The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-08-12 00:00:00

Foutt Countq express.

DOICIIMATER, AUGUST 12th. Mt

Sotto.

The decisions of magietratee are of tea the eubject of
wonder and surprire, an after the " campaign against
the dreamiest' " of the county town, an Major
Beadon termed it. the ',Sowing magisterial decision,
which to reported from Derliogt will be reed with
mtoniehnient. A firm called Todd Brothers WIN
summoned for keeping girls after ten at night. One of
the Todd Brothers appeared in answer to the charge,
and pleaded guilty, but the magistrates dieniesitd the
can. and declined to give the inspector • radon for eo
doing. We believe the melba is under the oonsidars.
lion of the Lord Chancellor.
Discussing the question of Bishop M rberly's
eucosseor, Troth say. :—A contemporary accuses Mr.
Gladstone of having ...readily ignored" Canon
Liddon's claim for high performed. This is absurd.
While Dr. Posey lived, nothing would bare induced
Dr. Liddon to quit Oxford, and during the last two
years there has not been • single bishopric at the
Prime Minister's dispoial which he could have offered
to him, or which there would have been the least
educe of hie accepting. In all probability Mr. Glad-
den' will nominate Canon Lidion t, the as. of
Salisbury, which will be vacant shortly, sal which he
might be in tuoed t 3 accept from his old diceiations
with that diocese, sod also because he would
thorougoly copy carrying on the work of Bishops
D.ni.oo Uamillro, and Moberly.

The parental proporty of Cu q.. 0 hal often bees
Lb. subject of public cola:unmet, awl a. it is n•iet raid
lier Slajesty le about to make nee a ", toe length
of the Royal parse will again be piagoa, a', lean as far
am it la ',welsh' to do it- There ail be little doubt
Iler Majesty powerless an 11/10111111111 fortune.
la worth o ,oe ElOl./.000, and with regard to p
property left by the I'tliloll Coesort is su..p...sed to
amonat to nearly 1.1.40,000. Tuen .er 11 ejaity own.
mush property abroad, sad kr. Nield lett lam over
FACO,OOO. Mill there we sundry poor sad troublesome
relation. "In the family," and we imerine our good
Q 41111912 him, se do most others who bold the purse
strings, plenty to do with bee money.

Sevens smirks we Wag male Is certain quastate
al the mean measles a whloh tag King of dirailimi
who 1.4 ercek bitwared this couoty with his prseeace,
has beim &noise!. Daring hia it., in Loudon be Wm
bees compelled to nude at an hotel, r' though
Buckingham Palace I. almost empty.

Taste can be no doubt that the 'moment have
played • tramp card in bending Lord Northbrook as
Lent High Commiveioner to Egypt. Tb• failure of
the l;4ldersoa• lett the Ministry in a dileouris.
Admittedly, they have not made up their miracle what
to do nest. Toe declaration of any policy inn, now
would retie a storm of oppoeition from 004 quarter or
another. Public attention might be diverted from
the Franchise Bill. Lord Northbrook's appointment
shelves the whole difficulty for a time. It looks
energetic, yet It oortunita the Government to nothing.
In default of a p May, it Is always well to have a man.
813A:444LT' storms In Egyptian politics hove been
averted by succeseive •op Automate L ri Dufferin,
Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir Evelyn Bering, mad General
Gordon bars proved eonvenieat lightning-condos Lori
of political electricity. Lied Northbrook will falfil
the same purpose admirably.

Toe CUWer vatl rod, u•twittistaading Lord Salisbury's
sneer about legislation by picnic, are not slow to
manna their followers by arranging liberally for
party amniotic The Bank Holiday pilgrimage to
linghenden wax followed on Saturday by • Conserva-
tive outing and demonstration at Chaining, the seat
of Earl Stanhope, nem Sivenoaka. More *minions
and annum of the same character ass to follow. Even
Hatfield itself is to open Its exclusive doon and the
noble Marquis will upon hie own heath pay homage
to the fustian jacket, after • fashion which he once so
fiercely denounced, but which he has come to see in a
political necessity.
Mrs. Weldon has begun to pose as the champion of
the ladies who litigate "In person." She cennot,
Indeed, "appeal ' for them. No Bench would allow
that. But she can do very mach the sante thing.
SY oin aooompany the suitor as the two ex- coachmen
accompanied the ell., Weller to Doctor's Commons
In order "to see fair." She can nit beside the female
litigant and whisper her speech to her notate by
maenad and find ready repartees Icr her when
addreend by the Bench. Something like this was the
part played by the modorn Portia in Hr. Justla Kay's
Court on Thursday on bob elf of a lady, lu whom, as far..
&ppearel, hint Weldon had no other Interest than the
*Gannon bind of sex and mune of wrong. If, for
services of this description, Mrs. Weldon were to
thick fit to demand fees, there ements to be no ream
why she nhual I not do so. A barrister's fees are. In
the eye of the law, a mere gift. Those whom Mr..
Wel In &nista might very properly lank, her similar
acknowledgments. The Bar Committee a mid do
nothing t prevent irregular practice id this kiwi, and
probably the Incorporated Law &clay would bud
them...lves eqoally imp dent.