The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

Dorsetobire.

DORCHESTER.—The Archdeacon of Dorset will
hold his visitation for this year, on the days and at
the places subjoined, viz. :—At Shaftesbury, Wednes-
day, May 21; Blsndford, Thursday, 22 ;Wareham,
Friday, 23; Sherborne, Monday, 26; Bridport,
Tuesday, 27; Dorchester, Wednesday, 28. Divine
Service will commence at Eleven o'Clock. There
will not be any sermon. The Holy Communion
will be administered, and the alms will be given
to the Society for the relief of the Widows and
Orphans of the Clergy of the Archdeaeonry of

DOrset.
INCREASE OF COUNTY COURT F.—An
order has been issued from the Treasury
to the registrars of county courts throughout the
country, increasing the fees charged on entering
plaints. The ordinary summons fee is to be Is. in
the pound instead of 10d., with is. added in all
cases where the amount claimed exceeels £2. This
extra Is. is not to be considered as "costs in the
cause," or, in other words, 'will not be recoverable
from the defendant. In judgment summonses an
extra fee of 6d. is to be charged in all ca,es where
the amount claimed does not exceed 61; in all other
eases is. extra will be charged. These extra fees
appear to be intended as a substitute for the fee of
Is. hitherto charged for affidavit of service of
summons out of the district of the issuing court.
The charge of Is. in the £l, instead of 10,1., for
ordinary summonses, will doubtless go far towards
making up the £165,000 for county courts voted
this year in the estimates. The new scale of fees
came into operation on the let May.
Tits VACANT GARTERS.—The Queen has inti-
mated her Royal pleasure to bestow the vacant
garters upon Lord Canning, the Duke of Somerset,
Lord Russell, Lord Shaftesbury and Lord Fitz.

william. —Obierver.
BROADWEY.—ICEEPING UP EASTER.—John
Bilke, a shoemaker, residing at Broadwey, was
summoned before the Weymouth Borough Magis-
trates, for being drunk and assaulting one of the
police constables. It appeared that the defendant
and a companion went down to Weymouth. drank
a little to deeply of Devenish's XXX, and
commenced a gratuitous concert on the esplanade at
midnight. Ot course this could not be allowed,
but when the constable on duty interfered
the man who was with the defendant, knocked him
down. The policeman of eour.,c immediately appre-
hended him. They fells and the polieeman was on
the top, but defendant knocked him off, and the
two men ran away. They were subsequently
caught, and the other man was again apprehended,
when defendant knocked the constable down, and
both got clear off. The defendant could not be
found, and Bilkeonly was summoned. Mr. Howard,
who was engaged for the defence, pleaded the
defendant's previous good character and well thrown
civility, and attributed the "Jollification" they had
indulged in to its being holiday time. The magis-
trates fined the defendant fl and 10s. &I. coats.
WEY MOUTH. On Monday, A pril2B, an accident

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occurred in connection with oneof the omnibussea
Mr. Yearaley, of the Burden Hotel. To this omnibus
there is no guard, and the driver has therefore to do
his own work and that of a guard too, and on the
day in question, while he was taking some passengers'
luggage into the railway station, the bell rang, and
the heroes taking fright, turned themselves, and
started off out of the station yard at the top of their
speed. Fortunately, for & wonder, there were no
persons in the way, or the probability is there would
have been a loss of life. On arriving in the road, in-
stead of tmniing short to the left, the horses took direct
for the shop of Mr. Yearsley, grocer and butcher;
one of the horses going in at the door, the other
breaking a large pane of plate glass in the window.
The pole of the carriage grazed off the wall inside the
door post, but the straps of the pole breaking,
off horse was thrown down on its side, breaking
the pole of the carriage. Happily. the animal was
not much injured, and perhaps about .£5 will repair
the whole of the damage; but we must protest
against the system of allowing horses in vehicles to
be unattended, to the danger of life and limb of her
Majesty's liege subjects. This of course must always
be done both in setting down and taking up
passengers with luggage, where only one person is
employed on an omnibus, and the police ought on
every occasion to lay an information before the magis-
trates when such a transaction is perceived by them.
The lives and limbs of unoffending persons in the
streets, be they rich or poor, are too precious to be
placed in jeopardy for the sake of a little paltry pelf.
HAWKING FROM House TO Hoose.—The Town
Cleik has issued notices that in future all parties
found hawking within the Borough of Weymouth
and Melcombe Regis, fish, meat, vegetables, &c.,
will be proceeded against under the Market Act.
The penalty, upon conviction for the offence, is a
sum not exceeding 40s.
DAVID IND GOLIATH.—The Rev. Talbot Greavei
delivered a temperance lecture at the National
Schoolrooms, on Wednesday evening last, taking for
his text, (if we may use the expression,) the history
of David and Goliath. The chair was taken by R.
F. Eliot, Fag., and there was a large attendance.
The lecturer, of course, likened the drinking customs
of society to Goliath. The great foe the reformers
had to contend against was not foreign enemies, but
a domestic foe. The giant with his sword and
spear, and oath, of which Christian men were afraid,
because it was so gigantic and overgrown, was
drunkenness. Men would not have the courage to
do many things they did but for this monster, which
shielded and strengthened them in their crimes. He
held that as it was the Goliath Drunkenness that was
the great cause of poverty, madness, and crime, it
was but right and just that that monster should pay
the cost of poor houses, lunatic asylums, hospitals,
and gaols, It had desolated, and was still deso-
lating, the armies of laraers hosts. And then came
the question—who amongst them would meet and
tight the giant? Where was the stripling David,
with the sling and stone to lay low? Were they
sure they had not the David already in their midst?
The temperance cause, like David of old, came in
the name of the Lord God, and it would prosper,
for its helper was God. There were men who,
between their conscientious scruples and what they
.supposed was needful for health and strength,
shuffled off their duties. The social science advo-
cates had recommended education, recreation, mode-
ration, as the weapons of warfare. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer proposed to fight the giant with
the giant's own weapon; but they would all find
that it was impossible to cut off the giant's head,
like David, with the giant's own sword, until the
giant was dead. Their mighty weapons were all
useless; they must turn to the brook for the instru-
ment which would reach the vital part. If the
armies of God would use their utmost endeavours,
and put on resolution and vigour, they would win
the cause, and it would be said of it, as it was said
of David, "Saul has slain his thousands, but David
his tens of thousands." He urged upon his hearers
to engage themselves in this holy warfare; to enlist
themselves into this noble army by signing the tem-
perance pledge' and to do their duty in the great
battle against drunkenness and its awful conse-
quences. At the close of the meeting a petition to
Parliament in favour of the Permissive Bill received
numerous signatures, and some few additional signa-
tures were placed in the pledge book.
A STEP IN TILE RIGHT DIRECTION.—We have I
great pleasure in announcing that it is intended to
hold a regatta here in compliment to the
Yeomanry, on Monday, the 12th May. R. N.
Howard, Esq. is the hon. sec., and the committee
for carrying out the proceedings consist of S. Meade,
Esq., Captain Eliot, RN., Augustus Foster, Req.,
Lieut. Coles, Lieut. Hawke, and Lien4Nares, of the
Britannia. The galleys and boats of the coast-guard
service and also those belonging to the Weymouth
boat club will take part in the proceedings.
Besides the usual races there will be a
duck hunt and other amusements usual on such
occasion. It is proposed that in one of the races, the
Yeomanry shall have the option of manning
one boat to test their powers on the water.
Altogether, the regatta, it is contemplated, will be
a re'" interesting and exciting one. On the follow-
ing Wedn3sday, the 14th May,the Foresters will hold
their annual festival, with their usual parade, and
on each evening during their stay the yeomanry
will have an opportunity of listening to the
sweet sounds discoursed by the Weymouth
Volunteer Rifle Band. There is, consequently,
a more than ordinary amount of amusement in store
for the "Queen's Own" on their next visit to their
far-famed town of pleasurable resort.
A NOlSAKCE.—llichard Squibb was on Tuesday
summoned by Superintendent Lidbury, as Inspector
of Nuisances, for keeping pigs in a stable in
Crescent-steeet. The pigs were stated to be in a
very filthy state and a great nuisance to persons
passing along King-street. Notice had been given
him for the removal of the nuisance, but it still
existed, and hence those proceedings. Mr. R.
Bower, the chairman on the Bench, told the defen-
dant he had subjected himself to a very severe
penalty, but hoping that a slight one would have the
desired effect, he would be mulct in the very lenient
fine of 108. The defendant expressed himself very
grateful for the very enlightened and liberal view they
had taken on the subject, and as he had no money
just then in his pocket, requested that a week might
be allowed for him to pay it in. This was granted,
and defendant said he would remove his pigs as soon
as it was convenient. Mr. Arden: "You most
make it convenient at once, for you are liable to a
penalty of Ss. a day for every day they remain after
this conviction." Defendant : Very good, Sir,
I'll do it then. Thank you, gentleman, I'll remove
them at once."

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AN EXPERIMENTALIST. - Matthew Bendle,
formerly an ardent devotee at the shrine of Bacchus,
but of late adopting a more sober course of life, was
brought up on Tuesday for saving been again led
into temptation by the members of the Dorchester
Farmers' Club. Matthew had a very strong idea,
that if the taking off the malt duty, whereby beer
should become as cheap again, half the existing
drunkenness in the land would cease. It was sound
philosophy to suppose that if beer was given away,
drunkenness would be entirely got rid of, and
accordingly allowed the experiment to be tried on
himself. He was treated to some beer—a very little
he said it was—when lo! his philosophy was
scattered to the winds, and what was worse, he went
tO the pollee station to exhibit his weakness. This