The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN MATTERS.

The news from America during the paat week
is somewhat astounding. On Wednesday we
received authentic intelligence of the capture of
New Orleans by the Federalists without a blow
being struck, and two days later information was
brought that after a consultation between Pre-
sident Davis and his generale, they resolved upon
evacuating Yorktown, sacrificing 71 large guns,
their tents and equipage, leaving their fortified
camp standing to deceive the enemy, and gain
time for their retreat, which occupied two days.
It has often been reiterated, both in this country
and in the Northern States, that the Confederate
Government represented a clique, and that the
people of the Seceded States were in favour of
the old Union. Now, if the Federal theory be
the correct one, when New Orleans fell into the
bands of the Federal forces, that surely was the
time when the Southern people would have
shown it But how was the Federal commander
met by the civic authorities when he demanded
of the mayor the surrender of the place, and the
substitution of the Federal flags for that of the
Confederates on the public buildings It should
he remembered that at this time the mayor was
under Federal protection ; and yet we find some-
thiug of the old heroic tone in his rin:ly. "To
surrender an undefended city," said the civic
functionary, " would be an unmeaning cere-
mony. The city is yours by power of brutal
force, not by the choice or consent of the in-
habitants. It is for you to determine the fate
that awaits us here. There is no man in our
midst whose hand or heart would not be paralysed
at hoisting a fisg not of our own adoption. You
may trust to the honour of the inhabitants,
though you might not count on their submission
to unnierited wrong. Your occupancy of the
city does not transfer the allegiance of the in-
habitants from the Government of their choice
to one which they have deliberately repudiated.
They only yield the obedience which the COD..
qiieror is entitled to exact from the conquered."
language is important, as affording a glimpse
of the Southern spirit. The reply is frank and
defiant. Every sentence shows how impossible
is the task which the North has undertaken.
Had there not been unanimity in favour of the
Secession cause, the mayor would have been
deposed from office, or, at all events, there
would have been some indicatioo that at least to
a minority of the inhabitants the surrender was
a release from a political tyranny they abjured.
In the absence of all evidence that the people of
New Orleans acquiesced, on political grounds, in
the occupation of their city by their enemies in
the battle-fled, we may well ask, what have the
Northerners gained by this success? Loyal
I subjects can never be made by brute force, and
I the Confederates are as loud as ever in their
I declarations of undying animosity, and of their
resolution never to enter the same political union
as the North. It is now certain, too, that M.
Mercier brought home from Richmond a very
strong impression of the fanatic energy, and the
unquelled determination which he found there.
It is said he did not even make some proposals
which he intended to have put forwanl on hie
own responsibility, and without the direct in-
structions of his Government, because he found
the spirit of uncompromising resistance so much
more intense and eager than he had anticipated.
With the spirits of men in so excited a state, the
contest must still be long and eager.
In a strategic point, however, by the Federal
occupation of New Orlean i, the South will soon
be hemmed in between the sea and the Missis-
sippi, both of which will be wholly in the hands
of the North. The Federal gunboats in the
Mississippi, even if formidable in themselves, are
placed between two forties of the enmity, who
may come down towards Memphis, and up from
Orleans, while Gamma Besuregard's position, as
will be seen by a glance of the map, whether he
be at Memphis, or Corinth, will be most critical.
With regard to the step taken by President
Davis and his rnerala to evacuate Yorktown, '
however inexplicable it may appear to us, it was
no doubt justified. The coolness and precaution
they took in falling backward along the penin-
sula, justify one in believing that it was both
who and necessary. All that has been said of
the strength of the Confederate army on the
Potomac seems to have been strictly truelgThe
number of men at Yorktown, according to de-
serters, was 100,000—a force even stronger than
that which M'Clellan commanded. Bat to have
remained in their strong entrenchments would,
in all probability, have been dingerons to the
Confederates, as other Federal generals were
advancing upon their lines in the rear. Perhaps
the Confederate leaders recollected that it was to
the very same combination that Cornwallis suc-
cumbed, and consequently their resolve to change
their tactics. According to the New York
papers, President Davis and other Confederate
leaden; nrrived r.t Yorktown on the 30th April,
and, after a consultation with the leading
generals, all acquiesced that Yorktown would

prove untenable, and should be evacuated.
General Johnstone accordingly issued the order
for the evacuation on May Ist; it was COM-
menced on the 2nd, and completed on the night
of the 3rd. They left behind them a large
number of guns, and a large amount of camp
equipage, which they could not remove for fear
of being seen. As soon as the evacuation be-
came known to the Federal leaders, the troops
under the command of General 111'Clellau were
put in pursuit, and on the 4th, two miles from
Williamsburg, they came up with the Confederate
rear-guard, which was found to be strong ; but
the Federals being in want of infantry, and
night coining on, they gave up the pursuit till
the following morning. On the morning of the
sth, the Confederates, who appear to have been
reinforced, made a fierce attack upon the ad-
vancing Federal', and a sanguinary combat took
place, the result of which, according to the
Federal dispatch was, that General Hancock
succeeded in turning the left wing of the Con-
federates' line of works, and forced them to
abandon their position during the night, thus
giving the Federala the possession of Williams-
burg, which they entered on the 6th. A very
large number of Confederate prisoners was also
taken, and the battle appears to have been one
of the most important in which the armies of
the Potomac have been engaged. M'Clellan
reports,—" IVe have 1,000 !iris, tiers, and 1,000
wounded prisoners. The rebel works are very
extensive, and exceedingly strong. The Federal
loss in General Hooker's division is heavy, but
it is not so large in other divisions. Hancock
lost only 20 men, and 200 prisoneis. The
weather is fine, but our great difficulty is getting
up food on account of the roads. I learn from
the prisoners that the rebels intend disputing
every step to Richmond." There is therefore
no reason to suppose that the Southern generals,
because of their exit from Yorktown, have given
up the idea of continuing the struggle. On the
contrary, a great battle can hardly fail shortly
to be fought on the line between Williamsburg
and Richmond; and perhaps even now the New
York papers are filled with the intelligence of
one of the bloodiest of battles on record.

Not the least important item of American in-
telligence relates to the movements of M.
Mercier, the French Ambassador at Washington.
The French Emperor has the credit of
knowing how to do the right thing at
the right time, and we are informed,
through the medium of a New York
paper, that "a consultation had taken place at
Washington, between the Federal Cabinet and
the Foreign Diplomatic Corps." The consulta-
tion referred to the French Minister's visit to
Richmond, and the question of an armistice was
discussed. It was believed that the French
Minister, since the occupation of Now Orleans,
had concluded that the time had arrived when,
under the instructions of the Emperor, h#) may
step forward as mediator. Also, that, in con-
sideration of the monopoly of commercial
advantages end aid of some kind from the
Southern States with regard to Alexico, the
Emperor Napoleon had agreed to use his in-
fluence with the Federal Government to end the
war, upon terms securing to the Southern States
an independent nationality, and that if the
Federal Government did not accept his media-
tion, the Emperor would himself acknowledge
the Southern Confederacy." It is most earnestly
t• be desired that this statement is true. Both
sides are beginning to feel the penalties of the
war in which they are engaged, and we have no
doubt, were the truth known, both would be
glad to be done with it, if they could see their
way to a termination that would be honourable.

DO it ell ESTER. —PITCHED CORN MARKET,
Saturday, May 17. —The attendance was very small
and the gen4ral tone of the corn trade very de-
pressed. Wheat was sold at a DECLINE Of 2s. PER
QUARTER. Kerley and oats claimed very little
attention, and their value was nominally the same
as last weck.—Bailey•sowing in Fordington Field
being more than a half completed, there was less
demand for seed samples.
MESSRS. BAKER AND &moles Refmarronv Sans:,
May 17.—The quantity of stock stags ye:), large,
but the attendance %113 only limited. A large
number changed hands; but prices were wmerallly
in favour of the buyer. Heifers and calves were
most in requ at, and commanded long figures.
1101'8211 were wanted, and consequently sold ssell.
Tne SCYTHE.—We perceive that haymaking has
commenced in earnest in this neighbourhood, and
that the crop is unasually heavy.
PRESENTATION. Superior Barrack Sergeant
Simonds has been presented with a silver medal,
in recognition of his long servitude and good
conduct.

PRESRNTATION OF COLOVIN. --,We understand
that shortly the Countess of Shaftesbury will make a
presentation of colours to the Dursetshire regiment
of militia, and that in the evening a ball will he
held in celebration of the event, at Yearsley'a
Antelope Hotel. _ _

REMARKABLE CINCUAISTANCK. —On Wednesday
last, the wife of Frederick Steers, son of James
Steers, ostler at the Antelope Hotel, was buried.
On Thursday morning, his uncle, named Creech,
shoemaker at Weymouth, was found dead in bed
by his wife's side, and on Saturday morning James
Steers himself, who had gone down to Weymouth to
attend to some or the horses of the Yeomanry
Cavalry, died somewhat suddenly at the Soyal
Hotel Tap. As soon as it was discovered that he
was ill, medical aid was obtained, but without
avail. He was about 60 years of age, and was well
known in D.wchester and its neighbourhood.
. .

' ALL SAINTS' CUURCIL —On Sninlay morning a
special appeal was made on behalf of the Brisbane
Mission at the above church. The service was very
appropriately cornmenced by the organist playing
the anthem " How beautiful upon the mountains."
The Rev. J. P. F. Davidson took for his text the
137th Psalm, let verse—.' By the waters of Bobylon
we eat down, yea, we wept, when we remetubeied
thee, 0 Zion." Th• rev. gcntlemau, in the course
of his remarks, drew a striking parallel between
the case of the captive Jews and the Chriatian
miasionary, exiled from hi. native land for the sake
of Christ and his cause. There was not, perhaps, a
noire touching picture in the whole of the sacred
Sc •ipture, than that contained in the Psalm from
is loch the text was taken. We might follow the
captive Jews, wandering up and down by the side
of the Babylonian river, and then %%eery and
exhausted sitting down, amid turning their thoughts
to that faraiff hand where lay in ruins their beautiful
teniple, and the holy city in desolation, wo enuld
easily picture to ourselves their intense grief, and
their sense of bitter ruiscry as they hung their harps
on the willows by the aide of the stream. And thins
it was, to a certain extent, with the Christian mis-
sionary in • forehm land; he would often look back
and think of that time, when, surrounded by his
congregation, he worshipped in the sacred temple
in WA own land ; and of his beloved country where
the Sabbath was kept holy, and bands of children
met together to listen to his insti action. and where
he was also supported by the sympathy and prayers
of his fellow-worshippers. And no doulit as such
thoughts crowded upon his mind, he wiaild feel some-
thing like the captive Israelites. This desponding feel-
ing would also be greatly increased by the barren field
before him, especially if he was =lied to labour
where the Gospel had never been heard. Notwith-
standing the assurances he bad that God would assist
him, and bless his efforts, there would he times when
he would feel inclined to ask, if it were Feasible suc-
cess could attend his efforts? Under thew circum-
stances the Christian Missionary needed the assur-
ance of the hearty sympathy and earnest pre. era of
those beloved friends he had left lishind.; sad such,
he (the preacher) believed was the feelings of him,
on behalf of whose mission a special call was made
to them that day. No doubt many present would
retnemher the earnest appeal the Bishop of Brisbane
made in this church before he went from among Us.
He said then, that as he listened to the solemn mei-
tation to join in the celebration of the Holy Comm-
nion on All Saints' Day, lie thought of the length ,
of time which would most likely elapse before he I
again would he privileged to join in this holy service.
The principal reason),. (the preacher) particularly
brought, before them this field of mizsiouary labour
was, because they knew, and bail listened to the
, Bishop, and had assisted him in his misaionary
scheme. Many too, he believed, felt anxious to
know how he and his band of fellow-labourers pros-
pered. He went forth hopefully to his appointed
work, notwithstanding the difficulties which lay
Were him, but these difficulties have been greater
than heat first anticipated. From the last published
reports of the Society fir the Propagation of the
Gospel, under the head "Brisbane Missions," we
read that tLe Bishop is earnestly entreating for more
aid. He states that several churches which had
been planted, be had been obliged to abandon for
w an t of ministers,ruid the flocks were scattered as sheep
having no shephenl. We can scarcely understand
the depressing influence which such circumstances
must have upon the mind of the missionary bishop.
No doubt when he contemplates this want of success
he thinks of his church at home, and like the
Israelites of old, weeps and hangs his harp upon the
willows. He rays that he is particularly in need of
an itinerant missionary to visit the scattered congre-
gations, and to encourage and support them in their
allierence to the faith ot Christ. It is, no doubt,
i„lin best way for our minds to les concentrated upon
one field of missionary enterpriss ; and this—the
Rrisbane Mission—has special claims on one Byrn.
path, the greater part of the population being our
own countrymen. Let us then this day prayerfully
think upon the matter, and as we join in the pre% er
i'or the chuich militant, heartily join in supplication
for him and his helpers, who in our Australian
colonies are labouring in the missionary field ; and
t us also adil to our contributions and aline a little
more cot of in niPathy to him who was so well knoen
to us, who preached in this church. and who went out
trout this dWosso,rsissinbsring that es we e 44 in the

diffusion of the knowledge of divine truth, and the
extension of Christ's kingdom, 5n shalt we
receive a rich blessing to our own souls. During
the rending if the offertory sentences the sum of
£4 9s. was collected.

COUNTY Perry SESSIONS, Saturday, May 17th.—
Belore Major Stewart and (4. Troyte Bullock, Esq.
FORDICTON. —Thomas Verse was summoned for
taking a hare in the pariah of Owermoigue.—Edwin
Jarnc4, gamekeeper to Mr. Augustus Foster, said
that on the 141. h May ho easy the defendant come
along the tin upike road, riding in a pony cart. He
had with him two dogs. Witness followed him, and
eaw him send the dogs into a plantation. Defen-
dant went on, the dogs caught a hare and brought it
into the road, and followed him mith it. Witness
called to the defendant, but he continued to ride on.
About half a mile en the road witness saw where the
dog had laid down the hare, and defendant must
have had it, as he afterwards saw the dogs without
the hare, and there was no one else on the road.
Mr. Weston, who appeared for the defendant. cross-
examined the witness at considerable length, alien it
appehred that defendant had seen witness but a
minute before, that he knew defendant was there as
he was within a few rods of his own house. He
never saw defendant get out of the cart.—Mr.
Weston, for the defence, said : if the magistrates
believed defendant sent his dogs into the plantation
when he knew the gamekeeper was in the immediate
neighbourhood, they must believe him to be a mad
man, as no one else would do such a thing. He held
that defendant was not responsible for the act of his
dogs, and as he immediately called them away
when he paw they had left the road, he must be
exonerated from all blame. The Bench fined defen-
dant 40e, including costs. ---A on Crocker and Mary
Blandatuer, of Fordington, were summoned for
having unlawfully committed damage to certain
midei wood belonging to Mr. Henry Mayo. Frederick
Knight said that on the bth May, he saw the defen-
dants in a plantation belonging to Mr. Mayo, of
!rome, getting sticks. Be was sent by his master to
Inquire their names, and Crocker told h im her name was
Wellspring Crocker, and it was said she had been
convicted several times before.—She said we should
all ha,e to stand before the liar at the last great day,
and no doubt some of those who now carried their
heads so very high would not come off much better
than the rest. —The Bench told her she was a very
old offender, and had been convicted of almost every
sort of offence. She would thereforabe imprisoned,
with hard labour, for two months. The prisoner
Blandamer was a young a innan ; she had never been
there 'before, and would therefore he iuiprisoned
for one week.—Mrs. Crocker naked that a tine might
be inflicted? The Bench said they could not inflict
a fine.

CHILFROMIL —Thomas] Davis, of Maiden Newton,
and Jolla Shorey. of Yetminster, were charged with
cutting sticks from a live fence, belonging to Mr.
Francis Pope, in the parish of Chilfrotne.—Mr.
Andrews appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Fear to
defend the prisoners.—Henry Burch said he lived at
Chilfrome. He saw the defendants on the 9th of
May, on the milway at Chilfrome, and passing
through Chilfrome. When lie first saw them
they were cutting branches from some
trees. lie went towards them, and when
they saw him they left the sticks and walked up the
line. He went to the sticks and saw they were
hazel, and siipposing that they had been cut out of
his own hedge, he went to see. While he was exa-
mining his hedge, Mr. George Do veil, Mr. Pope's
bailiff, came along. They went to evamine Mr.
Pope's hedge, where they found a number of hazel
sticks had been cut. They subsequently went
back to the railway, and saw the defendents
sitting on the sticks, which had been tie,l into a
bundle. Mr. D,.well said " Here are Mr. Pope's
sticks," and defendants said they had'nt cut them
—they found them on the line. Mr. Dowell took
possession of the sticks.—George Dowell gave evi-
dence in corroboration of that given by the fitat
witness, and added that the sticks that had been
cut were worth 91, but the damkos that had been
done was much greater. He sent for Sergeant
Holloway, and they fitted the sticks to the stems
where they had been cut.—Sergeant Holloway pro-
duced sonic of the sticks and the stems fund in
Mr. Pope's hedgerow, and they fitted exactly.—Mr.
Fear addressed the Bench for the defence, and
called Janice Brown, who said he lived at Stratton.
He knew Thomas Davis, one of the defendants.
On Friday, the 9th May, he accompanied hiin from
his house in the morning about 8 o'clock, He had
his tools, consisting of pickaxe and shovel, augur
for boring wood, Scc. After they had been at work
at Chilfroine about half-an-hour, John Shorey and
Brake came up the other way on the line. They
bad not been off the line hut once, to take shelter
from the storm in a cow-shed, till Mr. Burch and
Mr. Dowell came al-ng. They saw some sticks on
the railway bank, and as it was very wet Shorey
and Davis picked them up to sit upon . While
they were at dinner Mr. Dowell and Mr. Burch
came along, and Mr. Dowell slid " Here are the
sticks I have lost," and picked them up, and Davis
said " If they arc yours you can have them, for they
arc not mine." He called for Davis in the morn-
ing, and was at work with him all the morning.
They saw two strange men on the line, and they
might have left the sticks on the hank.- -James
Brake said he came to work from Yetminster with
Shorey, and lie never cut the sticks. They first
saw them after they had returned from shelter.
He had no idea who brought the sticks there.— T.ie
case was dismissed from want of evidence.
POKTISIIAM. —James Peach and Jamas Lock were
charged with being drunk at Upwey on the 12th
May. Peach, who was the worst of the two, and
who abused police-constable Dulan, was fined bs.,
and 9s. costs. —Lock was fined 2a. 6d., and 91.
costs.

CATFISTOCK. —William Wes was charged by
P.C. Florence, with cruelty to a horse, by driving
it in a dogcart while it had a large wound on the
shoulder. The horse had had a bad shoulder for
some weeks previously. Defendant said the shoulder
had healed over that morning, and the akin was
i-übbed off that morning. The constable said the
shoulder was very bad, and had been so more than
a month, but he had no proof of its being worked.
The sore, when the horse was stopped, had been
coloured with lamp black to prevent its being seen.
Case adjourned till next sessions.

of the bills (with one exception) wire thrown out, and
At the conclusion of the hon. cliaxinan's unexpected
anntiuticement there wss some I tsjo involuntary laugh-
ter, mingled with unmistakeable indications of sur-
prise.

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EXCURSION TO Loo.—Our readers will
perceive by advertisement in another column that
the South-Western Railway Company have arranged
for a cheap excursion to London in Monday next,
the 29th inst.' to afford the public an opportunity of
visiting the Great Internations luhit ion. The
train leaves Weymouth at 7.'20 a.Z., and Dorchester
at 7.43. Fares :—lat class, 125.; covered carriages,
Ss.

ToLIAR DOWN FAIR, May 19. —There was a
large number of beasts, but the attendance of pm,
chasers was not so great as we have often seen here.
High pi ices were asked, and consequently hut little
business was done, the butchers being only inclined
to buy from hand to mouth. The sheep were mostly
cleared off at high prices.
WEYMOUTH.—Ravtaw oir THIS Q.0.D.Y.C.--
The members of the Queen's Own Dorsetahire
Yeomanry Cavalry regiment, called out for eight days'
training, were on Friday last reviewed by Colonel
Jones, of the Carabineens, now stationed at Exeter,
at Cliickerell farm, iii the occupation of Mr. Laver,
and situated about four miles from Weymouth.
Theground was kept by a detachment of CaraLineers
from Dorche,ter, under the command of Captain
Bur, and Lieutenants Dakin, Maryatt, and Smith.
The number of spectators was, we should say, one.
third less than last year. On the ground we noticed
Colonel Bingham, Maj..r Wood, Captain Gould,
Colonel Mansel, D. It. V., Lieutenants Bower and
NVilinot. J. Gundry, Esq.' High-Sheriff, the Herds.
C. Peons, T. Baker, F. Fisher, H. \Vale, and the Hon.
and Rev. W. H. Scott, /cc. The weather was every-
thing that could be desired, and the scenery from the
review field was delightful. Although reporters
are supposed to be otniiiiscient as well as omnipre-
sent, we must confess to the fact that there are
mans things they do not know, but we have the
authority of several belonging to the carabineers who
Were present, for saying that the whole of the
manaiuvres were done uncommonly well—far better
than it might reasonably be expected. Colonel
Jones, the reviewing officer, arrived on the ground
about 12 o'clock, accompanied by Colonel Crowle.,
if the Wiltshire Yeomanry, Culotta Mengel,
DRY., Maj ,r Jones, Dragoon Guards, Major
Nugent, E.G., and Major Eott. After the usual
salute, the following evolutions were gone
through :-
1. Mrellisi past in squadrons.
2. Ranked past in threes.
3. Trotted past in troops.
4. Wheeled into line and performed sword exercise.
5. Lint advanced, halted, formed into open column
in tie rear of left.
6. Opened column in the rear.
7. Advanced in licheon from the left.
8. Formed an inverted line to the left of third
squadron.
9. Column of troops from the right of squadrons to
the left,
10. Column changed direction to the left, and formed
line to the left from the new alignmeot.
11. Advanced in double columns from the centre,
formed line to the right, retired by alternate squadrons
covered by skirmishers.
12. Formed line and celled in skirmishers.
13. Advanced at gallop, took round to the right
column of troops.
14. Formed line to the rear of leading troop.
15. Formed close column on the 4th squadron on the
right and front, and attacked in succession of squad-
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16. Retired by threes in both fisnka, deployed on the
3rd squadron, and attacked in line to the front.
17. Retired by threes on the right u squadrons,
formed Inc and advanced in ',Arad°.
Colonel Jones then addressing them, said : " Lord
Rivers, °nicer°, non.conimissioncd officeis, and men
of the Queen's oon Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry, I
have much pleasure in informing you of my entire
satisfaction with all your proceedings to•day. You
are a splendid body of men, uncommonly well
mounted, and all your movements arc steady and
good. It has never been my good fortune to see
so g0,.(1 a body orYeomanry Cavalry before."
They were then worked by three's and troops,
after which they marched back to Weymouth and
a ere dismissed.
AERIVALSIAT THE 13L'EW.N HOTFL —Lord Ashley,
the Marquis of Queensberry, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Dutton, Major and Mrs. Frampton, Mrs. Fether-
stoithaugh, Miss Blencom, Miss Freeman, the Hon.
F. Kennedy, the Hon. A. Kennedy, the Hook Miss
Kennedy, Lord Walter Kerr, R.N. ; Colonel and
Mrs. Benbow, Mr. and Miss Benson, Mr. and Mrs.
Parry Okeden, and family; Mrs. Wieldy and the
Misses Waldy, Mr. Bradshaae, Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes, Captain Dighy, General Shirley, Mr.
Glynn°, Mr. and Mrs. Troyte Bullock, Colonel and
Miss Malet. Mr. and Miss Powel, Mr. and Mrs
C toler, Mr. Lamb, Lieutenant Blair R.N., Lieut.
blares, R.N.,111r. W. Lewis, Mr. Bower, and Capt
Gould.

SECOND BALL OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—The
first ball which took place at the Burdon Hotel, on
Wednesday night of last week, in honour of the
Yeomanry Cavalry, having given such universal
satisfaction, it was determined to have a second hall,
which accordingly took place on Friday evening last.
The second ball was, if possible, wore successful than
the filet. Mr. Yearsley, the pn.prietor of the
Burdon, gave the highest degree of satisfaction, and
the music, under the leadership of Mr. Stagg, band-
master to the ‘Veymouth Volunteer Corps, was pro-
nounced by Sir W. kledlycott, than whom a better
judge is not to be found in the county, to he
"exceedingly good." There were upwards of 140
ladies and gentlemen present, and dancing, which
commenced shortly after tea o'clock, was kept
up with great spirit, till four o'clock on Saturday
morning. Among those present were :—The
Right Hon. Lord Rivers, Lady Rivers, and the
Misses Pitt; Lord and Lad), Dighy, the Misses
Dishy, and the Misses Scott, Major and Mts. Framp.
ton, and Miss Freeman ; Captain and Mrs. Flover,
Miss T. Digliy, Lord Richard Grosvenor, Sir Ivor
Guest, Bart.. the Marquis of Carmarthen, the
Marquis of Queensberry, Lieut.-Col Lord Ashley,
M.P., Lord Walter Kerr, RN., the Hon. Mr.
Peps, R.N., the Hon. Mr. Fitzclarence, RN.,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Farquharson, Misses Farquharaon,
Captain Donald, Mr. C. Oliver, Miss Oliver, Mr.
Wyndham, Mrs. Batikes, Mrs. And MOM Yeatroan,
Lieut. Hawkes R.N., Mrs. Hawker', Mr. Harvey,
R. E., Mts. and the Misses Swatlield, Mr. and Mrs.
Webber, Mr. Charles Hamlin; Mr. Ualemft, Mr. M.
Yeatman, Mr. and Mrs. H. Faiquharson, Captain
and Miss Foster, Mr. A. R Foster, Mr. Foster,
R.N., Sir William Medlyc ,tt and Miss Medlycotr,
Captain Elliot, R.N., Mrs Elliot, Miss Warrington,
Miss C. Kettle, Captain Hawkins, R.N., Mrs. and
Miss Davis, Miss Lear, Miss Radelyffo, the Misses
Dawe, Captain and the Misses Wyndham Miss
Blennerbassett, Mr. O'Kelly, Mr. Bryiner, Mrs. and
Miss Vigne, Col. and Mrs. Cox, Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon, Mr. Murray, the Rev. T. Hinds, Mrs. and
Miss Hinds, Mr. and Miss Fyler, Captain and Miss
Vandeleur, Miss Mortimer, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmott,
Mr. A. Wilmott, Captain Vaughan, Captain A. .1.
Stuart, Lieutenant Carter' RN., Mr. Crasset, Capt.
and Mrs. Bower, Miss Bower, Lieutenant Bower,
Captain Murray, Mr. Blair, Mr. Ward, Mrs.
Prankard Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Mogg, Miss Clisaut,
Miss Kingsmill, Mr. and Mrs. Carboy Mr. and

Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Montague Guest, Lieutenant
Nara, R.N., Lieutenant Gilbert, R.N., Lieutenant
Stephenson, R.N., Liente .ant Scott, R.N., Major
Nugent, RE., Colonel Percy Eld, Miss Eld, Mr.
. _ .

Company and the Dorset Central Railway Company;
Mr. George Reed in the chair. A resolution ill
accordosioce with the object of the meeting was
proposed and agreed to, it appearing from explains
equal terms, whilst it contained a clause tieing
otirotnhaegtiwyeonctoluimpt
anies should
dovdd
bieeam:ahtlagamthae ctedepuipotals
u
the date upon w
pace.
ANOTHER DIVIDEND FOR THZ DRPOSITORS IN THE
which such amalgamation should take
POOLE AND RINGwOOD Set:KA—A further dividend
of °a. 6d. in the pound will be payable to the credi
tors of Messrs. toolgard's banks, at the respective
branches of the Wilts and Dorset Basks, on and after
the 21st inst.
CA.N RD.—A Qu Ken FISH. About a fortnight
since, an old man named Cherrett, residing at Gorfe
Mullen, had the misfortune to lose his wife, and in
the
oofof his agiiou for her h
altar to
parfermed the last sad office in his power for her
.oe,teacehre7ishrthhive
u had
through
slwireo,rnhaet
remains, by himself making the coffin. The funeral
took place a few days afterwards, and when the
inconsolable widower went to the clerk of Canford
perish to pay the expenses, he stated, amidst the
teats that rolled down his cheeks in great profusion,
that to save time, he might perhaps as well do two
thilogs at the same time, as well as one, now lie was
there. The clerk looked somewhat amazed,
woielering what the two things were, when the old
man informed him that he %mild pay for the banns
being published of marriage to a second wife. The
fact is he had fallen in luve with the woman who had
refused his first love. The reason he gave for his
haste in contracting a second marriage, was, that the
cherry season was coming on, and he had no one
else to keep the birds from his cherry trees.
RINGWOOD.—SUDDIne DEATH OF A LICENSED
HAWKER.—A. rather melancholy instance of life's
uneertainty, of which this town has load teeny ewful
visitationa within the lout eighteen menthe, occurred
hereon Sunday, as the cengregetion were returning from
church, by the finding of the dead body of a man bing
in the htgliread between the churchyard and Mr.
Appletentle mill. It was lying fiat on the face, and
eurrounded with • pool of bleed, which had evidently
flowed from a wound which the unfortunate wan had
received in falling on the gravel, in which the fees and
month were embedded. A hawker's box was strapped
round his shoulders, to which was attached a label with
the following notification :—" Roger Jeffries, licensed
hawker. No. D, 10,196." Br *as evident that it cool
not have been been there bole a few minutes when first
disoovered, as a peewee paned by the spot whilst the
church clock was striking twelve, the body not being
there at that time, and before ten miooutes rest twelve it
wee found lying in the date we have dose ibel. It was
immediately placed in a light wagon, anti removed to
the Union Workhouse, where an exerninatien was made
by the meolical officer, who pronounced death to have
resulted from apoplexy. A purse was found in Ids
pocket, containing wily one sixpenny piece and four-
pence in copper; the key of the box was also found
in the pocket, and on inspection of the same by Superin-
tendent Stannard, of time police force, was found to
contain a few packets of note paper, boxes of pens,
envelopes, combs, brooches, and breast pins, and other
ornamental articles, mostly of an inferior description.
the whole of which, we should say, would scarcely exceed
in value fifteen or sixteen shillings. There were elm
three shirts and the hawker's lioense, which appeared to
have been granted in February loot to the deceased at
Swindon ; a banker's book was also found in the box, by
which lie appears to have been • depositor in the
Saving's-bank at Swindon, and is there described as
"Roger Jeffries, of Reevil. near Devizes," a balance re-
maining in his favour of £6 6a. 10d. It in a melancholy
fact that within the last nine months three deaths have
taken place (run apoplectic seizures within one hundred
yard 4 of the seine spot where the deceased was found.—
Os the following day an inquest was held on the body
by Mr. It. Brown, the deputy coroner, when the
following evidence was adduced before the jury :—Ann
Newliain deposed: I am the wife of George Newham,
an I reside at Hop Garden. About lielf-past eleven
o'clock yesterday morning the deceased called at
our house, and asked use to let him light his
pipe. I gave him a light, and he geked me if I could
tell him how far it woe to Brockenhurse He lit his
pipe at the fire. He had a box strapped over his
shoulder. He then walked away, after thanking me,
down the road.—By the Coroner: I di) not see any-
thing particular the matter with him. He appeared to
be tired as lie welted down the road. I saw no niore
of him. —The witness here identified the box which
I the deceased load on his back when he called at her
house.—By a Juror: It was not inure than ten minutes
after half-past eleven when he called at our house.—
Robert Rose deposed: 1 live at Ringwood, and am a
but :her by trade. Yesterday morning, a little after
twelve o'clock, my man' William Dymott, came to me
and said that he was sent to ask me if I would lend my
wagon to carry a man overt. the Workhouse, that
had dropped down dead op against the niill. I went eip
to where the deceased was. He was lying on hie face
in the mid-he of the road. Several remota were standing
there at the time. I took hold of his ear, and found he
was warm. I turned him on his back. Hie fame was
turued towards the town. His nose was quite fist on
the ground, and a greet deal of blood was ou hie month
and nose, sufficient, I should say, to suffocate him. In
my opibion lie ought to have been taken up by the first
person who saw bius.—By a Juror: None of those who
were standing around touched him.—By the Coroner:
He had a box on his left arm with a strap over it ; the
box was on the ground, end not resting on his body. I
was pruseet at the Workhouse when the box was
opened. We found in it his hawker's license,
and the name on it was Boger Jefferien ; we
also found a savings' bank book in the same name, by
which a balance appeared in his favour of about six
pounds. He appeared te he • men of about 43 puma
age ; I could not see any marks of bruises on his face
in consequence of the blood and dirt with which it was
covered; I saw no marks of struggling on the ground
where the deceased was lying. When I got there. I
shoeld think there were ten persona standing near the
deceseed.—John Williams Pridhain examined : I am a
surgeon living at Ringwood. I was called yesterday
morning about half-mot twelve o'clock. I saw the
deemed lying in a wagon near the Yids Inn, as be
was about being removed to the Workhouse Ile had
apparently been dead half-an-hour. His face vas
covered with bleed and gravel, and I removed it in the
body being taken to the house. I found a contused
wOUnd of about one and a-lialf inch in length across
the bridge of thetas.. I found the lips a great dish
swollen end froth issuing from tlie mouth ; the colour
of tie skin was blue.—By the Coroner : The wound was
such as might have been produced by fulling on graveb,
Examination continued : I made a post-mortem examit
tn,treireeles p;rgthede heart nation of the body this moreing. I found the brain
perfectly healthy, with about two ounces of serum in
h
was
bat no duit4irleesise; bi ;
the
ioner ve
the
stomach contained only a little mucous, the kidneys
were congested but otherwise healthy. MY opinion I.
that the cause of death was an attack of serous apopMxy,
which caused his fall, and lying in Mho condition
in an insensible state, with his nose and mouth
imbedded in the gravel, that be died from suffocation.
I do not think the attack of apoplexy would have ceased
bjnireyd,faroftemr
aaiebprileof.yea.„nsuTlitaietido,cen,
arendturnweads
aa
death, bat he died for want of assist-
ace. The
Thof e"
rather stout made man, out live feet five inched high,
dressed in a dark brown jacket, black waistcoat, dark
blue cord trousers—such as is generally worn by railway
porters and gatemen—and • dark brown cap, and rather
hill features, with black hair, and the whiskers
turning gray, and appeared to be from 40 to 45 years of
age.

LYTCHETT MINSTER —On Tuesday evening.
filay 13th, the monthly Temperance Meeting was
held in the National Schoolroom, which was well
tilled with an attentive audience. After singing and
prayer, Mr. C. Anstey was called to the chair, and
introduced by a few remarks the Rev. H. Stroud,
Messrs. Year, Bartlett, M. and D. Ballom, and
Mr. Vaughan, the temperance missionary, who
concluded the meeting with an earnest address to all
present to come out manfully and buckle on the
armour of temperance, and battle in this, the cause
of man's freedom from the bondage of drunken
habits. We cordially wish him success in his
journey, and hope that the good seed sown by him
way spring up and bear much fruit.

_ .
CH RISTCH ErliCH.—Va Las or Avow ADTD
STOUR FARMERS' CLUB.—The monthly meeting of
this club was held on Monday. The subject for
discussion, " The Malt Tax," was introdifced by
Mr. G. 0. Aldridge by whom it was ably treated,
and an interesting discussion followed. The follow-
ing resolutions were then carried unanimously :
" That whenever the state of the national tinancias
renders a reduction of indirect taxation proper, the
claims of those who advocate, the removal or reduc-
tion of the melt duty is entitled. to jueg. oonsideni-
tion." "That at the next meeting in October, the
club do take measures to petition Parliament on the
euhject."

BASINGSTOKK —The meeting of the North
Hants Agricultural Society this summer, for the
exhibition of stock, poultry, and implements, at
Basingstoke, promises to be far in advance of most
local and provincial exhibitions. The executive have
!literally thrown the show open to the whole of the
United Kingdom.

BISHOPSTOKE.—Citasat MARYUT, MAY, 17.
There was about the usual attendance of buyers on
Thursday, and some quantity changed hands at the
following prices :—Half Coward, 401. to 465. ;
Doubles 48a. to 528.; Someraeta, 545. to 60..;
Cheddar, 645. to 70s.