The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-14 00:00:00

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Common sense Wile in. that England really wants
a now reform, not only lief:mode since the last partial
one she has more than doulded het population, btit
became her great antagonists, AmetiCa. and Russia,
are four or five times 'nor° powerful. Then, through
mismanagement or self•government we have given a
footing among us to cholera, typhus. Ct., and elm,
' thongh no longer transporting our convicts, we
have an increasing or met' garotters, chloroformizers,
to., er.c. Brown thinks that, instead of ploughing
the backs of our tiailors, soldiers, snit schoolboys, we
might successfully till and drill the ekin of our
criminals till they Ixdiave well. True, his flogging
rnwhine would save midi ,ns of money. Still, it is a
brutish system, and good only for Burdens and
Austrians. Dapeint on it, one of the first eftaits of a
ballot-elected parliament will be the abolition of both
cat and cane, and the can too, the election can, the
can, the beautiful can the brimful can, the foaming
can, filled by the publican and paid for by the can-
didate, after their canny canvassing I Well I all the
aforesaid C's must be thrown into the sea.

Then treaters will he hell traitors to their country,
because they force their-way into Parliament, through
false pretences of liberty, through • false "show of
hands, through favour or intimidation, 'so 18 to
stultify the Whole nation through a handful of
tampered and pampered (lectors. I know there are
many good anti honest electors who vote according
to their conscience, and, being truly independent by
position, sannot be purchased or bought, but, when
in the minority, they are truly sold.
He who doubts it, let him look at the municipal
election trick. Here is the recipe: Tap a few hogs-
heads of beer and casks of Spirits. Keep open table
for that day at most puidio-bonses, until every
publican is surrounded by pitchers like the King of
Bonny amidst his own council, and shows his radiant
fool/ace. What a picture gallery of pitchers tilling
and emptying themselves! What a glorious and
free specimen of shelf-government! So the nation
is ruled willy•nilly, swilly•awigg, higledy-pigletly,
through a handful of pig-headed, besotted, and
befooled electors. Friends! Briton! countrymen!
awake, sod dash away the election can!
Ibis is the way both our towas and nation are re-
presented. Therefore, no wonder that Poland,
South America, and Denmark, have been abandoned
to their fete; no wonder that we temporise and
shuffle about the outrageous claims of Yankeeland.
Let our statesman or Premier be ever so °lever and
wise, he is not backed by the nation, so he must
have recourse to shifts and expedients. Like a great
navigator, he cannot discover a new political world,
because he has only • scanty crew decimated by
worry and corruption. So be is obliged to tack,
back, and slack.
The only way to show the strength of the nation
is to put an end to the electoral farce and the puppet
show of the hustings, by enfranchising all honest
citizens, and adopting the ballot, which is so success-
ful in other oonntriee, especially the British colonies.
Until we do the lame the British Lion will gradually
become a harmless muff.

I dare may the next out in Punch or Fun will be
Americo enforcing her claims through three bailiffs :
Ruaaia, Austria, and Prussia; or, again, like the last
Roman gmperors purchasing pesos from the bar-
barians, before being invaded by them. But no;
out' present Premiet may yet be reconciled to Re-
form I we may again hear his Reform rustle and
buatle. Gladstone will be his loadstotte, with a

Bright prospect.
Well, then, the remedy is as excellent as simple.
The Revaleuta Britaunica will purge the electoral
body of all its gross humours and coarse habit. It
will cure all disorders and distempers, evenrobolera,
by a better drainage. The best salve against bad
legs and arms of the working classes, proud fleab, and
hard-heartedness of the upper classes, against bad
smells and eye-sores of our towns, cuts on the skin
among our sailors, soldiers, and schoolboys, general
oorraption of electors, compressed chests and sinews
of the tat and fate payers, and even other swig
evils will be successfully treated; and last, not least,
no pay for all those wonderful cures.
Population, taxation, infection, every thing in-
creases around us, besides price of provisions; we
therefore require more gumption than ever.

MARY BROWN.

WIMBORNR • I
NB. FRECIIAII'a Cies.—ln the Curt of queen's
.biscit, Westminster, Nottember 9. (Sittings in Blnco,
the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Melor, Mr.
I,4ettee. Shoe, and Mr. Justioe Lush.) The Court was
''aisenpied a groat part of the day in the re... Mar of one
rr'stiokseman, an attorney. This was an application to
. off the rolls one Freeman, an attorney, lately
' eirrying on business at Wimborno, in Dometsiiire, for
' alleged fraud upon a client. The substance of the case
on the part of the client (the ariplin() was, tilt the
attorney had raised money upon the security of his
client's name and deeds, for e professed purpp eof
obtaining money upon there dr him, and had Inkier.
lenity °birdied the money thereby for himself and put
it into his own pocket shortly before his bankruptej.
The use on the part of the attorney was that be had,
With the full knowledge of his client, obtaimd the
51avy for himself, so that whatever impropriety there
ht have been in the transaction there was no fraud
, misrepresentation. The outline of the use Was as
f owe :—The attorney, as already meationed, wiled
business at Wimliorne, and there were two Dorset-
re farmers *hem hi kne*, named Leyte and
Dorset-
shire
Ricketts. The latter Owed Money, MOO tri due Prior,
end wonted; sii lit reprbiented, to raise money to pay
, hint oft In May, 1863, Freeman, the attorney, whose
Ghent Rioisette wee, set a note from hire and Liege, on
Which be raised £2OO from a bank, which, it was ad.
mitred, he had received and applied to his own purpose,
In October, 1863, Freeman from Ricketts the title
deeds of some property of his, and raised 2200 more on
a mortgage of that property, and also on an rusigtmee)it
of a reversionary Interest in mime polities of his own, Be
himself (Vreetiten) being • party to the deed.' There
was e. complete conflict of evidence as to whether
' Rioketts, On the oussion of Sieve two transactions, was
made aware that Freeman was to raise anti receive the
coney for hituelf, sad not fee his client, and that he
icketts) would he liable for it. Bet there we. Me'
t evidence, by more than one person (putting aside
li,
likeernan) that Ricketts wsa made fully aware of it, Sul
the deed we. read over and explained to blot mid that
lie quite understood all about it. Itickett's Version of
the matter, kmetiver, *as Out he thought the money
Vie tO be reteed mod applied for his own purposes, and
' sopoeially. to pay off Prior; but against this version of '
the ease there we. the With:way of the writteniestrits`•
meat, the deed, the espretsevidesoe of one or two tirlie
nesaes, and the subsequent °mane* of Ricketts himself;
who, &Meath his own case wan that, in fact, the mow.
WO not reoeived by himself or applied to bis.pur,
'did not apply either to Prior to know if he bad pima •
.•tbe money, or to Freemen tohriewlf he had so ..
it; but, on the imam, inocil:orbeir, 1868, as
flowevsess ileer,F,ttr. his it Puy, tet!rrl;ll awfiter :de"be;'
coming bankrupt, and he (Ricketts) being pressed for thb
money, set up tltait4l had bees defrauded in the mattet,
and he had °btu • rule to strike Freeman off she '
rolls on the groun that in both transaetione he had
obtained his (Pieket;til) rums &ad security by false repett&l
, imitations as to the purposes to which the money Wilt WI
be applied, and esuecially as to the terms of the distill
and the nature of the transaction, and that thosOssu
effect, he had obtained £4OO by means 0 fraud. This ,
matter had mune before the Court in ii fishnet term and I
had bust referred to the Master, sod one of the Masters,
:Mister Rodyeres, had accordingly erstnined Idio it, and
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