The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

I am, Mr. Editor.
Yours gratefully, for all favours,
JOHN JENKINS ROLLS.
Manses is Parito.
Weymouth, February 11, 1862.

PORTLAND.—On Wednesday evening, Lieut.
Eliot, 4to Dorset Volunteer Artillery, delivered a
lecture at the Clifton Hotel, before the members of
the Corps, on the History and Theory of Fire arms.
The lecturer treated his subject in a very interesting
and able manner, and the lecture could not fail to
give both amusement and instruction to his audience.
Several models and diagrams were used to illustrate
the theory of the trajectory and other portions of the
subject. The Chairman on the occasion was Capt.
Barrington Brown, to whom, as well as to the lecturer,
votes of thanks were given.
Tge BRITANNIA.—The Britannia cadet naval
training ship, Captain Harris, having received her
complement of naval cadets on their return from an
extended Claristmaileave,arrived in Portland Roada,
accompaniLd by the Trafalgar, about 7 o'clock on
Friday, 7th inst. Great alterations have been
effected in the internal argangement of the ship
during the recess. The baths-have been removed to
the upper deck ; the sick bays have been removed
from the lower to the main deck—one for officers and
one for seamen. The upper deck class-rooms
have been divided, and the number of cabins
and the means of ventilation increased by
removing partitions on the lower and orlop decks.
All these preparations and expenses are not gone
into for nothing, and we believe we are right in pre-
dicting that no sum will be found in the Naval
Estimates appropriated for building a "naval
college" to supersede the Britannia. It is wonderful
that the outcry against the Britannia, and in favour
of the erection of' "a College." shauld take place at a
time whet all the European maritime Powers have
actually slant their naval officers to this country to
•personallf inspect the Britannia, as they have
deterinined upon adopting the same system, but
with the important addition of sea-going tenders.
lITI7RIIIINSTER NEWTON. —The Bev. R.
Lowndes,,of Christchurch, Oxford, has been pre-
sented to the vacant vicarage of Sturminther Newton.
The grou'value of the living is-£9OO per annum.
WAREHAM.—Pgrry Seamus, Tuesday, Feb.
llth.—Before J. Mowlan, Esq., and the Rev. J.
V. Garland. —Louisa Morris was brought up on the
charge of
it
om eserting her infant child, the particulars
of which ppear in our Moreton news. Fr the
evidence i appeared that the prisoner, who seemed
to be of dMicate constitution, had lived in service at
WiyOonth, and that she then went to Southampton.
This took 'place in July last, and she was confined on
the 26th Ililecember, at the house of Mrs. Randall, of
Oriental-terrace, where she remained till Wednes-
day. On that morning she telt to go home to her
feiends at Broadwey. Mrs. Randall carried her
child for her to the railway station, and saw her go
off by the down third-class Vain. At Moreton the
prisoner gc4. 10, ~t X 4
,sent her boxes on to
N:iimouth, -and - Went herself ''. On the
rli;r
td ..41imitlinkim..r. When she got
out of the train the porter at the railway remarked
that she hnd a bundle under her arm, and that when
she returned about half an hour afterwards, the
bundle, wihieh was wrapped in her plaid shawl, was
gone. andl that the shawl was thrown over her arm.
He however thought nothing lif the circumstance
till he heard of the child being found in a
SIR, - There is a small book published, entitled ditch, about 200 • yards from the railway station.
"Who's Who r Now I think it high time we should —Mr. Notley deposed that he found the child about
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ask that question in Weymouth. In the Southern half-past 7 o'clock dn Friday morning. As he was
Times of last week Mr. Devenish is reported to going to Work on Thursday morning he heard a noise,
have said at a meeting of the Town Council—" That which seemed to him to resemble the cry of a hare
certain legal proceedings and expenses had been caught in a trap. He got on the bank and looked
incurred by members of that Council, by chicanery, • over, bat seeing nothing, and supposing that the
do." Now Sir, and through you to my fellow- keepers were watching, he returned to the road and
townsmen, I simply ask "those Town Councillors to want to Work. He spoke of the circumstance to
whom this was addressed--asthere can be no mistake, some of his fellow workmen, and they maid if they
from the language u5ed,....• to whom #
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make the aseeetei iiiio,y met fpookiii - ple4 , fAitittef, and he then made a search and found a male
under such a charge, init‘Wisith. Or, the „ ' ,el.. eltiLli novered over with sedge grass, and lying
to be out of the ceased), ilfire—heva,„tivay_teek, i innal+tiotine growing heath about two feet Mob.
are we to be so governed 1.6 • Will';,the • Oft iv
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never think for themselves, tint hake, thole 19004 Aise . , ton Arms fetched the child away. It
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continually at • the griudaboe, ,bileausi , *own .14 rred to the porter at the railway station that'
ero one day and,
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A PROMENADZ BALL, attended by the dile of the
town and neighbourhood, took place at the Bunion
Hotel Assembly Rooms, on Wednesday evening.
Stagg's Quadrille Band was in attendance.
ACCIDENT. —A lad named Grant, on board the
coal brig, Jane and Father, of this port, met with
his death by being blown from the rigging during
the gale of last week. The vessel was at the time
on her way to Hartlepool.
Licatorte.—The Rev. J. Luce, Head Master of
the grarkoar school, Arnersham Berke, delivered a
very excellent lecture at fnce's Royal Hotel
Assembly Rooms on Friday eveniog.