The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-23 00:00:00

TILE FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD HAUL
COMM

The adjourned inquest-on—tin—body of Richard Hark-
nett, seaman on board the Oman; who warn killed by tin
accidental diackerge of • Nordmann goo. in board that
vesml, whilst off Punned, was told on Friday evening, at
the Breakwater Hotel, before R. N. Howard, Req. (the
Portland Coroner.) Mx. T. Gibbs was the foresian of the
uu•
John Davis. ordinary seaman, said: On the fint of
December we wen at general quarten in the Westßay. and
the deceased and I were In the poop together near the
Nordenfelt gun. The deceased woo No. 1, or captain of
the gun, and as such it wee Ms duty to lay the gua end
give directions when to fire. I was No. I The gun was
Waded at the time Tb." parson," who was also on tha
poop at the time,wanted to ON the working of the gun.
The deceased ordered me to draw the lever back gently.
I did so, and four of the cartridges fell out I then drew
the lever right beck as far as it would go, in order to full-
ouch the gun. I did that because it was according to the
instructions road out by the midshipman before the drill.
I than brought it half-way forward to the "reside
position. I thea stood for twenty minutes. and my hands
being cold I east the deceased if I could half-cock the
gun. He said "Yes." I stooped down to half-cock the
gun and it exploded. I did net remember touching the
half-cock stop; but I may have done so. I can't say how
it exploded. I believe it was Gee "hopper," which
hold* about forty cartridges, that exploded. I was
thrown from the gun on to the dock, where I
lay insensible for about a minute. When I got up I
heard the doctor of the ship ash if anyone was tort, and
the deceased replied " I am." He was immediately taken
to the sick bay. I was hurt on the right aide of my face
near the eye. I was shaken a great deal and felt very
giddy after the accident. I was also ordered to the sick
bay. In conversation with the deceased I asked him if he
thought it was my fault, and he replied that he did oat. I saw
he was injured in the tight arm, and I saw the empty cart-
ridge can extracted by the doctor. The dwindled told sae
he remembered that I asked him if I could half-cock the
gun, and said that he ought to have shown me how to do
it. I asked him if he was in much pain, and he said no,
and that it did not hurt blm much. He was soon after-
wards removed to the Naval Sick Quarters on shore. I
had Woe to the accident never hal any drill with the gun,
and knew nothing whatever of its construction. The
deceased did. The gun bad been aboard for some week.,
and the deceased had had some experience with it I have
been on board the Comas since the Med of October, when
she was put in commission. I was on board at the time.
and the deceased Joined two days afterwards from the
Excellent School of Gunnery. The accident happened in
the forenoon between 10 ant 11. The commander of the
vessel is Caputo East. I bad never been in the School of
Gunnery. I have been in the navy between flee acd six
years. We ware the only two at the gun. There are only
Iwo required for ths mangerneet of the gun.
Captain J. W. Rest said : I am • captain in Her
MelseQ's fleet, and in command of the Comm., and wee
so on the lit of December. We were at general wieder,
laths West Bay, Sting at • target After this exercise
had been finished we intended to go through another
drill, defending the ships against attacks by torpedo
boats, when the Nordenfelt gun would have been brought
Into action, but no orders had been given for loading this
gun, more especially as it wee the first time the gun bad
been used on board the ship. The responsibility, therefore
of loading the gun rested with the demeaned. He was
captain of the gun, baying been chosen as mach became*
he was one el the few men en board who bad been
instructed in the use of the gun on board the Eloollient
The gun ought not to have been loaded. I intended
personally giving orders to load the gun when we manned
and armed ship. I had given no such order, however. I
had never aeon the gee fired before, and it was my inten-
tion, with the gunnery lieutenant, personally to superin-
tend the S lag, and theref ire it ought not to have been
loaded at that time He might have loaded it from over-
sail en his part thinking he knew all about it, and wish-
ing to show it off. It bad
hoard, but it had been proved 17 the makers. For the
aktiafaction of the jury I can only say we all sympathise
very deeply with the widow. A fair sone:notion has been
made in the Corona, and lb. Lords of the Admiralty will
do something for bet', Mr. Nordeafelt has also been very
literal in the can.
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Wedn*lay

Thtusday

PORTLAND.
THE IKVINCIBLI arrived at Gibraltar on the 10th
Inst.
Tits AnnIsALTY have just come to a decision of very
questionable • Worn. They have rescinded the regula-
tion which forbade the residence of women on board
ship. As yet, the prohibition has not been formally
abrogated ; but special exemptions have been made in
the case of certain ships. The regulation, which they
thus allow to be disregarded, was made ten years er,
and, in the almost unanimous opinion of the service,
bias worked admirably. The only persons who
thought otherwise were the few who would profit by
its repeal.
SPRAT OH ! !—During the past week large quantities
of sprat. have been caught In the roadstead, several
htuadredi of bushels being sec-mod each day. On
Monday Mr. Wills' boats had 300 bosbels. The fish
have found a ready market at la and 2.. per bushel.
The sprats having been might with mackerel nets,
are of large size, the small ones sweeping through the
meshes. Such successful hauls as this will partly
make up for the badness of the mackerel mason.
THI Noirrnarrrow (12), armour-plated ship, Capt.
J. A. Fiisher, which has just been conunisidoned as
the fisgship oifiir Leopold McClintock, the new Corn.
mander-in-Chief on the North America and West
Indies Station, went on her fall power trial Saturday.
She had four runs on the measured mile, and made 13
knots. More thaa the contract power was realised,
but the speed was somewhat lees than was expected.
The machinery in fact, has performed its work, but
the speed is said to be diminished by some defect In
the ship herself.
NATAL Fuscw... —The remains of the sailor Hark.
nett, who died from injuries received on board H.M.S.
Comus, were interred in the Naval Cemetery on Friday
week The shipbeing at Sheerness, the funeral arrange.
meets were conducted by the commanding officer of
H.M.S. Warrior. The procession, which started from
the Naval Hospital at two o'clock, was formed as
follows :—Firing party of Royal Marines from H.M.S.
Warrior; braes band of H.M.S. Boscarren, playing a
funeral march the corpse, on a gun-carris s, drawn
by seamen; iii. relatives of the deceased; and a
number of the sailors from the Warrior. The chaplain
of the Warrior read the funeral service.

aanireres/7
sermon' of the Wesleyan Mindonary Society were
preached In the circuit on Sunday last, at Fortune's-
well In the morning by the Rev. J. Scott, recently
returned from Ceylon, and in the evening by the Rev.
H. Padgham ; at Easton In the morning by the Rey.
J. Lawrence, and In the evening by the Rev. J. Scott.
The children's services were held in the afternoon at
each place of worship, the Rey. J. Scott officiating at
Fortune's-well, and the Rev. C. Dunham at Ea.ton.
A public meeting was held at Fortune'e.wcii on
Monday eveninr, when Mr. C. Gibbs presided, and
excellent addresses were delivered by the deputation
and circuit ministers. The attendance was not large,
and bore • marked contrast to the Interest shown in
these missions in former years. A public meeting, in
aid of the same cause, was held at Easton on Tuesday.

Mr. Philip ThZitio said : I ant in the employ of Mr.
Nordenfelt the invealor cf the gun in question. He is
obliged to go to Mecklenburg near BALD, and therefore
I attend on his behalf. The peculiarity of the gun is that
it has fur barrel., arranged parallel one with another. It
is worked by • lever moving backwards and forwards. It
is • breechlomiling gun, and the cartridges ere supplied
from the top, 40 of theist being stored in what is called the
"hopper." When the lever is moved right back four
cartridges fall on to the carrier-block, and as the lever is
moved forward these four cartridges are gradually pushed
into the chambers, and when the lever bee mched it.
utmost limit the breech-block is closed by bolts. This
springs set free the trigger-comb, which Ores the cartridges
by means of needles or strikers. The whole operation
does not take more than one second from the time of
starting to the time of firing, so that as long ea there are
any cartridges remaining in the" hopper" you can con-
tinuo to Are simply by moving the handle backwards and
forward, to its full extext each time With regard to the
accident, by drawing the lever bock gently, as deposed by
the former witness, and the four empty cartridge, falling
out, no harm would be done ; but by drawing the lever
right back four more cartridges would fa from the
" hopper' on to the wrier block, and from there would
be pushed into the four chambers ; but the breech
would not be closed until he pustell the liver right for.
ward. The first witnees ought not to have moved the lever
forward at all unless the gun was there and then gding to
be fired, or having movel it half forward he ought to have
taken off the "hopper" and extracted the cartridges with
his hand. Ho roust have touched the springs is some way
=1:1 the halt-cock, for that controllei them, and that
the cartridges that wereoely half in the chambers to
be fired. The brooch not being closed one or two of them
exploded, blowing the breech back, causing the explosion
In the "hopper." The weight of these cartridges is about
Ilb. each, One man would be sufficient to attend the
working of the gun besides the man to fetch the cartridges
when the "hopper" became empty.
In answer to r.7.M LI Arden (solicitor to the Admiralty),
witness said the gun had been subjected to a groat many
trials. They had been before different Gairernments for
fair or five years. He had never known an accident
happen before The guns had been fired thou, ands of
times. It was not possible for the machinery to get
out of order.

Li:l;i said it moat be very gratifying to Mr. Norden-
felt to know that the accident wag not canoed by the
machinery gutting out of order.
Edward Hayter said he was gums*" mate on board the
CADUIII. Hie had been in the service twelve yeast He
and the deceased were on board H. 11.8. Excellent and had
had Instruction in the general working of the Nordenfelt
gun. He joined the Comm on the ffird of Odtober with
the deceased, He (dammed) was Et yams of age, and
was • very steady sober man. He had been I. the WITIOS
more than eight years. On the day of the accident the
gun was in working order, for it was tried only. week
Wore by the dummy cartridges.
Staff-Surgeon John Heroin Stone said: I am gaff-sur-
geon in the Royal Navy. and in chant° of the Naval Sick
Quarter' at Portland. On the let of December! admitted
the dimmed, suffering from • gun-shot wound in the
rliht erne. It was • very severe wound, for the missile
had entered the shoulder. and traversed the soft structure
of the arm down to the elbow. He progressed favourably
oath the seventh day. and I had every reason to think he
would pull through. The medical officers of the Warrior
and Roseawen also saw him and we were all of opinion
that he was progressing very favourably. On the ilk day
signs of tetanus set In sad on the Sib I and the other two
medical men rimsvi dthelineb, as being the beet chance to
avert the tetanus that had set in, We did so, bet without
the desired effect, and he died of totems' on the following
day, being the incidental oonisquence of the wowed that
he had received The per centage of recovery in tetanus
very small. If the arm had not been removed he would
have died cf the most marked tetanna
The Coroner, in summing op, thanked the jury for their
careful consideration of the case. He briefly commented
on the evidence, and he did not think they would hare
meth difficulty in arriving at a verdict. He entirely
exonerated the maker of the gun from any fault whatever,
for It had been fully and clearly proved that the gun was
In a perfect condition.
The jury returned • verdict "Thai the deceased died
from a nun-shot wound in the arm, the result of an
accidental discharge of • gam'

GRAND CONCUT.—An excellent concert of roast and
instrumental mane was given in St. Peter's schoolroom
on Friday evening, in aid of the Choir Fund of St.
Peter's church. The attendance was very large, among
those present being Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, Captain
and Mrs. Hume, llr. and Mrs. Corbett, Rev. W.,
Mrs., and Mies Appleton% Mrs. Beszor,Mr. and Mre.
Askham, Rev. Mr. Garland, Dr. McLean, Rev. J. A.
Matthews, Major and Mr.. Fitzgerald, Captain New-
bury, Major Campbell, Captain and Mrs. Perry,
tient Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. Cohen, Mr. and
Mrs Waters, Mr. Horner, By kind permission
H
of Captain UI and officers of the 581 regiment,
their splendid string band was in attendance. The
programa)e opened with • fantasia by the band. Mrs.
POOLM McLean and Mrs. Gibson then gave the duet "When
the Winds Blow in,' which the former lady effete- THI RIO ,RDZISHIP. —The Home Secretary has
tiesly played the mcompaniment lieut. Shakespeare appointed Mr. G. Prior Goldney, of the Western
was t 3 have nag, but being unable to he present, Mr. I Circuit, to the zeoordership of Poole, vacant by the
R. B. Leelie kindly filledhie pleae with excellent ' transfer of Mr. Collins, Q.C., to that of Exeter. Mr.
sang entitled "The Iron King," Mies Ape:Word was Goldney was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in
loudly applauded for • pretty song entitled "It Is L" I 1867, and resigns the recordership of Holston for that
The band thou rave an overture from "The Caliph of of Poole.
Bagdad." Major Fitzgerald was encored for an OUTS Or CERTINA.II.OI. —Our obituary column of to.
amusing song entitled " Dreadful Affairs." In day matins • record of the death of the oldest 'Muni.
reeuon.e he gave "The Twins," which was erinally taut of the bcgough. Widow Butt, who died in Pro'''.
wel received. Mr. Corbett then gays an exhibition dencerow, en Tuesday, was born in Pool* on the 7th of
of his " Menagerie " for which he was warmly sip. November, 1777, and we. consequently in her 103rd
pleaded. Mr. Coreett himself acted as " showman, = Deceased had been ill but a comrsalitiml7 Mart
*horn he represented to Perieotioc limime* to fixavicz or Soma. —A service of wag entitled "Bart's
the loot-continued applause he gave an umiak; Joy' wa. nem) at the Tempera Hall on Monday
loflg" .nkee what
.Peaalee the gusher." The next Inc by the members of tM "Training Ship " lere°ll4
wee a song by Miss Appleton who was ably socom. temple a L.O 0.T., who were ender the direction of Mr.
pealed by Mrs. Appleford ('piano) and Mr. It. B. I K Shave the superintendent, The Sherif! J. 3'
Leslie (violin). Major Fitzeerald then obliged with a Norton) wee in the chair, aid the Bee G. Dyson gave the
comic "Did you ever See an Oyster walk Upstairs r c°°l3o"Arror readings.
•rt. 18th—Present He was encored sad in response sang "I Dent Loved The chair.. 4gru.)-tei7D7D..,tyjal. the yine-enairtnan
a yang Gazelle." Herr Hansen and Mime Leech (Mr. C. Peterson), and Mesas. Hamas,W.Mrc_l°_il
next played an "impromptu" for violin and piano- P. g. L. Budge, T. Crumpler and C. T. Marston isiemm forts, whkh was sathardastically received. We have Guardians). and F. i .feresilleat4—A letter T 5..." b •10111 remarked on Mr. Hansen's brilliant playing, read from the Load Government board confirming `""
sad we used only say It wee now fully up to the aPPointlnsitt of ilfr. Young ea vaccination °Mow et •
mirage. Miss Leech also played rewarbebly well, Warr Of £lO Per annum.
IWm Heynolds was encored for a pretty song entitled FATAL AOCIDIUrt—A boy named Charles Ryan, about 18
vain of age liens at Coastitationbill, met with an " Remember or Forget," Miss Spencer and Miss untimely drab as Wednesday ailsrnoomc. He was, with
Leach Played • rake by Tito Matta). Mr. flogger other boys, &Mimi on frame pond in Branksome Wood,
was encored for "Leave it to Ms," and In response near AU Saint's Church, whin bee fall through the and
=it: Pear Piper." This concluded the praggangne, before he mold be rescued he was drowned. Tin=
in wag ovary way a /000111115. I IVY released is Wks Medlars Twin *weft as gni

tracteman Causcu.—A. wary successful and well attest
ded tea meeting and entectislament was held In the
Unitarian Schoolroom on Tuesday even:oo. The 61.4-6166
(emusnor Western) presided,and Kr. J Smith, °mania%
of the parish church, was the ...feel director. Ileariinrs
were given by the Rev. W. Aar, Mr. 11. A. Lawton, Mrs.
Pike, and Mr. F. W. Oiler, and the vocalista were Ur.
and Mrs. Hard, Mr. H. B. SeigSell, Mr. It Beibin,
and others. Dr. K. P. Pldteats omit a ample of his
original songs with Ma usual enema
Elmwense Iwrawomsca.—Arrissis: Die. 13 Litt/e
I) me, Kellaway, Ramie, Rowe, Portsmouth, nil; Sir
R ibort Pal, Long. Guernsey, 'toes ; Rtsme, Coosa'',
Hyde, niL Dec. 14—W1000er, Wlltles Plymouth.
general • Commodore, Meet, Portainouth, niL Dm. 15—
Vesper, 'Bate, Ne woes Zeserald, Si., Plymouth,
oilicak• ; Adelteeid. Akkaresaa, Semehans. balla,t. Di c.
16—Diver, Page, Sarah Asa, Brown. Yarmouth. nil;
Alma, MonnWiseld, Portsmouth. gun',
Dec. 11—Blue Jacket, Richards, ills ibeth Davies, Jones.
Runcorn, clay; Torpedo, Sederburg, Credit,. ballast Ana,
I Beacham, Porten:meth, dealt. Dec. 12—Exprem, Fleck
Fiber. Kimmeridge, oil; Acorn, B•eitt, Fainsootb,
dour. Dec. 13—Arrow. Deletes', Jersey, drainpipes,. D c.
I.s—Edith, Tripplecock, Loudon. cloy; Wanier, Allen,
Seeking, tidiest : Affiance. Flit. Cardiff, pit wood.
The gx-Ommo Quinine. I. the Qmen's Duch
Division of the High Court of Justice on Thursday, on the
motto& of Kr. R H. Poilard, instructed by Mr. H. T.
Trevaelos, a rule Mei was granted by Justices Loeb and
Manisty, redline upon Messrs. W. Pearce, W. L. C. Arley,
U. Kemp-Welch, G. B. Disney, T. Sheds len., T. Slede,
Jon, W. D. Dogdale, A. Balaton, 3.1. Daryll, H. Farms-,
and F. Millna, justices for Um peace for the toss and
county and borough of Poole, to show by what authority
they exercise the right to vote es ex-'.Lo au milieus of
the Poole Union. The present proem' imp aro«, out of
the late election of rate collector for the perish <I St.
James when all the above named gentlemen attended the
meeting of the Poole Board of Guardians, and voted on the
omission. The relator is Mr. John Moslem, Jun., who
was • candidate for the rate collectorship, and who
Lost his election by a majority of the esolliio guardians
rnulinif egailling gteholikand for Mr. Edward Puerse, who is
PerrY StailloaS, Thursday Dtc. 18 h Brfrwe the
Mayor (G. Curtis, •
an Zoq.kihe ex-Mayor (W. N. Western,
d C. J. Stone, .
Tax RICOADZAIIIIP.— be Mayor road a letter he bad
received from Mr. A. J. 11. Celli,., Q C, Informing hint
of hi. appointment a Recorder of Rooter, and thanking
the ma trate, for the kitusdness and courtesy with which
bail
be been treated during the six years he hal held
the Recordmhip of Poole. His worship also read
letters from the Home Oelcs and Mr. G. Prior 0 ildney
notifying the appointment of Mr. Goldney Se Recorder
of Poole. The ex-Mayor mid be sboul I like
• formal resolution sawed to the effect that the magis-
trates thanked Mr. C fib. for his uniform cturtely to the
Ltencb, as be had conducted himself In every way to their
entire satidatton. They also admired Lim for his
ability, sad thee hoped that his new position as Recorder
of Eater would be as comfortable to him as 'hot of
Recorder of Poole—Mr. Stone, In seconding the resolu-
tion, said bo should like to add that the Bench thanked
Mr. Collins for th• very *Moises meaner in which he had
executed his duties.—Tbe Mayor supported the resolution,
and said Mr. Collins was a Poole man. and they were eli
proud of him. He hoped Mr. Goldner would prove AB
IliXestleat eaociereor to Mr. Collins.
11/LEACH OF THB LICIASING ACT. Mary Thema
Galen, landlord of the Poole Arms, WS4 summoned for
having his hosts open for the sale of intoxicating liquors
at 23 minutes peat 11 on Saturday night.—P.S. Beak=
proved that he found a Mao and a woman drinking
spirits In the bar at the time mentioned—Defendant
admitted the offence, and said his wife made a mistake sa
to the time, he being ill abed.—Supt. Hunt said he bad no
other complaint against defendant, and in consideration
of this the Bench imposed • fine of 10i. mil Is. CI. cost.
only.

MR. WARING'S VISIT TO THE BOROUGH.
The splendid meetings and demonstrations in connec-
tion with Mr. Charles Warlog's visit to Poole, were
followed by most successful tea meetings and entertain-
ments on Thursday evening. Such was the demand
for tickets that • second building had to be engaged,
and about a thousand persons partook of tea in the
Antelope Hotel Assembly Rooms and the Temperance
Hell. At the entertainmenta that followed the Mayor
(Councillor G. Curtis) occupied the chair at the
Antelope, and the ex-Mayor (Councillor W. N. Wes-
tern) presided at the Temperance Hall, the number of
rionpitios.reseit.i: at t
ree ilr,ntdwoon taarre being.
Alfred
Mason,
comedian and impersonator, Mr. Eldred Powell,
Etheopian comedian and stomp orator' and Mr.
Charles Hunter, pianist,—were engaged for the
occasion, and they gave • capital entertainment at
both places, Dr. Philpots contributing greatly to the
success of the asir by singing several of his topical
wogs. The programme at each building was inter-
;E:eFrtel:thDatinrciersr. 17 Mr. Charles
Waring,
Witt, ana Mr. S. L. Baker, and the whole of the
arrangement' were very successfully carried out.

THE PRACTICAL RESULTS OF MR.
WARING'S VISIT TO POOLE.
As it is the duty of every careful mariner, as he
approaches the shores to which bola bound, to cant the
lead and verify hie position, so also is it the duty of
every candidate for Parliamentary honours as the
approaching dissolution grows nearer to test the feel-
ings of his constituency. The Conservatives at the
het bank holiday verified their position. and, to
continue with the nautical simile, they "hove the
lead," and they expressed themselves as delighted with
the result.. The operation was • enocess, their lead
reached the bottom, but the soundings they obtained
were not satiefact al to them. The "bottom" the
lead struck upon was of au uncertain nature, as there
was found sticking in the tallow, in addition to the
"blue" sand they expected to find, a foreign substance,
which, not being m ntioned on their charts, filled
their minds with doubt, and made them as uncertain
of their position as they were before. In other word-,
their fete, however great • numerical success it might
have been, was an utter failure so far as being a test
of their real position was concerned. We have before
contrasted the Ladies' Walking Field demonstra-
tion with the Sterte one—it is now our privilege and our
pleasure to contrast the recent meetings at the
Antelope Room" and at Parkstone with the dinner of
the Conservative Association and the,f2te at Stmts. A
more determined, a more resolutiC a more sincere
welcome than the one received by Mr. Waring last
weak could hardly have been conceived in the mind
of the most sanguine of his supporters. Everyone
present at those meetings could have but one opinion
as to who the future member of the borough is to be,
and it was encouraging to notice that in these gather-
ing of the (Liberal and Conservative) electors
of the borough, not one hand could be found
held up to negative the proposition which
condemned the policy of the present Government
—on the c nitrary, everyone present was of one
mind so far as condemning it was concerned, mid
when we say that at every meeting a large number of
"the opposition" was preterit, we only say what we
are proud to know ia the truth. As & proof of the
powerful effect of the home truth' the futgre member
for Poole placed before his audience last Tuesday
week, many became converted from the errors of
Imperialism to the paths of true liberty, and some of
these convert' were not ashamed to show their faces
upon the platform on 'I hureday evening, and had time
permitted would have been called upon to show to the
hundreds assembled why they had renounced the
pomp' and vanities of Toryism and Imperialism, and
embraced the faith to which our prosperity as • nation
can be traced. That Mr. Waring's speeches were the
speeches of a *Littman, a gentleman, and a trim
Liberal no one who has heard rr real them con for •
moment doubt. Some have scented him of being too
personal—a new feature in his speeches, but ~one the
leas • pardonable one, when we refer to the after-
dinner attacks upon him made by the Right Honour-
able the Judge-Advocate-General at the hole-and-
corner dinner at the Antelope • few weeks age, not to
mention the infantile and uncalled-for efforts of Mr.
Walmeeley, who tested the groaning capabilities of
his audience for the purpose ef Insulting two gentle-
men whom names are very dear to the majolity of the
electors of this borough. Let Messrs Widmesley and
Co. groan, le. Mr. Bentinck abuse, let Mr. Schreiber
threaten, let the lord of the manor enlarge his pocket
prior to placing the borough therein (when he has an
opportunity). The Liberal. of Pools can afford to
Laugh at such puny effort.; the groans are but the
wailing" of the baby who cried for the moo., the
abuse is but the chum of Mr. Benthick, the threats
as to the severance of manorial " screwism" from
Poole need only to be carried out to please every
tenant of the manor and every inhabitant of the
bormigh, a borough which has indisputably
since
to Mr. Waring, not only ever sin last wee but ever
sines he was so heartlesely unseated in 'U. l them
meetings might with one small addition to the audience
have been • still greater success, if possible, than they
were, and his little want of mums= arises from the
fact that Mr. Schreiber was agent from them—had
he been there he would have seen sufficient to have
made him does he was requested to do on Thursday
night, not once or twice, but five thousand and six
hundred times, for fourteeu hundred people on that
occasion sang at the top of their voices, each singer
four timers--

"Go hgme across the water, Mr. Schreiber."
Not only was this sung, but it oame from the hearts
of the singers, it was meant, it was the adrift of those
who ley-

" Hold the seat they took from Waring.
Give him hack his own.
For that &by, vile pennon
Soon we atone."
Could Mr. Schreiber have beard those nine hundred
voice. at the Antelope and those five hundred voices at
the Tempe and KW joining in the sows of liberty,
could he have seen that burst of enthusiasm, or beard
that unanimous shout .4 victory, that political is.
itaximortia which carried away the feeling, of every
one present, he could have given no better proof of
possessing the wisdom necessary for him to command
who alms to be • statesman, than by issuing his fare-
well address, and retiring to some other lwe enlight-
tined borough than Poole, where his usual majority of
one, or minority of eighty, awaits him. He ham been
the her, in Poole of a holeand-cornar meeting. his
opponent has been the hero of • meeting of the electors,
where criticism was invited. where Tories could be
present, and have an opportunity of airing their
grievances, where they IWO freely welcomed, aye, and,
as it has been proved in dorms of cases, where they
bare been readily converted. The Liberals of Poole
Eiire Canford venison to help to di.;est their
o one, no Meet and Clundon, the gift of a liberal
rman, to work them up to morrow their opinions,
and they know that opinions conjured up on ler such
an influence are too much adulterated with alcoholic
fumes, and consequent cerebral excitement, either to be
the opinions of wise men or those of men who have an
opinion other than the one which Banana suggests to
their usually dormant understandings. Surely, then,
the excitement which was viewed after the vinous
repeat of the 400 diners at the Antelope will not
compare favourably with the excitement manifested
on Thursday under the same roof—the former was
artificial, the latter was real, the former was manorial,
the latter was political, the former was the result of
undue influence, in many cues of treating, of a coin.
mend to go, of a fear of stopping away, and such like
contemptible pressure, the latter was the result of •
free, spontaneous effort of the people of Poole to give
a hearty welcome to the man of their choice, the man
who comas to relieve them from the pressure of the
Iron peel of the landowner, who hoists his colours on
the impregnable rock of popularity, where the fire of
his enemy is covered by the secrecy of the ballot,
determined to " hold the fort against all corners.
This is the man who can afford to laugh at the
despotic rule of those who Ltlit against him, and,
though one after another may come, he Is a match, and
MOM than a match, not only for the man hlms.ll, but
far—
"Him nisei= and his combo sad ILL mutt"