The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

LITER ARY EXTRACTS.

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Jolly BULL, TUE TAX•PATEIL—The paying power of
the British tie payer seems to be enormous, and his
patients) under financial milking is a lesson to noisy
martyrs. He it .tota like • cow to give fulth, and only
exhibits the bull disposition when you tell him what
has become of the milk. He has a fretful impatience of
figures and statistical details, and can always be driven
mad by a long sum. Artful members of this small
governing fatuity have helped to nourish this disposi-
tion by making his figures as dry and repulsive as pos-
sible. This is one way of choking an efficient audit.
Other artful members of the same governing family
have plirtuaded him that details are only fit food for
the parochial mind, and that the Imerochl.l mind is •
low, vulgar form of popular intelligence. He has lis-
tened to the voice of the charmer until lie has come to I
consider everything of importance exempt chat is wider
his Woo or beneath his feet.--All the far Roved.
COBDILIeII ADVICK To Hoss.—The IF iudour and
Et.* Express reports • speech Addressed to the boys of
St. Mark's School at St. Leonard's, by Mr. Cobden, on
the occasion of the usual distribution of prises. Mr.
I Cobden warned Cie boys that to chain much was given
11 of them much would be required. He bad lived abe
most of his life in tha North of England—in Lama-
Aire, wbero, be said, they make the clothes they sad

Leif the world wear ; and there nun often rose from
very small beginnings, Ile historic...done case e,tpeehilly
—that of his friend who invented the engines which
drew them along the railways. When lie was making
his fitat attempts he could neither re.nl nor write.
What a chance A would have been for him to have had
ihe help td stub an education as they wet° now re-
ceiving. Alluding to the priers that hod' been given,
le tout those that bad not been succiestful to-day that
they might still hope, and try fur another time. Some
found it harder to learn thou others, bet they must go
on. It was so with woods :all were nut of the Rim
kind ; tome burnt readily, others wanted more blowing
and stirring, bet both wade a good fire at last. lict
those who don't find it be cosy to it .rn at. others still
peraceem. Ile told them he would Ite,p the papers
nit), tin ir marks. and lie lisped to meet them another
ye.tr, red would be glut to witness Do hr rir 'gross.
Remember, said lie, though you may Itt,t be all Bain-
bridges and Whitfield' in attainment" (alluding to the
too head boys in the examination), you 'nay all be as
good; and the value of a school is not to be measured
by the ability of those it sends oat, litit by its sanding
out boys that will tlo their duty faithfully. With thein
now, lie said, rested the reputation of the school ; and
not only did he hope they would grow up to be good
specimens of what the school could produce, but that
they might be successful it. life, and able themselves to
be patrons and supporters of the Oclo.ha, "when I (he
added) who am growing grey, and Mr. flawing, who
loves you Co well, and whom you love so well, will have
lasted away."
Ti'.'. AT AN HOTNI..—I rang for the tea, and the
waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by
degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but uf
tea not a glimpse. A teaboard. cups and asueers,
plates, knives and forks (including carver.), spoons
(rationa), salt cellars, a meek little tmfliti confined- with
the uttoost precaution under a strong iron curer, Muses
in the bollrushes typifid by a soft bit of butter in a
quantity of parsley • white loaf with a powdered bead
two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fire'
;)ace on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat
family urn, which the waiter ataixered in with, espies.
sing in his countenance bonbon and suffering. After a
prolonged absence at this stage of the entertainment,
lie at length came back with • casket of precious appear.
ants: containing twigs. These I steeped in hot water,
snit so from the whole of these appliances extracted one
cup of I don't know what for Estella. The bill paid,
and the waiter remembered, sad the ostler not for
gotten, and the chambermaid taken into eatiaideration—
in a word, the whole house bribed into • state of con-
tempt and anitnuaity, and Estella's purse much light-
ened—we gut into our post-coach and drove away.—
G real Expect& ions, by Charles Dickens.