The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1858.

HONESTE AUDAX.

TELRGRAPRIC despatches have been received this
week in anticipation of the Bombay mail of the
18th March. Luoknow was almost wholly in
our possession on the 15th of that month, and
the rebels were flying from the city "in tor-
rents" in the direction of Rohilound. These
final successes, which have dispersed, if they
have not destroyed, the last organised body of
mutineers, have been achieved with a very small
sacrifice of life. It appears that General Our-
self by a flank march on the 9th turned the
defences of the canal on which the enemy had
relied as their chief protection. At the same
time Sir EDWARD LIIGABD with the second
division stormed the Martinidre. On the 10th
Sir COLIN CAMPBELL occupied the Bank MAW,
while General OUTRAM pushed forward his ad-
vanced force on the left of the Goomtee, where
the resistance of the enemy was obstinate. On
the 11th Turin HARADOOR, with his Ghoorkas,
carried the edifices between the Goomtee and the
canal, and General HOPE'S brigade, including
the 42nd and 93rd Highlanders, stormed the
Begum's Palace, while General Ournam, ad-
vancing from his position, seized and crossed the
bridges over the Goomtee, marched straight into
the town, and occupied the buildings in front of
the palace. In these operations our loss was
under 100 killed and wounded. Among the
killed were Capt. MACDONALD of the 93d High-
landers, Capt. COOPER of the Rifle Brigade, and
Capt. Mooßsom of the Staff. The bold advance
of General Ouniam into the heart of the city
had such an effect 'upon the enemy, that they
rushed in masses through the ranks of our
artillery and tied panic-stricken from the place,
leaving nearly the whole of Lucknow in our
hands. On the 14th the Imaumbarra which is
close to the walled inclosure of the Kaiserbagh, a
mass of palaces adjoining the Residency, was
carried by storm, and before the close of the day
Sir COLIN CAMPBELL after a protracted struggle
was in full possession of the Kaiserbagh. On the
15th Brigadier CAMPBELL with a brigade of
cavalry and horse artillery was despatched in
pursuit of the flying enemy, and Sir HOPE
GRANT WM Bent to Setapolo with 1,000 cavalry
to intercept any fugitives who might be driven
by Brigadier CAMPBELL in the direction of Rohil-
cund. The enemy, therefore, will not be allowed
time either to reorganise their forces or to take
up a position for a fresh contest. The latest
news states that though the enemy still occupied
some parts of Lucknow, the intelligence of Sir
Comic Csienxix's reduction and occupation of
the whole city was hourly expected. From the
Doab we learn that a body of rebels had
threatened Etawah, but had since re-crossed the
Ganges. It was reported from Rewah that the
rebels had taken Cheomar, and that the ReJen
and Mr. CAIRN, the Deputy Commissioner, were
prisoners. In Central India Sir Hum' Ross
occupied Bandapoor on the 10th March, and the
RAJAH had fled to Chunderee.

THE temporary subsidence of topics of political
interest gave place last night to much political
life and activity. The real work of legislation
had to be set about in earnest. The Times of
yesterday says, significently enough, "this day
"begins for the fourth, and perhaps not for the
"last time, the present session of Parliament."
That it was a " black " Monday for the DERBY
Administration, we may not be very wrong in
assuming—looking at. the great importance of
the measures now to be dealt with, together
with the admitted. weakness and unpopularity of
the Government. That the singular anomaly,
seen in the fact of the affairs of this great coun-
try being carried on by a minority in Parlia-
ment, will endure for any appreciable space of
time, is more than the most zealous and anti-
quated Tory could well hope for. The country
generally is tolerably quiescent, and seems dis-
posed to let Lord DERBY have his day, always
supposing that it must be a abort one. It will
be seen before long in what light the House of
Commons regards Lord DERBY'S claim to office;
but there is reason to think, if the House should
afford his Lordship too much scope, that the
country would get out of humour and complain
that Parliamentary representatives, by a display
of laxity and indifference, were neglecting the
great duty entrusted to them. The barely
possible fact of carrying on public business by
minorities is not only anomalous and unoon-
genial, but subversive of the first object of
parliamentary representation; and viewing the
matter in this light, some eminent political
writers have declaimed, not without great reason,
upon a state of things wherein an attempt of
this nature is boldly made. "If government is
to be carried on," says the Tines, "by mino-
rities, and minorities which, in addition to their
numerical weakness, frame measures of such a
kind SA to be received throughout the country
with universal ridicule and disgust, what gua-
rantee, we may ask, does our elective constitu-
tion afford us for the existence of good govern-
ment or the passing of good measures 1"
This evening the revised Navy Estimates
for the year 1888-59 will be proceeded with,
and the increase to be aired for will be nearly
£814,000. From an abstract just published
it appears that the estimates amount to
4821,371 against iF4,107,528 for the year
1867-6 a The oebOtail mum which was proposed

to be voted was £9,140,127. To the effective
service will be appropriated £7,076,181, to the
non-effective £1,334,690, and to carriage for the
Army and Ordnance Departments £410,500.
It is stated in the Timm of yesterday that Lord
JOHN Russam., backed by a numerous party,
is about to call attention to alleged deficiencies
in our national defences, and to ask either for in-
creased Estimates or a more serviceable disposi-
tion of what is about to be voted. This will
raise questions as to the proportion and dispo-
sition of fiscal burdens which it may be found
very difficult for the Caswcamori of the Kama.
QUM to adjust—whatever may be the opinion
entertained as to the necessity of putting this
country in a very complete state of defence.
At all events, the Government have now settled
to their business, and a few weeks, perhaps a
few days, will suffice to indicate what chance
Lord DEBBY may have of weathering the re-
mainder of the session—a contingency which
presents, at the present moment, a very fair
subject of speculation.

AT the General Quarter Sessions last week there
was another discussion on the interminable
Lunatic Asylum Question. There were, how-
ever, but two points worthy of special notioe in
that long and laboured debate, namely the resig-
nation of the Chairman of the Visitors of the
Asylum, the Rev. J. A. TEMPLIR, and the
throwing over—the making a clean sweep—of
all the pretty projects turned up from time to
time by the the assiduous labours of that zealous
gentleman during a period of seven years. From
all the county has seen of the confusion and
failure in which Mr. TEMPLER contrived to in-
volve every matter connected with the simple
business of providing additional accommodation
for some 40 or 50 poor lunatics, no great degree
of regret will be felt at the retirement of one
who had undertaken to direct these matters
with such uniform ill-success, and with no little
injury to the reputation of the Court as men of
clear perceptions and prompt action.
As we are now to have a fresh start, and are
to begin in every thing de novo, under the
auspices of Mr. FLOYHR, who now fills the im-
portant office of Chairman of the Visitors, it is
not absolutely unreasonable to hope that seven
long years of abortive discussion, blundering,
and indecision, will be followed by something
approaching to a business-like treatment of the
question in hand. We should be happy, indeed,
to see this hope realized; at the same time we
are by no means gnine ; our own ample ex-
perience of the past forbids any very extrava-
gent expectations. Fresh plans, estimates,
sites, and all things necessary, are now to be
advertised for, in pursuance of the latest
novelty recommended by the Visitors—that of
building an entirely new Asylum. The Court
have so far sanctioned the project of a new
Asylum, inasmuch as they have authorized the
advertisements in question; but for anything
that can be found, either in the report of the
Visitors, or in the speech from the Chairman'
with which that report was supplemented, the
enlargement of the Asylum, on one or other of
the plans heretofore so luminously expounded,
so copiously elaborated, may yet be determined
upon—if seven years hence—as the fittest mode I
of solving this most vexatious and puzzling '1
problem. Certainly, the constantly-recurring
items of expenditure under such heads as
"architects' plans," "reports on plans,"
" legal cases and opinions," dro. &c., will hardly
be very grateful to the eye, when so much
money has been already thrown away upon
sundry matters of this description ; and the
professional talents of a MOFFATT, aWYATT, and
a Mous—not to mention our own able county
surveyor—have hitherto gone for nothing in
supplying the wants of a few dozen poor lunatic
patients. Whatever may be said about Dorset-
shire being a little behind other counties in point
of generosity and intellectual greatness, it cannot
be denied that a very liberal system of com-
petitive examination is encouraged and kept
1 alive by our Court of Quarter Sessions in respect
of building and architecture—the various "plans"
, of candidates for distinction, if they turn out
to be useless, are, nevertheless, well paid for.
We cannot of course undertake to say how
soon, or in what possible manner, this business
may be brought to a conclusion in the hands of
the new Chairman of the Visitors. He has the
advantage of being released altogether from his
Parliamentary duties, and can therefore give his
undivided time and attention to the wants of
the County in the particular matter committed
to his charge; and, if any of the high qualities
of a legislator can be brought to bear upon this
county question, we should be justified in
hoping for the best. We must suppose Mr.
FLOYER to be eminently qualified for the post,
seeing that the business has almost entirely
been handed over to him—the Court, during a
long debate on Tuesday last, having left every-
thing relative to the required additional accom-
modation at the Asylum to Mr. FLOYER, without
note or comment. The attention of the Court
was almost wholly absorbed by a dry legal dis,
cumion as to the manner of charging the differ-
ence in the cost of maintenance in the case of
the paupers at Fisherton and of those at the
County Asylum—a discussion struck with the
same fatal sterility u every one of the many
scores of unprolific deliberations connected with
this withering question. We are quite unable
to inform our readers that the feasibility of a
new Asylum recommended by the Visitors—
and approved by the Court, so far as to order
a fresh batch of tenders, plans, reports, esti-
mates, and we know not what—is in any way
established by facts and arguments adduced by
those gentlemen themselves. Mr. FLOYER'S re-
commendation of a new Asylum seemed to rest
mainly upon the cheapness, in the long run, of
a new establishment as compared with an en-
largement on the present site; but we read
through his speech in vain for anything at all
justifying this representation. On the contrary
an examination of his figures goes far to esta-
blish an opposite view of the case. He says the
cost of enlarging the present building, according
to Mr. DONALDSON'S plan, would be £23,000,
exclusively of the purchase of Mr. SHERIDAN'S
land, fitments, and other extras. The Com-
mittee thought this expense "so large," that it
was desirable to see—not whether it was pos-
sible to do the work at a more moderate figure,
but, what a "bran new" Asylum could be built
for—and with this view to invite a fresh influx
of tenders and plans, as aforesaid. The Visitors
have formed their own idea as to what a new
Asylum would cost, and upon the strength of
that calculation the Court will proceed afresh
in the business. But we cannot see that the
Court can build safely upon what appears to us
to be the somewhat wild calculations of the
Committee. Mr. FLOYER thinks we can build
a new Asylum for "something like £30,000."
Yet "in counties not much larger than this" he
himself stated the cost to be from £70,000 to
£80,000; while in Hampshire the building alone,
for 400 patients, cost £42,600, without mention-
ing land, fitments, and other expensive items;
one of which alone, namely, "fitments," would
out probably, as Mr. From himself said,
£12,000. "In Somersetahire a new Asylum,"
he remarked, "had been built for 350 patients,
"at a coat of £40,000 for buildings alone "
merely bricks and mortar. What all the costly
accessories came to he did not tell us; perhaps
he didn't know. However, according to Mr.
FLOYER'S own showing, we have an estimated
expenditure varying from £55,000 or £50,000
to 270,000 and £BO,OOO, for a new Asylum, to
set against the cost of enlarging the present
building—which, taking it at the very high esti-
mate of £23,000, seems to leave the Visiting
C,onunittee very little room for exultation on
the more of economy in pressing for a new
Asylum. Yet the ground heretofore so fre-

quently and so laboriously trodden, is all to be
gone over again, for no other assignable reason
in the world but to test the relative expense
of building a new establishment, and of adding
to the old one, which result is actually made
already cogniz. able to the Court, for all practical
purposes, by the figures brought before them by
Mr. FLOYKR himself. Whether this new idea of
building a new Asylum is in any way oonnected
with a friendly desire to "make a deal" in the
purchase of land, with some gentleman finding
himself possessed of a "wild spot upon the
"heath," or with any other gentleman having
land to dispose of elsewhere—time will probably
unfold. At all events the County has a right to
expect that the Court will do their duty in
providing, without further delay, for the addi-
tional accommodation required for the pauper
lunatics of the County, and that too without
any further waste of money—upon a plan the
most economical and effective, and free, in every
part of it, from the faintest suspicions of a job.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—The supply of wheat at market to-day being short,
and the upward movement of Mark lane, enabled
farmers to obtain an advance of about 2s. per quarter
over last week. Barley and oata maintained late
rates.

CHURCHWARDENE- -In our list of churchwardens
elected on Easter Monday, and which appeared in
last week's impression, the names of the church.
wardens for Christ Church, West Fordington, were
omitted. The churchwardens for that parish are—
Mr. Edward George Lewer and Mr. Edward
Monday.
Te Quzax's OWN YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—It is
said that this regiment, under the command of Lord
Rivers, will aseemble at Sherborne, on Saturday, the
29th of May, for eight days' permanent duty.
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DORSET PROTEBTAIIT SOCIETY. —The Rev. C. W.
Bingham is to give a lecture on Wednesday evening
in connection with this society, on the present active
existence of Rome at home.

THE TRZADWELL TII:BIIMONIAL.—The committee
have determined to present Mr. Farquharson's hunts-
man, Jem Treadwell, with the testimonial
agreed
upon at a banquet, to be given at the King'eri
Hotel to-morrow (Wednesday) week. Sir Edward
B. Baker, belt, has consented to preside on the
occasion.

COUNTY POLIO! STATION.—We understand that
it is contemplated to build the station for the head
9uarters of the county police on a piece of land ad.
joining the Weymouth Turnpike-road, •little beyond
the South-Western Railway Station.
Amongst the distinguished company at present
entertained by Captain Dawson Darner, M.P., at
Came, are—the Hon. Colonel Scarlet, Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie, Hon. John Fortesoue, Miss Lampton, Mr.
and Mr.. Hugh Seymour, Major and Mrs. Army.
tage, Captain Gordon, Mills Morier, Colonel Hay.
girth, H. D. Erskine, Esq., Captain Erskine, Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. F. Sutton,
Miss Darner, Colonel Ellisson, and Miss Renaud.
Bus Accinzarr.—On Sunday morning, at three
o'clock, the horses in the omnibus belonging to the
King's Arms Hotel, which were at the South'
Western Railway Station waiting for the MAU bags,
started off and ran to the King's Anna breaking
three penal of glass and a portion of the iron shuts
at the front of the hotel. Fortunately, no very
serious damage resulted to the horses or to the bus,
but the driver (Lacey, who was fined £2 and costa
on Monday for driving on a footway) was hurt in the
leg somewhat. The horses scampered away ere he
could seize the reins.

M•soittc P•esitrcriertott.—The Freemasons of the
Lodge of Faith and Unanimity, 60, Dorchester,
having resolved to acknowledge the useful services
rendered through many years to the brethren, both
at Weymouth and Dorchester, at a late meeting
of the brotherhood the W. M. of the Lodge, brother
Thomas Coombs invested brother Robinson with the
badge of presentation. • valuable Put Master's Jewel,
in gold and colours, bearing the name and number of
the Lodge, with masonic emblems, and the words—

Mena( 3RD, A.D. 1858,
A.L. 5862.
PRESENTED TO
BROTHER
THOMAS ROBINSON, P.M.,

GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AP

DR. LIVINOSTONS—A highly interesting lecture
on this celebrated African traveller was delivered at
the Townhall, on Tuesday, before a crowded audi.
ence, by the Rev. J. Miller, M. A. The lecture was in
connection with the Dorchester Workingmen's
Mutual Improvement Society. Dr. Cowdell pre-
sided. The rev, lecturer referred to a series of large
diagrams, which were ranged above the platform, in
the course of his address. In touching upon the
character of Livingstone, the rev, lecturer said the
future traveller was born in the north of Scotland in
1818, and in 1840 first wont to Africa, where for 13
years he spoke no European language. Livingstone,
though obliged to work in a cotton-mill, managed to
qualify himself for missionary work. Possessed of great
energy, earnestness, decision, and perseverance,
Livingstone was yet a man, and nothing human was
foreign to him. He "dared do all that may become
a man," and was, indeed, an eminent Christian ex-
emplar worthy to be held up to the imitation of
youth. The rev, lecturer then adverted to the
history of discoveries in Africa, and afterwards, at
considerable length, but in • very interesting and in-
structive manner, narrated a number of circumstances
connected with the almost mi raculous career of Living-
stone in that wonderful country. The address occupied
nearly two hours and a half, and the audience ap-
peared to be deeply interested in it throughout. The
Ftev. J. Miller concluded his lecture by reciting the
following original verses, addressed to the working.
men of the Dorchester Workingmen's Mutual Im-
provement Society :

LAND IN VIEW IN THE VOYAGE OF LIFE.
Bowl of toil ! whom! hard earned gein.
Scarce requite your oare and pains.
But whoae heart's are firmly bent
On blending program with oontent,
Struggle on, fear no more,
Lend ! Lend I

See ! lee the shining shore—
lAnd ! land ahead.

Bons of toil! whose work each day
Bears ye on your weary way,
Spread the all and plough the deep,
Look thro' your tears ye eyes that weep.
Struggle on, tae.

Sons of toil I ye tempera tamed,
Swept by seas and almost lost,
Keep your course and win your way—
Light grows the sky, fair dawns the day.
Struggle on, &a.
Sons of toll I yield not to fear—
Storms o'er, calms past, land Is near;
Worthiness shall now have weight,
The good In hearts of men keep state.
Struggle on, MI

Sons of toll ! hail to the true,
See the longed-for land In view—
Labour shorten'd, mind eel free,
Heart knit to heart in unity.
Struggle on, Sc,
Sons of toll cleave thro' the Ni,
Llvlngetone your leader be—
Land he gain'd for deeds of love,
Land in life's storm, and land above.
Strugtinodni far
Lan no mon—
ks! I ses the shining shore—
Land I Land .ad.