The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-05 00:00:00

NOTES OP THE WEEK.

T. —Tan QuiSW has been at Cliveden all the
week, but will now, we believe, shortly return
to Windsor, in order to be preeent in Kew
Church at the marriage of Princess Mary. of
Cambridge and Prime de Teck, which takes
place on 12th instant. The late Lady Truro,
who was a member of the Royal family, has
bequeathed the Princess all her fortune and her
house in Eaton-square, and there the happy
eouple will reside, and not at Bushey Park, as
formerly announced. Prince Alfred is now Earl
of Ulster, Earl of Kent, and Duke of Edinburgh,
and his received the freedom of the arrears'
Company and other ovations in the city, lie is
to campy Clarence House, St. lamesa
Puarrion of the Reform Bill becomes
extremely porthole. Sir Rainsld Knightley
bas carried against Government, by a majority
of 10(248 t,o 238). an "instruction." which would
occasion to places like Nottingham a very much
greater risk of didrauthisement than to Dor-
chester, Brid port, and other boroughs doomed to
semi-political extinction. His motion was that
it be an instruction to the Committee on the
• Bill to make provision for the better prevention
of bribery and corruption at election*. On the
motion being passed, however, the Government
undertook to giro I dispassionate consideration
to any clauses Sir Raniald Knightley might
propose, and still to continue their endeavours to
pass the measure during the present session.
Thereupon Capt. Hayter menaced the measure
with another checkmate He moved that in the
opinion of the House the system of grouping
proposed in the Redistribution Bill was neither
convenient cor equitable, nor the scheme of the
Government sufficiently matured. This was on
Monday night. The debate which became very
acrimonious, was adjourned till Timm:lay, when
the Opposition was led by Mr. Lowe in a speech
which our oerrespoudmit in the gallery charac-
terises as placing him in the first rank of
Parliamentary orators. "The House" be avers,
" was in emtacies with it, and paid the Right
Hon. gentleman, as he sat down, the unusual
ohozraiment of real plaudits, actually clapping
after his peroration." At I meeting of
Esrl Derby's supporters at Lord Salisbury's,
the Conservative party had previously resolved
mienimously upon bearing Mr. Disraeli on the
subject at great length. that Capt. Hayter's
amendment should be supported with the entire
strength of the Opposition, so that this is in
effect the grand crisis of the discussion.
lIL Any intelligent observer who makes •
premise of visiting our great Agricultural Shows,
caneut fail to be struck with the rapid progress
which has been made in the manufacture of the
various implements enapl ,yed in the tillage of the
soil, and the numerous machines for the preparmion
of the several products for human and animal food.
The early msetings of the Royal Al7ltitral Society
presented the former with so womb of husbandry,
remarkable chiefly for their unwieldy appearaoce,
rude construction, and the inefficuve mariner in
which they performed than- duties. No wonder
that the agriculturist shrank from investing Ins
capital ia the purchase of cumbrous machines, whose
irregular action and noisy motions suggested moment
breakages and Nadler expense. No wonder that the
farm labourer regarded them with feelings of horror
and doles!, as visions of increased daily toil, and
possibly a jeopardised existence, roes slowly on the
narrow vista of his imaginetioo, while be gazed upon
thou, clumsy oombinauons of wood, bra,, and iron,
But with the perseverance which charseterizee the
true Eoglishinan, the omanfamarsre premed forward,
undaunted by Iluillefooll (elm«, and profiting by
the practical suggestions of thoughtful farmen, they
smoseded in speedily improving on the crude pro-
ductions of their &et efforts. Without any in.
vidioni distinction, the names of Ransom., Howard,
Clayton, Hornsby, Tnzford, Garret, Smith, Fowler,
Richmond, b. 0., may be mentioned as most in-
timately connected with the development of the
manufacture of agricultural machinery. To most of
the foregoing, great pecuniary success has accrued,
the result of ingenioas inventions, intense applies-
nee, and lIIICIMISITO mortice ; but some have Isom
Boed their lives to the mass, being at a ootnpara-
tively earl, age worn out by the ocestant mental and
plimsoal drain to which they were eubjected. One
large atelier ha, succeeded in gaining admission to
the precincts of St Stephion's, sitting es the represen-
tative of the political outona of Me electors of •
market town to the Midland tenntiaa Thank, to
the labour and genius of them men—England is the
centre from which emanate those varied apple:aono
of machinery to the cultivation of land and the talk-
&Woo of its produces—which are now to be fog in nearly every quarter of the globe. Steam ploughs
are again( over the vast plains of Egypt. the
boundless Leda of India, and the fertile lamas 'of the
Pacific, astonishing Arabs, filmdom, and islanders,
• by its wonderful operations, and drawing from them
tributes of respect and admiration hitherto paid only
to their gods. Centrifugal pumps draw countless
plions of water from the Nil., Hooghly, and