The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

SPRING ASSIZES FOR 1865.

The learned judges of the Court of Queen's Bench,
the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Exche-
quer met in their private room, at Westminster-hall,
on Thursday morning, and chose their different circuits,
which were as follows :
NORFOLK CIROUIT.—The Lard Chief Justice Cock-
burn and Mr. Justice Williams.
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HMO Cuicurr.—The Lord Chief Baron Pollock and
Mr. Baron Bramwell.

WYSTEBN CIIIOOIT.-Mr. Justice Crompton and Mr.
Beton Channel'.

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MIDLAND CHUMIL—Mr. Baron Martin and Mr.
Justice Wales. _ _ _

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Keating and Mr.
Baron Pigott.
NORTHERN CIRODIT.—Mr. Justice Shee and Mr.
Jubtioe Mellor.

NORTH WALES CIRCUM—Mr. Justice Bylea
SOUTH WALES CIROUIT.—Mr. Justice Blackburn.
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The Lord Chief Justioe Erie, of the Court of Common
Pleas, will stay in town to try oases that will come
before him as judge at Chambers.

"How can you pay us? What can you offer in the
pound r demanded the importunate creditors of a bank-
rupt farmer. "Alas !gentlemen," replied the ruined
man, "all I really have is • donkey in the pound."
A new London daily paper is spoken of to be estab-
lished under the proprietary of Mr. Donald Nicioll, of
paletot selebrity, late M.P., for Frome.
REPRESEN TATION OP PRESTON. —lt IS rumoured
that the Honourable Frederick Arthur Stanley, second
son of the Earl of Derby, will be invited by the Con-
servatived to offer himself as a candidate for the repre-
sentstion of Preston, at the next election, in conjunction
with one of our present members, Sir Thomas George
Hesketh, Baronet. —Preston Chronicle.
Dow A GARDENER'S SEED CONFER A VOTE 2—ln
the Court of Common Pleas, last week, judgment was
given in a registration appeal case, Powell,. Farmer.
The Lord Chief Justice said the question was whether
s shed used by a market gardener was a building,within
the meaning of the Reform Act, which would qualify
the tenant to vote for a borough member? The Court,
upon the description of the shed given by the barrister,
was of opinion that it was "a building" according to
the case of Watson v. Cotton, and that the decision of
the barrister in favour of the vote must be affirmed.—
Decision affirmed. . .

VALUABLZ PIOT. —A peasant in the environs of
Bcenivral (Bohemia) some time since found a hare
which had been caught in a snare, and carried it home,
where it soon recovered from its partial strangulation,
and became the pet of his children. It was extremely
tame and allowed the young folks to handle it as they
pleased. One day the children in their play put round
its neck a necklace of gold ducats belonging to their
Mother, and were highly amused at seeing their favourite
thus deoorated. Unfortunately at this moment the
outer door wail opened by a person entering, and the
hare scampered off into the fields with the necklace,
and has not since been seen. _

A CHANNEL Snug PACKET STATION BY LIGHTNING.
—The Ostend and Dover mail steamboat Sapphire was
struck by lightning on Saturday, the 14th inst., off the
former port. The weather had been very stormy, and
suddenly a strong flash of lightning, accompanied by a
terrific peal of thunder, seemed to envelope the vessel,
and the electric fluid was seen to pass down one of the
chains of the foremast, striking the deck and knocking
out some splinters. Finding the gale increasing, the
ship was headed for Dunkirque, from whence she again
started for Dover on Sunday morning, having also had
to put baok to Ostend on the first attempt to cross on
Friday evening.
DEATH OF A MISNIL—OnEday morning, an Old
man, 70 years of age, named John Foster, and who had
followed the occupation of bill-sticker in Woolwich,
died suddenly at the Greenwich Union, whither he had
been conveyed sick and destitute the night previously.
During the last few years the deceased was apparently
subject to the greatest poverty, and the room he
ocdupied presented a wretched and dirty appearance.
On Mr. Wates, the relieving officer, removing some
articles which had served the old man as a bed, he
found a psi-eel tied up in • handkerchief, and weighty;
and on a closer inspection, several packets of sovereigns
and half-sovereigns, amounting to £65, were found
sewed up in an old stocking.
Mr. John Feed has hit upon a happy thought, and
transferred it to canvas with effect. A charming girl,
of the present day, stands proudly arrayed in her bridal
dress while the aged grandmother, in happy mood,
brings forth the embroidered silk attire, old fashioned
now, in ehich she, too, in youth had knelt at the altar.
Glancing her eyes from the relic of her young days to
the living bride in her splendour and beauty, the old
lady seems to exclaim, with an air of triumph, "This
was my wedding gown."