The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

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ation of the Pope to Italy should be brought about by
the representations of the French or other Catboat@
istie Non peeenessit; but if the Holy Father canned
serreeder an iota of the temporal power without*
dereliction of duty, neither can he permit so important
a breach of the Cabello Church as the Italian, close be
his own doors, to be sacrificed to hisassertion of political
sovereignty and opposition of Italian unity. Many
episcopal sees in Italy have been vacated since the
national onion • and the Pope, anxious to see them
filled, has written to Victor Esuranaelae the subject,
the upshot of the letter bides that Signor Vegessi is
now in Rome to negotiate on the subject on the of
detlicaleiedrikedingutreooiacalintaintiectiocrhisca:7"m""engscareethe failporathinl hpoewper:wtiheuitit
, Italian nationality.
The eshiv.ion which the Prince of Wales will
Inaugurate on the 19th of May—the International
Reformatory Exhibition—will be one of • very reameir
able character. A number of foreign nations have
acceded to the idea, and the great show will be very
important as exhibiting the venous model of em
the criminal, or what I may call the semicr=
causes of society. The questions here involved—the
oompetition against honest labour outside being per-
haps the most difficult—are such as to excite continues@
anxiety among philanthropists, magistrates, k.s
can apparently never be settled, the same awk=
problems now starting up as have occurred within the
memory of any one now living. "What to do without
criminals," is indeed an important topic under many of
its phases.
What an extraordinary rapasi is that relative to the
barbarous pursuit of wok.lighting in London! A
colonel, a captain, and several gentlemen (in social
position, at least) to be brought before • metropolitan
magistrate in the year of grace 1865, " for causing to be
, cruelly ill-treated and tortured aortal* seeks," is rather
startling. Strange it is, too, to reed bat "• box of
silver spurs, scissors, files, saw, weights and scales, sod
a large number of lire and dead cooks were produced"
in the Court. Na wonder that there was quite asi
excited scene in the Marlborough Polloserourt, which.
like all other', is totally deficient ln aooommodation fat
the public. What • disgraceful state of things does
the evidence disclose ! Captain Berkeley witting at one
end of the pit in an arm-chair, acting as chairman or
referee I ilr. Love's amount of the setus4oock•tighting
I reads like • passage from a middle-age chronicler;
surely it cannot refer to the latter half of the 19th
century. But I expect every reader who peruses the
horrid details of this brutal sport will be astonished at
Mr. Knox?, judgment. "Oh most lame and impotent
conclusion !" The au was clearly proved, and all that
the solicitor for the defence could say was, that as the
sport had been sanctioned in years rase by by the
highest in the land, and royalty itself, therefore he
hoped that the magistrate, ice. , ; and the result was
therefore merely a fine of ES for each of the persons
premat. Surely wilful cruelty, in direct defiance of
the law, ought to be punished more heavily than this.
As Mr. Knox himself said, "gentlemen who did not
mind laying 10s. to see a ceek.fight were quite capable
of paying a fine of LS." If so, where is the punish.
ment ; audit therein actually no punishment, it may
he well for Mr. Knox to remember the old axiom,
hider domnater cum %wens alaaolviaar. It is only fair
to add, however, that the exposure of the name and
the payment of £5, will in other oases be quite enough
to prevent any Ware visit to such a den of cruelty.
Jerked beef haa had, and is having, a very hard
time of it in London, and, Is fact, in England ; but the
truth is, that it has to answer for a greet many sins.
Absolutely putrid meat, that was never the charrii or
jerked beef at all, has been passed off as the rentable
article, and hence a vast amount of disappointmeat
but great efforts are now being made to connterace this
imposture. These efforts will partially succeed; but
jerked beef can never by any ponsiUlity come into
['roar here. It is not • had substitute or make-shift,
and is a veritable boon to the poor ; but having taited
some of the very best specimens of it, as well as some
odious specimens, I can assert that its virtues and
qualities have been highly exaggerated.
History repeats Unit says Emerson; and the little
comedies of life repeat themselves also. Those who
have read the "Vicar of Wakefield" will remember how
Goldsmith's brother (for he it was) learned that the
Dutch had a great desire to learn Greek, and how he,
being well versed in the clank tongue, went over to
Holland to teach Greek; and how it was not till be
arrived there that he discovered that there wu an in.
surmountable object to his success—that he did not
know a word of Dutoh. A gentleman, in an advertise.
ment before me, offers to play the same part. "A
French gentleman, 29 years old, who is not acquainted
with the English language, wishes a situation in a
respectable family or school, as French towbar." That
such s teacher might encased with pupil, already able
to understand spoken French it is easy to conceive; he
might give his pupils a few finishing touches, but how
a Frenchman who does not understand English is to
teach his language in an English school, considering how
inapt English children are to learn, pussies me. The
difficulty seems also td putile the advertiser and thole
whom he addresses, for his extraordinary advertisemeet
does not now appear for the first thee.
As the season advances, excursioniats bogie to make
arrengements for their yearly holidays, and the railway
termini are crowded with the packages strip
as this in the summer—daily arrive with the holiday.
seekers. Those who occupy that indefinite positiou itt
the social scale, the upper middle class, can afford 110
take two holidaye in the course of the year, anci .harlf
just now followed Iler Majesty's ministers back to town,
many of them from delightful Paris. But the great
majority of Londoners are still baking and stewing on
the pavement, content—or at all events obliged—to
remain in town till the anutmn, and many, alas I die-
contented at baring no prospect of any vacation at all.
In theatrical affairs nothing has seabed so much
attention as the abut at St. James's Theatre of young
Mr. F. Robson, son of the famous comedian. His
personal resemblance is as remarkable as the extra-
ordinary similarity of his acting to that of his father.
The burlesque (Ulysses) in which lie appears seems to
have been written for the display of his peculiar talenta.
I have seen Donato on his one leg dance at Covent
Garden with less precision than Mr. Robson in his ex-
cellent imitation, and the serio-oomic speeches and
songs in the piece are delivered in • style peculiarly
Robsonian. 1 have little doubt but that the curiosity
respecting Mr. Robson will draw crowded houses even
to St. James's Theatre. With all the tremendous
effects introduced in the scenery I cannot but consider
the representation of Comes at Drury Lane as • failure.
John Milton would indeed be astonished could he see
how his fancies have been embodied on the stage. TI•
poetry of Comus ie lost in the action and singing, and it
teems to the audience more like a pantomime.

1,964 NAUTICAL miles of the Atlantic cable are 00W1.
pleted.
Tam Conuro Stamm—Mr. Du Dooley, the well.
known weather prophet, in a pamphlet jnet issued,
makes a rather dismal foreeset of the coming summer.
He considers the unusual vernal equinostial weather
just paused through to be significant of a summer
remarkable for its extreme coldness, thereby throwing
back the orops for their full time of maturing and
hewing into the usual period of the autumnal reins.
The whole period of their growth, he says, will be pro-
bably reedered unkindly for them by the presence of
unwonted cold, accompanied in the early portion of
their growth by great dryness, and at • later period by
mush wet. Night frost& also, and boisterous winds,
are contingencies which certainly threaten danger,
whether they some to pass or not. The whole season
Is likely to be rendered unkindly and blighting by sold,
whether it is present at all times, or whether it comes
as night frost, violently contrasting with the heat and
sunshine of the day. A sort of season seems to promise
that would not be kindly for anything, and therefore
there can be but little use in proposing to discriminate
the chances of different crops. What the growth of
roots during autumn may belt is not attempted here to
say; but in so °old • *GOMM, and the fore part of it dry
also, the sooner the seed is in and up perhaps the
better. Ireland and Scotland must probably participate,
though perhaps hardly as much as England, in the
extraordinary vicissitudes of the season expected; and
it is thought probable that many Enropean countries
will have unusual summers, though it cannot be sur-
mised of what sort they will be. The great doubt was
whether the latter part of summer would be dry or
wet • the balance is thought to turn in favour of wet.
Wno WAS Wisrertawroe 7—He was the youngest son
of a Gloucestershire Knight, and was born in that
county about the middle of the 14th century. His
father was proprietor of a small estate, but having
married beneath him, and the union proving an
unhappy one, Sir William' who died at an early age, had
to leave his favourite child noc.ared for and without
memos. The estate was inherited by the eldest son,
whose tyranny and cruelty drove Richard from home
and friends, and the poor penniless lad, when 13 years
old, reached London in the hope of finding the streets
paved with gold. No sooner had he discovered his
error, than he became sadly cast down, and ase on •
doorstep to consider whet course he should take to pro-
cure his daily bread. An alderman (Mr. Fitzwarren),
engaged in haerobandiae, saw and pitied him. He
invited him into his home, and being pleased with his
frank truthful asoonst of himself, and his object,
ordered him food, and gave him a ;tart in the world.
By degrees, Whittington rose in the ranks, until be had
amend • fortune gained the respect and honour of his
fellow citizens, :ad became thrice Lord Mayor of
London. He appears to have aNuired his wealth
chiefly in the oast trade, which was then a new branch
of commerce. The vessels in which the coals were
carried were called by a name which has been corrupted
into cot; hence the origin of the legend whish ascribes
Whittington's distinguished position to • demesne
animal of that name. It is believed that he built a
wt of the wall of Nowgste, also s school, an alms.
home, and an hospital. The old chronicler tells us
that "be wse a virtuous and godly man, full of good
works, end those famous," Admiration of his
excellencies induced the benders of • company to
name it after a man so distinguished for his forethought,
humanity, and benevolence. No institution can enable
the prudent more easily to movide for old age, or so
effectually amid parents to lay up in store for the young
and helpless as does an Insurance Socieby. What title
therefore can be more appropriate, or suggestive,
than that of "The Whillingtort Life Alsoommoce Com-
pany ,
It was to prevent certain injurious customs that the
Parliamentary Committee on Food adulterations was
appointed; there is one custom, however, of an
especially injurious character still In force, for Martial'
merchants continue to direct the Chinese to cover tea
with colour' purposely to enable the inferior brown
leaves to be passed off with the beet. Gress tea, if Mart
perfectly pure, is a dark olive, sad pure Meek is not in-
tensely dark. Horniman & Ca, tondoss bayslong s'
pudiated the injurious WNW* of enleraring tas ; th.Mr
imports, from the absence of the usual minceal *eating,
command universal.prefermeos asbaing both *balsams
and esonocnicaL Obtainable only in POWs; as Imita-
tions &beta, ere that " Horniman & Oa, OrbOwak
petters of the pure tea" is on each. Agents—di' eftlie,
coafectioners and booksellers—am apecanted in every
town ; a list for that locality is to be found in thus*
columns.
Gitarrrerno larraulornon.—lt must be gratifying
to all those who have found out the value of RICITIT'II
INANOND BLACK LVAD, to learn that it is used in the
Palaces of the Queen, and Prince of Waled. The Royal
domestics were among its first patrons. _

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