The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-09 00:00:00

MIL LOWE ON LIBERAL ACHIEVEMENTS.

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Mr. Lowe, the Fx-Chaneellor of the Excht goer, was
present at the Sheffield Cutlerle feast on Tesociay
night, and teen ded to the toast of "Her Majeley's
Miulaters." He said erti.n nearly Bye years ago the
direeent Government took office they found Instead
In used of jostle., 'doodle° in a deplorable oondttion.
the Ballot naueth rcquired. the country often laded
with discredited. pando reeputing our forms, the
judicial arrangements tooosisistent,tnd the Civil Bente.
was the creature of patronage. They, " • number of
middle-aged and elderly gentlemen," set ebout to mend
all these matteritud everything egoept higher edueeion
In Ireland 1.•1 been realised. When he become
Chsocellor of the Exohequer he did not feel within
himself any of that eihnireble genius for demo. which
they had ueu in Mr. Pitt, Sir Rob..rt Peel, and Mr,
G...oloteue ; but he bad reed in the Latin grammar that
ssoonomy was • greet oe. He found questions of
expenditure were left to be dealt with by an inferior
official called the Secretory to the Treaaury. This
arrangement seemed to him every bad one, he resolved
that it should tot extol any longer, end issued an
order a-earthmen. Great pressure woe, however, put
upon him by depetations, and, .ors., sill, by. the
11'.ta0 of Comb:ions, which, instead of protecting the
revenue. was its most powerful usoiteet. Bodes thie,
all the London Press woe against him. A poles of land
bduneeri to tie Government on the Themes Embank-
ment work wor:h £4,000. The Metropolitan Board of
Works weird to hues it for £3.000, ant the whole of
the Metropolitan NOS. joined ionue end sal they ought
to have it for £3,ooo.aud that sly moo woes villein who
wanted • shilling more for it. They ; used a neolutiox
to that effect in tho Howe of Commona. and brood it
upon n., Radiomen, lly the moat dogged eloolualy. I
have .oeue.led in wlioing that bete.. I have got
the £4,000 in spite of them, and have plevented woe
precedent being tot that L.udon bee a right to put its
ud into tho public purse to in 'he oboes is Leaden
which its own et:ix ought to toske—(hear). Al
vest cxpen.e have I done thio ! At the ex.-en.',
almost, of the rein of my charge or eltogether for bow-
leg uttered on such a meautre. Take &nether
inotanes. There 1. o c rim comber of c'erea who
have hod their Dilative ratted in Ilse ontporte Thou
: gentlemt n have tot th ir repreeent.hees asking that
the &dyer.) ebould be ent....lnted by three year., so as
to give them a large bonus. I opeued it. Toe gentle-
men Inoted the edjooroment of the Appropriation Bill
—that is, they stops d the suppliet—lx order to inaue.
no to speed public teensy which ought not to be spot
for this pnrpoee. These are some of the battle. wo
have %vole. d curselees In, and it lineal. relief to me
to think I abed be involved in them no more. Every-
thing Government puolued bed risen' and they bad
to deal with repeated applications for ieerease of
salary. Thin extra expenditure tad bun lucid on
them under thee. headings-6848.000 annually for
Education, £8420.0 antually for Abolition of
Purchase in the Army, ('lO6 000 for Prisons and
Reformatories on ucount of the aeloatlon of port..
lion ; for the Police, en mount of the dearness of
provisions and tin Wormed cost of living, £l6B 000;
and for the Lout Government Hoed—that le, foe
the health of the people—£2l9,ooo, making
altogether an locum beyond my oontrol, an
which generally coed not be re.hted, of £2,181003.
At the end of 1869 the expenditure was 161 291,000;
he had to meet tbe pretty'''. from rise of priors and the
£2,181 000 extra; and vet .t the end of lug M•reb the
expenditure wIS only £6o,lso,ooo.—(oheers)—When be
took charge of the Mumma, the expenditure inueded
the revenue by £513 00. During the lut four years be
had taken off 12 middies of Uses, and not a Mimes
bed gone to bureau public espenditurs. And although
he had to !caress. the national debt 10 mildews to
say for tonerephs, he had diminished it In the four
years by 26 miilions—teheers I In 1870 he had to
provide 2 ou soeconot if the war HI &trope, and
tide year £1,600,000, half the Alabama indemnity, and
had done it without borrowing 'tepee.. or Impedes a
tax—ielieers.) C.n it he said in exereholog this strict
economy in your public service that anything has been
shirkid, or th.t anything which oneht to have been
dual's. been negloiet.l ? Look at the Army. In 1859
thevArmy numb-red 84,000 men. Sow it numbers
99 000. being an bureau of 14 000, and this to amend-
ment with thio great rednetion in the expenditure. If
you look at the Fine Arta I have spent £B,OOO In buying
Sir Robert Peel's pictures, and £50,000 in splendid
econsettons of antiquity for the Britioh Museum ; ao far
from my baying been stingy I unadder thet the pay-
ments have been Itheral la the extreme. I bate been
told that everything I have done has been mismanaged
and that the office I had vacated bad broken down. I
can only my I am proud of the position in which I have
left your aunties. and I trust many more Cbaneellore
I of the Excliequer will i.e able to give a similar account.
' Greater things bad bees done, be knew, in other days.
Sir R. Peel an.l Kr. G'adstone rooted out Protection,
but as far as hootundine the resources was eenoeroed,
they would meek in vain in British fieenee fore parallel
-to the adminstration of the last four years. I have
only further to say on this subject that the time marmot
he very far diotent when it shell be settled whether Gm
Govetament who have dour tbe things that I have dee-
oribed to yen ehall retain power, Of whether it shall
give place to thus who have °pseud tes step by stop
Is all of them. That question the °auk, will decide.
We are Pot tenacious of dew. We Of. ...rine with
the labour of anxious and eventful years. Is is a smell
matter for us whether we retain power or not. It le
for you to consider whether it isa susall matter for you.
—those, hear.)—On that I offer no °Onion. Bet this
I will venture to say that lithe election of the emote,
shall be egoiest us we ,ball then carry into private hfe
the apples*, of our own conselenees, sie having done In
our judgment the beet wo could for our emintry, and
the cionecionsio as that we have left on the statute book
and in the history olthill country ree ode veisiossontuesop
ea not pennuently distort, and which envy, with, ail
her efforts, con never obliterate —(eheera)

No fewer than 43 departments In !nowt are still
under the mime of • state of Aegis.
A roast railway Is to booonstruoted bet even Portruth
and It.llyosetle to moray I.goite se fuel.

A fashlooabl• oontsmefor7praying is among the latast
inventio:a of the Parisian drassmsktor ; It is • "la robe
• la priolisu."
The death is anno :reed of Lady Norroys, &anglaise of
Colonel fowneley ; and of Lord Annaly, at Banbury.
perk, near Hampton.
The gvaogeltsal Allison.'. exottated to meet in New
York °lt? in Ootober, and active pr,paratlous are being
made Le tie. sawdust.
An engin, .ole4rn..r, named Harris, has been run over
by an su..ine at Rory St. Edmond'a station. His b.Kly
was eoaph LA, out in two.
David Wage, the landlord of Ito Harrow pubic.
house, Whitefriarn-strent, City, hot hien fined £lO by
if,. Alderman Plugs, for permitting betting in his
how,

Mr John Pakinetwo optalriorr at the rponiog of the
new ,obtot load eahnelo at Wo•creoter, on Thorday.
Pala ho wouli only 'rot,'hr eotreola btarda whore they
were neaseeery. Rel4lons Instruction he considered
essential in all oohoole.

A Gorman inspect. 4 of imseing-ro cart states that a
single atom of hemp, with the litres and blooming,
miceel with the st• Mag of • oar mat, will preterit it
from moths for year., sod that hemp for this rurpomt
should be gathered Jim when in binaiorn, dried rapidly
to the shade, sod hoist in covered wooden ousels in a
dry clam.
A shocking cos, of inhumanity I. reported from
Cogent. • IDAD who had bees stricken wish fever herd
lain in • pigsty three days before the relieving clew
could induce any person to admit him. Even also, it
was slated, tho house he was taken to was worse than
lb. pig s'y from which he had been removed.
Ills calculated that since the death of the late MOOG
Cocoon co fewer than 5G (IX) persons in this emote,
bare been killed by typbeid fever, one-ball of whom
might at this =omega have been alive had sanitary
reform been taken up as a policy, and the publie
Leolth had b..,en included rmoor its, "groat quostio $
of the day' It Is evident that matters OlDsot long go
oo .s at present without heavy pusiohment.—Pall Mall
flat Its
5 iNinelta AND rails IDUC•TION POLICIT.—The
or.• . of she National Edusation L ague, in be monthly
tater i..ued says :--`• Toe assoutite committee hope—
not without wood f 04.1100 —that important itontessions
will be made in the direction of their object., and is
this intonation they Lave abandoned for the preirent
the attitude of dirtot hostility to the Government which
was foamed upon them by it. edueational pointy.
While every effort will be made to costotabs and extend
the aleeleral organisation and dissipates of the League
I. view a the genera ideation. se Meet that the remits
may be mod to give sapped to Illbisamial esadidstes
fasted el to oppose Adm."