The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-12 00:00:00

Awl Coati &gen.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 11171

NOM OF THE WEER-

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesess Prince Leopold and Printer
Boaters, attended by the ladles and gentlemen
of the Court, is expected to arrive at Windsor
Castle about the 21st hut, and the Royal
apartments are being prepared in retainer for
her Majesty,
The Prime of Wales has acknowledged the
warm greeting which he received at Newsierle
in a patriotic reply, which, peeling the mere cus-
tomary formalities, expense the Prime's plea.
sure in mixing with the damn who contribute
to England's prosperity, and his desire to identify
himself with her institutions, and labour in com-
mon with his fellow-countrymen to hand them
down unimpaired to posterity.
The Queen of the Netherlands has been on •
visit to Frampton Ooert, the residence of Mr.
R. Bromley Sheridan, for a few days, and an
Sunday Her Majesty became godmother to the
second daughter of Mr. end Mrs. Algernon
Sheridan, the infant being named Sophie, after
the Queen.

Tlie banquet of the Lord Mayor of Loadon
to Her Majesty's Ministers on &Mazda=
wan shorn of its natal interest by the
of the Premier, who is in the country reeling
from the labours of last session and
for the tasks of the next. Mr. G=
chief sabordinatae, however, wore premed ;
and although their utterances were es vague as
Is usual on those occasions, several comments
and statements were mad. which inchoate the
mind of the Ministry on important questions.
Mr. Goschen expressed a hop. that the principle
of the Volunteer Corps might be applied to the
sea forces as well as to tbe land, so sa to bind
the merchant navy more closely to the Queen's
ships. And both he and Lord Granville referred
to a great work which may await the Navy on
the East Clout of Africa. They both spoke aa
if they meant that, should diplomacy fail, British
guns should put an end to the infamous trellis
which la making desert of Eastern Africk and
which the indignant eloquence of Dr. Living-
stone haa at last forced us to look in the face.
The nation will bid God-speed to both statesmen.
The First Lord of the Admiralty also made a
brief reply to the recent attack of Mr. Heed,
I•7lpd

cioe't admit that we have in the least degree Wee
behind is relative power as compared with thews
°crusades whieh are ooneldered our rivals; but, while
saying chi; I acknowledge, on the other hand, bow
neeemary It Le lb wateh ,ad equal every ellen whisk is
made by other nations, however mostly it may be le
aarseivea"

This declaration will be reoelved with gimeral
approvaL Lord Selborne had not a word to
say about law reform, but he enlogiesd the brio-
tooratio order he him now joined, and turning to
the Geneva arbitration could only offer this
comfort—

" Although I wee certainly dissapoiated with the
remit, I am very sure of ittis —that it Is la our parse
ally, and sot la aril way I. our Matsu, that we have
saffered—(bear, hear illaviag gos the award agatost
1.1 as sot grata abut it; bat let aw maim the
beat of it, Led pay the lii*U—(bear, hear).
Touching on the same subject, Sari Grown*
while expatiating on the nobility of appealing
to • taibunal of justice', said this—
"l don't wish to push thit prinotple (arbitration) too
hr. lam not este of tbeas who think that there is
say bu.ao dairies that min prevent the pakilality of
war. I believe get arbitration iv almost impoesilas
whom tha vital interests of oae of the two aciantries la
tioooernod. I believe that, however desirable, it in
almost impassible, when national foaling@ oe both sides
are roused to a desperate degree ; bet is all ordiaary
matters, in all those Whirs in wale Wises drift, so
it has hiss said, lam war, those appear to as to be
same in whisk bailouts alaiailiag to be jest ad to be
Christian la that, ratlike should. if Pessibk, adoptl
arbitratioa. I ballets that spasm was siamtmay
appiloable in the as. of the questions which bare ariesa
betweea the United Mates aid on/salver, and I rajas,
that we adopted It, althorigh with the rends of some
dissapointsonat to °armoires, bat only nub diaippetat-
mast as must beicmg to one or other of ths stilton ; and
I hope we aluill adopt martially aad °harmfully the
advise of the Lard Chaarellor."

The San Juan loss he
_thought had been greatly
exaggerated. and the Irma treaty, he saidonly
involved an increase of duties of from 2 to 5
per cent. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
spoke in rather a gloomy tone. Having remarked
that a division only eould elicit the opinion of
the Home of Commons, he proceeded—
_ .

"I think I Gan re I as to wan of the thercOle
that is. want the minds of numbers of that
wog amembly, matsred u they an tamer different
quarters of the gists, and enraged I doubt an, to dee
troyiag diffeneet shims of saimals—(lenghter). May
SOS useediagly glad an we have tongued oar die
puts with asserW • butts mu be that tids maim
don is wally tempired with ersasidersaas as to what
view weatherman may take in astisipatiag the
roantres that Gonnimens may idea to order to pey
thel paltry lan tallow whisk my hind the Loa
Ohioan, holm apes with seak sovereign waterapt—
(taughter). May laseMers will be diaippoland that
wok.,. oat comeeded la our negotlatiow with rasped
to San Joaa sad it is on aerobia, this. soesidee
Ikea umber if tans diets( the nay relay dam al
Me to ow siesta have oeeopied themselves to Ina
Isla saran of tbe naps to assertaLe lb. easel gee
graphical position of that islaad—(laughter). ltseabose
may have felt anxious that her Majesty'i laverwaset,
deeply pledged ar they are to propose gassy importaas
aware. sat esesia shall Jane them with sea
Wenn. moderatios, sed good as.. as shall amble
them to pan those weave through Parliament; sad
I Nally believe that a amain proportion of the as..
be,, of Me Hones of Owsisoes ie aging very alweroly
this her Majesty's I may as ralemansge
a.ire as to give a br hter dazing to certain aspire-
dons that is. mow toodly shoritaiod—Oonghbor).
Then Mr. Lowe musing over his OWD experience
probably, deprecated the Howie of °ominous
trying to seize adratnistrative as will all lees.
halve power, and said—

"1 trust We lb. Hesse will boosotiret to twit these
Ministers in whoa it hs: lull sooldesse, sod wid
tutor, but rid tern out, Owe* in who.. is bus DOW. •
Sir James Hannan, who has been appointed
as the sucessaor of Lord Pensance, intim Jodie_
ship of the Probate and Divorce Court, is 51
ron of gai. H educated at St. Paul's
&hook and was called to the Bar at the Middle
Temple in 1848, sa/ecting the Hoene Oireult as
tho „„,00 og his radian On the death of Kr.
Justice ghee, in Tebruary, 1868, the Govern-
ment of Lord Derby appointed Mr. Realm
thins stuff gownsman, a judge in the Court ok
Queen's Bench. Beek of the three euPerior
courts has now contributed a judge to thgt of
Probate aid Divorce, Sir C. Cromwell having
been taken from the Common Pleas, and
Powwows tom the Budaaltor•
Speaking at gn agricultural gathering as
Gloucester on Saturday night, Bishop Klicom, of
" horespond-ducking " notoriety, criticised with
loins severity the recent speech of the Attorney-
moral as Motor, tolling the hon. and Waned
Ileathiman that before he abated duke. sag
relates ba mould do beater be look at home.
Mr. John lhitglak examesd himself Wending
Mopic's burst illlgoingllint• c 13stor.