The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

IRSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1870,

Wind taken away froeg them should be an
arrangement, either that the (loaned should Mks tbc
dues into their owe heads, or that • new arreaderumut
ekould be mule ea tholigh the dais had bees let without
Use steamers bawl be... This might be a matter of
imse Imoartanee that it might be the ruin of say num
who took the dues, if the steamers were removed. It
would task. £6OO or £7OO or £BOO differeete, aside
persen who took the does. If he had only a Lmited
"""uer talght brine ruin upon himself sod his family.
Mr. Walla said if such • coalition were Inserted, the
does would let for £l5O more then the reserved prioe.
Mr ()taw 'agitated that the dues should be offered
again, with each a oondition inserted.
The ifaros said he wee sure it we. not the wish of
the Council to injure any one.
Mr. BAONTOS thought that if there wee soy one dis-
posed to t..ke the dues for a twelve month at the
reserved price. he would know the chances of the
epeculstion, and he ()li. &anion) did not see why the
dues should be put up again. If the gaieties offered
were good and sufficient, the Council might let the dues
to the person who offered.
Mr. ATLING said he thought it would be • very great
tisk. . . .

Mr. Rozzara said that in 1885 the dues broaght in
upwards of
The MAYOR then read the letters from various parties,
with reform°, to this rubpot. Mr. Thomas Teekes-
bsry applied. and the Mayor said he was mrtainly •
very respectable matt Kr. 8. Wallia, of 5, Weston.
Terrace, offered to collect the dues for 05 • year, and
the Mayor said it was • very moderate salary, and Mr.
Wallis wag a very good man. Mr. F. W. mho( st
Gest offered at such a salary as the Coined might be
pleaaed to 6z. Sines making that applioation, Mr.
Ayllng had rsontaidered the caw, and baring been a
bidder at the auction, he was willing to take the due'
at £l5O, the amount of Um reserved bidding.
' Mr. Rosaara thought Mr. Ailing should have them.
It was ',roomed by Mr. Councillor Beowx aeoonied
by Mr. Oeunaillor Ronan, that Kr. Ayling's offer be
aosepliel. . .

61;:*11111 asked what was tit* interest paid oa the
flatboat. Wad.

The Town CLM repfled about E9OO a year.
The proposition was agreed to.
Mr. ATLING wars met for and informed that the
Council had determined oc severing Ms or provided
that the moralise were approved of.
Mr. F. W. ATLING named hie father (Mr. Alderman
Ayling) as one, sad it wee understood that he should
oommunicate the name of another to the Town Clerk.
It was imasidered that Kr. Ayling, men-, would be
sufficient surety of himself ; but as be warns member of
the Oorporrtion. it arm thonett best that another should
be joined with bins.
The NATOR hoped it would be a sitecesaful specula-
tion for Mr. Ayling, In whet& Mr. Rostars concurred.

tin ras rum

It wee proposed by Mr. Cosi*nor HOBBITS, seconded
by Mr. Conned*/ Elbows, " net lenders be invited
for painting the his her.

--Agreed io.
The Harbour Ileging's report stated that the Pile Pier
harbour light. bad been out three times lately, and he
had reported it to lb. Stone, requesting him to be more
particular.
The TOWN Chilli has also verities to the Gas Com-
pany, so se to render them responsible for any damage
that might happen, ia songsquenos of the lamps not
being lighted. _ .

A'll.. varP, alk the aussertion al tbe Harbour
Vaster, was ordered to be purchased for the Corporation
lighter.

THII TOLD I!IT THI QUAY.

11r. Vint"' 'robe of a matter the, had been brought
forward at the I at meeting, with reference to Dome poet'
at the Higtpetreet Quay. There were three poets oat
of the lute, and they rendered the road exceedingly
narrow. He thought they might be removed, and the
road widened about four feet, and it then might be
metalled all through alike. These mooring stones
narrowed the road so conch that they rendered the
traftle dangerous, and there bad already been two
acelldente there. They might be taken nearer to the
Quay wall, and the labour would not *out above £5 or
11:6
Mr. wree : Not half that.

Mr. vsiron thouht the Mayor should give hi.
struetions to the surveyor to have the work done.
It would be one a the greatest improvements on the
other nide of the water

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The MAYOR thought so too, und the .ork WWI
ordered.

• LOCAL BOARD OP RIALTH.

The MAYOR said he had waited on the Colonel and
officers of the new regiment, and he wu extremely
pleased with the expressions they made use of rib
respect to the good of the town. They said they
would doeverything to help it forward, and would be
only too pleased U they eould do anything for its
benefit, and the baud should ploy in the New gardens
as often Da WU thought desirable. No gentleman
could use words showing more otronsly his desire to
benefit the town than the Colonel did, and anything
he Gould. Le wu only too happy sad ready to do—
(hear, hear).

JOHN BM OfNIL IMO bp Hobert Meowlei
gainelumper to the Ism a Wm, Me tearing ea Ins lord-
shies land at Arne in search at 0101010 00 Mt olratirunr f
lent. Defendant pleaded pay. and waa Mond St dd.. fon
cone 10a, or 14 days imprisonment The none/ 1,11154 onc•
paid-
-01°..• Mal• 00. akt Wlstarborne Kingston, tanner, was
nunniasset by Henry Burden for trespassing 00 Dad ore'
which Mr. C. Hambro, M.P. has • right of shooting in 'watch
of pain en the /o,h 4pibrust7 last. Defendant pleaded
Lt. The tame dilandant ell also charged by the .ssio
with Inning two paruidges out esason, it., on
the Isbnaary last. Delselant pleaded go Ity to this
MSSOIOO. eraa Quad 4.. Id and cons in each ariee.tagot.er
LI ta, or ass month's 000000000$ The amount was paid.

been paid. she really has no piece irbere she can live In, 001•0
she con live with somebody who Will take mho 101 her. Him
Quka is willing to do dint. lint Wmitcre's own relation. are
I poor, nod she tikhdoi ibal theibitt•li i.duP .cc°oo thl6em would be
very were if Nhe lived with ty she has
' resided with MleeQedek daring thateboo 14e n 074 that there
Is any Imputation either upoo NW Quick's CapiCity or her
sense of Morality, for that the would connive at gut* a thing so
adu;tery leklug piece under her r00f..„.1.1
flosetleashey oho In
the aunt of Mr. Quiet. Therefore t ng that the burden
of roof lies upon Mr. i estoo to totablish the fact of
sdu vary, and thai he hae ample opportunity ,of doing it,
because he may do it if be MD 111 the Divorce Court at ~,
time, I come to the concletion that he ban not diocharged the
hnrthen which Ilea upon law that ja. to Prove the adultery id
hi. wife, and thereby ehobling himself to get rid of the
obligatien which be is uodkir of NitiM this ammitY• I mu".
Dot forget another arguesonit was strong!, wires.
and which as (see' it go, premise eisinst the Wider* of the
deed. It WWI mid that it was booloo.llo. to die • till,
beesums this yes a algal &Mud end there were
Inse .
pewees er do. lad entry, end be it MP wilted " Why
don't you enter and distrsin for the amount id the ennuitv,
and than allow Mr. Weston to try the quedlon in a Court
of law r Mr. Southgate, upon the part of the trwdees, in
rept) hij to that antis the very obvious emotion, • • Who In to
indemnify ii.e oiralust the exiwnsee ? Suppose I limas a distrees
suet unto r . awl Lbw 1. a replevin, and oil that io tried ins poirt
of Justim, all the costa will fall upon me • I be no funds
In, me t that. All I have to do ee tru.ter: is te undertake
thtt none ,d the debta of the wife ohdi fall upon the huoband.
Further than that, I decline to interfere In the matter at all.
hut I will do whatever the Court directs me to do." Tel. is.
lu sabot:woe an outline of the whole of the (m.o. ilavim
Oval my Impression of the evidence It euteinly would
be a emote of time and eery tedious if I were to read
all the detail% of the evidence in order to chow whet I
thought of the me. A. to what took place In the bed-
room at the Grand* hotel in Paris where Mrs. Wawa on-
tiocrObetably went with Ur gulch for the purpose of °hour ng
a house at St Ciermains that was vary indiscreet no doubt: The
answer that we given by counsel at the bar, but not I think'
by my 'skims, i , that ohe could not go alone, she required
some gentleman to go with her sad choose • hAtire for Mho
Quick an St. Oersomiee, and Mr. Quick knew the sort of house
tom woo emoted, sod acourdingly they went. If they bad
gone fOokte euesething might have been shid about it.
but it is muserkable the Wherever she gOeo she takes
Leuliette with her a. if !Ur the purpose of enabling her mis-
conduct to be eatehlishe.l. That in very improbable. Leonetti,
makes the most uf bar advaiitagre oretelnly. for If mho is to he
believed she esiabilobes sdultery nine didtoctly. His Lord-
.hip concluded by cooking the following decree :—Thet not-
wiliNdandlrof the deed of the fist of May, 1887, the Court
being of opinion that no set of adultery bus been
n't•bliduld IgaiWit Mrs. Weston, declare that Mr. Weston is
bound to pay the annuity until the further onier of the Court,
and that the srrean of the wmuity (which had been laid into
Court) be paid to the trustees, with liberty to Mr. Weston to
apply at Chambers In CSoe the annuity Jells iuto serene, and
that the defendant pay the costs of the suit.
It an na,d that toe expecting in this ease will be about
Ten Tbotosod Pounds.
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THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.
We have been appealed to by Neural correspondents
as " justisploving, and "lair," and es opposed to the
legalng of rice," to aid the Anti-Oontagious
Diseases Acts Association. by publishing lettere sod
lecturek_and appeals for Aspatore to petitions in that
bated. The stalemates upoo which these requests were
upvle were of an astouoiling . character, that we have
been led to peruse the Aet itself ; and has+ g done so,
we are alarmed to fiod how unjust and how loofalr are
the opponents of the extension of the Act. This is an
extract from • handbill circulated be the associatiog :
" Men of --! do yon think God made women to be mere
prostitutes and are you willing tbst every woman in England,
your mothers, wives, deuytners, sheers, should be SU sutooCt
to the questioning of the polies, who, if Os, i7Otoeres fo wander
the. to be P''. i'°' power to be herb on them, to
take them Wore a magistrate, and slabber' them to a brutal
ausasiantion r
Nothing can be more distinct god definite than these
isztraordinary assertions, and nothing could be more
odious, tyrrsnieal, and haignitosis were they true. But
on taming to the Bill we And the clause relating to the
precise point runs as follows ;
.' Where an Information on oath laid before a Jailbird by II
Srperintendent of Police, charging to the effect that the in-
formant has god cause to believe that a women therein
named is a common prostitute, and either is resident with/nth°
limits of any ,taco to which this Act applies, or, being resident
within trio miles of those limits, or having no settled place of
abode, has, 'within Nonage dam before the laying of the Infor-
mation, either been within dem. limits for the purpose of
prostitution, or been mad& of those limit, for the purposes of
prostitution in the company of men resident within those
Molts, the Justice may, If he thinks flu, imue a Notice thereof
addrimsed to ouch wools'', which Notice the Superintendent
of Police shall came to be served on her."
Bari is a copy of the Notice, and the Informagon
upon which it is beard :
_ d Mildew* ri WOlll4lll.

" To A. B. of
" Take NoUce, that an Information, a copy whereof is sub-
joined hereto, has bow, laid before me, and that, Ir. aocurdance
with the ppnielona ,of the Acta therein mentioned, the truth
of the statements therein contained will be Inquired Into before
me, or some bther Juatioe, at , on tbe day
, at o'clock in the
" You are therefore to a,par before me, or euch ether
Justice, at that place atid time, and to answer to what be stated
in the said information.
"

" You may appear yourself, or by any person on your
baba f.
If you do wit annoy, you may be ordered. without further
notice, to be subject to a periodical modical examination by
the Visiting Surgoon under the maid Aria.
If you prefer it, you may, by a submission in writing
signed by you in the presence of the Superintendent f the
Police [as the ere may be], and attested by him, subject your-
self to such a perlisPati camel:tenon.
"If you do no before the time at.re appointed for your
iitg:e tra
ari not be isecismory for you to appear then
Jun ice.
"UMW this day o(
"(Signed) LW.
•• instate of the Pasco for
" /Owing/ion.
"The Information of C.D. of , Super' n
tendent ot r"liee fin* [or, OA the cane may be]

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under ttio contagious Moans Acts, 1806 to taker
thl. dsy of , 186 before the under.
gigue t, one ttf tier Malady's JUSOXIS of the Peace, in
and for the mid 'county' of , who says he
has good muse to believe that A.B. is a common pros-
titute, and is resident within the limit. of a ;Awe to
which the said At.. apply, that iv to my at
In the county of , was within fourteen days
before the laying of this information' that I. to my, on
the lay f within these limits (or
mind& of tlooe I iiit.l that la In any, at
In the count) a , for the purpose of pros-
titution lie the company of men resident within those
"Taken and rworn before me the day and year Snot
above mentioned. "t Signed)
Now, let it be remembered, that, were the Bill in
form in this borough, the duty of laying the information
under which Now), would be bowed to an alleged pros-
titute, would be the Superintendent of the Borough
Polioe—a respectable' etperienoed, acid responsible
public °dicer ; and that the Notice itself would not be
issued until one of the Borough Msgietrat shed required
and received sodden. enough from the Superintendent
to satisfy Lim that the unfortunate woman was what he
alleged her to be—a "common proetitute." If, therefore,
the Superintendent and one of our Borough Magistrates,
could toonsoire together for a cruel and unjust purpose,
or be deluded into the belief that respeetable women
were "common prostitutes," then the statement dl the
AJ•06111.1013 handbill would be borne out, and our
mothers, wives, daughters, and Hitters might be all
sot4oot to the questioning of the polies, who. U they
chose to consider them prostitutes, might—tnot have
power 'to lay hands on" them, for that the much-
abused measure does not pm t pose) lay an informat on
is writing against thew, at their peril, sad a Borough
Magistrate might, at his peril also, sign a notice in
writing to be served on a respectable woman, to be
answered before any justice}, either by herself, or any
perses on her behalf—her son, her Misbrand, her father,
other brother; and the Superintendent and the Magis-
trate would have to take the eonsetoences. But we do
, Injustice to our Superintendent of police, to the members
I of our Local Bench, to the Chief Constable of the
County, to his corps of respectable Superintendent.,
and the County Magistrates—to the Head Constables,
Superintendeote,and Magistracy of England —to suppose, ,
for one moment, that they would listen to the tale, of
*pies against, or entourage censpirsisiee to blast the
reputation of honest women of any glass whatever; yet
the writer of tbs handbill bolds them all capable of this,
and, on this false and unfounded presumption, signa-
ler. have bese asked for sied obtained to petitions in
t0...H0e to the meow.- How utterly worthless
must be petitions signed by persons under the influence
of such gross pervereione of truth, and such censurable
egaggeratioos, we need not say: the facts speak for
themselves.
_

_
Thus far for those who have appealed to as as
" justiee-loving " and "fair"; turn we saw to the
letter of • lady eorrespoodent who besought our help
*stalest the "legalising of trios."
The opponents of the extension of the Act hesitate
not to say that the sole purpose the clergymen,
minister., professional men—not to say ladies—who
speak and write in its favour—have in view, is to
afford immunity from eroosequeneee to the immoral
portion of the oomumnity. no vile an imputation is
exceedingly painful, am showing how well-meaning
and otherwise excellent people are often led to speak
evil of those who take different views of things to
thennielves. Has it WNW' marred to them to give
the promoters of the Act credit rot as much good
feeling and honest purpose se themselves Had it
done so, they might have learnt that the spread of a •
fearful disease, affecting the innocent as well as the
guilty, has roused many thoughtful and humane per.
saes to • 0011103011JMOIS of the paramount necessity of
doing something to stem its progress. Here is what
the Westminster Review says on the subject :
Thoumeids upon thousands, chiefly of the lower dame but
partly of the hUtw, are the Innocent and defencelese victims
of a pestilence whoa march is as secret, and +brae attacks are
so Insidious, that none can be certain to mope; many • trust-
ing maiden radiant with happkees, health, and beauty, who
gives herself in marriage, speedily finds bee joy turned to
mourning, her health to disease, and, it may be, her beauty
defaced by It. loathsome poises; matey • mother has to deplore
Use contamination, not only of her own constitution, but that
of hey child, to which, either before or after birth, in countlem
Weans, that polon proves fatal.
Again: -
Its ravages, unlike thous of other plagues, are cesselese, and
consequently It count. • greater number of victims tasn all
those Wei together who from time to time have fallen an
wicrikes to the scourgeswhich have swept over and Ailed man-
kind with dread. Ith in the midst of us ; it yerrades every
rank of society: it, tram may he discovered in almost every
family; its Protean and ever-changing forms are too numerous
to be computed, sad often elude detection even by the met
experienced eyes; it attacks by preference the young and
tigorets ; the strength of manhood in the
_prints of Me it
redoes, to weaknith; the healthy blood of b4x.mlng woman-
hood designed to nourish the wining generation into rigorous
111., It converts to poison ; it blights the Infant in the omb,
and contaminates the milk drawn by the child from its mother's
breast. It respects neither virtue, nor purity, nor innocence,
which are alike delenother agahut its indiscriminating and
oxrupting Influence.
We conmder that the sole purpose of the Act is to
abate, and if possible extirpate, the "secret" and
"ineidious" pestilence, against which " virtue, purity,
and innocence," are alike "defenceless," sad need the
self-righteous be told that abhorrence of the sin is
oompatible with eompasaion for the sinner' And when
is the "fallen woman" most likely to forsake her evil
way - when suffering from disease, • noisome, to herself
and the corrupter of others, or when she is cared for in
a hospital and subject to good influences? The answer
is obvious. To smart that this Act "piglet prostitutes
is "legalising vise,' is ea true as to say that the law
lathiest murderers is "legalising theaseination."
We have no wish to recur to this unpleasant enbleet,
bat it has been forced on on by the wild date-
mentos of that* who sesame themselves to be specially
sailed on to undertake s moral minion.

There is no truth ill the rumour that Ilr. litight is
about to resign his oeloe, and be replaced by Yr. Card-
welL Nothing in the latest amounts of Mr. Bright's
progress towards recov(az jet.ily the imam of My
re•arrangement of the '
Ma. Jou" Calezen.4 a oleimest el the Breadelbsee poorer, is deed. It is likely the Is. set will be Mill
parried on.