The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-02 00:00:00

Bonet Conntti

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1871.

NOTES OF TUB WEEK.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have been
visiting the Pope at Rome, and the Qualm is at
Bedew. They are all three said to be In the
best of health and spirits ; and the *hangs of air
and wens are working marvels with the Prime.
Parliament bee adjourned for the reams, with-
out having aceompluihed any great work thus
far. The Ballot Bcll dose not make wal=
fast; and yet we do not know what thel
big Bill that is in preparation may be, except
that we have Mr. Bruce's word that it will bear
no resemblance to sketches of he provisions
which have been published. After the interro-
gation of Lord Granville at the end of last week,
the Washington difficulty haa been allowed to
slumber. It is tacitly coasiedied that the Cabinet
is wise in preserving silence upon the peewit
reference. It is understood that Lord Granville's
reply is lengthy and argumentative. Xxcephon
is taken to the plan of allowing the minter oases
to go forward to Geneva before April lb
"without prejudice." so that the provision of
the treaty in regard to dates may bit templed
with. It dote not appear plain that sash a step
can be taken "without prejudice," and it may
be safer to do nothing. Public feeling in the
United States is said to be moving against con-
sequential demands. We•may presently hear
that the electioneering experiment of President
Grant has had an unexpected effect, and that be
has repented of musing all this fuss and trouble
about claims that must evaporate.

It appears to be next to impossible to ewer-
tan the actual value of each penny of the income
tax. Not only does the taxable income of the
nation images fabulously, so that the penny
Sir Robert Peel estimated to yield £700,0U0 now
produces & million and shal4 speaking roughly;
but it seems the value of the penny depends
upon the rate of income tax. The lower the tax
the greater the penny. This is Mr. Lows's ex-
perience. The hearty pond will with which
British taxpayers pay when the demand Is small
Ii not in the least surprising; though it Is quite
• discovery to find that they dap something
extra on, beyond the extant of their blooms,
when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is modest
in his demands. It must be so, of coons, for
it would be scandalous to suppose that they
reckon falsely when the demand is heavy.
The week has been darkened by a frightful
explosion in • new ooalpit in the Bolton district,
Involving the loss of 26 men and boys, and the
injury of • dozen more.

"Sir Razor" has sent round the hat from his
oell in Norge" to raise • fund for his deform
at the bar of the Old Bailey. He still inside
that he is the rightful owner of Tiokborne
House, of the title and estates, and prooounass
the tattoo evidence an after-thought to catch
him. He can call goons of witnesses who never
saw the tattoo marks upon Boger I This is the
last throw of the dice; and, as a contemporary
ests, the aptest motto that " Biz Boger "
could have found for his appeal was that in
Tom Oastro's pocket-book :—" SOON men kas
plenty of money and no brains, and some men
has plenty of brains and DO money. Surely num
with plenty of money and no brains were made
for nun with plenty of brains and no money."
The author of " Oinx's Baby" heads the sub-
scription list with £5, not because he believes
Tom Castro to be air Roger, but because there
is a mystery in the came which ought to be cleared
up I If Mr. Jenkins has £5 to give to every
mystery which ought to be cleared up, he's •
, happy man.
The Warwickshire labourers' strike continues,
and it is said that hall-s.clown comities are honey-
owned by the authors of this strike—people,
obviously, who know very little of the life of
agricultural labourers, sM that Warwioluddre
only forms the headquarters of the union The
first effect of the strike will probably be to put
the farmers on their mettle to replies their men
with machinery, and to alter their system of
cultivation ; and if this is the case, the labourers
may find in the end that they have overshot
the mark. One thing is plain. If the farmers
are to be mulcted at once of • tax of thirty-three
per cent. upon the cost of working their farms,
they must either nine the price of their produce,
or ask for • remission of rent from their land-
lords, or pay the increased wages out of
their own pocketa. Which is it to be I The
landlords of course will resist, for even at present
thel, returns rarely average more than three per
cent. The farmers now seldom makemore than
seven or bight per cent. upon their Investments;
and if they try to raise the price of farm produce
against the consumer they may find themselves
brought face to face with a sharper competition
from America and the Continent than they
have to contend against now. The only weapon
to use against striker of this kind is machinery,
and the mass of labourers have no conception of
the manifold ways in whish their akill and
Industry, such as it is, MD be replarred by
machinery.

Foreign news is scant at present. Three is
gloom and uncertainty about Spain; reports of
ttivial diaturbances and of indiscreet impressions
about the Throne, of which it is found nacos-
eery to take oognisanoe. The Italian chamber
has disposed of its budget, and adjourned. K
Then still perseveres with Ma financial=
that seem to please no one; and has
the Assembly for the Easter holidays with a
few brave cheery words. While Prince Bis-
marck continues his vigorous opposition to
Romanist' in Germany, Dr. has been
lecturing at Munich on the EngitinZormation.
The lecture, which Is deemed to have peculiar
significance at the present time, ham been tilos'
lated and publisheci in the Tines. It is not, of
course, wise to believe all one hears of Prince
Bismarck's intentions, but it is to be hoped that
he will carry through the international postal
scheme he is said to have est Mx mind upon.
A postal congress at Berlin is talked of to unite
Europe, Russia and Turkey in Asia, Clansia, the
United Star• and Algeria, in an international
compact for a uniform 2d. post for half-ounos
letters, and a two-ounce Id. post for newspapers.
printed matter, and patterns.
Archdeacon Denison has been poking fun at
the Education Department in the following
amusing later which mast have made even the
"Department' scream with laughter. the
Rey. ij. B. Barry, one of her Majesty's Inspec-
tors of itichoolls, writes to him as follows from
London, apparently and perhaps prudently ao6
curing to come nearer the terrible vicar 0/ East
Brent, until he had ascertained the temper In
which he was • something like the
officer who preferred serving his peat=
a fishing-rod through the first-Hoer window, for
fear of accidents:

FAaoatioo Doportnto 187 Louden (8, lc).
March 13,2.
met Brant ParooaM &Moot.
Ret% mostrod inelssetioss from the
ll.pirtmont to Mama the abovo-nomod
mbool pursuant to sections 71, 72 of tho Blementni7
lidnoation hot, I hove tie boson: to Worn you that
purpose doing so on Use 18th of April, as len o'olook
/than b. eog g ye% or any et te. mew now
seers, can Wand ezeinisation, and talcum
favour of year acknowledging Ws letler 53 me isms
at tbo oboro widow, by rOtnrn of pock it peed
bon mtu bottow to b.. Raw. Bfrogersomeolindkat lercnat,
H. B. Bono, d sand"
Toth Vimohlo Animism= Domino.

We think Mr. Barry must have congratulated
himaelf on his precaution in making the General
Post-office the medium of his opening oommuni.
elation with the fiery Archdeacon. when he received
the subjoined by return of put" as re-
quested

Kest Brow, 114. utilise, Walt 25. 11672.
flir,—l Lu. mom wanton of til.) Ks" Brent Palo-Mal
atiA I do not admit a o...versants':l inspector
inside the ectbouL
I have no " conscience olamo" of any kind, nor over
Aral have. I have nothing to do with the "Ficramtary
Education Act," ex silt to denounce it as irreligious.
If I san 'idled upon to pays "'shoal rate," I shell
rause to pay it : and the einem% will have to be levied
011 Oly property Under a distrait, warrant.
If you think it worth your while en Lepoot the school
from ouliii4s, th•t is for yourself I deoolo upon.
If you dvoido so to Iraiplet thin School, I 61,11 bo
happy to give you luncheon, provided that us word is
wild to me about the sohooL
I one make no answer to the gnarls' contained In the
paper enclosed, and return It.
14or can I answer any other letter on the subjoct of
the school, and rrqUaal that none othor be written
to me.
I wad your Isttir and this reply for publication.
Folthfally years,
(Eligned) 010110 a A. Doisos.
The Bole. H. B. Bury.

In the foregoing the Archdeacon of Taunton
himself, and the only thing that puzzles
us our admiration of his many amusing quali-
ties is, that • man, who has such • charming
vein of humour, could soddenly take in his old
age, to the ecclesiastical puerilties that have
recently been introduced by a couple of boyish
metes, to whom, no doubt, "playing a 'tomb&
, Attar was • congenial pastime enough. We
do not know what sort of man the Bev. H. B.
Berry is, but if he did not roar and too his wig
Into the air (if he wears one) on reading
reply he mast be as sedate as an und
and will never make the jolly companion that
the old Archdeacon is, in spite of his " Bucks
hate at you ale' kind of propensity for offering
the whole world battle. The idea of the outside
Inspection of the school is delightful and per-
fectly original; still it is surpassed by the pro-
posed luncheon and the oonditions on which it is
offered—viz, not to seek tomes the interior of
the parochial seminary. and to say nothing to
his host on the subject, while having his out of
tongue and wing of cold fowl. it may bathes
kr Barry is • slow coach, and might prefer re-
Leaking himself with a bed sandwich while
sitting on a tombstone in the adjoining church-
yard, to the most profuse hospitalities of the
v under such circumstance.; but *lcor
arr2ll the lest boat-race and the next Derby
as open subjects, we do not see why, with •
couple of cigars and • bottle of Maderia from the
vicarial wins cellar, the convocation need flag,
or why they might not pass a pleasant hour or
two together. As in the fable of the boys and
frogs, however, what is fun to the visor may be
dead to the poor straggling folks and farmers of
lad Brent, as his good joke against the Inspec-
tor will probably bring down a school-rate upon
these. tie says he'll have his sugar-tongs and
boot-jack sold under • distress warrant before he
pays, but other folks have not the same stomach
for fighting everybody, the sheriff included. The
cow-keepers of East Brent will pay the rate and
—bless their pugnacious vicar for those and all
other movie&