The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-29 00:00:00

Verset emit! Express.

DoRCHISTEE, TUESDAY MARCH 29, 1891.

Pour hundred Socialists met the other night in Grafton
Hall to congratulate each other and the world, upon the
onsasination of Alexander IL Happily, most of them
were foreigners. There are, however, unhappily, other
indications besides Mr. Pamll's Parisian intimacies of a
enisprochtstnit between Socialism and renianism. Bo
that before long the distinctive name of the latter is not
unlikely to be lost. The perpetrators of the Mansion.
House outrage are known to have been Irishmen ; a re
ward of £3OO is now offered for the apprehension of those
undeniably Celtic gentlemen suspected, on very good
rounds, of having committed the offence. A Socialis
puma% published in London last week ostentatiously
hinted its acquaintance with the perpetrators of the
villainous attempt. When the grand Socialistic and
Nihilistic Congress is held here in the middle of July next
will be interesting to note whether the Hibernian etc.
went Is represented amongst them.

If wo were to judge by present mulls, it would be a
drawn game between Ritualists and Evangelicals in
ihn Church at present About four thousand have
signed the petition for divergent ritual, and about as
many against it. There art' thus about eight thousand
pledged men on the Ritual, and anti-Ritual sides to.
giber. But what about the twelve thousand, or
upwards, who stands aloof from both, and presumably,
if they were polled, have some opinions of their own Sc
the question? In all probability these Gamaliel-like
divines are waiting to kV` what Ritualism may grow to.
They are cure of one thing ; that it cannot be put down,
as Lord Ite•confteld once put it, or bid to move
on. by the rename° Court. It must now be left to run
ours.', and, if it is a fire, to burn itself out.

The retirement of Vi'-Chaneellor Melina is matter
for much regret. Ho was kindly and eonscientious
Judge, and although his Court was frequently the Beene
of lively verbal encounters between Bench and Bars,
and though OTOil his good humour was tinctured by a
laughable testiness, no Judge was ever more beloved by
those who habitually practised before him, and nothing
was more evident than that tho quench; wbich
occasionally took place were " family " quarrels.

Fir Charles Reed's death is greatly regretted. Re is
a num who had done it great work in a very modest and
unpretending way. His decease occasions a vacancy at
Ive'e. Mr. Waddy, Q,.C., whose party have not,
after all, rewarded him wile a judgeship for losing
Sheffield, hi spoken of as the Liberal candidate.

Mr Prior, whose appointment, as a working man's
representative, as Inspector of Factories, has been
announced for some time, has entered on his duties. In
case the prolimiary examination has been dispensed
with.

Mr. °Hien who Is at present the Chief of the
Statistical Department in the Board of Trade, and
Comptroller of Corn returns on a salary of £I,OOO a
year, has decided to leave this for the post of Editor of
the Money Article of the Tina. It is a ease of "double
sod quit," as he will receive £2,000 a year in Printing
lieu.. Square, besides certain advantages in connection
with the financial world, the value Of which it is not
easy to set down at their exact money's worth.