The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-23 00:00:00

fret Cot* Expos.

TIIEBDAY, APRIL li

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Now let as nee what " The hopper sucles" will do
for one of their own clam. A lady of virtue and
integrity, who he. been relaced to the ranks of
pauperism through the esecality of others, descended
hem the h b walla, but who has been living
me • pauper? Let uses, what Mayfair, who spends
£5,000 a year on dregs, patrouiess charity orgealea-
tie.; pift "der preachers, leviable funds upon fat
bishops, or gets up lIIIIIMOIS subscriptions for filthy
Turks or Brutal Russian@ will do in a came when • few
hundreds would be real charity. We allude to that
of the

" Viscountess Kingsland. to whom a grant of £lOO was
recently made from the Royal Bounty Fund. The Kings-
end perms became extinct in 1833, when the husband of
the lady whose cue to lue now exciting some interest
died. leaving her with but £l,llOO, and even this modest
capital she was not permited to =Re brag. One of two
tree= to whom the money had been enbitated =
disd, the other abscaaded. leaving Lady Ki
penniless For a tims she lied In " • small room in
Lambeth, in extreme poverty; receiving outdoor relief
from ths parish at the rate of Is. 6d. per week and with
her needle eking out an existence, "earning weekly on an
average from 2• to 35." At last her situation wsa brought
under the notice of the Universal Benedetort Society,
which body, having ascertained "sitar very minute
bioub7 that the &arson! of lit. lady is entirely sad ever
has been ineproachaldea.gtranted her a small allowance,
as in
and it w this way the ease was brought to the
knowledge of Lard Beereardad, and that tie grant from
the Royal Bounty Fund was obtained. She has, it is
stated, no relates's bring who are in • nuitinit to wrist
her, and her home, which she shares with a niece, Is thus
described :—"Flery occupy one small back room, about 13
feet square, in which there is scarcely any furniture.
Lady Klngalando bedstead is only an apology for this
neoraoarr Pere of furniture end her niece has none at all,
but sleeps on the boards at night, or rather in the morning,
when she hes finished her daily toil- Liar Kittelland has
continued her needlework, but this she is obliged to confine
to shirt-making. She is remunerated at the rate of id,
far each shirt made."

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We hasn't much hope for the poor ladies, " There are
so many calls upon one, you know I"

Is not this somewhat suggestive At the Southamp-
ton Quarter &mime last week a man was being tried
for—lt doesn't matter what—awl the jury after the
summing up of the Recorder, deliberated for some
time, returned a verdict of not guilty, with the
apolegetic amertion they had discarded the evidence of
one of the witnesses The presiding judge said be
had told them not to do so. But they replied they
did it as a matter of conscience. "Very well" said the
, judge. But further spates. ca.m:_ou.eidered
Deousary. They were also ot an
uncommon one—five of the jury thought him guilty
and the seven didn't. The Recorder at once sent
them back to agree upon a verdict, and here follows
the Incident we allude to:—

The jury were— then"—givetTh in charge of the ofiker of the
Court, whilst there was an adjournment of bail-au-hour.
Yr. Caswell. the clerk of the peace, before leaving, said
he observed that the Odiolle WU in conversation with the
jury, which was contrary to the regulations, except to ask
Ibsen if they bad arrived a 4 a verdict—The Town
Sergeant: One of them asked- me whether they could
have any refrethatente and I told him no (laughter.)—
Liter a few minutes consideration the Jur, returned a
verdict of guilty. Might it not fairly be inferred that if
the unfortunate ptieoner had offered to "stand glares
round " the minority would have given in to the majority
and he would have had "the benefit of the doubt."
Truly the British juryman la a peculiagly British
Institution.

It really appears more than probable that the
eceentricity of the late Lord Leitrim actually bordered
on insanity. In addition to imposing • tax on sea-
weed—which formed the principal article of consump-
fix' of & large portion of his tenants—he ham left, it
seems, the whole .4 the property which he was able
to dispose of away from the title. The greater part
of the estates—velum! at upwards of thirty thousand
a year—go to • sister, and the present Earl inherits
little more than fifteen hundred per annum. This is
all the more cruel as there had been no quarrel between
the brother., and Lord Leitrim had actually repented
of his intention, and had caused • new will to be drawn
up in (avow of the present Peer when he warn shot—
bet unluckily he had omitted to sign it. This being
in. there is no truth in the report that the new lard
haa offered a reward of ten pounds for the apprehension
of the murderers of his predecessor.