The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-11 00:00:00

IRONMONGER

LANE, LONDON.
(THut OLD sons)
JOHNSTON'S
CORN FLOUR
IS TEI BM.

" QOM ma nom ADoznamiox."—Lonom.

" II DZCIDZDLY sunuoi."—Loweet.

"I have examined Johnstou's Corn Flour and find
it perfectly pure and mart excellent in quality. When
boiled with milk it affords comilresettonourfahment for
Children and persons of weak n."
Casuals A. CAMICRON, .D. F.R.C.S.L,
Professor of Chemietry, itoLsl College of
Surgeons, Dub

COOKLZ'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS,
la ass =gel clams of Nagy
4111 TEAM.
May be had tireeghout the Vaned kingdom
Re bolas at la lid, Ile id. ield, sad lls.
LI. NEW OILMONDETILENT, LONDON.

COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOIJS PILLS,
Theis Pals cousin of a sinful 'ad peculiar
admixture of the best sad mildest vegetable aperients, with
the pure aline* of the Sowers of the camomile. They will he
found a most edlesakent remedy, der deransentent of
the digestive sesame. Mid NOY Min if the liver
arid bowels, which peahen In sad the several
varieties of bilious and liver semplebsta They speedliy
remove the Windiest and Medi @lsis of the dtensei, albs
spume, correct the morbid camilltiss of the liver and Mama
subservient to ,promote same mid kmattity morelissif
bile, vas rebevedVinesaattatioa of illgesisq, saner sad mbar
Imperities, which, by eirculating In the uses, loves bderiewsly
sleet the adios of the kidneys : then by removing the seam
vs of mach discomfort limy restore the e 5•661.6
Masi so
orbody sod mind. To times who indulge in the %miss
of Um table, these pills will prove highly useful,
no pan In their action unime they meet with riZZ
quantity of acrid bile and add matter in the Mama and
bowel. To toropesne es their arrival In India or China lbsy
are recommended son premevative soloist the fatal elleerelms
peculiar to tropism climates. Their occasional MI, if oosiftel
with the strictest attention to diet, will be frequectiv found to
roseeve it one., b, their indurnos over the secritieou, flest
congestive and unhealthy coodition of the liver wild& Is se
often the earliest antecedent of severe febrile and coastleadsael
dieturtrnos.
It must be understood that these pills are not.
so coetalning any sow or daageroally active t.. ,• es
the eentrary, they are charamerkesd by a remsaim
of comitinationaad whatever essrlt they me,y be found to
Lardefendi Di mesh noon the selection al pore drop, sod
n.ualiour and attentive bestowed upon thehr ember
esteem preptration, aa apes the acknowledged peoullarity if
AMr omnproltion.
They are mot recommended as a panacea, nor are they adapted
to all complaints; but ae a mild and elikoaeloos aperient and
tonic I the various forms of hstUgestien it will sot, perbass, be
an exaggeration to state that thLtuave hem resorted to soder
all means of dim, drape el Auras.
time, within extramaleary degree ei 00 'l.
Writ& of
76 yam relelmated eivliset mg he had throult•
oat the United Ilinstlem be boxes .1 1. 144,41 Sd, Is MI, sal
Us,.. well as In lama, Odds, Now floshiod, sad the Auddellsit

COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILL.
In we the last 76 years for
ntntournow.

In Bozo it raid-jai:7d ii, sad Ila

COOKLZ'S ANTIBILI01:78
In um tits bast 76 years for
BILIOUS Amcnows.
le loxes at Is lid, to OIL 40IPS. mg Ills•

COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS,
nos tee lad 711 pars for
Min maul-urn.
In Bosom aI. Oa, N, 44, ono us.

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KLWI3 ANTIBILI01:18 pnas,
11111 liAlin
MOLY APLIMIST.
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D ORSET ffiArlai QUARTER SESSIONS houses need for staing inflammable material. This
had been done at Blandfoed only, where the mrperhr
The county bosineM M these &mime was transacted tendent of polio* had been selected.
on hy a Lege Court ot magistrates, under Mr. R. Eucrr asked if the Act applied to places as
the presidency of the Chairman, Viscount Portman. well m towns, for in Portland there were stored large
The Aped* paper ted no question of Import- quanes of dynamite.
sacs
for dt;utti. coo* of hours sufficed for Its The CHAIRMAN said of all places in the world Port-
beinigot land required it most.
THR COUNTY PRISON. The noble Loeb further announced there had been
The report of the Visiting Justices of the prison Wan n° MeetiP co ruing the appointment of an analyst
brought up by Mr. E. WILLIAMS. It stated the prison or the basis of the county rate, and this concluded the
had been found "ill correct" Dr. Good, thought the business.
present diet allowed to first and second class prison-
ers with hard labour, insufficient, and recommended
the additional luxuries of gruel instead of water for
per and suet puddin,g instead of a
breakfast and sup
reei
couooction In&s; meaL The dents at this
Cottnty Hotel, number 82, seven being ladies. Daring
the quarter 116 persons have paid visits to it. The
Disbursemeuits had been £775 194 9d, an increase of
£4l 9s ad, over the corresponding quarter of last
year.

BRIDGEN AND BUILDINO.

In the abeence of Mr. 'Rambo), Mr. C. J. PARICI,
read the report It dealt chiefly on the Axe Bridge,
for the re-building of whichthe Surveyor made various
professional waggestisna that were accepted. Two
other triages, Brood bridge, and Mr. Shsridan's
bridge, were similarly noticed, and the report con-
cluded with recommending Mr. Ling's [lease of the
County house, be renewed at a rental of £45 a year,
which was agreed to.

LUNATIC aarwife.
The Visitors' report WM reed by Mr. J. FLOM,
M.P. It showed that the total number of patients in
the Asylum, on March nui, was 490; 227 males, and
268 femalee. The following tenders were accepted—
Matthlaa I Bagge, bread per Ch. loaf, 4jd ; Wright
and Son, chaise, at per cw 4, 341; linen and clothing,
Atkinson and Co., and the Kinross Company. The
two asylums were inspected, all the patients seen, and
both establiakmenta were found to be in good order.
There was more sickness than usual in both asylums,
but no infectious or other special disease among the
Inmates."

ootnerx xxrxxormar..
Mr. J. FLIKURAMOS. brought up the report on this
subject. It stated the expenses during the quarter
had been £2,670 3s ; and the receipts £4,538 15s 9d.
A rate of in the E, realising £1,949 17.53, was
ordered.

Minn DIrLL PO WI6S.

TRIALS OF PRISONERS.
Watninerstr.
GRAND JURY.
The following were the Iteatissuen sworn an the Grand
Jury Osiirrmrissfy psvia.Dortsteuz,d !moo=
Board, Portland ; Willians ashen sborchester ; Thomas
Bishop, Puncknowle ; Edward Chili:at Maiden Newton;
Percival Cake, Bincomhe ; William H. D 111101•12, Puddle-
town ; Charles Fenner, Dorchester; John areetlinl.
Dorchester; Benjamin A. Hors. Dorchester; James Y.
Hannah, Dorchester; Richard Portland; Henry
Lewis. Dorchartm ; Edward Nutting. Dorchester; Simon
Poem Portland; Charles Parsons. Dorchester; Thomas
' O. Pouncy, Dorchester ; Charles Parsons, Dorchester;
Alfred Rolla Meicombe Reels; John A. Sharron, Mal-
comb. Recta; Joshua L Soundy, Dorchester; John A.
Talbot. Radtpole ; William Wastmacott, Abbotsbury.

. —...—. ......--
A dicuesion—in fact, the only discussion of the day
here ensued, relative to the powers the Clerk of the
Peace and the Chairman hays of acting in county
matters without first asking the permission of the
Court. It would ream from a statement read by the
Clerk of the Peace that,
"la the month of September, WI, be having notice
from reports in the public papers that county magistrates
had been sitting jointly with borough magistrates at Corte
Castle and Wareham for licensing purposu, felt it is duty,
In ourmianc. of the :17th Sec. of ' The Licensing Act,
' directing him to 'perform all such duties in relation
to any such committee (county licensing) as bets required
by law to perform in relation to the justice in quarter
sessions mumbled. to call the attention of the chairman
of the quarter sessions and of the county licensing com-
mittee to the fact that it was very doubtful whether
county justices had any power to sit Jolntlj with borough
justices in • borough where the borough justices have
concurrent jurisdiction for licensing purposes except in
certain cases to form • joint committee for the purpose of
confirmlas a new license provisionally granted by the
i justices, the enacting part of the 39th Sec. of the
Sec.
Act, lin upon this subject, being in the
worts following:—' from and after the of this
peed*
M
Act the justices of a county shall not for licensing
posse save in so far se respects the power e(
members of • joint committee have any juriadi on in a
borough in white the borough justices have for such
Lurrconcurrent Jurisdiction.' And it will be observed
eah a joint committee could not be formed f the
borough of Cmfe .11, inasmuch as there was only one
justice (the Mayor) for such borough, whereas the said
N.th sectka required three borough justices and three
county justices and • quorum of five to act in such • cans.
And he also called attention to the doubt whether
borough justices acting in and for boroughs not being
towns corporate and having separate commissions of the
peace had any power to grant or renew licenses within
such boroughe (vide ilith and 95th Vic., cap. 75).
He accordingly took caunsel'e opinion of Mr. Cole,
Q.C. M.P., who advised such licenses were invalid.
On tim other hand the Town Clerk of Wareham had
the opinion of Mr. Maul., Q.C., which was diametri-
cally opposite. After other proceedings the Clerk of
the Peace applied for a quo worm aro from the Queen's
Bench, and further had a second opinion from Sir
Henry James, Q.C., ALP. who advised :
" The question as to the boroughs of Corte Castle and
Wareham are more or less full of culty and doubt, but
as to the borough of Shaftesbury, which had also acted
under the Licensing Acts, the case is free from all
doubt, that borough basing DO legal right whatever to
grant licenses. i
This legal quibble t would seem has cost the county
something lik, I:200 odd, and the CHAIRMAN, it being
well known that exception would be taken to so large
an outlay without the sanction of the court, pro-
cee.lol to defend the action of the Clerk of the Peace.
He to. k upon himself all responsibility connected
with the steps that had been taken the application
for the woo worronio he said having been mask without
any appeal to the court, simply becauee there was not
time. The Court of Queen s Bench under the New
Judicial arrangements being about to cease to exist,
and the day upon which the application was made was
the last opportunity. The noble lord told the court
if they chose to censure him for haring taken steps,
which, under all the circumstances, he determined
at the time to run the risk of, they must do so; and if
they thought he did wrong he was very sorry and
there was an end of it. But he contended the
emergency of the cue justified his action.
The Rev. C. W. BINGHAM reminded his lordship
that at the last seasions enquiry was made as to what
steps had been taken in the matter in question, and
no answer had been vouchsafed. He only wished his
lordship had then given the same explanation as he
had that day, and be would then no doubt have found
the Court ready to pay the bill, however unpleasant it
might have been. His lordship had no doubt acted in
the best faith; but the rules of the Court ought to be
sufficiently strong that it should never be possible for
a Clerk of the Peace to embark on so perilous a course
as a law-suit, without the opinion of the Court having
been taken—(loud cheers). Neither did he think it
ought he be possible for a small clique of magistrates
to lay the charge upon the Clerk of the Peace to
convey the affairs of the county into Court, and
saddle them with each an expenditure as this—(bear,
hear). It appowd to him that a little explanation
with that good man of whom they had heard so much
in the speech of Sir Charles Dilke—Mr. John
Johnson—(a lengh)—would have settled the matter
without their having had to pay this bill, which he
confessed be most heartily objected to on the part of
the ratepayers of the connty—(cheers).
The CHAIRMAN stated he had advisedly avoided any
explanation at the last sessions, because he believed
that previous to the present "a case" would
have been settled. Mr. Cross, however, was now
going to take the subject up. Mr. Bingham talked
about cliques—
Mr. BINGHAM at once rose and said he had not used
the word in an offensive sense.

-Lord -1;;;117u-AT4-Cntiiii;ed he did not understand
what he meant by that The magistrates did not work
In cliques--(hear, hear).
Mr. BTWOHAN reiterated his previous assertion.
Lord Pommel said; well. it was an awkward word
for one magistrate to me about another. He himself
warn quite willing to submit to any censure, but he wadi
not prepared to say because he had acted in a b,ad fide
way there should be penalties ;mit upon hirn—(hear,
bear). He hoped, however, they would leave the
Court without the recollection of any unpleasantness
—(ima cheers).
Mr. LrrrLMIALMS, as one of Mr. Bingham's "clique."
thought they ought to pass a resolution upholding the
Chairman in what he had done.
Mr. FLorza urged there must be considerable dis-
cretion left in the hands of the Chairman.
Rev. CARR Gcret thought after his long services
they ought not to separate without coming to some
resolution, which would prevent the Chairman leaving
the Court, from their silence, with the idea there was
any disposition to censure him for what he had
done.

No nob resolution, however, was proposed, and the
matter dropped.
rntron.
_ _ _

Major raturroszoiieToVel the report of the Com-
mittee. It stated expenditure had been £2,818
Ga. 10d., and there was a baLanos due to the 'revenuer
of £3 Itis. 9d. The expenditure for the ensuing year
was £3,129 3.. sd. The tender of Mr. Gregory, of
Dorchester, for repairs and additions to head quarters,
amounting to £253 10v, was accepted. A rate of id.
in the £, amounting to £B7B 16a. 10d., was ordered.
The Lust of inspecting weights and measures during
the year has been £l5 13s. Dd., which was met by the
receipts, minus a sum of about E 3.

CHIRP. CONSTAELeII. IMPORT. ,

This report-i;-; iiited;rating, that we give it fully.
" I have the honour of laying before you. in accordance
with the regulations of the Secretary of State, the returns
of crime for the mat quarter, by which It appears that the
total number of persons apprehended by the coeuitabularly
amounted to 153. They were dealt with as follow,:
Discharged, 32 : minimal* disposed of, Ill; committed for
trial, 10. These returns show but little variation from
these of the corresponding quarter of last year, there being
an increase of one in the number of parsons apprehended.
I also beg to lay before the Court the criminal returns for
1875, and I am happy to be &hie to state that they are in
all respects the most satisfactory ever recorded since the
establishment of this force It appears that the Dumber
of persons taken into custody daring 14751. considerably
leer than in any preceding year, whilst the percentage of
undetected crime is also lower than in any previous period.
Since the year 1820 there has been a :narked and continued
decrease of Clitee in Dorset. The number of persons
sPionteended for all classes of Oelleeel ham fallen from 1,190
In 1800 to 5131 in 1875 : the number of persons committed
for trial from 96 in NM to 44 in 1475; and the number
summarily disposed of from 871 in 1859 to 304 in Iffs.
From the foto:Mtn( it will be seen that crime has
diminished in this county by upwards of 50 Per cent in
six years, whilst the proportion of undetected offences has
been reduced in the same period from 22 to 13 per cent.
In consequence of this reduction of crime there ham been
a saving to the county, the head of maintenance
and prosecution of prisoner,, of upwards of 4:800 in 1575
as compared with 1 . I beg further to add that according
to the udical statistics there has been 1890, with one
a greater decrease of crime in borset than in
any other (=MY Kngtand. There are t the
oomstsbulary district three convicts on of leave7and
15 parsons under the supervision of the pollee AU the
above, with one el now earning
an homed livelihood. lin en
refersocenr.thed as
of weights and measures, it erosion that duringisVp:sta
year the inmectors made 1,903 nein ; 11.951 weights qug
ineuurs, were stamped. and 21 persona were convictsd of
hoeing in their possession deficient weights or measures.
The vaceipes and expenses are as fellow,'—Received for
AM 7s. 4d.: moieties of Anse, Lb Lea
1.617 2Atrid.—eost of inspection, £33 Ids. Id.; balance in
favour of
_o, £l4 31. 3d. During 1275 197 n
certnkates were mated and 517 endorsed, and rsaala
of ZOO ISt od. Me been paid over to the treasurer to the
credit of She coesity rate. The Sweepers Ad.
1875, cams into operation en the Clithrieneuiry, and, in
accordance with MO same I have granted 33 liaseeses and
wursed gi others, and the sum at £4 Is. 04. has been
credited in like manner to the amity rate. The
substance Ars. 1.875, MOM Leto form on the Ist
7.7.ary. imid the Act ameba that the *Mom in Datlß
sessions, as the local authority, Man csay wit In
several divisions the powers meted be them by this Act
The superintendent of police in the Blandford division
has been aomrWly appointed the Mayeetor he that dis-
trict I also produce the returns under the
Diemen (Animals) het for the (pewter ending fatleyolg
There are at present only two farms sleeted with foot
and mouth disease. Heave to request that them
.retFas
Im printed for distribetken ammeget the u
The CausmaN drew attendee to thrrarrat the
potty morlaguil divisions magi appoint Inspectors of