The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-01 00:00:00

'Bonet Cottutq ages.

TUESDAY. JULY 1, 11373.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The Shah Lae had the grace to pay Her
Majesty the Queen this pretty Persiau oomph.
moot. " Till now I have been accustomed to
reckon my years from the date of my birth; in
future I shall reckon them from my visit to
your Majesty"—which is equal to anything we
recollect in the courtesies oh Kings ; and be is
understood to have expressed himself to the
effect that his visit to England has afforded him
much greater pleasure than the rest of his Euro-
pean tour. 'lbis is pleasant enough to us, but
the Russian prase is growling about it, and
describes England as a siren-voiced tiger, warms
the Shah against us, and says he hee kind,
honest, peaceable Russia always ready to sup-
port and 'mist him I
Parliament haa been dell and apathetic, and
the question DOW is what measures shall be
sacrificed. The law reforms, which a few months
back all were so sanguine of seeing carried out
in a useful shape, are either abandoned or their
value greatly diminished ; the Juries Bill was
on Friday shorn of its more prominent features,
and leaves the jury system substantially as at
present; the Rising Bill has been so modified
that it will scarcely illustrate a principle; and
Mr. Forater's amendment of the Education Act
has intensified the disgust of the Nonconformists
and advanced Liberals with the Government,
and their dissatisfioation finds pigment expression
In such &eta as the candidature of Mr. Cox, of
Helper, at La' th, in oppoettiou to the Ministerial
candidate, ani seems likely at the general elec-
tion to favour the return of a considerable num-
ber of Conservatives. Of course, such procedure
will illustrate the old frolic of "cutting off the
nose to spite the face," but to that implacable
mood the Radicals seem to have come. At the
end of the session, we shall have an effete
Ministry and a scanty amount of legislation.
The Bills before Parliament daring the past
week have afforded ample variety. Earl de la
Werr's measure to prevent the training of
children as acrobat" was disonimed by the
but Lord Kimberley showed it was so worded as
to make it penal to employ children in cutting
turnips, and the Marquis of Bath doubted
whether it would not apply to children eating
plums! The Government, notwithstanding Mr.
Gladstone's frequent condemnation of colonial
guarantees, carried the Canada Lo:aa Guarantee
Bill, advocating it as indirect compensation for
the Fenian raids. Sir D. Wedderlaern's Bill for
the Abolition of Bypotbec was rejected. The
division, though nominally on this Scotch law
which pledgee to the landlord a tenant's crop,
stock, and furniture for rent, is precedence of
all other creditors, was regarded as really involv-
ing the English law of detrain, and therefore
met overwhelming opposition. Lord Shaftes-
bury's opposition to the Piddle 'Worship Facili-
ties Bill secured the rejection of that insidious
proposal, and was a 'slap in the bee" for the
bench of Bishops, who eardia Ily advocated it
The refusal of Mr. Gladstone Sc. exempt hospital'
from rating was maintained by the House; but
it would have been equally logical to tax church,
chapel. Sunday wheel, or ragged school. The
Order of Merit for distinguialaed men in literature
and science, posed by Earl Stanhope, met
little favour, Earl Granville• pointing out great
difficulties in the bestowal of such distinctions.
The general feeling on the subject probably is,
that in no eountry of the world is such merit
more richly rewarded by extensive appreciation
and pecuniary SUWON thin in Ungland, beside
which oomphoientary ribseada arid moues would
be ridiculous.

return recently presented to the House of
Lords, moved for by the ESA •f Malruesbury,
shows that in 1872 lioensed g ame dealers in
this country sold over 5,000,000 rabbits and
700,000 hares. The price of a rabbit varies
from Is. to lc tld., and, at that :ate, supplies •
healthy variation of diet, at • ma, ierate ex tnnno•
But then the committee on the mai Laws hey*
learnt how terribly farmers autfor from re bbit
warrens, and that rabbit poaching is • v cry
common offence; and it seems likely that we
shall have to do with fewer rabbits, by the. 1r
exclusion from the protection of the law.
The statistics which Mr. Forster communi—
cated to the Bouse of Oommon• on Thursday
evening, in comparing the school board and the •
non-school board districts of tngland and Wales,
, showed the total population for which school .
boards have been establi4hed numbers tee
millions, leaving close arra thirteen million.
0 %700,000) in non-inb`A board district.. whew •
edneetinne,l wants ere supplied by denominational .
energy.
.stiou to be settled is, how
men; n`, ~,
‘,.'"
.rishee in these last districts, if
any, ought Jbe ordered to establish school
TO5 preliminary inquiry necessary to
eenev„ `",.`" that is still being carried on by the
"vY, JounaU. But, as Mr. Forster himself
admi s that voluntary liberality is solving the
fr°- of providing the neeiessary schools
very quickly, no
* with discretion.
" doubt "My Lords" will sot

Mr. Childers's Committee on the cost of our -
Civil Service Departments has presented a
valuable report relative to the expenditure on
the Court. of J intim. It appears that not one
of these Courts pays its own expenses out oi '
the fees levied on seams ; and in some oases the
balance to be made good by the public Tteasury
is oonaiderable. The Court of Chancery, for
instance, coats in all £300,000; but, although
the fees are quite high enough to constitute a
serious burden on suitor', they only yield
£134,000 of that amount, while the interest on
accumulations of the suitors' fee fund yields
£104,000 additional. Thanks to these sources
of income, Chancery costs lees in proportion than
any other Court circauustanoe which can
hardly yield much gratification to the suitors.
The net mats of the Common Law Courts, after
allowing for the fees, is £84,000 ; the Court of
Bankruptcy, about £75,000; the Probete and
Divorce Court, £50,000, The Admiralty Court
mete about three times its receipts, and the
Court of Land Registry expenses are ten tunes
the fees it levies. The annual su: of all
the civil Courts in the United Kingdom are
placed at £1,746,000, and the receipts from
fees at £940,000, thus leaving a deficiency of
£806,000 to be made good out of the Bx-

chequer.
The Morning Post his mica to believe that
the Government do not intend to proceed
farther this elision with the Valuation Bill now
awaiting Committee, and that in the wares of
a few days Mr. Gladstone will make • oommuni-
ostion to the Howe of Commons with relerenoe
to other measures which, owing to the lateness
of the session and other causes, it may. become
necessary to discard.
The left witness before the eommitlisie on
Coal Supply ham given us an interesting subject
for consideration. Mr. Normansell, Secretary
of the South Yorkshire Miners amocistion,gave
a sketch of the collier at home, with
eiscos,
harmoniums, and '' even perambulators, club-
king with his fellows for. bottle of champagne
and resolved not to work so hard again as he
did formerly. "Yes," said Mr. Normansell,
"they formerly worked much too hard, and now
they intend to take it a little easier.'' "Ii
that the result of progress and education 1"
Inquired the Chairman. " The more you edu-
cate a man," answered the secretary, speaking,
no doubt, for the colliers generally, "the lees
, physical labour you will get out of him; and a
very proper principle, too, in my opinion." Is
this really the plain fact It may be true, as
we think it undoubtedly is, that education will
certainly teach a man how to economise hie
labour, and will bring many thWxgs under the
category of necessaries which before he reckoned
as luxuries; it may also be true that miners
hitherto have worked too hard, mid are right in
Intending to "take it easier," by working fewer
hours per diem; but Mr. Braasey has helped to
show that this is a method for getting more and
not ices physical work out of a man, whale the
use of the spare hours in education tends to
make this greater quantity also of • better
quality, We do not doubt that the hard, un-
pleasant, unintelligent work of hewing coal will
be supplanted, to • great extent, by the work
of directing machinery for the purpose; the
different kind of work will require more intelli-
gent men, and possibly fewer of them, or fewer
hours of work for the manse number, but that is
no reason for awing that education diminishes
a man's physical power. 1 he reaaort, if any, a
that a lees amount of intelligent well-itoonomiaed
labour is as productive as • greater amount of
unskilled and wasted exertion.
The nominal Republic in Prance, under
Marshal Maddahon, is a disheartening failure.
The intention to govern "by the help of God
and the army" proves to be no rhetorical Sourish.
Military terrorism is not yet developed, but
priestly domination is daily mare pronounised. The
deputies by • large majority have supported the
order of Prefect of Lynes, which directs that
the burials of all persons who have not lived and
died under favour of the Ohara& shall take plain
only in the early morning before the city Is smile

with any'other business than the clearing of the
streets; from rceibish sod. olf4l, that even then the
funeral processions 'ban only piss through the
beak streetaand that in various other ways iodic
, nity shall be offered to the memory of the dead and
to the feelings of the living. Such an exhibition
of religions bigotry is E keeping with the aotion
of • government that. hail directed the Prefects
to coerce tne electors in support of the Govern-
ment candidates, and has indecently planned
the corruption of journalists. But two or three
items of news from other quarters are not favour-
able to the restoratian or maintenance of Papal
power and influence. So secure does Victor Kin-
manta feel of his positic n in Rome that even • Min-
isterial crisis does not MOW him to hurry beck to
the city, bat be simi Ay telegraphs to Signor
Minghetti to form .• Ministry. From Porn
!we learn that the near Archbishop of Lima has
sworn to bold the law $ of the country superior
to any orders proceed lag from Rome, he being
the first Peruvian pi elate to make snob an
engagement; sod frau i Brasil we learn that the
Councils( State has ju at demdsd that Papal bolls
cannot take affect in th at country until they have
received the senction o f the Government. Surely
these various matter i are symptomatic of what
his Holiness has called the revolt of society
'Sawa religion.
Spain is skill distracted by °sante sowers*
and the inooMpettsnott of the Republican leaders.
Possibly Queen lesbelle—who has been inter-
viewing the Pope, giving him • diamond cross at
petting, and devoting • good many hundreds el
pounds as Peter's Pence—has thoughts of asking
Spain whether it could be worse off with even •
monarchy of the type she represents. The
Emperor of Germany has recovered from his ill-
ness, and, now the Sultan is indisposed. The
Ramian expedition to 'Chive has succeeded; the
eepital of the Khanna bas beim oaptnred, the
Khan him fled, and the last independent State
iii Gentsl Asia disappears from the roll of
Sovereign States.