The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-30 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, APIZIL 30, 1872.

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I Icr Bl.jesty hold a Drawing-room on Tuesday
and a.. mt.-rnoon pary'on WoJuarday, and
ma capectod to Irmo England for the Highlands
iii ol.ont three iteelis.

NIII.OIIIIC. d, that the Marquis of
lila been appointed Under Secretary
of State fur War in the room of the now Indian
Viceroy. Lord Lansdowne has greatly distin-
guisked himself for industry and capacity for
public business, and his appointment has given
general satisfaction.
The Ministerial crisis is past, and there will be
different opinions respecting the course which
Mr. Gladstone has taken in reference to Mr.
Fawcett's Dublin University Bill, or perhaps we
should say the attitude which he has assumed,
for we can scarcely speak of ignoring • thing as
taking a course in respect to it, and the Premier
does practically ignore the measure of the mem-
ber for Brighton. Mr. Gladstone will go on as
if such a Bill were not in the !louse of Commons
at NIL and not put hiinse.f est of the way to take
up the challenge thrown down to him. Let Mr.
Fawcett bring on his bill when he can, and the
Government will then be prepared to deal with
It ; only it may be observed, as the Premier has
declared his intention of going out if the anti-
denominational part of the measure be carried
in committee, Mr. Fawcett will be allowed
very little chance of getting the bill on in that
sta,4o. Even his best friends will help to talk
his measure over whenever there is a chance of
its coming on, for they will not upset the Go-
vernment for the sake of asserting a principle
which has no chance of getting beyond theory
during the present session.
The House of Commons has persevered very
steadily with the Parliamentary and Municipal
Election Bill in committee. The early clauses
having been passed, the House is disposed to
make short work of the remainder. The propo-
sal that expenses of elections should be defrayed
out of rates, Mr. Forster says, must soon be
recognised. However, though the Government
supported by their votes a clause to make this
Important change in the principle on which the
elections are conducted, it was rejected by •
majority of 92 in a House of 430 members. Sir
Massey Lopes' motion to relieve the burden of
local rates evidently had some influence in deter-
mining this decision.
The radical members' second aseanit on the
religious section of the Elementary Act, on
Tuesday, was enlivened by • good story from
Mr. Soourfield, the member for Pembrokeshire.
The violence with which Mr. Milli and other
members abused the Government for clinging
to the religious clauses of the Education Ad
was the most noticeable feature of the debate.
Mr. Scourfield said it reminded him of an sass-
dote of a lady who took • voyage with her maid
from this country to Holland. A violent storm
coming on produced the usual effects on the
passengers generally, and the lady's maid in
particular. The maid, in describing her feelings
subsequently, said that during the storm, "next
to Caristianity, the greatest comfort I had was
In giving 'miens warning,' which, she added.
"I did in every interval between the attacks of
sickness." There is nothing the House appre-
ciates better than • neatly-applied story, and
the recommendation to the very sick members
of the Liberal party below the gangway, that,
having once more given warning, they should be
quiet for a bit, was thoroughly enjoyed.
The Lower Rouse of Convocation has resolved
by large majorities—first, that no alteratioa
should be made in the wording of the Athen-
&elan Creed ; and secondly, that no alteration in
the rubric, making the use of the creed optional,
should be made. So much for the inflexibility
of Anglican dogmatists; but lest Dissenters
should be making invidious comparisons between
their narrowness and their own liberality, they
may be referred to an incident at the meeting of
toe Baptist Union the other day, when Mr. J.
A. Spurgeon took exception to the action of the
executive of the denomination in sending a
a deputation to the national thanksgiving ser-
vice at St. Paul's !
Most people will be glad that the llchborne
Claimant has obtained bail, and is now at large
upon his own rezognizances, and the sureties of
Lori vers, Mr. Guildford Onalow, Dr. Ate-
wood, and Mr. Jsiues Lamont, in £1,250 each;
for, whatever may be thought of the individual
committed to Newgate as Thomas Castro, it
would be manifestly unfair that he should be
retained in confinement for perhaps a twelve-
month. The earliest date at which the trial
can come off is November; but it may be post-
poned for several months later. Until it does
come off, probably we shall hew no more of the
plaintiff than that he was among the celebrities
at such • pigeon-match, boat-race, exhibition, or
theatrical performance. No doubt he will be
one of the principal minor lions of the season in
certain circles.
Amid the stirring events of the time, the new
eruption of Mount Vesuvius creates perhaps less
interest than it otherwise would ; but there can
be no doubt of the very serious nature of this
eruption, in which many lives are said to
be already lost, while the danger is increasing.
Once more we wends- why people will build and
re-build towns in such a position as that occu-
pied by Torre del Grew, and we may veniate
upon the physical causes of this convulsion of
nature by the light of Increased scientific know-
ledge; but perhaps the most strikingly novel inci-
dental feature of the present eruption is that
questions should be raked and answered respect-
ing it in • national Italian Parliament at Rome.
Vesuvius may be still what it was of old, bet it
now stands in • very different Italy. But while
Italy experiences the physical eruptions of her
fiery mountain, poor Spain is once more the
victim of one of those political eruptions which
seem periodically to afflict most "Latin" races,
and the Carlist insurrection is finding employ-
ment for an army and causing great anxiety to
• government that is not too firmly fixed.
Nothwithstanding the officials detail of any
ultimatum from Prince Bismark to K Thiem
about the French army organisation, the Presi-
dent has adjourned the consideration of the
army manure for "grave political reasons."
It has been announced at Washington by Mr.
Secretary Fish that the Cabinet has unani-
mously agreed not to withdraw the claims for
Indirect losses. Opinion in the United states is
said to lean strongly to their withdrawal. Two
or three telegrams affirm that the obnoxious
claims will eventually be withdrawn if their
rejection be recognised as a principle of inter-
national law.