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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1877.

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Weymouth in the liiililegarde, in the Channel Race,
, he will not arrive until late on Thiumlay evening. ,
NOTES OF THE WEEK. I There is to be no public reception,and it is not probable
On Saturday Earl Russell celebrated his 86th birth- H.R.H. will even land. This we trost will allay the
day. It is 64 years since he first entered Parliament fears of our show friends. and help the public to
as member for Tavistock, and 31 since he assumed his" make up their minds' at once to attend the
first Premiership. I Exhibition. relinquishing whatever fulsome gratifica-
- ' tion may be supposed attend staring at • Prince.
The two sensations of Friday's meeting of the British - —-- ---
Association were the exhibition of the telephone, on THE WINTER ASSIZES.
which a number of experiments were tried, and an I The Loodmi publishes the Orders in Connell
sAdress in the Mathematical and Physical Science respecting the Winter Assizes Act. For Southampton,
Section by Sir W. Thomson. In this he contended Wilts, and Ibirset, the assizes arc to be held at Win-
that it was Issaible for life to exist in a meteoric stone ebester ; Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Bristol, the
down to the peri.sl at which it became embedded in assizes are to be held at Exeter. There are in all
the earth. nie stone would be revolving very slowly twelve „inter
through space, one side being exposed to sun and the
other to starlit space. Seeds, lichens, and mosses '
might exist in crevices and stone, and would live and
grow after reaching the earth. Such a stone, too,
might have formed part of abody in which life existed,
awl therefore such life might be transferred to this
earth and perpetuated thereon.
An Act of Parliament which was horned on Thurs-
day, by which clerks of justices of the peace, awl
clerks of special awl petty sessions, are henceforth to
be paid by salary on recommendation by the local
authority to the Secretary of State. Every salary
may, if thought fit, be varied according to the number
of cases, or the amount of business. Payment is to he
made to the treamrer of unclaimed penalties and other
%MM. The qualification to be a clerk under the Act
I. that the applicant has been a barrister, or solicitor,
or a clerk to a police court. A table of fees and an
adjustment of fees is to take place in proportion to the
salary of clerks.

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DORCHESTER GAS AND COKE COMPANY.
Th. annual meeting of this Company wan held at
the Board-room, Gas-works on Thursday, the 16th
but, the Chairman of the Directors, Mr. Henry
Lock, presiding. There were also present :—Messrs.
T. Saunders, W. Slade, 11. Bascombe, R. Davis, and
J. Galpin, directors; and T. C. W. Sannders, W. R.
Vatcher, A. Brown, A. H. Lock, F. Loelc, G.
Hansford, E. Burnett, W. Osmond, manager, ike.
The CHAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the
report, congratulated the shareholders on the prosperity
of the Company, and after some discussion the same
wan received and adopted, with the alteration that
the reduction in price of gas should be left entirely to
the Directors, both as to the time of reduction and the
amount. The retiring directors and auditors were
then unanimously re-elected, and a cordial vote of
thanks passed the Directors, Manager, and Clerk.

The seventh annual report of the Deputy Master of
the Mint opens with an allusion to the break-down of
the machinery, whit h stopped the operation f coinage
for nearly five months during the year 1876. The
on milt of c dnave was therefore comparatively trifling
in number ; yet the value struck, including contract
work, exceed.el £500,000. The total number of pieces
struck at the Mint was 1l.9',00; adding the ',feces
of bronze coinage executed by contract, the whole of
llritish coins struck during the year amounted to
' 30,930,410 in number, and to £3,007,142 os. 3d. in
value The gold coinvge in all was £4,701,459 10s.
£3.318,806 represented the total amount in sovereigns, I
and £1,391,593 104. inhalf.sovereigns. The amount of
silver coined was £231,232: in round numbers the value
of the half-crowns was £79,000; florins, £58,000;
shilling., £53,000; sixpences, £21,000; and three- ,
pences, £23,000. Fourpenny, twppenny, and penny
pieces were only coined as Maroplay money. The
bronze coinage amounted to £61,430 13s. 4d. The total
of the pennies was £40,000, of the halfpennies £14,000,
and of the farthings £1,120. The light gold coin with-
drawn from circulation by the Bank of England and
sent to the Mint for re-coinage during the year was
only £638,575; the c.o.epponding amount in 1875 was
£1,129,000, and £950,000 in 1874. For the first time
during several years the Mint expenses have exceeded
profits. That result the deputy-master ascribes to the
breakdown of the machinery which precluded silver
coinage, and all consequent profit. The profit on
bronze pieces was £44,289. A. curious item is the
"amount received from sweepings from the gold
ooinage"—this was £1,245 14s. 10d. in 1876.

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Mr. Smith's appointment to the Admiralty has
elicited from the Army and Nary Chiutte the sarcastic
remark that the new First Lord certainly possesses
that perfect ignorance of naval matters which is
apparently accepted aa the moat important' ualifica-
tion for a Minister who has to manage the naval
affairs of Great Britain. This is not the first time that
a true word has been spoken in jest.

An aristocrat among aristocrats has succeeded the
newspaper agents. The Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley
has succeeded Mr. Smith at the Treasury. Thus not
only does Stanley succeed Stanley, but Smith also
suceeeds Smith. For as Mr. Matthew Arnold,
hearing moil worshipful praise poured out upon Mr.
Hepworth Dixon, exclaimed with swelling pride,
'And I also am an author," so the late Lord Derby
once boasted, "I also am a Smith." The full fareily
name of the great Knowsley House is "Smith.
Stanley." The Honourable Frederick Arthur is at
present the heir of perhaps the proudest of English
earldoirm. lie is, as all the world knows, the Foreign
Secretary's younger brother. He is young for his
post, being only 36, but he is not new to office. At 27
he was for a brief space Lord of the Admiralty, and
he has been Financial Secretary for War ever since the
incoming of the Conservative Government. In his
youth he aspired to the military profession, but at 26
lie had had enough ..f it, and retired from the
Grenadier Guards with a captaincy. He entered
Parliament as member for Preston in 1865, and in
1866 exchanged the Lancashire town for the northern
division of the asantashire minty. As a politician
Mr. Stanley has not maintained the great reputation
of his house. Ile has displayed neither the oratorical
abilities of his father nor the learned force of his elder
brother. But he is said to possess many admirable
qualities, which is friends say will make him more
than the figure head .d his department. No rrrroos.

WY.. Florence Nightingale hoa very seasonably reminded
the Inn' Mayor of and through him the people
of Great Britian, that an Indian fi no ii wor•c than •
battle-11.41, and worse even than a retreat In enclosing
a sum .4 aid the famine-stricken population of
India, the lady espreAses a belief that, if English people
knew what a (amine in that region is, every man, woman,
and child would tine out of their abundance or their
economy to mitigate its horrors. If we do not, then we
are worse than the Turks, for they put an end to the
enemy's wounded, whereas by remaining deaf to the cry
for aid we should doom to death our own fellow-subjects.

At a meeting in Madras, en Thursday week. the Duke
of Burkingham drew a terrible picture of the famine now
ravaging that presidency. The extent of the distress, he
said, was wholly unprecedented; eighteen millions of
people were suffering from direct want, and the area
affected was larger than the whole of England. Ile had
once thought that India could herself meet the crisis, lost
that was now impossible. and he concluded with an
urgent appeal for English assistance. The Sanitary Com-
missioner added that a million and a half of people
required to 100 fed, that in many districts the situation
was daily growing worse, and that up to the end of July
over half A million of peeple had died from starvation.
Another gentleman asserted that more people were daily
toned dead in Madras than had died during the whole of
, the Bengal famine. This appalling calamity must cons
tinne for six months longer. There is a general want of
rain throughout India, and much anxiety psevails.
According to a telegram from the Viceroy, published
yesterday, an improvement is noticeable in several dis-
tricts, but there has been an increase of 7P.5.1.100 in the
number of people relieved in the Madras district during
the past fortnight. Subscriptions for the sufferers have
been started in London and Dublin, and the Mayor of
Bridal has followed the good example.
It Is announced that Mr. Reid, the chief clerk of the
Stationery Department, has been appointed Assistant
Controller to tar. Pigott, at an increanad salary. According
to the London eorrespom:ent of a Conservative journal,
there is more in this little appointment than appears at
first sight Lord Beaconsfield, in spite of his sneer at
"stationers," has discovered that some practical know-
ledge is of advantage, after all, to the chief of a depart-
ment Hence the appointment of a practical man to help
tha new Controller to perform his duties efficiently. As
Mr. Pigott will continue to draw his full salary of Xl4loo a
year, the increased sons annually paid to Mr. Reid for
coaching him reprewents the price which the country will
pay for tte Premier's blainder.

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It appears from the Agriculturel returns for 1877, which
have just been issued, that the land at present under
wheat cultivation is 3,1118,510 acres, being al per cent
more than in 1875, end 51 per cent. lesa than ilftS. Thd
differences with respect to barley, oats, potatoes, and
hope, ax tempered with previous rears. are very slight
The total minding* of live stock reported are : 507.2240
cattle, 29,991,513 sheep, and 1499,559 pigs, the latter show
tog an increase of nearly 9 per cent.

he went and examined the sheep, and found that it had •
large piece of flesh torn out of the neck, and that it was
bitten through the neck and in the throat. He told Mr.
Orman what had happened- Mr. Orman sad he found
the neck of the sheep torn, end it was bitten throngh the
shoulder. anti hail two I.roken. The sheen lust to he
killed. He v tined the at 255. P.C. Eine proved
that defendant had not dr trove.' the dog. Defendant
told hint the tine was a govt one, and he wouldn't get rid
of it for .C 2 -The Bench ordered the defendant to pay the
value of the two sheep fit At I anti the emit&
Maras llienrk, of Lon.: Hain, was summoned by the
Exercise for keeping a dog without a lirense on the 210 t
June—The dog was seen I.v Mr. Arkhain, the excise
officer, in the morning of the 214 id June, awl the same
evening a license WWI taken out. A witness ,1211.14.4
1141110.1 now proved that Hi, doe was under ale at the
time having hero. horn the day after! laiiittitas, and the
Bench dismissed the

be would not take £lllO for her. OR the 18th of June the
same words were used, and the horse was bought. Mr.
Trevanion then mentioned the horse 's kicking and her
dantaging the plaintiff's carri3Cll to the aim-font ilaitotol
lIA narrated by the plaintitt—Me. Hotvard said his client
denied giving any warranty. It was the driver, not the
horse that WAR at fault. —Mr. John Witter lee Beach it yid
he Isan,ht a horse at Woodbury-hill fair on the list
September last, giving £:l7 for it. lie also Paid £9 for
breaking it in. The horse WM a Utile too "g ty" for him,
RI he ARA getting into years, and he tussle the exeliange
for the plaintiff's infuse on the terms mentioned. In the
course of the conversation whit took place the defendant
mid his mare was as tinier no. sheep, and witness bought
it purposely to have a 1111 let animal, and not becaose he
consilennt it ti he as good Rllda MR heeee. WRAC.os
told defendant that his torso had kicked, and that
he (defendant) could not rile it. The day after he had
the mare witness ewleavonnol to trim her, but she kicked
at him pith her fore lers she ale, kicked his imstitt.
Defendant said anyone rould trim tint mare, and Witilel46
offered hint Itt, if he would do it, but he declined. On
the 15th of June witness drove to Christchurch. The
horse went there very well. hut In returning, it kicked.
On the 54th witness and his wife went to Wimborne, and
the horse then kicked very much. Ten days afterwards
he and his son went to Corte Castle, and, coming hack,
the horse kicked the shaft of the four wheel to Pieces.
They haft to have the carriage drawn behind a waggon,
and witness and his son were compelled to walk • long
distance. Witness had kept hoops for 40 years. He
should never use the mare again. He asked defendant to
take her back and return the horse and the money, but he
laughed at him. The defendant had offered £35 to settle
the matter, and witness had offered to take Lid--Mr.
Beach, junr., and Joseph Barnes, the plaintiff's RTIAMI
were examined in corroboration. The latter sael the mare
kicked him in the stomach with her fore feet; he never
saw her kick with her hind feet —The Jades strongly
advised the defendant to came to terms, and said he
thought the plaintiff hail made a very reasonable offer. -
Mr. Howard s MI it was not a question of money with his
client, but he wishes' to show that the imputations cast
upon him by the plaintiff were untrue. After a consults-
Oen }fete, en the parties, the case we. adjourned.
A 'LIQUIDATION CASF..—Mr. Robinson, solicitor, of
Bournemouth, applied to the judge to permit certain
resolutions of creditors, re George Ryder, to lie registered.
The application had been made to the Registrar (Mr.
I tiekinson), lint he declined to registrar the resolutions on
the ground that a former liquidation petition was still
pending. Mr. Robinson WWII in April, ls7ii, the debtor,
a tobaeconist, of B ourneinouth, filed a petition and the
trnstee appointed was a London accountant. The
resolutions at the first meeting WAR that the affairs of the
debtor should be settled by liquidation. The trustee took
Pilileßßiell of the estate, and realised it by public auction.
Certain trade fixtures, however, had been [bought back
by the debtor's friends, and he had been in possession of
them ever since—The Rsgistrar Aai,l as far as the court
was aware of, there was nothing to satisfy the court that
there was an arrangement to entitle the debtor to the
future estate he might acquire subsequent to his petition.
—The Jugde s'titt Mr. Robinson had failed to show that
the former petition was not pending, and the application
to registrar the resolutions must be refused.

MR. 11FADON WOODPORDE, the eldest son of the
County tort Judge of Derby, ham been awarded a
certificate of merit on the occasion of his final examina-
tion for a solicitor. Mr. Woodforde wag articled to
Messrs. i'ress and Co., of Bristol, and ofubsequently
with Messrs. Ffooks, solicitors, of Sherburne.