The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-07-15 00:00:00

(ebbs anti Cnbs.

Writers on the Lon ton press mem sorely troubl A
biacans• • member of the U; psr House, wh bat been
cauvicttai of an indecent assault upon • ...reap% girl,
wa. brought to the Court to raceire sente.nce "in the
prison can just the IMMO ma an ordinary pawner, and
wit .n the Court hat b..en formally opener] he was
placed In the dock." Of count, this wan • little tod
bad. He should have been driven up in a coach-an I.
four, and accomin..lated with an erca-cbair on the
bench. Still, the :ender sympathies of the... breath,•
men may receive gane c..nagation from the fact that
the reoorder's sentence allowed of the role am of the
noble ',rivulet the very same day L rdSt. L emarda,
the inilliant ornament t the srktocracy in question.
1. 37 years of ac-ant a married ; a ;odd; • f th..
peace f..r the Coonty of Surrey, and a member of the
Oarlton club; and be is worth about £5,000 a year.

The case which detained our Recorder in Load in
,01 Saturday and &impelled him to send a deputy, was
that of the Central News •. toe Eastern 'Telegraph
Company (Limited). In this action the p'aintilf
sought to recover £lO,OOO damages from the defeort.
ants, because, ea they alleged, the defen lents ha I en,
rectitinely got hold of their account r.f the bsltle of
'Tel el-Kebir, an I appropriated it to their own uses
thus, in vulgar parlance, " taking the wind out of
their sails." To show the beauty of our law; It may
be dated that the case het heen reserved tir further
co:Adoration ; bat the Lord Chief J.i-tioe 110 said
Sad for the riefaud.nts, and gr.o the
pl data, a Dew trial. When asked by ..oe of the
learned cones whst nee there hat bon in reeer wing
the clay, h vely 00 II y repli of that, ed, ti.ll y speek.
jog, be di I not thiok LiICTO ha I heed ahy 4 al'.

Mr. Mat haws' brOf in the ease beard Pylori. lb*
I).•PutY•lfeowd, on S iturday wss maritiol 15
Mr. Matthews, who 10. Its • youn.: Win of about 3.5,
many id my readers will Iss eurpriseil to limn, has
se n his MJ h I.lrthday. Ha is nephew. awl 0.4 son,
as is generally imagined, of tbl late gr contsdi on,
(:bad Matthews.

If ever there was an ccs,ion noon which men
might exclaim. " Save mg from my friends." it fxli to
the lot ..1 tit. defend ot in this cgte. Expressions
of feslias on the port of the poblic invxra .41y do
more harm than fvxml. in this c.ao it was .irottly
shaking thn red fig In the face t,f the bull. Inst. . rep-
Lions much ea were he .rd during the progress of the
trial ere not to be comineuded. .A. the learned
DeWitt-Lim-order eel, il • swot feel. himself
aggrieved, he 6•1 • perfect right to appost h. the law.
Whets th"Puttitograltathl. saresounmistelviablyeholill
to tie upon the "wields tiloee of the Court naturally
tso I to the other, although upon this mcotiou the
exceriou most be geld t here pros. d the rule.

c au-e. th. c 1.6 6.11.6 r %till 8116 %Wilt,. I cane, t
unnist-nt tap te It now, nolsws I wished to ho
annononed 1,4,1-e her Ntaj.ssty's jutn.s. ant than
requeste I t par, any 1:701 I.e c .utempt ututt, Or
1/.. lOU rigone 1 anal 1' wag paid, which I AM afraid
wool Ilit r .thee ah in 1 finite ped .1, hot sill I think
at how on pocsnly the same
eyttlalic I-0 IlirOetlY 111.p.miti verdict.. cian be given
is ant ,tt.r that (.666.9, h man'. understanding—unless
ho is a ,lo nirrarko.

I hap en to know Ott in the riec tn I clout the jury
would have ddiagretd had it not been f ir one rnrs'
,rnt ercuinent -the dissentient, itisteeti Hirt,
b,incrs !

I am t 41 I am slightly smog wi h reterenza to the
wmileoging 01 the jury. It is goite true the defendant
ch.ilea4ad two f the jurors ; and it is equally true
Mr. N rim.. in the seoond case, asked for • new jury,
hut ths oh .11en41ng was not confined t. either side.
About If; joryni-n. I an. Jussured, who names were
not ma le pohlic, were ohj-et.l to, and DA cefied
before the trial gime on. The number, I bellows.
we, pretty evenly divided.

During the tine I was comp. I eil to " keep silence
nod .r imin of impriornment, while that piece of
hrtocritical twaddle, the proclamation ;Titled
vice, prolamine.; and immorality," wee being read,
I t iok up • daily paper, and I there .aw that in
future thin Noe would b • dispensed with at the
assizes. The ...user rho clerks (4 the Pence are also
tohl to tear it up the better. Our c iurt at Bucking-
ham Palen," doesn't set such • brilliant example that
It can afford t tnt U. to go to church. Wbto the
Piinc. f W ilea ties, up his Suldey concerts, and
the club, and the Z oloVcal Gardena ass no longer
op n to a pleesure-seeking misticracy, then it will be
tino enough to advise the workinganaa how be is to
spend the only day to the week that hs gine log
recreation.