The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-30 00:00:00

DORCHESTER. MARoll SM. -1888.

Setts.

The Spathe's lovers and ;dinners are amongst the
most pleasant mots in the Parliamentary Simeon to
the rank and file of M. re. 15, upon such occasions
that friendships are formed between legislators of
Mama political here, and tory the least the bitter.
ONO of party warfare is toned down by the amenities
of throe ceovivial gatherings. It has, from time im-
memorial, beim the unbroken miaow to appear in
Owes these upon these occasione. The custom Is a
thark Ince al servility but actually of independence,
for it had its mien in the feeling of the proud
Ommithas that they would pay the same mark of
reopeca to lb. naraussatanve of the House of the
PfloPloh as to the Sovereign himself. But certain ef
the Radioal members have expressed to Mr. Peel their
ethnics to array themselves in Court costume. The
Speaker is considering whether be can allow weight to
their eideetian, and permit them to appear in
ordinary attire. The impression is that he will not
give way. He is not by any means a man who is
ildiferest to time- honoured coarnanes.

We noeien a change whiels has lately come over the
bead of Fair Traders. Until quite recently they
denied with one accord that they would eounten"
ewe the imposition of • duty on Foreign Gen.
Very many would DOW repudiate this reservation.
They argon in this way. It has ceased
to be profitable to (TOW corn in this country
oceseqnsally agricultural land has been widely
tionsed into grazing land. But theorem.' fewer hands
to be employed in farming. Agricultural labourers
are therefore pressing in thousands into the towns.
This ii OM of the main causes of over-crowding. of the
lowness of wipe through competition, and the
gowaral want of employment in Logsdon and elsewhere.
Again the sleet of sulk immense mesa having boen
suddenly turned to grazing purposes, combined perhaps
with the importation of frozen beef and mutton. has
been to reduce the price of sheep sod oxen to a figure
wince is altogether unnenunerative. Admitted that
the loaf might be increased in price by the imposition
of a "tlitliatecale," the queetion is whether even that
Is sot better than letting the land go out of cultivw
lion altogether. This is the line of argument which
is being commonly:employed. We do not pretend to
Say with what jattios or with what general accept.
110014

Tbe Riviera ia becoming more and more an English
Colony. Cannes bas actually been visited, in every
sense of the ward, by the British speculative builder.
A bydropathic establishment is about to be built. A
Sottish company will find the money, a British
ardsitein will design the building, and British doctors
and attendants will Garry on the concern when it i.
erected. Robust travellers no doubt prefer to
undergo the experience of foreign wars of living when
they are abroad. But with invalids it is different.
They outwit put up with the discomfort and macaw
11410i01103 involved in the disturbance of longmettled
habits. If they winter at Cantles they would prefer
I. have as little of Cannes as poeuble except the
climate and the scenery. To such per.ina a
hydropethic establishment conducted on English
principles by English people will be a distinct boon.
The protest of the tnistees of the National Gallery
again* opening that iastitutioa by night, will not
pass without controversy. The danger of fire was
long urged as • reason against holdnag evening
services in Cathedral.; hut the danger has been
encountered in most of them without any evil revolt
as far. Injury to the pictures might MOW from the
nee of gas, but it is at any rate asserted that the
electric light in completely harmless to all pigments.
Dynamite explosions may he contrived by daylight
as well se by night. The final objection that loose
characters would make the gallery • noctlrnal
rendezvous has more force. South Kensington
Museum is free to the public on throe evening; in the
week, but not the slighaen esuiplaint he. bees made
its to the character of the persons who freraiwrit it
upon these oneasions. No doubt the central ismition
of the Natieual Gallery would make a difference ; but
it is not probable that it would be made ua• of to any
appreciable extent by the doar•,,,,n.P. Thr•re, Iv
unhappily no lack of livelier posses for them to haunt.

So far as the Committee now sitting spin Sir John
Lubbock's Shop hour. 1141 hex proceeded, the
evidence shears diet the feeling of trail omen
venerally is oppeoul te the limitations proposed by
the author nt the Bank Ifolidey• Act, an I la in favour
et compulthry uniform diming. It la thi• direction
that (stare legisletion tarot take if any real good ix
to be assouraplished. Voluntary action ix wit of it•elf
sufficient. The number of tradesmen is too great awl
their automata are too diverse to hope anythiog from
corithised action. Combined action is indresd useless
unless there be at Om back ft( at souse " eauction "

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briefing more than 'natal force to bear upon three '
who reline to act with the majority. The National
League is in name a voluntary organisation, but M
would be wholly powerless without its secret
tribunals when decrees are unformable by boycotting
sad moienee. Now, of tonne, London tradesmen
moot boycott one masher. The general public are
sot so deeply interested in the matter as to boycott
the shopkeepers who will not adopt early aiming.
Secant tribunals and acts of violence are, thank God,
nit a the' question yet in thia country. Moral
suasion has been tried with very partial and limited
euccees, a
nd' the general impression is that
" piberoal " Wei/lotion is woman%