The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-03 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCP.

Mr. Abel Smith, who au returned fee Chlithrilear on
Saturday, represented that borough from 1831. to ISM,
when he nu most unexpectedly defeated by the late
ember, Sr. Freeland, who has just retired on amount
of ill health. Mr. Smith le • nell.known banker Rod
But Indian proprietor, sod orairiM rate for Middleton.
In polities be is a Whig, but prepared to rote for
the abolition of church rates if" Dissenters think it
necessary."
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Major- W.lker, who contested Dumfries Burghs in
18110, haa jut ennoanced that he will not be a istedi-
Lae at the next election. Col. Clark Kennedy has
therefore *seed an address, slating Hist be sill oppose
the sitting member. Mr. Ewalt, at the next election.
Colonel Kennedy is • Whig—Hr. Betert • Radical.
Another Lord-Lieutenancy, that of flootionierythin,
ha. become vacant by the death of Lord Buddy. The
deceased was tlais lather of the Hon. lianbery Tracey,
who contorted the county last summer against Mr.
Welkin Williams Wynn. The esomsey onearred
through the death of an*her of lb* Wyatt% end the
family baring represeated the 'aunty for the greener
part of a century were very desirous of not being bestama
on this occation. They pat forth sfi their energles,
and, in slate of the *leer* influent* of the Lord-Lieu-
tenant, succeeded in carrying their eatithdate by • ma-
jority of 310 rotes.
Mr. Whitbread, one of the Lords of the Admiralty
is still very unwell, and quite unlit to attend to the
the onerous duties of lie post He is now at Brighton,
hoping to recruit, though too late to perform the
duties which belonged to him. In his absence the
chief works couDeoted with the preparation of the
navy estimates hem been performed by the Ho* Cap.
this Drummond.

rb.,bo unsuccessfully coanalled the Morn
Riding in the Liberal interest a year ego, ha. an•
nounoed that he will aght.again at the nest election.
He &clams that every shilling of the im,oao which the
lest election most him was honestly spent. He attributes
the heavy bills to the large mint of tb• district, and
the want of railny ensinunication in many parts of it.
There is some little hope of • reduction of the duties
on tee, coffee, and sugar. A memorial has been pm.
scaled to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the
Chamber of COOI me rce of Glasgow, praying thet her
Majesty's Gmrernuient will be pleased to take Into eon-
sidernios the tea, coffee, and sugar duties, with eel..
to a material reduction of the mane. To this ineinorial
reply WM made to the effect that Mr. °lnsteps need
hardly give the neurones that if, in the present or any
future year, the balance of serene and name shall ap-
pear to be such as to allow of soy 'eduction, the tales
on the greet articles of evolutionism immediately con-
nected with the comfort and wellbeing of the people
eriU have a due share of the attention of her Ma eety's
Government, and also, he feels sure, of the Leg' tare.
Mr. Roebuck is tomove,oo the 17th of Muni, for
snares of the name of all person who line
for tissue.., to change their names sines 1810 ;"jatit
instances in which such Insane have bees granted
daring that period, together with a statement of the
names of the successful applicants, and of the names
which bid been permitted to assume by royal Beene •
of the name, of the prison,.. applying who ban ben
refund during the same piunC with the resins
sniped la sash case for refusal sitbe pristaailles by
widen the H...05..is guided is greating refus-
ing snit tissues.; sad of the aseesat of fess demanded
for nob Semen since 1810, and the manner is which
lie mealy. received have bees applied.
Tbs debate es Tuesday sight was mere important
than animated. Sir John Hay spoke for an hoer said a
beM, and nesgh his spank was fa el ieformatioe, it
was do:rawly heavy. Lord Pilmorsion spoke for 30
minutes. sad was more than small, 'impress and
veiniest. During the whole time the venni Premier
kept awake, and made frequent applications to his
deepaish-box. The Ministerial beeches were full until
after/Mr Jesaes Ellphiastone had spike*. So were not
tbeg=tion beaches. Mr. Disraeli, and next to him
Sir Martian' sod Sir Join Ningbo, were
the ehief occupants of the front Dean, but the two Sat
left neon as Lord Palmerston sat down. Mr. Ferran
sat with his baud up to his ear nearly throughout the
whole evening, and when he spoke wade • vigorous
onslaught on the Government. Mr. Addingtoo, who
hten hit illit that evening, we. also an attentive
auditor, as batted • former naval ellen opposite
to him sat his quondam and socceeefel antagonist. Mr.
who, Minn of appearin as Malan be had
boom it 's door, looked aa if he had never bad a
truessillsess in his life. The granting of a menet issia-
was really • victory for Sir John Hay. It
for hin and kis supporters to ass that this
=ial comeitiope is set made • deeth-ssil.betriil dub.

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

no Prisms. Berl luie arrived and NUM Alfred
will have iseched home before them has. are read.
Some fens were eatertineed that Fria* Alfred was
seriously II of fever, bet it eras iro-assurieg to lad that
be eras progresnog favourably, and that the fever was
Dever cif • serious eheracter. In a few days there will
be guile a family gathering at Windier Castle, and the
temps will shine over "fair women and brave men" pre-
Watery to the nuptial ceremony about which every-
body is now talking. Here is London we ars making
grail preparations fur rejoicing on the 7th and the 104.
Great dissatisfaction is sepremed at Load Palmentea's
declining Government assistance with regard te bilk
falling due on the 10th, so that the public might sado7
a general holiday. BM notwithstanding this drawback,
a holiday on the 104 will be very general' The shop-
keepers along the Use of route am fast letting their
shops and grit and seemed loom Sopeflme etiMem te
whaees the pablie entry of as Prillo6ol. The recep-
tion will be • grassier affair than was at but intended,
The Mayor lad Corporation of Loudon, the soldiers,
dot volunteers, and the people tbseaselves, waving bats
and handkerchiefs, will form • Memorable sight.
" Happy is the bride that theses shines on," says the
*ld meg Mt, it Mike brightly on the dansok before
she is a bride, es well as on her wadies day. Almost
everything will &mad on the weather. Jest now we
mossioselly have intensely ensemble daya kg, mist,
' rola and mod, doing their worst-4d sometimes lovely
Veil der- KM the fair Young Princess have sae of
the latter. Pro= already being made with the
arrangements eel bridge, and tbe triumphal stab
begins to show, and I sat informed that the purveyors,
(if I may use the termi of lags and busmen, are driven
ahnostfreptie with orders. The decoratioes will ramie
from the ft* to the 10th, so that London will be ea jar
Tor Your daya
Another theological controversy is threatened arising
eat of the publication of the celebrated Lapp sod
Reviews. This was hardly anticipate& at any rate until
after the offending Bishop of Natal had been summand
to give. en marmot el Ids stiewardship." However the
teal of Dr. Posey knew, a. boaails, and in mojimetion
with certain other Oaard "doss" he is ready to joie
in the proseseticie of • brother Professor. We most of
us reaserobee the tam when Dr. Piney himself stead in
Deed of that charity which lorpeth all things, and we
tbibk that the protoceti di Might well have been en-
trusted to other hands. Ds this, however, as it may, I
&bites that politic *Mon will not ratify the cheke of
the Oxford Vise-Closocellor's Court as the most 'Mir
(Wary that 'add have bees made for the settlement of
thisquetion. U Pretense Jewett be not orthodox"
sad upon that point I venters no opinion, surely a
better tribunal meld be fouled than • " mem tot the
adjudication of smell drilla"
A cam beard at Use Surrey filemiee a few days ago has
attracted some akimbo°, preambles sa if does amp than
on. rather peculiar foga:a Mrs. Mary bargain Thomas
a widow reeidiag at Peckham est eberged with neglecting
le provide for sad frith doing bodily harm to her
servant girt Sophia Jarvis, so that she life of the latter
wet badfingered. The evidence given by thaird
eorroborated by creditable witticism, lag of
act& of wanton cruelty and bxbsilB7 on the part et
We. Thomas, although she suoseeded In lading no
elergyineo ready to testify to Mr fineisaity. It memo
Shot this humane lady wes not simply in the habit of
half-starving her Dermot and thrashing bar with Wain
and fiabing.redet bet tbat she adopted the iffigeblebs
method of pansehmeet of " obliging her be fallikess
herself," and thee, with her son's amistansoe, throwitig ,
over her several *ldol of sold water, till, as the OH I
said, she " paid hardly get her breath." The ild
was solleitatly strong that the girl had told the.erest
and medical Manama. were Orient at the kid to
testify to the *Agit of injuries. Os the defesident's
part that, were medical witnesses also, and it is scarcely
ft to add, that they flatly oontradieted the pee-
fe4=2geotleusen on the other Mho The c
hoemer, was fully proved, and the Jor7 returned
verdict of guilty. Bet cut bow*? They might almost
as well have acquitted her, for three menthe imprisom
meat with bard labour was deemed by the judge
sufficient punishment I Surely by snob ecalewees Me
are offering • premium for monsters rush as thews!
01 domestic events we bum little that is *Oilier, bat
much that may serve to while away • seediest's
think% I. oar free and iodeper.deat Senate we have
MOTU of questions put, sad mores of replies gibea, bet
there has been no debate sufficient to Awakes intaffity
in the minds of the multitude. Earl Derby eomplailied
that Government did so 4 to amordame with its
prainise, lay on the table a list of the measures which
it intended to introduce. as it was highly inconvetiket
I. Wag their lordships down eight after night with
nothing before them to do, to which Earl Granville
meekly replied that them e'en' very few tomato... the
Government could introduce, but the most important
that would be introduced wss one with ruspact to the
pollution of rivers by maims vspours and talus from
chemical works. !sold Derby bas also taken Earl
Hassel to task la the Brasilian business, in which we
usenet help thinking tha our Foreign Minister his
Mown far greeter precipintacy of action than he and
his predecessors did oh former osensions, when the
honour of the musky It, more seriously concerned
pan it has been to this petty Brannan squabble. Lord
Normeaby is still sore on the Italian question. He
does not like the depoeition of the Grand Duke, Woo
will never want for an advocate while the noble
Marquis is in the House. In the Coalman there is
"much ado about goatee—digging holes one day to
fill up the next The Governmeat has bosh defeltied
on the Liverpool Lioensipg Bilt, and k iseoubt Rale-
haat has lost hit bill for the better protection of
women sod thlthen, on the second reeding, bet
Hadfield has ee-- "

- - has 111000011fti in carrying
_the second reeding
Of the "Qualificetion for Offices Abolition Bill, which
Mr. Neerdegate stigmatised a.. war waged not only
against the Church, but the other breath 01 Illefilliblor&
in our law courts we have two very Itsportaal
sordid, given, one sealant the directors of the thttish
Columbia Overland Transit C 404 palin *hiblt frill be I
lemon to oath nits as Mr. Berkdey Ltd others, sot to
allow echelons of Cot. Sleigh's order, to make.. free
with their Balite* - the other was against the Great
Western Polley boMpany, by Mr. Saunders, for false
tospri4onsient, which, perhape, may also teach railway
°Goias that they are not at liberty to pounce upon any
respectable man who may have the misfortune to lose
his ticket, and convey him to the swine-house ea •
felon. Mr. Saunders is not the Int ems of the kind,
and we are very pleased with the leered of the far/.
Following is the wake of the he, giserert erho have
succeeded in removing the &abet &is 0/01/k aheelden4
the farming Ire alt all ve mid airiteMso lee ths
the melt Attica, and seeing that oar ministerrirtall:
deiced the dories on French wises, and that this
tailor of the Chancellor bowls of • earples et Ave
millions, we me hardly see, as lees traden, how Shwas
object to the demand of the farmers.
Of foreign news, we hardly knew whisk Is the mil
. important, that, which from America tells hiIBA ge
blockade of Charleston has hien tsd, Or that Item
Rem* whisk isforms to that the are so dater-
Wood in the Ithiggle fur iadspemiesee that it is
lesteseety for • coomntion between PrnsAa and Bemis
tot their subjection. The departure of the Lag of
Primes from the principle of son-interventios, which
speaking Ins been observed by Um Great
generally
is likely to make things very somplicated.
Francs evidently does not like it, although Prussia has
taken • lemon out of Louis Napoleon book; and Ate.
teen is decidedly averse to it, ro meth kg, that the has
despatched Dotes both ep Essidos end Ports upon the
subject. Amens seems likely to adopt • wise policy on
the Polish itenule ,and her sympathy for the insurgents
will in no wise militate modest her. Both Presses sod
Russia for some time pest have allowed Austin • to get
through her own difficulties single-hasded, end both are
seeking to proff tby her emanate. Now that the tide
has turned Austria would indeed be (eolith if she 44
not leek to turn it to her own amount against Preemie.
The domestic affairs of France are not In ti most
quiet state. The Promo, pliant salt has been U along,
does not seemed just st this without dimmed W Mod
to the will of Count Persignp, end ore speaking In
looevois 'rather more held and energetic than the
Minima of . the Interior relish. Will the Emperor ;up
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port his Minister I This remains. to be men. Louis
Napoleon is not the maa to lose his throne merely for
the sake of gratifying the whim of • sisbareithote.