The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-08 00:00:00

Vampsh ire.

THU Rev. ()anon Kielceley ham been elected one of
the Vies-Presidents of the Chinch Cooper t 9 be held
st Southampton. The Bishop of Winchester bas rtoons•
mended that the Cmgmes should be held in the sowed
wreck of October next.

MONIT LIBIDIP.G TO BUILDERS. —At Rants anises,
before the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Haggard, an indepen-
dent gentleman of Bournemouth, brought an action
•gainet Mr. Joy, • builder, and a man named Rose,
with whom Joy was engaged in building transamions, to
recover 1200, lent, as he suppo.ed. to Joy and Row.
Rose let judgment go by default, but for J,y it was
contended he ilid not know that Ross had got the money,
and that he (Joy) was a complete stranger t • the
transaction. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff.
SLAM:OIIIMM •It 01.1) SILIIVANT or TRI RON. GBANTLIT
BILIMLIT'S. —At Hants amuses, before the Lord Chief
1341,13, Mr. Henry Strong, coal merchant, of Christ-
church, brought an action for slander easiest Mr. F.
R. Ball, coal merchant, of the alone plum Plaintiff
lived with the Hon. Gnuitley Berkeley for many years,
and his wife for 12 years. bft his service in 1852, and
had since executed various commissions for him. On
6th December last defendant met plaintiff at the
Crispin Inn, when defendant called him "the biggest
liar in Christchurch,' and said "you and your wife are
living on what you robbed old Berkeley of, by selling
taties and other things." For defen lent it WHI urged
this was • mere public house npiebble. The jury found
• verdict for plaintiff, £5 on first coant, and £2 on
seems&

SINGOLkIi BUIOLAIIT.—At Hants assizes. before Mr.
Justiee Hannen, Edward Doke was indicted for bur
-
stational, breaking into the dwelling.house of Mrs.
Newman, at Broughton, and stealing therefrom some
silver spoons and other atticles, on the 9th of January.
The house was broken open, and the articles taken.
Next day prisoner sold the spoons at Salisbuer for 12s.
The polio*, from the description they received, pro-
ceeded to Dr. Fox's, surgeon, at Broughton, found
prisoner, and took hiin into custody. He was a gentle.
soon, aged 17, who had been placed with Dr. Fox for
the benefit of his health, as 110 belonged to persons of
high position and wealth. Dr. Fox stated that
prisoner was not of sound mind, and was very fond of
reading hooks of fiction. Oliver Twist was his °instant
companion; he h.,' • book called "Th. Art of Burglary"
and to this he had written marginal notes expressive
of great approval of different acts which were set forth
in the hook, and he had made a drawing of Kill Sykes'
last attempt at escape, when he was caught by the rope.
He read, drew, and played on the piano, hut did not join
in any games with other young men. Prisoner's father
was in a lunatic asylum at the time be was committed.—
The governor and surgeon of the gaol said they had
bserved any symptoms of unsoundness of mind.
—A letter was put in, which proved to he ill the hand-
writing of the prisoner, and to have been sent to Mrs.
Newman.—

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DIVA MADAM. I beg you to rocket, from me • frientre wi-
t ice Do your hes to find out the thieves. The police are on
a eribt Know rhea, They ue not ;Mire they are au Tose—
Yours affectionately, _ _

Tee TWO tinplate.
Mr. &ropes eddresagal the jury on behalf of the pri-
aoner urging that he was not anewarable for his conduct
The learned Judge summed up the ease to the Jury,
and gaid the only unevion for their oonaiderttion was
whether the priaoner at the dine he committed thin act,
wag capable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
He had inseriel in hit Alin them wortle—" Sunday
evening went to church. Sunday night cracked a penny
at Mother Newman'., 61°44 els feedera, a black jemmy,
a pair of mud sucker., and • pair of salt pot.. He
believed "Oliver Twist" holdup vice and crime In its
worst pas/ibis lighk —The Jury found the praoner
guilty.—The learned Judge expressed his concurrence
in the verdict. He truated the discipline of the gaol
word t render him • better boy. Re must be imprisoned
for 12 months' and kept to htr I labour.

_
LAY/RINOS Sim.. a farmer. has been arrested at
Queenstown, oo a charge of aiding to murder Patrick
Dunne, termer. Phillipirtown, Kings Onunty.
. . _

BAIL Di GRIT AID RIPON wasoloottd Om
of the Freemebeets, ia suosealon to the But of Zdtlantl,
onifWedo.ted.y.

THS Newm*lle Chrosick learnt that it is now
definitely settled that the question as to whether Lady
Ilerisunt's ineamty is a bar to the suit for e divorce
shall be argued before the Divorce Court.

Nottanois applications are being made by discharged
artisans at Deptford dockyard for • pusage in ths
Government troopships.
11,1014CHLNCIILLOR JANIS has made ma order re-
.tratning the Derporati,m of Leeds from polluting the
riser Aire t.y draining into it the 'sewage of the town.
A HOT was killed and another fatally injured by the
fall of • workhouse wall it Chill, Staffordshire, on
Thursday.

A MIMING was held M Birmingham, on Thursday, to
promote the repeal of the Ottne Laws. A eonimittee
wee formed to too...perste with other bodies.

The Channel *.
bunts Malt., touching on their return at Algiers, the
Aeons. Liebon, and then proceed to England, where
they will very likely arrive early in.the.summ,

Yoesniiiite farmer. Mr: H. Corerdale, near
Melton, has just entered upon his 101st year. Ile his
lived on tbe Archbishop of York's land for 96 years.
He is hearty and generally well.

MIL HORTILT UoILIT. insister painter, Derby. Gut his
titrost. On a shelf in a cupboard was found • scrap of
paper with a pencil on the top of it. On the paper was
written in pencil the following Robert Mosley, of
, committed suicide while not drunk at thie dace."
Theth Loewe,' is said to have been respectably connected.
FATAL ACCIDENT OS • RAILWAY.- On Tuesday on
the Reliant and Northern Counties Railway, its level
OTO•ling the morning train from Larne tame into
collision with a horse and car. The man driving was
killed, and the borne and car out to atoms.
DAVID WILSON, an old man, a steward in the employ
of Mr. Wade. of Clonobroney, county Heath, was
found dead on Thursday I.st in • crushing machine
belonging to his muter, crushed to pieces. A threaten-
ing letter, which accounts for the occurrence, was found
in his pocket, warning him against 111-tees log the mon,
and referring to • ...mutt in his employment.

Toe Bishop of Koster attended a meeting at Ply-
mouth on Thursday for promoting science schools. He
said be was unwilling altogether to remove from those
who sought education of the highest kind the burden
of obtaining it for themselves ; but the poor must be
'sodded, and the best method was the erection of
buildings to start with. Me doubted if Government
would ever undertake the whole charge of scientific
edtteation. and voluntary effort therefore was necessary.
LORD SHANTSYBURT ON EDUCATION. —Tim Berl of
Shaftesbury spoke on Tuesday night at a meeting of the
Young Men's Christian Association, and dwelt upon the
present aspen of the education question. He said Mr.
Forster waa a CUM of great ability and of •sonnd heart.
Mr. Forster bad determined, so far as he was concerned,
that the Bible should not be ejected from schools,
although he could not, of course, enforce it. being read.
Th. matter would be left to local bosirds, and he (the
noble earl) believed that them local boards, In indent°
get rid of the worry in whieh they were sure to be
Involved about religious instruction, would throw
religion overboard altogether, and thus the Government
solieme, without any intention that it should be so,
would become a purely secular system of eduestion.
Thus young men and young isomer' belonging to
Christian damnation' would have their work 10 do.
What must be their preen* mode of action could not be
indicated mita it was semi what worm of action the
meter weuldiale.