The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

Feb. 23, 1858.

To the Editor of the Dorset County Express and
Agricultural Gazette.
King's Arms Inn, Whitchurch.
Feb. 22nd.
SIR—In the Express of February the 9th it is reported
that I was summoned by my wife for assaulting her. It
reads as though I came home drunk, and, after breaking
several gleams, I knocked my wife down, and in the
morning that I threatened to stab her, and afterwards
turned her out of the house. Now I deny having struck
her, or that I threatened to stab her ; but it is true that
I was fined £5 for an assault.
There is one important omission in the report of the
case; and that is that I made a certain charge against
her for the commission of an act of the most aggravating
nature, and which charge, I believe, I shall fully sub-
stantiate in an action against • man who is associated
with her.
I think it due to myself to make this statement, as
from the report it would appear that I committed the
assault without provocation.
I trust for the sake of my character you will insert
this letter in your next issue.
I am, Sir,
• Yours respectfully,
JOHN SMITH.

THE ALLEGED LIBEL ON THE EMPEROR OF THE
FRENCH.—On Saturday Edward Truelove, the keeper of
a bookstall and shop near Temple-bar, Strand (who had
been remanded from the previous Monday on bail), at-
tended at the Bow-street police-court to answer the
charge of havtng published • pamphlet entitled " Tyres-
nicide ; is it justifiable 7 By W. E. Adams—purport-
ing to be • " false, inaliciwis, scandalous, and seditious
libel of and concerning the Emperor of the French, with
the view to incite divers persons to murder his said
Majesty." Mr. Bodkin appeared, as before, on behalf of
the Crown, and the defendant was eventually fully com-
mitted for trial.

TWO SOLICITORS CHARGED WITH FORGERY—On Sa-
turday morning James and Charles Mellor, father and
son, solicitors, recently in business at Ashton•upon-Lyne,
were brought before the magistrates of that borough
charged with forgery. Mr. Marriott, solicitor, of Man-
chester, said the prisoners had been captured in Ame-
rica, and brought to this country on two charges of
forgery. One of these charges was that of altering the
word "one" to "four" in a receipt given to the Mellors
by Simon Fothergill, of Manchester, whose wife was a
legatee under the will of the into Mr. Hart, the adminis-
tration of whose affairs had been placed in the hand' of
the elder prisoner. The receipt had thus been passed off
as for ZOO, when the prisoner had, in reality, only pant
£l5O. The second charge was for creating and passing of,,
as for value, a d'eed of conveyance, which purported to
convey to a person named Prestwich, certain pro-
perty at Saddleworth, the name used as that of the
conveyor being that of • clerk in Mellor's office..
It appears the prisoners were captured by Mr. Buck-
ley, of the Manchester detective police, who started ilk
pursuit on the 15th of January last, with warrants for.
their apprehension, by the Canada, steamer from Liver-
pool to Boston. From Boston he went to Portland,
thence to Island Pond, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit Chi-
tago, and Sandwich. At the last place he hired a wagon
and proceeded to the prairie lands of Illinois, about
30 miles from St. Louis, where he arrived on the 6th
of February. Here he found the prisoners sta-
ing at a farmhouse occupied by Mr. Edward Heap. lie
was was introduced as a countryman, and did not disclose
his errand until he had satisfied himself by conversation
with them that they were the men he was in search of.
He brought them home by the Edinburgh steamer from
New York, and arrived at Ashton on Saturday morning,
having travelled altogether between 9,000 and 10,000
miles.

CRUMB MXTITOD OF MAIIINO COIIIITEIFIZT GIUMIFDII.—"A
most curious eight," says Montgomery Martin in his work on
" China," "met our view on entering a factory, where eome
five hundred celestials were seen buelly engaged altering the
tizeittaunconizewletrh! lomwzyrioxichwrererdi.Bowheearete.aetinutop oo.un-
the Chinese Bret heard that the English Government would tee-
the future tax the common and the best tea alike. By cover..
log the counterfeit with the same colour is the costly true
sort, the imitation is rendered ao exact, that it is readily
of to the consumer as the real, at double its origin cost.
HORNIMAN & Co., London, in order to avoid thew Inferior
descriptions, find it needful to import Tea without powdered
colour on the surface. Their Pure Tea. are sold throughout
the kingdom, in Packet., and by authorised Agents in this
locality, ae advertised in our columns of this day.

Printed and published for the Propiietors by JOHN
BALHTLETT ATKINS, of Fordi7,:n Hill, Dorchester,
Printer, at the Office of The id Covitty 3xpeees,
Church Street, Dorchester. Tuesday, March 2n4,
1868.

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