The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-21 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

In the Belgian Chamber two more seats to the Liberal
majority have been added.
At Dublin, on Monday, the election Judge granted
the application for the withdrawal of the Wicklow election
petition.
At Evesham all sections of the Liberal party have
coalesced in favour of Mr. I..ihmann, and there is every
prospect of his being return .1
The Porte has notified to the ambassadors of the Powers
that as Turkey is to be excluded from the deliberations,
the decisions of the Conference cannot be binding on her.
At Gravesend the Lord Mayor has been requested by the
Conservative party to become their candidate at the
fresh election Alderman Sir Charles Whetharn has issued
an address.

—Tice—ports of Buenas Ayres and Rosen& having been
closed aud the mails refused admission ; the British
squadron in the River Plate has been ordered to proceed
at once to BUSIIOS Ayres.
A not occurred et Drumcohane, county Leitrim, on
Tuesday, some 1,500 permeate having attacked a party
of labourers who were fencing • farm from which • tenant
had been evicted.

The Cliiii.pe—wa river In Wisconsin having suddenly
risen 90 feet, Immenae damage has been done to property
at Eau Claire, in that State. Lap quantities lop a
Umber, together with bridges, mina, nooses, and barns,
have been washed away and • number of families
rendered homeless.

-iiTEFDTZ;iiii told by the Standard "his utterances
have about as much political significance se the street
cries of a costermonger." The Dinh, Newt wattle the
remark of Mr. Bright—" a oostermongior and his cart
might interrupt the traffic ofa great railway by running
athwart the express train."
The Greece committee presented an address to thelling
of Greece, at Marlborough House on Monday, deploring the
delay in carrying out the Berlin Congress resolutions,
and expreesing desires for the enlargement and prosperity
of Greece. His Majesty said the delays interposed by
the Porte necessitated an appeal to the Powers, and he
hoped for the success of the eonference, furthered as it is
by the efforts of the British Government
Tag HALES AND Raman BILL—In the House on Tues-
day, Sir W. Harcourt replying to Mr. Donaldson- !Indies,
said that at present the tenant was rated as if the game
belonged to him, and if the landlord reserved the game
the tenant could recover from the landlord in respect of
such rate If the Hares and Rabbits Bill were passed,
the law therefore as to rating would remain as it was.
General Stewart is to withdraw his troops from
Afghanistan as fast as is compatible with their health,
and if possible, by the last day of October, we are to
evacuate Cabal.

WITHDRAWAL OF • PITITION AGAINST
LIBILALL—
Lord Coleridge, in the Common Pleas Division, on
Wsdneaday, acceded to an application for the with.
drawal of the Stroud election petition. The news
reached Stroud later in the day, and gave rise to some
re olr:ings.
z Medical profeseion order Cadbury's Cocoa
&sere because it contains more nutritious and flesh-
forming elements than any other beverage, and is
preferable to the thick starchy cocoa ordinarily sold.
When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence be sun
that you get it, as shop-keepers often push imitations
for the sake of extra profit.
Mr. Gladstone on Wednesday told the Farmers'
Alliance deputation that the convictions which he held
when last in office of the importance of establishing
county boards, and of an equitable apportionment of
local burthens between owner and occupier, remained
unchanged. He was not prepared to say that the
provisione of the Agricultural Holdings Act ought to
be made compulsory,
RIPIAL OF Till MALT TAI.—Mr. A. Dam, M. P.
rys his fi,m ohjecta to the proposed change of the
malt tax into • beer duty. The malt tax was really a
very substantial measure of protection to the farmer,
whereas the beer duty would expose his barley to com-
petition with mane or raw grain ; it would JIM 2s 10d
iv: quarter to the old impost, it would greatly incon-
venience the brewer, and it would not make beer
chewer to the consumer.
It is pretty wellimown that the Pal Kali Gazette
has changed its politics ; it is not so generally known
that the late irascible editor has started another paper,
like it outwardly, but inwardly weak and washy.
Someone or other is trying to supersede the old paper
by sending down by the evening trains only the trashy
copy. If this is done in Marrs. Smith's office we may
remind the principals that a case or two of the eon is
all that is wanted to upset what is already felt as a
galling monopoly. —Acetone Journal.
In the first division upon the adjournment of the
debate upon Mr. Parnell s motion on Monday night,
26 Conservatives and one Home Ruler voted with the
Government. Sir Stafford Northootn, Sir B. A.
Cross. Lord John Manners, and other leading
members of the late Administration, together with 41
Home Rulers and six Liberals, supported Mr. Parnell's
motion. In the second division upon the adjournment
of the House, which was rejected by 224 to 58 the
minority was composed of C,ouservatives and Home
Rulers. The larger portion of the Conservative party
took no part in the division, but Lord John Manners
supported the Government. In the third division,
upon the adjournment of the debate, the minority
chiefly comprised Home Rnlere and Conservativte,
while many members of the late Conservative Govern-
ment voted with Ministers in opposition to the
motion.