The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-03 00:00:00

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TUMIDLY, DICIMBIR 3, 1872

NOTES OF THE WEEK

The Court will reside at the Castle until after
December 14, and wM then leave for the Isle of
Wight, where the Queen and Royal Family will
spend their Christmas. Sunday wee the birth-
day of the Prinoso of Wales, and the event wee
celebrated at Sandringham with considerable
festivity. After attending service in the morn-
ing, the Prince and Princess, and a circle of dis-
tinguished guest', including the Premier and
Mr Forster, M.P., paid • visit to the Mews in
which the whorl children of the surrounding
parishes were regaled with a sulan.ntial tee and
received divers winter gifts. It has been usual
to light an immense bonfire on Sandringham
Heights, but on this occasion (apart from He
being Sunday) the faggot wood was reserved for
the cottager,. Princess Louise has accepted the
Presidency of the National Union for the Im-
provement of Women. The Duke of idinburgh
Is on his way home from Germany. Prince
Leopold has been admitted • member of Christ
Church College, Oxford.

we are now within little more than two
months of the opening of Parliament, fixed by
Royal proclamation for the 6th of February,
and the ooming menion is becoming Increasingly
a topic of oonversation. Little hints and signs of
the Ministerial programme, that appear from
time to time would lead us to expect an arduous
session; but much as the Government appear
willing to undertake, they will not be able to
matisaerybody. The deputation from various
meet for instance, that waited on Mr. Bruce
on y, though it elicited • pretty plain in-
timation that Government intend* at once to
deal with the transfer of land, will certainly not
use all the Legislation proposed next session
which it deems neceesary for providing cheaper
food for the people. The Government is not
likely to deal with the Game Laws next sendon,
we venture to say, nor to abolish the restrictions
I upon the importation of foreign cattle A Land
Transfer Bill will be quite as much as It can
carry through with reference to the land and
the food of the ple. But we must expect to
find this food question become increasingly im-
portant. Undoubtedly there has been a great
rise in the price of some of the neoeseartee of
life during the put few years, and there is no
immediate, if any, prospect of • general fall,
I while it is very doubtful whether wages can
generally be raised to or maintained at • pro-
portionately high rate.
There was • grand Conservative banquet at
Bournemouth on Thursday. The proceedings
acquired unusual interest, from the fact that the
Marquis of Salisbury was present, and delivered
an important political manifesto on the occasion.
The noble lord said there had of Webs= agree!
deal of oontrovermy as to what was the Conser-
vative policy; and it had been recently stated
by • member of the Rouse who had spoken near
there, that the Conservative policy was to stand
still and do nothing. Re had never yet met
with • Conservative who would acknowledge
that snob was his policy. The Conservative
=ever dreamt el the course of legislation
still. In • eounta7 like England' and
with a constitution like that of Faigland there
would always be work for statesmen to perform.
They had to legislate yet for the vast amount
of poverty, of Ignorance, and mime, white, as
Mug a/ they prevailed in these isles, would form
abundant work for our statesmen, and he ven-
tured to think that Conservatives, least of all,
would shrink from doing their part in applying
I remedies to these evils.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon appealed to the Court
, of 00[11IIl0M Pleas to redress the wrongs which
he conoeives himself to have sustained at the
hands of the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gass&
in being deoounced in that journal in • review
of "Spiritual Wives" as the writer of °brew and ,
vamped-up books, and as "making a racket to
get these books sold." After a three days' trial
the jury gave him a verdict with onsforthing '
damages !
The political crisis in France ia for the present
at an end. On Friday, in the French Assembly,
the motion of M. Ma'am the Minister of
Justice, brought forward on Thursday, that a
committee of thirty members should be appointed
for the purpose of drawing up a Bill regulating
the attributer of the public powers and the con-
ditions of ministerial responsibility, was put to
the vote and oarried by 370 to 354. The debate
was long and animated. M. Thiers was among
the members who took part in it.
The Emperor William on Saturday signed an
ordinance creating 25 new peers, for the express
purpose of csrrying the oounties Reorganisation
Bill through the Upper House.
Mr. Home Greeley, who but a few days ago
was a candidate for the American Presidency,
died rather suddenly on Friday, from inflamma-
tion of the brain. Forty years ago he Sent to
New York ass journeyman printer. Of the
Trauma he was chief editor and proprietor. It
appears that for several days before his perhaps
merciful end the unhappy gentleman had been
insane; and there can be no doubt that the
mental calamity under which he succumbed was
brought on him by the strain of the election
campaign, and the mortification of defeat, com-
bined with the loss of his wife almost In the
darkest hour of his political conflict.