The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-06-18 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JUNE /8, 1872.

10. °rut et* Exilrtss.
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1872.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The anxiously looked for change in the
weather is the first topic of interest in our
agricultural district, for the gra, was going to
seed uncut, the wheat was unhealthy, and farm
work generally all behind, for want of sunshine
and warmth. But at last, we hope, the winter
is over, and the past few days have been all that
June should be or we desire, with a bright sun,
• sky without • cloud, and • breeze just fresh
ei:ough to cool the mowers and to keep the corn
in motion or the sun to do its work. Ten days
of this will be worth ten millions to us, and with
ten days of this everything may yet turn out
well, although the price of wheat and flour is
high and firm, and factors are keeping back
their scanty stores for • further rise. In Ger-
many the the harvest will be generally • week
earlier than usual, and if the present weather
keeps up, excellent, particularly in Hungary.
It will be • week behind hand at least with us.

The Paers passed the Ballott liiii7n-ual;Til the
spirit in which Israel was given a King—you
will have a Ballot Bill, then take It, and so find
out your mistake. The amendments which the
Duke of Richmond intends to propose in com-
mittee, for making • scrutiny possible and mak-
ing the ballot optional, are not likely to be
accepted by the Government; for a scrutiny
would only take place respecting an election
where the contest was keen, and the voter
would feel that his vote would be made more
likely to be known by the very existence of the
bribery and intimidation from the pressure of
which ne was anxious to escape; while, if the
ballott be optional, the ma k bribed would earn
his money by voting openly, and the man
' intimidated would be intimidated out of using
the ballot. it is clear that unless the ballot is
made both secret and compulsory it is altogether
futile.

The judgment of the Privy Council in the
case of Mr. Bennett will do much to weaken the
attachment of the great body of the people of
the Church of England as by law interpreted,
for little faith can be reposed in the Protestantism
which has only hard words for the supersti-
tious doctrines taught by the Vicar of From..
And let the result of the judgment be noticed—
while ceremonies and observances which only im-
ply high doctrine are unlawful, the high doctrine
itself may be taught without hindranoe 1
The name of Captain Trench has been inserted
In the Parliamentary roll instead of Captain
Nolan's. The next question is—What is to be
done with the priests! Judge Keogh, finding
Ireland too hot for him, has crossed the Channel
with his wife, to be beyond the reach of the
arm of the &muslin.

An Old Bailey jury, on Friday afternoon
found the Park-lane murderess, Marguerite
Dishhum guilty, but recommended her to
mercy! Mr. Bruce could hardly have had the
heart to hang her after acquitting Mr. Watson
for murdering his wife in "a paroxysm of rage,"
and acquitting Miss Edmunds for attempting to
poison half a town with the deliberation which
at the Home Office is supposed to mark
Insanity; but this recommendation must punte
even him.

The Bank rate of discount is lowered again.
It now stands at 3i per cent., • fair weather
rate; and if gold goes on accumulating in the
cellars of Threadneedle-street, it may in another
fortnight be at 3 per cent.
The exhibitions of "The Claimant" with
Messrs. Onalow and Whalley as showmen con-
tinue, and there has been some talk of their
"demonstrating" at Poole. The rumour that
the prosecution of the man without • name was
abandoned Is not at all probable, for it is un-
likely the Government will so stultify itself; if
it did, the Attorney-General must feel his re-
putation so compromised, that he could not
avoid resigning.
Dr. Livingstone has been discovered In an
underground village in the centre of Africa.
He is quite well, has been all round Lake
Tanganyika, traced out most of the rivers by
which It is fed, discovered that they form no
part of the Nile drainage, and is now working
his way through the ravine lying between the
Unyanyembe and Lake :Cyan's, intending after-
wards to return to Tanganyika and to find out
how and where the lake empties itaelf.
France is anxious to get rid of the enemy, and
Count Arnim has delivered to M. Thiers a state-
merit to the effect that Germany will
withdraw 1:4 rroin four department' on the
first of January two on the first of March,
if France shall pay, before the 15th of December,
one milliard in cash, and two milliards In bankers'
, bills. A Protestant Synod is sitting at Paris,
and M. Coquerel has demonstrated the neceesity
for union among Protestants in the face of the
, two great enemies Catholicism (Ultramontainism)
and Atheiim. In the German Parliament
the Bill for ridding Germany of the Jesuits
I was read 2,1 first time on Friday, and, so
satisfied are the Order that Bimarok means it,
that they are taking steps for migrating to
Belgium. The Emperor of Austria is about to
pay a visit to Berlin; a happy augury, we trust,
of long-lived peace. Spain haa passed through
another Ministerial crisis, and now has a itadloal
cabinet, the selection of which has elicited
demonstrations of popular sympathy.
At noon on Saturday the Court of Arbitra-
tion on the Alabama claims met at Geneva; and,
after • brief session of only about an hour's
duration, adjourned until Monday. It is said
that no final argument was presented on behalf
of the English Government. although • bulky
octavo volume with an appendix was delivered
by the American Agent. The British represen-
tative, Lord Tentarden, brought before the
Court the fact that grave differences existed on
one important point of the matters in dispute
and requested an adjournment to allow time for
the receipt of instructions from London. Some
objection was raised by the American Agent,
but after short discussion the Arbitratois con-
sented to the English application, and adjourned
until two o'clock on Monday afternoon. The
Impression at Geneva is said to be favourable
to the hopes of an amicable settlement