The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-18 00:00:00

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NILKIIRAN.
THE CLERICAL LIBEL CASE.

LORD RICHARD GpSVENOR AS LIBERAL

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BRIDPORT.

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CALRNDAR FOR TIM WRICK.

HARDY FiLUIT GARDEN.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Canon Boyle was to have been installed as Dean of
Salisbury this week ' • but he was seized with a fit at
Kidderminster, and for some months will be unfit for
work.
The Brighton magktrates have sentenced a butcher
named Knight to a month's hard labour without the
option of a fine for having in his po-session a quarter
of unwholesome beef. If was stated that a portion of
this meat had been converted into 371 b. of sausages,
some of which had been sold to a second butcher, who
was now in prison for having disposed of some of them.
The remainder of the meat was seized by an inspector
at a slaughter-house in the borough, and was
condemned by the magistrates at once, and, in sentenc-
ing defendant, the Bench explained the severity of the
punishment by stating that they had determined to
put a stop to the traffic in diseased and unwholesome
meat which seemed to be going on in the town.
Tug Frrcaz or AennemsreN.—There seems an idea
amongst the incoming War Office advisers that
General Donald Stewart, who on his junction with
General Roberts in Afghanistan, will supersede him,
is instructed to pave the way for a general pacifica-
tion of the country. The claim of the Afghans to be
recognisedias patriots, fighting for their soil, will be
admitted, and probably an offer will be made to them
to decide, by free election, the Chief they will have to
rule over them. At this time there are live pretenders
at least, and it is scarely possible for the English to
decide who is the strongest without something in the
shape of a plebiscite. If this should fail to show more
than a preponderating influence of each chief in a
different part of the country, there will be no objection
to a dividing up of Afghanistan into four or more
provinces, each under an independent ruler, res-
ponsible to the Viceroy alone.
Next year is the regular one for taking the C413111/S.
In Turkey, the appointment of Mr. Goschon has created
general satisfaction, and Turkish Consolidds at once rose.
When Mr. Goschen's appointment was rumoured a fort-
night before, the mere sugge.tiee of a change sent up their
value. They fell, however, when a belief gained ground
that Sir H. I,ayard was to remain.
Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bass, the Liberal brewer. and Mr.
M'Laren, the Scotch draper, have now each three Sons in
Parliament There are three Gladstone'. three Basses,
and three McLarens in the House of Commons; two
Morleys two Brands, two Majoribanks, two Nerthcotes,
two Pease*, and two Samuelson
The iron trade of France csauprises 448 separate works,
employing 1%0,000 hands, which, with those dependent on
them, reach • total of 900,000 souls. The works are served
by 1,490 steam-enenes and 849 hydraulic motors The
total weight of pig lien, made averages 1,400,000 tons per
annum.._

—ft;elllfle Volunbier army having now been termed pearly
21 years, ills proposed to haves great review in Hyde
Park in the summer, and to ask the presence of the
Queen.
Cotton weavers struck last week at Blackburn, and nearly
30,000 hands were out of work They demand an advance
of sper cent., which the lare firms are determined not
to give.
Prince Leopold sailed last Thursday for Canada.
Lord Northbrook and Lord Ilartington accompanied the
Marquis of Ripon, the new Viceroy of India, to the
station, when he left London on Thursday morning for the
East, and the Viceroy conversed a long time with Lord
Northbrook.
At the coming meeting of the Conserestive party Earl
Carnarvon was to attend.
A reserved squadron of iron clad ships is to be formed
under the command of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Henry
Carr Glyn.
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Gre&tres have destroyed immense property in the
Pennsylvania oil regions; the fires broke out in the forests
and burnt several villages.
Peru continues to be devastated by the Chilians, who
have burnt one third of libllendo, where they landed
fmn their baste

—kerosene, it is believed, has been discovered in New
Smith Widen

The election for the Radnor district of boroughs,
rendered necessary by Lord Ilartington's determination
to sit for Lancashire, took place on Friday. The proceed-
ings throughout the day were very orderly. The result
was S. C. R. Williams (Liberal), 458 ; Captain Otway
(Conservative), O.
It is said that Charles Villiers, MP., who has
represented Wolverhampton for 45 years, and whose
earnest advocacy of the repeal of the Corn Laws has given
him a lasting place in the national history, is about to be
mime{ to the peerage, and that Sir W. Vernon ILarcourt
will offer himself or Wolverhampton.
A DANGEROUS Piucricx.—We are requested to caution
WOODS who travel by railway against the danger likely
to erne, trent throwing empty bottles out of the carrie'
windows. The warning is especially necessary now that*
excursion season is about to commence, for excursionists ai.
the chief offender, in this respect, as feasting is a primary
part of their outing, and when they have consumed their
refreshments they make • clearance by pitching the
"empties' out of the window. The act is a thoughtless
one, bUt IS Is one attended by considerable danger, as the
velocity of a train gives such an impetus to anything
th own from • railway carriage that a bottle becomes •
most dangerous missile flinaingkant Daily Peg.
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE GY INSPECTION. An
Inspector of the Board of Trade, long accustomed to the
work, may readily detect any breach of ilationa,
whether it be in a railway bridge or a ip ; but
bete the efficiency of the system must necessarily include
an element of conscientiousness, both on the part of the
contractor and the workman. In structures that depend
for their stability upon rived, the failure of • few of these
Units of strength may entail the destruction of an
immense fabric. To suppose that the inspectors of the
Board of Trade, whether in the marine department or that
which Is concerned with railways,are personally assured
of the strength of every rivet that comes theoretically
under their consideration, is ridiculous. This being the
cue, it becomes of the utmost importance to maintain
that standard of eonacientionanesa on which not only the
ggiegs the unveiling public, but the reputation of our
min among the world's industries, so comp's=
depe the years separate us from the great
tione or the past, on which be tfolindstion of our
commercial success were laid, it is to be feared that the
race for wealth may undermine otood name; but
certidn it is tof hat no amount Inspection will ever be
able to supply the place of honesty of purpose on the part
of our contractors and workmen. The high standing of
the men who have hitherto constructed our railways has
been • guarantee that what was understood to be done in
, the matter of workmanship really existed. Supposing
General Hutchison had been aide to devote three weeks
I instead of three days to the inflection of the Tay Bridge,
the time would have been altogether insufficient to assure
himself of the strength of all the details of that ill.fated
structure. If those concerned in the construction of our
railways are not to supply the element of Lonoty, which
Is a necessary condition in every species of handicraft,
then in the future • totally different system will require
to prevail. A swarm of inspectors will be required, with
all their attendant evils, to fasten upon every enterprise,
and absorb more money In salaries than the promoters
could pond_ bly says by the utmost ingenuity of cbesw
poriog.—"gdir.

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