The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-07 00:00:00

Otbons Ij tic.

Ptvmouvw, Thursday evening. The Dutch
steanivessel Comitia, Captain Mutendiun, from
Trieste for Rotterdam, put into the Sound this after-
noon, for the purpose of landing 38 officers and men
and 3 passen• ers belonging to the Liverpool steam-
vessel Scamander, which sprang a leak and foundered
in the Bay of Biscay on Tuesday. The troop-ship
Mahe Ranee, Captain John Carr, from Calcutta,
October IS, arrived in the Sound this evening, with
about 400 discharged soldiers under the command of
Captain Warner, 2nd Bengal Light Cavalry. She
spoke, December the 22nd, the ship Nightingale,
from Shanghai for New York, and the barque
Calphuniia, of and for Liverpool; and January the
the 7th the Eliza, of Bristol, 28 days from Ply-
mouth, for Manilla. On the 30th ult, a heavy gale
I (rein the south-west was experienced °tithe Lizard.
The steamship Demetrius, (ruin Alexandria, fur
Liverpool, with rudder broken and stern post
damaged, and exhibiting signals of distress, was
fallen in with on Tuesday, taken in tow, and brought
into Plymouth Sound to day by the screw steamer
Crimea, Captain Glover, from Liverpool January
the 28tb, for Lisbon and Trieste.

Exrrita.—Rnilway Accideut.—On Friday the
express train leaving Exeter 12.50 a.m., when a
; short distance above etiwley Bridge, came into COD-
tact with two bullocks, belong to 'Mr. J. Davidge,sif
! Mill Farin, and killed them on the spot. It appears
: that the animals were in some marshes adjoining the
railway, near &afford-bridge. The cattle were in
char4e of a lIIAII, named William Hutchings, who
I was in the act of driving them, together with other
bullocks and horses, acme the lime to a marsh op-
! posite. The breaks of the engine were applied when
' tit cattle was first seen by the fireman, and the
I speed uas greatly slackened, otherwise two horses
: which ran in fnmt of the train for some considerable
, distance, would also have been killed. Hutchings
I was brought up on Saturday week at the Castle, and
I tined £5 or 2 months' imprisonment for his gross
carelessness.

Tivithrox.—QuEves BENcHL—The Owen v. The
Justices qf Tieerton.—ln this case • certiorari had
issued to remove two convictions by the justices of
Tiverton, whereby they had convicted a. person
name.' Frost of a malicious injury to property. The
defence relied upon by Frost was, that the acts were
done in the defence of his right to a garden, and he
obtained the certiorari upon the ground that the
magistrates bad proceeded wituout jurisdiction,
when the title to the land was in question. On a
previous day, it was stated to the Court, on the part
of the magistrates, that they had disregarded the
queition of title, because they believed it was not
set up &mope, and that Frost had been guilty of
excwauve violence. Leave was then given to the
inagistrates to tile additional affidavits on this rule,
which was to quash the conviction, and it now ap-
peared from their affidavits that it was proved before
them that Frost had struck at the woman with a
hammer; that he had struck ber on the breast, and
kicked her on the leg in a violent manner. Mr.
Coleridge contended, on this evidence, that the con-
viction., were right. Mr. Prideaux, for Frost, con-
tended that where the right was in question the
magistrates had no jurisdiction. Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn said he was now satisfied that the CUIIViC•
tiOt) was right, and that the magistrates bad evi-
dence from which they might infer that Frost was
not acting in defence of is right., but was actuated by
malice in the attack which he bad made. —The rule,.
to quash the conviction refused.