The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

nation on our part is the more valued, because
it manifested itself at a time when an active
county magistrate sought to destroy the true
worth of English journalism in Dorset by pros-
trating the whole press of the county, and ren-
dering this useful agency subservient to no
other good than concealing from the publio eye
the blotches of his clique, the praise of his own
croteheta, and the promotion of his ambition.
Surrounded by newspaper adventurers of
every clams and kind—by their periodical produo-
tions of all sorts and sizes, from "one ponny"
upwards— by professing country newspapers
printed in London—by the re-issue of stale mat-
ter artfully dressed up for the occasion—by the
ingenious products of every scheming artifice and
pretenoe—se have yet been able to hold our
own, and live to thank our kind and &seeming
friends most heartily for the position in which,
by their favour, we find ourselves placed.
In assuring our reader' of the extensive and
gradually augmenting circulation of the Dorset
County Express, it will not be expected of us that
we should refer, in imitation of certain of our oon-
temporaries, for confirmation of a statement of
this kind, to anything so delusive as what are
ogled "Stamp Returns." It is curious to
observe the condition of older local journals
than our own which find it neocessary to put
forth the most anxious solicitations for increased
support mainly upon the strength of these
Stamp Returns—which Stamp Returns are first
accepted as fair battle-gound on which a fierce
contest rages, and are afterwards oandidly de-
nounced is "fallacious," and as a matter about
which "the public don't care a rap."
We may do ourselves the justice to say
that we have an instinctive abhorrence of
false pretences of every kind, and therefore have
never been found to figure in the category of
those journals which are not ashamed of such
practices—our nearest contemporary, we are
bound to say, exhibiting the most pertinacious
and unblushing adherence to the delusive fallacy
of his figures, in the desperate attempt to sustain
a tottering reputation.
For ourselves, we are content to float quietly
upon that prosperous tide which hoe carried us
far beyond the reach of possible peril to our en-
terprise; and hope by a steady, straightforward
course—a vigilant attention to all the legiti-
mate duties of honest and independent journal-
ists—to merit and secure that growing amount of
public patronage and favour, which are rarely
wanting, in this free and generous country, as the
just recognition of a conscientious and useful
discharge of public duty.

LORD STANLEY, SA Secretary of State for India,
has published this week Lord CANNING'S reply
to Lord ELLINBOROUGH'I despatch of the 19th
of April, which occupied so prominent a position
in the Parliamentary debates of the last session,
and compelled its author to retire from the
Cabinet. In this important State Paper Lord
CANNING declares that the publication of Lord
ELLINBOROIIOII'B despatch, coupled with the
authoritative declaration of Mr. Diskxku, that
the conduct of the GOVIRNOR-GSNIRAL was
"disapproved in every sense," was not only
mortifying to him personally, but tended greatly
to increase the difficulties of the Government of
India by weakening the authority of the
Govziotox-GiNsaex, and by encouraging resist-
moo and delusive hopes among the people of
Oude. He enters into an elaborate defence of
his policy, and adduces facts to show that the
only course he could adopt in Oude with any
prospect of success was to declare the confiscation
of the proprietary rights in the soil, with the ex-
press limitation that those whose hands were
unstained by blood, murderously shed, should,
upon satisfactory proof of their tenure and a
guarantee of their loyalty, be restored to their
possessions. His lordship states that though
Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S despatch has retarded
the pacification of the country and rendered
necessary military operations of great magni-
tude, the policy indicated in the proclamation
which it condemned has already produced the
best results, and that the whole province is gra-
dually tending towards order and allegiance.
With regard to the personal question, Lord
CANNING emphatically declares that no taunts
or sarcasms, come from what quarter they may,
shall turn him from the Roth which he believes
to be that of his public; duty. He will not, he
says, in a time of unexampled difficulty, danger,
and toil, lay down of his own ad the high trust
he has the honour to hold ; but if, after the ex-
planations he has given, his policy be still doomed
erroneous by the Home Government, he respect-
fully but urgently requests that he may be re-
lieved of the oftioe of Governor-General of India
with the least possible delay.
The arrival of the Overland Mail has supplied
us with further intelligent), from Calcutta and
Bombay. Sir HOPS GRANT'S victory over the
rebels at Sultanpore, has led to such important
results that Central and Eastern Owls are now
considered to be subdued. The King of Dual
has petitioned the GOVIIRNOK•GRNIRAL to re-
move him from his present place of confinement,
stating that he would prefer being sent out of
the country. A plot has been discovered in one
of the Punjob regiments, in eousequettoe of
which Sir Jon x LATIRANOR has deemed it
necessary to hold Lahore more completely with
European troops, whilst the Sikhs, who are well
mixed up with our own regiments, are watched
with care, if not with suspicion. Lard Oxvue's
final campaign WM to commence on the libth of
October, by which date an army of 95,000 Euro-
peans, and 10,000 native., chiefly cavalry, will
he collected at Oawupure,

DUAUSINTIA I'lll4lllo VANN MANANT. Saturday,
—The supply of wheat WAN quite equal W the Is
mend, Prioll unaltered front last week, Barley
plentiful-IMo qualitise wet a roily sale tram 36m,
tu 4tha Inferior *nom mild net he placed at the
prices asked, einteequently they PAMAinsil
farmers nut ptomaine oath Oats rather hi &your uS
the buyer,. . . _

At Appleahaw and Weyhill tivirr last week there
was a larger mutiber of sheep thin usual, Business
was ilitll,-but the stook wen; ultimately disposed Of
at prime' averaging from 7e, to 4.. per head lees
than the high prince of last year,
Donoitaevou Mr PITNIC-411. thank.ohrings at
this church on Sunday libel, In imknowledgmenk of
the late abundant harried, amounted to NC 71, 11,,
whinh sum luhs beim paid to the Dorset County
Hospital,
Yesterday the Iturgese.liet was revised before the
Mayo ,r W, Manillald, blau,, and the aiseenre, Messrs,
Hansford and Jacob, The Witness was altogether
without intend, there beim neither iol.tm nor an
°Wootton,

111PNOVID 8200ND.O1ANS ()AMMON ON Till
BOVTN•WNoTNIIN RAILWAY,—The director' of this
Ilue hew introdueed upon it a eel of greatly itn.
proved esoond•olece oarriages, which, from their ooi.
etruotlon, it would be well to me modelled on other
railways running from London. They are fitted with
stuffed sects and -II padded rail fly the back. The
South•Watern iwoond•olau carriages have too long
been of an inferior and inoonvenient kind, but the
new OMNI are in every respect comfortable, roomy,
and neatly fitted up, and oontraet favourably with
the wretched boxes in which pemengers were pent up
previouely.

The South Western Company now telegraph the
arrival of the Channel Island mail packets in Eng-
land to Jersey and Guernsey. This affords great
tatiefaation to the friends of the numerous paseengers
who travel by thole packets. The telegrams sent by
the Channel Islands submarine cable Cr. increasing in
number every week. Last week • message wait doe.
patched from Lothbury to Guernsey at ten minutes
past ten, and was delivered in the latter plate at
fifteen minute' past ten.

DOICHNITII6 WORKING Mait's Minuet IMPROVI.
MINT AIOOMATION.—On Twieday lid • lecture,
being the liretof the sewn, wee delivered at the
Townhall, by the Rev. W. Barnes, on the old subject
of the Dorset Dialect. There wee a tolerably good
attendance, and the dryness of Uie lecture wee agree.
ably relieved by some lively end entertaining pieces
of music, performed by Mr. Robinson on the piano.
forte, and Mr. Wellspring on the oornopeart, to
whom as well ea to the lecturer, the thanks of the
meetiig were awarded. Mr. ifiaaor occupied the
°hair.