The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

Tyyg Marquis of Westminster has Nat a cheque for
£2,000 ari • donation to the foods of the Denbighshire
Infirmary.
TNI oJdfellows and Foreeters of Raliabury bare
offered to be sworn in a/special constables in case their
sorrier' are required.
Ten senior wrandler at Cambridge this 'a In j
F. Moult ,n, of St. john", son of a Wesleyan
Tee mooed wrangler is Mr. 0. H. Darwin, aon of mr.
Charles Darwin, the well•known author of the "Origin
of Species."
IN the distribution of funds subscribed for the
miserable London poor. it is said that theologieny
•ftaipathies are still at work frustrating the wislasa o
Ulnae rho assist the needy without permanently
piuperizing them.
De MACIIILIDS, Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford,
died at Ins lodgings at an early hour ou Friday moraine'
after • long Plural, nged ninety. Mr. Manbride was not
mere known for his great learning than for his un•
b .unded chanty, and his loss will be severely 144 by
the poor.
A Taseteriotia gale was experexperiencedon Friday at
FAinburch. A block of chimine wag blown down,
and fell through • dwelling•house in Duknotreet,
kiiling four peraons. Many minor accidents tout pines.
A MINIM of the most intelligent workmen in the
is
Potteries drawn up and sabmitte4 to the Chamber
of Connaerae • soherni fer the formation of • council
of conciliation for the eettlemeni L`f elbPetes.,Ybe
mast,re have approved the rules with some ailibt
moddleationa.

)la. C Hum died in London on Wednesday.
at the age of 57 He is • great loss to the stage ; for
whatevsr varied opinions may be held with regsrd to
hie acting. Vero son be no qeestion th•t he helped to
sustain the dignity of • not too generally rearteetod pro-
fession by leading the life of 'thorough gentleman.

A CAGID CUCKOO. -Mt. W. Cook, of Hatfield,
Gloucestershire. aught a cuckoo last summer, soon
after it lyft the nest, and has him now. Ho ta kept
in * cage four or five feet from the fire. seems to be
quite healthy, and rather Yorasiorts, eating almat any-
thing they offer him, such se bread, potatoes, ita, but
is particularly food of meat and chase*.

13/41111•111. BUTT. —The committee for raising a fund
for the widow of Sergeant Brett, who leas murdered
dining the attack upon the prieon vat at Maiiebester by
Fenian., have received a sum whleh will enable thins to
allow t. 4. widow 21s. a week, with £3OO for the abildree
U her death.

THE Pool or LORDOS.—We am assured, on go.d
math. rity, that on the skirts of the vast misery there
harp an immeameable amou•t of imposture, vagabond-
ing and idleness. In some di.victi the rush of vagrants
to share the libend dole of indiecriniirive charity Ins
been go greet a. positively to have raisld the rents over
a wide area,—Brigs, Medical Journal.
THE POLICY OF THE LIBERAL PASTY—It has bees
agree I to hold • meeriug at the re.irlence of Mr.
Gladstone, previous to the meeting of Perliement, to
decide upon the programme to be followed by the
Liberals. It in understood thet in ?store the advanced
Liberals, and especially Mr. W. E. Forster, will work
more in unison with the Opposition.
THZ Rev. Dr. Gam. Roman Catholic Bishop of Liver-
pool, has followed the example Hit by Li. Holiness the
Pope, in .ensuring the extravagant style of attire
adopted by t.• fair sex of the present day. Ladies,
said the bishop, were accustomed to have a large ball
stuck on the back, of their heads, formed of the hair of
decresed person. geuerilly. Now. "dead hair" did not
preaerve its colour. and OOP bad wily to look at the
flr.t lirdy they met to detect the &Fermiers between the
real sad the sham article.

=comm. Eromartoo.—A disouoion took Place on
Thursday at the seaisty of Arta on " Technioal
Education." Mr. Flosses, chairman of the Council, pre.
sided. and amonpt thaw who took pert is the proneedings
were Earle Russell and Granvllle, Dr. Lyon Playfalr,
Messrs. Diaon, Ramusloon, Bruce, M.P.s., the Mee. A.
D'Orsey, ka The point raised was the necessity of
introducing into niiversitiss, grammar schools. and
other educational institute.", a sysiem of technics]
taacl.ing adequate ti the requirements of the arts,
manor .ctores, and colums.ree of the kingdora ; but the
discussion was not completed, and was adjourned until
Ftifay nest.

DRAT!' OF A BZOOAR IR PRISON.—A young man
named Michael Lyons was committed to Holloway
prison for twenty-one days for begging, an offence which
in the ottv of London is treated with great rigour. He
arrived there on Saturday, and on stinday he died,
before he had performed even one of the one-and•twenty
day.' hard laho -r to which he had ben sentenced. At
the inquest Mr. Weatherhea-I, the Governor of the
demoribed the condition in which the man came
uhder Iris c.re. He was "very low, emaciated, fairly
exhausted from want." The Govern, asked him how
he had mime Into that state. lie answered that he was
oot of work ; he had oh id at the nnions from night to
night, caught °old, and t ,en got so poor that he wont
about starving. • question was raised whether the
Moir moo reeeieed Proper m -dioal attention; and it
may be taken as eetablished that the prison surgeon,
who did not arse him until Sunday morning, and then
thooglt Lyon. woo ‘" alale to undergo his sentence "of
21 days of hard latour." did not perceive The urgency
of his ease. On Sunday evening the surgeon saw him
again and ordered him into the hoapital : but by that
time he was struek with apoplexy. Thst Lyons did
not get the anoxia attention he so urgently required,
surpriaes na leas when we learn from the Governor of
the prison that out of the 51 prieoners who were
rec -iv.d last week into the prison, having been eommitte4
for bogging, "30 were in the same state, some of them
women, worn flirt by starratton." This death marka the
break down of the simply repressive tnethol of dealing
with at-vet begging. It is not a thing ti be get rid of
by a mere process of "putting down." We may puntah
mendicancy when we have taken away its justilloation,
hot we cannot sal/t, a ariao a—ti.......•
to he able to go about oar buaineas with the conviction
Gist means of relief, duly guarded against imposition,
exist for every destitute lemon, and that therefore a
stre st beggavnaust be no bn pc...tor whom we may safely
repel. Sat we are not permit. to embrace this
satiafectory belief. This death of Lyons will be a
Godsend to the profesaional beggars. The public will
now give sway money with both hands, and for one
truly neceraitous moo who is saved • score of vagabonds
will thrive. And so it will be until our system of
relief is eatahlirheri upon • dlf -rent footing; until
we organise our public benesolenoe, and plum it on lem
the direction of that knowledge and judgment which
individuals es-not be ex peoted to exercise or posse..