The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-05-18 00:00:00

To the Utter.

sn..—your Ten c.onteruperary in its last Iso isms,. hoe j
published misresporultnes s. lurk mar be tat, n as (sir
specimens of Tory
weakness end peewtolozi . One wrder, •
by q,uottur an isoleted sentence in the Deily New (and
carecully avoiding illusion to the main thouzht turd., so
pinta by the writer—thst the Marquis of Ripon, although
untried. really powered the mental rapacity and moral I
haneetY tiorewrr for the onerous position of Viceroy at
amiebt thereby to disparage the wisdom of the
Premier in his eeleetior. Another correspondent mad •an
attempt to caricature the ignorant workingman
Novas the 11l {Wee WU is in that direction, two other
instances of the wofill tenons... of "the governing
ilsemay be acceptable to him. A Tory employ.r in
tak knirft. II boo] arrive' at the pollin,itsi ion with son.e
at his pariooll yea billed with delight, while in private
conversation arkao do.d his ignorance in thew, words,
s. Ills all very well for you working men theindy pon[ic.i
but! haven't the tin,.: in fact lie whet I never
Another of 0 the governing class" in this town, • member
at the Conservative ittsociation, the late election
,It wee the Tort party repeated the COlll L/191.1
gag gave the nation cheap breed," to which one
a his tower. afterwards recuarked—" Poor fellow ; hie
pollileal education haa been grimily neglected.' should
enele erase ignorance) disqualify from voting these 51).6.
mos at Tory ignorance; " Words to working mail'
smother sputum of Tory intelligence. After wilting sj
1111 in rola tor soon haw* Damn of how reform tho

writer is taken with a sudden firms? for_boin.,.._ 1411114186_.,
to be effected off•hand. We cougnisuw• him Lie
expectations being directed to tlic risht quarter bat he
must bold Ma impatience in abeyance, as it wilt take Kr.
Gladstone and his able coadjutors vine thud to produce
order out of the chaotic state of affairs they haws inherited,
particularly in India and Afghanistsn. With a Liberal
Government. strong in legislative capseitY SS In VOting
strength. commended by. leader meghshiswus °wn his
fault as firm to caution an ambitious sod designing
empire, the fruits of a wise, firm, and benevolent poliey
will soon manifest itself at borne and &broil
A LalsOillin.

nzarioNgEß.lNG DAMAGES.
To break windows and damage proPertl i• • Mut
old electioneering custom which even the sobering
influenos of the ballot has not been able wholly to
supper. Still, it is an amusement in which the
owners of the windows or other perishable goods have,
to say the least, no more share than the rest of the
neighbourhood, and therefore it is only fair that the
neighbourhood generally ehould contribute to the
expense'. This excellent object Is recognised by a
statute of George IV., which, however, tuifortunately
contains one of those words which every rational
lawyer would like to MO banished from the Parliar
military vocabulary. The adverbial form is used in
the present instance, and it is provided that compensa-
tion shall be paid to all persons whose propiet7_lliim
been " feloniously " destroyed by a riotous mob. ‘.st
Is felonious destruction, or what is a felonious inten-
tion, or what is the essential element of felony? These
are questions which the magistrates of more than one
district have lately ha to ask themselves, and which
they have generally, if not invariably, answered In •
sense unfavouiable to the applicants for redress.
Possibly they are right. It is not often that a mob,
like the Tory mob at the last election for AUngrton,
is really bent upon doing serious mischief. bloat
electioneering riots are got up with no pirticular
Intention, continued on no particular plan, and put
an end to by satiety or daylight, or the failure of what
Sir William Ilaroourt calls "liquid rediourcee."
Probably, if "felonious" have any definite r••••ingi
such pmceedinp are not felonious. Nor, according to
the ordinary acceptation of term', dose a murderer
who kills hi. victim in the heat ~f the moment act "of
hi,. aforethoucl.t." Neverthdres he is h
It would ho much betler, whether by clueing public-
houses or by less &odic meth to prevent riots than
to annper.eate their victims. But the ahsence of
felonious intent will not console an Innocent cuff ifer
from the violence of roughs.—Daily Nero.