The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

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DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
DOHCHISTIX TIIIIIIDAT, JAITLIAILY 1111. la&

appointments are buried in oblivion. We
seem to out off, by the close of the old year,.
all our short-comings, and to begin a new and
an altogether unsullied page. But whilst
most of us feel disposed to accept thi: indul-
gence thus granted, it is as well not to forget
that this particular time has its duties as well
as its pleasures. It is obviously a period for re-
Betake, and for reviewing all the circum-
stances of the twelve months that are gone
for ever. As the ancient Egyptians deemed
it advisable to keep before them a skeleton at
their feasts to remind themselves of man's
mortality, so ought we to keep in view,
amidst our festivities, those national, social,
and individual duties which lie before US; and
while we are hopeful of the future, let us not
be unmindful of the past. It is indisput-
able that Englishmen, above all other people,
have the greatest cause for congratulation;
our commerce flourishes; our people are con-
tented; our relations with the world are
peaceful; and what few troubles we possess
lie very lightly upon us. At the same time,
it would be laying too flattering an unction
to our souls to imagine that there is no dark
side to the future. Fenianiam in Ireland was
to some extent ridiculous, and has happily
been crushed, yet no one who looks beneath
the surface of things can avoid the thought
that it means something more than the dis-
affection of a few misguided patriots. It is a
blot on the escutcheon of England which her
statesmen should lose no time in endeavour-
ing to remove. There certainly can be no
reason, in these days, when, whatever may
be the names or watchwords •of patty,
Liberal Government has been brought
almost to a science, and its advantages
are so universally recognised, why a
°matey no further off than Ireland
should be so difficult to rule. The
task, above all others, which should engage
the attention of our statesmen is to reek out
the few remaining causes of discontent and to
remedy them without delay. There nill,
doubtless, be a great discussion on this sub-
ject in the Parliament which is soon to meet
for the first time. Let us hope that before
another year passes over us this problem will
have been matisfactorily eolviel. Than we
should be prophesying 'moth things if we
eongratulated ourselves on our national pros-
perity without taking notice of that dreadful
calamity which has for six months' pest been
raging amongst our cattle. Nor is the
grievousness of the murrain assuaged by the
reflection that we have done all that we
possibly could to stay the evil. As often
happens in coustitutionally governed countries
no effectual steps were taken at first. That
dread of interfering with the "liberty of the
subject," which so frequently haunts the
minds of our rulers, has operated most preju-
dicially in this matter of the cattle plague,
and it is only tviien the disease is spread in
all directions that the authorities bethink
themselves of adopting measures sufficiently
strong for the occasion. If the plague should,
in course of time, be subdued, as in some
other eases, the abatement will be due lees
to the skill of the physician than to the
natural wearing out of the disease itself.
Our picture of the dark side of things
would not be complete if Ire omitted any
mention of the unfortunate revolt in
Jamaica. The state ot things there, like
Fenianism at home, indicates, we fear, some
bad management on the part of the Govern-
ment, which, to say the least of it, is humili-
tating to national pride. It may be consolatory,
but it is anything but satisfactory, to lett
down the detad.hce ot the colony as the
effect of slave abolition. When we do this,
we forget that in allowing such a difficulty to
overcome us we have showed a decided weak-
ness in our sj stem of Government—s weak-
ness that ill assorts with those pretensions to
which we not unfrespiently lay claim. We
will not dnell on this sail subject further
than to express a hope that the terrible
ordeal which the colony has undergone will
result in ultimate regeneration and good.
If our picture thus far has been somewhat
gloomy, it is not that we forget there are
some redeeming franites in the national
eise. First and foremost, let it be recorded
that we have engaged in no unprofitable and
unneccessary warfare. Yeither Government
nor people, although both might have found
provocation without Me& difficulty, have
desired to disturb that peace with foreign
nations which happily has reigned so long.
All danger of collision with America has
been skilfully avoided and if the acts of cer-
tait European titerernments wets swell as tO
cause ill-feeling and mistrust, we were wise
enough to abstain from actual embroilment.
We passed through the commotion of •
general election with even less than the
usual fuss, and the verdict of the country
was of • character to give us good hopes
for the &tare. Ey the great aiessision of
strength be the Liberal ranks, the people
not only announce their confidence in pest
measures, but their desire for a continu-
ance of progressive improvements, and when
the character of many of the newlreisetted
members is taken into consideration, it must
be confessed that the nation on the whole
displayed it wise discrimination in its choice
of representatives, and is more than ever
anxious that the high diameter of Lb. Brill&
Parliaeiint &amid be worthily maintained.
The latest national balance-sheet reveals the
satisfactory fact that the lightening of taxa-
tion brings no important lose to the revenue
and as this is • sure sign of increasing.
prosperity we may congratulate ourselvel
without reservation on the incessaftil system
of inane* frhitth is inseparably eounested
with the Government now in power. All
things considered our position is one which
calls for great thankfulness; the course before
us is clear and promising, and we have only
to accomplish what we know it.is our duty to
do, and which it is really in our power to do,
to render ourselves deserving of a Fur::
New Yeas.

11.—Tio Qum im at Osborne spending
the Christman holidays; and Her Msjesty.
fashion of doing so l. it once &glia and
dornestic.—Lest Tuesday afternoon there
Wu. a Christmas tree prepared at Osborne
for the boys and girls of the Wlsippingissen
schools (whet a suggestive MIN for schools
It was sooomapanied with presents of books,
toys and plum-pudding. The Queen entered
thehallabout half-post 'bur with the Primes's'
' Helena, Louisa and Beatrice, end the hinds"
Arthur end Leopold, when 100 children
received pimento at her hands, and those of
the Royal funny. The Prince and Primes"
Wales are down in Norfolk on the Band.

MIN

CA.LZNDAR.

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VIINIST.—Os Friday irk Ea' edjoarsed vestry was
Mid for tbe periabrd *Maeda The easieefe wer
pawed e
mil Me weeiry eels adimused till Tintriday
seal for the pew am kiss • rate.
NOWT UOVINIT Hoserrar, week midis' Dee. 18,
1865. —ls-petieste admitted, 4; ditto dikry. 7;
lost-pstieste admittek 4; ditto dieollergod, 11;
pealeate reissianag is Hospital, bdl eitt-patieste m-
artinis, es books, 73; sookisat, 1.
000IM Ocurar Crioury rovihsrumtr.—Darsliseto
sqout
&I !talk rimdlfferd, Nesolsy b 111: ; P*e
Nerds, ; ObriMelierik Waimea's, lTsh ; ,That•
bwry, Ilarater nod ; Wissestes, Teas*. 23rd; Ws-
bury, Wisimsday ; kradewor. Thursday 26415.
Jou Cllolllll.—li was removed I. Dembeeter as
listetrday, WM Jobs Oria had bees Mks. from ii.
ionise be bad eatesid epos is Hl.pálr, le be
" preessied "' at • midis meeting is , where
be is to maim • eessiderable wam ef mosey. We Immi
sot beard wbetimer or soi this be trim. bst we insidd
kis lisps that ma • abilestbropie IWO is Doi abeam go
hi perpstraied ; for Jobe Om; when be Arm
emerpoi from obeearity, was imolai usithir toe wisely
as, tee well. millidost sandy has bees
already is his bola, while to make • pot sad a bar. of
ass who bee Moires Me law, Ia bowever mall • degree,
mileslided to be alestilareas is he malt

IWO AND IN6.—The deoeriere
sr • old year wag
memapealed by • torrelaX:mad birth of the
yesr el "nee 1866 was • tol
• arsers Feedi s as old ens
tom. sad elm at 81. s withia the benumb,.
malted peel wee num shortly before ireideight, earl as
soon as the emaramur moat al the sew year me. to.
limited, • joyous peal was soamied forlb—• elasuler
readeriairls ba MIAS, by the way, of the tateserly
Treads matimeat, Wash lab exprowata is the smash.
thepa—" Le rai oat ascot; vivo le rel.' Th• w...
Iy, so owl, bald • " wa:e eerriee," whleb
we an told. ••• • Cht row year's
doy epeal esgrisenre PI Is the silted room, lest
1 fordlestaa f sad pea let Holy ?ditty, mere-
lag Fayea IMO mid at 11s.as.;it AD &Ws' there
WWI assoalas service with aeleheatioe of the Holy Ocea-
mmtioa saa slats..; bad .5 85. Peter's there were
pryers it 11 a./a.

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