The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-22 00:00:00

Ear2inout4 flatus.

If our brave defenders up on the Nothe continue at
the rate they are going on at the present time, in the
way of appearing in the police-courts, they will get
themselves into sad repute. There is the ems of one
this week where a man, who up to the present time
has pommeled a good character, oommito, while under
the influence of drink, a savage and unprovoked
assault upon one of our constable.. They don't seem,
se Mr. Landis remarked on the Bench, to be much like
"guardians of the peace."

The question of the timber pounds was again
mooted at the Council meeting on Thursday, but it
seems to make but little progress. We do not for a
moment impute an/thing but disinterested motives to
Mr. Howard. who is the reprerentative of the ownere,
for everybody knows that he is as desirous of the
health and welfare of the inhabitants of Weymouth
as any gentleman in the CounciL Another committee
meeting was held, we believe, on Monday, but still
nothing definite was arrived at in the settlement of
this problem, which surely is not so very, very
difficult of solution.

Cannot our old and priceless Corporation papers be
recovered, and restored to their proper place among
the ancient reoorda of our borough' Tbe following
statement was made at a recent meeting of the Dorset
Antiquarian Society, in referring to the borough
archly..:—" The borough archive. are about to suffer
dispendon to the four winds of heaven under the very
noses of a body of men whom I fear I must
characterise as indifferent to the history of their
borough, and more antiquarian in their notions than
In their tastes." This rather lofty statement will
really seem to be deserved miler our representatives
In the Council make strenuous efforts to regain the
" Sharron Papers." We were pleased to see that the
Major is strongly of the same opinion in the matter,
and we hope the sub-committee, who ware to see the
present holder of the documents, will persuade him to
return, without delay, thane valuable records to the
Corporation, who are the rightful holders.

Which is it to be? Filtration, clarification,
harbourMion ? This question of the disposal of the
sewage, which wee Mao fully and ably discussed at
the Council meeting, is another matter of extreme and
vital importance. Arguments pro and coe, each
system were freely made, and each was clearly shown
to have its mensal merit. and demerits. The Council
are clearly desirous of taking the matter in hand at
once; but as it will nemy entail a great expendi-
ture, they display only a fair and perfectly reasonable
hesitation in the matter. The question sew mend
fairly and well, and it is no doabt true that carrying
the sewage into many harbours differently situated to
Weymouth would be most detrimental to their
interests; but on the other hand the Mayor contended
that the plan was
_quite capable ofr
~,nerlrri the
out
with advantage in Weymouth, the yin e
tides being such as to reel assist the system and
besides Mr. Morgan's experiments clearlyshowed that
if the sewage was discharged at a point south-east of
the entrance to the harbour it would not return '
towards the harbour or sands. The Council
are greatly pressed in the matter, and will be
compelled to take some decided step, and in that
almost undue pressure we think it extremely possible
that they would take some hasty and ill-advised
step, so that the longer the Council can stave off the
final decision, in order that they may witnes the
result, with which the various system an followed in
other towns, the better. Weymouth is not the only
town placed in the same unfortunate parities, although
there is but scant comfort to be erind from that
knowledge. There seam little reason to doubt that
the ultimate plan to be adopted will be the
It out to the sea, it having been
al or carrying
with much success in towns far lass
favourably situated than Weymouth, namely,
Torquay, Southan, and Etourneasouth. Tk e objection
to haring the sewage discharged into the sea is •
perfectly reasonable one in the meta, but the experi-
ments of Mr. Morgan, will dispel say Ides which assay
persons might entertain as to the sewage matters
r the harbour. Person visiting Weymouth
irrn to
of health, are immediately scared away
by the idea of any defect in the sewage arrangements
of the town, and whatever the system may be, so long
as it is for the benefit and welfare of the inhabitants at
large, let us hope it will be soon done and thene=s4
we shall have heard the last of the sewn*
bugbear. We do not for a moment hesitate to say
that the inhabitants of Weymouth have the tallest
confidence in the competency of the gentlemen who
represent them in the municipal legislature to deal
with the question, and that they will amen the
incensed burdens which will of necessity be imposed
upon them with eheerhilnue and resignation, nuaeat-
Wag that "When 'tie done, 'tis doom"