The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-07-04 00:00:00

vialruto Juaicrie arParr.

la the absence of Capt. Foster, this report was read
1 Col. 13uten•th The chaplain is to have six weeks'
4ve of absence, and two guineas per week are to be
paid (era substitute during that time. The following
h.eders were received :—Lock, necks, per lb., 3.1.;
,ean raw. 6.0.; suet, 3e4. Fudge, Wallsend eoal 14s.
p r ton, Rade* 16s. There are 116 prisoners in
...stody. 2 in the infirmary, 14 for tr:al at emulous, 3 for
•al at Odom 221 bays been committed this quarter,
is owing • dieereass of 17; but the daily average be. in.
; seed 5. There is an Increase of re-oommitments
c•-ing 99 against 92. The pries of wheat this year
b $ been £l3 13s 24, 22 12e 63 more than
' I, and bread has risen id per lb ; but the
el weekly sod per head has decreased 814. It
. having been represented to the Visiting Judie's by
• s Rey. Edward Pickard Cambridge, of Warmed!,
at a girl named Mary Lovell of that pariah had been
treated during her recent imprisonment, by one of
female offieers, • special meeting of the Visiting
*lose was held on Thursday, Jane 18th. Present—
bare Williams, Esq., In the chair, Cob Bingham, the
v. 11 W. Bingham. Henry C. Goodden, Req. Major
rieral Michel, John E. Bridge, Foq;, E. W. Williams,
1., and E. Peens, Esq. Mr. Cambridge himself also
;.* ended, accompanied by the girl and Dr. Rhodes, a
1. lied gentleman of Weymouth. The charges were:
I••,•, That all the first night of her Imprisonment she
y left in a dark cell without any bedding and for.
ke: tea by Ellen Befell, the officer. 2n6, That • few
. ma afterwards the eaues officer hid Gained her to
~se the tips of all her fingers upon a certain heated
re, and had made her keep them there for nearly a '
, Jeer of an hour, sea kind of ordeal, whereby her
Deem* or guilt might be established, and that the
t. Am of what appeared to Dr. Rhodea to be burns had
b.. a produced. After • full and careful inveetigstion,
Visiting Justices came to the unanimous sad un•
Rating conclusion that the charges were in their
op don utterly and entirely without foundation,
sine not simply contradicted, but disproved
le every mstertal point. With reaped to the
firs: charge, it was shown that there was no dark
cell at all on the ground floor in As female prison,
where the case was alleged to have occurred ; n T any
, on either floor, without bedding. And with
T.'4006 to the second charge, it was clearly ascertained
the; the only accessible stove—and that one, moreover.
bi ;idly pointed out by thegirl—rlies never been lighted
at alt dna) a period considerably anterior to the cow
m....oement of her Imprisonment; so that withmt
entoring Into other discrediting particulars, the
tre4ment we. a simple Impossibility. It. lard to
I;nderstaed what could be the girPe motive in trumping
'bees mdicions bamboo& ; but it Was With thWhil
a. /action that the Visiting Justices were thus rumbled
I. • concrete • meritorious oflioer. aho has faithfully di.-
led her duties without reproach for nearly g years,
all shadow and suspicion in the matter.—R. U.
1, dress, Chairman.
• le CHAIMILII remarked that at the last Sessions lie
desired to see the Secretary of State with reference
• air cam of Gwynne, • lunatic' from Portland convict
re who had become chargeable to this county, and
her named Johnson, sent first to Weymouth union,
thence tranderred t 3 the County Lunatic Asylum.
saw the Secretary, who at once gave every facility
she reeneval of Gearicne ; bet as to the other matter
ho nd tee mese= at though be appsered very touch
di-mewed at the Idea o a man being sent out of Port-
lithe to the Weymouth union in the way he was ; but
the feeling of the Secretary of State was that though
Poe land prhon, as locitlio e,tablis
to hment, brought
very heavy rates, it y produced boucles the
noway in something Ilk, an equivalent. However, this
much they gained—tluit the clerk who attended to
iL e matters promised to look after them with greater
. ; and that would save them a quantity of " red
: • "—(bmar, hear).
•cis LOADIMIP next said: Now there is this fearful
r—this attack on the Governor of the geol. Any.
, g more lamentable I think one hardly Gould have
—that any parties should have thought fit to have
iahed In • county newspaper—one °mid imagine it
g done at • distant*. in a strange district—but in •
c Ay newspaper, should have thought fit I may almost
• to libel • gaoler on snob trivial evidence as this has
. I hope he Ls very much ashamed of himself, and
a... take the only step In his power—make the refute-
Mon of the calumny as widely known as he spread the
calumny Basil. On a due inquiry before the Rector of
the parish and the girl, the charge was disproved. It's
a marvellous thing; but, happily, the fdaehood has
been se complete, that the answer is oomplete—(ep-
please.) Sometimes we get insinuations—sometimes
charges having • little foundation, but in this case It
wee so utterly without foundations—so entirely int.
minative, that the Governor of the gaol In the estima-
tion of everybody hes come out pedeetlytdear ; and the
officer under him, who had more particularly to bear
the blame, is through the °mai:laden of the Visiting
Justioes. equally doer from this fearful charge—
(applause.)
The Rev. C. J. GLYN : IS it known who inserted it?
The CHAIIIMAN (knowingly): You moat not eels too
much about that. Probably there may be some other

ste'Re Rev. C. W. BINGHAM : It M almost a question
whether there ought not to be an indictment lilt goes
on in the same form is it ham since our examination.
The matter then dropped.

Mr. WILLIAMS read the bridges and buildings report,
which mentioned an encroachment as North bridge,
Wareham. The owner of the garden near the gas work,
has extended his garden into the river course about
100 feet long and nearly 5 feet wide, thus rednoing the
width of the river course, and preventing the water
going through one of the arches of the bridge. The
uommittos recommend that notice of removal be given
to Mr. James Clark, the owner of the garden, by the
Clerk of the Puce. Lad is to be spent on Charmouth
bridge, and notice wan given for next unions of an in.
Witten to give £l5O towards the rebuilding of New.
land's bridge In the Bridport division.

LUNATIC LITLUXS.
Mr. Wiri.u.aB read this report. The reeeipts had
been £3,600 Is If and expenditure £2.337 9s 101, leav-
ing a balance of £1.262 111 41. The rate wAs ordered
at ls per day. The amount to be carried to tha out.
county arid non-pauper fund wiU be £555 2s, making
that account £1,607 5s 81. Present number of county
paupers 155 males and 168 females, being an increase
of 2 males and 3 female.; out-county pauper patients
83 melee and 79 females (as last quarter) ; of non•pauper
patients 14 males and 8 females (as last quarter). Con-
k-eats—Alfred Abbott, bread 534 per loaf, S. Symes
straw be per ton and oats 151 per seek, Boatswain,
barley meal 17s Cal per sack. j. Fudge, coals—beat
Welland El 30 61 at coal dorm, and best unweaned
Maddock 14, 64 per tea at stores. Mr. Gregory's
tender (C 990 for building two cottages and two bath-
rooms was accepted. Mr. Hyson haring resigned the
u ay, from eleven candidates the Bey. W. Evens,
isi .ttlt
Vi n, had boon elected.
Inquiry was made as to the proposed buildings. and
It was said that the cottages would cost £3OO, and the
bath rooms £OOO. In further explanation it was shown
the latter were. of. considerable size.

—Thereupon his lordship mentioned, with glee, that
the Irish Lord Chancellor had established a new class
of patlenta for Ireland—patients of weak mind: and
the Lord Chancellor of England, finding that I3ill waa
passed so easily, had (rimed a new Bill to take up
ell of us in England who may happen to be of weak
mind—(great laughter).
The/Lev. C. Wi BranFIAII said it we. rather herd now
that the visitors of the lunatic asylum were raving lots
of money, and bringing in more than the court knew
what to do with, directly they proposed building any-
thing, though they were obliged to do it by the Com-
missioners in Lunaoy,ithey were ariticised and stigma-
tised as gentlemen of weak mind—(great laughter),
Him LORDSHIP said he thought the visitors were
gentleman of vary strong mindeontinned laughter and
applanae)—but, in fact, this waa not a question for the
court at all, but reatod with the visitors.

TINASOI.

The expenditure had been £3.930 3s. 91. (ineluding
ElOOpeld to Sun Fire Assursnee Company, in discharge
el Lunatic Asylum loan), and the receipt; which in*
eluded £lB 40. fines under the PedUrn' Ad end £2 10s,
received from the Clerk to Weymouth Union in the
matter of Samuel Johnston; a county pauper lunatic,
0671 14.. 10.1., leaving 1):1,741 lls. Id. Rases bed
already been received for the the present quarter
amountiug t 011,578 &making C 3.317 19..10d ;and they
recommended a rate at one halfpenny in the Found.—
Adopted.

COUNTY TBIASIMIRBRIP.

The committee of selection reported that the follow-
ing candidates for the above otdoe had complied with
the standing orders, and personally prAneed their
teetlmoniels. which were satisfactory : Mr. G. J.
Andrew. chsetor ; Mr. H. Barnett. Dorchester ;
Kr. W. M Hussey, Lyme Regis; and Mr. Charles
Hosts, Dorebester.
The CIiAISMAX said be would mention to the court
that • letter bad been put into his bands, sAdreased to
lamed, as Charms, from Mr. Symonds, who stated
that be was • eandldate by advertisement, bat WU not
tcandidate now on the selection committee's list
he bad omitted to comply with any of the
rake or orders of the Quarter Sessions ; and. having so
failed, he still wished that they should waive all the
orders and admit him as a candidate,but that would be
entirely breaking faith with those who had complied
with the orders, and he thought it impossible to put
be the court even the question of admitting him as •
seadidate. Mx. Symonds stated in his letter that he
bad neglected every one of the ciders through inadver-
testa, and not knowing some of them, and that he was
unable to attend in person been:lse be was obliged to go
to some other plue on business. That was an adm
don be be had failed to comply with the orders: aad,
of eau" he could not ut to the court the propriety of
admitting him as •