The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHEETER. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1E164.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The course which Prussia intends to pursue
after the conclusion of peace with Denmark is
foreshadowed in an article published by • semi-
official Berlin paper of Wedneeday. An
assembly of legal advisers will be convoked by
the two great German Powers, with the
approval of the Federal Diet, and these learned
personages will inquire into, and report upon,
the Succession question. A final decision as to
the future of the Duchies will then be possible.
Before that time arrives—and we may be sure
that the period will be an extremely long one—
the Government of the Duchies will be organ-
ised provisionally, under Austrianiand Prussian
administrators. It is stated that Prussia has no
preference whatever for either of the two
princes who have been named as the future
rulers of Sleswig-Holstein... .

There can be; little doubt that a disarmament
to some extent has been resolved upon both by
Austria and Italy. The independance Beige
states that it has been brought about by the
diplomatic arrangements of France. IL
llinghetti, the minister who entered into the
engagement on behalf of Italy, stipulated that
the disarmament should be gradual, so as not to
arouse the unthinking opposition of the extreme
parties. The plan adopted is to discharge at
once soldiers whose term of service will shortly
complered. A Turin military journal of
Wednesday asserts that the regimental lists will
remain intact, whilst the men who are dis-
charged will be liable to recall upon the occasion
of sn emergency. The policy thus adopted will
have an important and beneficial influence on the
finances of the two countries.

A remarkable undertaking was brought to
a close on Tuesday, at Glasgow, when the painted
windows erected by subscription in the cathedral
of that city were formally handed over to the
custody of Mr. Cowper, M. P., as Commissioner
of Public Works. The total number of windows
completed, and still in progress, is ninety-six.
They are all executed in the highest style of art,
and have been designed by Dresden artists of
European reputation in their own special pro-
fession. For unity of design and glorious har-
mony of colour, the whole series is probably with-
out a rival in modern times, and has certainly
not been surpassed.
Lord Stanley, K P., in an address to his con-
stituents at King's Lynn, on Wednesday, advo-
cated absolute neutrality in the American war, and
said he saw no prospect of its early termination.
Ruferring to the recent debate in Parliament on
, Danish affairs, he said that his object, and that
of his coadjutors, was to obtain &decided express-
ion of opinion in favour of non-intervention on
continental affairs. He believed the debate
would mark a new era in British diplomacy • and
that in future, when England was required to
offer advice or express opinions on foreign
questions, it would he done without menace to
one party or the delusive proffer of assistance to
the other. The noble lord reviewed the present
aspect of other foreign questions, and spots at
length on home politica As to the franchise,
he thought a small measure would not be
acceptable, and a large one would be im-
possible. He doubted the possibility of aban-
doning the income tax, but was in favour of a
lower rate—say threepence to fourpentie in the
pound ; and he was of opinion that reductions
might be affected in the navy estimates. The
whole speech is characterised by the thoughtful-
DOW originality, and close reasoning which
distinguished the noble lord's address front
those of almost all other prominent public men.
Eighty years ago, last Thursday, Henry
Temple Lord Viscount Palmerston first asw the
tight at tiresittands, Hants, be having been

born on the 20th October, 1784. It memo diffi-
cult to believe that the Prime Minister of 1864
was living in the days when the young Pretender,
wearied of his intrigues, was quietly passing
away his existence at Rome. and that the
Premier of to-day was an active War Secretary
ere Lord Wellington baffled Massena before the
lines of Torres Vedraa. Yet Lord Palmerston
hes served four Sovereign.; he has been •
member of the House of Commons fifty-eight
years, and has sat in sixteen Parliaments.
During this period of his political life he has
witnessed the construction of seventeen Minis-
tries, in thirteen of which he has held office. Of
his fifty-eight years of Parliamentary life, no less
than forty-six have been passed in the national
service. Of the colleagues with whom he acted
on his entrance on peblie life, not one now
survives ; and from the death of the Duke of
Portland, in October 1809, to the death
of the Duke of Newcastle, the names of
the statesmen with whom Lord Palmer.-
ton has taken council, and who have
away, constitute a long and formidable
passed
Of the Premier's colleagues in the present
cabinet, Earl Rowell ia next in point of age,
who is seventy-two. When Lord Palmerston
entered Parliament Lord Russell was doing his
continental tour, Sir George Grey was • little
boy seven years of age, the Earl of Clarendm
was six, the Lord Chancellor and Sir Charles
Wood were one year less, Mr. Villiers and Lord
Stanley, of Alderley, numbered four summers,
the Duke of Somerset was just two years old,
while neither the names nor the titles of the
present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Earl De Grey,
Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Cardwell had not
been heard of. The extent of Lord Palmerston's
patronage has been enormous, and never since
the days of Sir Robert Walpole has an English
minister wielded the sword of State with so
much advantage to his party. Of the tweety-
six prelates who now constitute the hierarchy,
no less than seventeen owe their positions to
Lord Palmerston. They are the Arch-
bishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh,
and Dublin ; the bishops of Carlisle,
Cork, Durham, Ely, Gloucester, and Bristol,
Killaloe, Kilmore, London, Norwich, Peter-
borough, Ripon, Rochester, and Worcester. He
has besides nominated several to deaneries and
armouries. He he. added seventeen names to
the rolls of the peerage, including those of Wens-
leydale, Aveland, Lyons, Helper, Everaley,
Ebury, Macaulay, Chesham, Hanover. Lyveden,
Taunton, Westbury, Russell, Fitihardinge,
Seymour, Houghton, and Annaly. He has
created eighteen baronets, namely, Sirs D.
Baxter, \V. Brown, J. F. Burgoyne, D. Cooper,
F. Crossley, W. Dilke, H. Havelock, W. G.
Hayter, C. Lyell, J. Jejeebhoy, D. Lloyd, C.
Locock, F. G. Moon, 8. M. Peto, H. Rich, B.
Walker, W. F. Williams, and A. Wilson. In
his two Governments he has had the service of
three Lord Chancellors, four Attorney and six
Solicitor-Generals; he has appointed the Chiefs
in the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common
Pleas ; while of the fifteen judges of Her
Majesty's three Courts of Common Law, who
administered justice on Lord Palmerston's first
accession to power, only four now hold the same
positions they occupied in February, 1855. He
has had the appointment ofjust one half of the 116
lord-lieutenants of the United Kingdom, and has
disposed of two-thirds of the twenty-five Garters.
He has added more than 40 names to the Privy
Council ; and of the 216 members of that body
as at present existing, the Premier himself is
the oldest member, having been sworn in fifty-
five years ago. Of the minor descriptions of
patronage in the hands of the different depart-
ments of the Government, we have no room to
speak—including the clerical patronage of the
Lord Chancellor, the appointment of County
Court Judges, and Bankruptcy Commissioners.

Another of England's statesmen has passed
away at a more than middle life. He was born
between those fatal years 1810-12, and has
soared the fate of his contemporaries, the
Marquis of Dalhousie, Earls Canning, and
Elgin, and his old friend and colleague during
a time of grevious trial—Lord Herbert of Lea.
There is a sad and strange coincidence in the
history of these men. Most of them were of the
same school and the same university, became
convert to the same political doctrines, and
followed the imme.political leader. With splen-
did abilities and high social position, they might
have expected to take &position in the State above
that which they held when the present veterans
should have at last yielded to old age, or the
common lot of aIL But the men who were
old enough to have been their fathers remain,
and they who should have been to them as sons,
and have inherited their place and power, have
been taken from us midway in their career of
promise. The five men we have mentioned all
died at work, or of disease which their work had
brought upon them. The Duke of Newcastle,
then Earl of Lincoln, when just of an. was re-
turned for the Southern division of Notts in
the Reformed Parliament of 1832. The Earl of
Lincoln first took office in 1835, when, under
Sir Robert Peel's brief administration, he had •
Lordship of the Treasury. His party remained
out of office till Lord Melbourne's administration
died of ivanition, and Sir Hobert once more
came bank to power, and gave the member for
South Notts the office of First Commissioner of
Woods and Forests. Then came a stirring time.
Sore distress in the manufacturing districts, and
bread riots, forced the question of the abolition
of the Corn Laws upon the consideration of both
parties. The Duke of Newcastle was bitterly
hostile to free trade, and it was gall and worm-
wood to him when his son became • free-
trader. Sir Robert Peel went out of office
and came back again. He offered to
Lord Lincoln the position of Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland. By accepting this the
young statesman vacated his seat, and a fresh
election took place in 1846, when he was beaten
by Mr. Hildyard, who polled 1,736 votes against
his opponent's 1,049. The next month a seat
became vacant in the northern division of the
county, when Lord Lincoln came forward and
was beaten even more signally, polling only 217
votes to Lord Henry Bentinck's 1,742. It was
necessary for him to obtain • seat beyond his
father's influence, and he went to Scotland and
made use of the influence of his father-in•law,
the Duke of Hamilton, and got elected in oppo-
sition to an advanced free-trader for the Falkirk
Burghs, beating Mr. Wilson by 11 votes. His
friend, fellow convert, and colleague, Mr. Glad-
stone, being neither the son nor the son-in-law
of • Duke, got no seat. The Corn Laws had
been abolished five years when the Earl of Lin-
coln, who had continued to represent the Falkirk
Burghs, became, by the death of his father,
Duke of Newcastle. Nearly two years after the
Aberdeen Ministry was formed, and the Duke of
Newcastle was appointed Secretary for the
Colonies, with which, at that time, was joined
the War Office department Then came the
Crimean campaign, when, in consequence of the
vast amount of work entailed upon him, the
Duke was relieved of the Colonial department
by Sir William Molessrorth, and he, himself, with
seal and energy urged on the expedition against
Sebastopol. At this time the Duke was, though
not generally known, a journalist, and fre-
quently wrote leaders in the Morning Chronicle,
the then brilliant organ of the Peelite party.
Mr. Kinglake has described how one summer
evening the Cabinet met at Pembroke Lodge,
and how the Duke of Newcastle read to them
the Ministers' dispatch to Lord Raglan, ordering
, him to take his army from Yarns to the Crimea,
and how all the statesmen, wearied of hard work,
fell asleep while the momentous words were
read ; and how, when they awoke, they fully
approved of the dispatch which they had not
heard—the dispatch was to "hurl to Hades so
many brave souls of heroes." Forty years of
pesos and the economies of Mr. Joseph Hume
had made a great European war an undertaking
not to be carried out without terrible mis-
fortunes. Lord John Russell, ever careful of
his own interests, when he saw the storm of
public indignation about to bunt over the
Government ship, demanded that the Duke of
Newcastle should be treated as Jonah was
treated. The Duke resigned ; the prple accused
him of incapacity and indolence. Incapable I
may have been," said the Duke, "but God
knows I have not been indolent." He bad in-
deed toiled early and late, taking little rest, and
eaten the bread of carefulness. No one ever
worked harder, and the present generation, now
that the national prejudice is so longer obscured
by the national anger, has acknowledged it. So
when Lord Palmerston took office in 1869, and
chose the Duke for Secretary of the Colonies,
every one felt that he did not give his former
colleague a fair opportunity of retrieving a
reputation which had been somewhat unfairly
damaged. Of the Duke's colonial policy we need
not now speak. It has been somewhat soccer-
fuL He has died at a somewhat critical moment,
when our chiiietiLltegindency is threatening re-
hellion if its are not yielded. Perhaps
before six mouths are over we may have reason
to lament the death of the deceased statesman
more keenly than we do now.

Mr. Roimet Wirear, &weals Mind of
Oseibeldi, lam Molted Wm ilholciar Wolin M

his island home at Caprera, and communicates to
a provincial contemporary some interesting par-
ticulars of conversation they held on public
affairs. This informant tells us that Garibaldi
expressly declared his entire conviction that the
motives which led his friends to urge him to
leave England had nothing whatever to do with
political considerations, but arose alone from
solicitude for his health. The same writer
rays :

"The general expresset great regret at the continu•
ance of the struggle in America, and said he did not
believe that the North hooestly desired the extinction
f blavery, or that the war was carried on f•,r thet end.
It was a war for power and to setisfy wounded pride on
their part, sad had become a war io self-defence on the
part of the South, which had bhown tl e truest patriotic
feeliny, the greatest bravery, and the linea generalehip.
He abh rred slavery in every form, and be believed that
it bad received He death blow in America. He denied
most emphatically that he ever offered hie services to
the Federate, and said that he did not see bow he could
ommistently have interfered in the quarrel under the
circumstances."

We confess that the pleasure with which we
read this declaration is not altogether eamingled
with incredulity. We should be glad, indeed,
to believe that General Garibaldi took so
thoroughly sensible a view of the American
question, but his former letters disprove it. On
the subject which at present engages the pro-
found attention of all Italians—the convention
with Franoe—the brave patriot maintains a
discreet and dignified silence.
A Colonial blue book just published gives us
&remarkably encouragiog picture of the growth,
the condition, and the prospects of South
Australia. With the sexes proportioned to each
other in the near degree of 69 males to 65
females—with a natural rate of increase of popu-
lation of three births to one death—with a com-
munity, 85 per oent, of which are country
residents—with four times the extent of laud
under tillage than New South Wales, having
a population nearly three times larger, can
boast—with constantly improving means of
land cultivation—with an annual exportation of
wool to the value of 035,370—with fifty-two
mines in operation, yielding minerals for expor-
tation of the annual value uf 047,619—with
a vineyard of 4,777 acres, yielding 472,297
gallons of wine yearly, of which, in 1862, 20.000
gallons were sent to this country—with good re-
ligious accommodation for more than half the
population—with wages so liberal that an
ordinary man may save 1:100 in three years, and
then become a farmer on his own alcount--with
fsir educational agencies in operation for the
benefit of the rising generation, it would be diffi-
cult to say what condition or element of pros-
perity is wanting in this little community of
135,329 souls, who may be said to combine all
the simple poetry of primitive existence with
many of the ideas, not a little of the culture,
and some of the most valuable agencies of
modern civilisation.

It is beginning to be admitted, even in the
Northern Stated, that Grant's recent movements
towards Petersburg and north of the James
River were failures, like all his previous opera-
tions. The Federal losses in this quarter,
during the engagemeuta on Friday the 30th
September, and Saturday the lit October, are
estimated by the Federal/ themselves at four
thousand. For several days after these
desperate encounters both armies appear to have
remained quiescent; but on Friday, the 7th
inst skirmishing was resumed at Deep Bottom,
on the northern side of the James River. The
Confederates attacked General Butler's lines,
drove in one of his lieutenants, captured his
artillery, and inflicted considerable loss; but in
an attempt on Birney's entrenchment. they were
repulsed, and 'limey managed to recapture the
position previously taken. The affair ended
without decisive advantage to either side. The
Federal General Sheridan was at Harrisonburg,
about 20 miles to the north-west of Port Re-
public. General Early believed that he was in
a position to check any further advance. The
Confederate General Forrest was continuing his
operations in Sherman's rear, and had destroyed
portions of the railway between Chattanooga and
Atlanta; but he appears to have received •
severe repulse at Big Shanty on the sth inst.
The Confederate invasion was still successfully
curled on in Missouri. General Price had
appeared before Jefferson city, the capital of the
State. A Federal defeat is reported from
Western Virginia, but it is impossible to estimate
its military value in connection with the other
operations of the war. The only political news
is that the Governor of Georgia has declined the
informal peace overtures of General Sherman.
Gold was at 99 to 100 premium.
A somewhat singular case of the "glorious
uncertainty of the law" was tried at Congle-
ton on Friday. A month ago William
and Eliza Pointon, as exemitor and executrix of
the late Mr. George Pointon, a flour merchant,
sued a farmer, named Richard Dale, in the
County Court, to recover a sum of money for
flour and bran supplied. The defence was that
the goods were supplied instead of cash interest
on a note of hand for £3O, bearing the names of
George Pointon and his brother-in-law, William
Parrott, an attorney, also deceased, which Dale
alleged was given to him by Mr. George Pointon
as security for the repayment of £25 placed in
the hands of Mr. Parrott for professional services,
but which he never rendered. His Honor held
that the note must form • separate action, and
gave judgment for the plaintiffs; but on the ap-
plication of their solicitor the note was im-
pounded on suspicion of its being a forged one.
No proceedings having been taken in the matter,
Dale, at a subeequent Court, applied by his
solicitor to have the note returned to him, which
was done, and he then took out a summons upon
it to recover, from the executors of the late Mr.
Pointon, the principal and interest due on the
note, £35 odd. The answer to this question,
which area tried on Tuesday, MU that it was a
forgery, and several highly respectable gentle-
men who had had extensive dealings with the
late Mr. Pointon, swore that the signature to
the note was not in that gentleman's hand-
writing. The judge expressed an opinion that
the plaintiff's Cale was a gross fraud, and, in
giving judgment against him, intimated that it
was a proper case for another tribunal. The
result WY that Dale was apprehended on a charge
of forgery before he left the Court, and on
Friday he was committed for trial at the en-
suing Chester amiss..
. . .

Lo'rd de Grey and Ripon, oar energetic Minister
of War, haa addressed an amicably at Ripon on the
cost and condition of the British army. He
accounts for the increased expense of this branch of
the national service by it. greatly increasing efficiency
—by the addition to it of the Military Train, the
Commissariat Corps, and the Army Hospital Corps.
Then, the necessity of changing the weapons in use
necessarily involves a large outlay. Lord de Grey
and Ripon lays down the principle, that every step
we make in improving the means of war is a sup
towards the securing of peace; and that war is
never less probable among nations than when they
know they are thoroughly prepared for it. These
are maxims whisk are not likely to be disputed,
except by those who yield to the doctrines of
economy and eccentric and fantastical allegiance,
and with whom it would be utterly vain to argue.
An &fleeting story waii told by a ticket-of-leave
man at the Warwickshire sessions on Wednesday,
the IPub instant. A man, George Haynes, was
charged with having 'Loire two pounds weight of
beef. He pleaded guilty, and, in an address to the
Jury, he used that when he was thirteen years of age
be was sentenced to penal servitude for housebreak-
ing. After enduring his punishment for three yeani
and a half, he, as a reward for excellent conduct, re-
oeived his ticket. He returned to England and tried
to earn an honest livelihood. He got work it
Warwick, and became a member of the church
choir, the duties of which offise he discharged with
unbroken regularity for four years. A policeman
one MO:riled on him, and asked whether be had
not been transported. He admitted that he had,
and that admission was his ruin. He was dismissed
from the choir. He last his situation. His family
fell into utter destitution, and were actually starving
when he committed the offence with which he now
stood charged. The chairman, Mr. Kynneraley, ex-
pressed much commisseration for the Poor fellow, and
sentenced him to fourteen days' hard labour. So much
for the ticket-otleave ! It is an instrument which
gives th • opportunity of crime to the rogue, but
doosse
the boom* penitent to despair.

DORCHESTER. —Piece= Cote Meaner, Satur-
day, October y 2 .—Wheat in smaller supply than on the
previous Saturday, most of which w.s sold at the
prods then current Barley was freely offered, owl best
samples were taken at the late reducers. ; inferior kinds
were main cheaper. No alteration in the vales of oats.
31111ATUIL —ln the report of the Dorchester Fanners'
flab, which apposed in our 601111111111 last week, it was
inadvertently stated that Mr. Charge Homer had en-
ameled his intention to deliver a lament on 'Th. beet
mode of providing food for farm stock daring Hie
miming winter." Instead of emitoesteinp hi. intention,
it -as not until almost every member of the dab had been
solicited and declined that Mr. Homer was appointed,
though with great relnateutes on his part, to deliver an
address on the subject named.
COURT LW/S Sorrea.—The annual Court Lett supper
took place at the Royal o.k Ina, on Fnday evening.
An esealleist spread was provided by the worthy host
and hooter of the establishment, Mr. sad Mrs. Read, to
which between JO and 40 persons sat down. The chair
was oseapied by Mr. William elm* and the vise-chair
by Mr. Gregory. Several emiellent speeehes were de-
livered In the *muse of the itemise. interspersed with
NOS and seetrateet, aed • raced eenvivial aad plemeant
•••eilig ell IrMit.
1. ueiuipt Illitortow.g eras lass to
• tor we it prima se SIR4UISS bit

years.

signiled his Intention to sontsist a seat In the Council
Chamber. The names o the eouncillors who retire by
rotation ere —Liesera Hodges, Devenish, Aldridge, and
Davis. ltr. Hodges, however, has announced his M -. ien
tion of not offerou Hume', for re-election, but
.as
re:ards the other wane:Sore there is every probability
of their being returned to office unoppolei.
NATIOS•L BCOOOLB.-0a Sunday neat sermons will
be preached at All Saints' Church, and collections made
on behalf of the National Schools of the town.
FAIRS DURING THS WICSIL—Tues 'ay, (this ray)
Dorchester, Dorwt ; Well., Somer.4.—Wednesda7,
Warminster, Wilts.—Thursday, Stockbridge, hosts;
Chiudb Smturset. —Sato n! ay , Ch.p pen hain,
Niel:worth, Ophsver, Wilt.; Dorset.
Till Wrarsea.—The reading of the thermometer at
faorchester for the past week is as follows :

11 411 Direction State of
Dates. Noon .13t of Wind. Weather.
• Ai
OCT.
17 54 148 W Cloudy.
18 56 47 tWk SW Cloudy.
19 60 46 ME Cloudy.
20 53 1 44 W Fins
21 55 , 45 86 I Gloomy, rein.
22 66 49 8 I Stormy.
23 52 , 22 I W. brisk Stormy.
OolinusroNDlso WIZIL 1863.
OCT.
17 57 49
IR 59 54
19 60 ' 54
20 58 51
21
22
23

NW Cloudy, fine.
SW Gloomy, misty.
8W Misty. dris rain.
- - - -W Misty.
64 54 NW kSW Foggy, gloomy.
fit 51 NW k W Gloomy.
58 ! 37 I NNE illooluy, fine.
BOROUGH SZMUONS, Monday.—Before the Mayor, and
J. F. Hodges, Esq.
DRUNK AND INCAPABLI —Agnes Morris, • wretched•
looking woman, was brought up in custody charged
with the above offence—lt appeared that on Saturday
night P.C. Keats was sent for by Mr. Aunty, biker, of
Fordington, to remove priegoer, who was laying in the
road in front of his house drank and swearing. On
arriving be endeavoured to alsist her in regaining her
equilibrium, but all he efforts were futile, prisoner
being so drunk that her lags refused their wonted office,
and he was compelled to take her to the station. On
her wry thither, as also at the lock-up, she made use of
the most disgusting leagues,. Prisoner, who was in the
road during the heavy storms of Saturday,. was saturated,
and she begged hard to be forgiven, if it was only to
enable her to change her wet elothes. Her secuae warn
thxt she had • drop of beer, which being some.
what unusual, "got over her," and she had
no recollection of what occurred. In reply to • question
•• to bier previous conduct, Superintendent Pouney
staled that she had been to gaol once before for • similar
off nee. This, however, she denied, calling him "•
had wicked icon for saying such a thing." She wax enco-
spitted for seven &ye, and on her arrival at the county
prison it was ascertained that she had only come from
that establishment on Friday, where she had undergone
a month's imprisonment
HINIDAND AND WIIII.-111r. Weston, on behalf of
Thome, Rig., of the Bull's Head Inn, Fordington,
applied that the hearing of the summons, which had
been taken out by him against hi. wife, for inciting him
to commit • hreach of the peace, should be adjourned for
a month, as Mrs. Bjggs was unable to be present from
indisposition. Misapplication woe granted.
FORDINGTON Quallitgii—lsabella Brown, of Fording'
toe, well accustomed to the usual routine of petty
sessions business, was summoned by Sarah Hine, of
Tubb's Corner, for assaulting her. The evidence di..
closed some "choice" language made use of between
the parties In question, but as rash appeared to be
equally to blame, the ease was dismissed.
Ammeter --On Friday evening as accident occurred
to. men named Bishop, by which one of his legs were
broken. It seems that he was carrying • mak of Sow
from • wagon into the Co-operative store, whim be
slipped and fell on the pavement. The poor fellow
was conveyed to the County Hospital, where he met
with that treatment which his injury detuanded.

DZATH IN ?HI GAOL.—An is;slaisst win held at the
County Prison,on Tuesday, before Chloe Symonds, Esq.,
coroner, on the body of a prisoner named James Bonfield,
who was undergoing imprisonment for signalling his
wile at Swenage. The evidence proved that be wog
'Omitted into the priann on the 13th inst., during which
time be had been .suffering from the effect of deliriums
Innen. and from which bodied on Monday. The jury
returned a v. rdiet to that effect.

COMMIT= TO Tll3 DOUR COOSTT GAOL. —Hard
Labour Levi Crabb, stealingapples at Loders, 14 days ;
John Gould, vagrancy at Frampton, 1 month ; Thomas
Button, aasaulting his wire at Blandford, 3 months ;
Peter Donnelly, vagrancy at Winfrith. 7 days ; George
Parker and James Parker, damaging • plough at
Sernage, 7 days ; Thomas Scutt, stealing • cabbage at
Wignborne, 1 month ; John Panetta, stealing spot.' and
walnuts at West Shower, Imonth ; Hayter,
steaking oak spokes' kc , at Rut Shower, 14 days ; Job
stealing cloth, kc., at Dorchester, 6 mooting;
Sarah Crocker, stealing • basket at Sherbome, 7 days,
haprisoviaterd : Rivard Matthews, assault. ko., at Dor-
cheater, 14 day.; Wary M•rks, drunk, am, at Dor-
chester. 7 day.; George Bird, riding without reln• at
Gillingham. 2 months ; Lour. Morvington, drunk, ke ,
at Dorchuter, 7 days ; William Stubbs, drunk, kc.,
it Dorchester, 7 dare.
WEYIIOUTH.Tes Foaracortwo ELscrioN.—Ae
we proehesied last week the address which Mr. Arthur
Mason muted to the burgesses of the borough, has been
the means of drawing forth addresses from other
candidates, aspirants to municipal fame, and
already sign. of a severe struggle are plainly discern-
able in the political arena. The candidates
who retire in rotation are Messrs. R. Thomas,
Hare, Frampton, Upjohn, &want and Aylev. Only
one of than, Mr. Rowland Thomas, has issued an
address inviting the burgesses to restore him to
offlos again; whilst the opponents are Mr. John
Pothecary and Mr. Arthur !Won. Some four or five
a:o the Liberal party, which once was

sufficiently strong to carry any niesaure, appeared to be
completely broken up, and all the public sesta and
offices were filled by persons holding different principles.
Within the last year or so events have occurrid which
show that the Liberal party are beginning to awake from
their lethargy, and if the struggle this year in the
election of Town Conseillon does not prove the relative
strength of Liberals and Conservatives we shall be much
mistaken, and will be prophetic of whet mey be
expected at therms.' election neat year. Mr. Thomas
is • man that can ill be spared from the council, for he
has invariably acted most conscientiously, and any
measure likely to prove advantageou. to the town
has always had his support, even though he might
be unaided in the discharge of each duty. In his ad.
diem, he says "I am not conscious of having neglected
my duty, and of baying acted otherwise than as becomes
an independent representative of independent con-
stituents." With them sentiments the burgesses, we
think, will agree, and will show the appreciation of an
honest, salons, public officer, by again returning him
as one of their representatives. We admire the course
laid down by Mr. Pothecary, in his endeavouring to be
again re-installed as a Town Councillor. He is • tried
men, and upon the faithful discharge of his duties,
whilst in the council for nine veers, be bases his sham for
support. The public well 'know that he is certainly
deserving of it, and cannot better display their ap-
probation of his past conduct Man by again placing him
in that position which be seeks to occupy. In one
portion of his &Urea he says, "should bribery,
coercion, and intimidation not be resorted to, I feel
sainred you will return ma I shall not make any
personal seems, for my past conduct, and not
a short interview, will inflame, you in your
voting." How much is implied in the first part
of thie sentence? and how many of the retiring
officers can seek office upon such a plea Echo
answer., not many. Mr. Arthur Mason seeks to dis-
place one of the retiring councillors, and if he carries
oat his profession., which we have not the slightest reason
to doubt, be will be • most valuable public servant.
We are given to understand that he is not nominated
by any great man, nor are his expenses guaranteed him.
The public knows the conduct of the majority of On
retiring Councillors, and if they seek to effect • change,
which is highly desirable, lei them support Mr. Mason,
and time will show what line of conduct he pursues.
should be pleased to see Mr. Mason elected, as also
Mr. Pothecary —one the burgesses know, the other they
do not, but the former may prove, as we have every
reason to believe he will, • most melons advocate for all
those measures which really tend for the prosperity of
the town. Perhaps before the Ist of November other can-
didates may appear, but whoever comes forward we hope
the burgesses will record their votes for men who will
faithfully and fearlessly represent them, not as the
majority of the Council did at the recent ele-tion of
surveyor, but such men as will not shrink from dis-
charging those duties which they are called upon to do,
even though it be against great party 'Patience —There
were two candidates for the vacancy in the Coenatl,
enneetl by the death at the late Mr. Williams, Thomas—
Mr, John Timid and MT. William HilL The election
was Geed for Saturday, but Mr. Hill having with-
drawn from the contest, Kr. Thud was elected.
LULWORTH. Plii AT LOLWORTH CASTLE—
Daring the sitting of the Domet Court of Quarter
Sessions it Dorshester, on Wednesday, the 19th instant,
Lord Portman stated that information had just arrived
that Lulworth Castle, the mat of E. Weld, Eel., was
on are. It is satisfactory to stete that the venerable
pile hal not been injured. It appears that the fire
originated in the flues, which are very intricate, and in
consequence of the operation of the new Act preventing
climbing boys ascending, the soot could not be got at by
the machine. However, the fire burnt itself out with-
out doing any material damage.
WA N ADE. —C L ANNIVEZIART, —On Mon-
day the members and friends of the Primitive
Methodist Society celebrated the 3rd anniversary of
the opening of the Chapel at this place by • public
tee, of which a good number partook. After tea,
addressee were delivered by the superintendents of
the district., the Rev. Mr. Hancock, and others.
On FILLOWSHIT.--011 Thursday, the 20th inst.,
a lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
to be called the Loyal Purbeck Lodge, was opened
in this town, when • number of young men were
enrolled as members.
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POOLE. —Wiscarmr TRA V —On Tuesday
evening a tea meeting was held in the Sunday School-
room of the Wesleyan Chapel, which waa very well
attended. Afar tea addresses were deliverei by the
aperinteadent of the Poole *intuit (the Buy. Jamas
Cooke), the Rms. Ft. Flarper, and & Vincent, and
Meows. Hint and Curtis.

POOLS NADIRS MID FAIN& —At a meeting of the
Town Council bold on Friday, the tenders for the
markets and fain were opened The Modern our...
follows :-11.r. Goad offered ETO • Yr. Cary, of
}Loewy, 1:90; and Kr. Baader', of Longleaf, £95. Yr.
Goode. ll s teeder for one year was nocepted.
THI Pauroaza Itamwer.--Severel parts of tho town
hare been measured during the week for rho proposed
railway from Cmford Bottom to the north end of the
town. The station according to the proposition, will
be in Mr. White's iardon at the end of the Parade.
CBANBORN/L— CM717011 To DlUTil&—Ock There-
der. before Lord Ashley, Albert Ronne, of Danbead
was convicted on the erWmoe of Bregoant Andrews, of
bang found riding asleep while in thane of a wagon
nod two hones on Cnuaborge Chase turnpike, without
• guide an foot to drive the same. Be was fined
goglanknivettas Mei and fhb. 8e.,,
oiserMWs of amila effeama *era law In Ilia lass
101111441

Anesta.v.—At the same session,. Francis Triclutt,
of Verwood, was fined Ifis. and wide, for • cowardly
assault on Mr. Alfred Motor, landlord of the Heath
Posit Inn, at Eartworth.
SHEMBOKNE.—Pack Monday Fair Ins held on
Monday week. Its dawn WU ushered in a• in the days
of yore by the flourish of trumpets and the dismal sound
of many cans, kettles, fie. This custom of born blowing
is fast dying out. The number of sheep and lambs
penned an about the average. Down ewes sold
briskly and fetched from 30s t 40t, lamb, yielded
from 225. to 275. wethers also changed hands from
40e., harreners and bulls yielded from t .210. There
was &scarcity among•t Devon steers and hi ifers ;
were numerous. Ti,. hone fair was nit no good aa Isst
year, about 200 were exhibited for sale ; a dultorsa
seemed to pervade this fair, and not much bnainear
done.
BLANDFORD. —OIIIATIFYING TVITIVONIAL. —Last
week the teachers of the Girls' &nil Boys' National Sunday
Schools preurnted to Miss Applin, on the occasion of
her marriage, the following artielea—half a dozen silver
aprons, • psir of silver sugar tongs, and a set of Ivory-
handled knives and fork., u a small token of their
esteem sod affectionate remembrance. Misr Applin bait
been oonnected with the school between 20 and 30
year., and in addition ban long been • most self -denying
and persevering district visitor. Many • down-cast and
afflicted one bas she encouraged by her sympathy and
kind advice. To the erring and fallen of her own sex
her visite were principally made, and it is not too munch
to say that thus visits have been owned and bleried by
Him in whose footsteps she humbly and prayerfully
sought to trud.7_Commanicared. .

tivii Dowser When—The member, of this corps, !
on their return from the review at Dorchester,
assembled at the Crown Hotel, when the prises won at
the annual coinoetition were presented by the Captain. !
who also entertained the company to an excellent
supper. The chair was tsken by the Captain. On the
removal of the cloth, the usual loyal toasts were given
and heartily responded to. In proposing the toast of :
" The Army and Navy," the Chairman paid a just tri•
bute to the courage and endurance which characterio d
the British soldier and sailor. He also expreesed his !
belief that the volunteer force would be found • mutt
valuable auxiliary to the regular forces, and that both
would work harmoniously together.—The distribution
of the prizes then took place. The Captain announced,
amidst loud cheers, 014 Mrs. Hombre had desired him
to &tate it was her intention to give • ehallenge cup to
be abet for next year, provided the winner would consent
to retain it for • eart•in number of yearn—The
health, of the collectors, Mr. Byers and Messrs. T.
M. and B. Park were eleen proposed by Sergeant.
Major Abbott, who also plopeed the health of the
Captain, remarking that he woe both loved and
respected by every man in the corps. The Captain
eould not always be present at drill, and there had been
times when he cams *lien there eras no drilL This enas
very discouraging, the more so IN he had occasionally
to some a long journey.—C...ptain H• t•bro suitably
acknowledged the toast, and expreesed his groat satis-
faction that both the inspecting officer (Colonel Hume)
and the Lord Lieutenant had spoken so highly of the
efficiency of the battalion that day. He Also cream,'
upon thsee prettiest the necessity of being efficient in
drill, and concluded by proposing the health o' Colonel
Mansel, which was ree...iresl with enthusiastic cheera—
The health of Lieutenant Johns was then proposed by
Mr. Eyers, who add that no man in the corps stood
higher than h., did. and whose kind and gentlemanly
manner hail won for him the highest respect.—Mr.
Johns, having acknowledged the toast, referred to
the day's proceedings at Dorchester, and while'
ezpressiug atiefaction that so much praise had been
given them by the I. rd-Lieutenant and the inspecting
officer, p tinted out the necessity, if they wished to be
not merely celled solder., but soldiers indeed, of • cons
saint attendee ce at drill—The Ch airman then gave the
health of Ensign Atkineon, expressieg his deep regret
that the present would most 'likely be the last time
they should meet whilst he held the office of ensign.
His resignation he had forwarded to the colonel, and !
it was most probable that Mr. Blward Castleman, of
whom he (the chairmao)could speak in the highest terms,
would receive the ape .iniment.—Mr. Atkinson said he :
most heartily thanktal them for the kind way in which
they had received the toast, and as he hest always
endeavoured to do his duty he considered he should
best now perform it by resigning his owned...ion. It
was not his int motion, however, to leave the corps, but
hoped, if spared for the next 10 or 2 Years, still
to belong to it as en honorary membe-. He
would teke this opportunity of contr•d ctiog a report
which had been eirc ila•et to the ffect that he wee
about to leave the town and go abroad. He had no
such intention, and he hoped to lite in lilandfori f:trmany
years to come. It was no wish of his to get rich, bet he
hoped to be enabled to !icing Up and educ.te hi. f.se!):y.
He concluded by thanking them all for their good
wishes, which he reciprocated, and might God Maw
them all. (Loud cheers.)—The health of Sergeants
Major Abbott woe then proposed by Me. Atkinson, who
remarked that that gentleman was not merely respected
by the Blandford corps, but by the whole bat!alion.—
Mr. Abbott euitably responded, and in proposing Mr.
Byers's health, took occasion to thank him for the good
mtaio his band gave them after the review.—Mr. Byers
having acknowledged the compliment, several othet
touts followed, and a very pleasant evening so •pens.
The whole of the expense was borne by the Captain,
who's liberality on this, as well as on former occasions,
I. worthy of all praise.
i3PUOUGH PULICZ, Saturday, October 22. —Before the
Mayor and F. T. Johns, Bail—Julia Windsor was
charged by Eliza Barnes with assaulting her on the 15th
instant.- Complainant stated that on the day in ques-
tion Windsor 0111010 to her house and made nee of
abusive lange.ge. When she opened the doer defendant
took hold of her by the halts of her bead.—ln answer to
the charge the defendant made a long rambline state-
ment about her husband being in the complainant's
house, and further .tated that she spit in her face.
Fined Its. and Gs. coats, in defsult 14 daya' ireprisous
moot.