The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

POOLE.

TIM RATIXO QUISITION. —WS are very glad to
perceive that a requieition, to which several most in.
duential names are attached, has been presented to
the sheriff, requesting him to oall a meeting of the
ratepayers, to take into oonsideration the propriety
of the conduct of the overseers in rating the public
qUllyi to the poor rates, and in commencing legal
proosedings for the eateldiehment of such rating with.
out consulting the parieh. The sheriff has in cons..
quince appointed a public meeting to be held at the
Guildhall on Tuesday (this illy,) at 19 o'clock, on
which cooreion we would urge all thole who heirs to
prevent uniimossary and wasteful expenditure being
inflicted on the town, to attend and give their voice
in opposition to what seems to be the unwarrantable
conduct of the parish official.
Tug WATIN WO/MS.—A meeting of the commit.
tee appointed at the laid public meeting on this ques•
Mon to confer with Mr. Purbriok, and consider his
plan for bringing water into the town, will be held
at the Townha this morning (Tuesday) at 11
o'clock.

Colonel Waugh bee addressed a letter to the
rims, in which be asserte himself to be an injured
individual, and seems to imply that he could clear
up everything and pay everybody twenty shillings in
the pound if be oboes. We have heard of ohildren
playing at hanging just to see how it felt I of blase.
taking to the Mok woods ; but of all the odd limbo
of curiosity, and of all the extraordinary methods of
creating a new exottament, Col. Waugh is oertainly
the strangest. Bawd with adulation, tEI Colonel took
a fancy to being cursed. His gorged appetite required
some unnatural stimulus, and be certainly cannot
complain of being disappointed. To say nothing of
the fast that the misery which this little freak has
occasioned is perfectly true, and that widows and
orphans have been starved by the moors that the
Colonel might try a new salutation, we du not
think he haat bettered his ow.— The Prose.

SHAXIIIPIRIAN Litarcas.—On Tuesday evening,
A. W. &them, Esq., P. 8.5., barristar•at•law,
delivered a lecture in the Townhall, in connection
with the Town Library and Literary institute on
Shakespeare Hamlet. Tho attendance was very
good. Mr. W. Penney, the hon. secretary, intro.
duoed Mr. Beethan, and at the close of the lecture
thanked him on behalf of those present for the
reading which had been so admirably given.

MUNICIPAL ELIICTION.-Thl election for town
oouncillors took place in the Townhall, on Monday
(yesterday), when the retiring oouncillors were again
re•elected, with the exception of Mr. Hamilton, who
has retired, and Mr. F. Styring has been elected in
his room. South East Ward Mr. W. Pearce. Mr.
G. A. Adams, and Mr. Styring.—North West Ward
Mr. W. Sound, ion. , Mr. G. H. Clutch, and Mr. J.
W. West.

The opening dinner of Mr, J. Shephered at the
Antelope Hotel, on Wednesday evening last, was
attended by a numerous and highly respectable
company, and the enterpriaing host must have felt
great gratifloation on surveying such a mark of
esteem as was thus bestowed on him. The banquet
wee unanimously acknowledged to be of first rate
character. W. Pearce, Esq., the Mayor, occupied
the chair, and H. W. Dickinson, Esq., the via
chair. The usual loyal and appropriate Waste were
drunk and responded to, and several very excellent
songs sung, and the evening was spent in a jovial
and harmonious manner.
G. W. Franklyn, Esq., M.P. for this borough,
has forwarded a donation of two ,quinsaa to ths
funds of the Ancient Order of Foresters, held
N the Bell and Crown Inn, in this town.

POUCH!. NlONDAY.—(Bufiire the Mayor W. Pears*,
Lel.) Hoary Whio• was oharged h 7 P. U. Hunt
wtth vagranoy. Reprimanded and discharged.
Tu Dust% ( Before the Mayor). Thomas Brittle,
was charged with having in his possession a pito. of
rope, nut giving a satishotury umiak how he 0111110
Dl-
by it. missed
Watm ODA Y,—(Before the Alayorte—A NIS Phelps
was oharged by P. 0. Groves, with ing oonoealed
in a liy in the London Hotel yard. Discharged.
umin4Y.— (Before the Mayor and a full Bench).
—Susan fidloum wee summoned on the information
of P. (1, Stone with being disorderly in King•street.
Ooinwitted to Poole Gaul for one week's hard labour.