The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-19 00:00:00

Parliantraiarn paprrO.

BRIBERY AND TREATING.—A return to an order of
the Mouse of Loris, inaile on the tion of Lord A ve-
•tml, lies been made of the number of members un-
seated tor bribery and treating, distinguishing those un-
wined for treating only. forip,w.lrl tine CnnUiiili'4 cud
I or digits of the United Kingdom, during the Lint three
tat- iamentn. F t
went beginning 18-17-4186,* withuile no members were un-
pe..ted for boroughs —lnanely, for treating, m; fir
bribery, nod 6 fur bribery and treating,- tine nowlier of
seemlier% who, inn the Parliament beginning 1852-53, lent
their neat. for borough. Was ii; that is, 3 cor treating.
11 for bridery, awl 17 for lirdiery and treating. For
the counties itt that Parliament the return Was nil. lii
the Parliament beginning 1857, 6 borough members
were unseated- viz., 4 for bribery, and 2 for bribery
and treatiog ; none f. ,r tn•atin only ; and again the re-
lent was nil fee the counties. Tim inference from these
figures n. titat bribery and try:ming hail greatly increased
in 1A12.53, as coinn;sireil with 1817-18, and that on the
other hand they Inel sensibly diminished it 1857, ron•
tranteil with both the antecedent p_rinals, and titlan:lt:lly
anti, that of 1852-53.
Centel,: ad Orrzametne.—A renent return shows that
tine ntotitter of per-inn commit...id throughout the
United ;.iiegdoen continuea to decline. In 30,319
persons acre cotinnitted in England and 'nlea, and
only 16.67-1 list yen ; the commitlals in Smtland also
deviated from 4,909 in 1,48 to 3,472 lost year, and in
Ireland (non 1t4,522 in 1818 to 5.865 last )'ear. The
decrease tin t be c 1111 l in int part to be attributed to
the operation of tine Criminal duntice Act, which
enables magistrates to deal with olfenoes summarily
with tine consent of the tneeniseni, bot the diminution of
crone in Ireland is in.mt teotarkable and natisfactory.
There was a general decrease of 40 per cent. in the
nunther of convictionni in the latter year as Collipared
with the form ,r. lit lrehatil the determination id
juries to pi-twiner, •rraiglied before them—niften,
it is to he feared, to tlie f rustrntion of jUstice— continues
almod unabated, 574 per cent. of the persons committed
linving been ...witted an 1844, 491 per cent. in 1849, 40
per cent. in 1854, and 53 per cent. in 1859.
THE EDITATIoN Itzronr. The her of schools
aided by the Govei ninon i. 5,3n7, with 808.036 scholars
in them. Concerning the quality of the education tine
chiliren get, the iniipectori consider that the winders
in the first class get a tint elementary education—the
10Wrt grade of tradinmen, mechanic+, anil small
tenant farmers—and for anise the trained teachers of
the present tiny are admirably fitted. But the first
elan butt a fourth or fifth of the school. One of tine
itinpectorn, Mr. Brookfiel I, put two questions in 5,3
schools, inentaieing 6,410 children, of whom rather leas
than a filth were Mt the first class. One -Intention wan,
" What is the cost of five dozen eggs at five for 'Al.'!"
end it was annwered by •inly 19i0 100 of the first clans.
lie observes, that had tbs stood as the teacher
would have net it on the nisei, board, " What in the cost
of 60 eggs at 4d. for every 10!" it would have been
answered by nearly all tine first cies., but his putting it
more in the merket forint reniudia----I more th“light than
they werc actuntomed to exercine Min other question
wan, " lint do :tun mean my that state
14 life unto which it shall ',lessin cod tin Call yOll
alwaye adili,ll(. "'to what ntate of life are you likely to
to be called an.l the like. Only 2 in 118) answered
this rine Anon, only 11 in 118) of thin first clan. The
Inanely, Conlin° o.eilse answers of one lad of 11, living
nun ebe beaks nit the 'Mentes, are worth giving. " Tell
me id ninny state of life to which it may, perlininn, pliant
GA to call you 7" "A wateinuen." " Well, how
wo 11.1 yont J.l youriluty is that state?" "Take no 'note
.intengere than the licence says." " Well, anything
besides!' " Believe civil to the passengers." " Any'
thing elm!'" "Land 'em dry on the other side."
"Anything else r "Ask no more than the regular

fare." "Anything doer "Keep home of the mouey
for icy father and mother." "Anything corer'
•• Try to lead a gmogl life." lint as to three-fourths of
the eldhlren who pa, through these schools the acconets
aru far from aatisfsetory. The school methods taught
in the training colleges seemed to have been framed on
the supposition that the children would not stay long
enoitgh to )111,Ve up from the lowest to the highest
class, and there is a temptation to neglect the jollier I.
the 'senior Cill•Mea, An insictagr, Mr. Norris, acknow-
ledging that the inspecto-s lance no time to examine the
younger children individually in element., ry subject.,
huggeata that it might lie done by examiners eborgen front
aiming certificated masters, and believes that if the
capitation grants were so made to depend on the results
of the school-work, especially in the junior classes, it
would tend to make the school better adapted to the
wants"( the lalainring tiopulation. At present, he IlAysi,
the childri n of the labourer, who disappear about 10,
" get a hinattering if several things and proiciency in
mine, not even in reading and writing."