The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TIJESDAY, APRIL 6, 1858.

HONESTE AUDAIL

THE Revenue Returns for the year and quarter
ending the 31st of March exhibit a decrease of
£4,452,550 on the year, and a decrease of
£2,508,830 on the quarter. This decrease is
explained by the reduction of the Property Tax
from 18d. to 7d. in the pound, the decrease in
the receipts from that tax amounting to
£4,503,819 on the year, and to £3,551,882 on
the quarter.
The Bill of the new Cabinet for transferring the
Government of India from the East India Com-
pany to the Crown, was printed last week. It
provides for the Establishment of a Principal
Secretary of State, who shall exercise the
powers and duties now vested in the Company
and the Board of Control, assisted by a Council
to be called the "Council of India," and to con-
sist of 18 members, one half to be nominated by
the Crown, the other half to be elected. The
nominated members are to be chosen from
persons specially qualified as having spent 10
years in the civil service of India, or 5 years at
least in the QuEEN's Indian army, or 10 years in
the Bombay, Bengal, and Madras armies. Of
the elected members, four are to be elected from
among persons who have served Her Majesty or
the Company for 10 years, or resided in India
for 15 years; the electors being proprietors of
£l,OOO India Stock, proprietors of capital in
railway and public companies in India of 22,000,
and persons who have been 10 years at least in
India as officers in the QUEEN'S and Company's
military and naval services, or as civil servants
of the Company or the QUEEN. The last five
members of the Council are to be chosen by the
Parliamentary electors of London, Manchester,
Liverpool, Glasgow, and Belfast—from persons
who have been engaged in trade with India for
5 years, or in the manufacture of goods for
export to India, or have resided in India for 10
years. The members of Council are to receive
salaries of £l,OOO a year, and are to vacate their
seats periodically by ballot, so that the whole
Council will be changed in six years from the
date of their first appointment. The Secretary
of State is to be the President of this Council,
and is to divide it into committees, and regulate
the disposal of ita business. The Vice-President
who is to be a member of Council named by the
President, and two other members also named
by him, are to form a "secret committee." All
appointments are to be made subject to the ap-
proval of the QUEEN. The real and personal
property of the Company is to be vested in her
Majesty, and the dividends of the Company and
existing and future debts, are to be charged on
the revenues of India. The QUEEN is to be
empowered to send three commissioners to India
to examine the finances and accounts of the
several Governments, and especially the collec-
tion of the revenues. The existing conditions
of service in the forces of India are to remain
unaltered, but arrangements are to be made
hereafter respecting future candidates for the
two services, and all the servants of the Com-
pany are to be deemed Her Majesty's servants.
From this abstract of the main provisions of the
new Bill it will be perceived that the difference
between it and the measure of the late Govern-
ment consists in the constitution of the Council.
In Lord PALMERSTON'S plan the Council was
nominated by the Crown, while in this new
scheme, which is attributed to Lord ELLEN.
BOROUGH, the COUROiI ii constituted, for the
first time in Parliamentary history, on the same
principle as the House of Commons itaelf,
namely, that of representation.

Tax new Ministry have hitherto got along pretty
well with the public business, under all the sir-
crumstanoes. The powerful Opposition have
refrained from offering any serious check, and
upon the whole have behaved so complacently
towards the DZRBY Government, as almost to
assure them of being comfortably settled in their
new berths. And it must be allowed that not a
little commendable ingenuity has been employed
by the DERBY Cabinet in securing this modified
state of happiness, however transient, like all
other earthly bliss, that happineu may be. We
are certainly not among those very sanguine
Tories who believe that everything is possible to
this Tory Government. On the contrary, the
idea of Lord DERBY making anything like a
permanent stand, in the face of the strong
liberal interest reflected in the House of Com-
mons, seems almost preposterous. No man
knows better than Lord DZRBY himself not only
the critical position in which he stands, but the
actual certainty of his defeat, sooner or later.
His Lordship no doubt sees a gleam of hope in
the dissensions among the ranks of the Liberal
party, and in his resolute endeavour to hold
his own together with unbroken firmness. But
it should be remembered that the longer an
Opposition remains in its position, as such, the
more compact and irresistible that body becomes.
Then, if this Opposition at the outset be so
strong as to be able to proclaim with truth that
the Government holds together simply on ac-
count of their forbearance—that it is, in the
phrase of the day, a Government upon suffer-
ance—it seems clear that the very first clash of
opinion, upon any question of sufficient impor-
tance to command a full and decided expression
of it, must entail inevitable defeat. This sad
fate would appear to be looming in no very dis-
tant future. When the real work of legislation
has to be done, such as that comprised in the
India Bill, the Budget, or a Reform Bill, then
comes the trial of the capacities of statesmen in
the conduct of the great business of the country,
and the test of the strength and coherence of
that party upon which they must especially lean
for support. A brief outline of the provisions
of the India Bill of the present Government is
given above. It is said to read remarkably well;
but notwithstanding this and the alleged col-
lateral advantage of its being founded upon Lord
PALMERSTON'S measure, the "enlargements" and

"improvements" engrafted upon it, are consi-
dered, upon reflection, to exhibit none of those
great powers of originality and genius, which
should be displayed at the earliest opportunity
by a new Government looking to permanency
and success. The second reading of the Bill will
in all probability precipitate an adverse decision
upon this point. The additional machinery pro-
posed by Lord Daitav is thought to be cumber-
some and complicated; and, it is said, will not
work. Then the advantage of the materials
afforded by Lord Pilmsagrow's Bill appears to
us to be questionable. Comparisons have been,
and will be further, instituted as to the relative
merits of the two Bills; and we regard this cir-
cumstance as by no means a favourable one to
the prospects of the DERBY Ministry. There is
very little doubt that the provisions of Lord
PALMEREION'S measure, were he now in office,
would have been acceptable to both Houses of
Parliament and the country, and that his Lord-
ship would have carried his Bill with a large
majority. The circumstance—the accidental cir-
cumstance, of his defeat and retirement cannot
reasonably be expected to have any real effect
upon the feelings of the House with regard to the
' well-defined nature of his Lordship's Bill; and
if the honour of the country has been vindicated
by the proceedings of the House which led to his
resignation, there is all the more reason for
supposing that the predilections of Parliament
will revert to their original course, and beget an
invincible reluctance to sanction the less popular
measure of his opponents. As to the forth-
coming Budget, with the certainty of a deficit in
1859 of at least six millions,—that is a matter
upon which the Opposition, who may very fairly
hope to be in office next year, if not this, must
necessarily feel a peculiarly lively interest. A
bequest of serious financial difficulties to an in-
coming Administration is what certain expectant
statesmen would naturally be disposed to avert;
accordingly, the several stages of the Budget
must of themselves be a subject of no incon-
siderable degree of apprehension to the DERBY
Government. With regard to Reform, it will
be scarcely necessary at any time to discuss the
prospects of any such measure, seeing that it
is postponed till next year, when the present
Ministry will, in all probability, be relieved alto-
gether from the disagreeable necessity of dealing
with so uncongenial a topic, and one, in their
hands, so manifestly impracticable.

Wz hasten joyfully, but humbly and reverently,
to offer our heartiest congratulations to the good
old county of Dorset upon the acquisition of
remarkable honour and distinction—upon the
accomplishment of the most brilliant of all its
achievements—upon the example of the most ex-
tensive and practical usefulness which it has ever
been the happy lot of any county in England to
hold up to the admiration and respect of this coun-
try and the world. The enlightened, generous,
and self-denying devotion to public duty on the
part of those eminent and gifted men, who have
just succeeded in raising this county to the pinna-
cle of glory and renown, is something that over-
whelms and oppresses the sense. The common
gratitude of mankind is nothing in return for
these gigantic services conferred upon us; the
understanding of ordinary folks fails to realize
their importance; and we are lost in astonish-
ment and admiration at a display of so much
transcendent talent and surpassing magnanimity
of soul.

To the Dorset County Chronicle, we frankly
confess, our obligations are due for the gratifying
information afforded us as to the proud and
enviable position of the county of Dorset at this
moment, and also as to the chief actor—a man of
rare ability and exalted qualities —in so
glorious a consummation. We are glad that no
mawkish sensibility, no misplaced diffidence—
none of that foolish modesty which sometimes
prompts a man to "put his light under a
bushel," or to "do good by stealth, and blush
to find it fame "—has in the present case iu ter-
posed any obstacle to the full and free publi-
cation of deeds of unutterable worth, of personal
merits so worthy of imitation—so deserving of
an ovation.

Glorious news ! None can doubt it ! The
Chronicle vouches for it; and its veracity is
proverbial. "One of our most active county
"magistrates, HERBERT WILLIAM, Esq.," has
lately been delivered—" after two years' mai-
" duous labour." What is the issue? Surely,
not a ridicidus wins I No; a "Dorset county
code "—a "code of rules," which is a "clear
perspicuous" answer to all previous fault-finding
with our Courts of Quarter Sessions!
This "county code," or "code of rules," we
are told, is "a most able and interesting corn-
" pilation ;" and "it is only due to Mr. HER-
"BERT WILLIAMS to say, that it embodies the
"well-digested results" of the painful and pro-
tracted labour aforesaid; with, however, "the
"valuable official aid of Mr. FFOOKS." Of
course, Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS would require
some attendance in such trying and difficult
circumstances ; and the mention of Mr. FFOOKS'
name is only common justice.
Now, this famous "code of rules," so affiliated,
is neither more nor leas than a volume of
"Rules and Standing Orders of the Dorset
"Sessions, with Appendices, revised, September
" 1887 ; printed by Thomas Scott, Holborn,
"London." But it is a wonderful production
of human enterprise and skill, nevertheless;
"compressing, as it does, within appreciable
"limits, a general, yet articulate view of the
"east and varied duties" of the magistrates ; so
that under a "code of rules so complete as this,
"the county of Dorset can now stand second to
"none, and must be in advance of many in the
"masterly and systematic discharge of its public
"business." Great happiness How much the
other counties, buried in sloth and ignorance,
must envy us ! What great results flow from
trifling things! But let us hear Mr. HERBERT
WILLIAM' chosen panegyrist a little further;
and we may then gain some insight into the
actual value of this famous " oode of rules," as
well as arrive at a just appreciation of the cri-
ticism of the encomiast :—"The result is that—
" though by no means a volume of 'things not
"generally known'—this is really a volume of
"things that in this county ought to be and must
"be generally known." Very curious things
indeed! What a remarkable volume, to put the
county of Dorset in advance of all the world
And what a remarkably "active county magi*-
" trate " he must be, who, after "two years
"assiduous labour," has brought forth this
"most able and interesting compilation, in
"which the public and general convenience is so
"deeply impUcated." What an immense advan-
tage it is, for instance, to know not only when
the General Quarter Sessions are to be held, but
to be able " to trace these appointments at
"once," through the medium of this monument
of Mr. HERBERT Wuxi/owes talents, to the
statute upon which they are founded, namely 1,
William IV., chap. 70 1
Who would not envy Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS'
commanding genius—we 1116112 that genius which
commands the eulogies of so powerful an organ
of public opinion as the Dorset Chronicle? Will
the county ever entertain a due sense of the
signal services conferred upon it by Mr. Wm-
masts' connection with the press? What an
inestimable advantage it must be to a gentleman
in his position—both in his judicial and com-
mercial relations—to be able to bring to "the
"light of print," and the knowledge of every-
body, the accomplishment of these tasks of
"intellectual magnitude and difficulty," de-
scribed in language so "clear perspicuous "
wherein his works are "tabled "—as that of which
the above quotation is a fair average specimen!
But, under leave of Mr. Haaasav WlLLiame
and the rest—for Mr. WILLIAMS is an honourable
man—so are they all honourable men—the merit,
whatever it may be, of this compilation of

"Standing Orders," belongs of right to neither
Mr. H. WILLIAMS nor to Mr. Frooxs, but to a
gentleman whose name is carefully excluded
from the rhapsody of the Chronicle, whose cue
it seems to have been to put the saddle on the
wrong horse. It was Mr. EDWARDS, in the office
of the Clerk of the Peace, who did the work;
and who derived much, if not the larger part, of
the valuable information he has collected to-
gether, and given to the public in print, from the
well-known book of the Nomina Yu/arum,
compiled by the late EDWA.RD BoSWELL, !Inquire,
of this town. At the October Selssiona last
year, the committee appointed to revise the
rules of the Court presented a report, from
which it appears plain enough that they
relieved themselves altogether of the duty
imposed upon them, by committing it to the
hands of a handy man ready and able to do
the business. Mr. H. WILLIAMS himself pre-
sented that report, in which the committee
praised, no doubt deservedly, the industry and
knowledge of Mr. EDWARDS ; acknowledged that
they were "entirety indebted to lii,m for dimming
"upthe.ae rules;' and subsequently made him a
present of £5O as a recompense "for his great
"care and labour" in the matter. What can
possibly have occurred since this to induce Mr.
HERBERT WILLIAMS to claim the merit of a Use-
ful piece of work, in its way, which does not
belong to him, it is not for us to say: but if his
own educational statue is unequal to the correction
of the mass of absurdities in which we have
seen him extolled and bespattered with an equally
fulsome and ignorant adulation, we have at
least a right to expect that he will inculcate a
higher regard for truth in the professional efforts
of the scribe who undertakes to represent him,
and withdraw all countenance from the manifest
injustice of a misappropriation of public credit,
as well as of the honour of legal skill and know-
ledge due to another. Well may the neglected
Mr. EDWARDS exclaim with the poet :

Ho s ego versiculos feel tnlit alter bonorem :
Bic voa non vobia nielificatis Imes,
Sic voa non vobis vault fortis oves,
Sic vol non vobis meLlificatis apes,
Bic vos non vobia fertia antra boves.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—The supply of wheat was only moderate, still
there was no disposition on the part of millers to go
into stock—prices unaltered from last week. Barley
and oats the same. The seed trade assumed a more
lively character, and red clovers realized advanced
rates.

_
DORSET EASTER SESSIONS. -ThiB morning the
civil and financial business of the Court of Quarter
Sessions for this county will be transacted at the
Shirehall, and to-morrow, Wednesday, the trial of
prisoners will be proceeded with. The criminal
business is very light.

THE TRZADWELL Turrrstortlat.—We understand
the committee of management of the testimonial to
be presented to Mr. James Treadwell, linntaman to
J. J. Farquharson, Esq., held a meeting on Satur-
day at the King's Arms hotel, when it was decided
that the presentation should take place in about a
fortnight at a banquet to be given at the King's
Arms.

CHURCHWARDENS.--Vestry meetings were held a
the several churches yesterday (Easter Mondayt
morning for the appointment of churchwardens.)
Messrs. Thomas Coombs and George Henry Davis
were re-elected churchwardens, and Mr. Thomas
Saunders and William Darden sidesmen, for St.
Peters. Trinity, churchwardens: Messrs. John
Galpin and John Davis, re-elected. All Saints,
churchwardens : Messrs. Alfred Spicer and John
James &sant. Fordington, churchwardens:
Messrs. John Legg, jun., and Robert Damon, re-
elected. The annual supper of the churchwardens
of St. Peter's as held at the Antelope
Hotel; and that of the churchwardens for All
Saints at the Phcenix.

GOOD FRIDAY.—This holyclay was duly observed
throughout this town and neighbourood, the shops
being closed aeon Sundays and no business transact,
whilst service was held at the several churches and
places of public worship. A good deal of snow fell
during the forenoon, and throughout the remainder
of the day there was rain.

Ir/cm(awn—The jury assembled at the Townhall
on Thursday morning to continue the inquiry into
the cause of death of the newly-born infant found on
Saturday morning in bed with Anne Vincent at
Herringstone farm; but Mr. Hibbs, one of the jury-
men, being still too ill to attend, the inquest was again
adjourned to 5 o'clock this (Tuesday) evening.

TEA MErrria.—On Good Friday afternoon the
Wesleyan Methodists of this town held a tea meeting
in Wollaston House, when about 130 persons assem-
bled, despite the rainy weather. After tea, the
party adjourned to the Methodist Chapel in Durn-
gate-street, where Mr. L. Riggs, of Chesilbome,
was called to the chair, and appropriate and useful
addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. Mead-
more, Mr. Richards, and others, and a very agree-
able evenin,g was spent.
DR. LunnosTorm.— A lecture is announced to be
delivered by the Rev. J. Miller on this eminent
traveller's discoveries in South Africa. The lecture
is in connection with the Dorchester Working Men's
Mutual Improvement Society, and will take place to-
night at the Townhall.
. . _ . .

The first day -excursion train from Bristol and
Bath to this neighbourhood for this season arrived at
the Great Western Railway Station yesterday morn-
ing. The trip was not very numerously patronized.
On Saturday evening a pleasure train, which left
Paddington at 5, reached the Dorchester station of
the Great Western Railway about half-past 10, and
the visitors return to town this morning. An ex.
oursion train left Dorchester for Paddington on Satur-
day morning, returning to Dorchester this (Tuesday)
morning.
ALLOTMENT Or THE WINCHESTER ESTATE. —it
will be interesting and important to readers desirous
of obtaining a freehold franchise in North Hants to
know that the Winchester estate, within the borough
of Winchester, is shortly to be sold in plots under
the auspices of the Conservative Land Society. An
advertisement which appears in another column will
afford the requisite particulars on being referred to.

_
The Rectory of Wootton Fitzpaine and the Per-
petual Curacy of Catherstone Lewetone, near Rrid-
port, have fallen vacant by the deatb of the Rev.
Andrew Tucker, the incumbent, who has recently
departed this life at an advanced age. Both are
small preferments, in private patronage, and the
parishes adjoin each other. On the 26th ult. the
Rev. George Clark Green, clerk, of King's College,
Cambridge, was licensed by the Lord Bishop of
Salisbury to the perpetual curacy of Hamworthy,
formerly a chapelry to Sturminster Marshall, but
now constituted a separate benefice with cure of
souls, on the nomination of the Rev. the Provost of
Eton College, near Windsor, and the same college.
DORSET CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The recent fine
weather has caused great bustle and activity in the
Railway work. We understand that about 3,000
tons of rails, and 1,000 tons of chains have been
delivered upon the line, and workmen are busy lay-
ing 10 miles of the road between Wilton and Gil.
'lngham, which are now ready for the permament
way. The works between Salisbury and Wilton are
proceeding, and the heavy cuttings at Temple
Coombe and Melborne Wick are commenced; at the
Gillingham tunnel gangs of navvies relieve each other
night and day, and indeed over the whole railway
from Salisbury to Milborne Port the works are
pushed forward with the greatest energy. In the
immediate vicinity of Sherbome, namely at Oborne,
preparations are making for commencing the long
cutting there.

RAILWAY AOCIIDINT,-011 Saturday week, the
pi:manger train which leaves Yeovil at 9.33 was rie-
'eyed at Yetminster for upwards of two hours, owing
to an accident to the goo& train leaving Yeovil after
the arrival of the first train from Dorchester, This
goods train, consisting of 31 trucks very heavily
laden, it was found neocessary to divide when about
two miles beyond Yetminster, in order to get up the
incline. The engine took 16 trucks with it; but
after proceeding about another mile the guards were
again obliged to divide, cutting off five more carriages,
Which was no sooner done than despite all the efforts
of the guard, they ran back down the incline into the
trucks previously cut off, Two of the trucks were
very much damaged, and about 60 transoms broken
up. The force ofthe concussion may be easily ima-
gined from the fact, that although one of the trucks
was thrown off the rails, and that portion of the train
first out off left with the breaks on, yet it wag driven
back nearly half-a-mile. Had a passenger trairybeen
approaching the consequences might have been terri-
fic. We understand this is not the first time an acci-
dent similar to the above has happened.
The cuckoo use heard on Tuesday week in the
neighbourhood of Yeovil.
EARLY lIIINCATION OP 81711X6R—" All4lllliilf
writing to the Times on Friday says :—On Tuesday,
March 30, I observed a small flock of swallows busily
hawking for flies along the river bank on the
Weymouth road outsize Dorchester. They con-
sisted of two of the common chimney swallows
(hirundo dornesrica) and four of the bank martins
(kirundo riparia). On the following day • large
number appeared at Otterhead, in Somereetahire.
The appearance of these hirundiner at so early a
period of the year is a most unusual occurrence, and
Ii generally supposed to portend a very early and
very hot summer. Gilbert White, of Selborne, stu-
died the habits of these birds most attentively ; they
were his particular favourites. But during the 40
years which this great naturalist devoted to the sub-
ject the hirussdiser were never seen by him earlier
than the 13th of April.

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS, Townies% Mond'',
April s—(Before William Manfield, Esq., Mayor, and
Devenish, Esq.}—Robert Miller, keeper of the Old
Ship Inn, was summoned by the overseers of the
rim& of Trinity for the non-payment of rates amount-
to £1 6s. Od. Defendant pleaded that he presumed
Mr. Mason on letting him the house had undertaken to
pay all rates, gas, and even for the license ; and Mr. Mason
paid portion of the rent. Mr. Gibbs, one of the over-
seers, understood that defendant had agreed with Mr.
Mason to pay the rates on entering the house. The
Mayor said that defendant being the occupier must
pay the rate which had been duly and legally authorised.
The sum might, if an agreement had been made be-
tween the parties, be hereafter recovered from Mr.
Mason. Defendant should have appealed at the pro-
per time. Ordered to pay the amount, and omits 4e. lad.
The money was subsequently paid.
COUNTY PETIT SzesiOrre, Shirehell, Saturday, April
3.—(Before H. Williams and W. L. Henning, &qrs.)—
, William Groves was summoned for selling beer without
a lieense. P.C. New said that at 6 o'clock p.m., on the
22nd ult., whilst on duty in plain clothes at; Teller
Porcoram, he went into defendant's house in that
parish, called for • pint of beer, and defendant's wife
brought the liquor, receiving from the officer • shilling
in payment and returning him ninepence. Defendant
came into the house before the constable left. De-
fendant ignored all knowledge of the transaction saying,
he did not know what his wife did in his absence, and he
never saw New before. Defendant had no license, and
having been formerly convicted for a similar offence, he
was fined £5 and costa, but allowed a week during
which to pay the penalty.—George Lock was sum-
moned for riding in • wagon on the turnpike road.
P.C. Avery dated that on Monday morning the 22nd
ult., at five o'clock he saw defendant riding and sleeping
in • wagon drawn by two horses through Winter-
bourne Abbas. Defendant had reins but they were
lying on the " thiller"—the shaft horse. There was •
boy also in the wagon asleep. They had come from
Lyme Regis. Defendant denied being aiding', saying he
had been unwell and was holding his hand under his
head. In the same hand he held the reins; and he had
ridden all the way up being so ill, and had only just
before permitted his son to ride. Fined 28. 6c11., and
costs 4s. 6d.— William Walbridge was summoned for
maliciously damaging • fence at Teller Pomorum, the
property of Mr. Pope. Mr. H. C. Weston defended.
P.C. Orchard deposed that on Thursday night, the 18th
ult., he was watching part of • gate, the property of
Mr. Pope, in Toiler Porconun. About a quarter to 8
witness saw Walbridge approach, looking around and at
the gate. Defendant then took up the gate, ran along
the hedge with it towards witness. Witness leaped
over the hedge and followed Walbridge. When de-
fendant heard footatepe he threw the gate into the
fence and walked away. Witness called to him to stop,
and said "Oh, it's you Walbridge is it?" Defendant
did not reply. Witness said "You've carried off the
gate, then ?" "What gate ?" asked defendant. "Why,
the gate you've just threw back in the hedge here."
Defendant added "You never saw me carry away any
gate." In cross-examination Orchard said the gate was
broken and the head part was gone. The gate was not
hanged up but cattle might pass through. Hereupon Mr.
Weston objected that the gate was no fence. The magis-
trates, however, overruled the objection. Witness Erre.
duoed a piece of the gate which he had cut off, and said, in
reply to why he brought the piece, "Because it was sto-
len, and I had • right to do so." "And you would injure
any property in that way?' asked Mr. Weston. "I
should take apart of it off if any one stole it, to bring
and show, of oouree," said New; yet he would "not cut
off a horse's leg were a horse stolen." The relic of the
gate "was not leaning against the gate post but it was
jammed in tight between the gatepost and the bank."
The eituation of the gate was on a public pathway, and
lead to Walbridge's residence. Defendant did not hitch
his foot in the gate, and witness said "1 'aint in no
ways deaf, and I should have heard," if defendant had
condemned the gate. The damage was estimated at 2a.
The defence was that defendant in passing, being
annoyed by striking his foot against the remains of the
gate, threw the relic into the hedge. Fined 10s.,
ordered to pay damages 25., and 6s. costa—William
Spracklin, in the employ of Mr. George Scutt, brewer,
Martinstovrn, was summoned for riding in a wagon.
Sergeant Hitch said that on Saturday, the 20th ult.,
about half-past two o'clock, when on duty in Piddle-
town, he met the defendant riding in • wagon drawn
by three homes. Defendant had no reins and was
asleep. There was • boy likewise riding in the wagon.
Defendant said he had come from Bern, whence he hed
walked to Piddletown. At that place he had given his
horses into the charge of the boy till they reached
Yellowham hill. Fined 54., and costs, 4s. 6d.—Wit-
liant Gale, of Teller Poroorum, was summoned for
being drunk and disorderly. P.C. Orchard said that on
Monday night, the 22nd ult. about 10 o'clock, he saw
defendant brought out of a beer house at Teller. De-
fendant was drunk, very noisy and abusive, and offer-
ing to fight any one. Defendant continued till 12
o'clock obstreperous. Defendant denied the offence in
logo, saying he was never drunk in his life, and was
at home in bed at half-put 10. Fined 5e., and costa
4s. 6d.—John Hansford, of Pancknowle, was sum-
moned for an assault. A little boy named John Henry
Hitchcock, who said he lived at Puncknowle, stated that
a difference having arisen on the 18th ult, between de-
fendant's boy and another, together with complainant,
complainant gave defendant's boy "a cut," upon
which defendant ran after complainant, 'pinned (him
round, swore at him, and seizing a stick from complain-
ant struck him twice. The case was at once dismissed.
—Christopher Bartlett, keeper of the Lugger Inn,
Chickerell, was summoned for non-payment of a high-
way rate. He was going on to say that the rate was no
much heavier than it had ever been before that he had
declined paying it, when Mr. Williams remarked "I
don't care how bad it may be; the rate may be as bad
aa you say, but es it has been allowed, you must pay
the rate. Your place of appeal is not here." Defendant:
"Why, should not I have been furnished with a
notice ?" Mr. Williams: "We have nothing to
do with it here, you must pay the rate." The ma-
gistrates' clerk explained that as the house hap-
pened to be in the Abbotabery district defendant,
who lived at Chiokerell, did not see the notice of
the rate exhibited at Abbotsbury church; defendant
might, however, have appealed on payment of the rate.
Payment ordered, 12s. 2d., and 2s. 6d. costs, which was
immediately handed in.

COMMITTED TO DORCHESTER GAOL.-488itea.—Jane
Rose, child murder at Almer.—Sessions. —George Jen-
kins, stealing carpenters' tools at Gillingham.-2'o hard
labour—James Hatcher, bastardy at Shillingstone, 3
calendar month!; George Vince, damaging tree at
Blandford, 1 calendar month • William Bower, assault
on police at Weymouth, 1 calendar month; Silas Hur-
ley, assault on his wife at Weymouth, 6 calendar
month!; Robert Moore, stealing mallard at Stalbridge,
1 calendar month; Milner Stockley, stealing money at
Code Castle, 14 days.