The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-01-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

POLICEMAN'S MISTAKE.—The magistrate at the Westminster Police-court, on Thursday, had before him a charge against Mr. Charles Curtis Capon, residing with his brother, Dr. Herbert Capon, of Edgware-maid, assistant medical officer to the I) division of police, of loitering outside the Court Theatre and attempting to pick pockets. Mr. d'Eyncourt, having heard the evidence, said amistake had been made by the police, and the defendant left the court without a stain on his character. Dr Capon applied for smne compensation for the expense to which they had been put and the indignity his brother had suffered. Mr. d'Eyncourt referred him to the Gamnissioners of Police.  Mr. Bright attended a soiree of the Birmingham Junior Liberal Association, which was held in the Townhall, and delivered an address, in which he said that he held it wise that young men who had recently entered upon some employment should devote themselves tea prudent extent to the politics of their town and country. There were great numbers of young men who brought upon themselves discredit and suffering, and sometimes almost ruin to their families, because they had not taken up any question to occupy their spare time. Referring to the subject of the wady franchise, Mr. Bright argued that people in counties were entitled to receive from the Legislature just as liberal treatment as those in towns. At the present moment the actual franchise outside the limits of boroughs was, in comparison with the rents in the towns, nearly equal to £2o per annum. Unless some good reason could be given for these discrepancies, there was an injustice being done to a great portion of the population outside the boroughs which ought to be at once remedied. Alluding to the question of foreign politics, the speaker said that retribution, although slow, was sure to follow a sanguinary policy, and all history, sacred or profane, showed this. That day was the anniversary f the battle of Lambda. when fifteen hundred lives of British and native soldiers were destroyed, and he did not know how many of the Zulus, in a war which was unjustifiable and minecessary and we were now slaughtering and hanging a people said to be our foes in Afghanistan, at the command of a Government professing to be wiser, more Christian, and more humane than those it attacked. These wars were harsh and cruel, ard Ahuuld be called by their right name of murder.  ,  , 1,  "I •  I -4 1:.11!  .1 i  I i  It 14 tli II It the (k ' '”I tht out ali •.r fon.. live.  t  few otik,  ti o•  t • I I tin() •.iinilll HI I it 1 • ' • !e,h, the let. 1%, The tyllite if the iLittke ; I • a, Year in eioiY r'nitltY  .74 t 1  • .. • :tight the sast legal business of tho t • a I. with painful effects on hundreds of I• ' . , ev Assize, on Thursday. Mr. • k' • . are of grand jurors, ,1,..11,1e that , • , and a nunieroti • array llf legal tome :! - I together for C ..• 1.111.11,10 of ti • ••• for a common a-sank.. Thu I • • • rh 1 that that was the third county he had i :it I in the circuit and found literally nothing to lii Montgomeryshire there was one case, ant 1.1 i iistlishire there was a maiden assize. Seeing, he a. 1,1,1, tile pressure in the Lon.lon courts, something shouhl be done to spare judges the waste of time in travelling al s sit the country doing nothing but addressing gran.t juries and being looked at.