The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

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ROYAL WILTSHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—This
fine regiment will assemble in this town, on Thurs-
day next, for eight days' permanent duty.
WILTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first exhi-
bition of the season in connection with this society,
took place on Tuesday, at the Council House, Salis-
bury. It proved the best spring exhibition ever
known in that city, and the number of plants also
exceeded that of any former year. The orchids and
collections of plants from the gardens of Wilton House
could not be excelled; and the roses and valise
shown by the Be,. W. P. Pigott, of Semerton,
attracted great attention. Mr. Moore, gardener to
General Buckley, M.P., exhibited a collection of
British ferns, which were very much admired, but by
some oversight they were entered as not for competi-
tion, and thus escaped • prize. The show of
vegetables was not large but
_good. The Judges—
Messrs. Sanders, Dodds, and Draper—awarded the
prizes as follows :
Mr. Brown, gardener to the Rt. Hon. Sydney Herbert,
M.P.—Best orehideous plant (dendrobuim densilfiortim) ;
2nd best greenhouse plant; best climbers; best col-
lection twelve plants; best collection six ditto; best
specimen plant; 2nd best azalias • 2nd beet (Anemias.
Mr. Chard, gardener to Sir F. H. Bathurst, Bart. :
Best stove plant (medinella grandiflora) ; 2nd best
climbers; 3rd best collection six plants • 3rd best
specimen plant; best heaths; best forced ehrcibe ; 3rd
best cinerarias ; 2nd best roses; 2nd best ant flowers;
best strawberries; best asparagus; best rhubarb; best
cucumbers • best kidney beans; best brocoli ; 2nd
best cabbages; 2nd beet collection four dishes of salad.
C. W. Everett, Esq., Salkibury :—Best greenhouse plant
(thorium& chandlerii). Mr. White, gardener to T.
Baring, Esq., M.P., Norman Court :-2nd best collection
twelve plants; specimen plant, equal to first prize; 2nd
best heaths; 3rd best small*,; best pelargoniums;
best out flowers; best collection six dishes of vegetables.
Mr. Barnwell, gardener to Sir E. Hulse, Bart, Brea-
more : —3rd best collection twelve plants; 2nd and 3rd
bent forced shrubs; best bulb; best hyacinths; 2nd
best asparagus; best collection four dishes of salad.
Rey. W. P. Pigott, Bemerton :-2nd best collection six
plants; best swelling ; best cinerarias ; best roses; hest
black grapes; best white ditto. Mr. Randall, gardener
to Rey. Prebendary Lear, Bishopstone :-3rd best roses.
Mrs. Hussey, The Hall, Salisbury :-2nd best peiar-
goniums. Mr. Riddle, gardener to Eyre Coote, Esq.,
West Park : —2nd best kidney beans • best and 2nd
best potatoes; 2nd beat brooali ; 2nd best collection six
dishes of vegetables.
EXTRA Paizins.—Mr. Chard, collection of vegetables;
collection of ferns.—Mr. White, Norman Court, stove
plant (uaedenella magnifies), equal to first prize; Mrs.
W. Smith, for apples; Rev. W. P. Pigott, for grapes;
C. W. Everett, Esq., collection of twelve plants; Mr.
Barnwell, for out flowers.
AMATEURS.—J. H. Jacob, Esq., The Close :—Best
collection three plants; best cabbages. Mrs. W. Smith,
Salisbury :-2nd best collection of three plants; best
hyacinths; best heaths. J. L. Alford, Esq., Salis-
bury :-3rd best collection of three plants. Mr. Corp,
Milford :—best pansies; best and second best en-
cumbers; best and second best asparagus; 2nd best
cabbages; best and second best brooolt ; best and 2nd
best potatoes; best rhubarb.
CoTTAGSRB.—George Rogers, best and second best
nosegay; 3rd best cabbages; 2nd best rhubarb. James
Canning, best cabbages. Shergold :-2nd best cabbages.
A "PRETTY PAIR " OF POLICEMSN.— OR Friday
before the Mayor and Dr. Finch. William Render.
son, one of the city police was charged with assault-
ing C`harles Aldridge, a groom, lately in the employ
of T. A. Smith, Esq., of Tedworth House. It ap-
pears that the plaintiff was locked out of his loclg-
mg about 11 o'clock on the night of Thursday,
and strolling in the city he fell in with the defendant
and another policeman, named Edward Dutton.
Plaintiff continued in the company of the two
policemen till four o'clock in the morning, when all
three went to a bye lane, and played at pitch and
toss. The two policemen went off duty and changed
their clothes. During the morning the plaintiff
again met with them, and they went with him to
several public houses, and all got "rather fresh,"
when without any provocation from the plaintiff
Henderson knocked him down, and treated him in a
shameful manner. Henderson WM fined El and
costa, or a month's imprisonment. The fine was
paid. —The defendant above-named and Henry
Dutton were then charged by Superintendent Bar-
ber with neglect of duty, and playing at pitch and
toes with the plaintiff in the first case. Dutton was
a long way fcom his beat. Both policemen were
ordered to be imprisoned for ten days. and to be dis-
charged from the police force. Dutton begged the
Mayor to inflicts a fine in preference to going to gaol,
but was retool by his Worship.

MARLBOROUGH.— The council of Marlborough
Collette met M London on Wednesday week, to elect
of the College, in the room of the Bishop
designate of Calcutta. Their choice fell on George
Granville Bradley, M.A., Annuitant Master of Rugby
School, and late Fellow of University College,
Oxford. Mr. Bradley was a pupil at Rugby under
Dr. Arnold, and was appointed Assistant Muter by
the present Bishop of London. • He gained a fin:k-
olas in !aerie Immanioribus, in 1844, and. the Chan.
oellor's prize for the beet Latin Eery. Among those
who sent testimonials in hie favour were the Bishops
of London, Llandaff, and Calcutta, the Masters of
University and Baliol, Dr. Goulburn, Mr. Temple,
Professor Stanley, Professor Goldwin Smith, Pro.
tenor Conington, all the Masters of Rugby, several
of Mr. Bradley's former pupils, the parents of his
present pupils, and a large number of Fellows of
Colleges in both Universities, including some of the
present Aristant Masters of Marlborough. Mr.
Bradley is to begin his new duties after the Midsum•
mer holidays. Prize day is fixed for June 16, and
the council have given an extra week vacation, in
compliment to the new Master, and in honour of Dr.
Cotton's election to • Bishopric.
Devizes. —A general meetingof the Great Western
Iron Company was held at the Bear Hotel, on Tues-
day. The articles of association were revised and sub-
scribed by the shareholders, and other preliminaries
settled, previous to an immediate prosecution of the
undertaking.
CHIPPENHAM.—On Saturday week, a clerk named
Walter Sergeant, in the employ of Messrs. Godfrey
and Fellows, in this town, solicitors, was brought
before Jacob Phillips, Esq., Mayor, in custody of
Superintendent Wright, charged with stealing
the property of his employers, and was fully coin-
nutted for trial at the next sessions.
WARMINSTER. The A thenamm.—The closing
lectures for the session were delivered by Mr. G.
Dawson, M.A., of Birmingham, on Wednesday and
evening. The subject of the first lecture
ellington and Napoleon a parallel and a
and the second was devoted to "Crom-
well." The audience was large and respectable on
both occasions, and frequently applauded the lecturer.
DIOCESAN BOARD Or EDUCATION.—The annual
meeting of this board took place on Thursday, at
the Training School, there being present Rev. Cannon
Fisher, Hon. and Rev. Cannon Waldegrave,
Prebendary Smart, Prebendary Lear, G. Eyre EEL,
Rev. W. D. Morrice, John Raveahill, Esc;., E.
Hiaxman, Req., Rev. R. Webb, Rev. R. Payne, and
the Secretary. The Lord Bishep was prevented
from attending the meeting by indisposition. The
annual statement of sooounta was presented, and the
Marquis of Bath was announced as an annual sub-
scriber of £5. A general hope was expressed, that
as the financial position of the Training School was
annually improving, the operations of the Board
might be extended to the promotion of education
throughout the diocese in other ways. Sums have
already been voted in the last two years to build or
enlarge schools in several parishes; and though the
fund from which this assistance has been offered at
present is very small, it may easily be augmented by
the liberality of the public. It was a matter of re-
gret that the amount of subscriptions had been
slightly, but gradually, decreasing during the last
few years. Old supporters of the Board had either
died, or lost their connection with the diocese by
change of residence, and new once: had not ap-
peared to supply their places. A subscription list
of about £370 a year is but • slender resource for the
general extension of education in two counties, in addi-
tion to the efficient maintenance of a Training School
with 60 students, and it is to be hoped that the
Board will next year be able to report a considerable
addition to the number of subscribers.
DEATII BY BURNING AT QUIDHAMPTON.—ODTtIeS-
day week an inquest was held at the Salisbury Infir-
mary, on the body of Ellen Chalke, a child between
two and three years of age, the daughter of parents
residing at Quidhampton. It appeared that the
mother of the child, who is in the habit of going out
washing, left the deceased with two other children
about seven o'clock on Monday morning. They were
to have gone to school at nine, but shortly before
that time, the deceased ran enveloped in flames into
a neighbour's house. She was seen by Mr. Holly,
who threw • counterpane over her, and extinguished
the flames, but not before the poor child was dread-
fully burnt. She was removed to the Salisbury In-
firmary, but died a few hours afterwards. The jury
returned a verdict of" Accidental death."
SWINDON HUNT STZETLE•CHASE.—This event CAMS
off on Wednesday week. The fences were decidedly
formidable, the thorn hedges being by far the stiffest
that have ever been seen in a steeple-chase in that
neighbourhood. After considerable delay the horses
were got to the poet. " Oscar " was first off with
the lead; but the pace he made over the first few
fields told on him at the finish, " Hillwood" besting
him by two lengths, after a most exciting race.
" Boreham" came third, and "Forester," "Maid of
the Mill," "Brown Bess," and" Polestar," followed.
Mr. Hillier Reeves's liberality was unbounded: he
kept open house, and also afforded accommodation
in his stables to all. Afterwards there was a hurdle
race, in which three started, " Boreham " winning
by a length, beating "Forester." " Wroughton
Lass" fell.
The Rev. W. H. Cave Brown has been presented
to the stipendiary curacy of Ludgershall,
The Rev. J. B. Thurling, clerk, late assistant
curate of Trinity District, Trowbridge, has been
appointed to the curacy of East Donylaud, Essex.
The death of the Rev. William Barnes, M.A., has
rendered vacant the Rectory of Brixton Deverill and
the Perpetual Curacy of the adjoining parish of Hill
Deverill, near Warminster, in this county. The
former living is in the patronage of the Bishop of
Salisbury, and is worth about .£5OO per annum.
The latter is of smell value.