The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-03-09 00:00:00

Mourt Conithi express.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9. 18T5.

NOTES OF TOE WEEK.

The local cam 11l i ll ations of the University of
Cambridge have become deservedly Popular;
they afford convenient opportunities for young
persons of all classes to try for tumours, and supply
the public with an admirable test of the quality of
the education given in the various Achim's,
private or public, of the country. We have
just received the class lista for the examination
held last December, and it is gratifying to find
that Dorset has won its fair share of honours. The County School, under the Rev. It. G. '
Watson,
has dune remarkably well; considering
its numbers, probably the ratio of successful
pupils is as great or greater than that of any
other public school. For, although Frienlingham
has carried off more honours, it has NM boys;
West Buckland, whose doings are so frequently
before the public, has liV2; Bedford, the town of
all others for cheap education, 275, and so forth.
We are very pleased to call attention to the
good results of the education given at the Dorset
County School, because of late it seems to have
lost public favour, and we have all re or less
acquiesced in the notion that the school is a
failure without any knowledge on the subject.
So far as education is concenied, let the details
we give in a local paragraph be taken as proof
that the Dorset County School has been highly
successful ; while as to its declining numbers, a
variety of reasons may be suggested. Our own
belief on the subject may be indicated by an
illustration. For leers the chief management
of the Dorchester National Schools was in the
hands of the clergy of thu town, and great diffi-
culty was found in providing the funds. When the
new Education Act Caine into operation, there
was a clerical revolt against the greater under-
taking, and laymen perforce took up the work.
The result has been that the schools were never
so successful or so well supported. We trust
that prosperity is yet in store for the Dorset
County School; and, meanwhile, we are pleased
to call attention to the educational tri phs
won under the training of the Rev. It. G.
Watson.

The Tenant Right Bill .of tiro Bovemment
will, it is stated, simply propose to grant com-
pensation to tenants fur unvzhanatud manures
and for buildings erected with the sanction of
the landlords.

Respecting the Land Transfer Bill, the Times
remarks that compulsory registration is dropped
altogether. The Lord Chancellor says that he
has always boon in favour of voluntary, as
opposed to compulsory registration, and that
when he accepted the latter principle in his bill
of last year it was only in deference to the pre-
cedent set by Lord Selborne in the measure of
1873. We are not (adds the Times) informed
why this deference has ceased to influence the
Lord Chancellor. We are inclined to agree with
Lord Kimberley that a few years will show that
the bill, if it retains its present form, will not
effect its object, and then no doubt Lord Cairns
will be converted to compulsion, but we grudge
the waste of more years after having endured
for centuries the useless burden of a costly con-
veyancing system.
Mr. HuddlestAnis scat for Norwich has fallen
into the hands of the Liberals, Mr. Tillett head-
ing the poll with a majority of 798; but Mr.
Praed has kept his seat for St. Ives, distancing
Sir Francis Lycett by BM votes. We are not
surprised at Mr. Tillett's victory, but it means
the transfer of a vote from the Ministerial to
the Opposition Bench. It is the first seat won
since Mr. Gliataollo'll protointiomicubi.
The Licensing Acts, which owed their origin
to Lord Aberdare, were not looked upon as
models of statesmanship, and the measure
carried by Mr. Cross is faulty in some respects.
At the Salford Police Court, on Thursday, Ann
Ridings, a beershop-keepor in Oldfield-road,
appeared in answer to a s 1111 l mons charging her
with refusing to admit the police. It appeared
from the evidence that a police-constable,
, having reason to believe that a number of per-
sons were illegally in the house before six o'clock
on a Sunday evening, knocked at the door, but
failed to obtain admission for several minutes.
When he gained access he went upstairs for the
purpou of e tg the bedrooms, and suc-
ceeded in inspecting all with the exception of
that occupied by the defendant, and in which,
according to her statement, she was dressing at
the time. The question turned upon the con-
struction to be put upon the words " licensed
premises," the Act setting forth that any con-
stable may, for the purpose of preventimf or
detecting the violation of any of the provisions
of the law, at all times enter upon licensed
premises. Sir John Iles Mantel!, while expres-
sing regret that the legislature had not made it
clear what was meant by the words "licensed
premises," decided that the policeman " had
not sufficient gr di for wishing to go into the
bedroom," and that before doing so a constable
" must have some better reason than merely
seeing people outside the house, and a general
suspici 111 l that thing wrong was going on
inside." Under this ruling, evasion of the law
would not be attended with great difficulty. A
large number of persons could be stowed away
in a moderate-sized bedroom, and many land-
ladies, hard pressed by the police, would be glad
of the chance of secreting guests, present during
illegal hours, if the pretext of " dressinir could
be urged as a valid plea for the exclusion of a
constable.

The case against the Guicowarof limo& looks
dark. The evidence proves that he offered 11110
of Colonel Phayre's servants a lac of rupees to
poison the Sahib, and afterwards gave the
Colonel's butler the poison to put into his
master's food, telling I that thu Sahib would
die in two or three months after taking the
poison. The exploration of the Guicowar's
Palace is revealing • se accumulations of
jewels and gold, gold and silver cannon, for
instance, one of them worth 1:30,MM Thu prize
of the collection is a diamond known as the
"Star of the South," said to have been pur-
chased of a Mr. Costar, of Amsterdam, by the
late Guicowar, at a cost of E 90,000, reminding
you of nothing so much, it is said, "as a mass
of Indian sunlight gathered from the haunts
of the sun ! This splendid gum was found
in 11453 by a negro in the Brazilian pro-
vince of Minas-Geraes, weighed in the rough
2:41 carats, but has been reduced by cutting to
only P 25 carats. Though not perfectly pure
and white, it is one of the iintet large diamonds
in the world. Then there is another large
oblong flat dia 1111 l nd, purchased at a cost of
£300,000, which, with the whole set of smaller
brilliants, makes a adt worth upwards of half a
million sterling. A beautiful 'marl necklace,
composed of a untidier of pearls of remarkable
size and purity, is valued at £O,OOO. The
city Itself contains all kinds of wild beasts,
mostly very insecurely tethered by means of
chains fastened to their hind legs and wooden
pegs driven into the ground. Amongst them
were no less than three rhinoceroses, all bearing
on their coarse hides marks made by some of
their competitors with their horns while fight-
ing in the arena for the amusement of the
Prince and his Court. Besides, there was an
old lioness, tigers, and other beasts, and also
several elephants who had the reputation of
being " ty " (mad). Sunroof these ferocious
animals from time to time break loose, and not
unfrequently in their gambols kill a number of
the natives.
The Archbishop% and Bishops of the Church of
England have been impelled by "a deep sense of
duty " to address words of counsel awl exhortation
both to the clergy and to the laity of their several
dioceses "iii the grave circumstances of the present
time." The address is signed by twenty-four of the
twenty-six Bishops who, with the two Archbishops,
make up the Cementing Episcopate of the English
Establishment. The names absent from the list arc

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those of 1)r. Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury, and Dr.
Baring, Bishop of Durham. After acknowledging
! that in many respects the Church has of late flourished
"in a marvellous manner." they state that "serious
i evils disturb the peace of the Church," and hinder its
I work. Four such evils are specified, the first and
I undoubtedly most serious of them being the "jute,. ruption of the sympathy and mutual confidence which
ought to exist between the clergy and laity," and they
do not shrink (ruin laying upon the Clergy the chief
blame for this alienation. They proceed to censure a
variety of mischievous tendencies which more than
account fur this distrust. They rebuke that refusal
to obey legitimate authority which is " frequently "
displayed towards Bishops, and has been even avowed
towards "the highest Judicial interpretations of the
law of this Church and realm." The Bishops observe,
moreover, "with increasing anxiety and alarm," the
dissemination of doctrines and the encourage.
ment of practices repugnant alike to the Suit,-
tures and to the principles of the Reformation ;
and they more especially denounce the "assiduous
circulation among the young and susceptible" of
such manuals of doctrine and devotion as those to
which Monsignor Capel lately called attention, and
which lir. Liddon so tenderly disavowed. The Bishops
declare ills not too much to say of many of the doe-
trm„ and practices thus inculcated that they are
" wholly incompatible with the teaching and princi-
" pies of our Reformed Church." They remonstrate
tendency to invest ceremonies
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