The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1567.

the ordinary estimeass of the year : bet yet h hes
attracted very little interest. People have accepted
the °QUILT, all they have the expenditure Woolf, se
an noweloome neomeity—e matter which no one mut
feel enthusiastic about, and which, whatever
pedantic oriticisin it may excite, givesoo opportunity
form. attack by the Opposition. Before the latter
movement can be mid., there must be some ml.-
carnage in the expenditsre itself, and this, it ill
fervently to be hoped, will not happen.

The obis( Parliamentary incident of the week is
the exposure of the clramistancas under which sing
Theodore's letter of three years ago was not
answered, and we may fairly hope thet it will iodine
the Foreign-office and the India-office to 00111111 to
some clearer nivierstandiog than seems now to exist
between them as to their relative duties in the East.
A letter from a Sovereign—a barbarian, no doubt,
but one with whom we professed to be on terms of
amity, and whom we have moseyed into the moiety
of mations—is received at the Foreign-offios. It is
sent to the India-office, and lies for three years on
the table of Mr. Kay,' • subordinate of that depart-
ment. The Foreign Mini/tar forgets its existaim ;
the Indian official is so incurious that he does not
ask why it has been seat to him, whether
It has bees answered, or what be is to do with
it. Mr. Layard explained his part in the
blueness on Thursday night, by the pies that
be never saw the paper; and the fact that
he never saw it, by the circumstance that
it did not coma within that section of his depart-
ment which was more especially under his control.
lii the early part of George In.'s reign the two
Principal Secretaries of Ste* who have since multi-
plied into five, divided the world into a northern
and southern department, and each attended to those
countries which lay above or below a oertain degree
of latitude. The Gadm-liteoretaries for Foreign
Affairs, permanent sad parliamentary, we learn from
Mr. Layard's statement, hays divided the world
between them ca a different principle. They go by
degrees of longitude, not of latitude. Ono sways the
empire of the East, the other that of the West Mr.
Layard, knowing more about the East than almost
any other man, had, of COWIN, the sub-department
of the West assigned him • and thecae it came to
pass that he
letter, the neglect of which, if it did not mom the
imprisonment and detention of the European cap-
tives, could not have conciliated that Sovereign.
Mr. Layard, however, as the representative of the
Forsign-offioe in the House of Commone, must have
been conversant with the whole range of our inter-
national policy. The active part which he took in
the negotiations arising out of the Abyssinian diffi-
culty is clew from his own speeches. The fact that
he was never informed of the existence of the Em-
peror Theodore's letter shows mu what a loom and
slovenly way public business may be transacted. A
Royal mimes's, which had travelled safely from
Debra Tabor to London, was practically love for
three years between Whitehall and Victoria-street.

Of oonres, the system is to blame far more than any
individual; and most of all, the system of entering
into relationship with remote and seini•barbarous
potentates, whose letters a busy statesman cannot
find time to answer, or even keep a corner for in his
memory.

Recent events only serve to eonfirm our belief
that there is no chance whatever of s Congress on
the Roman question being assembled. There may
be • Conference of Catholic Powers ; but now that
the French Government have declared in the
Chamber that "Italy shall
and that by Rome is meant the whole of the present
P ,nt,fical territory, while the Italian Ministry
declare to their Parliament that "Italy will
renounce her right to Rome," it is not likely that a
British Government would be a party to • Congress
which would be celled upon to endorse the proton.
Mons of France and crush the aspirations of Italy.
It is now clear that there is no ten media—no room
for compromise; and that the Emperor Napoleon,
emboldened by the recent favourable turn of events,
and resolved to re-assert his influent's in Europe,
will not concede an iota to Italy. In this awe, it is
not likely that the latter country would meet him in
Conference, seen ifGreat Britain, Prussia, and Russia
were willing to do so, merely to give European
sanction to • Napoleonic decree. The little Powers
have been ready enough to come into council upon
any terms, only tro glad of such an opportunity of
obtaining recognition of their independent ezistenoe,
and perhaps a fellow-feeling for a little State might
lead them to pronounce for the Pops's indepen-
dence, not knowing how soon the extinction of that
might be made a precedent for their own absorption.
Before we hare recovered from the impression of
the late hurricane in the West Indies, we hear of
• renewal of torrential convulsions there, of earth-
quake shocks with volcanic eruptions, and noose.
quest Ices of life and damage to shipping. Worse
still, it is now found that the West India hurricane,
within four days of its occurrence, bad its counter.
part in a terrible cyclone which raged in Bengal on he
night of Nov. I, and ravaged Calm* • for sight
hours. As many as 1,000 lives are seoertained to
have been lost, while more damage has been dour' to
the city than was inflicted by the lost great storm in
1564. The destroctioo of property is reported to be
enormous, and the necessity of at once relieving the
population rednondi to destitution has indorsed
the Government to announce that it will double the
amount that may be contributed by the public.
Whether it will be neoeserry to make an appeal to
English benevolence for the relief of the sufferers we
shall soon be informed.

The season has onoe more commeoced for those
sad oocurrenoes which seem eharsatenstio of the
richest country in the world. In no other country
but the Ltnited Kingdom would • penny tax in the
pound upon income raise the enormous sum of
£1,400,000 —not even in the United State.; and in
no other 000ntry, learnt of all in that we hays just
mentioned, and which is alone oomparable with oar
own for wealth and commercial activity, do people
die of starvation in the midst of fabulous riches.
We provide workhouses, and shelter in them about
• million of panpers—people who have actually no
mewled living bat at the expense of State charity—
and we support more than half • million more of
indigent persons in hospitals, asylums, almshouses,
and other charitable institutions. Yet, when we
have thus provided for at least a twentieth part of
the population independently of thei, own labour,
we leave untouched • mass of misery, the extent and
depth of which we can conceive only by some
specimens of it which occasionally come to
Only recently a decayed bookseller died in London
of sheer starvation. He had tried to keep soul and
body together in his old age by collecting cigar-ends,
bite of metal, bones, and old rags in the streets;
and by this precarious occupation he *woad some
five shillings per week, of which about half had to
be expended in rent. On the rest the poor creature
and his wife managed to eke out their mutenoe
until the cold weather come, when the old man
perished like a fly in frost. Yet there was supposed
to be • legal provision made for these old people;
and they knew it, and actually tried to take
advantage of it. They applied to the local overseer
of the poor for • little Illailt&0014 and were offered
the shelter of the workhouse ; but this they refused,
and preferred to starve. And now we have another
case, of • man who commenced life with £3,500, and
for some time carried on boonsee as • cigar-maker.
Having been ruined, he attempted to support his
family by making "polishing powder," which he
sold from house to home. His Mother, who was in
business in Manchester, paid the rent of his
dwelling ; but even with this assistance the wretched
victim of poverty could not keep life in him, and
startled the world by positively dying of starvation
in the midst of his starving family. These, se we
have said, are only specimen oases, which show us
what • mass of indigence and destitution there is in
the United Kingdom untouched by the poor law or
by private benevolence, and existing side by aide
with over-flowing riches and plenty. There is DO
want of benevolence in the British people—they
hays both the will and the means to relieve distress ;
yet, with all their good intentions and their national
wealth, they cannot prevent the awful modal of
"deaths from deetiaatMa." We cannot expect that
private benevoleeoe is to seek out and relieve every
case of extreme went; but we might well suppose
that • national system of relief to indigenes, like
the poor law, would perform this task. Yet we
know that starvation often does its work upon
poor wretches, as if there were no poor Is. and no
workhouses in the land • and this in mass where
mere shamefacedness or ;Padden reverses of fortune

cannot be adduced as • reason why the legal
provision for the puor is not taken 'advantage
of. People go on day after day, and week
after week, subsisting miserably upon an in-
sufficient supply of the barest necessaries of
and starve slowly to death rather than eater the
workhouse. Surely this ought to teach us two
things, and first that there must be something
radioslly wrong in the Poor Law syslan. We have
inmates enough in our workhouse, in all 000 science ;
but we bare not all persons there that ought to be
there, while there ars many inmates that have no
Claim to be thus supported by the public. We
manage to attract unworthy recipients of the national
charity, while we shut out really deserving sofiersta.
What more is required to prove that the foor Law
system or its administration need reform both in
order to make it apply to all fitting objects, and to
prevent its dime by the undeserving. BM there is
another thing shown by these sad mess of deaths
from starvatioa —tibak pendia; a reform of our
Poor Law which shall make it a redly indeed
system of relief, we must not imagine that we do our
duty by poverty in simply paying our poor-rates.
The season is approaching when the poor suffer most,
and when men's most generous instincts are aroused,
let us remember during this season, while deploring
recorded mass of starvation, that these are bat
specimens of wide-spread misery around no.

Tbo &shop of Salisbury having in the Hoses of
Lords declared his intention of placing in the hands
of every member of that House • oopy of hisC
—(Query : How many will read it?)—. copyn:
protest addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury
by 92 clergymen and 200 churchwardens of this
diocese, has also been forwarded to isiolt of those
members. They will now be able to judge, with-
out wading through the weary pages of the ()harp
itself, what are the points oomplained of, and so be
prepared for say qoasOpa that may laaroahor arias
oa sok**

Bonsttsbirr.

CONMITTBD TO THS DOW! 06UHTT PRISON.
Anises : Riehard Odds, bigamy at Wormonth.— Hard
Labour : John Evens, vagrancy at Radipole, 14 days;
John Kinsb,r, James Cooking, °tarp Williams,
William Turner, and Bernald Martin, diwbediencie ol
orders on hoard the "oarque Celt in Portland Roaos. 8
west.; Emma Dodd, vaysticy at Dorchester, 1 month ;
Msrlt liainways, poaching at Sixpenny Handley, 1
month; !teary layman, poaching at Code Mulkn, 1
month; Wary Downton, stealing a watch at Wey-
mouth, 1 month; Samuel Bow, stealing gin at Broad-
mune, 14 days.— tinprisolosievit Simian Cridland,
breach of the pease at Shrrborne, 3 months; John
Evans, stealing a Sate at Cluirdsloak, 10 days and 5
years to a Reformatory School,

RITUALISM IC Till DIOCESE OP SALISSURT.—We
beg to tall the attention of our readers to the following
letter. The position, age, and character of the writer
skim for his opinions the highest respect and deepest
attention "To the Editor of the Record. filr,—lt
Is true, as the Bishop of Salisbury said the other day in
the House of Lords, that his diocese has not been ' ins
eonstant state of turmoil;' but he will surely admit
that it has been in a very dikurbed Mato during the
Jut three_ yeera. And whence has the disturbance
arisen ? Whence the letters of remonstrance which
were seat to him three year. ago? Whence addresses
more recently? Wheree the late address from ninety
of his clergy and 200 churchwarden.! Whence the
large and influential meetings of the laity, kc., at
Dorchester, Warminster, and Salisbury? Whence
have these letters, adiressee, and meetinp arisen, but
from the teaching set forth in his last two Charges? I
have been an incumbent in his diocese over fifty years,
and I have never known it iu so disturbed a Aide as
daring the last three years, and not without cause.
Meanwhile, he says in his Charge, 'lt is time to be
outspoken. Truly it is ;it is well said. Let none,
then, hoist a neutral flog, nor attempt the via media
pewee% which is tenet with shoals and rocks, on which
many *oats have been wrecked; bat may the Lord
give us all grace to stand on his side, end 'earnestly
to contend' for the great principles of the Reformation,
even ' the faith which was once delivered unto the
saints,' and for which the Reformers suffered unto
death.— Yours faithfully, T. W. RIEDE. Rector of
Chesilborne, Dorset. Nov. 29, 1867."

kilo* got thrown from his hone, and bed his head
broken, through the unesren state in which the road
was left. Yet, all the time this work was in progress.
the footpaths at the entrance to FOrtnArton /sr/
slough, to the great annoyance and tin in ury
the hundreds who several times a day walk ,ere to
and fro, But at last thin grievance has come to the
ears of the Surveyor, and he laid a plan before the
Board at the hot meeting for remedying it. He lan.
" The footways leading into Vonlington, from the
bottom of the town, have been the cause of much
complaint. They may be very much improved by
taring down a gutter, curb, and paving, similar to that
laid down in Hlyde-path hill, commencing at the unit-
house, and extending so far as the houses beyond the
foundry, and on the opposite sites from the end of
Durngate-street, to the path recently laid." His
estimate for this work is about £5O, and the whole of
the stone required (about £4O worth) has already been
bought and paid for. So the new outlay involved in
providing for this much-traversal part of the town a
path " similar to that laid down in (Hyde-path bill,"
and not used by • dozen persons a day, is the•paltl7
sum of £lO. Yet this was sufficient to lead to the
postponement of the subject. A month is all too long
at this time of the year for a had footpath to go nntm-
proved, but if after that delay the necessary work be
ordered it will be a great boon to Fordington, and we
fsel sure the inhabitants will be oorrrspondingly
grateful to the members of the Local Board, and will
pay the rates just ordered with • better grace.
•• • •

Oostri Cooar. —The monthly court wan held on
Tuesday last by Judge Everett, and the only case
raa:ing any interest was that of Manley •. Redwood.
m a claim by Mr. Keeley, of the King's Arms
hotel, Dorchester, of £lB 6s, ld., for spirita, and the
debt WIIII contracted by the late Mr. .1. Redwood,
veterinary surgeon, He sued lirt. Redwood as admin.
istratrix to the estate of her deceased husband. The
plaintiff allowed on his amount •set off o' £5, for half-a.
year's attendance as veterinary surgeon on his horse', in
accordance, as he alleged, with a contract made with Mr.
Redwood some your,. ego, and carried out to the time of
his death. Mr. Welsford, for tbs defendant, presented
a claim of £lB Os. tki., as due from Kr. J. Redwood for
the doctoring of plaintiff's horses, which he was in-
structed woe copied Irani Mr. Redwood'. books, and be
further said they contained nothing to show them was
any special contract between him and plaintiff. This
quertion however, could not be Mind, as notice of the
set-off had not been given. Mr. Williford then ad-
vanced, with en apology for feeling it to be his duty to
escort to it, the 24th George 11, e. 40, a 12, generally
knows as the Tippling Act, which provided that no
action shall be maintained to recover, either in law or
equity, anr tam of mosey, for, or owe amount of, dir.
tilled spirituous liquors, where the liquors delivered at
one time, and mentioned in such article or item, do not
amount to the full valise of Mc. at the least. His
Honour upon this ordered that the items under SI
should be struck out. On ending numerous charges
for "brandy and soda-water," the judge directed that
the sum claimed for the sods-miter thould be eliminated
and allowed. —lir. Weleford contended that this could
not be done—as one port of the item was illegal.
the other part must also fall to the ground. In support
of this view he quoted the following 011,00 from Taunton's
reports, lliehaeliess term, 1810 :
• •

Scott trOilltursra—Thie was an acUon brought upon • bill of
exchange for £lO 10e. agalitet the moeptor. Upon the trial
of this ease, g the Middlemx sitting., after last tiinfty tens,
before Chief Justice Mansfield, it appeared Gut the drawer
ore thie bill to the keeper of • coffee home in payment for
the balanoe of a debt, part of which was contracted by the
loan of small sums of money, and part was for spirit., end
spirits mixed with water, iurniebed by the payee In nnall
quantitate, not amounting to 11:1a. at on. time. It eras urged
for the defendant that by the monde U Gen. 11, 0, 40, • 10,
the plaintiff could sot recover in thia action, and Chief Justice
Matiefield being of that opinion, non-suited the plaintiff.
Ser}eant Shepherd now moved to net said, the nos-suit and
h no a new trial : he urged that the •tatut• doss not, in
terms, avoid a security given for the pries of entitle eold in
emelt quantities ; It only says that no one shall nesintan
an action for the piles: end at all semis part of the confiders.
for the bill—the money lent—is a good cotudderstion I and
where a security le given fort good eoncideration and scold
c-ns'deration together, the Utter will not sr-id the security
In Info. Chief Justice Mansfield : The statute does not, In
terme, Indeed avoid the security, but It makes the considera-
tion mega, not merely void ; and the mcurity Is entire, and
cannot be approtioned ; and sinew It Is pertly given for an
Illegal coneideration, the whole bill Is void—Justice Heath
Perham It might be different, if for part of the amount of the
bill there were no sonsiderWen. Rule ref send.

The judge He says "tie security Is entire"—part of
the consideration being void, plaintiff cannot recover
the *um of the bill. I quite agree with that as far as it
goes. But we don't mean to give Mr. Manley the whole
of his claim, but only such part as he particularises as
soda-water. Mr. Weldon.] then read the clauses of the
Act in question, whin hie Honorer pointed out the
words "mentioned in such at ticle or item," and said be
was of opinion that did prevent his separating the
"item" into two charges, one for brandy and the other
for anda.water. But the judge had now also found that
a material portion of th• 24th Geo. If., a 40. a 12. bad
been repealed by the 25th and 26th Viet., a 38, vi t , ito
much of it as relates to epirituous liquors sold to be
consumed elsewhere than on the premises, where sold
and delivered at the resilient)e of the purchaser thereof,
In quantities .10i lege at one tisie than a reputed qoart.
By this repeal, his Honour pointed out that the charge
for bottle, of spirits that were "reputed quarto," and not
pommelled on the premises, could be allowed. Plaintiff's
Maim inelnded many such charge.. Mr. Weleford argued
that these bottle of spirits were fetched for Mr. Redwood
by • servant, and that the purchase was completed when
the several bottles were delivered to inch servant, and
that therefote they did not come within the exception
of the Act, not being "delivered at the resident,e of the
purchaser." The judge said he had never seen any dis-
tinction between sending a servant for it, and the seller
delivering it to his master. He felt sure that judges at
Nisi Privc would regard the point in the light of common
sense. When a man sent his servant for • bottle of
brandy, If there was any doubt in the matter, they
worth' tell the jury they might presume the
delivered it to the master at his house. Mr. Wastrad
submitted that in each a case the servant would he the
agent of both his master the seller at the same time,
His Honour disaented from this view, and paid the
ones proton& would rest with the defendant to show
the servant did not deliver the brandy. Nothing could
be more contrary to eqnity than the poaition Mr. Web.
ford had taken. Mr. Welsford hambly submitted the
section of the Act required delivery at the residence of
the purchaser by a servant of the seller. His Honour
refused to accept that interpretation of the seeon. Mr.
Welsford then called Mr. Manley as • witness for the
defence, and examined him as to the measure contained
in • " reputed quart" of spirits. He elicited that some
bottles eontained an imperial quart, and others less, het
he said all he sold were known in the trade as quart
bottle.. On this, his Honour remarked that a "reputed
quart" was what was generally known in the trade an •
quart. The result was that £2 19a. 4d., was struck off
the bill as irrecoverable, being the items on the bill
for spirit; or spirits and sodawater, in lest quantities
at onetime then came to 20a,exeept such less items were
for reputed quarts of spirits sold for consumption off the
premises; £5 the plaintiff admitted as a eel-off: So
judgment v1%80,1110 for the balance ES 6s. 9d. forthwith.

Til WaLEIL
Mr. Bishop called atten, tbe ernation of 10010
of the tram' in the west Walk, and the •bols qnsetim
of the suds of the trees in the meerel walks was referred
to the General Purpogis Committee.
to oat. BOARD or Hitel.rw.
The Eleresror, in his general report. called attention
to the Want of drains/mon premises in Fordinnton, the
ower-orowdied in Mill-etreet, the lad state of the rose
from Fordingten Cram to tbe new bridge, and the heed for
improvins tits footnaths at the entrance to Fordingt
rb
from the bottom of the town. The whole were referred
to the General Purposes Committee.

WEYMOUTH.
Mit G. R. Pergirtiageog, with big family, arrived in
COW'S, in his steam yacht Northumbria, on Tuesdal,
from Weymouth.
LITERART lirarrring.—On Wednesday evening,
Robert O.OBE, Esq., delived a lecture on the
"Lit. and works of Robert Nichol." There wsa an
average atteudaase.
Tgartuotilat.. - The Rey. 8. Fleming, who has
officiated at Trinity Church as curate for the past
eighteen months, hiss loft Weymouth. The seal and
ability with which the rev. gentleman hes performed
his duties have evoked warm sentiments of-eratitude
and «term from the mombers of his congregatiou, and
testimonial was got up and presented to trim on
Wednesday last, consisting of an address and a rune of
sovereigns, and a workbox, of Tuubndge ware, for Mrs.
Fleming. The address was signed by upwsrds of 100
members of Trinity Church congregation.
LAND BBARIA.-0( all ChM!' of the yew home,
"land shark" is the one most detested by the veritable
salt, and in all seaport towns we have frequent
illustrations afiorded no of the habit of the land
shark." Tn get money advanced, and then not go to
sea, Leone of the characteristics of Maim tribe. Wey-
mouth ii as free as most ports of the species, and by •
mos! favourable ...unease sre have got rid of three
of the worst specimen., for a time at all events.
though not without the trump card being played out. On
Wedneday five of the species shipped at London were
sent to Dorchester to " sweat " for simnel° of sooeths.
and of the five shipped here, to make up the mew of
the barque Celt, three were veritable land sharks, who
drew their month's "screw," boosted about, and then
refused to go to Fin. A fair wind warn blowing, bnt the
vessel warn detained, and • warrant breed for the arrest
of the nautical swindlers. The polies went on
board, and although Dorobaster gaol mad be about as
familiar to the men as their own Amide, yet for ones
they were " lanky," and preferred crossing the
" briny" to spending Cbriataiss in gaol. The square.
sells were all set, and luckily "shoot the three greatest
rascals lopping about the quays and swindling masters
of vessels" are cleared out of the town.