The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-12 00:00:00

"• LADY HELP."

At the Lewes Assizes on Frinay. before the Lord
Chief Justice, desefie Jordan. 21, domestic servant,
was indicts I for feloniously setting fire to the dwelling
house of Colonel Lane, at Hex-hill, with intent to
Injure him. There wee a second indictment which
*brims! the priatner with feloniously stealing a
quantity of jewellery, value ClOO, the property of
Was Anne lemics Lane, the daughter of Colonel
Lase—The charge proceeded with was the one
Imputing to the prisoner the stealing of the jewellery;
but the facta relating to the charge of arson were
necessarily gone into in the entree of the inquiry.
The prosecutor. Colonel Lane. resides at Broad Oak,
Bexhill, and the prisoner hal been in his service
about six months at the time the occturence took
place a. upper houssminid. The jewellery in question
belonged to Miss Lane, one of Colonel Lane's
daughter's. She had worn it at • ball on the 4th of
December, end on the sth (which was Sunday) all the
jewellery was safe in the room. The family, with the
exception of Colonel Leese, went to church on the
evening of the sth, and very shortly after they left
an alarm of fire we. given. It was found by Colonel
Lane that hi. daughter'. bed-room was on fire in four
different platen, and it was obvious that the fire coal I
Dot have occurred by accident. When Miss Lone
came home she immediately mimed her jewel-case,
containing the whole of the jewellery, and .he que.-
tioned the prisoner upon the subject, hot she said she
was unable to give any information. The next morn-
ing the prisoner was eosin Rehm to about the
jewellery, but no information °mid he obtained, end
on the same day the prisoner left her service, without
saying anything, and there being at the time wages
due to her for which abe did not apply. The prisoner
went to the Hastings Beltway Station immediately
she left Co noel Lane's hones, and took a ticket fnr.
London, and started in the train- However. • super-
intendent of the Sussex polio*, named Jeffery, who
hal received some information about the prisoner,
sent • telegram to the station-saaeter at Cmyrlon,
rape-ding him to detain the prisoner, and, accord-
ingly when the train arrived at that plisee the prisoner
was taken from the train and placed in the waiting.
room, where she was w itched. and upon the arrival of
the superintendent of pollee the pet. 'nor was given
into his charge, and taken back to Haatings, but no
trace .4 the miming jewellery hal at di s time been
diecoveresi. A Few days afterwards it was dimovered
that there waa some obstruction in the closet at the
station at Cr Tdon, and plumbers were sent for to
make an examination. and when the place was
examined the wit 44, of the missing jewellery was
discovered wrapped sp in a cloth, and this it appeared
had been the MON of the stoppage. 'Pb. case for the
oasecutlon wee that on the day the prisoner was
detained in the waiting-room no other person was
allowed to enter it, ant the jeweller, could not hays
been placed in the closet by anyone The Jury,
after deliberating for some time, found the prisoner
bat recommended her to mercy on am mut of
Sec previous good character. —The Lord Chief Justice
said the crime of which the prisoner was convicted
wee a most atrocious ono. He could not understand
a recommendation to mercy in such • cme, and
certainly should not attend to it. Hi. Lordship then
addressed the prisoner, and said she bad been con-
victed of a most heinous oink and he sentenced tar
to 14 yews' penal servitude.

R•Mrrell PA MS BLOM ••11110 Marked superiority of
this Laundry Blue over all others, and tbe quick op-
preciattm of its therite by the public, has been
attended by tb• usual reettlte—viz.. a flood of bait k•
lion.: the merit of tbe latter mainly consists in the
ineennity ex.rted, not slos..ly in imit tting the square
sham but making the graeral appearance of the
ernmper. reemnblo that of the immune article. The
Manufactures' beg therefore to minims all buyers tn
ii." Bericitth Paris Rime ous each racket.
Pith 11r1LIMMC on 1141.41.0 alCootus. •
eirtails method of ears kr hem dionorrers.l for this Air
~mg complaint tfr • PkTMelle, •Ilie to elealmas that
an =waif. may heath% from this ererithaual disarms
it ls Perm known to fall, and will care the mom hopeless
alter all °thm math@ have %lathed. Pell
val Wiliam/A= taarstraterthth gritlMM2

PLITT ILND ZOO-SAUCE:

The fasts and festivals,./ e1ip0eh...,614e
are the °comforts of some viairiona devotion she pert 0.
the sterner, and • 4 much yspeap.,,if ol the part or
la. s.x- Von, th, era of the P. sltivist reform&
Lion li.. arrived. We dna day of Lent frill he as tenemill
rem fniaed in the csleadar, sad. alter &Nahum. in ''°`-innra
as the twenty 11th of December. Rites will be observed
that symbolise the ancient regime under wkana the
Church gave the law to the secular as well as the religious
win I A .ul4thua'aaraT or alternative dish will be
served up at lion-u', toy way of eh owing that the tradition
of *penitential aletinence has not been loft The best
part of whitebait is sometimes mid to be the hr." anati,-
bad-butter, and the malt-fish Aah Wslnerodosf *OO4l
flud MI coy to very few mouth., unless it were for the
asslerstaly appetising accompuennent Of gauun,
iteligioto calls for its condjiaiiat s.svell .1 tb• unpalat-
able dishes •hicli religion preacrinee ; and if there were
Sot • gond deal of egirashiw, of a metaphorical kind,
forth soiling, religious observances would be lu much
danger .4 neglect. In Asis•Wevioesday servicee of the
approved patter• organ and choir are usually ailent ; but
the cli•ros of variety is not wantin& sad the ninrienl
coinnuses Sr. a sombre counsel to the gaudier and caw
mower hues. M oreover. Lenten emblems are to be found
no* in greater &validate. thee ever among the ea
lion; mil the manner in which our Lenten penitenlefTTM
their coutritioa for petty peccadilloes in their toilet. and
nervous et becominc an iscremingif interesting topic of
conjecture or subject of perinatal study. Decorous
gloom is carried to a vary artistic pitch In the dresses of
ea orthodox Ash-Wednesday cciagmgationo Profound
spiritual melancholy struggles for operanc. intim newest
ineentrits lef to. Parisian megiate ; an overwhelming
sense of the vanity oad nolulnas of lila is seen in tee
lahoet thin; in coquettishly penitential honnete ; ant the
hoot certain Wedges of Poetics.' ref orrn are visible lathe
Uait,ijoet millinery of aboetly abasement These things
are to the AshoWsinasday service what the eitit-ettat
to the Ash-Wade...day salt-fish. They give a decided
relish to what vrouti otherwise be • dull service, and
they send the refiginee home with • healing of ctimtened
sstisfsftiou that one,, neither more nor less of • tunterahl•
sinner than her oei*hhours. Tin 41.10-Wedessilay ermine
is abeVe all Mints • feminine institutiou. Members 01
the House of OPYM•nt., touch to the annoyance of the
sturdy pagan• in that soeeneby, do not indeed most till •
iNgyple 14 hours alter no,, in order that they nasy have
Vivo...lege .4 the devotional opiiiirtanity. Sok
like loony other Olinda, this is of the mature of • legal
fiction, sad the male toeuebers of an ordinary English
household, if they do not celebrate Ash-Wednesday by
taking it rather easier in the earlier hours of the day Lima
usual, betake thetuselvm to their boisinees or measure at
the accustomed hour., and are only reminded when they
go to the club in the sfternoon, and look at the bill cif
fare that Lent has begun.

A. Good [friday is the holiday of the English Po
I. Ash Wednesday the carnival of the London th cal
=ion There is the annual banquet at Willis's
There are private dinner-parties, tuna Win
into the country. Sometimes thew last are mad* for
strictly buskins p0rn0.... Indefatigable comedians rush
to the provinces, and reap a golden harvest in some
temple of the drama which does not come within the
ecclesiastical prohibition. In London itaelf there ars
certalo place. of puhlic entertainment which are free to
keep their doors oyes, for Aeli Wednesday is the day of
inconsistencies and contradictions, ae well no of woven-
tionsl eelf-mortification. In this respect, es It is with the
first day of Lent, no it is with the days which follow it. in
some rocial circles dinner-parties of • certain aiso--say of
more than eight —are prescribed during the Lenten period.
Many person. will be disposed to think that symposia on
a more •xteosise scale would he quite as consonant with
the .pirit of Lenten self-denial. The principle on which
some social entertainment. ere rigidly interdicted, and
others enjoined or permitted, during the forty days, is
not readily ljitelll,ihlc to the uninitiated. Concerts—
esPecially moans nominally i..n with • clearitahle
motive—may almost be regarded se rejoined by the code
of the world . religion ; musical evasion of any kind an
permissible; but • dance m-.no the defiance of all that I.
orthodox and venerable. The number of hr.-Beholds
in which Lent make, any real difference Is yowl/
on the decrease: and when such diff,rence is percept-
ible, there is to the ordinary spectator not a great
deal that is devotional in its manifestation. realities
Which have little to ocrup, them, sod who.,
hers are chiefly or exclusirely ladies, god Lent •
ongularly ,onsenial seas-.n: and to enter the drawing.
rooto of one of these austere householders during Lent Is
an ordeal strictly In keeping with ita urges and spirit
I Five unmarried daughters, presided over by • mother
whom the eeverity of religious ordinance. and mood.*
disappointment have caused to tai.e • dcmponding view
of existence generally, are enough to strike gloom into
the lighteet of hearts and the cheeriest of natures. It
may be noctity but it to very like worsen ; and the
malignant patience with which (sanity qoarrele are
nursed, and the member ingenaitv with which the seeds
of family differences we sown, in such atmosphere unix,
reloimi on, of the pleasant -ales f itra. Caodmr and her
.•haritahlo company. Hot Lent, kept here with the most
upcomp.onsisiug severitv. It is the senon of Christian
humiliation ; and the only relief which the spirit of that
humiliation allows it.elf is •he indulgence of a very on-
Christian-like malignity. Nowhere Is the tongue allowed
• fiver license of lit'.' r...ottook nod peionr.l poesip
then &mond Ow* refiatimme ..f our time. I, is the r4g.
steel wt h the lofts-I- m .nt f moor ;
411-I ISO long no the .n.ered orlebration the fa.t and
festival. of the Church is tot oinitte.l, It would per'.:..
Inc unnagasiohle to dooroot toot tbs Inn, spirit, witch
sine. Mice sopPo.o.l in le niit.mlla for the. rib.., shool.i
there no well. At the ram.. time, it would he well for the
votaries of faahhosble or conventional piety to recollect
that their Lenten or linear-5 are the caricatures of
Clifistianitf. and not its PeOAL