The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-10 00:00:00

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Try the Electric Light in the purlieus of Drury Lane,
Soho, and the courts and alleys of the Seven Dials.
Throw It strongly on to the slums between Trafalgar.
square, Leioester-equare, and Tottenham-court-road. Let
the owners of this property of squalid tenements, dirty
dens, cellars, and rookenes, visit their tenants at night
by the aid of this powerful light, and see for themselves
what ought to be done to make it clean, wholesome, and
less of a disgrace to our civilised City than it is at
present,

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• UAL ILWICAL CARZIR.
Born in's library in the Adelphi—s working literary
man's working room, surrounded by working books-
transferred to "Merry Islington" for purer air, and
iodised in an old-faabioned house in the Upper-street (No.
20) long across the pleasant fields of Cuonbury ; sent
to a dathe-school in Colebrookarow, Islington, kept by.
Miss Salmon—• row in which Colley Cibber died and
Charles Lamb lived; meeting at this school young Mutes
Rue, who was afterwards to be his great friend and
business adviser ; sent to Waltbamstow to • Unitarian
minister for further education, sad (coming home for the
holidays to find his father dwelling in • fine old house in
Bloomsburyaquare (No. 6), with • grand square ball
supported on stone columns, • broad stone sterna)
and a sitting-room with • lofty marble mantel-pion
supported by massive au7stides ; apprenticed to a limy.,
in the Old Jewry, and sitting on • high stool inventing
romances while supposed to be minoring the dry details
of a dry profession • budding into a popular and mysteri
ous author, and taking town by storm; becoming the
curled darling of fashion; entering Parliament after one
or two rebuff., and mlting an apparent failure in a
"maiden" speech; uttering something very hie a
Prophecy, and trying again; blooming • greet debating
U not a constructing power in the House of Commons-
finding
a stupid and ohU.nadve without a leader of
commanding intellect, seising that leadeeshlp and main.
taring it for nearly • quarter of • century in spite of
aristocratic sneers sad aristocratic prejudices; dang to
be the most trusted adviser of the crown, and the most
notable and important peer in the House of Lords;
and dying at last, peaceably, full of yeses and honours,
admired and regretted hi all parties, r the Right
Honourable the Bari of Beaconsfield. This is • real
Radical career—• career that is barely possible in i?z
other country than England, and only partially ba
In America; a career that every low-born, cleat-
determined determined boy may have in his school-beg.

.• [From Pitney Yolks. J
TEM very Wert development of the High Church
movement is to be seen in • workman's restaurant in the
City, where the working man's eyes are not only regaled
by the texts on the walls, but hi Metebr the mediaeval
is gratified by being waited on by • "eider" in • white
hood and cape. &Alf the object of thepromotere be OM-
venation, why not do the thing thoroughly? For instance.
the diner's reel might be warmed up by a strong text
inscribed round the W 010114411 moo, bottle; he might
be soothed by one of • more compoling nature on the
milk jugl; his plate, with the rim sinelliertlttornamented,
might serve as • rim-minder of some besetting fault; and
his wordlinem might absolutely receive • knockdown blow
by • pat of butter! Thus, be would emphatically be able
to read, mark, learn, and inwardly dim.

DISSICOLT TO SWALLOW.
The marvels ot electricity will never cease. The latest
sensation is that two French scientists have discovered
bow to bottle up electricity in a reservoir on the principle
of the Leyden jar, so as to transport it. and employ it
for illuminating or other purposes. We have hitherto
been accustomed to have our gas in by the pipe, so as to
have it always on tap; but it wotad be novel to have a
lighting medium in by the jar. Will the electriefluid be
sold after the fashion of other " shocking " liquids, so that
when you buy a quart or so you will have to leave two.
pence on the bottle ? Will they keeP it at the Stores with
other light goods, or at the publichouses as an article "not
to be consumed on the premises!" Perhaps in time it
will come to be an ex.,ble fluid, and some future
Chancellor of the Exchequer will get a surplus out of it,
and have all the jars stamped with "ZzLwa ladalluin."

FOR THE "LEADING" Klemm.
The following letter will, we think, explain iteelf :
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Tu the Mon4lØer of do Conservative Company at St. Stephen's
CENTLEMEN,—Hearing you have a vacancy at the St
Stephen's for a character actor in " leading' faro.s I desire to
utter myself for the situation.

--ify-esperience since my first debut on the political stage at
Stamford, in 1853, may not be unknown to you; though I
will only refer here to my more remit successes, achieved in
such varied pieces as the Conference, a legitimate drama,
which met with such "Liberal support, the now historical
l'eace with llonoler (transferred from the florin stage in 1878),
and the equallytamous comedy of The Secret Treaty, in
which you may remember the subtlety of my by-play wits
especially merited. I may justly place this against my com-
parative failure is the screaming fai,e of Did YUIS Etre Sion.
Weiler at Ane-Alrett 1

After such a sent" o 4 successes. I cond.le• I may fairly
object to longer play "general utility " pas, and have a
claim to take what ia technically known on Sairpolitical stage
a+ the "lead."

- I ii-ave-ti-M-honour to enclose tes• :mounds from several of
my lute nianafrepi, and a larm number of " opinions of the
ens. nu ay public performances.
Should you decide to engage me, I should consider that in
emit of the post of General 3lanager of the National Theatre
vivant, my claims would have a prior consideration.
Awaiting your decioion,_

I am. Gentlemen.
Your obedient servant,
ROBERT ARTULIL TALBOT GABCOIGICE CECIL.

llatEl Hotisc, April 2S. 11.

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Min managers have revived various other applie.itione,
thr:-lily from the two well-knowu " leading' torn, I.esinox
aid Cairns but it i.eieruii likely that, ai-ter all, Northeote,
who is a fivourite with their audience, w.ii be entnasted with
the "lead. *—ED.)