The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-06-17 00:00:00

Monet Conti! Ewen.

TUESDAY, nrxs-17. 1573.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The metropolis has had a most successful and
unanimous "Hospital &sudsy." whisa special
services were DIM i Bt. Paul's Cathedral, in
Westminster Abbey, and in a large number of
churches, in aid of the fund+ of the various
hospitals and infinneries of London. It was
fitting that Her Majesty the Queen and the
Royal Family should be at the head of this
benevolent movement, and their ready acquire.
once was gratifying from every point of view.
But the strange infelicity with which the parti-
cipation of Her Majesty in the effort was made
known to the /committee is unpreoedeuted. Sir
Sydney Waterton announced to the committee
that he had had the honour to receive a letter
from the Lord Chamberlain, in which he informed
the Lord Mayor that Her Majesty would be
"graciously pleased to patroni;s the special ser-
vice at Bt. Paid', on Hospital Sunday, June 15."
It reminds us of the old lady of fashion and her
daughter who consoled themselves with the re-
flection of haring "done the civil thing," when
they once attempted to go to church and found
It too full to enter. Of course, Her Majesty is
in no way responsible for the ill-taste of the
Lord Chamberlain's expression; but it Is a slip
which may indicate that Court official's notion
of the graduation of things terrestrial and
celestial. Then the Prince of Wales Dune back
from Ascot to countenance the Hospital Sunday
movement. His lad appearance at St. Paul's
had been on the thantsgiving•day after his
us Illness. The Prince= of Wales and
tahiruke of Edinburgh also attended, and the
result is highly satisfactory.
The Shah is& success. Society has agreed to
regard him as such, at any rate, for such has
been the rash to do honour to the Eastern
potentate, that as far back as Friday night, stalls
at the Opera for the tight on which his Persian
Majesty had intimated his intention to be pre-
sent were selling at ten gainalia each, and a box
could not be obtained under the moderate sum
of thirty-five guineas. And all for the pleasure
of staring at a brown man in diamonds! The
anxiety of members of .Parliament, too, about
the facilities to be afforded them for visiting the
naval review, as evinced by the question put to
Mr.lGosolien by Sir John Hay, shows that our
legislators intend to join in the work of
" mobbing" the Shah.
Judging from recent proceedings in Parlia-
ment, the Rating Bills and the Judicature Bill
were likely to give the Government sufficient
trouble In committee, without the Education
Act Amendment Bill which was Introduced by
Mr. Forster on Thursday. This latter measure
will have two sets of opponents the secular and
undenominational educationists, and the would-
be reformers of local taxation, who resent the
proposal to put new burdens on local rates,
anises either penonsl property is hated or a con-
tribution in aid of local expenditure is made
from the Imperial Exchequer, Between the two
parties, which °Mar consist of nominal rap-
re( the Government, the Amendment
ig;rll rewire as little favour at the hands of
the Radicals as did the original Lot; and if it is
earned at all, it must be, like that Act, by
Conservative votes. Mr. Forster's new Edam.
tion measure is, indeed, an essentially Consinner
tire measure, and the notion given by Kr.
Torrens and Mr. Dixon on Friday foreshadow
opposition which may be expected to give some
vivacity to the closing part of what has been,
on ths whole, a very tame session.
Mr. Forster put his alterations into a nutshell.
The Act is vorking well—this is the pith of his
speech—and before the summer is over we shall
have a school within the :each of every child from
the Lizard to Berwick, and an average attend-
ance in these schools of a million and • half of
children, where before the Education Act we had
only about a million. But the Act, although a
practicel sooner, is not perfect. There an, to
begin with, at leer 200,000 children belonging to
out-door paupers, and Mr. Forster proposes to
throw the net over these waifs and strays, by
brushing away Denison's Act, and replacing thle
Act with • clause requiring Boards of Guardians,
where relief out of the workhouse is given to
the pennta of children of a school age, to make
it a condition of relief that the children go to
school. This is all the oompsinon that As
Government think it desirable to try at present,
The 25th clause is to he repealed. That amiss,
as we all know, empowers the School Board to
pay the fees of children wham parents, although
not paupers, are too poor to pay the fees out of
their own pockets ; but sating on the prinsiple
of separating the schools and the School Boards
as muoh as possible. Mr. Forster now proposes to
throw the duty of ascertaining who aught and
who ought not to be misted in this way upon
the Boards of Guardians, although thereinto**
when rendered I. not to count as pauper relief.
"At the same time," said the Minister very
emphatically. "we cannot interfere with what
we consider to be the patents' right, and, as an
advocate of compulsory education, I gllt repeat
my conviction that compulsion must we
' try to punish a parent who is too poor to pay •
school fra for not sending his child to school,
without, at the same time, offering him assist-
anos ; and also if we deprive him of his right
of choosing what school he prefers, when there
Is more than one school which givei such secular
education as is acknowledged to be efficient."
The Nonconformists and advanced Libras are
greatly disappointed with these amendments.
Their complaint was that they more taxed let
the propagation of views to which they were
oppoe.d; and Mr. ranter has virtually said—
you shall no longer pay fees to de-
nominational schools; you shall be allowed
to pay the fee to the prima, and they shall pay
it to the denominationalists." The Gladstone
adminstration has now entirely lost the con-
fidence of the Radians.
Mr. Bruos's Bill to amend the Borough Fonds
Ain has been read aunt time and printed. It is
a very abort Bill, but it embodies the mein oon-
esetions demanded by the municipal authorities,
who have found their heals unduly fettered by
Mr. Lernan's Act- It propane to tepee) Ors
proviso in section 2 of that Act, which runs,
"Provided that nothing in this Act contained
shall authorise any governing body to promote
any 4111 in Parliament for the establishment of
any p• or wart works to compete with any
existing gas or water company established under
any Act of Parllinent." it will also repeal the
fohlowing proviso in section 4 of the Act, namely,
~Pro Wed further that no expense in promoting
or opposing any 8W ju Parliament shall be
charged as aforesaid, War wzob 'promcitios pr
opposition shall have had the sousent Qt 1,13 e
owners and ratepayers of that district, to be ex-
pressed by resolution In the manner provided to
the Local Government Act, 1858, for the adop-
tion of that Act."
I.ord interview with his colliers
has
.oreeted • profound Impression. They struck,
tyranlorly Wna.w to work with • non-union
masc. Lord Fltsliam then had an interview
with some three hundred of ilia miners, and told
them he should strike too. lie !would be no
party to their injustice. It did not mattes to
him if they could not work harmoniously; the
Wee iFu like a bank to him; he had no oar-
don, happily, te draw upon ii; the coal would
grow in vain.; ane so forth. This kind of
address seems to have had great weight, for in
offer of temporary surface work—navvies' work
—has been accepted by the men.
" Lon;1 Granville considers that the clergy
would do • very ussful senice if, on hearing of
the Intention of any of their parishioners to
emigrate, they would consult the Emigration
Conanneksers (8, Park-street, Westminster),
who would gladly furnish all the information in
their possession as to the fitness to English
emigrant. ofihe country to which they propose
to go." This sensible recommendation is
appended to a letter from the Foreign Office to
the effect that reports will shortly be laid before
Krliernent relative to the oondinna of hritis4
emigrants in Ifreed, and that her Majesty's
Minister at Rio de OilleiTA has been instructed
to make a representatiou on the subject to the
&civilian Government, and to mire Wean Fro-
vide free passages to this country for •07
emigrants who may wish to return.
The directors of the Bank of England have
reduced the sttw of diseount from seven pm
amt., which may be *en to inditate • belief
that the improvement in the money market is
both scosiderable and substantial
The perseverance and tact of 81r Bartle dery
have been crowned with nooses, • Treaty putt-
bag i ip end to the Slave Trade in the dominions
of the Sultan of Zanzibar having boon signed on
the 15th inst. The (irons slave rarket of
Zanzibar, so well known from the frequent sod
vivid deariptions of travellers, was elated on the
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