The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-02 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, MARCH 2.

The mild radiance of that rival of the Town
rump,—for lhlrcliester is now more famous for her
clock than her pump, in spite of Serjeant Ballantine's
natty hit,—again sheds three beams over High-street.
We waited long, and still we are not happy, for we've
done so much without the clock that now we can't tell
the time an well thereby. Or hi it that the fiKures are
not an plain! Something is missing in the new which
we wed plainly to see in the old familiar face.

Perhaps when the scaffold is down the time may be
observed more easily. And we would hope that
scaffold hasn't cost so much as to prevent a living
profit coming to the worthy horologists whose tender
found grace in the Council's eyes.
A late litigant may take more comfort from his work
on the clock than on his tempting the glorious
uncertainty of the law. Although the report of his
action was much.looked upon, his work at the fire-dial
will be observed by instructed eyes long, we hope,
after Dorchester troubles about the case, not the clock.
case.

Drawn game as that case was, it will add one more
example in discouragement of going to law. And, by
the way, the illness of Mr. Lefroy may well stimulate
suitors to adopt the course so often and so freely
recommended by that peace-seeking Judge—to settle
their cases out of court. Suitors are so apt to feel that
their view of the case is the right one, and so certain
to gee somebody or other to flatter their weakness,
that we commend the wisdom of the Judge in advising
parties not to come before him with evidence. One
awkward result might follow from universal settle-
ment out of court,—the £l5OO salary would not be
needed for the Judge; but even the best advice is not
universally followed, and with the most peace-making
community, we should have the Judges retained, like
the proposed Russian Parliament, with a consultative,
If not alegislative voice.

Mr. Cox has now gained his £l6O odd, after a
vrearisome waiting, enough to keep anybody in
unsettled health. We congratulate Mr. Cox even on
getting that amount, and only wish him speedy return
to health, and aa much profit out vegetable marrows
sad cabbage+ as delighted him last year.

LAO fortunate than Mr. Cox, though he won more
from the company, was a gentleman whom we are all
sorry to miss. We shall not soon learn how to spare
Mr. Deputy-Corener Lock. Always courteous, always
calm, always firm, always obliging, Mr. Lock had those
possessions valued of the surgeon, and not less valuable in
the coroner, the lady's hand and lion's heart, and to them
he added great wisdom, so that we cannot fully
estimate his loss, which is, to those who had to sit in
his courts, that of a firm and dignified chief, while it
also feela like the loss of • friend.

Panties in the pulpit were justified by the Rev. T.
Neave, when he showed the need of nationsand rulers
as illustrated by the villainous attempt to murder the
Caar—is really religion influencing the life. The lives
of nations and rulers, too, mark that! We cannot
have the Czar setting himself up after the pattern of
despots of Assyria or Babylon, without forecasting his
dynasty's fall, nor can we accept the "One Jew" who
amid+ out our army to slaughter, sniff he were& modern
Moses or Joshua, without the credential signs. And
be it remembered, Moses and Joshua frequently
exposed themselves to danger, while those whe crush
the Zulus and procure the slaughter of other peoples,
issue their orders while they "sit at home at ease."

When the .tquarium and Winter Garden scheme
had been snuffed down until it was almost snuffed out
of • site, who in Weymouth but must have
the person who could have helped oral Sir
Johnstone, hart., Pd.!'.? Owner of most of
d to spare round Weymouth, Sir Frederic
hundred times, hare given just that aid to the
ng scheme that would have set it on its
at for years Sir Frederic made no sign until,
Deenas of his hon. colleague, compelled by a
accident to stay away from the Merchants'
t, Sir Frederic suddenly startles Weymouth
offer of 01000 for • Winter Garden. One of
lest remarks we heard was "—He '4 pretty safe
offer, for without him, no suitable site can be
Rather, let us say—" Mad Sir Frederic
really wished to help the town to
Garden, he should have offered a
age." Sir Frederic knows, is well
!snows Mr. Edwards, our beloved senior
r„ that the question of mosey is not the most
ant in this matter. Mr. Edwards cannot give a
r, with rare generosity and absence of selfish-
-v. Edwards has laid out his money for the good
wn on what is by many timeles,, security t,
land; he has expended it on the wants of the
ourageraent to the young, relief to the old,
. for the working classes, and defence of the
against storms. Mr. Edwards has not acquired
the neighbourhood of the town. Could he hay
d it on anything like encouraging terms, and:
got it on terms that would not have required
expenditure, heavy ground rents, and an
outchtng of the ground landlord—then we
e wished Mr. Edwards had invested much of
thus. But, in spite of the notorious proverb,

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