The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-09 00:00:00

If ON ESTE AUDA X.

LORD ittoiree Treaty with Japan has added a
new empire to the community of nations. The
details of his visit to Jeddo, a city never before
approached by European ships, has made us ac-
quainted with a very remarkable people and
with a capital almost as large and populous as
London. After our late experience of the semi.
barbarism of Chins, it seems like a chapter in an
Oriental romance to read of the advanced civilisa-
tion of this mysterious raw, hitherto as isolated
from the rest of the world u if they belonged to
another sphere. The treaty which Lord Eutaw
has concluded with so much sagacity and skill
has put an end to this isolation ; and for many
years to come Japan will supply an abundant
'mime of speculation and inquiry to our states.
ulna amt our merchants, open an extensive field
of research to our naturalists and travellers, and
powwow a lively interest for all who desire
to promote the advaneetnent of the human
rue.

T010041411u iluaiiiitulinii hi Pittlulpathiii of the
Overland Mull linee arrived, With 110W11 front
lionibay to the loth (Midair, TA NTI A TOTall
having for a few doe idler his former defeat oe•
otipied Seronge awl gionightir, tied on the op.
mach of the iletaelnitents under Captain MA T Nil
and IlligaillaT NW ITU, and 1111M11104 to Chun.
ilitroii, where lie will be liellillnill hi by a nom.
blued movement of the Central India force under
Mineral Mirolint.l., TIIII campaign in Undo hail
not eiminieneed, but Lord (helm bail left Alla-
Intbail for Cownpore, mu hie way to Luoknow,
From Chino we have 'mount' of an iinportent
eyries of operatioup against the pirate* in three
separate expedition's uointnanded by Cal qiiiii
VA NPIITTART, COIIIIIIIIIIIIOT CItIONAWIII4 and Lieut.
WILDMAN, 111 tllOllO II paratlinll 1211 piratical
craft IlaVa been ileetroyoil, 603 gone captured,
372 pirates killed, and 0 vessels anti 34 nation, I
recaptured.
From Harlin we have the important !lOWA that
the MONO) Ilan lINT Ilita dINIIIIAWNI lIA Knit VuN
MANTIUTPIIL and three other leading members
of the old Prussian Ministry, and has entrusted
tho Prince of HnIIINIOLLNRI4-81011 A RINOIN, the
father of the young Queen of Portugal, and
a member of the moderate Liberal party, with
the formation of a new Cabinet.

Tun Duke of CAMBKIDON has lately earned
much respect and popularity on account of the
determined resistance which ho has given to the
disgraceful practice of " practical joking" in the
army. In the ease of Ensign PNRRY of the 40th
Regiment, the late Commander-in-Chief issued
stringent orders prohibitory of the Indulgence in
such injustice and folly ; and there was reason
to hope that an effectual stop had at last been put
to the disgraceful habit. But an example drawn
from the 47th Regiment stationed at Ports-
mouth, and the finding of the Court Martial
which adjudicated upon the. conduct of the de-
linquent, Ensign JOHN J•AINII SCOTT, furnish
painful proof that the admonition from the
Horse Guards has had but little effect. Nay, in
the present instance there is a considerable ag-
gravation of the old evil, for the Court Martial,
directly in the teeth of sense and reftson, pro-
nounce a verdict ignoring the charge of " un-
gentlemanly conduct" against Ensign Soon,
when his conduct could by no construction what-
ever be otherwise represented. Let us hear the
Royal Duke himself on this point, for his
language is clear, temperate, and firm :
" His Royal Highness cannot allow the officer' of the
army to be led astray by a tacit aoquisseenos in such
erroneous opinions so appear to have been entertained
by the members of this court-inertial.

" Ile hart hoped that 111104 the publication of the
orders by the late iuidMerehel Commanding-in-Chief,
the diegraoeful habit of praotioal jokee had been entirely
dieoont 'Hued.

" Those orders were personally delivered to, end so-
knowledged by, Entign Haag, on his first appointment
to * commission hi. disobedience thereto wad, there-
fore, unbecoming the character of an °Moor ; and to
mlll+l4ll with another for the personal ennuyance al
4 brother officer by entering hie room uninvited, to up-
set his furniture end manilla, end atherwice diearrange
the room, Pen be designated by no other term then un-
ientlanimilike I neither, in the opinion of hie Hoye!
Highness, 04A it be otherwise then dieerderly in 44
uftinor to he firm* in en hotel, end thou and there
othorwiar to nilsoundnit himself.
"UI. Uumyil tilnhnem youslilere Rah Pondnat to ho
Itly 4.64"114 byOle 64100 of the oherfo, and he
therefore rowininiande courte-mertiel to ;Meek, by
*Mem& punlahinont, timelier* which* pervevemnor in
wool (Ail to ONO the liken*, of the Otiose cif the
Amoy no 14114110141011."

'rho oihlio low will fool woooh lolobtoil
till litqwl 4 hio pooomnioloto,
lion" to (1011141-114AP111411 iwoollitio Oho prow
mote 0 ttooliiii with thooo moo filo tho NAM;
Wiii NO Anti* go coo to otiook lotoilowthlo MO,
HAN And A AllAlAPfill owoooolioo vow,
wltiok hove loitg helm a Magna to tha sooty ia

general and to militia armont alone of the
aristoorooy in partioultr. II is well known how
11l some poor And unpretending men have fared
at the hands of richer and "foster" brother °M-
om, The studied system of pereunol vexation
awl humilisting insult hiss liven Mutual exulti.
lively reserved fur coin. tinfurtimote young
nian who may hove emerged hunt the shop us'
the eutniting•liumm, or who, from the imperious
circumstances of his ptaillUll, is compelled by
fume to live frugolly, and, by taste and built, to
live ileeently, Instances are nut wanting to
show thot from this elms have liven selected the
chosen victims of s brutsl sport —thot fur their
suntan°. him been directed

the Immo
That patient merit at the unworthy takes,
But thank. to the Coutcamtma-te-Cilicrie manly
and seasonable rebuke, even of the constittiteil
Judges in those matters, we may look to as. in
end put to these pestiferons conventional ill.-
tinctions, begetting, as they do, hatred and
inaliee, and every uncharitable haling, together
with that imam anti vulgar atooluut whiull we
have seen prsolised upon men ready and willing
to shed their blood, with tliu vrotithlt and
noblest amongst them, in the pause of order, and
fur the honour and eafety of thuir omintry—upoll
men who, lot us mill, springing from the great
middle alias, are capable of linparting into a
superior rank of 'misty example§ of virtue,
whioh—whatever may be Arrogated to them-
'elves by the upper olaues—is far from being
poottliar to them,

PITCIIIIII 011114 NAMINT, flaturilay,
—Tile supply of wheet continuos wool ti eft'iod 'aloe
h reduction of from 1., to 211. hod to bu submitted to,
Barley plentiful, hut samples niaintaintol late rates
inferior, 1 dull ails. °ate and beans unaltered in
value,

YNOVIL ACIIIIIIULTUNAL 8110W.--Ity referonoe to
nor eAvertleing columns it will he Hen that the
YsovU Agriouitural &misty intends holding its
annual niseting on Friday the Ord of Deoninher.
[hiring the last two years live new prima have been
added to the list, namely, 410 10t, the gift of
0. D. W. Digby 11eq., for the beet hackney or
hunter not exceeding If. years old 48 Xs., given by
Mr. Luau, of YetmlnsWr, for the boat wit got by
stallion belonging to him 411 stiheoribed by the
tradesman of -Yeovil, for the but dairy now of any
pure breed and 48 es, and £3, given by the flax
manufacturers residing in the neighboorhood of
Yeovil, for the two beet samples of flax. These
primes make the amount given by the society up.
wards of £l7O, the whole of whlah will be computed
for in prises by all °lessee. We hope the show of
stook will be good, and that there will be a spirited
oompetition in cheep, the prices' in whiah ohms alone
amount to upwards of 4M. The annual dinner will
take place at the Townhall, and Oharlee Aaron
Moody, Esq., M.P., will presidu.

The Dorchester troop of the Queen's Own Dorset
Yeomanry Cavalry assembled for drill at Malden
Coeds on Thursday, when Mr, Homer, of Martins.
town waa again the successful oampother for the
silver oup presented to the beat shut of the Troop.

Mr. Charles Walter Mauls, one of the Musters in
Marlborough College, and Senior CWisio in IW,
was elected on the lint inst. to an Open Fellowship
at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The value
of this Fellowship is .1:300 per annum.

SPECIAL SERVICES TOR TIII WORKING CLANNEN
—On Tuesday last the first of the series of special
services, inetituted by the Rev. James Fieher, rector
of Holy Trinity, for the benefit of the working
classes was preached at Trinity Church. There was
a large attendance, consisting principally of
those for whose benefit the services hive boon under-
taken, The Rev. J. Fisher read the prayers, after
which an eloquent sermon waa preached by the Rev.
C. Oakley, rector of Wickwar, Gloucestershire, from
the 4th Psalm, 6th verse. The next sermon will be
preached this (Tuesday) evening by the Rev. Pre-
bendary Foot, rector of Longinvdy, on "The
dangers of our day."

Me. BANNIN' NOTE. ON ANCINNT BIIITONN. —The
AlArocsom, in a recent number, thus reviews the
work of the Bev. W. Borneo on this subject, and, in
our opinion, with much propriety and thirneu —with
sort of evint•hantled justico of which Mr. Barites
himself, we think, would hardly be disposed to
complain t—" The spirit in which Mr. Borneo treats
his subject," says the Atlismsion, " will be bust
appreciatod by perusing the following pioustgo
' Homo of our school books toll their readers that
the Britons wore the skins of boasts, as if it were it
token of gnat misery hitt it good skin, or fur mat,"
or relic, Is no token of misery or want, either in it
Russian winter palace, or in An Kitglish railway OAP.
fte through it snowy day. We are not hound to
believe that the Britons ittishod their onus through
the fond.' holes if it calf skin, And walked with its
tall trisiling behind them' We agtoo with the
"laid books In supposing that the skin coat of the
' Briton Wei not of very olaborato mantifluditro,
nor oxitotly the sort of ;militant thot would Ito
thought bocouting in the wham. of Through.
omit this hook the Author, lit Ilka montior, hints At, if
he dose nut positively wort, the hA111,1"u" 410 ult"
hiIOION of &whoa British life. ' 'rho wiveritittont of
the Britons well it limited tin marohy ofalbrm affording
the people the greatest Thu
ultorgo of polytheism agolitst them rests tin slondor
groutols'—onil No MI. But, Although the author
takes, as we think, too Welsh it view of his subject,
and is, inoroovor it Itobityliorsontan (Ps may he wen
by perusing his Outlaw on this Tried., where Ito
treats of the throonossos of thingoi yet is tido little
book of wok Yalu. Mr, Bernal hits oppliod him.
self to the study of British and Welsh literaturo,
which, he truly says, has boon too often nogloctiel
by antiquaries. Ito las evidently thought 'limply on
the 1100-114 and political foatures lif British lit,,, awl
he aninrottiticates his conchtsions iii language which
is door, concha, and forcible."

PIONNY SAvtricootAmoi, —Many of these enmalloil
" banks" being now eutablishoil, and their number
appearing to increase, empecially in the rural ills•
tricta—where the clergymen of the parish often
takes the leading part in the movement and eon•
etitutes himself the bank "—it may be as well to
nail attention to the report of the delect Committee
mm Savinge•banks, who published the evidence taken
by them, as well as their report, in July Wt. It
was the business of the committee to review the
past legislation upon the eubject of savingulankm,
and to examine the directions given In the several
Acts touchinglithe investments, responsibitlee, and
obligations of. those banks. Among other room.
mendatlone of the committee, they suggest that " no
banking concerns should be permitted to assume the
mune of eavinge•banks except such as have had
their rules duly certified I also that the responsi•
bility of trustees be enacted in the same terms as
hi the Ant 9 George IV." The tome of this recem•
menilation will be readily understood, and there
can be no doubt that it will be embodied in future
amended Acta on this subject.

On Tuesday last a haprick, the property of Mr.
G. Oaluin, of Stinsford, wee burnt down. It ap.
pears that a boy was in the Held bird.keeping, and
wishing to kindle a fire to roast some potatoes, he
went behind tho rick to light a match, when the rick
became ignited, and, before assistance could be ob.
tained, Wee burnt to the ground.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday last a shocking
accident happened to Robert Colo, servant to Mr.
Joseph Spicer, of Haselbury Bryan. It appears that
the unfortunate man had been occupied in feeding a
thrashing machine, and was in the act of 'weeping
up the loose corn, the machine being still at work,
when his foot slipped and he was drawn into the drum
of the machine, which was immediately thrown out
of gear, and it Wee full a quarter of an hour before
he could be extricated. The sufferer was placed as
soon as possible in a cart and conveyed to the Dorset
County Hospital, but on his arrival there it was
found that death had terminated his sufferings. An
inquest was held at the Hospital on Saturday, before
Giles Symonds, Req., coroner, and a verdict of
"Accidental Death' returned.
CuURT or EXCltlolUste, Nov. 3, —(Sittings in Banco,
before the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Ur.
Baron Watson, and Mr. Baron Cliannell.)—Certis v.
ltfarsh. —Mr. H. T. Cole moved for a new trial in this
case, which was tried before Mr. Baron Watson at the
last cosines at Dorchester. Mr. Baron Watson—l will
tall the Court what took place. The courts and judges'
lodgings at Dorchester are under the seine roof, and I
went into court very punctually—too punctually Mr.
Cole will say—and told the associate to call on the first
sansei it we. an action of ejectment, and Mr. Blade
and Mr. Kingdon appeared for the plaintiff. I had the
defendant and his attorney called, hut neither put in an
appearanoo, and I interrupted Mr. Blade, who was
making a long speech to the jury, by saying that as no
one apassrad for the defense its Wee entitled to the ver-
dict II a matter of "annul. In Same Mr. Ws, and said
he appeared for the defeudent and that I had Not before
10 o'eloek. It Was certainly two minutes past 10 by the
cloak in cloud or me wateli, but I ao9iielite'l to Mr.
Slade that It would he better to send for this parties
agilt anrl try the ellen en arrangement 40 WIIIPh it.
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