The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-10 00:00:00

WHAT Tilt WORLD SAYS.

Lord Eleington has Stifle'l duple is the Writ of pee.
land. 'Lich, tr widely followed. wool I midis goongbierahNs
&Serene., in the position of the L Ix .r.l party sitn the
genera election. The young 11,,r .e Vorteseue peernte
was brought for ..'r I by hie father L )rd Portstuolt-i
•• • eandidat for St. lees. • en tueucy wide% Sr
Charles Reed had already ann. nu. Ida intention to cu-
te'. It was arranged tLet Ise claims of the is o
candidates should be outgo 'o each node' •
takiog to abide by the decision. L o'd
log that even if the arbitralfrd shool I drocin lo his favour,
he would nnt be aocrptable eoine siec't•ma of the elecuwo,
has promptly and frankly wiqi•lrawn " rather than be the
cause of any split among the Ltherste at St. Iris:.

In conversation the other day with a privet t friend, a
member of the House of Grammar.. Id. 0 itubetta merle
some remarks of an unusually jut resting charict•r. There
happen...l to be present at breakta•t Usu r.. 1 Billor, of
whom M. Gainbetta mid that hi, • a one of those officers
—the two others mentioned bolus Sumner and DJ Galilee
—who "represented th• young element in the French
army, and in whom his hopes were control France." to
went on to say, "is now able to defend herself single,.
handed if attackni She therefore was in no way alarmed
at the increase in the German army, which had indeed
been long expected."

Whatever the general distress in Ireland may be. there
is one bright spot—the consumption of whisky has not
fallen off. A friend of mine, who lion a mission in the
weal of Ireland. finds it somewhat &Moult to respond to
the hospitality shown him by the gincflearted priests In
that locality. As he expresses it, "They all expect you to
drink with them, and straight too: and if you don't. they
alllook on you ea • very doubtful spalpeen.* This reminds
me of an Irish Home Rule candidate, who, returning one
night from a hard day's cantraseiort, overheard I.is car-
driver say, "1 m shore he'll (It in ; bee lift Llitateen
prutas dbrunk behind him. and nicer a feather n
self."—A ass.

Toe latest proposition on the Afghan Qoestion is to give
Herat to Persia This is one of those feeble and half•
hearted skill to by which the pcseent Cabiosi seems fated
to dash the hopes a its ftlends, and to give its opponents
a falr field for teething criticism. As Mr. Coiillfl 110il said
In his brilliant speech at Newcastle on Saturday lest, it is
not their "spirited policy,' but their failure to be strong
and arm, that is the main ground for sit impeachment of
Wit present Ministry.

As • matter of fact, the Government of Persia is one of
the init contemptible and corrupt even in A is. To hand
over the splendid position of Herat to the t) ranny f the
Shah would be the very worst course that could be adopt d.
B.tmr the rule ef the Afghan robber-tribes than the feebly
and licentious tyranny of the Persian,.

Tuere Ls no doubt that it would be very acoeptablo to
1,111 i• for the Government to give Herat to her friend end
ally, the Shah. The Rosales& are not strong enough them.
selves to miss Herat now, and would be quite satisfied t
see it held ny a Power whom they can control. &town
and Kure in fag', Varna and Sofia practically, given to
Russia, and now Herat I What will the srlent defenders
of the Ministry say to their illustrious PrJrnier

I am glad to see that the militia regiments are to be
called out fur their full period of treiniust this year. What
with Sundays and wet weather, there is very little time
lat tor real work, and even at the end of 27 days the
militiamen are little better than "men with muskets," as
Prince litamark would say. The authorities seem to think
that nothing is bad enough for our constitutional force,
and I could mention several regiments that are still
equipped with the old Crimean ktutt a rks and anooutre-
Manta

I hear that one of the ablest olliosrs at the Treasury hu
framed a plan for bringing investments in the public funds
within the reach of all classes of the community. Usder
this plan it will be possible for any one to bur or sell £2O
I, Console by means of • simple transaction conducted
throuh the local post-office. It is believed that if this
system were adopted. nearly all the savings of the working
classes would he invested in the public tundes and I need
not say that this would increase the stability even of
British Console. The scheme is under the consideration
of the Government: but whether it will be adopted is
another question. Sir S. Northcote is distrustful of
novelties, and he will probably leave it t his Liberal Luc-
cessor to give effect to this proposal.

At a meeting held at the Castle on Thursday, it was
proposed to devotee certain portion of the money sub-
scribed to the Relief Fend to • separate Seed Fund. It ia
feared that potatoes given now for seed odil be all eaten;
and that, if such is the case, the result will be worse
famine another year. The loss from the potato crop this
year in Ireland is said to be, by statistical proofs, five
million and three-quarter pounds sterling. Why should
not France be asked to help tide Seed Fund I Eagland.
Ireland, and Scotland came nobly forward in the days of
her famine and distress to help; rarely there must be some
French hearts who possess feelings of gratitude, sympathy,
and generosity. Let the appeal be made in the leading
French papers, and I feel sure it will not be is vain;
though the vine crop in France has been bad, the harvest
was good; and the hundreds of thousands of English
money which is annually poured into her coffers might,
for once in a way, find its way back iato an Irish channel.
—.—
The biter is sometimes bit, as the following true story
will prove: A lady with more beauty than morals was
allowed by • notorious West-end dressmaker to run up a
bill to the tune of sow. One fine day the beauty was
offered • present of .f. 500 by one of the numerous green-
horns eibo have existed from time immemorial. A mode
' of sAiliTig her long-standing account at once suggested
! itself to the fertile mind of the lady. Hurrying off to the
modiste, she informed her that a gentleman was coming
that day to pay /.500 on aecount, but that she must write
On the receipt " Paid in full,"as the gentleman thought he
wag paying the whole bill, and might otherwise refuse to
Day anything. The bait took. and • receipt well duly
given as requested. The following day the dressmaker
received a polite menage from the lady t ray she intended
to transfer her patronage to another shop.