The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1866

also ilhatrate my theme from facts, as to tenants and
rabbits, hielt lukppenLd years no at Lulwrrth
Castle ; Lot 1 with rot to ray an unpleasant thing
to any one : I only hie d toy olasa, and good and
honoured a•rranta from the most unjust Ilnplita-
ti..na—as unjuat as, at this moment, they are unwise.
Yours obediently,
GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.
Allerney Cottage, Feb. 15kb, 1865.

To the Editor.
! Sin —" Chilly" has only foot seen the reply of the
churchwarden a of Piddletrenthidn, and their stir.
prise at" Chilly" complaining of the col loess of their
church on Sundays. "Chilly" is bound to apologise,
as be until now was not aware of there being a
liberal and generous supply of nearly hair A bushel of
charcoal and coke placed in the two stoves on Satir-
day, an he never fil% tie ((Teets on Sunday • and
really was not atter° of two strives and would not
have known of one MO it not Crun particularly
'roin,ed out to him. The regret of the church-
wardens that parishioners should be prevented
attending, is Very considerate.
Query : Are theao churchwardens sure that their
st.ven burn out the fuel after being lighted on Satur-
days ? I have seen ( week -dap) curious remains in I
the two miniature charcoal•holdera. —Your.. truly,
CHILLY STILL
Piddletronthide, February 18, 1865.

Empfrial Vartianicut.

riotTsE OF LORDS.

MON DAT.—Lord Hongliton moved rid' r. turns ielative
to the woiking of the blidrepolit in Casual l'eor Liw.
The Earl of Longford milled attention to tle ilisplaia-
ment of pm, families in the metropolis by the improve-
ments which were b-ing effected in the strretii.
Tuesmor.—Tbe Lord Chancellor iitated the rcsnit
during the plat year of the act passel in 1863 for the
iliiiposal of church livings in his patronage. He soil
siste•tliree livings hail 11132111 sold, and hail realised
£113,129. Of these henefieee three were, dilm•ed if
under the twentyisecond clause for £10,520, which suni
was available for the augmentation of small livings in
his patronage. Ile bad given £7,401 to the holders of
eight livings and for tie erection of parsonages, on con-
diiion that an squat amount was ralsrel from privat.
seurees. Moro had hien proinis-id, and a ilnialiCe lilt
remained in hand. The staie of the mooev market
last par had preventid a liireer ode if lit imrs, Is
tit, se were ennatiott it rpnii • w•th an n'tionite- yew
to purchases. The elisini sal of Mr. 15a icy Irwin from
the Irish magistracy and t a inefficiency of the I huh
comtahulary 'rein made the soliject of so nplaint by
the Earl of Leitrim, iifter *deli the lionise a ljourned.
TUURSDAY. —1 he business transacted was of no
gimeral interest.

- Feu; tv.-IT-1; Lord Chancel'or annonnced that he
I ad appobited the Hon. &Mosby Bothell (bin ,egosul eon)
to the office of IN adiog cletk and c'erk of °moat, it in
their lordsllic howe, vscaot by the resignation of Mr
&Wanda. Earl Granville laid upon the table two
minuts s of the Committee of Comte] on Education, the
first of which provided that, cith respect to stn.,ll
schools not more than six might unite, and by that
obtain tie advantage of insp:ction and n rtificated
masters. The object f the second was to render the
examinations In the evening schools more efficient and
.tiglictory. On the motion of the Martinis Townshend
conies were ordered of the correspondence relating to
the abrinction or a nun !timed Mary lips*. Their lord-
ships adjourned at • quatter•past five.

• •
O 'Connell elation was a party demonstration. oTlie
rovernme by conniving at that brcarh of the I,lw,
11 d led to the disturbance at It Mutt. —Mr. M'Malton
Ice
thought it di-ereditahle that 1,11 ettemi t should be
made to justify the riots At Beira: t, This disci:ad.., was
wl idly i remature. If the D tl•litt pro ess'on w a illesial
any one could have taken it-pa to proseeute those who
Link part in it. He hoped the police of Itelf•st would
be withdrawn from the oonttol of the 10-al ma,gistraey.
Tie Established Church in In l-dtil a as the red cense of
these disonlerp, and no nine wdo had (toy c .tineet no
w th Oratigeiten ought to have a place on the bench.—
Mr. Whitesi•le declared that the ia-aing of the commis
sion was uncitstitutional, i,.ea peliet•t, and unwarrant-
able, and he at rarely eritte:sosl the Omen. r in at WI the
inquiry had been conducted. lie di nied that the local
inagistracy were to blame far the riotri. The Govern-
ment was the real culprit. Lord Palmerston, no ilonbt,
was an admirable Premit r. but It was posaible for him to
be at the bead of a had Government. awl the eat ibi•
Con they Ittpl had th et night would not strengthen
Ids hands in the c eautry.—Sir Cl. Grey oondenine I the
tone"( tha last nu cakes.. aid rind beat, d the Governme t
and 'the entnuaixsion (rem the charee- wl•ich Lad been
made againxt them.—Mr. Maguire denied that the
Dnlffin procession wax a patty demonstration. Mernhens
°fall parties joined in it. The object of the member for
Belfast in originating this discussion was no doubt to
aolen the blow to the local magistracy which was
comin:., but he would fail.—After a few words front
Mr. Hennessy, Mr. M.-wdegate, Sr. Knox, Sir H.
Blues., and Sir I'. O'Brien, Sr ff. Cairen's motion fer
papers was a lthdraven.—ln reply to Mr. Darby Griffith,
the C• anceller of the Exchequer said the Treasury and
, tit) Poitotfa,ro had under cousideration an arraegemeht
1 by which a threepenny rate of possitge woteld be intro-
duce I into this eouutry.-11r. Welkin called attention
to the recent raid, front Canada. and moved for papers ,
re:pecting the reciprocity treaty bctween Canada and
the United Sate, and the proposal to increase the
armed turves on the lite,. He complained Mitt
although the subject had been long di..eussed in
America, it had not been trade a matter of negotiation
by ti is country. He wished also to know whether any- '
thing bad been done in respect to an intercepted letter •
by whet, it app sired that an arrangement had been •
made hetween a Confederate and a Federal to run the '
lb .ekad•t at Mobile and exchange 5,00'1,0001ha. of meat i
for s,ooo,oooffis. of cotton.—Mr. Layani would only .
repeat what had been sai I, that theta were no furtdor
papers respeetng the reciprocity treaty than those which I
had been Oven. I

lifitY.—AtUntie and Salem countiee, New
Jersey, are ei,d, avourieg to prove that molt has the
heuvii at man. Atlantic has within its precincts • person
weighing 3101b5., and Slew has the honour of containing
one of 3 Baba. ; but old Cumberland dope better than that.
It is the birthplace and residence of a was who, when
last weighed, reached the enormous %eight of 4701b5.
Amer:can Pape .
A celebrated physician, occupying a high offiei•l posi-
tion in Massachusetts, says that since the beginning of
the war there has been a reinerkable decrease in caaes
of insanity among women, attributed by him to the
various charitable and henevnleet operations occasioned
by the war, which lace excited the sympathies and
received the support of wemen.
RR. BLAIR AND P/OCRIDRKT DAVIN. The Paris
Patric a journal usually well informed, says :—We
have reason to believe that the Imperial Government
liasreeeived from M. Geoffrey, French chargé claffairea
at Washington, the following details respecting the !Ate
peace negotiations :—The following were the points sub-
mitted to Presideet Davis by Me. Blair :-1. The South
to return to the Union ; 2. The gradual aboltion of
slavery ; 3. Itecogniiion of the rights of the various
states at present forming the Southern Confederacy ;
4. A geneft amnesty for all Confederate citizens; 5.
Maintenance of the Confederate army on its present
footing; 6. Alliance offensive and defensive betwo n
North and South. Presi lent Davis formally and ab-
solutely rejected the first propoaition, but expressed his
willingness to accept the others in jr nciple.
RAILWAY LIABILITY FOR NROLIGENCE. —ln
the case of Foy v. the London' Brighton,
and South-Coret Railway Company, the plaintiff
(Mm. Foy) was a passenger from Croyden to
London, and on resching the London station there
was another train at the platform, and the carriage in
which she was stopped outside the station at a place
where there was no platform. One of the Company's
porters told her to get out as soon as she could. The
carriage had an iron step, and below that a wooden step
along the whole length of the carriage. Mrs. Foy,
instead of stepping on the iron step, and thence on the
wooden step, and from that to the ground, took a
gentlemen's hand, and jumped from the iron step to the
ground, and alighted on her heel., and jarred her spine,
and was considerably injured in consequence. She was
• person of delicate constitution. Tie jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff for t5O), subject to the opinion
of the Court of Common Pleas whether there was
negligence on the part of the Company. The court
thought there was, and oust-toed the verdict.

COUNTY Connie' EXTENSION.—At the sitting of the
Brornpton County Court, on Wedeesday, Sir J. E. E.
Wilmott. Bart., the presiding judge, who is elle judge
of the Merylebone and Brentford county courts, made
some observations upon the subject of the mee.eure
contemplated by gm ernment, se announced in Her
Majesty's Speech, for conferring an equity jurisdiction
upon the county courts. He said I e had heard that
announcement eith very greet satisfaction, as he had
during the many years Ire had Irein the office of county
court judge, been alwave strongly of opinion that the
existing tribunals in equity, for various reasons, which
he enumerated, afforded no means of obtaieing justice
to the poorer cluves of the community. He then
pointed nut the necessity of reconstructing and reorganize
ing existing courts, and constructing additional one.,
illustrating his remarks by referenoes to bie own'
experience in the district. He then went on to say
that there were other questions mimes:eel with the
proposel government measure which ought not to be
lost sight of. Tire tower of trommit•al exrcised by the
judges was susceptible of improvement and medifica-
tion ; and what was now accompliahed to mitigate the
cam log out of commitments was by the plaintiff's
consenting to allow the commitment to hang over
the head of the debtor in the event of the non-
payment of the instdments, might be placed in the
power of the judge by legal enactment. He thought,
too, the time was come when the common law jurisdic-
tion of the county courts might be further exterided
and enlarged, and what had been often recommended
by Lord Brougham might roost usefully be introduced,
namely, to allow plaintiffs in all cases whatever to
initiate their actions in the county courts, leaving it
open to the defendants in certain cases, and in those
exceeding &certain amount in value, to remove them to
• our vim court, fie felt sure that the result could be
that when twos were once there they would be seldom
removed. At present, as they were aware, the law
was, that all cues could be tried in the county courts
with mutual consent. But as the consent of one or the
other party was incli.pensible, it was always withheld,
and consequently that proeision was altogether useless.
There were other subjects which might be made the
subject of the serious consideration of the legislature,
and which he trusted would not be lost sight of in the
bill to be presented to Parliament. He looked for a
comprehensive and statesmanlike measure, and not one
which would require aupplementel measure, and not
one which would require supplemental legislation in •
future session. Mr. Clerke, senior practising attorney
at the Marylebone cud Broinpton county courts, spoke
on behalf of his prufasional brethren, and endorsed
all what bad been stated by the judge.
A DANGEROUS FREAK.—On Friday evening the
inmates of 17, Caroline-place, Stonehenge, tho residence
of Mr. George Gilpin, R. N., were thrown into a state
of great alarm by the imprudence of one of their ser-
vants. The housemaid went upsteirs to attend to her
evening duties, and was followed by the cook, who stole
into one of the bedrooms very quietly, and as her fellow-
servant entered the room sprang out against her
with something white over her face. The shrieks of
the housemaid attracted the notice of the mistress, who,
on going to ascertain the came, found the poor girl in a
most distressed state of mind. Pointing to the door of
the room, she exclaimed, " It is there I it ire there !"
and then fell into a state of insensibility from which no
efforts could at first rouse her. Medical assistanoe was
procured, but it was four hours are the poor girl showed
the slightest signs of consciousness, and then only after

extreme measures had been resorted t 7:. She is still in a
very wesk and exhausted state.— Weatern Morning
News.

BEIM HUNT BALL—On Tuesday night this grand
auembile of the nobility and gentry of Berkshire took
place in the Town Hall, Reading. and the noble room ,
was decorated in a most elaborate and tasteful manner.
The company was larger than usual, numbering
between 300 and 400, and included Lord and Lady
Arundel, Lord and Lady Heytesbury, Lord Petre and
the Hon. Miss Petre, Hon. Mrs. and Miss Pigott Carlton,
Hon. Miss l'Court, Mr. Benyon, M.P., Major Sir Paul
Hunter, Bart, and Lady Hunter, Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre,
M.P., and Misses L.fevre, Mr. W. W. B. Beach, Ice.
Coot e and Tinney's band was engaged, and to its Inspirit-
ing strains dancing was continued for several hours.
The whole of the arrangements, entrusted to Mr. George
Lovejoy, of the Southern Countiea' Library, were carried
out with completeness, affording great satisfaction to
all.
BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY INTO THE Loss OF THE
ROYAL MAIL STEAMER ARMENIAN.—The inquiry at
Liverpool into the loss of the African royal mail steamer
Armenian has terminated, and Mr. Raffles, the
stipendiary magistrate, delivered the following judg-
ment :—" The Court has given very great consideration
to the evidence in this case, and feels bound to com-
ment in strong terms upon the loose manner in which
the first and second mates discharged their duties during
the night when the ship was lost, especially in reference
to calling the muter on a light being seen, as he had
particularly requested to be done. The Court must
also remark upon the peculiar discrepancies in the
evidence upon more than one point, and mainly as
regards the Vine when the second mate was relieved
from the responsibility of the watch. But whoever
was in charge,. the discovery of the light upon the Irish
coast was a emoovery of danger. Neither officer seems
to have reported that danger to the captain ; and it ap-
pears to the Court, upon ample evidence, that the
Arklow Light must have been in sight for half-an-hour
at least before the vessel struck. Be that as it may,
the captain was certainly at band, and on the bridge,
soon after midnight, and SRIV the light, but be did not
promptly take measures to haul the ship Off shore, as
he ought to have done, till the cry of 'breakers
ahead' warred him to a sense of his danger. The
' helm was then put hard a-starboard, but too late ' • for
' as the ship was going at the rate of ten knots an hour,
with all Rail set, her doom could not be averted. The
Court is further of opininn that the loss of this vessel
must in a great measure 100 attributed to a neglect of
l,the lest. The last cast had been taken at 9 p.m. three
hours before the "ship struck. From the course p.m.,
it is obvious, by a reference to the chart, that the ship
must have been iii shoal water Immo time before she
struck or the light was seen. One cast in that inter-
mediate time would have warned the master of his,
danger; and the precautions in his opinion, was
especially incumbent upon him as the vessel was
steered. The Sherries had not been sighted, and there-
fore the correct distance to the westward of them was
unknown when the course was straiAlit down the Irish
Channel. The Court is, therefore, compelled to pro-
notice the muter in default for the loss of the
Armenian, and adjudges that the certificate of Captain
Thomas Leamon be and is hereky suspended for nine
calendar months.
NEWB FROM THE PALACF.—The Royal servants are
now using RECKITTS' DIAMOND BLACK LEAD. This
act must prove to all that it is better than any other
kind, for, of course, they use the beet of everything.

DRAT!" OF CARDINAL WISESIAN..

Cardinal Wiseman died It his town resi knee in York.
!dice, Purtmsn—quare, n Wednesdey morning at eight
o'cl,elc. He had been for some years tiffs. in. fro Sr.
poi :,.(111 arid incurable disease, hut his labours on balall
,if his roinmunien were uninterrupted, except in in
t•.:i vat, of great pain, and he had not eitlidrawn from
active wink until very recently, the flint sign of leis
serious illness being his inability to fulfil his promi,e -1
lecturing at the Royal Insiieution. We take the fol-
lowing leioArau Wail notice, from Mew of ihe
o.,dinal Nicholas Wiseman, the chief of the Itontien
Catholic Church in Enxlend, is of united Irish and
Spanish extraction, and WM born at Seville in 1802
At in early age he was broneht to England, Red placed
in St. Cuthbert's College at Ushaw. near Derhrmt. Ile
MAo thence removed to tine English Co'lege at Heine,
*here he wan ordained a priest, Anil made a doctor of
divinity. Ile wa• a professor for a time in the Roman
University ; and won th-re made rector of the F'nglisle
College it Rssene. Dr. Wisem en returned to England
in 1835, and in the wenter of that year delivered • series
of lemures upon the leading doctrines of the Catholic
Church, at the Sardinian chapel, in Lincolnheinn-Fi• I is.
Ile subsequently repaired to Rome, and is nnelerstoo I
to have been instrument in inducing Pope Cerezors
XVI. to increase the vicars-apostolic in England. The
number was doubled, and Dr. Wisemtn esine back a•
coadjutor Bishop to Dr. Walsh, of the idirilmel I ii•triot.
He wan also appointed President of St. Mary's, Coil-ire,
Osentt, In 1847 he autain repaired to Rome on the
affairs uf the beglish Catholics, and prepare I the wan
for tine iubaequent change resolved on in 1848, which
wan delayed by the troubles which ensued at Rome.
He was now made Pre-Visa-Apostolic of the Loudere
district, in place of Dr. Griffiths, decessed. Sulee-
quently he wee appointed coadjutor, cum /ore 8141.7.
CeAlliUtt bt. to Dr. Walsh, who was Erin-elated to Loudon ;
and in 1849. on the bulb of Dr. Walsh, he bestme
Vicar A pcstolio of the London diatriet. In August li.'
went again to Rome, 'not expecting,' as he ,ays. 'to
return to England auxin.' But in a Conaistory tele' or,
the 30th of September, 1850, he was elected to the
dignity of Cardinal, by the title of Saint Purientisna,
and was appointe I Archbishop of Westminater, a at p
which raised an angry controveray in the revers, and
resulted in the F,ceilesinatical Titles SUL Under the
Pope, he is the heed of the Roman Catholic Church in
England, and a prinoe of the Church of Rome. As R
cardinal, he has sworn temporal as well as spiritual
allegiance to the Pope. His Eminence leas been from
the first one of the chief contributors to, and joint editor
of, the Dc/fin Reriew, and is the author of numerous
pamphlets bearing more or less directly on the religions
controversiesn of the past quarter of a century. Hes
essays have been reprinted in three veils , Bvo. He has
also published `Leeturea on the Connection butween
Seieece and Revealed Religion ;" It e deections of the
four lae,t Popes;' Fahriolo, or the Church of the Oita-
combs,' &c. Dr. Wiseman is the seventh English
cardinal since the It-formation. The othe r six were
Pole, Allen, Howard, York (a son of the Pretender,
who was never in England), Weld, and Acton."