Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1877-04-13 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

WILLIAMS. Chemist, 23, St: Alhan's Rev/. Dr. Kenealey is getting, as the ladies would say,. quite " too awfully" funny. His organ, relative to a Hyde Park meeting, held on Easter Monday, of the sympathisers with the Claimant, modestly puts the attendance at 70001110 (the London Dailies failed to see more than bL,OOO at the outside), and thus describes it :  "They. were all persons of the greatert respectability— not even the wretched penny papers dare to designate them as ''noughs."l'here VMS not a foot of the vast since traversed in which Dr. Kestellel was not halted a., a King and blessel as a champion of the people, and it was marvelloua to see the love and devotion to him which were exhiblted by SO many :sseeniblsd myrowls of some of the best and truest people in this realm. The Ministry are so blind l so bigoted, or So besotted, that they cannot see this; the Opposition are 31, dumbfounded and divided that they make no effort for the Doctor; but whatever party did r. peat act of jUstier, and made Kenealy Lord Chancellor. of England —as he ought to be, as being avowedly the greatest lawyer in the empire—would secure for itself such a place in the hearts of the people and in the admiration of the world." Really the Prince of. Wales ought to look after his intereate..  But ready, laying joking aside, is it' not time sonic notice should be taken of the •senrrilous abuse levelled week after week at those who hold high ,',pdicial position.s in this land through means of thieprecions rag. The last issue unhesitatingly accuses the Lord Chief .iiastice of having committed murder—of having some 20 years ago, when at Bristol, stabbed a woman to the heart; and' it says all thotie Societies, who so honoured his lordship in that city, knew that they "gazed, upon an assassin." There should surely be a limit to everything, even to that of dignity, in the consideration of impudence. But this goes far beyond mere Billingsgate—it is not low-bred abuse, it is foul assertions, which their author should either prove, or, if unable, pay for with the sacrifice of his liberty. To regard matters of this kind with silent disdain may be sufficient in dealing with those whose opinion is worth the having ; but there are always rogues only too happy to propopate lies, and fools who will believe them, and it is not upon every occasion the wisest plan to allow the one or the other to continue in either their wickedness or their Lug-like credulity. A book entitled. " History of the Barmaid Industry," which, is talked of as likely to be published by an enterprising firm next November, will be looked forward to with much interest. It seems that there are upwards of 300,000 barmaids in (heat Britain, and that their average earnings are upwards.of 3s. a week each more than are obtained by the members of any other profession, except that of "companion," to which women can belong. As is now known, the barmaid industry has extended into Scotland, and very recently two of the ertip/oet,s of Messrs. Spiers and Pond in Edinteirgh have been married, the one to a Dumfriesshire landed proprietor, the other to the son of one of the most popular clergymen in the Scottish metropolis. A scandal from Somersetshire. The daughter of a county magistrate, holding a high position, has run away with one of her father's labourers. She went on a mission of mercy to the labourer's cottage, and when his wife died, consoled him by eloping with him. The young lady has since been captured. Heiresses in the West of England seem fond of these freaks. A short time ago a Clifton lady, with £5,000 a year, was so struok with the devotion of a young crossing-sweeper to his mother that she proposed to him, placed him in the hands of a tntor for a couple of months, and when he hail been intellectually veneered and polished, married him at Wells Catimdral. The experiment was not a success. The lady is now seeing for a divorce.