The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-09 00:00:00

Nowt Couniti Express.

IX)RCHESTP:It, EEBRU.RVWrti, 1/046.

Ostts.

Mr iilsilston.;. letter to the Midlothinn elector.
make. it elsar that hi. Cnet are as rit committed
to i, plan 1.. t. tle• I,laiti. What ia
IPA y.'t t. whether the has any distinct
11611 ill hi. own !Mod. The mew minister. are only
pledged to ii try. It 11.,11,* OtI•114r that Lord
Marti ti in e rimioinced the re V r roon toithe
Premiership from a iieruple against so slight • 'natter
an enquiring. Still 'drawer, 'milting allow:inc.. for •
lawyer'4 avinsci•iies, that Sir Henry •ralll., 1111.11.1
give up a place on the roll of Lord Chancellors of
Logland from • like delicacy.

It I. still ',ming heredit pry honour's. If new
peers Sad D.o baronet. mi.- ciemtecl at such a rate the
omupilermpf Image awl INebrett and Burke will have
lii advertise for extra hand'', and there will be work.
lug overtime at the heralds College. It issonerelent
etratige that Lewd Salisbury. itotally deemed 44
starche 1 sad aristocratic, should be Si lavish of
peerages. It is no doubt his design to popillarian the
Upper 'louse and to connect it with commercial life.
And it is to be remembered after all that much am the
peerafpn ham berm incitiaeed during the present reign,
relatively to the impulati in it has not increased at all.
Indeed. relatively to the immolation, tauter honours
are more spatially distributed niermedaym thsci at
inany pf.VlOll/1 periods el history. [hiring the last
century.kilightlessl was considered se ',idea. h ,a ~,,r
that Thurlow sand many other AMlPitlqiN men "
their proinomou dmlined it, awl George the Third
only succeeded in linking it reepectable agmin by
insisting en the Law officers and Jielges bet, g
knights. In the century hieferr, am every use knows.
Jam. the First made MU Knight. in one batch, aid
Barinetcies were distributed by the *owe my that
Illoaarch. Titles may he made too penmen ; but
there is no danger yet amongst us of reaching the
eendition .1 things which exists in Spain, where every
shopkeeper us lion by courtesy. II our peerage ix to
Inseams any political power it must be constantly
replenished. Sir Veleeind Beckett is the most striking
Agi ire a inoopt the new lend.. He mimeo: theee meu
sfl
raters them' day• who have pretensions,to that Mi-
nnie.' eminence which was in.., affected in the day.
oh Michael Angel. and the .tdisitrable C..chnon. He
was for • train the hale: ef the "srliamentary Bar,
he is perhaps. the Kleatme master .1 horology end
e." 11.11.1081 his day ; end, piee the l'r. pf.eionals, he
is an architect of much ..fldlll.li.y. N. 01" 1114.111 his
energies been •1110.011111.1 in theme di-pa/tee-no, 11
and Science. 111. brae. have lweli iii.. e v les.
usefully employed in • taultininl° ef researches, and
ma a writer atm, les Isleper• lime 10,11 bee' y.

Sir Ferrer Iler«cliol, the new lewd Chancellor, is the
firm occupant 1.4 the woolsack of Hebrew blood. II•
is, however. a 4hrt•tian in religion, soil an 01111.4..1
member of the Church ol linglarel. Ile has a brother
who in a Congregational 11111 l ister in the *math .4
London. It is the genoral belief that he will make a
Inuit admirable prig". Ile lawes his eminence at the
Her purely to his own abilities. He had no intbien-
Ind connection to back him up when he Waa " n 411.11."
and it WWI a long Pine heforii In. powers as a laWyg
were recognised by the solicitors. We believe that
it was due in a large measure to the frimel.hip of Mr.
J. A. Hume'', the reneralile Comity Court
Judge i 4 klanchester, that he c. • to the
front and won • foremost reputation a. a t•itinuercial
lawyer.

The am..iistlitott .4 3-61; —Nlorley to A 311,At 11, thP
C3l/11b33 is a distinet recognition .4th. power of th-
Press. It is *as literary Riau that Mr. Morley has made
his influence felt in the lailintry. His
the Howw 1111VN had 'what of 311 AC3411..11111,11
flavour, and he haw never distinituishol itiluvrif no a
ready &baler. 'I here is little doubt expressed as to
re.elisetion for liewcsatle. In other ways the
influent"l of the Frew has been displayed in the con-
struction of the Liberal Cabinet. London and
provincial papera—Liberal and Radical alike—pro-
tested againat the re-appointment lard Granv ilk
UP the Foreign (Moe, and the noble Lord has gone to
the Colonial Office. Under somewhat different
circumstances Lord Derby :mat. Ow sante official
descent.

A large majority f tin. public. it whiche‘er party,
'ell be glad to lie,r .lit Sir Wllll4lll Jr 61,1
able to risme a considerable improvement in Mr. W.
K. F•wster's health , though, ise.cubly, it may not
give unmixed satisfaction to some oil' his former
colleagues, now menden* of the new Gladstone
Ministry, to find that there is a prospect of Mr.
Forster being able to join atich Liberal ilimentirota a.
Lord lisrtington and Mr. Goachen in getting up •
new "cave." From experience in his formar "'coition
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, Mr.
Forger would be qualified tu speak with authority on
the friah quest' ; and it le pretty certain that such
et pettmlue would not perihelion. him to accept Hone
Rule. Moreover, he in a politician who doge not spare.
former coll.-ere-. (PHU ally motives of squestuniah
delicacy when hi. convictions Iwo,, him to become
their opponent. lie would be a veritable Hewn in the
aide of the new Cabinet, if he Were able shortly to re-
occupy Inv podition in the House of Commons.
The Titers makes • desperate appeal to all who
detest Mr. Hladatcar end all ha works So oppose thmir
Mieharre who have to seek re-election. The. it
doubtlea • pert of that implacable warfare which the
organ of Mr. John Walter urged • week ago should
be waged against a Gladstone Administration. Inut if
the writer 1 this later appeal to all the formai of
obstruction had glanced at the figures of the gentoal
election, be would haye paused before he recommended
so NW. a ono The Torso are welcome to attack
11l r. Gladstone in Midlothian, Mr. (;Itainberlain it
11,in/imbue, Sir W. Ilareoirt at Iterliy, Mr.
Treveleyan in the Murder Burghs, Mr. Mondella at
Sheffield, and Mr. Nlorley at Newcantle-on•Tyns, and
they will only waste their money for their pain.. It
it only in the laat caw that they ,entore to cypress
the slightsot hope of the result, and even there they
would he almost certain to hoe.