The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-09 00:00:00

WHAT THE WORLD BAYB.

The "outrage" pgrmitted by the authorities of Brater,
when they allowed themselves t be bullied by the mob or
the city into warning Mr. tbadlaugh not to hold • meet-
ing he had arranged for, bat been rho theme of indignant
eminent; hut it will he st.lni.tted th.t the roughs of
Exeter ard imp.rial, as it unit 4 few mootha sines they
Pelted Bishop Temple off a platform ty a vigorous
bombardment of flour. as • punishment for his temerity in
presuming to speak in favour of temperance and sobriety.

We have few of the old line. if.hattle ships left, and to
very ignoble service ere they. 5. a rule, deer ,ded. Ole or
two are, it is true. harb.mr flagships, and some are even
reserved 141 receiving-ships ; othere—end these are
the meet ancient, and not the least historic—are utilised
a. coal depots. le Igalehar 1, among the latter class :
and last week she ran the risk going to destruction by
the over•heating of the clal stored on board her. Only
timely discovery of its state saved her.

There wee something ludicrous in the psnic into which
the onions in charge of the Livadie were thrown by the
suspicion that a Nihilist plot •14, afloat. The most elabor-
ate measures were taken t, 1111410\4 the plotters. An
army of stcret agent., who had been hanging about
Greenock, were devpstehed to Plymouth; orders were
mint to a firm at the Devon port to have a supply of cod
ready for the yacht; and it wee given out test all letters
for her were to be sent to the Russian C tnsul. Also rooms
were taken et an hotel for the Grind Doke Constantine;
and the novel authorities requeeted to make adequate
preparations to insure the safety of the Livadia while she
was in the SJund. But In reality she left the Clyde with
sealed orders, and on being opened it was bund thst the
remote and unsuspected port of Brest was to be her land-
ing-place.

Colonel Napier h•tirt was ao much better u to allow of
his brother, Lord Atlantan, leaving Scotland to be present
at the races during I tat wevk.

Mr. Forbore delivered hit tiryt lecture at New York on
the 1.:1 h nit •ny,fore a large and critical audienci-, with
He 'menu; to have or •wn on hi. voyage
out, cc the newypapers yeetyk to him as a very t.ll inso,
uptverd• of six feet in height. H• to no.. in Csn ; anti
hag Mrrair lecturing engyogementis which EH keep him
occupied during the nest four or tire monthr.

As a nation. we ought to be proud of Iler Msjesty's ship
Iron Duke. If it was rather •eet lv cop.-rinieut 0- her to
run down the Vanguard off the Irish e is', it effectively
demonstrated her resuming powers; a.id now thsr a rem
is regarded as an inipirtant feature ot the constructirm ot
a Inan-of..wer. that (I..monetzation wine to .ey the least.
seientifleaily int-resting and instructive. On her sissy out
to the Coins ghat .n as flagship of in, ono,in.ler-rn-
Chief. she went in for one or two lorte mishaps ti vs, y
the monotony of the liso aof her ~rfir.r. on crew; ad
after she bad teen in Chinas* waters coma time. finished
up by running aground, when she ha I ,toe inistortitne nf
not going so pie Cell. simply because there ~,os• no he,,ey
sea on at tit., time or before she we. fl.ishol. This escapade
may cost the trliug sum of .f. 50,0111.1 out ti tiring her
home and put per in a thorough stets of r.psir will entail
a total expenditure of LWOW.

Lord Cloocurry, who ha, ridteived warning from the
police auttidrif ire that his life Is in doneor, i• one nf th-
most i.nproving landlords in on In,. lino
Property in Kildare he boo intbaluced higs ffirm•ng,
employs a large amount of labour keens on immen
herd of stock w• ich he feed. hie. (hie bill for On, d lint
Year amounted td between £3OOO and 1:100) ). owl ye'
ii considered iii worthy eicum by the foiloaere of oho
Lewd League.

The '.(.ql ii waterferd, who spends the grvater part
of the year • m his Irish estates, was ti notions aim t, at
II be attended a certain egricuitural .h lw im would not
Leave it alive lie went there, and happily the foul tires%
turned out to be merely a c iwardly device to
intimidate: and Lord Waterford regulerly hoots his pack
of hounds. as he but dime fw years, with this difference,
tttat inetead of cerrrine a flask and maniivrich.cal.e. the
poaches of his saddle are given up to six-chamber re-
volvers, one being carried on either aide