The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

Tax RIFLE CORPS. —The first march out of the
rifle corps for this season took place on Thursday
evening. There were about 40 present. The men
were under the command of Lieut. Third.

THE excellent corps of amateur dramatic artiste.
belonging to the Royal Engineers, stationed at our
barracks, gave performances at the Royal Hotel
Assembly R3Ol/). on Saturday and Monday evenings,
before good houses.
EECAPE Or THE FENIAN LEADER, STEPHENS.
On Sunday a telegraphic message was received here
from London, directing the commander of the
revenue cruiser, Queen Charlotte, to keep a strict
look-oat in the channel for the Fenian leader,
Stephens, who escaped on Friday from Dublin.

A LONG P•stsang.—The Jersey Packet smack of
Jersey was towed into our harbour on Saturday with
damage to bulwark and gear. She was bound for Ply-
mouth, and laden with swine, • general cargo and bad
several patnengers on board. She had been seven
days out, and for seven hours whilst in the Channel
was compelled to have her hatches battened down in
order to save life. Some of the swine, in good order,
were dispatched by rail to Plymouth. The Packet
left for her destination on Sunday,
Tex FREAKS OF Foirrum—Mr. W. P. Windham,
while driving his coach • little while since, ran into an
omnibus which plies between Norwich and Cromer, and
an action was brought against his employer, the owner
of the coach, for damages to the amount of £8
which, with a small deduction, the judge of the county
court awarded. In the course of the case it transpired
that Mr. Windham receives RI per week as driver of
the coach. In 1861, he had .C 5,000 to £6,000 per
annum from his estates.

OPERA AND BURLESQUE COMPANY. —AD English
Opera and Burlesque Company have given several
representations at the Royal Hotel Assembly Rooms,
before nightly increasing audiences. They at first
announced but one or two entertainments, but so
enthusiastically were they received that they resolved
upon continuing their stay. We have no doubt
that they will have, as their merits deserve, a suc-
cessful run in Weymouth. Those who have once
gone wish to go again. The representations ars
varied nightly.

W. F. WINDHAM'iI BANICRUPTCY.—The Cade Of
Mr. William Frederick W indham, formerly coach
proprietor of Cromer, in Norfolk, and elsewhere,
came before the London Court on Friday morn-
ing, upon an application by Mr. Sargood, as
counsel for the assignees, for leave to compromise
certain Chancery prooeedings, with a view to the
payment of a composition to the creditors and a
oupr7BrdeaB of the bankruptcy. The Commissioner
said that in a case of so much importance it was
desirable that the Court should be relieved from
responsibility by ascertaining the wishes of the
creditors upon the subject of the application. Mr.
Sargood said that creditors for £2,500 out of £2,800.
would consent to the proposed arrangement. The
application stood over for further evidence.
MR& RYV&S' Cass —The Court Journal says
The extraordinary ease of Mrs. Janette Horton
Ryves, who claims to be entitled to £15,000, left her
by George "as a recompense for some trouble
she may have experienced through her father," the
late Duke of Cumberland, is shortly to be tried by a
special jury. Mrs. Ryves is now living in poverty,
but some friends, who are assured of the justice of
her claims, have subscribed money to enable her to
prosecute them. The marriage of her mother,
Olive Wilmot (afterwards Mrs. Barren), with the
Duke, is attested on undoubted authority, and the
legacy of George 'IL is equally undoubted, but some
years since the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
refused probate on the ground that there was no
precedent in this country for proving a monarch's
will. Eminent counsel are engaged, and the trial
will excite no little interest.

COUNTY Parry Session's, Friday.—Before R. H.
Swaffleld and R.. if. Eliot, Eaqrs.—Charles Burt and
Edmund Ford, labourers, of Preston, were charged by
John Carter and Emma, his wife, with assault. It was
a d runken squabble, and the complaint was dismissed.
Plies Selby was summoned for assaulting Mary Gear,
November lA. Mr. Howard for defendant, it seemed
that, after some choice compliments, the women had a
regular "set-to." Dismissed.—Thomas Keynes, of
Osmington, was charged with assaulting • policeman.
On the 6th November, defendant and some other boys
had kindled a bonfire on some land near the highway at
Sutton, when the oonstable interfered. Defendant told
the boys not to put out the fire. The constable remon-
strated when defendant struck him in the face.—Mr.
Howa.Tl asserted that the oonstahle had exceeded his
duty. CflBo dismissed.

PETTY Sagaross, Monday.—Before the Mayor.—A
woman named Sarah Littlejohn was charged with steal-
hig a piece of pork, valued at Is. 3d., belonging to Mr.
Stock. The pork was missed from proaecutor's Shop in
St. Edmund-street, on Saturday evening, and P.S. Brine
found prisoner with it concealed under her arm. She was
remanded till Tuesday, when she said taking it was an
oversight; she had bad • drop of beer, and did not know
what she was about. Committed for one month.—
William Wood was charged with assaulting his wife.
Complainant said her husband was always drunk, and
that on Friday night he beat her and threatened "to do"
for her. A witness corroborated her, The wife said he
would not keep the peace for two hours if he got • pint
of beer. Prisoner said it was no use to speak as they
swore his life away. Re was committed for two months'
hard labour. Turncar.—Before the Mayor, E.
Bayley, and R. Griffin, Eeqrs.—Thomas Watts, a boy,
was charged with disturbing the lieges of Highatreet,
by knocking at the door of Thomas Byers, on the 26th
November. Mrs. Byers caught the hid at this boy's
trick, when, according to his mother, she treated him
in a very cruel manner—dragging him through the
.mud and spoiling his clothes. He was dismissed with •
caution.
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prosecution; Sleigh for the prisoner.-
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