The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

FURTHER SEIZURIS OF UNWHOLESORIE MEAT.—
Yesterday, Messrs. Newman and Taylor, accompanied
by a oonstable, made a visitation to the premises of the
whole of the butchers in the town, which resultel in

the seisure of a oossiderabie amount of tainted meat.
The following quantities wete taken from the establish-
ments of each of the undermentioned tradesmen :
Mr. Coo, High West-street, 2081bs. ; Mr. J. H. Groves,
North-square, 2341b5. ; Mr. T. Bennett, High Bast.
street, 100Iba. ; Mr. S. *earsleV, nigh Bast,street,
681bs. ; Mr. H. droVer, lligh *eh-street, gibs. j Mr.
Keats, Fordington, 191bs. ; and Mr. Warren, South-
street, 31bs.

CRIMINAL PRISONERS. -In the new Prison Ant
it is provided that when. a sentence expires on a
. . . •

Sunda' the prisoner shall be discharged °tithe prece•
ding day, and he is to have a sufficient bum to take him
to bin plane of residence or settlement.
CORN MARRET, Saturday.— At this day's mailtet
the supply of wheat was good. Old sold at late
rates, and new was more saleable, the condition
having improved by the late dry weather. Malting
barley began to attraot attuntiots, and many parcels
were disposed of at full prices; Oats *ere in moderate
demand, at last week's quotations.

FournComte C RAtga. —The Local Hoard Of Health will
make this day the tollgiiing special district rates :-1, a
rate of 4d. in the £, £26055. lid: Ming required*hicili
will fall on the inhabitants of All Saints', B.t. Peter*
Holy Trinity, and West Fordington ; 2, in, in the £,
which the whole borough has to contribute, the sum of
£744 13e. 7d. being the estimate; and 3, a rate of led.
in the £, which persons living in All Saints', St.
Peter's' and Holy Trinity will have to pay—the
eatimated outlay is £6BB 16s. Bi, The water-rate is 6d.
in the £, the sum of LOU 5. being required.
A CAEIT•AWAT.—On Thursday night the boroUgh
police took charge of a young urchin of eleven, "all
tattered and torn, all tearful and forlorn, the son of •
man of the nomadic race named Hughes, whose coos.
tionis chairmiending, whom they found at the top of
High Westetreet, where he had been waiting the greater
part of the day for his father. The lad was lodged and
fed at the police station that night and the next day.
During Thursday night Hughes sought for his son at
the police 'dation, but was told to call there again for
him next morning, which he failed to do. On Friday
night by the direction of the magistrates, the lad was
removed to the union workhouse.

Ma. GOOD, surgeon, of this sown, Was returning
from Cbarminster, lest W dnesday morning, on
horseback, when the animal suddenly fell, and the
doctor was thrown head-foremost to the ground,
whereby he sustained a severe wound in the fore-
head. It would appear that the horse stumbled
through the painful pressure of a stone that bad got
lodged in one of its &oat upon the hoof; and, when
we mushier what a quantity there is of small rolling
stones about the roads at the preeent time, it seems
only remarkable that more accidents have not
occurred, Mr. Good was able to ride home on
another horse, and has now, we are glad to learn,
almost recovered from the results of the falL

THE PRAYER FOR THE REMOVAL OF THY CATTLE
PLAGUE.—At the instance of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, an order of Council has being issued,
authorising the general use, throughout England and
Wales, of the subjoined form of prayer which has
bosh (travail tip by the piimate and which was said
in all churches last Sunday : "fi Lord God
Almighty, whose are the cattle on a thousand hills,
and in whose hand is the breath of every living
thing, look down, we pray Thee, in compassion
upon us thy servant*, whom thou hest visited with a
grevious murrain among our herds and flocks. We
aeknowledge our ,transgressions, which worthily
deserve Thy ohastisethent, and oar sin is ever before
us; and in humble penitence we come to seek thy
aid. In the midst of judgment, do thou, 0 Lord,
remember mercy—stay, we pray thee, this plague by
Thy word of power, and save that provision which
Thou hash in thy goodness granted for our sustenance.
Defend us, also, gracious Lord, from the pestilence
with which than), foreign lands have been smitten;
keep it, we beseech Thee, far away from our borders,
and shield our komes from its ravages ; so shall we
ever offer ilntoThee the saorifioeof praises:ad thanks-
giving, for these Thy set* of pfdvidegfle dyer us,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. A.meth"

MICHAELMAS QC/LATER SESSIONE. —Theo sessions
are appointed to be holden next week. The civil
business of the county will be transacted on Tues-
day, Oct. 17th, and the trials for prisoners will take
place the n?t day. The following is the calendar:
—Amelia ramie; obtepimiug go_qd, by false pre-
tences at ridport ; Catolitie Hawkef, obtaining
geode by false pretences at Dorchester; Christopher
Gibbs, stealing silk handkerchiefs at Dorchester;
James Membury and James Lovelace, steal-
ing fowls at West Stafford; James Pitman
and Susan Pitman, stealing money at Chaldron
Herring; Alexandra Miller, assault with intent,
&C.; at Fordiggton ; Joseph Hayward, steal-
ing two thihnel shifts let tiymoudsbury ; Daniel
Carew, stealing leather, &c.,at Riettiorne Edward
Haines, wounding with a gun at Nether Conipton ;
Peter Lynch, stealing money at Weymouth ; Eliza-
beth Newman, stealing money from the person at
Beaminster ; Thomas Corner, receiving and knowing
to have been stolen at Beaminster ; Jane Ellery,
stealing
,hearth-rng, &c., at Burton Bradstock ;
Charles .A.pplin, tittering oounterfeit coin at Wim-
borne ; William Smith Mid William Brown, stealing
pair trousers at Kineon. On tidff 1.--43leinge Cross,
stealing money from the person at Swanlike ;
William Payne, stealing a lamb at Chardstock ;
Francis Wheeler, obtaining money by false pretence
at Wimborne ; James Perris, assault with intent,
&a, at Glanville* Wootton; George Courtney and
William Thome, stealing beef at Wareham;
Tbotilas ll6rj tealizlg hearth-rug, tac., at Burton
Bradatook.

Tax HUMMING BIRD Mom.—An interesting
correspondence respecting this moth, which, as we
noticed last week, has been seen in this town, has
taken place in the Times during the last few days.
The Rev. W. gilgour, dating from Collingbonrn
Dacia reetoryi Marlborough, when sending to the
Editor specimens of the Male and female moth,
says :—" They absutd here. The male I have
never seen settle: It chiefly &heti-seta the honey
from the Verbenas anfl geraniums by meats of its
long proboscis of trunk, is doei the humming-bird
with its bill, which it resembles wonderfully, When
alive, in various points. The female is different, I
think, and settlee on the flowers. It has a trunk,
but 11 more like an ordinary moth. This moth until
the pteseht sestoil has been a stranger here. Heat
is Probably the Midst Of its appearance:" Another ,
correspondent records in contradiction to a State,
ment that this mOth is led to flowers by smell, says:
—"Some seam lg.° I h4d my drawing-room walls
covered eVith kh eitreinely well-made French paper,
on which bunches of flowers (smarted at regular
intervals, and on several occasions I have seen this
sphynx hovering over them, and vainly attempting
to inaert his proboecit I think this is conclusive that
it ti gtideff to its foOd by sight and not by smell."
"Rimble Dick" hi the Idopiila mime for it; Mr: D.
Uphill, of Moreton Gardens, Dorchester Saye:—
"Here they may be seen by the score. I never
before saw this moth in such numbers, but with the
exception of wasps I am of opinion that most insects
have this year been more than usually plentiful.
Our little enemy the Codlin Moth (Carpocapsa
Pomonella) must also have been present in great
numbers, for the apple crop in this part has suffered
severely. from the grub. Quite one-third has fallen
from being What it generally termed warm-eaten."
Tan Wterars.—The reading of the thermometer at
Dorchester f Qr the past week Is as follows :

Dates. Noon
Oct.
2 65
3 65
4 62
5 62
6 58
7 6t
8 65

tiirection
ei Wind.