The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-30 00:00:00

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TULSDAY, JULY 90, 1872.

NOTt.B OF THE WEEK.

Both Houses of Parliament are getting on
with their work as industriously as could reason-
ably be expected, and with a rapidity great-
ly in contrast with the rate of program in mid-
session. So far ministers have reason to
felicitate themselves, for there is every probability
of a fair crop of legislation being turned out be-
fore the close of the session. But in some other
respects there is cause for uneasiness. The
Keogh debate shows what • storm is likely to be
created In Ireland by the prosecution against a
number of the Homan Catholic clergy for their
conduce in respect to the Galway election; and
the denunciation of the prosecution by the Pope
is likely to add fuel to the fire. If Mr. Gladstone
perseveres in his intention to make a tour in Ire-
land during the ream, he must expect his re-
°option in some places to be of a mixed character,
and the element of indignation will not be want-
ing. Mr. Arton's interference with the manage-
went of Kew Garden's, too, and kis extraordinary
°ode of regulations for the royal parks, are both
embarraamente for the ministry, and will doubt-
less cause some unpleeant discussion in parliament
before the session closes.
The debate on Mr. CULDWILL.B Bill for ex-
penses for the formation of army centres is notice-
able, first, because there Is an evident intention
if not to positively refuse the money to carry
out the scheme parliament has approved, to throw
as much talking impediment in its way as possible,
and, secondly, in consequence of the strong re-
marks made by one or two members on the
morality of the army. The controversy has
since been transferred to the columns of the Time.
and Mr. HINRY RICII•ltD, representative of the
Peace Society, who spoke in the House with
evident animus, has to answer a charge of
"maligning the character of the British army."
lie gives numerous quotations respecting the
Camp in the Curragh and at Aldershot, points
to the report of the ,Cominisidon on the Conta-
gious Diseases Act, and concludes with desiring
that his remarks about the "appalling" Immoral-
ity of the army may be proved to be walled
for.
With perfect good nature the Conserved,
Lord Mayor entertained the Liberal Government
at the Mansion House on Wednesday. There
was all the magnificence of • city state banquet—
everything except politics. Consequently, from
• political point of view, it simply means that
the Oily of London is ready to do honour to liar
Majesty's officers of state, whatever their party.
The Lord Mayor ventured no further illusions
to ministerial troubles then gracefully to say
"we all know that in these days • minister of
the Crown does not lie on a bed of roses ; " and
Mr. Gladstone acknowledged the reference to his
responsibilities in very modest language. "We
are now (he said) becoming, I am afraid, rather
an old Government ; and it does not always
happen in the old age of a Government, as in
that of an individual, to find oneself crowned
with honours and serrounded by troops of
friends. But old age must come on Govern-
ments as on men, and the day must arrive when
our epitaph will be written. When that day
comes I trust, and I will say I believe, that it
will be said that we have diligently laboured in
the service of our country." We may be sure
that so much good will be said of it, and that
this will be only a small part of the just praise
that will be inscribed on its tombstone. Its
blunders will in time be forgotten, and men
will chiefly remember that it did great things in
itsiday.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have
addressed a joint letter to Lord Shaftesbury, in
reply to the numerously-signed memorial bear-
ing upon the use of the Athenaeum Creed. The
most rev, prelates, while @Gerona to pay
due attention to the legitimate scruples of those
who feel great ;anxiety respecting any change,
fully anticipate that they will be able to devise
some plan which shall meet the wishes of the
memorialists.

The French Assembly has passed the final
clauses of the Tariff BilL The Parliamentary
struggle against the,texation of raw materials is
now, therefore, at an end.
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The French 5 per cent. Loan of £140,000,000
was opened in France on Sunday, and in London
on the following day. It is issued at 84i, with
interest from August 16—payment in twenty
moutcly instalments. The loan will yield nearly
6 per cent. rvi t dense crowd beeeiged all
the places in Fen. uere eubecriptions fur the
new loan are received from an early hour on
Sunday moraine, and the loan is expected to be
a great moons.
A Carina band recently succeeded in al
off 13 men employed on the Saragosia an=
oeloua Railway Company, for whose ransom
they • large sum of money.
The band, which consisted•of 1,000 men, kill
since been dispersed by the troops with the loss
of 13 killed, and 35 prisoners, 1.0 of the latter
being wounded. Another Cachet band has been
defeated, with • loss of three killed and several
wounded.