The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-18 00:00:00

DRIDPORT.

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AL. ion AOCIDECT. Mr. Thomas Strong,
sweet manufacturer, of South-street, was driving
him four • wheel through st. Michaels- lane into
ihruth•street, and, when raring Messrs. Iyhetham's
factory he pulled in suddenly to avoid colliding with a
timber-carriage, the traces broke and one of the
"ft" "LINA short off, narrowly escaping an upset of
the vehicle. Mr. Strong warn thrown violently en to
the r.ul an .1 was taken to a friend'. house. A severe
scalp wound was sustained from the fall, and the spine
has leen much injured.
Fagg room laricriorr.—A meeting of the local
authority under the Contagious Diseases (Animals)
Act was held at the Town Hall on Wednesday at
noon, when the premise.. of Mr. William Symonds,
Boarsharn.w. Loden, was declared free from pieuro
pneumonia, which disearre raged there not long sum to
an alarming extent. Sergeant Gale, one of the
inapectona,. wag satisfied nf the cessation of the disease,
and the limited time VA days) having expired, the
area was pronounced free from infection. The premises
of Mr. Francis Dare, Woot.too 'k.p.h., and those of
Mr. Thomas Bartlett, Man.hwood, where swine fever
broke out, were also declared free, 28 dale having
expired.

Tza Lona MATO.. Tle• London
Company, of which Mr. Alderman Nottage. nr"cieV
m
Kennard are the proprietors, have taken the pre.
liminary steps in an action in the Su me Court for
slander against Sir Charles N am (the Lord
blayor), for expressions used in his magisterial capacity
on the recent hearing at the Mansion House of a stun-
ec°lle against • shopkeeper in the City on a charge of
selling and exhibiting indecent Zulu photographs. Tim
Lord Mayor, through hie solicitor*, has accepted
service of the wooers, with a view, according to his
an icitora' explanation, of having "an opportunity of
enlightening the public on the true facts of the case,
and justifying the course bob.. taken."

SIR C. WHILTHAM AT THE MANSION HOUSE.
The lata Lord Mayor (Sir O. Whetham), who wee
greeted with cheers. responded to " the Heath SI the
late Lord Mayor." It was • placing thing, after a man
had fulfilled the duties of the ofike of Lord Mayor, to
come there and have his health proposed and drunk.
He could swore the Lord Mayor that if ha got tbit
valualde assistance which he spoke of from the Court of
Aldermen, be (Sir C Whetm) might my, on the
other hand, that he had not received anz aasistance
from them C' Oh. oh." hisses, and " Hear. I He said
thia only. that should the lewd Mayor at the eleventh
hour be deserted by his Maids—which he might expect
—he would feel, if he had the same feelings as he (the
*pother) had, that be had not only doos his duty to the
citasene, but had shown that he could succeed, and feel
highly satisfied that he had lone his duty, without the
assistance of those he had named. (Laughter.)

THE 1..d/NDONERS AND SIR CHARLES.
Monday's pageantry was marked by • display of populic
feeling in the streets of London altogether unpreauted.
Contrary to immemorial usage. public attention wee
directed in a pedal degree, not to the in-coming, but to
the out-going Lord Mayor. and thie in • sense by no
meal" flattering or complimentary to his waning state
and departing dignity. Ramat events connected with
the prosecution before the Lord Mayor, of a City trades-
man for selling photographs of Zulu women unadorned,
were fresh in the recollection of the peo le, and clearly
eoutributed in no small degree to the highly-unfavourable
reception given to Sir Charles Whetham on his way front
Guildhall to Westminster.
No sooner had the ex-Lonl Mayor'o carriage, containing
Sir Charles Whethion, hi. chaplain, and his me, Mr
Arthur Whetham emerged from the Guildhall gateway
than there arose from the crowd • storm of ht% and
ti booe. which was taken up as the procession as,
and continued with little cessation, but with varying
vehemence along all the line A stoppage of some duration
opposite the nest once, in Queen-street gave the crowd
full Bing for displaying their feeling. Sir Charles
Whetham and his son bowed WY and smilingly Sir
Charles waving a delicate lace handkerchief as affably as
If receiving the most nattering welcome. Through
Thames-street and under the railway arch. surmounted by
a huge device—suggestive of Magog turned beef-eater,
battle examen, and mighty hunter with Itodhounds—
and lighted throughout with Chinese lenterns, the proces-
sion pursed, with all Notts of uncomplimentary remerks
on the late, followed by cheers for the present. Lord
Mayor. Occasionally he feeling of the crowd found vocal
expression somewhat more to the point than more
biasing, hooting, groaning, and inissalbsbie manifests,
hone of sup ems disapprobation produced by inaerUng
the Boger well into the inside of the riyht cheek and
working the lips at a hish rated speed as &poem "Zulu.,
"Screw-loose " Keteiche-wayo," were • few of the
straws IndicaUng which wry the wind of popular
Indignation blew. London-bridge, the Borough, and
Delo -street were comparatively quiet Hem however,
the manifestations amonned for a moment • physical
form, a bunch of hops and an old hat failing near the
ax-Lord Mayor's carriage, thrown from no one knew
where. Approaching Southwark-bridge the storm of
feeling gained froth voice. Dowiatehill gave variety to,
the demonstration by exhibiting a welle.ecuted sketch
of the ex-L .n 1 Mayor receiving the amends of four
discreetly-clad Zulus assailing him In the rear. In
Cannonstreet where tine roar rose loud again, an undraped
upper Mad' a large wooden doll. dyed Mack. wa• held up
to the view of the ex-L nrd Mayor. Fieet-street re-echoed
the cry, and met the wave of popular diaaporobetion far
beyond the bounds of old Temple Bar. Non.,