The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-22 00:00:00

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

Previous to hii marrisiee, Mr. W. L. Ashineari Bartlett
bail spike for tot obtaine t the it ,yai license t) Ult/019
the name of Bordett-Goutti, which he elected ti bear
before that of Bartlett. I understand tbat itei was unwill-
ing to allow his family avow to disappear, av it w 0.11,1
probably have done had it boon plural before that of
Burdett-Coutts,

This change of narne has nothing to do with the will of
the Duchess of Si. Albsna ; but has been made in order
that Kr. Bsrtlett should, OA DI not unusual in cases of
ruarri+ges with great heiresses, bear in conjunction with
his 011 the nome of the lady he hss married.

I understand that Mr Bartlett will apply at ono for the
additional name of C eats, in compliance with toe injunc•
tion laid down to the Dachess's will to the edect that any
husband of the possessor of the bank property shall,
within six months altar the marriage, assume the name of
Conti'.

By this arrangement Mr. Bartlett will comply with the
Ducheeif will. and will in addition boar the name of the
Baroness.

Mr. Llcalia, who accompanied M. Bartlett as his
" best man," is the only son of Sir Lanes Laceite,oll,. of
the oldest friends of the Baroness. Mr. Latta.' end Mr.
Birtlolt were at school tosether nearly 21.) year. es, at
Torquay, and were c-intemporaries at Oxford, Mr. Lacaite
ta4ing honours at Balliol.

Mr. Ashmead-Itartlett, the largest of satiety's happy
bridgegroAus, was. as is well known, • member of K.,bt,
College, Oxford. Perhaps it is not as well known tot be
was obliged temporarily to quit the austere precincts of
his college, because he insisted on inviung ladies ti after.
noon tea in his rooms, and giving them the luxury of
ices.

Her Majesty was so struck the other day with the
rapidity and apparent ease with which a lady was propell
Mg • tricycle along the Ventnorreed at the Isle of Wight,
that she has htd one of the same kind "Salvo '')
ordsred to Osborne, for the benefit of the Princesses. This
must be a great micouragement to tricyclers, who hitherto
have been rather sneered at by bicyclist' and the world in
general. Elsewhere I heard of a ladies tricycle club
being formed, with • special costume suited to the
exigencies of the situation something between the
Turkish and Bloomer dress--. 1 development, in fact, of
Knickerbockers, with • Norfolk shirt for the " body."
Poesibly those ladies will now endeavour to secure Her
Majesty as president of their association.

I hear in high quarters that the Premier's health is so
pr,carious as to lead his colleagues to the belief that he
cannot for long sustain the burden of his present
respon,ibili ties. Many of his friends are most anxious that
he should take his seat in another place, though whether
his tamper would bear with complacency the presence of
hia great rival ia a matter of question.

I hear dud the Duke of Westminster is to erect on an
islet in Loth Stick. Butherlandshire, a very handsome
granite boa croea with a suitable inscription, in memory
of the late Duchess, and sea memento of the strong liking
and affectionate remembrance her Grace ever entertained
for the district and county.

It was an amusing sight tr see Fred Burnaby at the
snii-Ciercion meeting in Hyde Park on Sunday. Mr. T.
I'. O'Connor, M.P., had just asked the question whether
three present were spectators or eympathirrers, to be
received of course by a roar that they were all the latter,
when there stood the gallant Frederick right in front of
the orator, bead and shoulders talker than the mob, smiling
his most sardonic grin. Happily, perhaps, the disguise of
a specially shabby overcoat saved Frederick from having
recourse to an ominousdeeking stack half concealed in his
hand.

I wu unhappily only to right in calling attention some
week ago to the unerring marksmanship of the Boers.
They are clearly splendid, not to say deadly, shwa, and
no wonder. From earliest childhood they are practised
with ride and gun ; there everyday sport is 1.1 shoot at
moving objects and running game. They are prepared
to pay any price for • good weapon, hence they are all
uncommonly well armed. The favourite rifle is the West-
ley Richards, with which most are provided, it is said.
Probably they are not too plentifully supplied with
ammunition; and this is about the only chance In our
favour, unless Indeed they have saved their cortidge-coses
and have plenty of powder and lead.

It is a great pity that the Government did tot accept
the offer of the lith Bengal Lancers, who, to a man,
volunteered for service in the TiansvaaL Two or three
such regiments would be invaluable there just now.

k Sikh cavalry regiment or two would be invaluable at
present at the Gape. and should be at once sent there. The
Present Le not an occasion for entering into refinements
as to whether the morel susceptibilities of the Boers or
their sympathisers in England would be hurt by such a
step.

There is a good deal of discontent among the senior
ranks of the militia at the utter stagnation of promotion.
Several regiments night be quoted in which there has
been no change in the commanding officers for an almost
increditably long space of time. There are colonels, for
instance, whose commissions date more than twenty
pars, a few more than thirty. These veterans can hardly
be expected to fall in very readily with modern ideas.

I find I am suppartod in what I said about the pernic•
lolls effects of climate upon young soldiers. A case has
been brought to my notice in which, during the
Peninsular War a draft of fifteen lads joined the 74th
Highlanders during the retreat from flurgoe. They came
up one day when the weather was very severe, and the
following morning every man of the fifteen was dead from
cold and exposure.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO AN ENGINE

DRIVER.

A shocking accident occurred on Friday rning to
the driver of the 7.11 train from Wimbledon to
Waterloo. As the train was approaching the
Wimbledon platform the man was attending to his
duties before the furnace when the tire suddenly burst
forth and enveloped him in dames. His clothe., being
greasy blazed firecely, and the passengers waiting at
the station were horrified to see the driver hanging
over the side of his engine shrieking for help. The
brake were applied, and one of the guards going to
the engine managed with his cloak to put out the
Hawes. A telegram W 4,4 deigAtCheAl to Waterloo, and
when the train arrived at the terminus the sufferer,
who was in great agony, waii at once conveyed to St.
Thomas's Hospital' wWro he new UN ia a precarious
cooditiou.