The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 13.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

So much Importance has been attached by all
parties to Mr. John Bright's return to office, that
we have come to expect quite a Ministerial
manifesto from him at Birmingham on Wednes-
day, and the extensive preparations for hls recep-
tion, inciuding the fitting up of Dinghy Hall,
show that his constituents anticipate more than
an ordinary election speech. Mr. Bright's '
utterances on the questions of university educa-
tion in Ireland and primary education in
England, on the Ashantee war, on our national
taxation and expenditure, on local taxation, on
household suffrage in counties and on county
administration, as well as on various other topics,
will be read with great interest all over the
country, both because of his own oratorical
power and outspokenness, and on account of his
being understood to represent the Ministry in a
special mincer; and we shall scarcely have done
ith his speech entirely before we have that of
Mr. Dtsraeli at Glasgow on the Pith of November,
at the banouet which is to follow his installation
as Lord hector of the University. As the
banquet is to be non-political, however, we cm-
not expect from Mr. Disraeli a party reply to
Mr. Bright, though of course the leader of Her
M. jesty's opposition cannot very well avoid all
political referenoes in a public speech. Seeing
that we have now no expectation of • dissolution
before next autumn (if we get one then), the
speeches we have from statesmen and politicans
will be all the more appreciated, and therefore
many persons will regret that Mr. Gladataue,
"through a pressure of engagements," has felt
himself obliged to decline Captain Ilayter's invi-
tation to • "demonstration" at Bath in celebra-
tion of the Liberal victory in that city. It would
have been very interesting to hear the Premier
upon Conservative reaction and the supposed
check put to it; but Mr. Gladstone is very
reticent as • Prime Minister, at all events out of
Parliament : he has only visited his Greenwich
constituents once in five years ; and if he had
gone to the demonstration at Bath without
appearing at Greenwich, his present constituents
would have had some excuse at the next general
election for telling him politely to "go to Bath."
The names of the Commissioners appointed to
inqaire into the alleged grievances of army
officers in respect to the abolition of purchase
ought to inspire confidence. The Government
opposed the address for a Commission when
moved in the House of Lords (although the Duke
of Cambridge spoke in favour of it), and they
have made a long delay in appointing it ; but the
names of two judges like Lord Justice James
and Lord Pei:trance, and of a Conservative states-
man like Mr. Ward Hunt. which three compose
' the Commission, are a guarantee for an inquiry
that shall not be biassed in favour of the Govern-
ment. The political impartiality of our judges.,
when once they have been elevated to the Bench,
Is proverbial, and the only really political
personage on the Commission will be Mr.
Disraell'sex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. The
Commission has full power to all poisons,
examine official books, documents, papers, dm.,
and If it does not give satisfaction to the officers,
It will not be the fault cif the Government.

It cannot be wondered if the politics of France
and Spain are just now found by many English-
men more interesting than those of their own
country. The imminent contest between the
monarchists and the new obstructive coalition of
which M. Thiess has become the prophet, excites
much interest, now that it his stated that the
Comte de Chambord has accepted the tricolour
and declared his intention of leaving the National
Assembly to form a constitution. It Ma felt,
however, that these concessions would have had
much more effect if they had come before the
Bonapartist-Republioan coalition hal been
formed and enlisted under its banner many
wavered. As for Spain, even her best friends
can hope but little for her while she has such a
naval commander as General Lobo, who ran away
with his squadron to Gibraltar, and left the
Etransigente ships of Centuples to exact
requisitions on the coast unmolested. Just as
the beleagured city was running out of provisions,
this cowardice is specially damaging to the
Madrid Goveinment. But, en revanche, we have
news from Madrid of an extraordinary victory
over Ca/lista-150 Repubilcans having, it is
said, beaten 1,400 of the former party at Yecla.
Such a statement requires confirmation. The
forces of the Madrid (iovernment have never yet
done anything approaching to this; and if the
victory bo real, Caatelar had better send those
150 men to Carthagens. The continued defiance
of the central authority by a single town is a
worse thorn in the aide of the Government than
the Carlist insurrection.

The Pope has been unable to remain silent
any longer while Prince Bismarck applies the
anti-Jesuit besom. Writing to the Emperor of
Germany His Holiness observes, "the measures
which have been adopted by your Majesty's
GovernmeLt for some time past all aim more
and more at the destruction of Catholicism.
When I seriously ponder over the causes which
may have led to these very hard measures, I
confess that 1 am unable to discover any reasons
for such • course. On the other hand, I am
informed that your Majesty does not coun-
tenance the proceedings of your Government
and does not approve the harshness of the
measures adopted against the Catholic religion.
If, then, It be true that your Majesty does not
approve thereof, and the letters which your
august Majesty has addressed to me formerly
might sufficiently demonstrate that you cannot
approve that which is now occuring—if, I say,
your Majesty does not approve your Government
continuing in the path it has chosen of further
extending its rigorous measures against the
religion of Jesus Christ, whereby the latter is
most injuriously affected, will your Majesty not
become oonvinced that them measures have no
other object than that of undermining your
Majesty's own throne 1 " The Pope warns the
, Emperor that if he would escape free he must
, not tolerate incendiaries, and, above all, must
not listen to the advice of those few men whole
measures "can have no other object" than that
of wrapping his capital in flames. And then the
letter concludes, "I speak with frankneer for
my banner is truth; I speak in older to fulfil
one of my duties which consists in telling the
truth to all, even to those who are not Catholics,
for every one who has been baptised belongs in
some way or other, which to define more precisely
would be hers out of place—belongs I say to the
Pope." The reply of the Emperor is dignified and
temperate, eyen gentle, in its tone; but it is a
perfectly firm rejection of the Pope's petition.
He repudiates, with great decision, the rumours
which represent him as at variance with his
Ministers on the question of their attitude
towards the Church. "According to the con-
stitution of my States such a case cannot happen,
since the laws and Government measures in
Prussia require my consent as Sovereign. 'Jo
my deep sorrow," he continues, "a portion of
my Catholic subject. have organised for the past
two years a political party, which endeavours to
disturb, by Intrigues hostile to the Stets, the
religious peace which has existed for oenturies in
Prussia. Talitig Catholic priests have, unfor-
tunately, not only approved this movement, but
joined in it to the extant of open revolt against
the existing laws. It will not have escaped the
attention of your Holiness that similar indications
manifest themselves at the present time in
several European and in some Transatlantic
, States." The Emperor goes on to say that he
will maintain order and law in his States against
ell attacks, as long as God gives him power,
" and that he willingl entertains the hope that
His Holiness, upon being informed of the true
position of affairs, will use his authority to put
an end to the agitation carried on amid deplorable
distortion of the truth, and atom of the priestly
authority." "The religion of Jesus Christ has,'
he adds with almost a touch of epigram, " as I
attest to your Holiness before God nothing to do
with these intrigues, any more than has truth, to
whose banner, invoked by your Holiness, I un-
reservedly subscribe." The letter culminates in
the following striking passage :—" 'I here is one
more expression in the letter of your Holiness
which I cannot pass over without contradiction,
although it is not based upon the previous infor-
mation, but upon the belief of your Holiness—
namely, the expression that every one that has
received baptism belongs to the Pope. The
Evangelical creed—which, as must be known to
your Holiness, I, like my ancestors and the
majority of my subjects, profeas—does not permit
us to accept in our relations to God any other
mediator than our Lord Jesus Christ.'

The art studenta of Minefield Mechanic's
Institution have been taken in hand by Mr.
llue'cul and the Duke of St. Alban's, and they
ought to be very much the better for the advice
tendered them. Here is a specimen from Mr.
Buskin's brief lecture :
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You thiok yu aro going to do better thiogs, earth of
you, than Titian or Ptddlait ; write better than Virgil ;
think more whey than Solomon. lir good young
prirp 1..8 this la quite pro-eminently the foollatteet—
p alMatit that barmtallest—notloa thAi wed

COURT TAW—The annual smart of the borough was
held oo Monday morning, the Mayor (Mr. 0. J. G.
Gregory). Wedding, and lb. Town Clerk (Mr. Giles
Symonds) was also premier. Tbe smut was opened in
due form by the Town.wargearis (Mr. Ca,tie). and the
roll being sailed, the follow's' jurors answered to their
arose :—Mr. Jamas Drake (foreman), Mr. W. Darden.
Mr. .1. abort% Mr. J. Spicer, Mr. G. Mefferd, Mr. T.
Vase, Mr. H. Ling' Mr. G. G. Ramsey, Mr. J. Warms,
Mr. W. Panniter,Mr. B. Ormsby, Mr. H. White, Mr.
J. Miles, Mr. R. R. Barfoot, Kr. G. Read, Mr. J. R.
Taylor, Mr. J. Burr, Kr. A. Brown, and Mr. A.
liamwaye. The Gaul then adjourned till four o'clock
ma Thursday oftener°. The annual sapper will be
held the moo evening at tie Placenta
VOWS'S Vammtima.—Mr. Alfred G. Vence, the
eslebrated &Mho!, composer, and dorm, pre an enter-
tainment at the Town Hall, on Saturday reninr. He
was erirted by Mims &stint Moos, Mies Kate Harley,
and Mr. Brahma Sharpe (solo pianist and roamers.).
The programme ccersted of some of Vanoe's most
ormolu songs. Including "The Swell of iron Square,"
"Beautiful Girls," "Turtle Dove Ornate at Kew
" Blighted Bauer," ha, all of whieh were readered ,"
the Mugger well-known style, and remed to be much
appreciated by • large sedieeree Mir Moos and Miss
Harley err sang two or three ballads, and were mush
applauded. The first part of the eatirriantoot eon-
eluded whit the comic operetta of "The rare Graces,
or Fashion's Daughters," the throe grains being TM*.
singed by Mr. Valor as the "Girl of the period," Mir
Harley the "Girl of the peek" sad Mir Wilson the
'Girl of the future," eash of whom endeavoured to
Impress on their bearers that their own style of dross
and mode of living were the best. In thermos of the
operetta many smart things were rid respecting the
leading men of the present day and things Is general,
the members of the Government and the Tiehborne
trial each receiving a share of satire. ii,. Vance's
" makajap" as " The Shah" was something astonishing,
and his ringing of "Hive you seen the Shah ?" brought
dawn the house. and terminated the entertainment.
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Mortara. Stionor.—Tbe retiring Ontseißen at
the forthcoming election are the Mayer (Mr. GI. J. G.
Gregory,) Dr. Aldridge, Mr. W. Versos, and Mr. F.
Bennett. The notion that there will be a fifth vacantly
1., we understand, *mann; al Mr. Bishop will not he
disqualified to eft at the Council until In months after
he hag ceased to be on the burgess list, and manna
resign without paying the fine. In addition to the
candidature of Mr. F. Mllle, we hear It rumoured that
Fordineton Is likely to prodnoe two aspirants to
municipal honours. By poet on Sunday merning, we,
in common with many others, received sprinted copy of
some poor doggrel satirising the Inn-named candidate.
It may be well to remember that Mr. Mills barn done
good eervioe as a Guardian of the Poor, and that one
change he initiated at the workhouse entitled; him
to the respeot of all who are humane. It hal been
the prao ice for the poor old creatures to be
turned out of bed every winter morning at six
o'clock with nothing to do but shiver over a bit of
fire, and bemoan the Providence that had not killed
theca but only made them helpless, and it was throne
Mr. Mills's interposition that they bad an bour's re*
Bo mindful of the Interest of the indigent, be may have
'ward to the genteel poverty of many people In
Dorchester. stricken alike with high rents and high
rates And. having shown In We own person, that he
posemen the gift A attaining to Independent:le by hie
own exertion., he may help to plass our town in the
beooming position of solvency, and lighten the present
and prospeotive burdens of the ratepayers.
817trI0100i DEATH OF • CHLIMINOTIR Maw—A.
inquest has been held at Aldershot, touching the death
of Private Norbet Landeohnt, of the let battalion
Rifle brigade, who was found dead on the Boor of the
barrack room, on the morning of the 6th inst. It
seemed that on Suadity evening, the sth, Landscheit
wee out from six till nine, during whisk tine he hail
three pints of ale. Between 10 and 11, aceording to
the evidence of Private John 'Mind, of Dorediester. •
private named Making eomplalned that Landsoloalt had
used his looking-gins and left it on UN table knead of
potting it away. Landsoheit maid he didn't ace no
Malkne averred be did, and high words pewee&
Landseheit sald he'd bay • glen of his own, and he'd
be U Makin. should look in it. Mains said
" Yon would ? ' and weet towards hlm in • threatening
manner. 'Audubon repeated his words, when Making
knocked him down, by • la/ow on the breast. Deemed
fell backward. • tritons wailed a minute or two, during
which Landest;it did not get up, and then went away
to the offiaer's quarters, where be slept. He thought
deceased's head strut* an Iran skirting on the wall.
None of the men in the roars interfered. Some of the
witnesses said *Air,' pushed dennered, and one or
two that it wart a blow. Inanition was subsequently
seen on his bed. Between one and two next morning.
Private Goldeaok, walking about the room with the
toothache, heard Landscheit groaning, and say "Oh,
my poor head; I wish God would take me oat of
_my
He \ him talking lOds "

aotboughl sleep.- Jut h-ednie
deceased got out of bed sod drank some water. He did
not stigyrr or complain. He got into bed sodnd s, a
oe imolai up. Did Dot hear him fall out of bed.
Private Sheppard when he got op in the morning
just before eve found doomed lying on the door on
his face. The blankets were under him, meetly ander
him bead, and appestat, staffed in his month. Did
not think anything of it, as be had ism Laadaoheit
there before? When? • : Not • fainight before.
Is it not something extraordisary loses • man lying
ma the door I Oh, no ;I often see It; they often fail
out of bed. And that I. your upriser* of four yews'
soldiering? Yes. When doomed got up after being
pushed dows, he did Dot say anything, but
oommeoeed making his bed, sad Haldane west to his.
James Vinare:, the eorporal in oharg• of the rum,
thought deceased had had • fit, or smothered himself.
Landubeit was on pretty good terms with his
eomrades. He was not • goarrelsomo man, but if he
had had • ems of bur would bays the last word. He
was aggravating at times. He was middling study,
and • powerful man. Dr. Gray found the skull was
extousivoly fractured. and that canoed death. There
we. a scalp wound at the bask of the head about an
loch long. Did not think falling from the bed to the
Soon would cense gush • frutore. Ms skull was us-
usaally thin—tem than half the usual thickness Bush
• fracture would not neessoarily make him insensible.
Had known men go for days with a fractured skull and
the• die. It was poedble he got up warmly knowing
be was hurt. Makin., bear cautioned, said after the
word. related about the glass he got hold of it, and
Landscheit made • snatch at it. Witham posited him
and be fell. He got op and eald bid buy • glass of
of his own. Then he went to bed, and kept growling
about the glue Did yes know you had thinred him?
I didn't lino. I bad done turn any infory.—After son-
&define an hour and a half it. jury found Loodseheit
died from • (nature of the skull, but how it wee
caused they *wild not decide owing to this oraillet of
ovidenee.

COUITT POLIO', Thunday.—Betore 11r. R. H.
Benham and Mr. IL N. Nichtleton.—JoAn Randall
was charged with assaulting P.C. W. Chsffey, at West
Chinked@ll, on llooday, the 13th Mat —ltappeared from
the evldettee that there was • row In the defendant's
brother's house, thet the polloemiut was called in, and
that prisoner attempted to strike the (constable with •
heavy kitchen poker (which was produced in scud) and
wee only prevented by • person eatehlng his arm.—
Prisoner, who had been previously eonvisted, was
sentenced to one niontb's hard labour.

BOROUGH Pam Eissmone, ii;;My.—Beforo the
Mayor (Mr. G. J. (. Gregory), and Dr. Aldridge.—
Several poor persons IMO eurused tbepaymont of rates.
—A young fellow was attested for 12 years' service la
the army. Told to take the Testament in his right
band, ho sut out hie tale; and the Town Clerk en-
truraged him by °leach's " Tho).11 soon teach you to
know your right hand from your kii."—A men named
Bev )(unix litesva was brought up on remand ekarsed
with scaling a horse rug belonging to Mr. Sneor, value
Kie.,on Saturday weak. The rug wee stolen off • lune lit
the Anklop• stable, and prisoner offered it toe sale
to Mr. Semwsys, at the Mel Coach lon, but
Mr. Smile's had bought the fellow rug, and
knew it again by that, and else by • bit of loather on
II with whioh it had been mended. lie detained tte
rug, and oonamoolonted with Mr. Manor, on which
prisoner was approbsocied.—Priseuer said it was given
him by • young maw named "John," who worked at
Ms. Langmuir, and imilio4 with him at lb' Dolphin.
Ile was an tamosal us babe sabon. —Ms. Cilst, *Wm