The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

(Before Mr. PLATER.)

, -
Jame* Lelia*, a Scotchnons, was tharged with assault-
ing Henry Worn, with intent to rob him, between
Wyke and Portland, on the Bth Harsh. He was else
further.sharged with moulting, with intent to rob,
Herbert Reiberts, be the sauss•day and at needy the
same place, —genteneed to oue month's bard.labour for
the first offence, and three months far the senif.
Charlotte Hawkins was charged with stealinoeieral
articles of wearing apparel, belonging to her m151r..2,8
1 Louisa Brown, of Sherborne, and her mother, Sarah
r 4 111, sakias, was-aharged _with remising, the ainne;Julaw-
ins them to have been stolen. The daughter pleaded
gliiity, taid^WaSiseptenced*ofiltroe goopthit' hard labour.
The mother ii“ ct suitte • • '
George Maio was charged with stealing • brass kettle,
iiTiMr;bl-1712-Vrillent-Ter, the- property of flommoh
Helyet, of Chideook, on the 20th March,- Verdict,
Not Guilty.
The Sessions wereTlinished about half past 3 o'clock.

WEYMOUTH. —Perrot. SHOOTING. —At the
Borough Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Stephen Joseph
Waterman Scorey, of Prospect Place, Radipole, was
charged with assaulting Frederick Caddy by firing a
pistol at him, loaded with peas, on Sunday reel, iioF.
It appeared that a number of boys are in the 1, -,bit
of an evening to assemble together in front of de.
fondant', house and using various means of annoyance,
besides throwing stones at the door and windows. On
the night in question they were at their usual game,
when a pistol was fired from Mr. Scorey's window.
The defendant said it was loaded only with powder,
but complainant said it was loaded with peas, and
that they tingled his legs. One of the witnesses
, somewhat raised the risible,faculties of the Court by
! stating that he knew Mr. Scorey was going to lire a
gun, as the defendent told them as they were going
along towards the house, that Mr. Tizard, solicitor,
bad given him leave to shoot them. Alderman
Bower, the chairman of the Bench, interrogated
defendant at some length after -Pm' French fashion,
but Seorey, under the advice bf Mr: Howard, his
solicitor, refused to answer. The consequence
was the summons was dismissed.

ODD FIiLLOWSIGP IN NAYS, NOT PRACTIISIL
Billett v. Binge :—At the Weymouth County Court
on Thursday the plaintiff; who is a publican in
Melcombe Regis, sought to recover the sum of £l.
4s. 6d. of the defendant, a carpenter. It appeared
that at the time an Odd Fellows' Lodge was opened
at the plaintiff's house, the defendant borrowed a
sovereign of Mr. Billett for the purpose of paying his
expenses of initiation, promising to repay him the
amount at the and of the week. Instead of keeping
his word, which is said to be one of the great
principles of the order, he not only never repaid the
amount, but repudiated his liability of doing so.
The 4s. 6d. was for beer which defendant had in his
own name, with a promise to pay, to enable him and
his fellow workmen to keep up the jollification of a
wedding; and defendant now thought that the
persons whose health he had drunk, ought to pay
the expense. Mr. Judge Everett, however, took
another view of the case, and ordered the defendant
to pay the whole sum suedifor in 14 days.
LOOKING AHEAD. —The Weymouth wasps are
already on the wing and bussing about, looking for
" golden syrup." They have been reading the " Signs
of the Times"' during the last few days in the
Standard, which assures them that, in consequence
'ilthe late elections, the result of Mr. Bernal Osborne's
notion on the state of the Navy, and Mr. Disraeli's
onslaught of the Budget on Monday night, a vote of
want of eonlidence after the Easter recess will place
Ministers in a minority, and that an appeal to the
country will be made. The popular belief is that
a few persons at the last election honest Itonses-with
the money they obtained for their votes, and there
are scores looking out for houses on the occasion of
the next election. Don't they wish they mil get
them?

A LETTER CA RRIRR u TECRIBLI.—The Radipole
letter carrier, William Walsh, has got himself into
trouble very foolishly. It appears that on Saturday
morning, Mr. Carey Reed, the post master of
Weymouth, madeup a parcel containing a sovereign,
for Walsh to take to Charles, the keeper of the
letter box at Radipole, it being the amount that day
due for a quarter's services under the Post Master
General. With this parcel, Walsh had also a paper
which was to be signed by himselfas having delivered
it, and by Charles as having received the same.
He did not return to the Weymouth post office as
'he ought to have done after delivering his morning's
letters. Panama, one of the clerks of tin, post office,
asked him where the receipt was. He produeed it
signed by himself, but not by Charles. He was
theref we ordered to take it hack and obtain the other
signature. He saw Mrs. Charles, and asked her to
sign it, but she refused to do so, and kept the paper.
As Walsh did not bring the receipt, therefore in the
evening Mr. Reed went to Radipole, and
on learning that the packat had not been delivered,
placed the ease in the hands of Shpt. Liclbury, who
went to Wahh's hou.e and found him in bed. On
a chair by the side of his bed were two letters that
had been given him to post, but who gave them to
him or how became by them he had no recollection.
He was intoxicated then and had been all day,
and he had consequently no recollection what had
become of the keircel. On Sunday night a female
servant to Mr. herr*, brought the parcel in question
and two other letters, which she had found in their
garden. She had kept them thinking the postmin
would call in the evening when she would give them
to him, but as be did not call, and a strange postman
came the next morning, she thought the best way
would be to deliver them at the chief office. It
seems that after Walsh had called at the house
in the morning, a gen tleuian asked him to hold his horse
for a minute, and that he, to do so, lay down the parcel
and two letters, and being already a little "muddled,"
went away and forget them, and that he afterwards
went to see the hounds throw off. He was on Mon-
day charged before J. Ayling Esq., with the
offence, who remanded him till the following
Thursday, that the authorities might be communi-
cated with.
CAUTION TO BOYS THROWING STONES. —With
the exception of the abominable state of the streets,
and the frequent demands for rates, for which
nothing is done, the greatest nuisance is the throwing
of stones by boys. You can scarcely walk
some of the streets without seeing these
missiles thrown in all directions. We are there-
fore pleased to find that the police have taken the
matter up in earnest, and we would advise all parents
to warn their children against the practice. On
Sunday afternoon P.C. Bowring apprehended Henry
Bendall, a boy about fourteen years of age, whom he
caught on the Chapelry, throwing stones at the back
door of Mr. Skerry, baker. On being brought
before the magistrates the next day he was fined 55.,
and as his father refined to pay the money, he was
committed to Dorchester Gaol for seven days.—
On Tuesday two more boys, brothers, named James
and George Collins, were brought before the magis-
trates for a similar offence. —P.C. Bowring said that
in consequence of complaints being made by the in.
habitants of High-street that their windows were
being broken, Superintendent Lidbury ordered him
to proceed at once to the Chapelry, and that he saw
the two prisoners in Trinity-place, at the hack of
Trinity Church, throwing stones in the direction of
the houses.—They were fined Is., and 4s. 10(1. costa
each.

A FOOLISH Spare. —Edmund Stone and Richard
Winter were on Monday charged with having two
ponies in their possession, supposed to have been
stolen. About 10 o'clock on Friday nigkt Sergeant
Brine and P.C. Marsh met the two prisoners in
Melcombe Regis, each on a pony, without bridle or
saddle. They were questioned %%here they got them,
and replied that a man named Cox, of Portland, had
lent them to come to Weynionth for a spree. They
left at half-past nine o'clock, and were to be back at
eleven. The oonstabks did not deem the answer
satisfactory, and took them to the station-house.
On Monday morning a man named Joseph Order, of
Portland, owned the ponies as his property. He
did not wish to prosecute the men, and said that as
he was late home from Bridport fair, his wife let
them have the ponies to meet him on the road, and
that they coming to Weymouth, instead of going the
proper road, missed him. The prisoners were of
course discharged with a caution about not to teal
lies on a future occasion.

A CAS6 FOR ARBITRATION.—James Thompson
was on Tnesday charged at the Borough Petty
Sessions with having unlawfully obtained possession
of a carpenter's plane the property of Mr. Edward
Paull Mr. Howard appeared for the proseoution and
Mr. Tizsrd for the defence. After the case hivl been
commenced, a question arose respecting the;indentity,
and the solicitors agreed that the point should be
referred to arbitration. The Bench did not appear
at all displeased that the case bad taken such a turn,
as there were a dozen or fourteen witnesses on both
aides to be examined, The summons was accordingly
adjourned for a week.

PORTLAND.—Tax Victors ForrincarioNs.
The America ' battle between the Merrimac and
Monitor, which took place off Newport News in the
, beginning ot last month, has quite revolutionised
all preconceived ideas with regard to ;our coast
defences. Hitherto large sums of money have been
voted by Parliament for wooden ships and stone forte,
but this has been arrested. The land fortifications
at Spithead have been suspended—perhaps for the
ultimate diversion of the money they would cost
for the immed ate organisation of an iron fleet. And
, if the Spithead fortifications have been stopped, even
at the expense of compensating the contractor, the
probability is that the additional works it was
intended to carry out on the Verne this year, which
we believe have not yet been contracted for, will not
he proceeded with, or at all events not to so great
an extent as was proposed. It is time a vestal:mint
of additional work must be done here, under any
circumstances, but the feeling_of the House of
Commons and of the county 4 Erie present time is,
that every exertion shouldbe concentrated on the iron-
plating of our present men-of-war or building new
iron-clad batteries for home defence, as well as
building large sea:going vessels of the class of the
Warrior. We are in for an iron age, and the govern.

ment and the country have recognised ihe fact.
Even the works at the Breakwater Head hate been
stopped fur the present. •
FLIW v. Newmarr.—At the Comity C4urt iJ
Weymouth, on Thursday, the plaintiff, a easpentet,
brought an action against the defendant, or the
recovery of £ll, for work and labour dote, and ,
material, in the repairs of an old house Botlf.l
parties were represented by solicitors—Mr. Howard,
for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hill, for the defendant.
The defendant had paid the plaintiff £5 sinee-the
sturanonses had been issued, and had paid
tato Court. It appeared that the plaintiff con;
traded to do the repairs of a house for £6 10a, and
that when sere portion of the old place was pnllecl
down, it Wwr found that other work, not before seen
required &Aug. The work was done, and dea
dant charged, £4 10s. for the same. The defent
disputed the account, as he considered it all belonged
to the contract, and hence this action. The defen-
dant also called a witness who said he heard
plaintiff' *ay 'Met- be tout The erratum for-t 6 100.-;-
isod that -he would get a pound more. The Judge
gave a verdict for thi defendant.
LIZ COST OF TRAINING BOYS FOIL THE NAVT.
lifff6Talretlfflisti-Wrl feW dirrego—tastertbe-

annual cost of each boy brought up- foi: the navy in
the training ships to be £l7 Ss. 9d. ; to which are
to be added the wages per annum of £9 21. 6d.;
and the victuals per annum, amounting to £l9 65..
so that the total cost per annum is £45 176..-Id,
About 2,500 boys are continually in trainhig,
distributed over five ships and four brigs. 'File beys
are taught, besides seamanship, the practice of
gunnery, .the . three L's, . and the element* of
geography and history.
EVERSHOT. —At the County Hall, Dorchester,
on Tuesday, John Allen, a mendichmt, who stated
that he came from Beamineter, was brought up in
the custody of P. C. Florence, charged with begging
at the above named place. The constable stated
that he apprehended him at 11 o'clock the night
previously, having found him knocking at the doors
of some of the residents, and refused to leave, and
observed that he had in the previous part of the day
relieved him. The unfortunate individual was
committed by the presiding magistrate (E. W.
Williams, Esq.) to 14 day's hard labour.
WAREHAM.—LANDSUP.• -The road by St.
Martin's church presents a disgraceful spectacle. For
a want of a wall to protect the side of the road, an
immense quantity of mud and earth has slipped
down, projecting many yards over the carriage way.
. To a stranger entering. by this road the old town
must seem ma state otrottariness and decay; which,
we are happy to say, is really not the case. Perhaps
we are better than we look, no thanks to those who
ought to keep St. Martin's Pitch in proper and
decent repair.
CANDLE FACTPRY.-3,4esgra. S. Spicer & Sons, of
North-street, are appointed agents for the sale of the
beautiful candles which are now made at the works
at Northport. In appearance and lasting qualities,
these candles, wefirmly believe, will be friend superior.
to any thing of the kind yet manufactured.
NEW SCHOOLROOM.—OD Thursday evening, April
3rd, the choir belonging to the Independent Chapel,
assisted by two friends, gave an evening's entertain-
ment of vocal and instrumental music. The follow-
ing was the programme :—" How beentiful upon
the Mountains ;" "Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem ,"
" I will lift up mine eves ;" " Deus Misereatur ;"
"Saints and Angels join in concert ;" "Kyrie
"Now pray we for our country ;" Gloria "In
Jewry is God known • " "Hallelujah Chorus ;"
"Nun° Dimittis ;" "God Save the Queen." 450
persons availed themselves of this very pleasant
evening's entertainment. Every piece and every
part were well sustained by the choir, and we hope
as this is the first concert ever given by them, it will
be followed by many others. The profits of the
evening will be devoted to the improvement needed
in the room, to adapt it for lectures and music for
the next season. The admittance fee was mode-
rately low—the reserved seats 6d., and the back
—seats Id. for each person.
STIIIIMINSTEN NEWTON. Our primitive
little town has been subject to a species of degrada-
tion wibm the last few weeks in the shape of bribery
aiid corruption. We do not intimate that our free
and independent voters will be subjected to the loss
of their valuable franchise, for the nature of the case
does not partake of such a venial offence. Some of
our teetotal friends have been bribing the navvies
who are at work on the Dotset Central Line, by the
offer of a shilling each to many as chooec to become a
disciple to one of the Zodiac emblems. The value
of the amount appeared so suspicious that the majo-
rity looked upon it as • government decoy, but we
are informed that some few accepted the bribe, after
Which they retired to the Red Lion Inn to treat
their resolution, or to use their own wards, to give
zest to the "moral courage," by imbibing sundry
potations of their favourite beverage, not forgetting
to vociferously toast the health@ of Father Matthew
and Sir John Barleycorn. _ . _

POOLE. roues. —On Friday Mr. Henry Whitty
and Isaac Marsh were charged before the Borough
magistrates with stealing copper from the Jassy.
They were discharged with a caution. George White
and James White were fined Is. each and sosta for
being drunk and disorderly at Longfieet.
CatlBco Pairronm. AID Socix rv. —The annual
meeting of the subscribers and friends of the above
society was held in the Townhall, on Monday
evening. J. Goose, Req., presided, and the meeting
was addressed by the Revs. G. Morgan, F.. P. Blount
of Lytohett, F. W. Hepworth, and O. J. Kelly,
who attended as ci deputation from the society in
London. The subscriptions in Poole during the
past year had not amounted to £lO. The Rev. J. G.
Kelly explained the objects and workings of the
society, which he represented in a clear and able
manner, expressing a hope that the appeal made to
them, would be the means of greatly increasing the
amount of snbscriptions in the town of Poole. The
society has for its objeet the assisting of over-
worked clergymen, by grants, enabling them to
engage curates and scripture readers, that all com-
mitted to their charge may have the gospel preached
to them. A collection was made at the close.

SHERBORNE.—Perry SofoooB, April 301.
Present J. It: F4littalr, Eggrah.')G. 410:fir4o0,
and Rbv. 3.Bleduerhatisett.--flanry Crodkhrimmt '
mooed Harry Ayles, a farmer of Puree Qtundle, for
refusing to pay him wages alleged to be due to him.
—The magistrates, after hearing the evidence on
both sides, dismiased the case.--Eli Abbott, Mark
Vardy, Matthew Bartlett, all of Yetminater, were
summoned by Henry Collins for stealing wood from
a plantation at Yetminster, the property of Mr.
Batten. —Mr. Fear appeared for defendants.—Cau-
tioned, and ordered to pay expenses.--George
Scott, landlord of the "Three Elms," at North
Wootton, was summoned by Superintendent Lewis
for keeping his house open during Divine service.—
Mr. Fear appeared for defendant.—P.C. Wren de-
posed that he visited the house kept by defendant
on Sunday, the 30th of March, about half-past
eleven, a.m., and saw a person come from the back
door with a jog of beer in his hand, and carry it to
a stable, that on going to the stable he found several
other men there drinking—Convicted in £l, in-
cluding costa.— -Thomas Toogood was summoned
by Superintendent Lewis for riding in a wagon,
without having mina —Ordered to pay expenses.
--The Surveyors of the Highways for all the
parishes in the division attended to verify their'
accounts for the past year. Overseers for all the
parishes in the division were also appointed at this
meeting.