The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

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YEOVlL—Tuarr.—Edward Rodber was brought
before the Borough mitiatrates on Tuesday chair-
with SG:sling WIN Ifi—eeneaVah profpertf c(.
Hurdle. A man in his employ deposed to tOcti
up that'll/4Ql* asurely in tie erindag, upditt
morning Siding Arse cheese palming. Prhioner,
who had been found dealing with some cheese, was
taken into custody, and the cheese identified by
prosecutor. Prisoner stated that he bought them of
a Man in South-street. This lame tale the magis-
trates did not attach much importance to, but
committed him to take his trial at the Sessions.
Bail aocepted.

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Hatimiittic Soctarv.—We are given to under-
stand that the engineers and other emptoyoB of the
South Western Railway have formed an Harmonic
Society at the Hop Vine Inn, Kingaton, (Host
Tillen's), and that song and sentimenthave full scope
every Fnday evening. We are also credibly
informed that the greatest propriety and decorum
characterizes the proosedine. On Tuesday a com-
plimentary benefit will be given to Mr. F. J. Webb,
when Mr. B. Denbeigh, Mr. Gwyn°, Mr. Lewis,
acnd other warblers will attend and lend their
assistance. No doubt there wilt be a large muster
of those who have a soul for music.

CRICKET CUM—At the annual general meeting
of the members held on Tuesday se'nnight at the
Pen Mill Hotel, the financial statement was read
by the honorary eecretary, Mr. Cooke, and *hewed
a balance in hand, when the subscriptions were paid
up, of about £lO as against £3 31. 50. at the corn
menceuteut of the year 1861. After the transaction
of some routine busineee the resignation of the
president, Mr. Donne, was announced, and a letter
ordered to be seat him expressing the regret of the
club at their loss and recording their appreciation
of his services for @arena years. The conimittee
and auditors were then 'pointed, and it wu decided
that Tuesday should be practise day instead of
Wednesday, and the 290 h April tamed as the
Spening day of the summer campaign, to be followed
in the evening by an opening dinner at the Pen Mill
Hotel.

Tows COUNCIL.—'I he members assembled at the
Townhall on Monday. Mr. Alderman Mayo, in
the absence of the Mayor, occupied the chair.—
Corporation Accounte.—The Clerk stated that the
trausurer's accounts had beeti audited, and there was
a sum of £447 414 6d. -in fiivour of the corporation on
the borough fund, and against it a balance of
170 2s. 7d. in the highelly acconnt.—Firetitutur-
ante Duty.— A petition from the association in
London was ordered to be Sealed, preying for a
reduction of the duty on fire insurances —Out-
standing Liabilities.—A sum of £l5 was ordered.
to be paid to Mr. Alarming for allowing an
alteration to be made in the line of his premises in
1858. Defective Skuting.—Notioes were directed to
be served upon several persons, rolling upon them

to cause proper shales to be made to tbe dwlelluttg. .
houses, so that the lives of tie public nd
.their
property „werelvelit ilbon;trEd or itynreld.—
le
.11 Divutecilltigh4 Atkin on as cal (I to the
t
fact that Mr. jTabor an oue ,I en pieces
of ground "at the d oft his , premise! in the
Sherburne road. Tb clerk isda dist they lowl-two
resulatiosievesorded, ieli &AM with eacliottlietV
the last one passed when he was absent from illness.
Tbe first was dated, June, 18110.4 mil was to the
effect that the Council did not thi k it advisable to
part with any of their rit4l in . e land in ques-
tion. The other was da 'an uently, and gave
bit
to Xt..' Tahoe tit " (*" R- ep ose the p f
grohne, provtdecl * dOse to e Anfisictiosi f
theilmproveineut ' mitts.. 1 D r 0 ,
titt eqbuititice Stiiii flip 1 (We o - '
oatidn to the Eno! re, ut fhich* pon Being cq ned
to the Council it was decided that it could not be
entertained. He (the Clerk) produced a plan
made in 1829, which showed that the land belonged
-tatiterTowir Ontineih•-4r—venswrie-wee-vneste by-wata-.
of the members that Mr. Tabor considered it to
belong to him, as it was included in his conveyance.
M Ma
_r. yo maid it_luldlirtlf?r the. use of the public

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could.not be alienated from, them, though it might
be included in Mr. Tabor's conveyance. —Mr. Bill
thought as the title was &reputed, that Mr. Tabor.,
rad be requested attend at CouncilMeetihg,
prove his right; if he alum, to Om land in
ion.—Mr. Cox "greed with Mr. Hill, or other-
wise they might get invOlved in a law suit.-i-Mr.
Penny reinarked that • the'emincri had not the,
slightest wish- lar deprive 'anyone of :art *hied,
ground if it clearly belonged twithem.—Mr. Cox
thought that Mr, Tabor should be Allowed to elect
the wall, as the Committee had ibecimniended it.—
The Chairman said the land in dispute had been the •
property of thetewis for fifty years, and that nothing
Mr.- Tabor maid do would deprive them bf
resolution 'to the effort that Mr.' Tabor should alma
at the oett'Cobitait Meeting 16 assert hit-fights Was
Meows& and serried, Mrs(iefale for Road Re-
pairing,—.11r. ',Ransom atteucTed, and prodUded'eome
easaples of stone suitable for repairing the-.
Me. Hill wished to know if any reduction had been
made on that already supplied, as some of it was of
very inferior quality.—The Surveyor said 'reduction
had been made on three Muck loads. —Mr. Bensons
offered to supply stone of the beat and • herded
description, at 4s. 4d. per ton, delivered at the
YeovilStation; and to make • redaction dans! inferior
should be sent, the abatement to be determined by
their serveyor.—The Surveyor having lasted that
he should require 7,500 yards for the year, the same
was ordered of three different sorts. Numance at
the Corner of Silver Sireet.—The committee re-
commended that the erection of the stall now
allowed to be placed at the corner of Silver-street,
near Mr. Wadman's shop, should be discontinued, as
it was a great nuisance in driving people into the
street. It was decided to adopt the reeonemends-
%ifn. The Drainage Question.—The Subject of
making a drain near the Railway Station, sug-
gested by the Improvement Committee, was
discussed at great length. It was mooted A
considerable time eince,bat the Council then declined
to make it. At the present meeting it appeared to
be the general impression thatsuch was much needed.
It was referred to the Surveyor to make an estimate
of the new drain, and the railway company was
ordered to be communicated with to ascertain what
they were disposed to do in the mitter.--Raie,s of
Interest. —Mr. Cox called attention to the rate of
interest on money borrowed by the Council,
and that received by them. The stlll2
of £7OO in hand belonging to them
was invested in Exchequer .B' ills at 2*. per
cent. ,while, for the same amount of money borrowed,
the Council had to pay 5 per mint ,making a differeacer
of £l9 on that account. Be was anxious to ask the
Finance Committee if they intended to make an
alteration. —The Town Clerk stated that he thought
it would be undesirable to meddle with the funds
in hand, as they would shortly be required, and they
had great difficulty in borrowing money. The sub-
ject then dropped.—The Scavenging of the Town.—
The Surveyor sought the views of the Council as to
whether they would buy another horse, for the pur-
pose of carrying away the refuse, Tte., or hire to do
tle extra work. A saving would be effected by
keeping two horses, as during the past year the keep
of the horse and incidental • expenses, including
repairs of harness and cart and shoeing, had been
.Cl 7 10" 6d., and the wages of the man to attend to
it, £32 16s. During the same period be had paid
for extra work £1 11 5". 2d. No additional nian
would be required, and by keeping two horses, he
thought • saviug of £OO per year could be effected.
An offer was reed from Mr. Fudge, engaging to sup-
ply a horse and "art at 4s. per day, and an extra
horse and cart with a man at 6s. per day. Mr.
- Greenhorn,- of-Son-Mouse Fenn, agreed to furnish a
horse and cart at 4s. per day, and an extra animal
and vehicle with man at ss. The last offer was
accepted, after which the meeting broke up.
EITRAORDINAIti Lows ire Foetus:sr. ;.:A mover
pendent says be has learner:Lime mithentio,sources
tbat a gentleman, now resident in Somerset, is
about to engage in a trial of skill with Gerald Shane,
of the sister isle. The love of "science' is said to
have tempted this gentleman to make the match
alluded to.

TRINITY INFANT AND SI7NDAY SCHOOLS.
The Rev. J. D. Elliott, incumbent of Trinity Church,
delivered A lecture on Thursday evening at tile Town.
hail, in aid Of the funds of the above schools. This sub-
ject chosen was "Charles the Fifth." Captain Messiter,
of the Yeovil Rifler, eaupied the chair, and the atten-
dance was good. For two hours did the rev. gentleman
engross the attention of the audience in placing before
them in its tree light the We of the monarch, the sub-
ject matter of the lecture. He commencied by stating
that the illustrious personage under notice was no
remrrkablita that many 'labors bad simply called him
"Charles the Fifth. ;" and in announcing the lecture, be
ha i followed their example, which, from some remarks
he had beard, was not sufficient for some to understand
to what nation Charles the Fifth belonged. He would
divide the alibied woOrdingtotbe following programme :
lat,—Who and What *a -Marla She Fifth? Ihrd,—
tiflat did he? 3rd,—What were the times in which he.
Ihed? 4th,—Who were Lis principal contemporaries?
sth,—What wen; the great events, and the great effects
resulting from those events, during the times in which
ived? Taking the erst part, he aould 'ay he was
connects,' lineally with the House of York, end that by
marriage be became connected with the Houses of
Tudor aed Inweater. Margaret of York. the sister of
Edward the Fourth, was his great grandmother, sad
'.Cathardie, the fires w fe of Henry tha Eighth, his scat.
It was the son of Charles the Fifth —Phihp• id Spain—
ho despatched to England the Spanish Armada, which
happily was defeated, or the adamantine chains of
, Papery might have encircled the island and its people.
Charles the Fifth's grandfather was Maximilian, the
first Emperor of Germany, a• he was popularly known,
'whose son beanie. Philip the First of Spain. His
snother was the daughter of Ferdinand of Armenia and
' Isabella of Castillo. Charles the Fifth was born at
Ghent in the Netherlands,in 1500,and was heir apparent
to promising dominions in Europe. - He was delarod in
1506 Prince of Asturias, • title identical with that of
our Prises of Wales. Shortly after his father dimicend
in 1516. on the death et his grandfather, he became
King of Arragon, Castillo, Navarre, Naples, Sicily, and
Sardinia, and also of that new hemisphere which,Colum-
bus had discovered. do the year 1519, or thereabouts,.
Id was chosen Emperor of Germany, sad retained the -
whole of his titles until 1556, when he gesigned them
and became • hermit. Charles, in his earlier days, was
superintended and advised by two noble and superior
women, Marmara of Anstria and Margaret°, Yorkoind
he (the lecturer), was quite convinced that the influence
of • mother, or • woipen oseupying the position of
parent, had a great effect dpin a man's life. His Utter
and governor was Adrian, afterwards Pope' -Adele&
Charles had but little inclination for- study, but: Was
more partial to rural sports and military exercise'. The
Diet of Worms, at which Charles was present, wit!
Winded be, and justice dew to Luther, who boldly
asserted that he could not recant scything that he
might have said. The principal operations of Charles
tare next detailed, finally closing with his death at the
monastery of St. Just, after having had the vanity to
have his funeral obsequies celebrated in his presence.
The rev, gentleman then alluded to the state of affairs
when Charles lived, showing that the inhabitants of
Europe were longing . and labouring for liberty, both
political and religiose. After remarking upon the two
peat revolutions in the political Asa and manners of
the European nations, occasioned by the progress of the
Roman power and its subversion, he went on to say:
It a man were called on to fix upon a period of the
world during which the condition et the human race was,
most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without besita-
: tion, name, that which elapsed from the death of Theo.
dodos the Greet, A.D. 305, to the establishment of the
Lombards in Italy, A.D. 571. Now arose the feudal
system of government, which resembled a military
establishment rather than a civil institution. It was
admirably calculated for defence against a foreign foe,
provided the different members could be brought to
work harmoniously together, but its provisions for inte-
rior order and tranquillity were moritslefeetiVe. Tn. Wet,
the principles of disorder and corruption are discernible
In that institution in Its most perfect form. The sources
of anarchy were Innumerable; the monarchical and
aristocratic parts having no intermediate power, were
continually at varianos with, and jostling each other.
The feudal, lords having acquired enormous powers,
, scorned to consider themselves as subjects, and openly
aspired at being independent, and heino • kingdom,
though considerable in name and extent, was broken
into as many separate principalities as there were
powerful barons, and all below these were the vassals of
these great landholdersans they.thminerlves were origi-
nally of the Crown. The people lere but serfs Of the
"al ill!ratr and ;Wiliam thrldem which , went
' along wisp the Pllysial, was danscust ..optiresdre ,and
fistreming ; the intellectual and spiritual darkness
which brooded over the people was worse than the
Egyptian darkness that could be felt. Such was the
state of Europe horn the commencement of the seventh
to the close of the eleventh century. Charle-
magne in Franee, and Alfred the Giroat in England,-en.
deavoured to alter this state of things but
their attempts, failed to secure the ilegived
end, and only tended to render the darkness
more visible. During four centuries n 9 authors worthy
of notice existed in Europe. "There it an ultimata
point of depression or exaltation," says Mime, " from
which human affairs naturally rehire ip p contrary
direction, and beyond which they never pass either in
their advannonerit or their decline." Towards the close
at the 11th -contrary the disorders both in Marsh and.
State wont° have attar* the. %almost point of excesra
and we may disaver a ancesesion of causes and events
from that time which oentriboted to abolish
confusion and barbarism, and to introduce
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2136 'ahead:is were one of these. VieWrid 'in them-
selves. they were abominable and vain. 'During two
centuries, six millions of anis seamed the CMS And set

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has been well said, the only oo mon ante • In
i the ittiropeoateitnatiztier :KO, Mole
they all undertoolV fit or, rein sin
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tiller monument fallen f ly4 at miter and
.unerpected henefleialrecnsecon tollowed.• The
Crusaders marched th h oduntrs bettor crellivated r
.rnore civilised -.kited theit clip—this exerted Jr
who me influence on them. - Then, nasamestir,
many of the nobles sold their rend% and the monarchs
bought them and annexed:Oa% to the Crown. Several
, great barons perished in those wars, awl having no
heirs, their fiefs returned Wthe Crown.' rrivate wars
amongst the great vassal were prohibited tbrengh the
erten* of elm The commercial effects of
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t e Ces 're ot considerable. Cities obtained
f 111 kicks a tte 'pal chartent, and having
obtain peal m`sand municipal jurisdictien,
4045 n `eatweii eel ibertyronil political powers.
tee.
Discoveries
_eines and the cultivation of literature
followed—th ther withiheprogrese of commerce,
tended to este ish the regular, consistent, and vigorous
administration of justice. The. lecturer. then proeseded
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