The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

PORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORME3TER, TEN3DAY, JULY 6, 1838.

HONEST!? AV'DA I.

IN the House of Lords on Monday the Earl of
AALMISBURY, in answer to farther questions on
the subject by Lira Ravesswoura and the
Duke of NEWOARTLE, stated that measures
would be taken to deodorise the sewers by means
of lime, according to a plan which had proved
inccessful at Leicester; and that a Bill to pro-
vhle for the expense would be introduced. Earl
iTANHOPS'B motion for an address to the Queers,
praying for the omission from the Prayer-lhok
of the Speoial Services for the sth November,
the 30th January, and the 29th May, was sup-
ported by tne Archbishop of Ostsreanuar, the
Bishop of L iNDJN, sot ths Bishs? of Oxroiso,
and agreed to. On Thum lay the second read-
ing of the E krl of L.LYJ ty's Bill far al nitting the
Jews to Parliament by empowering either House
to dispense with the word. "on the true faith of
a Christian," was supported by the E id of
DERRY and carried by a m ijority of 43, the
numbers being 143 to 97.
In the ?loose of 00111,1101111 on Monday, Mr.
Wilson's reaolutiou on the Funded Debt Bill
was negativeu . without a division, and Captain
Botneso's motion for a Royal Commission to
inspire into the management of the Weedon
depot was agreed to. Mr. Roursta, caUed the
attention of the House to the state of the Thames,
and moved a resolution declaring it to be the duty
of the Executive Government to take immediate
measures for abating the dangerous nuisance.
Lord J. hiss's's!' said that the Government had
given the B3ard of Works full authority to apply
lime in the way stimetect by Sir J. PAXTON,
and had undertAkeis to bring in a Bill for their
indemnity, if necessary. After some discussion
the motion was withdrawn. On Tuesday the
House went into committee on the Galway Die-
franeldeement Bill, when Mr. I. Burr'w 'nation
that the Chairman leave the chair, NO as to arrest
tlo; further progress of the measure, was lost by
107 to 9JI and Mr. motion that
the operation of the Bill be outilinel to those whit
hail given or talon bribes in the IMO Al I previotts
elentions, was code I by 159 to 101. Me,
CA !WY 1110t1011 OGIGIOIIIIIIIIII the expenditure in.
mirreil by the Wood'ssuit Forests its disatfornot.
Mg the CrOWH allotnnant, of !Ultima, and Mr.
FtTAllNVitileil 1110kitIll conileinithig the appoint.
1110111 of Mr. Omni, Maim to the office of Crown
Prosecutor for Tyrone, were negatived without
divhdoit, On Wednesday the Marriage Las
amendment Bill parsed through committee after
three divisions, in which Mr. Lenox's; amend.
mont to prevent the retrospective operation or
the eiritie legalising lumbago with a deceaessi
wife's sister WU negatived by 129 to 78, and Mr.
NloNsiittir amendment excluding Ireland from
the operation of the Dill was carried by 140 to
98. The second reading of Mr, Huse's; Mein.
bees Freedom from Arrest Bill was married by
199 to 75 On Thursday the Universities (Scot-
land) Bill passed through committee. The
House then resumed in emnmitte• the considera-
tion of the Government of India (No, 8) Bill,
when clauses 7 to 12 were agreed to, aft'r three
divisions, in which amendments moved by Sir
J. GRAHAM, Mr. GLADATONII, Mr. V. Siam
Mr. GREOPIGN, mid Mr. LIDDELL were negatived
hy large majorities. The second reeding of the
Chelsea Bridge Act Amendment Bill was carried
by 101 to DO.
The Calcutta mail arrived last week with the
important news that Calpee has been taken by
Sir HUGH Roue, and the mutinous Gwalior Con-
tingent totally rooted, with the loss of 500 men,
53 guns taken on the field or in the fort, with 24
standards, and immense stores of ammunition.
Latent advices from Bombay state that with the
olipture of Bareilly the last great stronghold of
the mutineers and rebels, the labours of the
Commander-in-Chief of India have for the pre-
stint cline to an end. Leaving his lieutenants
with sufficient garrison to watch and preserve the
rocovered districts, Sir Court has recroued the
Osage., probably to move down without delay
to Cawnpore and Allahabad. Our latest news
of him is of the 25th of last month, on which
day he crossed to Futtyghur, having quitted
Shahjehanpore on the 23rd, and covering his dis-
tance by way of Jellalabad in two forced marches.
Beaten out of Rohilcund, the rebels are again
in force all over Oude, except in the very imme-
diate neighbourhood of the capital, and on the
road down to the Ganges and Cawnpore. Ru-
mours are constantly received of an impending
attack upon Luoknow. Already the heat had
begun to tell upon the men and officers, though
they had been making short marches, and at
Doondiakera, near the point where the Cawn-
pore boat was fired upon and captured by the
Nerrs's people, the 7th Hussars buried Captain
PEDDLE.. Before they had moved half a mile
numbers were sent back to camp, knocked up
by the sun. An unsatisfactory skirmish followed.
Little loss was inflicted on the enemy, who were
very strongly posted about the village and fort
of Simree, and but two old guns had been secured
when night felL On their side the rebels did us
Little harm, beyond carrying off a few camels in
an attempt upon our rear, and cutting off the
head of it poor sergeant in the Rifles lying sick
in a dhooly. But the su i did their work terri-
bly well. Of the 38th Foot the enemy struck
but two men, and th3m but slightly, while the
sun killed no fewer than 15. Ou the 13th the
7th Hussars buried seven, and had been losing
two, three, and four men daily since they left
Luoknow. As a proof of the wear and tear of
regiments engaged in hot-weather campaigning,
and of the consequent necessity of large rein-
forcements to pacify and hold • country like
Oude, I may mention the 313th, who came out
last autumn upwards of 1,000 strong, and in the
middle of last month, as I learn, mustered
wane WO. After the affair at Simms Grant's

column returned to Luoknow, and, resting a few
days, moved out again towards Bunnee, said to
be threatened by one of the many rebel hordes
that swarm over the country.

LORD DISHY'S Government is becoming famous,
amidst a variety of other things, for concen-
trating, in the hands of Government officers,
certain duties and powers heretofore exercised
by men independent of the Government. Some
of these movements, in our opinion, undoubtedly
tend in the right direction—as the appointment,
for instance, of a public prosecutor, whereby the
useless and cumbersome machinery of the grand
jury will be abolished. With many years of
close observation as to the working of this
system, we could never regard it but as unneces-
sary and farcical; and we never flinched from
adducing reasons in this journal, which we
thought to be strong and convincing, why the
operation of the system—always developing
itself so strikingly in this county—might be very
properly and conveniently dispensed with But
It is not in mortals to command uniform success;
and ingenious and happy as the DHABI Adminis•
tration have been, beyond all expectation, under
the extraordinary circumstances of their position,
there is another project involving the creation of
some new "officer of the Government," which
may not pass altogether unchallenged. It seems
that frauds are oocasionally committed ia the
assessment and collection of taxes. Tie COM-
taisaioaors of Inland Revenue have reported the
fact to the Lords of the Treasury, and there is
reason to believe that the Government have it
in contemplation to take the appointment of
assessors and collectors into their own haids—
that is, by displacing those officers now appointed
by the parishes, and substituting Government
nominees. There eau be no doubt, and the fact
must be obvious enough, that the union of the
offices of assessor and oullector is peculiarly open
to malvereation and fraud; but it is uot easy to see
why the present system should, on that amount,
be entirely revolutionised : for the local cominis-
sioners will, in the end, be severed from their
clerks, and left altogether in the lila Is of
Government functionaries. Why not sever a
union whioh is known and ,dinitted to be objec-
tionable and prejudioial to the public interests—
the union of assessor and oolleator ; and maintain
the relations between the local corniniuioners
and the clerk, which have always worked well,
and against which there is in no quarter a single
word of oomplaint ? Why are the capacities of
local commissioners to be looked upon as so
extremely limited as not to admit of an extension
of their duties beyond those of judges of the
propriety of the assessments? Why can they not
be entrusted and charged with the duties of
supervision, in respect of the details of the
assessment and collection, in so far as to prevent
ooportunities of fraud? Those opportunities—
the temptations to wrong-doing—are found in
the fact of the assessor and collector being one
and the same officer ; disconnect these duties,
which should never have been combined, and
look to the local commissioner', with their clerk,
to exercise a due vigilance in respect of the
public interests oommitted to their hands. This
process is easy, and any other course would
necessarily be attended with considerable ex-
pense, including the necessary compensation to
the retiring clerks—not to mention the peculiar
aggravation of the tendency to centralisation,
which, in this ease, would be wholly unredeemed
by circumstances of necessity, or increased popu-
larity and efficiency of action.

IT will be 11•01 I from our report of the Elusions
butane,' that the interminable Lunatic Asylum
question has not only used@ no program, but has
been well nigh brought to s dead-look, Mr.
FLuvis reported, that in reply to the advertise-
ments of the committee fur land, only two offers
were preeented to their notice, neither of
which was thought to be desirable, Then, the
Visitor* "looked about the county I met at
" Dorchester ; took a coach ; and a large party
"of them visited different points in this neigh-
" isourhood." In this tour of inspection, it ap-
pears, "one alto suggested Itself to the coin-
"mitten," lint that appears to he all that cense
of it fur " the negotiation hail made so little
" promos" that, In fact, Hr. ?WYNN multi bell
the Court nothing more about It, and declared
himself " unable to mike any further proposal."
ride is Mr. statement of the position of
Mire, at the end of eight long years of asal Woos
labour on the part of the Visiting Justices, and
at a period of time when no less a sum then
ililoo a year Is thrown away—utterly lost to the
amity—fur the went of so much administrative
talent as would provide an extension of 1000111.
lin/dation necessary for the increased number of
lunatics chargeable to this acuity. Oily think
of a tax of £OOO a year on the ratepayers of Ohio
county (hr which they receive no cionsideration
whatever ; and reflect upon the conduct of the
siaglitrates—while admitting the fact, and all
the attendant olronrustanoes of weakness and
abortive action—resigning themselves consols-
oently to a state of thinis like this I Meanwhile,
Cie contract le to be renewed with Dr. Finch for
two years, from Daosiluber next, for the boom-
modation of our surplus of pauper lunatics—
during which period the heavy lou, now sustained
by the county, must be necessarily greatly in-
creased.
It will be seen that the Justioes were content
to leave the Asylum businese in this lamentable
condition, and to waste their energies and throw
away their eloquenoe and leial concuss, upon a
question of Settlement ; which question having
reference to the Asylum, partook, by a fatal and
inexorable law of necessity, as it were, of the
singularly confused and unsatisfactory nature of
all such proceedings. The discussion which took
place as to the ohargeability of a poor mad
woman, who found her way to Fardiniton, is cer-
tainly not such as to imbue the public mind with
any modification of that somewhat adverse opi-
nion of the talent& of the Visitors which the
public have been constrained to form, upon a
review of their aptitude for business, is displayed
for some years past. It is only necessary to
state, with respect to the case which involved
Mr. FLOYER and his colleagues on the committee
of Visitors in so much perplexity and doubt,
that Mr. FLOYRR moved to take counsel's opinion
as to the quarter to which the maintenanoe of
the poor woman in question waa to be charged.
It would appear that though claiming to sit in a
court of judicature, where questions of charge-
ability are to be dealt with, the Visitors shrank
from investigating the case of MARY BROOKS,
and they do not seem to have taken the slight-
est pains to ascertain in what parish the lunatic
was settled. They ask the Court to employ
counsel at once to do this for them—to do their
own work, in fact, while they themselves stand
by with folded arms. The Court &anent& Of
course, we do not presume to say anything as to
where the woman may or may not be properly
chargeable: we refer to the course and nature of
the discussion upon the matter merely as indi-
cating a degree of laxity, as it would seem, in the
disposal of legitimate business, entrusted to ti very
important committee of magistrates, and as a
further elucidation of the prevailing careless-
ness in the economical disposal of the county
funds. Nor shall we take upon ourselves to
controvert Mr. Poacaza's declaration, to the
effect that the woman having been discharged
from a railway train which stopped at a station
in Fordington parish, that parish became at once
liable for her maintenance, and upon that parish
it devolved to "find out the matter, and not
the county." The only difference between Mr.
PLOVER and Mr. PORORIR was, that the former
gentleman would have a °mussel do the business
for them, the latter would saddle the parish of
Fordington with the chargeability Neither Mr.

PORCHBR nor Mr. FLOM., however, assumed to
be altogether ignorant of the facts of the case;
for Mr. nurse stated distinctly before the
Court, that "it seemed certain that she did
"corn. films a pariah in this county ;"
yet, notwithstanding that admission, Mr.
FLOYER pulls up short in his inquiry, and
hands over the matter for counsel's opinion;
and Mr. PORMLIIIIi, in an equally summary and
facile manner, throws the woman upon the
parish of Fordington.(,) If Fordington be ag-
grieved, Fordington has permission "to appeal
"to this Court." But with all submission, let it
be said, plain folks will undoubtedly demur to
this off-hand mode of dealing with the business.
They will ask why the Visitors did not hear the
cue, and then "decide," as Mr. WHITBROUSB
very properly remarked, "according to the best
"of their judgment in the view of the Acts of
"Parliament." If the parish which the Visitors
might think liable, after full inquiry, objected,
then the parish could come before the Court and
raise the question in the regular way. "In such
"a ease the Visitors would not have to come to
"this Court to give them the costs of taking an
"opinion." This seems to have been the clear and
indisputable line of duty for the Visitors to have
pursued. But they did no such thing. They
have clearly slurred over their business—left the
matter, of course under these circumstances, in
an unsatisfactory state—and incurred expense
which ou;lit to have been avoided.. These are
subjects in which the ratepayers are necessarily
greatly interested, and points in s which no
inducement whatever can wei4h with Its to pro-
cure a deiiliction of duty through a m'splaceil
and injurious reticence. We are therefore bold
enough, in adverting to the cibjec t, to repeat what
the reverend and learned Chairman of the Court
said in this case ;—and it was a great deal for the
rev, gentleman to say ; for he is uncommonly cau-
tions and sensitive in all matters affecting his col-
leagues, and Issas as lightly as gossamer on their
errors alike of omission and commission :
"Had they (the Visitors) hear 1 the examine-
" tious, they might have got the evidence of per-
"sons to whom the lunatic was known, and so
"got some knowledge of where her chargeability
"was. Hence, it would have been unnecessary
"to take an opinion. He thought it was better
"for the Visitors to deal with the case in their
"official capacity." Precisely so. Let us hope
that, hereafter, what are called "working com-
"mittees" will have the goodness to do their
work—at all events, to the best of their ability
—and (to speak plainly) will not shirk it;
whereby the transaction of the public business
of the county will be certai., to lose nothing
either in character or usefulness.

The Midsummer stock fair takes place this day
(Tuesday), and in consequence of it.. proximity no
oorn market was held on Saturday.

FOX-HUNTING.—The Field, noticing the amicable
allotment of the D.oreetshire country, says :--" Thus
we may hope to see the v60.1110Y nale by the
retirement of Mr. Farquharson tilled in a satisfaw
tory manner, awl that the hunting men of each ail-
triut will he able to get their three days a week ;
which ought to satisfy every one but &glutton at the
sport."
A cricket nyttch took place on Monday between
the Bri.lport Tra lumen's Club awl the Dorchester
Club, on the grotind of the latter in Fordington
meadow. At the lint innings Bridport scored 59 and
the Dorchester 98; but Bridoort only scored 59 at
their 'avow' Innings, when Dorchester carried off the
palm, and lead eight wickets to go down,

Messrs Brooks awl H3sl have unlit the Wolveton
estate at Ohartninster, the late residence of James
Henning, Hi., comprising about 720 acres of
excellent land, for £3t1,500, by private contract,

APPROACHING MA RRIACIN IN HIGH LI PR. —A
marriage Is arranged to take place between Miss
Florenoe Sheridan, daughter of Mr. Brinsley
Sheridan, Bata M.P.' and the Hon. A. F. fylde, only
soft of Lord em! Lady Pultimeor.
Minatillaten QuanTati SIOWIONII.—A hill report
of the busineee transacted at these wahine during
the past week will he found in our inside papa

_
FiPwI4I NIIRVIVIIA ion Tun WanlyHa th.aelorm,—.
On Wodneeday evening, the servioes whioh for the
past two menthe have been carried on et (Arid
Uhurth, Weld Vordingten, fiir the opeol4l benefit et the
working Warta were brought tio ohm, when the
Rev, A. !limiter, lambent of Ohriet Church,
nrentthe,l, 'rhare were o good 111 Ally working
people preleut,

•
Prose Rem nu Irma, --Mr. .7. Itelook, who
Into boon for two years putt
_iind still aontlimee to he,
ptilln of the Rev. Henry motile, has thud been MI,
Ilelllloeit as the summed wonpotitor iir the Alwyn
twine, Two prim) ‘%.101 lYoroji hUlt 1111131111111 by Arthur
Milk Rai., M.ll, for 'Taunton, to any person under
years of ago, 1111,1 born or si Mooted within three
milue of Taunton, vein oleinli write Elm bid may
im the folhwhil snidest What are the Ailvan•
Mos, tiolid Anil poliElealt of the British rule in
India I and how int). they best be mitred to the in.
habitants?" The wino 14 with kV, and it large
number of oninputitor4 entered the lista, et the MAIM'
latoml elretilt iuiuhuihes several important Mr.
Pedalos Is son of Henry Railuoult, Ren,, if Wheat.
4401 L i., near Tanninn, mill le not yet 17 year'
n' ovre.
Mit,M %multi:nor Vtarr so Donoitierren. —We
hog to r4inlml our Nailed that this talented gentle.
man will give a Ileoding.at the hiieiuoti on Thursday
from one of 1911tiltsitearo's mmterpleoes, The object
of she Reuling Is to &hi the funds of the lloroheater
British lialinot; and we trust Elmo will bo it largo
an that a handsome sum may be realised for
so kro lan nbleot, Rumour avers that this Reading by
Mr. Maoromly is hi be the very hilt he will under.
tike. It is to be Impel this 'imminent be unfounded,
but It tarnished; a strong inoltetuont to 'mann. &air.
nos of hsarin4 such on nooronolishirl ortiair to at.
tend the County hall on Thursday evening.
_

An account of the 0,1,1 Fellows demonstration
will ha seen In page 3.
Tit. CIIANNIL INLAND.' TIKININAPIL-10 was at
first Intended to lay down the °helmet Wendel' Sub•
in trine Telegraph onhle from Alderney to Jersey,
and from thence to Guernsey. It In now, however,
state I that It is to be labl down from Alderney to
Iltiernsev, anti Cr In the latter Mend to Jersey. At
Alderney the °Able Is to touoh at Lanoresee Bay, and
at Jersey at St. Martin's Point. It is expected that
the o'large Cr a eh irt telogrun will be about se.
The eshtl.lieliment of a telegraphic communication
between England and the Channel Islands will be of
immense advantage to the latter, as it will induce a
greater number of visitors to visit the islands, when
they can have instant communication with England,
on business or in case of sickness.

The Rev. W. Tringliam, hi. A.. of St. John's
College, has been instituted by the Bishop ,4 Saba.
bury to the rectory of W eitten Fitzosine, in this
county. Value, £2lO. Population, 325.
SUAPTISIIUKY Os Ills TIMPILRANCE WPM-
URNT. —At the m .nthly temparance meeting held
a few days ago in Surrey Chapel (formerly Rowland
Hill's). the Esrl of Shaftesbury oocupied the chair,
and, after the delivery of several speeches by work.
log men and others, expressed the pleasure it gave
him to attend such a meeting of honest, respectable,
high-minded, well-intentioned persons, convened for
the purpose of making known the benefits they had
themselves received and of persuading others to enjoy
them. Theirs was a noble work, and the self-denial
they practised was &course which every reasonable
MAR must applaud, and which a great number of
us, added the noble earl, vainly endeavour to
imitate. Having stated the delight it always
afforded him to come into contact with the working
classes, and the esteem for them which that contact
had inspired, his Lordship referred to the loyalty
which the effusion of total abstinence principles
was adapted to foster; since, by leaving individuals
in the full possession of their intellectual faculties and
moral qualities, it tended to make them good
citizens, faithful subjects, and consistent Christians.
He was quite ready to admit that if people could
be persuaded to adopt the abstinence rule, it was a
far more simple and effective plan than the
rule of moderation which other persons proposed
to carry out. The great authority of Dr. Johnson
was in favour of this opinim ; and even the great
difficulty of bringing the whole nation, by law or
persuasion, to one uniform obedience to this rule
Mee no re is in alsinst the continuance of efforts
which could not fail to be extremely useful. The
standard ought to be maintained high, though all
may not attain to it. Theliahit of drinking in this
conntry was the root of 19.20 the of all the evils
which lesset the great majority of the working classes;
and in reference to lunacy, he could say, after many
years' experience, as the Chairmui of the Commission
on Lunacy, that, if the habits .d temperance had
universally prevailed 17-20ths ot the existing its-
salty would not have had a being. He bad been
perfectly astonished to find the extent to which
insanity Prowzded, from no other cause than the
intemperate use of fermented and other alooholic
drinks. The noble earl dwelt strongly on the
necessity for sanitary and axial reform to assist in
the promotion of sobriety; he knew many families
who-bad altogether changed in consequence of an
improved state of their dwellings and the absence of

() We believe we are correct In etatlng that the husband of
the poor Insane woman In question kept • publlchouse for two
years In Portsmouth, and died there. No doubt, therefore,
bee settlement use to some pariah In Portsmouth. We humbly
offer the authorities the benefit of this infornation, without
asking for any fee or reward as due to "OounaW."

immediate temptations to drinking. liis Lordship
nailed for the united efforts of a the people's friend.
in the work of social and moral reform, and resumed
his seat amid the loud applause of a large and deeply
interested assembly.