The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-18 00:00:00

tiXlrl7ll;),i AT_ HERTFORD.

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The exp.-lawn took plare on Monday morning. at If ert-
font. of Georg* Hill. convicted at the lent Hertford aasizes
of the wtlful murder of his illegitimate child, in July last
at Si. Alliana The deceased, who had been summoned
limier an affiliation order for the support of the child.
.prrsilailssl the mother to accompany him through some
Inn place where, he mid, he bad taken a house for
them, and which he wished to shoe, the woman. The
latter liniught the child with her. and in passing through
a wheit field 11111 mole a inmate attack on them with a
lumaier, and left isith lying. aa ho thought, dead. The
woman, however, recovered. The culprit bore hlmaelf
with Meat firmnem, and expressed, an be had more than
remorse for his crime, whirl be denied at the
trial. Death seemed instantaneous. Maywood was the
rhis being the firat execution at If ertJord
since liqt, a large crowd collected outable the prison.

TIIE con OF A Kif4S.
At the thinlsiry Petty Seesione, Monday, Sir John
Ifin , in tbe rhair, FAwant Smith, a respectable
years of age, was charged with ammultlng
Edith Beasley. A :Ziri iii the employ of Mr. ()ordain, at
Stan., a. none. The comet:tin:int I thst between
wren an 4 eight o'elork on Satunlsy evening Smith !mased
aniad ter. mit hi. art... around her neck MA gave her a
kit. She then saw a mounted policeman, to whom she
^"eltlitiasi, and he took the defendant into eu•toily. Mr.
&gall woi•tant clerk bo the magistrates. Said thlit ho
saw the polieemsti riding on the hone and dramting the
re,.ter show the collar. A number of people were
rtan: "...balm" at him, Mr. Marron., solicitor fir the
delve, % the prianner had known complainant for
,tews• •olouitted that the degradation the prisoner
bad mffere.l is ising dragged through the street.. like •
'!"6lll'dt tel.', sea, sufficient punishment under the
eiripiptane.•.. Merrick,a lad who was with the pri•
that the latter, being arxidentally pushed
I=4'"'t ..... 24..1 her to give him • ki. "to
'mite it fly." The Bench, olvierving that the prisoner
had is nth, to kie. the girl &phut her will, fined
him th. including coda.

AN AMERICAN JOKE.
The, point at which pr•ctital joking loses some-
what and that stage one might fancy was
reatii.l in the f lir tlistnet of Nevada, if the story t'"wi be
the Transcript he correct. According to this Journal two
AmerieaNe. the one named Pat Miller. and the other James
Brilsh. &zed •e-twerively twenty and eighteen years,set. out hir A h'llltillZ extur.ion on the Neriila Ridge. Pre
moth the. rain. to a (linter mining-camp, and the march
heir; oven theta i hcalthe appetite, they ordered
Iltinaman whom they found to tads them • dinner.
Pr'thlw"l the aPnearanes of their weapon* the Melee-
tial •.rant forniahel the meal without delay: theyate
104 hhl.-il wh.reupon they rsea awl deported. Has"
ioi ti.u. I. se fir-h. what was more natural than that
dry »di seek for •une fun hr way of desert I It was
alber.lineer that Patients gave Christians to the lion. ; it
was Of ter honer that Masters Brims, and Miller *roomed
'busts chinarnan. The Ant one thy found was, we
are blht walling dirt in the creek, in an old-fashioned rotker.and Miller at °ore took rm, hut somehow are other
wired Nevertheler like Bruce, the young Americans
_were not &minted by failure, and they mon loaded again.
time ssn icing this time entrusted to Briggs, who was
adriw'S by hi. companion to "hold the weapon about two
fen ahme the mark.' This time soccer crowned their
etch,, and the Chinaman was fatally wounded, the hall
striking him in the small of the hack. Strange to rellte
the authorities of the district, all unable to appreciate the
Mir which them yaing gentlemen so profoundly enjoeod,
have reamed them to be reestal. Of coons this bY nn
nines argues their eventual punishment. Is Pleasantries
if the kind are, it appeara not at all rare In Nevada.
AN rs x OPINION ON THE ROYAL TITLES
BILL
Mr. Disraeli ioust have begun by this time to perceive how
serials is the mistake he has made in askinr Partiasoent
to let the 4,otieen *mine the title of " Empress of India.*
If it were the case that Indian Princes still considered
them..elve, the equals of the Queen of England, and that
they would rewent the adoption by Her Majesty of the title
Emrre.- as an invasion of their Sovereign Hera,
arid as the &amnion of a claim to • supremacy which the
Queen is nnt euppo.ed to esjo then we should say that
It was Inch time the Native 14i.nces had such nonmusical
ideas clout their real political Matsu in the country knock.
el out of their heal* But • change of style is not nears-
!The '" tote,) these Princes who are the real rulers of India,
nanmoutit authority of the Queen has been admitted
Over and "welt again by every Native Prince and the
vowed 03 many previous occlusions has been
"mewed he all theirmater Princes Intheir recent
inteniews with the Primed Wales. We believe, therefore,.
that the ,:ovenunentti the Queen already commands in
India all the r•spect that timid be paid to the Govern-
ment of the Empress. This being so, it is undoubtedly
better that the title with which Her Majesty', subjects In
all part0 of the British Empire ate familiar, and which is
'"e‘rett to them tip its *rotation with a form of
government which diders tom C4O from that of Eniperoffi
or Great Moguls, should remain unaltered.. We have
sneered from the trot the opinion that no Minister but
Mr. biraeli, whose curious ignorance of English national
sentiment or prejudice has been the cause of most of the
tartar be has made in hi, career, would have tea=
indiatretion to compromise the Queen braising •
thls :and it is now evident that the v
plitital feeling which his injudicious Morrell has his's"'
at borne threatens to dearer much of the greed effect of
the Prince of Wales's vier to India. It is now quite
if the agitation begun by the Prete be taken tip
1,7 elatiornt and the people take to saying hard
thing. Royalty. the Prime Minister may find hl.
self obliged Is, withdraw the Bill in defeninos to
lbs
rens inatrances of his usually docile followers ; but even If
Ite Lain. • ViCtol7, it will hs a disastrous one. A wise
Sovereism would not accept such • title, unless It erre Use
free and mnotasonna gift of the whole nation; and we
holm that Queen Victoria will have the
_good sense to
"trkat's herself from the ictstr into which her Minister
bs• be', and to rooks henelf a• popular am she "rale
Yean *co gracefully and of her own aceord announting
that she de-lines to meure a title which she finds is
bitterly disliked
—ffewby, primer. the majority ce her oubliette
is Pretend. •s---,theelllst.