The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-08-20 00:00:00

Arst.t ennutti expo.
TUIBDAY, AUGUST 20, 1872.

NUM OF THE WICEK.

The Queen immediately upon the release of
Parliament departed for tchnbureih, and after
staying there a few days, went to BalcuoraL
Viscount Halite: is the Minister in attendance.
Before leaving Osborne Her Majesty received
the Envoy of the Mikado of Japan, accompanied
by Sir Harry Pukes. An interesting event
was also chronicled the day preceding her de-
parture—the Princess Helena having given birth
to • daughter at Windsor. The Prince and
Princess of Wales left on Monday for Copen-
hagen, where her Royal Highness will remain
for a few weeks, the Prince returning home to
pay a day's visit to Mr. Sturt at Crichel, and
then go into camp on Salisbury Plain for the
Autumn manoeuvres. Prince Arthur is at
Aldershot; the mildewy chiefs are in Dorset,
assembling troops for the autumn manceuvres ;
the Ministers are scattered right and left all over
the csouutry, Mr. Gladstone shutting himself up
in that old Flinteleire Castle of Sir Stephen
Glynn's to annotate Homer, and Mr. Lowe Whin
pretty little Surrey cottage to cogitate fresh
taxes to pay the Alabama bill. Mr. Uoschen
is on board • man-of-war in the Channel, suffer-
ing as only landlubbers are supposed to do, and
most of his colleagues are in this Highlands with
Mr. Bright sounding the salmon pools. Mr.
Disraeli remains at Hughandou with Lady
Beaconsfield ; and Lord Russell is, we suppose,
at Woburn keeping his ei,Atieth birthday and
puzzling out his plan for lightening the labours
of the House of Cumulous with • Scottish and
Irish Parlisizeat at tiolyrood and on College
Green. M. niers is, it is said, spending every
moment that he can spare from his duties of
IState at 'I rouville in preparing a work for the
press on pol,tisal philosophy, as • supplement to
his hatoriosil writings and his speeches In the
Assembly. The Emprees Ragouts has just
returned from a trip in the Highlands, and the
ex-Empsror has ben at Brighton, where are
assemb.ed the savants of the British Associa-
tion and a brilliant company.
The first Parliamentary election by ballot at
Pontefract, created very considerable interest.
It would have been a serious defeat if the
Government had lost the first election under the
new system, and as the occasion was to obtain
the opinion of a constituency upon the re-
appolutment of • Cabinet Minister, the result
wee more momentous; and the interest, was
still further heightened by the fact that Mr.
Childers, who was the candidate for re-election,
Is one of the fathers of the Ballot system, has
represented the constituency for twelve years,
and now stood, as it appeared, • probable chinos
of being defeated by a young Conservative
nobleman, Viscount Pollington, son of the Earl
of Mezborough, having local influence. As the
return is recorded, the contest was close—very
clam—giving only 80 majority to Mr. Childers.
the little diflioulty iu the way of Lord Polling-
ton's fortunes cousisted in the statement made
by Mr. Chillers that in 1808 his lordship offered
to imalesce with him as a Liberal against the
Conservative members of Pontefract. Lord
Pollingtoa denied that he than approved of Mr.
Gladstone's policy, but did not deny the inter-
view, or the authenticity of a letter in which he
regretted being unable to assist the Liberal
cause, his father having r. fused to spend money
in an election, and expressed the wish to obtain
some international commission from the Liberal
Government then about to come into office.
Mr. Childers may be pardoned bringing ep this
little pace of scandal as an electioneering
" move " not prohibited by Act of Parliament.
Pontefract was crowded eh the week with
eleotioneerers from all parts of the couutry to see
how the Ballot works. It has apparently worked
exactly as everyone exposited, that is to say,
everything has been very quiet—no heads have
been broken—no poll returnd nublished—snd
the excitement has been reduced to a minimum.
I he voters disappeared I y poops of three or
four, through tne front thaw ei ieis polling booth,
took their papers from the Pulling Clerk retired
to a corner, filled them up, folded them so as to
show nothing but the official mark upon the
paper, placed them iu the Ballot-box, in the
presence of • cau,le of personatiug agents, as
they are called, and then walked out a; the back
door, with their secret in their own keeping.
The illiterates and old gentlemen who discovered
at the lest moment that they had left their
spectacles at home, were the difficulty. Thee*
people kept stopping the wee at the booth all
day; and when the po • '.-rok the Re-
turning Officer four hours, t„Jlect the boxes,
to go through the votes, to check and (aunt
them, althou :h thine were only 1,200 in all, end
it was not till eight o'clock that the result was
known. The result of elections it' large oonsti-
tummies oonnot therefore be known, liar • long
time deer the poll has closed, and the toil im-
posed on Returning officers will be immense.
In this respect, some improvement in the
machinery of the Bill will probably be suggested
by experience, and in no respect has it faded, in
which • remedy does not seem easily possible
It is only fair to add that, according to • state
inept, t ass °omega MIS of w hich awaits confirmation
both parties at Pontefract declared themselves
highly satisfied with their practical experience
of the Ballot, and agreed that, having once tried
it, they would never give it up.
The suspicion excited respecting the letters of
Dr. Livingstone, in the New York Herald, by
their offensive element, has been removed by the
publications of the despatches received at the
Foreign office. These while agreeing in es-
sentials with those fowarded by Mr. Stanley to
New York, leak that "spicing" which raised
doubts about their authenticity, end it
is now judged they were written by Mr.
Stanley himself, though they were inspired by
Livingstone. "I lived," says Dr. Livingston..
"In what may be called the Tipperary of
Manyuema, ant they are certainly • bloody
people among themselves. But they are very
far from being, in appearance, like the ugly
Negroes on the Wait Comet. Finely formed
heads are common, and, generally, men and
women ars vastly superior to the slaves of
Zanzibar and elsewhere" This is graphic des-
cription; but it is the dignified thoughtful
writing of a sensible man: and how different
from the "charming black eyes," the "rounded
limbs," the "smiles," the influence exerted by
the "dears" upon "us he-donkeys." which
every one felt could by no possibility have pro-
ceeded from Livingstoue's pen. The remotes
of the adventurous journalist at the meeting of
the British emaciation, on Friday, constituted
quite an ovation. Mr. Stanley made a very
clear statement of his adventures in Afrios ; and
when some of the savants questioned statements
of Dr. Livingstone because they dad not agree
with the notions evolved out of the inner con-
sciousness of these learned gentlemen, the corres-
pondent of the Herald gave • timely rebuke, say-
ing that • man sitting at home in his easy chair
ought to hesitate before he disputed hots on
theoretical grounds. There was • large influx of
visitors to Brighton to see the lion of the pre-
emie session of the Aeaoci ition, and the geo-
graphical section, in which Mr. Stanley made his
appearance, was thronged with auditors (and
spectators), many of high distinction.
In Oullllllotloll With Mr. Stanley, WO cannot
help contrasting his conduct in substantiating
his cue with that of a very different person in •
very different case. If the lichborne claimant
had come forward in the same open and candid
manner years ago, on arriving in England, sod
had at ones put his case to the test, it would
have served him an immense deal of after-trouble,
supposing him to be the man he represents.
Though of • different kind, he ought to have
been able to produce as many and rs wavinng
credentials as Mr. Stanley has done.
The immediate operation of the new Licensing
Act his created some surprise, and vadat@
opinions are entertained as to the restrations
now in force. In Dorset we shall soon hear of
meetings of the local authorities to fix the hours
of opening and clo,•, /. T:iey must be on Sun-
day, Christmas • .1 Friday during
the whole day lesteid the hour of half-peet
(or, if the licensing plettcos direct, one) in the
afternoon, and between the hours of half-pest
two (or,if one bathe hour of opeoing,then three),
and six in the afternoon, and after the hour of
ten (or, if the licensing justices direct, any hour
not earlier than nine and not later than eleven)
at night' acid on all other days before the hour
of ilia (or, if the licensing justices direct., any
hour not earlier than five and not later than
seven) in the morning and after the hour of
eleven (or, if the lamming justices direct, any
hour not earlier than ten and. not later than
twelve) at nieht.harydrOrielelle
from selling to bona
Rot to
exclude: person
'Ms travellers or to persons lodging in his house.
"Nothing in this section oontainol shall pried ode
the sale at any time at • railway. station of
intoxicating liquors to persons arriving at or
deputing from seek station by railroad.' An
order for the &Iteration of the ,4013nif bans. may
be made by the Lowing PAWN 41 soy Was

before Um nat general annual Homing or any
special seasick= summoned, provided twenty-one
days' notice le given. Any order mad* by the
licensing justices for the alteration of the
closing hours is not to come into force for •
month after the date, and is to be advertised.
Penalties are to be imposed on persons found on
premises during the prohibited hone. Ibe
penkkise for druukenciees increase from I.os for
• first °firms to 40. for subsequent oflieuoes,
and people who are babe to beoome " incapable "
or " disorderly" under the influence of driuk
will have to be • little more careful of them-
selves now, for, with • tangible penalty attached
to the offence of becoming • drunken nuisance,
instead of • merely nominal punishment, the
readiness of the police to street drunkards will
be much greeter. ,