The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-16 00:00:00

butt Count Crpress
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16.
NoTES OF THE WEEK

Prince Bismarck is still indisposed and con-
fined to his room.

Real merit ought to be rewarded. It has
been. Prince Leiningen, who, it will be
remembered, so skilfully commanded the Queen's
yacht when in the Solent, that it ran down the
Mistletoe, through which a poor young lady lost
her life, has been made an Admiral. The
Prince is, of course, a German. Captains in
the Navy get £602 a year, Admirals f:1,825,
with £4 10s. per day for table expenses.
Probably, as the Prince is so ornamental a
member of the service, he gets sundry
"pickings," which materially add to this.
Lucky Prince to be a poor relation of Royalty !
By the way, would it not be as well if in case
we go to war to send him out to encouW the
enemy's fleet. His prowess in runninrolown,
equal to a policeman's ideas of running in,
would surely startle our antagonists.
The Father Daley, whose case was fully
reported in the last Expose said to be, by
the Daily Tetegraph, the 'The Father Daley "
whose name was formerly before the public
in connection with the mysterious poisoning of
a young woman in Manchestee. Ile then
estabbahed an alibi, and the coroner's jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder against
some person or perms unknown. It will be
remembered the same verdict was•given in the
' case of a German priest who some two years ago
was accused and sworn to by three witnesses as
'guilty of the murder of a loose woman. The
' public then subscribed over £l,OOO as a slight
balm for his injured feelings. If they do not
do that in the present Instance surely Father
Daley, like Valentine Baker, ought to be made
a first-class misdemeanant. There are fools in
this world. Carlyle is right!
Human nature is very indisposed to believe
in what does not come under one's own actual
observation, but it is hard to imagine that added
to the long list of persons who have declared
they had seen a sea serpent—there is no reason
to say the sea serpent—the captain of a vessel,
his officers, and half his crew, should take the
trouble to go before a magistrate and pay the
cost of making a declaration to that effect unless
they fully believed in what they asserted. This
is what the commander and his men of the
barque Pauline, of Liverpool, have done. They
say in an affidavit made before Mr. Raffles, the
Liverpool stipendiary :
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" We, the undersigned officers ant crew of the barque
Pauline (of London), of Liverpool, in the county of Lan-
caster, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on July
8, 1475, in lat. 5 deg. 13 min. M. long., 35 deg. W., we olir
served three large sperm whales, and one of them war
gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared
to be a huge serpent. The head and tail appeared to have
a length lievond the coils of about 3U feet, and its girth 9
or If feet. The serpent whirled its victim round and round
for about 15 minutes, and then suddenly dragged the
whale to the bottom, head first. Again, on July 13, a
•Aar serpent was seen about 201) yards off, shooting
itself about the surface, the heal and neck being out of the
water several feet This was seen only by the captain
and one ordinary seaman. A few inoinents after it was
seen elevated some Sift, perpendicularly in the air by the
chief officer and the seamen." .

People have been in the habit of coupling the
annual appearance of the sea serpent with the
big gooseberry season, forgetting there are inure
things in heaven and earth than dreamt of in
their philosophy. The only thiug which at all
strikes us as peculiar in the story is how the
whale could have been such a fool as to have
got into such entangled relations with the
serpent.

The itey. Mr. Tooth is not to be " stopped "
it i.: evident he stilt persists in his refusal
to obey the law. Why does not his Bishop
perform the paet d an eeelesiastical dentist and
"out with him."

" For a pen'north of tar the ship was lost,"
and for the sake of a little supervision last week
three men lost their lives. A vessel got into
difficulties one night in Whitby harbour, the
life-boat put out and capsized. Three of the
crow were drowned, and for the reason that
althongli they had their cork jackets on the
bands or straps by which they were fastened had
become so rodeo that in the event of exertion
they would snap. The National Lifeboat
Society should make a rigid enquiry into this,
and the person responsible for the neglect should
be severely punished, notwithstanding the
.example set in other quarters of rewarding
Idiotic carelessness with promotion.

Lord Harry Thynne has found a rival in the
Jester of the House. Speaking at Oleator
111... r the other evening, Sir Wilfred Lawson
in the course of one of his usual "hero we are
agaih " sort of spemMet thus insultingly referred
to the magistracy :

Let ns consider the reason why the tualpstratm are I
appointed. Very often bemuse f their birtk, aud
station, and their titles. It is thought that a man with a
title and of good birth is likely to administer lowa well,
lust the same as a peer is likely to make good laws
because he is born a lord. (Laughter.) Others are
apisiinted 'erase, of their wealth and large estates in the
c.....mtry; others, :main, .era.lr. f their colour. I don't
mem. tdack, or anythint: of that o,rt; hut they are either
Blue Venu,,. aa the c vie limy be. (Laughter.) There
is only one thing tio..t:.M.Y are never aiitsdhted for—ther
aye e,yey aproilitaet Leeam,,. c, their wirolow, aS far
as I ran find out. (More fang:mu.) (lAA they are
not always the most iohnicable charadder4. wu
told, only the other ,lay, of a in tgistrate in the north of
England—and it was said by the supetintendent of
the police wh lirel in the same town—that he mUst Par
an extra man. On being asked the reaeon why, he replied
„„L:,l hi", whole (hoe waa waawatal in conducting the
uta.:.strate home when he Was drunk. (Laughter.) I
mentiac the.• things hi show who are the arbiters of your
fate, whom dui I.,e,lature has appointed to preside over
your affairs.
Can one conceive anythini; more vulgar, and
considering that this Apostle a raet.otalisiu is
hi,as. if it moOtrate more ignorant. But inagis-
tratoi will, we feel sure, care but little for the
observations of a man who, when in the House,
, the iiisection is directly flung in his teeth "do
, you not (kirk c.amiiagne at home r —sneaks
! out of an answer by appeslitg to its regulations.
! At the same meeting Sir Wilfred told the
! the followiny anecdote, in asking his auditors to
, do what is called "putting their shoulders to
! the

You have heanl of the late Dr. Norman M,'lseosl, the
,i5....14.Ah preacher, .rho wad a very fine, powerful athlete'
ask; do, ..0,1 that one day, as he was going across a
(es ry in there was a great storm came on, and
they were in slang* .orz upset. Along with him
wwianotlwr ninsiater, wiso was. diminutive stat ure. The
people in the boat got alannea, asht "Let the
ministers pray for us." "No. no," .41 the ;
"let the little 'un pray, the big 'nu must take an oar."
(Great latiAter.)

tiir Wilfred Lawson would have made a better
editor ,4 either Fan or Five° than their
present eonductcra

A remarkable tale boys • laaolon correepondent)
hail got abroad which I believe will he xotodoai for, in
due time, by a jourruil which affects to move in (,out
awl fashionable circles. You will remember that
• years aZ.I. a crack-brained NT wane! O'Connor
presi•ntel a harmless •11l pistol at Her 3lmesty as she
was leavinc itnekinwharn Falace. On conviction the
tad was sentenced to • short term of imprisonment—a
matter f a few mouths, if I remember right—and •ort
the expiration .4 his punishment the anthorities sent
him out to one of the colonies mail (omit' him employ:
mem. There he remained until a h it thne
behaving himself. I am told, in a mat exemplary
manner. Ultimately he announced his determination
to return to En.:lan•l, an•l his aotnal •leparture was
quietly tele:7:101e! to Scotland Tani, in order that
the younz Juan a Where3l.llt. might not be missed.
course I rConnor lawlel in }:natn•l, and from
:hat tw•• detectives were appoinusl to watch
his goosouttm_ ni:tild awl day. For s•wile time the-y
tuner for N bit sight ••1 hien ; lout i.iie
their :act. I littnn all I astonishment,
tttt el that their bird bad How. --whither they
loWn 11.4. 'llts• s kzacity of their .Itief, luavv Cr,
•niza.z..-tv.l that ill, dolusbm lusu.h hrokeii
th,t. ill;ill tlw 'sew inml thitw w. inakinn
tra-ks owe nen, for ItkichillAtavu Pala,. The
lotusa was iisitetl, and nitre rilinwh there Was
.ithiti the sate.. llow he gllt in IS a
mystery, as it wss the first oceasion. The youn.;
man is now elfelv lodged in t`olney Hatch. In this
cennation I may just naefltion that Oxford, who
attempted to amaminate the (jute. years ago. is
alive--an inmate of

WC notice with pleaeurt that Mr. E. Robert Pearce
ha•• par:wit the recent examinaiion at Lineoln'e Inn,
Anil been awarile.l the eertititate qualifyirg him to be
eallea to the bar.

C-013- 0- 1111111-11; VIC 13011 SET C01:317 PRI4IOIL
Assize": Samuel etedi and Giles Warne, stealing hay
at Wool. Hard Laimar: George Wooldridge. rogue
an 4 agsatond at Bridport, 3 months and 14 days;
John Haines. raisbehariour in Sherhorne Union, 1
calendar month ; &In in hurchill, stealing whiskey
at 14 echester, and Jw4epli .1 aikson, ille and disoelerly
at Brills et, 14 days' each. Poni.k,
J .a. 1.11 Davis, attenipting sneri.le 4 Raii.p...l:4n.
Tai Willall L.% -..-.nlt• foii010111,! 14 our rneteoron., i‘77.1
report .7
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10 44 3a) E E.g, run
II 4o 33 NNE Cloudy
II 40 33 NE Fog, clom‘iy
13 30 40 NW & a Cloudy, rain
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