The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-04-11 00:00:00

Obbs anb enbS.

LAXlO%.—The reapC• of Lamson, however much
It may be cavilled a I.y most be aduiittal lay
the insj ity of thinkinq in.ople to be the only course
the itome Seetetary coon pursue. If a man is
rh age.' with an swank hvfore our inagistra'et. and
he :asserts that if time is given him he cin bring
withooies to prove his inn mice. the IS nob a.lj nra
ti.vir doe Mori, in order to give him the opp vtunity.
This is preci.elv whit Sir William II anoint has
I. twain. lii n Is say "w.. can thing evidence to show
his tiou-n sp i,sihi sty." The lint. Secretary repies.
" You Ph have the oppor.unity of doing so, but it
you fail "--ml here there can Le no mistake about his
worda—" the law will take its course."

That the poor afflicted boy, who two simmers no
.ht have ho..n wre b ha.: wheeled in , of the
minnisst parts of B uromouth„ met his death a: the
h omis of the coodenined, l mow undi.put.d. The
simple and to's question is was 1.2 m., n morally md
legally respuusibte for his actions at the Um

Of mums, there is the terrible fact tint the thath of
young Percy Malcom John meant to this hart].
pr-s•eil p nnile s man the of f 11,5110. But, on the
other hand, is not ev n this, black as it may at first
sizht appear, in favour of the theory now est up in his
behalf? Moulded from the so..ial circle • f Bourne-
mouth, of witch he had beau so petted a member,
ignored by former friends, ileiperate for money, his
system shatters I by di sipati (buit we don't h ang a
man for hi. antecedeuta) —.nil the moi sub-cutaneous
injection of nre.phie., one Cmn well nuclei-04n I that et
the time his brain was "turned," ad that in his
wretchedness he resolve-I to otit in the coveted gold
by one of the clumsiest mirders the annals of crime
can show. %Vital was the involuntary verliet passel by
nine out of ten when they first read the details id this
miserable trage‘ly "Why the man must have been
iI ' And few can doubt that that was a true and •
rig hteonajoilerment. roe the eake of .iur boasted Chi isti
anity it is to be hoped Sir Willi sin Hare iurt will see his
way to an loptiog the vie w I have feebly sketched above. If
he dives we may be sure it will not be Ion; before there
follows the abolition of • penalty which diagrac s the
statute-books of • country that pare les itself as an
example of civilization to the world.

THI CLAIMANT.— The aot-diaant Sir Roger hm
numemus followers in l'‘ade, and it will interest them
to learn th.t the Tichlawne Fund Committee has
Issued a circular ann•u:icing that the unhappy noble-
ma, will soon come out of penal servitude to claim his
estates.

Ma. CHAT!' i CLAIM L—l saw in II contemporary
• short time ago an enquiry, made by • corresp onlent,
asking if anything were known as to Mr. Chatfield
Clarke's views in relation to the Establi-bed Church.
The lodowing extract from • pamphlet publishel by
the hon. gentleman in Do ember of hat year, on Land
Law Refoi in, may, perhans. afford the required infor-
mation :—" l'o enable the steps to be taken to acquire
land, it is well worthy of consideration whether the
State should not utilise large funds, as sal the CMG in
Ireland. which miaht be derived from the futur. dies
establishment and disendowinent f the ICnglish State
Church. Aber paying due regard to exi-ting
and to establish a yatem loans to all purchases
under ragulatians as to unierletting or mortgarii g."
MAN AsJor PooLs•