The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-29 00:00:00

Samersetsbirt.

Yaovm.—We regret to have to announce the very
severe and alarming illness of Earl Cavan. His
Lordship is suffering from remittent fever of so
alarming a character that serious apprehensions were
on Monday entertained of the result. His Lordship is
dill in a precarious state.

YEOVIL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first
meeting of this society for this year was held in the
Townhall on Wednesday, and, although the show
was not so large as anticipated, the
_plants exhibited
were of a first-rate description. We could not help
noticing the splendid plants of the fueohia tribe, and
we may truly say that it is a long time since we saw
any finer or in greater perfection. Strawberries,
melons, pine apples, grapes, &A., were all in fine
condition. The vegetables must not be put in the
back ground, there was • goodly show of these in
great variety. Yeovil is now so eligibly situated
with regard to access by railway, that it presents
peculiar facilities for meetings of this description.
The following is the list of prizes :
G. Bullock, Esq. : Achimsenes, oaleeolsriu, Ist
price; greenhouse plants, 2nd prise; Cape heaths,
basket out flowers, 2nd; melons, 2nd ,• strawberries, Ist
and 2nd; cucumbers, let ; turnips, 2nd; potatoes, 2nd ;
cabbages, 2nd. Mr'. Pattison : Caleeolarias, Ist and
2nd ; gloxinesa, Ist; greenhouse plants, Ist; green.
house specimen, pelargoniums, 2nd ; fanny ditto, lit;
pelargorduins, specimen, stove plants, Ist; ditto sped•
Inca; cauliflowers, 2nd. Miss Neal: Fuselda, 2nd
urine,, ditto, 2nd ; ditto beet specimen; pelargoniums,
let ; fancy ditto, 2nd; fancy specimen; cucumbers, 3rd;
peas, 2nd ; lettuoes, lit. Mr. Bide : 2uschla, let;
ditto six best gloxineas, 2nd; stove plants, 2nd; grapes,
jut; grapes, Muscat.. Mrs. W. Helyar: Caloeolarias,
2nd; melons, let ; cherries. Mr. Gillett: British ferns.
Mrs. Scott: Basket out flowers Cape heaths pine
apples. Mr. F. klee4, Boise, let; 2nd.
F. Greenham , Esq.: Ist ;_grapes, 2nd;
flowers, let; potatoes,ls , Mr. Moore Peas, let;
turnips, lat ; wild flowers, rhubarb. J. R. Mayo, Bp :
Lettuoes, 2nd; carrots, 2nd. Mr. Sampson: Carrots,
let. Mr. Pridluun Cuumbers, 2nd. Mr. Dampney
Cabbages, Ist.

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Bairrox.—On Thursday week a dinner was given
to the huntsman, whips and keepers of the B. V.
Foxhounds for this side of the country. About 90
sat down to a most substantial dinner, served in the
usual manner of mine hostess, Mrs. Morgan. The
usual loyal and sporting toasts were given, and the
party seemed thoroughly to have enjoyed themselves.

CHILD DISERTION. —On Saturday morning, as
a labourer was passing Solomon's Clift, be
discovered a child about 6 weeks old lying at the
side of the road ; he gave information at Jants Mill,
when Mrs. Kewth kindly sent for the child, took all
possible care of it, and sent oft to police constable
Lewis, who from information was able to get at once
on the track of the mother and overtook her at
Sparkforcl. Distress was the only reason assigned
for this unnatural act.

A Nice POINT.—The Wetstern Daily Preav re.
ports thn case of Taunton v. Williams, heard in the
.Bristol County Court on Tuesday. It was an notion
brought by Mr. John Taunton, solicitor, of Taunton,
to recover £5. Some time ago • Min White, of
Bath, was imprisoned in the Taunton gaol. She
employed the plaintiff to tile her petition and con-
duct her through the insolvent court. She paid him
£5 on account, and undertook to pay him another
.£5 if he got her through the court. The plaintiff,
however, required a guarantee for this second .fil
being paid, and was referred by Miss White to
the defendant, a solicitor, of BristoL Both the
plaintiff and Min White wrote to the defendant,
but he answered only the latter, and in the letter
stated that if Mr. Taunton got her through the court
he "should not object to his being paid. The
question now was whether those words formed a
sufficient guarantee to render Mr. Williams re-
sponlible. His honour held that they did so, and,
in the course of his judgment, said that it seemed to
him that Mr. Williams had wished to induce Mr.
Taunton to go on with Miss White's nee, thinking
at the same time that the words he made use Of
would not render him legally responsible. Judg-
ment for the plaintiff,
WELLS. —Sir W. Hylton Jolliffe, Bark father of
the member for Wells, is about to make a claim before
the House of Lords for the long dormant barony of
Hylton.

ANOTHER House TAMER. —Mr. Forse, of Col.
lumpton, the man who has made some little stir in
his own eounty, iu taming unbroken colts and vicious
horses, opened • hat of subscribers at Taunton, and
on Thursday—Town Fair day—he attended at the
London Hotel to try his skill before a company of
Somersetshire gentlemen, subscribers at 10s. each.
The time fixed for commencing operations was 3
o'clock in the afternoon, when a three-year-old colt,
the property of Mr. Elms, of Heinyock, was brought
for the tamer to operate upon. This animal, how.
ever—as Forth said—was half-tame already, and as
it would be considered more satisfactory to the sub.
scribers to witness the operation on a more vicious
and intractable brute, he declined to make any at-
tempt upon the colt, and the gentlemen in attend.
auce were for the present disappointed of their
anticipated " Rarey show." The man intimated his
intention of coming to Taunton again shortly, to
show the mod= operandi by which he brings about
such extraordinary changes in the habits of the
horse. Fume is a plain-looking country man, we
believe by trade a tanner, and, according to his own
account, he has not been accustomed to horses since he
was a boy • indeed he states that he has never been on
the back of a horse from his youth until a few weeks
ago, when he tamed his first colt, and sat upon its
back. All his friends were astonished at his taking
up a profession which so ill accords with his previous
habits and pursuits. To judge from a statement in
the last number of The Field, the method adopted
by Mr. Rarey's humble rival is worth a trial. 1,
amongst others,"thys the writer, "paid 10s. yester-
day to witness his performance upon an unbroken
three-year-old entire colt, which he succeeded in
rendering thoroughly docile in less than two hours.
• I do not know Mr. Rarey's method,) as I missed pay..
• ing ten guineas to learn it, in consequence of his
going away to Paris the week before the Derby, after
having advertised to perform. in London that some
week; but I do not want to know it now, for so con-
vinced am I of the practicability of the Contra:9ton '
man's (Mr. Fovea's method, that I will undertake,
with one other who knows it, to do anything in the
way of taming a colt that any two who have been
taught by Mr. Rarey can do. You and your readers
will allow that this would be a thir test of the system
qek. onkr What. taw rofwassew Sisamsalvas bat whof
their pupils oaa do.
RSTOoKIth. —844 of Oa. K.o4loool`t Pro.Per4.-
nix property was brought under the hammer by
Mr. Atwell, at Bruton, onVhureday week. There
; was a large attendance, and after lots 1 and i were '
disposed of, there was an alined unprecedented thew
petition for lots 3 and 4, the former being a piece of
pasture land, about 5 acres, which was knocked
down to Mr. Benjamin Gibbons, at £7lO. Lot 4,
another small paddock, known as Holly Hill Close,
°ordaining rather less than 11 sere, was bought by
Captain Ernst, at £3lO

ILMINBTER WOOL FAIR. —WM held on Wednee.
day, at the George Hotel, Ilminsber, Mr. Gallia* in
the chair. Up to half poet six very little business'
had been done, the buyers' price being 13d., and the
sellers being reluctant to part witLstheir wool at
that figure. The following were the only deals made
at the hour named :—Mr. Dassuey's wool, 240
fleeces and 150 lambs, sold at I .to Mr. James
Paull ; Mr. Hebditch's wool, fleeces, about one.
third tag and 50 lambs, sold to Mr. Brown at 13i.
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FIRST NEW EDUCATIONAL (OXFORD) EXAMI-NA.
TION.—The city of Bath having been selected as
one of the places for conducting the examination
under the statute "concerning the examination of
those who are not members of the university," a very
influential meeting assembled in the Guildhall Mon-
day afternoon, under the presidency of the Mayor,
(Dr. Falooner,) to receive Mr. T. D. Ackland,
D.C.L., the delegate from the University of Oxford,
and the Rev. G. S. Ward, mathematical master at
Magdalen Hall, the examiner for this district. The
arraugemante of the local committee were acknow-
ledged to be most complete, and the number of can-
didates for examination-57 junior and 13 senior
showed that the proposed distinctions to be con-
ferred by the university are not lightly regarded in
this neighbourhood. Mr. Aoland addressed the
meeting at considerable king* It MY a source of
great satisfaction that Bath had been selected as one
of the places of examination, because the lint ex-
periment, which had given rise to the system cow
about to be put into operation was tried under the
auspice, of • society which owed its parentage to
Bath—the Bath and Weet of England Agricultural
Society. That society was the first to acknowledge
Lord Ebrington's endeavours to educate the farmers,
and the following year the society took steps to
make known the experiment to the world at large.
The history of the progress of the human mind in
England was associated very closely with the
history of the universities; and it they wont back to
the origin of the universities they would find certain
great practical influences always going aide by side
with the training in learning therein obtained. The
two great professions which took care of the health
and property of men were proofs of this. In this
age it had become evident that the ancient universi-
ties, so long as they continued to abide on the pri-
mary education of language and the abstruse sciences,
would be unable to arum the requirements of these
two great 'professions. in our day also there were
other callings fast riming into the importance of pro-
fessions, and it AISO became of vital interest to Eng-
land that our ordinary retail shops should be united
with the higher intellectual attainments, especially
in the decorative departments of art. Agriculture,
too, was daily becoming more clearly connected with
science. It became of great importance that these
vast interests should not grow up without connection
with the old institutions of the country and sound
learning. In these examinations the university
proposed to test the success of the education any
young man had received, who was not likely to
pursue a university training. The system was there-
fore particulary designed to meet the wants of those
who were likely to enter upon the practical business
of life as young men. All they could do for the
present examination was to arrange such an eduction
as they thought most applicable. Some of the
papers were exceedingly long, but the sole object of
that was to give the boys an opportunity of answer-
ing some of the questions. Many of the questions
were also simple, and of an exceedingly elementary
character. This was to give boys who had been
well trained in the elementary branches an opportu.
nity of distinguishing themselves, whilst it would also
(ind out those who had been pushed forward, but
were deficient in the elements or learning. There
were " more advanced papers," which would give an
opportunity to a really good Greek or Latin scholar,
or mathematician, of distinguishing himself. The
university offered distinction to young candidates in
every branch. The examinations were not confined
to the learned languages, or to languages at all, nor
yet to mathematics, but opened the door to the
modern languages, natural philosophy, chemistry,
physiology, music, and drawing. Opportunity would
also be given to candidates of obtaining distinction
in the first, second, or third class. The Rev. G. S.
Ward, the examiner, next addressed the meeting.
Humid with regard to the phrase "middle class ex-
aminations," it was never intended by the university
that the examinations should be confined to any
class; but they were meant to confer distinctions
upon boys of attainments, and who had now no
means of obtaining a testimonial to their acquire.
mente, which to them would be valid, if seeking a
situation. Another result would be, that boys of
very striking talent would here and there be found
and brought to light. He had no doubt but that the
examinations would also have the effect of improving
the schools and the boys themselves. It was not
minimal for boys to come to Oxford ignorant of the
rule of three, and even of the more rudimental
portions of arithmetic; but in two years after the
statute came into operation he found the boys from
Eton and Westminster well up in arithmetic, two
books of Euclid, and in algebra to simple equations.
There was, of course, a good deal that was specula.
tive and experimental in the system now about to
be commenced, and he should therefore be happy
during the week to receive any suggestions, and con-
vey them to Oxford, for consideration by the meet-
ing of delegates and examiners.