The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

AI`TIMPTID EWJAPS Or • CONVICT.—On Thursday
afternoon a convict for a short period escaped the
vigilance a the warder, but was discovered near the
powder insrasine on the Verne. As soon as he was
missed the moist cautionary gun was fired. The de-
faulter, by thi+ time. is doubtters'bitterly repenting that
he ever made the attempt.

CATCH OF HSHRINGS. —During the past week the
weather has been more winterly in this looality than the
preoeeding part of t,43 month, anal large qaantities of
fresh !tomtits have been caught in the bay, of a quail,
and able rarely found in this neighbourhood. It is
estimated that at one cast alone there was over 50 000
fish in the net, which was found to be too small to oontain
thern,i as the net was drawn ashore. • Early on Tuesday
morning the beach was strewn with a large number of
fish that had been washed inshore during the night, and
numbers of the working °lasses soon made themselves
busy in gstherifibi the fish, and thug supplying them.
selves with food for some time to come, and, as the
mice of butchers' mut is at the present time very high
this rare opportunity will be all the more appreciated,
doubtless, as meat must now be a great luxury to zno4
of the poorer classes. It is • singular coincidence that
in December, 1847, there was a vvry large quantity of
herring washed ashore here which the farmers carted
away to manure the land with, there being more than
the people could carry away while they were good for
food.

GREED AMATEUR EVENING CONCERT. —This
concert was given at the Royal Hotel, Weymouth, on
Thursday event °g,'° aid of the Restonption of the Qrgan
at Wool Church, under the musical directorship of
Mr. Boyton Smith. The room was not crowded, but
it was tolerably well filled with a fashionable and
attentive audience. We obeerved :—The Rev.
J. Cree, Mrs. Stone, Miss Stone, Mr. G. Stone,
Miss Warrington, Col. and Mrs. Cox, Major and the
Misses yaws, Mr. G. Heigham and party, Dr.
Smith, Dim Maclean, pr. Moorhead, Mr. and Mrs.
Harbin, Mrs. and the Misses Neat, Miss figon, Rev.
F. Fisher, Rev. J. Stephenson, Rev. F. Newington.
Misses Allen, M,as Austin, Mr. Austin, Mrs. Tem•
pleman and , Mrs. Cother, Captain and Mrs.
Cox, Miss .agton, Capt. James, Miss C. Dash.
wood, Mrs. and the Mi/11011 Bankes, Miss Vandeleur,
Misses Fleury, Madme. de Gallemaut, Major and
Mrs Hickey, Mrs, Bishop and party, Mum de
Winton, Miss Aspden, Miss Gresham and party,
Mrs. Neilson, Mr. E. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Devenish and party, Miss Clifton, Mrs. Proby, Miss
Proby, Rev. W. B. Proby, Mr. and Mrs. E. Port-
bury, Capt. Catered, M.P., Lady Williams and
party, Mrs. P. Jones, Capt. A. B. Foster, Major
Mogg, Mr. W. F. Knatchbull, Rev. Taylor, Miss
Coulson, Capt. Barrington Browne, Mr. Lambert,
MI% G. Eliot, Capt. !deluge)+, Mr. L. Newbolt,
ko. The amateur artistes who took part in the con-
cert were as follows Vocalists—Miss Bernard,
Miss Newington, Miss Cox, Mrs. Newington, C.
ifirtzel, Esq., Key. J. Horan, Rev. M. Heath, Rev.
H.. Francis, W. ;Fletcher, Esq. Instrumentalists-.-
Mrs. Mogg, Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. H. Etstos, Capt.
Home, Capt. Bennett, and Mr. Boyton Smith, the
latter accompanying on a magnifloent "concert
grand" by it irkman. The opening chorus, "Allan.
aklale went a bunting," Was given smoothly( The
Concertina (tenor) and Piano dtlett Of Captain
Hume and Mrs. Mogg, from " Figlia del Regi-
mento," was nicely rendered, but not so well as the
second performance—s selection from Fioton's
" Martha." Miss Newington's and Miss Bernard's
rendering of "Trust her not" was, of course,
encored; it is one of Miss Newington's best songs,
and the dnett from "Trovatore" is another of her
gems, in *Mich her voice ill shorn off to great ad.
vantage. In the latter there is a great deal of good
feeling and taste exhibited. Clement Hirtzel,
of Exeter, again reimpeared amongst us iusd., s-
lighted the audience with his silvery-toned tenor.
There is a remarkable sweetness about Mr. Hirtzel's
voioe, which, (although by no means • very lotid or
pouerful voice,) makes it very pleasant to listen to,
Captain and Mrs.. Bennett gave two &Arming &tette
Cornet and Pianoforte, whieli oft being etidoihd, *ere
pronounced decided favourites. Captain and Mrs.
Bennett have such a pleasant and graceful way of
replying to these encores, that really they make
quite a favourable impression on their listeners.
Mrs. Bennett, as we have already remarked on a
previous °evasion, is a brilliant and able adoom—
panyist to her husband's delightful performances,
graceful and utooniplished ; Mrs. Bennett is an so'
quisition of great value to an amateur concert. Miss
Newington's Pianoforte sold was good, and at that
young lady has acquired a reputation for ekeoution,
and for admirable taste, it was well applauded.
"Mr. Boyton Smith as usual was perfect." We
cannot say more; it needs no words of ours to tell
of his well•meritioi popularity. Mr. Boyton Smith
is a master of his profession, and is well known to
eveTy musical person, both as a composer and an
artistic performer. The arrangements, thanks to his
supervision, were admirably irried out, with great '
credit to the petforiterit The pial29, was lebt on '
this occasion by Mr. Fairey, jun. The prOdeecla
were we believe about £25.—L. W.

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BOROUGH PETIT SESSIONS, Monday.-Before J.
Symonds, Esq.-Sydney Smith was charged with
vagrancy. Prisoner was found by P.C. Mitchell
in one Of the Burdon Motel outhouses. He refused
to be When into instodyi and
_wit tery, ,Yiolent.-
Committed for eaten dayd. -John CPColik Was
committed for 14 days for drunkenness and indeoent
behaviour.—TUlSDAY.-Before the Mayor (J.
Ailing, Esq.), R. Gotterell, and K Bayly, &qrs.-
John ' Hook and Nicholas Bowden, two eaPPers,
were charged with assaulting Levi Bartlett and
breaking a pane of glass, valued at ed.-Complainant
said that on Saturday evening the defendant' came
to hie horde; the (from *eye, , and 0:oiled for a quart
of beer, Thu eHU stipplied them, when is they did
not pay, witness asked for the money. They made
no reply, but one said to, the other "drink,' which
which
accordingly was done. Witness again asked for the
money, when they told him to go to "a warm place."
He, as they refused to psy, took the beer away,
when Hook struck at him but missed his blow. He
took the beer in the bar, when Hook tame after him
and again attempted to strike him. He caught hold
of him by the dm, and tried to pat him out of the
r m
house, when Hook'ir Companion. eto his assistance
and knocked Witoets.dowpi ig wife ciliate to N.
assistance, when Bowden knocked her down. Be
also afterwards broke a window. Complainant's
wife, who appeared with a bandage over her right
eye, said that when she went to assist her husband,
one of the prisoners, she could not say which,
knocked her clown on the pavement, rendering her
insensible, and from the effrot of the blow she had
been tinder medical treatment ever sinee.-In de-
defenoe prisoner, said they were about to pay for the
beer, when Bartlett snatched the beer away. Bow.
den did not wilfully aesselt the landlady, and on the
next day wrote an apology for his misbehaviour.
An officer gave Hook an exoellent obaracter.-Hook
was lined 10s. and wow and Bowden 201. and coat..
--.-Alfred Foster, the marine belonging to H.M.S.
St. George, appeared on remind charged with
obtaining flannel from the shop of Alfred Rolls.-
Prowiontor said that he had received a letter from
defendant's master, Lieutenant Whish, dating that
'did not give the prisoner authority to obtain the
•*h At Lieutenant V&A *at not present,
- was again fernanded in order for his master
, present.— James Bennett Was ibitrged with
. ling o monde from the shop of Mr. Rawlings,
draper, of St. Thomas-street.-Mies Rawlings
said she missed the mantle from her
shop about seven o'clock on Friday evening, and the '
Urns evenv was - - ' -- it for sale at the
Foresters" • it , based by a female
Cur 2". ' , and was sentenoed
to trio , with hard laboor.---i-
Two ma .... Arab', Denman and Warren
were brought up in I , -4 with stealing an ,
umbrella the property of hi'. It appeared I
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