The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-29 00:00:00

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"Jostles.' Justice" is Dicer is still mainly con-
fined to prisoners, lunatics, policemen, and cows; sod
the poor boys who are ready to sink into crime most
still wait their long-deferred chutee of getting into an
Industrial school, union, as the Rev. Carr Glyn, long
honoured for philanthropy, suggested, they may be
admitted Into the 'school snip Kount Felgeumbe. The
matter I. important to Weymouth, for we can hardly
set up an Industrial school out of our own resources,
though Harmony and other small courts can furnish
poor boys. unendowed, except with widowed mothers,
hungry stomachs, and wilful hearts. Peers and pro-
perty-holders in Dorset were served at Quarter
Seseions with particulars respecting the palaces for
policemen, prisoners, pauper Iturstotn, and outc unity
patient. ,• but the minute statistics, formerly so
delightful, began to pall, and even such details a.—
"Males 1, females 0, ttul 1," or %urinate information
as to the pricers of pepper, starch and blue, failed to
satisfy the cravings of an intellectual Court.., that
even the deputy-chairman effl oresced in a joke, and
that in behalf of a baby! Lord Alington must look to
his honours, when the post of jokist to the Court falls
to the terse and lively Mr. Floyer. But, now that
the entertainments of the county mristrates are
lessened by the withdrawal of the g report, with its
age-honoured iteration. an I dellihtfullr minute
statistics, who shall declare there is no hope for our
fatherless and undowered boys The subject may be
pushed from Sessions to Salmons, while abstruse
dissertations on main and highway roads, returns on
the hetlth of pleuro-pneumonic cows, or the courtesies
to be olwerved towards salmon, trout, seagulls, and
cormononta, oocupy the time until four p.m ; but 4
length, if Sir. Glyn and Mr. Bingham and the other
philanthropists persevere, the rescuing of poor boys
From the criminal.' fate must come uppermost. Long
life to the philanthropist.; may they la.t out, and see
the time when 'tin not necessary for a person to be a
peer, a property-owner, • policeman, a nrisoner, or •
patient at the Asylum, in order to be a subject of
Interest to the magistrates at Quarter Serious.

lilt possible? A real inatanoe of Christian uni
has come—let me hope not "to pass." The Church
of England Sunday School Institute co-operate I with
kindred societies in inviting prayer for Sunday
schools. The 'nudity School Union, mainly supported
by Dissenters, joined in this re.ximmendation, and
special meetings were held. It may be long true yet,
that the "children of this world are in their genera-
tion wiser than the children of light ;" but the latter
are beginning to sut.init to the dictates of c trnmon-
sense and I hope to bear of more co-operation by the
Established Church with the Free Churches, now it
has admitted the thin end of the wedge.

So the Outer Pier Extension is not to be further ex-
tended. Anxious as I am to see Mr. Edwards's
courageous offer treated with all respect, one can
hardly be sorry that further extension is delayed. The
Outer Pier is possibly destined to exercise more in•
fluence than it already does on the ultimate disposal
of our sewage, and I hope us more will be spent on it
without taking this matter into the reckoning. It is
not impossible that, when the Extension was made (.1
solid concrete, an opportunity of utilising it a. •
sewage outfAll was sacnficed. The further extension
would certainly have an important influence on
directing the harbour current, and although MAW/ may
personally believe it will direct even further from the
Sands and Esplanade, those matters which it is most
Important to keep away therefrom, the whole results
must bethought over, even if we are prepared farther
to burden the Harbour fund.

Bi I !.arg.sios are irritistioz, and it .1114 111th much
annoyance I heard that £l3O is wanted to make up
Mr. Arden's salary as clerk to the magistrate.; There
is still a chance, I believe, of the necessary £3OO being
ma-le up by fees, and lest this chance should be
damaged by laxity or ultra-kindness on the part of our
borough magistrate;, I venture t. quote from the
Chairman of Quarter Sessions. His Lordship re-
marked that magistrate." Were apt, when a prisoner
Is a poor man, 4i order him 4. I.ay only part f the
costs, and he reminded insgistrates that the prose-
cutor is primarily liable to pay the costa, and where
they are not all paid by the prisoner, the prosecutor is
liable for the rest. Attention to this would save the
county • large sumo( money." So it might save the
borough. If theoommittee who settled the Magistrates'
Clerk's salary made a had bargain. we cannot wish for
extra "business" to give the ratepayers the benefit of
fees; but pr eecutors and defendants must be tau.ilit
that law is a luxury which must be paid for, and that
we strongly object to new charges being saddled on us
by that most objectionable of all our local burdens—a
borough rate.

Strikes for wages are no doubt very vexatious to
master.; but men who labour have only to turn to
Weymouth for examples of rises in salaries that might
seem to encourage the constant Ntruggle for more.
OW a year, with a fortnight's holiday, is thought very
little of by men in protected professions, while others,
equally valuede and often much harder-working, are
tryin4 to hull their £lOO • year, and sacrificing all
holidays to do so. We hear a gaxl deal of the waste-
fulness and grasping disposition of the poor; but when
they mass the fact that E2OO • year with a fortnight's
holiday means eighty shillings a week, they will have
little sympathy for the profeadons who are continually
crying for more. No doubt there are men who
enquire, with a late nines article, whether life worth
anything can be supported on less than 000 • year;
but I would advise titi to look at those below, and •
few lemons on thrift will be easily learned.

bound
ofaseuwennell to, "hark': •
drenchir g with arguments and figures, during the dull
toldrintortthane
ddraperinadie.qiuet Ttrtoln,.,
season, in the hope that the deluge may he over, and
the "something: if requisite, be done before next
season. tlr. B•ohene gave a " contribution " of no
little size last Thure&y, and we were at first over.
whelmed with millions of gallons, until they Increased
to hundreds of millions, and we found they were verily
waters to swim in. For Mr. P. 'hens showed there are
about 37 millions of gallons of sea water, at the very
lowest, into which go only about a quarter of a million
gallons of dirty water daily, while at different states
of the tide the amount of sea water is increased till
we reach theastoundingquantity of 608 millions gallons
of sea water at the top of spring tides. Even at the
largely liberal estimate of 20 gallons dirtied for
every inhabitant, these 608 millions of gallons are
bad as large again as the whole amount of town-dirtied
water which Ins been poured into the harbour during
the past five years, that being something under 400
millions of g alloot. No one can pretend, I should
think, but that 20 gallons per man, woman, and
child are enough for all purposes, and that it Mould
suffice as carrier of the refuse to the sewers. I fancy
mazy parts of other towns, and those not the worst,
would be vainly contented with an allowance of far
less than 20 gallons per individual. This should In
borne in mind if ever the Local Board get so fr as
to consider the proposition that water for sewage
purposes should be formed on to all hones, a
lion which will largely increase our burdens, arnhVgh
It may swell the dividends of the Water complair,
who are pretty well off, hut the weak points c 4 Mr.
Robens's argument appear when we consider—first
that at certain seasons there is hardly any tide at
all, and secondly, that smells have actually been
perceived. It is of no avail for Mr. Robins to point
ant that in the spring tide we got over 600 millions of
galls... 4 sea-water, or more than the whole quantity
of dirty water (at 20 gallons per inhabitant) fr seven 1
years,—if at certain times of dead low water the piece
actually looks dirty. And it is equally tiseles‘ for the
Registrar-general, the Medical Offioer, and Mr.
Robens and Mr. Welsford, all most truthfully, to
proclaim the healthiness of Weymouth, if there are
actual smells. But when the revelation is made that
certain property.ownere are breaking the law and
defying the local regulations by throwing their dirt
where they have no right—into the &dipole toke
them it becomes a matter, not for a scare, but for
Proseention of the offenders. As to the statement
that seaweed is the cause of the smell, Nature bee I
an gives us opportunity of testing it, for lest wank
r 1111021112.50 quant.tles oame in, on the serum, and for
days at the beginning of this weak, a large bank of it
reached from south of the little breakwater to
Chesterfleld-plaeseteps ; the small was certainly strong,
but, though by no means pleasant, was sald to be
wholesome. Newton's Cove is • capital oleos for
three' hours
testing the smell of seaweed, for there it often
remains, until any bondsman could determine &bone
it, without an analyst, and I should ludas, • re at
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