The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The accession of Marrs. Jonas, Lloyd, and
Co., the greet bankers, to the London and
Westminster Bank, is considered a great triumph
l it!: promoters of Joint-stock banking. The
of nearly all the Joint-stock bank, rose
immediately the rews was known, and those of
the London and Westminster Bank advanoed, at
abound, from 83 to 105. Only £2O has been
paid on these shares.
A clergyman, residing near Bath, has written
to Mr Gladstone t,e know what effect the Go-
vernment Annuities Bill will have upon such
small friendly *orient% as that which he—the
clergyman—his lately established. Mr. Glad-
stone is not able to give the information his
correspondent seeks, but be says that the three
dangers to which existing Friendly Societies are
exposed are—excessive working expenses, un-
soundness of tables, and extravagant expendi-
ture at publio-houses. Mr. Gladstone also
points out how much harm is likely to arise when
the managers of Friendly Societies live at a
distance, and are not amenable to any influence
on the part of the members.
A return showing the nUmbe- of places in
which the Higheays Act has been adopted has
just been presented to Parliament. Of the forty
counties of England, thirty-three have put into
force the provisions of the Act. The places in
which the Act has not yet been adopted are—
Bucks, Cambridge, the Lile of Ely, Derby,
Hertford, the Liberty of St. Albans, Lincoln,
the Liberty of Peterborough, Rutland, West-
moreland, the East and North Ridiegs of York-
shire, and the Liberty of Ripon. The only
county in Wales in which the Highways Act
has been applied is Denbigh. Tha provisions of
the measure do not appear to be applicable to
the southern portion of the Principality, as the
highways in the six counties of South Wales are
regulated by an Act passed specially for that
pert of the country.
A considerable improvement in the state of
the cotton districts was reported on Monday, at
a meeting of the Central Relief Committee.
Mr. bfaclure's monthly statement shows that
the total number of persons relieved, both by
the guardians and the relief committee during
March, was 181,000 against 203,000 in
February and January. Still the number was
greater than it was in Detemher last, from which
it may be gathered that irregularities in the
pressure of distreas are likely to occur from time
to time. Attention was directed to the efforts
now making to stimulate emigration from the
manufacturing districts; and it was stated, upon
reliable testimony, that the stimulus was applied
chiefly with the view to the enlistment in the
Federal army of the men who are assisted in
leaving this country.
The Times correspondent has at last done good
marries. Instead of indulging in prophecies
which are sure to be falsified, and abuse which
is sure to be retuned with interest, be Las ex-
posed some most disgraceful deeds on the part of
certain United States officials, which call for
the most rigorous examination. He states that
• large number of crimps wait the arrival of
every steamer from London, Liverpool, Cork, or
Bremen, and as soon as the emigrants have
passed the emigntional depdt, they ask them
whether they want employment, take them to a
gin shop, ply them with &lined liquors, carry
them off to some out-of-the-way place, where
they are entered on the roll of the army under a
feigned name; and when the unfortunate
victims arouse from their stupor they are told
that they belong to the Federal army. If they
make an attempt to escape they are shot down
es
deserten If they write to the British Consul,
and that official applies to head quarters, he is
sewed that no such persona as he names are on
the rolls, and in the meanwhile they are shipped
off to Louisiana or some other distant seat of the
war, and the chances are that nothing more sill
ever be heard of them. In some came there is
no attempt made to deceive the unlucky con-
scripts. Negro seamen belonging to English
ships are seised by forge, and carried off to the
army, and small indeed are then their hopes of
escape. In one instance the son of a British
Admiral, sixteen years of age, was entrapped,
and it was months before his widowed mother
could obtain his release. If these things be true
(and they are related with the utmost circum-
stantiality) the sooner Earl Russel recalls to Mr.
Lincoln's memory the circumstanced which led
to the dismissal of our Minister, Mr. Crampton,
eight years ago, the better.
Happy is the inventor who has persuaded the
men in power to put him in office. We all
know how for three years Sir William Arm-
strong had all the field to himself, and the
spending of three millions of the public money.
Air. E. J. Used, the chief °Destructor of the
navy, is in the same happy position. While the
Royal Sovereign has been delayed month after
mouth, and Capt. Coles has not been permitted
to convert her la he wished, Mr. Reed is allowed
to posh on his dozen ships with all possible haste,
and the Lords of the Admiralty have just
decided to give "socouragement money" to the
shipwrights who work on the Lad Warden, so
as to get her turned out this yew. Meanwhile,
we have no guarantee that the Lord Warden
will be more effectual against modern artillery
than the Warrior is now declared to he.
Lard Lifferd nukes the same observation of
Ireland that M. Esquires has made of Holland.
Is the Illmeraid laki, as in the land of dykes,
everything goes by contraries. Ireland, ewe
Lord Lillerd, is mood, and yet it Is the only
country when murderers are fostered by the
people on pdasiple. J.s Alms vbipuriag

hellion, and yet when the Queen embarked at'
Kingstown the people thew their hats into the
sea in the excessive seal of their loyalty. The
rents of good land are very low, and the rents
of bad land are very high. The Roman Catholics
in important cases almost invariably employ
Protestant counsel, deeming them the most able ;
and the Protestant Government almost invar-
iably appoints Roman Catholic judges, intending
thereby, but vainly, to cajole the multitude.
lint of all the anomalies the greatest is what is
called "tenant right," or the sum paid by the
incoming to the outgoing tenant-at-will. Strange
as it may seem, under a liberal landlord this, in
some cases, equals in amount the fee simple
value of the land. On this frail tenure
thousands of pounds are invested, which are
denied to draining, fencing, ,nd planting—the
outlay on which, to say the least., would be not
lees secure. The tenant-right prevailing in
Ulster, Lord Lifferd describes as a monstrous
imposition, and he recommends that for it should
be substituted • real tenant-right, by which the
outgoing tenant should be compensated for uu-
exhausted improvements.
•

A rather obscure German newspaper has
published an account of the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg's visit to Napoleon, which is supposed
to have been written by the Duke himself.
According to this paper the general belief in the
Imperial Court is that the peace of Europe will
not be disturbed by the Deno German quarrel;
and in France very little sympathy is felt for
either Danes or Germans—although the brave
resistance made by the Danish troops has in-
greased the respect felt for them. The Emperor
Is greatly averse to any warlike operations in
Germany, and desires that the Inhabitants of
the Duchies should be appealed to, to decide
their own form of Government. But perhaps
the best chances of peace lie in the perilous
position to which Austria feels herself exposed.
On every aide she seems preparing for • national
revolt, that may break out at any moment.
Venetia is being doubly and trebly guarded,
every mountain-pass in the Tyrol is being
watched, and the attack en the part of the
Halmos on the Welk or the Moldo-Wallachians
on the east, is being provided against with all
the resources of • military monarehy, poessising
the army of half a million of men. In
the mean time Austria and Prussia mean
to kill Denmark outright if it lay in their power
so to do. The feu d'sufer which the Prussians
poured into Sonderborg, without giving the
usual notice, in order that the non-combatants
might leave the place, a proceeding commented
upon 17 Earl Shaftesbury so ably on Tuesday
night in the House of Lords, has had • result
of which Marshal Wrangel nil well be
proud. After forty-eight hours bombard-
ment, during which 1,500 shells were thrown
Into the place, fifty houses in the centre of
the town were burnt down, and more gratify-
ing still, eighty townspeople, (women and
children) were killed and wounded. The town
was, of course, rendered untenable, and de-
serted; the Times .iorrespondent, among other
fugitives, having gone to Ulkeblll, about three
miles to the north-east of Sonderborg. The
Danish works are just sa strong as they were
before; in other words, the bombardment was a
perfectly useless and therefore unjustifiable act,
infinitely worse than the bombardment of
Charleston, and an act which ought to arouse
the indignation of all Englishmen. Every shell
that burst in that unfmtified, unprotected town,
if uot • fresh impediment in the way of pesos,
is a fresh reproach to England for not having
prevented this disgraceful war. We heartily
concur in the remarks of the noble Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Dorsetabire, that the Brinell fleet
ought to be sent to those seas to prevent a re-
currence of these most cowardly and frightful
atrocities.

Mr. Oladatone's Mateo:Lent of our actual posi-
tion on Thursday night will beet be understood
by placing the figures in jurtapoeition :-...
Revenue of the year £70,208,000
Xxpenditure

Belanai £3,152,000
But from this balsam' the sum of £300,000,
spent on fortifiostiona during the year, is to be
deducted, when the actual surplus squads at
£3,352,000. Mr. Gladstone next stated his
estimates for the financial year 1864-5, as
follows '—
Intimated Revenue £6o, 480,000
I Estimated Expenditure £66,890,000

Surplus ... £2,570,000
Mr. (Aragon.) proposed a variety of small
changes in duties and taxation. His larger
measures are a remodiflostion of the sugar due,
involving a reduction on high-class sugars of
se. 6d., and on lower sorts of 3s. 4d. per cwt.;
reduction of one penny on the in ; aa,
a proposal to take la. 6d. off the fire Mammal
duty on interests and stock-in-trade. He ob-
jected to the repeal or even the reduction of the
malt duty. The right bon. gentlemen spoke for
three hours. His proposals were criticised by
several members, the chief grievances being the
half-and-half concession made in regard to the
fire insurance duty, and the fact that the malt
ditty Ito be left untouched.
The Lord Chancellor has just been added to
to the list of those who support the present
phase of Mrs. Yelverton's muse. At the sitting
of the appeal committee in the House of Lords,
a petition was presented in her behalf for an
order on Major Yelverton to pay £6OO, to enable
her to defend her interests in the appeal. It was
argued in her behalf that when a lady made out
• strong prised facie case of marriage, alimony
was awarded her before the final decision, and
ought, therefore, to be dons in this awe. On
the other hand the Major's solicitor denied the
position, and contended that the Court of
Sessions—the last court the ease was in—was the
proper place to •onsider the question, and not
the appeal committee. Lord Westbury's own
impression was in favour of this latter argument;
but he found a ruling of Lord Lyndhurst's in
1828, which had an opposite effect, and therefore
he decided that the judgment of the Court of
Sessions in favour of the marriage must receive
effect, and the lady receive the status and rights
of Major Yelverton'e wife. The report of the
committee consequently was that he pay her
Elbe, and that the case come on this session.
General Pennefather, who reviewed the
Metropolitan Volunteers at Guildford on Hester
Monday, has sent in his report to the War-
office. His opinion of the physique, dress, and
appointments of the men, their skirmishing and
style of marching, is highly favourable; but he
thinks the battalions require steadier drill ia
order toreador the force really available in action.
His practical advice is that the corps should be
brigaded more frequently.
The Noolesiastioal Commissioners have jest
Issued their sixteenth annual report. From
1810, when the common fund for the augmenta-
tion of benefices was created by Parliament,
down to 1866, the Commissioners appropriated
in that way more than three millions; and from
that year to 1868 tkey appropriated about
another two millions and sehelf. This make* a
total of about five millions and a half, of whisk
private beneficiaries has contributed nearly cue.
fifth. There are now offered to the Commie.
soersother benefactions amounting to £150,000,
on the condition that they are met by commies.
swats grants. But in order to raise to 000 &-
year all benefices in public patronage with •
population of 500 persons, and to meet half
way private patronage in similar eases, the Com-
missioners say the will require £330,000 a year,
or equal in amount to the fee simple value of
ten millions. To meet this demand the present
funds are, of course, insufficient, and the Board
have determined to discontinue making grant'
of cspital sums after this year, and to substitute
income grants to the extent of £3,500 in each of
the nest four years. By three means the Com-
missioners hope. within five years, to do with
benefices of 4,000 persons what their ultimate
object is with reference to benefices of MO
persons, as before explained. They also propose
to devote ;i3OOO a-year to the endowment of
new churches in populous districts, each church
to have 000 or 1100 a-year, accordingly as it io
under public or private patronage.
The emigration from Ireland goes oa son
actively than ever. Whole villages in Comillatillit
are utterly deserted. Even in Leinetter and
Ulster the small farmers are giving up their
holdings, and going to the country where they
can have !mos without rent. All the berths in
the Atlantic steamers are engaged for weeks to
0001111.
General Garibaldi,since his arrival in England,
has received a cordial and hearty welcome from
all claims of society. He first bosuns the guest
of the Mayor of Southampton. On Monday
the 4th, the Corporation presented him
an address, to which the general briefly replied,
expensing his gratitude to the people of Itogisnd
for the ennort they had given to the tame of
Italian unity and independence. During the
pest week be has reendned in retirement in the
Isle at Wight, the guest of Mr. Seeley, M.P.,
who, with the Duke of Sutherland and several
other friends mei him at Southampton.
Irmaloaloy (Monday) ha inn to Fooled to

• Aors, and during his stay there will reside at
Stafford House, the residence of the Duke of
Sutherland. He has also promised to visit
Newcastle, Manchester, and Glasgow, and if
circumstances will permit. Bristol also. On
Thursday, the Court of Aldermen voted to him
the freedom of the City of Lon.lou, and wherever
he goes the most genuine and the most lavish
homage will be paid him. Well, we all of us
join in greeting him to Old England—from the
Prime Minister, who sent his congratulations by
a friend who went to the Isle of Wight last week,
—down to the humblest mechanic, thousands of
whom we may rest assured will shout themselves
hoarse whenever he appears in public. And, as
a patriot mid hero—true, brave, and honest—
although not always wise, and without
blame—we do well in giving him a cordial and
an affectionate welcome. He is a man worthy
of all honour and much love, but a man, at the
same time, whose character and career especially
call upon us for the exercised that discriminating
appreciation which, while it adores all that is
truly noble, will not fall into the error or endow-
ing its heroes with qualities they do not
Garibaldi's character is singularly simple
easy to decipher. He is not a statesman ;he is
not a wise man; in politiesl sagacity, in range
of mind, in intellectual powers, he is indisputably
below par. He is not a William Tell; he is not
a George Washington • he is not even a Kossuth
or a Cavour. His prejudices are very strong; his
capacity of appreciating other men and other
views are singularly narrow; his insight into
character defective in tbe extreme ; and his want
of judgment almost unmatched among military
and revolutionary Isadore. His extraordinary
strength Ins in the enthusiasm which pervades
his own spirit, and which, just because it so
pervades him, he is able to communicate to and
sustain in others- His sole greatness—and it is a
most real and rare sort—lies in the child-like
purity in his nature, in his unegotistic
generosity, in his unswerving singleness of
purpose. He has faith to TOMOTO mountains,
and he lives and acts among a people
where faith Imo more power than over our cold
Northern temperaments. But unfortunately his
faith is promiscuous and winning. He has
faith in special providence', in wild schemes, in
weak men, and even in bad men. He never
mould be brought to trust Cavour, or to mistrust
Victor Emanuel. He is easily impreessod, staidly
bamboozled, easily misled. He is, in fact, an
intensely amiable, affectionate, believing, un-
suspecting child—a brave, impulsive, pure,
single-minded soldier, through whose instrumen-
tality, and by the means of whose felicitous
rashness, Providence has seen fit to bring about
ODO Of the most astonishing, and WO trust one of
the most beneficial, revolutions of modern days.

DORCHEBTEIL—Pteceito Coin Manger, April 9
—Wheat in large supply and improved oondition, which
sold at nearly late rates. The ask for barley was rather
better than of lath No alteration in the value of oats.
Menem Coscser. The amateur molded talent
of this town has once mom been brought into requisition
for the purpose of affording aid and "'Others,
to an in lotion well worthy of the onus' for which
that taleat me brought forth. The concert, for
such is the event we are about to chronicle, was in
aid of the Working Men's Institution—an institution
which has already proved an inestimable boon to
several young men of UM town, and where, by perse-
verance and study. coupled with the great mkantsgee
for the improvement and ealtivation of the mind which
the 80eist7 affords, several of its members have gained
distinction. The advantages which such institutions
afford, whether regarded as a moans of recreation or
study, mast be patent to ell, said hence it is that
public support was enlisted on their behalf on Friday
evening. Perhaps, for such an object, no better mean,
amid be adopted than thatof bringing the amateur musical
talent of the town to beer on the matter, mid certainly
so the sequel shows, the public wrist extensively patro-
nised the antatisers, who acquitted themselves—one and
all—la a very eSaient manner. Tbs concert took
place at the Townball on Friday evening, and, with
the ethernet of the reserved seats, the ball w* well
filled. The amok was under the direction and
=mt el Mr. Charles Meets, who hag on several
proved himself to be most willing to lend a
trieheed te anything which deserves public support
sneentethenest. Whilst, however, lending him for
the ears and attention wheals be must have Widowed in
the affair, we would not wish to pm by the valuable
services of the lady end gentleman amateurs who acted
In eoejesetion with him • iadeed, the greatest praise is
dee to them, and we full; reciprocate the noble feeling
width could have induced than to come before the
publics The coated consisted of vocal and Matron...nil
mask, both of which we must speak of in the highest
terms of approbation. The following are the names of
the amateers who took part in the instrumental part of
the concert :—Mr. C. J. Keats and Mr. Josee (Wey-
mouth) tat Maims ; Ur J. Bailey and Mr. J. Keats,
Sad ditto; Master Kean. riots; Mr. Willey and Mr
lkiley, jam., violoncellos ;Mr. Wellspring (Bandmaster
the Dershester Rile Come) earnet ; Mr. Carroll,
litsadoseter el the Dom* Itithth) elm-joust; Miss
Hayward, plasm; Meak•ir Hayward. triangle; and
Mather Fr menus, dram. The vocalists' ermisted of
Hrs. Oc amid Mmes. Beeneth Hayward, Andrews,
?Wei, A Pawky, together with some of the
istrecothtidists. Mr. Patch ocomionalle presided at the
• no. The iestrumental part.): the programme penned
• admirably; in feet, we think it would net have
imbed any discredit epee professionals. The vs:km
• limn skated the meet charming combination' of
*enemy, and met their reward by the general volume
of the audience beim awarded to them. The roamed-
lags of the eves* ememeeced with Beethoven's over.
titre by the orebestra, of the "Men of Prometheus" which
wan capitally rendered. This me followed by the
chorus "0, who will o'er the Downs." This piece of
music showed the ears and attention which the
Amateurs bad bestowed upon this composition by
Pearsall, and really the various parts were admirably
given. Alter this wen othollided, Mrs. Gregory,
amidst many demoestrations of welcome, appeared on
the platform, and warbled forth, in her usual musical
Maths, "I love to sing." This was warmly
applauded, allthouch it did not elicit an men.
Mies Ravened, with groat skill and brilliancy
of execiatioe, them played on the piano Thalberes grand
fantasia of "Hose,, sweet home." The well-known
strains of this beautiful melody en with obann•
tog effect, aid the ming lady amidst a perfect
shower of applause. Deohy's pretty glee of "Fair
Flora decks." by Memo. Bassett, Willey, and Powley,
was sung with math good taste, and certainly the
vocalists acquitted themselves ia • lent-clam meaner.
The firth encore of the *maim was given to Masters
Hayward sad Walter Keats, who very prettily pee
expressions to Glover's pretty duet of "Borne at mid-
night o'er the Own." The panne ensaaime really
deserved the bonoar which wet these. for we
never remember having heard it beautifully sung
by two boys. The first part or th. erogramme was
brought to • theclusith by the playing a lei of
Takes, composed by Mr. C. Keats, whisk alike re,
fleeted credit on his composition and the instru-
mentalist& During the interval, between the Inn and
weed perm of the programme, Mr. J. Andrews emotes&
the oudleaee by singing a couple of comic Kings, which
It is almost needles. to stabs were rapturously received.
The overture to "Guy Mannering" by the orebasen,
was, in our *aim, one of the best pieces of lustre-
motel musk played throughout the evening, and wee
warmly applauded. This piths of music was followed
by a shores kom the teem of "Feast," which was
given with nuirked PfINSIPOD and effete. Mrs.
llbiT ling IF Freedom Sunshine,
and Love."
was griettliippreeiated,and an seam demanded, when,
In no leas ma able manner than in the previous soag,
she sum "Cols/ through the Hie." Thalberg's
greed fantasia of "The Last Rome of Pouniasso was ex-
quisitely rendered by Miss Hayward on the pima* If
poedble we think this piths me more ably ethested than
her former one, but, &Monti it did not evokean eseore,
still she was most loudly applauded. Cooke's duet of
" The Army and Navy," sung by Messrs. Willey and
Powley, in whist' there was goo a Dorset obligate by
Mr. Wellspring, wog anshesiestirelly received, and an
mews demanded, which indulgence, however, was not
granted. Bishop's glee of Myebeer Vandonek" was
*vitally gives by them. Bennett, Wilky, and
Pettey, sad messed highly to please the audience. A
sat ei creadrilles. introdueisa favourite airs from the
opera of "muss,' was nicely gives by the
and the oeert was brought to • cloth by the=th
Anthem. The whole of the parformanos peamid off most
earldathorily, aed the amateurs, we think. might eon-
greenlet* tbsonselms on the meow which a*teaied their
aerie
AU. flumes' Cnone—fiermou were preached on
Sunday by the Bev. C. T. Procter, in aid of the choir of
All Salt is' Obureb. when £ll 121. 101. was eolleeted.
Dammam Hun. Snarls Cnaaite.—As • re-
minder to the admirers of the turf, we beg to smirks
them that these annual ports will come off on
Wednesday next, on the Waddon Vale Coarse, and as
U.. aoreptames Waled* the Names of (bones of the
right mettle," we anticipate a first rthe day.
divection.

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