The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-25 00:00:00

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the 4,3 op train, to which an extra amino, was
WO foe, R.i. moa him to my that the visit proved •
stow""- gag. and the excursionists under the
oast., esi!'"--eee of -;ur worthy Vicar, returned safely
g with
it nine o'clock highly pleased the treat
THE CAVALRY CAMP.
mui.fiz the past week visiting the camp ham been the
I thousands for whom a flower show or
rsg'• "I% rte I.lteNS no charms could not resist the
yrotcro n
. . _
• thus oered them of WitheORDIK SO novel
temptation •
I piets"l"e 3 "":ht " 4 l'r"ented .by two of our
an • k cavalry regiments " roughing it' in the open
~
11`r,,,. piently the i ehicular traffic which ban centred
:;'s‘si Slillorne Straits bee far minimised sing of
d0,ti.,1 o ithin the nionory of the oldest inhabitant'
,1 .0 doubt thsee issoiessing anything in the shape
h have been doing 3 pretty good thing •
i, weld the poor animals themselves rice so:
their feelings it is just probable they
1,:‘,. „ii not be quite gi jubilant, as may well be im.
n' hen we state that M MAY a dist&HCS as 70
tel-i.,1 oih. has been covered in one day by some of these
~. The weather, too, has been most
w_‘ .ten,tte, ". . -gel we have heard of several cases of eun-
t,rtrt'e•ia and around the camp. Friday was devoted
:tratezic movemen
0 to by portione of both regiments,
our altwn and its immediate neighbourhood being
. _ ~,.,t, of orwstions. It was understood that
tB4,•tok am invsled
ith by the Huosars, and the
sn;e, defended it i ,11 the frequent galloping to
Lac
oa.
,_,
of the tarious detachments in endeavouring
•i„. i.1.7.,,t .4W the olls.ang 1' 'rce c4u3LA no little
, v it•nuent and interest amongst the inhabitants, It
;..lithodt P. obtain an intelligible discription of the
j.e, the authorities being very reticent in
I_ ,Lt of the movements of the force from day to
71". the objeet being to get aa near reality as
001
I,,ii•k• there is shnoet as much mystery about their
1''.„,,,i ~,, if they were engaged in actual warfare
1 ow le,,,enients tit the troops on Friday'
,oLiaa to °adders. Under the full blue -f
a 3•0" e‘n the men b.und, the day's duties rather
ar
in,
I'. welt
whsi..i? order to check the °ppm
in. 1,0e'..&1 were '.lljedj from
point to Point at the-
;, ~.. The 'Amalie w, one detachment, which was
1,.,11,14... ow arisen up in front of an inviting
R3:13 lime teen likened to that
of the
~s4',shopi seeing that the mene
i.. 01.4 by thee officers from indulging in any
th,„..but tater trigtee,i 1114 who shall blame
- tie p.e fellew. ,II "yr '.••''','"an„ null) enabled them
011.1,iii! ~,,,..ate I, wing the water only as a
dijost Argo THURSDAY.
u.mbi is the SICsA tent of the officers of the l•th
odaur o curiosity WO excited seeing—what
at seein i
hardly expected to find at the famP—v4-
the kaiak initiates of the Sberborne Alm' b°uee. ariel
.e. esicirr we learned that the old ladies.b- ---
eolently enjoying their outn i.: and the- who were
prosecution of
,a oilot, bad tact with • kind friend in Mr. K. Turns,
„age. and one of the gevernneg, whose rheratAy
-•
'MAW theni to twitneoa a sight the like of
rem in all probability, won come under therrhnoict will
ics
ealia:•:offirieoa.mm
cers wiiiind; to iptbes
pm
day.. by th
ata very pleasant garden
ever-hospitable
~r WlJellycott at his charming, picturesque
At yen. Mahone Port Including e th_e surrounregiddeeingee
~..stry, ios.ct 140 assembled, and
pleassstly in the inspection ""!noon
enjoyment
of Sir William'se
Ikaidiful gtouL.l,, the enjoy
....lin,: refredimen, t and
inthe °of
tempting nanniad
etch latter. honey. w , found but few pad la" taaa—a;
~u4uee of the intro.* heat. The sth Heosaru in cl,-;"
ierformel and added much to the gaiety of the —.e-
,
king an especial treat to the local guests present.
- . _ SAYVHDAY.

A MODEL SEWAGE FARM.
[By the Special Reporter of the Dorset County Express
" Will a Sewage Farm pa ris such • very interestingue e
ultimatet n t
disposal t o s a t
theirwhich baresaa
m int t
tphrrt dare dh
af o r
Lpt h
Hope, V.C., homed 'pamphlet entitled "Food Manu-
facture menu River Pollution," and charged in plain
terms noon the Newspaper Press of WM country that
they were the WIDOW cause of the continued pollution of our rivers, it was not only considerably as startling, hut, Mr. Hope went on to invite the Press to Rnmford Farm to see it proved that he had conquered "Giant
Won't Pay," it seemed inennittent on us to look into the
matter. For some years the invite of this article has in
a humble capacity taken great interest in the sanitary
question of the wholemonte application of sewage, and
has applied it in at least three places on • very snail
scale, with great success, and has read a large mass of
somewhat unattractive matter on this subject, besides
"putting in his oar," by letters and articles, wherever he
found • chance of the public paying attention. But Mr.
hope has for many years been engaged on the I r problem, "How to dispose of the sewage of towns,
has to do with several farms. His Romford (anti was the
one selected by him for the inspection of the Press, and
curiously on this very farm he, in his pamphlet, the very one inviting us to see it, admits that, first Outing with
magnificent results, he haa since suffered treat losses,
Resolving to see Romford Farm, if it would in any way
help me to that certain faith in sewage farms that Mr.
Hope desires in the Press, I recognised that the subject
has several branches, and it seemed hest to look
Personally into some particular part In answer to my
first letter a very kind and ready invitation was received
front Mr. Hope. The effect on clay land I was most
curious about, and therefore wrote again, enquirying
what was the nature of the land on the Rumford Farm,
eirecially pointing out that I wanted to enquire as to
clay land. Ills reply was that he had all sorta of land on
the farm, and could give particulars of the stiffest clay in
England, which he had converted into a filter of eewage.
Determining to see for myself as independently as I
could, and deeming it necessary to hear some of the talk
of Ronsiord, I begged off front Mr. Hope's very kindly
pressed hospitality; and informing him that I should
visit the farm on Friday morning, I Proceeded no Thurs.
day morning to Hereford, which is easily reached from
laverpoolstreet (or Blehougatel station, London, in about
, X minutes. You will remember the great heat of that
day and following onset and any one who has travelled
knows the parched and scanty appearance of the crops,
especially on light lands, and this was manifest all the
way up. At Romford I learnt that Mr. Hope had the
farm seven years ago this spring, and that the seven
years lease terminates at Michaelmas. The town
, contains about 6,000 Inhabitants, sanguine townsmen
reckoning that it has increased since to about 8,000, and
that it is increased by half as many on the great market
day. The market is one great feature of Itomford, the
other being the large brewery. Allowing for the sanguine
way in which people interested in a town over-estimate
Its population, the average of Romford, including the
market day, is probably nearer 8,100 than 9,000. An
Injunction front the Court of Chancery compelled the
Local Board to keep the sewage out of the river Rom, the'
first pumped it on land in their own parish, and finally
adopted the sewage farm. Breton's farm is about three
miles front Romford, in the parish of Hornehurch, and
theland under sewage is 120 acres, "more or less." Though
lying fairly high and dry, the farm is about 12 feet below
the town, and the sewage flows by gravitation through •
line of pipes from two-and-half to three miles long.,
_is
received into tanks, and thence lifted by 'team power 30ft
perpendicular, where it flows In open troughs and flannels
on the land.
My Raeford host, Mr. Norris, of the Swan, who has
been a member of the Local Board, thought the expense
of pumping ought not to be above £l5O • year, and be
obiected to the Board being called on to pump too much
*Anent water. It appears that • quantity of the effluent
water is let into the tanks to assist in claiming them
from the sewage deposit Mr. Norris told me that the
Local Board had borrowed, for their works, £20,000 front
the Hand-in-hand office. The timber trees cut down
fetched £.lOO, and there were five farm buildings,
including an unusually good farmhouse. The farm was
let on • seven years' lease te Mr. Hope, at .4100 a year for
the land, and the sewage at .e6OO • year additional. Mr.
Hope states that he based his offer for the sewage on an
estimate of 2s, per head of the population, according to
the Local Board advertisement, the verbal statement
being that the population was nearly e.OOO. When *
laid out half the farm, Mr. Hope says be had magnificent
results, both in vegetation and money. I found that the
relations between Mr. Hope and his sewage farm were at
cite time very notch oodeur de rose: a grand lunch was
gven to several members of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, the Rumford Local Board, en, when the fine
barn was the scene of rejoicing, the produce having been
something extraordinary, the vegetables magnificent in
rise, and the purification of the sewage so thorough that
my informant confessed to having drunk the effluent
water, and found it perfestly pure: chemical analysis had
also confirmed the great purity of the effluent. Mr. Hope
continues that when he had laid out the whole, almost
every operation was a complete disappointment, and that,
after costly experiments, he measured the sewage, and
believes that on account of non-connections of some
houses, and leakages in the sewers, he only received
sewage equal to that of a population of about 3,000, he
admits a very serious and ruinous loss. Serious litigation
has resulted between the lessee and the Local Board. Mr.
Dope laying his damages, I was informed, at £20,000.
We will not at present go farther into this quarrel, suffice
it that there Was a trial at the March MAMMA at Chelms-
ford, It7i, and the litigation has continued alienist up to
the present time, there being • rumour in Itomfor.l that
a decision had just been arrived at about which I shall
isake further enquiries. The answers to my .kuestions
now got so unsatisfactory, that it seemed unadnsable to
niake further enquiries in Homford, and I resolved to be
satisfied with seeing the farm, whtch I found is advertised
to be let In this, however, it is like many others in
Essex and Surrey, where the farmers are getting more
anxious and determined to have security for their im-
provements, and are snore and more dissatisfied with
short holding'.
In spite of what libellers ray against our country inns,.
I may add that I got a good bedroom and good night's
rest at the Swan, at a very moderate charge, and was not
at all disturbed by any noises which I have read of, as
charged against such inns. If any one shred(' visit
Roinford, and desire quiet, be should go in the latter
half of the week, as I did, and so avoid the market
crowd.
Next morning I rues early, to avoid the great heat
coming on. Before starting my host told me he believed
any loss by eeware farming was caused by not having
acreage enough; 100 acres be eonsidered were wanted for
the sewage of Itomford. A visitor would not bare •
sewage farm at any price; "the place would grow tog
many weeds."
The road to Breton's farm has in it plenty of forks,
some without signpoete, so that it is well to ask the way
frequently. A walk of • little over two miles brought tee
to where the line of pipes conveying the sewage from
Hereford are visible from the ros4 being supported just
there on low brick piers. The girth ontaide all round the
pipes was thin., and at the collars 7Min., and I am told
this is an 111-inch pipe Here I fortunately fell in with
an intelligent townsman, from whom I learned that the
rates in Rumford, including those for the poor, local
boatel, highway, and lighting amount to from ils. to ea,
in the .C, the poor-rate being rather leas than half the
amount, and the average of the local board or sanitary
rate, as distinct from the other two, appeared to be about
twenty two pence in the C, one led. and one Is. per
annum.
At the term A bound certainly • very respectable house,
estimated by my friend as perhaps worth /..50 • year,
very nicely built of brickoind with respectable carpenter's
work inside ; but the greeter part looked as if it wanted a
good improving tenant The really fine iron gates out-
side the front garden, could have been made look much
better, the front canton seemed abandoned to weeds, and
altogether title part of the show was not favourable, even
In the reception parlour where lay the visitors book,
though the testimonies in the book to the farming were
first class. Noblemen and gentlemen of many ranks,
doctors from many scientific institutions, had recorded
their and some of the testimonies were un-
equivoMaae burden of them appearing to be -"The
tut economical and scientific applie.stien of sewage we
have NM?
The sewage tanks are two or three fields away from the
house, and I approached them gradually, observing first
the delivery to the crops. Being let oat by order of Mr.
Mason, the bailiff, it came along • concrete ditch in •
sluggish stream, blue black in colour, and certainly as ill
looking as one could expect it. But I was utterly 'atop-
ished at the absence of smell. A piece of Italian rye-grus
was irrigated to show me the manner of doing it The
concrete ditches supplying the earthen carriers are about
171 inches wide. and 131 in. deep, and they are themselves
supplied from iron shoots. The earthen ditches or carries*
are about 16in or 17in. wide and perhaps half u deep, and
ada divided front the concrete channels by little wooden
nattbss. The hatch being lifted a man strikes
into the -er,:hen ditch perhaps at about 30ft
lower down a.....c..deng to requirements, an iron
stop like the blade of a .g 1 tree shovel; this pens
beck the advancing sewage, wi.teh gradually flows
over the side of the carrier and down into the lad, which
Is slightly concave. When the bed is well watered,
before the liquid can rise around the plant, the stop is
taken out, and put in lower down, and so on until the
whole bed is moderately watered. Mr. Hope has
calculated the little slope very exactly, $4O that there is
no wending and no pool left, while not • handbreadth is
dry. 's hir operation is carefully watched, and its nicety
forms the tira.-ial value of Mr. Hope's plan, no flowing for
days, much leas ice niehte being allowed. Perhaps
an-hour may he slioires * V, space of ten yards by seven,
but always the time is carer td;usted to the state of
the land. The process is qui as suet, as, probably
more so than, that told us of the watering or a•astern
gardens from the river, alluded to in the Bible as "water.
tog with the foot," and "as the rivers of water, he turneth
withersoever he will." The rye-grass grows so quickly
that can hardly cut it fast enough, although the
cattle are se.:.eedingly fond of it Bane very much
surprised atthe m.yortoo Of any bad smell, I turned to a
field where they were MAAW'ir
the rye-grass into hay, and
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1 then recognised the true hut brazil, which we are told
is caused by sweet-scented vernal grass, *leech the scent
of new-mown hay twits fainter than with mixed
The crop was very clean • I is not remember a single
grass,
weed in the rye-grass, and by comparison with unsewaged
crops in similar fields, it was facile prince" the other was
ttterly perched, thin. almost burnt up. Mr. Hope writes
that be tsiectit OS toes from one acre of Italian rye-grass,
would fully prepare
and the MA offell',l(Towlse erne
one for such • beds. year the land now occupied
by rye-grese will be sown to ntassol,..,
On our road to the enandolda hatS van tual the shoots
which convey the sewage have IttowlitieseAthestiosange
iittrgeof
side of them willows. which Pirtle bid
4tWww handy for snaking baskets and
•-aaerle".-- The thntat and winalePe LrobnunPichiMinaall
;_r"- 1' liable to infLa ttttt ati. • ' soreness and the eaMcrovpsery Should the sewage overflow the
Ir.JUSUW
the willows suck it up greedily; but there Is no
g ate. notation, inducing cough and
sin hoot,', the
this now, for Mr. Mason complained that they
demur the,' thre glycerine cUirldo not half enough sewage sent front Romford,
I'tilis, being me agree ide and beetroot were beyond all comparison
er tee excited 'V
l'reeLainakr to the glands at the moment
is Thula° it
any others I saw in that part of the country.
..1.1`"Ie boated. become* "ye.. theerfreah juicy greenness of the leaves, and their sae
"Jsnra-keei boxes fin' frost 14 stamps). bete. remarkable. They seemed to be very thick indeed.
Threehweitte aid 142 limns °posit_ Chentistaei.,A, ti as many as should be together, and the
Vey b rieedill7.tsereewae--'eTZLe w thinaing them out for transplanting to the
.1. V. Wittuns, Chemist, ft, CA-
,..Warta.;• roles Wito: for Sixteen Yean. wmilslind,ewrehere bulbs of Ilia and 2in, were used. This
headland,
above the size of some to he seen south-west of Old
unit a ly admit
aed aa • . . ted to be the best Tonic known i nestle, near Weymouth ; but they were considered
wouddrfully good in the Roniford country. Mr. Hope
Lise
‘LeatiL anti ahTeeable &cairn paniment to ea tens me thee in 1e75 he had an average of 80 tons per acre.
.!nt . win bear pentonal testimony to its The mangolds I saw wers almost &Astutely free from
1).
ras atonic." - &est/ord. -Agents for Weymouth, wuds.
K ila'll°N end rkle. Grocens • Shaftesbury C. The Carrots were decidedly • beitnlttant evere woe
0' tatty, Wine and Spirit 11..relant Sherho'rne : inferior to thane in eni own little en plot, where I
4P, Grocers kc., ('he , Wholesale have no water supply. They had, r. Mason said, been
carried off by the vrtreworm, and the gaps, which were
-I:l4w7:l'and".o3l..B.lvizra'em.,4lk.r•
.--"-17—tieleat., London ;
quite half the area, were being fined with cabbage
nite
anti:et/I"- pea Ace. -Since the passing of the Adulter plants.
were shown me; the tann is generally
roan Act, the public AnalyUnl Chemists ta land, and aigds your reader' will remember the tradition
ter put. of ill. • try ha..
"elinsou t Co's Pure analyzed jeheeee• that fresh manure is not good for carrots and parsnip'.
re Yearn is every yaw proved Does this apply to Owe°
tw,feetly
ler
reNtiolooded ta DeuaLtre Tau can he strongly The 'mg wheat was Just coining in flower, but Mr. their .. ptwc
ese w good wholesome Tea, punt said they had not sewage enough to give the wheat
1.• Mkt strength sett delicious flavour. For through the wheel I raw it injured on each
Amato see advertisement
T,M) *CAA or A Goon Temp.-Mr. Disraeli was quite Val d informed that owing to the sewage leading
.gagerel led advising people to__ sere up ram water In tank.
where
"din •
bevinerapatoiladanothietr
tacroarapftahni:
, route, but there is in tele counter= tatial wheat
ef Laving rather too much of it In with wheat med. extrawaacarew-.if,
eyes
*an, are offended bK diacologations et-Ler airdueed'ed.
• ised le damp, and we now of only one
*weed/ the P • • at once.
ryegrasititht a.%:,,isetaleit"enatthalle.whtamtaaisgcuttathraavrill be segrawagedinn
etefying Nilicate Liquid, manufactured by and two or three fields from the house.,
P.pn. cos.'s., of Liverpool. The truth of welfeeerthethteaneerealsaan p in; station' The
sewage' as
_Titlarks is:videos:ad* the Increased demand for -fait front into one of these tanks,
Leaer,r3ete.i timu!"
_latch has caused Use opening of Aloes bre.said, .y.
tat so as to allow one to be cleared
who s t'enerm'etreet cartel-nit' Weise all ew,,,,,,,hleheheare used alternately,
while the other tank is
ner froru damp houses to obtata Particulars of solid'at luvaluable compordtion.
HtIN receiving sewage. The tanks
Flallopesuna
akboinve,therivothunnodt,eired.
Tab'
j"on
lairiaAL WeTZIL -The beet and shout eight
eighort feet
dietw• teridowilthe
"Net agreeable naturalmrient. -0 A convenient and - will°
dark-blue-black sheets. of
'one Purged% e whose I w the "dry' one looked rather more cindery than
it le ewe/ Ihtil.‘,seeh • ' the wst one. The gelid incrustation, sediment, or surface
lellieirse may come into play in dm
ci.and og,almtnlat scum,ciadar.aawhieliaaisemed to me something between
of hig4 witerblaok
ciPatn IE6 d
"'ether "laths and Welled Evio'" in original (only haw-Week, bettlesztee %CI IS
giam f a 2a. and e.d., of all wine where w Inr of of
a pipe et 1184, flea* 'the Tong

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Board engine driver estimating that they lifted SW
gallons per minute and pumping is supposed to go on
10 hours per day six days in the week. Mr. Hope's
ensployi who measures the sewage, stated that they lifted
about 800 gallons per minute, with fair average Pumping
of 84 hours per day. The coals burnt were stated at I tons
per week; but it was said that 12-horse-power engines
were wanted to do the work easily. The tanks are
emptied by Saturday night, and by Monday morning
they are found filled again. I would here repeat my
astonishment at the entire absence of smell (ruin
the sewage when irrigating the crops, and having tested
It to windward, to leeward, and sideways. I felt obliged
to test my power of smell with hay, to make sure I had
not a cold. I could easily smell the hay; but I eould not
smell the sewage, nor could I smell it front the carriers, or
the main shoota. It appears to me that the leaves of
plant; purify the gases an effectually as the net MO soil
purify the liquid, taking in carbonie acid, and the "cher
games, and giving out oxygen, as much when sewage is
present as any other manure. At all events, neither at
the height of a man, nor when stooping halfway to time
ground, was there offensive smell. At the tanks, too,
although so large a surface both of wet and dry sewage
was exposed to the burning heat of mom that streck down
six volunteers on Wimbledon Common, there was
positively no smell on the windward side, within a yard
of the edge of the tanks. A light air was moving, and we
maned to the leeward side. Within a yard of the tank's
edge, the smell perceptible reminded me of that from a
locomotive engine when you are to leeward of its hot
breath, but not immediately in the smoke; such a sniell
as is often perceived when yeu are in a carriage near the
engine in a tunnel, and have not shut the windows: In
strength it seemed about equal to that in the second
carriage from the engine. At a distance equal to the
breadth of the tank, it was very faint, and about twice as
far off as Boadditreet is wide, I could not perceive it,
although the air was lightly moving towards us. Yet all
this time the sun was pouring down on the dark surfaces
of both tanks with most unpleasant violence. At 60ft.
I could not smell it at all ; but the fresh country smell
from the crops was nearly absent, yet it could be perceived
directly on getting out of the line of the wind blowing
from the tanks. These being perfectly ;pen, there was
not a bush, or even • leaf three inches high, between us
and them, until we stood out in the barley. I see no
reason why the tanks should not be partly fringed with
willows, so as to conceal the black unpleasant surface of
the tanks, of course leaving openings for the stuff to be
cleared out. This fringe would, I believe, remove the
slightest fear of annoyance, even to a house within (lift.
Neither the bailiff nor the farm hands showed the
slightest signs of anything but geed health: Mr. Maaon
himself was stout anal jolly, anal the farm hands fuller in
fare than, and equally ruddy or brown as Dorset
labourers I have seen, although the people stoop a good
deal over the sewaged land, say at irrigating, or thinning
mangolds.

The first conclusion I reached was therefore that no
nuisance does, in summer, &rice from a sewage farm
I picas on to the other crope. •
Fiench heann—A large breadth was laid to French
beans for the London markets. Being topped, and kept
dwarf, they stand dry weather well, and of course it would
be impossible to 'sticker" the large breadths grown. At
that early stage the difference between them and crop* on
other farms did not str.. much, and there were
occasional signs of injury, Mr. Mason to remark
that you-must apply sewage at the right time, -it
on when unnecessat y, it will do harm. All the home
water, however, I have known used in gardens at
Dorchester, Weymouth, and elsewhere with the hest
effect, both in the quality and quantity of the crop of
French beans.

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Hardy Greens—Three-euarters of an acre of these bad
been much benefitted by sewage.
Peas—There was a fine crop of imperial blues, which are
picked green for the London market; Mr. Mason expected
to begin on Monday, and to get WI bushels per acre. The
plants. of course, not " stickered," covered a wide piece of
ground each, and were loaded with large pods. It may
have been the sort, but it struck me that the pods were
much plumper in proportion to the peas than ours, four or
five large peas in a pod, sixes and sevens very rare. The
ground had been deluged with sewage during the winter,
to prepare it for the crop. These peas were very much
clearer of weeds than I have seen pea fields round
Blilborne. Sixpence per bushel is given women for gather-
ing pew, and I learnt at Rainhain, in a market gardening
district, that a good picker could, if the crop was a fair
one, earn 3s. • day, and my informant seemed to think it
a capital change for herself, after working in the lead
furnaces, where roost of the women are obliged to have a
flannel muzzle over mouth and nose, to save them from
being poisoned with white-lead dust
Cabbages—l had been warned that the sewage grew
immense quantities of weeds; but I saw such nowhere
on the farm fields, except the under-ay.-rage lot among the
peas, and • very dirty piece of young cabbages. Mr. Mason
expected no great trouble from this: he was satisfied he
could have them up and kill them in good time for the
next crop. Excepting for the limas of weeds, the cabbages
certainly looked well.
Weeds—l examined the weeds wherever I could find
them, to try and find any unusual development or sewage
plant. The weeds were all of the ordinary kinds, Just such
as may be found elsewhere, and Mr. Mason knew of no
unusual ones. A nettle or two in a field of mangold, •
milk thistle among the barley, chickweed, the weed with
little heart-shaped seed pods, rough grasses, and such
common things, and on the average, few of them, were all
I could see.
_

Yutiering .uit, Mr. Goodden opened his hospitable
doe to ths cavalry officers in the afternoon. Dancing
o the Wain. of Mr. Rummy's string band was indulged
tn, sipt the hand of the Rth Hussars again discoursed
..„ritabk music, refreshments being provided in a
mapmee, and also in the house. Altogether we imagine
Up, pleasant gatherings will be amongst the most
a:terabit. niminiscences of the officers' experiences during
.hort sojourn in our neighbourhood.
There was no reconnoitring on Saturday, the day
.pent in cleaning op and preparing for an in-
.l.vtion of saddlery ; but, notwithstanding the
„h.eme ,d any special attraction, the flow of visitors
.10 ct tlag in the least, but, if anything, increased.
SugDar.

The attendance at the church parade si-n---S-u-n-day
merning by far eclipsed that s 4 the previous Sabbath,
and some slight idea f its astounding proportions
may lie 'gathered by those of our readers who were not
present when we inform them that from eight to one
lock 110 fewer than 180 vehicle's of all ilescrit.tMns
were counted as they parsed through one only s 4 the
thoroughfares '4 the havn ! And all this in the
sweltering heat! The time and place of the parade
sere the s:une as at the firmt; and the men were in
the full glory of pipeclay and chromic yellow : more
they hasl that in. ruing served out to them a new
white pl • instead of the 61.1 black one, an alters-
lion which was generally considered to bean improve
:swig. The Vicar I A Sherbonte and the Abbey choir
were again in attendance, and in the musical portion
.I th.• service the latter were again assisted by
nnoutsi instruments. the hymns being :101 and
hy ".liwient and Modern." The service closed
MI6 a tery impressiie though brief sermon by the
whew teat was the 24th cerise and 15th
shatser .4 the First Book 44 Samuel -" Ansi Saul
said onto Sat 111111 l I hare sinned, for I bane trans.
rrn,i ii'eouninutiltnent of the Lord and thy words.
wee I feared the people anti obeyed their ‘oice."
Visitors .outitmed to pour in all through the lay;
at at half-past six the combined hands of the !Inman
an.; l.anrern again performed a selection s if eXpliAlte

-
The lands I have gone over were the higher one, all
light and open, and which absorbed sewage freely. It was
drained about lift. deep. The out fall of one of the main
drains into a little shaft where it can be .ent into the tank,
I meamired and found it aft. below the level of the road,
end the soil first above might be 'ix inches higher; but
Mr. Mhvon thought the average rift.
The effluent water was perfectly clear and bright. I did
not, like my ex.local.boanl friend, taste it, for the eight of
the tank close by was too strong a test of orejudiee ; but
in appearance it was all right, an.l had I
.seen it at a
distance from the tank, I should not have led a said
draught. it cannot be doubted that land filtration does
perfectly purify sewage.
We then passed to the clay land. This is in a "lbottom,"
not far from the brook. It hail been used for beans
before Mr. Mason came ; Ilia it was gitnirrilooll as having
been actually poisoned, the beans being almost smothered
with weeds, so that there were scarcely any beans.
Sewage was let go on this land in the winter. and they
did not care if it stood six inches deep. Mr Hope claims
that be faced the winter difficulty with a full recognition
of it, but having belief in the compensating powers of
nature, and that, as a matter of fact, the nitrogen was
NOT waahed into the drains. The land is believed to have
taken a great portion of the manure, and it was sown
late to barley. I believe that it does not have sewage in
the sunirner ; there seems a very good piece of barley,
and the weeds have been thoroughly beaten. In some
patches made by filling up old gravel pits, with scarcely
any soils on the top, there was, of course, very little
plant. _

BIONDAr.
M. nday will I. remembered by ninny 11z marking one
.tito.veatad Moues to which a confiding public have
The only work for the troom to-day,
heaj.lop Ai daily camp routine. WWI a drill at 5.40 a.m. ;
but it had ma noisd abroad that this wan to he the grand
day -the 'swim. by the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied
ty at leat oar tame nr the blood ; and from a very early
hoer the influx It' visitors wan minething simply
in,ndible to flew.; nI.o didn't see it. Employers at
wit as Ilminater ,Lnd other distant towns and
bankt, actuatc.i by the laudable wish that
their workwmple should not tpi..s so gallant a spectacle,
:are thr.m a holiday. and Colll{cque.tly vehicles of every
dewription were employed., waggonloads of
.w.rimPur.l redies, i 0 sonic instances az:rating any
laintin:ani everNetna. .ad a team of three amesea, the
hiceitio.t proudly lestriddea by an improvised
in tto l.r.oim of a ruddy-faced phrughboy, drove through
th, t all evidently in high gum at the prospect of
ow: the "eidrine" at their best' Put cruel wan the
ih..ipp.intiiient upon their arrival at tiadir destination.
4 jonrner op on a road which, especasUy between
••"lefne Anil the camp, the unprecedented arrount of
Weir bet Ina& inelies deep tin dust, there MU on sign
40 P.CW nor any preparationa forum.; indent', with the
l'w"rb.oi f n .110, of polo for. short • aluougla •
of the othwini, whirh excited snme little interest, the
•Ia y %keno minarkably dull and uninteresting;
that, sith " blazing away, and not a vestige
•I a tree nailer which to take umbrageous shelter from
I,ooliero. the only refuge for the majority of
`"lms was the canteens ; and here a rattling
mac wr. ilea., for a glance sufficed to show a abort
while ineowards that the pleasure-seekera had br no
Ten. nienvil their faith and all-deuce to the cut)
at ;hew. hut not inebriates." Probably it
''" milr.. to hazard a conjecture as to the
muerical .trengti of the visitors on this day we
erill mule contest aurselves with stating that there
were ii the ground a. .owe time no fewer than 1,200
vehicle , (and fumy 04 pup, brought 3) each) Fill these
'.cutrant., and make • proportionate allowance for
';'"i'tri4.l% and the total nol4 perforce be something
tra.s.liap. Is the evening the town warn quite lively
Ado . Lne hour with the return of the excursionists,
whom looked pretty well " _

'Auto the winter, the plan Weld to be to deluge it
with sewage, with the view of thus manuring the land
for future Crops. Judging front both peas and barley,
the plan has not failed to manure the ground but as to
the results of filtration then, I have not sufficient facts
as yet in my own knowledge. In Ku 1111 l ter It is very
evident that moatcareful application is nesmssary. Where
the land has been levelled, the tops of hills being entirely
taken off, the hollows filletl up, and the proper gradients
made, the success is as before stated. But the levelling
must be very accurate. At Paris Mr. Mason found the
tops of the hills impoasible to sewage, and the hollows
had it standing in pools; but a thorough levelling made a
radical improvement before he left. A small piece of
rough ground at Breton's farm shows the higher spots
burnt up with drought, the hollows, even of a few inches,
with everything killed, and the surface left a dark
bluish.brown. Mr. Mason, who besides being at Paris,
has laid out farms at West Derby and other places, is at
one with Mr. Hope, in laying the greatest stress on exact
levelling. This levelling makes great uniformity and
some dullness in the hook of a sewage farm it cannot be
a place of hills and dales, and besides the willows, the
pumping station, and the great lines of shoots, are with
almost dead fiats, the features of the landscape as far as
the farm extends.

As to the financial results, Mr. Hope appears now to
admit great losses: but this he attributes to &short supply
of sewage from Romford, and, with the bravery of A
soldier who has earned the Victoria Cross, if 'Giant
Won't Pay," has beaten him, be won't acknowledge it.
Frew the farm is sold a great deal of rye-great in Itomfoni,
and some goes to Londc.n. Forty mends of butter per
week used to he made on tho farm, but leis now, the pro-
duce being used for fatting stock. Fifty head of cattle are
kept, among them about Zi shorthorns, and some of the
calves have as much milk as they can drink. Of the milk
I drank two large tumblerfuls (the weather being very
hot) and I have an utter contempt for any idea that milk
from a sewage farm is different from other milk it was
capital. Any one who saw Mr. Hope's system of irrigation
would see that the cow's food is perfectly clean and sweet.
The stork look fine, Young Oxford Cwynne is a 1111 l miter
in size, Young Niece took the first prize at Colchester, the
26th of last June, and a hull calf took a .1:5 prise for Mr.
-- I now saw his proper title is Lieut. Col. Hope. The
barn has in it a small engine about threehorse-power, for
cutting chaff, pulping roots, etc. a tramway is Lid in the
middle, and the place is all in good order.
As to the light land, I onside- that I icut. ll,pe
has solved tho Flowage .kur.tvin. '1 here was nothing ut all
to shake the testimonies of gentlemen of the highest
celebrity, which appear iu the visiting book
. . . . . . . .

• - TUISDA T.
Tan.ear night the wither, lighted an en.ormotpi
:Imp hr.% lVti far which wilA granted ad libilaia by fair
'4• It ha,l4 very grand effect and lit up for
".11, the eriuntry. The proceedings, which did not close
nitil 12 wilt _fa !mut convivial character and
!..nat4l a ',truant wind-rp The two cavalry re7inaonts
'tor, it said about ona o'clock laquorrnw
1140.)iu"nlin:. In•levi later ake day, in order to avoid
hror ht. The Army fiervica Perim will remain
whool a while to wake final arrangemeniac

'LURIE!) BY MISTAKE.
Ikengh tar otOr of an official a curious and Perrlaa- •
••ha.ar,ven at Leeds Workhouse, which
mm Intel. the guardians in some expense. There
to have been ts. female inmates. Sarah and
hedrr. and three waeks since report was made
`'`t 'erg hoSt siol Iler relati,,cl +sere communicated
With. am! 01.1 buk the body away, ,2,rew out the burial
"l'elerfaliont Lei, bought mourning, duty ..-arrowed, and
.numittel the o•., to the grave in the full laxlief that
'ter theis aged relative, although °us: of
th..m 1,ea11..•.1 that there teas a change in the fmtures' '
Tld•
cot thougkt much of when it ems
'0 Inn.! that death doe. sot:tette.: make a great differ-
lo the feature, A few days tag. it was found that
lointaliC hail limn niade in the Christum name of the
hod Ana that it wse Martha, and not ‘&7114 who
taen interred. The guardians have consessisontlY
the eelatieee of Sarah Emsiey, alba
naturals minute rowel/Mt that they have lman put to
th.• tiouLle And vxpea.e of jatarriaa an entice stranger.
lint,not isirrhasiag the frowning, to say nothing of the three
grief, abit wish to know what compensation the)
."4
"15i1 '''n,entiences of a blunder which are
awhw4r.l thss; are fortunately unprecedented.
1100 far their delight at finding their supposed deceased
ite alive and well may recompense them for the
men tiles' 11.1 eminent rei 1118 to he seen when the
.hall have fixed thes"'uni which ahall be awarded
• , ton,

As to the clay land. there. was not enough at homford
for tee to give an opinion on. Col. Hope hag, I believe.
laid out a clay farm, where they had to burn almost the
whole surface of the soil. if his success at Crewe and
elsewhere are equal as to filtration, to those at Rumford.
the only question is as to the expense.
lithe Local Board of Rumford can get their-pumping
done for £l5O or even I`.llll a year, and let their sewage
for .0000 a year, besides getting about £1 an
acmx for the rent of their land, it is obvious
that they have wont to pay espeos a a ,An.si,le.alik,
capital outlay. But. as Colonel Hope's contention with
them is that they have only given bin' half the amount of
sewage he expected to receive, it may well be that he
only estimates the sewage rent at half that he
gave in his first lease. Thus, instead of XIV a year
excess of rent over pumping might perhaps reduce it to
£4OO a year. Colonel Hope, in his pamphlet, declares
that a quantity of the solids are taken out before the
sewage reaches 111.11. Until the differences between Col.
Hope and the licruford local Board are definitely settled,
and the value of the farm discovered by the ternis of the
next lease, I submit that the Press cannot arrive at that
settled faith which CoL hiopedesires, and that an extra
amount of care will be necessary in deciding as to clay
lands. The capital outlay for purchase, levelling, pump-
ing station, etc., is so great that it would be ruinous to
submit it to Inexperience.
Lot there are two facts which cannot be doubted ;
there is ko ulitall-0 in suilinttr from a sewm;e farr. Cad
the effluent water is pus,
NV. T. R.

A respite has been received for the condemned prisoner
Lim, Lew, who was meets:newt to death at the last Redford
Amine, for the murder of her illegitimato child, about
three weeks old. The Jiffy recommended the prisoner to
mercy, and several petitaona praying for a remiesian of
the capital sentence had been sent to the Home Secretary.

A FRENCH 11URDER. —A revolting murder wits com-
mitted in the Rue de l'Ortallor. A mau known to lie a
confirmed drunkard, who had had criminal relations with
a married woman residing with her husband in the street
just named, went to her house and killed her with a razor.
The body, when discovered. Witil frightfully mangled.
After having committed the horrible crime, the murderer
went and invited the husband of his victim
ootuFfessr, end they epeot Jiff wsy drioking vigetha
AT the Oldhili 141111.4 Court, Wednesday afternoon,
three iime.d viaminere, named Jacob 'oloy. Henry
Barber, and Alfred Aston, residing at Cradley, were each
fined $.50 for haring In their possession a large quantity
of sugar, not being for the necessary or ordinary use of
their families, and they not being licensed to brew With
Mar'

A SUMMER DRINK. —lt may interest romc. reaare4 to
know that a cho-p, 4tWi 'Armsful drink suitable
during u &rot weather, may be made a. under. Put three
lb. of loaf sugar Into one quart of water and boll until
thoroughly diaseired. then pour into a jug and allow it to
stand until nearly cool add two oz. of powered tartaric
acid and drops of essence of lemon to flavour to taste,
This mixture may be then bottled and used as required.
About • tablespoonful added to a glass of water converts
it into a (Idiom', lemonade. Whilst many arc craving
for a cool, unintoxicating drink, few unfortunately know
how to compound one with ease.—P,
HOLLOWAY'S PilAn. —Nothing Preserves the health wl
well asaa oocauional alterative in changeable weather, or
when the nerves are unstrung, These Pill act admirably on
the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify
the blood, that they are the most efficient remedy an ward-
ing off derangenienta Of the stomach, fever, diarrhaea,
dysentery, and other maladies, and Irfirlltil tone an.l. enerzy to debilitated constitutions. All wEo L.c. tha tiatoral
and laudable desire of mairttainint clazir own and their
ises health, cant, t C., vette'. than triad Viry.lf,,Wa
I which coal, raft, tate, and Erne •
' are stutabh, ail .„
constant., ; comv " .
t,14 1,01 tqg —.wain and
•—• *sr will prove

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1876.

CERTAIN PERSONS AND THEIR MONEY.
Vice-Chancellor Matins, a judge of more than tUnlia
to Is` I.sreil I. to a certain ...shwa,. a
tact and it fence wan rifled neon last week to do
etitta In at
typical cane. Tlhte matter came before hi. Lorlnhin on a
motion in behalf of the Earl of TAP W.. to restrain the
Earl of Berths. fmns nerntiatires two oeceptanm. of
£l.OOl each, which had hems drown in blank and accepted
by Lord Loom.and whiels twit stoweinsw !one,' their. way
into TAM ilsetiee's bled.. The ohl ',met's., still preeasta
In rhancery of taking the AhliAllfr3 pvhisowo 111333
Mffilevit, and the affliaeit of Lord Lewis diselnset as
yisytpwasnary a ow,- of "kite, and how tn fly them" en
hex Tindall's, ever vet been told in a Coq& of It
seems, areorilin,f to his own amount of the matter, that
this young nobleman. who in heir apparent to the
Marini-Ate of Abergavennv, and a little ore.' 91 year. of
ate,, st,„„a himself is nhort time ago in urgent need of
what is known a. " temnorary yy,,,finstu.t, „„en,,,tede.
flop." He therefore applied to Mr .Tohn Cave Payne,
who In said to be 3 SOli,itor to the flirts Cone', and hen
his offices in a nide street off the Strand. Mr. Psyne it
seems, in in the hal•it of senilins not circulara addreined
to "noblemen, heirs to entailer' e.t.a.,. mll,, le the
tempneary adyfinee upon their
one of these eirculars haying
Army, and gentlemen of poeition," offering to provide
thoetern
nwri with
na,
in
.1
inoinme e 4: iaant
fallen in Lord Liewes'a WWI shortly before hie trembles
came upon him, he walke•l into Mr. Payne's little parlour
with all that confidence which young men always pnt in
moneyden.ling circular'. and, we may add, amen middle-
aged gentlemen in highly coloured pmepeetissen. In the
parlour was sitting, net the spider himself, bet • sort of
deputy-spiilerling. who VASA, it teem, in reality a certain
Mr. Roland (Silicon Israel Barnett, hut who, in the
ahsenee of his Principal, pmtuptly represented himself as
Mr. Payne. "Did Lord Lewes want money? Nothing
was easier. Ilin Lordship must insure his life. and epee
the security of the insurance it friend of Mr. Pavne's in
the City would be only tor, happy to discount his Lord-
ship's acceptance," What became of the life insurann'
we are not told, but inert Lewes has sworn that he
handed Mr. Ilarnett aeceptancesi to the amount of
.C 11,500 which the gentleman in the City wan to discount
for him. Together with these acceptances he also gave
his own cheque for nonfor the puneinse, as it was
explained to bins, of "proving his simature "—a process
somewhat analagous to that which the Tiehborne
Claimant used to rail "establishing my identity."
Within a short time ..C2fri wani handed to him as part
discount of his bills, and he at mice placed it to his
amount. No sooner WAR it there than the cheque for
4:400 was presented, so that his Lordship as a matter of
fact hail received LI, an return for which he had
acceptances out to the amount of £11,500. Such a state
of things could hardly be conaidered satisfactory, and
Lord Lewes scene; to have paid repeated visits to Payne's
office in quest of an explanation. Mr. Payne. however,
was not to be found, and all that Lord Lewes could
ascertain was that two of his acceptances, each for
-ClOOO, had been endorsed away to Lord Bective, who
claimed to bold them for a good consideration.
Now, lord Bisctlve is heir to the Marquis of Ileadfort
and, although he is a little older than Lord Lewes, is still
a young mats, being only tluety-two years of age. It seems,
according to his affidavit, upon which he submitted to a
searching eross-examination by Mr. Glum, that his share
, in the transaction has been more imprudent than culpable.
Early in the route° of the present year he ton, like Lord
Lewes, was in need of temporary accommodation, and Mr.
Payne discounted his acceptances for .C 9,000 at the
niwlerate rate of thirty per cent,, or thereabouts. While
seise •,f these kites were still flying his Lordship came into
posse:gams of a considerable slim at money from another
source, and, he says, Payne, aware of this. asked him as
a favour to cash two of Lord Lewes's bills. Ile did no,
actually giving his own cheques for the full amount of the
bilk and being under the impreasion that the money
would be handed by Payne to Lord Lewee. Now. althowsh
Lord Rective thus stands in the position of a holder for
valise, yet in virtue of its equitable jurisdiction the High
r.mirt of Justice base stensive powers, and Vice Chancellor
Matins, had be thought fit, could have made an order upon
Lord Beetle°, forbiibling him to negotiate impart with the
1,1111 until the questions relating to them had been tried
net and decided. Instead of this, the learned Vice.
Chancellor, who is alwaYserninently practical, suggested a
111M10 nf settling the difficulties in issue which, if the
advice he gave be received in a proper spirit, will, no
doubt, mull in a satisfactory compromiss. He refused to
make an order on the motion, observing that he was sure
that if the two noblemen were left to themselves they
wont,' come to terms on the matter, and that the snit
would be arranged without the aid of the Court. The
only moral of the case—if, indeed, it can be said to have a
mond at all—in to show us of how little avail that precious
commodity which young men or so fond of calling
knowledge of the world is apt to prove upon an emergency.
Lord Lewes, we are more, would until recently have
resente,l any imputation upon his sagacity and penetra-
tion as keenly as if it had implied A reflection upon his
personal courage. None the less we find him, giving Mr.
Barnett in cheque for Vaal, by way of "proving his
signature," when, if such a proem of demonstration were
at all necessary, a cheque for el would have answered the
Purpose equally well. There is, however, more excuse for
Lord Lewes than for his companion in misfortune. The
future Marquis of Abergavenny is still a young man with
his wisdom teeth to cut. Lerd Elective, on the other hand,
in old enough to know better. As matters stand Mr.
Barnett has certainly not done • bad stroke of business.
Ernie Lori Lewes, in return for £9:15 in cash, he has got
£270 in cash and acceptances for £11,500, which, as far as
he himself is concerned, are, on the facts of the MAO, sieve
waste-paper. 'intent he can contrive to endorse them away
for value. Ile has, however, got rid of these worthless
kites to Lord Itective, awl has received in return £2.000
from thu nobleman. He thus stands noon the whide
transaction a clear winner to the extent of .C 1,1105 in cask
and ISCisel in bills, unless the Equity Court in which the
bills are now deposited decrees theta to he delivered over
to Lonl Lewes.

THE WAR.
I/MU OF TIM TURKS.

A telegram from a Special Correspondent at the Servian
fleadtittarters states that a severe engagement, lasting
wren hours. took place on Wednesday, near Nevavaroach.
between a body of Turks 4,000 strong and a force of 3,000
refugee volunteers tinder the Arehimandrite rhatchits.
The Turks were routed in disorder, and suffered heavy
loan. According to nor Belgrade Correspondent thee were
Permed in all directions, and as they fled were slaughtered
by the Servians.

8-TIOCKING TNIIUM AMITY.
At the Pnntefract Borough ('nun, no Wednesday,
before Mr. .1. flout Edge and Mr. W. Booth. a deiected
looking old man, who gave the name of Patrick Daley,
and said he was a bricklayer, was charged with having
been fnund dnink and incapable. in the Market-place at
Pontefract on Tuesday night. No was apparently suffer-
ing great pain, and repeatedly begged the Bench to allow
him to be taken Into the Uninn Mune and be seen by a
doctor. This request, it is alleged, the Bench disregarded,
althnugh a policecergeant informed the Court that the
defendant was apparently ill when brought to the police
office on the night previous. Ho MU fined So. and costa
by the Bench or II days. As he was being removed in a
bent position, and at a slow pace from the Court, he
repeated his request, hot was informed that ho could see
a doctor no reaching Wakefield. in going through the
streets at the latter place he fell and died at the feet of
the police officer who had apprehended him, and who was
conveying him to the House of Correction.

THZ AMOURS OF A LOCAL PREACHER.
On Wednesday the members of the Runeorn Board of
Guardians bad before them a aingular rase of child
desertion. It was stated that a woman ha-I left a baby
three months old in the rare of it person at Frralshana, and
as she bad failed to pay the allowance stipulated for its
maintenance the infant was handed over to the workhouse
authorities. On Inquiry it was found to be the child of
a man resident at Kenyon, who had combined his occupa-
tion of coal agent on week daya with the functiona of
local preacher on Sundaya, and had eloped with the
woman in queation„ leaving the baby behind. The
guardians had written to the woman', husband informing
him that he was legally responsible for the maintenance
of the infant, hut be had replied that as the child was not
his he would go to prison before he would pay a farthing to
itA support Canon Barclay, the chairman, said it wag a
very hard case, but there wee no doubt that the Isar
would compel the woman's husband to maintain the local
preacher's off-spring. The clerk stated that the husband
was taking steps to obtain a divorce.

THE SALE- or INTOXICATING LlcalfOßS.
If the qiu•stion .4 controlling the mho of Intoxicating
Liquors le not solved. it will not be for lack of attempted
solutione. Prop.',ls are annually brought forward which
range from an approach to total Prohibition to some mild
restriction on the granting of Licences. The extremes in
this Year's seheole may lie considereol as represented by
Sir Wilfrid Lawson's Permiesive Bill on the one side and
Sir Dareourt Johnstone's Intoxicating Liquors Bill on the
other -the former gi vine power to a two thirds majority
of Ratepayers to close Pubßehouses altogether, and the
latter modestly proposing to facilitate the gradual reolue-
tion of the number of Lieences. Between the two atands
the Bill of Mr. Cowen, which was theeubieetof Thursday**
debate in the Houma Commons. The object of this Bill
is to transfer the power of Lieeneas from the Justices of
the Peace too Boards elected in every Union by the Rate-
payers. The elections would he triennial; the members
would he elected by ballot ; and their number would vary
from five to twenty-one. The Bill doe' not touch the hours
of opening and closing publichouses, but confines itself to
shifting the licencing authority. Practically viewed, it
is simply a particular. rage of the general principle
endoodlied in the Penuisove Bill. As Sir Wilfred Lawson
said, It is not his bill, but it is very like it, and, treating
it as a kind oof alternative measure to his own, he gave it
hi, cordial support. A Itill which could he thus treated waS
of course, sure of rejection :and it might well he regarded as
involving most 41 the inconveniences of the Permissive
Bill without the &haulage of an equally deeisive result.
A poll under the Permissive Bill would at least settle the
question of publiehowes or no publichouses without
further appeaL Plot when the Board proposed by Me.
Cowen had been elected, the ease of each publichouse ,
would have to be fought before it in detail, and an elected
body could not avoid on such a subject the most pressing
importunities. The course of the debate exhibited, in
short, a general dislike to the kind of proposal which the
Bill enileolied, and a feeling that the special form it
aasinsied had no Litigating characteristic. It was neither
one thing nor the other, ant was not better than either.
At the same time, the principle which was thus dis-
missed will, probably, in one form er another, have to lei
taken into serious consideration. If we must needs have
a Licensing authority of some kind, we must expect, as
the di seursion proceed., the fitness of the present
authority to be jealously challenged. The objections to
the Magistracy advanced by Mr. Cowen will not, indeed,
on this subject, bear the weight he laid upon them. Re
urged that the Magistrates are more or lass political
partisans; but, even if this were so, it is not upon polit:cal
interests that the ini•rease or decrease of public-homer
materially depends. The ml ouestiott is whcthe‘, upoil
a matter which is leer° 4114 mete engaging the attention
and inteest ei the puhlie, they command sufficient
general eonfolenee to le haft with its control. This is, of
course, distinct from the ouestion whether they aro in
the alatract the hest authority for the purpose that could
be devised. It I, enough that the duty is in their hands •
they hold the thresh., as it were, of a very eoluplicateci
lousiness ; the tradition; the practical working of the
system, the character of individual Licence-holders, the
stmiatltilicayloicteolithle,„trictioaore atllolicuoritrofaaoniyilioaect,sioytheom.
newly-con-
stituted body, and 'more athan gthey c''-ould ever be to an
authority triennially elected. A very decided case must he
made net against them before we venture to transfer to
other hands the control of so vast • trade ow, that c .1.0
Lice al nser' ctuallere No practical Lg.: h.tod will te,glird
the Magistracy were'y t, se os individuals accidentally
got toceti.e, nazisoc the inNuences of social or political
interest However they may be apPointed, Magistrates
at one., Iwo:nue menders of is hody which has is con-
tinuous existence, ;eel which is the depositary of a
traditional mode of itoing bode.* sod of prolonged
experience. Individuals fall under the influence of the
system and inherit its acquired aptitudee. This is an
argument which may, aflame', tell against the present
authority with Geese who deem the 'Abele Licensing
system based 01l a fable principle; but to the g7cat
majority, who regard the subject as one for •ai :tut
praetical aaministration, the advantaged f
authority in uric tised hand, w.il rutweigh many ininor
disadvantagel. It acouloi I.e considered, moreover that
.1
they lhe Magistrates axeare, such nowehledimilies,ly anu•ateihrgeerlsP:•in'ilthaapeLxVY.
peculiar
Jealously. and that indiscretion, which would be thought
excusable in • temporary Board would in then, be severely
condemned. Taking things so they are, if the main
object be to obtain an experienced authority, inde-
pendent of direct popular pressure, and yet amenable
to public opinion, there is very strong ground for
maintaining, at least in substance, the "v-canticensing
Bole. .
)11 the c the: Led, it is omoseanowilole that on this
sultleet the loaliatraeY Partakes of the weaknee, which
tends to affect It, more or less, in all its administrative
functions. People are daily becoming, more jealous of
the financial an.' social affairs of their districts being in
the hands of men who are in no way responsible to them.
The administration of justice must always be left in the
hands of 11l ill aced authorities; ind there it n imm_aning
weight of opinion in fil,Von:os 1,.2.444„r,ju.,•• Mtnii, Of the
Lusrues..; wa.eh is beat e,elusivele in the bands of justices
he worth or onsidering whether this
teirious
,K
the peace to County Boards, or some similar bodies.
7us suggested might not be treated
fmaing u ill 4 'snottily le felt as keenly in reference
to the licensing illlUSUull as With respect to any other, and
terlialsu it
ImuslY• The erginifenfs advanced in Thurelay's
daub: are conclusive against a
referrira; the
licensing question in any form. to jwioular election. As
Sir
William finrcourt urged, it is impossible to conceive
ii more direct in. fitment to corruption than such an
election would he." Es cry touhlic-houxe would for weeks
moat debasing fonn. Drink unlioniteol would be at the
disreal of ratepayers in return for fl vete,: and the
beforehand become the scene of in ite
gmeem4nna
objection is eno which applihiz :
recif,r,c4P, cinhnid, r"tbeet the present
season or to LACillou 4414; InniOnsoc of election from
the licensing Ludy. The "elect would be gained if
Perini:ode,: Bill. bib tie are 'ilLni,"lhnorl.tfttomein
rtoo.tl,l,e
the management of such. matter, were in the hands
t ~emplaiut of their failure to reflect the
cure should remain
of wine such authority. as it is now geiterelitt donircd to
rreiste ymo other local purposea.Such a ledy men ve;4l4
probably retain those traditions and tlint s.kperience
thi4e dntroemlr4ohlf °tht:
saitiii.thiflT,eiva.apre,....a.tw.,..,h.fle,tuositttev.tepah.eosyht:r,o,uo:wn....t.tidmi,t.toian;:oh,ekt:ial
generally. We
cael"anlYd wfh.fichlansPhualte. tcnroMphreitletniratadiorevangagTre
much of the former ,
and that which 3lr. Cowen wouldow. create has neth..— nut
dio,frillieElltptp,tradmintdhoe.rio,
ty,
porharyk
h..
too
the latter. It would not. however,
devise something that wad por
REAIDI AnAIS. -An &V. r, Neal tricot midnv, .n the
court of Session, taonlaagho w,tueli Mr, flnriev‘itende
the novellst, Was Purenert„ •"."- Om proprietors and
p übiighor. a the Gimp ns' ereld were defenders. Mr
tlts
copyright of his story entittzit_
~ A Hero ,Ina a jamtyr,...
ne had consented to the ueatten of the store In the
„ob. and the At•r e• Writs
Pall Mall Oa- me in cams
Iteade claimed Pro datuagea fa.* infringement
in
tion of the prorrietere Paper-
pectitoly £llll and 1200. tit he und
re4m
Tighe% Without his conetia, herr
.„
pulmmosLed in the Glaaroc *NW e-
...red the
and the I
reinat,akg " the story was
itioiltVoti:oi eio• , the faith of November.
ran December, with the
, The defenders stated that in
...g the story from the. Pall Mail Gazette they acted
di conformity with the invariable practice of nesregenere
throughout the country. The Poll Mall Gazette contained
no inUmation that the author reserved any right to the
story. The jury returned a unintirneus verdict for the
purvuer, giving damage, 4;90.

EXTRAORDINARY BREACH OP PROMISE
AGAINST A RECTOR.

On Wednesday, at the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion Square,
London, an action for the assessment of damages for
breach of promise of marrtago—judgment having, in the
first instance, been allowed to go by default as brought
by Miss Amelia Thomas against the Rev. John Rowlands,
the rector of Queenhope, Mold, in Wales. The damages
were laid at £l,OOO, and the whole of the surrounding
circumstances of the ease were of an unusually romantic
character. Mr. M'lntyre. Q.C. and Mr. English Harrison
, were for the plaintiff; and Kr. Moody and Mr. Harris for
the defendant—From the npening of the learned counsel
it appeared that the plaintiff was twenty-five years of
age, and was the daughter of Evan Thomas, the sexton
and clerk of the church at Bwlchyciban. in Montgomery.
shire, at which place the defendant was I icar some
twelve years ago. The plaintiff was subsequently engaged
to supply the place of his housekeeper, and then, the
schoolmistress becoming ill, she attended to that
persona's ditties, and eventually became the mistress her-
self. The defendant and she were thrown consequently
much together, and he educated her so that she licaune a
"certificated" teacher, and then ho promised her
marriage. The letters were of a most voluminous
character, one of bis beginning, 'My love, all is well !
The keeper of Israel has heard our prayer, and brought
me to you safe and sound ! Ebenezer rand kers invariably
being Prefaced with "MY Precious John r Ile became
cold at length however, and broke off the engagement on
the ground of their social disparity. - The jury, in finding
for the plaintiff, gave her damages.

ere the hest.

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