The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

Litffaturt.

Ins Art Joiernal is so u;iform in it. excellesee that
all remerks upon it must be of necessity very ;
v. t it thunot be too often said, that, ea a pub cation
'devoted to the interest. of art, it fulfils its purpose a
pre-eminent /hire, In the February pert the :MI
engravings are •' De Foe in the pillory," E. Crowe,
pointer, and J. C. Armytage, sculptor. • spirited akekh
iI tie scene in London, when the author of the well.
toyed "Robinson Creme" of our boyieh dame stiffened
the puniehnieOt of the pillory, for publishing an ironical
treatise againot the High Church party of those drum
and • charming landscape, " The Wayfarers,"
painted by T. Creswick, ILA., and F. Goodall. A..
and enereveal by C. Cowen. In the literary eontents
we have a further instalment of "the Komi armoury of
F.ngland," illnetrated by numerous engravings of shields
of 'vols. badges, crests, supporters, and other devices;
the French school of minters, an represented at the
Paris Universal Eshibitien, in battle pieces a. d imagine
tine and poetic oompteitions, is criticised; there is an
Inter. eting paper on the photographs from the seven
'hutches of Ali., forming, as they do, illustrations of
the life and labours of the Great Appal* of the Gentiles;
the opening chapters on" The art of the mummer" with
copious illuatnetions : an article on the new othernentel
substance " Parkesine," which is said to PO'l.. greet
beauty combi ed with fecility of manipulation ; and
papers on all the art topics of the month. The art
Catalogue of the Paris F.xhibition is, as uooal. rieb
in
facsimile illustrations of articles of art workmanthip
which were there displayed.
HAND DOOR AND DIARY roe MIRROR ANTS AND TRADIRS
Rose, Henoy, and Co.. of 4. Old
elewry, London have just issued • hand-book and
'diary, for India, Chime, and the Colonies which eouthin•
• erenty of information epecially adapted for the use of
merchants sad traders abroad. Arnonget other thing.,
II suerfiree• list of article. subject to import duty in
the United Kingdom. with the rates British Colonial
Governors, with their salaries ; the isoloaal backs, and
name. of Leaden correspondents ; crown agents for the
colonise, and colonial agents in London foreign
minister. in England; and Hits ministers abroad ,
money currency, postal information, miles of different
nation. in English yards, princit at English enblie rßees,
principal trade products of the niore important colonies,
shipping information, end • directory of leading English
meutifeetun rt. It will he fined a valuable book of
reformism by the class for whom it is specially complied,
while the capital diary ineorporated with it will be of
service daily.
" SPIRITUAL WlTl6"—lit Mr. Dixon's new work,
under the above title, occurs the following passage
—" What have you done since these trumpets were
Flown, and these testimonies delivered?" I asked the
Rev. Samuel Stinky. "Not much," he answered ;
"at least, not much that you would consider work."
"flow do you path the time?' "We have no time."
"You rise at dawn, you aleep at dark ; bow do you
employ the intervals r—" we drink, we travel, we
compare our trials we correspond with our brethren."
" Have you men, brethren who belong to your society,
but who ate not living in the Abode?" " Yes, many;
some in Weymouth, some in Brighton, a few in Suffolk
and elsewhere; pious women and preachers in the
Church ; 600 perhaps in all, many of whom are clergy-
men. but many are with no in the spirit who the not so
in the name." "Do they live as you do?" "Ye.;
hiee 11., no who ere truly celled. They live as virgins,
the enyil's by having been cast out of them by the
Isnot of God." " You as, k no other work r •W.
'wit on G.id. It is not for with force hie steps. In his
ewe time the end will come."
Tat CORONATION STONE.—" I MO told that • abort
time ago thme Continental *erase were allowed to chip
off a p rtion of the Coronation Stone in Westminster
Abbey. with the view of determining its geological
character. The result was each as entirely to meet our
national tradition that it once formed the pillow of
Jacob at Bethel, inasmuch am its geological formation
does notelet in Palestine; but I shall be glad to keow,
as will Imlay other of your readers, what its constitution
really is."—From • "Geological Awount of tie Corona.
tin Stone" by Professor }Limey, printed by Dean
Stanley, is Memorials of Westminster Abbey, pp. 499,
800 it appears that the stone is a dui' reddish or purplish
thmistone, strongly receinbling that of the doorway of
Dunetannage Castle, which was probably built of the
stone of the neighbourhood. It is extremely im-
probable that it was derived from the reeks
of the Hill of Tara, from whence it is said to
have been transported to Scotland ; neither could
it have been taken from the rock. of lona. That it
belong. d originally to the rocks round Bethel is equally
unlikely; while Egypt is not known to fernth any
strata similar t. the rod sandstone of the Coronation
Stone.—Frosn "Notes and Queries."
CURIOUS RIPOSTING SLUNDIIII4.--During the 'onion,
the ttote books of the government reporters are
collect,' from the committee-rooms throe or four timth
a dm, and are given ii the writing-out staff, who
menage to translate tie crabbed hieroglyphics of their
colleagues with remarkable accuracy. Still, many and
many a blunder is nisile both by these readers of short.
band end by the ordinary report' is. which came those
whom words are thus misrepresented to gnash.
their teeth with agony. "Partner in the works,'
become. " pauper in elm workhouse." "Attendee, at
clot-sin the West End," mentioned in • Breech of Mr.
Bright's appears the next morning as ' vendors of
gloees." "What do the Italians want?" oried one
impassioned orator. "They want to be • nation."
" Whet do the Italians want?" said the report next
rnorniog. "They want to be in Asia." "Died from
recent Immorrhage," the verdict returned by • jury on
the Ir sly of a woman, was transformed into "died from
recent marriage ;" evidently the blunder of some einem
throe's bachelor reporter.—ClasibereJouresal.
PoLl Tie aL OBIDIENC/L—The political article In thee
month's Si Peals Magazine is entitled "Whom shall
we maks leader of the new House of Commons?" The
question is ably argued from a Liberal standpoint, and
ita vpeeial mamma seems to be calling the Liberal party
in the Hoeft of Commors to unanimity and consolida-
tion, under the lesclanhip of Mr. Gladstone. To have
a few "independent" members the writer thinks, is
well, but he remarks that "we have had no truly gnat
or eminently ueful man in the Home, athoo the Ileum
him bad an intelligible history, who has refused to
enismit hieuthif to party bonds." The late surseeses of
the Conaervatives he attributes to their "merit el
obedienes," and asks the Liberal party to take a lesson
In polities' warfare from Mr. Disraeli and his followers.
"rt.. lemon," he says, "most be accepted—we must
choose our leader now, We must prove that we are
ready to follow him with so much of submission as a
political leader has a right to demand, if we intend that
our party shall sit on the dominant side el the Rouse
sees after the now Parliament shall have been
assembled." Then be goes on to indicate that men are
the means of measures, and that to political measures
they law the only means within the compass of the
ordinary oitisen's reach; and, if this be true, it must be
true also that nothing in politics eth be effected under
a free government without party thhmissinn and Party
Adelity. . • . . "As we hold it to be the duty of
every Liberal in the country who pommies, a vote, to
eve that vote to the Liberal candidates who may
emoted the seat in which he is interested—even though
personal feelings should prompt another course—so do
we think that every Liher.i member in the House of
Commons should, on all great party questions, place his
vote at the disposal of his leader. If that be thecae.,
there can be no matter of greater Import than the
selection of a leader who is to be so trusted. And we
think tient the very foremost business of the House
of Commons is to place the proper man on the first seat
on the Treason-, Beneh,—• man who shall have the
gifts of a statesman as well as those of • deleter. and
who, above all things, shall be in sympathy with the
mejneity of his countrymen. The battle cannot be
fought without a genera, let the soldiers be ever no
basest and ever no brave. Nor can a battle be won
under a command divided among two or more. If it
be hoped that Liberal measures shall be carried by a
Liberal majority in the next House of Commons,—
measures tor the *Mansion of education, suppression of
the Irish Church, for the abolition of religions disqsalifi.
cation, and the like,—it must be decided, and decided
eerily during the present soothe, who shall be the
Isadee under whom the Liberal party shall elect to win
its victories." He premeds to inset that all past Liberal
legislation has been, and all future Liberal legislation
must bse effected for the countro by strength on the
Liberal side of the Howie of Commons; aad, adverting
to the oft-heard remark, "if we are sure of the legisla-
tion we want, what matters it who are the occupants
of the Treasury Bench?" he observes, "one may get
oneself drown up a hill by an idle horse—even by a
jibbing horse altar much delay, but one would prefer to
ithe the aseeet with a spirited steed, willing for the
work, and anxious to be at the top, as we are anxious
ourselves," He refers to Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley,
Lord Cranborne Mr. Bright, and Mr. Gladstone,asthe only poesibleleadess of the House of Commons, and
selects the hat mentioned right hon. gentleman ea the
best amongst them, and says, "that Mr. Gladstone may
have keine—faults whisk are Units in the eyes of the
beet of his own patty—we may asknowledge. Bat he
has virtues, which we sae all trust—truth, honest!,
genius. knowledge, a ready tongue, patriotism, and eat-
rellanoe."—Of the other contents of the number, we
may observe the two serial tales ere highly interesting,
" Paul Go-sleet's oonfeesioci" is • droll story smartly
told, in " the Irish Church" paper the whole question
Is thoughtfully considered, and the other articles "On
shooting," "On human liethes," " Our Army," and
• Poem make up an excellent camber.
NITIMIST EDrCATION.—Th• February number of
Our Own Fireside, amongst a variety of useful and
entertaining reading for the Christian family, contains
• paper on •• Smithey Education," by the Bev. Lord
Sydney Godolphin Oolsorne. from which we *Mime the
following :—"Tu• two cardinal virtues of naivety life
are *bedlam and tom Them the the rudiments of
bfe's morel MUM., and in them should all human
life be very early well grounded. Obedience should be
won from a *Mid by evidence given to it which it cen
comprehend of the plethora it thus affords to those it
them of the Pale its self wlfl rv.. timm it will then
▪ more willing °bedlam, just in proportion to the
rove it has for those who ask it Theo an ben. doubt
tbat to win the affectionate imam.es of young chill
we Must stoop to enter into the joys and worrom which
directly ales* its, at presents Man apher, of life. Th.
pater Of mater footawee who. as the natinatino
play the fool to a child of three or Gar •
6000.modiatttg to its hmise
caprices, hemming for the occasion as ehildrse to gain
more readily the child's love, in my opinion, not
rational part Going for a mason Into Shildland, they
the no more to he ridiculed thee the traveller who tries
to win the confidence of the Datives of • land Mango to
him by doing his Watt. join in their pursuits and make
their language his own. He may do it imperfectly,
grothimeely, if you will ; but in the attempt they the
and swept the endeavour to give khans Plrwatlre. I can
gewersther seeing a stathessan, who for • Mort time wae
Premier, whoop °Misery life wee gives up to the study
of all the mysteries of national beams, who was one of
the most cooermed red.tapists I ever knew, to phase
his obild, made, willingly enough, be go as all roars
about the room, covered with his wife's shawl. What
mime' he was maul to repremot I know not ;but this
I know, that his own hotelier was as loud and
thoroughly mistral as that of his Mild. In after years,
and not many of them, that child wee lost to him,
loving bite dearly to the last: I have no doubt that
Wang the recollections of that sheet life that man of
gloriosa thoughtful character, of whom the public
Weight as drawing his awry Inspiration from Shio-
books, cherished alone all tb. memory of those seasons
wiles Downing tenet and he lon and boon eo
set Mids. and ha, tlat efatsagaaa, boa Imam a=
to plow Gm"