The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-08 00:00:00

Vorset Count ti Cxiness.

PORCHESTF.R, TUMMY, MARCH K. ME

Mr, childer's long-tleterred and eagerly.ezperted
statement upon Army Organization, is 100k.41 upon
favourably by all who are not wholly prejudiced amtinst
Ito tdiort sertiee system. Thu Secretary of War waft
compelled to express a mild disapproval of Sir fiarnet
wolseley's breach of military rule In publishing hi.
opinion upon the eomparative merit., of long and short
lint then, ran he no iloubt that the Mammals
Century artiele has exercised an important inflnenee in
tleebling public opinion in favour of some much modifica-
tion on that suggested by Mr. Chiltlern inrtend of
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return to long service, Military men air naturally
angry with Sir Garnet. lie unequieoeally sacra..o a
part of their diaaffertion towards the present system, 1.1
tim fart that it gives them harder work. If Mr.
*lfi Ifler'a workable, which in sonnsw t
ihothtful, it would keep na in the happy state of
prepormlneas of hawing about 150.0110 men always ready
1.. put into the field. It seems too good to be true.

While the disastrous defeat st Majuba llill l an
lamentable as it is prawn& to he, still it will tend to
show us 11i1. true character of the enemy. Not only
hare they fought well, but it is adniitted ou all 6111.114
that their treatment .1 the wounded was everything
that could be IlsMt.d. how. then, is this miserable tale
to end ? writyr.who genenilly speaks pretty plainly

There can be but one feeling now in the real earnest
heart of liberty-toying Enit'and. Tijo abominable oat.
come of the Beaconsfield gospel of blood, of which Bartle
Frere was the high priest, must cease. The Boers must
have their independeux, and the scheme for turning
South Africa into a shambles for the butchery of the
flower of the British army must he nipped in the bud. A
few more years of this wholesale robbery and slaughter,
called annexation aid the subjection of rebels, and the
Drllllo of England will stink in the nostri!s if Christendom.
The Daily felegraph sa.s the Boers must be slaughtered
for defeating as. The Ilib'e says we are to forgive them,
and make peace at once. Which is right! It would be
interwiting to calcu,ats for the spi.ling of how much
blood Bartle Praire and his horrible policy are directly
and indirectly responsible. There must be enoogli dead
men at his door to block it up, and enough blood to float
him out up the chimney.

It is not probable many will approve of ',tub hanl-
hitting as this, but the increasing troebles abroad are
not only the subject of anxious thought at home, but
of not very friuedly criticism at home.

Following in somewhat the same strain, however, is
an Important communication in the Daily News of
to-day (Monday), which says :—" A great mistake has
been made. A great wrong has been done. We
freely confess it In private, and, in spite of ourselves,
our real sympathy is with those who are fighting
against us. The sympathy of foreign nations, which
foreshadows the judgment of posterity, is open and
avowed. But we seem spell-bound, and, sacrificing to
the false god "Prestige," which is only another name
for false pride, we are going on, as our ancestors did,
to the bitter end. We are strong enough to be just.
and we shall be stronger still if we are just.—C. B.
Trevelyan.