The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-06 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

ICTOLLEJED ROTAS.. ! a THE SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT.
Sates IN rug uomo —Oa Chrttues ie Eve ea. • disturb- considerable change seems to have been suddenly
ance took place in tate ehurch. There W 44 evens3ne at 11 effected in oho proceedioss at the p dice-roues by the
. o'clock. followed be en taiministrationdf Hely Communion Summary Jurisdiction Act, which came foto operation on THE TAY BRIDGE DISASTER.
at midnight. The hells heti ac.rotely commenced chiming Thursday. These changes may be most briefly summarised
for service when 9/ or 30 inco (some of them in is state of by saying that their tendency is to greatly mitigate the DiscoVEBY OF ANOTHER SOD y.
intoxication) rushed into the church eni began t i ring the severity of the law AM ode, petty oilcan..; but whether The Board of Trade inquiry was resumed t"
-j.,,
hits; and some of them got on the top .1 tie organ. this specie of relaxation was called for, or will prove to).. ~,,onta. The stationmaster testified to he te.l
The men were talking loudly and wearing their bee, and . • move In the right direction, lea qui Won which can only t"'''
not slew were smoking. The clergyman , Herod them to . be made plain by lime and experience. One of the most waggutui 300
of the e, which droved loaded t - "—"litt
or 400
deslst. but they refused. and be left the church to fetch . notable results of the new system thus inaugurated is that yard'.
the warden. They then set to work to Coll do an the the police-courts, ancintly to called, will now minima The body of DavidJohnstone, the guard, wa..
ge'
L.,
evergreens, er., with which the church had been th m e ore dignified name of " Courts of Summary up this (Monday) morning, floating near the i 'len
decorated. and appeared deterualood to destroy •c, cad Jurisdiction." With regard to the jurisdiction of the -- -- - -- . uridgc,
which atood ou the Of munition table, exclaiiiiin2, "Were magistrates, it will be extended so as to incleile many : THE IRISH DISTURBANCES.
not going to have any Popery here I" ate explanation cases, such as those of cutting and wounding. which
A process-server named McGrath, while
that the cross was the semitone which the rector regularly have hitherto been sent to • jury, and in the class of ! e iservin.
I used at Christmas and Easter live lit from destruction. delinquents now punishable in a summary way will be
i ejectmentg on Saturday, near Ballonrob was atteek.4
There MN Ir. police. constable in the parish, and it was found that important class of offenders, the receivers of and unmercifully beaten by tenztel, j,,,i_ .
some time before order wet restored. It is said the% the stolen goods. A very remarkable novelty is to by intro- ' have been taken' one manar •eelselltiote,
disturbers objected to the midnight taryica, and regarded clamed in the shape of corporal punishment. Bays under Console; eighth lower,
it as beta; in some way connected with extreme rituaL the age of 14 may henceforth be ordered to be whipped in
many instances where, by the old rules, they must have
been sent to gaol, and the castigation will be administered
. within the precincts of the court by • constable in the
prearnee Of a anperlac oflioer. Probably the innovation
which will have the greatest effect is, however, that
which relates to the enforcing of fines. Up to this time
it has been the rule that • delinquent who lass been lined
must either pay on the spot or else endure the pains and
penalties of imprisonment prescribed as the sole alterna-
tive. The new Act introduces a modification of this
practice, and the person agaiust whom a aaatanee of fine
is pi onounced may now either produce the money in court
or elect to here it levied upon his goods by means of a
warrant of illative& It •ppeara, indeed, that all he hi, to
do in order to be liberated is to declare that he has
sufficient property to elitist y the distress, and diet although
his statement may aft o wards turn out to bo entirely false,
it will nevertielees often, if not always; be accepted as a
reason for releas.ox him ir •iso durauce vile. Tile police are
said to be of opinion that this alteration in the practice
will have the effect of encouraging, or at least increasing,
drunkenness; and it certainly seems that the most reck-
less class of offenders will henceforth see in the fate that
bangs over them less Cause for apprehension than for.
merly.—Giobe

BRISTOL.

THE NEW RECORDS: 7W L—At Bristol Quar
ter Sessions, on Friday, Mr. C. G. Prideaux,
leader of tbo Western Circuit, was sworn in as Recorder,
and wecomed by the Mayor (Mr. Henry Taylol and Mr.
M. Culla, senior magistrate, on babel( of the Beucb, and
by Mr. A Murab, reprewnting the Bar.

THE DISPUTE WITH TURKEY GETTING!
SERIOUS.
CoffmANTIKOPLZ, Friday Afternoon.
Diplomatic relations are already broken off between
England and Turkey. The term expired on W,xiata.
day evening, the 31st December, and all direct inter.
course between the British Ambassador and th
e
Palace has now ceased. So far the Turks show no Sign
of yielding. The Turkish newspaper Vakiistatei that
as Dr. Koeller is • German subject, England ha. aa
right to interfere. Sir H. Layard,_ however, mph,
T quoting the 62nd Article of the reaty of Berlin, ill
which, after reci.ing that the Sublime Porta hi.
expressed the intention to maintain the Prinkipies 4
religious liberty, and to give to it the largcnt wen.
I Mon. .

that
to
the
so, and aurdrinthth e
___....
The German and Austrian Ambassadom have bem
instnicted to support Sir H. Layard's application, and
Asrem "ng
or so.
. dltisitisneutnly derstol th
refused
to
decision is much marvelled at. Perhaps the greate4
bassad
obstacle to the settlement of the question arises from
the fact that every step since the arrest seems to have
been carefully considered and approved by the Sultan
himself. It is useless also. to • ise the fact that.
English remonstrances, during the . . three ninth,,
have been met in the most hostile spirit by the Porte.

THE WELZUK OF THE BORUS-LL

Nsw YORK. B.IIIIIDAY. —The barque (Hamm ino arrived
M Baltimore to-du with flve pa/suit/en and six of the
crew of Lb. BonuMa, picked up la an open boat, 250 milts
from Ile Azores. They sufferod horrible hardships before
they were picked up The earns& of six of the crew of the
Birus,ia landed here aril Sutherland, second engineer;
Horsen, quartermaster ; Barri,* and Fisher. ordinal,'
~nip ; and Slaver and Calaludi. Amnon.

3ISHOPB'.. OFFICIALS,

"AN OLn litaamsurr ". writes to the &Wel

Merc- se—ry. .1174 h-e. -Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
relieved the clergy of the fee paid to the Bishops at,
their visitations, viz., 2s. 6d. The actual fee paid
hitherto was is. 3d., and 99 clergymen out of 100
believed this to be the orthodox amount due to the
Bishop himself. It turns out that of this 4s. 3d., Is.
3d. was an encroachment on the pockets of the clergy
for the benefit of the Bishop's officials. I have been
an incumbent in the diocese of Bath and Wells for a
great many years, and never had the least ides of any
services rendered to me by any diocesan officials at
visitations—never required any. As this claim for
Is. 3d. cannot be sustained, I hope my reverend
brethren will refuse to pay it. It will certainly not be
paid by, yours obediently."