The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1860.

HONESTE AUDAX.

IN the House of Lords on Monday the Refresh-
ment Houses and Wine Licenses Bill, and the
Repeal of Sir John Barnard's Act Bill were
brought up from the Commons and read a first
time. On Tuesday, on the motion for the third
reading of Lord Chelmsford's Sunday Trading
Bill, Lord Teynham moved that it be read a
third time that day six months. Aftersome dis-
cussion the third reading was carried on a divi-
sion by 40 to 29. The Wine Licenses and
Refreshment Houses Bill was read a second time,
on the understanding that the discussion would
be taken on the motion for going into committee.
On Thursday Lord Teynham moved a series of
resolutions in favour of manhood suffrage an
vote by ballot. Earl Granville opposed the
motion, which was negatived without a
division.

In the Commons on Monday, on the order
of the day for going into committee on the ,
Reform Bill, the speaker ruled that the instruc-
tions which had been put upon the paper by ,
Mr. Hunt, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. ,
Ennis, and Mr. Renard. directing the com-
mittee to provide for an Increase of facilities for
polling at elections, to give a larger share in the
representation to counties, and to establish a
uniform Parliamentary oath, were irregular.
Mr. Bentinck then moved that it be an instruc-
tion to the committee that they have power to
make provision for the better prevention of
bribery and corruption at elections. After some
discussion the motion was agreed to. Lord J.
Russell then moved that the Speaker leave the
chair, stating that it was the intention of the
Government to go into committee on the English
Reform Bill, but not to proceed with the Irish
or Scotch Bills in the present session. Mr.
Disraeli objected to a part'al reform applied to
one section of the United Kingdom, and con-
demned the course proposed by Government as
unprecedented and impolitic. Mr. Mackinnon
moved as an amendment that, in order to obtain a
safe and effective reform, it would be expedient
to wait for the results of the forthcoming census.
After a protracted discussion the debate was
adjourned to Thursday. On the motion for
going into committee on the Sheriffs' Court
(Scotland) Bill, a discussion arose on the question
whether this and some other Scotch Bills should
be proceeded with at a morning sitting on Tues-
day the 12th init. On • division, the motion for
the morning sitting was carried by a majority of
102 to 89. On Tuesday Mr. Lindsay's motion
for a Select Committee to inquire into the
organisation and management of the transport
branches of the Admiralty, War Office, India
Office, and Emigration Board, vu assented to by
the Government and agreed to. Mr. B. Coch-
rane's resolution requiring the Civil Service
Commissioners to pubrish, with their annual
reports, all the examination papers submitted to
candidates, was opposed by Government, and
negatived without a division. Capt. Jarvis
moved a resolution for abandoning the prosecu-
tions in connection with the Wakefield election,
and was proceeding with his motion when the
House was counted out. On Wednesday, on the
order of the day for the second reading of the
Ecclesiastical Commission Bill Mr. Selwyn moved
that the Bill be read a second time that day six
months. After considerable discussion the
debate was adjourned for a fortnight. The
Masters and Operatives Bill, passed through com-
mittee. On Thursday, on the order for resuming
the adjourned debate on Mr. Mackinnon's amend-
ment for postponing the Reform Bill till the
results of the Census have been ascertained, Sir
J. Fergueson moved the adjournment of the
debate, with the view of postponing the committal
of the Bill till the Scotch and Irish Bills have
been read • second time. After • long discussion,
the motion for adjourning the debate was nega-
tived on a division by a majority of 21, the
numbers being 269 to 248. Mr. B. Cochrane
then moved the adjournment of the House. On
a division this motion was negatived by a
majority of 45, the numbers being 267 to 222.
Mr. D. Griffith then moved the adjournment of
the debate. Lord Palmerston assented to the
motion, and the debate was adjourned to Monday.
The orders for -the second- reading of the Irish
and Scotch Reform Bills were then discharged.
Accounts from Sicily state that • capitulation
was signed on the 30th ult, on board Her
Majesty's ship Hannibal in the Bay of Palermo
between General Lanza and Garibaldi, in accord-
ance with which the Neapolitan army, 25,000
strong, was to quit Palermo on Monday sith all
the honours of war, and embark with their
mateiriel on board the Neapolitan squadron. The
King of Naples subsequently refused to sanction
these conditions, and ordered the bombardment
to be resumed. In consequence. however, of the
representations of his own Generals that the army
would refuse to fight, and that officers and men
had already gone over in large numbers to the
popular cause, the order for renewing the bom-
bardment was revoked, and General Letizia was
sent back to Palermo with authority to renew
the armistice to the 12th inst. The latest news,
dated yesterday from Genoa, states that a new
capitulation has been concluded between General
Lanza and Garibaldi, the conditions of which
are not yet known, and that Garibaldi has con-
stituted a Ministry and appointed a Governor of
Palermo and of the provinces.

As we publish at considerable length in our im-
pression of to-day a complete report of the Bath
and West of England Agricultural Show, it will
be unnecessary here to dwell upon its general char-
acter, its great practical usefulness, or the suc-
cess which has attended this large and varied
exhibition. The attention we have given to the
subject, and the ocular demonstration afforded
to the many thousands who have visited the
Show, with a searching eye and an inquiring
mind, will sufficiently impress the reader with
every feature of interest which the great Show is,
in itself, so well calculated to produce. We
may, however, permit ourselves the opportunity
of congratulating the town, and all who are
so laudably interested in a groat display of this
description, upon the unqualified satisfaction
and &tat with which the exhibition, as such, has

begun and ended. The weather, it is true, was
most unpropitious, and must have diminished to
• considerable eiteut the Society's receipts for
admission to the grounds; but that is in some
degree compensated by the liberal subscriptions
raised in this locality—which have greatly
exceeded, we believe, the average amount con-
tributed for a like purpose in other towns. The
spirit of competition, too, which was displayed
on this occasion, shows that the true end and
aim of these societies is year by year better
understood and appreciated. The immense col-
lection of agricultural machinery and imple-
ments of every description—each article claiming
some advantage in a greater or less degree, in
point of capabilities or expense— attests
the growing value of these opportunities
for • comparison of their several merits.
The same thing may be said of the
whole of the live stock ; which, as will be seen
from our report, presented many features of
improvement, and gratifying evidence of the best
attention given to careful breeding and the most
approved management. The unusually excellent
and attractive display offered by the first exhi-
bition of she Dorchester Horticultural Society
will be long remembered; and some of its
beauties will not fail to be envied by societies of
greater magnitude and a prouder position in the
estimation of the fashionable world of connois-
seurs. Then, as to the liberal spirit, and, with
few exceptions, the good taste evinced by our
fellow townsmen in the manner in which the
Bath and West of England Society has been
received—they have been such as to reflect great
credit and honour upon them, arid furnish a most
triumphant confutation of the suspicion, enter-
tained within a few weeks of the exhibition, of
laxity and indifference. Happy are we that
Dorchester has most successfully vindicated itself
from any such obtuseness and littleness of mind
as were implied by the misgivings felt by some
in regard to the reception of the Society; all of
whom, with their best and most zealous patrons,
will carry back to their homes impressions every
way honourable to the inhabitants, and will
freely admit that the old town nobly did its
duty.

The meeting of the Bath and West of Eng,
land Society of 1860, with the hopes and fears-
the anticipations and anxieties, the projects and
designs that were called into exercise to secure
its success, must now be numbered with the past.
That the society is a great fact, and that ita
annual meetings are calculated in a very high
degree to refine the taste, exercise the judg-
ment, call forth the latent powers of genius, and
excite an enthusiasm for the agreeable, the orna-
mental, and the useful arts of life, must have
been forcibly impressed on those who watched
the proceedings in the show-yard last week, and
saw the great interest manifested by admiring
thuns.ands in the several departments of the exhi-
bition. They could not have been mere "gaping
crowds," as the Chronicle vulgarly stigmatised
the spectators, who, notwithstanding the pour-
ing rain above, and the mud ancle deep be-
neath, stood hour after hour examining the
various implements and machinery, admiring
the simplicity of their several parts, their com-
pleteness as a whole. Nor do we believe that
the fair sex would have presumed to cross the
field under the numerous difficulties and dangers
which presented themselves at almost every
step, to examine works of art and vertu for a
mere pretence. All were undoubtedly actuated
by a higher, a nobler motive—they %ere in
search of knowledge, and we are sure that all
who visited the exhibition will agree with us in
saying that it was a search for knowledge under
extreme difficulties.

DORCHENTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—Our Corn Exchange was thinly attended to-day
and a short supply of wheat on offer, which caused
farmers to he firm in their demands for an advance
of 2.5. per qr. Barley and oats nominal.

BATH AND WEST of ENGLAND Sliow.—We un-
derstand that about 22,000 persons visited the show
yard on Friday, and that the whole number during
the Exhibition %seek, including annual sub-
scriberi, members, season-ticket holders, free-passes,
and iklyers for admission at the dire, was 1/64,11t
6V,000 ; and that the /41110111 a tAkell WaSabOUt k2,h00.
About 1,500 children, belonging to the several week-
day and sunday winiols, were admitted free on Friday.

THL WHEAT AGHICULTUKAL Snow.--it will be
found, on reference to the lista of prizes for Hereford
and Devon and shorthorns, that Dorsetshire farmers
have done well. Messrs. James, of Nlappowder,
were awarded the first prize for a two-year-old
Hereford heifer, considered the hest animal in the
show ; and also a prize for extra stock a-- Hereford
cow ; Mr. Henry Coate, of Sherbortie, hail the first
prize for a Hereford cow ; Mr. Edward Pope, of
Great 'roller, the first prize for a Devon bull ; Mr.
Hill, of Came. near Dorcheater, the first prize for
yearling shorth heifers ; Mr. Harding and Mr.
Wood, of Ailminston Hall, prizes for Down sheep ;
and Mr. Pitfield and Mr. Legg, near Reaminster,
prizes for horns. This success augurs well for the
continued progress of agriculture in the cmuuty of
Dorset.

LOCAL BOARD or HEALTII.—A meeting of the
Local Board of Health was held yesterday. M.
ANDREWS proposed, Mr. Ganris seconded, and the
meeting unanimously adopted the following resolu-
tion :—" The Council, seeing the unwearied zeal and
activity of M. Devenish, Esq . the Mayor, in carry-
ing out the wishes of the inhabitants of the town and
of the local committee, for rendering the late Dorchester
meeting of the Kith and West of England Agricul-
tural society an attractive as possible. and the ability
and munificence with which he so effectually upheld
the office g•f chief magistrate of this borough, and of
the corporation generally, do tender to bon their
thanks for his exertions on the occasion"

COMMITTED TO THE DORCIIITTER —Sea,wsa
Mary Anti Mills, stealing nioni/ I rota tile pllll.Oll at
Bridport ; Padfield, assault on constable At Stal-
bridge.—lford Labeler : Solomon Harris, poaching at
Wimborna Minder, 1 calendar th ; John Vu.,
stealing brandy at liorchrster, 7 days; Patrick Lark-
ham and Peter Wsrd, drunk and disorderly at Dor
cliester. 7 days; Fanny Moore, stealing climate, butler,
and pork at Sturininster Neaten; James White,
stealing bottle of .0 IL water at Dorchester, 3 days.--
Imprisearrient : Hail, lure ich of the pesos at
Slidliniptune, 6 calendar months ; John flundry, drunk
and disordarly at Idorche.ter, 7 iliys. —Farther examen-
(thew : Stephen Stevens, stealing a am at Dore.hwatier.