The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-26 00:00:00

Bowl &twig Expog.

TUESDAY, NOVIIIIBIII 26, 1871

NOTE OF Till WIRE

Her Majesty the Queen arrived at Windsor
Castle shortly before nine o'clock on Saturday
morning from Balmoral, which had been quitted
at Friday afternoon. During the absence of the !
Court great &Iterations and improvements. pan- ,
Ovally in regard to drainage, have been made at'
the Royal residence, where, however, the Qum
Will not now make a loos stay, intending to
upend Christonas at Osborne. The Duke of
Ndinburgh has been visitieg the Emperor
Wilhelm. 1114 NIRO) of Wales is enjoying him-
self se a country gentleman at Sandringham;
and, by the way, it la lustruative to note, as •
"sign of the times° we hops that bathe
shooting will soon become a thing of the
past a semi-ollioal annonnement that the
accounts of the gams shot this seem at
Sandringham have_ been greatly exagerated, not
more than three thousand head being killed, and
of these a very small proportion consisted of
hares and rsbbits.
There is a roam that a marriage is probable
between the Duke of Edinburgh and his cousin,
the daughter of the ex-King of Hanover, who h
Fared to be one of the dead man in Europe.
very dull just as present,
but =retitle doubt that next seseion will be
an eventful one, and the last of the present
Parliament. Coming legislation is naturally
exciting attention, and there are one or two
straws on the current of the past week that may
show in what direction the fathoming measures
will set In abater sent in reply to one for-
warded by the National tillers' Ootsr,ooe, who
seed that minas may be admitted to the
franchise, Mr. Gladelone's seceseary sais_._•—" I
am directed to state to you that Mr. Madame
used only retie to his publicly declared opinion
on the franchise and the question of the diatribe-
tion'of seats in order to indicate the direction at
his own sentiments. 'Whether It may be
possible for Parliament to deal with these
subjects at an early dale, add the many urgent
Mims upon he attention, Mr. Gladstone cannot
venture to say." The nem in a leading
article on Friday, argued strongly in favour of
can
land endowsnente into Consols, as
lielloTtlebi tyd Mr. Gasthen in his Bristol speed.
The London correspondent of the Birmingham
Pod says the Government have at length
resolved to amend the 95th clause of the Educa-
tion Art. They will break the compact made
with the Camerratives at the passing of the Act,
rather than risk the opposition of the Liberals
another session. He also says that the Attorney.
General is preerliu, a tentative measure on the
land questkon. whlã will be laid on the table of
the House of Comma early in the motion.
That Bill is not likely to ba paged to a final
""PIaDWI, and may be regarded as an outlet for
disceunkm of the question. rather than an "tempt
to deal with it in any eatiefsetory ease.
The regulations as to the appointment and
duties of sanitary officers have been published by
the Local Government Board. Under the Public)
Health Act every sanitary authority is bound to
appoint a Moonal Officer of Health and an
Inspector of Mutants'. The Lord Government
Board has poser consequently to insist upon
this bang duos, and also to Insist upon the
=lmby these diem of the duties
o: than by statute. But it has DO
power to do anything more. It cannot prescribe
say particular quallfiestien, or mode of appoint-
ment, or. salary, or tenure of °flies. Upon all
these matters the Ical authorities, so far as they
are not controlled by Act of Parlllllolllli, are
uneontrolled. Still the Local Government
, Board has not left itself without a means of
leading the sanitary authorities in the direction'
in which it wishes them to go. It appeals to them
through the gentle teething. of the pocket. It
offers them half the Maras el the Medical
Officer and the Inspector of Nuames, on condi-
tion that it is allowed to have a paramount voice
In appointing them and in eating out their
duties. The regulations now published constitute
the terms on which this subsidy may be obtained.
A statement showing the population and extent
of the district for which It!. proposed to appoint
: a Medical Offloer or an Inspector of Nuisances,
and the salary which it is proposed to pay him.
is first of all to be submitted to the Local
Government Board; and in cam where it is
desirable that one officer be appointed for two or
more sanitary distriote similar statements are to
be submitted for each district. This is the moat
Important stage of the procesa The circular of
the Board points out with great truth that the
persons them for these appointments should be
thoroughly qualified for their work; and one
I great function of the Board will be to Induce the
local authorities to pater a share in the atrial
of well-paid and competent officers to the whole
services of an and incompetent officer.
It is not too much to say that the 11000•1111
of the Public Health Act largely depends
on the power of uniting districts being
extensively and judiciously exercised. The
duties imposed upon sanitary officers by the
new regulations are sufficiently numerous. The
Medical Odle', is to infant himself respecting
all indiums which threaten the public health
within his district; to enquire into the cause,
oriel), and distribution of disease; to advise
the sanitary authority upon all points connected
with the sanitary condition of the district; in
moms in which it may appear advisable, to
inspect all articles of food which are suspected
of Mae unfit for human food; to investigate
Into offensive trades; and to give information
to the Local Government Board of any outbreak
of epidemic, disease. The daties of the Inspector
of Nuisances are to make systematic inspections
of his diarist, so as to keep himself informed
of any nuisancia requiring abatement; to visit
and report upon any nehmen at the existence
of which he has been Informed; to report to the
sanitary authority any noxious trades that may
be set up within the district, or any fouling of
water used for domestic purposes ; to inspect,
both systematically and upon complaint, all
shops in which articles of food ars sold, and to
seise any such satiates as appear to be nal for
the purpose, in order that the peewee exposing
them for tale may be dealt with by law; to
proms simples of food to be submitted to the
Ttskappointed under the Adulteration of
Act; and to inform the Medical Officer of
the existence in the district either of epidemic
diem or of nuisances injurious to health. In
cases where these duties are entrusted to com•
plant person" a very complete check will be
maintained over salary Wergilds. It remains
to be seen how far the local authorities will be I
Induced by the prospect of having half the ,
sehries of their officers paid out of the Imperial
revenue to fell in with the wishes of the Local
Government Board. The fact that opposition
deprives their oonstituente of the benefit of
Government assisillaoo Will render that generally
unpopular, and in this way sanitary Improve-
ment may even come to be an effective cry at
municipal and rural elections.
Following the mat some of gales from the
Atlantis Ocean, that of Saturday steak the
British Islands as the south of Ireland and at
Id's Ind—ons pert of the storm sweeping
meth' greater part of Ireland and the Midland
end Northern maim of England, while the
metre of the other part of the storm paned over
the Channel in 13. W.., and NW. direction. We
regret to say that on the Dorset mat a schooner
waa wrecked en the Chesil beach, and all hinds
lost
Chid Justice Cockburn announced in the
Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, that as the
hal of the Tichbonte claimant in Hilary Term
would. In
ma allibability, cause great incon-
venience in the necessary arrangements
for the 'Spring cirait, the Court had decided to
postpone it until Eastern Term, on the fifth day
of which the me could be oonuneneed. and
proceeded with to the end, without interfering
with the Summer circuits. Monday, the 21st
of april next, is now, therefore, the day on
which the owe may be expected to begin.
The death is announced of Sir John Bowling.
Knight, in his 80th year. He was an advanced
Liberal in politics; but had not been in Parlia-
ment for many 70W11
The death of Lord Harris, formerly Governor
of Trindidad, and afterwards of Madras, is ids
announced.
In a pastoral letter read in all the Roman
Ogliollo Churches of Dublin on Sunday, Cardinal
Cullen alluded to the educational question, but
with a milder media of the alai= of the
Church than in his previous address. His Emi-
nence limited himself to declaring in substance
that, both in primary and higher education,
parents should take care that their children were
uot exposed to any influences dangerous to their
faith, and expressed a hops, that in dealing next
anion with the University question, the Lege-
laurel would provide adequate protection for the
religious principles of thitholice.
Derry election resulted on Saturday in the
return of Mr. Lewis, a Conservative, with 696
rotas, and 174 over the /MAIM, General. The
only dee; el the Home Petie esadidater• woe to

more for Mr. Bigpr 88 votes and lose • Liberal
seat. When the error wee discovered, • number
of the Horse Rulers are said to have gone over
to Mr. Pallas, but it was too lads. The first trial
of the Ballot in Ireland was a petted success in
the preservation both of eircreey and order. Mr.
Lewis is the second son of the late Rev. George
William Lewis, M.A., who was 23T some the.
minister of the Ohapel-of-lase at Ramage*
and was afterwards vicar of Oriel), in Derby-
shire. The new member was born in 1825, and
In 1847 he commenced praotio• in London as •
solicitor. He is head of the present firm of
Lewis, Means, and Longden, of Old Jewry, the
solksitort in the liquidation in Chancery of the
Albert and European Assurance Companies.
Mr. Lewis miniM. in 1850, Isabella, daughter
of the late Mn, Richard Annealey Eaton, mer-
chant, of Bristol, About twelve years ago he
joined this Presbyterian oonnortion,
The whole of the nomination papers handed
In for the municipal election at Cork have been
declared by the !Ash Solicitor-General to be
Invalid. The old forms were used, no notice
having been taken of the provisions of the
Ballot Art.