The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DIELCIIESTER, TUESDAY, JUNEI 7, 1864.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Cobden made a
motion and a speech. declaratory that In the
opinion of the House the policy of non-interven-
tion by force of arms in the Internal political
affairs of foreign oountries, which we profess to
observe in our relations with the States of
Europe and America, should be observed in our
intercourse with the empire of China. After
having delivered a moderate and compendious
and provoked a diecuenoo, in which the
roc,
Prim. Minister took part, be declined to take
the sense of the House upon it, although there
was a full attendance, and a division must have I
been decisive one im or another. In his review
of the state of our Manama with China, the hon.
gentleman insisted that it was of the most un-
satisfactory deeeription, especially as far as our
commerce was concerned. This was owing to
the vagueness and uncertainty of our policy.
He made it out that our trade with China has
declined, and that at present it is nothing else
than akappoietina" trade. He could not
pretend to say what was the reason of our small
and decreasing trade, with a country peopled by
one-third of the human race, but there was
positive proof that it was not by war and farce,
by blood and violence, that we can incomes the
consumption of our goods by the Chinese. We
have endeavoured to estadish political relations
with the Imperial cloven:went, and have an
ambassador at Pekin ; but there is very little
centralised power in China, and our wield polity

will be to have as little to do with the politics
of the empire ea possible. He had no difficulty
111 showing the confusion occasioned bj our
inteference in the domestic affairs of the empire,
especially in regard to our self-elected functions
Of river police, as the &haters Of piracy, sod
the controllers of lorohas and small craft. We
may persevere as long as we please in our present
course, but be feels satisfied that we shall be
compelled, in the long run, to come back to the
golicy pursuad by Sir fitabiford Rallies, at
=and establish free ports on the coast
and of giving up our meddling with
the internal affairs of the Celestials. The
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practical proposition which he made to
the Howe was, that at the somnience-
meat of the next session a select committee

shall be appointed to inquire into our corn-
inertial relations both with Japan and China.
We are inclined to think that although wrong
on other points, Mr. Layard was right in point-
ing out the difficulty which we shall have in the
establishment of "free ports" on the coast of
Chinn. It was after great difficulty, and only
after every sort of obstacle had been interposed
by the Chinas", that we succeeded in making
Hong-Keng a free port ; and if we are to estab-
lish more of them, it is to be feared that we can
only do so by MOM of • war; and even if we
succeeded by that means, other foreign nation.
would claim free access. It appears to us that
the only wise course that can be pursued is that
which is contained in the reeommenclittiOn sub,
milted by /lir P. grace to the representatives of
Prance, Russia, and America, and so much ap-
proved by them—a recommendation advocating
the security of the treaty ports to European
commerce, while it utterly repudiates all in-
terference in the internal affairs of the empire.
The rise, propels, and ignominious failure of
the Anglo-Chinese expedition last year, clearly
proves that whether we side with Imperialists or
Taspinp, we are only made use of so long as it
suits the purpose of those cute and cunning
"barbarians," and an longer. Mr. Cobden is
perfectly justified in saying there is no centralised
authority sufficiently strong to sontrol all parts
of the country, and thst it idle to attempt to
deal either with those at the so-called seat of go-
vernment, or with those guard local authorities
who will only deal with you so long sa it
suits their phrpose, aid thin) pretend to
delta to the 'powers that be" in higher
quarters. Although, then, we are strongly of
opinion that the protection of the treaty ports
and the main channels of navigation to those
places some little distance into the interior,
where so vast an amount of wealth in the shape
of British merchandise is deposited, is of far
consequence from any attempt to esta-
gratilieskfrree ports, we think Mr. Cobden's sugges-
tion of • cominittee of inquirY into the stet* of
our esimenereial relatiomi With Japan, as well as
Mina, it far better than any mere declaratory
resolution could have been. It will be able to
collect the best evidence on all those disputed
points which invariably crop up whenever there
is • debate on Chins, and may be the means of
guiding the Government into a safe channel.
The Conference on the Dano-German difficulty
has occupied the attention of the daily press
during the past week. The Daily News thus
estimates the result of the discussions of the
plenipotentiaries to the present time
"There ma no longer be any doubt that England has
not only given up the London Treaty, but formally pro-
posed in the Coaferenes a settlement based on the
dismemberment of the Danish monarchy. The pro-
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bl.os.is, we believe, that the Duchies of Holstein and
rg, with a sties of flobkawig, should be con-
stituted into a separate State, the remainder of &hies-
2ourbeisagb permanently incorporated with the Danish
y. We have no wish to speak of this arrange-
lOW In say harsh or hostile spirit, nor do we propose
at its present inoweet to dismiss its intrinsic merits or
demerits. Had it been arrived at by direct negotiation
between the belligereate, and thus appeared in it. true
eltareeter as the untortneate, bet perhaps unavoidable
result of a disesteems and a moat aseque war, it would
no doubt be entitled to reepeethil, sad even favourable
isonsiderstioa as the avowed terminnlioa of a war of
eonquest. Bat that the dismemberment should be not
ooly sanctioaed, bat ritually proposed, by the very
Power that has Is a special mesas simegtuted itself from
the ant the guide, pLiloeopher, and friend of the
Desist monarchy, is an instreetiire eommentery on
the pretensions we make to regulate the affairs of the
world."

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The trade and navigation returns issued on
the lit instant are encouraging. The exporta in
the first four months for the past three years
have advanoed from £36,248,651 in 1862 to
£39,459,381 in 1863, and £49,892,420 in 1864.
The increase being chiefiy in coals, cotton manu-
factures, earthenware haberdashery. milliner'',
hardware and WWI, linen manufactures, on.
wrought steel, wool, and woollen and worsted
manufactures. The advance is general, the ex-
ceptions being beer, copper, and thrown silk.
The table of imports is still more important, as
shoeing the general erects of the impetus given
Lecittou ironing. The American supplies have
bled those of last year, but are only 10,428
cwt.. in 1864, against 21,754 in 1862; the
Balisma's have increased their supplies from
12,188 aorta in 1862 to 95,847 in 1864;
Mesico, which has been the medium of tom.
Munication between us and the South, has sent
us 99,752 cloth ; Brasil 95,582; Turkey
53 679 ; Egypt 360,278; British India 775,367 ;
China 210,118; other countries 58,369; making
the total received in 1864, 1,759.420 owta,
against 929,988 in 1862, and 1,203,626
in 1863. This return opens out to
us the certain resources of our future supplies,
so long as the prices realised are paring to the
cultivator. The monopoly so long enjoyed by
the South, and brought on by oar own apathy
and neglect, can Dever return. The exertions
now =thing throughout British India for im-
proving the staple, the cleaning and pecking;
and the increased facilities for conveying the
product by rail and river at once to the port of
embareation, cannot otherwise than be attended
with results most beno6ciel, not only to Great
Britain but to the world in general. Indeed,
the requirement. of the world for our cotton
manufactures, will, in a few years, be such is to
tax the utmost efforts of our manufacturers to
keep pace with them; for India and Chins,
benefitting by the continuous influx of British
capital, are rapidly opening out, and in a few
more years their millionaires may be expected
to be ranked amongst our beet customers.
Intelligence of more of those dreadful tragedies
which the civil war in America has brought forth
has come to hand during the past week, and ex-
amining it with a suspicions eye, as we are ixo*
compelled to examine everything that comes to
us from the other side of the Atlantic, the only
conclusion we arrive at is that Grant has received
a decided check. It lithe "enormous lying" of
the Federal" that has revived this caution among
us with redoubled forth of late. Only the other
day w wets muted to believe that the army
of General Lee, balled and beaten at every point,
was in full retreat towards Richmond, pursued
by the unconquerable old army of the Potomac."
Then we heard that after severe lames, the
Federal' had poised in front of Spotsylvania
where at a distance of two or three miles, they
confronted the same Naomi Lee, who *as bot,
and never had been "in full retreat." On
I Thursday list we had the telegraphic inews that
the Federal General wee again advancing on the
night of Tuesday, the 17th May. But that
which came to hand a day later, recorded the
signal repulse of the attack which Grant made
on the morning of Wednesday, the 18th. The
assault on this occesion was delivered against
Lee's centre and left. "After a desperate coa-
tis* lasting throughout the forenoon, the
Federsh were forced to retreat, with the loss of
1,200 in killed and wounded." It is evident that
Grant is making little or no impression upon
the Confederate positions on the Richmond-road.
So far otherwise, that on the 111th Lee was
emboldened to make an attach upon Grant's
front, but, according to Federal aoccounts, without
success. It is impossible to predict with any
degree of safety what may happen next, but it
seams to us that this advance of the Federas is
virtually at an mad, and that their next care
will be to guard the approaches of Washington.
If Beauregard shouldd—have joined Lee, the
Federal retreat has in all probability commenced
already; while in the Richmond direction
Butler and the other Federal Generals are mot
likely pretty well disposed of.
Accounts from India bear uniform testimony
that Sir John Lawrence, the new Governor.
General, is "ti. right man in the right place.*
His Excelleney has proceeded from Calcutta to
Simla; but not before effecting a thorough
supervision of every department of the state,
and instituting several very practical sod lour
called-for reforms. The Prlnese 610:
however, which claims MUGU= is e
epidemic which, increasing in violence year by
year, raging V; over a great portion of Lower
frightful fever soddenly attacks
it. victim, and works out its fatal mune in four
or five days. There is no doubt whatever as to
the cause of the pestilence—it comes from the
abominable and utter neglect of all sanitary
rules The dead are left to decay almost
among the living. A committee was 'aattint
to enquire into this_gigantin evil, and they have
made their report.: They say that it is insattge
a
to persuade the inhumed people to
their Unhealthy customs, and they dread an
attempt to gospel them. And so, became

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civilization has no moral, and law no physical
force over the inhabitants, the abuse, we suppose,
will be allowed to deepen in virulence, and ex-
tend in its range till the eountry is almost or
wholly depopulated.
Cardinal Wiseman has been tilting to malm
out that Garibaldi is an atheist ; and as this
pease in his address has been given in nearly
all the London and country newspapers, it may
be well to reproduce • significant passage from a
@peel of this great Italian hero, td an assemblage
oi many thousands of people, in the city of
Palermo, in the year 1850. Garibaldi then
said —"I: am • member of the Church the
doctrines of which Christ our Saviour came on
earth to preach, and I implore you to distinguish
between the true servants of Christ and the
servants of the Devil ; no one will ever deceive
you who brings you the Word of God open, in
his band. What I want you fully to under-
stand is, that Christ came to redeem mankind,
and His atonement is full and sufficient for
those who believe the everlasting truths of the
Gospel Freedom goes hand in hand with the
Gospel, and those only are Christ's followers
who preach its entire doctrines." We do not
suspect that this confession of faith will be quite
satisfactory to Cardinal Wiseman; it will, how-
ever, relieve the minds of many who might have
been imposed by the attempt of his eminence to
"et him forth before men as an infidel of the
very grossest type.
A niemorandum has been addressed to the
Secretary for War by order of the Commander-
in-Chief, expressing a most favourable opinion
as to the efficiency of the numerous corps of
volunteers which were reviewed in Ilyde Park
on Saturday week. A still more striking tribute
has been paid to one of the regiments then pre-
sent. The commander of the let Nottingham,
or Robin Hood Rifles, has been officially in-
formed that the usual annual inspection will this
year be dispensed with, the appearance of the
members of the corps on Saturday being such as
to render an inspection superfluous.
The Court under the administration of the
Prince and Princess of Wales is far from in-
active. Every day brings %%Rh it some festive
or charitable demonstration, dr sonic august
state ceremony. Saturday week WU devoted to
the volunteer review in Hyde Park, the Prince
dining With the officers of his regiment at
Willis's rooms in the eVening. Sunday morning
saw the royal couple at Whitehall; the afternoon
took them to Richmond Park. On Monday
they paid • visit of courtesy to the ex-Queen of
the French. On Tuesday they had a grand
dinner party at Marlborough House. On Wed-
nesday the Prince paid a visit to the Duke of
Newcastle in the morning, held a grand levee on
behalf of the Queen in the afternoon, and took
the Princess, along with the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hew, to the Haymarket theatre in
the evening. On Thursday, the Royal couple,
accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, Lord
Granville, Lord Palmerston, and many other
distinguished personages, paid a visit to Cam-
bridge, where his royal Highness received formal
adiresses ; where the Princess delivered certain
valuable prizes to the University Volunteers;
and where, in the Senate House, and in the
presence of an august assembly, the Prince
and Duke were installed Doctors of Laws. The
undergraduates, on the occasion, gave boisterous
expression to their sympathy with the Princess;
and, on a call for three cheers for the King of
Denmark being raised, they responded with a
vociferous enthusiasm which left no doubt on any
mind of the bias which their opinions had received
on the great question of the day. For Earl
Russell hisses were given, and groans and hisses
resounded throughout the hall on the mention
of Prussia and Austria. Lord Palmerston, who
is supposed to be more belicose on the Dano-
German question than his Foreign Secretary,
was received with cheers. On Friday morning
the Prince and Princess again visited the
Senate House, where degrees were bestowed on
several distinguished personages. The Royal
party afterwards visited the horticultural fete.
Her Majesty is in good health at Balmoral,
and is expected to return to Windsor in the
course of the present week.
The Penal Servitude Acts Amendment Bill has
passed the second reading in the House of Lords.
By this Act the ticket-of-leave convict will have to
report himself periodically to the police, so that
those functionaries may have • complete surveillance
over all his actions. This may be all very well for
that class of convicts who ought to have been
let out of prison before the fall expiration of their
tints—hardened thieves; but will it not mitigate
egged the moose* of those who desire to reform
It appears to us that a truly reformed convict, under
the operations of the new law, will nod It utterly in,
violable to return to •deoent, honest, and honourable
mode of living. There is something extremely objec-
tionable in giving power to the police to demand, of
the poor wretch to "show his ticket." There are
already symptoms that our police system is fast de-
veloping itself into • mighty abuse. An average
policeman is about the last man in the world to
whom should be entrusted discretionary adthority
and power. Granting that he cannot altogether
be done without his duties should be prescribed
even to the minutest detail, and his respon-
sibility not to transgress them should be sup-
by the severest penalties. An ordinary
policeman is not likely to be a man of the
mental or moral capacity. The kind of work he has
to do, the number of hours per day over which his
employmeat extends, the beggarly rate of his pay-
ment, when combined, will constitute • tolerably
reliable guarantee that in will not be • man of the
finest order of mind, or even of the noblest instincts.
Hut in his igDOIIIDO6, his roughness, and in his in-
capacity for delicate or 'Salted pursuits, he is yet •
child of human nature. He haa his ambitions, his
egotisms, his resentments, his subtle sense of self-
interest, and, above all, that pride in the power
he wields, which, more than anything else, makes
the power dangerous. He lacks the fine peneeptioo,
the noble self-restraint, the inexhaustable patience,
tlie sublime impsetiality which mono necessary to the
proper fulfilment ofjudicial offices; and he possesses
• rough, uncultivated shrewdness, an untutored and
undisciplined officicoomess, which must totally dis-
qualify bun for arbitrary and comparatively irres-
ponsible functions. An ordinary policeman will
feel that • ticket-of-leave man is his natural victim;
that be fulfils his duty in the s measure in
which he can keep the poor set of employ-
ment, and in which he can hunt him down to the
dogs and the dirt In his surveillance he will be-
come prosecutiou and persecution, and persecution
will be felt to be the relied ladder to such renown
an be may hope to achieve in the pursuit of a police.
moo. He will aim to collect convictions against
ticket-of-leave mob, even is a gloss-keeper will
coiled here-skies. Every new victim will be • new
victory. And it is quite natural that such should
be the case. It is an inherent tendency of the
system of which police constables are the agents.
It is the inevitable proms through which human
nature would drag any MAU who might be placed in
the same position.

DORCHESTER—PITCH= Cobs llaancr, Hater.
day, June 4.—There were large 'upraise of wheat on
offer Is the Exchange to-day, and nearly the whole were
cleared at an advance oil.. per qr. No alteration in
the value of grinding barley or oats front the precious
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Tax Viamrasz.—ns reading at the thermometer et
Donthester for the pert week M se follows :

No I. Direetkon State of
~I of Wind. Weather.
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00 45 SS kSW Tina, cloudy
se 47 SIRE Gloomy, rain
62 45 NZ kll Cloudy
W.I 46 NE in Rain, fine
53 42 NZ Rain, dull
a 40 NZ Flee
60 57 WNW Fine, cloudy
0011114POID1aW REM LAST MB.
66 52 21 SNW fine
67 411 N 5 SR Hot k gloomy
64 41 ER 6 Gloomy, fine
61 42 ESE Very Ise
Ti 41 W Very line
61 43 NW Vary fine
58 46 WSW Rain

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Ova Niatosei. lirmotraaesca: How Aim WI
TO DIAL WITH tv!—This forms the subject of
lecture announced to be delivered by the Rev.
Thomas Hatton. ILA., rector of Stilton, Hunts,
on Tuesday evening, at the schoolroom, East
Fordington. The Rev. H. Houle intends occupy.
log Us. akar.

TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.

A meeting of the Council was held on Monday.
The Mayor presided, and titers were also present
Aldermen Einar, and ffielpin ; Councillors Deveuish,
Davis, Bennett, Site* Aldridge, Lock, Andrews,
and Mason.
Some oonsiderable time having elapsed before the
Wilms of the Council could be commenced, owing
to their not being sufficient members in attendance
to form • quorum, in the meanwhile the Mayor
=d co the table papers which had been received
the Royal 11130LIDN Society for the treatment of
persons apparently drowned, recommending that
they should be varnished, and placed on boards in
suitable peose.
1 The sinnutes of the lest meeting having bum
' read, the first subject brought under consideration
: was that relating to
7113 FAIR AND KARIM GROUND.

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The Tows Cutas reed S letter which ho hod

received from the Duchy Office, in reference to this
subject, of which the foliuwing is a copy

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Duchy of Cornwall. Buckingham isate. Pelt May, 1984.
beg to acquaint you that the Memorial,
transmitted with your letter of the 21st of Januar,
last of the Town Council of Dorchester, praying for •
grant in fee of the present fair and market eriolnd and
certain intjaCent promises, to Justify them in an
expenditure of public money to provide itereased
accommodation, has been submitted to His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wsirs in Council, and ill
reply I sin to inform you that it is not considered
deairable that the premised to which the
application has reference should be alienated from the
Duchy by being made the stlioject of a grant in fee.
But with • Clew to giro the Corpsration such an interest
U Will juatiftlie outlay neeessary for the Ortemplated
imProvelitell rom to skate that • gnintvaili,if desired.
be made to the Town Council of • Wise fir gg years of
the present ground (with the exception Sf a wnall
portion shown on the enclosed tearing by file eoloar
I green) and of the stables and premise, referred to In
the niemorial, the trots diking the life of hr. John
Randolph Toose to be £l4 per annum as now paid by
the Corporation for the scalds and premises comprised
in their lease, and afterwards to be CC pet annitn.
If the Town Council desire too:taint the grant upon
these terms, a surrender will be made of the copybold
interest in the portion held upon the life of Mr. Tome,
leaving the present ',served rent and land-tax to son-
liana chargeable upon the residue of the tenements.
I am, Sir, Your obedient •ervant.
G. Symonds, Esq. J. W. BATERAN.
A somewhat long but very unimportant dis-
cussion on the subject took place, which was settled
by Mr. ANDRICWB proposing, and Me. GALPIN
seconding, that the offer or the Duchy be accepted
subject to the approval of the Council of the lean.
to be submitted.

/RR NEW OORN IXCHAPOR.
'the nett business on the agenda paper was to
consider the report of the Market Site Committee,
and give any necessary directions thereolt
In reference to this subject the MAYOR stated !
that a commit:ea had been appointed to aonsider
the question et the New Corn Mitctuinge. They
lusd met OD three or four ocersions, and although
three or four schemes had been laid before them they
were not sufficiently ripe to bring before the Council,
consequently there was no report to present. Since
the notice bad been put on the paper another scheme
bad been submitted, which suggested the keeping of
the
_present site with a view to its enlargement.
Mr. ENSOR stated that when the committee was
appointed be pledged himself that, in the event of
their not sneoeeding in being able to report upon a
✓ite, be should take the sense of the Council upon
the scheme which be had originally proposed.
That committee were not prepared to make a report,
but as there was another scheme in anticipation he
would not put his proposal. He had now another
proposition to make, and one which would come
nearer home, and one which he believed would be
satisfactory to all parties. Uunder these circum-
fiancee he would not put the question he pledged
himself to do, in the event of the committee not
bringing forward a scheme at this uieeting.