The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-28 00:00:00

jOnroet Conntq Expren

TUMMY, APRIL 99, 1871.

NOTES OF TIER WEEK.

The Queen left Osborne on Saturday, on a
visit to Clannuont House, staying there till
Monday, the 27th inst., when Her Majesty
proceeded to Windsor Castle, to receive the
Emperor of Russia, who is expected in London
on May 13. After the Czar has left Her
Majesty will proceed to Balmoral.
The Ribbon of the Order smf St.. Patrick, which
fell into Mr. Marneli's hands through the death
of the Marquis of Clanrisarde, has been COll-
- by her Majesty upon the Marquis of
Lowden.terry, and the first piece of patronage
in the Church that has come into Mr. Disraeli 's
hands, that of the living of Altthigh:tin, has been
offertal to Dr. Hayman, as an expression of
sympathy with a distinguished scholar who has
had to contend with circinnstances of trying
difficulty, which have exhausted his worldly
means, and who now, with the anxious respon-
sibility of a large family, has been deprived of a
high office and an honoured home. The living
is worth 1,0001 a year.
Sir Garnet Weiseley has declined the baronetcy
that her Majesty wished to confer upon hi 111 l
contenting himself with the 25,01J01. voted by
Parliament and his professional honours. But
there are plenty of men ready to bear the red
hand upon their escutcheons, and Mr. Disraeli
has this week added four to the roll—Mr. Philip
Rose, formerly the agent of the Conservative
party, and lately notorious through being COR-
IUM.Iea with the Tiehborne case ; Mr. George
Elliott, a Durham man, who began life at the
pirs mouth, and now the largest collier). Pr"-
prieter. in the world ; Mr. W. 11. Peek, the
M.P. for Mid Surrey, a tea merchant and
millionaini whim has distinguialual himself by the
Public use he has made of his wealth, and in
accepting this compliment he has given us his
idea of the I. A. .1. value of a baronetcy by dis-
tributing 2,0001. in charities as a thank-offering;
and Mr. John Kelk, tho well-known building
contractor.
It must be true that Sir Stafford Northcote is
a black-sheep in the Cabinet. The publicans'
newspaper boldly declares that he is ; Mr.
Davie*, one of the new Liberal members cheer-
fully applauds Sir Striffonl, and hopes G. live to
see I • on the Liberal side f the House ; and,
more to the point still, Sir Stafford praises Mr.
Gliulstone as a financier, and Mr. Cdadstone
praises Sir Stafford. All this is very delightful.
Mr. Justice KeatirErs decision for the removal
of images from the Worcester Cathedral reredos
is to be appealed against. Thu matter is of
comparatively small moment, but is being fought
with much warmth. The Archbishop of Canter-
bury has touched upon a much inssre serious
Church questicn in intmlueing a Bill to
regulate the services of the Church of England,
He (loos not see, nor can most sensible people,
why Melte y g clergyman slo.tild be allowed to
go down into a country place and entirely upset
the order of service which may. have obtained
there for scores of years. The object of the
Archbishop's Bill is to simplify the process of
appeal against ovations in the Church service.
It is antagonistic to the High Church party, and
as such will be resisted, but the Government will
appmamtly approve the measure. Archdeacon
Denisen, at his Bridgwater visitation, said if this
Bill or anything like it become' law we are not
seily on the edge of a revolution hut we are in a
revolution. 't et if this Bill is revolutionary it
is only because it is reveltitienary to say that the
law, alien once entertained by the highest
:authority, tbe obeyed by all. "ii it be •
revoluti ~,, ," as the Primate said in anticipation
of this objectless of the Archdeacon's, " to enable
parishismere to °Mafia their just rights without
squandering their money ha needless costs ; if it
be a revolution Giquietly aud speedily put A stop
to the hearthurnings now complained of, thee we
t plead guilty to our plan being awe
rut elution." But only then ; and these are the
main objertaef the Bill. At present if yen want
to bring a Ritualist to book, as Mr. Bennett and
Mr. hireling were recently., you must lay your
account to vend 10,0001. or 12,0t101. in legal
rests, and even when the judgment is prohontaocl
it is binding ilium no one but the defendant ist
the snit.
The Bishop of Peterborough has made an
elequent speech against Church patronage and
the sale of livings, and has olstaintel a select
•ttee to Mee how far it is possible to put
down the Nevada' by which, as the Bishop of
Peterborough said, at Jew broker in a back street
sif London now sells the next presentation to a
Church living over his counter as he sells any of
his forfeited pledges. All the amulets clustering
around the law of patrenage arise, according to
Dr. Magee, from the fact that the property in
benefieta, which az originally only an incident
of the trust, has wow come to be regankal as
superior Gs the trust hied( f and instead, there-
fore, s 1 lorolldelleg Ali do as ay with private
patrenage, the Bishop of Peterborough propose*
to put it under stricter regulations, strengtheu.
ing the bands of the Bishops, as the Primate
pampssnes toil,, by his Bill, to stamp smut fraudulent
transactisms—that is, the purchase and sale of
next presentationa—thssse transactissns where the
presentee doer not look out for the best lean for
the living, but looks out for the best living he
em find fsd the luau He Hawks this may partly
be demi by altering the desituratton against
simony, which sit present holds out at premium
to men ta " cultivate ignorance," and partly by
giving the Bishop power to reject a t•
which he believes to lie simonical. This, at any
rate, is a step in the right direction.
Mr. .hiishuus Pielden, M. P., who divided the
Mame of Ceellal4l4 Thuriday night on the
subject of the malt-tat, Las written to complain
ef the actien of Colonel Bartteiut, kince the
premetion of Sir Fitzroy Kelly to the bends the
Colonel has been recognised as the leader of the
anti-malt-tax party, but as the Colonel would
not take any action after hearing the present
Budget, Mr. Fielden felt bis I to do so.
Colonel Rarttelot charged the hon. member with
bringing forward the qualities without consulta-
tion with anyone ; but Mr. ?Glides' says he
showed his notice of nedismn to the Colonel lead
urged him to bring it tan, and he declined. Mr.
Fiehlen gives the Colonel Busiest-ling kick
think I may truly say we have a 'loather who
will not lead.' I believe we have loyal followers
if they are properly led. CI 111 Barttelot seems
tat mum to attach mote importance to party than
to principle." This is severe, coming from one
gentleman to another, and, mummy, , from elle
Conservative to iniother Conservative.
Mr. Smollett's metion condemnatory of Mr.
Gladstone for his precipitate dissolution was an
ill-natured display of buffoonery. The lion.
member for Cambridge, of course, did not expect
Gm succeed in carrying his resolution ; it no doubt
served his purpose of allowing him to make a
severe speech, in which such word' AS plot, sharp
practice, stratagem, trick, and trichina', played
a prominent part. The Conservatives would not
be likely to grumble at the dissolution, seeing
that they have every reason to be satisfied at its
°Monne ; while the I hspesition, accenting to the
ii iii., are so divided anti disorganistal as Gs have
111/ heart for anything. The late election, adds
°sir conteisipontry, wastone of the swat haphazard
Ist tr.telleetelllll, RIO the Times doubta whether
the remit faithfully Maeda the opinion of the
gation, for men won seats whom the electors did
not lowa-, and seats were retained bemuse, in
the hurry-ekurry, no men could he found to eas-
iest them. The rrfry,,,,h thinks Mr. Smollutt
will have reassNl to reseenilad the &hate, " for
seldom has so "bemire a inenstar received so un-
merciful sd sm richlydneritai *castigation." The
tiffetobsoi thinks Mr. Gladstone made too lunch
of the aralr, and compares his laboured speesh
to the preens of cracking a nut with a Nasmyth
hammer. The hut y News treats the matter
jocosely, describing Mr. Stisullett's speech as a
piece of high-flavoured eh* uonedy. "His
speech and Ins wits de performance Well/ fiLie genie
of the pnsetical jokes, equally broad and simple,
in which Peregrine Pickle or Lieutenant Hawser,
or IN attic Idler Of the persome„,,es Houle classic by
is sl istingu Gibed killBllllol,lllight have delighted."