The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-06-17 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER, JUNE 17th, 11184.

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The judges appear now to have finally settled their
little matter with regard to the Ararat. Tile,
autembled under the presideooy of the Lord Chita-
laet Tuesday, and • "foal arrangcment " was
some to. The netts says the resolutions come to
will put an and to, or, at all events, appreclaWy reduce
the chief &Aorta Donner:tad with the exist-Leg circuit
system. One alteration which meets with the approval
of the Council of Judges will be universally hailed as
a wise step. It Is proposed that Judges of the
Chancier, and Probate, Divorce sod Admiralty
Divisions shall henceforth be absolved from the duty
of going oiroun. An unsuc,Aseful experiment will
thus be abaodoned. Auuttuir change which is
promaed is the reduction of the number of judges
going cirocit. Invtead of withdrawing all but
about hall-a-dozen, as now periodically happens, it
Is intended that more than ten ju lam shall 00000 at
the same time be absent from London. It is not
proposed to discontinue holding the smiles in any
novelty. Probably rarangementa will be made for
ecaosatireting civil business to a degree never before
attempted. The scheme of re-arrangement promises
valuable practical changes. Tim time occupied by
circuit will be shorter than heretofore; the num Air of
judges absent from London will be smellier thau has
hitherto been supposed to be necessary; and civil
business will be concentrated. But the most urgent
reforms as to circuit businees are now assured, and
others will come if the new scheme le found to
answer.

The dieoussioe on Mr Woodall's Amendment to the
Fraeshise Bill revealed &Sae/soft of opinioo &mond
advocator of W0034111'4 Sarno, which, apart from
other cionsiderations, unite instified the Suit
assumed by Mr. thadatons on the subject. I , lb*
opinion of some, the extension should be limited to
spinsters and widows, otherwise the most intolerable
domestic strife would be eoginiderod. But, on the
other hand, It Is forcibly urged that this would be to
degrade marriage by making it a in as of Welton-
°Moment ; It would be to give the vol.* to vice whilst
with-holding It from ruts.; to enfranchise social
failure without enfranchising social 500 n...; and to
make tin death of • husband a political emancipation.
It is true that Sir Stafford Northoote would endeavour
So remedy one of thee, inoonvenieuose by propoeing •
clause depriving female lodgers of the benefit of the
AoL But this would be to oast • stigma upon many
of the most deserving of the angle women whilst
tearing • multitude of "kept woman" In possession of
a vote. The Oonservatlve lied.., would probably
have done better to copy the example of Lord Beocons-
field, by giving a Went vote—if they voted at all upon
the subject. Whilst the IMM•Orll Liberals, quits apart
from the onestisi of Opportunism, may well hesitato
So rush In where • veteran reformer like John Bright
fears to tread.

The hostility of the City generally to thi o..vern-
meet Reform Bill may be beet understood from the
attitude of the few prominent citizens who rapport it.
Mr. Alderman Whitehead and his friend •1,1 follqwer,
Mr. Sheriff Clarence Smith, can only mamas the
very feeble position that the Bill contains the best
terms which the City ii likely to get, and that some
more democratic Government might make OVID more
eweeping reforms. The Sheriff WU soon oompelled to
promise to hold hie tongue upon the question, and
now Mr. Alderman Whitehead, whilst reiterating hie
argument of expediency, practically condemns the
Bill by asserting that it does not effectually provide
for Local Government. The Government may yet
see it nroessary to amend their scheme by giving
greater power and dignity to the District Wendle and
placing them very much in the position of @operate
municipalities. If they would do this, they would
very mush lemon the chances of successful opposition
to the measure.

It has for some Li Ma past troubled the minds of •
Worming L rd Chancellor and a reforming Lord Chief
Judie, that her Mai JuJigee should enjoy the
luxury of two clerks apiece as well se a mysterious
functionary termed • marshal. The two person.
ages at the head of the Beach have a still more
numerous staff, Including secretaries at ,C5OO • year.
Tim Honourable Bernard Coleridge, It may be
remarked In passing, coosents to perform the duties of
secretary to hie father for the sum indicated; and our
reforming and economising Lord Chief Justice no
doubt believes that a grateful country obtains the
Denims, whether oomlnel or otherwise, of his off-
spring dirt cheap, Bat it has been deemed intolerable
that the " pekoes" should have two clerks and a
marshal, and accordingly at the meeting of the judges
00 Thursday one of the two clerkships wee abolished,
Lb. antiquated and almort purely honorary 01100 of
marshal being, however, retaioecl by the votes of the
Benith. The marshal is a young man, generally a
barrister and • friend, often • relative of the Judge,
who accompanies him on Circuit, performing a few
trivial (laths by way of mekeLelieve, and receiving
gm with all expenses thereof. This little bit of
patronage the polices did not wish to give up any
mare than Lords Seaborne and Coleridge desired to
part with their secretaries. One of their two clerks
they were more willing to surrender. Queen's Counsel
always have a senior and • junior clerk, and when the
master is raised to the Bench troth hie men have
hitherto been taken on by the Tressury as Judge's
darks. Is future only the senior will have this