The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTOI•TE ON THE CONFEDE-
RATE STATES OF AMERICA.

No sane mind can doubt that the doom of the
North, like that of Rome, is sealed. It is all but
hopelessly bankrupt ; it has no credit or sympathy
in Europe; even the Children of Israel are not
to be tempted to take its green backs or bonds.
The millions of men that were to rise at the
stamp of the President's foot, to rush forward,
grasping the sacred banner of the union, sweep
the surface of the fertile South like the simoon,
scorching and withering everything that should
be sufficiently presumptuous to visit it, have not
yet come forward, nor doea it appear at all
probable that they will ; the conscription cannot
be enforced in the Western States; the taxes
cannot be collected ; out of two hundred and
seventeen generals they have not one soldier;
an army mutinous and demoralised; a disunited
cabinet ; a dissatisfied, despotic ruler; a press
not merely gagged but throttled—choaked ;
liberty of speech gone; in fact, everything per-
taining to freedom gone. Nor will this yoke of
bondage be rendered lighter by the reflection
that they have placed it upon their own necks
—that when, under a paroxysm of insane fury,
they surrendered all their liberties for the pur-
pose of enslaving their brethren of the sunny and
fertile South. But what of the Southern cause
at the present time? At the recent banquet
given him at Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone, after
carefully and generously guarding his hearers
against misconception, uttered a few sound
words, of which the influence will be the greater
for the deliberate manner of their introduction.
"We may have our opinions," he said, "about
slavery ; we may be for or against the South ;
but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and
other leaders of the South have made an army;
they are making, it appears, a navy; and they
have made what is more than either—they have
made a nation." These words will be thu first
strong indication to America, that the time now
draws near when recognition of the South as a
distinct power—not interference, simply re-
cognition of a fact—cannot in common sense and
honesty be any more withheld. The North, of
all other nations, w ill, no doubt be the last to
acknowledge the independence of the South.
They may not do so till there has been a great
deal more of useless carnage and butchery ;
innumerable hospitals again filled and emptied ;
but sooner or later the time must come when
they too will be compelled to admit that union
after all le not work *sir fightiue for.

MR. GLADSTONE AT NEWCASTLE.

Unbelief is to most men an easier thing than
faith, and distrust more natural than confidence.
Those persons who are with difficulty convinced
of the genuineness of any grhat or noble
purpose ; who suspeet some tinderhand
inten-
tion in every profession of the kind; who will
not be persuaded by any means that it is simply
the intention of their fellow-men to do what is
right and proper; Who, with regard to any
question of feet, haee a manner peculiar to
themselves of accepting an asseveration as a dis-
claimer, and understand a denial in an unnatural
sense, are apt to lay claim, too, to a sort of
superior wisdom acquired by their experience of
the world. It consists in a theory of scepticism
against all, save those holding their own creed or
of their own party. With regard to public men,
these amiable critics have no faith ill them what-
ever, unless they happen to belong to the /mine
school at themselves, IloW much Vituperation,for
(maniple, has the Chancellor of the Exchequer
received from the Tory press on account of his
financial policy in general, and his coMmercial
treaty between England and Frew& The
Dorset Chronicle, one of the most bigoted of
antiquated journals,has repeatedly predicted that
nothing could poasibly save this country from
the impending ruin brought about mainly by the
"mad" financial schemes of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Well, we have now had a twelve-
month's trial of the commercial treaty between
the two countries, and what is the result?
During the past few days Mr. Gladstone has
been received on the banks of the Tyne, at New-
castle, Gateshead, Tyneinouth, and South
Shields, as well as at Sunderland and Middles-
borough, with demonstrations of the heartiest
good will. He has been feasted and addressed
by communities having subatantial reasons to be
proud of bin] as a financier—glad also to re-
member how he struck manfully of old at the
doors of the Neapolitan dungeons, and to
recognise in a successful Chancellor of the
Exchequer something that even the most com-
mercial Englishman likes better than financial
skill. On Tuesday evening it ,was Newcastle
that feasted Mr. Gladstone, and the Mayor, in
proposing their guest's health, especially asso-
ciated his name with the treaty of commerce
between England and France; for, as the
corporation of Middlesborough said in
its congratulatory address—" To this large
iron-producing and manufacturing dis-
trict the international treaty has been pro-
ductive of immense benefit ; our greatlk in-
creased trade with Prance Laving to a large
extent made up for our diminished exports to
America." Having referred chief credit for the
treaty to Mr. Cobden and the Emperor of the
French, Mr. Gladstone proceeded to show that as
regards the whole trade of the country, con-
sidered in gross, the gains by the French treaty
rather more than balances loss by the disappear-
ance of trade with America. The average of
yearly exports in British produce and
foreign and colonial produce from this ,
country to France was, before the treaty, less ,
than nine millions and a half. In the first year
which has just elapsed, of commerce under the
new treaty it exceeds twenty-one millions.
In this comparison between out trade with
France before the treaty and that we have since
enjoyed, if we leave out of accottnt foreign and
colonial produce exported from this Country, the
result is still as favourable, for against an
&urinal export before the treaty of British
produce to the value of four millions and three
quarters, we have now to set an export of British
produce to the value of more than ten millions
and a half. If it be said that this increase may
have been caused accidentally by last year's bad
harvest in France, and the consequent demand
on us for corm we may omit from the calculation
all trade in provisions, look only to the export
of our metals and tissues, and find the increase
still greater, as great indeed 88 270 per cent.
The annual exports, which before were worth
£2,457,000, have become in the first
year of trade under the treaty, £6,708,000,
while in the partichlar cage of iron
Manufactures and machinery, which espe-
cially concerned Mr. Gladstone's enter:
tainers, the trade to France has been even
trebled. Cat the Main fact is that the first
year's operations of the French treaty of com-
merce has added about eleven millions and a
half to our trade in exports from this country to
France, a gain which happens by no special fere-
sight to be singularly well timed, &nee it more
than cOvers our lose of nine millions and a half in
exports to America. Tint this is not all. Mr.
Gladstone informs us that a tenth or a twelfth
part of whatever is added to the foreign trade
of the country comes to the revenue in increased I
consumption in tax-paying commodities. If that
be go, the increase of commerce iv the French 1
1 treaty represents in the national income an in-
crease of a million a year from indirect taxation.
In spite, therefore, of loss of trade to America,
of the great distress in Lancashire, of the state
of Ireland, the reductions in taxation and the
abolition of the paper duty, Mr. Gladstone is
able to point to a nominal equality between the
revenue of the country for the last six months,and
the revenue of the country for the same six
mouths last year, a nominal equality, covering a
rise of £600,000 in the yield of taxes now in
operation.

noRcHESTER.-PITCIIED CORN MARKET, Satur-
day% Oct. 11. —The attendance wasgood, and included
many new faces, being buyers from a distance, con-
sequently the trade assumed an improved tone, and
a pretty good clearance of the best samples of all
kinds of grain was effected at late rates. Wheat,
X/ 10s. to £l3 per load ; Barley, 28s. to 375. per qr.
Oats, 21s. to 245. 6d.
MR, T. ENSOR'S REPOSITORY SALE OF HORSES.
—A large number of horses were offered on Satur-
days the 11th October, for which the competi-
tion was very spirited, and the general dull trade
in horse flesh seemed anywhere but present at this
sale.

Al L Saiwrs' CHURCH.—On Sunday last a sermon
on behalf of the Dorset County Hospital was preached
at the above church by the Rev. W. P. Ward;
reciter of Compton Vallehce. The tev, gentleman
took his text from the 2nd chap. of St. Luke, 14
verse :—" Goodwill towards men."—ln the course
of his remarks he eaid that the claims of the county
hospital were well-known to his hearers, the benefits
derived from the institution were El numerous, and
the call it had on their christian liberality was so
well-known to all present, that his object would be
to place before them some of those higher and
holier motives which should induce them to liber-
ally subscribe to its funds. He then proceeded to
show that the great aim and end of Christ's incar-
nation, life, sufferings, and death, was to establish a
kingdom on earth whose members should show
forth by their lives the goodwill of God to man. In
every act of Christian benevolence we had a proof
of this goodwill to man. To enter fully into the
joy of which the angels snake we must ourselves be
influenced by the work and word of Christ. We
must be partakers of lChrist's salvation, before we
can rightly care for the souls and bodies of our
fellow-christians, and it is because the poor and the
suffering are Christ's chosen ones, that the christian
will do all he can on their behalf. Heathen
p'iilosophy never built hospitals for the sick, or
almshouses for the poor, and even the Jews, who
possessed • revelation direct from God, made very
little provision for suffering humanity. Christ being
himself poor and dispised set the example to his
chnrch to care for and provide for those who were
poor and distressed. If we cared not for the
suffering members of Christ's mystical body—the
church—we were not his true disciples. Too often
we set up idols of our own—riches, position, honour,
influence, c., —which we worshipped with the same
senseless ignorance as the heathens their gods of
wood and stone. The true christian would look
upon all he had as but strut given by God for the
good of the souls'and bodies of his fellow-creatures.
Speaking of the hospital, the rev, gentleman said
it was God's work. Those who designed it
drew up a large plan, which at first they were
unable to carry out, but little by little had the
building increased, and its usefulness extended, until
the last niche was filled up by the sanctuary, where
those who had received the benefits derived from
the institution could repair and return their grate-
ful thanks to Almighty God.—The rev, gentleman
concluded his remarks by an earnest appeal on be-
half of the hospital funds. During the singing of
the Evening Hymn, a collection was made, whiah
amounted to £4 6s. Bd.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR, HAW/ULM—Me
mortal remains of this esteemed gentleman were
conveyed to their last resting-place at the cemetery,
on Friday, the 10th inst. The deceased was for
about 50 years a tradesman in Dorchester, and was
much respected for his uprightness in all his business
transactions. The whole of the shops in the line
of route of the funeral procession were closed.
' SUCCESS OF THE DORCHESTER CORPS AT NVEY-
HOUTH.—We have much pleasure in drawing atten-
tion to the success attained by members of the above
corps at the late contest at Weymouth. Private
Hodges secured the All Corners first !arise, value
£l5, Sergeant Homer the 2nd prize, value £6, and
Corporal Chick, the 7th prize, value £l. This is the
second year the first prize for All Corners at the
Weymouth contest has been carried off by the Dor-
chester marksmen.

THE DEiIICASS IN Sr.—Reporte from Wilt-
shire state that the serious malady which recently
attacked the flocks is disappearing, no new cases
having been discovered for the past eighteen days.
The precautionary measures are, however, still
being observed; and in most towns in Wilts,
Somerset, and Dorset, an inspector of flocks has been

appointed. It is stated that another strange
disease has blade its appearance in a district of
north Wilts—namely, diptheria—among the pigs,
eaveral animals having died from this malady in and
arc:ond the village of Lacock, neat Chippenham.

_
Doneintemn Calmest Wile.- —The wind-up
match of the season took place on Tuesday, between
eleven of the "players" and sixteen of the "duffers,"
which terminated in favonr of the latter after some
good play. The "players" Obtained itt their let innings
os, the " (leers" 83, heading their opponents by
24. The " duffers " again took the willow, and
after some admirable batting on the part of the
"boys," retired, leaving the "players" 103 runs to
win. The players then commenced their task, when
three wickets went down for about a score of rune,
and the umpire called "time," the game being thus
decided by the first innings. The play of Mr.
Perilous Mid his Confederate deers *as excellent.
tWe are somewhat surprised that we have not re-
ceived the particulars of the score as heretofore.
Has it been inadvertently Mislaid cir, suppreasedl
The company then adjourned to the Green Dragon,
where an excellent supper was served up by Host
Longman,and the evening with convivially spent. We
wish the Dorchester cricket club all success next
season, and trust that all cricketers will then keep
their temper.
. . .

, COURTY POLIVA, ,SotHEclay,,—DeAmp G. Tryte
Bullock, and C. W. Williams, Evq, —Nilitabeth Miller,
who had been previously dismissed for being drunk
in the boroughs of Weymouth and Dorchester, was
brought up by Snperintendent Underwood for being
drunk and disorderly at Maiden Newton on the
evening of the 9th inst. She said that her husband
was in the publichouse with another woman. He
made inquiry and found,n map there 'with a woman,
but he *as not pinioner's husband.—The defendant
pleaded guilty, but begged heartily to be discharged,
promising never to commit the like offence again.
As, however, she was an old offender, the Bench
committed he for seven day's, without giving her
the option of paying a fine.--John roan, a native
of Crewkerne, working at Rampisham, was charged
with stealing a rabbit, the property of James Darn-
ford, of the Jolly Sailor publichouse. It appeared
that the prisoner and another man went to the
house and had two quarts of cider together,and while
Mrs. Durnford was putting her child to bed, they
left, and the prisoner took one of the two rabbits
hanging up in the room away with him: A man
named John Warr,who was in the room at the time,
saw the prisoner take it. —Prisoner pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced toveeven days' hard labour.
COMMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER GAOL.—ltn-
prisonment : Matthew Randall, drunk, &a., at
Weymouth, 7 days; Eliza Miller, drunk, dtc., at
Maiden Newton, 7 days.—Hard Labour. John
loan, stealing a deacV rabbit at Rampisham, 7 days;
Reuben Keech and George Critchell, poaching at
Abbotalittry, 1 calendar mohth ; John White,
vagrancy at Broadway, 14 days; John Pitman,
poaching at Littlebredv, 3 calendar months; Louisa
Lock, stealing apples at Lytchet Matravers, 2
calendar months; Thomas Amey, poaching at Cram
borne, 1 calendar month ; Robert Edwards,
vagrancy at Shaftesbury, 21 days; Charles Curtis,
leaving family chargable at Marnhull, 1 calendar
month ; John Cotiery, vagrancy at Bradford
Pe verell, S calendar months.

FORDINGTON.—Cetyrioa TO PARENTS. —Last
week a little girl, named Crocker, two years of age,
was poisoned by eating the berries of the Daphne,
at Orove-buildings, Dorchester, and but for the
skilful treatment of Surgeon Panton, at the very
nick of time, her life taunt have been lost. The
Daphne Mezereurn bears a red berry, The bapline
Laureola, or spurge laurel, a black berry, of a
globular shape. From, a medical work of great
aitthoriti we Sad that six of these berries will .kill
a wolf.

WEYMOUTH.—The annual general meeting of
the subscribers to the Literary and Scientific
Institute was held on Wednesday. Mr. Mace pre-
sided, and from the report submitted to the meeting
and approved, it appeared that during the last year
the total tecelpta—including 18s. ld contribttted
towards paying offthe old debt—had been £l6B 6s. 6d.
The expenditure—including £25 for paying off the
old debt—had, during the same time been £167
14s, led., leaving a balance of lie. 81. in the hands
of the treasurer. Two years ago the old debt
amounted to £llO, since which time £47 have been
paid off, leaving the Institute £63 in debt. The
committee of last year was reappointed, and the
name of Mr. J. G. Brown was added in the room
of that of the late Mr. tuck. A vote of thanks to
the chairman terminated the proceedings.

FAITRIONABLE ARRIVATM,A+ IJI7IgI3ON TIOTISL.
and Mrs. Campbell Wyndham; Miss Berner j
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Eitzpatrick ; Mr. and Mrs.
Gibson; Mr. and Mrs. Mama; Captain and Mrs.
Law; Rev. W. and Mrs. Heathcate ; Mr. D.
Heathcote, R.N. ; Mr. and Mrs. Orrell ; Mr.
and Mrs. J. hunter; Mr. and Mrs. Gore
Langton; Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Rowker. ,•
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor ; Miss Anley ; Mr. and
Mrs. Flenning ; Captain Dressing; Captain James ;
Mr. W. Mornburgh ; Captain Mahony ; Mr. E.
Temple ; Mr. and Master Gabourel ; and Mr. and
Mrs. Worrell.
WIMNBSDAY'S FOLlOS—Elizabeth Miller, who
was found by P.C. Rowring lying on the paveincilt
on the previous evening in a state of intoxication,
W. 46 disraivsed on promising to leave the town.—
Matthe* Randall, was also charßed with drunkenness
and violence at the police cell. It appeared that
on the arrival of the Channel Islands steamer on
the previous evening, Matthew was on the quay,
drunk, and causing an obstruction by jostling against
the porters. He also struck one of them in the
month. On being taken to the police cell he
behaved in a Very iriolent matitteri. and it was
from no lack of effort that the Townhall was not
kicked down. As he was an old offender, he was
committed for a week.

COUNTY COURT. —Mr. Judge Everett held his
monthly court at the Townhall on Thursday. There
were the usual number of cases, but as usual the
greater portion of them were settled out of court.
The most important. of those which same on for
hearing was that of Williatn Taylor ti John Honey-
butand Job Gill.--Mr. Howard appeared for the
plaintiff, a wheel-chairman, and Mr. Hill for the
defendant. The action was brought to recover the
valne of two pigs. Aocording to the statement of
the plaintiff his wife wet the daUghter of the de
fencrant Honeybun. they lodged at Honeybun's
for upwards of two years, when a disturbance
arose, and he left. He then had two pigs in the stye
which he bought of a man named Rogers.
On the 28th August last he took P.C. Harvey with
him, and went and demanded his pigs. Honeybun
said they were his, and wonld not give them up;
adding that be had given most of the money to pay
for them, and that he (plaintiff,) had pawned his
watch to pay the remainder. He went again subse-
quently, and found the pigs were gone. He after-
wards found they were at Mr. Gill's He went
there, and that gentleman told him that he had
bought them for £3,and that he might have them if he
paid the money. The value of the pigs was £4 10s.
In cross-examination plaintiff said he had no agree-
ment as to what he should pay his father-in-law for
lodgings. He never agreed to pay 2s. 6d. a week.
When he left in August last, he left his wife behind
him, and he had paid nothing towards her support
since. When he asked Floneybun for the pigs he did
not say he might have them as soon as he had paid
the bill he owed him. He had never paid him any-
thing on account of rent. Ile believed that his wife
bad paid Mr. Welsford, solicitor, £2, but he did
not know.—James Knight, another wheel-chairman
was called to prove that he went with plaintiff to
Mr. Gill's, and that the latter said he had bought
the pigs for £3, and had paid the plaintiff's wife.
P.C. Harvey said that in August last, he want with
plaintiff to Honeybun's house, and told him Taylor
was come after the pigs. Defendaet said he should
not have them, as they belonged to him.—Samuel
Rogers, innkeeper, proved selling the pigs to the
plaintiff.—Mr. Hill then addressed the court for the
decency°. He stated that had he been consulted
earlier, he slioald have brought a crofts-action, as the
plaintiff owed the defendant a much larger sum than
the value of these pigs. Besides which, he had left
his wife wholly unprovided for, and these pigs were
sold partly for her maintenance.—John Honey.
bun said he was a wheel-chairman, and also fore-
man to the National Land Drainage Society.
The defendant, after marrying his daughter,
wished to come to his house to lodge with him, and
he turned out parties who were occupying two un-
furnished rooms at 2s. 6d. a week, and put furniture
in for defendant and his wife to occupy at 2s. 6d. a
week. They had paid him during the two years
they had been there, £3 10a After defendant left
his wife, he came for the pigs, and he told the
policeman who came with him that he might have
them if he paid what was owing. The defendant
owed him £lO 15s.—Emma Taylor„ plaintiff's wife,
said that the lodgings were taken at 2s. 6d. per
week. When her father and mother were away,
they wrote to her to pay money to Mr. Welaford
instead of paying it to them, for rent. On one
occasion, therefore, she paid £2, and on another
occasion 30s on their account. Her husband was
with her on these occasions. She had also paid her
father's money for her father to Mr. Welsford.—The
wife of defendant said that she heard Taylor
say he did not care about the pigs so
long as he got his clothes away.—The
Judge, in slimming up, said that he did
expect, at one period during the hearing, that there
would have been a case of wife desertion proved,
but it did not appear that the wife had ever applied
to him for maintenance, or that he had ever refused
her being where he was. Under these circum-
stances she could not sell the pigs for her own
maintenance without her husband's consent. With
regard to the pigs, the defendant Honeybun might,
had he chosen, have kept the pigs, if he had a lien
on them ; but he could not sell them without going
through the usual formalities of distreas and sale.
Without this he had no right to sell them, nor had
Gill any right to buy, and both therefore became a
party to the action. Ile should, therefore, give
judgment for the plaintiff for £4 lOs —Mr. Hill
asked that judgment might be stayed till next court,
in order that defendant might bring an action
against the plaintiff for the amount of rent owing.
The Judge thought this a reasonable request, igAct
judgment was accordingly stayed.

THII PUOlterT SUBSOMPTION.—R. Griffin, req., who
has so zealously and nobly exerted himself towards
raising a fund for the supeort of the widow and daugh-
ters of the late lii. Puckett, *he *as tense time sihce
so cruelly murdered, has just issued the &Bowing
report. Ladies, my Lords, and Gentlemen,—As
treasurer to tub find raised for the benefit of the
widow, "Mid sueb members of the (Melly of the late
Mr. Adam Stapleton Puckett as the trustees may deem
it desirable to assist," I beg to render you an account ol
my stewardship. Since the melancholy death of the
late Mr. Puckett there has been subscribed £1,016
19s. 6d., which, niinus expenses, I have handed over
to the following geetiethen, who )lave, kindly consented
to act as trustees, via. :—Colonel Gilpin, M.P., Hock-
life Grange, Leighton Blizzard, who for many years has
been a kind friend to the family of the deceased ; the
Rev. Talbot Hastings 13endall Baker, Vicar of Preston-
cum-Sutton Poynts, in which parish the murder was
committed ; and the Rev. Edward Headland, rector of
Broadway. id which village the deceased resided. A
wish has teen expreeSed that I should be one of the
trustees, and as the gnaidiatie, who hats stibscribed
£5O from the conurion fund and have leditieleally don-
tributed liberalle, have expreseed a desire that one of
their bode; should also be a,irstate, and bete named
Mr. Richard Luelchain, uf BroildWae, as their repre-
sentative, our names have been inserted in the trust
deed, but as the bank directors will only allow the
names of three trustees to appear on the bank books,
the money has been vested in the name of the three
first gentlemen, but in all other respects the power of
the five trustee's will be equal. /n order 49 obtain as
large an annual Memo is podaible the trustees have
invested £BlO be. 841. in East India Stock; (a,„fund
guaranteed by Parliament), which will bring in £37 per
annum; and on November 24th, the anniversary of
Mrs. Puckett's birth, they intended to sink with the
Norwich Union Life Office, where the deceased had
insured his own life, the sum of £l6l 7s. Bd., for which
the widow will receive £l5 per annum, thus securing
tot her an minuet income of 02. The trustees deem it
right te reserve the arrangement for the final diatribu-
tion of the fund until .after the death of the widow,
fearing that if a vested interest were given in the
money, the truitees would hate no power to prevent
its anticipation ; they however trust that no cause
will arise to prevent its equal distribution
aniongst the four children of the deceased, or, in
ease of death, their representatives. The press—general,
local, and medical—have most liberally thrown open
their pages to this appeal. The bankers of this town,
Messrs. Eliot and Co., Messrs. Williams, and the Wilts
and Dorset Company, together with the proprietors
of the public libraries—Archer, Tucker, and Sherren—
have most generously rendered us their aid. My co-
trustees helve been most isealous in the muse, and
through their influence a large amount of Money lies
been subscribed. Many of my medical friends have
canvassed most energetically for subscriptions, and
have been well repaid for their labour by the large
collections they have made, and others, unsolioited,have
forwarded me donations. At the request of the widow
and family, and in the words of one of its members, I
beg to return "their deep and heartfelt gratitude for
the kind and munificent manner in which they have
been supported by the public in their heavy bereave-
ment cud affliction ;" withput this aid Mrs. Puckett
would soon have been destitute, 585 after the payment
of the debts of the deceased out of the proceedi of the
policy of insurance for £2OO, and the sale of the medi-
cal effects, his furniture being reserved for the widow.
the only balance left is about £25; and even this small
surplus arises from the generosity of the creditors, some
of whom gave up the whole amount due to them,
(Gale, Baker, and Ward, about £10) and most of them
riled° a reduction. As a brother medical officer of the
deceased, I also beg to thank you all. ,I have the
honour to be, Ladies, my lords, and gentlemen, your
obedient servant, RICHARI) GRIFFIN, JP., Treasurer.—
Then follows a list of the subscribers, from which it
appears that there were six from £lO to £so—
at £lO each, nine at £5 ss. each, twenty-nine at
£.5 eaoh, six at £3 3s. each, seven at £.3 each, thirty-
six at £2 2s, each, thirty-three at £2 each, one hundred
and twenty-five at £1 Is. each, one hundred and forty-
two at £1 each, thirty-four at 10s. dd. each, one hun-
dred and thirty-four at 10s. earth, ninety-nine at 6s.
each, fifty:seven at 2s. 6d. each, thirtyseight odd sums,
amounting to £33 165., making a total of. 764 subscri-
bers, producing the sum of £1,016 19s. 6d., as &iota
stated.
PORTLAND—A Sue.mer WORTHY OF Conine-
-ItAnoN.—.l.ll our list of deaths to-day is that of
police-constable George Fripp. It appears that he
was on duty at Castletown on Friday afternoon
when he Was at first seized with giddiness, and after •
Wards With lots of tonseichienerm He Was taken to
the Castle Inn, and a surgedn *NS sent for, but
medical assistance was without avail, and he died
in the course of the evening. Epilepsy has been
returned in the medical certificate as the immediate
cause of death, bilt there is no doubt that the
indirect cause was a wound which he reeeived on
the head about 18 months since, while endeavouring
to quell a row that had been got up by some
soldiers bolong,ing to the 49th regiment of Foot then
stationed at Portland. It will be remembered that
he then received such severe injuries on the head
from tile bludgeons and
,stones of the infuriated
soldiers, who swore they eeotild have the
life of some one before they desisted, es
to confine him to his home for a long
time ; and although he afterwards sufficiently
recovered to resume his duties, he frequently com-
plained of giddiness and pain in that part of the
head where, the most serious injuries bad been
indicted. By his death the county has lost one of
its best servants in the constabulary force, and a
widow and three small children have been
thrown upon the tender mercies of the world
wholly unprovided for—the Constabulary Super-
annuation Fund, we understand, not being applicable
in their ease. But ought not the county to do
something for the bereaved t The husband and the
father—he to whom the wife and children looked
as their natural protector and support, met with a
blow while in the zealous discharge of his public
duties, by which lie Can
,no more exert himself
towards their sustenance. Portland is an expensive
place to live in, and it is not probable that the
deceased was enabled to lay by anything out of his
wages towards a rainy day. Shall the wail of the
widow and the cry of the fatherless be vain? We
sincerely trust that some one will put forth her
claims before the publld, and that the county gentle-
men and all who have ought to gite--,-and there are
few but could spare a trifle—will nobly respond to
the call. It is truly a case that commends itself to
the sympathy of the public.
STRATTON. MARRIAGE REJOICINGS. On
Tuesday there was an arrival of a happy pair, not
of Turtle Doves, but of real Chicks ; and so gay was
the costume that we can bat exclaim that if ever
fine feathers made line birds nothing was wanting
on this score. Arches were erected, not as perches
for the birds, but to give effect to the graceful nod
of the head, Tail corn was. no offered, but even
the dress of the labourers was of the best; audit was
intended to draw the happy pair home, but they
winged their way home without, as nature taught
them it was better to Fly it, withoutithe help of the
chrietian ponies.
WA REHAB& —We beg to call attention to an '
advertisement which appears in another column
announcing that the ploughing match in connection
with the Wareham and Purheck Labourers' and
Servants' Friend Society will take place on Thurs-
day the 23rd inst., at 10 o'clock a.m., in a field at
Worgrett ; and that the annual dinner will take
place at the Black Bear Hotel, in the afternoon of
the same day, when henry Ker Seymer, Esq.,M.P.,
will preside.

POOLE.—BRANICSEA. —The perpetual curacy of
St. Mary's Church, in this island has been pre-
sented by Colonel Waugh to the AEA,. G. Alston,
rector of Studland, in which parish the island is
included. • _

SWANAGE. —INCENDIARY FIE.-We regret to
announce that a destructive fire occurred at the
farm, White Cliff, on Thursday night about
11 o'clock. The fire appears to have been first ob-
served by the coast-guard, who, with the crew of
the Gertrude cutter, headed by their commander,
were quickly on the spot, and no doubt to their
praiseworthy and unceasing exertions must the
saving of a large amount of valuable property be
attributed. The loss is estimated at about £3OO.
Foremost among those who assisted were Mr. Field,
artist, residing at White Cliff, police-constable
Clean, and about half-a-dozen active young men
from Swanage. The inmates were only made con-
scious of their danger when the coastguard arrived;
and we trust that their services will be suitably
acknowledged and amply rewarded. There appears
very little doubt that the farm was set on fire by an
incendiary.
BLANDFORD. —A very interesting lecture was
delivered on Friday by Mr. Artie, under the patron-
age of the Blandford Literary Institute. The chair
was taken by the Rev. W. Harte. On Wednesday
a musical entertainment will be given by Mies Julia
Bleaden and Mrs. Nicholson.

AN INcomitoins..—George Vince, who has been
repeatedly convicted of drunken and riotous con-
duct, was brought before W. C. Fincham, Esq.,
(mayor,) for the a like offence committed on the pre-
vious Saturday night, and failing to obtain bail, him-
self in £5, and two sureties in 50a each, was com-
mitted for three months.

DORSET AND SOMERSET RAILWAY.—On Friday a
Board meeting of the Directors of the Dorset Cen-
tral and Somerset Central Amalgamated lines was
held at the Crown HoteL The chair was taken by
Lord Rivera, and there were also present H. Ker
Seymer, Esq., M.P., Henry Seymour, Esq., M.P.,
and the greater part of the directors. The usual
business was tranucted.

RIFLE CONTEST. —On Monday and Tuesday the
annual prize shooting of the Blandford corps took
place at the race course. Fortunately the weather
was favourable, and the proceedings excited a con-
siderable amount of interest. The first prize, a
silver cup, presented by Major D'Oyley, was won
by Sergeant Meaden who with Sergeant Groves
made 31 points at 200 and 300 yards. In shooting
off, after another tie, Sergeant Groves missed, and
Sergeant Meaden made a centre. The second prize,
.£2, given by J. T. King, Esq., for the best score at
both ranges (not being the winner of the cup) thus
fell to Sergeant Groves. Captain Hambro and
Ensign Atkinson declining the prizes of 20s. for the
next best score at the above ranges, one was awarded
to Private Gulliver, and the other will be shot for
by Sergeant Wareham, Corporal Davis, and Corporal
Kent. The shooting for the money prizes, given
by the officers of the corps and other gentlemen,
then commenced, five rounds at 200, 400,
.and 600
yards. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed
with the ammunition supplied by Government, and
in consequence of its inferiority the shooting was
but moderate. The first prize, £B, was won by
Lance-Corporal &clout, and with it the challenge

cross of the company, fur the highest score of the
day at all ranges (32). This is tho second year
Corporal Ridout has won the cross, which, after
another year's conquest, will be his own. The
second prize of Ms. fell to Private Charles Gosh
the third, au, to Private James Payne (who last
year won a very handsome writing desk); Privates
Martin and Ames divided the fourth and fifth
prizes, of 20s. and 10s. each. Ensign Atkinson and
Drill-Sergeant Fitzpatrick scored 26 each for the
sixth prize, and the Ensign, although winning the
tie (and with a bull's-eye too), very handsomely re.
signed the prize to Fitzpatrick. Sergeant Groves
won the seventh prize, but having previously won a
money prize, he was obliged by the rules of the con.
test to resign this to the next highest scores, viz.,
Privates E. Ridout and T. Mace, who divided that
and the eighth prize. Two or three additional prizes
were given, one by Mr. Hector, 20s. ' • another 20s.
by Mr. T. M. Park, and a third by Mr. Robert
Eyers' bandmaster to the Bth Dorset V.R.C., 225.,
which have yet to be decided. The cup was pre-
sented on the ground to the winner by the infant
daughter of Major trOyley, and the worthy baronet
expressed his gratification at Mr, Meaden's success.
Enthusiastic cheers were then given for the absent
gallant major' and the whole affair passed off most
satisfactorily.

wHrrcHURCH.—TEm PER A Nei PONES'? Y: -Th e
seciond annual festival of the Whitchurch Tempel.,
since Society WA held 07 Monday, the 6th inst.
The weather WM propitious, and the festival was
hailed with feelings of gladness by a large number
of the inhabitants of fhb tillage and neighbourhood.
The energetic executive had flits year intended
that the celebration should in no way show signs of
degeneracy as compared with the previous &finis
winery, and accordingly every attention had been
paid by them to the various preliminaries of the
proceedings. The members and friends met at the
National School-room at 2 o'clock, and in about half-
an-hoar all was ready for "the start." The pro•
cession left, en route for the residence of Mrs.
Michel, in the following order 1-Two young men
carrying national flags-Temperinee braes band-
Two boys with a banner-Boys two and two with
bannerets- -Two girls with a'banner-Two gift with
bannerets-Two boys with flags-The committee
-Members- Visiting members-Tri-coloured flag-
The procession extended to a considerable distance,
and on leaving the Manor House the village was
perambulated, the company returning to the school-
room *betide they had started. Joy beamed on
every countenance, and the Whole affair had a pretty
effect. The school-room was taitefully decorated
with evergreens and banners bearing apptopriate
mottoes and designs. Amongst the latter was a
labourer's padding, showing the proportions that go:
to the brewer, publican, dte., when the working ,
man spends his wages in liquor, and the miserable
pittance left for his wife and family. " A thing
who drinks and smokes" was also exhibited in con-
trast with "The man who thinks and acts ;" de-
signed to Show the moral and physical difference be-
tween the drunkards and total abstainers.
We need hardly say that in these exhi-
bitions the total abstainers had far the best of it.
The cravings of the inner man having been gratiffed
from the well-spread tables laden with viands of the
best description, a large fire balloon was sent up as
a signal for the commencement. of the public meet-
ing. The balloon ascended almost perpendicularly
, till it had attained a great elevation, when it was
carried in a north-easterly direCtion till lost to view.
Shortly afterwards the school-room was crowded to
excess, and many were unable to obtain ingrw.
The meeting was presided over by Jr. J. Veer,
from Seirminater Marshall, in the absence of J. C.,
Mansel, Esq. The arrangements were :-Melody,
" Crystal Spring." by- Mr. Shave and daughter;
4ddrese by Mr. Hunt; Melody, "The Pump," by
Mr. Gatehouse; Address by Mr. Tronlan ;
"Dialogue," between Diana and Dinah Snook ;
"The Fairies," Calcot, by the band; address
by Mr. Stout; Recitation, "Miss Sobriety," by
Dinah Snook; Melody, "The Husband's Dream,'
by Mr. R. Blanchard; "The Grand March,"
Handel, by the band ; Melody, "Alcohol," by Mr.
Gatehouse; Dialogue, "The Temperance Clock,"
Diana and Dinah Snook; Melody, "The Taproom
Bar," Mr. R. Blanchard ; tune, "Home, sweet
Home ; finale=" God Save the Queen." The ad-
dreams were richly interspersed with humour, and
were admirably adapted to impress the working-
man with the idea that the safest side of a public-
house is the outside, and that it was his own fault
if he failed to rise in the social scale to the position
of respectability and worth, Altogether the meeting
was one of social recreation and improvement.
There was, however, one circumstance which some-
what tended to mar the proceeding& While true of
the speakers was touchingly alluding to the distress
in Lancashire, an ignorant bumpkin, whose heart
we stippose must have been something akin to the
nether millstone, interrupted the gentleman addres-
sing them by asking "What have Lancashire to do
with Dorset ?" We have since heard that he had
recently come from a neighbouring publichouse, and
that he had been pretty well primed with the land-
lord's XXX. -To the committee great praise is due
for the way in which the arrangements were carried
out, and many will undoubtecUy look back upon the
day as a red letter one in their calendar.-(Com-
municated.
SIIERBORNE. -FICK MONDAY Fain, October
13.- About the usual number of sheep penned, and
with a good attendance of purchasers a quick sale
was effected at very high rates. purchasers,
of good
quality was scarce, but notwithstanding the high
prkies asked, was eagerly caught at.

PRIZE RIFLE SHOOTING AT YEOVIL.
The rifle shooting for prizes took place on Thurs.
day at the butts. The wind at the commencement
ot the shooting was very strong and gusty, coming
direct across the line of fire, which placed the com-
petitors in a somewhat difficult position as how to
aim. However, during the day the wind lulled,
and the weather was very fine for shooting. The
visitors at the commencement of the match were
very scanty, but in the afternoon there was a toler-
ably numerous sprinkling, not only of gentlemen
but also of ladies, who seemed much interested in
the shooting. Amongst those present were
the Rev. Mr. Malloch, rector of Barwick, Mrs. and
Miss Malloch, Mr. and Mrs. Cave and party, Mrs.
and Miss Messiter, H. Batten, Esq., John Glyde,
Req., Phillips, Esq., F. Greenham, Esq.
Neale, Esq., Woodgate, Esq., Brown, Esq.,
Mr. Gilbert, &c. Much praise is due to Mr. Mont-
gomery, the corps drill-instructor, for his strenuous
exertions in instructing the members of the corps in
rifle practice. Colour•sergeant Thomas William
Groves ably officiated as. umpire, and the weapons
used were the long Enfield rifles, and the minimum
pull of trigger 61b., with Wimbledon targets and
Hythe position. Shortly after 10 o'clock the corn.
petitors, 18 in number, proceeded to shoot for the
first prize, which was
A Claret Jug (presented by Captain Messiter.)-300
and 500 yards (open to first and second class members),
5 rounds at each range.
300 yds. 500 yds. Grand
pts. bite. pts. Tot.
Captain biessiter ... 2 2 2 4 10
Ensign Watts .. 5 5 5 8 23
Colour-Sergeant Chaffin 3 4 0 0 7
Sergeant Cox ... 1 1 0 0 2
„ Raymond ... 2 2 2 3 9
1 Milborne ... 4 7 4 6 21
„ Wad man ... 2 2 1 1 6
I Corporal Jennings ... 4 5 4 5 18
Priests Oliver ... 5 10 1 3 19
„ Pavitt ... 4 5 2 3 14
„ Jones ... ... 3 3 1 1 8
„ Matthews ... 4 6 0 0 10
„ Trent ... ... 4 5 5 6 17
Stickland ... 4 9 1 1 15
„ Firth ... ... 4 6 4 6-20
„ Woodman ... 2 4 2 2 10
~ Burt ... ... 2 2 2 2 8
„ Plowman 3 6 0 0 -- 9

It will be seen from the above score that the shoot-
ing on the whole was moderately good, and the prise
was won by Ensign Watts, who scored 23, not missing
the target once. This oontest caused great excitement,
as at the first distance, 300 yards, Private Oliver's
shooting was vary good, making respectively three
centres, a bull's eye, and an outer, 15 points, whilst
Private Stickland was not far behind, making three
centres, • bull's eye, and • miss, making 13, whilst the
successful shot made an outer every time, which gave
him 10. At 500 yards, however, affairs took • different
turn, and it was at this range that Ensign Watts left
his competitors behind, scoring respectively three
fluters, a bull's eye, and a centre, 13 points, whilst
Private Stickland and Oliver each missed the white
faced gentleman four times, and at this range the
former only made an outer, and the latter a bull's eye.
The next contested for was

A Long Enfield Rifle (presented by Ensign Watts and
Hon. Assistant-Surgeon Tomkynn—Ranges 200, 400,
and 500 yards (open to first and second class members),
5 rounds at each range.
200 yds. 400 yds, 500 yds.
hits. pts. hits. pts. hits. pte. Tot
Capt. Measlier 4 5 3 6 1 1 20
Col.-Sgt. Chaffin 4 4 2 3 4 5 22
Sergeant Cox 5 8 5 8 3 4 33
„ Raymond 4 5 4 10 4 6 33
„ Milborne 5 6 5 6 3 4 29
„ Wildman 3 4 4 8 2 5 26
Corpl. Jennings 3 3 5 11 5 12 39
Private Trent 5 5 4 4 3 5 26
„ Stickland 4 4 1 1 1 1 12
„ Pavitt 5 7 2 2 2 4 22
„ Firth 3 4 2 3 3 5 20
„ Taylor 2 2 8 9 2 2 22
„ Woodman 4 6 4 4 5 7 30
„ Jones 2 5 5 7 2 4 25
„ W, Winter 1 1 1 1 0 0 4
„ R. Winsor 4 5 3 5 0 0 17
„ Burt 3 3 5 8 2 2 23
„ Matthews 5 5 0 0 2 2 14
„ Oliver 4 6 4 7 0 0 21
„ Plowman 3 4 2 3 3 3 18
„ Brooks 3 4 0 0 0 0 7
The wind when this prize was shot for wan somewhat
abated, and the shooting was pronounced by those com-
petent to give an op;nion on the matter as excellent,
Sergeant Cox's shooting at 200 yards was very good.
making three centres, and two °uteri (13,) whilst Cor-
poral Jennings, who won the prise, oily soored 6. At
the next range, 400 yards, Sergeant Cox again made
the same number with precisely the same bite as
before, but it was here, good as his shooting was, that
he was obliged to succumb to his opponent, who made
some beautiful hits, scoring 16, having two bull's eyes,