The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-08-12 00:00:00

Duet Ciotti &pus.

TUESDAY. AUGUST IE, 187 i

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Fier Majesty, accompanied by Nixon Leopold
and Princess Besorice, will, It is impeded, leer*
Osborne on Tlitueday for Balmoral, trzrollinii
direct from the South Coast by special train to
Carlisle, and tho usual route north to Balloter.

There was an evident tendency in events not
to run smoothly' in the past week. It was
publicly announced In all the papers that Prince
Arthur has been betrothed to the Princess
Thra, but now the report is contradicted on
authority. Possibly it is thought undesirable
that theme interesting Royal events should be
too frequent just at a time when the Hyde Park
Sunday gentlemen are uneasy about the provision
Parliament makes ; but the promoters announce-
ment and contradiction must be a little em-
barrassing. Then a curious incident marked the
closing of Parliament. The Royal Commis-
stoners were delayed In the journey from
Osborne, and the Houses were kept waiting for
leave to go until—shocking to r•We--long after
the Royal ms.se which had not been delivered.
had been pubilsised in the evening journals, and
had been telegraphed all over the world. Per-
haps, as thee was nothing in the Queea's
Speech, It did not matter much.
In face of the attitude lately summed towards
the Government by several formerly Liberal
constituencies, Mr. Gladstone has seen the
necessity of some change of front. With the
Dissenters abstaining from the poll, end the
publican interest almost exclusively devoted to
the Conservative OSUlle, something must be done
in the way of soecilist!on. Mr. Bruce accord-
ingly takes a peerage and the sinecure office
lately held by loni Ripon, in order that one so
obnoxious to the publioans may be removed
beyond the possibility of further Injuring their
trade; while Mr. Lowe, who obtained this year
some popularity with the licensed victuallers by
abolishing the tax upon their servants, goes to
the Home Office, Mx. Gladstone taking (as we
should think, only tempt:warily) the Chancellor-
ship of the Exchequer in addition to his previous
heavy duties. Mr. Bright succeeds Mr. Childers
in the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lamer,
and this may perhaps do semething towards
restoring confidence to the Dissenters. These
are the cabinet changes, but they involve the
introduction of no positively new element into
the Ministry. Oat of the cabinet, Mr. Dodson
takes the Secretaryship of the Treasury in suo-
oession to Mr. Baxter; Mr. Arthur Peel suc-
ceeds Mr. Glyn as Parliamentary Secretary (or
Government whip"), and Load F. Cavendish
Is appointed an additional secretary, to assist
Mr. Dodson; while Mr. Ayrton has resigned,
and is to be succeeded by Mr. W. P. Adam.
Perhaps only the last-mentioned change is
generally considered to be an undoubted benefit
to the Ministry, for it is doubtful if Mr. Bright's
health will permit him to give very largely the
Onee powerful support of he oratory. Whether
It was worth the trouble of reconstruction to
produce so little effect upon the public mind, we
will not pretend to say ' • bat, after recent
internal dissensions, some changes were news-
eery.
It is confidently predicted that Mr. Gladstone
is only holding the oaks el Chancellor of the
Exchequer himself to spare Mr. Lowe's feelings;
and that presently, when the storm has a little
blown over, Mr. Childers, who, by his retire-
ment from the Duchy of Lancaster will be at
liberty for any fresh duty, will become Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.
The Ministerial changes will necessitate
several re-elections. and there will be hard fights
In almost every instance. The constituencies of
Birmingham, East Sussex, the North-West
Riding, Renfrewshire, and Westmeath, will all
have to be consulted. What answer will they
give 1
Most of the elections in which, since the pass-
ing of Mr. Brace's Licensing Act, there hss been
a vigorous contest, have turned against the
Government; but yet larger is the proportion
of them in which publicans or publicans' friends
have been suooessful. The beer interest is now
even more powerful than the Church Interest or
the Dissenters' Interests, or the interests of
either landlords or working men, Whigs, Tories,
or Radicals. All these are accidents; the
Influence of the publio-henses is the permanent
quantity. During this last week we have seen
how at Gniesiwich the favourite of the ginshops,
happening to be a Tory and a Churchman, has
carried all before him; how at Dundee another
public-house nominee, happening to bee Radical
and the partisan of the Catholics, has also been
triumphant; and how in East Stafford a prince
among brewers, happening to be a Tory, has
again won the nee. Parliament, if things go
on at this rate, will soon he even more swamped
by the liquor interest than it used to be by the
railway interest. Shall this be 1
The Education brogue candidate for the
borough of Shaftesbury has gained his point;
Mr. Seymour, the Ministerislist, having publicly
declared that, if elected, be will be prepared to
vote for the repeal of the 25th section, for the
universal establishments of School Boards, and
for compulsory attendant's at school'. It is
expected the contest between Mr. Seymour and
Mr. Benet-Stanford will be aloes, as it certainly
is keen.

Does every oue know what "facing point."
are 1 We have heard a good deal about them
since the calamity at Wigan, and we are told, on
excellent authority, that they are never sae •
that they are dleearded by all the well-conducted
line, until the pressure of traffic requires now
and then an innovation, and oonaequent risk.
It seems • waste of time If a train, say, on the
" down" line, has to be shunted to • riding or
to the "up" line, that there should not be •
direct curve upon which it should run. Yet that
can only be by introducing the objectionable
"facing pointe—that la, point' that face the
train as it comes. The wife plan Is for the curve
line to run the reveres way of the main traffic,
so that a "down" or up" train must go
beyond the shunting spot, and work backwards.
to 6nd the points that will conduct It off the line
ou which it is running. How ready we are to
sacrifioe precautions for the sake of time; but
there is such a thing se making "more haste
than good speed." We could have wished that
facing points were forbidden by Act of Parlia-
ment.

PeOOe are astonishingly of one mind about
the religious waat of the age, however much
they may differ about modes of faith. Who
dissents from a Boston editor's view of the need
for a religion that bears heavily on the raarality
of lying and stealing--a religion that banishes
small measures from the counter, small baskets
from the stall, pebbles from the cotton bags,
clay from the paper, sand from sugar, chicory
from coffee, slam from bread, and water from
the milk-cane 1--

lbs rodeos that Is to gam Um world (he says)
will sot put all this big strawberries at the top
sad all tho little mos ii tits bottom It will sot
make so.-half palr of oboes of good loather and
the other half of poor leatlam so that the first shall
rebound to the makm's markt sad the mooed to his
odd. It will sot put Jourist's stamp- os Jeakia's kid
gloms, nor malt• Nis boom in the hook room of a
Swam shop ; nor lot • pita •of velure that
professes to nasmars 19 yards is.. to an untimfdy onsl
In the tenth, or • spool ef sowlagank. that rouahas for
20 yards be sipped in tho had at 14i ; nor all-wool
delaines sad •11-1, nett handkeroishis ha amdcaroatod
with elandasUse cotta.; sow mate mado of old rap
•178tomatbor be sold to tho usauspoosiog piddle for
1a bleibdOloth. II doss sot put bricks at dye dollars
per thousand into Misname it soatrasts to build of
amen-dollar malarial no, 50n•1214 whit. Pin° Into
m goers that ha paid for M _,__ al ape •••••
yawning
cracks in elevate where board. ought to Psis ; sordi
Me °Wisp that ought IS be smoothly plastered : nor
make window-bliado with dote that manta Mond the
wind, and paint that mama Mand tho sun, aid
fastoulags that may his looked ate bat or. " no 00e0U4t
to be tonchod. Tile religion that is going to sanctify
the world pays its debts. It does not madder that 40
seats retnrood kr 100 mats gimes is amordlag to the
Gospel, though 14 may ha erwardlog to law. It looks on
a man who has found la trail% asd who aosiinsas toll,.
in luxtu7, so a Miad.

This la what we all assent to. It is, In fan, what
people are continually saying; and yet on the
one band preen°, the deceit, and on the other
meekly swallow the thUs strawberries and the
five-shilling compositions, putting up with the
rascality and perpetuating It by helping to make
It pay.
by. Kenesly mused oceidderable interest in
the Tichborne jury when he stathd that he was
about to fire his first shot at the Malakoff of his
opponent's position, ono of the jurymen actually
exclaiming in delight "T'hat's right." But,
after saying that he had • witness who was one
of the mew of the American Osprey, and who
would prove the picking up of Roger Tiohbonie
and other survivors of the Bella, who were in an
exhausted oondition in an open boat, the learned
doctor suddenly left the subject, and recursed
his elaborat4detsj airmen% on the
minutiae of the awe, Gauging ajusycesa to exclaim
sadly, "You'll neve take the Baden that
way l" But the doctor lies foreshadowed evi-
dence of will& the public had no easeeption,
and everybody Is &axiom to hear the INS of his
arida= at the also el the peumeidkai. lag to

have him tome to the proper opening of his own
cue. Dr. %toady, however, will take hie own
time, in spite of anybody, and oertainly during
the lad two or three days he bee advanced some
arguments that were well worth bringing fm.
ward. Vires segairit etindo—he improves as he
goes on, and his physical power appears to be
unlimited. It is supity, however, that be did
not have adequate me to prepare his speech, or
at least te study his case before the trial, for
that would have saved much time in the end.
and have made the speech coneiderably more
methodical and telling.
The "enterprise" of the Daily Telegraph may
fairly rank with that displayed by the New York
Herald in finding Dr. Livingstone. Both papers
are, however, eclipsed by the piece of " enter-
prise" to which the following advertisement from
the columns of • New York paper refers:
"Wanted—An experienced Seaman, of good
habits, to accompany Proteeeor Wise and party
in 21ee Daily Graphic transatlantic balloon.
Mud be thoroughly skilled in navigation. Tbe
balloon will be provided with • life-boat capable
of living through any weather." We hope the
of the newspaper will Sod a tar after
their proprietors
heart; 'good habits" are above every-
thing requisite in the confined area of • balloon-
oar.