The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-07-28 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1874.

'Doug &multi Exprtoo.

TUESDAY. JULY V, 19;71.

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NOM OF THE WEEK.

Her Majesty's faithful Commons have unani-
mously, and with many words of gratulatien,
made the usual provision for another of tho
Queen's children on the auspicious twenty-first
birthday. Prince Leopold has been voted
15,0001. a year, and the wish of the nation is
that he may have health like his brothers to
enjoy it. This is a similar amount to that voted
to the Duke of Edinburgh while he was still •
bachelor, and to the Duke of Connaught (Prince
, Arthur). The following list of grants, which
are annually made to the Royal Family out
of the Consolidated Fund, may be interest-
ing :—The Queen's Civil List, 385,0001., of
which, however, only 60,0001. is paid into her
Majesty's privy purse ; the Prince of Wales,
40,0001. ; the Princess of Wales, 10,0001. ; the
Crown Princess of Germany, 8,0001. ; the Duke
of Edinburgh, 25,0001. ; the Duke of Connaught,
15,0001. ; the Princesses Alice, Helena, and
Louise, 6,0001. each ; the Duchess of Tack,
5,0001.; the Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg
&sear, and her mother, the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, 3,000/. each; and the Duke of Cam-
bridge, 12,000/. This gives a total of 524,0001.,
which is, of course, exclusive of the revenue
derived by the Queen from the Duchy of Lan-
caster, and by the Prince of Wales from the
Duchy of Cornwall.
Prince Leopold, having met with an accident
soon after his arrival at Osborne, has been con-
fined to his room ever since, and some time
must elapse before he can be restored to health.
It is stated, however, that there is no longer any
cause for alarm.

To the infinite relief of members of Parliament,
Mr. Disraeli announced on Friday night the
abandonment of the Endowed Schools Amend-
ment Act, except so far as it provided new
Commissioners. He amused the House by
declaring that some of the clauses over which
there had been much talk were so worded that
he himself had failed, after careful study, to
arrive at a clear and satisfactory conclusion as
to their precise meaning. The Land and
Judicature Bills also fall to the ground for this
session, and Parliament may now conclude
its deliberations by August 8. The opportunity
was not lost by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Childers
to taunt the Government with failing in their
progranune, and Mr. Diaraeli's admission of
inability to make out the meaning of the clauses
of the attacked Ministerial measure afforded a
fair opening for a thrust from his political rival.
The abandonment of five out of six of the
measures promised in the Queen's Speech sug-
gested to Mr. Childers that the extra half-hour
for drinking and the dismissal of the three Com-
missioners were the achievements of the session.
The wisdom of the withdrawal of Lord Saridon's
measure no one can question, but the step could
have been taken with better grace a few days
earlier.
Mr. Gladstone is said to have left town for the
North, and will not return to Parliament this
session.

It is stated, on the beat authority, that the
majority of the Bishope, while pleased at the
postponement of the Public Worship Regulation
Bill till July next, are most anxious that
matters should be so amicably arranged that it
should not be needful to put it into operation at
all.

Mr. G. 0. 'Frevelyan will re-introduce his Bill
for the extension of household suffrage to
counties at the beginning of next session.
There seems every probability of a good har-
vest over the greater part of Britain and the
corn-pmlueingcountriesof Europe. From&huost
every quarter reports are favourable; in this
country the wheat stands strong and thick, ready
for the reapers, and Mr. Mechi, who three
weeks ago was rather despondent, now promises
us "a more than average crop—the grain being
plump, firm, and of superior and well-ripened
quality." It will be, he believes, " a happy
agricultural year as compared with the last two
disastrous seasons." It is an enormous gain to
every interest in the country to get an extra
eight or ten bushels per acre; it keeps vast
sums of money at home, it laths trade and
commerce, encourages marriage, and adds the
easiest and happiest of profits to the general
wealth of the community. But the blessing of
a rich harvest at home is doubled by knowing
that our neighbours will share the bounty of
Nature. France, which needs so much a little
good luck after her many and sad calamaties,
will this year benefit to the extent of fourteen
or fifteen millions sterling by the fruitful yield.
In 1873 she was obliged to buy from abroad as
much cereals as cost her 12,000,0001. ; this year

there is every prospect of her being able to'pro-.
duce all the Hour which she needs, and to send
abroad wheat to the value of 3,000,0001. or even
.1,000,00 W. sterling. She will profit, also, by a
very excellent vintage, to judge from good
authorities, which contradict the statements—
too often put about with interested motives--of
damage to the vines. This fortunate yield in
France helps our own people because it obviates
any drain upon the English markets; aud with
the present eminently favourable weather—
quiet, warm, and yet now and again cooled by
refreshing little showers, which swell the ripen-
ing kernel—we may presage general cheapness
and a twelvemonth of easy times all round.

Borsetsbire.
YRSTISAN HOSPITAL —The bon. secretary_ of this
institution has received from Sir W. C. Medlycott,
Bart, the sena of PT% the proceeds of the Foresters fete
lately held at Milberoe Port, in the beautiful grounds of
Yen Houle.
Tug Vicarage of Spiting ht. h icholas, Dorset, in the
diocese of Salisbury, has just bovine recant 01' the death
of the Rev. Thomas James Brown. be liviqg is in
the gift of Winchester College, and is of the anneal value
of glee.
The Bishop of Salisbury has licensed the Rev. John
Stout, clerk, to the curacy of Sherbonie with
Castleton t e Rev. Henry Heaton, clerk, Bth .A., to e
curacy of Se rbirry ; the Rev. Adolphus Klamborowski,
clerk, 8.A., to the germ". of Tincletou ; the the Rev.
Anthony Garstin, clerk, to thy curacy of Woodifonl.
TOR DORSET Mitrria.—The regiment will return from
Aldershot on Thursday next. ney have won high
encomiums while at the camp, Sksidrsksa Mau ery ossat:e.
dassribing them as "a very tine and smart body of Men.
On Satarday last they joined the division to which they
are attachmk at Frensham.
Tim Witsurrt.s Cogrr.acNcg—The first drafts of
stations is complete, and the following are the appoint-
ments of this district :—Lyree Regis—Robert, G. Badoock,
C. Magdale (loniton). Bridport —John 11. Owls',
Charles H. H. Ward; John Stepbeas, supernumerary.
fikierborne—Alfred D. Cape, Geo. C. Mayes, Gliilborne
Port).
_Weymouth—Wm. S. Reston, Jas. C. Fowler.
Portland—lftimund Madan, Samuel W. Beard. Dorchester
—Joshua Dunn', Alfred Kirk al ilhorne, near BlandfonD.
Shaftesbury —Joseph Payne, John Percy. Blandford and
Bturiniaster —Henry hashers, Henry _Cotton.
THIS EDUCATIONAL ZEDOMMILITIS Or DORSIX.—Mr. 11. D.
Harper, Head Master of Sherborae school, impressed with
the general "dead lock" that prevails respecting the
educational endorrinents of the county, has addreseed
' letter to Mr. Floyer, submitting for consideration
to him and the various governing bodies, as a . general
form of suf;stion.,' the "amalgam a ation the Wlieborise,
Milton Ab and Dorchester endowments,
and the union
with them o the Dorset County School. It would be
tedious to trouble you with arguments. but the Dorset
County School would provide for the acknowleged necessity
of an important modern School at a reasonable cost, with.
vet entailing great building expenses the Wimborne
buildings are well adapted for a tint grade preparatory
school, altheegh too cramped for a tarp. school of any
hied :' the Blendford buildings would afford the oppor-
lenity for • girls Wiwi if dosinsi ; and there would still
be ample funds for laiglialt or Mercantile Schools at
Dorchester, Wituborne, and klandford, for the local
populations which require a limber isbieation than it
afforded by the erliaarr schools. Each Schnol might be
managed by itslocalgovernis.gbo4y,ceutn Wielx ri. there-
of being its representatives upon • Central Ward.'