The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-04 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1858.

HONESTE AUDA I.

TELEGRAPHIC despatches have been reeeived
from India with news from Lucknow to the 24th
March. The bulk of the army was proceeding
northward to Bareilly under Brigadier WALPOLE,
and a heavy column under Sir PH LUGARD Was
on the march to Arimghur to the relief of a
detachment of the 37th under Colonel Mamas,
which had been compelled to retire with con-
siderable loss. Sir HUGH Ross captured the
city of Jhanai on the 2nd of April after a bom-
bardment of 9 days, during which he defeated
with great loss an army of 25,000 rebels,
commanded by a brother of NANA. Sams, who
endeavoured to relieve the city by compelling
him to rain the siege. On the sth the garrison
escaped during the night from the fortress, and
were cut to pieces by our troops during their
flight, about 3,000 of them having fallen. Six
British officers were killed, but our total loss is
not stated. From China we have the important
news that the four Plenipotentiaries have suc-
ceeded in delivering their credentials to the
provincial Governor of Sou-tchou-fou, who is in
direct relations with the Imperial Court at
Pekin. The result is that the real state of the
case has been brought under the notice of the
EMPEROR, who has degraded Iran for having
given "the barbarians" good cause to "rush
into" the Imperial cities, and for having con-
cealed from the Imperial Government their just
MUM of complaint. HWANG TSUNGHAN, who
is favourably known as a person of superior ac-
quirements and liberality of opinion, has been ap-
pointed Imperial Commissioner in his stead; and
there is reason to believe that the EMPEROR wil
also appoint without delay a Commissioner to
negotiate with the Plenipotentiaries of the Four
Powers at Shanghai.
In the House of Lords on Tuesday the House
went into Committee on the Oaths Bill, when
the Lord CHANCELLOR moved the omission of
the fifth clause, which enables a Jew to take the
oath, by omitting the words "on the true faith
of a Christian." On a division the amendment
was carried by 119 to 80, and the Bill as
amended passed through committee. On Thurs-
day the Marquis of WESTMEATH'S Bill for the
suppression of the barrel-organ nuisance within
the metropolitan police district was lost on the
question of the second reading, without a
division.

In the House of Commons on Monday the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, having pre-
viously announced his intention to abandon the
India Bill, moved that the House should on
Friday resolve itself into committee to consider
the Act providing for the government of India
Mr. GREGORY moved as an amendment that it
is inexpedient at the present moment to pass any
resolutions for the future government of India.
After a long discussion the amendment was
withdrawn and the motion agreed to. Mr.
Mowsimr, moved an addreu to the Crown pray-
ing that no alterations may be made in the
existing arrangements regulating the admission
to cadetships in the Royal Artillery and Royal
Engineers. The motion was opposed by
Ministers, but carried on a division by a ma-
jority of 217 to 177. On the motion for the
second reading of the Eloise Duties Bill, Mr. P.
O'Brusw moved as an amendment that the Bill
be read a seoond time that day six months. On
a division the amendment was negatived by 227
to 35. On Tuesday Mr. MACKINNON obtained
leave to bring in a Bill to enable masters and
workmen to form councils of conciliation and
arbitration. Mr. L. KING made his annual
motion for a Bill to extend tho franchise in
counties in England and Wales, and to improve
the representation of the people in respect to
such franchise. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER moved as an amendment the "previous
question." After some discussion the amend-
ment negatived without a division, and leave
given to bring in the Bill. Mr. JOHN Looms ob-
tained leave to bring in a BiU to amend the law
relating to weights and measures. Mr. Pommes
motion that the House resolve itself into com-
mittee to consider the expediency of substituting
an annual rent-charge on real property in lieu of
church-rates was negatived on a division by 317
to 64. On Wednesday on the motion for the
second reading of Mr. CAIRD'S Agricultural
Statistics Bill, Mr. PACKS moved as an amend-
ment that the Bill be read a second time that
day six months. After a long discussion the
amendment was carried by 241 to 135, and the
Bill was lost. On the motion of Mr. HENLEY,
a select committee was appointed to inquire into
the origin and operation of the Stade tolls, and
the effect of giving notice to determine the
treaty under which this country has assented to
their payment. On Thursday Mr. SPOONER'S
motion that the House resolve itself into a com-
mittee to consider the Acts for the endowment
of Maynooth, with view to the withdrawal of
such endowment out of the Consolidated Fund,
was negatived on a division by 210 to 155. On
the motion for the secoLd reading of the Regis-
tration of County Votes (Scotland) Bill, Mr. G.
DUNDAS moved as an amendment that it be read
a second time that day six months. After some
discussion, the amendment was withdrawn, and
the Bill was read a second time.

THE situation of Lord DERBY'S Government is
becoming every day more critical. Last week
they had to sustain an actual and a nominal
defeat—the first with respect to the Indian
cadetships, the second on' the introduction of
Mr. Locxx KING'S Bill to extend the franchise in
counties. Although Mr. DISRAELI surrendered
this latter point without going to a division,
this confession of weakness was more damaging
still than the minority into which the Govern-
ment were thrown on the other question referred
to. To these adverse conditions may be added

the unpopularity which Lord DERBY shares with
the House of Lords on the score of the Jew
Bill, and whose conduct with reference to that
measure is only too likely to precipitate a most
injurious and undesirable collision between the
Upper House and the Commons of England.
Then, as the debate on Friday night shows, the
House of Commons is involved in no little diffi-
culty respecting legislation for India. Mr. Me-
nem has withdrawn his Bill, but his resolutions
remain, and these are, substantially, what the
Bill was. It will be remembered that the reso-
lutions were proposed by Mr. DISRAELI at the
suggestion of Lord JoEN HUBBELL, who declined,
as Mr. DISRAELI wished, to act the part of
accoucheur in this affair to the Derby adminis-
tration ; but Lord JOHN, seeing that the present
Government would not abandon in the resolu-
tions what he regarded as grave defects of the
exploded Bill, has now come forward with reso-
lutions of his own, so that the discussion of Fri-
day night embraced three propositions—the ori-
ginal Bill of Lord PALMERSTON, the resolutions
introduced by Mr. DISRAELI, and the still later
resolutions brought forward by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. In addition to all these several and
conflicting schemes, there are some very grave
reasons why the legislature should not proceed,
in the present state of affairs, to frame a new
constitution for India.

Reverting to the rejection by the House of
Lords of the Bill for the admission of Jews to
Parliament, it cannot be denied that the intoler-
ance of the Peers has on the present occasion
been aggravated by a tone of insult and defiance
directed against the representatives of the
people, unprecedented in modern times; and the
new LORD CHANCELLOR has already marked his
acquisition of power with so much apparent con-
tempt for the Assembly from which he so lately
emerged, as to draw upon him a considerable
amount of public indignation, if not of public
odium. His Lordship undertakes to rate the
citizens of London for their want of obedience
to the law—for their pertinacity iu urging these
claims—and for not showing a better example to
the other constituencies of the country. Better
things might have been expected from Sir
FREDERICK TREMORS. However strongly
wedded he may be to his prejudices, he might
have reflected that the "constituencies" are
decidedly in favour of the removal of these re-
strictiotui—that the representatives of the people
adhere to their determination to remove them—
and that no fewer than three members of the
existing Government, perhaps the most impor-
tant and popular members of it—namely, Mr.
DISRAELI, Sir JOHN PAKINOTON, and Lord
STANLEY, are willing to admit the Jews to Par-
liament. The grave and admonitory words
which Lord LYNDHURST uttered upon this sub-
ject on Tuesday evening are of the greatest
possible weight, and carry with them conviction
to every enlightened and unprejudiced mind :

Let them recollect that their Legislature was com-
posed of three independent powers, and that it was only
by mutual concession and forbearance that Legislation
could be carried on. It was a most important part of
their duty to check the inconsiderate, rash, party, and
ill-judged legislation of the other House of Parliament;
but it was never understood, and it could never prac-
tically be acted upon, that they were to make a firm, a
determined, and persevering stand against the opinion
of the other House of Parliament when it was backed
by the opinion of the people. Least of all should they
attempt to do that when it was • question concerning
the composition of the other House of Parliament, or
on questions which affected religious liberty, or other
questions of that kind which were likely to excite deep
feeling. But when they made such • stand as that,
they should be sure they stood upon a rock; that they
did not place themselves in a position where they had
nothing to rely upon but the fragments of an Act of
Parliament which had been passed for a different pur-
pose.

This was sound and excellent advice ; and it
were well if, in this crisis, the Lore's had paid
more attention to the reasoning and remon-
strance of one of the brightest and most expe-
rienced amongst the talented and able men who
adorn the House of Peers. When the collision
takes place to which Lord Lyriouuser has re-
ferred, the country will unquestionably support
the representatives of the people as strongly as
they will denounce the bigotry of the class to
which Lord LYNDHURST has given this solemn
and emphatic warning. A more decided course
of action seems to be demanded by the neces-
sities of the case ; and the return of the Bill to
the House of Commons in its amended form
seems likely to suggest a mode of proceeding
calculated not only to give effect to the wishes
of the country, but to abate that towering spirit
of pride and obstinacy with which the Peers
have long thought fit to obstruct this fair con-
cession to justice and Liberalism.

WE are sorry to be obliged to add to the weight
of moral censure already pressing with such dis-
astrous effect upon the Dorset Chronicle. The
imbecility, folly, and falsehood with which the
Chronicle is boldly charged by its contemporaries
in all directions, might seem to require us, in
charity, to hold our hands; but this precious
production has clearly lost all claim to ordinary
generosity and forbearanoe, and the sooner it is
disposed of under the Nuieanoes Removal Aot
the better. In the Chronicle of the 22nd ult.
the sapient scribe presumes to have "a word
"on church-rates with Mr. PORTMAN ;" and the
article in question is made up of the Caine con-
fused mass of words—doing equal violence to
modest truth and the Queen's English—for which
the Clvronicle has been notorious from the mo-
ment it became the property of Mr. HERBERT
WiLEtsats. The Chronicle seta out by com-
plaining, in its peculiarly choice phraseology, that
Mr. PORTMAN "has been down in Berkshire
"buying of Mr. TarrEasitz some of Mr. MOR-
" RELL'S hounds ;" and although this is not the
point, as the Editor says, which he wishes "to
"take Mr. PORTMAN up" about, still he has
"reason to attach significance to every move of
"his in this direction ;" and further, that "it
" is worth while noting all those little &aqui-
" 'Ulan', step by step, their merits and demerits,
"their drawbacks and prospects, which are
"intended to blight the enjoyments of this part
"of the county." Would it be believed that a
gentleman, "a most active and influential
county magistrate," could for a moment sanction
the publication of such babble 1 Yet so it is:
and this much may be said, that "Jack is as
good as his master." It unfortunately happens,
however, notwithstanding all these singularly
"significant" facts, with their long train of
"acquisitions," "merits," "demerits," "draw-
backs," and " prospects,"—that our "elegant
county member" was not at the sale of Mr.
MonnELE's foxhounds. No; he was not there
at all; and we are in a position to give a positive
denial to the assertion. At the very time when
all these "significant" facts were occurring—
when all this mischief was hatching—when this
awful "blight" was coming over from Berkshire
to blast the "enjoyments" of Dorset—the
alleged author of all these unutterable deeds of
darkness, was leading a purely innocent and
peaceable life in his own county, and, moreover,
enjoying, in the most friendly manner, the
sports of the field with Mr. FARQUHARSON !
So much for the veracity of the Chronicle. So
falls to the ground all that imposing superstruc-
ture so diligently raised upon the assumed facts.
Still, one may think, the Hon. Mr. PORTMAN
will hardly be deterred from attending a sale of
this description, from the known displeasure of
the genius of the Chronicle which such a step
would entail; or, from the possible imputation
of an attempt to "blight the enjoyments of the
county" by the purchase of hounds. The
remarks of the Chrcmicie about Mr. Pourissres
vote upon the church-rate question are equally
sensible and happy—that is to say, there is not so
much as a lucid interval discernible in any of
the paragraphs devoted to this part of the attack.
The writer evidently knows as little about
church-rates as of the views of politicians with

reference to that question. A very general
desire is now felt by men of all political opinions
to settle this long-disputed matter in a spirit of
fairness, and in such a way as to set at rest a
point of more than questionable propriety and
very considerable irritation. This eminently
luckless scribe seems to have forgotten, when he
launched out with so much virtuous indignation,
and such commendable party zeal and fidelity,
against the Hon. Mr. PORTMAN for voting in
favour of the abolition of church-rates, that that
honourable gentleman's two colleagues voted in
the same way—yea, the baok-bone Tories, the
stanch supporters of Church and State, the
assumed representatives of all those antiquated
Tory fictions of which the Editor of the Chronicle
imagines himself, forsooth, the very personifica-
tion and embodiment! Lot the conductors of
the Chronicle reckon with their friends for the
future; with their professed antagonists they
have clearly no chance whatever: but from all
we have seen, it may be safely affirmed that
their best efforts, even in this direction, must
extort the ejaculation—" Defend me from my
friends !"

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.—
There was a better attendance at market to-day, and
a moderate supply of wheat, which found buyers at
an advance of from Is. to 2s. over last week. Barley
and oats nominal.

It will be seen, on reference to the Time Tables in
another column, that there are several alterations in
the Great Western Railway Company's trains for
May.
SPECIAL SERVICES FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.
—A series of services are to be held at Christ Church,
West Fordington, on Wednesday evenings during
the present and next mouth. On to-morrow evening
(Wednesday) the preacher will be the Rev. T. A.
Grooves, of Weymouth, who is to discourse on
"The Sinner and his Saviour." The services begin
at S.

At ;the adjourned Easter Sessions hold at the
Shirehall on Wednesday the following gentlemen, of
the Bridport division, were sworn in magistrates, via.
—Benjamin Pearkes Gundry, Esq., John Latorfo.
nere Scarbrough, Esq., Richard Whitehouse, Esq.,
and Frederick Edward Bourne, Esq.
Darsiez or MR. BRIDOIL —On Monday night this
gentleman, who for thirty years practised as a
solicitor in this town, died at his residence, in High
West-street. Though Mr. Bridge had been suffering
from a lingering illness for a long time, the event
seemed sudden and unexpected, plunging his family
and wide circle of friends into deep sorrow. In
private life the many excellent and endearing quali-
ties of the gentleman shone forth in mild unosten-
tatious radiance, making him beloved by every one
who was privileged to meet him; and as a pro-
fessional man the probity, earnestness, and straight-
forward oonduct of Mr. Bridge recommended him
far and wide. He held several public offices. He
was the treasurer of the County, steward of Port-
land, and Borough treasurer; and in each capacity
won the esteem and goodwill of every one. He was
not far beyond the prime of life when he expired, being
63. As a mark of the regard in which he was
publicly held by his fellow-townsmen, the Mayor
and Corporation, in their robes, attended his funeral
yesterday morning at the Cemetery. The members
of the Corporation assembled at the Townhall shortly
before ten, and, having robed, met and headed the
funeral procession soon after 10 o'clock at the top of
Cornhill. The town sergeants, who preceded the pro-
cession, had their maces wrapped in crepe; and the
town crier, who followed the Corporation, bore his
mace likewise covered with crape. About twelve
town councillors walked, two by two, preceded by
the Mayor (W. Manfield, Esq.), and Councillor
Curme. About twenty tradesmen of the town fol-
lowed. Then came several mutes immediately in
front of the hearse bearing the body. Two mourn-
ing coaches, followed by the servants of the deceased,
closed the sorrowful cortege. The church bells
tolled as the procession passed along the
streets; and in token of the very great respect in
which the deceased gentleman was held, the shops
generally were closed until after the return of the
procession. The service at the Cemetery was read
by the Rev. T. Fisher, rector of Holy Trinity.

DORCHESTER WORKING MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVE.
!LENT SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening Mr. John W.
Cole, a working man, delivered a lecture—the last
of the present season in connection with the Dor.
cheater Working Men's Mutual Improvement Society
—at the Townhall. The subject selected was "Joan
of Arc," and the address throughout displayed great
industry and research on the part of the talented
lecturer, who was frequently applauded during the
delivery. The Rev. Frederick Perkins, of Dorford
Chapel, presided, and the attendance was numerous
and respectable. At the close votes of thanks were
given to the lecturer and to the chairman.
For some days past the weather in the neighbour.
hood of Dorchester has been very stormy, and at
times the atmosphere has been singularly cold. On
Wednesday night a heavy thunderstorm passed over
the town, lasting with much violence for some time,
but we have not heard of any accidents resulting.
On Friday afternoon there was a fierce hailstorm, the
hailstones, which were of unusual size, making the
streets quite white.
Mr. Henry Turner, from the Dorchester Grammar
School, has just been elected to a Scholarship at
Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr. Turner is, we
understand, the 6th pupil of the present Head Master,
the Rev. T. R. Maslow, who has been successful in
obtaining Foundation Scholarships at the University
of Cambridge.

It is expected that the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon,
the very popular Baptist minister of New Park
Street Chapel, Borough, will preach at Blandford in
about a fortnight. A field at the back of the
Wesleyan Chapel, calculated to accommodate 5,000
listeners, is, we understand, being made ready.

The meetings of the Rural Deaneries in the
diocese of Salisbury are now in the course of being
held. The subjects proposed by the Bishop for dis•
mission are the following The expediency or
inexpediency of altering the Liturgy. 2nd. The
extension of foreign missions. 3rd. The Abolition
of Church-rates Bill. 4th. The Bill for legalizing
the marriage with • deceased wife's sister.

TRZ POLITICAL Firs' 01 THE DOIRIZT
Cwaoincid. —A correspondent, signing himself
" Tickler," publishes in the Sherborne Journal of
last week, the following letter :—" Your shrill
oontemporary is at it again, but this time like shorn.
door fowl agape in the pip. The snick upon the
Whig Member of the Comity—

"Wino from the heart, and faithful to Its Sr.. I"
—evince' pretty plainly the purity of its inspiration
and the charity of its designs. "Quidnunc" I see
used by the writer in his eccentric remarks upon the
Bernard trial, in his desire to prove bleak white.
" One who knows everything" is close upon the
meaning of quidnunc I think—not the wise and
learned, content to know a little, but he who knows
the taste of a frost bitten parsnip, the true sense of
toleration, the tricks that young Achilles played his
old tutor Phcenix, the fly in turnips, and the smut
of wheat, and believes himself en unpolluted son of
Adam. Such is the quidnunc that apes to be the
vehicle of the opinions of the Tory men of Dorset,
and such a man! He has acquired in his vocation
that habit of hypocrisy which pretends to discern
evil in the exercise of the most harmless and ami-
able amusements, and, if need be, will brazen it out
with even scriptural quotation.; but, as the Scotch
say, its all a "lee.' Observe the hypocrisy of the
turn given to the fact that Mr. Portman chose to
attend Mr. Morrell's sale of fox hounds—' It is not
on that point, however, that we wish to take Mr.
Portman up," says this liberty-granting 'Chronicle'
to a gentleman who smiles at Tory monopoly of time
and pleasure, concluding in the same article with—
"He will be memorable as a disastrous County
Member, thug Mr. Portman, if, after destroying our
hunt, he should succeed in destroying more tarred
objects also." Was e'er prophetic sound so full of
fou ? Objects egad—sacred objects! Is a church.
rate an object I—only so, we believe, in the brilliant
literature of the "Dorset County Chronicle."
"Our hunt" may be an "object" when under weigh,
and a very charming "object" it is without the aid
of fife or fiddle; but why, after Lord Portman's
dignified disavowal of maline prepenee in this hunt-
ing matter mix objects so incongruous without the
"object," the political capital, to which as a lover
of fair play I "object." There is something, how-
ever, in this sneer—in these offensive allusions
, beyond what the mere vulgar words give. But I
will not meddle with Whig or Tory chances at a
coming election; I take up the hunting question
only, and I affirm that Mr. Portman did not destroy
the Dorsetshire Hunt, The Hunt, if destroyed, has
, committed suicide. Pride and politics have done it,
or morbid sensibilities. Me. Farquharson with-
draws from the country because, being Autocrat
here, he says it is his will to do so. All honor to
that fine old Englishman, even to his prejudicee
A man who has ridden for fifty years and more to
hounds has a moral right to be prejudiced; in fact,
prejudiced men are as common as blackberries in
September. The county character would need
"bush" were it not for its dear old prejudice ;—then
bravo prejudice! it helps to make up identities; so
prejudice did it, not Mr. Portman. Mr. Ferqu-
harson did not really want, nor need he care about
the few coverts in question, and in his own honest
heart—if we could take out the prejudice for a
moment—he knows it. Then go you with your
own thin cackle into your path, "Dorset County
Chronicle ;" step not between sportsmen and gentle-
men; your ways or not their ways—your pretensions
are indefensible. Countless absurdities are promul-
gated, we know, by writers ( ! !) of your fashion,
and "malicious intention" has sometimes a pes-
tilential influence; still, I very much question, in
' the case in point, if the worthy portion of your
readers will not agree with me, that your Fife is
sadly out of tune, and you sense diseased in the
head.

INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE. The following is a
copy of a soldier's note as to his present movements
in India. It is from a conductor of Ordinance in the
East India Company's service, and one of the surviv.
ins officers of the garrison at Sangor, in which he
and others were shut up for six months till relieved
by Sir Hugh Rose. The letter is addressed to a
relative resident at Wimbonie
Camp, thobrisalt‘
14th Idaraho 1868.

My dear —,
Here I aM with • force of 8,000,
consiating of it. M.S. 14th Light Dragoons, 1 troop of H. 11.8.
3 Light Field Batteries, of Foot Corps, 3rd Bombay Empire
Regiment of N.I. Sappers and ?diners, and Orr's Irregular
Cavalry hunting up the muthiolis rebel, like rabbits, and at
present moving on Shansi, Central India. I have left my
family in Bangor and most likely ahail not see them till the
rebels are brought to their moms. We expect to meet the
detested Nana Sahib with • form of 10,000 at Shansi.. We are
now three marches from thenoe. Our mice train, to which
I am attached, consists of two 10, two 8, two 24-pounders, two
18, and won't we let the devil incarnate feel It. General Sir
H. Rose commander. The weather la getting fearfully hot,
but sold at night.
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COUNTY P4TTY SESSIONS, Shirehall, Saturday May
I.—(Before H. Williams, W. L. Henning, and H. N.
Middleton, Esqrs.)—Thomas Barrett was fined lie, and
costs 4s. 6d., for being drunk and disorderly at Maiden
Newton, on Saturday the 24th.--Mr. Edmmule, (of
Paddington) moved, on the part of the Great Western
Railway Company, that the rate charged upon that coin.
pony by the parish authorities of Maiden Newton should
be emended from £5OO to £l3O. Mr. Henry Lock ap-
peared on behalf of the parish authorities. The amend-
ment was allowed.—George Hawkins, Robert Spun,
John Dibben, Henry Drew, and George Rendall, all of
Cattistook, labourers, wore summoned for drunkenneu
and disorderly conduct. Sergeant Tee said that on
Sunday night last the defendants were at Maiden
Newton drunk and disturbing the village till midnight.
He requested them to retire and, after some remon-
strum, they went away. Fined 58., and costs 4s. 6d.
eaoh.—John Coom4 and Robert George were charged
with a similar offence. P.C. Hunt stated that on
Friday week lie was on duty at Piddlehinton at 10 at
night, and heard a loud noise. Ho found the defendants
lying in the road very drunk and, on requesting them to
go home, Coombs abused the officer. Cooiubs denied
being abusive and said he was helping his oompanion
home, whilst George said he was going home with
Coombs and accidentally fell over • doop step. Fined
ss. and 4s. 6d. costs--Mark Croffer was summoned
for riding on the highroad in a wagon. P.C. Avery
stated that on Friday night about 10 o'clook at Winter-
bourne Abbas he saw defendant asleep in a wagon on
the turnpike road. The wagon was drawn by three
horses. After wakening the &lumberer, who asked
forgiveness, the defendant was allowed to pass on.
Defendant said he worked for Mr. Chilcott, of Stratton
mill, and was returning from Bridport. He travelled
the road almost daily, starting about midnight and re-
turning about 8 the following evening. The magistrates
said it was physically Impossible for • man to oontinue
such work, and advised Croffer to arrange with Mr. Chil-
cott, the employer, to send a second person to look after
the horses. He was discharged. The Chairman said
he would see Mr. Chiloott and endeavour to get him to
permit some one to accompany the defendant ; but de-
fendant said he was just leaving the employ.—Charles
Way was suminoned for assaulting John Wells. Mr.
Garland appeared for the complainant. On Wednesday
week, in Mr. Sheridan's yard, at Frainpton, where QOM-
plainant was dressing pig', defendant came up to him
and, after a short altercation, struck complainant
several thus in the faoe causing blood to flow from nom-
plainent's nose, Complainant did not strike defendant
in return. Fined 20s. including costs.—James Toms,
labourer, of 17pway, was summoned for using threaten-
ing language to John Roper. In consequence of a dif-
ference having arisen respecting a stable, defendant on
Monday week, whilst drunk, met complainant, and fol-
lowed the latter some distance abusing him. Com-
plainant heard no direct threat. Defendant said he only
asked complainant if he ever broke open complainant's
stable door, for he felt his character imperiled. He had
worked for George Roper 20 years, End his character
was unimpeachable; and he had never done anything to
merit the aocuntion. Complainant acknowledged
charging defendant with breaking open a stable door.
Defendant was cautioned, and the summons dismissed.
--The license of the Bull Inn publichouse, Stratton,
was transferred from John Davis to Anne Short.
COMMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER GAOL.—iMpriSOn-
menf : Alfred Meecham, assault at Fordington, 14 days;
Mary Ann Powell, assault at Weymouth, 2 calendar
months; Josiah Morris, leaving service at Cattistock,
14 days. Hard Labour Michael O'Connell, disobedi-
ence of orders on board H.M.S. Blenham at Portland,
21 days; Amelia Ouseley, stealing turnips at Haskell,
1 calendar month; Amelia Wills, vagreacy at Poole,
1 calendar month; William Moore and John Smith,
vagrancy at Blandford, 1 calendar month; Henry Hel-
len and Eliza Burt, stealing gunpowder at Piddletren-
thide, 1 calendar month; Henry 'White and John Cook,
stealing rope at Poole, 1 calendar month; Robert Prin,
stealing etockings at Sherborne, 14 days.