The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-09-14 00:00:00

Voroet Cot* expren.

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, SEPT. 14, MO.

Who'd be &legislator for pleasure's sake ? Here has
Parliament broken up, after an awfully laborious
fiession, in which even vigilant Tories have dropped
o to sleep, and have arisen so bewildered that they
voted the wrongsprua , "palpably suppers" of buns
have had to be out on the bench, and the men
who wanted to go shooting have stood up to be shot
at, and made the mark of abuse. And after 01l this
martyrdom, the weather has broken up alinost as soon
am the House, and nothing for a disconsolate member
remains but to trudge through the mud.

Even the Heir to the Throne hasn't it all his own
way. Just as H.R.H. hoped to miss a winter by
fleeing from English min sad cald to the Kummer of
Australia, 'tis said the funds won't suffice for the extra
expense. So hints &An, and 'Us greivous to feel that
even Royalty feels the reaction of the had times of
laat year. A beggarly pittance of i:40,000 or 1.70,000
from Fordington field and other little estates, and a
perquisite or two, 'hoz how we oppress the Upper Ten.
fly Ii it the Upper Tirenty or Thirty that the Royal
Family should be called?

Really this statement of Edo' a ought to be enquired
to, for if it be true, we might yet give the Royal
voyage: an assisted passage. Are we not all men and
brothers? And a penny from each of his brethren
would provide a first-class passage. Either ErAo
ough to apologise, or a collection be made.

At last Church ministers are to be connatulated on
the cause of offence between them and Nonconformists
beir% removed. I)iseenters may be buried .in church-
es fest ail they like, only not Sundays or
yard.
Still here is room Ror a v..t expansion of
business. Who comes forward to reap the benefits of
free trade in graves?

T am very glad that the line i. drawn at" Christian
and orderly" services. After all, the Archhiahon of
Canterbury has used his high position as peraons who
look from an eminence ought—to gain a wider view.

flares and rabbits have received notice to quit.
It le rather • long notice yet; but farmers u•ing the
powers given them by Parliament should keep pegging
away, and It will be their fault if their labourer. and
their bunilles,—inetead of "bread and bread with it,
as • rabbit dinner at its best is,—don't get good
mutton, while Providence has bountifully increased
potatoes, and has enabled our evrn land and her
daughter States to give us better bread etilL

If malt is good for fatting stock, as we have been
told at every -Farmers' Club for the lad twenty years,
now is the farmers' opportunity. Mr. Gladstone was
too wise to let the beer traffic escape its share of
taxation ; but there shall still be "case. and ale,"
and barley shall still be sweet ic th' mouth More
than ever now, for there is no tax and no hindrance
upon farmers maltin their barley, for a% to the
farmer's maltfloor, " 's gene fiddlin' thro' the
house, Nut danced awe' the exciseman."

Savings' Banks are sounder and safer than ever,
under the King of P.O. Banks, and we have turned
out all our old stockings, and every fraction we can
spare goes to Mr. George Chetwynd, satisfied as we
are that our crumbs and crusts won't be envied or
ground up to make a big Imperial loaf.

Workmen on land and workers on eta have felt
that the Government Ii giving them the touch, and, WI
In • vrell-drMed corps of volunteers, Liberal officers
are leading again, Instead of the Government waiting
to be pushed forward by the enthusiasm of the rank
and file.
'Tie true that the "tell" of the party have been
taileg to wag the bead • but after all they were but the
stragglers from the rank., have no more influence
than the silly fellows whom the corps kicks out In
time of war, and laughs at in time of peace.

Afghan affairs being so evidently on the mend
encourages the hope that neither Muveniman nor
741& powder will be hungry for food, but that
so :
vile guns" may be ornamental more than useful
on the Indian frontier.

Tory news was, as usual, not quite exact. The
Actin; Standard captured 10,000 of Ayoub Khan's
men, and, willing even to learn from the Standard, we
re-published its news. But those who trusted to the
Tory "evening" were deceived, for the 10,000 seem to
have been caught by the Evening Standard alone.

Perhaps it might be quite se well that the Afghans
are not caught. General Roberta Is not afraid of
" catching_ a Tartar;" but what could he do with
10,0001 The army would be burdened with he
and on the whole we may be pathofied with
triner"l4eaving a "golden bridge for the flying enemy."

To wind up our notes and hints respecting the
doings and prospects of the Government, we are
gratified to note that it (or H. 111.) keeps a stiff upper
Lip, rejoicing, like gratitude and with it, in a "lively
sense of favours to come." A Providential harvest-
time, rewarding the determination to do right, is a
good basis on which to forecast fair times, and even
thous who would oust Providence from having anything
to do with politics or prosperity, will acknowledge, if
they are just, that the Liberals are the statesmen for
"good-luck."
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'IIi:WENS.

(From our London Oorresporodeng.)

The week has not pseud without its railway acci lent
and its colliery explosion. Durham hu contributed •
new and heavy contingent of brave miners to the still
deeper "shades below." There is any amount of
sympathy ; there will be charitable snbscriptions ; there
will be • Commission of Enquiry; for a few days the
Press will be full of it; for a few week' there will be
twist allusions to the catastrophe. As a wattsr of
history, it may be mentioned even a few months hence,
and then it will be forgotten; while new and perhaps
more terrible catastrophes will take its place. Such
Is the career of mining accidents in our country.
England is singularly exempt from the destructive out-
bursts of Nature. %Ve have no cyclones, no earth- '
quakes, no volcanic eruptions, no avalanches; but
under the earth and above the earth we have prepared
for ourselves elements of danger which are ryas as
terrible and apparently almost as little capable of
control as natural phenomena. We have in on.
President of the Board of Works now a man of extra-
ordinary energy and force t.f will. Will Mr. Chamber-
lain 'lguanas his term of offi e by doing something for
the railway-traveller and something for the miner