The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-01-28 00:00:00

Bonet Gatti Cxpres.

TURBDAY, JANUARY 28, 1873.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
It is stated that the Quoin intends to Open
Parliament in person, on 6th February. Her
Majesty has ximmutneated throiih the President
of the Board of rade to the secretary of Lloyds'
"her heartfelt sympathy to the survivors of the
Northilegt calamity," arid sbe "II specially
aelicitimalf as to the state of Mrs. Knowles," the
young widow of the. heroic captni.i. The Queen
hns sent .C2OO to the Dlausi in House relief
fuml.

The following circular hu btesi addressed by
the Prime 'Shunter to hie supporters to the
House of Commons :-
11, Carltrai-houw.terraea, 22. 1813.-91r,
Parl'ament will retwomble on the Whet February, and
te wt:.ntiett of both Itoosta will eta very early date
be a, led to businina of impotteeee. I ratneetly hope
it rimy snit your cai.vent•nro to be in >oar plait. at lite
oi nie.4 Ow senior. —I hare lb bono,:r to be, Sr,
30nr faithful IT ant, W. E. Guorroxs."

, Mr. Disraeli has addressed to following
circular to his supporters in the Douse of
Commons:—

of Parliament beinß axed for Thursday,
the G. F b airy, trust you will 6id it oanyouieut to
b; y, Ur Witco on tI.At Any."

. '
here ii n rumour that the right hon. gentle-
man is ; hui John Bid( announces that he
will ho In his place in the House if not on the
lir,e night, which is probable, early in the
804510 C

Tao observer understands that, on the advice
of Mr. Named, the Conservative party has re-
calved to make the question of Irish Education
the ground of determined. opposition to the
policy of the Government.
T; o Address of the House of Commons to the
Queen, in reply to Her Majesty's speech at the
opening of Parliament next month, will be
moved by the Hon. C. G. Lyttelton. member for
East Worcestershire, and seconded by Mr. W.
H. Stone, ons of the members for Portsmouth.
Mr. Bright, in his annual letter to his consti-
tuents, being still unequal to public speaking.
treats the present Parliament as "used up.
Nothing more of any consequence can be ex-
pected of it, thou,:h a general election may not
come off till next year. As to the Reduction of
National Expenditure, which is always a safe
topic for netting cheap pop,darity, Mr. Bright
has got into a State of despair about it, and does
not believe that any Ministry or any Parliament
Is likely to do what Mr. Gladstone's Ministry
and Mr. Gladstous's Parliament have failed in
dolr.g. lie has evidently come to the conclusion
that he will not live to see the public expendi-
ture nruc't rod iced. .ked perhaps ho may before
long admit the unwelcome conclusion that this
is because no great reduction is possible. After
the interest of the debt is paid, England spends
In governing itself about fifteen milions, and in
Insuring itself against foreign enemies about
twenty-fire millions. Is this really a very extra,
vagant outlay for so rich a nation, with Its
territory dispersed over the globe, and with
prices so high as at present 1 Judging by the
experience of other nations, it oertaioly is not.
Bstween the National Education League and
the ditto ditto Union, Ministers must feel them-
selves rather Ina dilemma. The League insists
on a modification of the English Education Act
in the direction of undenominationalism and

secularism, while the Union wishes to keep
things as they are. It would be slither difficult
to decide whether the deputation of the latter
body which waited upon Mr. Gladstone on Fri-
day was a friendly embassy or the reverse. They
same to suppoit Ministers in their policy of
1870, but, if we may trust to report, to thwart
them in their policy of 1873. Mr. Gladatone's
promise that the views of the Union should be
carefully considered by the Cabinet, probably
amounts to nothing, for as those views happen
to be coincident with the Act of Parliament
which it is slid Ministers have set themselves to
amend, they must have been already well con-
sidered by the Cabinet. Mr. Gladstono's ument
appeal by circular to hie follpwers to be In their
places at the opeuin! of Parliament, oa account
.1 important bitsines*, mai bare referencia to
Ibis Educe.lon Question, though we can hardly
see how that can come on its w crucial matter
wdil the second reading of an Amendment Bill.
The little Russian difficulty can hardly cause
any very important discussion, though it will
doubtless giro rise to one or two interpelLstions,
and there seems nothing for which Mr. Glad-
stone should muster his forces at the very open-
in of the session, except the tl.-eatened
onslaught on Mr. Ayrton, most unfortunate of
31iniiters. Mr.tlladstone is not amen to desert
a colleague; and if Mr. Avian will not save
him the trouble of nebula', the Premier will
dctibtlees do sturdy battle on his behalf..
. _ . _

The loss of the STorthdeet is& terrible fatality,
The ',reparation for a long voyage, the crash of
tlie collision, the one hour of su•ipense at mid-
iii,„ht to those four hundred hapless creatures,
the strll.l, for the heats, the settling down of
the vessel with it, living freight ! Wtat can be
said about it? But concerning the steamer that
di.: the mischief, did she sink, too, and more
spe•Aily, thlti the emigrant ship? When in the
coafasion and panic it was thought she had
made oil; did she settle down unobserved 1 How
comforting to think so. What a b 1,4 on the
name of humanity—what • detestable chugs
vanishes if this be so! When the news first
came men's blood boiled with indignation agaiast
the murderous crew of that unknown steamer,
which was believed to have steamed away from
the dying shrieks of the emigrants and crew that
they had slaughtered, but now the belief gains
ground that it too speedily went to the bottom.
The Welsh strike continues, and poverty is
crushing the heart out of thousands. The
employers are ready to give way shout wages,
If the men will consent to the double shift
system ,• but the colliers object to this, nutlet the
belief that it is not their interest to increase
production, and so reduce the price of coal. But
It is just possible that this proposal may ere long
be accepted

Aueiher greit trade struggle seems imminent.
The operatives in the London building trade
liven I to demand an extra halfpenny an hour
from their employers, which, if conceded, will
make their wages 9d. per hour, "in accordance
wit% the terms of their original memorial."
ho Daily Telegraph has received authority to
publish the followin2; statement of the decidons
come to iu regard to the future policy of the
Imperialists, at two or throe meetings held by
the leaders of the party after the funeral at
ehiselhurat

Blth is theory sad prectlee, the unity of direction f
the party resualae as oomplete and perfect as It wee
during the life of the Imps rev—end this the Ins perialiste
regard es the seventlal point All divergent's, of
z.
i:rinad and all varying shade n s of feeling have be.,.
away, In premien of that greet memory and of
those Immeasurable regrets whiolt occupied the hearts
of all; and in • gathering no great in number, and
oompiets with respect to the representatlos of every
elation of the party, se eireumetenoes would permit,
the harmony of wishes end aloe. personal union of the
party were solemnly prooleimed. The Empress and
the Princes Napoleon undertake the political guardisn•
ship of the Prince Imperial, and corseqcsintly the
dbeortioa of Ow Boaapertist Party. Everything will be
does by their order and under their authority. There
will be no mealiest°, no proolaraatho ; the policy of
the deemed Em?eror will be serried out by the dreg
Prices of his blood, end the horde widow who Glued
his eye. and received his tail words. Both wl.l prove
themselves equal to thews high duties. The young
Prince will not bear the name of Nepoleon IV., exeecl.
log to lb. heart. of hie faithful adherents. He will call
himself Prince Louis Napoleon, as hie father did, bef3ns
Ffllooo, by her eight wildcats of vote, set on hi. I tied
the imperial crown. In private life, and while
enjouroing ahr-ied, be will take the can of Chmte de
Plerrefrin IL le Is iii tbie *PI I • ••• neilior
proutomene car g or ;ff. et, but sir Lit is muob
more lusportaet—s °dm an.l uctirtrring ihreotlou oj
pli,7 AMA a lOILITA appfed,tf,,t,cf ova.* *sew,
111.1120.11. Viar-ur - hut no imp,ttieh,p,e,

Count Schouvaloif has returned to S. Peten-
burg from his mission to the English court in
reference to the Rwaian expedition to 'Chive.
Nothing has officially transpired Imre on the
sutject, but the most general opiiii•ni is that
England disbelieves Russia's ileclaratem that
she ouly intends to chaattaa the Khivans and
then retire; and accordingly informs the Cztr
that in the event of his annexing tho khauate
we must throw in cur lot with our ally. the
Auseer of Affghanistau, to secure his territory
from attack. On the other haml, news comes
from Berlin th.t the Count has declared himself
satisciad with the result of his visit to Lord
Granville. Probably, we shall have to wait for
official details until the opening of Parliament.
rho foreign policy of General Grant is attract.
ing considerable notice. It seems that at last,
threueh the petty subtotfuge "a Company."
the United t;tates has obtained a statim in the
West Indies. A " Company " lins Juana
Santana Bay, in St. Domingo, and secured
pmers to construct a navy, 4sc. This acquisition
of territory gives the States a command over
the approaches to Cuba, and, pezhaps, herein
bee the secret of i..s movement, seeing that
Gemini Grant is unusually dotermiced in his
labgilage tosards Spain in refirence to the
continuance of slavery in that Wood. The
acquisition at the Sandwich islands is lass objec.

tionable. The inability to tolerate for • few
years longer in a foreign State • IlYst•iti
1 which Irllll abolished lees than ten years ago in
' the United States is the more significant because
General Grant was before the Civil War not
an opponent of slavery, It is remarkable
that zeal for abolition should prompt the adop-
tion of a policy of aggression which is elsewhere
simultaneously puraued on entirely different
grounds. There are no slaves in San DOiningo
or iu the Sandwich Island.; and, there has in
Cuba been noithur the extinction of a dynasty
nor • lease of a part of the island to a Company
of Amoncan shareholders. The provorbial five
reasons for drinking were cqnsistent with one
another in comparison with the President's three
reasons for anuexing as many insular territories
in the Atlantic and the Pacific.