The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-31 00:00:00

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If • oontemporary, professedly • serious paps', but
more often =knowingly °mai°, is correct, the organist
at St. IteaT's, L mgfiest, lea bit of a wag in his way;
1 for I red that at • nowt weddiug, which wan
choral, tits intiernadiat• hyms sung wai "how
wsloonte was tits nail."! presume •deliciet• •Ilusion to
Lb. feeling. of the bride when Lim. qii•etion was
"popped and as • finale to the ceremony, In sews-
what bettor taste he oligel with "See the conquer-
ing hero." To have carried the ding out thoroughly,
however, when the officiating =airier spoke in bi.
address of the gossibtlity of dark days arising h.
should at ones have struck op "Wall tat the clouds
roll by.

Aimording to his paper, Mr. N ertin has thrown
out • challenge to the Watch Crmiuittse—fat
least ma It is •• headed," but I read at
rather man offer with • good meaty qualifying " If.'
that if they will petition for • 0 nornimilmer to be
sent down to inquire into c imtitutiou of the
police force, and if • fair an I impartial en 'airy I.
hell, mil if the Comnissioner fi ids that he ham not
proved hie charge, he will pay the amount of the
enquiry, If It emote £5OO. The Watch C migrates will
of course do no snot thing, MI Mr. Norton eery well
knows, so this is • rather cheap Ivey of attain-
ing increased notoriety. An I I simply notios the
matter to ask what wilily object such an enquiry
would have? booking at the constitution of the force
at the present time ails tolerably clear the long
array of oharges aiainat it he advertises on every
rmseible occasion meet ram mainly, if not entirely,
to men who are dead, men who have retire I, or moo
who have left the foram The poor fellows who an
goes minnet be affected by it, exoept so far as thea.
memories are concerned: and the others wo'ild only
laugh at it. What than would be achieved?
Nothing. Yee, one thing, which I. really what
actuates Mr. Norton in his crusade of which the
Watch Committee are me cognisant am he le blins-11,
but which they properly decline to allow themselves
to be the mean, of enabling him, am hie attempt to
secure Me end. to give needless pain and worry where
111. undeserved.

No doubt • very different oomplexion will be put
on the 4 oestioo of the advisability or not of re-opening
the " 0 mob and 1L,...," when it mom to be argued
before the Court of quarter &lesions. When the
grave and learned seigneurs filed la on the bench, if
any one had any doubt as to the result, it must have
been at mos dispelled.

The Town Council have at hit decided to t ke
notice ef • scandal which has too long been allowed
to go on unchecked, and • meeting la called for
Monday nest " to consider letters which appeared In
the Daily Na.., purporting to corns from Mr. Whi'-
worth, M.P., and Mr. Noton, and to decide what
action shall be taken In the caatrar." No doubt par I
old Mr Whitworth, when be wrote that "lb. loc.l
authorities ant the polka were well in with the
publicans," believed he was confining himself to the
truth; and also, when in another paragraph, he said
that the charge of perjury against Williams was
brought became he said be thought the superin-
tendent of polio, had from 15 to 20 glasses of
gin and water, and that it was for that be
had seven pare' penal servitude, the member for
Drogheda was no doubt speaking on the strength of
information with which he has been deceived. As
everyone knows this waa hardly an lagredant in the
charge. Williams was convicted for utteringmot
stroclons lies in caseation with the oondoct of the
11 Crown. It was pr.ived that again and again be tried
to entrap people into breaking the law—witmese his
getting • young man to play bagatelle with him at
the Aosta Arms, and then laying an information
against the bows-wand throughout he Presel himself
nothing but • hack-stair sneak, and be deserved hi,
faM. Still. it Ls quite time that a atop should be put
to the contempt and scorn to which the town Wog
hell up, under cloak of • Chriattam desire to mono
an innociial man.