The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-27 00:00:00

(From the World.)

Lord Itearonsfieldi, who remained in Town when
other Ministers and Parliamentary chiefs took holiday
during the mere, has Pud left for his country seat. It
seems to be generally believed that he will resign the
Premiership very shortly, awl that Lord Derby will
succeed him. Disraeli followed one Lord Derby as
Conservative Premier, and he will be followed by
another. Is there any other case of father and MU
both holding the office of Prime Minister, besides that
of Lord Chatham and the younger Pitt? Perhaps
Lord Ileaomstiel.l may retain the office of " Pnry
Seal," when he resigns that f First Lord of the
Treasury, if he would rather retain the responsibility
of a seat in the Cabinet than applythe Russian system
of unofficial warfare to Parliamentary tactics, after
the tnann of Mr. Gladstone.

The connection between pasdon and fashion is aims.
what singular. It reminds on f the inc and the Lane
in l'ower's play f "The Irish Attorney." On Satur-
day fashion had its latest outburst at the boat-race,
which resulted in the sensational incident of a dead-
heat ; and this, which is Passi oi week, is given up to
eximises of a very different kind. The Church feeling
in our day may not be very deeply felt ; but it is, at
least. wide spread, and churches are open this week
and theatres closed. Next week there will be another
order of things, and theatres will be open and churches
closed. So the world goes round, fast and festival, the
church and the world, each taking their innings, and
bidding for popular support. Speaking on that sub-
ject, it is certainly remarkable what congregations
have been brougltt together at St. Paul's to hear a
, short mitl-day service, or rather, Litany and sermon.
It is preached at the west end the Cathedral to a
' large and attentive audience, many standing who are
unable to find seats.

What an art there is in seizing the right moment to
publish the right thing! Messrs. Warne hare sold
20,000 copies ,of their cheap reprints of Sales transla-
tion of the Koran, and, doubtle.s, will sell as many
more.

DM*.

Sir Henry Thompson is a slender, middle-aged man,
with hair untouched with grey, great bushy eyebrows
bristling over dark-brown eyes,' a full moustaches. and.
lithe active frame, the upper part whereof is clad In one
el these velvet coats dear to persons of an artistic turn of
mind. His two consulting-rooms are full of china, of
which he is saidto have the finest collection in the power.
ion any single person, some disposed in cases, the rest
displayed for the purpose of decoration : and the brilliant
blue and white contrast effectively with the dark green
of a bower of palms and ferns, and the rich warm tone of
several fine Ettys. The atmosphere of art pervades the
entire house. In the room where unhappy patient& await
the moment of their interview with the great Ilari•Ont
who is scrupulously true to the doctrine first COMO find
served, there is art enough to charm for • whilst the
weariest sufferer. Overhead Is the studio—for the
inthusiast for lane and white is no dile/tam, dabbler in
the acts, but wields the pencil as skilfully as the knife.
Strangely enough he commenced painting seriously at the
very time his professional dutier heltSll to press heavily
upon him, when he began to feel life running too much in
one griove,when,as he quaintly say., "I was so completely
ecutned that I wanted something else to do." At this
juncture he was fortunate enough to become acquainted
with Mr. Elmore, who gave much pains to the education
of hie promising pupil : and suceeded in imbuing him
with artistic feeling as well as method. John Philip, too,
gave the neophyte many valuable hints, and MOTO
recently M. Alma Tadema inducted him into his mart ell-
e= style of work, and he has since exhibited Pavers! I
ItttliTn4t'sthfeathl.eoryalobticctlnitii risd son's fFrenchoowi following
profession of medicine, on the ground that doctors were
dangerously addicted to freethinking. This opposition
was kept up until the young man attained his minority
and a small property, which enabled him to carry his
design into •xecntion. Studying diligently in London I
and Paris, he rapidly conquered the difficulties of a late
start, and made his mark in his profession. He had
already gained honour and reputation when the event
occurred which added solid reward to liberal walls.
The operation performed on the late King of the Belgians,
to which his Majesty wea only induced to commit by the
Crumeas of the English surgeonovas the turning-point in his
career. It is characteristic of King Leopold that, although
so ill when the young English surgeon was sent for—
almost as • forlorn hope—that for fourteen day, he had
been unable to lie down, he resisted at first all idea of
undergoing an operation and when he at last consented,
demanded four days' grace in order that he might get the
Brazilian difficulty, then placed in his hands for adjust-
ment, completeiy off his mind before his own usgent
need was cared for. It is a matter of history that the
operation was completely suocessfuL In les, than a
fortnight the King wee driving out, and teatyfying his
admiration of the skill and reeolution of his English
adviser. Is his method of getting through the heavy
work of in vogue, he differs materially from
amet Preferring the French order of
MeDnre, he dem early and performs all severe opera-
at fore hreekket He maintains that early morning
k • far man favourable time for the patients than the
Mimes= home emiteesery in London at hospitals and
idgewlsoms. Peessmelty abstemious to the extent of
Eskilmil field absiguescie from fermented drink, he is
e beepitable, and not haying given up wine
semldrademes years ago, has, to the delight of his
I=‘, • tml• Vigil can be implicitly relied upon,
Is so muellielma in his abstinence. He is better
mgiut whet, beim ; better in health than he was ten
ago ; bettor able to get through his work quickly
Mil their( idly.

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Thomas& are molds to take Cocoa because the
varieties airmaily soil are raised with Starch, wider
he PIM of smadlorlos them soluble ; while really
them "wham and lood***4. This may bTrAWY
detected. sr ems Maw fa ti. alp * p 4.111 rke
oddities dm& Coseers Oser Imre is winds. ; tt Is **dim licliszossaiguageste,sr COOOO4. Mai a fienlailli lif

The Courts of the Midilleeex Sessions are not, as a
rule, just a pattern of judicial dignity and forensic
decorum. Not a few of the bnrristers who practise
there are guilty of an unconventional distribution of
their " hrs." Legal discussion often sounds very
much like legal altercation. and the manner of the
polgrs is not always calculated to inspire a high
opinion of judicial qualifications. The "
case- was the occasion of an unseemly confusion, such
as, unfortunately, i+ only of too frequent occurrence,
and that would cause more public scandal were it
pt that in all eases but those of exceptional popular
interest, such as the Slade appeal, the newspaper
repiwts of trials at the Sessions are cut down to the
shortest possible limits. One great and standing:
cause of unpleasantne. is the ambiguous position of
the Assistant-Judges. Nominally, they are but
county magistrates, on a par with their unprofessional
brethren of the Bench, whilst, practically, the
judicial functions are left almost entirely in their Awn
hands. The Aasistrintoluilge naturally resents what
he begins to condiler the interference of men who
know nothing of the law they are called upon to
administer; and, on the other hand, when the magis-
trate.; do haepen to have an opinion of their own,
they do not like to be led by the nose by one whom
they regard as being nothing more at beet than
rejoins niter pares. Lord Marcus's exploit seems
rather out of date on this side of St. George's
channel; but, perhaps, to an ardent Hibernian it ,
may seem perfectly natural to belabour a man who
give, you credit for coin, but does not give you credit
for veracity. How the spirit of his lordship's uncle,
the third 'Marquis of Waterford, would chuckle if, by
any chance, he ehould get to hear of this little affair
of his nephews! The .Marquis will long be remem-
bered as the acknowledged chief of the aristocratic
Mohawk, who made tradesmen's and constable's lives
a burden to them when the nineteenth century was
young. There was humour, too, sometimes, as well
as mere mischief, in Lord Waterford's practical jokes:
as, for instance, when he paid a company of sweeps to
travel first-class from Dublin to Cork, in order to
1141 up the wretched accommodation of Trial, mil-
ways to public contempt. England owes something,
after all, to the warm blood of the Bereeford's.
Wellington's great friend and comrade of Peninsular
renown, General Beresford, afterwards created a
Viscount, one of the finest and handsomest men
his time, was a natural sou of the first Marquis of
Waterford.

It has seldom (we thank heaven) been our lot either
to hear, or hear of, co painful an episode as that which
was recited a day or two since in one of the London
poline•courts. Unnatural mothers-in-law, parents
willing to consign their offspring to infamy, and
children preying upon those to whom they owe every-
thing in life, are not unknown, although they are
sufficiently rare for cases when found to be made a
note of. But the story to which we allude illustrates
most lamentably the need of some much provision
being made by law as in America, in some States,
exits for the cure 1,1 inebriety. A young girl, the
eldest of a family of eight, appeared in behalf of her
father, brothers, and sisters to prosecute her own
, mother for a theft of wearing apparel, which the
latter pawned to obtain means to satisfy her bibulous
craving. The melodramatic incidents of the affair
were fully seen and felt by all, save the unfortunate
victim of the drink demon, and as much by the
magistrate as by the family. The eloquence i 4 the
plea that the charge was necessary to save the family
from otherwise irretrievable ruin, was unmiAskable ;
; and it is impossible to withhold from Mr. Chance a
tribute of respect for his determination not to pass
sentence until he has tune to see what can be done to
meet the case. Alas! such castes call for tenderness
rather than seventy; and England, in the multiplicity
of her organized forms of charity, backs that truest
charity for many—a public asylum for inebriates.

FoariniterrOg has lost one of its ornaments. -Miss
ilerget frpres . Er
pl ntdinn" rtlem. (Satire." a Pm.C. tdoltblinfdound.l'ineir
drunk and, naturally, disorderly, on the 17th. and an
TULSDAY. MARCH 27, 1877. she had no excuse Messrs- Hodges and Devenieh dealt
with her as above.
NOTES OF THE WEEIL , Coinsterxii TO TR! Donerr Corm Paremr.
Hard Lahore.- George Hoddinott, aggravated assault
Lord John Manners, who, for some rein sir another. at Weymouth. 2 calendar months; Emma Haine,
has been pitchforked into the head of the Post Office stealing a child's bonnet at Stourpaine, Sarah Guppy,
department —probably from his unfittednese for the assault and drunkenness at Bridport, and John Brine,
work, appears determined to make himself as disagree- vagrancy at Cranborne, 1 calendar month each;
able as possible—and more especially in regard to the Frederic Billett, leaving family chargeable at Swanage,
press. The Western Daily Mercury points out the Henry Hall, misbehaviour in Dorchester Union, 14
vagaries of this ill-Manners-ed chief in • trenchant days each; Peter Benham and George Benham,
article making a fire near a highway at Tonerspuddle, 7
" Zsery newspaper proprietor who avails himself of the days.
use of printed tonna for the purpose of franking the
RE WICATITER.—The following is our meteorological
messages sent to his journal has to deposit a sum of Ll 5
with the Governnient, upon which, of course, it is :
unnecressary to add, he receives no interest At the end
et each month he has to pay the account which is furnished
to kiss, and some little while since the department
discovered that it was neceesary upon this account to
make a charge of five per rent. ear "book-keeping." Mee
per cent per month is sixty per cent per annum,
and the money-grubbers, who have our poet office
in hand, probably receiving some hints to the effect
that this rate of interest was somewhat usurious,
subsequently sent round a circular announcing that they
would he able to do their hook-keeping for thirty-six per
sent per annum. There is practically no redress for this
and similar iniquities, for who is to measure his private
purse against an Exchequer which has no bottom, and
which is controlled by men who seem to have no regard
for honourable understandings, sr for national engage-
strata, and is ho have nothing to lose in case of an adverse
decision I The present Government is one of suppressed
despatcheic busked reports, and of secret enquiries. It
tries to avoid the lire of public critieisin by extinguishing
the light of public information. There was no part isolar
reason why Lord John Manners shoot' have been placed
at the head of the post office. Probably he bob% his
position there because he is a man of family, and the duty
of the nation is to provide for its men of family, even if
1 they allow men of whom the nation stands in need—say
Naval Engineers for instance—to go to the wall for lack
of blue blood. One thing seems tolerably certain, under
the presidency of our man of family the post office has
been rapidly retrogradine. The lovers of red tape, and of
, departmental tyranny, must have had a splendid time of
it; and the nation, saridle,l with its prssent postal old men
of the sea, may nell bewail the loss of Mr. Scurlamere,
retired awl g ine to Turkey. Pursuing this policy of
repression the Telegraph lkpartment hat refeted to
supply weekly newspspers is ith press telegrams on any
kit the day of pnblication, awl the Hereford .lournal,
which has come unikr this tome observes that ' Past iiaster-
; General Manners wants to close weekly newspals•rs all
; the week as if they were so many puble• hogetea, tobject to
I regulations about not opening during 'prohibited bourn''
The proprietors of that journal have been informed that
unless they publish a special edition every Wednesday the
telegrams will not he transmitted to them, and they have
met this absurd and childish of j.!ction by publishing in
one sheet a special edition of their newspaper. The
special edition will be issued every Wednesday awl is to
be had at the trifling cost of KT 2+, dt. a copy. The
printed portion of the paper rentains some complimentary
, remarks on the mode in which the post office is conducted,
, and the proprietors promise to push their Weekly Edition
! by exhibiting it for sale in their window. On the lower
half of the sheet the quotations from the I,ndon torn
Market, which is the telegram the pest office refused to
transmit, are paeted on the paper without twine net tap in
type. The proprietors of the journal candidly acknowlslge
that they do not anticipate any very great rush for their
new venture, hut they have the satisfaction .4 furnishing
information to the public from which under no circum-
stances could they have derived asp pecuniary advantage.
It is very pitiable to see this kind of infantile trifling at
the head of a great public department. The post office is
made for the nation, awl not for Lord John Manners, or
for Mr. Petry. These two gentlemen, if they must play
from Pi till I, like the fountains iii Trafalgar. square,
should, at all events, take care not Unitas so inischievosply.
and the Government, of which Lord John Manners is a
member, should see that the trade awl commerre of the
country are not entirely sacrificed on the altar of our old
, nobility."
The Government in nearly every department follow
the example of their friends the Turks, thotigh, of
nurse, at a reasonable distance. The men whim they
delight to honour are generally the men whose misdee&
or shortcominge should have pr.eurell them other treat-
ment The Government have publicly acktiowledged
! during the present Session, that in referenoe Is, intern-
gence from Turkey they were abominably served by
our public officials, and yet within the past two days
, they have deliberately announced their intention of
' reinstating Sir Henry Elliott, who has bucked more
Information than all our rowel's put together, and
j whose recall was indignantly demanded by hundreds
j of crowded meetings of his fellow-eountryinen, last
lautumn. The man in the Arctic Expedition, who of
all others, did his duty, is the one particular man
quietly pawed over, while eant,in Naves, if not
tried for menelan.ghter, should at all events have been
Court Martialled for his wilful neglect of the most
ordinary precautions. has been honoured, Need,
knighted, and praised, on in the post offirs. The
chief mover in all these recent extravagancies appears
to have been Mr. Patey ; accordingly to him 'l..orri
l John Manners has given the latest lift. As there are
people who mistake notoriety for fame, AO there are
! I others who regard mischief as activity, and Lord
, John Manners and Mr. Patsy seem to be of them.

I I UMW
Noon. Mat ail 11136. State of Weather.
1 ! Niglet
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19 46 33 : NE At NE role
19 42 II 1 NE Gh.oroy
It 'li TO N Fine
22 46 29 NW Fine
21 47 31 2 Fine, rain
94 ISI 1 99 W& SW Fine, rain .
19 48 ' 38 SE Rain, fair
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Ar TIM Police-court, on Monday, before Messrs..
Hodges and Devenish, a couple of lads named William
Adams and Freleriek Lawrence, aged about 15, were
charged with using obscene language in the public
streets on the 23111 of March ult. According to the
evidence of P.C. Dunn the youths, in the company of
cone 30 or 44) others, were playing marbles at a
favourite rendezvous adjoining the shop of Steele and
Co., a dispute arose which ended in a fight and the use
of the disgusting language complained of. This is a
ilaLffac&ienit,ohleicestareeret:imofmltloporch:sertier,
asveeLunn explained,
as soon as a helmet appears in sight the slrng
Irfezalants a are off like
nd 'etts. which, nois coufinrsee, will
have to come out of their parents' pockets. It seems
a pity a birch-administerel lesson had not been pre-
acribed as a warning. For a respectable county town
I Dorchester certainly can claim an unenviable notoriety
I for the users of filthy language.

OUR TRorT STREAMS.

We understand that the general preserving of the
fine trout streams in this neighbunrhoo I, P,) long
talked of and desired is now in a fair way of being
accomplishaL The officials of the Duchy of Core-
wall having concurred with others interested in •
;scheme being corned out, by which the sole right of
fishery in the river Frome and its tributaries, adjacent
to this town, shall become vested in a committee as
trivit,e= Cu. a ti4hing club under properly defined
re,rnlations. This will tend to increase the many
attraction.; ..f our •ild county town and its vicinity.