The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-04-03 00:00:00

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...ay never comes round without
some form or other, of the most
,estion as to the meaning and
the word " maundy." Many still
he old-fashioned theory that the
rntipt. of " mandatum," which
the tint word of the service that
a at the washing of the feet of
le Thursday before Good Friday—
ng so far back as the time of St.
il invariably accompanied by gifts
There is a Saxon noun maitwicr,
gar, which points to a more pro-
m. But the supporters of the
theory argue that " maunder" is
" maund," a basket, a beggar
io carries a basket in which to
and that this word " inaund," as
- ' is derived from the wieker-
which were used on " Man-

datum Th, for the distribution of eat-
ables. The unprejudiced and unecclesiastical
mind will Nei this explanation a little too
far-fetched. Many scholars, however, believe
in it. Good Friday this year contrasts favour-
ably with last year. After several trying weeks
of piercing east wind and rain, we have had a
tow hours of genial warmth and sunshine.

Maundy Thursday at the Chapel Royal, Whit,hall,
is a scene of elaborate Ritualism in aim -isin, th•
only parallel to which must be looked for in St.
Peter's, at Rome. The aged men and women in
numbers, corrponding to the age of Her Majesty,
the long procession, the yeomen of the guard, the
golden salver, the surplitasl clergy, the Dean and the
Almoner, the school children, the special service, the
psalms awl the anthems, interspersed between the
benefacams, with solos by professionals, all make a
parade awl pomp of charity which rewind one of
Southern Europe or of the middle NCO?. One would
like to bear the 'twainl rort ice followed by a sermon
on the prohibition of " 11.1 ill :dms before men," or of
letting the right It.unl " know ulna the left hand
11,411.- A lot iiii ily of thin diameter has always been
hy.ri, • ointably omitted from the programme f the
r,rene.ny,

The chemists are stittarv.: Into hot water. In point
of 1 tw no chemist has any tato to prescribe medicine
without license given after examination trona Apothe-
caries' Hall. hundreds of pharmaceutical chemists,
however, especially in the pisir districts of London,
depend aline.; entirely for their business upon their
practice of prescribing physic and this has bee me no
, 7ll a thing of conrse that comparatively few take
• the trouble I.f passing the Apothecwies' Hall. There
have been a good many prosecutions td late, but the
.cheii.ts have combined to pay the cxstts of defending
the procee‘lituv. and they rest their llefence upon the
grcund that, in London, many inferior singe no keep
what they eall "even businesses.' that is, thep keep
chemists shops. 'Their amouent is that if iptalitied
Prwetitioners encroath on their rotn,l they have an
equal right to return tile complitcent:.

The trial of the r't-ton gun Lan turnc.t natis
factory that the order-to manufacture a large number
has been given, and the ilefenceil of the Thames will
accordingly be strengthened by placing four of these
Woolwich infanti on the fortilicatims at Coal liouse
Point.

.nsurn just printed by order of Parliament
contains a. easious pie.* of social anatomy—the
number of pauper. ;:aul tramps throughout England
and Wales at the cud of eaw eek in January, 1876,
and January, 11477. Tramps and inn. ties, it seems,
form together about three per emu. et bee .;ntirti
pauperism. of the country, and may thmcforebe'emili
estimated from the general firmes id the larger dam.
The population of the entire country is ,70 0 , ODO , ths
munLer...f union., i. aril the number of parishes
I I,a9n. The difference in the amount of relief afforded
frcia one week to another is not very large, and the
cumiss.ati;:e returns for the tirst week of the New
Year wit; th.refore sufficiently exemplify the condition
of patiperism in emiltry Which tram. with wealth,
comfort, and luxury, 41.0 01311 any other 1141011 Of
its size in the world. The siiia2 windier of paupers
relieved in the first week of last year win 12215.214 t, and
in the first week iif this year it WM Z3,;40 The
decline is very satisfactory, :end has been aimed
uniform all over the Kingdom, in every division of itA
except in York. In that district there was a small
narame. It is worth noticing, too, that London
alone, ens great centre of law, letters, and civilization,
furnishes daily :broughoift the year more than ons.•
of the entire I,..per population of England and
Wales. About one-fourtii 4 the total pauperism is
relieved by outdoor supplies all ose. t4e country ; but
the steady decrease of numbers show fiopetul gam. of
4.2. e returning actaiity of Arasle, and of conselust.t
couna..rcial praperity being again revived from its
prolonged d,..,;ression.
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Rumours are current, Belgium the Pope intends to
appoint and proclaim Idiom his death Monsignor
Deschamps of Malineii Primate ~f Belgium, his
his.mccessor. Widespread currency is given t this
report in yery high quarters in the Belgian capital.
The Belgian .J.ie.-Ty have always been the favourite
children of the Yati.a.l.