The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-20 00:00:00

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

There am gay youths down in X.lton. On. of them last
week made • bet that he would ride his berm up-stairs
into the drawing-room of the house where hews. Marini
and down again. The Ant part of the task was accom-
plished In safety. but once in the drawing•room the horse
refused to come down, and nothing earthly would move
him. So after leaving him there for three days and =.l
the side wall bad to be taken down, sad the
resumed in • horse-box, which wee elevated to his assist-
sap. by • steam-crane. This defer and humorous Joke
cost somewhere about IMO.

Prom being violently Conservativ., Brighton has br-
ooms f rastioally Liberal. The other day I saw • gigantic
pioture of Lord B..aconstield in the window of one of the
heeding ph,tographers. It was labelled—" Ritilreed to
CS IS 61, foneserfy four griminess."

A friend who called on the Premier last week found
him quiet, but not without a gleam of his peculiar Wa-
iles humour. "Itis a strange thing," said he, " but
people keep calling at this house and asking after me—es
Omagh I had had a child r

Working•clas, votiog power has been largely instru-
mental in securing the Liberal victory, and the working-
class voters will look for their reward. There are two
measures in weenier which they hope and expect will
• follow the triumph of the party of progress. One of thesis
ie she BM to render employers liable to make compensa-
tion for injuriee incurred by their employees while doing
their work. If the Bill of Mr. Macdonald is passed into
law, there will be openings for claims to compensation of
such numerical proportions and amount that frightened
capital will largely be withdrawn, to seek safer asylum in
countries where similar claselsgOlation ha, not yet com-
menced. We have advocated • change in the present
system to the advantage of the workman, but so sweeping
a cheats as that contemplated by Mr. Macdonald would
snake enterprise in many branches hopeless. Yet there is
no qee-tion there will be strong pressure on the Liberal
G,vertunent in favour of such • measure. Another Bill
that may be attempted to be run through Parliament—
now or later—is a seven or eight hours Bill, aiming at
compulsorily establishing • fixed limit to the number of
hour. constituting • legal day's work. True Liberals are
bound to °imam all such proposals. Radicals like Mr.
Fawcett will do all in their power to frustrate " grand-
motherly legislation" that would deprive grown men of
the right to do what they will with their own, and arrange
by contract or bargain to sell as much or as little of their
work for its fair reward. Any arbitrary curtailment of the
time in which a workiag M 41,1 may legally exert himself and
du his work will be contrary to the first principles of
natural lista and justice, which require that a man should
be at liberty to make the most of what exclusively belongs
to himself. If Liberala are true to them-elves they will
act on these principles; but there is sure to be severe
pressure brought to bear on them by their legion of work-
ing-class supporters.
Everyone will be pleased to hear that Mr. Henry
Frl su ' ds, II.?., so long a denizen of Si. Bartholomew',
Hospital, after his serioue accident at the Cannon-street
platform, is now convalescent, and at home again.

What ia this I hear about the festive candidate who
dtstributed oranges out of • donkercart to the epees and
daughters of the electors, and nearly broke their pearly
teeto on • brialit new sovereign that some freak of nature
had implanted in the juicy heart of the fruit/

The Essex and Suffolk Hunt Sr. In difficulty : they
mount find any foxes. A hunt without a fox Is something
Ilk, flontlet with the port of the Prince of Denmark
omitted. The scarcity of foxes on the Suffolk side bag
resulted in • deficit In the accounts: but the members of
the Mint Cr, adopting eeeeee tic moons to remedy this
unfortunate state of things. The lan Menem in the
..whhouilu...d of Ipswich are being sounded as to their
willingness ta preserve foxes, and should only a few
favourable answers be given, there will be an Immense
improvement in tire sport to be bad Ipswich way.

" House o Commons bast dub in London I" said Sir
Charles Jingo. "Possibly at one time. But now thity're
such a rowdy set. that I nail], think I shall take my
name off.' His constituents, however, saved him that
trouble, for they took it a for him.