The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

RECEPTION OF THE VOLUNTEERS
BY THE QUEEN.

THE Levee. —Her Majesty the Queen held a
Court on Wednesday afternoon in St. James's Palace
for the reception exclusively of officers of Volunteer
Corps. The officers began to arrive at 12 o'clock,
and were conducted to the Drawing-room, Queen
Anne's-room, the Guard Chamber, Banquet-room,
and other apartments of the Palace, and were formed
into companies. Her Majesty the Queen and his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort arrived from
Buckingham Palace soon after 2 o'clock, attended by
the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred,
and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
General Commanding-in-Chief, attended the Court.
Her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on duty in the state
saloons, under the command of the Lieutenant.
The Queen and Prince Albert were attended by a
brilliant Court and all the great officers of State.
The officers of Volunteers were joined in the Draw-
ing-room by the Lord-Lieutenant of their counties,
who accompanied them to the Throne-room and in-
troduced them to the Queen. In the absence of the
Lord-Lieutenant they were introduced by the Under
Secretary of Stale for the War Department
The following is a list of officers within the district
of our circulation, who were introduced to the pre-
senoe of the Queen :
Doiourr.—lst—Captain Commandant H. A Temp-
ler, Lieutenants H. Edwards and W. H. Hormaell,
Ensigns F. Gundry and and N. Leggin, Surgeon H.
Hormsell ; 2nd—Captain 0. W. Ferrer, Lieutenant
W. C. Lacey • 3rd—Captain E. L Kindersley,
Lieutenant T. 'Coombs, Ensign R. Devenish, and
Hon. Assistant Surgeon G. Penton; 4th—Captain
W. Parr, Lieutenant T. Cox, and Ensign G. B.
Aldridge; 6th —Captain St. John Coventry, Lieu-
tenant T. Rawlins Ensign E. Robinson, and Hon.
Surgeon C. R.. Rowe; tith —Captain G. P. Mansel,
Lieutenant R. C. Farquharson, and Ensign, F. T.
Johns; 9th—Earip W, H. R. Bennett—by Lord
Shaftesbury.
Someenrr.3r4—Lient. A. Allen and Ensign R.
Esston ; 4th—Captain B. T. Allen, Lieutenant J. Allen,
and Ensign C. J. B. Miffs 6tli —Captain J. A. Leis,
Lieutenant S. E. Baker, and Ensiin C. Whitting ; 7th—
Captain J. J. C. Ireland, Lieutenant C. J. Simmons, and
Ensign H. Lyne ; 801—Captain Berridge, Lieutenant
Thomas, and Ensign litsidge ; 9th—Lieutenant Halliday
and Ensign Blouimark ; lOth—Captain Lovell, Lieu-
tenant Foster, and Ensign Derryinan ; 12 —Assistant
Surgeon Dr. J. Nicholas anii Ensign B. Boucher; 17th—
Lieutenant G. J. Robertson, and Ensign J. S. Falkner ;
18th—Captain B. H. Maine, Lieutenant A. W. Weston,
Ensign B. A. Cook (Bath), Captain J. It. Ford, Lieut.
F. T. Inman, Ensign H. B. Inman, Hon. Assistant-
Surgeon J. 8. Bertram ' • (Bridgewater and Polden-hill),
Lieutenant Bate (fiathwick), Captain E. F. Anstey,
Lieutenant W. H. Borne. and Hon. Assistant-Surgeon
E. L. liagahawe—by Lord Portman, Lord Lieutenant of
the county.
WILTISHIRE.—Ist Company, Captain J. H. Jacob,
Lieutenant B. Robinson, lion. Assistant-Surgeon J M.
Cardell ' • 2nd—Captain F. Ciark, Lieutenant W. P.
Clark, Ensign .1. G. Foley ; :ird—Captains W. T.
Keene and P. Keene, Lieutenant C. H. Luce. and
Ensign J. A. Handy • sth—Ensign T. E. Hayward;
7th—Captain W. Taylor, Lieutenant Hitchcock, and
Ensign Wheeler ; 10th—Lieutenant W. Davis, Ensign
' J Scott, Hon Assistant-Surgeon C. Bisect (Westbury
r Company), Captain Ludlow, Lieutenant R. Ward,
Ensign H. W. Pinniger, Hon. Assistant-Surgeon Dr.
Gibbs (Melkslians Company), Captain Lopes, Lieutenant
Yockney, and Ensign A wdry—By the Marquis of Lans-
downe. Lord-Lieutenant of the county.
H.t34PSlllßC.—lst—Colonel Fence, Captain Simeon,
I Ensign Godwin, Hon. Surgeon Mr. La Croix; 4th—
Captain Davison. Lieutenant Longcroft, Ensign Bin,
lion. AmtiOdent Surgeon Stedman. Captain N Barry,
Lieutenant St. Barbe, and Ensign Wilson—by the
I Marquis of Winchester.
THE DINNER.
The dinner took place in tbe St. James's-hall, and
certainly no room could have been chosen better
fitted for the peculiar character of the 002111401).
About 1000 Volunteer officers sat down to dinner,
and the side galleries were crowded with ladies and
with officers who had not been sufficiently fortunate
to obtain tickets for the dinner below. The Duke
of Cambridge was in the chair.
THE BALL.

The Ball took place in the new Floral Hall,
Covent Garden, and according to one account there
were between 7,000 and S,OOO persons present. A
more splendid inauguration of the new Floral Hall
cannot well be imagined. The arrangements were
generally admirable, and doubtless many of the
volunteers from the country will return home with
pleasant reminiscences of the ball at the Floral Hall,
while their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters
judging from the thousands of pieces of ribbon, lace,
silk, and net which strewed the floor, will possess
torn dresses as mementoes of the brilliant affair.

COUNTY COURT, March 9th, IS6o.—Before E.
Everett, Esq.—At the monthly sitting of this court
41 plaints had been entered, of which number 33 had
been settled out of court, and the rest presented no
feature of public interest, except the cue of Meech
v. Clare, for a debt of 25., which the defendant dis-
puted, but which the plaintiff succeeded in establish.
ins although the defendant endeavoured, but in vain,
by evtry means in his power to get out of his diffi-
culty, end his Honour ordered payment forthwith.
There were also three judgment summonses, two of
which were settled out of court, and the other was
adjourned till next court day to give defendant time
to make terms with the plaintiff.

Philip Bishop, late of Bere Regis, an insolvent,
was brought up from the gaol, and was opposed by
Mr. Lock for the detaining creditor. The opposition
lasted a long time,but eventually his Honour ordered
the prisoner to be discharged, after he had been in
prison, at the suit of his detaining creditors (Messrs.
fiellyar, of eerne) 9 calendar months from the
date of his vesting order.
John Cole, another insolvent prisoner, also
appeared and was opposed by Mr. Fincham at great
length, but the insolvent was ordered to be discharged
forthwith. The court rase at half-past 4.
COUNTY PETTY SWIRIONS, Saturday, March 10th.
—(Before Herbert Williams, Esq. (chairman), H.
W. Middleton, and W. L Henning, Esqrs.
THC Wait OF BOHM' RACING. --John Title, was
charged by P.C. Forbes with having been the pro-
prietor of a gambling-table at Maiden Newton fair
on the previous day. The constable said he looked
on while several games were being played, and that
on one occasion the defendant took up the whole of
the stakes. He did not know what the game was
, called—a board and balls of different colours were
used. There were nuts in two corners of the board,
but the parties, while he was looking on, always
played for money. Mr. Weston, who appeared for
the defendant, said that th‘t game was what WU
called " horse-racing," and that it was the fairest
game that was played. A coloured board was used
on which the parties placed their money, and the
balls were placed at the top and allowed to run
down—the colour of the ball which arrived at the
bottom first, winning. The defendant was a dealer
in nuts, and this was the mode be adopted fur dis-
posing of them; but if the parties preferred taking
money, lie gave them three half-pence for two penny-
worth of nuts, retaining one half-penny only as
profit. He had attended different fairs and had
never before been interfered with; and he (Mr.
Weston), hoped thetas the defendant had passed one
night in the lock-up, and had been at the expense
of employing a solicitor for the defence, the magis-
trates would consider this a sufficient punishment,—
it being the first time he had been brought before
them. The chairman said he took quite a different
view of the case to that laid down by Mr. Weston.
The nuts were a mere pretence to escape convic-
tion, but it WU a species of gambling much practised
at fairs, and ought to be put a stop to, as it was
calculated to allure young people into bad practices.
The sentence of the Bench was, that the defendant
be imprisoned for seven days with hard labour.
BOROUGH POLICI, Monday, March 12. -John
Crabtree, an old pensioner, was brought before John
Ensor, Esq., on the charge of being drunk and
disorderly on Saturday last. It appeared that on
Friday he assisted a person named Moore to remove
some furniture, and that he partook too freely of the
drink which was offered him. The next day he
wanted more drink, and went several times to a
public house, becoming more abusive each time he
returned to his lodgings. At length Eliza Foster,
the landlord's dauabter, locked the door to prevent
his entering again, when he commenced battering
the door with a brick, and a police constable was
sent for. The defendant expressed contrition for his
conduct and promised to leave his lodgings, upon
which, as he had been locked up since Saturday
afternoon, he was discharged.

C 0311117160 TO DOSCHEITIII GAOL. Willilign
Kent deserting H.M.S. Conqueror, 28 days' bard
labour ; Joseph Hawker, vagrancy at Broadwin-
*or. 21 days' hard labour; John Tyler, vagrancy at
Maiden Newton, 3 days' hard labour; John Bailey.
leaving family chargeable to the pariah, at Guiana St.
Michael, 1 calendar month's hard labour; James Dew-
land, stealing a dog at Wimborne Minster, 1 calendar
mouth's hard labour.—John Biases, stealing five peace,
at Stoke Abbot. 1 calendar month's imprisonment.