The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

Errlanb.

Tut filen COUST.—The farewell levee of the Earl of
4liiitoun is podtponid to Monday the 4th of July, upon
which day the noble earl takes hid departure from
Inland.

The Freeman's Journal tate that the Earl of Car-
lisle will uot arrive in Ireland fur three weeks.

By the death of Mr. J. O'Donoshue, barrister, on
Tuesday last, the appointment of one of the crown pro•
mentors at the Consinhodun and City Sessions at Dublin
has become vacant. The emoluments are about 1:400
a ycAr, and the office is in the gift of the Attorney.
General.

A meeting of the Roman Catholic prelates, to take
into consideration the nre,eut state of the education
question, and to donde° means for obtaining for Ireland
the " great benefit and blvatinu of free Catholic educa-
tion." was to have been held last week in Lublin.

The two gentlemen whose names stand at the head of
the new list of classical scholars et Dublin University
are Roman Catholic*, who ate now enabbel, by a recent
liher.l measure of the Board, to obtain the distinction
and advantages of a scholarship in the University of
Dublin.

No ENGLISH NEED APPLY.— The intensely national
Irieh Imperatore in excellent humour with the current
report of Sir Henry Keationes ',remotion to a judgeship.
and special attention is directed to the circumstance
that already four liislomen occupy seats on the English
judicial bench. All this is quite reasonable, but, with
such patent facts before their eyes, how can any
ju.t ohjection he made to an odd Saxon importation
into Ireland, Moonlit he be duly qualified to All •
rt•spnipable post in the Queen'i service? There is the
Secretaryship, for instance, and the complaints of
some journals that a remind Lord Naas could not be
found to preside in Dublin Castle.
L %TY GowYKNAIRST AND ME GALWAY CO:C-
-YR WT.—Previuusly to the defeat of the Derby Go-
vernment an impreasion had gained ground that one of
the most severe attacks they would he called upon to
inert on the re ~lidding of Parliament would arise out
of the sulanbly granted to Mr. Lever for his Galway
oq•ano lone to the United States. The official japers on
the subject have now been printed, and show that the
missivin,s with regard to it were fully justified. The
of contract are that the service shall be fort-
nightly alternately with Heston and New York, at a
payment of 1:3,000 for each voyage out and home ; that
it shall Coniliiellee in twelve months, and endure fur
seven years, the company binding itself to a speed cal-
culated en the average of the Cunard passages, and to
deliver telegraphic messages at Newfoundland or Hali-
fax within am x days. Such an arrangement was known
to he in total detionce of the principles which, after
long experience, had become recognised in the coonmer-
cnol world ; but, as the Government strenuously re-
pelled the insinuation that the transaction had origi-
nated in a desire to secure a certain number of Irish
votes, it was atrophied that when the correspondence
ahould appear wine planahle pretexts would at bait be
found to have been asserted, and also that the decision
would prove to hive been adopted with the unoualified
concurrence of their own Postunuter-General. It now

transpires that Lord Colchester protested against it in
language as unequivocal as that employed by the Duke
of Argyll. the previous Pmdinaster•General, in objecting
to the extension of the Cunard contract, and that in
their replies to the remonstrances of one of the
unsubsidised companies the Treasury descended
to an evasion of the meanest kind. Lord
Colchester pointed out that in any new postal plan
for the Atlantic service the Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia Steamship Company, which had for years
been mu g with Jrcditable speed and regularity, and
which had offered to take letters merely for the sea
postage, possessed a chief claim to attention; that the
promise of the Galway projectors, that their easels

should be capable of runring 20 miles an hour in smooth
water, gave no guarantee whatever for their perfor•
DIMON OW the Atlantic; that the offer to convey tele-
graphic messagesin sis days will be of no value when
the Atlantic cable is successfully laid; that the route
proposed is questionable, owing to the heavy fogs which
prevail off Newfoundland; that whatever the company
may effect in the way of speed will h liable to be soon
exceeded by the improvements introduced through
independent enterprise. and that even already the Great
Eastern holds out the promise of distancing all competi•
tors. Lord Derby and Mr. Divraeli bad their own
views, and within ten dap; a Treatury minute was
Komulgated to Mr. Layer's company. "that thy Lords
will be prepared to cutter into a contract with them for
tl.e conveyance of the mails once every fortnight to and
front Galway and New York, and Galway and Heston
alternately, at a rate not exceeding 0,000 for each
voyage out and home." £72,000 per SISHUIA for seven
years WAS thus at a single stroke added to our expendi-
ture. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
steam line protested against private enterprise being
thus overpowered, especially as their c,mpany had been
formed at an outlay of LIOO,OOO, bad been remarkablefur
speed, safety, and regularity, and had more than once
offered to carry Her 31sjesty's mails free and for ocean
Pottage. They asked no favour, but simply demanded
that if any mail-grant were given between Galway and
any other port, it should be put up to public competittiti.
In reply, the Government of Lord Derby maimed the
eonipany that "when a new rostra service is about to
he established it is the practice to invite tenders, and
thereby to afford to all parties the opportunity of coin-
In little more than two months private nego-
tiations were completed with the Galway projectors.
The Liverpool company were astounded, and caused an
explanation to be demanded. T 11.4 explanation was,—
My Lords admit the expediency, as a general rule, of
' inviting competition, but the ',resent case is quite
exceptional." The original letter had spoken of no ex-
ceptions whatever. Anything more humiliating from
its inconsequential folly, or more disagreeable irons its
example, has not been witnessed within recent expe-
-1 'tenet.