The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

banish throne ; and if those Germaine attack
him we shall have the Warrior and Black Prince
on their way to the rescue in no time." Let us
hope that the threatening storm may blow away.
THE QUEEN AT AREADEEN. .—The inti-
mation which the Queen has caused to be
conveyed to the Lord Provost of Aberdeen
of her intention to attend the uncover-
ing of the Statue of the Prince Consort this
day, (Tuesday), hat been received with pleasure
as well as surprise. It will be the first appear- '
ance of Her Majesty at a public ceremonial since
her bereavement—the first indication of her I
purpose to again undertake the fulfilment of
those duties she formerly so gracefully and. so I
well performed. Nor could a more fit occasion
have been chosen. Every one has observed the
eagerness with which the Queen associates herself
with aught that can do honour to the memory of
her late Royal Consort. Still the good people of
Aberdeen could hardly have anticipated that they
e °aid be the first to hail the Sovereign's re-
appearance among the people. Ins letter which
has the rare merit of being sensibly written, the
Hon. C. Grey tolls our friends in Scotland that
the Prince Consort "dearly loved their country,
and considered the few weeks he spent annually
among them as some of the happiest of the year."
There cannot be a doubt that the ceremonial of
the inaguration will be a most interesting one,
and of the statue by Baron Marochetti report
speaks highly.
Soi -IA L Sercs CONORESB.—Of all men living,
perhaps no one is better qualified to preside
over a Social Science Congress than Lord
Brougham. It is indeed perfecty true that he
has lost most of his power as an orator, and that
his utterances are almost invariably feeble—
sometimes inaudible. The Henry Brougham,
who made the great Irish agitator afraid, has
long since been a name of the past, but the
power of writing forcibly remains with him still.
In substance a more admirable opening address
than that prepared by the venerable President
for delivery at Edinburgh the other evening
could hardly be found. His illustrations were
as felicitous as his maxims wore sound, and we
cannot wonder, as we read the speech, that it
was listened to throughout with the deepest at-
tention and respect. In his remarks his lordship
embreeed all the leading topics of the day, both
at home and abroad. 'He gave credit to the
Russian Emperor for his emancipation of the
serfs, maintained in a spirit worthy of the kindly
nature for which he was known in England when
Czarowitch ; but what is being done in Poland
indicates, it was added, that in succeeding
to arbitrary power the Czar has succeeded
to its curse, which is fear. For attrocities
committed in Poland, even if committed by
the fears of his agents, since they are known
to him, the Czar is personally answerable, and
must, as he is, be "loudly blamed by every
European community, and by the Governments,
excepting that of Prussia, the accomplice of
Russia, and thus sharing in the universal repro-
bation of its own subjects as well as its neigh-
bours." Referring then, in friendly words, to
the spirit of Constitutionalism that grows strong
in Germany, Lord Brougham did not exclude
from his friendly regard the Prusaians, as "the
people whom their Government at once oppresses
and betrays." Thou turning to France, with
passing condemnation of the interference with
elections, and the fetters still continued on the
press, Lord Brougham sac advantages gained in
the accession of debating force, and did not doubt
that the Emperor would protect himself in the
right manner by granting greater latitude of free
discussion, and by improvements in the practical
administration of the laws. The French law, he
said, gives an intolerable inquisitorial power to
the judge, and dread of falling into like error has
too long withheld English jurists from conceding
to the defendant in a Cause a right to offer him-
self for examination. "The French law is hauled
to pre'reut the escape of the guilty without a dee
regard to the safety of the innocent ; ours is, in
some respects, too favourable to the guilty,
in others oppressive to the innocent." He
briefly condemned French influence which
baulks Italy of her full rights; but gave an
opinion that the invasion of Mexico might lead
to a recognition by France of secession and breach
of the blockade, and thus brought face to face
with the American war. Of that war, Lord
Brougham spoke his mind with great force.
"Each party, of course, seeks to cast on the other
the heavy blame of breaking the peace. On the
one side is the wicked allegation of property in
human beings; on the other, the hollow pretext
of making war to free America of slavery—her
shame, and her curse, as all except slave-owners
admit it to be. Hollow we may call It; for those
who proclaimed emancipation confess that it was
a measure of hostility to the is bites, and designed
to produce slave insurrection. . . . . But
w hatever may have been the proximate MIRO of the
contest, its continuance is the result of a national
ramify, without example, and without bounds.
This vanity magnifying itself beyond all measure,
and despising the rest of mankind, blinded and
intoxicated with seltsatisfution, persuaded that
their very crimes are proofs of greatness, and
believing that they are both admired and envied,
I the Americans have not only been content
with the destruction of half-a-million but
vain of the slaughter. Their object being
to retain a great name among nations, for
their extent of territory, and they exulted in
the wholesale bloodshed by which it mut be
accomplished, because others were unable to
make such a sacrifice." The American hatred
of England, which is not at all reciprocated,
Lord Brougham partly ascribed to a remainder
of the old antagonism of the war of separation,
and through this he passed to our colonies,
which it is desirable so to hold that when they
part from us we may part friends. In dis-
cussing the use of the colonies to emigrants, he
pointed with satisfaction to the better acceptance
of the fact, especially by the promoters of female
emigration, that " the mere necessities of the
emigrants are not sufficient qualification" From
emigrants he passed to convicts, and supported,
without reservation, the Irish convict system.
This by a natural sequence brought about home
questions, and the noble lord reviewed the work
of the last Parliarneutary session. The necessity
of an improved system of registration of deaths
in England ; study of the condition of domestic
servants; the first successful attempts at the
establishment in England of Swim de eharite ;
and some minor educe Lionel topics were then
brought in review; the recommendation of the
Commissioners of Inquiry into the employment
of children in mauufactories ; cheap publications
for the working classes; the early closing and
Saturday half-holiday movement; the progress
and advantages of the co-operative system, and
a host of other topics were brought into review,
and the venerable President closed his address
by pointing to the higher hope of those who,
looking to the world to come, regard it "u the
greatest happiness which Heaven could bestow,
to be graciously allowed the solace of looking
down upon the scene of our earthly labours, and
seeing with eyes which age and sorrow can make
dim no more, the great Lody of those for whom we
had toiled and suffered, exalted by the possession
and by the right use of the gifts we had helped
to bestow. Some, unhappily, there be who will
not permit us to indulge in such hopes; who be-
lieve, at least, maintain, that our death and our
extinction happen together. Men, it seems,
have been sent from the South to inculcate this
dismal error, while those who will believe any-
thing opposed to those who will believe nothing,
their visions of spiritualism and direct commu-
nication with the departed. The promoters of
social science regard such errors with contempt,
only softened by pity. Theirs is the belief held,
theirs the hope cherished by Hale, and Bacon,
and Locke, and Newton—belief in the King
Eternal,' immortal and invisible, the only wise
God'—hope inspired by the study of His works
and confirmed by his revealed Word."
THE EARTHQUAKE—The London journalists
have been making the best of the moral topic
which the great event of Tuesday morning last
week supplied them. The shock of an earth-
quake has been happily so rarely felt in any part
of the British Islands, that die accounts received I
simultaneously from so many parts, especially
through the Western and Midland counties, I
might well excite both surprise and alarm. Full
of gravity as the subject itself is, it is not easy to
repress a smile at the curious impressions
produced on different minds by this great
natural phenomenon. In almost every in-
stance it was taken for something small and
trivial, such as some one falling out of bed,
or compared to something void of grandeur,
the noise of a garden roller, or the fall
ot a chimney, or the breaking in of thieves.
Some strange appearances in the heavens are said
to have been noted at New-port. Between
Ilitchen and Hatfield, on the line of the Great
Northern Railway, the sunset on the previous
evening was most remarkable. It was what seamen
call an angry sunset, prognosticating storm. The
sun set in a bank of dense cloud, the upper edge
of which it coloured with a vivid blood red that
lighted up the whole western sky. Upon such
on appearance at sea seamen would have taken
in sail, and made all snug for storm ; but quite
contrary to what might have been expected by
the weatherwise, the night proved fine, and calm—

27; Wm. Griot, 4.1; George Polsford, 46, and
William Hallett, 32. The limita Of the license
of the first eight of these are from St. Alben's Head
to Lymo, and from Lyme to St. Alban's Ilead, and
from Weymouth harbour to sea, and from sea into
Weymouth harbour. The rates of pilotage vary
from 2s. to 3a per foot for vessels drawing under
eight, and above ten feet of water. These rates aro
subject to a reduction of one-fourth part in respect
of vowels propelled by steam, and vessels towed by
steam vessels; but a pilot taken on board at sea is
entitled to the following additional pay —From St. ,
Alban's Head or Bill of Portland, to off Bridport or
Lyme, £2 2.. ; if 3 leagues from the limits of Wey-
mouth, Bridport or Lime, £3 3s. ; if 6 leagues from 1
the limits of Weymouth, Bridport or Lyme, £4 4s. ;
and if 10 leagues from the limits of Weymouth,
Bridport, or Lyme, £6 6s.
The following is the amount received for pilotage
at Weymouth in INN :—lnwards, on 91 coasters,
61 oversee vessels, and 41 foreign vessels—in all, 193
vessels, £237 19s. Outwards, on 39 coasters, 31
oversee vessels, and 33 f .reign vessels—in all, 103
yowls, £11.5 Is. 31 ; making a total of gross in-
come for inward and outward pilotage' for the year,
of £333. The 193 inward pilotages are thus
classitiod :—From sea to Weymouth Roads and
Portland Bay, b 5 vessels; from Weymouth and
l'ortland Roads to harbour, 66 ' • from sea to Lyme,
; and distance money, 4. The eLvoitication of
the 103 outward pilotams is thus rendered ; —From
Weymouth and Portland Roads to sea, .51 vessels ;
from Weymouth harbour to Weymouth and Portland
Roads, 21; from Lyme ta sea, :10 ; and distance
money, 1.

Ittriac If VICIL—The deciding rifle *oiliest Letween
the lkidport and Weymouth Rifle Corps took place 011
Thurolay at the range of the I).irchester Rifle& Maiden
Castle, which remate.l in aka Weymouth Minns being
losten by 22. Three matchmi barn now been shot, out of
which the Itridport men won two, and have thercfo:e
carried off the laurels of victory. A more unpropitious
day could not have been selected for the deciding non.
test, rain falling very fast, accompanied by fog and
wind. The following i!tke_sc_o_re :

BRIDP RT.
vr) yds. 1100 yds. 600 yds. Tot.
Lieut. Loggia - ti2232:11 2000422 22442-45
Ensign Mansell • 2032•1 M 2223,33 -01.11202 —4l
M. I. Sergi. Good • :t2.32222 21CC1012 woo= —37
fitirgt..•Major Tucker - 3M13223 2434434 22%—!722:4
Sergeant Barrett -2232.21 M 3233124 4034321—r4/
Corpora Patten - craxes 0430324 03332'31-47
„ Motional - 2222223 0424330 3040fr22-40
Moon, - u 54210 ott222r 00214010- 34
Private liounsoll - 222Zt12 30^Air0 0r22334 —4O
„ A. Good - 43=33 4c03303 0202340-42

WIT*W?L

Captain Thresher - 22 4=13 22=10 2222022-42
Lieut. Wel.ford • 3.332223 (U 12020 0t29124-344
Ensign Tixaril • - 242=2 2400044 03049X13-39
Sergeant Charles - 3222340 r1X11442 4402220-43
Private Brown • - 2132294 3232342 4:44229)-53
„ Crickmay - 0222233 0914230 2242390-39
„ Warren - 3233222 3243304 2240100-44
„ Parlous - 2323433 3491002 00009n-39
„ Hoare 2423390 23M1233 0000200-34
~ Hoard - • A 33=2 23r224.3 22/244:0-40

WALDITCII.—Mr. T. J. If. Smith, fortnerly
pupil of Ilr. J. Loaring, professor of music, Yeovil,
and who for the last two or three,months has temporarily
presided at the organ in the church at this village, has
now been appointed organist._
_ _ .

BEAMINSTER.—DARING ROBBERY.—On Saturday
Mary Brown, alma Edwards, a dissipated character of
Ilsninster, was brought before J. Bourchier, Esq.,
charged with the following serious offence :—Susan
Robins deposed: lam nine years of age. On Thursday
Intl was left alone in the house. About nine o'clock
In the evening the prisoner came in and asked ins if I
could give her • pair of drawer's. I told her I could not.
She then asked me how many pair I had. I told her two.
She then asked me which was the largest. I told her
those I had on, but I could not give her either pair. I
then went to the door to call Mrs. Bugler, when the
prisoner caught me by the throat, and took a knife from
the Lible, and said she wool I kill mc if I said • word
..bout it. She then took my drawers off, and also took
toy mother's jacket from the basket, and • pair of boots,
and went away.—P C Willi depoied to apprehending
the prisoner at South Perrott, and finding the stolen pro-
perty on her.—The prisoner was committed for trial at
the ii,ssions at Dorchester.

EV ERS 110 T. —At the annual vestry meeting held
at the Acorn Inn, on Thursday last (Arthur Martin,
EsA., presiding,) Mr. Esau Snell, tailor, was elected
to the office of High Constable for the Hundred of
Teller Ford for the ensuing year.
BBIDPORT.--Conzrr Conwr, October G.—Before
Eeerett, P.N.—HM.6MM or • DEBTOK.—James
Hunt, of Beammater, engineer, wee brought before
the court under a warrant from the judge, in the
custmly of • warder at Dorchester gaol, where he
had been detained for eleven months, for non-
payment of the costs of an action brought against him
in the Divoree Court for adultery, amounting to 122.59
Is. Mr. Manley applied for his release, and Mr. Leggin
opposed. His Honor, in giving judgment, said, there
bad been several cases of this kind before the Courts,
and in some release was granted, and in others refused.
The title/Ilion was, upon what gronnils ought he to dis-
charge a man that was imprisoned by order of a superior
court? He then referred to a case, Gruen Re Green,
reported in the Gazette. He said that was a case before
Mr. Commissioner Goulbourn. Application was made
to bin, to discharge a man from custody for coats in the
Divorce Court. When it first C. 1.10 before him he
refused. At the expiration of ten months, application
was again made, and Mr. Commissioner Goilhonrn then
reconsidered the matter, and thought he hail the il:s-
cretionary power, and he relearred the bankrupt, and on
this ground, that he thought he hail suffered sufficient
punishment for the offence that he had committed.
What was that offence? It was not the offence which
was tried to be made out to-day—nut for committing
suinltery—the Court hail not such power as that, but
for nonpayment of hosts of the Court. They must not
lose sight of the distinction. The men who was now
before him was under sentence from the Divorce Court,
for contempt of Court, for non-payment of costs, and
in pursuance of that Court's judgment. The bankrupt
before him was committed to gaol for non-payment of
L'259 Is. costs. If he hail been committed for adultery
he would not have released him if he was in gaol two
years, because that would have been the punishment of
the Court above ter his adriltery. but the man wag im-
prisonml for the nonpayment of the detaining creditor's
costs. It now became a serious question for his con-
sideration. Here was a man who hail not complied
with an onler of the Divorce Court. He sail he had
nothing to pay with, and therefore he went to prison.
There was no evidence before him that he hail anything
to pay with. If there was any evidence to show that
the man had anything to pay with, he would not release
hint till he hail mud. But here was a man who
hail suffered nearly eleven months' imprisonment
for non-payment of costs. Was not that something like
a very severe punishment ? For man-laughter a person
did not get much more, and for bad felonies only aiz
months. It seemed to him the punishment in this
case was quite thfficient. "You must pay in purse or
in person" said the law, and the bankrupt had paid in
person. He had got Iris discharge in the banlcruptcy,
and therefore he should order him to be released forth.
with.

BLANnrota—Potice iNTRLLIGINCIL—On Thurs•
day, before Lord Portman, 'William Powell Chaff, cutler,
Sidi,•biery-street, was brought up In custody of P.C.
Hunt, charged with threatening the life of his wife. Tho
offroce was clearly proved, and he was required to enter
into his own recognizance' to the amount of cso, and
provide two sureties of £25 each, to keep the peace for
twelve months. Failing In this be vu committed to
Doi-cheater gaol for that period. —There is very little
doebt that the unfortunate man is partially deranged ;
Lis general condue bears ent that supposition, and at
times Ihr gives unmistakable .;ythptome of insanity.
On the Tuesday previous to the commission of the
offence for which he vu sent to prison, he was met by
some of the inhabitants of the town on the Mill Down
dressed as for a journey. He wished them "Good
bee," statinglie should not nee them again, as he was off
to New Zealand to see after some property left him by
his eon.

Boitorort Pcrrr Seam°Xs. Saturday, Oat. 10th.—
Before the Mayor and W. C. Fincham, Esq.
FURIOUS DRIVING.—Aaron and Silas Dean, father and
son, were summoned for furious driving in the public
streets of Blandford on the night of 10th of Septem-
ber.—The charge was proved by P.C. Pethen.—The
magistrates decided to deal leniently with the case, as it
was the first offence, and fined defendants 1. each, in-
cluding costa—Matthew Rowland was summoned for
• like offence, but did not appete—P.C. Seaviour said
that on the night of the 9th of October he saw Rowland
driving down Salisbury-street at a furious rate. He was
quite drunk, and kept on flogging his horse.—Fined PI,
including cast.; which was paid by Mr. Coates.
USING THRLATERING LANGUAOL —GeOrge Viooo wad
summoned for using abusive and threatening language
towards Mr. Gay.—Complainant stated that aa he was
Ptondiog at his own door Vince came towards him and
called him • murderer, and used disgusting language
respecting his daughters. He also doubled his Bsta in
front of Min.—The same party was also charged with
assaulting P.C. Pethen whilst in the execution of his
duty.—That officer stated that he waa called by Mr.
Dowding and Mr. Nesbitt to remove Vince from the
corner of the street OD Sunday morning, September 27th.
lie was very drunk and making use of abusive language.
He accordingly ordered him away, with which he com-
plied, but efterwards he met him near the Gas Works,
when he said, "Is that you, Thomas? I shall have a
b game with you." He then took hold of eritneoes
coat collar, and struck him twice in the faoe.—The
Bench decided to reserve judgment until Vince was
apprehended.
1W ERNE. —A HARD C Ass. —A respectable corres-
pondent sends us the following :—A short time ago
a married woman of this village was summoned be-
fore the Shaftesbury Bench, for violent and riotous
conduct, on which charge she was found guilty, and
failing to provide the required 'unities for her future
behaviour, was sent to Dorchester gaol. On her
way to prison she was brought through her own
village, where she had left a baby three mouth's
old in charge of a neighbour. One would naturally
have supposed that her request to nee again her child
would have been readily complied with; but no!
time was too precious thus to be wasted, and she was
hurried through the village and on to the place of
incarceration. On the following morning the poor
little infant, thus early bereft of a mother's care
and its natural sustenance, was found dead, but this
was not all, for through the child's parents failing to
have it christened, the officiating clergyman of the
serish would not allow the body, previous to inter-
ment, to be carried into the Church. Our in forwent adds
that the whole affair has caused great &satisfaction
in the village. We are not at all surprised that it
has. The practice of clergymen refusing Christian
burial to infants who have not been baptised appears
to us to savour more of the spirit of the middle ages
than of the nineteenth century.
POOLE. —AlPatis roa llearr.—At the coominittee
meeting of the lleedianies' Inanition, on Thursday

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