The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

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rINANCII REPORT.
. J. J. Irakrinnaanow read this repOrt, which
.ed that the expeasegamnunted to £3.028 Tx 11d.,
,ne receipts, including abidance of tome Ts. tfd., being
2a ficl. The present bahhacil in the tretenreti
hands wits kom 14s. 6cl. This wi,h a rstb of H. in
he ponnd gave • total of £4,324 19s. 10d. available for
the expenses of the oorning quarter. The committee
recommended a rate of ad. in the pound, amounting to
£1,860 2s. Bd., to be paid one week before the next
sessions.

The report wiui adopted, and a county rate of id. in
the £ ordered.
The CLARA of the Peace read a statutoly application
, in writing. signed by the Magistrates of the Dridport
Division for hiring the Rridport Townhall of the
Bridport Town Connell for holding the Petty Sessions
of the Division, at the yearly rent of £lO, to be paid by
I the County Treasurer, It appeared that hitherto the
'Magistrates had had the use of the Townhaii, vetted in
I the Mayor and Corporation of the borough, free of
I charge, but that recently the sum of £lO a year
had been applied for by the Mayor sad Corporation for
the same.
Lord PORTNAX remarked that the form of applieatiou
in this case was laid down by Act Of Parliament. It
did not oothe beforis the Court as • Motion, sh moth as
• vote on A formal application. The Court granted the
application.

_
POLICIII Baron?.
This report, prevented to the Court by Colonel
MAIMIL showed that the 'treasurer's aosonnte had bees
as follows :—Reosipte for the quarter £3,125 10s. 3.4.,
including a balance of £l,lOO 17s. 3d.; expenditure,
£3,110 17s. 3d., leaving • balance in hand of £614 13e.
The estimsted expenditure for the entuing qiiarter Was
£2,921 lea. 3d. The superannuation fund amounted
to £3,307 Os. sd. (stook) to which will be added
112 4e. 3d. received from the men in the last qesrter,
A rate of ed. in the £ was recommended, amount-
ing to £1,511 13s. 6d. The wiet of inspection
of weights and measures had been £37; the receipts
had been £22 9s. 3d., being • cost to the county of
£l4 10s. 9d. The whole of the weights and measures
throughout the county had been re-adjusted and ann.
pared with the weights and measures that have been
verified by the Court of :chequer under 22 and 23
Via, cap 56, sec. 1, at an erne/keep* the county of
£l7 9s. 15d., of which the bill for re-verifying them
amounts to £l3 lls. 11d.
Mr. FARQUHAR/SON remarked that a great deal had
been said in the oounty with regard to the livense of
the polio.. Ho ha 4 that m6tning had put intd hit
hands ti, nalbthation of the saying hifected to Mb bounty
in that respect; and, though he was not prepared to go
into the figures very minutely, he thought he could
fairly state, that with regard to the weights and measures,
within the last five years there had been a miring to
the county of upwards of £2,200; and, that with regard
to the conveyance of prisoners to gaol there had also
been a saving of at least £2,000 by the police establish.
meat. He took that public opportunity of mentioning
those facto, as otherwise it might appear to people who
did not lock into those matters that the money for
police purposes had been expended in addition to all
that wall(' have been paid beftte: (heat, hear.)
The report was adopted, and a police rate of id. in
the E ordered.

THZ COUNTY EATING.

An order haviei-beirn-MOisiVed-frOm the Poor Law
Board, declaring the extra-parochial place of Bast
Woodyates a parish, and to be added to the Winibome
and Cranborne Union, and to take effect from the 25th
March, /B§s, the county rate committee were instructed
topmast the parish to the cootity rate,
Lord POIMMAN remarked glin the altinty rate com-
mittee had made some advanhe in their wdi-k; and *hen
the edurt adjourtied he hoped they Should make coo
statewide progress. They bad got returns from all the
unions in the county, and it appeared that they were
not sufficiently equal to justify them in taking those
returns as the basis for the county rate. The
committee were about to test the correctness of the
valuations of the unions one with another, by, he
hoped, that day appointing a surveyor or two, in order
to make a rate fair as between union and union, as
they wpm led )o believe the rates Imre in the Onions
ihealselvesi They were ditami stained, On loching Into
that it would Oct his at all lib. Si the whole county
to take the assessinent rite in each anion for
the county rate. They hoped that day to
make considerable progreas, and by the Otithber imailins
to ley before the Court melt unitin rittiiigs at they
Would recommend to be:adopted as a county rate. The
assessment of the county had risen £34.000, notwith-
stripe:4;bn ese union in the county had had the
m to low, £ll,OOO.
In to • remark made by the Rev. G. V.
GARLAND, Lord Pentium mid Wareham Union was
one of the unions they ware going to look into.
IlfOliwara.
A mottling order eras made leblisetieg the
parish of Holwell hem the Sturminster highway
clan, and adding it to the Sherborne highway
Th:tev, j. IT. Antrim mairekthat a prey-lib:Mal order
of the Justices of the county of Wilts Subtratifig the
Parish of Tollard Royal from the Hindon highway
district in that county and adding it to the Blandford
highway district in ttis county having been produced—a
provisional order be male by the Court, approving
provisionally the above provisional order of Witte. He
remarked that 'on two previous occasions he had
brought this matter before the Court Lord Rivers and
hi aelf with ot* large ratepayert wished the change
to. mine lir, *hat ihr:Eds night be livened
rg
for ode high bond. y wet* .16 miles frier
Iliin on over Vary rough ited any tit or esiiin
from Blandford. The only rclits they had got el any
importance led into Dorset.
Mr. FARQUH Amos said he It/Beret' that Lord Portman
would beer him out in saying that Lord Rivers did not
care whether be Mk 0. on or Blandford. Tollard
Royal was at the eetremity, of the county—a very
. •-• ThapaMnifitilks Offallalrd
.
kindoff islit Blind ,gild
all the farmers' business My that way. They went to
Salisbury and Shaftmenry markets, . &elite Blandford.
Why did they want to mem: the pariah into Stanford
highway district, when Min, of Shaftesbury lay °lore to
re—naieh chase than Blimiferd, because a great den of
the reed lay in the Shaftesbury division. Why did
they went to pinto Blemdferd district? He wanted
SO know t.4.ti %Mum they at Am landford happened
td bath aMry- giloill
'why thepretibtat to.th44lOli of.off* 6" Milel" a theof"eas°ll6e7
had reatimn Whigdford. • Their quota of the
expuensit,a Of the estobilehrnent would be £5
at the outside. The Blandford surveyor oould not do
the aiditionel slaty for the same Wary he bad now.
He would enquirean inereime of £lO ii-year, and Blind-
ford district would
%t* out of pocket £l6. They In
filnidford dichict ' sot nse Bard Royal roods at all,
Whin, it *as cane Weri, DS biid idialiffnthingkintta
done to them. The parlihaters of Tollard oyi
not even attempted to repair their roads, because they
wanted to shift them on to Blandford. He hoped the
Court would pose and ea:udder, before they granted
the order, because they intuit recollect that if mom
4104 /Yid were throltti into Blindford &Oriel,
they Pohl hot take it oat agile. Indiridiaili, he
was opposed to the order being made.
The Rev. J. IL Anna replied that if be were not
continued as way-warden, no doubt a farmer would be
sham, and aorta* • feriae, would rather go to
Blanca whets there was • market, than to Hindon.
Il e den' thee the roads were nearer to Shafliebnry
lila
thin be dford. With regard to the EMI, Mr. •
Farquharson had said they would have to add to the
present salary of their surveyor, it was only five miles
of rood, and he should like to mic why the suirveyor
should *nee Bill for arettong that eitleit ilf
Midi. Mt. Farquharson bad said the roads were so
bad that they had not attempted to repair them. He
admitted that they were neglected some time ago, but
it had been different since he became way-warden. The
year before lst • go_ed don of money was slit on
the roads. B, t dnole lest ,March the roads had been Id
effeettoken out of their handl, bemuse the Wilt Shire
Msestates expected the pariah to be passing over
into Dorset, and they did not wish input them to any ex-
pense which WSJ net absolutely necessary. There was
materiel now by the side of the roads. If this question
were not decided before next session*, something would
have to be done to the roads. But, whatever repairs
were made, he apprehended the parish would ham to
pa for them, and not any highway district.
L Potirlials and the qithstion of £2O a year being
add to e salary of the Seirvoydr was, one entirely i
ai
th
for e determination of the Eilglialy B4ra. If .ibtr
those to give at the rate of £4 a mile he thought it
was no wonder that the ratepayers of the highway
dietricts were complaining of the °barges made upon .
them. It was • monstrous thing to suppose that any
Board would do that.. It was something that could not '
be.
lir. Oitsbow, as ablipia of the filandford Highway
&ma* said ho thodOe that the ben course to adopt at
present mu to leave the parishee as they,. were:
Tolima Royal was so far from, Blindfold that thew
11" toyer refused 6 ge bejmod his present district.
The Tollard Royal roads appeared to be gush that
nobody liked to touch. He had a note from the clerk
at Hindon stating that an order bad been made on
Tollard Royal for £lo—(Mr. Austen: £5O had been
ordered, but only £lO drawn)—bat that nothing had
been done to the roods. Supposing anything were
to be done on that road, requiring the order of • mang-
iest*, they would have to men to • Wiltshire maga.
trate to obtain it. He thought that was one great
reason why Pollard Royal should not he added to the
Blattdford district. At the last meeting of the '
Highway Board the waywardens were quite unanimous
that Tollard Royal be not placed in the Blandford high- ,
way district.
'he Rev. J. H. AUSTILN complained of the course '
that had been taken, seeing that the matter had twice
previously been brought before the Court, and that it
was undasteed Tollard Royal was to be added- to
Blandford district.
Lord POlarain stated the position of the Court in
regard to the question before them. If the made the
provisional order, the Ind Order would be dlaeesped at
the Midsummer Sessions. if they had no inhenfon of
eroding the final ardor, it would be,uafair to make the
provisional order.
His Lffiakis Om ssimitted 40 Mae
Court, iris. 6.* voted for the order being
made, mid Id
tft vduirt it, a . eif 41, 'phut the
order being eni . . ~,,,
'
Lord Pondmow ps,itt the (sly logigembeetrised7
to decide as to holding a weed Aid eni
As the onsadar Ins very light. be did not think t
necessary. 16% Ploy., bad • been kind waiettiVi to
promise to come from London to preside, and he soltid
that the Clourt mend pardon him for eektiek to be ex-
eunt
. Tholtilisintla adjourned , • "'-. " - ' .
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WEDNIADAT.
The Court was opened 4%1,14106r this morning,
John Floyer, Esq., M.P., deptity-ohairman priaidion.
There was a full attendance of grand jerors. They
having been Sworn, and the prociamatiom against vim
and immorality read, the deputy-chairnian delivered
the following
CHARGE TO THS GRAND JUNI%

Gentlemen of the Grand Jury :—Your own minds
will doubtless have suggested to you the reason why I
have the honour of addressing you from this chair
Instead of the noble ord who usually presides. We
had the advantage of the noble lord's presiding yesterday
in the Court of Quarter Sessions for the discharge of
what is sailed the county business, but the severe loss
which his lordship has recently sustained still weighs
so heavily upon him that he felt quite unequal to con-
duct the business of this Court to-day ; and, con-
sequently, be requested me to undertake the
discharge of that duty for him, In that afflictive
dispensation with which it has pleased Providence
to visit him, I am sure, gentlemen of the grand
Jere., that he hail the sympathy .of all—no less of
.you *he represent here the large and influential middle
14/asies of this county, than of the Befall, over
I , which have to day the honour to Preside. lam happy
hey be able to congratulate you, as 1 have on go meny
1 previous occasions, on the very full attendance of
grand jurors. It is always • source of great satisfaction
to the Bench to see persons in your station of life taking
' an interest, and testifying that interest by your atten-
dance here, in the administration of justice, looking to
the vast importance of the question, and knowing by
your attendance here that you are ready and willing so
far as in you lies to undertake your part in that impor.
' tent duty. lam happy also to be able to inform you
' that the calendar for the present sessions is • very
light one. There are only, I think, seven persons
whose ones are to be brought before you; amongst those
there is not etre charged with any crime of an
' aggravated nature. One case, no doubt, is • question
,of the larceny of property to • considerable
, amount, but, still, there is no accompaniment of
1 violence to the person, or of any particular character,
, which would lead ins to dwell at any length upon any
nb of the cues. But, we must not, lam afraid, from
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tibehadicalvennLestirtzdriaamw6tFirt.
preeeincofeurenntioeis
I,th.haeit
. 'el ir
eltsh=tnii"a8:411111111
which appears upon the face of the calendar, by which
.itis
shown that the number of committals during the
, pest quarter has been exasely—this is, perhaps, • very
remarkable instance—exactly the same as in the oor-
rzeisr:tnesbanggubleor la2getyeakl:llXtanlainLbeerreolceurternin:l47i:
nothing ar a particularly gratifying chnactee in that
statement, there is nothing of a monad' lettere ; but;
perhaps, that may lead um to look elsewhere to know
the state of crime in this part of the kingdom. The
'likens which are annually made by our excellent Chief
Constable to the Quarter Sections were laid on the table
yeeterday. 1 have not bed the opportunity of 1:21
liato those return.; probably, when I am e '
Is do so, I may be able to draw an inference frets
Ahem relative to the question to which I have alluded.:
But there is one department of crime upon which, by
the kind assistance of our Chief Constable, 1 have
obtained some interesting information. It is • departe
ment of crime which I think is of very great nationsr
importance, It has, I think, harshly received, Mita
within • few years, that degree of attention to which it
is entitled, because it is one that meets us and &Meets
us in our daily occupations and engagements. It is one
epee which ere—all of us—l think I may say all of us
—exercise some degree of influence, and to which,
therefore, it may be not indpportune to devote some
few momenta of consideration at this preseet time. The
question to which I allude is that of vagrancy, and the
mode of dealing with the mendicant classes of the coin.
munity. You are probably all aware that this subject has,
durieg the last and present session of Parliament, together
with some other subjects closely related to it, occupied
to a considerable extent the attention of the legislature.
It is true that the bill submitted to Parliament relating
more immediately to the question of mendicity, applies
almost, if got quite, exclueively to the metropolitan
relittriete. The state of eagespey in the metropolis at
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present time is of such a &nand as I think Itinnati
siejustly to be very painful to every well regulated •
Is is certainly far from creditable to this country that
there should be such large numbers of persons soliciting
1 alms throughout the streets, and in every part of the
1 thief city of the empire. And if we consider that the
cause of this great amount of ruendicity in the metro-
polis is the state of poverty and of want in which the
poorer Canes are involved, I think it refines very
deeply upon the admieistration of the poor laws, as
regards that portion of the &immunity, If on the other
hand, the applicants for alms are what a Maned pros
fessional vagrants—persons who might, if they applied
their labour to other and hotter purposes be able to
support themselves and their fatirilies,then !think it shows
equally, if not more so, that the laws of the country, or
.ratber the administration of them are at fault, and that It
'then reflects much discredit upon the management of that
part of the laws which are entrusted to the care and ad-
ministration of the pollee. Gentlemen, happily in the
cienhtry we do hot eeperienee such a very lamentable
-Ade of Maisie: /t is weleknown to most of
.pers whom 1 have the honour Of 'adrenal', who have
.111.4 the inaportabidutin of geardians at the friends is
,the dittereut uniting—that at • very early pered
id the adnehisteseign et the lean laws, mu-
vitolon was made by the creation or etiolate* , wards
for doting wills this important question, and I think
I may say it is highly creditable to the different bonds
of guardian in she country that they of their own free
;word and will, without the intervention of the Lens-
• knure—without the compulsion of laws whisk it had
been found necessary to pass for that purpose, with
,tegard to the Metropolis—that they have provided
;peeper and effectual muual wards in whioh the
mendicant obis passing through the country, way be
aeffeedvaili and, properly treated. But, gentlemen, this is
met . The ittention Of Abt Donde of Guardian
Mee know, from time to time Wert nrcuttantly
ended to this impurtani matter and in soneecitienes
W that, applieanons have been mide throtagh mane of
„Me unions of tbe wanly to magistrates assembled
--Alm 'matter sessions for autherite to be glees to the
chief covetable to employ officers did tionstables
under his direction to inquire, and assist if needs We ;
but if, on the other hand, by repressing this important
sad serieas class of crime. Crime I say—not meaning
by that term to bight& all dames at persons soliciting
dal—blit you, gestamen are well aware that amongst
Mese Cho pass through thi wont', begging from door
W dike, it large, punkin It &at are g criminal popula-
tion,. and therefore to that Grine I belie.. I alp justi-
fied-in speaking of them as forming a cads of feign.
Now the chief constable has been kind enough to give
mpsome information upon this matter, which I think I
Miry take the trouble of detailing to you, became
N. is • matter in which I know many of you
Ms g deep intend, and any Meets that we can
Wenn, mey be of grant tee to us. I believe See unions
hatisheaPplied to the. magietratee for the authority to
I have alluded, for the poWee to an as assistant
relieving officers. In three of the uniefie implication
wee made some two or three years ago, and from them
I have returns for the last two years. The unions to
irebieb felled. are Shaheen., Wareham, and Wimborne.
-aeons this 'arrangement was made for the police to
undertake the duties I hays spoken of, the numbers
, itse workhouses as vagrants were in those
't:Zed thnimis 1,481. A considerable des/ream took place
in the fink tear; bet thet *tease lam toter to say
has not been maintained.e medlars in the first
per fell from 1,487 to 642, hue rose /*be as* yes to
M114.-That is not altogether, I fear, satiefaciere; There
bellowever, you will observe, a certain reduction ripen
the whole of the numbers, and the question for our con-
Weeration Is what is the cease why the inter-
Cation of the pollee has not been more segoessful
, elmel it appetite be then Mures. I may mention
Is Mining tilet in the Dorchester, union which
has adopted this syeteid tin* within the last
three months, the numbers have Wee tete Wiellerially
Mused, being only 66 for the quarter of the year
iteittlid of 145 in the corresponding quarter of the
illaifidas feafi asid oft of the 06,„41 were professidnal
vagrant'. There is a rest differenn benteet the
Unions to which I have adverted. The teenier of
professional vagrants in Etherborne Union being AD, ottt
of • total of 570 for the past year—a very large pro-
rtion of the reguler vagrant class. It is suggested
the thief constable that one reason for this very
nember of prefenional vagrants who frequent Slap
Ile Chien that be forme in the fad that the Board
1:11:.ds; e sui eifornterlettid PPt•rqt4P"lnY
ifs
flbemed liyitaitraelfiefs in re ltrn or the
alai ' .ie
_tat w they ' in the
Morkhease. snes be be Sate i 'et to
that ss a very important, I may
eitedition of the furnishing relief,
lug, because =lees Mlle 'moue'
appears tiara is nothing to ,
from neeptieg the benefits of
purittlim their mendicant ate'
Constable also observes, in r
Weedy alluded to with repro
being compered to • very great ...
offenders, that be believes on halt or. —.ay so as .
petty larcenies committed in the county axe done by
professional mendicants. Now I think iarsay thew
is is no man who more capable of ex *Wm,
inleassed, end sound Judgment on • q , a thie
nature than our chief constable. Nis teitelefillis and
Abele Una, Is pie well know, is so denikel Is We
duties 61 his °Nee, that his *Amity oil. qtalditeedf
Will ltindenust I am sure you will agree With me, oink
in the ?tali' bigleiM dab& I have only this Hither
observation to make in *pad ee this matter: In the
administration of relief, howein it eery ha booduisted,
one condition seems to be absolutely requisite.
It 6 this. That whether the applicant for re,
lid is • professirmal vagrant,- and therefore amenable
to We laws of the country, or whether the applicant is •
person upon whom the pressure of poverty has some,
not perhapiNea his•own fault, but who at the moment
requires gelid, by nary law, whether human or
divine, is entiteadeo our charity and assistance. This
I think must be fully provided for, that every case,
without exception, should be thoroughly inquired into
and attended N. The shanty of the public will never
halter or hesitate for • enomeng as long as they believe
thee cent of .red nementy will be overlooked and
neglected. The public, would rather provide out of
their own resources, eveniit the•riak of. giving to many
very undeserving Wenn unless they can feel sure that
no person, under whatever ammoniates his poverty
may arise, be paned over and suffered to
die or to be exposed to serious er ant and dis-
tress from being overlooked by Ws machinery of the
law, whatever that machinery may he. I think therefore
it ia a groat torte that all full • remieds4
should be made which every neceenteette' li
may be provided or, if they are at, e ell
deserving to be provided for; if WWI,
really deserving to be tend for, gabairr, base
Mak that awe and attention. Bat le or; the other
band, they tie professional mendicants. 10110,11111 tr
trade of ging, therefore not 'elite :tee w a
Elsb.Lllii 41.3;SWealheli'lleerm,
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rot this templey. ,eetgigehe e Imo,
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and therefore, I. Walk I.- haw seleseleee
d my duty, haying-the--honour to address you ag 1
Chairman of the manlbis dirp,: in /firin(ing
bile your atientioa. Ms •thla alluded t 4 igli
• Mailband and wife Omahas g.maisidnable
at Portland, end eliedunied the Gruel dissy to
their laboma,• .... i ,•r. • i e „.d re'f e• ~1 -'
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IfolB.
Mr. moved Fe 0045 mov at the eerMdeate of two
jneMeit as to dl,ling an stopping up a pathway
in the, pariah of /dipole, irhould be Med. Motion
affirmed.
Mr. Prooaa similarly moved in reference to a high-
, way leading from fillton to Amity. Motion affirmed.
TRIAL OF Pusowsita.
thomm Shepherd, a groom, pleaded guilty to rtiwiling
three sovereigns, the property of Lieutenant St.. John
' Thomas Le Merchant, the KR. Artillery, stationed at
Dorchester, aud was sentenced to four mon ' imprimon-
mint. Eliza ?Clock charged with feloniouzyreoeiving
the same, wail also aentebeed to axi link?. of
Impritognient. Mr. rooks momenta.
Jofin Critehall pleeMed guiliP to stealing swatch, 'the
ge opirt. Jhhn Palmer, at Upwap, on the 20th of
keener uonvietkui limb( been proved
against him, he was sentenced to seven years penal
servitude.

Elizabeth Lester, 12 years of age, pleaded guilty to
stealing a sovereign, the property of Samuel Harris, at
Fordington, on the 15th of March. Ann Lester, her
stster•ln-law pleaded not guilty to an indictment
charging her with feloniously receiving the same. She
was found guilty, and committed for four months'
imprisonment, and Elizabeth Lester was sentenced to •
I4ir4eigbos Imprisonment, and at the expiration of that
time to be sent to a Reformatory for 5 years.
John and EMMA Jane Hedermin, husband and wife,
a fashionably dressed couple, were indicted far stealing
£BO, the property of Mrs. Mary Mayo, at Portland, on
the 13th of March. Mr. Fooks prosecuted, and Mr.
Percher defended. The jury, after • brief .00nsultation,
found the female prisoner guilty of dealing, and the
male prisoner guilty of receiving. The female prisoner
then asked to be allowed to make • statement. She
attributed the charge made by proseeetrix to
vindictive feelings, she (prisoner) having threatened
her with as &dims for defamation of *ba-
nder. bhe maintained that the money foetid
on her was the result of her own savings. The Chair-
man told her that she would sot be allowed to my
anything further, as it would be quite useless, the
jury after • very patient hearing having found them
guilty. He then sentenced each of them to 12 months'
hard labour.
This nonehided the busineos of the Sessions. .

FRAMPTON.
Banana' or` Welles/Ire or 200 Srcezr.—At the
Bristol Spring Assizes on Tueaday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, the following cause was tried before Mr.
Baron Mennen. —Joseph Green a. William Qlnictitt
Groves. This was an action brought to recover
£Bl Os. 2d. for breach of wiranty of 200 lambs.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Mi. ,litarelake, Q.-C., and
Mr. F,dlin (instrected by Mr. J. Miller) ; for the
defendant, Mr. Cole'anfi Me: Collins (instructed by
Mr. Atkinson). Mr. Kendal, Wined that plaintiff
was an extensive cattle dealer, residieg at Menton
Millet; he also kept the Swami Inn, in that Warn,
and had dealt in cattle and sheep for some years
past. The defendant was a breeder of cattle and
sheep, living at Magiaten, near Evershot, in Dorset-
shire, and the action was brought for a breach of
warranty of • flock of 200 lambs, which were sold on
the 11th June by the defendant to the plaintiff at
Stoford fair, near Yeovil. They were bought by
the plaintqf for 265. 6d. each, amounting in the
whole to £265. At the time the bargain was made,
and also when the money was paid, it WM expriady
stated by the defendant to the plaintiff that the
lambs were sound. However, the bargain having
been made, the defendant told the plaintiff by no
means to let the lambs have any water. The
request was strictly obeyed. On the mooed day
after the fair the lambs arrived at the plaintiff's
farm at Preatleigh, on the slope of the Mendip Mlle
—a place excellently suited for a sheep farm.
On the same day plaintiff sold 100 of the
lamb, to Mr. Millard, of Leighton Firm,
and the other 100 to Mr. Green, of
Donyatt Farm, for 275. 6d. each, and to each of
these gentlemen plaintiff gave • warrant of the
soundness of the lamb.. Within a short time after
these pdrthitees one of the lambs sold to Mr. Green
died, On °pooh% the liver it we. found that
the lamb had been suffering from a disease culled
"bane," caused by the existence in its liver of
"flukes." Another lamb looked Mid on he
being killed and opened, five or six flukes were
found in its liver, apparently of seven or eight weeks°
growth. Meanwhile, Mr. Millard's sheep gave signs
of disease, and both him and Mr. Green wrote to
the plaintiff., and requested him to fetch the lambs
whiohlichafi warranted to them. Other investiga-
tions took place, and, after notice to the defendant,
195 of the Lembo were sold for 22e. 6d. each, no
warranty Ming given. The actual loss on the sale
was £54 12a. 6d., which, with mete of keeping and
the expense', amounted to £B4 183. 4d. Against
this there was a credit of £3 18a. 21, leaving the
balance which was no*zued for—viz., £Bl Os. 2d.
The plaintiff and other witnesses were examined.
Mr. Oole, for the defence, contended that there was
no evidenee of a breach of warranty in the ease.- The
Judge, however, ruled that there was such evidence.
Mt. Cele then addressed the jury. It struck him
that the last two or three witneseee had disposed of
the daft. However, he should have to go rather
minutely into the affair, which he considered was one
of the most curious eret brought into • court of
justice. The defendant well I gentleman of the
highest respectability in Doreetahire, end he had de-
fended the action because he was convinced that the
lamb/ were perfectly sound when they were sold,
it was not a matter of the slightest importance to
defendant to defend the action, because he brought
beck 198 of those lambs, and, with the exception of
a few which had died from natural causes, they were
now as healthy and fine sheep as ever walked in a
field and cropped the herbage of the Doreetahire
downs. It was a most extraordinary feet that, out
of 200 lambs selected from a fleck, only three
of them were proved to have had flakes in
them, and that all the rest of them should (tontines
from that time to the prelent perfectly strong and
healthy. It was no use to build tip theories in such
oases, for an ounoe of feet was worth • pound of
theory. He should show that the mothers of the
lambs were perfectly sound and healthy when the
lamb. *ere sold, and were so now, and the question
arose how the heel* spoken of became flaked? As
to the warranty, the defendant was under a very
strong impression that no warranty Was given j for
be was not in the habit et warranting his theep, neiA
in the case of lambs, was it usual to do se. Hi
contended that even if flakes had existed, en
stated, there was no breech of warranty; but be
should prove that the whole of the defendant's
flea at I,soo—from which these 200 lambs
were taken—froth that time to the present had
been in • perfect state of hoodih. He suggested that
the lambs might have swallowed the larva of the
flukes as they were being?driven to the plaintiff's
prehises, or that " bane" lambs might ham got
amongst them after purchase from defendant.
There was an ample time for the flukes to have
grown to the size described by the plaintiff's
Witneeent ether the lambs got into the plaintiff's
poineselott, Mid therefore there could have been no
breach of warranty. HO, eupposing the warranty
had been given, the plaintiff was not justified in
throwing back upon the defendant the whole lot of
lambs, simply because two or three of them were
said to have had flukes. He (the learned counsel)
did not impute motives, but he thought it was a
little odd that from the time the lambs were sold by
the defendant, and the time they were sold, at
auction • sheep had fallen in price in the market to
the etient of lie. or 4s. ahead—the turnip crop had
failed, and keep had become exceedingly scarce.
Several witnesses were called in support of the
defendant's case, and Mr. geralithe replied. On
Thursday morning the learned judge occupied
about two home in summing up, after which the
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
£Bl Os. 2d.
WEYMOUTH.
hem that the Queen's Own Regiment of
TsuirlanrY 0.41 will assemble at Weymouth for
eight days pornmeset fiutuou Wednesday, the 10th
of May, and will he in/meted on Tuesday, the 16th of
the same month. The heed quarters of the regiment
will be at the Burden
Tam RULE ceauweax Cer.—Thle trophy, which is
now being contested for by the members of the Wey-
-4191,1, Bine-surPh *now cm yew in Mr. Hibba's shop,
Si. °otos-street.
SUDDICII DEATN OF AN Itreairr.--On Sunday morning
a little girl named Blimehe Neal, seven moeths old,
was found by her mother dead in bed. Mr. Lock,
the deputy coroner was sent (Oro bat after
an interview with Mr. Nathan surge-At, it 417
considered necessary to bold AD 'emest. _-
The Board of Trade intend to present
treating, eon of Captain Featieg, of this town, with,
• sillier medal, in commemoration of his gallantry in
mewing the crew of the skip Ocean, off Maybes,
Beach. / 41,
Me. Avenr, of this town, assisted by talented
profeeeionale and anieteere, both of Weymouth and
Yeovil, is announced to give a grand convert It the
latter place, on Easter Monday, on behalf of the
fund for erecting • pavilion on the cricket ground.
EuterioN or Gemini/48.—TM) electiee ,of
guardians for the parish of Meloonalie Regis, will
take place On TeeMlay. The foßowitie persons have
been nominated :—Thomas Jon Avert Buck,
Rowland Monies, Joseph Jolm Pethecary.
FUNERAL Or A SOLDI —On ecineeday after-
noon the mortal reliable of leases Siena, lath' •
private in the. 87th Foot, wow interred in the
Cemetery with the ueuel niaterY boooop6e The
deceased was fol/orred to Ins last earthly resh:eg.
pia& by 's, diftieliment of regiment; Kea Hee
one of the Ito • s4 at theists* lnineftel
in a most creditabi. -maser Dead March" in
Saul. A censiderahle uumporprappeops
the/interment, which was in
rites of tbe,ltomish Chorale. •
YOUNG,- Zervmsamo-thC mind .etk.
Brighton swam ,froosc llor Oohs* bleu&
Thursday, • Tittle -eta wie—flitiakin bard IXePed
for Ole
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Lion upon her, and she was despatched by Mass ea
the next day Whir destination.
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workmen employed inputting.% front the
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