The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

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bail 7-total 28. In custody, for trial at the Lent
Moises, 6 mete.; and on bail for trial at the Anises, 3.
Tbe neinber of prisoners committed during the year,
189; earns quarter last year, 240. Number of daily
average in gaol this year 106; same quarter last year
136. No corporal punishments had been inflicted, but
9 had received ordinary punishment. The disburse-
ments of the quarter had been £7Bl lid. ; same
quarter last year, £BBB 19s. 73. The average price of
wheat per load had been, £l4 to.; same quarter last
year, £162. The price hi the 21b. loaf, lid. ; last year,
lid. The maintenance coat per head of prisoners had
been 2s. Bd.- salaries 2s. 10d. ; warming, lighting,
clothing, &a.' 2a. 63. Total cost of maintenance per head,
Be., last year the cost was 6a. 3d. per head. This increase
was mainly attributable to the fact of only ai Is.
having been received towards the support of naval
prisoners. The Committee recommended that the
apace between the two lodges be covered in with •
roof of wrought iron and Hadley's roof glass, at a coat
of £36.-The adoption of the report having been
moved and seconded, the Cliairman drew the attention
of the Visiting Justices to the necessity, in the event of
offences being committed by prisoners, to distinguish
between indictable and non-indictable offences. During
the previous quarter, a prisoner attempted to destroy
himself, and the Visiting Justices punished him sum-
marily, whereas that was an indictable offence, and
should have been brought before the Court of Quarter
Sessions.-The report was received and adopted.
BalDGlin AND BUILDING/1.-Mr. C. J. Parks pre-
sented the report of the Bridges and Building Com-
mittee. The expenditure had been,bridgee, £9B 12s 10d.;
gaol, £l9B 7s. 10d. ; hall, £lO5 4s. fki. •. house, £122
lls. id. • sundry 'works in progress, £175 2s. 11d.-
beta, rioo. The eqannittee had received • letter from
Mr. Carrington, brevier, Swanage, complaining of the
occasional overflowing of the river into the brewery,
sawed by the accumulation of shingle at its mouth,
and requesting its removal, but the Committee did not
think the expenses should devolve upon theeounty. The
report was received and adopted.
FINANOR REPOII2.-Mr. J. J. Farquharson brought
up the report of the Finanoe Committee, which set
forth that the quarter's expenditure had been £3,204
13.., while the receipts, included the balance of £2,219
Its. 43. in hand at the last sessions, • county rate of id.
amounting to £1,678 0.. 94. paid at the last sessions;
weights and measures, fines, penalties, &c., £134 5a 44.
with • treasury order of £7Ol 3s. 43. making £4,933
sa. Deducting, therefore, the sum of £8,204 £3., there
remains a balance of £1,528 12*. 44. available towards
the expenses of the coming quarter, The committee
recommended • rate of three farthings in the for
the expenses of the ensuing quarter. Mr. Farqubarsou
concluded by moving the adoption of the report, which
was agreed to.
LUNATIC! Floyer brought up the re-
port of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic
Asylum. Nothing had occurred in the asylum during
the past year calling for special remerk. The number
of patients in the Asylum, December 31st, 1860, were:
males, 87, females, 93. Admitted since: males, 27;
females 19. Died since males, 7; females, 5; dis-
charged : melee, 10; females 18; leaving at present;
males, 98; females, 89-total 187. At Fiabertom, on
December3l, 1860: males, 18; females, 32; admitted
since • males, 4; females 2. Died: males, 1; females,
4 ; die:charged : males,l ; females, 1; leaving at present
at Fisherton ; males, 90; females, 49-totals 69. The
inmates had been remarkably free from bodily ailments,
and set a single accident of note had osourreci. The
cost of maintenance in the four quarters had-been at
the rate of 7s. 7d., 75., and Gs. 54. per head per week.
The diminution of the rate was mainly to be attri-
buted to supplies which came from the farm. The
provisions and stores had been good, and
the contracts generally well fulfilled. With
regard to the new asylum, little at the close of
last year, had been done to new buildings beyond laying
the foundations, which had been completed nearly
throughout. Not much progress was made in the first
two or three months of the building. In the month of June
the works began to advance more rapidly, and the same
satisfactory rat* of progress had been generally con-
tinued to present date. The Committee, however, did
not consider that the contractor had made up for the
time lost in the early part of the year. The report made
by the architect to the committee was referred to.
The receipts on the building amount was
£24,264 19s. 64.; the expenditure, £15048, 138. sd. The
following contracts had been taken: Lock, meat, £214
per cwt.; Drake, per 411) loaf, 6d. &emus, cheese,
El. 16s. per cwt. Eldridge & Mason, ale, id per gallon.
&Lowey', barley meal, 17s. 63; coals: Walsend, El ss.
per ton; Redatock, 13e. &I. ; small ditto, 12s. 64. Mr.
Floyer entered into • long explanation of the present
state of affairs in connectioo with the asylum,
and concluded by moving the adoption of the report.
-Agreed to.
C 01.1317 CONSTAIMLABT,- Col. T. P. Mensal brought
up the police report. The Committee had had their
attention drawn by the chief constable to • communi-
cation made to him by the borough of Bridport. relative
to the building of • new polies station for the borough,
and inquiring whether any sum would be contributed
towards it from the county fund, inasmuch as the cells
were more for the general county purposes than for those
of the borough. The Committee, hoWever, did not re-
commend that there should be any grant towards such
expenses, on the ground that the Town Council of the
borough had the power, with the sanction of the Secre-
tary of State, of determining the terms of the agree-
ment of consolidating their police with those of the
county at any future time, on giving proper notice and
as it also appeared by a return produced to the notice,
by the chief constable, that out of 263
prisoners confined in the lock-up of the borough,
between the 18th of January,„ 1858, and the
16th May, 1860, only 24 belonged to the county
and oto the boroilgh. o 1 Lyme Resit. The re-
ceipt' of the quarter had been £4,403 13.. sd. and the
expenditure £3,306 12*. 24., leaving e balance of
£1,099 is. 3d. in hand. The estimates of the ensuing
quarter were E 2,112 15e. 3d. The superannuation
fund now amounts to £2,000 Bs. 44. The Committee
recommended a rate of a farthing in the £ to be paid
one week before the next sessions. A letter from the
Secretary of State had been received, certifying that
1 the police fore* had been maintained in a state of
' efficiency during the whole year ending September
30th. The cost of inspecting weights and measures
had been £5 Be. 104., and the fees received a 10s. 74.
' Dgring the quarter 30 persons had been convicted
belere the magistrates, and the amount of penalties
that had been paid had been 321 s*. 64. The report,
en the motion of Colonel Mansel, was received and
adopted:
Cute, Co 33333 Llels Itseose:-The Chief Constable
reported that in compliance with the instructions re-
ceived from Her Majesty's Secretary of State, he had
laid before the Justices a return of the number and dis-
tribution of the police force, and a return of the state
if crime for the past quarter. The number of perm),
taken into custody was 238, being • decrease of the
corresponding quarter last year of 20. Of the number
apprehended, 79 had been discharged, 122 summarily
convicted, and 27 committed for trial. The number
of persons summoned during the quarter had been 159.
Mr. H. Williams rose to move • resolution of which
he lied given notice, as follows :-That the commence-
ment of the judicial or criminal business of the
Quarter Sessions of this county be altered from Wed-
nesday, the 2n4, to Tuesday, the Ist day of the
Sessions-That the Grand and Petty Juries, and all
prosecutors and witnesses be required to be in attend-
ance on the opening of the Court, at 11 o'clock on the
Ist day of the Sessions-That the Chairman do then
deliver his charge to the Grand Jury, and that they
do afterwards withdraw to their room, to consider the
bills of indictment to be preferred, and that the trials
of prisoners be then proceeded with • but that all
appeals be tried as at present, on Wednesday, the 2nd
day of the Seuions."-Mr. Williams said the idea had
not originated with him, but the late chairman of the
Quarter Sessions had spoken of it. He, Mr. Williams,
considered that the change would he beneficial to those
who reside in distant parts of the county. The
system was pursued in Cornwall and Somerset, and
was found to work welL -The Chairman mentioned
several parties connected with the sessions to whom
the change would be inconvenient, particularly the
counsel and solicitors not resident in the town, the
petty juries, dte, while the expense to the county
would be greatly increased by witnesses being two days
from home instead of ones-Mr. Williams withdrew his
motion.

LORD FORTRAN ON THE DEATH OF THE
PRINCE CONSORT.
In charging the grand jury on Wednesday, Lord
Portman asked the foreman to affix his signature to
kheaddress of condolence to the Queen, temarking
that as the Grand Jury represented the great body
of the county, they would feel, in commot with all
her Majesty's subjects, anxious to take any step to
alleviate the Queen's sorrew by sympathising with
her gild. He need hardly remind them that every
soul in this country oommissarated the Queen, who
was left a widowed mother at the head of a large
family. They could all realise the feelings of
person placed in such painful circumstances; but
when they contemplated the momentous duties which
the Sovereign of this empire had to discharge, in
addition to her domestic responsibilities, they must
pray Almighty God to strengthen Her Majesty with
a double portion of his grace. Nothing so greatly
relieved sorrow as the consciousness that the sufferer

had the heartfelt symyathy of all neighbours and
friends. He was sure Her Majesty had that sym-
pathy as she lived in the heart of every subject in
the country. Our consolation amidst our affliction
was that we had a united people who would do all
they could to lessen the anxieties of their Sovereign
by striving to do their duty to their Queen
and country more fervently than here-
tofore. Respecting the late Prince Consort
he might know as much or more than any
one of His Royal Highness —he had almost designated
him, their lamented friend. Than who had been
eonnected with him in any business matters must
have felt that he desired to be the friend of all with
whom he was essociaged. Whether in the great busi-
ness of State, or in fuetcering the interest+ of agri-
culture, or in administering the property of his son,
it had always been his object to do that which was
right and courteous to all persons. I have heard
him—added his Lordship--wbgin a question has been
propounded to him as to doing or not doing a certain
thing, on many occasions say—" Is it right? Is it
doubtful? If so, do it not." As the steward of his
son's estate the late Prince Consort sought continu-
ally to improve his son's property, in order to
diminish the burdens of the country by inareasing
the income of the estate. He had never seen any
man more giggle-minded, more thoroughly truthful,
and more thoroughly anxious to do his duty in all
the private affairs of life in which he had been mixed
up with his Royal Highness. They all knew how
the late Prince had iffOod before the world. He had
ever proved himself a good husband, a kind father,
and a loyal subject,. Ile could not very confidently
use the expression very generally employed that
day, in wishing than present "A happy New Year."
However, might God grant that the year might be
better than we expected. When we considered the
communication now using made between this country
, and the other side of the Atlantic, we must look
' forward to an anxious year. They, however, hoped
it would please God to avert the dreadful calamity
of such a war,