The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-19 00:00:00

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"Conscience makes onwards of us all." says Shake-
speare, and not the least of the disagreeable items those
who may defend Mr. Lefroy will have to explain away,
if possible, will be his hiding from the police. So, in
the case of Mr. Paull, his continued keeping out of the
way will not materially add to the leniency of the
treatment he may expect in the future. The police
have been making enquiries for him in every direction,
but as yet without SUOMI& At B ,urnernouth. to where
he was traced, he is lost might of. Mrs. Paull takes
rather a pessimist view of uiatters, and doesn't think
she shall see her husband alive again. But those who
know him well say he wouldn't have the heart to com-
mit suicide.

That the Windsor Review went off without any
casualties is • matter for congratulation, and our
battalion may certainly plume themselves that after
the hard work they had had in getting to the park they
were able to march peat in • manner that has called
forth the praiseof all the London Press. Her Majesty,
insteadof raising any quibblesabout holding the review,
should think her.elf fortunate that she "lives in the
hearts "—to use the cant after-dinner phrase—of such
a splendid body of men.
--
I have seen a letter from a Poole man, who was
present at the Aldershot slaughter on the 4th f July.
He says :—" We were out from seven o'clock in the
morning until four in the afternoon, and lief. TO we g.t
back three parts of the troops fell oat of the ranks.
Altogether there wee 12,000 troops. We bad to
march ten miles, and when we got there had to do a
sham fight and a march past the Prince and Princess
of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, and then we
were marchei right hack again without a halt. Eight
are dead and To in hospitio, and they were coming in
Monday night and next morning by twos and threes,
and several are missing and cant be found. I had
hard work to keep up iuysaf, but I managed ti do it
somehow or another. A pint of best brandy was given
every soldier that didn't fall out. It was something cruel
the way we were served."

This Is certainly the way to encourage recruiting.
Moreover, it is a very easy and inexpensive way of
reducing the strength of our standing army. It is,
however, simply atrocious that men's lives should be
sacrificed in order to afford a number of people sup-
posed to be possessed of Royal blood—whatever that
may mean—a day's sight-seeing and amu-ement. If
the hero of the Crimea ha i "illy shouldered a rifle
awl gone through the work that Private T my
Atsins on that 0CC3.11,.11, he woidi scarcely speak
in the heartless style he did of its having proved a very
pl,asant day. A fine horse to gallop about upon and
a champasrne luncheon no doubt is pleasant, and, it is
pretty certain, suited the Umbrella Dook to a 1'; but
1., be knocking about from seven to four under a
tropical sun, in full marching order, israther the reverse
side of the medal.

Mr. W. T. Shaw, of Mil, Euston-road, NW., writes
to the liekker
Sr of the best, His Roral Highness the
esi I, t, the House of Lori., on
Tuesday, • lie could Amen e heir lonlahips that he hsd
been out on fifty times hotter days.' Now, as there Is
only ow place that can possibly he fifty times hotter than
Aldershot was on Monday, will hi. Royal Highness
inform your anxious read•rs, and your correspondent in
particular, where he obtained his return ticket r'
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