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

POOLE.

LAUNCIL—The Eliza, built by Messrs. llamado'', of
this town, for Messrs. Brien and Co., of Poi t
Talbot, ha• recently boon launched from the Ham-
worthy yard.
RICVIRION OF rue TARTS OF VOTEllig. —Mr. Edward
Platt held • court at the Townhall, on Tuesday last,
to revise the borongh and county list of voters. The
entire proceedings were devoid of interest.

TUB TYNWALD WRECK M.—This large steamboat,
which a briaf season plied between our port and
Cherbourg, has been wrecked off the Isle of Ornsay,
near tho mound of Skye. According to the eoptain's
repot, her back is broken, and mho is a complete
wreck. She formerly plied between Liverpool and
the lab of Man.

Tlll STAT. OF TUE Town.—At the conclusion of
the ordinary business st the petty searions, last Thurs.
day, the Mayor (J. Wood, Esq.), addressing Supt.
Gifford said: "The present state of our town is
highly creditable to you, and I hope you will
endeavour to keep it so." Mr. (id .rd thanked his
worship for thecouipliment, and said that he should do.
Tem Boaonou TRIASURXR'S Aecouxy for the
year ending let September lot has just been issued.
The espeuditure has been £2,216 St3d., of which
about £3OO is for repairs and alterations to the Town
hall done before the banquet to the Cherbourg
municipality. At the commencement of tho year
there was a balance of LIOI 15s. 21, but now there
is £ll5 6, Ga. due to the treasurer.
ARCIIITCCTURAL ItC4IORATION Pt ST. JAM L•.'S
Cifintell. —The largo window in St. James'. Church
has always excited admiration, but fur some time
past a few broken panes, which were difficult to
restore, have given it &somewhat blemished appear-
ance. A French artist, Mons. Armand, has lately
howover limn trying his hand, not only on the
window, hat also no the altarpiece underneath, and
according to general judgment, with great success.
The witelow non appeal& a perfect pine: of art as of
yore, and the altarpiece has been greatly embellished
with gilt, he.
Now SCLIOOIADIONI AND RAMAT CONNIMONA-
room Statics—The new echoollneen recently erected
biliind the Baptist Chapel, in Ililbetreet, is quite
ommodious and tastefully designed building. It
was opened on Wedn‘siday last by a commemoration
eerviee, when the Rev. li. 0. George, of Landport,
preached a sermon from St. Matt. xxvii. 42. In
the afternoon a pu,ilio to meeting took plaits in the
Townhall, at which about 200 wore present. This
was (allowed by a public meeting in the evening,
when the hall was much crowded. Mr. M. Kemp.
Welch presided, and eloquent and imprecates ad.
dream!s were delivered by Pr. Welob, brother of
the chairman, and the Rev. Masers George Osborne,
Verrell, Jenkinson, and F. Hancock.

Prrry Szasionrs, Thursday.—B•fore the Mayor,
U. Hanis, and J. Lankeeter, &qrs. Thomas Bailey,
fisherman, summoned by the Board of Guardians for
neglecting to pay £4 la. for nine weeks' maintenanoe
of his three children, administered by way of loan
agreed to pay 30s. at once, take the children out of
the workhouse, and pay the remainder within two
months, whereupon he was discharged.—A boy of
12, named John Mout, charged with stealing • felt
hat, value 61 , from • carrier's van in Nfarket.street,
belonging to Mr. Charles Burt, was admonished and
diacharged,aa the proescutor did not preen the charge.
—Henry Will., sawyer, for assaulting Sarah
General], by kiekinq her on the head and various
parts of her body in King-street, was fined 10s. and
costs, and in default, a month's hard labour.—A
man named William Craft, came tuter.,the hall in a
state of intoxication, and created some disturbance.
He was locked up, and on Friday morning waa
brought up before the Mayor and fined to, and oasts.

8/111RBORNS

Tlll 81112/10IINZ PINIT BANS for the meth
"ding Sept, 24 allows, of deposits Lb fie. lA., and of
withdrawals £l5 Os. 1141.

YIIAINAN HOSPITAL. - The matron gratefully
acknowledges various kind gifts of olothing—but a
omit to fit the shoulders of broa i
d @bouldered man s
still wanting for a patient who ham wanted it more
than a month.

Taix SIIKR11.)1INK AMAX CJICRCIT 01411470 MP
rd Aug. sah to Sept. 24th wen", for sick aud noody
poor .C 4 17s. 5d., for EL P.G. after sermon by the
Bishop of Ontario £4 13a. 40,
d for light.
"iv end warming the church £7 6e. 4i.; t
an
fle lb. 44.
PACK MO: JAY FA..t.—Tbie annual event cornea
off on Ilonday the 15th instant ; the National school
children are to have a whole holiday or that, end a
half holiday on the follos:ng day, but aro requested
to attend school on the Tuesday morning, under the
penalty of no admission • • the Chrietmr
if absent without leave on that morning.

THZ HARVEST FIZTIV•L —The Parish Magazine
announces that giha of corn, flowers, or any of the
fruits of the mirth will be thankfully received '1 the
vestry on and after St. Luke'. Day (Nth Oct.) for
the decoration of the church on the 21st October,
the Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday, when the Rey'
C. T. Procter, MA., the much reenacted ex-curate of
All Saints, Dorchester, a 'I pre" 111 the mo. iinf
sermon, and the offerterica doing the day will be
given to the Home klissioas of the Ado;tionrl
Curates Society.

Ix Maziontsis.—The Parish Magazine contains
the following memoir of Nathaniel Highinore, Fop,
R.O fl, MAO? Moor of the Sherb.,rne Abbey choir,
aged 76 years, who died on September 25th, 1566. at
his residence, Newland, Sherborne. "We record the
death of our venerable friend with mingled feelings
of thankfulness and soirow—thankfulness for his
tranquil end and eternal deliverance from all evil,
and sorrow for our own deprivation in the loss of so
faithful a son of the Church Militant. Twelve years
have passed since the writer made his acquaintance;
an acquaintance which moon ripened into warm
friendship. lie has not forgotten the impression
made upon him by his first interview with Mr.
Ifighmore. Though then somewhat advanced
in life. he posseeed the active energy and liveliness
of a young man. The oheerfulness and geniality of
his disposition beamed in his face, and found ex-
pression in the heartiness of his voice and manner.
' Thorough honesty and • tender regard for others were
striking features in his character; and above all, he
proved himself an unoomprieing Catholic churchman
in principle and practice. Never was he known to
be absent from the daily services in Sherhorno Abbey.
while herlth permitted, and when his many medical
engagements did not interfere, lie was • constant
communicant; and in proof of his real for the Church
it deserves to he mentioned for the encouragement of
others, that on the first fermation of the present
voluntary choir in the Abbey Church in November,
18.54, Mr. Ilighmore, who penalised • monad ear, at
Inca set himself at the age of 65 to the
lemur of learning the tenor part, in order
that ho might enter the choir—in which be
continued to sing constantly, on all week
days and festive's, up to the time when the inroads
of been disease, under which be lied been long
suffering, cmipelled him to deeist. Keen then, in
his enfeebled state the weekly chlir paper was
regularly supplied to him at his desire, in order that
he might still be joined in spirit with his fellow.
worshippers (so precious to him was the unity of
the Church) and that he might go through the
service, alone with his (id in the privacy of his
chamber. On his high medical reputation and well-
known surgical skill, it is not for us to speak. But
beyond the range of the profession to which he
belonged, his general knowledge and information
were great; and am his power of conversation was
literally inexhaustible, even under acute pals, it
was almost always pleasant to listen to him. There
are few 'objects on whicirhe'ilid not speak well and
sensibly, with • shrewdness and quiet humour
which were always mousing, often instructive.
Many a time after a hard day's riding on his pro.
fossional duties ho has spent the evening at the
vicarage, and astonished Ms host and hostess by Lie
untiring animation. The tondei Joss of his heart
often melted him even to Mars, and no hand was
ever more ready or more self-depriving than hie in
relieving distrese. When any religious dimension
(warred in the church or in the parish, he felt it
deeply, end tried by the soft answer, and gentle
C00111104.11C12110 argument to win over any gainsayer:
nor did any one rejoice more heartily than he in the
advance of Church principles in the country, and
more particularly amongst ourselves. For fumy
month, ho had been labouring under &optical
symptoms, had became aware that his end was
near. On the l7ihoflsatinonth, he received his last
earthly Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ,
being at that time conGned to his bed, and
although ho rallied slightly for a few days
afterwards, and was able to dress hinmelf and
to walk into an adjoining room, he expressed
his conviction more than once to his parish
priests that Coil WM about to summon him, made
sundry little aranyements for the disposition of
tokens of his love amongst his friends, and then like
the aged Patriarch calmly "gathered up Isis Met into
the bed," end so "fell asleep in J 1111419 !"

D AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 18E6.

a protracted inquiry, the jury returned • verdict of
WilfUl murder against some person or persoos un-
known. The body of a child. suppoied to be the
ebikl of Mrs. Gepson, was picked up on the bank of
the Dart, at Sandrulgo farm, on Tuesday afternooe

Lain nab (Trim.

Tut two Devon biro murderemen—ebarlotte Winner
and lilszabeth Doff—were removed laii walk from
&atm Uaul to tißmok Penitentiary.

A anoentna animas was eraiimit* ti in Manchester
on Wednewlay. A Mr. William Lee, while pa Wag alter
Jersey-strelt, remonstrated with 1.011110 rulliaas who
ware annoying • man and • woman. They at ono
Ward upon Min, and knocking him down, kicked hint
violently about the head, inflicting widish proved
(Mel in a foe' OW; of the gang is
II flhl%u oillima, tr. The L .01.mderrii
Standard of :44:gird:ay sal:* :—" A in. tuber of thu con-
Miliulary force. ...Maned at Madman, at last petty
choge.l :ck 'say mid othere with reap ni;
oats on iMuday. Thu defendants said that it was a
work of ntamity. ettuad by a I gh wind, wl .ch at the
him., wit* puiiug Llso wain front the straw. Fiticd ciitth
bib and costs.

Tog grand jury at the Middlesex modotio have mule •
ratlo•r awkward mistake They ignored • hill arinat
prisoner Domed Louisa Wright, who was charged. with
ttedt ; but as the foreman nogl, en ilf to run lie pep
through Ler name, scoonling to the practice at thin
court, she was put upon her trial and pleaded goilty.
After sentence was pained the mistake was discovered,
and Mr. Pvyne actually had to liberate the prisoner,
although alio stood aelteouvicted of the offense with
which she was charged.
A (Mum SINTENOID TO INTlll9olHifil AND HAND
Latioua.—Ttio city of Dublin posiesamiat the present
moment the youngest criminal and prisoner lathe
world. In Iticlunond Bridewell —is not this the prison
from which Head-Centre Stephens eaeared the other
day I—there is now immured a criminal three years and
• half old ! We venture to think the prisons of Europe
may he searched in vain by any Howanl, or Fry, or
Groat Doff who shooses to make itiquiaition therefor any
ineareerated offender of equal ago with that of the Dublin
delinquent. The story, as told by the Dublin papers, is
as short as It is strutter. On Slturday, it seems, two
children were arrest el and brought before • magistrate
eta Dublin police office, charged with what is grandilo-
quently coiled, "soliciting alnis"—in Dorchester we vul-
garly term it begging. The elder was • girl eight years
old ; the other was a boy, an Infant, aged three years
and a half. The charge, the solemn charge, was proved,
and magisterial justice deliver, d its decree. That
decree was that the girl should ho imprisoned in • peni-
tentiary for fourteen days and kept to hard labour, and
that the boy, poor little mite, should be confined for an
.95C1 length of time in Eichmooil Ilridewell, and like-
wise kept to hard labour. A difficulty, it seems, Orooo
when the unhappy infant was taken to his prison. The
Brielevrell authorities hail no prison uniform for criminals
aged three years and a-half. When the arraimements
of the Richmond institution were made, justice appa-
rently had not contemplated the case of such • culprit,
and therefore there were no penal garments ready fur
the diminutive &Unguent. Another difficulty likew:se
arose. What in "hard labour" for • boy aged three
years and elialf? Our children of that age geoeuilly
find it hard labour to keep their little eyes open half-an-
hour after their regular bedtime, or to suppress their
tears when denied what seem, to them • romonable
quantity ..f cake or just.. But we own that we are
quite unable to conceive what manner of prison work
that could he which Dublin authorities would consider
exactly adapted to the limbo and eyes of an offender
three years and a-half old. The governor of the prison,
It DOOM, found the difficulty inimperable, or, to do him
justice, never, we presume, attempted to meet it at all.
With a scorn for routino and for methodical obedience
of orders, which does hies in this care much honour, tio
declined to send the new re nioner to the treadmill, the
crank, or the oakum picking, Rod ho refused to give
directions for the making of a suit of prison grey to the
measure of an infaut. Ile merely had some warm cloth-
ing pet on the poor little creature, and sent him to the
hospital ward to be properly cared for, Meanwhile, it
is stated that • formal report of the case bas been
forwarded to the Coererntnent, accompanied by • copy
of the magisterial committal ; and we trust the Lord
Lieutenant, acting of course on the advice of his law
officers, new feel himself at liberty, without arousing
the anger of any of the 101-at parties into which Ireland
Is divided, to older the release from enstogly of the three
yeaes old prisoner, whom Dublin charity will, we should
think, readily take in charge. If, too, the Lord Lieut-
enant aliould accompany Ino order with some remarks
expreadve of his tense of the good feeling, benevolence.
and wisdom displayed by the magistrate who committed
the child, we venture to berevu that the mandate wi"
be 1.11 the moru welcome to the public of the Irish
capit:'.