The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-24 00:00:00

WORKING KEN'S CLUB'.

The Karl of Carteszvoo has been deliv—eriog a genial
lecture upon Artless.' sad Mei:Mole: (nab.. Them
lostitutioos have often been mused in thar usefainns
by probiblUons which seem designed for grown•op
Militia. Sometimes beer was to be forbidder, and
teething but teetotal drinks woe to be oonnimed on rho
premises; then toXamo wee sect to be allowed, and no
games more exciting than cheep, Makiammoo. or
Ifreuelts were to be enowirsged, The Karl ol
Damon has no eympathy with this view of an Artisass'
Club. be impressed himself very distinctly in favour
of leaving such an institution quite as untrammeled se
any in Pall Mali or Piccadilly. He even thought It
temmary to put :is s dsfence of smoking, and h. WAS
unable to em why the pipe should be excluded from the
lambastes' club-bourne. lie added a word also in favour
of a Willa:4.room. Hitherto Artisans' sod Meshatiere
Clubs have been, from a email stand-point, rather
failures than successes, and we believe that the ciicuin.
stenos is probaLly owing to a superstition, amorgst
even their ova managers, that It is n galena to make
them as dull as barracks, in order to prevent !news-
laxities, which, we agree with Lord aernarvon, then ix
no mowed to aatitipate.—Daily Memo.

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HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.- The elided 'Wonder of m-dcrn
MOM*. —This helm lush!s eedielne iserseatts the
appetite, etreogtheoe the etorhaoh, some the Seer,
oorreet• biliouneetr, proveute amid. ney, pnriats
system, ineigotates tbe nerves, sad itic.taky ioued
wax The ebollooo. demand for these rill. thromo.
00 the globe astounds's •wery, body, and • single trial
maelaciee the nect4 ace ptinal that no mealtime (coals
Hadoway's Pills ink ability to renters all erinplainte
Ins4dentsl to the human wow. They are a deeming to
the afliistod, and • boon toall that labtoir under intern/A
Or external disease. Poilloation ol the blend, recaue„i
el all restraint from the secretive omens, and settle
openly, adios, are the geoid. warm of the siteaslve
lazative nage it Holloway s Pals.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

While the Queen is at Balmoral, the sociable
habits of the junior members of the Royal
Family afford opportunities for the exhibition
of the loyalty of the nation. Prince Arthur
has been mAktug himself agreeable to the public
at Leeds by opoulng • park and an exchange.
a he Prince is just the man for this sort of thing,
for he can talk pleasant 3? and gracefully. His
Royal ilighuess was euthuslaatically received at
Leeds, as, indeed, he is everywhere; and we
have nu doubt that even the few republicans in
that town find their number lessened by the
influence of royal affability. We have, happily,
no employment fur our Princes in leading arcane
to victory, as those of Germany did a couple of
years ago; but they can fulfil functions no less
useful In mingling with the public social life of
the people.
; Mr. Lowe is the only Minister *he has yet
been challenged to say what he thinks of the
Geneva Arbitration Award; and Mr. Lowe is
mute. The people of Fife happened to be preeen-
tole the Chancellor of the Kxchequer with an
I address on the morning that the amount of the
flue was published, and Sir Robert Anstruther
I said the intelligence must make the hon. gentle-
man feel as if he had got out of bed on the wrong
aide. But Mr. Lowe, instead of accepting the
expressions of condolence which Sir Robert
Austruther offered to him upon the disappear-
ance of his next surplus, treated the Award all
• joke. "The news might possibly have impaired
the equanimity of my temper," said Mr Lowe, "
ill had heard it now for the first time ; but the
fat is it has been a little discounted. I have
known it ter a fortnight, so that I have had
time to reconcile my mind to it ;" and Mr.
Lowe apparently thinks that the rest of us may,
like him, reconcile ourselves to the line in a
fortnight, take it, that ia •t the eete of et.oeb
hdf a milli°. • day, omitting Sundays, and then
forget all about it.
The Government my, perhaps, have made
up their minds to appropriate the surplus of the
year to the payment of the 31 millions to the
United States; and there is every probability
of there bet ig enough and to spare; but this
will besoinewhat opposed to the rule of nibbling
at the national debt with whatever revenue
comes in in excess of the votes of the year. One
thin; Mr. Lowe must certainly not do. Ile
must not make the " lump sum" for Washington
• pretext for additional taxation—the extra
income-tax twopence, for instance, for this would
produce a storm of animosity. It would be
ruination to arbitration, as well as to the
Cabinet.

The Bank Pato of Interest was put up on
Wednesday all of • sudden to 4 per mot. from
the rate of 3 at which ft has stood for the
past month, and this Las acted like a wet blanket
upon the iron market in South Staffordshire.
The Bank return published on Friday explains
the rise. The stock of bullion in the coffers of
Threadneedle-street is half a million less than it
was e week ago, and the applications for dis-
count are far higher than they wore then while
the amount of the Reserve Is falling off. The
rate of interest at Frankfort is 5 per cent., and
it is rising all over the Continent, and rising,
I too, at a moment when we are discovering that
our harvest requirementa will be far larger than
we have been expecting. larger even than in
ordinary years, that the East India trade is in •
I risky state,•and that before the year is over we
shall have to make • direct payment of
1:3,100,000, for which we shall receive no return.
These :Acts will interfere more and more with
the course of the market; but Instead of being
surprised at the rise of ji per cont., the real
surprise ought to be that the rate stands as low
as it does, recollecting the recent transactions
of France and liermany.
Mr. I owe's speech at Anstruther differs from
met of those which help to fill the newspapers
at this season in that it contained something
which, wbilo pertinent both to the time and the
audience, yet admits of a wider applioation A I
new educatioual system has jest been started in I
Scotland, and a great many fears have been ex-
pressed lest its operation should prove hurtful
to the quality of the education hitherto given in
elecueutary schools. The easiest way of meeting i
thia objection before the Scottish audience is to I
give it a flat denial, and by the help of some
eLitaible reasoning and some judicious flattery,
Mr. Lowe might easily have convinced the people
of A nstruther that the effect of the Scotch Educa-
tion Bill had been m;sunderstood. lustead of
this, he told them frankly that, in so far as at-
tention to the quality of the education in
elementary schools interfered with attention to
the quantity, the quelity must give way. "The
primary object of • state education, supported
in part by State funds aud administered by pub-
lic bodies, is the education of the poor." In
theory everybody admits this. But then it is
said, why should not the poor receive instruction
' at, long as they remain at school in higher as
well as elenseutary subjects 1 The answer to
this is twofold. I u the first place, in the very
short time which the labouring clues have to
give to oducaiiou it Is impossibe for any but the
cleverest children both to master the rudiments
and to use them. In the second place, the
teacher will naturally feel. keener interest in
the clever children who are studying something
more than reading, writing, and arithmetic, than
in the dull chiliren who have no chance of get-
ting beyond a routine so unavoidably wearisome
to the schoolmaster. The Revised Code forces
schoolmasters "to do exactly what they don't
like—that is, to give their time mainly to the
more backward and more stupid children instead
of those who are more forward and promising.
It was meant to do that and it did. It was
meant to make the education for which the poor
contribute an education for the poor in the first
instance, and it was only meant that those more
forward pupils should receive any extra benefit
after the poor had been sufficiently provided
for." This is a lesson that needs to be kept be-
fore the minds of Sootchmeu, because they are
likely to be blinded to it by the successes of an
opposite system ; but it is none the less valuable
for us in England. Give children one and all, a
thoroughly practical elementary ecucation, and
you will have put them in the fairest way of
attaining higher education.
With almost the freedon of talk about the
weather, City men, we are told, speak of •
"coming crisis." They take such • house as
Gledatane's to be a fair illustration of the
trading that is going on to an alarming extent.
Depend upon it, they say, we shall see other
houses go before long, which while they appear
so first-class—so very free with their money, and
ready to do business on easy terms—are living
; on the principle carried out by the Austin Friars
firm—floating their paper to the extent of half
; • million or so.

i The high prices of coal and iron are producing
I their usual effect. Geologist, are preepeerieg
everywhere for coal, in India, in Ireland, in
. America, and wherever mines are open In any
part ~f the w9rld extra men are being put on,
wades are being raised, and machinery improved
to increase the output. The colliers of the Psi
de Calais are all as busy as bees shipping coals in
our ports; the Peninsular and Oriental Company
whose coal bill is perhaps the biggest in the
world, arc testing Indian coal; and the iron-
masters are doing al that they can to reduce
their consumption of these black diamonds. The
English collsera still keep their ground, still per-
sists in charging the highest price.; but the tide
, is turning, and it is said the last alleged "rise"
of 33. fel. per ton was nothing more than a
• " dodge " on the part of agent' who had bought
• heavily.
• The Continental news includes the announce-
ment of the !Ridden death, in the prime of life,
of a Sovereign—King CHAILLIA XV. of Sweden
and Norway. lie will ho succeeded by his
brotuer, who is spoken of es a man of the same
moderate and INIBO principlos as the late King.
• Ervin France we learn there is great excitement
about the arrest of M. Auour by the Germans, ,
awl the execution of more Communist leaders.
I The President has concluded his retirement at
Tronville, and has returned to Paria.

412 Wm", and 13 pip. la sime week I bouts, 1 sheep
Morget Con Expreoo sod 9 pigs have died.
• In Ceres division 11 new outbreeks have ommenwi,
Led 39 farms are effectoi, the settle 44mbaing 342
TUESDAY, 15ITTIMBliii 21, 1872. beasts, 2,088 sheep, and 110 pigs. In the week 1 beast,
- 1 sheep, nod 2 pigs have diet. -
In Bridport division 28 hash ontbr•aks ars repora,d,
and the Mamma prevails on 83 farms. The cattle affected
are 859 beasts, 1,378 sheep, sad 189 pigs. In the wk
there have diod 2 cattle and 8 pigs,

DORCHESTER.

DOnonurrla Culecer clnb finishes IU
lint season this (Toosday) evening, by a supper at the
VIII Cocoh Inn. The members have won sight matches
out of ten played, and but for weather airs tuns the
two failures might have been viotorlea
Canna( Siswowa.—On Sunday next there will be
thankaglvlrg service' for the harveat at Holy Trinity
church, when the offertory will be for the Dorset
County Hospital; and at St. Peter', there will be °col-
lections for the Sunday eehoola
Foiutsvaini SoPruir.—The otfieen of Court "Pro-
gross," £0 F., ammonites their anniversary supper to be
held on Toarecky evening at the George Inn. Mr.
Councillor Burnett will take the chafe, and Mr. Coun-
selor °repel the vine-shale, and the committee re-
speotfully Invite Um attendance of friends.

010UND GailL —ln this neighbourhood, it
there are no lees than 5,000 acres let out In farma. 01l
adjoining, now timantlem and going a-begging in oonio-
guano* of the over pre/serration of grouad game by the
landlords. At one small railway station, not far from
Dorcheotar, Is Is calculated that upwards of 3,000 soupier
of rabbits wsre forwarJed last season to the London
markets.

—limn von Urns CAUDILL - By • sensible arrange-
meat, the rural memengers and town letter carrion
now hare every alternate Sunday off duly, raleetlteles
being provided for them fortnightly by the Postmaster.
Post office eniployfis are notoriously overworked and
underpaid, and Ibis relief will be a great boon to them,
while It does oot Interfere with the public seivice. Foe
years • few persons have been found to advocate rest
foe letter Derriere by dimontinulog Sunday delivery,
but this is not favoured by the great body of the people,
and the wrong authorities have done well to meet the
ease by this plan of substitutes. The new plan e ine
Into opersUon last Sunday.
ContriTrai TO Tel DOW? ONTT PSIIOII.
Assius : John Pickard Andrews. forging at Wareham
—Suensts: John Ackerman, stealing • wateh at Broad.
winsam—Bard Labour : John Hallett, misbehariour Is
Brldpert unloc 2 calendar month• : Jek.. Aokomon.
eteanng • wall:kebabs at Bridport, 3 weeks; William
vagnmery at Lyme Regis, 14 days; John
Butler, vagramsy at Pordington, 7 days ; Mary An
Hodges, indolent oonduct at Weymouth, 7 days;
istprisonisma : Julia Wiassr, brew& of the pesos at
Blesidford, Smooth. ; George Bullook, thank at Wey•
mouth,? days; Arthur Norman, vagrancy at Rampla-
bans, further examination.

Tas Wuruza.—Th• tolloring Is our motoorologlosl
mon :

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21 62 37 . NW Biorm4 ol riga sad hall
21 61 33 NW Frequont @hooray of MI6
with Wm of woo.