The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

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dderablo unmaskt. This is the
am e more serious, Maio
much am tho boundary
In question la a count,
boundary, the former being in Devonshire. and
the latter in Dorset. pariah being appears to have
arisen in consequence of the =dna °Meer of the Ax-
minster Union doclining to attend—or rather, attending
under protest—the Lamaist of two or throe waters
standing on the debatable ground. The matter goes,
we understand, to the ensuing quarter sesdons, by way
of appeal ageinst a resolution of the Axminster Union
Assessment Committee, and thus the ratepayers will
have to incur some considerable expense in ocn,equsmcl
of their past °minion. The custom of pera_mbulatlng
parish bounds during itogation-days is On. of the oldest
whleh we power, and it is hence that these days derive
their old name of" gangdays"—• term which is still,
we believe, • provincialism in many parts of England.
The right to mon toy ntsn'i land for purposes a porno..
bastion Is Indubitable. "It is not to he doubted,*
said Anderson, C. J., in °condos, v. Michell, Cm. Itile.
441, "but that parishioners may weil=
overany man's land in their
to their usage, and to abate &Maness to .th7h7;;;;;,11
and the visitation articles of the Archbishops of Canter-
bury formerly comprised • query remedies the
observance of perambulations. "In the times of popery"
says Gibson (Cod. Jar. Boa Anglin. L 213). "the per.
ambulation, were accompanied by two great abuses—via,
with feedings and with superstition, being formed in
the nature of procenlota, with banners, handbells, lights
staying at crosses," &a Be the 18th 10m:titian of Edward
VI. all processions were forbidden. In order, the injunc-
tion says, " to avoid all contention and strife" which bed
previously arisen "by mama of fond courtesy and
challenging of phase in promotion." But Queen Kiln.
bath added to this Injenotion these words :—"But yet
for the retaining of the perambulations of circuits and
parishes, they shall once in the year at the time mous,
tamed, with the curate and the subatantial man of the
parish, walk about their parishes, as they were accus-
tomed, and at their return to the church make tisqtr
iseeestomed prayers." "At which time also," said the
19th 'injunction of Queen Eleabeth, "the same minister
shall Inculcate these or such sentences: 'curled be he
lei. tranalatetli the bounds or doles of his neighbour.' '"
"And now," says Gibson (sae, sup.) "that" (i.e., the
doing away with the 'handball,'' ha) "bathbeen
long effected, It were to be wished that persinbalseltwe
were held more regularly and frequently than now-a.
days they are ; to the end the limits of parishes (which
seems must be only tried 1 the temporal *nata) may
come in question as rarely as may be "a, regret which,
m oar time we can heartily °adores"

A LOVB STOZT.— An adventure gritty of Don
NAM,* Quixote or Mr. has recentlywn that the
love which laughs at locksmiths indulges in an Noe-
Gioia' snigger Mother crafts. In • village DM two mows
'idles from Cork the belle of humble life bed long been
the daughter of a gardener lin the employment of a
neighbouring gentleman. From amongst a erowd of
sighing swains the rustic beauty selected for her favoured
cavalier • sturdy eon of Crispin. This lucky swain had
but one fault. Immersed in the profundities of the mime
system, to will& he sacrificed every reeowee—his
ha awl—he used In the pursuit of Ms studies certain
samara glasses, the continued application of which
enabled him to see double. Thom little aberratkma
of the philosopher were, however, alternated by periods
of steady Industry, and, making due allowance, loud
gossip looked confidently to • speedy union between
the pair moreover, as the gardener himaelf rather
encouraged the pretensions of the bold oordennier.
But here • big pebble obstructed the sours@ of love, in
the person of • dusty miller, sail, solitary, and
sixty, but with gold in coffer, who like younger
men, had yielded to the grand meal" and ten-
dered lairmelf in proper form to the maiden's
father. There was indeed • alight disadvantage on the
part of the elderly weer' a pantie: csonfiguration of
the spinal column and an abnormal nasal prolongation
giving him a rather inelegant resemblance to the por-
traits of Punch, as exhibited in the vignette of that
periodical. But the umeotinvental gardener, dueled
by his brilliant offer, called the lady into maned,
and upon her Indignant rejection declared hie iron
will on the subject. The girl at next interview with
her devoted informed him of the dreadful doom which
awaited her. Affairs demanded Instant nation. He
i therefore invited her father to • negotiation at the
nearest public. But there the stern parent was In.
exorable, and the power' becoming exasperated the
conference was concluded through the medium of •
pewter pint and • parlour candlestick, involving • sub.
segment application of sticking-plaster. The femme
raised new hopes in the venerable miller, who now
grew so peraistent that the girl, driven to despair, con-
sented to elope with the man of her choice. A hint of
this dosig' n was unaccountably conveyed to her father
with the intimation of the hour, and vowing
vengeance in every form of popular oath, he took his
stick and nation In ambush at the rear of his
dwelling, near • pool sawed to agricultural ler flay
and of great depth, being navigable almost up to the
doorway by ducks of the heaviest draught. Meanwhile
his daughter, having completed her preparations, stole
out at the front, leaving her unconscious father on the
spring. The romance of the affair lies In the circum-
stance that the sexagenarian suitor, returning to his home
further on, and incited by the ardour of love se well a.
probably under spiritual guidance, it having been a rural
fete day, decided to call, and tumbling over the fence
with the agility of his years, approached the pottage.
111, step smote on the ear of the watcher, who, looking
from his lair, mw—ha I It wee quite dark. Fury
overcoming patience, the gardener leaped forth, and
with the usual blessing in such oases, throttled the in-
truder. One vigorous whack supplemented by chick,
a push into the pool, and several odours from ArabLll:ge
Blest, told how dreadful a retribution was
enacted. The ancient Leander having recovered the
effects of his first immersion, struck out for the
opposite shore, and drawing his slimy length eahmureed
on the land was recognised by the astounded
chatelain, who, however, with rare premises of mind
'Mimi the °maim, and haring thundered inquiries to
which fright and feculence prevented • reply, ordered
the nocturnal visitant to agree to ring his daeghter or
ho should wring his neck. "Do not" quell, it may be
supposed the miserable miller, "do not and I stall
knot." Mutual explanations succeeded, but upon
entering the house they found no bells to Fin& no
daughter to wed, a gruff echo only answering for „Mmy.
Next day • penitent telmdve from the fugitives Bleared
up matters, and the prudent gardener, having regard to
• proverb on spilled milk, a reconciliation was effected,
his potpie-law elect promising to take the temporaries,
pledge. The affair wound up soon after with a wed.
ding, at which, It tenet be added, the losing Tarty did
not appear, that backlogs indivdcial being laid up ander
• combined attack of rheumatism, ridicule, and chagrin.
—Cork ffrainime.

MR. BRIG= AID PEITMOM, FODOR.— At the Reform
League banquet to Mr. Bright, at Manchester, the bon.
gentleman, in responding to the toast of his health, said
—1 rasa that I adhere to the views which I have
expressed for many )ears on the question of Pattillaillills
tar. Reform. I .L 0.1,1 not split hairs with any mossier
whkh may be introduced into ParliaiDent, and I am not
likely to ciomplain that it ROM too far—(laughter and
cheers.) I should support it if it were an heart and
true measure, although I might wish it went farther—
(hear.) And when I see the Reform League, lb*
National Reform lJnicoe, or any other serration of the
people, for the purpose of advanolug this great qucetion,
I do not stop to inquire whether they may go a few
leagues short of my terminus, or a forbears beyond It.
but so far as we can go together I go with thern—(bear,
hear)—and my voice shall be added to theirs- (loud
Awns.) I trust after a time the whole voice of the
Reform party in the country may be so bed the. those
300 gmatlemen of whom I have a very distinct and not
always pleasant recollection—(lrd ebears)—that they
may at last admit that the people of this comitry are In
favour of Reform, and when I have spoken In favour of
It In the House of Commons I have been justified in
saying that I express the opinions of WHIMS outside
that Hour. I believe that the time is cowing when
this question must be laid bold
Government, and that Parliament will feel that
it dare not treat it io the hare as it has treaded it in
the past. These groat meetings, as I think Mr. Al ill
very wise and Justly said, are not meetings /or dim:minion
so much as they are meetings for the demonstration of
opinion—(hear, and *beers.) And U you like, I
may add, for the exhibition of foree—(hear, hear,
and cheers.) &Write r (ores of opinion now ; hut lon
every Double', if the free of °pinkie he drapised and
disregarded, they become exhicitione uf another kiwi
of force—(bear hear.) I have been Insulted in past
tries, and nuts little in this very ally—(l.ear hear)—
that! was In favour of pear et any pries. I always
aid! was not In favour of war at coy ar—(bear, beat)
—which I think, ten years ago, my amperes@ were
—(hoar, and cheers.) I believe that, however much
any of us may abhor the thought that political questions
In our country should ever again he settled by fora. ;
yet there is something in the conetilaition of our nature
that wheel these evils are allowed to run on beyond a
oerrin period unredressed—(hear, bear)—that the most
peace-loving of nein arc unable to keep the pure
—(bear, and cheers.) And beer this In mind, that
however much we may wish political grottoes to be
settled by moral means, yet It is no more huniond
for the people to see us fore In the last resort for the
obtaining and the sectuneg of freedom, than It is for the
°averment by force to suppress and to deny that free-
dom—(loud and prolonged cheering.) I meat ask
pardon of my friends her. for rushing upon what iney
ho termed abstract principles--(oheers.) Wear. doubt-
less • very long way—longee then can be measured, I
hope and believe--from tie time when it be err-
ear for us seriously, or for the people uf this ornery, to
• consider questions of that arena I think the creation
was settled in 1832, whether the °hailer which may be
neeessary in the eovernment of the United Ebbed°sa
be secomplbled by peaceful means, or whether force will
be nearer for their completion. At that time force
was Wen' near--(bear hear). The opponent. of the
people saw that, and they suceembaL Liberty from
that time to this has grown so much that now these
vast meetings of 100,000 or 200,000 meu are gathered
together, as you know, at Birmingham, under the presi-
dency of the mayor uf the borough. The evening
meeting was under his chairmanship, and the vast
multitude were marshalled to the meeting by an eminent
servant of the corporation, the superintendent of the
police force there—(laughter and cheers). We have
prod the time, I hope—and may that time never return
I —when the people of England need to speak of force in
coonnection with pulltioal Reform —(oheers). We have
truster instruotion than wu ever had before.
Every men hes hie newspaper with all the history of thi,
previuua day's proarlings throughout the laird upeo
Isis table every day, and we have that freedom to so
nimble and d4euss these questions at oar will. That
point we have arrived at of politieal liberty of Masai"-
tion, and of eivilisatien, that I believe there is nothing
that we or fairly claim, nothing that would to ne gnarl.
that we may not obtain by that Front end waeriml
movement of which the meetings of the last few day.
have formed so prominent a part lam glad to me Mr
Bears here— (rimer—and the other gentleman con-
nected with the Reform League. 1 bops wherever tie y
pass through, whatsoever county or into whatervor city,
they
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is, and to the Government that shortly, I hoes, is to lei
--( her, bear, and loud elseers)—that the question of
Reform has taken deep root in the naiads of the whole
people, and that Parliament may r well .but its door
tor every other kind of legislation whatsoever aril it
consents to peas bill that shell satisfy the jar and
moderate corporations ef the people—(loud eug c,„„,
*need applause),