The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-02-16 00:00:00

iltshire.
SALISBURY TOWN COUNCIL

The quarterly meeting of the Town Council was held
on Thursday the 4th inst., the Hord. fsl• Waters. B-th 2)
presiding; and there were also piesent. Aldermen J.
Cother, 0. Pain, and T. Pain; Councillors Ottaway,
Style. Eldridge, Whitlock, Fswcett, Stokes, Sidfard,
Dawkins. Jarnevon, Ternll, and hoe.
Tbq report of the committee appointed to consider
the Market-boom e Bill was read by the Town Clerk (Mr.
C. M. Lee). It dated that the committee ooneidered
that the whole of the clauses (with the exception of that
relating to the toils) should he *emoted to. The ems-
niittee met the directors of the market-home company,
and tlpii subsequently coasented to amend the donne
as suggested by the committee, excepting the shame of
one penny per sack, which they did not think slanted
the interest, of the Corporation, or the inhabitant, of
the city. They therefore eonsidered that there was no
necessity to petition the House of Common. lodges any
other petition should be promoted. The Tows Clerk
stated that the yearly admission tacked for farmers and
dealers had been exed st one guinea; daily tickets for
farmers or dealers, 61. • ditto for parties not being
farmers or dealers, 3cl. ; ;ad for every sack of corn not
gored in the building, Id. On the motion of Mr.
Woodlands, seconded by Mr. Roe, the report was re-
ceived and adopted.
The Watch Committee's report was also received, and
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adopted.
The Towg Ounig reed an applieetin frau Mr.
Enrich's. for an assignment of the lease of •
garden and orchard, formerly held by the late Colonel
Raker, from Mr. Harris to Mr. W. P. Moore, grow,
Wioehester-atreet. The application was granted.
Tbe MaToe drew tin attention of the Council to the
felt that congratulatory addressee had been presented
to bier Majesty and the Prince and Princess of Wala
on the occasion of the birth of a Prince, and he presumed
Salisbury would wish to adopt • sander coarse.
Mr. STYLI ens willing to make • motion to that effect,
and also that a committee be appointed to prepare the
addressee, and forward than to the Home Secretary for
presentatioe.

Tins was sseonded by Mr. Alderman COTIMR, and
carried unanimously.
The Council then resolved itself into ths
Look!. BOARD Or HRALTIL

The SURVEYOIIB reported that Mr. Horne had pur-
chased the Cricket-emend and the land between it end
London-rowlosereral iota of which bad been cold for
building purposes. The rent of the houses to be erected
would very from EIS to CU a year, and scone of them
would be within the borough. They were to be com-
pleted this summer, and Mr. Harris had probed to have
a *ewer and water main carried to within the usual
distance from the property. The cost of the former
would be CM, and that of the latter £3s.—On the
motion of Mr. STTLL seconded by Mr. T. PAIS, the
application was granted.

THII OAS DILL.
A deputation from the Belisbury Gas Company, con-
sisting of Mr. Martin Coates, Mr. T. R. Fisher Mr.
WeBA, Mr. Isaac White, Mr. Bumper and Mr. Dowding.
attended the meeting with the view of having a eon-
Ferenc* with the Board in ftlitTeDoo to the proposed
New Gas Bill. . . .

...- --
Mr. Alderman KM-NIT said he had iven an under-
taking at the last meeting that the bill should not be
introduced into the bowie for • fortnight, but he had
received a letter from hi. parliamentary agents, in/Min-
ing him that if such a d.lay occurred, it would have
the effect of defeating the bill altogether. He therefore
had to ask them to absolve him from that undertaking,
as it was given under • mis-pprehetwion. The gas
directors were in attendance to confer with the Board,
and they were anxious to preserve peace He wished it
to be moderato.' that anything that took place at
that meeting should only he regarded as a private
conversation.

Mr T. PAIN moved that the Board confer with the
Gas Directors, which mut seconded by Mr. Woodlands
and carried.

The CH•TRHAN of the Company then addressed the
Board. He said the object of the directors in meeting
them was to save the town the expense of • parlia-
mentary opposition. In reference to the capital of the
company, objected to by the Hoard, he said it would be
• direct disadvantega to the existing shareholders to
nee more capital than they were absolutely obliged,
because they would have to pay interest upon it. The
reason they asked for £30,000, and borrowing powers to
the extent of £3OlOO. waa in consequenoe of the
superintendent, who had had • great deal of experience
in the manufacture of gas, was of opinion that with
the extension of the city, and with an increasing
tendency on the part of consumers to take gas, the
extra capital would be required in ten years time. The
result would be that the company would hare to bear
the expense of another bill, which they were anxious
to avoid.
Kr. HTTLit said he understood his argument to be that
although up to this the company het employed wily
£13,000, an extension to £2OOOO. as proposed by the
Council, would not be sufficient for the next ten years.
The CHAIRMaIe said that was the opinion of their
superintendent.
A lengay dismission followed, the Board being
generally of opinion that the apes' recommended by
them was sufficient, and ultimately the Chairman con-
ceded the point. Another alteration of the Board in
reference to service pipes was also conceded.
The CHAIRMAN! said in reference to the rrioe, the
company had proposed a mstinium of es. per thousand
feet within the borough, and Ts. beyond it, and with
Oda question they wished to correct the clause in re-
tinue* to the illuminating power of the gas. The
company proposed an illuminating power of twelve
candles, but the Board required fourteen, which would
make • difference of one-seventh in the wet of pro-
duction. The company could not produce that quality
gas with the eel now employed, and if they used
cuud coal it would be injurious to health. By re'
dosing the maximum price of gas out of the borough
below fle, per thousa4 and at the same time insisting
oil a 14.eandle light, the Board were cutting the
company in two ways. If the Board, however, would
give the company the maximum of Is. per thousand in
the city, they would undertake to supply 14-
candle gas. lie hoped the Board would sot insist upon
• sliding scale, ache was afraid It would be • bone of
contention that would never he got over.
Mr. MTTLR said the committee were guided in their
opinion by the fact that In recent legislation some
allowance had been made to large consumers. They
took the sliding scale from the Reading bill.
The Caitlin An said he understood that the inhabitants
of Reading were very mush dissatisfied with their
Bill, and that • great deal of excitement was the cow

sisq
Mr. tierrui : Not on account of the protecting classes,
which the Town Council introduced,
The QUIRK/AI said perhaps e
issZbut at all manta
as there w dissatisfaction. The proposed by the
Board was for consumers of km than 10,000 feet, se, per
thousand; for woman of 10,000 and Ims than 90,000,
4s. 94; for ammeters of 20,000 and less than 40,000,
• 64. ' • and for cousuniers of 40,000 and upward, 16. Id.
Bo that the small astuninser would bare to pay 94. per
thouriod more than the large menumr. He dissected
from that prixeiple, for he thought the poor man was
poor enough, without making him poor.: by Act of Par-
liament.
Mr. firvt.z said it was well known that it was more
profitable to • company to have Imp mummers than
email ones, though the former were supplied at •
lower rate.
The CaLtutsd said the company had yielded to •
charge of 4a. per thousand for the public lamps with the
view of conciliating the &mud of Health. He did not,
however, admit the justice of charging the nubile itul_lo
at 4e., and private consumers at ss. per thousand. To
pass an Ad of Parliament to compel the poor man to
pay 94. • thousand feet for pa more than the rich man
"Clto him to be an unmerciful thing.
angs observed that the company In his opinion
had taken • bold step in reducing the price of pate
private °mummers to 5a per thorium& He objected to
the eliding male of Marra
The Cgetilif •If remarked that lithe Board insisted on
14 Dandle gas, it was but fair that they should allow a
maximum price of fla. But if the Board would be con-
tent with • 12. candle light, the company would recon-
sider the maximum. They objected altogether to
sliding male.
Allusion was than made to furnishing • meter to *very
public lamp, and atter a oonederablis discussion the.
Clerk drew a clause enabling the company to provide
and let meters to the Board at a rent not higher than
that charged to private consumers, to which no ob.
jection wee made by the directors.
The Board then considered the next question as to
the appointment of an examiner, and proceedings he-
fore the magistrates.
The Cnalitnan objected to the doom proposed by

The Cu= said the clause had been copied from the
Metropolitan On. Act.
The Cncrniii maid the company had no objection to
the Reading clause, which empowered illation to order
experimenta to tent the illuminating power and purity
of the pa on the receipt of a requisition from nay Are
consumers. With regard to notles of each *lamina-
tions the company were willing to redeem it to three
hours an suggested by the Board, Instead of sis hours
se orienally popeeed.
Mr. Alderman T. PLOI *eked If they had fully
mule up their minds that the lowed maim= mast
be de. 6.1. _

The Ca AMMAN 3d:o Yee, for 12-cdadle pa If the
Board Insisted ea 14 they should require s maximum
01 65.

1. Directors then withdrew.
Mr. WHIIIIOOI then mowed. and Me. Tow= woods&
that the resolution palmed at the last meeting be
reattached, and that the Board aprie to • 11111.Lini11111 of
Is. 6d. pm thousand feet for pa of au illuminating
power equal to 14 sperm candles.
Mr. lirocos proposed • mo•Kboum of is. per thousand
for pa of lteindle power, but this amendment was
not carried.
Mr. Aldarmaa T. PAM considered Yr. Whitiosh's
motion worthkoe, aiming that the directors had refused
to .uuly 14-sends pa at fla 6d. pee thousand.
Ilr.arna wee willingly'r the sake of pesos, although
he believed the reoomnsendanions of the committee
were sound. to amide to the soasbnom suggested
Mr. Wldtlook.
In answer to Mr.?. Ada. Mr. Alderman MIMI,
said the dirrotors bad obstod that lbws solid sot agree
to • osubouro of6o. ed. for los of likes& poor.
Kr. T. Pa= 000siderod h booodalost to make snob
osolOSO, Aso the *mpg had bawd suPPkisig

14-candle gu at the rate proposed. Re wished to know
whether they were to oppose the bill if the directors
would not ague to their terms.
Mr. OSTIA apprehended that it wss quite competent
for them before leaving the room to instruct the Clerk
to take measures to oppose the bill, in the event of the
company refusing to accede to the amendments of the
Board.

After a desultory distention. Mr. Alderman T. PAIN
ITIoYed as an amendment that the original resolution of
the Board be Dot rescinded, which was seconded by Mr.
Woopianna, when it was carried, it voting for it and
7 spinet.
No objection cm made to the Introduction of the
Beading testing clause suggested by the cowpony.
Mr. WOODLANDS moved that in case the company
agree to the other alteration. adopted by this Board
the sliding male be expunged from clause 44 of the
bill, and that the maximum prim of gas within the oity
be Bs. per thousand to private eonstuuers, and 4s. to the
publie lamps, the illuminating power of the gas to be
equal to 14 candles. This was seconded by Mr. Eldridge
and carried.

--Mr. Alderman T. Pont moved, "That in CUB the
company do not agree to the bill as amended by this
Board, the Clerk do prepare a petition to parliament
praying that this Board may be beard by their counsel
agents cod witnesses, with the view to obtain the
insertion of all proper clauses, alterations and amend-
ment. for the protestion of the rights of this Board, and
the intemts of the intiabitents of this city.

The motion was emended by Yr. OTTAWAY, and
carried.
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very wet, and almost in • rate of eaves. Ds
eyes were fixed, and the mouth was closed, l iequired ;
the twos of the child being so wet, end I was informed ,
that it had had • rah. I applied stimulants sad the ,
usual remedies, and sal had to call upon another patient
I left the house. I returned again after • few MIS 004
and the child was better. I subsequently became
eMaainlinnatedtionwtiothseeth; ftretsre dwerTestiesy'eUteannlaf mintries."
There were two tumefied bruises on the top of the
he'd, and one on the hack showing considerable
violence. On one of the legs there was a discoloration
showing former violence, which the defendant had
admitted was received a week or tan days previose.l.
The blows on the heed and spine could have boo
occasioned by the child's falling down stairs. The
child was of • weakly constitution. When I saw it it
was almost in • state of collapse, and I think it was a ,
very fortunate thing that the neighbours went in when ,
they did. I inquired of the defeodaat why the dead
was naked at that thee of day, end she replied she did ;
it herself, and afterwards she could sot tell bow the ;
child became naked. Since then the defendant had ,
paid every attention to the child.
The defendant said it was • quarter to four o'clock ;
when she wee in • neighbour's boon and she left ,
hurriedly, as she had to take her husband's tea at four ,
o'clock. She returned to her hoe's, bet BIN WY not
there long before the neighhonrs came In. The little
girl fell oat of bed ler week, and • person was in the .
house at the time. She also fell down the stairs, and she ;
then received the blow in the hack. She (defendant)
herbed her with warm water, and the sesta never ;
turned bleck. It was in the same Mete sow as it wee
when she received the injury. The child was very ;
week, and was continually falling about. She had very
weak ancles, and sometimes when she was walking she I
would fall down over • straw. The day before the was
accused of assaulting the child she (alit down stairs, Ned ,
knocked her heed against the table. The, defendant
then celled
Mrs. Fanny Iferwood, who resides with her husband,
In Church-street. She said: On Thursday afternoon last
the defendant tolled upon me about • quarter to four
o'clock, and she left for the purpose, as she stated, to
fetch her husband's tea Witness was at the &den.
dant's house on Wednesday week last, when the child
fell down the stairs. Witness picked her up, and asked
her if she had hurt her back, and she replied in the
negative. In the evening withers was present when the
child was undressed. There was then • large bump on
her back. The defendant bathed the bruise with warm
utter. I have men her repeatedly fall down. On the
Terris', before I was there on the Wednesday, there
was no bruise on the child. When the child fell down
the stain the defeodant was sitting in the lower room
with witness. She beard Mrs. Inge say, on Thursday
afternoon leet, that she would do her her to get the de-
fendant in 'prison, the defendaat bad nearly killed the
child, and she would go against her.
Henry Wylie (with whom the defendant 0066600
mid: On Thursday afternoon, having heard thathis child
had frith down stairs, he went to his house, and found
his daughter lying in the arms of Mrs. Muslin. Witness
spoke to the gild, and she said she was better. She
was continually falling down. On • Sunday he had
men her fall down on the pavement when she was walk-
ing with any one. He bad never 110011 the defendant
beat the child, and he did not believe she had been
beaten as the withered bad stated. He was at work
daring the day.
Eli Marwood, a carpenter, said he had frequently
visited the defendant's house, and bad never seen her
ill-treat the child. He spoke u to the child's pro-
pensity for falling about.
This being the whole of the evidence the magistrates
considered the case, and after • brief deliberation,
The Chairman tid the Bench had no doubt thet she
had been guilty of greenly Wresting that unfortunate
child, and it was only in consequence of the situation In
which she stood that prevented • very severe punishe
ment being inflicted upon her. But the magistrates
were determined to mark their disapprobation of her
conduct, by sending her to wren for six weeks, and at
the expiration of that time to enter into sureties to
kee the peer towards that child and all Her Majesty's
subject. for six months.
Mr. Cother ordered Muslin, the father, to take chant
of the child, and expressed • hope that be would take
proper care of it.
The Clerk (Mr. C. It. Lee) said as the child was weakly
there was the greeter necessity that proper we should
be taken of it.
A large mob congregated around the Council House,
and as the prisoner left the Court she was hooted by
the indignant crowd ; but, as she was in charge of three
policemen, nothing further occurred beyond this
ebullition of feeling.
On Thursday afternoon the inhabitants of that part of
the city where the prisoner resided were greatly excited
in consequence of a rumour having gained ground that
the prisoner had murdered the child. The how was
besieged, and the mob in their endeavours to gain
admittance broke the door. The police, however, were
on the spot, and prevented any further violence.
Snauito A Mut. —James Nudge was charged
with stealing • copper kettle, value 45., the property of
Mrs. Mary Ann Barrett, of the Wilton Arms Inn,
Flaherton.—The proethetrix missed the Ma kettle on
Thursday morning, and she gave information to the
police, who found that the primmer had sold the kettle
to William Tyre, a marine-store dealer, o*ml-street,
for 25.-Boperlnten4ent Caldow said the pnaoner lived
in the town. He was • painter by trade, and interest
distress. He hadkjeot had any work for months, and
he had • wife and family to support. —Mrs. Barrett
recommended the prisoner to the merciful consideration
of the Court. She had known the prisoner for many
years, and his wife was • hard-working woman. —The
Bench sentenced the prisoner to seven days' hard labour.
81110011 AOCIDIDIT.—Os Thursday, Henry White, •
porter in the employ of the Great Western Railway
Company, sustained • compound fracture of his left
leg through a piece of timber falling upon him. He
was 'tending by the side of some trucks laden with
Umber, and as some of the pieces had become loose,
• man got upon the trucks to push them oft One of
the pieces fell before White could get out of the way,
and he sustained the injuries above-stated. The
unfortunate man was removed to the Infirmary, where
he received every attention.
COUKTT PIITY Sustotra, Tuesday—Before
• Folkeetone, George Mariam, Esq., and W.
Pinckney. Esq.
SELLING Ben DC11.1103 PROHIBITE' R0U15.-13ilas
Greyer, beer-house keeper, No Man's lan I, appeared
in answer to an adjourned summons charging him with
selling beer during prohibited hours on Sunday,
the 20th December last.—The case was adjourned from
the last Court to enable the defendant to bring other
witneres.—On the part of the prosecution it was stated
that defendant repelled Eli Hatch tod • man named
Dirlen with a pint of beer at half-past three on the
Sunday afternoon in question, and a third witness
swore that after, the defendant had cleared
the house at three o'clock, he saw him
admit the .ero men above-named. The
case for the defence was that the defendant nerved
the witnesses with the beer at • quarter to three, and
that he was more than two miles from his how as the
time spoken to by the enthuses for the prodecution.
In order that he might prove this fact an adjournment
was granted. —Mr. Hill now appeared for the defendant,
and called Mrs, Mary Ann Brewer, who said she kept
the Telegraph Inn, in the New Forest. Her how was,
she supposed, nearly three miles from the defendant's
house. On Sunday, the 90th December, the defendant
came to her house about half-part three in the afternoon,
and inquired if she had seen any young men belonging
Man's She could it ‘e•