The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

HOW THE IRISH CHURCH BILL IS TO BE
CARRIED.

The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury
says:—" Preparations are already being made for the
abrupt termination of the present session, and it has
been resolved to take supplies only for two months.
The houses will be prorogued within a few days of the
rejection of the bill; then will be a recess of ten days
or fortnight, and then a new session will been: On
the Lost lay of that *maim lfr. Gladstone will lay upon
the table of the house anemia oopy of the Irish Church
Bill es it now stands; the neat day he will move the
second reading without saying a single word respecting
the measure, and the Opposition will be left to light if
they like, but only to fight thin air. The organisation
of the Liberal party in the House of Common. as at
present such that there is no reason to fear any dis-
obedience to the orders which have gone forth. From
lirst to last no Liberal member, from the Premier down-
wards, will use any words in support of his vote upon
the bill. When next it gets to the House of Lords •
majority of that house will be found ready to vote for
it, as the creation of 60 new peerages is the mode in
which the government propotte to secure the oomplunce
of the legislature with the will of the country. Lists
of those who are to be summoned to the Upper House
are already dying about. They include a great many
aided eons of Peers, and revere' gentlemen who have
bees talked of an applicants for coronets.

THE LORDS "WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE.
The Lords 1 I have • far more tender regard for
their ancient end useful &MAP:city than the Tory portion
of themselves appear to bare. Can they rely upon
their majority of 80 or any other number? How is
that majority made up? Listen to the Tory organ, the
Standard. "On such a questloa the bishops most
vote." There are more than 30 of them available.
"Of the Irish and Scotch Peers nearly all ere spinet
the Bill." Ireland sends 28 representative peers,
Scotland 18. And these are not the represestatives of
Me satire Peerages, bat the elected of • fired Tory
majority. The Irish peers are notoriously selected for
the HMSO of Lords by the peelerensie of the tender of
the Tory party. There is no neetralleation, no set-off
of misority against majority la the House itself. In
the choice that sends than thither, the ooe faction
assenisates ail. Here are between 70 and 80 Peers, the
deciding number talked of, and Ws material of perry
I. to forbid the will of the Commas, of this Empire.
The Irish Peers are literally, in the main, the chiefs of
the very party who made the anion in the spirit of
bargain for Protestant mosodaney I Will the Earl of

Derby, ra.h as he may be, eneounter the will of the
• angdoin. with such a bar? If a whole host of
be created to neautraliee this band. see
soy-
•c• l
it other than a redrew of plain itju.tiee 7 I
hoie no widi to enter upon coasiderations so critical.
w that what is most valo•ble is often most deli-
• con.tiutei. But let those to whom this toady
ringva machinery is entrusted mind well its work-
ing sod put it to no impossible strain. The Earl of
De by's amearacy is not oar Constitution. The people
cannot defied tbe Iliaistry and Parliament or their owe
'M.o.. Whoever would withstruid the people most
calculate seretally the force he can bring to the
tric,uuter.—Wirrkly Diapata.

THE NATIONAL VOICE.
It is atated, oboe • e the Morning Herald, that the
Reform League it about once more to lift it. horrid head,
and ,sgitate not only for the abolition of State Churches,
but or that of their defenders, the House of Lonis.
The COOKIII,SIi.III pasty hare Doerr been the first to
appeal to out-of-door ag,tatloo. But the time beacon's
when, if our arrogant adierearia are all for agitation,
our reply Must be "Very well • then let us estitata l"
We have newer before made st;ch an appeal, but we
make it now ; sad we make it with the most passionate
yet deliberate urgency. The Constitution is in peril..
The House of Lords bee gallantly etepped between it
sad destruction. Will Cesseryatives, under lush elf-
cumsuumes, be anywhere inert? We do not believe it.
" Agitate ! agitate agitate r. must now be the cry;
and let the agitation be maintained by crowds, wed.
eonducted end orderly, but.. fast as enthusiasm sad
orgsaisatioa can make them.

THE USK MURDER: THE CONFESSION OF
THE PRISONER CONFIRMED.
The other day, • man named Rosser gave himself up
to the police at Hereford, aa the murderer of • young
W 0131•13 limped Edwards in Monmouthshire two year,
ago. He volunteerei a eircumetantial amount of the
deed, wh.ch was committed at the little town of Usk.
He was tiers on the tramp, without money; wu invited
by Edwards to speed the night with her; and wee seised
with a desire to get the fifteen shillings which she
pawned. fie stealthily wrenched an old, iron her out
of • fitegrate at the back of the public-honae where they
bed mot, induced her to aocompany him along the river
bank, suddeoly smashed the back of her had with the
her plundered her, took • blood-stalned ribbon from
her bounett, and threw her body into the river. The
story wee quite coolly and coherently told, and the mu
appeared to suffer acutely from the stings of eonerienoe ;
but st first it was thought that hie laboured under some
delusion, fostered perhaps by what be hid read or beard
el the extraordinary Norwich ease. Further inquiry haa
lent remarkable corroboration to the man's word..
Sergeant Philpott went to Lydney on Saturday, ad In
the place todirs'ed by Rower found a piece of ribbon
answering to prisioner'• description of thst which be
took from Edwards, and he also learnt from Roseer's
mother that he took the ribbon home oe his return from
Wales just two years ago. It is also worthy of remark
that the gibbon appears to have been ',abed more than
once, as if an aidavottr had been made to obliterate
nor ain stains which are in it, end whieh it is thought
v. I:urn out to be blood steins. Superintendent Naas
Lace. c.rtaineut that on the 1611 oSeptember (just three
months after the reported warder) the body of • fema'a,
apperently about 25 years of age, wee found eight miles
below Vat Below. The body waa dressed, but •ithat
bouts and without a bonnet. No suspicion mem to
Lase been aroused that rows. the body of Edwards, who
spume to have been • woman of light (laminar ; and
ba denim) osition had rendered identification statist
luipossuble, the body was buried without any Investigs-
lion as to the cause of death. Davies also learned Dorn
the landlord of the Bridge Ina, at Utk, that In the
month of June, 1867, the house was undergoing alters-
none, and that at that time an old fire-grata which had
hien turned out of one the rooms, was 'tending in
the yard at the beak of the pr miss.. In this grate some
of the liars were lodes, ie. mat it would not have been
a diehale task for a Strong mivoular men Mks the
prisouer to have wrenched out one of the bare, as be
nays be did. At that time, too, there wee a mans of
communication between the back end front of the hate
without peseta( through the building; as the prisoner
states that after he had possessed himself of the iron
bar he reentered the house by the front, and not by
the be k entrances. Some other facts of minor Ironer
lance have au been brought to light. As it Is believed
the head of the body found in the Usk—if it should be
that of the murdered girl Edwards will show the
fracture supposed by the prisoner to have been produced
by the blow with the iron bar, the coroner hag issued
so order for its exhortation and examination at a early
dine. The prisoner, who is much depressed in spirita
and frequently seem to be shedding teen, still tether's
to hie coolession in every particular. His (ether end
otter friends have visited him, and the former he begged
to Implore his mother not to grieve for him, aa he would
rather the law take its course than he should continue
In the wretched state he he. been due ths murder.

IT transpires that the President bee refused to remove
the postmaster at Mason, who is a negro.
HORKI BL • OUTRAGL —Archbold Mason, El SS VW of
a publie-bouee in Liverpool, on Setureay night, caught
hold of a man named Michael Downey, poured raw rum
on his head, and thin deliberately set the spirit on Are.
Downey ass fearfully burnt, and be lies in the Southend
Hoop tel in a very precerioua state. Mama is in
cost.gly.
TH t Al? JOIJIUI•L vol Jowt.—(Lowdors : Viritse,
lry-lawe).— An thoellent line engraving by Mr.
Coosus, from " In the Pasture," by Mr. Anadell, le the
frontispiece to the present number, and another
engraving. from Miss Solomon's "Chim for Shelter,"
is a worthy oompanion. The illnstrated paper. on
"British Artiste," and on the "Picture Galleries of
Italy," are most Interesting. The remaining papers
maintalia the high reputation of the periodical.

DEATH FROM VOLOSTART STARVATIOM.-00 Thurs-
day, Dr. lialwick held an inquest in Islington, on the
body of Edward Cassidy, aged 45. murk, In the employ-
anent of the Great Northern Railway Company. During
the last two months he had been studying • book on
human diet, ad had determined to follow oat the
instructions therein given, and would for • day feed
himself upon scarcely • pint, or le.', of grueL The
consequiii,ce was that from • robust man be became
induced to • mere skeleton. There was no doubt enter.
tamed by the jury that the cause of death was the self-
deprivation of food • and they returned • verdict of
"Dca,h om congesilon of the brain from tbe want of
sufficient nourishment."

Sit ROBERT Curros, lord of the Clifton Grove which
Rick. White sang, hem died eomparatively young, leaf
when he seemed about to realises fortune by the di..
cover, of oral W. read that some fifteen years ego •
Parisian fortuneteller told Sir Robert that, " though he
VII nesse» of the fact, he (the bmonet) had great
minersl wealth under his estate; but the prognostleator
went on to warn Sir Robert that whenever he got to
mil be would also get to the sod of his oink career.
The fortunerteller further said that Sir Robert was
frequently maternand by pecuniary difficulties, but he
assured hien that if be would moist a rod beg, whieh
the fortune-teller offered him, carry it always with him.'
and I.k at it whenever he was in financial trouble', he
would find means of extricating himself from his per.
Pima,. The renews who relates this remarkable re-
miniscence added that Sir Robert parried this red bag
with him up to his last illness, arid that be had fie- I
quietly declared that whenever he was under • pressare
arid gazed upon his talisman he felt served to renewed
at/47." If we had not everyday esperiemes of strange
eredelity, we should hesitete to believe the story ; but
ar. forced to confers, with some hamiliatioa. that
Per*. It may be true.