The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1858.

HONRSTE AUDAX.

IN the House of Lords on Monday the first
three reasons to be offered to the Commons for
their lordships insisting on their amendments to
the Oaths Bill were agreed to, and the fourth
reason, which had been amended by the Earl of
DERBY, was carried on a division by SO to 42.
The third reading of Lord LUCIAN'S Jews' Bill
was then carried by a majority of 21, the
numbers being 33 to 12. On Tuesday the
Universities (Scotland) Bill was read a second
time; and on Thursday the Government of
India Bill, after some opposition from the Earl
of ELLENBOROUGH, WM read a second time
without a division.

In the Commons on Monday Mr. Hurr's mo-
tion for discontinuing the practice of authorising
Her Majesty's ships to visit and search vessels
under foreign flags with a view of suppressing
the traffic in slaves was negatived, after a long
debate, by a majority of 199, the numbers being
223 to 24. On Tuesday in committee of supply
Lord Ewa° moved the reduction of the vote
for the National Gallery by the sum of £3OO,
being the salary of the travelling agent. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the
motion, but it was carried on a division by 128
to 110. Mr. COWPER'S motion for an Address
to the Crown praying for the discontinuance of
the special services now annexed to the Book of
Common Prayer was supported by the Govern-
ment and agreed to. On Wednesday the
Reformatory Schools (Irelmod) Bill passed
, through committee, and the Local Government
Bill was read a third time and passed. On
Thursday the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the main
drainage of the metropolis. He stated that the
Government had arrived at the conclusion that
the work, which would probably cost £3,000,000
must be paid by the metropolis. They there-
fore proposed to incorporate the Metropolitan
Board of Works, to make them responsible for
the execution of the main drainage, and to give
them power to levy a special rate of 3d. in the
pound throughout the metropolitan districts for
a period of 40 years. It was calculated that
this rate would realise about £140,000 per
annum. The works would be completed in five
years and a half—that is to say, at the close of
1863. The Board would require during that
time about £600,000 per annum for the actual
outlay ; and to enable them to raise the money
on the best terms, the Government would
guarantee the loan. At the end of the 40 years
It was estimated that as much would be raised
from the 3d. rate as would clear off the whole
outlay, principal and interest. After consider-
able discussion in which the opinion of the House
generally was in favour of the measure, leave
was given to bring in the Bill. The Cornwall
Sitbniarine Mines Bill was read a second time,
The Legitimacy Declaration Bill passed through
committee, and the second reading of the Civi:
Bills, ko., (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill was
carried on a division by 97 to 62.
On Friday telegraphic despatches in anticipa-
tion of the India and China mails, were received
last week with news from Bombay to the 19th,
and from Calcutta to the 10th ult. The Calpee
rebels defeated the Maharajah &INDIA on the
19th of June, and compelled him to fly to Dhol-
pore and thence to Agra. The Maharajah's
troops went over in a body to the enemy, none
but his small body guard, to whom he was in-
debted for his escape, having proved faithful.
In consequence of this defeat, Sir HUGH ROSE,
with Brigadiers HICKS, SHOWERS, and SMITH
were to concentrate their columns and make a
combined movement against Gwalior on the 17th
ult. The COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF left Futtehghtir
on the 4th of June for Allahabad to meet the
GOVERNOR-GENERAL. At that period the rebels
were in great force around Lucknow, and
intercepting the communications with Cawnpore.
The garrison of Lucknow was sickly and the
heat throughout India was greater than bad
been known for 20 years. The news from China
is to the 29th of April. The English and French
Admirals, with the allied forces, were lying ofl
the mouth of the Peiho in the Gulf of Pecheli, and
it was expected that in a few days the first blow
lii the North would be struck by the capture of
the forts at the mouth of the river.

THE establishment of a new British colony in
America, rich in gold, is attracting a good deal
of attention in many parts of the world. The
colony is situated on the north-west coast of
North America, adjacent to other possessions of
the British Crown ; and the rapid influx of emi-
grants has rendered it necessary for the mother
country to establish as soon as possible some
form of government applicable to that region.
A Bill is now before Parliament for this purpose,
and the advantages of law and order will speedily
be offered to "New Calelonia," to an extent
as great as the character and circumstances of
the district will admit. There seems to be no
doubt that the precious metal exists there to RS
great an extent as in California. The soil is said
to be, in general, tolerably good, especially that
in the vicinity of Thonipson's River, where the
climate is also remarkably fine. In the evidence
before the committee of the House of Commons,
we find it stated that its fisheries are most valu-
able, and its timber the finest in the world for
marine purposes, and that the country lain every
way suitable for colonisation. The new colony
may be reached in about 35 days from Liverpool,
yid New York and Panama; and proposals have
already been submitted to Government for a line
of postal steam vessels for letters, goods, and
passengers. The following brief particulars, fur-
nished by competent authorities may not be un-
intareating :—"The territory to be regulated and
protected is bounded on the south by the Ameri-
can frontier line, 49 degs. of latitude, and extends
to the sources of the Fraser river, in latitude 55
degrees. It is about 420 miles long in straight

line, and its average breadth is about 250 to 300
mile.; taken from corner to corner, its greateat
length would be, however, 805 miles, and its
greatest breadth 400 miles. Mr. ABROWSMITII
computes its area of square miles, including
Queen Charlotte's Island, at somewhat more
than 200,000 miles. Of its gold-bearing rivers,
one, the Fraser, rises in the northern boundary,
and flowing south falls into the sea on the south-
western extremity opposite the southern end of
Vancouver's Island, and within a few miles of
the American boundary; the other, the Thomp-
son river, which rises in the Rocky Mountains,
and flowing westward joins the Fraser about 150
miles from the coast. It is on these two rivers,
and chiefly at their confluence, that the gold dis-
coveries have been made." There are, however,
two sides to this interesting and animating
picture ; and it behoves intending emigrants to
look well before they leap. In addition to the
precarious nature of the speculations of the gold
seeker, and the dangers which beset him in the
treachery and ferocity of the Indians, the sup-
plies of food are represented as extremely meagre
—so much so, indeed, that the aborigines them-
selves endure great sufferings from want and
starvation. But gold-diggers may be said to be
a kind of men distinct from the ordinary immi-
grant; they are bold, reckless, and desperate—
hardy, inured to privation and fatigue—and
are a match for the red Indians themselves ;
while the character and physical capacities of the
mechanic or artisan adapt him for another field
of labour, less exciting, less captivating, perhaps,
than gold-digging, but more steady and often
more remunerative than the pursuits of his hardy
and adventurous compeers. All those, there-
fore, who feel inclined to push their fortunes in
these regions should consider well what they are
going about—not suffering themselves to be car-
ried away by the dazzling prospects of meeting,
every turn, with gold in the lump; not enter-
ing rashly upon a career fraught with many diffi-
culties and great dangers ; avoiding a kind of
labour for which they may be eminently unfitted,
and which, in that case, would entail upon them-
selves inconceivable wretchedness and cruel
disappointments.

Tux approaching visit of the QusEN to Cher-
bourg has been made a prolific theme of news-
paper discussion. The step has been viewed in a
variety of ways, and many opinions, and aenti-
inents both "grave and gay," have become
incidental to the subject. The Times and some
other papers have "looked frowningly" upon
the invitation of the EMPEROR to QUEEN VIC-
TORIA, to witness the inauguration of the har-
bour, quay, and docks, of which the magnificent
works at Cherbourg are composed. The Qom/
is advised by some volunteer counselors not to
go; and the harbour of Cherbourg is looked
upon as a structure fraught with infinite danger,
at some undefined period in the world's future,
to the lives and liberties of Her MAJEt4TY'S loving
subjects. For ourselves, we see little reason
for so much ill-humour and so much alarm.
Why should not the EMPEROR have his grand
harbour of refuge on his coast, and arm it, too,
if he pleases? And why should a neighbouring
sovereign. in close alliance with His MAJESTY,
Wine a civil invitation, and refuse to let her
" eye look like a friend" on France? In the event
of a war with this country, Cherbourg will un-
loubtedly present advantages of attack not be-
fore possessed by France; but have science and
%pint done nothing for us in the meanwhile
And does anybody suppose that in such a contin-
tenoy—which there is no reason in the world to
tpprehend—we should ourselves be left "naked
lo our enemies ?" No; England reposes with
calm and perfect confidence upon the stout
hearts of her gallant sons, should such a calamity
ts an invasion of our hearths and homes be ever
tttempted by a foreign foe; and she looks with
unmixed satisfaction upon the invincible security
fronded by the squadrons of Great Britain—the
moient bulwarks of this "sea-girt isle." We
um, therefore, among those who think that the
responsible advisers of the Crown have wisely ap-
proved the visit ; and we fully concur in the senti-
ments of a London contemporary—that "QUEEN
VICTORIA, in proceeding to the inauguration
ceremonies, shows a grand and high-minded
disdain of fear ; whilst her presence is an unmis-
takeable token of the sincerity of her wish to
preserve the alliance of the two nations."
The following are said to be the final arrange-
ments made for the Imperial visit to Cherbourg:
—Qnsuuq VICTORIA will arrive at Cherbourg On
the evening of the 4th, and the EMPEROR and
EMPRIaII will make their entrance into the town
in the afternoon of the same day. Their Impe-
rial MAJESTIES will remain at Cherbourg on the
3th, oth, and 7th, and on Sunday, the Bth, will
embark on board the Bretagne screw line-of-
battle ship to proceed to Brest. The first inter-
view between the Sovereigns of France and Eng-
land will take place on the sth. Their MAJESTIES
will pass the 6th in the roadstead. On the 7th
the inauguration, benediction, and immersion of
the dock Napoleon 111 will take place, and in
the afternoon the Ville de Nantes, screw liner,
which has been built on one of the slips of the
am dock, will be launched. In the evening
there will be a grand ball offered by the town.
A grand dinner will be given by the EMPEROR to
in the persons attached to his suite. It will
take place under a tent fitted up on the deck of
the Bretagne. All the Plenipotentiaries forming
:mit of the Conference of Paris have received in-
vitations for the files at Cherbourg.

A CORRESPONDENCE has recently taken place
between the Post .Office Authorities and Mr.
Witusst WALLACE FYFE, Editor of the Dorset
Chronicle and of the Saturday's reprint of the
same paper appearing under another name,
which correspondence has just been published.
We should probably have been disposed to look
upon the matter as unworthy of notice, but that
m appeal "to the Press" is made by Mr. FYFE
to " join " him in " resisting " the authorities,
fro. ; and our silence, under these circumstances,
might be misconstrued as sympathising with Mr.
FYFE. and approving, mme or less, the position
he has taken up, together with the tons and
character of his proceedings. We address our-
selves briefly to the subject, for the express
purpose of declaring our unqualified dissent from
the course he is pursuing; and to protect our-
selves, as far as possible, from the injury to the
reputation of the cou'itry press which Mr.
FYFB'S impudent and unmeaning tirade is calcu-
lated to inflict. The simple fact in the case is,
that Mr. FYFE is officially apprised that "each
"page of the Chronicle must bear the same title"
—a plain and well-known regulation of the
General Post Office applying to all newspapers,
and of which he ought not to have been
ignorant. This, at the time of the abolition
of the newspaper duty, was made a condition
of the transmission of newspapers through
the post, and all conductors of newspapers
were duly informed of the regulation; but
the Chronicle appears to have enjoyed the
privilege of transmission up to this time, not-
withstanding that it has all along systematically
infringed the rule. The Chronicle is at length
informed that this irregularity is detected, and
is called upon to correct it. What can be easier
Upon this the redoubtable Editor bristles
up in an attitude of high dudgeon his
blood boils—and he treats the readers of
the Saturday's reprint with a magniloquent
"leader" on the subject, appended to which is
a copy of a petulant and ridiculous letter
addressed by his offended dignity to the Post
Office Authorities. He first demands an " ex-
" planation "—upon a matter as clear as daylight,
and as simple as A. B. C. He then calls the
attention of the Post Office to the manner in
which the Chronicle is "made up "—(a point so
much to the purpose)—being "carefully ar-

" ranged," as he says, " with that atten,
" tion to eleyince which its high class circu-
" lation inevitably demands :" and, with incon-
ceivable personal importance and commanding
spirit—with lofty pride and dusting great-
ness—he demands to know "by what autho-
rity the General Post 02oe dares to dictate
"to him what words or matter he is or is not
"to print in his paper,"(!) lie then quarrels
with the 5. registration fee, for which we enjoy
the great advantage of transmitting papers,
free, to our friends and patrons in the British
Colonies in all parts of the world. In the judg-
ment of Mr. WILLIAM WALLACIE FYIII this
trifling cousileration for incomparable benefits
conferred is to be regarded as nothing less than
"black mail," strikingly illustrative of that
, "petty tyranny and captious dictation" which
ought to came all the printing presses in the
kingdom to rise mid mutiny. Mr. WILLIAM WAL-
LACS Pyre calls upon the Press to "understand"
whether this most unjust and burdensome impost
"is desirable." What a deal of splutter about
nothing! Weare of opinion that it is quite time
for Mr. FYIEE to " understand" things better;
at all events, until he gives some evidence of
improvementin this respect, we must respectfully
decline to be led by him, or to have him viewed
in any quarter, or under any circumstances,
as an exponent of our opinions concerning the
"Press "—properly so called—in its relations
with the "powers that be." Notwithstanding
his modest pretensions to "elegance," dza, his
article and his letter, it must he said, are speci-
mens of inflated rigmarole and vulgar bombast
characteristic of the man, and will be sure to
bring with them their due reward—contempt.
We ourselves understand our obligations, and
cheerfully perform them; we have no complaint
to make against the regulations of the General
Post Office, and repudiate altogether the arro-
gant folly of this Triton of the minnows.

DORCHISETER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday,
July 17.—There was a good supply of wheat on offer
today, but the fineness of the weather caused millers
to be very cautious in purchasing more than for their
immediate wants, and the demand was slow at a re-
duction of from is. to 2a. per quarter. Barley and
oats in retail demand at late rates.

DORCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The
annual show in connection with this association is
announced to take place on Saturday week in the
Fairfield, when plate to the value of .£B5 will be
distributed in prizes. The annual dinner and meet-
ing of the society will afterwards be held at the
Antelope Hotel, when the prizes won during the
season by labourers and servants will be presented.
The President, we understand, is J. Weld, Esq., of
Lulworth Castle.

Sherborne fair yesterday was very dull. There
were not many persons in attendance. There was a
good show of stock and sheep, lint to transact busi-
ness in each class a reduction had to be submitted to.
it is said that the Great Western Railway Corn-
are alma doubling the line between Evershot
and Yetininster Stations, in order to avoid delays
caused by the incline near Holywell tunnel. A portion
of the Dorchester station was illuminated with gas
for the first time on Monday night.
EXCURSION TRIPS. —On Saturday night the
Great Western Railway Company ran an excursion
train of eight carriages, containingsevenil hundreds
of their workpeople, from Paddington to Weymouth.
They are to return this (Tuesday) evening. Tester.
day foreftoon a long train, bearing many hundreds of
visitors, arrived at the Great Western Station here
from Bristol, Bath, awl places on the Wilts line, for
a day's excursim to Weymouth. They returned
last night.

DIMOLUTIOH op PARLTAHRYT.—The Observer
says:—" Although there is a general impression that
Parliament will be pror..gued during the present month,
we have reason to behave that it will not rise before
the :lrd °rah of August, and that it will then be
prorogued by oommissiun and nut by Her Majesty
in person."
Al it is not at all improbable that there may be a
general election in the early Ilan of next )fear, it may
be well to remind Liberal (minty constituents that
Tuesday (this day) is the last day for sending in
claims or county votes,
THE NEWAPAPICR PIMA ;--On Friday evening the
Rev. C. Kirtland, of Canterbury is to give a lecture
"Time history of the newspaper prose at the
Townhall.

On Thursday two performances took place at Mr.
Brown's " cirque unique" in a tent erected near the
Bridport road. The attendance was somewhat
numerous, and the entertainment was very passable.
FATAL AVUTIANT.--On Saturday afternoon an
inquest was hehl at the Royal Oak, Dewlish, before
Henry Ls*, E4q., deputy coroner, on the body if
Amelia Legg, aged four years. From the evidence
adduced it appeared that on the preceding day a
carter named James Maybes was in Mr. thlllo,l
Harding's yard, at Dewlish, putting a large rake into
A cart, when the horse, startled at the noise, ran
olfinto the road where the child WOA standing. One
of the wheels of the cart struck bur at the back of
the ear awl she fell. John Abner picked her up and
held her in his arms a little time, but she almost Mi.
mediately expired. The Jury returned A verdict of
" Accidental Death."

THE ROYAL MEETING AT CHERBOURG. —The
Weymouth and Channel Islands' Company anneunoe
their intention of despatching a steamer to Cher.
bourg on the nommen' if her Majesty's visit to that
pert at the inauguration lif the vast docks there.
The terms of the trip are very reasonable, and, as
every provirien will be made for the acoomineitation
of excumiontsta, no doubt a numerous company will
take the opportunity of showing their loyalty and of
viewing the Gallic Sebastopol.

FRIENDLY SOCIETY ANNIVICRVARY.—OD Monday
the 16th anniversary of the Doi-elle/ter Tradesmen's
and Mechanics' Friendly Society was celebratedat the
Royal Oak Inn. About thee o'clock many of the
members and friends of the club sat down to an ex.
fallout dinner provided by host Read. T. Coombs,
Esq., occupied the chair, and the chairman of the te im•
mittee, Mr. Dart, acted as vice-chairman, J. F.
Hodges, H. Look, M. C. Weston, A. &mem, Estirs.
were present. The borough members R. B. Sheridan,
and Captain N. Sturt, each sent a to the society.
An agreeable evening was passed, which wound up
with some dancing.
DEATH OF THE COUNTERS OF CARDIGAN.—We
have to announce the death of the Countess of Car.
tlignn, who died at 7 o'clock on Thursday morning
at her residence in South-street, Park•lane. After
passing the winter in Italy, she returned from the
continent late in the spring in improved.health, but
about six weeks shun her ladyship became indis-
posed, though no fatal consequences were appre•
handed. Thursday morning, at au early hour, she was
seized with very alarming symptoms, and soon after-
wards expired. The deceased WM eldest daughter
of the late Admiral J. R. D. Tolleinache, and was
1 born December 8, 1797. She married tirst Mr.
C. F. C. A. J. Johnstone, hut that marriage was die.
solved in 1826. On the -10th of June the same year
she married the Earl of Cardigan (then Lord Brude•
nell).
SALISBURY DIOCRAAN CHURCH BUILDING AS-
RocuTioN.---A meeting of the general committee of
this association was held at the Board-room in the
Close, on Tuesday last. The chair was occupied by
the Very Rev. the Dean, and there were present
the Venerable the Archdeacon of Sarum, the Rev.
Canon Fisher, the Hon. Buil Rev. Camel Weide-
grave, the Rev. Sub.lean Eyre, the Rev. Pre-
bendaries Vane, Watts. Lear, and Lowther (Secre-
tar)'), and the Reeds. R. Payne, W. D. Morrice, and
C. Lawford. The erection of a Chapel of Esee at
Bradpole, in the county of Dorset, came before the
Board. To show the necessity for such a building it
is but to state that there is only room in the pariah
church for about one.third of the inhabitants. To-
wards this object, therefore, a grant of .til2s was
made. The new edifice is to cost £1,347 of which
£750 has been collected, and is to seat (all free) 309
persons. A letter from the Rural Dean of the dia.
trict, as to whether the Boar! would entertain an
application with regard to Coombe Keynes church,
in the county of Dorset, was then discussed. With
reference to this building, a competent architect re-
ported some time ago that a more dilapidated and
dangerous structure it had never been his lot to
survey, in fact, it was totally unlit for divine wor-
ship, and its use would be attended with risk to the
minister and congregation. The peculiarity of the
case is that the church, which consists of a tower,
nave, south aisle, and chancel, is larger than is
necessary for the parish, the aisle being unoccupied
by sittings, and useless; unfortunately the living is
a poor one, and the iucumbent consequently with.
out the means of doing anything; moreover, those
in the parish from whom liberal assistance might
otherwise have been expected, being of the Roman
Catholic persuasion, the only hope of raising the
requisite funds for providing a proper place of wor-
ship for the poor people, who in spite of the cheer-
less and unoomfortable place in which they are
compelled to meet, still love and cling to the services
of the church, is from foreign liberality. Taking these
unfavourable circumstances into consideration, the
committee decided on receiving the application
whenever it was made to them. The remaining
case WM the preposed erection of a School Chapel at
Gussage All Saints, Dorsetshire, but the application
being unaccompanied by papers, the subject was
ordered to stand over. When the committee
made the above grant, to further the building iif a
Chapel of Ease at Bradpole, it was with the know•
ledge that the sum voted would entirely exhanst the
resources in the treasurer's hands—of course due

provision being Made to meet the grants already I
promitied, Tine eiremustance, we believe, regnires
only to he made ituoWir throughout the dioCese to
insure a response which will place the society in a
position to continue the good work of dintrelh buildlng unit restoration it has so well promoted during
a period of tt yedre, The association has, by grants
exceeding £16,000, been lindromental in Wilding,
rehuililing, and enlarging no less than leo sharehes
and chapels in the diocese.
ductal. ill.tniernAnif Orrice, Sliiretinll, Saturday,
July 17.—(Before 11. 1 artil yr, L. Henning,
gela,)—EphrobaSimpson, William Workman, and John
Whiboore were charged with asaaulting Sergeant Hitch
and P.C. Wliitty. Sergeant Hiteli said that on Friday
lid recrlvdd ihformatidn df Ilk stragglers who had de.
acted from the ANCOOII, E 2 grins, its Portland Roads.
The officer found four of the offenders (the prisoners) at
the Traveller's Rest beerhouse,Wyke road. Sinipsen pave
WS nate. a. James Johnson, and acknowledged being
, atraggler from the Racoon. The fourth man, named
Fitzgerald, jumped through the window and °soaped.
Prisoners asked permission to finish their bread and
I cheese and beer just ordered, and the °Meer not only
allowed this, but promised if they went quietly not to
handcuff them. After reulaining • aline, tilde in the
room Woricinan started up, said lie had been an able
seaman more years than the officer had been on earth,
and attacked Sergeant Hitch. The xergeant then 0011 I•
menued to handcuff Workman, when Simpson struck
the sergeant several times in the face, vowing his chnin
should not he taken. When holding these two, Work.
man attempted to draw a knife, but, was prevented from
doing so by P.C. Whitty, who knoeked him down. The
sergeant's hat was much injured end tossed about the
rosin. On the way to the station Simpson endeavoured 1
to trip up the aergeant twice ; mid Workman carried a
large stone to Wylie promising to knock the first police.
minim's brains out lie saw so soon as he was at liberty.
Whitmore ran off with the other, Fitzgerald, who
went through a window, but came hack afterwards and
threw stones at the sergeant ; and a constable jrirsued
them to within a short distance, when Fitzgerald
gave himself up to a coastguardsman. P.C.
Whitty corroborated Sergeant Hitch, and added that
when Simpson attacked the sergeant Whitmore knocked
witnem down mid escaped through the door. Fitzgerald
at that moment escaped through the window, and when
the constable got up the sergeant's hat came acmes the
rosin. The seamen were all drunk at the time. The
Magistrates, after consultation, fined the prisoners 20s.
each, including costs, or a month's hard labour.—
Catherine Davis, an Irish train'', was brought up charged
with being drunk. P.C. Bishop said that at half-past
10 Friday night he SAW the prisoner lying in the road at
Broadway very drunk and swearing at every passer by.
Prisoner said she had been gathering some watermenaes
and caught • cold, which made her get a little drink.
Fined Ns., but allowed • week to pay it in, or a month's
imprisonment in default.
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THE Comma ASSIZEIL—On Wednesday afternoon the
cominission for holding the Midsunnner Anises for this
county will be opened at the Shireball by Mr. Baron
Watson and Mr. Baron Channel The trials of pri-
soneni will commence on the following morning. At
present the calendar contains the names of only nine
prisoners, but, se will be seen from the following
description, the offencee are of a very serious nature :
Jane Rose, (21), servant, wilful murder of a male child,
at Almer end Mapperton ; Ann Vincent, (18) wilful
murder of a new-born mole bastard child, at Winter-
borne Herringstone ; John Thompson, (17), labourer,
oointuitting an abominable crime at Winterborne
Steepleton • John Corry Bishop, (40), collar maker,
manslaughter of Robert Coueina, at Sherburne • James
Seal, (19), labourer, wdful murder of Sarah Ann Guppy,
at Stoke Abbott ; Mary Ann Hitchcock (31), wilful
murder of a male child, at Broadwineor ; Henry Coombs
(38) labourer, wilful and corrupt perjury, at Winiborne
Minster ; George Thorne (23), labourer, obtaining by
false pretences, of Andrew Diesch, a silver watch and
guard chain, his prowirty, with intent to defraud the
said Andrew Dieiich, at Meloombe Regis ; Charles
Pearce, (Oka George Phillips (24), baker, setting fire to
a stack of straw, the property of Frederick Styring, at
Lytchet Minster; Eliza Hann, on hail, stealing linen,
patchwork, tea., at Beaminster. We understand that
Seal, who stands charged with the murder of Sarah
Anne Guppy, does not evince any symptoms of anxiety
relative to the trial which he is aware is shortly to take

place. There wee a rumour that he was insane, but he
oonduots himself in a very quiet manner, and exhibit'
no indications whatever of aberration of mind. His
appearance ic much improved ulnae his imprisonment.

PIDDLEEIINTON.

REAPING MACHINE— Oil MOllday One of Burgess
and Keye's reaping machines was tried for the tint
time in this parish by Mr. Lovelace, and about five
acres of winter barley were cut in a very satisfactory
manner. It is calculated that 300 persons visited the
held during the time the machine was at work.