The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

Sommetobire.

SOMERSET SPRING SESSIONS.

These Redone oommenced on Tuesday last it Wells.
W. Miles, Esq., M.P., presided. There was a large
attendance of inagialsaMe.—hiesars. J. W. Allen and W.
Thompson, grand jurore, were fined 220 for non-attend.
MOO.

—ln'his charge to the Grand Jury, the CHAIRMAN said
he had to congratulate them on the tact that their
labours would be exceedingly light. Since he had had
the honour of a seat ea the bench 4aow 20 years), be did
not recollect au original messiah when only one IMIARR
would tit for the tel of prisoners. The ismicisa hid
likiteeto taken phlox to theamisas, In wog&
anos with a law paseed some years SHWA ; but the sprig
anises had taken place at Tandem ally lest weekend it

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sonsequence, if there tad not bust eaeai reamthia.thsee
would be °nip four oaths for trial on this ocession.
There were ems esthete the thiseedsr ; of them there
were none of any magnitude, extecearajz 4osedione of bores steal-
ing the others were of • they ption. The
Grand Jury would find on ths eale • comparison of
the crime of the woes* in the last and prom=
They would see that there were now 273 ram,
last year there were 300. .To ihs loriniollol4lor mast
be added the nine CLOS in the calendar, making' or s
total dears/se on the ythr of 18 cases. This was • very
satisfactory state of things.
YEZB.

[ASIA

The Clerk of the Perm read a Mier from ilemetary
Sir George Grey requestinyl the
magistrates to make a
table of fees to be taken e alerin of the peace,
clerks of petty sessions clerks, al *doss in pro-
ceedings under the Juvejsile Offenders Act and the Cri.
minal Jurtices Act. A table of fees made by the York.
shire magistrates accompanied the letter.
The CILLIRNAN mid, Sir George Grey evidently
wished the magistrates to adopt the Yorkshire table.
All the magistrates Gould do wag, to appoints colunittee
to consider the matter. U the Yorkshire table were
adopted throughout the country it would not be noose.
sary to bring in an Act of Parliament.
Capt. Scotism, thought it 'valid he moeh me* to the
purpone to get the pinion of Mr. Walpole, the present
Home
Mr. WILSON, M.P., said a conversation on the sub.
*t took place in Parliament a fortnight since, when
Mr. Walpole seemed to coincide in his opinion on the

sublet.
. C. A. MOODY, M.P. referred Wee 14th and 15th
Victoria, providing that the Seentery Of State should
make table of fees, and that until they were made the
existing tables would etand good. Helm Hewed that the
late undereecretaryieli,V.f ManssLoielt und.ertaknet:
to
FlV.'aremo:JtMadral atked his 1D1.00,8110Y, Mr. Hardy, if, be
he
had found any table in the Some oMos, or if he was
prepared to make • table. Mr. Hardy said he had not
been long enough in °Moe to do so, but that he hoped to
do so. The magistrates were not now in a position to
make • table of fees; they mast wait for the Seoretary
of State. _ _

—fh-e—letter was referred to the Conetabulsrf Coss-
mitt's.

TAUNTON GAOL NIPOILTN.

The Videng Magistrates made so special report.
They recommended that Jame Remy, a, nerd, be die.
missed for misoonduct while in.charge, of the convict
Boole. Ansited to the report . was a report made to
the Taunton Board of Heal* by, Kew% Dymond and
Sons, surveyors, relative to the drains/Baiting the gaol,
and a resolution of the Board onieriag the alterations
suggested by the surveyors tab. malt.
In answer to Mr. lbyeey, the chairpteit ot theVatui•
ton Board of Health, Mr, filltd,dp. Mats& that the
Board were desirous or making the ,albenititios. Mr.
Moyeej moved that Mx. ,Whitehead, the county cur.
veyor, should wafer with the Doped op Thursday next,
but that if the alterations oast ur4 makina month,
the Clerk of the Peace should proceed with an indict.
meat ordered at the lait memona
G. HATTIII, Bert., H.P. objected Sothis course,
which would be an abdication of the tuurd the
mart They ought sot to ammo that the Board of
Health would not abate the nohow*, and hold a loaded
pistol to its head. The motion would allow the surveyor
to commence proceedings. The proper worse would be
to report to the court, and them it would origiaate the
necessary proceedings. He weld the omission of the
latter part of the motion. ,
Sir A. Limos, Bart. M.P., said thy hon. baronet had
rover-looked the order of the lest court. authorising the
Clerk of the Peace to take proceeding if the sewer in
question were not put in repair by February sth. It
was impossible always to 11110 "amiable language," and
he thought that adherence to the order of the
Court would strengthen the hands of the Board of
Health. . . . .

Captain &ODELL pointed out that disease had broken
out, and was likely to recur in consequence of this
sewer. The effect of the resolution wee to give the
Board of Health time, beyond the time originally fixed
for taking proceedings.
After some dieeussion Sir W. G. HATTCR said his ob-
jection3u vu to originating the legal proceeding with the
Turn% Be vu satisfied if the surveyor were
ordered to • report to the Visiting Justion, who should
direct the 'lark of the Peace in the operation.
Yr. YOUNT had no idea that his language was more
111200111i0OUB than that of the right bon. baronet, lie
haa no objection to the alteration of his motion.—
Carried.

KLICTION 01 CHAPLAIW TO TAUNTON GAOL.
The Court proceeded to the election of chaplain to
Taunton gaoL There were seven candidates whose
names were put to the vote. On the fird division four
were struck out, A division then took place, and it
resulted as follows Mr. Howse, 35; Yr. LlRA:tens,
22. Mr. Howse was deolared elected, and he briefly re-
turned thanks.

RZIPOWIATOBY 8011001.4.

The oommittee presented a report, which stated that
they had conferred with the direetors of Exeter refor-
matory school, the philanthropic school at Redhill, and
the Kingswood school, relative to the reception of the
javenile offenders of the county. The expense at the
Exeter school, which was admirably designed for the
reception of 20 male and BO female inmates, was calcu-
lated at £lB 10s. per head per year, and the committee
agreed to appropriate 7 beds to the county' of Somerset
for £lOO per year, the contract to contains for three
' years. It was also agreed that if more beds than seven
were required, the school would provide them at £l5 a
head. The managers of the Itedhill schools had ',Feed
to receive 50 boys, 25 during the next year for So. bd. •
head for maintenance, and one shilling per head for rent
per week, the arrangement to be determinable by either
party at a year's notioe. The treasurer of the com-
mittee had also communicated with the managers of the
Kingswood school, informing them that the committee
would not remove the Somerset boys at present there,
and the managers had expressed their willingness to
receive boys up to 14 years old at a charge not exceeding
2s. a week. _

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The CHAIRMAN said he had prepared a letter to be
sent to the acting magistrates' on the subject. He had
no hesitation in saying that he saw no difficulty in deal-
ing with the juvenile offenders of the county, as far as
the males were concerned. They would all be taken at
Redhill, but if there was any difficulty there, they had
the Kingswood school to fall back upon, where the
children would be taken at 2a. • week. But there wu
• difficulty as regarded the female children. Three
years ago an appeal was made to the county to send
criminal children to the school" to which they could gain
admission. The result of that appeal was, that after
two years' subscription was paid up there would be •
balance in hand of £3BB 2s. He suggested that the
bahinoe in hand should be applied to apprenticing the
children, finding them situations, or sending them
abroad. He would suggest that as the children were
their own, most of them belonging to Somerset, the
magistrates should become their patron", and enable
them after leaving school to start fairly in life. The
suggestion of the Chairman was adopted.

GLARTONRORY.—The Case of Mr. Hedge—We
are enabled to state that the French Government has
abandoned its claim upon the Sardinian Government
for the extradition of Mr. Hodge, and that he will
be set at liberty immediately.
DEATH OF MAJOR RZED, LATZ M.P. POR ABING•
DON.—W, have to announee the decease of this gen-
tleman, who expired at his residence, 25, Craven.
street, Strand, on Wednesday, at 4 p.m., under
very distressing circumstances. It was on the 20th
ult, that he was released from the Queen's Bench
Prison by Mr. Commissioner Phillips, until his final
hearing at the Insolvent Court. The Commissioner,
having taken into consideration the danger of send-
ing him back to prison, accepted bail for his appear.
and. Major Reed was brought to the Queen's
Prison after his unsuccessful attempt to represent
the borough of Finsbury (the expense attending
which led to his incarceration) in August last. He
was then immediately taken so ill as to keep his bed,
whence he was carried to Portugal•street on the 20th
ult. He had been completely surrounded with care
and attention by the prison authorities, but no skill
could alleviate his sufferings, and his complaint
(dropsy) has at length terminated fatally. Major
' Joseph Haythome Rd was the only son of Mr.
George Reed, of Burnham, Somenetahire, and was
born m 1828. He was formerly in the 17th Lancers,
and appointed Major in the city of London Artillery
Company in July, 1854, which he resigned, and was
, returned M. P. for Abingdon in December, 1864,
and was attached to the "advanced Liberal" party
in the House of Commons.