The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-25 00:00:00

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SOUTH STILEgr, DottoßEsTga, warrian TEMPERANCE LEAGIIIt. —The Dorchester
branch of this avociation held • public tea in the British
Three doors below the Post Office. schoolroom, on Tuesday and in the evening • inters was
WEIZORGE POUNCY NIIMUDIATIIIK, delivered by Mr. Blackburn*, lecturer appointed by the
DZALIII IR kiirrtwogst, LID AIITIOLKI OF VIRTU. league. Mr. Dean took the chair. The room was filled
begs to inform the nobility end gentry, that be has in every part. Mr. Blackburne said he had been a
opened premises in South-street, three doors below the teetotaller for 36 years and during the whole of that
Poet °6", for tha men touvenient display of his large time op to the present he had never to ask the advice
and varied eollemition, agacmgat which seethe *Bowies : of • medical man for any complaint whatever. On one
Butreigut Ootaamosi or OLD (gggg CHINA occasion whilst delivering • lecture with pictorial illus.
trations, as h ewes raising the 11'4 painting he fell and
Floozie.
fractured some of his ribs, and then if coarse, the aid of
Anil% Worcester, Wedetwood, Brigo4 mid other Old a medical man amid not he dispensed with. He spoke
IfitgLak China. of the vast amount of drunken..., to be witnessed daily
Fine 00116ctinn of Antique Jewellery, consisting of gold amongst the working populations of our large towns
contrasting with it the clear beaded, hard, thinking
watches, olsatelanies, gem rings, in. ,
active amp and plodding perseverance of so mann,
OLD OAK CARVING, who had mien, through constant application to labour
Ancient British and Roman Remains, found in and strict sobriety, to fill positions of sfiltienoe and
Dorchester, and the neighbourhood, am known amongst the noblest of England's nobility, such
as William Shakespeare, poor infatuated young
January 24, 1870. Ohatterton, Blomfield, the farmer's boy and great rural
poet, Kirk White, Bums, Michael Angelo, the
celebrated sculptor and painter, and many others, ell
of whom had tasted the evil effects of intoxication, and
had exchanged it for those abstemious 110614 which in
after life rendered them so remarkable. Many persona,
the lecturer observed, werg foolish enough to say that
amongst the ranks of iiiMper•drinkers there were no
high or noble intellects. This he would show them was
an error. What more intellectual men had the world
ever produced greater than Columbus, the narigtor, Sir
Francis Drake, Captain Conk, Sir Ince Newton, Sir
Humphrey Dare, the late Vin-Ohancellor Eldon, Sir
William Ark wrist* and the renowned Garibaldi? And
4/1 then notified in their own persons to the valuable
effeds of wake MS a birrolll4B. William Tell, the
hero of the Tyrol. Benjamin Franklin, the celebrated
water drinking printer, and afterwards an American
senator, the late John Cvsell and John Wesley all
spoke in joyful terms of the cause of their novas in
life, and the germ of good and lasting health, from the
fact of their totally abstaining from all intoxicating
drinks. The lecture was interspersed with several
pretty effusions, illustrative of the misery often
occasioned by the public house and its allurements.
With • few forcible words of caution to those who were
non-abstainers, Mr. Blackburn concluded his lecture,
which had been given in a very interesting manner,
and with less of the raillery against publicans end
liquor-consuming public than is generally the staple of
a temperance lecture. A vote of thanks was proposed
and seconded and oarried unanimously.

DORCHESTER.

Dom= HUNT BALL will take place at the Corn
Esotsange, 23rd February.
OLD FatuDe. —The sixth anniversary rapper is
annoenced for Wednesday evening, February 2nd.,
at the Plicenix Inn, when Mr. Councillor Vernon is
to preside, and Mr. Councillor Gregory take the
vim-chair, and, no doubt, as on former occasions, a
pleasant evening will be spent
Does= Owings or AUILICOLTORL —An im-
portant meeting of this association is to take place
next Saturday afternoon. Professor Buckman will
introduce the subject of the condition of the Dorset
labourer as described in Mr. Stanhope@ report, and
no doubt there will be an interesting discussion.
Parrot, koczonirr—On Wednesday lest shortly
before one o'slook, a young man of Fordingtou, named
George Downtou, In tho employ of Mr. H. Taylor,
mashinist, was feeding a thrashing machine, which was
at work on Mr. H. Hawkins's farm, at blartinstown,
when his right hand became entangled in the machinery,
and before It eould be extricated It was lacerated and
torn in a frightful manner. The young man was at ones
removed to the Dorset County Hospital, where his
Injuries were promptly attended to, but he instill suffer.
lag very mach.
Commrrrao To TRI Donssr Comm:, Faiths.
Assiut : Samuel Cooper, embezzlement at Itherborne.
—hard Labour : William Davis, misbehaviour at
Dorchester Union, 14 days; James Bridle, poaching
at Chideook, 14 days; Frederick Sharp, mis-
behaviour at Beamineter Union, 21 days; Emmanuel
Hodges, vagrancy at Tarrant Hinton, I month;
Samuel Prince, vagrancy at Bridport, 14 days,
Thomas Vile, misbehaviour at Weymouth Union, 14
days; George Taylor. misbehaviour at Weymouth
Union, 1 month; James Sivabridge, vagrancy at
13ridport, 3 weeks; Charles Pearce, Charles Bishop,
and Robert Randall, misbehaviour at Weymouth
Union, 7 days.

THI WIWI'S IL —The
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following is our nisteorologleal
report for the week ending Sunday last :
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WORKING MEN'S INSTITUTE. There was a good
audience at the Townball' on Thursday evening, to
enjoy readings from the works of Charles Dickens, by
Mr. George Grossinith. The selections showed good
taste, being such as could not offend the prejudices of
any, while they were fair eiamples of the talented
author's writings, both humorous and pathetic. They
included, The author's " First Attempt," Old Tony
Weller and his Precocious Grandam., David oopper6eld's
"Dinner Party," The High Court of Chancery, Tom
Pinch's Coach-ride to London, Dombey and Son, Poor
Joe the Crake; Sweeper Mrs. Sairey Game, and the
Fmt-an-Swill Election. All these favourite characters
and sketches were graphically depicted by Mr. Gros-
smith, and they afforded great entertainment.
ALLEGED CAOILTY TO • HEIVER.-111 the 00OTOO
of the hearing of the charge against Mr. Homer for
cruelty to a heifer, the advocate for the defence
asked one of the witnesses for the prosecution if he
got his information from Mr. Bolt, butcher, of Wey•
mouth. Mr. A. Bolt desires us to say that he knew
nothing at all about the case until throe o'clock in
the afternoon of the day on whioh the charge was
heard, when he was told of It in Mr. Ensor's reposi•
tory by a brother tradesman ; and he wishes us to
publish the following copy of a letter he has received
from Superintendent Hare on the subject ;—Dor-
cheater, January 21st, 1E570. Sir,—ln answer to
youre I have to inform you you may give it publicity
that you were not the person who gave me the
information respecting the cruel treatment to a heifer
belonging to Mr. Homer, on the 23rd of last
month. —I am, sir, yOuril truly, RIC 11•1413 Has.,
Superintendent.
HoVaL HORSE ARTILLERY Hen RID HOUNDS' CLUB.
—This club boa been organised in the E Battery now
staying at our barracks, for the enjoyment of the men,
and they have entered heartily Into the sport. The
last " hunt " was tarried out on Wednesday with
unabated spirit. The member* assembled at the
Barracks at 1,45 p.m., and the "hare.," G. W. Payne
and B. Brooks started. As they Isere known to
all the nuesseary celerity required to make
• puss" long-lived, but short grace was allowed, and
at the end of four minutes, the " hounds," 28 in
number, followed in pursuit. Away they went, at a
good pace, their unique costumes of coloured "tight."
attracting the attention of numbers of people, round
the corner from the barracks and down Grove Buildinp.
Here the "game" was sighted, and down the drmlivity
they proceeded with many a joyous " view-halloo,"
to Charminater auras the meadows, leaving Bradford
on their right, crossing the railway, and asking for the
Bridport road. They they wheeled to the left, re-erased
the railway, and again through the river—here the
"hound." jots severe wetting, but never • moment at
(snit, nor faltering for a second. On they weot through
thick and thin, followed by their excellent whip
Gunner G. Bryant, and cheered on by the gallant
huntsman, Gunner W. Goulstone, the " pack " for the
third time crowed into Poundbury, and et last the
plucky hares "ran to earth" In the bermes, slier a
good run of about 48 minutes, is which time it
calculated they traversed • distance of quite seven
miles. Nothing could be more calculated to Interest
non-comwiesioned officers and men.and all their energies
were concentrated in the sport throughout. The"home"
evening amusements include • glee club, originated by
Lieutenant Blechman, which Mr. Wellspring has in
training, readings in which Lieut.-Colonel Paget, Dr.
O'Brien, Quarter-master' Henderson. (humeri Lipper
and Crawley, and Bombaclier Griffiths, have taken part.
OODIPILLOWE' Fonsaal..—On Tuesday afternoon a
large number of the members of the lodges of Odd.
follows in Dorcheeter paid the last tribute of rsepoot to
a dammed brother by accompanying his remains to the
tomb. The deceased, who was named Jeremiah Lucy,
had belonged to the Loyal "Bud ot Hope" Lodge about
four years, and was • very steady respectable young
man. The offloers and brethren of the lodges assembled
at the residence of the deceased at Fordington about
one o'clock, the bier being carried on the shoulders of
ale OddfoLlows. The remainder preseded the bearers
walking two abreast, and were attired in their black
aprons and scarfs. The Interment took place in the
churchyard of Fordington St. Georgia, the service. being
being performed by the Bev. Handley Moon, In the
presence of • large commune of speetetors. According
to neap, sprigs of thyme were deposited on the coffin
of the deceased u the brethren advanced to the side of
the grave. On their return the "oration" which Is
usually read by one of the officers after the burial
service, but whish was in this instance forbidden, was
delivered by the N.G. of the "Bud of Hope" Lodge,
&O. H. Plow:ono, when the company Separated.
WESILITAN Cant.—The annual meeting of the
Dorchester Branch of the Wesleyan Juvenile Mission-
ary Society was held in the above chapel, on Monday
evening. 'There was • good attendance, a large portion
of the body of the chapel being 81Ied with young
people. H. Roggen, Esq., of Weymouth, who had
angered to ine, was prevented by an attack of
illness. ln his abeam, the Rev. J. Begin, Superin.
tendent of the Dorchester Circuit, took the chair.
He was well supported by a number of spakers, who
displayed considerable tut in souring the attention
and entertaining the ebildren who formed so large a
proportion of the assembly. The Secretary (Mr. (1
Davis) reported that the children bad sollected about
£lO during the year. Messrs. G. Wright. W. Crocker,
of Wareham, and G. Wescott, formerly 'cholera in
the Weeniest Sunday-school, and the Bev. B. Varley,
showed the advantages with which the youth present
were favoured; the importance of being trained to
works of benevolence ' • and by a variety of anecdotes
and illustrations, stimulated those present, especially -
the young, to regularity and perseverance in their
benefirent employments, more particularly in the work
they had commenced with so much promise, the
ehairman having reminded them thet the juveniles of
Methodism collect over ES,OOO per annum, on behalf of
Foreign Missions, in addition to • large amount misted
for Home Missions, which means evangelieel operations
within the limits of our own country. The young people
seemed greatly to enjoy the various addresses, anui,ll
for the timely restraint from the chair, were disposed
to oionot their approval somewhat boisterously, I
Perhaps, however, the most popular part of the'
children's entertainment was that afforded by Mir. G.
Crocker, jun. beforeand after the meeting, when by
the assistance; of a magie lantern he exhibited in the
school-room • large number of Scriptural and other
asenes. nit sollestion as the close was

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, IR7O.

COEFITT COURT, Priday.—Before T. E. P. Lefty', .
Feu., Judge. I
The tame list contained 146 plaints and 16 judgment
eummonsies.
Juice Arattastx (innkeeper, Bridport) v. Joux Bretz' (poul-
terer, St debtryk -Ell Sia. 10d. Mr. Day for the plaintiff
and Mr. Ginslry for riellendant The claim wto made up as
follow. :- e 19.. DAL for goods end £lO damages for Imo sac
Itained by remon of the nonperformance of • contract for
the Amply of all the rabbits defendant had for rale during the
a aeon from August, 1868,0 March, 1869. A jury, cotting
iif Ileestra J. Guppy, E. Clint, J. D. Ernes, W. Barrett, and
P. Bartlett we. empanelled. In 1866 defendant contracted
with plaintiff to topple him with rabbits during the semon,
which contract we. (aerial out. A duller contract made in
1867 was Woo properly fulfilled. In 1883 a third contract was
entered into, hut the supply was neither an good in quantity'
nor quality as It ought i4I hate been. Plaintiff found ran In ,
()ember that defendant wax mending away large quantities of ,
rabbit, to his (plaintir.) salesman. Ile charged defendant
with it, nut be denied It. Defendant, however, tamed to
supply plalnUff. The pointa of difference were whether the
contract was for the whole of the rabbit. deferidant could par-
chase-whether the payment was to he cash down as stated by
defendant, or in a day or two, as mon as plaintiff could oh-
trio li. returns from his salesman. Defendant alleged asi a
reason for the tempo formate., I,l' the agreement that plaintiff
nrgiciled LO pey ready money ari he agreed or do, And COWIC•
lillentli he was the first to break the contract. The Jury could
redeem, and retired. After some delay the jury were :walled,
and the judge proceeded to recapitulate the different pointo of
the num. After doing so he sated the Jury if they were Ekely
In agree. Mr. Clint-- "1 think pot, your Honour. There Is i
little prejudice In the can,* Ills Flonoitr-" I have no doubt
of that. But the difficulty is to tell on which aide It is." Mr.
Clent- " Mr. Bartlett he. admitted that betas friend of defen-
dant and doeis his writuag for him." Tine jut" again retired
and after they had been locked up for four or five hours they
were recalled. The Judge-" Do you agree in your verdict."
Mr. Bartlett-- "We all agree aa to preliminaries The Judge
"Then you ought to agree on your verdict." Mr. Bartlett- -
"We all agree that Mr. Ackerman WWI the Ord to violate the
contract." Mr. Barrett--" On the contrary, all Ninths your-
self think Mr. Bugler wee the first " Mr. Limn- "The
fact le, your Honour, it Is four to one." The jury, having ex-
pressed their belief that there we. no probability of agreeing,
were discharged.
H. GAIILAID (Ifiltnn, near Blendlonl) v. J. It S. Snell
(butcher, Bearnincer)., -EIS, balance due for rent of 11011Ple
and land at Wander-well, near Bridport, Mr. Gentry for
plaintiff, and Mr. Day for defendant The only question in
Menem was whether certain drainage and repaint were exe-
cuted by order of the plaintiff, and ahe her the expellees
ought to be deducted out of the rent. Judgment lir &Sentient,
with emits
CIIMIL6II Seminole (corderainer. D,,ttcrv) v. 8. ErEsnis
(cementer, Dottery).-Et, darn qtea curtained by non-perfor-
mance of contract Mr. Day for if, eitetiff, Deletribuit OM -
tracted to take off an old roof from an outhouse, to mit
In a new floor, and put on the roof again with the 'Muting.
Ile nettlecte i to put up the shining, in consequence of
shich the aster got into the wall, and injured them con-
siderably. Verdict for the plaintiff.
136011.011 STIONO. (sugar boiler, Brldport) v. WALTZR POWIILL
(thopkooper, lirldport).-L9 7.. for false Imprieonment and
non-performance of agreement Plaintiff wee a tenant of
defendiun'., and some 111-feeling arose in consequence 'f •
dials-em being brief in Angled last in the Owner of plaintiff.
In Notember laid another quarter'. rent became due, but
plaintiff had previously removed • portion of his goof., and
defendant riumnsoned him before the magistrates for (rattan
lently removin: hie goody after the rent became due to Is-even-
•thstres. being levied. The magistratin fined plaintiff doublet
the amount of goods removed-ES 10.., and 15.. opsta. On
the Bth of December au agreement wan made that if plaintiff
gave up poncedun he Wee to go free of the One and expen-
se.. Defendant subsequently ascertained that the flno
belonged to blm, and on the 23rd of December he I sued
a warrant and caused plaintiff to he apprehended, and he
bad to pay £4 7s. to obtain his reins. Judoment for ZS
and costa
JOaatu Palialot (butcher, Briciport) v. Stone and Sox
(carriers, Creekerne). -ZI 10e for hampers lent and not
returned. Mr. Manley for plaintiff, and Mr. Day for defendants.
The hempen were timed for the 000revence of plaintiff 's meat.
and defendable contended thtt as they charged lees for the
carriage in con.equence, they were not liable for the hamper.
111. Honour, however, gave judgment for the plaintiff, re-
marking, that defendanto had their remedy against the tales-
man to whom the hampers were sent
Bankrupt.--10 Eilcard Dunn, of Beamleister, supported by
Mr. Manley, passed his bet examination and obtained his
order of discharge without opposition.
The Court did not rise until nearly eight o'clock.

Being eleepy after dinner is a sure Indication off aa
over.loarled otonurch. Such torpidity and roc ;es 1611
should be avoided by apt r.iiiitut as hearty lb Mei et
one time.
it. storm following stehn, end wave succeeding
wave, give additional hardness to the shell that en-
closes the pearl, so do the storm' and wares of
ifs
add force to the character of man.—AD•lisoN.
Our incomes should be:like oar shoes, if too small
'hey will gad and pinch us; but if they 5.10 100 lIIIIe
icy will cause no to stumble and trip. We,i;t
utter all, a 'cativo thing, since he that has little and
wants less is richer than lie that has much and wants
mole. True contentment depends, not upon what we
lave, but upon what we would have.
Try for a single day. I beseech you, t• preserve your.
self in an easy and cheerful frame of mind. lie but
for One day, instead of a fire-worshipper of passion, the
sun-worshipper of clear eel- Ion; and compare
the day in which you have 'NI:IOW:lit to grow ttp ;and
you will find your heart open to every good motive,
your life strengthened, and your breast armed with a
panoply against every trick of fate. Truly, you will
wood& at your own improvement
Agnotre OVERMUCH.—Perhaps we may rightly
say that the most miserable people in the world are
the very catefttl ones. You who are so ansious about
what shall happen on the morrow that you cannot en•
Joy the pleasuies of to-day, you who have inch a poo.
oar cast of mind that you suspect every star to be a
irimoi, and imagine that there must be • volcano in
every grassy mead, you who are more attracted by the
Tole in the sun than by the can himself, and more
unitised by one sere leaf upon the tree than by all the
verdure of the woods, you who make more of your
troubles thau you could do of your joys—you belong
to the most miserable of men.

NATIONAL IGNORANCE.—The ignorance, however,
of the Spaniards about Peru was mote than equalled
by the ignorance of the Peruvian' about the Spanianli.
Indeed, the two great centres of American eivilittation
were entirely dissociated. Nothing we, known in
lexico of Peru ; nothing in Peru of Mexico. The fall
of Metico had spread dismay far and wide in Central
America, but not a rumour reached the golden i•harn-
berm of the reigning Inca. Yet a small and tat row
itrip of ierritory was all that intervened to check tl/111-
naniifation between the two great (unpile.. Had "old
Como," or "young Cusco," been aware of the proceed-
ings of the Spaniards either in Darien or at blexii.o,
a very d diet ent reception would have awaited thent in
Peru; but the conquest of America was commenced
at a period when nations had been formed in that
continent, but when inteniational relations Lad been
hardly at all developed.—TAt Life of Pizarro.
A MARRIAGE AUCTION: A HINT FOR "MATCH.
StAlCl.ll.B.*—Among the ancient Assyrians all mar-
riageable young girls were assembled in one plate,
awl the public rrier put them up to sale one after
another. The money which was received for those
who were handsome, and consequently sold well, was
bestowed as a wedding portion on those who were
pain. When the most beautiful had been disposed
of, the more ordinary looking were offered for a cer-
tain sum, and allotted to those who were willing to
take them. Hence all the women were provided with
husbands. The Babyloniaus, like the Assyriehe, held
a kind of rocket of their daughters at certain times
every year. They were assembled in • public place,
w here they were exposed to general view awl disposed
of to the best bidders by the public crier. The money
given for the purchase of the handsome ones was
applied to portion out those who were deficient in
pe.sonal attractions. This custom is said to have been
originated with Atom*, the daughter of Belocbus.—
Wrdding Day its all Ages arid Countries.

.•
CCAMT OE EYCBEQUEEL—The Court of Exchequer
colisists of a chief, called the Lord Chief Baron, and
five /wiser judges (tie judges in the other two courts
ate railed "justices") having respectively the same
emoluments, and, for genes al purposes, the same
duties, as the judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
Formerly, the Court of Exchequer was a much more
important institution than it is at present. It was
both a court of equity and •court of law forth, trial
of ,itiestions affetling die royal revenue, it was also,
in some sort, an executive department, being employed
in doing the work now dune by the Treasury awl
the department of the Clawcellor of the Exchequer,
and also iu carrying out many general govermental
purposes of the king. When these functions moms*.
cgrisid to It, the Court of Exchequer reckoned among
its members the Lord High Treasurer of England, the
Lord Chem eller (to act for him, a deputy, called the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, was afterwards appoint.
al), fuel many other high officers of state. Like the
King's Bends, it followed the person of the king; and
being, far more than the other courts, necessary to
in, was the last to become stationary at Westminster.
Wien it did .0, the grew state functions it had dis
charged weie assigned to other branches of the king's
so i vice, and the court remained • tribunal for the
seit.ement of revenue questions, being clothed, for
that purpose, with • jurisdiction which included the
posters wielded by a court of equity and • court of
law.—" Limbs 'tithe Law," ix ' Carrell's Magazine."

CoLtiti cok' CbinioN MEWL—Next in order or in
seniority to the Queen's Bench is the Court of Common
Pleas, wherein, as the name implies, are tried suits
between subject and subject. At one time it was the
only court in which such suits could be heard and
determined, though now, as explained in the previous
article, they may be adjudicated on by any of the
superior courts. Formerly, too, the court, like also the
Court of Queen's Bench, followed the person of the
king, and was held in whatever place he happened to
lie—at Westminster when his was at his palace in that
city; but at Salisbury also, or Exeter, if he chanced
to be theta. This vagabond character of the court
proved to be so highly inconvenient, and was the
cause of so much expense and delay to the suitor,
while, the king, ex, opt for the fines and presents he i
gut for furthering justice, did not care to have the
court always at his heels, that it was made one of the
clauses of Magna Charta that common pleas should I
not follow the King, but be settled in" some certain I
place." That certain place was fixed at Westminster,
whos-e, since the reign of King John, the court 141111 I
ever remained. Its chief is called the Lord Chief I
Justice of the Common Pleas, and has a salary of
se,en thousand polkas a year, arid five plasm- judges, 1
with live thousand pounds a year each, assist the
chief in hearing cases, whether before a jury, when
clue judge only presides, or in 6anco or full
when all the members of the court are present for the
purpose of deciding without &jury upon questions of
law. It may be convenient here to notice the fact,
and to explain the meaning of the court sitting in
tanco and at nisi price.—" Limbs Vac Law."

ILIANDLVS EARLY MUSICAL ELYtiliTe.—No wonder
the boy Handel, who from his earliest childhood seems
to have been lassiouately fund of sweet sounds, en-
minim ed opposition and disappointment in his early
musical endeavours. Ile was to go to no concerts,
not even to a public school, for fear he should learn
the gamut. He must be taught Latin at home, and
become • good doctor, just like his father; and leave
the diviee art to Italian fiddlers and mountebanks.
But up in • little garret the child of seven years, per-
haps with the connivance of his nurse or Lie mother,
had hidden a dumb spinet—even at night the faint
tinkling could be heard down below—and in stolen
hours, without assistance of any kind, we are told the
boy taught himself to play. By-and-by Father Handel
has • mind to visit another son, in the service of Duke
of Saxe-Weisenfels, and little George runs after the
carriage and begs so hard to go, that at last he is taken
to the ducal palace. But he soou turns out to be an
enfant terrible to his poor old father. He is caught
playing the chapel organ, and is brought up before the
duke, trembling more at his father than at the ,luke who
has heard him, and now its him on the back with
" bravo!" Then, turning to his enraged anti afflicted
parpt, he tells him that his son is a genius, and must
limbs snubbed any more. The buy's fear is uow cx
changed for the wildest delight, and the father's raga
is quickly followed by astonishment. Handel would
often tell the story in after years ; anti he never forgot
the duke, the kindest, because the earliest of his beam
factors. Fruiti this moment fortune seemed to smile
upon him, and his early career exhibits a conibilim in
1 of circumstances woutlerfully favourable to the order-
. ly development of his great genius. berme training,
. paw image, and encouragement, an ardent friendship,
the ionstiutt society of the first composers, whole.
some rivalry, and regular ondiestial practice all
of which seem td be suddenly poured upon him out
of Fortune's great horn of plenty. As the favourite
pupil of the great Hallo organist 'Latium, he iu.alyzes
, at the outset very nearly the whole existing mass
of German and Italian music, and is set to writ• a
cantata or motett once a week. At last the good
Zachan has not the conscience to put him through
Soy more fugues; tells him With kindly pride that he
already knows more than his master, and advises hits
to go to Berlin and study the opera school, under the
' auspices of the Elector of II: andenburgh. Attilio turd
Bonocini were thou the favourite composers. The
drat received Handel with open arms; but the second
scowled at him from the beginning, and determining
to put the conceited boy's powers to the test, compo-
sed on elaborate piece, which he challenged him to
. play at sight. Handel played it off like any other piece,
and from that hour Holmdel, who had • bad dispcs
'Won but excellent brains, treated the boy with the
hatred of • rival, but with the [upon due to as aqui.
—l4is Cestemperary Act:sew.
Sawed IS.la•Na AT SlTAA.—These people dwell
In • long line of rude houses outside the settlement.
Their dwedlings are shanties on • large locale, with
small mit: aloe, often circular in shape, eud a but.'
in the roof to let the smoke out. The ides of their,
construction mast have been derived from the Ras-
mus; in some cases the very uuusual Circumstance
of the sleeping-rooms being apart from the main
chamber was to be observed. The Kaloslies are by
mriaus a prepossessing people, and have a ba 1 re-
putation. Their dress is commonly a blanket, at
least in summer time; they frequently black that
face. all over, and sometimes paint themselves in red,
bark, and blue stripsand patches. They wear • pin
of bone or metal stuck in their lower lip; this is add
to denote maturity; it is at least never worn 131 the
young. They appear to be more than usually lasy
natives, probably from the fact that nature has been
so kind to them; salmon is abundant, deer and bear
meat are to be liad for hunting, and the berries are
Innumerable. Their canoes are much inferior to those
of the lower coast, whilst their skin " baidarckes"
(kyacks) are not equal to those of Norton Sound and
the Northern coast. Their grave boxes, or tombs,
are interesting; they contain only the ashes of the
dead. These people invariably burn the deceased.
On one of the boxes I saw • number of faces painted,
long tresses of human hair depending therefrom.
Eacu head represented a victim of the (happily) de-
ceased one's ferocity. In his .lay he wan, doubtless,
more esteemed than if he had never harmed • fly.
All their graves are much ornamented with carved
and painted faces and other devioes.—Trawid
enstiore in the Terrigarp if Alaska.