The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-17 00:00:00

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—there were five thonsand negro troops. A
Washington dispatch dated December 30th
reports an unusual commotion within the Con-
federate lines, but nothing was known as to its
cause. On the faith of rebel deserters, who are
always called in by the Federal journals %, hen-
ever there is some Southern movement, the
meaning of which is to them involved in
mystery, it is alleged that General Lee ia
meditating early offensive operations, and that
"Lee told his men that he was about attempt-
ing a project which would astonish the world."
As General Lee is not in the habit of disclosing
his intentions, the "rebel deserters," assertion
in this instance may be set down as mere guess-
work on the part of the journalists. Rumours
are given forth by the Federal press that the
relations of the Northern States are about to
change; and so soon as President Lincoln enters
his second series as head of the State, the lead-
ing powers of Europe will declare the inde-
pendence of the South, on the ground that by
the Federal States having elected Lincoln with-
out the sanction and support of the States
confederated against them, they have virtually
confirmed the dissolution of the Union and the
independence of the South; otherwise the elect-
tion was illegal. It is thought that this step
would be favourably received by both of the
contending parties, as affording a plea of putting
an end to the war.

prices tar grinding. Osta changed bands freely at late
qu.o.tatioas.
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Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve
the following atipointment in the Queen's Own Regi-
ment of Dorsetahire Yeomanry Cavalry :--Jo with
Marriott, Req., to be Cornet, vice Webber resiufred.
TUN COUNTY BALL—Mr. Yearsley'si county ball,
which took place at the Townhall on Wednesday, taw
not co successful is on previous occasions, the death of
the Earl of Ilchester preventing many of the aristocracy
and gentry from attending. Targett's quadrille band
was in attendance, to the inspiring strains of which
dancing was kept up with great zest until the folios log
morning.
Th WICATHEIL—The reading of the thermometer at
Dorchester for the past week is as follows :

State of
Weather.

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9 43 42 W
10 48 35 W & SW
11 42 39 W & S
12 43 32 B
13 40 37 WSW &S
14 45 34 Wk NW
15 35 34 W
Very boisterous on the night of
hall, and lightning.
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Misty
Foggy, r&in
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Fine, rain
Rain
Stormy, snow
the 13th, with rain,

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36 38 NE & ESE
44 41 8 & SE
45 41 ME
45 37 S
39 37 NE
39 38 E
46 38 S

From France we learn that the last has been
a most prosperous year for the greater number
of manufacturers—especially those engaged in
the manufacture of flax and woollen fabrics.
Cotton and iron are exceptions. In cotton the
manufacturers have shared in the difficulties aris-
ing from the ootton famine, and subsequently rash
speculations in that important staple. The iron
trade still succumbs to the spirit of enterprise
and superior facilities England enjoys in manu-
facturing it; but notwithstanding this, there is
a oonsiderable increase in the manufactured
products. The Morning Post, reverting to
the consideration of the French budget re-
cently issued, says :—" We cannot disguise that
M. Fould's statement affords a highly satisfac-
tory picture of the present condition of the
French finances, and of the prospects they bear
for the future. The revenue of the country is
largely increasing without any additional
pressure of taxation ; the abolition of the duties
upon raw sugar has, in fact, diminished the
scale of taxation in a very considerable degree.
The loss on this head appears to be not less than
£2,000,000 a-year. The revenne, however,
continues at £80,000,000 per annum; and, no
doubt important reductions of taxation may be
made if M. Fould's project for the gradual ex-
tinction of the extraordinary charges should be
realised. Of this are entertain every hope.
The moment is one of profound peace • we see
no reason to fear that it will be disturbed; and
Earope may safely sheathe its rusty sword."
A London letter says that amidst much
that is unfounded, there are some reports
which probably have a rather better founda-
tion' and I should not be surprised to learn
that Her Majesty will open Parliament
! in person ; that a husband has been found for
, the Princess Helena, and that the Princess
Mary of ,Cambridge will ask consent of Parlia-
ment to her marriage with a certain English
' nobleman. As to the first item, it has
been noticed with great satisfaction that the
Queen has thrown off some of those outward
signs of inconsolable mourning, which has been
manifested for three years. Military bands are
now heard in the streets of Windsor, and royal
salutes from ships of war may be heard at
Osborne. The Queen has, in many other ways,
given indications of her return to public life.
As to Princess Helena, it is reported that she is
to be affianoed to a scion of the princely house
of Saxe-Altenburg. He is a cousin to the
reigning duke is nearly twenty-two years of age,
and is a lieutenant in the Prussian army. His
name is Albert-Henry-Joseph Charles-Victor-
George-Frederick. The Princess Helena is in
her nineteenth year. With regard to the
Princess Mary, it is still believed that her Royal
Highness is betrothed to Viscount Hood, and
there is no doubt as to how the affair will end if
it rests with Parliament to decide whether the
engagement shall stand. There is another
rumour less likely than the others, to the effect
that the Prince of Wales will ask an increased
allowance. Those who propagate this report
say that as his Royal Highness has to undertake
the Court duties which belong to royalty, the
sum voted by Parliament—£4o,ooo per annum
—is not sufficient. Tney forget that the Prince
of Wales is also Duke of Cornwall, and as such,
came in possession of half a million of money two
years ago, which had been accumulating during
his minority, and that the annual revenue of his
duchy is about £50,000. Altogether the Prince
must have an income of £loo,ooo—and this is of
course in addition to the £lO,OOO a-year, which
the Princess has for "pin-money." This rumour
may therefore he looked upon as improbable—
at all events we hope so, as well for the sake of
the popularity of the Prince as that of our own
pockets.

Foggy
Hazy, misty
Foggy, mi.atY
Foggy, ram
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Ose by one the French bishops are pelting
their Government with letters complaining of
its order to them, not to publish the Pope's
Encyclical, or Circular, of the 10th of December;
and two of them—the Bishop of Poitiers and
the Bishop of Moulins—have flatly disobeyed
that order, by reading the Encyclical in their
cathedrals and communicating it officially to
their clergy. Thus, then, the Episcopacy—the
vast majority of it being of the same opinion as the
prelates who have written—is in flagrant opposi-
tion to the Government on a matter of the very
highest importance. This conflict, if it is con-
tinued, will have grave results; some of the
bishops, in their letters, hint that it will be pro-
ductive of political disasters. At the present
moment the continuance of it seems inevitable,
the Government being unable to recede from
the position it has taken up and the bishops,
from the obedience they have vowed to the
Pope, being bound to protest against the position.
The Government, moreover, has directed the
11 Council of State to proceed against the prelate
of Moulins. But suppose it does; all that it can
I do is to inflict a blame on him, and to that he
will be personally indifferent; but the condem-
nation of a bishop will naturally tend to embitter
the quarrel. The present conflict has caused, in
several quarters, a serious discussion of the
question whether a complete separation of Church
and State be net desirable for both. It
is alleged that some eminent ecclesiastics
hesitate not to announce for the affirma-
tive. Nothing, however, is leas likely, than
that the Government of such a country as
France will ever consent to abandon all control
over a mighty body like the clergy, which it
would have to do in case of separation; and it
is not likely that the clergy will be willing to
give up the revenue which they receive from the
Government, and content themselves with
voluntary contributions, which they would have
to do in the same case.

Some time since Mr. Aahworth, of
Bolton, was taken into custody while stay-
ing at the Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, by
a man who gave the name of John
Morgan, who said he was a detective from
Carmarthen, and had, a warrant for Mr.
Ashworth on a charge of stealing a gold watch.
The professed detective made the police
authorities at Shrewsbury believe in his assumed
character, and allowed him to detain £'l7 in gold
and a gold watch found cm Mr. Ashworth. The
magistrates went even further, and refused to
allow Mr. Ashworth permission to telegraph to
his friends in order to establish his identity and
his innocence, in consequence of a hint from the
"detective" that he was "a vary notorious
character, and by telegraphing might defeat the
ends of justice." The case was remanded, bet
"detective Morgan" never made his appearance at
the second examination, having absconded with
the watch and money. It now appears that his
real name was ICliis ;that he is son of a butcher
at Rverton, near Liverpool, who was for 20
years superintendent of police' in that borough.
His scapegrace son was onue a clerk in the em-
ployment of Mr. Aria, a shipwright. in the same
town; and also at one time clerk in the
magistrates' office, Holihead ; and there, no
doubt, possessed himself of various legal forms
to assist him in his swindling. On Monday he
went to the cattle-market at the Old Swan, near
Liverpool, showed a cattle dealer what professed
to be • warrant for his apprehension, and took
him to apolioe station close by, where he wanted
to search him. This the cattle dealer refused to
'submit to, and the "detective" went away under
pretence of telegraphing to his superior for in-
structions, but as he did not return the
astonished cattle dealer was released from
Subsequently El" appears to have
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leißLßUßY.—Dr.arn 07 MI Itroirr Hog. vas
EARL or li.oneennt.—We are sorry to have to
announce the demise of this noble lord, which
took place on Tuesday at his country seat,
Melbury House, near Dorchester. His lordship had
been ill for some time past, and died at the advanoed
age of 70, having been born in 1796. He was educated
at Westminster and Christ Church College, Oxford.
In 1857 lie married Sophia, daughter of Sir R.
Sheffield, Bart, and in 1858 succeeded to the earl-
dom OD the death of his half-brother. The noble Earl
in his younger days had been engaged in diplomatic
business, having been attached to the embasey at
St. Petersburgh in December, 1816, at Con-
stantinople in June, 1820, and at Naples in
September, 1822; was appointed paid attaché
at the Hague in January, 1824; Secretary of
Legation at Florence tn March. 1825; in the
name capacity at Naples, in February, 1828;
secretary of embamy at Vienna, in November, 1832;
was Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office
from 1835 to 1837; and Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Frankfort from August
1840 to January 1842. The heir presumptive is his
nephew, Henry Edward, son of the late Hon. John
Strangwaya, born 1847.

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TEMPERANCE LECTURIL—The Committee of the
Dorchester Total Abstinence Society have succeeded in
engaging Hr. John Ripley to deliver a lecture on "The
Trials and Triumphs of Teetotalism" at the Townhall
on Friday evening next. Mr. Ripley is a well-known
and popular ehampion of the temperance cause, and the
lecture will be enlivened by his giving recitations and
songs.
OLD FRIENDS' SUPPII.—The brethren of the Loyal
King's Lodge of the Improved Order of Old Friends
intend holding their anniversary supper at their Lodge,
the Phcenix Inn, on Wednesday evening, the 25th inst.
William Vernon, Esq., will preside.
STATE OF THE LABOUR MARRIET.—For the vacant
oftlee of storekeeper to the Dorchester Co-operative
Society, the committee have received the almost
incredible number of 85 responses to the advertisement
which recently appeared in the.Teterrant and the Daily
nag/rapA-45 through the former and the remainder
through the latter medium. The salary is 25e. per
week.

CoWry Purry Sussiorra, Saturday. —Before H.
Williams and E. Pearce, eqrs.
Aturnso DAYAGIL—Sydney Waters, of Upway, WAS
summoned by James Bushrod for breaking some cups
and a glass, on the 26th of December. —Complainant is
a publican, and on the day in question defendant came
to his house, very drunk, for the purpose of joining the
Upway Friendly Society. After joining it. acoording
to the roles of the club, he had • ticket given him for
a pint of beer which he was bound he give to the land-
lord for the good of the house. He was supplied with
this, after which he wanted • quart more. This was
refused, and defendant then broke two cups and a glass,
which were filled with beer for the use of other parties.
—Mr. Williams said he thought the complainant had
brought the trouble upon himself by supplying the man
with more beer' when he woo already drunk, and he
should therefore dismiss the case.

series of Penny Readings was given on Wednesday, the
11th instant, in the public school-room. The readers
were Mr. Farthing, Mr. J. Smedrnors, Mr. H. Bon,on,
Mr. C. Lambert, end Mr. J. White. Miss Manwell
end Mr. Benson kindly presided at the piano. During
the readiegs. Beyond songs were ming by Mr. Benson,
with choruses by the tonic sal fa binging classes. We
are clad to see the attendance is not decreasing, but
quite as good as on any former occasion.
A COIDUT. -On Monday, the 9th, an accident happened
to a man named Harris. Whilst engaged in
splitting a large stone with an iron wedge, it sprang
beck and caused a severe wound on the forehead.
On Welnesdny, the 11th instant, • serious accident
happened to a men named Phippard, a quarryman, be-
longing to this place. The unfortunate man was en-
gaged in lowering the cart down the side into the
quarry, when begot his leg under the chain and capstan,
and his limb was fearfully smashed, the bone being
broken at the thigh, aud his anokle smashed to pieces.
Mr. Delamotte was soon in attendance, and under his
care the sufferer is doing as well as can be expected.
CR ANBO RN E.—PETTY Bugloss, Thursday.—
Before H. Monro and G. Churchill, Esqrs.—John
Carpenter, of Pentridge, was summoned at the instance
of the Rev. Duncan Campbell, of Pentridge, for &milit-
ia; John Wadman at Woodyates. The rev gentleman
said he took up the case in order to preserve decorum
in his parish.—Mr. Dickenscn of Poole appeared for
complainant.—The Bench fined defendant 50s. and
ooets, which some one in Court paid. --Edward
Scutt, an old offender, was fined 306. and costs, for
poaching on Evesham manor. Emily Thorne, of
Craciborne, obtained • protection order against her
husband,George Thorne, a musician, who had, separated
from her some years, to secure her earnings and her
little property to her own use.
SALISBURY—The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
Salisbury has recently instituted the Rev. Joseph George
Richardson' clerk, 8.A., he the Vicarage of Worth
Matrevers, Dorset, void by the resignation of the Rev.
Robert Duncan Travers, clerk, rector of Swanage. His
lordship has also licensed the Rev. Charles Edward
Cattier, clerk, M.A., to the Curacy of Durweston and
Bryan:ton, Dorset,
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-L/EUTENANT OF
THE COUNTY Or WlLTS.—Thomas Henry Allen Poynder,
of Hartham Park, Chippenham, Esq. to be a Deputy-
Lieutenant. Commission dated 7th dummy, 1865.
TAUNTON.—A JURYMAN FINED.—At the Taunton
Epiphany Sessions Mr. Kennard Knott was fined £lO
for non-attendance.
CHARGE AGAINST A SERGEANT OF POLICE.—At
our police-court, on Thursday, the 12th instant,
Sergeant Williams, of the county constabulary, was
summoned by George Webber, • mason, with un-
lawfully assaulting him. The evidence given on the
part of the complainant went to show that on the
night of the 11th instant a disturbance took place
in King-street, in which a man assaulted the com-
plainant, and, upon his requesting the sergeant to
take him into cuitody, he struck him down insensi-
ble. The evidence for the defence was that the
complainant and several others were creating a great
disturbance in the streets at midnight, and having
several times refused to go, the sergeant pushed him
towards his home, when he accidently fell and struck
his head against the kerb stone. The sergeant con-
tended that he had used no more force than was
necessary to prevent a breach of the peace, and cited
a judgment of Mr. Justice William!, as recorded in
Archbold, an justifying the course which he had
adopted. Tbe Bench took this view of the cue and
dismissed it, ordering the complainant to pay
10s. 6d. costs.
ATTEMPTED ARSON.-011 Thursday night 8013313
miscreant attempted to fire the farm premises of S.
Pitman, Esq., at Barnwell. A wagon load of clover
was lit,but providentially the fire was discovered just
utile flames reached the roof of a wagon house. £5
reward has been offered for the apprehension of the
scoundrel.
BRIDGWATER. CORN Avaneou. Bridg-
water is fixed on by Government as the market
where the officiel return of the average price of corn
in Somersetshire, is to be taken for tithe purposes.
Formerly every market had its inspector, but this is
no longer the cane.
SHEPTON MALLET.—Faxmx 07 NATURE.—
Mr. W. Wake, of Pilton, near Shepton Mallet, has
in his possession a remarkable potato, of the rook
kind, weighing 11b. 9oz. It has the shape of a man's
head, and quite round, with eyes, nose, month, and
chin. We hear that Mr. Wake has been offered £1
for it, but he will not sell it. To view the same,
every person has to pay the admission fee of one
penny. A great number of persons have already
been to see it, end no doubt Mr. Wake will make a
good market of his potato.
DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.—The members of
the Glastonbury Amateur Dramatic Society gave an
entertainment at the Music-hall on Tuesday evening.
The hall was crowded, and by the repeated bursts of
applause at the end of each peace, we should think
the pockets of the amateurs would be enriched by
another visit to Shepton. The pieces performed
were the "Harvest Storm," & seriocomic drama, by
Mr. C. H. Hazlewood, followed by the comic inter-
lude entitled "Furnished Apartments," and the
whole concluded with the laughable fare°, "Turn
Him Out." The scenery used for the occasion ap-
peared to be new, and was very good.
Sctroot TREAT.—The Rev. Canon Shattock
entertained the school children connected with the
Roman Catholic chapel in this town at his residence
on Tuesday. A tea was provided, and after tea ,
drawing for prizes from a Christmas-tree took place,
various games dancing, &c., were introduced, which
all seemed bent on enjoying. The whole concluded
with a display of fireworks bi Mr. B. Merchant, of
Shepton Mallet. The children separated much
gratified with their entertainment.
BRISTOL—FATAL ACCIDENT AT STAPLETON.—
On Wednesday a fatal accident happened at Staple-
ton to a little girl named Emma Pitt, who was
drowned in a well or cistern in the back-kitchen of
her parents' house, No. 3, Albert-place, Freeland-
buildings. It appeared that the child was an active
little creature, and at ten o'clock on the morning of
Wednesday she went to the cistern for the purpoee
of dipping out water, when she fell in, the depth
of the cistern being five feet, and full of
water at the time. It is supposed that she over-
balanced herself and fell on her head. Her
mother fancied she beard a moaning as she sat in the
adjoining room, and she at once ran to the back-
kitchen, where she perceived the water of the
cistern in motion. She attempted to leap in after
her child, but another little one clung to her dress
and prevented her. Assistance was at length pro-
cured, a man named John Copp coming and. extri-
cating She drowned child from the water. Mr.
Phelps, surgeon, was called in, but he found that
life was extinct.

AN BKRONZOUS 'Des..—George Handsford, of Upway,
was charged by Charles Jesty, surveyor, of Radipole, for
refusing to pay ls. 6d. toll on paring through the turnpike
gate at Martinstown, on the 4th of November.—Defen-
dant is in the employ of Mr. Homer, of Martinetown, and
the latter said the point in question was whether apples
were agricultural produce or not. For 20 years he had
apples going through the gate, and tolls had never been
demanded before.—Mr. Williams said his opinion was
that apples could not be considered as agricultural
produce—Mr. Hare, of Weymouth. appeared on behalf
of the Turnpike Trustees.—Mr. Homer said if the
Bench were of opinion that he must pay for the apples
he would do so, and this was accordingly done.
ALLEGED ILLEGAL DIMANDING Or TOLL. —John
Lewis, toll-collector, of West Mead Ternpike Gate, was
charged by Mr. James Yeareley, of the Antelope Hotel,
for illegally demanding toll of James Dufall, a post-
boy, early on the 3rd of January.—Defendant wished
the case edjonrned for a fortnight. The application was
granted.
John Brown, and Charles Puckett, of Rampishani,
surrendered themselves to bail, charged with stealing a
quantity of cloth, on the 10th of January, the property
of Thonias Henry Aplin.—No prosecutor appearing,
prisoners were discharged.
BOHOUGIE SISSIONS, Saturday.—(Before the Mayor
and J. Bishop, Esq.)
Ow A INI N G BOOTS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.
Thomas Foster was brought up on remand, from the
previous Monday, charged with obtaining • pair of
boote, under false pretenoes, from Mr. Tilley,
shoemaker, South.street.—Mr. Look prosecuted—The
evident* of Henry Foster, of Whitchurch (prisoner's
uncle), for which the ease had been remanded, proved
that he had never authorised prisoner to obtain the
boots in his name.—Prisoner, who denied obtaining
them by such means, was committed for trial at the
ensuing Assizes .

Mos-okr.—Before the Mayor and R. Davis, Faq.
INSULTING A " SPINGAL."—George Ball, a lad, was
charged by Henry Salisbury for assaulting him.—lt ap-
pears that n t as complainant
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told them he should send for max Pouncy, when. they
ran away, bat afterwards they met him again at the
bottom of the town and again called him names.
Defendant struck him in the breast several times. It
seems complainant, who is • young man, has made him-
self rather obnoxious to the youth of the town, by
volunteering as • "special," and he stated that since he
had done so he had frequently been insulted.—The
Mayor said this wan a most serious charge, and be
should send defendant to gaol for seven days with hard
labour.

COMMTPTED TO THE DORSET COUNTY OAOL.—Assizet :
Thomu Foster, obtaining boots by false pretences at
Dorchester; John Williams, =IOU at Poole. Hard
Labour: William Churchill and George Trevett, poach-
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mg at Litton Cheney, 1 month each; Bridget
Road and Louisa Lambert, vagrancy at
Weymouth, 14 days each; Richard Norman,
damaging door at Sherborne, 1 month ;
Thomas Christopher, stealing fence at Piddletrenthide,
2 months ; George Bond, vagrancy at Weymouth, 14
days; Samuel Penny and William Woodirford, stealing
money at Weymouth, 1 month each, and 3 years in a
reformatory; Elizabeth Woodward, stealing knives,
forks, Aro., at Bridport, 7 months.

itasuitianisi Buz or Wiese is BRISTOL.
People during the last two or three years have been
am:sustained to my that the rage for old and fine
wine had disappeared, or was disappearing—or
rather that the rage for paying such high prices for
it, as were chronicled in the Bristol papers some ten
or twelve years ago, was gone. The sale of the
late Mr. Henry Rickette's wine, at Brislington
Grove, is still remembered as almost a classic event in
local vinous history, if we may 13/10 such a phrase.
People will not forget for a generation the almost
fabulous figures paid upon that occasion for
magnums of port —the fierce competition for it that
took place between the deep-drinkers of the North,
and the knowing Sons vivana of the South and
West, when the marquee was pitched on the shaven
laws, and the rare samples were ranged on *0 long
table in the open. One of the keenest competitors
for vintage treasures there, was the late Mr. Henry
Priohard, who was as good a judge of wine, and had
as fine a collection as any man in the West of
Englaed. He was the only one belonging to Bristol
who stood up to bid sometimes as d' outrance against
the heavy purses and fastidious palates of the
Manchester and Liverpool men, who at that time
used to rush like a Gothic incursion down upon
the dispersed cellars of the South. But he was
often discomfitted in the competition; and we
especially remember a Lancastrian Rufus who
"topped" him in every "bid" for a '2O Port, which
at length went at something like .£l5 a.clozen. As
Mr. Fargus's hammer fell on the last offer the
Northern was announced the winner. " You can
hardly want it all, sir ;" interposed Mr. Prichard,
who saw with some expression of discomfiture his
lad chance gone. "Would you spare me some of
it I" " Not a drop, sir—not a drop • with a rough
abrupt Doric aooent, answered the kdanchester man..
But Mr. Prichard rarely allowed North, South,
East, or West to have the "pull" of him on these
occasions. For the most part when he set his mind
upon a bin of wine—and that wine was in a cellar
to be sold—he would have it; no price the wins
might fetch would keep him from it, and the result
was that he had as fins a stock &many man in this
neighbourhood when he died. No wonder then
when his wine was offered for sale by Messrs.
Fergus, at their rooms on Thursday, there was •
competition for it amongst the knowing ones which
quite reminded as of the old days of gigantic prisms.
All the best "palates)" in the city and neighbourhood
were present—knowing fellows as ever made a glees
of port wine pay toll over the tongue. It was
quite a treat to see them taste it—gurgle it—look at
it in the light with that one Bristol eye of theirs,
which can analyse as with a pram every shade of
ruby. They sacked and rubbed it against their
palates and looked sagaciously at one another and
muttered mysterious phonies about "body" and
" dryness," "tone" and "free," which we pre-
=me they understood, for they backed their opinion
with some most handsome and brisk bidding@ • as
'47 Port fetched 88s. to 108.1. ; 1544 ditto £5 to £7 So,
The latter price for '44 was considered very extra-
ordinary : it was a bin of 11 dozen bottled by H.
Edwards in 1846, and was bought for the Society of
Merchants, who know what • good thingia, and do
not mind paying the value for it, as beoomes an
ancient and princely guild; 56 dozen of 1.868 Port
went at from 555. to 58e. A small lot of '2O ditto
fetched £9 Se. • dozen. Fifty-one dozen of old
Sherry, vintage 1815, sold at 88e. and 90a, and •
small lot of Chillingworth's Sherry at £6 15e., and
another lot of ditierat £6 Some old West India
Madeira fetched 725. Altogether the wines, which
comprised about four hundred and fifty dozens,
chiefly first-class vintages, sold very well; proving ,
that Bristol men still like their tipple and don't
1
WARMFIAIf.—Mr. Freeland Filliter, the .enperjn. mind paying for it when they 01111 got it good.
Aleut registrar of births, deaths, and marriages] for this WI V
•B LISCOMB B.—Mormu. bresoverszer
Arita, hi., with the approval. at Major Graham, ftoorsrr.—Two beautiful entertainments were given in
tetra ward for &whin& sad was', spestssed •• the Townhall, by Mr. J. 'Fiekery, and Mr. T. 0. Cross,
raan, an old and reepeeted iihemaeee on Wednesday and Thursday eirenimp, both night,
kill *ow. , who for many yeats has filled the 'mask,us haviag a crowded audience.
! ralievhig *Meer and deputy registrar of marriages to On Wedneeldol evening Philip Lennon on rehirniftl
[s. Moen to to yegistur meerisess, frem his work zeroes • field smiled Slew Poison, while
INFAMISOPnnerg na.44%. 'kik*/ in the set of stepping eaves arum* liereessr late which

WEYMOUTH. NAVAL APPOINTMENT. Corn-
mender—George Doherty Broad, to be inspecting
commander of the Weymouth division in the coast-
guard service, vice H. M. Elliott, promoted.
0013NTT COURT.—The business of this Court, held on
Thursday last, before his Honor, E. Everett, Esq., was
unimportant. The manse list oomprised 83 original
plaints, 1 adjourned rase' 1 re-jenny, and 3 judgment
summonses, but a great number of these oases were
settled out of Court.

THI HOBTENISIL—This unfortunate craft was sub-
mitted for sale by public auction in London last week,
and fetched upwards of £5OO. As our readers will
remember she was laden with light French wines and
brandies, which were removed to, the Customs bonded
warehouse in this town. These were sold by Mr.
biilledge on Thursday, and fetched • much higher price
than was anticipated.
PORTLAND.—Frita.—On Saturday morning, the
premises of Mr. Tames Thresher, the Portland carrier,
were discovered to be smoking, and on examination the
fire was discovered. This broke out in • chimney
where a quantity of soot was collected, and this be-
coming ignited a rafter in the flue caught fire. How
long the beam had been smouldering cannot be ascer-
tained. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, on
account of which the quarrymen could not work,
plenty of aaaistance was soon at hand, and the flames
were speedily extinguished. If the discovery had ta/wi
place about a quarter of an hour later, the whole of Mr.
Thresher's premises must have been destroyed, as they
contained • very large quantity of hay, straw, and
wood. If the fire had been at night in all probability
the loss would have been very great, as Mr. Thresher
had eight horses and several vans on the premises.
Very fortunately, the premises are insured. Too much
prai e cannot be given to those men who, at the risk of
their lives, assisted in extinguishing the flames. In
order to show the inclemency of the weather of Satur-
day, we may state that as Mr. Thresher's lad we.
going in a cart up the military road for the purpose of
obtaining a fire engine, the wind was so boisterous that
it turned the cart over, and the boy was compelled to
have the assistance of two men to extricate him from
his unpleasant position.

MAIDEN NEWTON.—The church choir of this
pariah were, on Friday last, entertained to supper by
the Mon. and Rev. W. R. Scott, at the rectory.
During the evening a selection of vooal music was per-
formed by the choir, oonsistlng of Christmas carols,
pert songs, glees, ho. We are happy to add that the
festive season of Cluislmu has not passed unnoticed at
this place; an excellent tea and evening's amuse-
ment having been provided by the subscriptions of the
rector and pariahioners for the elder portion of the in..
habitant., who have been several times enlivened by the
highly creditable performances of the brass band, which
has lately been formed in the village

the drains of the town run, he fell, and being too infirm
could not rise, and was suffocated about 10 yards from
his own door. His poor wife had remarked to a neigh-
bour that Philip was rather late, little thinking that be
was expiring about 10 yards(' om her. He ass foun.l about
seven o'clock, and Dr. Nicholls, of the firm of Edwards
and N cholla, sent for, but life bad fled for come time
At tile inquest held before W. Monckton, Esq , at the
Lion Hotel, by. Nicholls demaed that death was caused
by suffocation. When he saw him his nose, eyes,
mouth and right ear, were full of thick blue mud.
The jury returned a 'verdict of " Accidental Death."
On proceeding to view the body, and the plaoe of his
death, about three or four yards from the end of the
cottage, and about one foot from the path, the
coroner drew the attention of the jury to a
cesspool, stating that unless it was soon removed the
inhabitants most expect fever of the worst description.
Another death happened to William Slade. a
carpenter, at work in repairing the ladder of the shaft
of one of the iron pita in Brendon hill on Thursday.

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