The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-01 00:00:00

SIR H. THOMPSON ON MODIRLTI
DRINKING.

Sir H. Thompson has addressed the following letter
to the Archbishop of Canterbury :—'' I have long had
the eonviction that there is no greater amuse of.
moral sad rhyoloal, in this country, theta the use ad
aleoholic beverages Ido not mean by this that extreme
lodu;genee which produces drunkenness. The labitaal
toe of fermented liztloll to an ILICIDOS for abort of what
is necessary to produos that conditioo, and Bush aa is
quite COSMOS lo all reeks of society, mjeree the body
and diminishes the mental power to an extent which I
think few people or. aware of. Such, at all events, ill
the result of obiervation duziog more than 90 years et
profrearmal hfe devoted to hospital prirtioe, and to
private prestige in every rank above it. Thus. I hare
co hesitation in attributing a very large pouportic of
some of the most pahsfol ami dangerous malodlea WWI*
00101. under my DOS 'Ol, al Well SS those which every
medical moo has to Lost, to the ordinary and daily use
of fermented drink take° in the quantity which is ace-
weetionally deemed moderate. Whatever coy be said
In regard to its •vil influence oath. mem tal and moral
familiars", se to the fact above Meted I foil that I have
• right to speak Oil authority ; cod I do so solely
teams* it appeer• to no. a dcly. especially a• this
moment, not to be Aleut on a matter of sash extreme
icopsranoe. I know ftia well bow nopaiatable I. such
truth, and bow such a declaration brings me hate
painful 000diot, I had almost said with the rational
sentimeets sad the time-honoured cad prescriptive
usages of our re.,. Cherishing snob courietloria, I
doe to observe an endetvsur I. organim on s large
wale in the ra'.l43cal Chants a special and kystetastie
plan for promoting temperance, out I ammo% bat
regard this as an event of the higheet siguilisame."

TRC PICK6RING MURDER.
At York arises on Tunaday before Lord Chief Sartre
Brill, the trial of Sober Charter for the 'carder of
Jolter* Wood, farmer, at Cropton, nor iokerlag, on
the 17th of May last, Lid William Hardin* Charter's
for being reemory after the fact, wee errs.
meard. Toe greed jary had thrown out the bill for
I the murder of the boy, the sou of the &oared. The
°out was &tamely crowded, and great excitement woe
seated on the &premium of the primary Charter
had apparently improve* mach in •Apearense since he
was before the magistrate.. Eieriwiek treated the
I matter with great cooler.. Mr Mauls. Q C., and Mr.
, Simper orworated ; and Mr. Digby Seymour, Q C.,
awl Mr. Wadrly defended lb. wirers, both of woofs
pleaded- not guilty. The deceased, Joseph Wood, dis-
appeared from hia farm on the 17th of May last, with
his eldest re, aged aloe years, and Ctuirter, who had
been reddiag at the farm, on being asked where they
were, said they had gone away. Ca the rcird of May
Charter reoeivel a letter from Liverpool, which per.
parted to have come from Joseph Wool, stating that
hews. drag abroad. That letter vim written by
Charter end posted by Hard wiek. On the 22a4 Novem-
ber the bars of the deceased rasa, end, subsequently
some Mother, were found, with • human head, in a
peed to the pastime. Afterwards another head and
two feet were ford, sod the rest of the remain, of the
dressed were discovered In a corner of a field an the
prisoner's farm. When the prisoner Charter was
taken in custody he stated that im. had found the de-
, erred lying deed in the garden. and that he had buried
him, brag afraid of being blamed for murdering him,
sad subasquently be watered that he had atruok bios
over the heed with an iron weapon, alleging that he
had deer so in selisdefron The two prisoners early
one morning were gra weltitg together in the
corer of the beak, where the deceard's remains were
toned. Charter was ford guilty of the orealarritter
of Joseph Wood and seateaced he 90 years' pecal
servitude. ilerdwiek, who was charged with berg ea
ancesery, wee ape trod.