The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

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. PETIR'R PARTHH.—A
-wee held on Wednesday. for the
opoininating gentlemen to esrve as
and overeeers for the year ensuing. The
rector presided. The following gentlemen were
'mined —Guardians:: Meows. J. F. Hodges and T.
Saunders ; Overseer.: Messrs. Win. Woolston,
'John Purkis, Henry Holloway, Thomas Bennett,
..,George Pouncy, and Um Hicks.
• IMPORTANT TO OWNIRS Or SMALL Houleo.
—Owners who are desirous of compounding
for the rates ph their small tenements
should send • written notice of their dative to da so
- to the overseers of the parishes in which the tene-
ments are situated, between the 25th March and Bth
Ste 13 wad 14 Vie., e. 99,
." 31141 a DIITIL—A meeting of maltstars was
• lield on Monday afternoon, at the Corn Exchange
*• i (tollestiuness, Matk.laste, to cçnslder the beet mean.
• . io adipteliebialaing nit alkiratiOn of the preens
asteastvelkft., ot -tit* malraatT. Mr. John Jt
•• ' Gripper. Mayor of Hertford, (looped the chair, and
sindidnoe crowded the 000 m. The chairman said
they all knew the system adopted in collecting the
• ' inaH duty, and therefore he need not eitplain it to
' • them. It was important, however, that the public
' should know what was the injustice of which they
SclllgOned• They knew that until the year 1859
tbera,libi been teen weeks' credit allowed in the
collection of the duty, Subsequently, however, the
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present Chancellor of the Exchequer had reduced
thisipiripd of credit to %wefts weeks, and in the
following mention he bad reduced it to six weeks,
•ta a. Pelinabe season from which the malt was made,
st a. ; • • earpractisal, remit was that the Legislature imposed
'I. 'the duty on the article many months before it went
sr ,ria • into sensimption. No other article was so treated.
311se distillers had the advantage of being allowed to
----- - make malt in bond. They did not pay the duty on
the spirit until it went into consumption, whereas
za xi - : the realtster had to pay his ditty long before the
malt was consumed, The foreigner, too, had an
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advantage. It was true the duty he paid was some-
•Wt '
Wltet,highm, but ha did not pay it until his article
tree -'Wt—= out of bond. Mr. Grey begged to
-04."-;" ,lorepolse3',That,'in the opinion of this meeting, the
-• ,of ebllecting,the malt ding is unjust
_Pe trade, end:thakp._.depirtation be
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sto.• Ile on the Chant:eller cif the Exchequer
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been
lb! &tendon of the Credit of the malt ditty,"
' natipPe, the resolution, the speaker said it had
. n by some pensions that the maltstere
• worked with the money of the Government; but
thertevehei *as the truth, for, under the preload
' ' 'Cam, alleY really lent money to the Government.
." Working of dig system was to cause forced sales
• On unprofitable teMs. The resolution having been
duly seconded, was 'married unanimotudy. A list of
twelve eentlemen having been nominated to form a
' deputation to wait on the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks
to the phairsain.
• •FORDDlGTON.—BustoLmir.—Dueing the night
ist Monday Muse midnight marauder paid a visit to
- the Mho. of Mr. Joh° Wellspring, builder, dm., in
• Gineeelin/diggs, and abstracted from a writing-desk
therein some Poet and receipt stamps, and a small
sum pf money. The thief, or thieves, forced the
Mitergatee, and gained access to the office by re-
to panes of glass, and then sliding back
- -the Nth. At present there is no clue to the do-
•., ai
lineeents.
:t, wAYMOUTEL—CALITION TO TRADESSIIN.—On
•nesdsy bet, George Edney, a Birmingham ware-
houseman, residing in St. Mary-street, was
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. .munetegarlbeires the magielnatingior leaving goods
.i, lon
sttwgillslllso4. lle§pleaded . ty„ bat in 'intl-
. sgi ;Wins retake his sald itiVw ignorant of the
'by a,. He had net been rammoned before, and
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' " liluiriewagiktettes disminegl the case en the
,defeudant's
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. F. Wrennase.—A Norwich correspondent
,-. • 'made the following :—" Mr. Windham continues a
. • ' current topic of •soneersation in Norfolk. Mr. R.
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---- • J.H. Harvey, a member ofthe eminent local bank-
' • inn firm of Harvey and Hudson, has advanced
' £35,000 upon • bill of male upon the Felbrigg estate,
and it is steted that the, income derived from the
property will now be wholly absorbed in the pay-
- •• meat of interest on the advances made- upon it,
• ' although Mr. Windham has still a reversionary in'er-
int in some other property to fall back upon. Mrs.
. Windham is now in Ririe,- Sbe has espronted from
'
• ' ,leiliusimuil. beta is noinatated that terms cannot
s , .
~ - be adjusted ante- the pro vision proposed to be made
^••• • '<foe bee: Mr. -Windham himself continues in Norfolk,
where his chief amusement appears to be coach-driv.
• .--- Jig; (In SaturdaY, as on preCediag days, he I
• a tooled"- op to Norwieh, taking up All the stray ,
Inaliengerslur could &Ala on the ways and, as he
carries persons gratuitously, he is actually said to
'• illjiire the trade of a bona fide (mach proprietor who
•-. . , WorllE PR therms line of road. Mr. Windham w: •
proposed ass member of a local masonic lodge a. few
, week* ago, but the members present declined to
admit
f- Apelsgs.e..,,Vcadeciekgellike, a, butcher's boy,
eirM-On Timidity • summoned behre• the Borough
Benoit for a
is7e(probert Brona,a blind lad,and a
feabwof het* • rail; and-rneffnur, by striking
.. Aim en the With • meat tray. A police con-
, • •stable, who raw the assault, described it as being
' rici - ; nie n a violent manner. The defendant's version
, . wsiethali Ise•merely did it for fun. The policeman,
!-- -, an being recalled, said he did not see the defendant
' " strike complainant but once, but he had often seen
~ • the boys in the streets use him shamefully, covering
hiss with spittle. The Bench ordered the defendant
• to, pqy the costa, android if any one hereafter was
; bsought up for a similar offence, he would be fined
, in the highest penalty of the law allowed, as the
poor blind bey must be protected.
,'•., • . Tux Prim Pm—On Tuesday morning Messrs.
Cosens and Co. the Sew lessees of the pile pier for
• three years, entered on their new undertaking.
THE MERTHYR COLLIERY ACCIDENT. —NOSWith-
standing the committee of the late Hartley Colliery
accident have received several thousands ot pounds
more than is nicerisary for the permanent relief of
the widows and orphans that catastrophe rendered
detnitute, they have preremptorily refused to allow
Say of their funds to be appropriated to the relief of
the ividons sod orphans of the unfortunate men who
met their death in the Merthyr accident. Several
parties have therefore exerted themselves in col
-. looting funde for the relief of the latter, among whom
- is Inspector Morrison, who a day or two since
remitted to the Lord Mayor of London the sum of
£3 10s. 5d., which he had collected among the
employebron the Great 'Western Railway.
The Q. 0. It. Y. 0: will asitinible in Weymouth
' for 8 days preplinent duty on Saturday the 10th
' 'hiry, the necessary arrangements having been
effected with Mr. Lavex with regard to some of his
laid for practice grouqd.
The - Heim of Commons Committ4 have
• considered and settled the clauses of the Weymouth
.. . od.Portland Railway Bill. •
• • CHAPEL A NIVIVERSARY. —The chapel anntiersary
seresoneof the Methodist Free Church were preached
on Sunday last by the Rev. T. Pattenden Bible
Christian, in the morning; and by the Rev. 1. Rack-
- nian Primitive Methodist, in the evening. At the
cline of the services aAollections were made in behalf
of the 'chapel fund. On Monday evening a public
' tea meeting was held in the chapel, when Mr. Hobbs
presided, and addressees were delivered by the Revd&
J. R. Alford, T. Pattenden, and J. Rackmao.
• PORTLAND.—Tua Barretnira.—The Iblowing
article, which appeared in the Morning Post of the
13th inst., so fully expresses our own sentiments,
that we have great pleasure in transferring it to our
own columns :—" If there be one thing in the world
which is more calculated than another to call forth
feelings of wrath and indignation in the breast of an
honest•roinded man, it is when circumstances and•
denly, reveal the workings of an unaerhand intriaue.
It was but the other day that we were congratulating
ourseivm Isom the-praiseworthy decision which the
Lords of the Admiralty bad arrived at when the
order went forth for the removal to Portland of the
Britannia tmioing-ship, and the rescuing of the
young naval cadets from the temptation; which
t surrounded them in that hotbed of inquity—Ports-
mouth. Scarcely had the vessel arrived at her
destination when we fled the disappointed outfittere,
jobberr, and others at work striving by every means
" in their power to get once more within their vora-
cious grasp the profits which they expected to
' derive from pandering to the youthful vices of
the naval cadets. Not a stone appears to have been
.*.. ' left unturned, nor an opportunity lost which could
, have assisted or promoted the despicable object
which these men have clung to so pertimodously. A
Dometshire paper -The Southern Times—in an
article of last week, having incautiously complained
of the bad drainage in one of the small villages in
the " Isle of Portland," called "Fortune's Well,"
it has served as a handle foe these birds of prey to
. spread the most alarming reports regarding the risk
which the young gentleman, on board the Britannia
' i 'trete exposed to. When it is borner in mind that
• . the ship is moored about half-a-mile on the opposite
- vide of the island to that upon which the village
wherein the alleged iniesisdity of fever being gene-
ratel ie eiWeled,„ the., efgementa, so -plausibly and
. ifte9,lo4y. Rut fortbians glossae 0110• entirely and
comple derived of all .weight Wonders will
never cease, but it must be something rather start
lingly 'novel to the healthy, hardy Portland
islanders, who have hitherto prided theme Ives on
being the very pick of our race, to hear the climate
freak whictr they bad derived such manly vigour
described as "s fever-breeding swamp, where the
baud of death is eier busy.' Unless appearances
are most deceitful, the bare-legged specimens of the
Portland children which we see running about with
cheeks like raw mutton chops, would lead any one
to suppose that no spot on earth could have been
better -selected to train up • set of boys and give
them • hardy constitution than this same Bill of
Portlapd. It is much to be regretted that all the
advantages of health and situation afford for the edu-
cation of them boys will never weigh in the smallest
degree in the eyes of certain men, whose minds are
more bent upon the study of their own comforts and
interest; than upon the faithful discharge of the duty
which they owe to their country. Such men, of
course, are ever ready to make the most ef any little
eiraeliance which might tarn up, in the hopes of
Jar aleale, the„meene eUedithig the ship removed to
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attractive to them. We can fancy how much
the absence of some of those luxuries which
Portsmenth had accustomed the officers to must
be now felt by them in their present change.
In Portland there is no club, no billiard-
table, and not even a decent house in which
to lodge their wives and families; and the
houses in the more fashionable locality of Weymouth
are only to be obtained at the ruinously extravagant
rate customary at all favoured watering-places.
Still, after all, these are but little diaarrennens, such
an every man must expect to meet with in the
service. They cannot be dignified by the name of
hardships, and are such as will in all probability be
only of a temposery nature. The tradespeople and
apsoulatoes .of this particular part of Dersetshire,
though evidently of a more soporific nature than is
usually met with in the present day, and apparently
quite unfitted to contend against their more enter-
prising rivals in Portsmouth, will in the course of
time awake to the benefits which must result to their
own pocketa through a little attention to the re-
quirements of ..theh. tiW 'bestoMite. That the
Weymouth pastryoooks should have been so behind-
hand este have omitted providing a first-rate" tuck
shop" upon the beach at Portland, for the especial
advantage of the young ,cadets, is scarcely to be
credited, for there is every reason to suppose that
if this highly-important matter had been more
closely attended to the public would have been
soared the complaint of a future young Nelson to
his mamma on the subject of his boots, which
appear to have been so ill-adapted for encountering a
little mud in his new play-ground. The only thing
which is really to be regretted is that the ship was
not moved out of her late unhealthy station much
sooner. She arrived at Portland during the late
severe weather, when a few rf the boys had
managed to pick up such coughs and colds as are
natural at this time of year, had given rise to the
unfounded report that there was much
sickness on board, and that the sickness
was to be attributed to the change of station.
Fortunately the Secretary to the Admiralty was
able to contradict this rumour before it had time to
gain ground, and was able to make a statement in
the House of Commons showing the total number of
cadets upon the sick list to have been only four-
teen. And thus the mass of petty jobbers and
hungry sharks who fancied themselves secure of
their prey, found themselves completely
foiled when endeavouring to establish this false
atatement. They have latterly confined themselves
,to abuse of the Bay of Weymouth, which they
pretend is dangerous for the boating excercise of the
young cadets. Weymouth, indeed, from all the
accounts which we have been able to gather, appears
to have enjoyed the singular good fortune of having
been free from any boat accident of a serious nature
for the last fifty years! And it is to be hoped that
if the naval cadets of the Britannia are destined to
keep, up the reputation which has ever been the
pride and glory of the seamen of Great Britain, that
they will not be deterred from navigating their
"blue coats" in a bay in which there is only one
rock, which rock is situated so close to the harbour's
mouth that it would require as much ingenuity as
stupidity to run a boat upon it. We are satisfied
that the Lords of the Admiralty will resist,fas they
have hitherto done, all underhand influences that
may be employed to get this ship restored to Ports-
mouth, which, for so many reasons, is the worst
place in England where a training-ship could be
stationed.
PORTISHAM.—HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Mon-
day evening, about 7 o'clock, ayoung woman named
Fanny Hansford, on her way from Weymouth to
Burton, when near Portishaui, was robbed of ss. by
a tall athletic man, who came up behind her and
pinicned her arms. She offered him a shilling to
allow her to go unmolested, but the fellow persisted
in rearching her, to obtain all she had. She imme-
diately after the robbery gave information to the
police, and on the following morning P.C. Hill
apprehended an Irishman in bed at the Anchor beer-
shop, Weymouth, answering the description of the
highwayman.
CHARMINSI ER. DEPLORABLE Arabia.
Henry Polden, a labouring man, met with an
untimely death on Tuesday morning. The deceased
was birdkeeping, haring a gun for the purpose, and
whilst endeavouring to get through a gap in a hedge,
it is supposed the trigger got entangled, thereby
exploding the gun. The contents entered the region
of the heart, causing instantaneous death. An inquest
was held the same day at the Compasses Inn, before
H. Lock, Esq., deputy coroner, when the jury
returned a verdict of accidental death.

MORDEN.—Tituriat.sues SOCIETY.—On Wed-
aniday evening, March 19th, a meeting in con-
nection with this society was held at the Temperance
Hall, when addresses were delivered by Mn I Vaughan,
temperance missionary, Mr. Knapp, and Mr. Bollam,
to a large and attentive audience. Mr. Knapp first
addressed the audience, and was succeeded by Mr.
Bollam, whose remarks were humorous and highly
interesting. Ile said it was his opinion that if all
the people at Morden and Lytchett were to become
total abstainers, they could very well afford to
maintain a botcher at each of the respective villages.
Mr. Vaughan afterwards addressed the meeting, and
his speech was delivered, in a masterly manner, and
we trust that much good may result from it. The
society has been established here about two years,
but owing to the disunion which exists amongst its
members its success hitherto has not been great.

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WITHAM.—On Tuesday mornings ganger
on the Great Western Railway, named Collins, com-
mitted suicide. As the morning goods train was
coming down, just before it arrived at the Witham
station be endeavoured to throw himself down
before the engine, hut being somewhat too late be
was caught by the aide rods and carried along a
considerable distance before the train could be
stopped. The poor fellow's clothes were torn from
him, and his body was sadly mutilated. He has
left a widow and seven children.

BLANDFORD.— FEDILSTRIANISM.— A person,
nanied Jones, caused a little commotion in this town
on Monday evening. He walked from the King's
Arms to the top of Damory-lane six times, being a
distance of three miles, in 25 minutes.
POOLE.--The Rev. William Henry Franklin
Hepworth, M.A., has lately been licensed by the
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the
curacy of St. James's, Po&e.

TH-6 4TH DORSETSHIRE RIFLE VOLUNTSERB.—OH
Tuesday evening the annual meeting in-as held in
the Townhall, Capt. Parr in the chair. After
examining the accounts, Mr. G. B. Aldridge was
elected lieutenant, Mr. K K. Welsh ensign, and
Mr. W. Baker corporal.