The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TITESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1858.

HONESTE A U.D4 X.

Comets:Row, letters have been received from
China containing some interesting particulars of
the new treaties. It appears that Russia and the
United States concluded their treaties sooner
than France and England because the two former
Powers had no indemnity to demand. The
claims of the allies are now said to have been
fixed at £3,200,000 for England, and £1,200,000
I for France; but m the payment of these
amounts is left dependent on the collection of
the Customs' dues at Canton, it is feared that
moans of evasion will amity be devised by the
Chinese, and that there will be a constant re-
ourrenoo of disputes. With regard to the other
provisions of our treaty, it is said that they com-
prise the residence of a British minister at Mul-
lin with the privilege of WWII to Pekin and
direet communiontion with the Imperial Cabinet,
An English College, similar to that maintained
by Russia, is to be established at Pekin
foreigners are to be allowed to travel at pleasure
through China under a passport system i the
Yang-tse is to be opened to oommeree through
iss entire source Christianity is to be tolerated
the tariff is to be modified i the Custom House
system is to be revised i the English are to shut
the Chinese in suppressing piracy ; and, finally,
the ENI MIMI IN to mend a impalal embassy to
England as a proof 1)f his good will. If these
are really the tut ins of the Treaty signed on the
'Pith of June, they embrace emieemions never
before dreamt of hy a Chinese Minister, and
Lord Kusia will have achieved Nolte tier greater
than any one had ventured to hope fur. At the
settle time it is believed that the Surma will
endeavour to find mane of ev/INIOII as soon as
the immediate pressure upon hint shall have
bon removed, and that for some thus to come
a diplomatist of resolute will and unbending pur-
pose will be required in China to enforce the
provisions of the treaty. Our trade with China
Item both exhibited an alteration of well-grounded
hopes and unexpeoted disappointments. Our
exports, which in the year 18:14 were but of the
value of £843,000, rose to £1,320,000 in 1830.
In 1840 they were as low as £524,000. The
treaty obtained by Sir 1110 NHY POTTINRIIIN,
which created so much enthusiasm in this
country, was followed by utui enormous increase
in the quantity tend value of British goods des-
patched to the newly-opened ports. The value
haul risen in 1842 to £900,000 ; but in 1845 It
was £2,395,000. The present war produced, of
course, a decline ; but new life and a new spirit
will now be thrown into the trade, for the op-
portunities and advantages which seetn to be se-
cured by the ELUIN treaty are immense.
The accounts from Berlin, in announcing the
arrival of the Kiwi of PKUNNIA from Togernsee,
state that his Majesty has returned in such a
hopeless state that it has become a matter of
State necessity to vest the Regency in the hands
of the PRINON of PUIJNRIA without further
delay.

THE intelligence from Victoria and New South
Wales, received during the past month, has
given occasion to some of our daily contempora-
ries to revert to the actual condition of those
colonies, which has been all the more readily
done since certain of the French press have
taken upon them to expatiate upon what they
are pleased to call an " unsuccessful colonization
of Australia." Let it be said, in the first place,
that the revenues of the Colony of Victoria are
in a very satisfactory state, the increase on the
year ending the Bth of June last being no less
, than £600,000 out of a revenue amounting
altogether to something less than £3,600,000—
not a bad income, one would think, for a colony
which has only just attained the twenty-first
year of its existence. Starting from this point,
the facts and arguments of the Times are perhaps
the most comprehensive and conclusive in re-
futing the charge of blundering and ill-success.
Let it be obeerved, says our contemporary, that
"this flue settlement nut only does not now cost,
but never has cost the mother country anything,
the very troops which it requires for its defence
being paid for, like those of the East India Com-
pany, out of colonial funds, The next point to
which we call attention is the establishment of a
' new Bank for the oolonists, who are not mires-
aouably anxious to get this branch of business
Into their own hands, instead of trusting it to
the numerous English companies by which it has
hitherto been almost entirely monopolised.
The next suelaueholy indication of the declining
state of these drooping settlements is the state-
ment of gold exported from Victoria during the
last six months, which amounts to 1,977,568
ounces, mid, what is still more melancholy,
shows an almost progressive increase month by
mouth. Then, again, there is the further fact
that capital and the combination and division of
I labour are beginning to be applied in earliest to
the production of gold, and that lands believed
to have been exhausted by the researches of
single diggers are being worked at a profit by
the quarts-crushing companies. Indeed, gold.
mining is now carried on with success within
nine miles of the city of Melbourne itself. But
perhaps this oolony, so wealthy, so prosperous,
so self-reliant, is growing weary of her eon-
nection with perfidious Albion, and medi-
tating a bold strike for independence, such
as that which separated from us our earlier
settlements in America 9 The same letter
which brings us news of this very con-
siderable material progress informs us that
polities are a blank, that there is absolutely
nothing to talk or write about, the only topic
which seems to engross the attention of the
public being the mission of the Mayor of Mel-
bourne—a gentleman who ham mode a large
property in the colony, and rejoices, moreover,
in the truly national patronymic of Bisrrit—on a
message round the globe for the purpose of pre-
senting ELL MUMS to Hu MAJam oongratu•

lating her on the marriage of the Nixon' ROYAL
This herald of approaching revolution tarries
With him £4,200 as a further subscription from
the Colony of Victoria to the Indian Relief
Fund, and £llO for the fund for the relief of
soldiers' daughters. Such are our tidings from
Victoria, and we think we shall be guilty of no
overstrained inference if we assert that, in what-
ever we may have failed, we have at any rate
sueoeeded in raising up a community wealthy,
prosperous, enterprising, and self-supporting,
contented with its own institutions, and cordially
and even affectionately attached to the mother
country from whom she received them. Let us
now turn to New South Wales—a colony which
, was once our Cayenne or Lambesaa, only with
this important difference, that our convicts were
sent there to live instead of to die. New South
Wales is not in so tranquil a political state as
Victoria, for it is engaged at this moment in
giving itself, under the name of a Reform Bill,
what is virtually, in many respects, a new con-
stitution. A warm struggle is going on; the
Conservative minority fight their ground inch by
inch, but the measure makes progress, neverthe-
less, and will, for good or for evil, shortly be-
come law. Another question has arisen, which,
considering our long exclusion from all com-
merce with the Celestial Empire, has about
it something of an air of comic retribution.
I The Chinese in New South Wales number at
the present time no less than 25,000 souls.
Like the Mormons, and for somewhat ana-
logous reasons, they have been driven from
the other colonies of Australia, and have
found a refuge at last in New South Wales. It
requires no detailed exposition to show that the
immigration of 25,000 Chinese—men without
women—carries with it most serious objections
to an English community, and these objections
are much aggravated and enhanced by the jea-
lousy of the working classes, who view in these
Celestial immigrants formidable opponents, whose
competition must tend in a considerable dagree
to lower the rate of wages, which just at this
moment has fallen below the ordinary average.
The result has been, not an absolute prohibition,
but certainly a very heavy duty on this kind of
imported labour, for every Chinese is for the
future to be charged on landing an entrance fee
of £lO, nominally for the purpose of defraying
the expenses they occasion to the Government,
but really with the view of keeping them, if pos-
sible, out of the country altogether. Were the
EMPEROR of CHINA in a condition to make de-
mands on us as well as to agree to ours, he might
probably be considered not unreasonable in de-
manding for his subjects as free a passage into
our dominions as he undertakes to word to is.
The Colony is about to undertake three railway
extensions—to the South, to the West, and to
the North, It has raw had its first considerable
railway accident—a clear proof of advancing
civilisation. This Colony also has raised 4000
as its contribution to the Indian Relief Fund,"

DOMINATOR PITOURD CORN &TAUNT, Saturday.
—Our market WU better attended Otoday, and the
supply of WiIOAN WU good. Thera AM a tilopoeltion
on the part of millers and dealers to do business, but
fanner' refused their ems, eustuquently but few
U*1944E11)1111 took plus, at about last week'. priers.
MaWore are beginning to look at barley prious Sr.
expouted to range from 40s. to 4fle, Oita more on
ulrer—old, V* to BOa. I new, gds. to Ilns. Winter
tires very guru, anti very extravagant swine. are
demanded—say from Ilk to 141. per bushel,
Eltoox NAM —On Saturday at Mum, Biker and
Musor's monthly sale ao fat and store buds, Silo fat
sheep, anti five fat selves were (lionised of at good
pries., There Wee a tolerably numeroua attendant's
of titulere, About twenty horses alio were sold, and
and they Molted high primp..
Osumi Minnie ChANA Essmis,vrine.-10 give'
ue great pluming to antionnue that Mr. H. U.
Mottle, youngut son of the ltev, H. Mottle, Mop.
tlingWn, haelwen one of the eueuesstul eandillates at
the mut examinations lea week, We hear he
revolved his oertilioate or diploma whieh entitles
him to a lieu rpr, having passed in the lirst divielon,
relleute great count on himself and on hie
netruotors, hie father, the they. IL Monk, for
English Literature, Az, anti Monsieur flarston for
ANIII4OII I we Ihitil in order of merit he 'Until. Bth
ii Knghlsh LIENTAbIiro and 7th in Langone/N. Wu
lave been told that several young gentlemen have
atoly mulled their examinations ntost suomsfully fur
he Marine and Military Department who had been
solely under Moneleur Clareton's tuition fur the
Front&

New FORVIT flArte,—The Mouth Western itall•
way Company announes an excursion train from
Dorehestor to Lyndhurst, on the 00011.1iUll of the
Now Forest Ram, on Wednesday week,

THIPrn Currox.—The excursion train from this
neighbourhood to Bath cud Bristol which went by
the Dreat Western Railway on Wednesday was oon•
ducted in a fAr better manner than the former one,
and the excursionists reached the Bristol station be.
fore noon. The train returned to Dorchester about
nine in the evenini. Not many people went from
Dorchester and Weymouth, but the train ultimately
contained about 700 travellers.

We understand that the members of the Bud of
Hope Lodge of Odd Fellow, in this town intend,
as a mark of sympathy and respect, to walk in pro.
cession this (Tuesday) morning, accompanying the
remains of one of their fraternity, Mr. W. G.
Gregory, who died on Thursday, to All Salute'
Church.

Peociusas.—A Court of Foresters, designated the
Court of Progress, was to be opened last evening at
the Plume of Feathers.
Tus Mlttna.-Binoe Tuesday, when the Dorset
regiment of Militia assembled here, the town has
presented an unusually lively appearance. The men
generally are in good condition, and about 500
answered to their names on Tuesday morning. They
are being gradually reduced to military discipline,
and have received new clothes and a free kit. They
are billeted upon the several innkeepers of the town,
but, had the repairs going on at the barracks been
completed, the men would have been accommodated
there. The barrack yard, however, is used by them
each day for drill. Ro notice has been received that
the regiment will be out more than three weeks.

THE COMET.—Within the last few days the comet
detected by Dr. Donati on the second of June, has
rapidly increased in brightness, and on Thursday
evening, when the sky was very clear, was fully as
oonspiouoas to the naked eye as a star of the fourth
magnitude. The tail is very distinct, forming, with
the somewhat brilliant nucleus, a pretty telescopic
object. It le to be seen about ten degreas above the
northwest horizon at about eight o'clock in the
evening. Crowds assembled on Sunday evening
between 8 and 9 o'clock at the top of Grove Build.
inge end elsewhere to witness the beautiful phone.
monon.

CRICKSIT,—On Tuesday last a match was played
between the Dorchester and Pymore Club. on the
ground of the latter, near firldport The following
Ii the wore

PY MORI CLUJ!

Pride%la, b Allen ~. a
latanllons, b Franke 8
Maraltain, b Allen ... ...
Ciundry, b Luau „API
Toloplori o Fronk., b *di's
Hounoolt, not out ... m m m 40
b Allan
Ponta, b Allan 0
TOM., b Frunku, 0
Snooks, b Allan 0
Junal, b Lou.. , .„ 0
Wklso, 83
Total 183

DOICUSIITZI OWL
10 Innings, 2nd Innings.
Lanionan, b Martham B—a blaribam,b Priddla
Plpoint, b Oundry I—b Templer
LUNA., run out_ „„., 2—b Prlddli
Pranks, b 1--b Templer...
Allan, b Marabain 14—b Prlddla ... 1
111160 i, b Idarshatn I—b Templar
Pike, b Harahan% o—b Prlddlo
Tar, b o—rnn out
urt
B, b Marlharn o—ran on,
Hawker, b Onndry o—n 4 out
Ureaninn, not out . o—absoni „.
Wldni, byes, Iso, Widen and by.. 1

Totol „. 411 Total ... 00
DOOOUOII PoLION COURT, Townhall, Monday,. Sept.
1/I.—( Before William Bonfield, Beg.. fila7urm
Phnom, of Aldernoy, blaskeinith, who RAW him had
worked fur two months for Hro. Coo, 41 Broadway, was
brought Imp charged with drunkenness, P.O. Vatoimer
said that between 10 and 11 on Humidity night while on
duty he found prisoner lying aoruu the road &sloop and
immoommahly drunk, In CharlesUrset, He WU unmoved to
the lookup on a stretulmer. Prisoner said he owns to
Dorolmester on Sunday mourning snd wu returning home,
whim Ise lust Isle sap. Pined bo, or, in default of pay.
went, to ell ma hour. In the stooks In front of the town
pump. A week was allowed fur payment.

. .
COUNTY MAOINTRATIIIe OPIUM, Shinhall, Saturday,
September 11.—( Bofors H, Wlllianis.)—JuAn Shakismal
and /peep.% Norma wort alum*, the former with steal.
Ins a quantity of lead from a omi/enter's shop at Piddle.
town, the properZif the Her. J. A. Templer, and the
latter with noel tha lead knowing it to be etolen,
P.C. Softly depom that from information he received
he apprehended lillokland on Friday and abarpd him
with the felony. allokland mid he knew nothing of It,

but subsequently remarked "I saw two pleas about
three weeks beak, and one about a fortnight beak. I wild
all to Norris for Is. each pleee of 2tilbs.," and said to
Norris " whatever shall we do if we are found out." tier.
pant Vickery deposed that after Sticklend was brought
to the Dorchester lockup he (the sergeant( went to Norris'
house at Fordington. P.c. Softly charged Norrio with
receiving stolen lead. Norris denied it, but he was
taken into custody. On the way to the lockup, Norris
asked the sergeant If he knew it wasstolen, and on en.
taring the lockup Stickland said "I know I stole it and
sold it to you" (Norris.) Stickland 'laid that he had
been to Norris slime and asoertained that the latter had
sold the lead again. It was stated that the quantity of
lead stolen was upwards of 4 cwt., and Norris, who is •
marine store dealer, sold it to another marine store
dealer of Fordington, named htutford at 16e. • cwt. Thu
robbery took pleas, it is believed, towards the end of
August. Stiokland is parish clerk at Piddletown and
worked for the rev. prosecutor. Both prisoners were
remanded till Saturday next. The lead was in blocks,
and used for yacht ballast.

COXIIITTID- TO DOSCHEBTSR GAOL—Further Era-
mination.—John Stickland, stealing lead at Piddletown ;
Joseph Norris, receiving lead at Pidiletown.—To hard
/atiour.—Thomas Aoourt, assault on police at Marnhull,
2 calendar months ; Hannah White, vagrancy at Blan.l.
ford, 1 calendar month ; John Lambert, vagrancy at
Buokhorn Weston, 14 days; Robert Hunt, robbing gar.
den at Wimborne Minster, 2 calendar months; Joseph
Wright, robbing garden at Hampreston, 1 calendar
month.