The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-17 00:00:00

Buret Count 4 Expren.

TITENDAY, OCTOBER 17, 187&

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The Prince of Wales has resolved to send the
whole of his Indian collection to the Paris
Exhibition of 1878. The loan has been at once
accepted by the Duc Demon, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs. Who pays the " carrier?"

Exhibition

The Journai /Prank/in of Li‘ge says that
at the recent distribution of rewards for acts of
devotion and bravery the workman Carla, of
Anthisnes—who, as our readers will remember,
allowed himself to be burned to tho bone by
molten lead, to save the life of one of his corn-
rads—received a public ovation. He was
decreed a cross of the second class. What
amount of devotion is necessary to merit the
first class

Some particulars are furnished by the French
Society of Engineers of the preliminary works
for the Channel Tunnel. Greater progress is
being made in France than in this country in
the formation of the company, but the two
millions of francs required for the preliminary
surveys have not yet been raised. Curing the
last year 61,000 francs was spent, half of that
amount being expended in surveying operations.
Professional wife beaters naturally regard the
recent more stringent action of the authorities
with much disgust. Some of them, indeed,
appear to be disposed to make their wives
personally responsible for magisterial harshness.
A man of this clans, named John Radcliffe,
was recently arrested at Lyunn on the charge
of brute Uy assaulting the partner of h;n fortunes,
and seems to have looked at the situation from
a very peculiar stand-point When arrested he
made the following significant remark to the
constable :—"I'll give her magistrates; it's a
fine thing a man cannot do what he likes with
his own wife." The theory of domestic life
which is involved in this sentiment is so
wonderful that too much publicity cannot be
given to the fact that on the expiration of his
term of imprisonment Mr. Radcliffe will either
have to go to prison for an additional six
months or to find sureties for his good
behaviour during that period.

The appearance of Lord Newry in a new
character—that of dramatic author, is antici-
pated with a considerable deal of amused
curiosity. His lordship has purchased the right
to turn into English and produce in Great
Britain the great play of "The Danischieff,"
which in its original guise was such a success in
London last season. On dit that the price paid
by Lord Newry is £BOO. His lordship has
made Mrs. Ronsbey a present of the drama, and
that lady will—in order to strengthen the cast
—make her appearance therein, when it is pro-
duced, in London, next season. The American
and Colonial right of "The Danischieft" is the
property of Mr. F. Lyster, the husband of Miss
Minnie Walton.

A Sheffield manufacturer, unable to cope
ith the ex,mssive duties imposed by the
American Government on steel and iron goods,
has lately reeolved on quitting England and
establishing his business in America Rae,
thus carrying the war into the enemy's countly.
In the expectation that this step would be
imitiated by others, Lord Carnarvon has been
appealed to for a policyiof retaliation, and it is
suggestcd that here and in the American
colonies products shall ho heavily taxed in the
same manner. Such a proposition would have
been considered perfectly reasonable at one
time of our history; but a quarter of a century
has served to change all that. The staunchest
protectionist of former days would not dream of
tutaing back the wheel. Accordingly, we find
Lord Carnarvon replies to the effect that "the
proposal is not one Her Majesty's Government
can entertain."

An inquiti has been held into the cause of
the death of a man, formerly a well-to-do
hornets-maker, canying on an excellent buiti-
”eas in a fashionable quarter of the West End
of London. Robbed in a wholesale way by
unscrupulous people, the poor man g.odually
deicended to a a:etched state of povet ty, and at
last took to selling newspapers in the streets;
his *verage profits being about fid. per day,
three-fo,.,•ths of which went to pay for his bed
at a common lodging house. Even/one can
understand how one who had formerly held a
faiT and respectable position in society would
' dread, as this unhappy man did, the bare
notion of dyitsg ;,1 a Workhouse, and though
strugeng hard from day to day, his life was,
, towards its end, a course of iseadual starvation.
Having no change of linen or clothes, for every-
thing had been parted with to secure the bare
I means of keeping body and soul together, the
I poor wretch became too dirty for even the
I society of the dwellers in a common lodging
I house, and on the 16th ult., he was turned out
I of the place in which he had slept, and from
that date until the 27th, he wandered ragged,
homeless, and shelterless through the streets of
London, and finally was found by a policeman,
on a doorstep, in an exhausted condition, and
was taken to the Workhouse where he shortly
afterwards expired. The doctor described the
condition of the deceased as that of only an
animated object of skin and bone, covered sah
insects, and the post-mot tem examination
showed that death resulted alone from stat ea-
don. And this in Christian England which
spends millions annually to support the German
loafers who hang around the Coon.
Mr. Justice Blackburn will fot.nally resign
his judgeship in the Court of Queen's Bench
Division in the course of a few days, and the
Lord Chancellor will nominate a new judge, as
well as another to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Mr. Justice Quoin, prior to the Ist
November, when the Appellate Jurisdiction Act
will come into force. The salary of a Lord of
Appeal in Ordinary is £6,000 a year, being
£l,OOO a year in addition to the income of a
puisne judge of the High Court of Justice.
The three judges transferred to the High Court
of Appeal—Baron Bramwell, Mr. Justice Brett,
and Baron Amphlett—will gain each about £5OO
a year by the appointment.

Among the extraordinary statements which
have been produced by the Eastern complication
is one which, however untrue, is nevertheless so
very remarkable that it is worth repeating. It
is stated that Lord Beaconsfield has stood by his
preset anti-Russian policy with the stubbornness
which we have all witnessed because of informa-
tion as to the intentions of Russia that had been
privately supplied from a certain illustrious
lady who lives in the East. This person wrote
to a lady friend in England, the lady friend
told her husband, and the husband lost no time
in informing the Premier! Hence, we are
told, the sending of the fleet to Besika Bay and
the firm attitude of the present Government!
But be this as it may, it is nevertheless a fact
that in critical occasions like the present, ladies
have very frequently afforded valuable informa-
tion to the English authorities.

Kenealy, finding the Orton game very nearly
played out, hm started what he calls a Magna
Chart& Association," the chief qualification for
membership being the inevitable weekly two-
pence. Some of the Chartists seem to fancy
too many of these twopences find their way
into the pockets of the bwnine "Dr." At all
events, there have been considerable dissentious
in the camp. The other day a meeting of
emooss (1) was called. The Dr. did not care
to attend, but one of the chief factotums' a
Captain Graham, did. The following examples
of the polite letter-writer have since been
published :

csrrsin WUHAN TOO. J. Killian', 1164.
Princes-square, Kennington, S.K, Friday, A am.
Bia—ln answer to your question allow use to state that
thi..pacisi meeting him been called, not by Mr. Bailey,
but at the formal written request a five or more
members of the CounciL I dare not refuse to attend any
meeting as a servant of the Association while! am able
to do so—especially at this crisis, and knowing that we
are acting under the rule laid down by the late Congress—
via, that at the request of Ave members a special
meting may be called with 24 hours' notim. As to the
Doctor's being out of town, who the Devil is to know
where he is or not He can attend or not, as he plasm,
but it is not likely that the members of the Council will
meet his own convenience—suppose, as ho said. be WM gone
to New York ! ! I Having explained my reasons, I have
only to say that (DN.) I shall certainly attend this
/meting.
I am yours obediently.
Hranggr kAll A M

Kenuaty, hot., Stoke Muse.
A. J. KITARALT, EN., TO CAPTAIN GRAHAM.
Sir, —lt appearing that you are a member of Magna
Quirt& under • tam name. Dr. Kemal), roimadd your
immediate resignation,
aui.
s, luilitvunC meuiri4ty.
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AIICMIIII lITIMKIT.—ACCOrding to the inuakesilesio.
It is probehle that tutors lonA another " mystery cue
Trill come before the public. The Polka are
what there is reason to believe is a most toul crime, and
one which in regard to the horror alit. details will quite
eclipse the galhank =Mom