The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-03-19 00:00:00

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MI I mirsday. Too crams and Princess of
'.Voles are at Cannes, on their way to the plea-
sant shores of the Mediterranean, in Demob of
the fresh and healthful breezes which his Royal
Highness now needs to give tone to his system.
toorlsts spon a day or two in Ports and
Vemsllles, lind the 'lemon, of a ;hat with M.
biers, of seeloi• the Assembly In one ot its
vestry moods, and of exploring the ruins which
still mark the work of the Communists.
The Ballot Bill was in committoo of the ilouse
of Commons on Thursday, and brought out au
announcement that the Government are in
favour of throwing the hustings' expenous on
the ratex. Theso costs, says Mr. Forster will
holy r.O etreinins of the last general
election only to Nisiiiiiiteuttio 01
Lottititg in the pewit, in England and %Vides
and few-tenths iii emit I tett end Ireisel , and
he Akid3 until these expenses Mb thrown upon
!'ie tnui M. l's. ie corduroy be irepossibi,.
But. as Mr. Tieuty Januss says, the beatings
expenses form a very small proportion, after
all, of the total expenses of a Porlianseutary
candidate; and, in any case, as Mr. Disraeli
adds, no new charge can with justice be thrown
upon the rates till the area of local taxation is
Increased.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, in
answer to a question on Friday night, that he
would bring in his Budget on Monday, the 25th
inst., which is • bit of information that will cer-
tainly interest the country, anxious as Is is to
know, first, if the income-tax will be reduced to
ita old figure of 4(1, and, secondly, toes. whether
Mr. Lowe has been cured by last year's die-
agreeable experience of his propensity for Anse-
-1 teal prestidigitation; while, of course, there are
various special interests eager to learn what has
been the effect on the Chancellor's mind of their
deputations and representations.
Tories case, like the Tiohborne, collapsed,
; and with starting suddenness; but Mr. Chaffers,
; instead of finding himself where he ought to be,
; in Newgate with "Sir Roger," is free, and free
; apparently from punishment of any kind except
the "contempt if all honest men,' as the
magis-
trate told him as he loft the box. "The *an
will uot end here," the libeller muttered as he
left the oourt; and he means, we suppose, to
follow up his own prosecution by an action
against Biz Travers Twin for false imprison-
ment. It Is a hideous case all through; and we
suppose now the world will never know how
much of fact and how much of flotkm these is in
Chaffers' statement about the Vicar-General and
his wife. Chaffers is free. His victim is In
Brussels; and Sir Travers Twigs —1
A wend charge against Chaffers was to have
been taken on Thursday, that of attempting to
extort money from a gentleman of position in
society, by publishing • libel taxing him with
bigamy. But this charge, too, was dropped at
the last moment; and all that the magistrate
, could do was to express his detestation of the
1 libeller, and to release him. Teams oases are,
as Mr. Beeson very well said, frightful Instances
of the terrorism that may be exercised by an
adept in the art of libel, and the horror which
the public must feel of a man who wields the
fearful power of this man will not be lessened
by the fact that people in the position of Lady
Twies and Mr. floury William; shrink from
meeting him face to face in a court of justice,
with the eye of all the world upon them.
Some of the supposed friends of the new
secular Education party are beginning to feel
uncomfortable. The treasurer of the Religious
Liberation Society, Mr. William Edwards, who
has held that position some thirty yams, retires
because he cannot coasolenUonaly go with the
society in the raid against the daily UM of the
Bible in schools. Mr. Baines, the moniker for
Leeds, has signified that as he does not go with
the Nonconformist body in this education move-
ment ha will not present himself again before
the electors of Leeds. It is only surprising that
so many of the leading Nonconformists have
pinned their faith to the Birmingham League.
Sunday was a grand field day in the Sister
le l( re popular demoustratton—Ultrotoontono
dewo itrattoas in favour of Cardinal Cullen's
Ideas of education; Nationalist demonstratioas
in farouiof a" universal amnesty"--St. Patrick,
as the friend and patron of saint, and scholars,
having to preside in spirit over both. The natal
anniversary of the first teacher of Christianity
in Ireland is still, as It has always been, an
occasion for the outpouring of Celtic enthusiasm.
Anciently it assumed the material form of
whisky now it present& itself in a political,
but loss pleasant chapel. Under all aspects,
however, it has been—strangely enough—sago-
elated with controversies and combativeness;
for, as the beet of songs on the subject tells
us—

Tim fira laotloo Uhl in old Ireland, they say,
Was all on account of St. Patrlek's birthday ;
one portion of the Illbernian public oontending
for the Ninth and the other for the Eighth of
March. The dispute arose out of that fine-
drawn line of time which at midnight separates
the two dates, and upon which, unfortunately
for the future concord of his countrymen, the
infant aaint chose to make his appearance on
this sublimer scone. But--u it wee apologeti-
cally and plausibly urged by the poet--

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Mistakes will occur 'twist the hurry and shook?
Them some blamed the baby, while mom bloused tho
clock.
dud vit..* all theme cross -quokkas, no ono over Gould
keow,
U Use clock was too last or the babe was too slow.

The war of disputed dates continued for cen-
turies, and the heeds cracked for the Eighth and
for the Ninth quadrupled those fractured for
rival representatives from the first general
election on nioord ; until an ingenious device
for settling the vexed question occurred to a
humorous and sagacious pariah priest, for whom
Cardinal Cullen, who declares Ireland owes
more to her clergy than to all the Cabinets
that ever existed," may fairly score ten. This
excellent divine, who was popularly and affec-
tionately known as lather Mallowney, contem-
plating the combatants with grief and pity after
slight of more than ordinary severity—

/Ahmed of their as
Bahl oohed, mull have two bisikidays bank' WEL
He acoordlngl7 gave them this sage and dem
recipe for settling their long-standing differences.

My boys, dent be letting kr sight or for Mos ;
Doe's be always Middle% bag sonotleass bestial;
Combine sight with ota•—asneateisa is the wail;
Let *bat be hi. birthday—" Anna," said the curb.
We should applaud the good priest's dimming
If his plan were • complete cure for the com-
bative propensities of hie compatriots. But,
unhappily, the old spirit has broken out in •
, new and more misohievous place. In the
modern form of Foulaatiani, as well as in the
malignant action of Ultrainontanism, we retain
all the fiorosnesa of the old faction fight, while
resuscitating none of Its fun. So that, on the
whole, however good Father Afallowney's inten-
tions wore (and doubtless they were good), he
ini,4l,t as well Lave allowed We natal question
Ito remain where he found It: became • " tidy
fight" on a fair green would not, we are sure,
I Lave so much irritation of feeling behind it as
Sunday's meetings.
The reply of the Washington Government to
Earl Granville's note on the Alabama claims has
been received. The United finites Government
declines to settle the difficulty by deciding
widest itself, and loaves it to the arbitrators.
To them we will not refer It. AU come to the
*inclusion that the matter will be, must be
..:Tana, lut low hazard an opinion upon the
mean: to be employed. Cutting the knot la in
this case impossible, and the golden bridge has
not yet been constructed for either party. The
/Inca suggests the ouly course is to re-open
negotiations at Washington by • new commie-
don.
The bill of costa for the Treaty of Washington
totals up, as Homo used to say, to £23,000, a
startling amount to those who believe with Mr
Bernal t shorn() that If we had .it a sharp
attorney to Washington we might have got •
trusty without the slightest ambiguity for £lO.
Tho largcst item in the bill is for the personal
and Meidental expenses of the High Commis-
sit:acts at Washington, inclusive of telegrams.
This is .C 12,030. The oust "In connection with
the presentation of the British Case to the
Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva, and also for
translation," Ii £2,600. 1,7,000 is sot down for
be salaritis. travelling ;4&mees, advertisements,
and t elugrams of the Commission ; but
there is hint in a foot-note to the return that
perhaps half of this sum may yet have to be re-
paid by Americo.
Lord Northttook leaves for India on the 25th
mat, with the beet wishes of his country, and,
apparouti, with judicious views of the high
mission he is called upon to perform. A Viceroy
who taws for hi. ga, die Queen's proclaims-
Noss abd authaarbays by ovary maw in Ids