The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-13 00:00:00

AXIUMOVIZ.

The Pusan Goveinigggr Paw Paange PO&
A correspondent write.:—" In a wish not • hundred
Wks from &alabaster, Devon, which has a very Con.
esavative rector, one of the churclwardens noticed
recently that since the present Parliament has been
convened the clergyman has emitted the prayers tor the
Bigb Court of Parliament, and felt it his duty to
name the subject to him, but was met by the prompt
reply that he (the rector) did not think such • lot
watts praying for," and ad lad " that he did net
supposetwo prewar in the wrisk knew that Parliament
wee in session." Surely if Perliament is so desperately
bad, it needs to be ward for more vigorously than ever.
But perhaps this reverend gentleman supposes that
when the House of Commons is so far gone as to consist
of two-thirds of Liberals and only ow-third of Tories,
It is past praying for.

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.
HIBILMES AT HOME (WORLD).

111 L MULLES 11111ADLAVON, P., UI Tlii

Yr. Charlie Brallaugh. HP., otherwiss Iconoclast,
resides at 90, Oircturrasid, tit John's Wood, over a mustad
library, where harmoniums and kasericea organs are
sold, and pianofortes are to be had on tbe hire system.
He is a tall stautly.built man of forty.seven. years of age.
When at home be wears a working suit of Plain gray cloth.
He bag a square head and • broad and massive face. Hs
Is clean-shaven. His upper lip is thick and deep. His
utterance is clear, measured, and distinct, and when
iin conversation he use.es eg his ey with greet effect,
ergateodlmpress one with the impatience of every word be
utters. TM general expression of his oeurateasoos is not
I PlTr'
. depressure, Ha. Bradlaugh declares, must at owe
be brought to bear upon Parliament to peas a measure of
reel land-law reform Primogeniture is to be destroYed,
and the rnht to 'tittle or entail for acerexisting lives is to
be abolished. The Gams Laws are to ito and the nom-
=caltivatioa of all new tutoulUvated. sad gut
to public purposes. le
_itistated upon. It is to be
made • randmmenour to bald Issas Is an uncultivated
stabs. The penalty on conviction is to be disposma-
siolk but with Payment to the di,.p simmeed laud-
owners of, say, twenty years' lialcctwo of the average
annual value of the lead for the seven 3- Yard print to the
prosecution, the Payment to be by bonds of the State
bearing the same interest as the cossolidated debt, sad
pejabletobserer. The land is to be St tie property, and
to be let to actual cultivators on tams of tenancy con-
ditioned in each case to be looser orshorter. according to
the improvement made in the ester" The amount paid as
rent to the State is to be applied to the payment or the
bitterest and to form a sinking fund for the liquidation of
the pendant. Elacurity is el be Riven to the tenant
cultivator for tasprovemanta. and lands are to be re-valued
for mops eq,ultahle adjustment of the land-tax, which lit
to be /MOM on • Beale se graduated as to wear most
heavily on szamsivaly large boldings—sey, the normal tan
011 that drot MN Wan a double tax on the seooll/ &OW
eerie,iin doubled on the next KM acres, and a
geometric
provisions of 'screws of tax on every succeed-
-110,000 acres of bolding.
. Bradlatish keeps up 6 correspondenos with leading
Radicals of this and other countries; and. awarding to his
own account he knows an Political moats that rear
not bear Maas for some years to mate. He has had
for *Agleam, and is not yet free of the
eri,el=o"at he calls it, which for some Woe hashung '
round him. When on a lecturing tour oars he wee
sneaked for the supposed mosey-making and way life he
was toadies, when In point of feat be wee actually so poor
that he had to "travel an We luggage from town to
lowa, sot having sullbsieat money with which to pay his
railway fare, or to set Itimase a decent meal. Kr. Brad-
hails is very locomotive. Now be dim of to Northamp-
ton to address Ls coustitatiets ; lboa to Is &war on •
notaries tour; aid it may be said that he is rarely at
hone 'Ma dagestal:tbsr. Hoch of his time is devoted
to the Hall of which is • sort of Little Bethel of
frinthoegin, of which he is the hish-Priast. and there is
the mate relationship ellatian between him mud those who
sit at his feet a/ there Is between • Pastor and his flock.
Re nanata hilann/ even Oanianle at mares, sag ii,
regaridnier 1 his followers mid friends with the revenants
end whisk the prodritallraallsolort esblout NH to
, accord the man whom ability . Iliarialoke raise Al.
mese degrees above their on hovel.