The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

TIIE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETT

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LONDON MARKETS. PUBLIC APPonmants.
Tuesday, 2L —Mr. Waters' Refository Sale, Sa
r.EXPESSE é ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL Wednesday, 22.—Salisbury County Court.
Thursday, —Martinstown (Dorset) Fair.
Marlborough (Wilts) Fair.
M OUR OWN RF.PORTER.) Shaftesbury (Dorval) Fair.
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Auction et Martinstown Fair of Norms, Forest
Ponies, Farm Implements, Scs,by Mr. Bator,
MARLLANE, MONDAY, Nov. 20. Concert at the Townhall, Dorchester, in aid of
Fresh up to our market to-day the reoeipts of the Fund for the regtorelles of the Organ of
English whmt was decidedly on the increase, but the Wool Church.
trade for all qualities was in a most inactive state. Tile Saturday, 25.—Mr. BoosieSiatiriksollltDorobeoter•
fel( dry samples moved off at about the prices of
Monday hut. In damp samples the quotations were Is.
to is. per qr. lower than ou this day mennight. For
all -descriptions of foreign the trade was dull, and a
decline of Is. per or. took place. Barley was in fair
supply. Good and Eno malting qualities were arm in
price; but leerier barley met *slow sale, at barely late
rates. The malt trade was quiet. Oats were steady,
at last Monday'. currency. Beane were in very
moderate supply, at late prices. Peas fully support
late rates.

MINTING APPOINTMENTS..

Mt Radelytlree Hounds—Wedneecley, Cheeilborne
Water—et eleven.
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The longport Harriers—Tuesday, Carte Gate ; Satur-
day, Low Ham—at 10.45.
The South Wilts Hounds.—Wed.neaday, Gallows Bill;
Friday, Heyteebury, at 10.45.
The Bast Dorset Hounds. —Wednesday, Hayes Farm;
Saturday, St. Giles's—at 10.45.
The Blaokmoor Vale Hounds—Woodsy, Yen; Thurs-
day, Batoombe ; Friday, Hinton St. Mary—at eleven.
The Tedworth Houndo.—Tuesday, New Mill; Thum.
day, Month Grove; Saturday, Pill Heath—at eleven.
Lord Poitimore's Hounds. —Wednesday, Combo Coppice;
leridam. Martinstown ; Saturday, Hook Park—at
The New Forest Hounds.—Taeeday, Lyndhuret. road
Station; Thursday, Dunbridge ; Saturday, &bury
House—at 10.45.
The Vyne Hounds (Kr. A. Whieldon's).—Tueolay,
Popham Lane Inn • Thursday, Besurepaire Park;
Saturday, WhflobarOh Lodge—at 10.45.
The Duke of Beaufort's Hounds—Tuesday, Tog Hill;
Wednesday Lower Woods; Thursday, George lon,
Sandy Lane Friday, HAM Green; Saturday, Maya
Hill, Coal Pit Heath—at 10.30.

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METROPOLITAN CATTLE kfARKET, Nov. 20.
The beet trade was heavy, at a decline in the quota-
tions compared with Monday last of 2d. per 81b., and •
total clearance was not effected. The top pries' for
&Oil sod crosses were Ss. 9d, per filb. Thew was
only a limited sale for pigs—at barely stationary' prime.
Latest.
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"Extuuma" Ostrom, Monday Night.
Tos Cabinet held on Saturday was to address an
energetic remonstrance to the Spanish Government
against the conduct of the Admiral commanding the
Spanish fleet off Valparaiso, and the means taken by
Spain to enforce her demands upon Chili.
Tvu Amerkaa mail ship Africa has arrived (from
Boston, Bth lent). The choler* has been imported in
the Atlanta. A gale on Lake Ontario had done much
ahiipping damage. 'The Negro insurrection in Jamaica
continues, and many prominent inhabitants have been
killed. Georita Convention has repudiated the rebel
debt, wad petitioned for Jefferson Davis' pardon. The
New York Ponlan *4 Senate has dissolved. after sitting
two menthe.
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BIRTHS.
November 16, at Pep, Iwerne Plinater, the wile of
M. Thames Roberts of a Boa
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firrember 1, at Dorset-street, Portman-square,
idon, the wife of Mt. JUIN. Feaoey, of a son.
fovember 2, at North AlHorton, lirid port, the wife
It. R. D.Jiiohards, of a sou.
fovember 8, at Tinoletoa, the wife of Mr. Thomas
limey, of a daughter.
forobemr 12, at filedgehill Howe, Wino, the wife of
rre Troyte-Builock, Esq., of a daughter.
Aovember 14, at Weymouth, the wife of J. D.
Shinto; Esq., of a ion.
November t 6, at 24, High-street, Weymouth, the
wife of MY. W. Smith, shipbroker, of a daughter.

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Conaway,

The November Susie= lot the jurisdiction of the
Central Criminal Court, which commenced on Monday
(yesterday), will probably be unusually prolonged.
Many Of the offences charted are likely to occupy the
Con* Rome considerable tune. The trial which will
probably exeite most interest will be that of Robert
Short Water*, late steward and land agent to the Earl
of allaftesbury, which was postponed from the August
Sessions until these, at the urgent application of *e
def cadent, on the ground that he was not then prepared
with his defence. It win be recollected that be stands
charged with embezzling and appropriating to his own
awe several thousand pound', the moneys of Lord
Shaftesbury, collected by him on behalf of his lordahip
on his various estates in Dorsetahire, Wiltshire, and
Yorkshire. He was committed, at the end of May lasi,
by the magistrates at Sberborne, to take his trial at the
than next Dorchester Assizes; but application havins
afterwards been made, under what is called Palmer's
Act,'to the Court of Queen's Bench for a certiorari to
try its London, and granted, the indictments (11 or 13
in nember) were removed to the Central Criminal Court.
The trial is expected to commence on Wednesday next,
In the old court, before one of the judges, and may last
two Or three day!. The counsel retained for the prose-
outide are Mr. Iluddleston, Q C., Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and
Mr. If. T. Cole. Timemesoner will be defended by Mr.
Coleridge, Q.C., G. 11. Lewis.

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MARRIAGES.
November 16: at the parish Church Affpuddle, by
the Rev. Prebendary Waldy, Mr. Henry Parsons
Longman, yeoman, to Kiss Eliza Spicer, of the former
place.
DEATHS.

November 5, at South-street, Bridporl, of ootummp.
don, Asenath Symes, widow of the late Benjamin
Somas.
November 9, at Rampishani, Mr. William Dunford.
aged 100:
November 10, at South-greet, Bridport, of scarlatina,
Mary Ann, daughter of Mr. John Lovelace, aged 9
years.
November U, at South-street, Bridport, Sarah,
daughter of Mr. George Haines, aged 10 years.
November 11, at 12, St. John's-wood-road, London,
Mary Morns, daughter of the late Rev. Robert ktorres,
prebendary of Salisbury, wad 7L
November 12, at BlaWord, Melina March, aged 1
year 11 months.
November 13, at (gramme, Julia, wife of the Rev. S.,
Mr. Colson, aged 70.
November L 3, at Fordingbridge, Sarah, relies* of the
late Mr. John Coles, miller of that town aged 77 years.
November 13, at Stalbridge, Dorset, fiaret Resale,
the beloved wife of the Rev. J. B. Shattock, in the 27th
year of her age.
November 15, at Stockbridge, Samuel Lareemb, aged
70 years, formerly carrier between Salsbury and Win-
chester.
November 15, at Sherborne, Mr. Henry Moore, land
surveyor.
November 15, at Okeford Fltapaine, suddenly, Thomas
Furnell, Fag., in the 78th year of his age.
November IT, at 8, Devonshire Buildings, Weymouth,
Lord Frederick Peter Charles Beenalerk, aged 57.

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SUMMONS PROW SATURDAY'S MARKETS.
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Baviet-sgrhere was • hlr ripply of wheat at to-day's
auk* -*bleb met a slow mle ; red realised from 425.
to Wiry qr., and white, 445. to 5. There was a
laadfaite alind for barley, which sold at from 29e.
395, yet qr. In oats, beans, and pees there was no
altemstioa from last week's prime.

DIVONS33aI.-The best descriptions of white wheat
met a slow ale at the Exeter Corn Exchange to-day di
the rates of this day seXtnight ; inferior qualities ithe
red wheat lx. per qr. low.r--best old white, 6e. 3d. to
6e. 64.; new ditto, 6., to tie. lid • red, 5. 68. to 511. 91
per Harlem malting, 4e. 61. to 48. 9d.; grinding,
.3s. 614 oats, 2a. 10d. to 3,‘ 3d. per bushel. Flour
supedne, 37a.; One, Els. to 361.; seconds, 33e. to 34e.
per ask.
V144111311.363.-At the opening of the market farmer
askopieen advenee of about la. the qr. ea what
Milers declined to concede this rise, and hence bleineap
for some time ruled. dull, and a alumnae was not
effected. We must return the quotations as those of
led week-namely, for beet qualities, 50. to Hs., end
for secondary, 445. to 48s. The balk of wheat mowing
be. now been made in this district. Of barley we had
a heavy supply here today, and fainters oomumeneed by
asking a heavy advance, whilst whims and dealers
offered • redaction. It was not It nosily the dose
that ranch hateiness was done. Thee* Was Ens a
brisker trade, at p.4cc. the turn In Pavan. of the stiller.
The - bent qnslltleu made 406. to 455.• medal lots of
malting, 36€. be 40a; rad grinding, 28.. to 38.. In
springiorst the trade doing is small, but prioes are firm.
Oats realise 18e. to 26€. tor new, and up to Me. to 33e.
for pod aid white.
.Beacts tie quoted 445. to 58..
48.. to 66e. '
Hin.untran -There was a very thin attendance of
farmara at the Southampton Corn-doubtless,
occadooed by the incessant rain which fell 'rom early
morn, and business, although not brisk, wee steady,
about the prices of the previous week, Malting barley
vu sought for, and two or three parcels changed hence
at 40+4; these, however, were exodlent for the season.
Infer*. parcels were neglected. Old wheat may be
quoted at 50s, t 01555. p.r. ; new, 40. to 52. ; melting
barley, 34a. to 40e. ; grinding ditto, 255. to 30e. ' • oats,
21a. to 24a. • old bleak, 27e. to 30s. ; old white, 29e. to
34e. ; new White, 265. to Ps.; new beaus, 43.. to 47..;
old, 435. to 545. ; new gray peas, 3Expt 63.. • st"
to to 68..; and rye, 32a. to 35e. WWI, 94. g.
6.63. per hadish Flour had a dm* ids at M. pr
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CATIIIII THADV.
BATH, Nov. 18.—The simply of meat a* to-da.
market was quite adequate to the demand, and prime
ludo:anent no champ.
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linwrant, 18.—The cattle-market was again
to-day. At the weekly *means of the Norfolk
Please Atilesistion today many fresh oases of disease 1
w•rensepiiii, and, if Mesi Abeam is not increasing Is'
Noziaik, 'a steady and ooninant
Cu Via present is, in fast, a very
trying *rile agaseliand commuall.
Dworman*, 17th. —Tba Nallisiwadllkineeitsi Will
tolerably well supplied withallAvellplimweeekosk to-
day, „ aad a fair amouatAd 114dissms4MMIMMAisted.
The joUowing were the quotridelses-sllat beef, M. to
Us 6d.; Werior ; banosiste.' Ts.' tet 7* AM. per I
score. Cows and calves, £l.l to 1117 17s. Butchers'
calves, Bd. per lb. Sheep—wethers, 7id. to ; ewes,
7d. to 71d.; lambs, .Bds per lb. Pork, eareassea,
9s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. per score. At a meeting of the
agriculturists in the neighbourhood of Easter, held ci
the Gaikiliall to-day, under the presidency of the I
Mayor of Exeter, it was resolved to dose the Exeter
Cattle-market agaimst 'ilia admission of horsed beads
for one moods, in order to prevent the importation of
the cattle diessie into the district.

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CALENDAR.

21.—Thesday.—Pr1neess Royal born 1840.
22. —Wednesday.--Ceeilia, Virgin and Martyr.
23.—Tharsday.--Bt. Clement, That Bishop of
Rome and Martyr.
24.—Friday.— Length of day Bh. 26m,
25. —Batauday.—Catharine, Virgin and Martyr.
Michaelmas Terms ends.
26.--Ban4ay.—Twenty•fourth Sunday after Tri-
nity. Lessons: Morning, Proverbs xiii, and
Bt. John 'rill; Evening, Proverbs xiv, and
Hebrews ii.
27. —lionday.—Day breaks bh. arm

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1865.

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of an unpaid Magistracy, which we no longer
hesitate to proclaim the greatest judicial
anomaly in the known world; and the sub-
stitution of stipendiary magistrates—not
our towns alone—but m our counties—to the',
same extent at all events, but improved by '
retention of the English forms of
in
pre-
liminary inquiry, as they have n Scotland
with their paid criminal Judges, the Sheriffs
and Sheriff-Substitutes (the Scotch system
labouring, however, under the defect of the
commitments being private). The case of one
John Cross, on which several letters appear
in our columns to-day, including one from
the man's employer, revives the old old story
of the Dorsetehire labourer in all its
painful notoriety, and in a manner that
reluctantly wrings from us these observations.
Of course the old proverb—" Give a dog a
bad name and you may hang him," has been
here at work. In our last we happened
quietly to recount the conviction of Cross
before the Wimborne Bench, and hie sen-
tence of fourteen days' imprisonment for
**sling a hurdle, value 6d., after having been
211 years in the service of the owner of the
article, earning, according to his own state-
ment, the too familiar wages of 7s. a week.
At the mere mention of a Dorsetshire
Labourer all England seems to have fanned
its indignation into flame. Our table groans
with communications, of Which we present
the few first examples, excising only some
extreme expressions; and our offices in
Blandford and Dorchester were literally
besieged all market day (Saturday) with
sturdy yeomen and respectably dressed
country people, making inquiries and tender-
ing relief. We are, amongst others, enabled
to print in our present impression a com-
munication addressed to us by the man's
master, which, although it may not detract
from the apparent monstrosity of the sen-
tence, or mitigate what humbly appears to
us the harshness of imprisoning as a felon,
and without the option of a fine, the head of
a helpless family of starvelings, undoubtedly
shifts the blame largely from off the
master's shoulders, both as respects the
amount of the labourer's weekly earnings
(these being 12s. not 75.) and the origin of
the prosecution. Cross, it appears, was taken
in the act; taken by a policeman who wit-
nessed the commission of the theft; mid NV
very much fear the law is in such a case in-
exorable. What could the policeman do but
seize the delinquent? What could the law
do but punish him? As for the master, had
he been even cognizant of the apprehension,
which was not the case, it is clear he dare not
have compounded a felony. The entire blame
thus descends on the head of the law and its
administrators, who forgot to temper justice
with mercy. We cannot help thinking that
had they been stipendary Judges, they would
have taken a more lenient view of the case.
We say thie without personal prejudice, not
having so much as inquired who they were
that occupied the Wimborne Bench on that
occasion. The fact, however, is, that when
any of the peasantry break down under the
pressure of circumstances and occasion what
we term the cost of crime, they inevitably
become the most costly of all the Country
Squire's preserves, since it must needs be
mainly at his expense that rural families,
rendered desperate by want, prey upon society.
Everyone who knoWs the secret characters
of certain outcasts in our country villages,
must be aware how hard it is for a neighbour-
ing Justice of the Peace to judge meekly of
such delinquencies. Why not then relieve
him of this jurisdiction 'P
Our County Courts
have just had an equity jurisdiction annexed
to them let them have a criminal jurisdiction
also. Let us remove in time one of the
worst causes of social estrangement and dis-
trust betwixt class and clans in this country,
without abrogating completely Justice of
Peace jurisdiction in Thigland, since in cases
affecting muter and sertrinti weights and
measures, fates and tests, and other domestic
matters, nothing notild be better (we do not
say cheaper—that is not the point). Let us
take away from our Country Justices that
temptation (all the worse for their yielding
to it almost unconsciously) to drive away as
bad characters their own fallen dependants
' from out of their sight and beyond their
bounds, only to swell and Aggitivate elsewhere
the ranks or crime. Remark the patient
boating of the London stipendary Magistrate
in the most revolting police cases. He seems
to sit as a great relieving officer, haring, in-
deed, a poor box at WA elbow, for the relief
of the Miserable, and, not every, poor wretch
who is "haled before the judge is "delivered
over to the executioner," for many are
solaced with the most blessed of all alms—
those which are given to the truly destitute.
We cannot possibly expect the saute high
magaanimous senile or public functions to
actUate in amateur magistracy as influences
one w),ere the administration of justice is the
business of life. The very irksomeness of discri-
minating on the conflict of evidence, irritates
the unpractised mag*trate into severity on
inflicting sentence. The lower classes cannot
comprehend this zeal of office. They, too
often, shrink from the gentlemen of the corn.
mission as their natural born oppressors.
But is there not, after all, a want of existing
sympathy which, perhaps, the abolition of
the magisterial power vested in one class over
another, in criminal Matters, would do some-
thing to obviate? We do net merely throw
out the hint • we think the thing may be
done with infinite advantage to both extremes
of the social scale

ESCAPE FROM THE FORSTON LUNATIC ASYLUM.
On Wednesday night a young man, named James
Noonan, escaped from the Forston Lunatic Asylum
by scaling the wall. His keeper was sent in pursuit of
him as soon as he was missed. As the friends of the
lunatic live in the neighbourhood of Parkatone, it
was naturally supposed- that he would take that road,
but the keeper by some means missed him. On the
following night Superintendent Gifford, of the Poole
police, observing Noonan on the road, apprehended
him, and the lunatic was taken back to the asylum
on Friday evening. Noonan, who has been six years
a lunatic, escaped OWE while confined in the Hamp-
shire asylum.

COMMITTED TO THS DORSET COURT! GAOL.
Session. Joseph Wilson' stealing wearing apparel at
Stoke Abbott.—Hard Labour: Mary Brown, vagrancy
at Sherborne, 14 days ; Frank Harting, vagrancy at
Ihberton, 14 days; Henry Spencer, damaging • door at
Weymouth, 1 month • Mark Crate, poaching fish at
Stinsford, 2 months ; otorge Kitchell, assaulting con.
stable at Blandford, 2 months. —imprisonmenil James
Hembnry, bastardy at Yetminster, 1 month ; Angelo
Stanley, firing a certain firework, to wit a tar-barrel at
Dorchester, 2 months; Henry Hardy, firing a oertain
firework, to wit • tar barrel at Dorchester, 1 month;
Riehard Major, breach of the peace at Bridport, 6
months; Chalice Sargeant, poaching at East Wood-
yates, 2 months; Jacob Millvr and Isaac Miller, stealing
• ferret at Hawkohurch, 14 days; John Stockley,
Henry Orchard, and Joseph Trent, stealing salt fish at
Code Castle, 7 days.

PuLto CHAISIT/r8 TO BE RATIO). —On Thursday at
the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, the clerk
direcred attention to a subject of national importance,
via., that by a decision of the House of Lords in JIIIII3
last en an appeal in the case of the Liverpool Docks (the
Mersey Doak and Harbour Board), all and every species
of property not in the oceupation of the Crown Bail
war liable to rating, and the Lord Chaneellor, in giving
judgement, Ned no exemption wag given even to charity
or public purposed beyond that which was strictly in•
volved in the position that the Crown was not bound by
the act. This been the case and after such a decision
witless tire porishers throughott Utt kingdom rate +every
prigio or eheiritable institution their rate might be quashed;
the Rev. Llewellyn Davis and other gentlemen observed
that when it became known each a decision would create
a profound sensation throughout the kingdom. It
would be desirable that Parliament should be appealed
to as early as possible in the ensuing session and in the
meantime, although that board might feel bound to
make rates on the charitable institutions in that parish,
they need not proceed to levy them till the new law
was settled by Parliament.

COUNTY EXPINDIVIBIL -An abstract of the accounts
of the County Treasurer for Dorset for the year ending
29th September has just been issued. We learn that
the receipts for the year amounted to £13,393 17s. ed.,
of whieh £9,240 14s. •Bd., was realised by eleven oounty
rates, at one farthing in the 2; fines, £195 10s. 3d.;
and allowance from the Treasury for prosecution of
prisoners, maintenance of prisoners, and removal of
convicts, 21,257 4s. 9d. The expenditure leaves a
Wanes of 2378 12s. 3d. The gaol and house of cor•
rection cost £3,234 11s. 9d.; conveyance of prisoners to
gaol from Weymouth, Dorohester, and Blandford,
£B3 10s, ld, ; prosecution of prisoners and eonveyance
of isonflrte, £1,223 18s, 3d.; Shirehall and county
house, £215 se. 5d.; luratio asylum, 2694 18s. 4d.;
county bridges, £653 5.. 7d.; police station justice
rooms, £296 ss. id.; Clerk of the Peace, £839 11..;
Treasurer, £150; Corocers, £491 19s: 1(l.; *eights
and measures; £65 6s 6d.; incidentals, £5,113 is. ed.
The *Rai taluation upon which the assessment for the
empty rate was made was £806,464, and the total
amount of debt (to Michaelmas, 1865), charged upon
the county rate, 252,366 13e. 4d., via., on account
of police stations, 2112900 ; ditto lunatic asylum,
£36,266 13s. 4d.; ditto militia stores, £4,200.
THE COMITY CONSTABULARY-The ninth annual
statement of the accounts of the Dorset Constabulary
for the year ending 29th September, shows receipts,
£12,194 ss. 94., which sum oomprises- proceeds of eleven
Fyliers rates of one farthing in the 2 each, 28,314 4s. 3d, ;
afteebury cootributidn, £100; Bridport ditto, £218)
me Itegik, 2135; money deducted froin pay of Men
for medical attendance, 'Ore 13s. 3d.; ditto lodgings,
£266 195.; ditto serving summonses, £167 10s. M,'
ditto casual payments, £7 3s. • Treasury allowance of
one-fourth of the pay and clothing, £1,952 Os. ed. ; from
Colonel Cox-Weymouth race fund £2 10s., Volunteer
Association £5, sale of old carts 232 10s. The ex.
wditure leaves • balance in hand of £1,470 ss. 94.
The year's pay of the force amounts to £7,101 Oa. 10d. ;
ditto Chief Constable £450-total, £7,551 Os. 101 ;
clothing and hats, 2/399 41. 3d.; new polio, carts,
£2ll 10s. ; repairs to the stations, 2135 17s. 11d. ;
contingent ex £1,270 es. 10d. • paid to West of
&gland o cc, i stalment of loan and interest,
£1,373 3s. 64.; salaries of Treasurer and Clerk of Coni
mittee, £75.

DORCHESTER BRENT BANIL —Theie is nclaiins •iefy
grand about the title of a Penny gook. It appears
It first sight an insignificant affair, a mere school-
boy's money-box, sounding of coppers, or such small
silver as drops in at Christmas time. It is, however,
a bank for poverty—a reoeptacle for such trifles as
can be squeezed out of weekly wages, or from the
daily pittanoes that reward hard labour, and is an
important institution to those who confide in it. It
is the little purse of poverty, the 'Flocking kept out
of the house, the secret oorner in the palliasse, the
old shoe in the chimney, or the tin-box buried in the
book garden, which, in times of need keeps the *cif
from this door, or gives a eblid g fairef start in the
race of life than he *mild othershse have. Dot
beyond the material result, there is this advantage—
it fosters a habit of saving in the young, which is in
every way beneficial to them. We are glad to find
from the seventh annual statement of the Dorchester

Penny Bank, just issued by the Rev. James Fisher,
that the number of depositors is yearly increasing.
Wherem in 1859 there were 295 depositors, and the
sum banked by them was £147 9.8., during the past
year there were 690 depositors and the amount
inveseed was £368 Be. sd. We heartily commend
the gentlemen who conduct the business of the
Penny Bank, and wish for their labours continued
and increasing mows

Boum:rug ,Partv Scanlon, Monday.—Before the
I Mayor And Datiai and Boaor,
Green and Thomas Oliver, two facts, Were charged
on the information of Mr. William Osmond, manager
of the Dorchester Gas Company, with breaking
down and stealing part of a dead fence, the property
of the said company. The defendants pleaded
guilty. Mr. Osmond said that he was requested by
the managers to state, in the event of their pleading
guilty, they did not wish to press the ease against
the defendsnis, prodding the Bench would point
out the consequences to which they were liable, and
order them to pay the coats. The .Mayor told the
boys they were liable, for the first offence, to a floe
of £5, or to be gent to gaol, but if they were ever
brought there again on a similar charge, they would
be 'Liable to 12 mouths' imprisonment. They ought
to be very grateful to this gas company for not
pressing the charge in this instance, al ths* worild,
instead of being fined £5, be let off by paying la.
each. The friends of the boys paid the money. --
Emma Adams was charged by Mary Marks with
, an attempted assault, on the night of Monday, the
12th inst. at the Star public-house. The com-
plainant has herself frequently figured, as defendant,
at the bar of justice. In this case there were two
, witnesses Who swore that the defendant attetepied
to strike the complainant, and two who MOM As
positively that defendant never rose from her chair.
The magistrates dismissed the Cab.

Sronsisie Bititheithine tg few weeks
back I oorrespondent, writing to the Gordessers' Chronidts
under the signature of W.D.F., announced as a thing
remarkable the finding of barberry trees in this county
I laden with 'toneless fruit. Whereupon "Dias," writing
to the same paper says W.D.F. will find some
Itelfl3,titiN,linekt tiTlOng:l4orsarrhirreittirilt
1, p. 301. London says 'Miller and also Duhamel,
both ;tete that %WPM says,
front this variety eom-
monly produce trait with seeds; that, as the tree grows
older, the seeds become fewer, and that it is the age of
the plant that at last muses the fruit to be seedless; in
that twee this plant mast be considered more a variation
than s variety. W,D.r. does not tell us in what pert
of ,Dereetehire he fOlind this tariety; and Dorsetshire
otendiftthn Pbtliiihd ntirthwArd mfire Mien 401
and front Lmlt Y 4 eatteard More than W fillies. A
more precise d ption of the locality would perhaps
enable some of your eorreepondente to get suckers from
trees which, in their own native Dorsetshire, are un-
doubtedly 'toneless. I have generally found this •
better plan when variation earns with Igo than resorting
to • nurderyraftit: It stay pdesibly be in the power of
Some of ydur earrhsPondenis, who May .have in due
Mason gathered their 'toneless fruit, to tell us lid* long
we may confidently expect the result, and when our
heart may begin to grow sick with hope deferred. And
route may even be able to tell us whether the remit does
not depend in some degree upon the soil, or on the
eitetitlon4 end May know instances In which two sucker"
taken from the same stOneled trite have produced; in
two different soils or tituations, the one • stoned, the
otheri stonehee fruit. I shall be glad to see some in-
formation of this sort in your eolarai4, M the kcitdeT of
W.D.F. has put me on the look-out for this variety
(true)." In last Saturday's paper, W.D.F. replies as
follows :—" The place in Dorsetahire where I observed
the berberries was Piddlehinton, about five miles from
Dorchester. The trees I saw loaded with 'toneless fruit
bear out "Di..'." view, as they were very old ones, but ,
• sharp gardener there affirmed that all berberries in i
that quarter, both wild and in gardens, were etioneless.
I have written to him for farther information. I
obeerved an old barberry of this varlegrlit Ettrond last
Jear. On the other hand, I have oldlimes,l suppose at
least 40 years old, the fruit of which szly all stone,
and I never maw • "toneless herfisemi, ib the midland
ocentleiror in the north." '"

DIVISIONAL PETTY Sroiq,Satardity. —Before
Major Steward and X Pearoe, i.q.—Two carterthisdat
the employ of Mr. Byrnes, of PHl:Waren
named John }Lanham and Joseph . . wfrifit
brought up in custody charged Vita .
deed rabbits, value Is. Bd., the p &la=
zing
Newberry, of Fordingtori.—/t Mist ladle
Thursday tor WM maw ,Pinilie4
binton with a pony and cart, loam Ida. Where
rabbits, the latter being at tlkeitall of the
-
vehicle. He stopped at the New Inn to refresh
himself end also the pear. Whilst he was in the
house the two prisoneri. who were each driving a
team of homes, with a waggon containing coals, mms
and pod there a abort time to have some
after they had gone on, promestor
..a Ward Ws two rabbits. Aftsr,miely
1 about fie tisk the oonatable el the pariah,
dm eke, wris,eoumsrusiealed •
n that primeval-Mg Islam "
amok. Hsi.
As in charms et but r.
boa's in Piddlelmatitide. Hs called the out,
and asked them if they knew anything about the
sising rabbits, wbea they mid they did not. He

told them he woes pariah constable, and bad oome to
search their waggons, which they allowed. One
rabbit he found upon Hanbam's waggon, so a rush-
basket, and another in Gornick's covered over with
a cloth. Corniek said he did not know how the
rabbit came there, and Hanham said nothing. New-
berry came up, and described to the constable a
peculiar manner in which his ralitbite had been
skinned. This mark Guy found upon each rabbit,
and prosecutor on seeing them now identified them
as his. The same evening prisoners were brought
•to the gaol at Dorchester.—Mr. Weston, who ap-
peared for prisoners, said he was instructed that
neither of the men knew how the rabbits came
there, and suggested that they had been placed there
by some one by way of a practical joke. As sup-
porting that view of the case, he spoke of the good
characters the prisoners bad borne as laboarers, and
their never having been before in the hands of the
police, which made it most unlikely that they would
risk their good names for a paltry rabbit.—Mr.
Symes spoke to their good oonduot since they had
been in his aervide.—After a long cionsultation,
Major Steward said the Court had very carefully
considered the case, and bad taken into account the
character they had received from their master,
and also what Mr. Weston had urged in explanation
of the facts, which might perhaps have occurred, and
they were willing to give the prisoners the benefit of
all that, but they could not do so without impress-
ing upon them the necessity fur great caution in
their conduct. They stood charged with felony, and
if oonvioted would be damned for life, for no men
would take such persons into their service. They
had been in prison since Thursday, and the Bench
had decided, in the exercise of the discretionary
power they had on consideration of the whole facts,
to dismiss them without a conviction—The pri-
soners seemed very thankful, and it is to be hoped
that the mercy extended to them will have a whole-
some effect upon them