The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-02 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1878.

1 who had won the worthy distinction of being sneered
at as the Pease Minister, became within the last few
4.7. POPUIIII. w,th the anti-Hussian faotion. übe
had been obooxiona lie had taken a firm stand at
last. He was determined not to be hoodwinked by
Russia. He demanded the Treaty, va whole Treaty,
and nothing but the Treaty. Lord Beaconsfield ties
been censured for his prevarication in denying that
dissensions existed in the Cabinet en the aye of Lord
Carnarvon's red:nation. But it was not the Premier,
but Lord Derby himself, who told the House of Lords
last week that the insinuation of dims' a in the
Ministry was unworthy end unfounded. Tbe secret
was well kept. Until the Mini ter for Foreign i
Affairs took his seat below the gangway on Thursday
1 evening; not even the members 01 the Government,
except those who enjoy Mita in the Cabinet, knew
what was going to happen. The event is calculated
to create the greatest consternation arnoopt the
peaaaloving masses of the country. The Liberals
will deplore his lose more than the Conservatives.
They regarded him as the Tories regarded tte Wilts
Lord Palmerston. They felt him to be a man of
kindred principles to their own, separated from them
only by the accident of party. He was the salt which
kept the Ministry wholesome, He was the rudder
which preserved the vessel of the State from drifting
upon fatal rocks and treacherous quiclaanda It is
impressible to replace him by any one in whom the
country will put on. had the confidence it had in him.
Lord Sslisbury is generally. expected to become his
successor. That the Premier dlsould yield to the
pressure of some of his followers and again become •
" pluralist" is hardly likely. If Lord Lyons were
appointed to the poet, a novel precedent would
certainly be erected; but it would be difficult in
default of Lord Derby to find an abler or more
experienced man for the poet.
--
It Lord Beaconsfield is an actor, he is • consummate
actor. Nothing could have been more graceful or in
better taste than his public farewell to his colleague.
A touch of pathos was effectively introduced, the
memories of • quarter of • century of political union
end private friendship were appropriately alluded to,
and the grandiloquent blast of the war trumpet
wound up one of the beet speeches Lord Beaconsfield
ever delivered. How differently political tie. .me
severed when party faiths were deeper and when
statesmen held opinions more strongly end sincerely
When Bu he parted himself from Fro: they beth shed
tears, and the House of Commons rang with their
stormy reproaches.

It is • great satiefaction to the country to know that
Lord Derby was thoroughly at one with the Goyim
-
meat as regards the Congress. Nothing could be
more explicit than his declaration upon this point.
His Lordship's point seems to be that the Government,
out the Reserve Forces, in effect jump, to
I calling
conclusion that tam only alternative to the holding
of the Cooper on our own terms is war. He has
been prepared all along for the possibility of war. At
times, be has evidently deemed it probable, but his
policy haa been to give Roads no fair exams for war.
and to abstain resolutely from any act which would
afford a pretext for the commencement of hostilities
If war must come, he was of opinion that the first
eggreseive act must not proceed from this country.
It remains to be seen whether the House of Commons
will deem that the crisis Ii such as to warrant so
' threatening a measure as that proposed by the
' Government. Before this question can be dl•cuased
there is the Budget to be settled. The martial ardour
of not a few me:Wirers may be found to have under-
gone a cooling process before Sir Stafford_North,;te
has concluded his financial statements, with
depressed trade, a heavy deficit in the year's revenue,
and an expenditure vastly in excess of the average to
look forward to, to say nothing of the six million'
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be as
"miraculous" Se the Premier himself if he can make
the Budget night a cheerful occasion for taxpayers
Of course, the prospect of increased financial burden,
would not, and ought not, to weigh with • groat
country like ours, if there were a clear easy.. bolt;
but the great question is, if we go t • war and succeed
—ae we certainly should in the end—what should we
do then We disapprove of Russia', programme;
but what would we substitute for It! It certainly
does seem unreasonable to talk abut lighting, and to
prepare for it. without so much as suggesting an
alternative scheme to that which we demur to.

The Liberal five hundred of Greenwich are most
anxious to retain Mr. Gladstone as the representative
of the borough. They have informed him that they
are certain to return him at the head of the poll, and
that they will, moreover, give him a Liberal c illeague
who will take all the local burdens off the right
honourable gentleman's shoulders. But the eminent
statriman refuwea thus to be comforted. He declares
that he has had no doubt of being again returned for
Greenwich, if he had desired it., but that he wants
; and he bin • that be is not exactly in accord
with a large portion of his constituente, who are
Interested in warlike preparations, while he is io
favour of rigid economy. Of thii conflict of opinion
there nail be no doubt. It must be retnembered that
the Parliamentary borough of Greenwich also inc'udes
Woolwich and Deptford, and that the vast MU, of
the electors in the former town have an intimate
connection with the arsenal and dockyard, and that
to them activity in thosi establishments simply means
aamuch more a week in their pockets. This consider
atiou in a lesser deg' em holds good of Greenwich and
Deptfonl, and, to put the matter fairly, Mr. Gladstone
Is not the man to represent such a constituency. It
is not to be woi•dered at, therefore, that be ha.
ratified hie decision to Dever his connection from it
at the end of the present Parliament. The significant
result of the election at Worcester. it is said, has
calls I forth ems strobe espreadon. from Mr.
Gladstone and the leaders of the Liberal party.

A few weeks ago we beard something about the
phonograph, which was ci far beyond the telephone
as that was in advance of the telegraph. But wonders
never cease. The ph .nograph is said to be ahls to
bottle up sounds and uncork them at will. We have
all bee d of wonderful T. wines which are
as bottled sunbeams, and crusted kisses of
£7.lVtils son Bexhus. But the sunshine stored up
in a Bash of old Rhenish, or, for the matter of that,
in a pound of coal, is as nothing to the sounds which
can be corked up for future use by aid of the
phonograph. Att.r this some of the wonders of
epiritualism are intelligible. Sounds floating in the
air may be corked up and Imprisoned for future use,
and who can say but Patti may sing or Spurgeon
preach for the twentieth century? .rb• phonograph
seems almost a jke, an 1 we should treat it as such,
but for the serious deariptione of it in a scientific
journal like the scirsi(Lo Aiserioas.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

L.ftst
Pois 4 *g Mod. Stud of Wombs,.
11101

train on the Marlborough branch line ran into • drift
when two miles from M ,riborourh, which tin *Jed
its progress The driver backed the train, got up fall
steam, and charged the drift. Three carriages were
thrown off the line, but fortunately no one was
injured.
A barge, the Four Brothers, of Portsmouth, laden
with oriel, sank off Ryde owing to the high sea.
The litehoat of the Nati oral Lifeboat Institution
stationed at Bidmouth, Devon, wee launched ..n Friday
for the relief of a distressed echo-ner, Lady of the
Lake,
ssi of
Portsmouth.
landedTh at Exmth.
n'emenwoure "
etak into
the
The snow and wind storm, which lasted eight or
nice hours, was !severely felt in the city and neighbour-
hood of Bath. As much as nine inches of snow WY
ni-asnred on the hills surrounding the city, and the
effect of the gale wart t . cause drifts in narrow lanes
and railway cuttings. Numerous country road, were
blocked, and on the Somerset and D meet line very
serious inconvenience was experienced in the cuttings
which carry the line through Mendip.hills. The snow
gathered to such a depth as to oompletely stop the
traffic throughout the day. The points at which the
obstruction occurred were some miles distant, and
hence it wise impossible to transfer passengers. A
large body of men were let to work to clear the line,
but so heavy was the storm of snow, and so greatly
were they impeded by the snow, that their efforts were
unavailing, and it was only when • snow plough,
forced by several anemia, was brought upon the some
that • way was forced. The passengers experienced
great inconvenience, toe weather being bitterly cold
at this exposed point.
All the railways in Devonshire have been blocked,
and telegraphic communication with South Devon and
Cornwall interrupted, owing to severe snowstorms,
which lasted for several hours. Friday morning very
great anxiety was felt with regard to the Groat
Western trains, as tin to five o'clock no train had come
through from below Newton, and as the telegraphs
were broken down it was impossible to find out
whether the missing trains were simple snowed in, or
whether they had met with a more serious accident.
It however transpired that th • Plym .uth using pro-
(seeded all right untlpsrn.t, Ivybridge, and between
that station and ingsb .ige-road the snow had
accumulated in such deep drift that the engines were
soon brought to • standstill, and it was at last
found impossible to either advance or go bick, After
• time messengers went to Ivybridge, and a gang of
men were collected, who oommenced digging out the
train, but their teak was one of the utm at difficulty,
for the snow was a long way above the steps of he
carriages, and the fall continued for some time after
the work commenced. To wake chitin worse a goods
train got off the rood the Kingehridgo-road side of
the block, and so the down traffic experienced an
additional impediment. Before a passage was cut
throngh on the up line fire passenger trains, including
the Plying Dutchman, were waiting at the Ivybridre
side of the drift, and, owing to the depth of the snow,
it was Impossible to send the passengers on by road.
After a delay of over eight hours the first train got
through, the four others that had been waiting speedily
followed, but the pawners who ought to have
reached Exeter at nine in the mu ning did not arrive
until six in the evening. Between Exeterand Tonne,
and also on the Torquay line, the traffic was fairly
free. As those who corns from Plym tuth by the
Great Weetarn were snowed in so those who came by
the South-Western were equally unfortunate, for the
Devon and Cornwall section of that line was also
blocked. The snow threw an engine and two or three
carriages off the line, but fortunately no damage was
done.

Snow fell heavily and continuously in Ease:.
Dartmoor is covered several feet deep with snow.
The weather Friday morning .64 bitterly inclement
off the eastern coast, with a NNE gale. The barque
Theresa, of and for Shields. from Rouen, with chalk,
in bazio., struck upon the Berber Saud, The Caistor
life-boat went to the assistanc .of the stranded vessel,
and succeeded in rescuing the crew of eight hands,
together with three children of the captain, two girl.
and a boy. Signals of distress were subsequently
made by the &MUM barque Vidimir, of Liban. from
Rochester for Grimsby, In ballAst, which had struck
on the North Scroby Sani, and which w 61 in a sinking
state. The crew of eight hands w ro anded at Csistor
an were forwarded to the Great runtioirdi Sailors
Rome.

WEYMOUTH.
'll le GurlA POSCag Uar.cr 'pposit. the Market-
hall. Weymouth, is the only Ketisniithinent of M. and
J. Dieu in the County of Dorset.
Aszusar LI IT will AXD is —Archery is • very old
British exercise, and in former LiCIMI. when practised for
inilitary pm-poees, it was really, no • drilling discipline,
conducive to quickness of eye, strength of arm inueculer
energy, and health. The long-how was the favaurite
weapon of the English from the Llih hi the 16th century.
It was at one Ume the principil oniseivi weapon in all
the armies of the world, and it may he add its origin an 1
nee in one form or an other were coeval with history.
There were several en octuient. ',sued is this coun-ry in
respect to the bowmen or inciters, and the civic recordu
contain many ordinances and regnlttians in refecenest
thorn. A prec -pt of the reign al E 'ward IV. corom onds
dint every Englishman and Irlshoson should have a how
cd bie own height, and butte Were ordered to be set up in
every township for the inhabitance to shoot at. Any one
neglecting was euldect ta a fine. Latimer, in one of his
sermons before Elward VI., strongly enforced the practice
of arcnery-bolding. It was "a godly art, • wholeunne
kind of exert:se, and much commended In phyeic." LAI{
after archery went out of use far oniii,ary pironeet, the
exercise was practised in the British Islands : and during
the 18th century we had in L. onion, Dublin, Glasgow, and
Edinburgh distinguished archery club.„ wipparted by
gentlemen of note, who. Is their pracoice, ad loved to
much of the original bracing drill. Oar pre.ent day
archery has dropped into a were pastime, and, as
witnessed In our public perks and other grounds, it is
little more than a fashionable exhik,ition for passing time,
instead of aßording a bodily exercise for With or
strength.— Boulder.
On Tumiday, the Korai*, Peet Informs us. Mr. William
de Gruclay of the &ID of Is Groohy and Cu, drapers, was
elected Judge of the Royal Court of Jersey. Tile. mods
oddly in our bkiglish earl. Fancy an argument in keg..
before Baron Marshall and Mr. Justice Snelgrove • or
"The learned Judge, the hon. Kr. Jay (if the Linda
Mourning Warehouse) having assumed the black cap,"
ofc. _

ixringstion VISITORS—On Thursday and Frilir even-
ings, the party of lade people known as the Aostralian
General Tom Thumb, Commodore Knott, and Kiss Amy
Got, appeared at our Theatre. The little people were
exceedingly small, and the men, for they have arrived at
discreet ages, showed themaelves to be accomplished.
singing ind dandag with ansusingeffect The one panted
Commodore Knott haa s good head of his own, and by no
means a bad voice, he sings with true comic effect, and
makes himself beard well, he also donor in comical style,
end displays his strength by carrying about the General
in his teeth. Kis joints Sr. very flexible, being what are
called double-joints, sad to prove this the C,mmodorn
bonds his lingers backwards to the back of his bands end
keeps them so fore considerable time. But, to our fancy.
the most attractive feature of the party was the sweet
little Amy Dot, who though 11 years old. is shout the
BALI of a child of three or four. and i. perfect, ladylike in
her manners and addrews. She is said to be only 116 inches
high,l and to weigh liffb Very clem ventriloquism and
imitation of sounds, and good conjuring and singing.
made up a very varied and agreeable entertainment.
THE PROPOSES COMPLIITLINTLIIT &MOW TO VIZ
lIATOIL —We much regret to hear that in consequence of
the serious indisposition of the Meyer the complimeotary
banquet Intended to be held on Wednesday evening Mit,
is unavoidably postponed until further notice.
Tug Torrinosithi. TO Ma Rata—lt being decided that
Mr. Carey ithad, who has so long and faithfully acted as
Postmaster at Weymouth, would retire at the end of
Ketch, the committas called a meeting for Thursday
evening leek and resolved to solicit further inhocriptlons.
Kamm. Hilot and Co., and Messrs. Covens and Co., 'tee
two guises. each llrm, and the following give one guinea
each :—The Mayor, Mr. H.Balwards, p., Sir p. John.
stone, ILP., Kr. J. W. Lloyd, Kr. Aylesbury. Dr.
and Marra Dsvenish. Kr. H. N angle. and Kr.
C. J. Freeman receive subscriptions. Mao the Banks.

kept in the stable for weeks and this was the first time it
wu 00t—bp Mr. Symonds: The hone was not in a Si
state to wore. —Regrown 'Wilson confirmed the Police'
nom's evidence ; the bores wail in very good omsdiums,
except for the wound& Cruse-eziunined : The wounds
p„.re recent, and the son might have been
op. nom the bore* left the welds ; should thick it
eo, from seeing the stuff on the oollar.—Mr. Howard
said the 1"••••1•••• w•• • very proper one for the police-
., to bring before the magistrates. The hone was in
good so dition but was bitten in the stable by &imam
ben.; but it bad got healed over, and Mr. Ward, on going
to 8 itley, left word that the hone ins to work, if it was
St to do a,. The carter took it out not considering the
newly Rocked collar. and the sure woe rubbed off. Mr
'War.' kept • number of bores., and it would not pay him
to work horses in an unfit state. The shoulder being
wrung might happen to too horse 01 1.7 gentleman—Kr.
Ward said about five week. ago his horse was wounded in
the shoulder; it we. supposed from a bite, and it was
kept in. On the Friday previous he had to go to Roddy,
leonine orders that the hone we. to be worked if it was
St. He did not return till the Monday fa/lowing.. the
hone when it returned, • id !flood the new fi 'eked collar
116.1 rubbed off the scab. Sent for the surgeon and
telegraphed for Kr. Dung. The wound was mused by an
accident that could not be guarded against. Radar was*
very careful man about his horses.-11r. C. J. Denali
veterinary sUro9,m, had examined the horse's shoulder.
and the wound most hays been recently caused :the "min-
tudinal wound might have been caused by • bite.—P.O.
Abraham. Mated the hone did bun in this stable four
of the
b.....twhe:uks,hhet
iltfbeoereypc,faitori,lagnuwiitwouk.dtithwituinthttiugemshosio.lidisorwrh.—rdaoryTlithe
wound: Beach
hut It was not • Cale where Wsy could convict.—
Diarolned.
Mr Thames Combat, of Portland, was summoned NI.
SIM John Meyer; a driver, &twitted, working when unfit,
two horde., the property of Mr. Then.. Comtism. Bit, he
add... Lone of the wounds wee only the size of • fourpenny
bits onil he did not know it when he went out in the
m irning.—P.C. Miller, on the 90th, me defendant with
four horses in • waggon drawing • load of coal from the
store. at Fortune's Wolf, and going up the lIIIL One of
the horses flinched sod when they got on the top be
stopped them. The second horse had • very had wound
on the off shoulder, nearly as large as the palm of his
hand. Asked the cuter if he had told his master, and the
man replied—"N 4 that time; but I here before. The
third hone had • wound on the off shoulder, the hair was
rubbed off about the aim of a shilling, and it wow raw. the
skin was rubbed off.—Mr. Howard appeared for Mr.
Thosou Goosben, coal merchant of Portland, who had
been in business for many rears, and the man had been in
his employ; but be utterly denied the wounds were
running ones, or surh as to incapacitate the horse for
work. At this 1111111011 of the year, through having food
and other causes, horses would break out in lumpa, and
might be rinhed when gong out, though they left WI
right in the morning —Mr Thomas Comhen hod been in
imeineee 15 years, and Moyers bed been in his employ
three Yesra, nod was always iory kind to the horses, and
gave him every suisfactioa. Had seem this wounds, which
wen small—that on the third horse less than •
and on the side of the seek, but not where the
mew bore, The wound on the wend hares wee on the
shoulder, and be attributed it to the horse being shifted
from breeching hawser to string harness. If be had been
In the shafts it would not have robbed.—Mr. Symonds :
Perhaps the banes don't pull when lath. shafts.—By Mr.
allot: Did not see the honest, •fore they went out in the
inorning.—Bv Hr. BUSY : Could not say the horse was Si
for work. Had not been cautioned, but had been told by
the Sergeant that other people had complained.—Sergt.
Feltharn : I told you you d very soon get into trouble if
you did not alter your hand—The Bench thought there
was no wilful 11-treatment ; they fined defendant 10s. and
coeta —Mr. Howitrd windowed in the nest case also.
—Amert asiallen, of Portland, was summoned for ill4reat-
hig a bona. by working in so unfit state —P C Abraltue•
we• at the Grove, and saw • horse in • can 10..1ed with
stone, • little boy, Frank Read, being with it. Up ler the
saddle he found wi many wound, that he did not count
them, and one on the shoulder, The wounds on the saddle
were a large cluster of little sores, and that on the
shoulder eras the also of a Alining. The bane was taken
! out and sent home by his orders, sod he sew 'ashen, who
said these were not wires, but he had given the horse corn
' and made him break out. The hone wa• given to him
about a month Or five weeks ago, to be destroyed. The
hone west. very low coudiUon, and appeared to he old,
and than were 10 or IS cwt, in the cart —By Mr.
Howard: Did not mean to say these wounds were weep-
ing wound.. : nearly all were drY ; they might all In, dry
on the heck, and a piece of damsel would prevent the
saddle robbing. The collar touched the wound on
the shoal ley when &swing. The wound on the
shoulder: looked red, but was on, the skin wee
briken Frank Rat, the hoe, torroiwrated the
oonstahle. The hone had • bad place on the hack
se owe he rubhei hiroolf, but nee* did no, see it. Mi.
(Intern knew of this hefore the h wee went out in the
=denim. The horse was killed on H indes the day alterthe p Mammon maw it, It,. father had told him no to
drive the horse, because it waa in • had state —By Mr.
Howard: A bit of flannel was pot on the horee's Mee,
wider the pod, where the house rubbed himself: the piece
was dry. The hone had had some corn, and Mr Contheu
toll him it must have turned his blool.—Mr. Howard
maintained this case did not cows within the meaning of
the Act of Parliament. There was no weeping wound of
any description, the place on the back was dry, anil a
piece of flannel was pot on the back of it, so that showed
care wag taken. Itodile that, Um hone was Wore
dentroy.l. —Mr. W. Sciivits saw the horse on the morning
of the With, and saw whore he had bitten hiinmlf. It was
in bettor condition thee than it had been Ixfore. It was
a very old horse, and willows advised d. fondant to int
rid of it ; bit defendant s di he bad • few more day.' light
work.—fn, Bench tboitht there was • good deal "(doubt
ab nit the ease, and give defendant the benefit of toe
doubt. It seemed to he an old horse, and hardly lit for
work but there wag a doubt AA to the urea, end they
dismissed the summons, remitting cost&