. Kantor' Corry's elevation
to the Peerage may seem but a vain and empty honour;
for title without money is, indeed, but as a tinkling
cymbal. But to the initiated few, who know that IL C.
is heir promunptive to a line fortune from an uncle who
live' a very retired life in the oountry, and who is far
advanced in years, the title of Rowton is a sort of @armlet
of rho rest of the good things to 000 to to him. This
beneficent uncle married Indy Charlotte theldey, stator of
Lord Shaftesbury ; and her sister, Lady Married., warn wife
of Kr. Corry, K. a's lather ; arid neatly lf.r. Lister
I. undo' by *orris,. to Kr. Montagu Cony, now Boron
Rowton

ifierman War manceuvros this autumn will include
the maga" of some twenty thousand cavalry behind the
Rhineland frontier, with intent to experiment practically
on tbe rapidity with which the frontier line can be covered
and bald in force by this aces, pending the arrival of
infantry, to repel invasion. The test will be exhaative,
including the marching. feeding. and dispoaition of the
troops as if under the stimulus of an actual emergentff.
Yr. Gladstone, I believe, takes °Moe right in the teeth
of the advice of his medial advisors, who are cescermed r
to the consequesase Cl that ematianel brain exettaramat
which Mr. saledstone's angels* WOES temperament se
dalLerately stimuhttett Rie Imandfla lliffhvergtta siDes
his return to town hav sstat e S•sea times on the
spasmodic.
Perfect smooths's' did not charateria the prollmuutriss
to the regalia that Mr. Gladstone would vW I Windsor
Galas W °Wawa, to the summons siemosled by
Lord Lord Hartingtan snot dawn last
Thursday. be f the Quest the reverse of complaisant
to his firm assurance that Kr. Gladstone most have the
offer to construct a Liberal Cabinet end the utmost the
Royal restiveness would then concede was that he should
submit the Queen's (.slap to Lard Granville. This
afforded Lad Hartingkds ths 09POrtnniti til Ittaalth's
his repremstationsi the personal mood of that noble-
man, who aorordi y went with te the gals re
Fridaymorning.• inevitable than was finally made
Visal. the instincts of conslitatiasalism and
Gladstose was summoned.
Pram Leopold, who was to have sailed in the ttannatten
for Canada, on a visit to Prisms 103•1110, hi. POS•p•b•d,
but has not given up, his inte=a7e a meedi imelp
has taken place. sad no little as to the reasons
which have Induced this diangof izas at gm Let
moment The wad probable Uss that whisk may
be gathered by a pianos at last week's mord ef Royal
doings at Windsor. and of the visit whist, Me Royal
Highness paid the week bolas.
etTb's YolniS latgrrgr and is assessed
visit, is company with
Primes. 4Miritte sad Pi'm L•010°_ld, to the Primes
Consort% manseisem et Proper% leeks very like ehe
impending anzionneemont Cl • firma breakdown ei the
eeeW hamar wilW until the lemma., of the Memenis of
' a:IMA Wear the Royer family eig ths
sdaboribey.