The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

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Skarn Sinews& —The quartet swim, were held
at fklishery on Tuesday. Boy. are now kept in the
reformatory at the rate of b. • head. There was due
to the County Treasurer EIS Is., and the estimate for
the ensuing quarter was ECM, involving a. rate of
three farthisgs in the pound. The gaol question again
cropped up. It seems that notwithstanding the remain.
tioe of the mart that from the Ist day of February last,
the prison at Devises should be the prison appropriated to
the ereimerment of all county prisoners sentenced to
my tens of imprisonment with hard labour, or for •
larger term than seven days, magistrates at Ilindon,
Heerley. Salisbury, and Amesbury. have committed
such prisoners to Fisberton gaol, and seventeen
are now retained there seven city and ten
county prisoners two of the latter being
debtors. The Marquis of Bath wanted to move
that the attention of justices be called the order
of the 'curt in the matter, but he las stopped from
doing it, bemuse no notice bad been given of
each • motion. A letter was also reseived from the
TOWII Clerk of Salisbury, intimating that the Conseil
are net at present prepared to enter into • °Detract
with the county for the detention, maintenance, be.. of
=prisoners in the Devises gaoL The Chief
'import showed a decrease of 41 in the number
of perm's, charged as mespared with the corresponding
quarter last year. In Merging the Grand Jury on
liVednesday, George Mateham, Esq., said it woe certainly
very surprising that, with all the efforts that were
made for the improvemeet of the population greater
advanour.ett had not been made, and it would MOM as
If those very circumstances which they would be disposed
to think would lead to improvement had some some.
pouting drawback. Whether that proceeded from
greater restlessness of position arising from the superior
education the persons had received, or from some other
cause, be could not my. There was a greet spread of
literstare of a oertain kind among them, but one would
be sink' that the good *fleet of that literature was to
• certain extent counteracted by low literature of •
tendency highly destructive to good morals and to
religion. Other persons might speculate upon these
matters and draw useful Inferences from them, but he
confessed his sphere of action was too limited for him
to venture upon such a subjeet. He could only say,
making use perhaps of a very homely observatiou,
which would apply to the Grand Jury as well as to
himself and some others present, that the best mode by
which they could mtho their own consciences would
be to endeavour, so fags, they could, ia their respective
parishes to encourage industry and to discourage idleness,
to assist as Inc as they sould those useful institutions
which tended to raise the situation of the labourer, and
to give him some sort of pride in himself as a member
of society. He had now only to observe that there
were no prisoners for trial. It was the first time that
each a state of thinp had occurred there during the very
long period that he had sat in the chair, and. perhaps,
it might be equally singular to the Grand Jury.