The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

WHICH ESTER, 'TUESDAY, MARCH 15. 1854.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The gravest erenta an now hastening in
Europe with startling rapidity. Austria has
swallowed all her !scruples respecting treaty
obligations and diplomatic promises, and has
consented C.) join Prang's, who has never been
scrupulous at all, in the outrage which has
united the Danes as one man in the patriotic
determination to resist the invaders with all
their strength. The Austrian fleet has been
summoned from the Adriatic, not to cruise in the
English Channel as was at first announced, but
to go to the North Sea, and eventually, no
doubt, to the Deltic. The barefaced fiction by
which the two German Powers endeavoured to
deprecate the wrath of England is no longer
available. They have carried "execution" into
Jutland, and are actually at war with Denmark
both by land and by sea. The Russian army has
been placed on a war footing; Austrian-Poland
has been declared in • state of siege • and the
three great Powers—Russia, Prussia, and
Austria—are repeating the contract of 1815 and
forming a new holy alliance to suppress revolu-
tion, or, in other words, constitutional govern-
ment. The Prussian premier has deoland that
his country can never be at peace with Denmark
so long as she maintains her democratic institu-
tions ; so, while falsely aiming England that
he does not intend conquest or aggrandisement,
Von Newark is steadily carrying out his design
of annihilating the little northern maritime
state—no longer fearing, as on the last attempt,
that Russia will interpose at the last moingat
and put a stpersoadedtoop his itsstium and feeling very
. that will indulge m
nothing stronger than OlinTorda At the same
time, to add to the general disquietude, the
Italian army is preparing for a asaipsip, and is

at the) piSseni moment more than 400,000
strong ; white the French irou-clnd fleet is being
rapidly equipped for action whenever the time
for action bat arrived. Not even in the first
months of 1869 were European polities in so
critical a position. Wt Inuit go back to 1863 to
find a peri.4l equ lly threatening and stormy.
The Mon.ing Post is pursuing the course it
followed in 1853. Though the Ministry of the !
day in committed to a policy a peace, the organ
of Lord Palmerston strongly denounces that
policy, and gives the world to understand, as
plainly as it is possible, exoept by a direct state-
ment that this policy is not Lord Palmerston's,
but is forced upon him by the Queen, and that
it is for the nation to take the matter up and
insist upon a line of conduct more in acoordanee
with English traditions and with treaty obliga-
tions. The most bitter opponent of the present
Ministry could not more severely criticise the
iuk-sbedding predilections of Earl Russell, nor
allude with greater sarcasm to the preference
which the leading journal has shown for its
pocket at the expense of its ptinciplea. No lees
than three of its articles, on Monday, were de-
voted to foreign affairs, and they are all so many
condemnations of the proceedings of the German
Powers, and so many calls to this country to
interfere, and with a strong arm to save Dien-
from the fate of Poland. .

From a return just issued it ppears that the
total amount received by the Government from
the trustees of Savings Banks and Friendly
Societiet from August 6th, 1817, to November
20th, 1863, is over £92,000,000, of which nearly
£49.000,000 has been repaid. Of the £43,006,000
still due to the trustees, £24,000,000 is invested
in the Consolidated Three per Cents., and the
remainder in various securities, ezcepting a
balance at the banks of about £350,000. During
the year ending November 20th last, the sums
received on account of Savings Banks amounted
to • total of £2,970,549; and on account of
Friendly Societies to about £134 000.
The steam rams have once more put in an
appearance in the law courts. An application
has been made in chambers on behalf of the
Attorney-General for a COlllOl4llOll to Cairo and
other places, to examine his Highness the Pasha
of Egypt and others whose evelpece is alleged
to be material to the Crown. Messrs. Laird's
counsel contended that the application was a
vexatious one, only adopted for the purpose of
delaying the proceedings. The vowels were
seized in November last, but no information was
filed until February the 7th; and now—although
a complete answer to the case was ready—it was
attempted to still further injure and prejudice
the defendants by the issuing of a commission.
Mr. Justice Mellor said that, as the evidence
was sworn to be essential he toold hardly refuse
the application. It wait therefore greeted, on
the Understanding that the commission returned
into court by the 10th of May.
The death of Maximilian, King of Bavaria,
by the same disease that less than four months
ago carried off the King of Denmark, can
searcely add any fresh complication to European
politics which the demises of King Frederick has
so greatly confused. It is true that Bavaria is
the third of the German Powers, and that she
can send into the field an army. of 10,003 men;
but whatever course the late King might have
adopted had he lived will no doubt be followed
by his successor, who being but a youth of nine-
teen years of age, will have to follow the advice
of his father's counsellors. Maximilian 11. was
born November 28th, 1811, and was therefore in
his 53rd year. lie amended the throne on the
abiication of his father, Ludwig L, who survives
him, and is now in his 74th year. Ludwig had
made himself very unpopular at first by his
ultramontanism in religion, then by his reaction-
ary polities, and lastly by his immoral connection
with Lola Mentes In the great year of revolu-
tion, 1848, Ludwig was one of the first of
monarchs who had to retire from business, and
since then he had divided his time between the
arts and literature, to both of which he was
passionately devoted, and in which he was no
mean proficient. He has now recOvered his
popularity, especWly at Munich, the capital
which he has done so much to adorn. His KM
King Maximilian, has had an uneventful reign
of sixteen years. His next brother is Otbo, the
ex-King of Greece; his eldest sister is the wife
of the ex-Duke of Modena; and his youngest
brother is married to the Princess Amelia,
Infanta of Spain. Maximilian was cousin by
marriage to the King of Prussia, and leaves two
children—Ludwig, the new King bistm August
25th, 1845, and Otho, born April, 1848. The
late King of Bavaria was the lest of the German
Sovereigns to recognize the claim of Prince
Frederick of Atigustenburg to the Duchies ; and
thrw• •e,,eths IWO the Saxon Foreiee e,;e;eter
paid • diptomatic visit to His majesty, and
persuaded him to assist the other minor Powers
In procuring the succession of the Duke by force
of arms. Subsequently be became one of the
moat sealeus supporters of the Duke, and our
Minister at Munich declared that the King had
done as much as the most violent partisan of the
Duke to abet the insurrectionary movement
against the King of Denmark, and warned the
King that he must be prepared to reap as be had
sown. Latterly the King, seeing that Prussia
and Austria were bent on dismembering Den-
mark, had shown a disposition to ally himself
with them.

A Parliamentary paper ban just been published
containing sundry communications which have
l:lbetween e collector of customs at
ee: th
Liverpool and Mann. Klingender and Co., re-
specting the shipment of guns on board the
Gibraltar. The document shows most con-
clusively how one-sided is our " neutrality" in
reference to American affairs. The correspon-
dence commences with a letter from Mr. Ham-
ond to Mr. Hamilton, of the Treasury-office,
dated February 24th, 1864. Mr. Hammond
refers to a letter written in June last from
Mears. Elingender and Co., of Liverpool, to
Capt. Blakely iii London, in which the action
of the Government with respect to the shipment
of guns on hoard the Gibraltar is mid to have
been based upon the suspicion that ultimately
the fort guns might find their way into the
Southern confederacy. In that letter Mr.
PA wards, the collector of customs at Liverpool
is reported to have said, that if those guns had
been intended for the Northern Government no
obstacles would have been placed in the way of
their heing shipped, and that such shipments to
New York were of common occurrence. The
Foreign-office wished the Treasury to ascertain
whether the customs collector at Liverpool
really made this statement. Mr. Edwards, in
reply, says that when he stopped the shipment
of guns on board the Gibraltar, he was asked by
Mr. Elingender whether there would be any
objection to the shipment of guns to New York.
Before replying to this question he sent for the
principal office-seareher, and ascertained from
him that the shipment of all kinds of arms and
guns to New York was continually going on,
and then answered that there would be no
objection to the exportation of such guns to
New York. Such shipments had been con-
tinually going on from the commencement of
the w.r. Mr. H. Gould, aasistant-surveyor, in
a letter to Mr. Edwards, dated the 26th
February last, states that arms mad munitions
of war are still being shipped to the United States.
It will thus be men that the statement made in
the House of Commons was perfectly correct,
to the effect that while the shipment of guns on
board 11011110111 bound for a neutral port, but sus-
pectedof being ultimately destined for a Con-
federate port is strictly forbidden, the ship-
ment of guns direct for Federal ports is openly
permitted. The subject we may anticipate will
form the groundwork of a warm debate in the
House of Commons.

There is • very appreciable difference in the
speed with which Mr. Reed turns out his ships
of war and those of his rival, Capt. Coles. The
suggestion is, not unnaturally, made that this
delay on the part of the former may result, in
part at least, to the dual position which Mr. Reed
Iholds However, the first turret ship in Eng-
land, and the second in Europe, has at length
been launched, and the Royal Sovereign has
been floated out of dock at Portsmouth, and in
some six or seven weeks it is expected the will
be ready to undertake similar w.irk to that so
successfully performed by her Danish sister, the
Rolikrake. The Times describes the vessel's
appearance as that of "a veritable marine
monster, with a long black, low, floating strue-
ture, capped by four short circular gray-coloured
towers, pierced with wicked-looking eyes, from
which monster guns will vomit forth bolts of
enormous weight, with a velocity sufficient to
crunch in the sides and ribs of any floating iron-
dad opponent, at the same time possessing with
all its terrible teeth a skin so thick and so well
put on as to defy the blows of the most powerful
enemy." The foremost turret will mount two
10.5 inch guns, and the other three turrets one
gun each of the lallle calibre, all smooth bores,
and firing 150 lb. cast-iron or 160 lb. steel shot.
The guns weigh twelve tons each, and the turrets
together weigh 430 tons. The total weight of
armour plates, which vary in thickness from
four-and-a-half to ten inelhes, and of her turrets,
Oust and equipments, is 1,877 tons; and that
of her amatimition, Mores, men, Wrests, ha,

1,222 tons. Her speed is expected to be much
greater then when she was a three-decker, ani I
then it WAS more than twelve knots. Her trial
is looked forward to with great interest.
Great Is the ehagrin lies fallen on Sir
William Armstrong and his supporters. " lug
Bill" has been tried and found wanting. Another
of those oostly,.ahnless experiments st Shoebury-
sheerest empires, has been attended with this re-
suit. that theA rinstrong 600- pounder, with a charge
of 901 b., and with a steel spherical shot, was unable
to do more than make an indentation of 4 9 in.
upon • 11-in. plate only WO yards off. In other
words, if this hugs gun had tired a steel shot
within stone's-throw of the Minotaur, it would
have failed to penetrate her. The fault was not
in the shot, for that was unusually strong, and,
instead of flying to pieces, preserved its shape
almost unaltered. Sir William Armstrong, after
the experiment, complained that it had not been
made fairly, the target not being presented to
the gun at the proper angle. but it never is the
On that is in fault. When vent- pieces blow off,
and the body of the gun cracks, and the riding
is out up, it is always the gunners who are un-
skilful. Does Sir William suppose that an
enemy's vessel will deliberately put itself in a
better position for being fired at than that in
which the Shosbnryness target was placed I
It has long been matter of regret that Her
Majesty should not be able to emerge from
her mourning, and that she should have given
herself up entirely to the commemoration of her
loss. The constant erection of memorials in
various churches, and the completion of a
mausoleum—which structure the King of
the Belgians was taken to see within a few
hours of his arrival at Windsor—naturally tend
to °pattern the chlolll2 in her apparently immov-
able melancholy. The same cause, doubtless,
led to the privacy of the Royal christening,
which has elieited some very.deeicled expressions
of d'esatisfac non in some of the London pipe*
and which also, perhaps, led to the silence with
which Her Majesty was received, in str3ng con-
trast with the enthusiastic cheers that greeted the
Prince and Princess of Wales. But it would be
a national misfortune should foreign politics be
biassed by the same disposition, and should the
honour of England be sacrificed to a Prince who
would have been the first man to deprecate such
a sacrifice. It is, however, the general belief
that the only occasion on which the Queen has
been induced to withdraw her mind from the one
subject which occupies it has been the matter
of the Dano-German war, and in that she was
led to interpose by reason of her resolution not
to take a part opposed to her brother-in,law. On
this occasion Her !deject?, interposition was so
decided that it nearly led to a Ministerial crisis,
and may even now do so.
The ease of witehereft at Castle Hedingham,
in Essex, which excited the surprise of ell Eng-
land in August lest, has just formed the subject
of a prosecution at the Chelmsford anises. An
old and decrepit man, eighty years of age, deaf
and dumb, by reason of his obscure antecedents,
grotesque gestures, singular habits, and excitable
nature, acquired the reputation of beings wizard.
He was nicknamed "Dummy," and his neigh-
bours seem to have feared him as much
as they ridiculed him, for if he stroked his walk-
ing stick it was regarded as an ominous sign of
impending evil. Amongst these superstitious
beings was a woman named Smith, and she,
falliug ill, attributed her malady to the super-
naturel power which Dummy, out of revenge for
an affront, had exercised over her. Thereupon
she sought to get him into her house and thereby
dissolve the evil spell. He would not go, and
Smith, with the assistance of another, throw the
old man into a brook, and so ill-used him that he
eventually died. The evidence being conclusive,
• a verdict of guilty was returned; but in consi-
deration of certain extenuating circumstances, a
sentence of only six months' hard labour was
• passed upon each of the culprits.
The controversy still continues between the
Opposition and Government with respect to our
foreign policy. The key-note *as struck some
I days since by the Times and the Saturday
I Review, and the other journals have since been
, provoked to reply. The reiterated questionings
I by the Opposition, especially by Mr. Disraeli,
have been, and still are, denounced by the friends
of the Government as "factious," while the
I partisans of the Opposition uphold the action of
, their chief, on the ground that the pretension of
' the Government to resort to unusual secresy in
)a matter which may involve a European war, is
a direct and most gross breach of all constitu-
I tional government. Upon those broad questions
the public are as well able to form a judgment
) as the best informed of politicians; but not so,
perhaps, as to the secret motives of the actors of
4.111011111•0 being pew 1.4 n na....1 in Ob. OboisLo...a.
As the Saturday Renew, in a recent article—
which must have crept in by mistake, so free was
P it from rancour, slander, or spite—alluded darkly
to the peculiar position in which the leaders on
! both sides find themselves placed as regards the
I sovereign, there exists no motive for longer
withholding what has for some time past been
; whispered among those who know what passes
in the inner ring of the political world. It is
I commonly said that ever since the commence-
ment of the DaneGernian dispute the Queen
• has been at issue with Lord Palmerston as to the
r course to be pursued. Lord Palmerston would
have npholden the dignity of the country, know-
I lug, from experience, that a few firm words,
I uttered in time, would have arrested the ag•
; gressive and plundering propensities of the
• Germans. Such firmness was, in his opinion, all
the more necessary, because Earl Russell had,
• in the Polish affair, sammed an attitude which mis-
interpreted abroad into a deliberate abnegation by
England of all armed interference in Continental
quarrels. The Queen, it is ftarther said, is influenced
in her views by the opinions and representations of
her late husband's brother, the Graa Duke of flue-
Coburg, who has been the secret instigator and
=of the "small Germans," in the hope of en-
his inflames and territory, to all which our
Prince Alfred is the designated suo3essor. Lord
Granville, who was the great confident and ally of
the late Prince Consort, is said to sympsthiSs with
thew views and tendencies of her Majesty; while
the role assumed hy Earl Russell, alarmed at the
prospect of an European war, is that of • peace-
maker upon almost any terms. It is fiutber stated
that the real reason why the speech from the Throne
was so meagre in expressions of opinion, although so
eopious in historical statements as to the Dano•
German question, was that her Majesty positively
refuted to assent to certain passages which had been
inserted, and actually struck them out with her own
hand.

DORCHESTER—Tan Dinroren Lynx° or fir.
Perm's. On Wednesday eleven of the trustees
of the Free School and Almhouse had a meeting for
the purpose of sonsideting a donimunication front the
Bay. James Fisher, respecting the vacant incumbency
of St. Peter's Church. The proceedings were presided
over by W. D. Tapp, Feq.—T. Coombe, Esq., stated
to the meeting that Mr. Fisher had been advised
that she living of Si. Peter's Ind Holy Trinity were
united hying,; that by the adgmentetion of the living
bLftersi Anne's bottnty, it wan tinder the provision& of
I. cep. 10, sections 4 and 6, and constituted • perl
pe--t;:r euraoy, the right of nomination to which he-
loosed to the rector of Holy Trinity. In consequence
of this advice, Mr. Fisher hod submitted his claim, and
the grounds thereon, to the Lord Chimeellor, in whom,
It was stated, the gift lay In richt of the Crown. Up
to the limetff lb.mosting the Lord Chancellor had not
intimated to Mr. Fisher whet line of ciondest he would
pursue, or whether he would dispute his claim to the
patronage of the living. Such being the ems,
and as the period was rapidly desiring Web *ben, if
the right belonged to Mr. Fisher, he shout' exercise it
by nominating some one to the incumbency, in order to
prevent the living lapsing to the Bishop, he nominated
the Bev. F. P. Toney, Thor of Worth Mairanwe
ad took the necessary steps to inform Mei
Bishop of the circumstance. This measure was adopted
by Mr. Fisher, not forth. peke of enteritis intottl
snit, but simply to prevent the 'sarong* lapsing to the
Bishop, and hopes were entertained that the Lord
Chancellor would view matters in such a light as would
prevent least promedings on Mr. Fisher's pert answer
sary. —A vote of thanks was awarded to the new, gentle,
man, approving Of the sem he bed adopted in endea-
vouring to preserve the right of the pitieap, there
being only two trustees who dissented from the
Mon. It was resolved that • copy of the minatas7:7ll;
Proceedings of the meeting should he forwarded to lite
Lord Chancellor. A vote of thanks to the eltairman
terminated the proceeding,. On Friday morning, bow.
ever, Mr. Fisher received • oommunication from the
Lord Clianeellor stating that be bad nominated the Bey.
E. W. Pears, of Beading, to the vacant cure. The
question therefore, as to In whom is vested the gift of
the living is as far off as ever, but the opinion of the
law °Seers of the Crown is worded In that manner
which we think leaves no doubt that to the Rev. J.
Fisher does the gift belong. They say "that they are
of opinion that there is seleient evidence to warrant
the Lord Chancellor in claiming the living, and that
Mr. Fisher cut take any farther steps that be Chinks
necessaititlit it." Titieoyi do
mot
hass:a4
that
Lord the g and do it:
deny that M. Fisher has aright to it; if they could have
plainly and fairly showed that the Crown had • r*ht
to the Wing then it wriaid ban of mane satisfied Mr.
Fisher. Bet this has ant bees dose, and the infamies
Is that the Chancellor buns nlgbtss all, and so the
safest renteine involved in doubt. Should einem-
deem se happen that tbe living of Bt. Peter's should
spin hewer vacant, Simone future tints, Mr. Man
wasoessor might dais the living as hi. OM &ad the
same faros will have to be repeated again, noises the
legal point is now settled as to in whom the gift of the
living is vested, whether In the Crown or in the meter
of Holy Trinity. Of muss it would eaten seadderable
it:pease to adopt the reenaemimileties of the kw diem
of the Crown. that of &gating the emitter with the
Lord Obaneellor, bat demi ware listed uses, end the
evidenes whisk Mr. Fisher is sewed to submit to
smart his right plead fairly before • jury, we do net
think *see well is seek deola on their pirl In

giving their verdict tor Idm. or course its. orsnottnre •
to state what cgirse will Ife admtel : l•of it in to"atto
1,,, regretted that the dispute Moonlit have evokcd such
ill-feeling auneig-t certain parties itt the ,
39;mtnftt the rev. gentleman, who throng' ont
has not been netnated by any yelfidi motives,
astilrting only what lie blieved to be hie duty and
his right, and it furtherance of which he has done
nil he eonld to promote the inkneats of the torn.
We hope that whatever the termination of the
dispute may be, that with that will alio erne
all bit: ernes, and ; and should the respected
nctor of Trinity tigrish have to give way to the Lod
Chancellor, lie will at least have the satisfaction of
knowing that in a-sorting his right to the united living*
of 110 y Trinity and St. P,ter's be has not beim
actuated bk art pecuniary or selfish motives, but has
done his duty honestly sod faithfully itt the position
in which he is placed.
111611RIADO tie HIOR Ltvz.—A marriage is seranged
between Mr. Clay. Attache to the British Emteoly
at Paris, 604 Mire Seymer, daughter of H. Ker
Sinn*, late M.P. for Dometehire.
Toscubtonv Pancgastnn.—The anniversary of the
marriage of the Prinee of Wales, and the occasion of the
christeloneof the young Prince, was Iyally celebrated in
this town, etpecially in the evening. Throughout thedai
merrk petls of bells from St. Peter's and Bt. Chortle*
Churches rang out at intervils, whilst flags gaily floated
in the breese (rots church towers and Pnvate booms.
The grand event connected with the celebration
was a masked torchlight procession. A fpro•
cession wag formed. headed by the rifle, and drum
and fife bands, in which a large number of torchbearer'
jnined, arrayed in the most varied costumes, and
!waded the town. A large effigy wee the foremost in
the Procemion, bet whop: it an intended to represent
we do not know. As the promessl at wended It. way
through the streets, what with the flaming terrace. the
discharge of fireworks, the grotuquo costumes of the
torch bearers, and the vast crowd of persons
assembled to witm se the procession, the effect wee
very striking. The whole of the arrangements were
ably airr;ed out, and every thing passed off with great
deooram.
Tat 3an D.V.R.—In accordance with annual custom
it ia the Intention of the rifle oorps to march to
Weymouth on Easter Monday.
DORCHESTER PITCHED OAP Mitagre, Saturday,
March 12, was well aupplied with all kinds of grain.
No alteration in the quot.tiqns of the previous week,
except where tales were forcel, then a reduction of at
least 2s. per quarter had to be submitted td. Clover
seed in demand at rather better prices.
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SDCIETT.—The claims of
this society were advocated at the following church*,
on Sunday :—At Holy Trinity, in the rooming, by the
Rev. J. Fisher; in the afternoon, by the Nev. R.
Thornton, incumbent of St. Jude's, Whiteohapel ; and
in the evening, by the BAC G. Davis,. Al Fordimiton
Church in the morning, by the Rev. R. Thornton; in
the evening by the Rev. H. Mould, and at Christ
Church, by the Rev. J. Bird. Collections were made at
the close of each of the services. On Monday after-
noon the 28th anniversary of the Dorset fissociat;on
of the Society was celebrated by two meetings
at the TownhalL The meeting to the after-
noon was presided over by John Clsvel Manbel,
Rig., who was supported by a large attendance of clergy-
men, and there was • numerous attendance, who
appeared to he greatly interested in the amount given
by the deputation of the operations of the society in
the metropolis. The rev. gentlyman impressed upon all
present the necessity of *misting in the work of saving
soul., and ably urged the claims which the Chun*
Pastoral Aid Society had upon all christians.— At the
aloes of the rev, gentleman's addreu, • collection was
made at the door, arnoeUtiog tit /18 41. The
evening meeting was very fully attended. The Rev.
A. Handley occupied the chair, and several clergymen
were on the platform.
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•
Wear. gratified to record that the Mimes Bond and
Amey, late pupil teachers in our National Girls' School,
have obtelned—tbe formers first and the latter a second-

clam certifiede at the late Christmas eiamination,
which took place previous to their leaving the Salisbury
Training School. The names of the Biases Slayner and
Bye, also pupil teachers In the same school, appear in
the second division of the clam list, the result of the
mune examination.

THE Wcettica.—The reading of the thermanieter at
Dorchester for the past weak is as follows :

11
Direction Siete of
Nees 1, of Wind. Weather.
Z
49 42 SW k E Fine, stormy
49 &I Ek 8W Drizsling rain, fine
38 27 NNE Snow
44 41 8W Misty, tlne
48 38 W Hasty showers
47 34 WNW Yin*
50 43 W Gloomy, misty
0011AMPONDING Willi LAW =WI.
47 34 8W
43 28 WNW
43 33
48 32 E k 8E
42 32
46 88E k NW
48 28 I NW kBW

Foggy
Mowers, fine
Fine, dell
Snow, rain and abet
Hszy, fine
Frequent showers
Fine

Bowman Pews Seesione, Monday.—Belme the
Mayor, and J. Halpin, and J. F. Hodges, Nara.
ANIIACLT —Leonia Flemming was summoned by Mary
Jane Brown, both of Fordington, for an assault —Defen-
dant pleaded guilty, but said she assaulted complainant
under great provmation.—lt appeared that on the 9th
inst., • dispute ensued between Brown and Flemming,
the latter charging the former with circulating
.premendeCtir=n" thet,'—wb 6:17 dere= s.l"niiek—erthi;
dimwit by giving complainant • blow with her hand,
which nearly knock.-4 her down.—A witness on each
side was celled, who proved bearing the lengnage
peculiar to Mill-street, but who swore that defendant
and complairat were equally in the wrong.—Delen•
dent was fined 10s, including mats, the Mayor recom-
mending that in (attire it would be better to settle such
disputes without coming Into Court
STEALING FOWL& William Harris and Char!
Critchell, of Fordington, were brought up in custody,
charged wish stealing • quantity of fowls, the property
of the Misses Legg, of the same place. Mr. Weston
prosecnted.—Mise Ann Legg stated that she resided
with her sister, and carried on the farming business.
There was a hereon behind their house. In they•rd was
a fowl and cart house, and adjoining was • rick
yard. She kept poultry, guinea fowls, and ducks,
and was in the habit of feeding them. She did so on
Tuesday, and saw them mite at four o'elock on the afternoon
of that day. She locked the door of the poultry house on
that afternoon bra chain and staple. The nest morning
she went into the yard at about a quarter pest seven,
when her attention was drawn to a large quantity of
feathers near the fowl-home door. She noticed that
the padlock and staple were not in the same state as
she left them, and on unlocking the padlock and going
into the house she there also discovered a large quantity
of feathers on the ground. Finding that some of the
poultry trete missing, she got some corn in order to
collect them together and iricertnin what ones were gone.
She then discovered that 16 fowls and two guinea fowls
were miming. Entrance to the house must have been
effected by unlocking the door. She knew Hartle.
He was • carpenter, and bad worked on her
premises for some months. lie generally worked
in the ciart house, and this was adjoining to where
the poultry were kept. The whole of tine birds
now produced she Gould identify as having
been taken from the fowl basic—Betsy Clarke •
servant in the Misses Legg's employ, stated that who was
in the habit of assisting in feeding the poultry. to
consequence of something which the last witness told
her on Wednesday morning she called Robert Hunt, the
bailiff to the Mimes Lea. Witness Identified the
poultry—Robert Hunt stated that he managed the
farming business for the Mires Legg. In consequence
of what the last witness told him he went to the fowl-
home where he sew footmarits leading to the rick yard.
He followed the tracks to the higher end of the yard.
At this place there was • small plot of land soles with
vetches, which was surrounded by an hurdle
fence, and in this be saw feathers and foot-
mark' which eztended EN Mr. Heats's nick-yard
wall. He got over and teemed the marks to
near the Bull's Heed Inn. He then obtained
the eminence of P.C. Cousins, and afterwards
accompanied him with • warrant to search Harris's
house. Whilst this was being done be went outside
the door, where he noticed some seines fowl feathers on
the ground by the dope leading to Harris's work-
shop. In consequencp of km he told the polies officer,
and they went into • loft above the shop when he saw
Cousins pull out the poultry from the wail plate, which
was boarded up. Winces identified the poultry.
Harris was then apprehended. Witness returned and
covered up the footmarks, but had noes 'ensnared them
with prisoner's boots, and they erectly eorresponcled.—
P.C. Caine corroborated the lest 'rinses' sa to the foot.
marks, and seareblas Harris's boat Be sio sserebed
Critehell's hoses, but found **thins. The poultry
WM somata in the left in the earpentien' shop
and would have setined soma obserration. He agree
headed CritasU on Tuesday, and °majored hi bulb
with the footniwks in the vetches, wheel'
—Augustus Palk said he "pent lest TucTdarrye vvlPaittlf
with some friends. After the party bad broken up, and
be was aids way home, be stopped to have • talc with
Kr. Hama near the Bull's Head. Whilst standing
there he sew Harris some from the direction of Mr.
Heates rick yard. Upon seeing this witness mid be
would me who it was, and then west into the road and
stopped Harris. This was about a quarter to one o'clock
on Wednesday morning. liwis said to hissl " Holloa,
who areyou you ere note poman r A s this was going
on Crib/tell came from the same direction and stopped on
the opposite ride of the road. but Imams did not say
anything to him.—Henry Damon save corroborative
evidence, and in addition he said saw another man,
whom be did not know, join the prionera—Another
witness also spoke to seeing prisoners near the Bull's
Head Inn, on Wednesday morning.—They were com-
mitted foe trial at the ensiling Sessions.
Stumm • COAT.—A navvy named Peter Langdon,
on the Weymouth Portland railway, was
Loettli and
up on remand charged with stealing a mat, the
property of a "gangs?." named Jessie Legg, of Wyke,
valued at 4s.—lt appeared that prisoner had Men
lodging at prosecutor's house, but had left in debt,
leering a oat behind as security. This. howe ,ver he
had again taken and absconded with. SuPerMammalt
Underwood apprehended prisoner at the Mason's
Arms in this town, with the coat in his possession.
Prisoner said prosecutor's wife lent him Ole *oat, and
prosecutor knew that he was wearing it.--lienteneed to
as weeks' hard labour.
Cosncrrrin TO ma Doman 00IITIT Hain.
Herd Labour: Augustus William Cook, packing
at Hanaprotion, It mouths; John Gould,
vagrancy
at Nether Cent% 1 mouth' Jaws Bobartik
ha, at Winfrith, 14 days; Charlie Carpenter,
vagrancy at Weymouth, 14 days; William John-
son vagrancy at Broadway, 7 days; Edward
itv;taina, vagrancy at Booklind Newton, 14 days;
John Hitchcock, vagrancy at Thornoomhs, 1
mouth; Clarks DibEcu, poaching at Fontana
' Wpm, 14 days; John G.., broduag windows at
Dawbostoir, 1 month Joseph lakpon, William
= sy, and William Morn., poaohing at Sixpenny,
, 2 months; Panay (Moves, stealing
Mew M Bordington, 2 sasatim; Jame Whitorna,

stealing • coat at Weymouth, 14 day.; George Too-
stealing wood at Child °kerma, 7 days ;
Robert Chant, stealing cider, au., at Sherliorne, 1
mouth ; JAI* Cornish, stealing trousers at Dor-
chester, 1 month; Thomas Griffiths, stealing a brush
at Wm nioutii, 14 day.; Peter lAngdon, stealing •
coat at Wyke Regis, 6 weeks.