Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-10-29 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GLADSTONE ON OUR SOCIAL LIFE. On the invitation of Mr. Gladstone, 450 cottage tenants dined on Tuesday in a tent near Hawarden Castle, and were afterwards addressed by the right hon. gentleman, who said: There is nothing more characteristic of the country in which we live than a meeting of this description. There is no particular line of separation drawn in the social system of this country. From the very highest point, where the Queen sits upon her throne, of the greatest antiquity and splendour, down to the humblest cottager in the land, every one is near to those about him. All feel themselves united, whatever the diversities of circumstances, by old recollections, by neighbourhood, by common interests and feelings, so that it may be said— and I hope will be said increasingly from year to year that although there is a great and diversified society, presenting every possible variety of character and condition, yet still the inhabitants of the country, each of them retaining to himself the freedom of his mind and thoughts, do, notwithstanding, form one body, united to one another in interest and in affection. If that has been so in former times. I, for one, am sanguine enough to believe, now that I am reaching the evening of life, that in future time it will be so in an increased degree; that people will have upon the whole—l do not speak of any particular moment or ally particular class of persons—as time goes on, and generations succeed one another, what I earnestly trust and what I myself humbly laboured for, and have seen many others labouring for with equal zeal and better ability—cause to place their confidence in the Legislature that makes the laws by which they are governed; and therefore they will recall that happy time which is represented by the beautiful figure of the New Testament that every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, that all shall be secure, and all shall be equal in this one most essential and most important sense, that the rights of all shall be equally sacred, and that the law shall know no difference between great and smalL  The Queen and Princess Beatrice on Thursday attended the funeral of John Brown's father. The St. Pancras guardians offered £24 a year for &female cook, and did not get a single applicant. At the City Quarter Sessions, on Saturday, the recognisauces of Alexander Collie were estreated. Another sale of greyhounds took place at Aldridge's on Saturday. The stud dog Barmby fetched 135 guineas. The Prince of Wales arrived at Port Said on Saturday morning, and reached Cairo at nine o'clock in the evening. He was received by the Khedive. Two men were drowned on Saturday by the upsetting of a boat on the Irwell at Manchester. Three others had a narrow escape. Peter Farrell, a Genoese sailor, was remanded on Saturday at Bow-street, on a charge of murdering a shipmate on the high seas. A child has been poisoned at Bilston by a dose of toothache tincture being given it in mistake for soothing syrup. On Saturday, Lord Saltoun laid the first stone of the breakwater expansion works at Fraserburgh, towards which the Government has granted a sum of <00,600. Several shipwrecks are reported as the result of a severe gale, which swept over several districts of England and of the east and north of Scotland on Friday and Saturday. A