The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-08-01 00:00:00

TUB FAMMNE TN PERSIA.

The LICMa Times publishes • letter from Teheran,
dated the Oth of July, In which it is stated that the
state of Teheran is most heartrending. Cholera., famine,
and typhus axe decimating the population, and it is
Impalpable to procure bread. At Isparan and aim
the state of affairs is still worse; the inhabitants Ara
reduced to eat their own children, and the Governor
of Shiraz has been compelled 1.. place • guard on the
cemeteries to prevent the unfortunate peasants disia-
Luling the recently buried bodies for food. Finally
Ito plague has broken out. The members of the British
Embassy and the telographlats have taken refuge in the
mountains.

MUNIFICENT MUNIFICENCE.
Attention ham lately been called to the ease of John
AlLapp, who served his time in the Grenadier Glumly,
and was at the battle of Waterloo, receives a pension
of lid a day, and has to eke oat allying by looking after
cabmen's horses in Scotland-yard. We learn (ruin the
Army aad Nary Gazelle that the ease has been taken
up by the Field• Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, who
has awarded Allsopp the sum of £5 per annum.
What an overwhelming reward for serving his
reentry 1 John Alisopp has now nearly 9j4 per day.
We trust that suoh a prodigious income will not induces
Allamp to enter upon • career of dissipation.
There ought to be no difficulty in recruiting for the
enny. "Come, my bravo lads, take the Queon's shill-
ing. If you serve your full term, and fight bravely, as
John Allsopp did. you shall, if you live to the age of
81, have 9jd a day. A grateful isometry will spend
almost as much over you as • oosteinnonger does over
his nooks."
/lenity our readers pereeive that we are only joking.
They do not suppose the illustrious Duke would award
John Allaupp &paltry £5 a year. The Army and Nary
Gazetlc has omitted an 0. lii, Royal ilighnoss has
awarded John Alls..pp £.lO • year.
If the Army and Nary llazalt Irks not mad.) a rids.
take, we hope his Royal llighmrs will take our hint.

THE CON TAAMOU ti DISEASE 3 ACTS.

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The Tints, commenting upon the report of the Cm-
missioners, may be divi led into two classes. As to the
working of the eliding Acts, they emphatically state
that no satisfactory prof has been givf n of tho allege-
tiotui, so frequently and loudly put forward by the
opponents of the system, that tho polio, charged with
the execution of the law have been seenstomed to are
their power wrongfully and indlieriminatingly. No
aecwatims of Otis Wad has beets maintaused, and the
failure of the exalt .ble orators, mile and female, who
have 'stumped' the eountry on this mission to establish
any of their reckleas charge', ought to teach the eons
stituendes whst value should be set on these extravagant
statement& It is furthermore admitted by the Commis-
wieners that the Acts have everywhere dlininhihod
disease among the unfortunate persons subjected to
their °wren., and among the soldiers and sailors
usually consorting with them. It is acknowledged that
the medical otrieera of the Army and Navy are, almost
to • man, in favour of tho maintenanoe, and if possible
of the extension of the Acts. The Commissioner i go
even so far as to say that ' were the phyaiwil aspect of
the question alone referred to our consideration, we
should ' feel it our duty to recommend' the extension of
the system. But in 'tho moral and politic d bearings,
of the legislation in question the Commissioners have
'found more doubt and difficulty.'"
The truth is, says the Saturday Rerieto, the whole el
the opposition to the Acts has been artificially organised
by the nag dub of shrieking slaters and ranting brethren
who circulated the disgnwedul falsehoods which have
now been so authoritatively exposed and rebaked. The
responsibility of forcing these offender, questions Into
general notice rests with the Association for the repeal
of the Ado, which has taken • morbid delight in dad-
log on the mesh revolting aspects of the subject. While
professing to protect virtue, the agitators have in fact
been doing battle on behalf of the fri.edom of vice. It
is unfortunate that chastity cannot be enforced, but it
Is it least prudent and humane to check the ravages of
• horrible disease from which the innocent and guilty
Fuller alike. The extension of the provisions of the Ast
of 1864 to our large towns generally would be dentition
an advantage in itself ; but at all events this is warmly
the moment when we can afford to waste any of the
valuable nisterials of which our army and navy are
oomymed th dogmata, to silly cent and hysterical clap-
trap, The intemperate and insolent demeanour of the
deputetion which went to browbeat Yr. 11111011 on
Thursday at the llama (Mee is sufficient evidence of
the hopelessness of conciliating the fanatical opponents
of the Apti by any co icatitlons. We have hod • fore-
taste of the wanton nastiness end reckless falsehood
In widish "Christian man nod women" are not ashamed
to indulp ; but this onl renders It more
Nat no saserapelees and se Neuman=
be kali ailiksa.