The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-22 00:00:00

TAM LATE ELECTION OF GUARDIANS.

RESULT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD
ENQUIRY.
MIL LIONZL BUDGE UNSE %TED.

The Local Government Board enquiry recently held by
Mr. Baldwin Fleming into the validity of the late election
of Guardians, for the parish of St. James he, resulted in
Mr. flibljje's majority of seven being converted into a
maiority of four for ?Ir. Baker, who will take the place
of Mr. Budge at the Board of Guardiano. The following
communication from the Local Government Board wog
received by Mr. Baker on Thursday morning :
" Local Government Board, Whitehall. S.W..
"15th October, li
" Sir,—l am directed by the Local Goverment Board to
inform you that they have received and considered the
report of their Inspector, Mr. Baldwyn Fleming, upon the
Inquiry which he recently held with reference to the claim
Preferred by Plott to the east of guardian. for the parish of
St. James's, Poole. in the room .of I'. E. I. Budge.
"It appears that at the lost election of Guardian.. forth.
Tharish of St. James', Messrs. Gorge Curtis, John Hayman,
George f;ott, P. F. L. Budge, and yourmlf were nominated
to the office in question, and that as the result of the
polling, the Returning Officer declared the four gentlemen
tinit mentioned to have been duly elected. The number
of votes respectively recorded in their favour having been
stated by the returning officer as follows :—Curtis, 52s ;
Hayman, Ma; Goff, d2l; and Budge, 533 ; for yoursel, 538
votes were recorded.

"The Hood are informed by their inspector that you
preferred objectioni at the inquiry to the validity of 157
votes recorded on behalf of Mr. Budge, and that counter-
objections were taken by Mr. Budge, to 104 et the
votes with which you have been credited by the lteturning

-7rfti—ii Board havinaltheiricarefull rongideration to the
evidence taken at the enquiry. and having examined the
votZtf...papers. the legality a which has Mon mll.l is
are of opinion that in the cam of each of the
voters indicated In the following PatagraPha you have
established the validity of your objections.
"The Board and that as respects 98 of the L.V votes to
which you object it was proved at the inquiry that the
voting papers had not been signed by the voters them-
. . . . .

-7'As—ain. votes amounting in all to 35 appear to hsve been
given for Yr. Budge by persons who had not been rated
to the relief of the poor, in the parish of St. James's. for
the whole year immediatedly preceding the date of the
electlon, and who were consequently disqualified by the
terms land 5 Will. IV., cap. 76, section 46. from voting
thereat. The provision above referred to would also have
the effect of rendering invalid the votes of Kr. Farwell
and Stephen Brown, who had not at the time of the
election paid the amount of osetaAn poor r.ites respectively
surnamed upon them in the months of April and July,
. . . . _

"Of the other votes to which you demur the Board are
informed that voting
.papers epreventing in the whole 21
votes, were collected in a lag termed the " home hag,"
which appears to have been placed in the office of the
Assistant-Overseer for the accommodation of voters who
were unable from various MUNI to deliver their papers to
the persons duly appointed to receive them. It is pro-
vided by article 21 of the Beard's General )rder, of the
14th February. 17. that if any voting. Papers .ball not
" have been.. collected at the voter, addres in the
parish ... by the persons appointed or employed for that
porpoise, every such voting paper shall be omitted in the
calculates of the votes i , except n certain cases specified
in the provisoes to the Article. The U.) of a bag under
circumstances, such as those referred to, is not a course of
proceeding which eomee within any of the provisoes to the
Article, and the Board roust therefore held that the AI
voting papers so collected were invalid.
" For a breach of this py.oybnon, the Board are also of
opinion that Martin L. Fry. voting paper, which was not
collected from the house at which it was delivered. was
likewise invali.l. _

The-triiers-VOtes of John Holloway, Richard Cwtridge.
and Robert Allen, should not, the Board think, have been
recorded by the Returning ()dicer, inasmuch as the
signatunn of the voters had not leen inserted in the place
reserved in the paper for that purpow. The Beni also
c insider that the votes of Geese Ilundon, Thomas
Cartriiite, and Francis Midden. in which cases the marks
of the v iters, who wer, unable to write. had not been
attested in the manner prescribed by the Board's Order,
should have
.heen.wjecte I Ai invalid.
. . .

--"iii.T3:-11.--ifiliiw,:iiiih7i;gl;;Oiitled to one vote only,
appears to have voted twice, the Bx4rd have accordingly
deducted from Mr. Budges total the vote to which it to
shown that Mr. Ballard had no right.
"With regard Wily to the vote of Thomas %whin, the
Board are of opinion that in view of the enactment in
section 14 of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 11711,
vote was invalid, it having been proved at tile inquiry
that his wife loot received relief at the cost of the Poor
Rates, within& period of twelve months prior to the date
of
.4th ction. _

—'7-11;71-i;sril have specified in the forecoing statoment the
whole of the votes (101 in number). ti which in their
opinion yon have preferred vafid objection. As regards
the remaining 50 the Board are of opinion havind regard
to the evidence taken at the enquiry that you have failed
to support Tour allegation that those votes hail been
improperly allowed.
" With respect to the counter objection. raiewd IT M.,
Bodge to votes ricordol in your favour, the LtoAnt CO.
svtor that in 90 cane he has established the in abdity of
such votas...

•
Procee. ine in the order already indicated, the Baard
Sod that in nine inetaneee, viz:—them of John Palley,
William Randle, Hannah Stout, William Cain% Peter
Cafe, R. Eaton, James Stout, W. Hall, and Jane
Windsor, the voting expert hat not heeu •1412.1 by the
persona Imially entitled ta v.te therein, and or c
aegeently ai in the cam of the IS votes recorded fo: 34,
Budge
.

votes given for you should no: have Inca
recorded by the Returning Officer, seeing that the
persons who gave such votes had not. as required by the
four and five William IV. cap. 76, section 10, been rated
for the whole year immediately preneding election.
The Board are further of opinion that the totyl return
in your favour is liable to deductoin in respect of 37 votes,
the voting papers relating to which bad been collected in
the '' home bas."—sproceedinz, as the board have pointeid
out, directly in contranvention of the provision in Article
21 of the General Order,

Thi-Tice-170-tktlig--PaPe;-4 John Burt was si-med in a place
not appropriated to the signature of the voter, and was
consequently invalid, as were also the 'Lees of Charlotte
Churchill, William Codwabs, SAIIIIIBI Stocks, Lanes
ficitt, and Christopher Cure, to • inch of whom, or to soma
member of whose families, relief had been administered
within. pemod of twelve month. previous to the date of
th.e. election,

-74 iiiiii lik.wioe regard as invalid the vote of Ana
Fancy, who, being at that time a married woman, was
legally disqualified from voting ; the vote of George Pit-
man, whom voting paper was liqued, not by himself but
by "Charlotte Pitman :" the vote of Mary Jane Toon,
in whose voting paper the isiitiaL, are not in the band-
writing of the witness to the voter's mark; the votes of
: Jane Tanner and Mark Mcflosell, in whom voting papers
, there are no entries in the column reserved for the initials
of the voter; and also the vote of Henry Willis, with
regard to whose voting paper it appears that the initials in
' the appropriate column are not those of the voter.
" /La regards the remaining voted to which Mr. Budge
objects., the Board are of opinion that the votes of John
Roes, Ft. Lockyer, and George Wells should not have been
recorded by the Returning Officer. In the first case, the
Board observe that the initials of the voter'. signature do
not correspond with those inserted to the fleet column of
the voting paper; and, moreover, upon examination of the
mom it is evident that alterations have been made in the
letter initials. The voting paper of Lockyer Is filled up
not only as having been attested for • person who
could not write, but as if the voter had voted by proxy.
Lastly, it appears that although George Walls wee able to
write, the initials placed in the voting piper against the
names of the candidates for wheel it is alleged that he
Intended to vote are not in hia own handwriting.
"Deducting from the total number of votes recorded by
the Returning Officer, in favour of Mr. Budge, the 101
votes, and from the total return as having been polled on
your behalf the 90 votes which are shown to have been
invalid, the minority of seven is converted into • majority
of four in your favour. Under theme circumstances the
Board will, as early as practitable. WOO an order unseating
Mr. Budge, and declaring you to be duly elected as
Guardian o( the_perteh of St. Jamee'e.
"Mr. S. I. Baker,ll;opitelgr°wl". Yagrest..o joPubedisnooNi•As}isaartavnall"ecreta
k n'

THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH lON
MODERN SOCIAL LIM
On Thursday the Bishop of Peterborough commenced
the Utiennial visitation of his diocese, and delivered his
charge to • Ism attendance of clergy and churchwardens.
Referring to the condition of Europe, and congratulating
his hearers upon the maintenance of peace, his lordship
said ignoble love a ease and pleasure ; the degree.
irig worship of wealth• the demoralising frauds cod dis-
honeeties that come of the fierce haste to pongees it ; the
senseless extravagance of luxury that too often follows ois
ps.aton• the effrontery of vice that, Hushed with
pride and fulness of bread, no longer condescends to pay
to virtue even the tribuse of hYP why ; the low eynicisin
that sneers away all thole better thoughte and higher
mime that are the very breath of • nation's nobler if.,,
and. springing out of these, the strife of interest., the
war of elem.+, widening and deepening day by day as the
envious selfishness of poverty nimbi no in natural
reaction against the ostentatious selfishneasoi wealth ; the
dull, desperate hate with which these who want and hare
not come at last to regard the whole framework of society,
which eeeme to them but one huge contrivance for their
oppression: the wild dreams of revolutionary change
which shall give to all alike, without the pain of labour
and self -denial, those enjoyments which are now the
privileged POSNIAIOII of the few, but which the many
Jong for with a bitter and persistent longing—these
are some of the seeds of the evil which, sown in our soil
and by our hands, may one day rise up, an exceed-
ing great army, more to be dreaded than the invading
hosts of any foreign fue. Tbe glare and glitter of our
modern civilisation may hide thesis for • time from us ;
we may fall to see how some of the most precious elements of our national greatness are witheringin Its heated
atmosphere, or what evil things are growing to maturity
In the darker shadows that it oasts ; but they are there,
nevertheless ; and, if we heed them not and reform them
Dot, the time may oome when we may wish that the sharp
and sobering discipline of war—nay, even the terrible
trials; and shadows of defeat—had visited us in time to save WI from the greater horrors bred out of our own sins
In timed profoundest slue and pesos. His lordship thee
considered in detail the three forces in modern sochitY
which, with partial and individual expectation; were
united in the attack now being made upon the National Church. They were sectarianism, infidelity. and
democracy. The point to which his argument, were
directed was thow, In the face of these, the ministers of the National Church should bear themselvea He
Pointed out a wise sad simple costes whizA, the dam
might take to win back the people to that:Ulundi—to oarry
out in their iiitagritle her real erinOiLles, by showing
themselves the servants for theL; Mashies ak, of on,ry
man in the parish—neithor proud to the pawnor servile to
the great, while CC:4100t11 to AU ; never ashamed of their
cap, ing rebuking the rice' of the highest as well
as of the lowest. His lordship concluded by aying that
he assumed in all he had said that the EsmiOousnt was I
worth presentee. If any thought otherwhie they should I
resign their positions and emolument,; and then, having I
gone out from it, wage war for It overthrow. Impartiality I
ix such • question warn affectation.

BRICACH OF PROIIIiit OF MARltletOff.
On Thursday an action whirl% had been brought in
the Queen 'e Bench UivWoj,Knowiman IL Eritt, in
which judgment went by default, was aent by the
r•perior Court to be t at the Middlesex Sheriff's Court, on the execution of • writ of inquiry for the
armament of d
It appeared that the defendant was connected with
the Stock Exchange , and his father wadi a stook-
brolmr. Tin Pima= was WV 39 end the damndest

about 34. In 1848, when the plaintiff Was living at
Peckham-rye, she was introduced to the defendant
and other members of his family. After some time
she acquainted the defendant that the children residing
with her were the °flaming of a gentleman who had
seduced her at a very early age, and who allowed her
MO a year. After the gentleman heard of her
acquaibtance with the defendant he discontinued the
allowance, and two actions have been brought, by one
of which the arrears oh COO were recovered, and by
the other a settlement of 1;4,500 on her children was
male. The plaintiff had by the defendant a child now
seven years old. After the verdicts in the other cases
the defendant profeesed his attachmeut to her. Th.
acquaintance was continued until Alen, 1876. and the
defendant had borrowed upwards of £lOO of the
arrears slie had recovered. The writ in the present
action was served in October. 11476, awl it was stated
that the defendant had been playin. at" hide sad
meek," and it was believed was now married to another
lady.
A large pile of letters written by the defendant to
the plaintiff was produced, and extracts were read
from several, couched in most affectionate terms. H.
called the plaintiff his "darling lovey wife." H.
thanked her for the kind expression of love, and down
to 1874 she was addressed in similar language, and he
sent' millions of kisses." In 1874 the defendant took
a house in liertionlshire for the plaintiff, which he
described in glowing thrum, awl sail it would he for
hie wife, chart, and himself, and the other children
were to reside elsewhere.

The plaintiff in her evidence Raid her father was
land steward to the gentleman who had seduced her
when 14, and by whom she had several children, for
whom an allowance had been made and she recovered
4:450 arrears, out of which she had lent the defendant
several sums, amounting to about I:100, which was
still owing. She became acquainted with the defen-
defendant in 1868, when she lived at Brockley-house,
In the neighbourhood. The defen taut in eighteen
months seduce I he- before the promise of marriage'
and she had a child by him, now nearly eight years old.
The defendant, the plaintiff said, believed her to he
the wife of another man when he seduced her. After
he knew her history, and that she was mother of
several children, he professed great attachment to her,
and was anxious to marry her.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchall asked the witness
whether when the defendant believed she We. a
married woman, she encouraged his attentions?
The plaintiff said she did not mention the cir.
cumstance to him. The defendant, no doubt, believed
she was a married woman, and after he knew he,
history, he promised her marriage, and professed an
ardent attachment. The defendant had allowed her
Vi a week for herself and child. In answer to the
court, the plaintiff said that when ate refused to
dwell in any other home with the defendant except as
I his wife, he manifested coolness, and she new behoved
he we. married to another lady.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell, in placing the Cale
before the jury. deplored that the defendant was not
represented Ib7 counsel in what he could not help
saying warn a distressing case. As the 'promise and
breach were admitted, the only question was the
amount of damages Had the promise been made
before the defendant knew that she was the mother of
several children, then very moderate damages could
only have been expected; but in this Mad the promise
waa made afterwards, and the jury wauld bear in
mind that when the defendant had seduced her, he be-
lieved she was a married woman. He was always
careful on the question of damages, which reefed
entirely: with the jury.
The jury retired for half an hour, and on their return
assessed the damages at £l7O.

At Leicester, on Thursday, the !tacos.ler sentenced a
man end woman namely delley to 10 months' imprison.
sent for gross cruelty to their Deice, mod four vim's, who
had been entrusted to them by her father, but was found
by him to be covered with br_lisea_. . .

THE BLACKBURN It itres.—Mr /futon. the arbitrator in
the care, has awarded the sum of £7,77 to I "olonel Mayne.
toot Jackson as compensation for the ddstruction of the
contents of Clayton-image during the late cotton strike,
and .1:1:G to Luke Jacobs. Mr. Jackson's coachman The
claim for the house by the owner was previously settled
out of court.

At hull -Quarter Sessions, on Thursday, .larne4 Bram-
bridge was sentenced to seven years penal servitude for
ateeling a mare, value Likl. Another man wit, at first
taken into cwitody for the offence, but being liberated on
bail he caught the real thief, and was himself diseharge&
ike industrial gloom in Lancashire is deepening.
Reports just received at Manchester state that prepara-
tions for working time are universal, the oneral
arrangement being that the will, should not light gas,
but stop work at dusk. It is said that no fewer than
40 mills have ceased work altogether during the last
few moths within a radius of ten miles round
bfanchester.

ibil.l.s/WAT.,; Pitt:L-11e greatext wonder of modes
times. —They cornal, bile, prerant flatulency, elesnse the
liver, and purify the systent, renovate the debilitated,
atrungthen the stomach, increase the appetite, invigorate
the nervet, priming, health, and reinstate the weak to an
an lour of feeling never before expect.....l. The sale of Hines
pills throughout the glohe a doniahni everyhohy, convinc-
! mg the most seeptical that then, is no Medieine equal to
olloway's pills for removing the complaints whieh are
incidental to the human race. They are incl.ul a blessing
to the afflicted, and A Ivan to th who sutler from any
hurler, internal or external. Thoinianda of persons have,
testified that by their use alone they have been reaf.rral
to health after other remedies had jiroved unsucosuifuL
1-‘IIANLY 111,711.A.:C. —.tit extraunlinary charge of
maliciously injuring a person with vitrol was haw,' on
oulty at the Worship-street poliee.eourt, London. it girl II
year of age, who is i n se re icoami.l that on Sun, hi ytheori *oiler
a shopman, named .% ',lett. about 24 years of au',. threw
the vitro] upon her, burnin- herneck, I.heek, find dread.
She explained that he fon nerliy taught in the Sunday school
whieh she attended, out he (mired to My attentions to
her, but her parento forbade it, and eh° avoided him. The
prtiner waa.r.sinuilitted for
_trial.

•
WEIMINti FIST' Vllii..--t yotitig wornati wicbarged Oa
Thursday at the Southwark Pulice-court with Lein, drunk
and disonlcrly. The prisoner WM found by a eon,,ighte la
the street shouting inquiries for her hu.hand, and declar-
M.: hint to bea "Jolly g.si I fellow.- She totid the magistrate*
it hal been her wedding day, and she lost her husband,
who, she feared, had got more intoxicated than herself,
and was locked up somewhern else. The magistrate,
considering that a weblitel night spent in a police cell
tr,ts sufficient punishment for the offence, released the

Mu
GLADSTONL: on Sri ITCALIsM. —A Brighton gentle-
man who wrote recently to Mr. Gladstone on the subject
of spiritualism haA received the following reply :—" London,
tictober 16—I to not share or approve the temper it
simple contempt with which so many view the phenomena.
It it is question, in the first instance, of evidence; it then
follows to explain, as far as we can, such facts as may
have been establishes'. My own immediate duties prevent
my active intervention ; and I remain, in what may
called contented reserve, without any fear that imposture
will rule or that truth can be mischievomo—Youra faith-
fully, W. R. i iLADATONE."
An Irish jury has for once distinguishes' itself. By the
verdict which has just been given, bringing in culpable
neglect against the chairman and director, of the Cork
and Macroom Railway, in the case of a recent accident on
that line, a new and wholesome principle has been
established. They have acted upon SydeneY Snlitb's
suggestion, that the killing of directors was the only
means of securing the safety of the public. The results
of the criminal proceedings that limy be taken against
them will be watched with interest by the public, and we
trust that the example set in Ireland may he followed
elsewhere in the case of accidents in all public enterprises
which have arisen from a manifest regard fur dividends
rather than for the public safety.
When Lord 110-andbrooks was In waiting at Balmoral, it
was represented to Lord Beaconsfield that at such a crisis,
In public affairs the Indian Secretary ought to be at his
posts and that the public journal, were beetling to di.-
cuss his absence in • disquieting manner. The Premier,
however, was equal to the emergency, and unabashed.
replied. 'Th. Secretary of State, at such a moment,
ought to be in close attendance upon the Queen, in order
that he may be able to acquaint her Majesty with each
new incident as it mans, and to take her immediate com-
mando'