The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-03 00:00:00

CANE AND WHITOONBN.

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THZ amount of the offertories for the County
Hospital at the Harvest Thanlcwivings in Came and
Whitt:x.lml* was £4 Iffs. 7d., that of Came being
£3 19.. Id. At the Came service the prayers were
read by the Rev. T. W. G. Edwards, chaplain to the
Hospital, and the sermon was preached by the Rev.
W. hL Barnes, rector of Monkton.

P 001.3.
Parry Simon, Thursday—Before the Mayor (Alder. I
man F. Styring), Messrs. W. D. Dugilale. and J. B.
DurelL
James Flowers wee charged on remand with stealing a
quantity of tobacco from the Foundry Arms Inn on the
previous Tuesday.—The Bench were of oenli the case
was not • clear one, and prisoner was disc
Mr. Greenham, of the Duke of F.dinb"Zrinn, was
granted an extension of time for • mecluutics' supper on
Thursday night
On the application of Mr. Trevanion, Mr. Andrews, of
The Vine, and Mr. Curtis, of the Antelope Hotel, were
granted temporary licenses to supply refreshments at the
Liheral fete in Elms Park, Parkstone, on Monday.
FILIDAY.—Before the Mayor and Alderman F. T. Rogers.
Join Edwards, of Chester, was charged with assaulting
John Bonifsee, mate of the schooner Nugget, of Little-
harnpton, on September 27th and 24th.—It was shown
that prisoner violently assaulted and kicked the prosecu-
tor on board the schooner on the twolldays given, without
any provocation, and he was sentenced to two months'
bard labour.
tiatuanar.—Before the Mayor and Mr. C. .I. Stone.
William Smith, of Portsmouth,
_was charged on remand
with being a deserter from Her Majesty's Artilleno—The
Police had no further evidence to offer, and prisoner wu
discharged.
Willsauui Bidden, labourer, of Poole, was charged under
a warrant with violently assaulting and doing actual
bodily harm to a travelling woman named Ellen Short on
the Wth September—Proaecutrix did not appear, and
prisoner was discharged.

FRIDAY last being the asmivenary of the restoration of
the Minster. the bells were rung, and in the afternoon, the
Rey. E. F. Trotman gave a lecture on the " Esrly Ristorg
and Structure of the Church."

STITRIIIIICETTSB NEWTON.
PETTY SESsiogs, Thursday.—Before Captain Hanham,
R.N. (chairman), Kr. E. C. ICernSeyrner. and Mr. D. H.
Sorrell
Eduard llellsolk, a lad, was summoned by Mr.
Edward Young exciseman. of Stalbridge, for carrying a
run without being licensed to do so. at Shillingstone, on
the 21st of July.—Defendant admitted that he took the
gun in his band, and snapped it, and he was ordered to
pay onefourth of the full penalty, vii. .C 2 les-
Howe EfulehiVe. nalxmrer, of lwerne Minster. was
summoned by Tom Lane. keeper to Sir Edward Baker,
for using iron traps for the purpose of taking game, on
the llth September, at Iwerne Courtenay.—Complainant
said he was walking round Fallow's Woods on September
11th, about mid-day, and seeing some marks be
searched about and found a hare hid in •
rabbit's hole, on the border dividing Mr. Tom
Fry's down from the wood. He watched till about six
o'clock, when defendant came up and went to the place
where the bare was hid. He saw some wires, but not
traps, near the spot. As soon as defendant left he went
to the hole and found the hare gone. He could not see
defendant when he was at the hole. Defendant's in-
structions were to take any game to his (the keeper's)
house, and he waited to see if be took the hare there ; but
he found he went towards his own house, in an opposite
direction. He went to defendant, and asked him if he
had a hare in his basket, to which he replied that he had.
Defendant gave him the hare when he asked for it. He
then asked him what he intended to do with the hare if
he had not seen him, and he said he should have taken it
to Mr. Fry at the farm. Defendant was going in the
direction of the farm as well as his own hour. He asked
defendant if that was what he told him to do in such
cases and he said, "No." The hare he had seen hid was
a wired one, and noticing that the one defendant had given
him was a trapped one, be asked him if he had another in
his basket Defendant denied having another, and he
asked him to let him see. Defendant put down his basket,
pulled an old bag on one side and showed him the
bottom of the blanket He (the keeper) found another
hare in the bag.—Cross-examined by Mr. Atkinson, who
defended: He was certain that when he asked defendant
if he hadn't another bare in his basket he did not answer
" "Sore I have." He could not swear the hare was in a
has—it was either in a bag or rolled up in something.
Defendant had a perfect right ti set wires where he saw
the hare—ln defence Mr. Atkinson urged that defendant,
who was a regular trapper to Mr. Tom Fry, accidentally
caught the hare in a trap and a wire that had been set to
catch rabbits. Defendant's instructions from his masterwere
that if he unluckily caught any hares he was either to take
them to the keeper's house or to the farm, and as the latter
place was in his way home, he preferred to take the two
hares borne. —The Chairman said although there was a
certain degree ofl suspicion about the case, there was also
a certain amount of doubt, and defendant would have the
benefit of it. In dismissing the case, the chairman
cautioned the defendant sets the future.
(herr Lyclford, of Sturminster Newton, was summoned
for stealing • number of plums, nears, and cucumbers,
value 4d., from the garden of Mr. John Harris, Swan Inn,
Sturminster Newton. on the 11th of September. —Defen-
dant pleaded guilty, and asked to be dealt with leniently.
—Lydford, who had been assisting the °eller at the inn
during the day, was seen getting over the wall with the
fruit and vegetables in his possession at eleven o'clock at
night by a constable.-11,mecutor said his garden had
been extensively robbed during the past two years ; but
he hoped the Bench would be lenient towards defendant
for the sake of his aged father and mother—The Chair-
man suitably admonished defendant, who had been
invalided from the army with a good character, and
ordered him to pay a fine of 12a. 81., damage 4d., and
costs Ts., total El, or fourteen days' hard labour.—
Defendant asked for time, and was allowed till the next
meeting.
Arthur Robot, alias Percy, Albert Wareham, and
Waliaus Newman, three boys of Sturininster Newton,
were sununoned for obstructing the free passage in the
Marketplace, Sturminster Newton, on September 14th.—
Newman did not appear, but the other boys pleaded
guilty.—P.C. Barnes proved the case against the absent
defendant lie stated that between seven and eight in
the evening of September 14th he saw the three defen-
dants standing on the pavement in the Market-place
pushing each other against the people that pared by.
Several females were obliged to get off the pavement to
paas. Defendants were also shouting, and making
remarks on the passers by.—Supt. Grant said this sort of
thing had been of frequent occurrence lately, but this was
the first case brought before the Bench.—Defendants
were lined Is. and costs, which in the case of Ridout and
Wareham were 2a. 9d., and in that of Newman a shilling
more.
Thema., Ridout, labourer, of Sturminster Newton, was
summoned for being drunk and refusing to quit the White
Hart Inn, Sturminster Newton, kept by Mr. Richard
Chapman, when requested to do so by P.C. Barnd, on
September 23rd. Defendant's wife appeared. The
constable said he was sent for by the lanlord on the 23rd
but, and went to the inn and found defendant, who was
In company with two other men, drunk and refusing to
quit the house. The two other men went out, but
defendant refused to leave when he requested him to. He
elected defendant, who resisted him. Defendant went
home iron after.—At the close of the case defendant, who
Is an old offender, came into court, and the Bench wishing
to teach him that he must not commit such offences nor
insult them by not appearing, fined him 40a and
or one calendar month hard labour—Defendant could
not pay, and he was removed in custody.
James Trotebrid go, of Okeford Fitspeino, pleaded guilty
to allowing a cow to stray on the highway on September
12th, and was fined 61. and Is. costa.
Georg* Maiden, of Shillinptone, was ordered to nay •
similar amount, for allowing • horse to stray an the same
date. He pleaded guiltY
fleecy Too', of Sturminster Newton, was summoned
fog permitting a horse to stray on the highway, on
September 12th.—Defendant did not sipper, and P.C.
Hill proved the case.—Fined tied, and costs Os.
James Porter, of Sturminster Newton, pleaded guilty to
allowing a horse to stray on August 96th, and was ordered
to pay a fine of tkL and ss. costs.
The overseers of the various parishes in the division
produced their lists of Persons in their respective parishes
qualified to serve on Juries, and the/ were Passed by the
Bench.
This was the annual licensing meeting, and, there being
no complaints against any of the publichouses, the whole
of the licenses were renewed.

THE MARQUIS OF BATH ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
At the annual dinner of the Promo District Agricultural
Society, the Marquis of Rath, in responding to the toast of
the House of Lords, said he must allude to a subject that
had raised so strong an indignation among all Englishman
—the astrocities on Christians in Turkey, first denied.
then doubted and palliated, but now admitted by all to be
true. The wholesale 11311311SCrel, the outrage on women,
the mutilation of children—crimes impossible to describe,
worse than death itself. Those events had celled attention
to the character of the Turkish Government, and to the
fact that during the en years the Turkish rule had lasted
In Europe it had ben a inane compared to which slavery
would be a blessing. The voice of England had declared
that, so far as she had the power to prevent them, it
should be impossible for such enormities to occur again.
Parties of all shades of opinion and clergy of all denomin-
ations had especially distinguished themselves in the
movement, and had by resolutions and memorials urged
the Government to make a clear and explicit demand
that Turkey should surrender all executive power in the
disturbed provinces, and that freedom and self-govern-
ment be secured to the Christians. The town of Frome,
prompted by the Vicar, sent up three memorials, which
though varying in some pointe, all unite in this, which all
men required, and from which there was no possibility of
evasion—that the Christians should have freedom and
protection for life, person, and property, and that these
conditions, so necessary to • people's existence, should
depend one basis more secure than the goodwill or fidelity
to their promisee on the ;mid of their present tyrants.
Attempts had been made to stem the tide of in-
dignation, by telling them that the (Christian was as
barbarous as the Turk. that it was not their business to
interfere to redress the wrongs of the universe and that
by doing so they would promote the egressions of Rustle.
To say that the Christians were as barbarous as the Turks
was as if the welt justified his slaughter of the sheep by
saying the sheep would kill him. Had they the chance,
probably the Christiana would show small mercy to the
Turks. Was it to he believed that people who during tee
years had laboured under no grinding • tyranny, subject
to such outrages, had not treasured the memory of peat
sufferings and the hope of revenge, and would not repay,
blood for blood, and outrage for outrage Resides, the
plea of barbarism only proved that the Turks, having
conquerol the most civilized people at the time in the
world, had reduced the remnant they allowed to live to a
condition similar to their own, and it was time that rule
should revel. It was said it, was not their business to
redress the wrongs of the universe. He was in favour of
no unnecensay interference in the affairs of other States,
but there had lean occasions when such interference had
been completely justified, and in this instance more than
others the principles of a common humanity called for it.
They had also especial duties from the liabilities they
took upon themselves to protect the native Christians
when they deprived them of Russian protection
in 1055. Besides, it was not interference. but
non-interference, that was really required. The English
Government had but to withdraw its countenance
and its support from the Turks, and Russia would deal
with the question, and free its kindred races from Turkish
despotism. Then as to opening the door to Russian
aggression, he had such confidence in the strength of his
country that he believed if Russia was three tunes more
powerful she could do England no hum. Of this he was
certain—if the alternative lay between leaving the pro-
vinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria at the mercy
of Turkey or letting Reline take them, let Russia have
them, and God be with her. (Loud applause.) But the
autonomy of these States would be no help to Russian
aggression. Turkey withstood Russia, not by her owe
strength, but by the support of the Western Powers, and
that support they could equally give to any Power they
choose to fret up in the whole or part of the Turkish
dominions. Besides, a free and prosperous State would be
the greatest bar to Russian aggression. A Hessian
invasion now would be a welcome delivery to the people
from their hated masters, when:gut a free and properous
people would cherish their freedom and be unwilling to
surrender it to new rulers They heard little of Russian
influence in Greece and Roumania, for they were free and
independent. They heard much of Russian intrigues in
Serves, because she depended on Russia for protection
against Turkey. They had been told that the
attack of Swvia on Turkey was wanton and wicked,
Ills result of the action of secret societies. Was this:
necessary to account for the fact that the Servian people,
when they received the wounded men and outraged
women, a scattered remnant fleeing from devastated
homes and the corpses of their relation', should peril all
in their attempt to deliver their kinsmen from a yoke
under which they had themselves groaned up to some tie
The war was a just and holy war, a sacred war,
M,2l;y the flames of the Bulgarian villages, not by the
eminaries of secret societies, No doubt there had been
mead societies as there were in Italy for accomplishing
Italian unity. Secret societies as there were in Germany
for the liberation of their fatherland. He next asked them
to consider the position of the Government, and in doing
so begged them not to look upon that as • party question.
They neither wished that to be the scene of apolitical duel
between Mr. Gladstone and Lord Beaconsfield nor
means of strengthening or weakening the Government.
Theyfhad a clear object which they wished carried through,
apart from any other consideration. The cluirges brought
against theta for sending the fleet to Bunke Bay and for
Dot having obtained earlier information bad been
abandoned. They were charged with having been in the
beenining indifferent on the subject, and with not being
now in accordance with public opinion. The Opposition
had no right to make the charge if during the last days of
July they had held the opinions they now held. They
should have brought down their party strength to Parli-
meet, and premed by all means their views on the Govern-
ment With few exceptions they were silent The fact
was, public opinion,rising spontaneously, had carried, first,
the leaders of the Opposition, and then the Government
before it; but public opinion was itself backward, and it
required the certain conviction of the truth of these
horrors. The facts, ao far as they knew them, proved that
the Government had obtained for the Serviette an
armistice ; had insisted that Servia should suffer neither
in territory nor in independence on account of her defeats;
and now they were taking measures for securing due
protection to the Christian subjects of the Porte, and
seemed, above all, to be working in cordial harmony with
Russia. Some colour had, unfortunately, been given
to that charge IT the extreme indiscretion of the
supporters of 'the Goverruuent in the Press or elsewhere.
Denunciations of the Turks had been treated as attacks
on the Government The Bulgarian horror, had been
first denied, then palliated, as if English and not Turkish
Ministers were responsible for them. They had been
threatened with a Mohammedan rising in Indio and an
Increase of Roan= power: were told the Christians
were as barbarous as the Turks ; that the Bulgarians
struck the first blow: that the Serenan invasion was
a wicked war; but the Government, or rather Lord
Derby, in whose hands it lies, was not to be held
responsible for the indiacretions of supporters By what
Lord Derby had done he hail a claim to be 'edged, and
his acts clearly preyed him to have changsii his policy.
and to be acting in unison with the national feeling.
(Applause.) Lord Bath still sew difficulties ahead—one
from the Hungarian subject' of Austria, who, having
emancipated themselves from so mild a rule, still grudged
the Sclevonians their freedom. Should Austria resist
the concession of administrative freedom to the pro-
vinces of Bosnia and Hervsgovina, England and Russia
could and must effect that without her. The other
difficulty was in the words they so often saw repeated—
" The necessity of maintaining the integrity of the
Turkish Empire." If by that was meant the nominal
suzerainty of the Sultan and the exclusion of any other
Europea Power, all would be well ; but if by integrity of
the Tnurkish Empire the power of taxation, of 5 poliatien.
of oppression over the Christiana in those three Provinces
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demanded was that the Cbriat,an population in the
Provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina. and Bulgaria should have
administrative independence, that the taxation or tribute
moderate and fixed beforehand, that they should be free
both of the Turkish people and Turkish authorities, and
that the rulers set over them should be neither Turks nor
Christians dependent on the Turkish Government Those
were the demands of almost all men, the only difference
being between those who asserted and those who deemed
the intention of the Government to carry them out They
were all —Whig and Tory, Churchmen and Nonconformists
he nfogefimulmhne
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could stand there on a common ground with the meet
extreme land consistent Liberal. The sympathies
engendered in behalf of common Christianity, of • com-
mon humanity, rose superior to all the ties and obligations,
all the associations and traditions of party. It wee
because he wished to see his country saved the shame of
ting—una:plintleoumstiilne that
theddemr.ed
being • party to the maintenance of • rule so base and so
batdul, because he wished to see the Government
im•=l=ll popular, end durable, because he feared that the Trurtroa
rue wet endure while the Government was driven (TOM
FJOGRATION TO QUILLIOILIOID.—The OUT iron "hip
difficulties, but he knew
ventured to speak out at such length.
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aerrautesenqueedne_cm tie trusted and believe that lha,
baying on board the following number of inluiteral ie et of the Government to have been
emigrants :—E.6 married couples, 129 men, 46 w fin e con u
bait and generous. they would have to admit that
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SUDDEN DEATH OF A BRIDE.
The Coroner for Bolton has held an inquest touchily
the death of Elizabeth Platt, aged tt. the wife of
piecer in a cotton mill, residing in Ridgway Fold. The
deceased was only married on Monday at the Bolton
Pariah Church. The wedding was conducted very
quietly, owing to the strong aversion towards it of the
father of Platt. Platt is a youth aged 19. At the
conclusion of the ceremony, the bridegroom returne4
to his work, and the bride went back to her father...
They spent the evening together, but separated about
10 o'clock, I'latt Kleeping at his fathers house. Ile
never saw his wife again alive. She complained on
Tuesday morning of -being unwell, and went to he
down, and shortly afterwards she was found .le.j. A
=tem examination revealed the fact that the
I had died from abscess on the brain jjthe
jury returned a verdict accordingly.