The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-01 00:00:00

MM. DUNN'S CASK—No. I.

Tee name of Um Dunn, of the Junction Hotel,
Dorchester, is destined to attract the notice of
the editors of England, whose safety in a commercial
point of view is seriously menaced by the bad law
laid down In the Tenant dose, at her instants, against the
editor of the late (not the present!) Dorset Chronicle:
for, if there be one men in England whose interests
are compromised and the footing on which he under-
took his oftles altogether inverted in case of the
Dorset judge proving to be right, there are at least
two hundred Who must be surprised to learn of their '
alleged responsibilities But right he cannot be;
the entire rule and practios of the profession, the
sound and tacit, but undisputed, understanding on
which every one of those two hundred editors
beo.me registered at the stamp office end for revenue
purposes only, while they are not held forth to the
public in the imprints of their lepers as responsible
printers or publishers,—has been totally against him
since the very institution of the newspaper stamp, in
the reign of William ill; and Dutch William himself,
we MO very sure, dreamt of a law of newspaper
responsibility such as that invented, administered,
and enforced by Judge Everett, of Dorset. We
already silent the adhesion of about thirty gentlemen
to the cause of redress &settee this injustice; but we
want the whole two hundred whom we have ewer-
tamed to be unwittingly placed in this f-Ise predic-
ament (that is to ray. placed in it, if indeed it can
be held that Judge Everett knows anything about
newspapers and their law); and if the heading
which appears above the first of the present series
of /dailies should have to be maintained there for
the neat fifty-two *reeks, we are supplied with
ample details for quietly developing the whole
history and mystery of this particdlar saes, with
which the plat:Aid has identified herself, by besom•
ing the oat's-paw of the cunning prosecutors, who
are really at the bottom of these oppressive proceed-
ings, mid the press at large becomes perfectly
familiar with the facts and bearings of the matter,

We shall not quite the private-opinions of edutore
add Tamed to us, complaining of the sheer dishonesty
of this attempt to make as pay for oondocting the
newspaper of another man, who absorbs all the
profits; but, as examplos of the more current mon.
meats that bays been publishod in all parts of the
country, we subjoin two brief extraots in addition
to some already dud sad alluded to.
_ _ .

Bell's Meueisger publishes the following observa-
tions, endorsed by the Notta, Leicestershire and
Midland papers generally, with this sertilloabon
that the defendant was formerly well known and
respected there before being unfortunately allured
into Dorset, which ham been to him, • scene of
000nnucus mitering, and the greatest sad most
protracted trial on his fortitude :
" A serious trial has been taking plum at Doreheeter,
which please in a strong light the responsibilities is
whieh a gentlemsn plains himself who undertakes the
editorship of a newspaper, and allows himself to be
registered! as proprietor. This Is a step so often taken
that the warning is not without its value, though in this
imbibes a heavy lose has been sustained by an able sed
oonselentiont man, and a loortried supporter of the
Conservativeness*. It appears that Mr. Wallace Fyfe,
one of our foremost provincial journalists, and an
eminent scientific agriculturist, was for ninny year. the
editor abil registered proprietor of the Dorset Coutty
Chronicle. Some months ago be resigned his °Mee of
editor; and •hen the accounts between himself and the
, &deal roprt.torl came to be made 111.. he was made
I ilePoiulibll foe all those espouses • hich he bad under-
taken on behalf of tbe paper—snob as carriages to and
from public meetings, and sueli getherinp as it was
neoermy for him to attend in his capecity of editor.
We nWat Ibis withost comment, but we hope the
warning will not be lost."

The following from the pen
.of the moat extensive I
Metropolitan correspondent to this country has
appeared in substance, in perhaps, a hundred
different Journals in all parts of the kingdom :
"Newspaper Editors, metropolitan or provincial,
will condole with Mr. W. Wallace Pyle, well known in
his journalistic and other impurities. To be summoned
to • County Court nearly two years sitar you have snded
your mono:Sion with a ournal, for • debt manned u
Ito nominal" Proprietor," and to him to
pay it as a private individual, seems rttlier too bad.
But much is Mr. Pyfe's version of • esas that came on
&giblet him at ths Donal Cosi.ty Court for horse-hire
Incurred in disabuse of his duties as editor of the
Dome Chronicle, be baring transferred his services to
the Don* Comfy Ilzpreas since Christmas 18K It
lush liabilities were common, who would be • "Regis-
tered Prom ietor," to have to pay out of his own pocket,
for instance, this outs of the defendant in Ranter i.
Sharpe—a matter show. thousand pounds, I hear."
We give Mem articles as simply indicative of the
prevailing too, of the public journals on a point of
comideisble moment to many of their conductors •
but we do Dot pretest thew an Wictly accurate
views of the ma'; Indeed, we shall probably oho,

at lenath, in our neat, the tett of a deed of indem-
nity on • thirty-five shilling statism, held by •ita
evpreesly an a guard against the pillage and extor-
tion to which we have thus been sopjected, from
which document the shameful nature of the
treatnient we have received will be more
ap-
parent
iipolegaitlanly
"L thouht tlcantdiirio,,neldlit.nirotwurieateat
the subject politically, as it *pp are to Ire
merely an se nf dish ciesty—a sort of • • • •
comtionialed nf eatorti in and • • • •," we
would rather wit say what, sir.ce the evidenoe in the
cam as it appears on the notes of a sworn shorthand
writrr will probably at a future stags be aeverelY
sifted. One and all, however, concur in wishing to
me the matter pursued a little further, and in pro-
testing against its being auffsred to rest where it
iL
We are quite resolved that, cute qui mule, they
shall have their will.