The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

IT is rumoured that Lord Poltimore intends to
diaoontinue hunting this country after the coming
season.

CORN MARKET, Saturday. —ln consequence of the
fair, the market to-day was thinly attended. The 6npply
of wheat was small, ;which 6011 at about late rates.
Grinding barley salealie at former prices. No alteration
In the value of oats.

Thi EuscrioN.—The writ for the borough election
was received by the Mayor on Friday mottling, who
forthwith hinted a proclamation appointing the nomina.
tion to take place this day (Tuesday). The usual caution
againa bribery, treating, and undue influence has been
published.
Comm POLICIC, Thuraday.—Before H. Williams,
Hsu., Henry Bushrod, a well-known violator of the law,
was brought up in custody charged with having on two
occasions behaved indecently to parties of school
children at the parish of Upway. Sentenced to six
montha' hard labour.

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE LATE STEWARD OF THE
EARL OF SHA.FTESBORT. —The bills of indictment
against Mr. Waters will be preferred at the Anises on
Monday, the 24th inst., and if a true bill be found, the
trial will be transferred to the Central Criminal Court,
where the case will probably be heard during the week
commencing August 13.

Tax Cousrr Euccnorr.-00 Friday afternoon
the proclamation wax formally made calling upon the
freeholders to return three 6t and proper persons to
sit as Knights of the "Shire for the county of Dorset
in the next Parliament, and the nomination will
take place nett Friday morning at half-past ten
o'clock, at the Shirehall, Dorchester,

A UCTION. —On Wednesday Mr. T. Amor sub-
mitted to public competition the sheep and farming
stock of Mr. Burdge, who is about to relinquish
Forston farm. There was • large attendance, and
the following were about the average prices of the
sheep:—Down ewes (chilvers), 40s. 6d.; lambs
245. 6.1.; lambs (wethere), 23a., and rams, about £4.

THE Fatit.—At our 6th of July fair, there was a
moderate supply of sheep. Prices were about
a bead higher than at some of the late fairs, and the
demand was active; in some instances good animals
()hanged hands several times. The wool trade, at
the Corn Exchange, was slow, buyers being unwilling
to give the full prices current. Sellers in fact were
evidently hanging off to see what Blandford Wool
Fair would do for them on Saturday ; and it was well
nigh six or seven in the evening before any of the lots
began to move off. Downs then produced from
Is. 91. to within a fraction of is. 10d. per lb. which
it will be seen correep oids prei ty nearly with tbe
Bland ford vrea Fair prices. We have not heard
what was realised precisely for Horns but set it
down at H. more.

)1100011 PETIT SESSIONS, Monday.—Before the
bl.yor (Dr. Aldridge), J. Bishop, Esq., and J. Entior,
Erq.—Caroline Stokes, • notorious girl, living at
Fordington, appeared to answer a summons for assault
taken ont by • girl namedtEliza Gawler. The girls
quarrelled at the Slip Inn when prosecutrix A pat in
defendant's face, and the hater pushed or struck her.
Gawler did not appear, and the case was dismissed.—A
woman named Sophia Wellman, who has several times
been convict, d of felony, was brought up charged with
stealing some calico, rooks &c„ belonging to Robert
Wellman, from the beAret of her sister-in.law, while at
the Ship Inn. She was committed for trial at the
assizes. Prisoner's mother applied for boil to be allowed,
but it was refused.

861110119 A CCIDENT. —A s rious accident oecurred on
Sunday, to the Rev. J. Allin, Superintendent of the
Dorchteiter C.rcuit in the Wesleyan connection. It
appears that the rev. gentleman intended to drive to
Piddletrenthide to preach, and that, either from absence
of mind or some other unaticount ible cause, on arriving
at the top of the Own, instead of turning to the right
to proceed on the direct road, he allowed the horse to
turn short on the lert and the near ',Mel of the gig'
coming in contact with one of the spur stones against
the corporation yard, the vehicle was overturned, and
Mr. Allin was thrown into the road, sustaining a fracture
of the thigh. Surgical sea stance was immediately
obtained, and the rev, gentleman is doing is well as
might he expected considering his age and the serious
character of the fracture, the bmis having broken were
high up. One of the shafts of the gig and a portion of
the harness was broken.

CHURCII BUILDING BOCISTIIB.—SerO2OIIII Were
preached and offertories made on behalf of the In-
corporated Society for promoting the Enlargement,
Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels in
Bog land and Wales, and also for the Diooeman
Church Building Society, at All Saints' Church, on
Sunday, by the Rev. C. T. Procter. The amount
collected was Ell 34.. 33. There is one peculiar
feature in the Parent Church Building Society to
which we especially desire to draw attention. The
principal conditions of its grants is that one half of
the additional accommodation provided in the
churches which are aided by its liberality, shall be
free to the poor. "From its institution to the pre-
sent time," we quote from one of the printed papers
of the society, " the society has laboured faithfully
and unceasingly to fulfil its important trust, and it
has been so far prospered in its work by the Great
Head of the Church, that it bee been enabled to
assist in the erection of 1,357 new churches, and in
the re-building or enlarging of 3,572 old churches in
England and Wales; by which means 1,322,114
additional seats have been obtained, 988,999 of
which are reserved for the fill use of the parishio-
ners. The society, in thus directing its chiefest
endeavours to provide the free means of public
worship for our poorer fellow-Christians, has been
true to its special mission. Of the whole number of
additional sesta provided, nearly three-fourths are
free and unappropriated; in no case has a grant
been made where lean than one-half the seats have
been free; and in one-fourth of the new churches
aided during the past five years, all the seats are
entirely free." We think that this alone entitles the
society to the liberal support of all true and faithful
members of the church.