The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1877-03-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ODDS AND ENDS."  I believe there is very little doubt that the account given in your columns, extracted from • oontemcrazi relative to the murder of the constable Hutchingsess, is the true one. How it leaked out I don't pretend to say, but the ruffians themselves, I am told, supplied the information, and Baker really was the actual murderer, although they were one and all concerned in it. I hear there have been numerous letters sent to the Home Becentary protesting against a total remission of the sentence upon the old man; but I have not heard that Mr. Vagg has received £lOO ace alight token of appreciation of his gallant conduct I. taking two of the murderers single-banded. * •-• Considering hie diotam as to what constitutes wellfounded grounds of eneploion, I wonder what the Lord °hist Justice would say to the Liverpool police. man who, the other day, stopped a boy beoaues—he was wearing • pair of new boots, This, however, did wear, and what, to an ordinarily-minded mortal would seem a "trifle light as air," eventualyvoved • "confirmation strong es proof of Holy Writ," for the rarr had robbed, and then made his escape from ntatory.  The ease of Lord Marcus Bereeford has given—l see from a glance through the papers—an admirable opportunity for the diffusion of • groat deal of snobism. One clans of writers, delighted to have • filing at • man who can call himself • lord, think the line of 1100 much too lenient, and would have gloated to seeing his lordship being manipulated by the prison barber. On the other hand toadies to titles, like that brliliant assemblage the Middlesex magistrates, apologise. with tear-bedewed fulsomeness, for the Inconvenience to which his lordship had been put. Men of honour, they exclaim, can hook no imputation upon their veracity. Very true, but then men of honour, who lei& to avenge any reflection cut upon their love of tenth, do not generally commence procesdbgs by going and tswng • direct lie, as the defendant when be sent up • wrong name. A third section would have had this ornament to the aristocracy get-off Scot-free because his prosecutor wee a moneylender. Well, I fancy there are a good many other trades quite se replete with rogueries and trickeries as mesey-lending, although they may not lie quite so near the nuts*, and the Lord Mavens, who is no uanisd pigeon,. had no business, alter he had made use member of the fraternity, to turn rpiteful when asked to pay up. No, I think Mr. Zeilin may be aosopatalated upon having idea% • very wise and proper &slim—a ins of MO I. met about the amount of punishment that will main sullioleat emberrammest to teach his lordship better manners for the future.  e*. The elder Weller, whom precautionary admonon to gamiest relative to "the viddere" has become verbiel, would have been more than ever c.rnrm.a in kb opinions had he happened to have been in the Norwich Aisle* Court the other day. Thee, I me, • Mrs. Yarrow, 42, and the widow of a fanner, seed Ckild—thst was his name—of 114 and • fees breach of promise. Mrs. Farrow warell.desiromiet of having this Child—as • husband; albeit, she was alrady the mother of 18 Child-rem But the Child wee not to be caught, and disowned any promise whatever. Mrs. Farrow lout her case, but still it a moral—a moral to be found in the Weller jrirraletion.—Verbun Bap. A law suit has revealed.the foot that the profits seeming from that fashionable journal—the Morning Psee—baye amounted to over 14,000 • year. The editor received 110 gs, a week, with a bonne of one-third of tke profits, and some time ago, on the death of the proprietor, he bought the Ft for 05,000. I sin glad to see the re.presentatives of the Press were excluded from the annual dinner of the two University crews held on the evening of the boot-race. The public have thus been spared the infliction of • lot of presumptuous twaddle, emanating from self-considered oracles. The Press would do well to take a lesson'from this. They make infinitely too much tun over an affair which in reality emote • proportionate Interest by opportunities it gives for gambling.