The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

eentral Nam.

VALUABLE DISOOVERT.—Capt, Reynolds,of Llanidloss,
hise discovered a valuable lead and silver mine at Snow.
brook, situated at the hue of Plinlinamon, about 8 miles
north-out of Llanidloec A sample of the ore has
been assayed, and it produced 80 per oont, of lead and
20 ounces of silver to the ton of lead. The mine has
clearly been an old Roman working, and in all human
probability had not been opened for 1,500 years before
Captain Reynolds made the discovery. It is computed
that 30 tone of ore per month can be realised by employ.
ing 15 hands on the ground, which, Recording to pre-
sent prices, would be worth RN a ton. A limited num-
ber of gentlemen are making arrangeinenti to carry out
the undertaking forthwith.
PROSECUTION roe LIBEL ON LOUIE NAPOLEON.—
Another prosecution for libel on the Emperor of the
Frenuh has been instituted. On Tuesday, Stanislaus
Tohorewski, a Polish bookseller of Rupertetreat, Hay-
market, was charged at Bow-street, with publishing the
pamphlet recently written by MM. Pyat, Beason, and
Talandier. The warrant upon which Tohorewski was
arrested was executed by an English onleer of the dates.
tire fore*. An officer of the C division translated some
passages on which the prosecution was founded. These
and other pauages having been read, Mr. Bodkin, for
the prosecution, asked that the prisoner should be com-
mitted for trial. On the other hand, Mr. Leverson, the
prisoner's counsel, applied for a remand till Saturday,
whloh was granted. Mr. Jardine also offered to take
ball, and the printer of the pamphlet, evidently a
foreigner, came forward. Mr. Bodkin objected to this
person, however; upon which Mr. Leveraon declared
that • person no less distinguished than Mr. J. S. Mill
would be one of the prisoner's sureties. Meanwhile,
however, the prisoner was carried off in the prison van.

Me. RANEY'S HORNE•TAYING AND TRAINING.-011
Saturday week Mr. Rarey held his filet class for instrue•
ting his subscriber' in his method of training colts and
subduing vicious horses at the Duke of Wellington's
Riding-eohool, Kensington. The following noblemen
and gentlemen attended :—Viscount Pahnergon, Lord
Gage, Lord Hill, Earl Grosvenor, the Marquis of Stafford
the Hon. R. C. 13111, Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., the
Earl of Annesley, the Earl of Beesborough, the Marquis
of Aberoorn, Lady Mildred Beresforo Hope, Lord Ens-
taco Cecil, Lord Dufferin, Mr. J. Lewis Ricardo, M.P.,
& M the Hon. Admiral WI, r. Thomas Critchley, Lord
Alfred Paget, Col. Airey, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
the Earl of Warwick, and, Earl Granville. At the end
of the lesson, during which Mr. Reny first practised his
method on • grey entire horse, the property of the
Marquis of Stafford, and afterwards on • cheanut entire
horse of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Palmerston wrote
" I have witnessed Mr. Rarey's process with great satis-
faction," and thiswas signed by all present. Earl Gran.
villa, who himself experimented on his own cob, added,
"Mr. Rarey's method appears to me to be perfectly
satisfactory."
TEIS ITALIAN CONFERINCE HOAX. —At the Bow-
street Police Court on Wednesday Mr. J. B. Langley,
the manager of a penny paper called the Star, attended
before Mr. Henry to prefer a charge of obtaining money
under false pretences, against a person calling himself
Alexander Vitalism° Borromeo, who had been sum-
moned, but did not appear to answer the charge. Mr.
Sheen, the complainant's solicitor, applied for a warrant
to apprehend the defendant. He ahould prove that
Borromeo called on the manager and stated that he was
in a position to furnish reports of the meetings of oar.
tam n Italian delegates. He offered to supply the "copy"
at a certain prioe. The offer was accepted, the copy
supplied and inserted, and the money paid. Circum-
stances led to euspioion, and inquiries were instituted,
in which Mr. Langley was assisted by two Italian gentle-
men—the Cavaliers Gallons and the Count Arrivabene.
The result of these inquiries was the discovery that the
reports were entirely fictitious' and that the whole affair
was a hoax. Mr. Henry ordered the information to be
taken and a warrant to be issued for Borromeo's appre-
hension.

MR. ROBLIN ON TAR POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART.
—Mr. Ruskin has published two lectures delivered by
him in Manchesterlest autumn :—The complete inquiry
of the lecture falls into four divisions—" first, how to
get our genius; then, how to apply our genius; then,
how to accumulate its results; and lastly, how to dis-
tribute them," Thus our attentiox is successively called
to the discovery, the application, and the distribution
of productive power in art. With • view so discover
the latent painter or sculptor, Mr. Ruskin proposes the
institution of a school of trial in every important town,
in which, as he quaintly says, "those idle farmers'
lads whom their masters can never keep out of mischief, ,
and those stupid tailors' prentices who are always '
stitching the sleeves in the wrong way upwards, may
have • try at this other trade" of artist. When the
artist is thus discovered and duly educated, the economy ,
is to attend to three main points in the application of
his powers. He is to supply him with work which is
various, easy, and (a point most especially insisted upon
by Mr. Ruskin) lasting. On the accumulation of works
of art Mr. Ruskin has some novel suggestions, both to
the nation and to individuals. He would have us pre-
pared not only to buy first-rate pictures at extraordinary
prices—" to stand, nationally, at the edge of Dover cliffs
—Shakespeare's—and wave blank cheques in the eyes of
the nations on the other side of the sea, freely offered,
for such canvases as theirs—but to annex those trea-
sures of art which we cannot transfer, and employ
English capital in the purchase and preservation of
fading frescos and decaying palaces in Florence or
Verona. With regard to the distribution of art, we are
told, and with very good reason, that national and
public galleries are, under due regulation, the most ap-
propriate places for ancient pictures, while modern
work' are more advantageously possessed by indivi-
duals; and the patron of art ii judiciously adviaed to
reward the artist by buying his pictures while he is
alive, and not to wait till he is dead, when the fullest
appreciation of his works will only benefit the dealer.

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVIc/L—Lord Malmesbury has
inaugurated his reign at the Foreien-offioe by the fol-
lowing important changes :—Lord A. Loftus, at resent
Secretary of Legation at Berlin, will succeed Sir Hamil-
ton Seymour at Vienna. Sir J. Crampton, at resent
Minister at Hanover, and late Minister in the United
States, will succeed Lord Wodehottee at St. Petersburg,
Mr. Buchanan, at present fdinister at Copenhagen, will
succeed Lord Howden at Madrid, Mr, Elliot, at pre-
sent Secretary of Legation at Vienna, will succeed Mr.
Buchanan at Copenhagen. Mr. Howard, at present
Secretary of Embassy
at Fl
at Paris, .
willLosurdoceecd,blpdrsea Nwoilri
in.nby m Minister
eucceed Mr. Howard as Secretary of Embassy at Faris.
THOMAS COOPER'S REASONS FOR FORSAKING SCEPTI.
CIVI4-I.Ast week Thomas Cooper, the well-known char-
tist and lecturer, delivered & course of lectures at Shef-
field, in support of Christianity. At the commenoe-
meat of the first lecture he made the following state-
ment. He said he had not coin. to Sheffield as 'gladiator,
to get up • discussion, but to realms with his friends
the working classes He had to visit the town to maim
Inquiries for an article for a newspaper on the cutlery
workers, and having changed his religious opinions, felt
I that he could not coins among his old friends with-
out telling them the reason. After rebutting the
charge of inconsistency urged against him, the lecturer
' spoke of the causes of scepticism, mentioning the bad
example of many religious professors; the blundering
and confused way in which theology was often ex•
pounded from the pulpit ; attempts to stifle instead of
directing the spirit of inquiry in youth; and the oppres-
Mon practised by professedly religions employers oaths
working classes., Speaking of the various forms of
scepticism, Mr. Cooper said the sceptic, twitted Chris-
tians with their differences of opinion, but Were them-
selves open to the same accusation. The lecturer re-
?erred to his life for the explanation of his changes of
creed. Religiously educated, doubts were first raised ia
his mind through the prohibition of innocent pursuita,
and he became a Theist. Sickness brought soberness of
thought, and, on recovery, he joined the Wesleyan',
among whom he was a local preacher seven years, but
was driven from the body by the persecutions of the
Revs. John Williams and William Smith, and became
a Unitarian. He then became a chartist, and as such
was imprisoned. Looking upon himself an • martyr, the
harsh treatment of the prison sank deep into his heart,
and he came to doubt whether there was a God. He
thanked God that he never got to positive Atheism;
he never said that there was no God at the worst he
only doubted. Mr. Cooper spoke of die agony of doubt
which constantly harassed the free-thinkers, who were
often compelled to seek relief in diversion, or give up the
study of the subject in despair. Then mime the
explanation of the lecturer's return to Christianity.
One of the doctrines of Robert Owen and his followers
was that man was the creature of circumstances, unde-
serving of praise or blame for his good or bad actions.
It was the discussion of the word "duty" in relation to
this doctrine that formed the turning point in his carom
of scepticism. It led him to the conclusion that man has
• moral nature, and consequently there mutt be • moral
governor. If there was a moral governor, then the
good ought to prosper and the vicious not. But seeing
that was not the cam, then he concluded that there must
be • hereafter of rewards and punishments; for though
virtue was to some extent its own reward, and vise its
own punishment, it was not fully so. Besides, bow, in '1
the absence of • moral governor, was man to get that
moral nature Sceptics talked about religion' intoler-
ance, but when he announced his new convictions, his
sceptical friends treated him with an Intolerance which
amazed him they behaved more like bean; than men.
This, instead of cowing, spurred him on to further in-
vestigation. He went on to think and prar—yes, he
was not ashamed to say that he sought God in prayer,
for hazardous was the state of that man who gave up
prayer—until he became convinced that Christianity
was true. (Cheers.)—Dmicasier Gazdte.