The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DOIWIIISATICIt, TIIKPIDAY, DKUKtiIIIKI4 14,101.

HON ?MTN A Ull4 ,r,

TIMIRAPHIII dempatehes were received on rd.
day night in anticipation of the Calcutta and
China malls, Thu Indian news is nut of later date
than that already received by the Bombay mall.
Lord Ktoitt4 was daily expuuted at Hong Kong
on the VOth of October Canton bad become
perfectly lIIIIUt trade had been resumed, and
foreigners were able to walk in any pert ado city
with perfect safety. The Indian Proclamation,
to which we adverted in our summary last week,
wee followed by one front Lord OLVell on taking
the field on October 'JO, announcing his intention :
to enforce the law, to observe the strictest distil-
Ohm In the camps and on the unwell, to protect
life and property where there Is no rusistailee,
and to give up to fire and plunder every house
and village from which a shot may be aced upon
bin troops.
The arrests at Skiltheruen and Bantry of Id
parlous uharged with being members of an 1110,
gal society low created inneh exeltetnunt in
Dublin although the event °mild not have been
altogether unexpected, inentituelt as so far back
AM the Mel of October the existence of unlawful
aseociatione In the west of Cork and in part of
Kerry WM distinctly aluminum' lit some of the
rompuetable Dublin journals, Indeed, thu fact.
WM made plain in the oelebtated oorrespondonee
between the editor of the Maim', and Mr Swan
()' 111t1 KM, and It Is now said that from that time
the flovernment have not been inactive, a ohm)
' watch having been slim kept upon the parties
on whom strong suspicion rested of complicity
I with the foolish conspiracy which hits thus pre-
maturely exploded,

THERN is it good deal of pulp jwit now, rather
than Notion,' debate, upon the subjeot of Reform,
It being well understood that the Danny Ad-
ministration are to oome out in the next Session
of Parliament In the °lmitator of Reformers,
some ottriosity is naturally excited as to Cho
figure they will make in this new lino ; and
some lively speculation is indulged as to the
nature of the reception likely to be given to
their efforts by the groat Englieh public. Then
there are the very active labours of the Birming-
ham Reformors—their manifesto—their Hat of ,
grievances—their Reform Bill all out and dried. ,
Their demands are comprised under three die-
Boot heads ; only one, however, being of a
definite 11.101 comprelienelve ultaraoter, namely,
" Veto by Ballot." The other two " points "
are, " A large extension of the marrow'," and
"A more equal apportionment of members to
population," These are the ground. of the
political agitation whieh hai iti rise in Birming-
ham, and hopes to (Mom itielf all over the
country with tile Willte congenial ardour as is
found to foster its growth on Its native coil.
We °tomtit pay precisely in what spirit these
potrintie exertions are likely to be met by the
country hereafter, but, 1101 (111' to WO my judge,
there seems to 110 II 111104 provoking want of
itmeitivenese no to the validity and Importanee
of this illrutuiugiia,ti movement, Mr,UItJIi II?
1144 Rhone with all his wonted Metre at Dinning.
ham tool Moneheeter, but whether lie hiw
moiled In lighting the way to the great dub
deritto Ic sninewhot doubtful. The opporent
110111'11'1mm which prevAlle as to Reform CC
monody lie less emintraging to Lord DAM
himself hot parliope lie Ilittie einisolotion In the
idea that the obit which rules around is
nothing hitt a trommil ond Usuilhliutwlilt morello
of pothole till the pori Of the lirillsli people
hueusniiiily Awolling the RITIVAI of that great
@pooh In Itielory when we ikon
really tioe-.whot we obeli sm. It would mein
from the holfeerilim, holfzployful speech of the
@holmium of the liuisp. I4ltW Hood the other day
ilinilitless 'mows Anittalliiiig aloft It..
thol the 111011i1111% now preparing by the UMW
(luttjiiiet Ii In he both " deep hod Wood," from
whist' It Is to be tutored that 61141
ttel'ilrin 11111 will he a reality And not a sham,
Dui the eptother WAN too deep to let tie lake the
length and willth of Min i and beyond this, we
may my with Mr Lowe at Kithlermineler,
we know nothing, we tem Imagine nothing "
Undoubtedly, the inewowed intelligence of the
day mils Nth strong dentonds fly an elletislon
of the privilege of porlielpittion In the govern.
mill of the etmtitry anti to title It may be
replied, that the intension must be viewed more
as a right to be claimed, than a orniosasiou tend.
ing to any great and phylum benefit to the
(wary. With regard to the ballot, there is
still, certainly, a very strong and over.
wheltning reptignailee to meet voting—ln this
boasted land of liberty and freedmen but it is
mint to be denied that the number of admirers
of the secret proem is leaguing, and that stone
distinguished and stanoh opponents of the bal.
lot have lately been observed rather to evade
then condemn this proposed innovation, One
thing is pretty eartain, that Lord Denali mea•
sitre will embrace no 'ugh provision as vote by
ballot, nor stieh an extension of the privilege of
voting as that understood by minimal ouffilige,
Then " the more initial apportionment of members
to population" is a proposition in Itself so vague
and complicated, and obviously anketing to a
greater or less extent existing rights In the
matter of voting, that It is extremely diffietill to
conjecture whether even the Government will
touch it at all. But as to an extension of the
suffrage, there smuts every reason to believe that

the GIMPY Reims 11111 will really do something
In this illreution, Whether the estolielon will
be stallelently " large to satisfy Mr.
his party, of amnia nobody mit my—not +von
Mr, Hewer himself I but he nifty have a MIIIIIII4I
guess In the matter lint in the highest depute
enewiraging to their expeutationt The Ite-
formers of repiell,tte the idea that
they seek Reform fur the mere sake of ;Mange,
and ilsolare that they desire change " because
We want a good Government." Their argument
Is that successive ministers are eternally engaged
in struggling fur power and ejecting one another
from its possession, to the total neglect of all the
important business of legislation. Extend the
suffrage to a large class of persons who do lint at
present enjoy the privilege, then we shall have it
real national Administration I then all the groat
questions in finance, in commerce, in morals,
and in law will be fairly and adequately dealt
with and party warfare, the °libels end in-
trigues of rival statement anti place-hunters will
mass and determine ; and the House of
Commons, refiectieg truly the national will,
influenced solely by the purest patriotism, will
for over magnanimously discard the remotest
idea of personal ambition awl political power 1
For our own humble selves, we eau only say that
if all these virtue., all this exemplary devotedness
to the public weal, all this high integrity and
self-denial can be ensured to us by bringing clown
the eleotoral qualification to the level of bum-
hold suffrage or ratepaying wants°, of the lowest
I standard, the publio must amount themselves
blessed with such immeasurable advantages pro-
cured on snob easy terms. But if the great
Reform Hill of 1832, with it. largely tintran-
Ailing powers, has given us at this time of
day, lit the year of grime, 185 B—with all that
growing intelligenoe in which we protium it will
not be denied the great body of electors have
participated—if, we say, the Reform Bill 1111 i
given us up to this date a state of things no bettor
than that described as now existing by the Re-
formers of Birmingham, then our hupes of itit-
prominent and amelioration through the agency
of the smallest householders and ratepayers,
who, wears expressly told, are to work so much
InoompareLle and unprecedented good for this
°wintry, must really be after all of a very
equivocal, a very slender kind, The Binning.
ham Reformers say i—" There is no national
" Administration I the work of the Legislature
"is negleoted ; measure after measure is
"Introduced and abandoned ; eonuniesions hum
" without result and the real work of login
" tion Is made subordinate to the posseuion of
"ofilm," This is the ease of these Reformers ;
whether it is a good one is another thing. Few
persons, however, will be disposed to comer in
the allegation that the Act of 1832 was the
abortive measure here represented ; and few will
nimit that legislation has been asleep, and the
°wintry so shamefully trifled with, for the last
six-and-twenty years. Passing over the Utopian
ideas roweled upon the " large extension of the
" stamp " sought by the Reformers of Bir-
mingham and muslin/ over the exaggerated
antl, as we think, somewhat damaging stittament
MI to the progress of legislation, and the effiency
of their panacea in the three-pointed charter, we
nevertheless agree in the proposition of a mu.
tied household or ratepaying antlbige, That is
a dump which is, in our opinion, safely end
penoefillly attainable, and would secure the ow
franehisement of the great bulk of those who
now leek the rights of eltimuship, And in these
admenl times, we are among those who view
these rights as jest claims otherwise, the boasted
enlightenment of the age breaks clime under the
most legitimate test, Ulm those who desire
the enrolee of these rights will devolve the
responsibility of using Elwin properly. We find
by returnee° to statisties, of much importance) iii
considerations of this kind, that there were fit
England and Wales, when the last census Mks
taken, 3,278,030 inhabited houses. More than
I one family °campy mail of these homes ; and
whore the mutipations are so ilistiiiat ail to enable
the moupants to be separately ratua, the head
of each family would of course be entitled to
claim as a bond jide householder, If on amount
of the class thins indicated we tutil 350,000, we
shoeld probably be above the inark. This, how.
over, would give the grose total of 3,1128,030
and if from these be &hutted one-sixth for teen
meets occupied by women, we shall in round
I numbers have three millions of electors in Emi-
-1
land and Wales. Then these electors may have
added to their number entailer class, which
would certainly do no discredit to the privilege
granted, ana would in no way derogate front the
merits of Reform as a mouser° demanded by,
and marching onward eoeformitbly with, the in-
telligence of the day—we moan the auxiliary
franchise founded upon educated skill In some
particular avocation. But when it is oott-
'Mimed that the total millibar of families
is but 3,712,200, and that the total num-
ber of adult males does not malt exceed
5,000,000, it seems obvious that some Outage in
the direction we have just referred to might well
be accomplished, WI that fur all practical per-
poise the labour, skill, and industry of the
country, might be brought within the pale of
active oitizenship. How far may Lord D1141111'14
bill may eittisty any reasonable expectations on
this head is a mystery which can apparently in
no way In anima until the piled, now mining
to materity in the Cabinet, is formally unfolded
to the Parliament awl the wintry,

PallifflaNTNß Pi IVIINU (WNW AI 4attaTi glittlirday.
-Dor market 11/1111 lorgaly supplied with all Mode it
eraino whluit met 11 111111 111110 at barely but weekie
spollationo A ulturaitue Wits 111111 @treated at the
uhow of the 'market,
Attlelle. 144klitl fttlif liltillilltiol 011i101111414 141,11
or AT 14Tu--At Ail side Willifil took plasm on
ehtiorday loet there Was a moderato supply of fat
hew* mot Antal), !kWh ware MI *old there Nang a
good ilelomut Do 104 at lie lid, iu lilt (lii, per
more, RIP; for Mutton at flail, 140 M.
Mr. HdWard Pope, of Dwell Tolle,. tiarricd Id the
lireyrim of NI4 Ilw Isle IloVial lielk fin r, d oleo thp
eilve inedol le the limiter, at the Notillilleiti Club
1411 e Whew tut week,
-11estut, motviotwi Alit filthy TtsiNvil iiiiiphoiti
110 carries at )101 ll 114111 fill 'Pliimility itel Wm
I WTI alittillillift, T Naflllfill Wlel p Flied hy
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1
a ilre, who Mli fiir all 101 the fu towing Tit In
lloloaolanot 1111111fi Is Vira II Itll 111 I it Il 1111
IIWIIIIIIIN all (ha lOW o Ma Out head ked ly, And
ye 11141 complete ii Him,
(Innltermas tinhitlAye.—The }Women at many
tone nara.plready Aletegared non, euepenipl
iii diem mimatillay‘i tha oil il 111, liaflit (is illail hal
OAHU the oppoiltiiiity to , eilllig 111111Nr..1111,
p thly Ili ilirlliiiiii. TI. liiWii mi la a end
.eint
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ril:
Its many Wore olothleto lees WI ittflls Nor i Ow
the groat nee OA will HI within itedly inm 0 of Me
homi will be liionitierobla slella of II anti Inj Mid
friendly nature, ill Interchange sit mutual good will,
ond Ilse re,uniun of families useesearilly upended by
the stun duty of fighting the battle of life lit velusue
antl distant pole of the country. To mins if thou
the Iltreellekei leave will flir them mono be Molted
1111.111 Al a bright spot In their seleyenue—somothing
to look Ibrwerti lo mill hi prepare Mr.-smoothing to
revert to with plwahlre and aatiallfutififf hi sitter than
—whin's, iint for thia generous eimeession, might
seldom If ever, some to Cheer the doll tomtit of dilly
labour or dilly, to warm the heart of alibution, 111111
help to sustain mill keep alive the best feelings of
the heart, A moat respestable tradesman of this
borough, signing himself " Dorchester," has, in
another oolutitn, addreemt to on the eulkleut and
advocated the holiday 1 and we would willingly ollbr
whatever loduenoe we may hare Its support of the
movement, whluh we Cr. glad to see is very gene.
rally enuouraged by the provincial prlol4.
(JONPNOTIONIIIIY, &0,--We may invite attention to
hir. Woolaton'e announcement in another subunits,
front which our maul' will Hod that Isle estehliell•
mut will he provided with an amplu amortment of
cakes Jellies, °reams, and many other good thinge
for illivietunte, so Indispensable on adjunct to the
more enlist fare of rout beef, So, Heals., (dem his
Resistance In preparing for dinner and copper parties,
and promisee On 'apply every minds of the but
deiloriptiun and at a moderato prim.
CuU/ITT YNTTY Ossaiosa.—Onturday, Dee, ll,
Before li, Williams, and W, 1,. Militias, twire.-oArie.
hoer Lamy, Jen., of Charmlnster, was summoned for
damaging gmu, by walking over end treedlnit II down, Its
a field al Charmineter, the property of Hr. Richard
Obemen. It appeared froui the evidence that there had

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both Aliliotalviry, was sliiiimoned or takin hg a are,
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noun.' that the imiy noted tinder 1641h/ctn.'. of Ors lam
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John Nolo, A nlatoloyer nit the (kraal Weider.% RAIL.
way, was sniimioned fin luting it wir In take rue on
the siding of li. railway, in 010 411441.4"11
Rwi., at Frampton, ?Med lON., eosin 7.1 11d.
An order Of AllllllllOll WAN 11111,111 OttP'eta lug. Whirr, a
Inlimirwr of Illinriiiinoter, tor the maintenance of the
1111gIthilate olilld 4.1 Ilarrint itaitiwags, of A I.lmitabitry,
A 111111111 r Ortlllll WA/ MOO DO JOii /1101101, A Oaf•
politer, of ltple, islo if Muhl, for the mointemmen of
Rio iiilgihiiunbui ullll.l of Rlisa tluleman, of 141.011111111,1111.
hotet, lahonror of Broadway, wan siminioned
by Ploperliiteisilont Evorlll, for being driink and ills.
orderly at liroadway, tented na„ and es GI, costa,
llooliao of the 11111; Preston 61111 1411NiUll Point',
was transferred from 1 iiilitiiu Yrederlek Billett, Ia
1./barium Cheosonimi Whittle,
Thu Ileenwe if the Nwttut Brnailway, was kranderred
from Wlllllllll Oruliard to Charles Rogers,
11111101 inlet) To Di I !WU VATNII Milo —1111)/1.1011/1111011
Richard (lowloy, ,Ilsolnollenoe of orders on louird the
Ohio, ak 7 dive I William Rayne' and
Mary Ann Haynon, vograilay, AI Fordnigkon, 7 day*
iftitul Libuur Ltimlui 141,tltlt, *Or*lltug A puilluo*O, at
Stallirldge, aalmilar !lima!' !Ivory Nunn**, luaving
faulty 04argualilu, at Upittlituttu V calundar months'
Juno Arnoh, iiitoutiuuj at Pitlullultitttoit, 1 oalnittlar
month I Unorge lirand awl Whorl Hisoilon, armik on
INV 1111bUltrIl Of the 11111111101111, Purgand 111 days,
111 day§ **Mary I Wing. Joltii.amt, awearlui line
profane uatli4l itt kltallirldige, 10 ilnys .fikoul) OTalou.d,
roaolono, .1 410011011ory, V oalendar ***lONj Maynivl
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