The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-09-20 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHVffilt. TIIZSDAY. INICPTINBRIt SD, 1864.
EOM OF THE WEEK.

A question of considerable importance to the
wine and spirit trade, and which had previously
been raised, but not decided, before the Chester-
field and Rotherham magistrates, was brought
beim* the Altriocham Brewster sessions on
Tuesday. Mr. Hill, a tradesman, not an inn-
keeper, applied for a license to retail spirits. It
was contended, in opposition, that the magis-
trates had no poiter to grant a lionise, except to
an inn, alehouse, or victualling house; and if
they were to grant the present request, grocers
and shopkeepers generally would desire the same
privilege. These arguments prevailed, and Mr.
Hill's application was refused.
Lord Stanley, M.P., who is on a visit to Lord
Derby's and his own estates in Ireland, presided
over the dinner of the Tipperary A gricultural
Society on Tuesday, and delivered one of his
usual thoughtful speeches on the present con-
dition and future prospects of the country. In
response to the toast of his own health, he said
that although he and his father were of necessity
absentees, they knew every farm and farmer on
their estate. As for his public career, he never
had but one hope, namely, to mks himself use-
ful in his day and generation to the community
among whom he lived. Men of hereditary
fortunes and hereditary rank held or ought to
hold, in his estimation, a general retainer on the
part of the public.
The public will learn with regret that Captain
Spoke, the discoverer of the source of the Nile, is
dead! The gallant officer, who was an
ardent sportsman, left Bath on Thursday,
where he was !Mending the meeting of the
British Amu:it/bon, to have souse shooting over
the lands of a friend at Clorehanx Paring over
a low wall his gun by souse mischance discharged,
the contents lodging in his breast,. Death must
hate been almost instantaneous. How strange
that one who has goose through so many and
grpaeritsitirerils in India and Africa, should di.
shooting in his native counlll ! Still
more strange, that he should di* on e eve of
his appearanoe--promited by Sir R. erotism
In his opening address—before the representa-
tives of that science that owes him so much ! In
his death England has lost COO of her best,
bravest, and valuable Nona. It has been the
fortune of few travellers to build up a great
fame in no short a period, and there are none
who hays written their names more indelibly in
the inmate of geography. As • contemporary
justly observes—" Somerset can boast of many
glorious names, but in the bright constellation
there Sr. none which shine more brilliantly than
that of Captain Spoke. To him was left the
hbliedhonour of solving a problem that had
the world for ages, and to him the world
will aooord all the merit which the solving of that
great problem deserves. It is not, however, to
pass a panagyric on Captain Spoke, that
write thee. few words. We expected on
to hate laid before our readers his remarks
at the British Amociation ; and to have to re-
oord his death is one of the most melancholy
duties we ever had to perform. At home, in
Somerset, he was the life and pride of his
family and by those who knew 'him best and
loved film most he will be mourned with a
sorrow which no condolence can mitigate, while
the outside world, who know him only through
his books, will regret his untimely death with •
depth of feeling which is not often celled forth
by the death of public men."
One of the most sensational cases that has
been brought before our notice was heard at the
Lambeth Police Court a few days since. A
"gentleman" named Edward Hammond, resid-
ing at Laurel House, Peckham, was charged
with locking up and keeping in close confine-
ment his wife, Rosalind Hammond. MM. Ham-
mond, it appears, had an income of £BOO a-year
when she became the wife of Mr. Hammond,
so that the parties were in tolerably good cir-
cumstances, and, according to the evidence of
the witnesses, she had for the last two years
been locked up in her bed-room—being, in fact,
• prisoner in her own house. When Mrs. Ham-
moni was in the witnaa-box she presented such
an appearance—from want of food, air, and
clothing—as caused • thrill of horror to pervade
the court, and the reporters who saw her say
that a more squalid, miserable-looking being
never came before a magistrate to demand
justice. It is extraordinary theta lady haring
£l3OO a-year should be found in such a condition
at such • pima as Peckham, and more extra-
ordinary still that she should have been de-
prived of her liberty without her sufferings im-
mediately attracting attention. As it is, it ap-
ars that she has been rescued by a brother-in-
law—Mr. Morgan, wine merchant, of 'rower
HilL Mrs. Hammond had contrived to forward
a letter to this gentleman, apprising him of her
condition, and he, with a polies °doer, went to
the house where she was moaned, and conversed
I with her through • window secured by iron bars.
The cause of the imprisonment is said to have
been • dispute between Mra. Hammond and her
husband about • young woman named White-
man, who WU kept in the house. Mrs. Ham-
mond bad spoken to Whiteman's friends on the
subject, and for doing this she alleges that she
was pieced in oonfinelnent, and during her im-
prisonment was often most cruelly aasaulted,
both by her husband and servants. The de-
fendant, at the police court, declined to say any-
thing till he had obtained a legal adviser. That
Mrs. Hammond has been imprisoned, and that
she appeared ins most wretched condition before
the magactratia, there can be no douht ; but it
would be injudicious to peas judgment on the
case till both sides of the question are before the
public.
One must go to France to learn things about
the English Court which the English at home
do not know, or at least, which is not mentioned
in any of the English papers. For some time
past the good Parisians have had strange tales
to tell about the health, mentally and bodily, of
QllO.ll Victoria. They have also long pretended
to know all about tbe dissensions between Her
Majesty and the Prince of Wales, and Her
Majesty and the Princess of Wales. And now
they are gossiping about a new piece of intelli-
gence which they say has oasis to them from an
authentic source—namely, that the Duke and
Duchess of Sax•-Cobourg, in their capacity of
brother-in-law and sister-in-law to the Queen,
and of uncle and aunt to her children, have em-
ployed all the means that in them lie to bring
about a reconciliation between her Majesty and
the Prince and Princess of Wales, but that they ,
have entirely failed, and that they have arrived:
at the sorrowful conviction that "the discords of
the Royal Family of England are incurable."
There may have been some truth in the first
stories, but this last looks" very like • whale."
Sir Charles Lyell, Bert., opened the twenty-ninth
annual meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, on Wednesday, at Bath,
by an address, which was more limited in its scope
than the speeches of the generality of his porde-
moors in the President's chair. The site of the
meeting for the year, he mid, was of no ordinary
Interest to the cultivators of physical saes=
and especially of his own special pursuit—
geology. Beth was a cannel point of obser-
vation, from whence, by abort examinee east
or wen, they might examine those rooks which on-
Minted as one aide the more modern, sad on the
other the more =neat records of the peek whilst
immediately around them and at their very feet
by mounmeste of the middle period of the earth's
history. Sir Charles then spoke at great Ion& on
the subject of thermal and mineral waters, and ccia-
clod= by stating that the views of geologists had
of late undergone • great change ant,
as to the mooession of events in the
°manic world. ; and secondly, as to the evidence
obtainable of a period antecedent to the organ= of
, organic) beings oo the earth. As our readers are well
aware the prooeedings of the &11110Ciati011 are emu.
'daily of a controversial obaracter. It annually
stakes out a foram into which studious men of
various soientafie pane& eater, and contribute
their stook of acquired knowledge, It draws the
'Garai& redoes from his Gave, free from his books or
his credible ; sad if be himself be not an amain.
like Sir C. Trill and Sir B. Murchisoa, be is tempted
into the disponi= for the purpose of correcting by
his own thought or experience what he conceives to
be the erroneous or WILKE notices aed deductions
of other" Thom by a callieiss of intellects and
the opposing farces of • variety of practical resins,
truth is abated, sad esisatiflo knowledge advanced.
Them psetlemen are no respeotore of persons. The
meet ramooe in their mental damndest= are as
liable to correction on the spot se tits most obscure.
nineologisnlikr=marYsiboloili
16°1°C1. misses,
chemical mines all most is their several esetiess,
represented by their great is., who, Mal* they
liates to each other with stadia= &neon= and ex-
emplary patisees, are quits prepaid to adminieerr
herd knee& to each after in • well-bred ion of
way. Large and eugi, moms mope criticism of the
koala seri. &war peer Mr. William Besting. the
undertaken of St. James'retzest, is Mede temper

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W. Walters, of Newcastle-oil-Tyne, unimunind am
Lb. deputation.
Tag Coaroaarox.—Tbe Mayor, Aldermen, end
Councillors of the borough, together with their
ofileials, Wooded Divine service at AU Sainte
Church, on Sunday morning, the sermon on whice
occasion was presobed by the Bev. C. T. Procter.
Boarionn Sesames, Seturday.—Before the Mayor
and M. Devenish, Esq.
Iturroirs Oosnocr.--Geor M 0.1004, 0 gamier II
the A Battery of Royal Bores Artillery, was
b in "'WY charged with riotous conduct.
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&eats said that about 12 o'clock on the
previous night he beard a noise at the top of High
West-street. He went there and found three proeti•
totes and two soldiers quarrelling. He ordered the
girls to go away, when prisoner said they should not
until be pleased. On witness insisting that they
skald go at ono', and intimating that primmer
could remain as long sib. liked, he struck bun in
the face, threw stones at him, and threatened to
knock his brains out. A Sergeant of the Artilloq
happened to come by at this time, and ordered psi.
saner to the barracks, but he refined to go, threlitur-
ing to split his bead tepen. He atterwarth ran away,
but witness meeting him in the street at about four
o'clock in the morning, took him in custody. He
was not drank, although he had been drinking.—
Sergeant Jardine and Embodier Newbrook gave
corroborative evidence, and primmer was Seed £5,
and, in default, committed for one calendar mouth's
hard labour.

WILJOL DANA.OI.—The primer was this farther
charpd with breaking windows at the bones of
Job S•al. of Latter-equare, Fordington, and Richard
Nonni, of the same place. It spews that after he
nu sway be Fooeeded to Tordiagton, when he
knocked at Seas boon On being told to go away
he picked up an old encipaa sad threw it Ma window,
breaking four panes of glass and injuring the train.
Not being satisfied with this he again took up the
eine missile and hurled it cmos men et the windows,
this time betaking four more pear of slam and
cracking two others. He then left Seal's residence
and visited Norman, whom he aho disturbed by
knocking at his door, and, upon being told to go
about his blueness, picked up a large stamflung itat
the window, and broke seven panes of glom, tildes
injuring the had work.—Fined id, bed in default
oommitted for another month.
Chum Pam Simon, Saturday. —Before H.
Williams, H. N. Middleton, K Sounders, and R. W.
Williams, Krim
Tantrue.--Joseph Hommel!, of Abbotabory,
appeared to answer • 11111111600, charging him with
being In pursuit of maim on land in himi oompathis
of William Swaim —William White was going
home on the 6th of September, at about ix o'clock
lathe mooing, when be saw defendant in • did
beating some bushes with • stick. There wee no
path in the Said. He did not me defendant kill
anything.—ln defence, primmer mid he was ouly
picking blackberries, which witness took away from
him—The Ranch diemleted the case.

--11-trunsell, Henry
Bryer, end Charles Boatswain, of Abbotabury, were
summoned by Samuel Whit*, a woodman in the em-
ploy of B. B. Sheridan, req., M.P.. for daunt*
basal bushes. Samuel White proved that on the
sealing of the 6th in., be saw three boys in a
Bad waving their hands demoting that some one was
in the wood. He went back, and met his son, who
told him there were three men in the wood. Hs
told him to order them out, but they refused to go.
They were picking nuts and pulling down the
bushes. Bryer threw witness's son down, which on
his seeing he celled out and they ran away. A con.
adorable *jury had been done to the wood.—De-
hadants were each Sued 4a and costa

1N SEARCH Or Comm. Peach, William
Churchill, and George Trevitt, labourer. of Litton
Cheney, were smninaced by Thomas Fry for tres-
passing in search of oonies.—Peach was the only on.
who appeared, the other defendants having &b.
wooded before the 'amnions was served,—
Samuel Clements said on &today morning he my
defendant ferreting rabbits on land in the occupation
of Mr. Fry, at Litton Cheney, together with the
other defendant& On their seeing him they ran
away, and witneas took a ferret and net from
the hole.— Fined 20e. including costa.
&natio° Fsoca. —John and Henry °Stainer, of Charmineter, were charged by7Z
Stevens, of Stratton, with steeling fano.. Complainant
said be found some hoop-iron in John Stainer's
poseession, which bed beep taken from a hedge near
the highway, and which he knew belonged to his
fence. He did not see him take it away.—P.C.
Foster proved receiving the iron from last sitcom,
which he compered with that left on the fence, and
found it to aorremond. —Defendants, who are am-
ployed by the Maiden Newton Turnpike Trust,
denied that the iron in question belonged to Stevens,
but the Bench considered otherwise, and fined John
Stainer 20e., including meta, but discharged the
other defendant.

BREACH OF CONTRACT. —William Bayne, late •
labourer in the employ of William Maafield, Fag..
was charged with a breech of imatreat.—Mr.
Andrews prosemated.--flamml Dodge, bailie to Mr,
lianfield, mid be hired dahodant in April, 1861,
for • year at 10L a week, with house, garden, and
potato ground. Two other contract. for a similar
term, and on the isms conditions were made, and
defendant remained until the 13th of August.
About • week previous he took op his potatoes
and said be Mould loam £3 10a. were due
to defendant when be left.—Th• mem de-
fendant said why he left wee became be could not
get his wages, and having to work over-boars with-
out being remunerated. —Re-sumined : Wilma
had never refused to pay defendant money when he
asked for it. —The Bench mid there was no moues
for defendant. The manner in which he had acted
was wrong, and they coaaidered the best merle
would be to dissolve the contract, arid ordered de-
fendant to pay is. mei&
Mamma) TO Tal Dosser Owen GAUL.—
Fancy Bios, stealing from the penes at
Bridport—lnsisa Mary Edmoods, easeraling birth
at Weymoutb.—Hrwd Labour: Jobs Cottle, vagramy
at Weymouth, 14 cloys ; Margaret Newport, assault,
ho., at Weymouth, 14 .ye;d James Bowring. Charles
Brine, sad Philip Whittleikehing at Winfrith New-
burgh, 3 months; John breaking window" J
Weymouth, 14 day.; George Monroe, assaulting polies
at Dorche,tsr, 1 moath ; James Robins, stealieg
barium, he., at ftliitliegetone, 3 months.
PRIDITON.—A Cam, ILHAAD. —An inquest
was held oa Wednesday at this plies, before H.
Look, Kz., deputy comae', oa the body of an in-
fant, of about • year and tem menthe old, named
Elisabeth Bert, who mot her death under the fol-
lowing ciroemetanom It appears that
ea the previous afternoon • plasma party from
Wqmouth, in • carriage drives by Mr. John Payne
04 left that plies for the purpose of valiant Elation
Whiles going through • Narrow lane as
Preston, the bores- shied at a woman carrying a
basket of clothes, and ram beck spied a
gate oa which doomed and some other oluldren
were swinging. injuring Burt so meek that Me died
In Meat two hove afterward& The jury returned
• verdict of " Aooidoolool death."

PORTLAND. —As Uswswors Velcro& —On
Thursday morning a amok* sassed Dm3rlcia, formerly ,
a perms is a reepeohable _ position of meaty, being a
patrataa's batter, was liberated from the work*
antablishmeat here, Laving sadergone a seetenos of
three years' penal servitude for some offence, but of
what mature we cannot my. No doubt the poor
fellow's heart beat high with Jr, at the prospect of mice
more rousing at will where his inalinaticia led. but Op
cap of fey was roe destined to be drier from bit lips,
for immediately after setting eat el the jurisdiction- of
the prison authorities he was moaned by a polio*.
O.IIIIIT, who wprebeaded Mei at • warrant charging
him with steeling plate bet.... titres sad four years
ago in Cornwall.
WAREHAM. Bowman Psrrr Bssazons,
17.—Below. the Mayor, sad (MMUS
ittl7ter Esq. —Miles Aehly was summoned on the
information of Baperintreleat Heim for reforms to
admit the polio. into his house, the Crown
Nortbetrest, on Sunday morning. the 3rd indent,
whereby be bad interred • penalty rot exceeding
It In support of the informer= P.C. Dowling
was card, and stated that about sight o'clock as
the morning in piastre ha knocked at the door
three Mork but it was feerned and he mould not
gala admittance. He afterwside 1111, four atea
come oat of the harm —Defeedant called • wittier
nosed Wasted in castradietion.—After burin
the evidence the inagistratse retired to coneidar
their dersion, sad at their return the Mayer an.
noosed that or the whole they wre Mallard to
doubt if the defendant bad wilfully refused or bard
the knocks, and they should p.. hint the benefit of
the doubt and not convict him this time. The
magistrates, however, matiouted him that be was
psually liable for all that poured in the house so long
as he snowed the areal resident to obtain the
liana in his' Dram —Seperiaterdest Erse pro-
duced • newspaper report of • decision given by Mr.
Knox, mAlistrats at Sbe Marlborough-street polies
cam—The Mayor observed that It was of no
arbority in this Court, though the copiers of an
hdelliauld Inugbutrate,wkich they quite agreed with,
namely, that the police were entitled to immediate
admittance.

BRA DFORD PEVERILL-80moor. Maar. —last
weak the children bslsa,Jos to the Sunda, sad day
@shook asnaberiag seedy 100, had tisk amenal treea
La almandease of oaks and to. were i
them by their kind unlike, tho Bar.B. sBI4. Wa=
and An. Williams, who ban tot ..ay 74•111 asMooly
mid esekmaly Mowed for tkii welfare of the janaile
parkin of tisk parish. After is. the Milano bad
wearies apparel sad toys distribabed to them by Niro
Willema sad famlly. • band 111111 providsA and
&makg kart op is good earnest seta the shades of
main sea is. • large party of the pastry in the
orighbandisal wen premat, sod took • great isterest
is somming the happiness of the shildres who appeared
to soloy Mismesives to their hearth amstont
llMllatti. —Calmat --A maeb between tba
Come sal Illakines endure slabs took pleas at Ifinieras
ea Friasy larA, the sham is this ooseeka bobs Irene
si by ths Histerse amtlesnen. Tom Beer, of the
Miat aad Oestia, Owns Abbas, catered admirably
the play.
LIR —Pons Steam" Thorelay— (Before the
Mayor, Hoary Hank, I. Mullett, W. O. Alley, sad
Jahn limn* Esqrs.)—John Hoke, sr brought op on
remead slaw& with semodtimg • poNsioamoitsbho al
Perksionn Kr. Dinkins= appeared kr the now
Zi.t, sod Mr. Howard, of WqmsaNi, for the
enaa
saAttar hosan the sae,whith wee luny,
end sheered AM the somea bad weeded his 6ea,
the Basth iihadtsei the drip. • Imp Psalm ei
pumas amothied et the limbs of the mee.

BPEITISBIJRY. —Cticerr tfarcn.—On Saturday,
the 11th inst., a friendly match WS/ played between lb.
Charlton and Spettiabury gentlemen on the ground of
the later. W. Browne sad G. Browne, B qrs., sons
of Colonel Browne, played on theChariton side, sad by
their admirable bowtin; cohtribufed very mach loaseiat
that elub, which has only reoi-any being formed. The
fielding of the Spettishury team wet good. C. Thoree
I. the 2nd innings gave ever, proothaf et a good
mom when be was unfortunately m out. Tne match
era gained by the ilpitiisbury gentlemen with three
wiekete to go down. The Bev. R. R. Waite and Mr.
.7. Knight, Nor., sated as empires. The following is
the seen