The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-04-26 00:00:00

torrtsponbrna.
THE RUBBIAN GUN.
To the Miler.

Sir —Extremes meet In Weymouth Town Council as
elsewtharevicd not least among the advanced Liberal
party. 'd have dreamt of one part of the Liberals
advocating that the Russian inn be banished out of the
borough while another section is equally warm for its
retention? There we see again the source of the
Liberals' weakness in action and in power, while they
are strong in criticism and in attack. But the
Liberals can heartily combine with the moderate
Conservatives in utter detestation said abhorrence of
the Russian system of government-by-a.few.irreepon-
fdbles, while it blinds the great body of the people with
vodka and military glory, leading them to be
slaughtered in attacksupon their neighbours Yet
Liberals and Coaservativee both may, and we trust will,
he desirous not to obtrude any cause of offence to our
possible visitors. It must be remembered that the
gun was asked for by the Council, at that time when
England was again in the forefront of a European
combination against an aggressive military power, that
the possession of the gun was a sign that one power,
however, gigantic, could not hold its own against the
public voice of Europe, and it ow • part of the
honourable tokens gained by the Executive of Europe
in the conflict with the rebellious member. We have
as much right to exhibit the sun, as the employers of
a party of policemen would have, on their behalf, to
exhibit a revolver wrenched from a burglar in desperate
fight. But if a child of the burglar come with a friend
to see us, and especially if the burglar's family profess
to have renounced his ways, the spoils of the fight need
not be forced under their nose. A convenient
opportunity might have been taken of furbishing up
the gun and carriage, during which it would be kept
out of the way. We are not by any means sure of the
Duchess's visit, and if we are, it seems far more im-
portant to ensure that the Pile-pier shall be repaired,
and be worthy of Weymouth, than to hurry out of our
midst the sign of England's agreement with other
European powers. Were the gun returned, the=
advantage to be gained by truckling to Russia
be far more than counterbalanced in the contempt of
France and Italy, and Austria, who helped us to
restrain the turbulent Titan of the North-east It
was Italy who sustained the brunt of the cent at the
Tobernaya, it was France who swept with us over
Alma, who watched our dogged resistance that hurled
the last Flfth-of•November plot from Inkermann,
that helped us thereat and at Balaclava, whose h
will never be forgotton, even though we sink to cbearg
chattering, art-rotted Greeks of the twentieth
century, while armed Scythia emulates the old tyrant
Rome. It was Friona that suffered with us in being
crushed back from the Little Radon as we were from
the Great, and It TM France that poured into and
held the Malakoff, and brought the beginning of the
war's end. Frenchmen are now more important to us
than ever as neighbours, friends, and customers, while
If it be &question of the whole policy of Great Britain—
for what is good for Weymouth ought to be goof for
the whole country—ltalians are (sr more important
for us to retain as allies ; let us not be in haste to
banish, without chance of recall from the eight of our
ten times more frequent and a hundred ammo more
profitable visitors, the remembrance of their blood.
friendship with us, for the sake of a Russian Ira.
pedaling who may not coma at all.
" D."

Sift—Cul you =light= yam readers as to !be mean-
ing of this hubbub and excitement which is
the Councils of the fitate anent oar timettorirotliZ
trophy. It is that we are really suffering from
.-trophy of another kind, of the Patriotic mind to

-B"ur worthy Mayor is good enough to say that the
Rand= gen can do no good on the pier, but we are
not told what harm can come of its eessainiNg there, and
as it appears torn, to be. question of whether 4th to go
=snot, the responsibility might be fairly left to the
of the gun, and not to the Council at all. Mr.
Alderman Thomas suggests "That it be again offered
to the Radian Government ;" Philanthrophy it a fine
quality, and the compliment no doubt well intended,
but seeing that the interesting little toy cost the nation
SCOOO brave lives, and a hondre I millions starting,
surely it ihoull be worth the fete/ties, and if our
friends the Reines"—

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Have • mind to try,
With our Volunteers hard by. :
Why let theca lake if they ma,
Proud souvenir of Inkiness*.
Truly it would be presenting a white Elephant to •
white Gus. Even artillery must move with the ties..;
minor Canons sometimes do, to say nothing of the
Greet Gans of the Council Chamber ; and we have
Counoillor Willis'. word for It," That it is ignorant
parties (not the' Stupid Party' convened for Thursday
next, mini 0 who came interruption to intellectual
inse.• Fortunate for his opponents that Mr. Wallis is
not "thin skinned." last In scratching him, as is the
Rom they catch a Tartar.
Truly the question" What will they do with it r
must be • difficult one forth. Mayor.
" Anti.ltumian" euggeste that it should be
"against the Eing's &Atm," forgetting that ell °
dischawys (of its duty) the very otecomial would recoil
at such • proposition; while " Weymouthian," who
still believes in the Mimes Rey* the logic of kings,
would hare it put at the foot of the same Manta.
"Whore the English Monarch could be supposed to
be looldm down in oontemplative admiration on his
Grand-daughter's violation, arms." Surly an arrange.
scent in Mouse in the shape of a beeinet would be more
to the presumed sentiment of the Greet
=tn nal,,

_
fliaos, however, /haw has been buried at Cheddar,
after lame suffering of "Bright'. disease," and the
British Lien has mow to on ustimely end at the
heads of the Trana-vaUsat Boers, there it no reason
why the plaster prototype should Oct be removed m
the &NAM gun could- be reversed, planed with •
broom beadle, and telme its pima as a twin unicorn.
As for " Inkennana,* he is evidently of •llaTi
temperament, one of those pewee who mesciae=
things so hamar and Aorta; aMiammal prestige with
battle and murder cm seals. I warmest he is •
replier firs-eater, aad shoe mot be surprised to And
that after the three late engagements with the Boers
be is still mountepted.
The sesooletkas of Alaa Inkerumm. and Bala-
clava, are mere s.sestellty. With one
however, Ido agree As the inattftt
the retention ol the 0110.11011 is not is ancortienos with
the spirit of the Times (and I may add nor of the Dimly
Noes or Edo). The age is eseentially ol
philan-
thropy, meekness, and toleration (excepting, of course,
amongst the heads of sonsical sociedes, where owe does
not look for harmony—ask Thormothes). As al
do we not love our neighbours War thee
LAtiarlirves For maivess, when one cheek is smiths
In Asia do we not offer the other in Africa and as to
loisrMies, have we not a Liberal Gloreassaeat and •
Weymouth Tows Council?
Let us then be *opal ,teot with our yriadpia
remove the gm, furl the nag "That has bra* the
battle and She breeze," aad in moving the Kaysi
Party with monitory escort, be etre we remove the
medals from the breast.. of ock; gallant fellows, lest
they ISM to man the cloys when home Sneememened
amongst the people, when an Englishman's word was
lISS baud, and " Pews-Many-Prim" looked apse m a
amions weed to be burnt, a make to be sootcWom •
cowardly cur to be hoar.
1 Bat I ems arms shame fort /
"take away that bath*" and lot it be
removed by all MOM as suggeseed to the Cardoso m
any garden in feat bevies a 'Teary attached, so that
It may be charged with iroluammd lik• °Ora
the Okaamber„ ma thee
at
need we °P=or for • ealeilest of the &acuity,
sines it may be found in the emesses aseall ?—Yeare
faithfully,

PainAM
GOOD —Were : ' Poetised Sun," 1.0. G. T.
OD Emu bad a tee, ia Ziou soboolusem
Wobblier's.
Er. Pewee ChrilDli WY adorned es &ate, Day
with Whet Swam " Chrbtit dm." and other
apposite.* tuts.
seactsouldaaoa Dr. J. Oudy has sauesded
Bargees-Melee Wilson as medial sneer In charge of
the troops at Poubbod.
KOVAL NAVAL ANDLLIZT VOLMITMIIIL
Meadow the Hemet. with this reibint corps
ea board, pub Postlaed itsede.
Mzeue feu lose serums and Reed clouded have
bun awarded to Jams Way, naval seboolametsr, sad
Amos Newman, snacemor, both of H.M.S. Warrior.
Ax herammesser has been made In the fence at the
side of Seaton Road, opposite the Tesbaleal School,
waste eke giant Moder of stone which Mvided between
the road and perhaps, a quarry below, have bees
unseated with well-built pieces al wall.
Isquverr ow Emma MOVDAT.— Na., of us eau have
a holiday all to himself. On Moseley, R. N. Howard,
Esq., 00V0011r for Portland, held as isquest ea the
body of a bleak sailor, from so Austria barque, which
put into the Roads I. the meroker. The eau bad
suffered very sub free rroasumptioa, lied was reduced
almost to a slceletre. They sought the aid of the
Boseswee's surgeon. awl she of Dr. Mama, who
quickly atteeded• but the man died. The inquest
was held at the Breakwallie Houi, ased v=.ll
" Death from Natural Omer was rstansit.
wee a nalive ci Ray,

Mammal Arrograram—Lient Thomas W. L.
Perm to the 14th regiment to be captain, she P. W,
Harrington, retired on peados ; roar Ser. B. G.
Tialls to be ileutemint, vice PIIIMFO IIiCabIAMML
Tii PIIINITIVII Marstorcus eau • nes arid paws
atterrament in their beautiful chapel, Yortalwa
Well, on Good friday. On Wednesday the choir
re%ted the err tainment—" Male Tom."
ur Quarts. About hal/past xi
on Saturday evenin4, r moral of the
cern were paring through Worroft towards
the Grove. they ~bserved • fri ts th• &MP, •
meat tummies between Weyercft and the Bra.
water incline On going to the spot, they found
that a hook was on be, sad with the westerly who g
was burning brieldy. They procured wart and AA
turf on the troth, and by these mamas succeeded la
extinguishing the fire. Nothing is known as to how
became ignited.
ZXTISTAMICAIT AT Sr. Osouls'a. kfigic
readings loomed the staple of the entertainment gives
on Salta Tuesday, at St. Georges schoolroom. The
inetrumental part was ably and sweetly performed by
Mrs. Bears and llm Molar, who gays • planolortg
dud, sod by Richard Pearce • pi5g,4,04,106
wee played. Songs were MD( by Ml
Mrs. Mr and Mrs. flogger, bities
Stone
and Mr. Wood, and readings orlon by the lir. J. 13.
Palmer, Mr. Reynolds. and Mr. John Ash. A sale of
work, creating of articles left from various bairn,
took place beton the dose of the entertainmeat, one
hundred sad twenty articles being disproof of, In aid
of the fund for completing the wall of Sonthwell
church.

‘....60411/17•TIONAL MUTT'S. ••401 Good Friday
the pima tea lad public meeting were held at the
Congregational Chapel, mug, the fries& it the
latter being exhorted by their pastor, the Rev. ldr.
Waugh, and the Rem IL BoUm, W. Lewis, aid j.
S. Butcher. Among the pleasant moolketions of the
evening was a wosdeetul sunset behind the West Bey,
worthy of Turner, the path of dr- across it. Bey
reaching from the sun as be toocked the heckle to
the feet of the delighted Bp-stators, who stood M the
wslper's edge. Some of the " effects "of water, oat
aloud, and sunset light, as well ea •1 stoma laden akke
over the Bay, should be studied by oar artists.
LilitA IT TIA blowout —The Waimea Gmeral
Road* Society_ had their annual teat ea Khaki
Tuesday, la the New Schoolroom, Rados squats. LI
the evening the Rev. B. Belton, from W
delivered a ler• on "Puritan Heroes," erer
bearers back to it. tea old time,. BOW uP by mem
of Wycliffe' when lb. Lollards tel to suffer, later
dome to when Remy VIII. shock el the
sod I:lisabeth deied Bpsl. and all her web, ifieeTee'
deem to the later times when Maims eetabliehed
on broader bases, cemented still 'offerers aad
Woo I. The meeting was vary we attooded.-05
Wednesday (yesterday) the Fortune's Well WeeLeme
Library tesmeelisg was held, the friends being after.
wards addressed by Dissenting ministers of the
Island. _

-KII-C;17411B Isms= Mugs= AT biL ROT/UAL-.
About halfpaat eight on Easter Monday, an artillery.
tsi to the 10th brigade, stationed at the
Verti=, came pertly thank into Fortune..
Well, smashed one of the large panes of glass at Mr.
Royer', end then help himself to a number of watch.
chains, aborts, kg , which bad hung is the window,
The fellow inunscliately bolted; but Mr. Royal, who
had beard the smash, followed clmely on hie Imola, and
checked hint bet we reaching Kingatreet ; Mr. R. J.
Audrey', upholsterer, and Mr. R. 8. Coeliac, of
Okarmont, came briskly to Mr. Royal's airdsleacii,
and detained the robber. After a few minutes, he
mustered up again, and made • desperate resistance to
Wing held, 'Wring bard to eseepe ; kis language was
moat abusive and obscene ; but this did no. all him •
bit, • number of young men from of the kill roshlog to
the spot, arid blocking the fellow up, and at last they
got him to the ground. P.C. Stone was next to &MVO,
and be took the troublesome artilleryman Into
custody ; be was taken to Dorchester, and on Tuesday
brought up and remanded till Saturday. Four of
the chains were actually in the robber's Itsrd
whim he was straggling, others were thrown down Mr.
Royal's grating below his Atop, and some were tr....aphid
gad broken while he was being secured; it is believed
thee about ten were taken from the window. The
soldier is gild to he • man of bed character—an
Irishman, atom making It uncomfortable by abusing
the English, and at the time be was under eentenee
of five days' co fingeseet to barrack*, but bad lathes
out. Mx. Royal has had more than • full share of
the misfortunes of Fortune's Well Wedowee% We
believe this la the fourth time that • robbery has been
committed from his window, and he has for some
time withdrawn watches from the show there. The
question is now whether be shall take all costly goods
Inside, or fence his sleep with metal nat. Although
the wiadows are not plate glass, they are very thick
and stroag, and plate glass would have been broken
with equal ease by the determined blow which the
soldier was seen to give.

PIIDDLITOWN.
SOTRIOL—Tbe annual local meeting of the Congests'
tional Chepel, Puddletown, was held on Good Friday.
Tea was provided in the schoolroom, winch wee
adorned with fiowers for the occasion, thanks to the
thoughtfulness of friends. This was the I.sth
anniversary of the opening of the chapel, and the
first of the laying of the foundation stone at the
schoolroom. Towards the clearing of the debt. some,
£lB, the treasurer, Mr. Homer, said the rest of the
besaer things were offered for sale, and a collection
was made at the public meeting, which was presided
over by Mr. Byd, the pastor, and addressedth
by e
D.
Rev. D Thomas, Cernei W. nbe, Imlworth ;J.
Davis, J. Bawler, and T. Neave Dorchester. At
the close, it was =wooed that a kind friend bad
offered to give £lO, if the congregation would raise the
other £B, to wipe off the debt; and It I. igedwatr.
have to record, that since the meeting this has e
done—.e that, thanks to many kind triennia, between
Easter 1880 and Easter 1881, the ached has bees built
sad paid for, the cost having been shoot £lOO.