The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-10 00:00:00

FIRST COURT.-WEDNUDAY.

(Ettfmn J. Ft.or in. IN M.P., D.Duty-Chairm in,
and other Magistratta.)

In charging the Grand Jury, Mr. lkoren said : The
calendar which will shortly be laid before you contains
the names of 14 prisoners, and all thee cases will be
brought before you with the sec iption of ones the
ee.,ond on the Wanda, where the female prusoner
charged with the offence haa since bee committal died
In the prison. There will,thereforabs only 13 cases for
your consideration. That is much the abate in point of
numbers as the business generally before us at this
time of the year. Let year we had 16 cases to deal
with, and the year before we had 14 prisoners brought
under your consideration. From the report which was
read in the Court yesterday by the Chief Constable,
we gathered that the state of crime in the county is
perhaps not quite so satisfactory as would appear from
the business that we have to died with to-day. The
Chief Constable reported that there warn an increase
of 17 more pai sons apprehended in the quarter which
was comets's,' at the clogs of last year, and 12 In ire
were committed fortriaL So th re is a small inorease of
crime, but still there is not much to discourage us in
them statistical details. But 11. regards the nature of
the offences, I think there Is nothing of a very serious
character ; and there is one feature I cannot do other-
wise than call your attention to, and that is there le no
charge of persona 'Jolene's against anyone of the
prisoners whose cases are to come before you. And
that perhaps I might have pegged over at other times,
but r hardly help congratulating you upon that
aspect of the criminal condition of this county; and
more especially while we happily in this part of the
kingdom are able to move • ut In full freedom and
liberty, end go about ord nary and proper calling
without anyone interposing, at any rata 17 violence,
and personas/ our freedom of action. You are all
well aware that' the whole country is looking
earnestly and anxiously at • portion of the kingdom
where a very different state of things prevails.
In that unfortunate country the bonds of society
are, I may my, dissolved, the usual government
of the country is in suspense, and outrages are com-
mitted, ending oftentimes in lose of life of • most
alarming description, and causing the deepest anxiety
to the Government,every person who is connected with
the Government of thee ,sintiry, and every persoo living
In the k ittgdem and these outrages Ira c 'coedited. not,
Perholw, whew" we alight have .cpscta I tbein,from the
nature of the disturbed state of tbe country, for
although there have been • aerie' of outrages and per.
aonal violence upon lassdowners, th 7 have not been
so Nrk" ih' outrage, committed upon the t seantry
of the country by men in e similsr pawkiest in life.
Ttie sufferings a the well-oceditioasdorell•disposed,sad

koneet teemati7 of the mangy in Ireland is one ouch
mmt some horse to everyose's feeling. wit h great regret
end sorrow. A ecl what lathe cause of all this! It isdiso-
Wiser* of the law; and we ara met here to filar-1d
the law, to administer the law, an ..se that the laws
pi the coustry are properly carrie3 o t. A differeet
course at the instigation of lawlo loin has been
adopted in Ireland, and has led to much of all this
violence. It is the departure fr on that ca.iurse of
honesty and obedience of the laws which has been the
cause of so mach violence, and width, I think, can
hardly have been expected by th s who were the
leaders at first in this lawless course, and I hope we
may believe that not only did they little expect the
results that followed, but that in toy of them may
be now sorry at the fours) they bad *opted.
Mr. Flow than referred to one ..r two cases is the
calendar. In regard to the Broaloak rioting we, it
was, he odd, not • usual offeoce with which they had
to deal at then Sessions, and he call d their attention
to the CLIMB of the Act tinder whieh tin prisoners
would be charged—U dec., 24 eat Vie, Cap. ST,
which provided "flat if any p. rem. r:oe4es.y ant
tumultuously aesemble together to di tub the public
piece, and unlawfully or by f r. injore or damage
any house, stable," and so forth. I b,dievar the facts
are pretty pisin epos the eel team, and you wt.' find
no dieloulty in arriving at the fact, first of all there
was • considerable number of p .rs out assembled
riotously tumultuously, and that they retried out
their object by oommitting serious injuri and damage
to the of as inhabitant of vits nutty. In
regard to the rase of Frederick Simur,u?, the Deputy-
Chairman did not thick the charge of 'obtaining by
false pretences pmsession of a house" could be mach,
out, and in regard to the cluirgs of obtaining a
telegram, it was an offenoe which c ,all not be dealt
with at the Sessions, and it would have to be sent on
to the Assizes. The other charge, .4 course, could be
dealt_ with. _ _

B—afors—tThe Grand Jury retired to their room, Mr.
FLain said he had been requested by the widow of
their lane /Cod friend Mr. Geste, Whi bet Mica
occupied the poidtron of Chairman of th. Grand Jay
with such lability and bonen to the ootrety, to express
to them her acknowledgments of their kind letter of
empathy which the Grand Jury bad requested him to
forward to her.