The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1869-04-27 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE MOVIES OT PARLIASTST.—The first estimate for the construction of the Palace of St. Stephen's was the prodigious sum of £700,000. Up to this time the maned disbars, went has amounted to £3,600,000 ! The sole object of the bet:ding was to accommodate the Lees. later. The ridiculous failure stands centered in the fact that the present House of Commons is Et only to be it. own lobby, and that a new Chamber has yet to he built which will probably es far exceed the Estimate as the former. Men of business! Why, to call Members of Parliament by that name is enough to provoke laughter "like the neighing of all Tattersall',. They appointed commissioners to *Meet the rope Ice the new Parliament House, and were offered that of which Edinburgh was built, which bad mired the hyperborean northern climate for 300 yaws. No-that was too plebs a treaseetion. They must job the edifioe to an English quarry-ester, and the building drays at Oise •.nd before It ia fini.hed at the other, being fused up with cosmetic petrifsetiona to arrest for a time the crumb/ins away of a notional edifice not yet out of the contractor's hands. Then we have " smut improvements =win" in light and scientific irsefittens, who manage without any notice at all to leave the great inqueat of the nation Inn darkness of • sort not its own. Next the &rehire quarrels with the highly philosophical ventilator and housewarmer, and between them they treat the assembled Commone to a climate alternating the tropri and the arctic circle, diversified by hot and cold blastm. which improve their eloquence by colds in the bead, and gratify their sense of smell by draughte of the average of the "rim r Themes." The bells and cloak are confided  to the care of a lawyer. One falls with hideous ruin and combustion down" from the top of the tower— soother is silenoed by an incurable crack. Tbefrescoes —tawdry UlailitS of theatrical scene-painting—peel off from unreasoned walls, and the "collective wisdom," no has been seen, has been actually persuaded that it is strictly scientific that • House of ad members should only be fitted to contain 470, and then led bask again Into the conviction that a tenement should have room enough to accernmatlate its tenants. When her Msjerity imminent's the attendance of her faithful Commons in the hall paid for with their own money, they hays to draw lots in • bat to determine for which of them room Is to be bond; and to crown the screaming farce with It. mint outrageons absurdity, niches are left for the statues of our historical magnates, the orders are wrung by hungry sculptors from the Minister of Work; the statues are completed, and nog till then it is discovered that not one of the niches is large enough to let them in ! What next? Awn FeItEILALIL—The solaoe which untutcred people find In the observance of all t .e funeral ceremonies which pertain to their clam is, indeed, no dear to them that the legislator could make no r 11.4.1 dangerous experiment titan one that would interfere with the treatment of the dead. The Irish wake is , only a coarse and barbarous expression of the feelit g which was in the lady's mind, when she saw that her " kinswoman looked "comfortable" in her coffin. The Irish beg.trotter makes the dark waters palateable by miring s hiskey with them. His grief is genuine : ant he eases it by the observance of the boisterous forms peculiar to his kind. The ragged widow is soothed when she his achieved a crape fall for her bonnet. If them were DO comfort in all these funeral forms, and in the etiquette of consolation, the poorest would not struggle ss they do to get • share. The burial club is a source of consolation to the dying woman or mac—but especiaFy to the woman Half the bitterness of the loss is saved when the widow ham given her husband a " decent burial." The poor will make any naerifioe, bind th•mselves in debt foes long time, to save the re. mains of a child from • parish funeral. The awful respect which the humble unletterei mourner feels for the corpse is as sentiment not to be rudely shaken, nor to be lichtiv put amide. It steeds, for the present, in the geed of a finer light. There are few who have quite shaken if the proneness of the heart to eneoin• pass the dust of a loved one with a reverenee—th.t. estimated us just so many chemical elements, it should not command from reasoning man. We pity the besotted wake party : our strong.heads are full of die. dais shout the upholstery of the undertaker. There are tnow who would burn the body, there are people who .0 not "old with moornieg." Bat the feeling which Lars the French widow, flanked by her daughters, to trim ti.e rop.s over her husband's resting.place. ii respeetslile. The bunch of flowers upon the baby'. coffin ..pcx!,--ee don't pause to inquire why—to the heal t, and warms it. The philoeopliers' cemetery icon institute-n or shall reach, it may be ; bat let us lei certain that the true sublime has been fixed in every gosherl's nature first. —By Blanchard Jerrold in Tar Lotdvii, a capital sixpenny magazine.  THE RACIIIIL CADS was belore the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, on an application from the SolicitorGeneral to fix an early day for the bearing of the writ d error which hoe been lowed to reverse the oonviction obtamed at the Central Criminal Court. It was arranged that the ease should DO argued on Saturday week. _  ANOTIMI SDICIDI THIOOOII LOYL —ln Poplar, anl inquest lam been held on tb• body of Iglu Squire, aged 18 years, • domestic versant. Deeesaed had been engaged to be married to • young man who appeared to have backed out of his engagement in a most heartless manner. She was greatly distressed in mind in consequence, and on Sunday night while walking with the young man she broke away from him and jumped into the river Lea and was drowned. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity." STILLING TlMBRlL—Americati ladies, like thew of our own country, have a weakness for appearing in borrowed tresses. Pickpockets have began to vary the monotonous businesa of abstracting pocket-handkerohiels and parse. by the easier an I equally profitable event». thou of cutting off ladies' hair. Armed with a pair of sharp scissors, they haunt the entrances of theatres and churches, and in mend all crowded place.; those ladies who, according to the prevailing fashion, wear eerie hanging down their beaks suffering most. Journeymen hairdrween out of work find this an excellent mode of turning their skill to • lucrative amount. The Bishop of New Jamey has attenuate-ad that at the next confirmation be will refuse to lay his episcopal hands ea any avail adorned with borrowed tresses.