The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-10-15 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  A large proportion of the speeches winch have been delivered by public men at agricultural gtth 'rings during the current autumn vacation have been remarkable for one particular feature —the absence of everything savouring of political sectarianism. In most instances the speeches of Liberals runflit just as well have emanated from Conservatives, and those of Conservative parentage would not have had an alien sound from the lips of a Liberal. The cause of this is self-evident. On all subjects of vital importance there is now scarcely the shadow of a shade of difference of opinion among men whose opinions are of sufficient importance to demand attention. The Toryism of former days is virtually defunct. It is true we see it occasionally writhing, raging, and foaming in the "leading articles" of antiquated journals— of which the Dorset i Chronicle is a type—and in speeches delivered by such men as the Rev. Prebendary Fane, who talks about making political capital out of the new educational minute. It is also manifested in such shallow-pated men as Councillor Thompson and Alderman Leven's)), of Weymouth ; but no sensible man pays the smallest attention to it. It has become to be treated as • species of harmless lunacy, rather amusing than otherwise, were it not that it implies a deprivation of mental power, which instinctively evokes pity and commiseration. Conservatism, as recently expounded by such men as Sir E. Lytton Bulwer and Lord Stanley ; and Liberalism, as represented by Earl Russell, are in all essential points identical. We do not say that party shibboleths will be entirely destroyed. It is tinpossible for all men to see eye to eye on every subject. We shall continue to have parties as we have had them in the past ; but one thing is evident—no government could exist for a single session unless its policy were progressive.  The particular; which have been elicited respecting the late Lord Forth who committed suicide at Gloucester a few days since, are painfully illustrative of a "Rake's progress." The deceased nobleman seems to have devoted his life, and all its capacities, to the performance of pre-eminently ignoble deeds. He was born at Naples, in 1836, and in 1853 was appointed an eusigucy in the 42nd Regiment, whicu, however, he left on the following year, in consequence of not relishing "the ponip and circumstance of glorious war," or, rather, the peril in the Crimea. In 1855 he married the eldest daughter of the Hon. Adolphus Capel, niece of the Earl of Essex. The sad eventful history of their marriage life was told, the Vicomiteas herself being the narrator, to Sir Cresawell Cresswell early in the present year. Lady Forth petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage OD account of Lord Forth's adultery and cruelty ; ' but the application was resisted by the Queen's Proctor on the ground of collusion and the adultery of the Indy herself. It appeared from the evidence of Lady Forth, and that of her mother, that during the three years they lived together, their daily life, from the day ,after their marriage, was one of drunkennoss and brutality on the part of the husband towards his wife, her slaters, brothers, and even his own child, an infant. During the whole of that time he appears not to have contributed one farthing towards his own maintenance, but was supported by his wife's father and mother, and at last he became so outrageous that they parted company, and Lady Forth never saw him after. wards. Some time after his departure, Lady Forth formed an acquaintance with a Mr. Deering, and visited the United States with him; and it was on the ground of this intimacy that a die:million of marriage was refused. Nor was the lady who has been living with Lord Forth, and who died with him, a wit less sad. She was the only daughter and heiress of a gentleman of property, and. 1.1. magistrate for the county. of Hereford, residing near Leominster. When about 20 she was seduced by the scion of a "noble house," and had two children, which are now with her father. Subsequently she appeared to have become penitent, and after • time was married to a man named Lloyd, by yule aka bad two more children, who us sloe  living with her father. Lloyd was in debt, and , having married a rich heiress, was 1311 Ca by 1 creditors and found his way into the Queen's I Bench, where Lord Forth had also "a local habitation and a name." Mrs. Lloyd visited her husband in the Bench, and an intimacy sprung up between her and Lord Forth; and on his *liberation they joined company, and lived together ever after that. At the inquest the surgeon said her death was attributable to natural Musts, apart from her recent confinement—those natural causes, it is said, being intemperance. She was only 28 years of age. Her remains have been deposited in the family vault at Leominster, and Earl Perth directed that Lord Forth should be "decently interred" at Gloucester. Such is the brief tale of their lives. It is a sad one, and points its own moral.  ----The failure of the potato crop in the West of Ireland is exciting great alarm. At a meeting held at Kilmoree a few days since, a memorial was agreed to, to be sent to the Lord Lieutenant, for the Government to grant, without delay, public works for the people, by which they may be enabled to purchase food to keep them from perishing of starvation. That the Lord Lieutenant will do everything in his power to avert so dire a calamity, no one who knows his character can have the slightest doubt; but it is impossible to look at all the facts bearing upon the food question on the Continent, as well as in our own country, without being profoundly impressed with the debt of gratitude we owe to the Dispodier of all things, for giving so rich a harvest as that which his just been gathered in. We learn by telegram that the perpetrator of the diabolical outrage on a young lady in Dublin as recorded in our columns last week, has beCui apprehended, and that the evidence against him is remarkably clear. It is greatly to the credit of the Dublin ctibmini that they have used every exertion in their power to trace out the villain and bring him to justice. The tone and fueling at New York towards this country is as amusingly silly and childlike as ever. A few days since the Herald, the mouthpiece of the Washington Government, led d threate,— -4 England