The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-24 00:00:00

J3oroet ennutg (Expreos.

TITZSDAY. 81,111111111111 Si. 117/

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

At a Council held by the Queen at Balmoral it was
ordered that Parliament, which sow stands prorogued
to Saturday, the Ind of November, be further
prorogued to Saturday, the 30th of November next.
A teacher in an infant school at Cranford, in Derby-
shire, has been reprimanded by tho Boaroor Boho4
Board for presuming to give Scripture lessons on the
"Fall" to the children. The Bev. Kr. Lloyd, one of
the members, said the teacher knew no more shout
the subject than his shoes did, and he should not allow
I any child of his to received inagruction from anyone
an such a subject.

The members of the Run. Denanal Coafersnos of
Castle Cary, Somerset. have this week pawed • swiss
of resolutions in the furtheranoe of funeral reform.
Amongst other things theysuggest that the wearing of
ooampHwemitazy hatbands and scarves be abandoned ;
that tb• °Sedating minister should not attired at the
house of the &owed nor walk in the funeral procession;
that funerals should not be delayed beyond a third or
fourth day after death; that the preAioe of giving
hatbands, gloves, An., to mourners, be discontinued ;
that, whenever • beans Is neosary, it shall he with-
out trappings or plumes ; that plain carriages are
preferable to mourning-macho for the conveyanoe of
the family and friends ; that the practice of raising
the collins ou the shoulders of bearers and covering
them with the pall be discounted that the collie
should be carried underhand ; that female, be en-
couraged to attend the funeral, and the we of Bowers
enixruraged ; that vaults and brick graves are
undesirable ; that, at the close of the mimics the put,
should disperse, some of the party remaining to see the
coffin decently covered.

The pasuece in Mr. Gladstone's paper on "Our Kin
Bann the Sea," in which be antici 'etas that England
will have to give the first place in the commercial world
to America, is meeting with considerable adverse
criticism in the country. The News supposes that
the pismires In question were intended merely as a
" tiermier• display of fireworks." The Deily Neaa
observes that "prophecies of such magnitude are
always real. No human being bag available data
which would furnish him with a reliable bards. The
prediction is not only rash, but it is sensational and
astounding.* It is believed that the right bon.
gentleman will addrem him constituents at Greenwich
I. November.

A private latter from the mat of the war is South
Africa says :—" I see that military swells are now
coming to acquire cheap laurels, after the rough
and critical preliminary work has been done by a few
resoluta' men; but we don't edema these warrion of
Pall Mall, for their aim is too transparent. It is •
nice voyage, • few brushes with the Zulus. the potting
of bucks and buying of trophies, • few notices in the
despatches. and then horse again, to receive the con-
vathlations of ladies, and a rood step in the advice.
The Zulu is • splendid animal—far superior, physically
to average whites—and with great mental capacities;
prowl, argumentative, end courageous; but spoilt by
indolence, ignorance, endow and superstitions.
Unfortunately, our obis( pioneers to savage are
traders of the wont kind, who introduce brandy,gin,
dasiipffs,riard sr, guns, and diseases; so the result is
mod damaging to philanthropic causes, and many
colonists have publicity esti that nearly
all our natives troubles are traoselile to the canteen
keeper, who plants mischief with impunity Ad where
he lista."

Holler boys, holler I for • Stipendiary. Then we
shall have 'ratios. This in bow they do it :—Wosmerr-
rrawr.— Hill was charged on Wednesday
with ontiMato early his daughter, aged 13, with
Fro Pie The medical man stated she
was much smarted, • vacant exprrsion of coun-
tenance Indicating want of food. l'he flesh was
filthily dirty. nen wee congestion of the top of the
right lung, and "altogether such • state of &Arse
as be had not ever seen before. It was also shown
the poor child bere marks of Hi-treatment, inflictedJry
means of • rolling-pin by a woman with whom Hill
cohabited. This Hill-conditioned beast who starved
his child—a/thongh he was • cook-atopkeepw--was
thought to be daquataly punished with 21 days'
hard labour.
THANES.—On. of the poke-your-noes-into-other
people's-bnainees School Board visitors began to cross
question • couple of little boy.., to what school they
went, when • Mrs. Hays, the mother, came along and
gave him one on the nose with a key, making the
claret flow. Mrs. Hays was awarded • similar
sentence to that &weeded the brute at Worship-street.
Almost equal to the moral contained in Mr. Punch's
advice to those about to marry (don't) is the post
marital experianoes recently and briefly ennuncisted
by Mr. Fay, of Lambeth, who was sentenced to six
months for threatening to murder his wife. On hearing
his doom Mr. Fay, with a sublime expression of
resignation upon his countenanoe, exclaimed "Thank
you. I am very glad, kelp will be the Mal role Fee
Aid for 15 can.

Sir Andrew Lusk'. ecomitricitliss mon to have
passed from the humorous stage into the ridiculous.
A solicitor was charged with annoying a resident on
Ludgate-hill by ringing his door bell at one o'clock in
the morning. The oonstable who preferred the charge
affirmed that he saw the prisoner ring the bell, and
afterwards try to ring another bell at a house In St.
Paul's Churchyard. Sir Andrew Lusk, without wait-
ing to ascertain whether there was any doubt about
the prisoner'. guilt, interpolated the observation that
it was an abominable thing to ring people's bells in
the middle of the night, and it was a pity that some-
body did "not pull the prisoner's noes." Possibly
Sir Andrew thought that in polling • man's nose for
ringing a hell there would be some analogy between
the nature of the crime and It. punishment; but why
• niagirtrate should counsel the commission of • grow
personal aanault as a punishment for an ..fence with
which the law is capable of dealing it is not easy to
understand. The prisoner denied that he had rung
the bell, adding that be was a solicitor in practise, and
the son of a city detuty. Whereupon Sir Andrew
Lusk remarkol that youn.; solicitors and y rwmg
etwlenta were just the class of persons who did this,
sort of thing " for a lark.'" The prisoner vrished to
sail witnesses as to character, but the Alderman said
that was unnecessary, as he was convinced of his
respectability. For thia most mischievous piece of
fun he should fine him 20a ; the defendant being a
patinas's he could not fine him WIN, or he would
have made it 10..

A return respecting the Qualm's Honaehold showy
that £llO 17s. 2d. was upset m ' Fees of Honour."
" Tips" we presume.

Many royal matchmakers in Europe are said to be
competing for an alliance with the Prince Imperial.
They evidently hare abundant faith that he will 004
day be an Emperor, and that the French Republic
I. merely a polltkal phantom that will soon vanish
Into "thin air,"
The Tempt (Paris), in an
.11'1%4 on the Eastern
aonnss
rertimt elhdenoe in bneilering In thtini4t2l.ty of t sym
he
Turkish Empire, while ambitious and aggresaive
Russia seems clearly the Impossibility of rur.y ever
becoming a powerful nation again.

The Lomat remarks : "In the tea yeara from 1867
to 1876 inclusive we pobliahed notices of the deaths of
3,434 qualilied medical mon. Of this number, the sue
at which death occurred was recorded in 2,684
instances, or in 7813 pax mat of the whole number of
deaths. The average age at which these 2,684 deaths
occurred was 56% years."

At the Stranbrooke p 0557 esselona, a farm labourer
named Mime bee been fined 10s. and costa, for
" bowline In church. This ought to be a caution to
mese of our choir-boys.

" Pesos with honour r' "Cyprtui with death," should
be the rallying cry of the "Bookies." We hay* lout 21
of our men since they landed en the delightful I4e,
and out • few more than 2,000, 400 are now in the
hospital. The relatives of the men who have died,
and the men whose health is permanently ruined by
the fever, may consols themselves with the reflection
that they are a secrilios to that high Imperial policy
of which Lord Beaoonelield is • professor. The
Island is of no um to us, strategically, commercially,
or politically; but it has enabled the Prime Minister
to 'true and with the airs of one who has
enlarged the bound, of Empire.
Very remarkable evidence is Wag given at the PriZONII
Alice inquest One wither ha. told urn—and he was •
man who ought to know—that the men who work the
Manion up and down the Thames have no rwoognimd
rules of navigation. Another, the second mate. declared
that no regular " look-our was ever instituted on the
Princes. Alb* though "there was generally some one
knocking about the deck."
Count Bonet I. about to retire from the representation
of Austria at the Court of St. James's and 110 I/ to be
succeeded by Count Karolyi, a Hungarian. Count Bmst
was one of the ben known men about London, and be
mold spenk English with • ihmacy that to rarely attained
by any foreigner. As • diplomat he wee me of the ablest
ethernet, in all Europa

The Load= correspondent of a Soot& Journal unde,.
stands that a movement is cm loot foe presenting aa
&dire.s to tic Gladstone, requesting him to resume the
leadership of the Liberal party. The Promoters of the
ProPosal *vend that the two main features in the pro-
gramme on which Yr. Gladstone shall seek to rewire the
Patti should be the establishment of household suffrage
to the counties and the dlesetabliahment of the Scotch
Church.

One cannot but be Mdignaut at Um lack of thankful-
ness and charity on the part of some of the claimants for
oompeneatim from the Mansion Home land for the
relief of the safferere by the Thames Meader. On•
" gentleman." whose life we. eased whilst hundreds
laround him were I=d:owned, bee naked for the ooM at
, an =broils : sad t wass grant became
her dress was torn wklists=te
m being resseed. It le
orsum hnpamible to conceive ingratitude carried to a
greeter extreme.
When VIM the British workman learn moms= MOM I
Twenty thousand nailer, hare been on strike for the last
10 weeks, and now the rogues living upon the earnings at
them dupes, calling themselves their Baden, tell them It
Li utterly metre to contend further. and they must go to
wait And they .10 00 m lb. masters' tones. BuP
each of these 20,000 men emus a pounds week, wreshil
much lees than they really do get, we hem CllOO.OllO
wmted at the dictate of the bloated and disreputable
scamps who make agitation their trade.