Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-06-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ULM.' nas heeu pMiiied to comer the handsome decuratim and Order a tic MeitjiMe of the fourth &ism by imperial Firmini (i.e.) letii.es patent on 111ajur E. Barns, et the Imperial Ottoman Gendarmerie, tor special services rendered Oaring the late war." Well. I congratulate 'Lihu. He always had plenty of Muck, never better evidenced than when I once saw him at Bruton Cattle Show take a wretched old weed over a stone wall, hit. 41n., like a bird, in a futile endeavour to show the judges the blue-ribbon had been misappropriated.  Giles Hutchings, one of the murderers of P.C. Cox, of Yeovil. and who recently tscaped from Chatham, is still at large. Our Dorchester contingent of the county police who ran these varmints to earth we trust will earn fresh laurels by re-dunning Giles. [ A correspondent of mine writes to know if old Hutchings who "only got out o' the cart to gie the boss a bit o' hay" whilst Cox was being beat to death, is a visitor at the Lord Chief Justice's, where it is said over an eve ll ill g pipe he "fights his battle o'er again." I can't say, but one thing is certain—Mr. Hutchings, sem, has been piysented at Court.]  The London Figaro, a day or two ago, asked its readers if they had ever seen a Rope-tra!k. I have, and what is more I have seen a tight-rope. An incumbent at Whitehaven last week refused to officiate at a funeral over a dissenter. Of course it was not incumbent upon him to do it, but still I fancy "the narrow path" hi,.s not been lengthened in consequence.  At Bahnoral I learn the police authorities have been scared by the presence of certain strangers whose looks are " foreign," and whose tendencies are fancied to be Socialistic, and consequently special precautions have been taken for the safety of Her Majesty. What wretched nonsense! Who would hurt a g od-tempered quiet old lady of GO who never harms anyone?  The Queen sympathises with the widows and orphans of the '230 men killed in the Haydock explosion. So do I. But as I am not rolling in money I am afraid my sympathy—like that of Royalty—must be confined to pen and ink. -Politically there is little to be told. We are all waiting to see what Vivian Grey will do at Berlin. The diplomatic trick,ters know very little about this man, save what can be gathered through the rauchnitz Edition of his novels. He is not one of them, and his love locks, his lilac gloves, and his dainty walking cane will interest, perhaps amuse them. What a brilliant success has his been ! A poor man um onneeted with the English race and with none of that robustness which characterises all Englishmen and most English statesmen, he has had nothing to rely upon but his own genius, which has not always run in the straightest groove, unless it led to his own prosperity. He was the Radical of Bucks, the Tory of Maidstone, the Socialist of " sybil," the Legitimist of " Luthair ;" in six months he was converted from a Protectionist to a Free Trader ; he denounced the extension of the franchise and yet established household suffrage ;—and so on, a career of contradictions. He now stands in higher Lwoul:. with his sovereign than any other man in the empire, and not even Prince Bismark, though backed by hordes .if soldiery, will enter Congress with more weight and influence than the Prime Minister of England. If he saves England from war and wins a dipb.matie victory over Russia, I should not be surprised if the Qseen makes him a duke. Such a reward is already much talked about.