The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

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' EXPIt

DC/ACRE:ITER.
ritEZMASONRY. We understand that the
Pniviocial Grand Lodge of 1868 will be held at
Dorchester.

THIC Annual Ploughing Match in connection with
the Dorchester Agricultural Society, is postponed
till Friday, the 13th of October, in consequence of
the dryness of the weather.
3n.ti D.V.R.—The annual prist meeting Is axed for
Thursday, the 28. h inst., when prine of the aggregate
value of about ITIO are to be competed for, The, in-
elude £lO such from Col. Stint, !CP., Sir H I). W.lff,
K.c. it (4., Dr, Bissett Hawkins, and FA IA liiuderidey,
-Faci,, and LA from Captain Cooinba

Tits ERRATIC Gigot:a-gull correspondent
says :—The free and independent electors of Lulworth
Cove will be glad to learn that J. R. T., the High
Sheriff at the late election for i hat important coneti-
teeney, who recently had his eyesight jeopardised by
the unexpected Leming of a cork floor: a ginger-heer
bottle (aa noticed in thin journal), t reoovenng the uwi
of the injured organ, and will ere long be again able to
see as tar through • nine-inch wall a. any other man.
ELECTION EXPRNSES —An abstract of the accounts
of expenses incurred by the county members at the
late election, ahowe the event to have cost the Hon.
W. H. B. Portman £l6l, Mr. H. Gerard Stun
£137 14s. lid., and Mr. J. Floyer £122 38. 53. ; the
returning officer's disbursements and fee on return in
each case amounted to £44 16s. 2d. The borough
election accounts .how Colonel C. N. Bturt's ex•
penses to have been £469 18s. 6d., of which sum
£373 19.9. was agents' charge.; Mr, R. B. Sheridan's
coats £509 4s. Bd., the agent.' charges being
£350 ; and the expenses of Sr Henry Drummond
Wolff, K.C.M.G., £451 ss. 3id., of which sum
£24.5 18s. 31. comes under the head of agent.'
charges.

A New Comma ON ManitlAoll lActssas.—The
wording of an Act passed la the last sedation of
Psiliament for the repeal of stludry dhakged for
stamps has been taken advantage of hy the Board of
Inlend Itevenhe to ittipolle a tied, dliiittid3 upon the
declaratiolitt attadhed to notleet of marriage by
licente. The !flth selitioh of 28 and 29 Vic., C. 96,
! runs thee No declaration required to be made
plirstlant to any Act relating to marriages, in order to
! a marriage without license, shall be chargeable with
I any stamp duty." Before this Act passed no one
had dreamed of requiring a stamp for soy of these
licenses; but the board now assume that the special
exemption of marriages without license infers the
liability of those with license, and they therefore
srbitarily impose a hallorown stamp, which they
require to be henceforth impressed ttpon the deck.
ration, and the Registrar,General has pat instrticted
the supetiutendeht registrars to see that this order is
complied with. the d est of the marriage license is
I already sufficiently high, and the nenessity orolkain-
ing an impressed stamp will entail Cinch additional
trouble and inbonrenience.—Pdfriol,
Foesnir Mteelorte. —At the evening meeting at
I the Townhall, on Tuesday, on behalf of the Society
for the Propagation a the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
the Mayor (Dr. Aldridge) presided. The meeting
was largely attended. In opening the proceeding'
the Chairman observed that they were assembled
again humbly but he hoped earnestly desirous of
carrying out, however feebly, the gracious command
which our blessed Master gave to his disciples
whilst on earth. via, " On ye into all the world and !
preach the gospel to every oreatnre"—a command
not more binding upon Hie disbiples it that early
period than now Upon eery professed Christian.
,tod in no *ay Could they more efficiently carry out
the eadred injunction than by giving hearty support
to all missionary effort, more particularly to such a
society as the one whose claims were that night to be
advocated —a society whose only °Neat was the con-
version of the heathen, by carrying the lamp of God's
Word and holding it [(Seth in the dark and be-
nighted places of the world, thereby bringing, by
God'a taming and His Holy Spirit's influence,
numbers who had hitherto hawed down to stocks and
stones, to worship the only true God. He earnestly
commended the claims of the society to them all, end
hoped that by their prayers and contributions they
would give it the support which it so pre-eminently
deserved at their hands. The meeting wius also
addressed by the Rev. Id. Ji. Watson, the Rev. C.
T. Procter; the ltev' G. L Towers, and the Rev. W.
Marriott. The Mayor was cordially thanked for his
services in the chair. At the close of the meeting
the sum of £5 6e. was contributed to the funds of the
Society.

COUNTY COURTS EQUITABLE JURISDICTION BILL.
—On the Ist October next the Act 28th and 29th of
Victor's, cap. 92, whioli gives jurisdiction to County
Courts' in matters over which they have hitheito had
no control, comes into operation: tly this Act,
many of the proeisione, Of whicis are most impor-
tant, it it ,etiabted that County Courts shall have and
eterbise El the powers and authority of the High
Court of Chancery in all suite by creditors, legatees
(whether specific, pecuniary, or residuary), devisees
(whether in treat or otherwise), heirs-at-law, or .
next of kin, in which the personal or real estate'
against, or for an sconent, or athelnietration of
' *hick may be imade, /Ankh fide eiteeeil in amount ok
TIIIES us stith of £5OO ; in all snit, for the execution
of trusts in which the trust estate or fund shall not
exceed £500; in all suits for foreclosure or redemp-
tion, or for enforcing any charge or lien where the
mortgage charge or lien does excieed £500; in all
snits for specific performance, or for the delivering
up or cancelling any agreement for the sale or pur-
chase of any property where the purchase money
does not exceed £500; i elk prodeedinge tinder the
Trustees Relief Aotadr trugee Atlte, or under any
of, such Aeta in *lsiah the trust estate or fund to
*kWh the proceedings relate shall not exceed .t 500;
in all proceedings relating to the maintenance or
advanoement of infants, in which the property of the
infant shill not exceed.4soo ; in &Units for the di..
solution or winding up of
.any partnership in which
the whole stoclq property, and eredite do not eiceed
£5OO ; and , in all prtiCeedinge for orders in the
vat& of Injnnotions where the same are requisite
for granting relief in any matter in which jurisdic-
tion is given by this Act to the County Court; or
for stay of proceedings at law to recover any debt
proveable under &decree for the administration of an
estate made by the Court to which the application
for the order to stay, proseedlnge, is made. the Aut
provides that any Vice-Chancellor may order the
trawler of any suit or matter (ruin the County Court
tt) the Court of Chancery; and that the peoceedings
taken in the County Court ae befOre meistloned 1411
arise in the district in whibh the lioetitY Court in
which it is entered hat Jfirialiction. But if any
County Coert flees that a suit or matter before it may
be More conveniently prosecuted in another court,
the suit or matter may be so transferred. Hulse and
orders for regulating this practice, and a scale of
costs, are to be drawn up by County Court judges:
appointed for the purpose; and provision is made in
the Act for appealing.

CIIARMINST.BIL
extrtow Dl#4.nlilts. —An aticiefit o&urred OD
Seindefy forenoon to4,llttle boy in the employment
*if Mr. Burdgb, at Poraton, which we trust will
titerite as a caution to farmers entrusting, little boys
to lead powerful horses, for, as appears to have
been the case in this instance, they are perfectly sure
to mount and ride upon them. It would seem that
the urchin in question had, whilst doing so, fallen
from the horse's back, and pitching upon • dint
stone, was carried home insensibhkatickhleeding from
an incised woubd Lu the Hatt. Mr. Good, surgeon;
on being sent Ibr to Dorchester, found the boy still
insensible and, kidging that theta was something
serious the Matter, proceeded tin exaMine into the
injury, and total that a coMpound fracture and
depreesion of the skull eXiated of the siiie inid shape
of a penny pieor. By **mid application of such
surgical meant at were within reach, Mr. Good
seceeeded in extracting the fractured piece or pima
Of skull which were pressing upon the brain, although
he had not been properly apprised when sent for of
the nature of the accident; and the boy not only
mediately recovered conscnouanese, but was next daY
able to relate how the occurrent* hwt happened, and
unless inflammation should set in, may, miraculous
to state, be eonsidered as in a state of recovery.
This however, may not happen in one of a hundred
similar cases, and we cannot too strongly insist on
the prohibition of small boys mounting unwieldy
horses when neither able to manage the horses nor
themselves.

W EY MOUTH.
FRANCE, BELGIUM, AND ITALY. —The Rev. John
Shedlook, M.A., delivered a moat interesting and
instructive address on the state of the above countries
at the school room of the Congregational Chapel, on
Thursday evening. There wags moderate attendance,
wh, listened with great attention to Um rotaacka of
the rev. gentleman.

RZA.DINti6.—A large and 111.4 faidtionable com-
pany attended the Burdon note' Assembly Room,
on Thursday to hear the Pak J. M. Bellew, of
London, give readings from variona poets and
authors. The programme oonsisted of the following :
—Horatio*, Lord Macaulay, The Grandmother,
Tennyson ; Cox's Diary, Thackeray ; Enoch Arden,
Tennyson, Good Nevis from Ghent; Browning;
Sketch by Bog (Mr.. Joseph Porter) Charles
Dickens; Balaclava Charge, Tennyson.
Mx. AleD MllB. WINDITAX.—This delightful couple
are again furnishing materials for news. She has been
ot Nor wicit; looking no her husband, who still drives
his 00..ze re...A. In two years more, should he live,
Mr. Windham will succeed to a large estate worth about
£4,000 a-year' whieli, of coarse, will devolve upon the
child born to Mrs. Windham twelvetnonth minim. The
costs of the proceedings in lunacy against Mr. Windham
have at length been ascertained and pond, and it seems
that, so far from getting anything by them, their
r originators base bad to pay £13,000, which has been
aonbriboted by General Windham, the .Merquin of
thiitol, Lord Listowel, and One or two others. ---
match was played as Walla*
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STaPHsasoN, 11.—Wbeeler, b Dominy,
11; Braiding, b Crocker, 3; Stephenson, b Crocker,
3; Benito°, run out, 6; Griffiths, tun out, 4;
Wheeler, b Crocker, 6; Tull.m, not out, 1; Blaok•
man, run out, 3; Tones, b Naltirett, 0; Ldlitor, c
Bascomhe, 0; Aliso, o Fooka, 5; byte, 13
total, 55.

THE WEATHER —The heat and drought which
are at present (Sept. 19) experienoed in this locality
are remarkably in contrast with the same month last
year. September, 1864, up to the 19tb, was charac-
terised by a very fluctuating barometer sod tem•
watery, with moderate to strong winds, principally
from between S.W. and NW., the rainfall beiog

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nearly %in., the maximum barometer tieing 30 39in.
on the 26th, and the minimum on the 16th, when at
the see level at 8 a.m. it read 29 .34in. ; the moximitin
temperature being 68 deg., and the minimum 4b
deg. During the present nionth, however; we have
experienced, generally speaking, a unitorm and high
temperature, as also high barometer; with light
and variable winds in fact, Oita a sedonti summer
*bather in cohtrast with last month, too). The
barometer has not been below 30io. but once (on
the Bth) daring the month, the maximum reading
30.44 tn. at the sea level on the 18th. The maximum
temperature in the shade has been 82 deg. for the last
four days, and the minimnm 57 deg. The hygro•
meter has registered evaporation tom 1 to 9 deg.
No rain has fallen since the 28th of August, in
-which month there was nearly 4in. of rain, the
principal portion of which fell between the let and
161.13, and seriously interfered with harvest opera-
tions, a good deal of the wheat being stacked mu a
damp condition, and that which was left remaining
in the fields began to sprout before it was finally
etored. The cereal crops are not considered to be
an average in this neighbourhood. The disease has
also begun to spread in the potato crop since the
beginning of August, but it is thought ttow that dry
weather has again set lot that jit will be stored ill
pretty good witiciltion: Manri•wurtel and turnips
will be very good crops, the former very tine gene-
rally in the Vale of Waddon, while grass lands are
looking as well as they did in the spring of the
year. The fruit or pis an abundant mei and the
quality more than ordinary.