The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-10-20 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Aarrapresent all is doubt and uncertainty with
reg
to the fate of the alleged Confederate rams
in the Mersey. The Levant Herald asserts that
the Turkish Government has offered to purchase
them of Messrs. Laird, at £130,000 each, and
that Earl Russell has expressed his willingness
to promote this arrangement as soon as the
existing embargo is removed. The prevailing
opinion however is, among the beat informed,
that Earl Russell, having passed the rubican,
must go on, or in other words that the rams
must run the blockade of the law courts, and
that whether the Turkish Government shall pur-
chase them or not, must be an after con-
sideration.

Lord Brougham has got into disrepute with
some of his regular admirers. Ilia lordship is
charged with having been too discursive during
the recent sitting of the Social Science Congress,
and with having sanctioned too freely the in-
troduction of political questions. His gravest
offence seems to be that, although he
stands at the head of slavery abolitionists,
he declines to fall darn and worship the
government of President Lincoln. He is
told, therefore, that he has used his office
as an occasion of offence, and is warned against
desecrating the " philanthrophic chair." Lord
Brougham is not likely to be much disturbed in
his mind by adverse criticisms, and in truth he
has added another leaf to the chaplet of his fame
by the distinguished ability with which he has
fulfilled his part at the Social Science Congress.
Lord Lyndhurst has passed away after an un-
usually long term of life has been vouch-
safed. His lordship expired at his London
residence on Monday, the 12th instant, at
the age of 92. Not long since he remarked,
while addressing the House of Peers: "My
Lords, I well remember the breaking out
of the French Revolution in 1789, and the
death of Louis the Sixteenth, and the course
of the consequent events." There is not, per-
haps, a conspicuous public man now in Europe
who could say this; certainly there is none in
England. The picturesque features of Lord
Lyndhurst's mind and character made the phe-
nomenon still more striking. The characteristic
of his intellect was the combination of great
force and great lucidity. Every sentence from him
was full of light and energy. His face and
brow were, perhaps, unrivalled in our time
for the expression of the pure intellect, and he
preserved the physical aptitude for public oratm jr
to an old ago when most men are scarcely fit for
more conversation. To the very extremity of
his protracted life, what is yeti rare, he both
looked and was a great man. The intellect was
undiminished, and the power of expression hardly
abated. There is no such man left.
The gloomiest prophets couce.ning the politics
of New Zealand have, unfortunately, turned
out the tritest. In August, when the last mail
left, war had broken out on a scale which seemed
to promise a bloody and final contest for the
supremacy between the English and Maori in-
habitants of the Northern Island, and every
nerve of the Anglo-Saxon population was
strained to the utmost in self-defence. And, in-
deed, all their energy will be required. The
Maori force is considerably larger than the army
we at present have there, includlng militia and
volunteers. The Maoris, too, have all the
advantages of a very thick bush, of perfect
familiarity with it, and perfect habituation to a
harassing mode of warfare. The English
settlers, on the other hand, who live in the cleared,
and therefore exposed parts, are not accustomed
to this isolated bushranger mode of warfare, and
have a long and straggling frontier to defend at
any point of which • small force of hisories may
appear. Even W. Thompson, the most friendly
of the chiefs, who has always hitherto stood by
the British, has now turned against us, and has
given notice to the English settlers that no
mercy could be shown to any of them who might
be taken "armed or unarmed," after General
Cameron had once crossed the river, which
they considered the boundary of the Maori
district. Of course more troops is the
great desideratum, and Mr. Bell, one of
the Ministry, had gone to Melbourne and
Sydney to raise recruits. The wish was to get
2000 bushrangers to do military duty in New
Zealand, and to receive as their pay blocks of
the Waikato land, which they would be expected
to defend during the unsettled period, which
must, for a time, follow the war. This plan
has already been tried with complete
success in Taranaki, where the murders
occurred in May last. That land was
confiscated by the Government, and offered to
bodies of settlers from the Southern Island, on
this military tenure. The measure is • bold,
and some may think an undesirable and unjusti-
fiable one, but it is, perhaps, the best and most
natural way of securing the borders of civiliza-
tion in a country not yet reclaimed from the
dominion of savage_s.
Billault, Napoleon's Minister of State,
who has long sustained the post of speaking
minister, died on the 13th instant, at
Nantes, at the age of 58. His death is
an immense lost to the Emperor, who, we are
told, feels it very acutely. And well he may.
as the Emperor is now without the support of
skilful eloquence in dealing with. an opposition
that has stronger and more various powers of
debate than have yet knit together nub"
despotism in the Legislative ben M.
Billault was formerly a clever barrister .
at
Nantes, who took his tongue to market, meaning
to rise in the world, as he did rise, by discreet
um of his eloquence. H.
flexibility of political principle, great
g cob-
tent to be very plausible under any ar-
cumatances. He was getting on famously
' with the Republic, before he had the empire
for a client, and he was often as Militater with a
voice, conscientiously—no doubt---making the
worse appear the better reason. . As
.•
_content-
; porary justly remarks, hia public mod would
I mould like a pat of butter into swans or bee-
hives, or whatever shape his purchaser preferred.

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COUNTY PITTY SIERIONN, SIIHDhall, &ULAN].
Belnre H. Williams, Esq., Captain Manning, and IL.
B. Sheridan. Esq., M.P.
BIGGING.— John Wilkins, • tramp, was brought up
in custody charged with begging. The cue was proved
by P.C. Hill, who said he saw prisoner bruin; from
two ladies at Upwey, who ounphined a prisoner's
importapity.—Prisoner said he was • native of
Gloucester, and waa on the road to Weymouth in search
of eniployment.—Committed for three daya.
POACHING THOUT.—ChaTIDI Rail of Frame Van•
church, John Rolls, Job Rolla, an George Byrnes, of
Toiler Porcorutn, were summoned for having illegally
taken four trout, from • stream of water be to
the Right Hon. Lord Wynford on the 2nd of October.
—Mr. Weston appeared for the defendanta.—Geore
Mayo, a keeper to the employ of Lord Wynford, said
OD the day in question he saw the defendants, between
one and two o'clock in the afternoon, in the water
meadows belonging to his Lordship. He observed
them turn the water off and get ix the river with sticks,
and fling out three flab. He afterwards picked one up
on the top of the water not quite dead. The fiat: were
trout. He then went and asked defendants it they had
caught many fish, when George Byrnes denied that they
had caught any. The strum belonged to Lord Wynford.
—Cross-examinsid : Had been in this neighbourhood
about fifteen months. The river flowed through Great
Toiler. First saw the men at Mr. Whittle's house. He
knew one of the men before. When he went to de-
fendants three of them were in the water with sticks.
One of them Ins • waterman, and they wore working in
the water-meadows. He saw one flab in the river with
both eyes out, and the other three on the bank beside
the carrier. The water had not been lately lit out of
the carriers. There were only the four defendants in
the meadow at the time. They had sticks with them
such as were used for killing flab. —Another witness,
named Henry Churchill, said be saw defendants fishing
on Lord Wynford's property. He was about a quarter
of a mile off when he saw them in the water in the
main stream, but be did not see them catch any-
thing. He informed the keeper of what be bad seen.
Three of the defendants were in the river, whilst the
other was on the bank driving the fish out. The
keeper wee with witness rabbitting, and after witness
had acquainted him with what he had seen, they both
went to where defendantawere, but when they saw them
coming they walked away from the river and went to
their work.--Cross-examined Knew Toiler wolf, and
had lived there about four months. Had semi defen-
dants before ; they worked for Mr. Whittle. He was
certain that defendants were the men he hail wen in
the meadows. He did not we them kill any fish, bat he
saw one lying on the bank, dead ; the others were not
dead, but they would not kick when put into the
stream. The water was in the carrier ; it had not been
altered. He would swear that throe of the defendanta
were in the main stream. The fish were valued at nine
pence esoh.—Charlos Rolls, having been previously con-
victed of • similar offence, was fined 40s. and oosta, or
in default one month's impriwunient, whilst the other
defendants were fined 10a. each and oosts, or in ddaalt
If days.
THEBPAIII.—Joseph Hardy WWI summoned for
'resuming in search of conies.—Mr. Weston appeared
for lb. prooscation.—John Butter, an under-ganiekeeper
in the employ of Mr. Brjmer, said on the 2nd of
October he saw • rabbit in a wire on Mr. Brymees pro-
perty about ten yards from • wagon track. He watched
the rabbit and next monde( he saw the defendant
some and take it out of the trap, pick up the bits of fur
which the rabbit had wretched about, and then walked
away. Witness went after defendant and asked him
for the rabbit and wire. Defendant had bison in the
employ of /Ir. Brymer all the summer. —ln defence.
defendant said that he was going to his work when he
" hit in the road and took it up. When the
and asked for it be gave it up.--Defen-
previously tionvicted for • similar offence
fined 20a., and oasts 96. 6d., or in default
imprisonment.
Fern Snenioxs, Townhall. Monday.—
Mayor, and It. Davis, and M. Devsnish,

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nvstrux Turgvra.—William Ryon. • Labourer ot
Cbeemide. London, 15 years of age, sad Henry Adams,
a tailor, of Oxionl, aged 19, were brought up on remand
from Saturday, sberged with stealing • loaf of bread
from the shop of lbs. Jane Bishop, of South.stmet.—
P.C. Keats said in consequence of information from bin
Superintendent be watched the movements of prisons,'
on Friday evening. He notieed than look into several
shop-windows, and ultimately Adams went into Mrs.

Bishop's shop returning with • losf,whicb be concealed
under his coat. The other prisoner watched the move- I
meats of Adams, and when -he came out they pro ceded
overtook them near Mr. Topp's barton.
down the Chesnut Walks. He followed prisoners and i
where they
were eating the bread. They then asked him the way
to the Union. He replied that he was a stranger, but
he thought he could show them, and they
then re-
turned with him to South street. He was in plain
clothes and he then charged them with stealing the bread,
telling them that he was a police officer, and that he
should take them in custody. Ryan raid "I thought
you was a policeman when you came opts tut." and then,
addressing his companiw, Adams, said, "you ought to
have throw'd it down before we got into the light.
and then he would not have found it on us."—Mary
Bishop, daughter of prosecutrix, said Ryan came into
her shop on Friday afternoon and begged for some bread.
She told him she sold their bread and did not [ITO it
away, and that he was able to work for it, or go to the
Union, He then went away. In the evening'
looked on the shelf where bread
i 4 consequence of what she had heard, she
was erred for sale,
when she missed a quarter-peek loaf. he could not
swear that the part of the loaf produced was that stolen
from her shop, but it much resembled the other
loaves. Both prisoners pleaded guilty, and in
answer to the Mayor, Adams said they were both on
their way to Plymouth to join the navy. They were
nearly starving when they Wok the bread.—Prisoners
were sentenced to two months' imprisonment •ith hard
labour, and the Mayor cautioned them as to their future
manner of living.
An ARTFUL DOWEL—Richard Price was brought
up in custody, charged with being drunk and incapable.
—P.C. Cousins proved that on Sunday night, at 12
o'clock, he found prisoner asleep on the pavement, at,
the bottom of High East-atreet. He awoke him, when
he was very abusive, and so drunk that he could not
stand, and the officer was compelled to have assistance
to take him to the station. On prisoner's person was
found a shilling, some matches, and two combs.—
Prisoner, in defence, said he was subject to fits, and
that lie was in one when the policeman found him.
He was a currier, and had walked that ifternoon from
Piddletown. He came from Tiverton, and was in search
of employment.—The police-officer said prisoner was
sensible enough when he attempted to march him, and
Mr. llevenish said no doubt prisoner had • fit, but it
was a "drunken fit."—Fined sa, and in default to be
committed for seven days to the house of correction, the
Mayor remarking that if he was ill he would have the
benefit of medical advice there—Prisoner asked bow
much the fine was, and said be would get iii. a minute
or two. He then lift the room in centhany with a
police-officer, when he pulled off one of his boots and
took from the toe of it about ten chilling., tied up in •
piece of rag. He then paid the fine and wished the
Bench "good morning."
CACTION AG•IEST LETTING oer FIREWORKS—AIIred
Rowland, • boy, was charged with letting off fireworks
in Durnmite-street.—Defendant pleaded guilty, but his
master gave him an excellent character, and on defen-
dant promising not to offend again he was dismissed
with • caution, the Mayor remarking that the magi,-
' trates were in future determined to indict a severe
penalty upon all who were brought before them charged
with • similar offence.

MAIDEN NEWTON. Omit= Music. On
Sunday evening last a most eloquent sermon was
preached by the Rev. S. Lane, after the usual
evening choral service, on the above subject; in
which (the history, reasonableness, and authority
of this method of performing Divine service were
ably set forth.