The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

DORSET COUNrt. EXPREM
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SOCIS,OF THE MINK.
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it 94 w9l4,:largi4o Yeit**ollk
..r. , ad e were beguining,bck,aryk,
. not ,to i babe been in its destiny, and till .
IT have dearldei that Mr. Windham by sate; •
Aid "competent -to manage himself, his-measu-
ages, tenemeifes; lands, goods, and -chattels."
Inc the way of a sensation trial we have had.
'.l99thing like it since the Yelverton marriage •
,se' and for the sake of British jurisprudence, •
„Ario heartily pray that no sue& case may ever
occur again. In the beginning of November an ~
1 !application was made to the Lords' Justices for
yr pommisaion of lunacy against Mr. Windhato.
;lved betly.of contradictory evidence," says.
' 110'farrerijntiis summing up, "being brought
before .thein •*-t, affidavit, there was no other ,
:bourse forthesebedno do as they had done, and
---,nil tbecOlie toile deoided by a jury." To a, '
'34'llnis sent, and the jury were
'liel'esee thirty-four days. Dar
411111-11 , had eight Ur• riators and one
Arend". -witnesses to assist than, in
,aeriedigiet•theirierdict. In addition to this,
l'they hascl,;94 the, Isat day, a private interview
lii.th .Mr. Windhatn,. which lasted. 4*o four7hriers, and they questioned him on the ,said
eventaof his life, from his early boyhood to the
• of that unlucky marriage which for the first
suggested to his relatives that he had been
'lit4ll7 imbecile l awl having seen for theta-
:l4/1e wailltd pound mind, they declared
so Maisie verdict. And now it remains to be
r,mien whether the Picture which Mr. M. Cham-
bers area, of thetesult :of such a verdict will be
realised. ...11.106-114.-Windkians.-be pronounced
sane," he warned the jury, "and what will
follow 1 Felbrildelikil4llMrscenii of his early and
, childish enjoymen ad Felbrigg estate, ths
boast of his little min Would speedily pass from .
d,ffili
.06,0014011. " trhFr /7 birds would - fly into
tAle of the ancient mansion,- and Mx.
,IFintri wonld be turned adrift a beggar and
vaa outcast.", Theidea is suggestive. If, when Mr.
riVindham goes•lssiek to Felbrigg, he finds any
Itifity'birds there; they will undoebtedly strongly
remind him of Mr. M. Chambers and his clients,
likla 'of ill omen, worse
Anite &Igen, who flap
- ' the old ancestral
h..eineerlini. ortates. And now
_ . Ilisosorysiballihail we say or it 7
otufpereon keen thousand who ,will.
to assert that' it ought en*ritr 'lmre;
- -, getting up. of the
,prile"WasWicrth_ ,-,
Pei'llePe,, m ebcilßlif lilt fttr
, can Rum theyi_riej:;_ithir
the le ,0mi0461 Ar4•Vf eiri:
of Sir Hug 'Cairns. ' .$ „ ,'
—Monster trial, so disgraeriful• to the
,l'etiatio, and still more so to,his relation' 1- id
Ininous to the unfortunate young man, abbe.
persecutions have done much to throw a *Oil
over his folly, this fearful forensic display Might;
•rill have been spared had the Lords' Justices, in-
stead of sending the case before a jury, but
liken the tronbre of having a four hours'inter-
view with the "ward in Chancery," asthe jury
'Aid on Thursday last. Is it not monstrous, that
for the sake of form, this gentleman should have
,ihrourred an expenditure, in all; of nearly forty
thousand pounds to prove that a lie was not the
ltliti2 t What a black picture of the meanness
4nd, mai, Of human nature does this trial hold
-to .mil Agnes Willoughby is bad enough.
_et 'unmarried life was deplorably blemished,
rdA there are very few men who would have
entured upon the, rash experiment of Selecting
.0 wife from the class to which she belonged.
•MAiisiashe worse than General Windham? Is it
. diagrabefuL for the heir of Felbrigg to
-',than to be the blood

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America, has been _the establishment of the
"British North American Association," which
held • preliminary meeting at the London
Tavern on Thursday last. The object of the
association is "to disseminate official informa-
tion regarding the material resources of the
British. North American Provinces, in respect to
the employment of capital and labour, to collect
and place in available form for the use of the
provinces, information, not only as concerning
the development of their commerce but also as
recording the progress of the arts andaieiences,
and of their social and political condition:" r The
'unanimity of the meeting was so great, that one
really cannot help wondering why nobody ever
thought of forming such an amociation before.
It is well known that all foreign nations of im-
portance have official representatives in London,
which form the medium of communication be-
tween this Government and those by which
they are sent but our colonies have no ambas-
sador*. Though the:vast countries forming the
dependencies of the British Empire, in America
and Australia, have all, sorts of interests which
have to be looked after at home, they are deati-
Auto of any official representatives who could
*wise the required supervision. It is true
iwe have whet is called, "The Colonial Depart-
-Meat" attached to the functions of the British
Government, but the Colonial Secretary. may be
i wail to represent the mother country rather
than the colonies. Sir John Ferguson M.P.
in proposing one of the resolutions to meet-
ing,the
justly remarked that iti was evident' to those
who la 4 studied the relationship of this country
with Canada, that great need existed for emi-
rate information respecting the progress of the
tlrwo4vineekand the inducements that were then
, till Otlt 'for emigration. It was a nemarkable
Ahat ;,many well-informed porn:ins in this
•eountrynlsad only very crude ideas SI to the
roommates,/ that part of the empire. During
the • past year emigration from this country to
,the United States had considerably decreased,
imid increased in proportionate ratio to Canada.
Eir James might have added, that not' only had
the emigration from this country to Canada
be
'en doubled, ' but that emigration .kaia•taken
place from some of the Northern States into
New Brunswick. New England farmers readily
~
)palpared their condition under a needy, dis-
'traeted Government, with that of the Weir
Brunswickians just across the border; and a
o4flittinehas been the result of the comparison
lift Very 'Many instanceb. Half the quarrels of
r'' 90 !PIM arise from misunderstandings.' In the
, Ilein4t •Way many friendahipe, which ongitt-ic
fructify, fail from ignorance 4 e from one side
other. The new association will, we trust, b
diffusing a large amount of information to
persona desirous of emigrating, and by bringing
about a friendlier and better understanding be-
tween ourselves and British North America, be
' the means of cementing the bond of union more
closely between the two countries.
The Mayor of Great Yarmouth has written a
letter to his 'brother Mayor at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, not only declining to subscribe himself
,to the Hartley Colliery fund, but severely
, condemning the subscription. The tragedy
which has excited universal sympathy, the
misery of the four hundred widows and orphans
Whom the calamity has left destitute, produces
in his breast" no emotions which carries the
' finger to the purse string. From Her Majesty
to the humblest class of, her subjects, everyone
has pitied and tried to relieve ; but the Mayor of
Great Yarmouth cannot concur in such a
procedure. They .are all wrong—Queen and
subject This giving of money to alleviate the
dreadful sufferings of the surviving relations of
those who met their death in so shocking a
' mannerin the New Hartley Colliery, is "a gross
njustice to a large class of one of the moat
peglected of God's huinan family:" In explana-
tion of the extraordinary conclusion the head of
tire Yarmouth corporation ,liali come to, he
iiggeeta that " the owners of the colliery are
lable to all that has otterred ;" and illustrates
d* pcsption to thctinitalogotis cases of fatal
incidents on railways.;.„,rfoW we can go so far
mak the Mayor of Gast Yarmouth as to believe
',tint Sortie alteration in ,the law with regard to
Whiling of Mines is necessary. It is Trite
' 'that the Legislature should interpose to
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• better security against accidents to the
Waning population, and we trust that the Corn-
*Wien just appointed by the Home Secretary,
Will furnish a basis for an Act in reference to
iiti‘te
' subject. B'dt so far as the sufferets from
e recent catastrophe are concerned, any such
-measures coins too late. The "ten guineas"
Which he Offers to subscribe towards any fund
'tliiit might be set on foot, "to test the law upon
Ae alleged Mcident," or ",to aid in,LlfroMuing. a
mr which will confer justice on the' Irkii•kixes in
laines" is ill-timed. A course of aciabn inch as
ldie suggests could not effect the proprietors of
,Ahe: New Hartley Colliery who, it is said, have
: , n ruined by the lattiacciderrt; it Could not
filienefit those who heite been bereft of those who,
'.Md they uottleezt eat off would have supported
About. by tbelonent labour of their hands. And
9 e the siggestien comes too late for the case
~ . tit* consideration; Wit on the other hand too
gll
y—anticioating as it does the final and
iberate decision of the -LegisTature, who are
about to haws the case brought before them in
011 he she ofsißill by the Home Secretary.' We
idAni therefo tit,SMS* with the Mayor of Yar-
i
-*tali "the'eMitruidaM betas arrived at, that it .
kis either wrong ts givti to the sufferers from the.
i.llartley Colliery Accident, or that it is right
'fin the public to take legislation on the subject
out of the hands of Government.' When people
lint up their purse strings upon " principle," we
gimierally know what it means. It is the easiest
pweessil and most decent pretext in the world
for timing their Money. 1
_.Alitin Baron Rimaoli said'the other darin,
the Italihn Senate that even at that very nit:anent
the PIAMIIII question might he taking a nee- 'and
. at step towards a final solution, he spoke
•witla something more `thawa vague and general
Meaning. At that Wiry time France was apply-
ing a new pressure td itie.Pqpe ; M. D. lava-
Iltitte,! the French ambaMador at Rome; item
diplomatically squeezing Cardinal Autopellito ,
nose if any concession of' a' more praetisal" kind
Was yet attainable; whether , the Pope Would'
diondeseetul to accept accomplished 'Biota, re-
serving all his spiritual riihta, andrcome to en
,oderstanding with the civil powqm of Italy.
;The result was a
,simple failure. The Cardinal
'replied that all negotiation with the "usurping
ro'wer" uas impossible. The Pontiff, the Sacred
,Corlege„ were alike powerless, he said, to do
Anything. They could not, if they would, cede
territory which was sot theirs to cede • not
even, he implied, to save their moral and
Iniiritnal authority in Italy, which4lie Pope
il net believe to be ' endangerea„‘ ' 'The so-
called vicar. of Christ is surely and, of the most
Obstinate old women that ever existed. Send
tiler down 'into a well; sink and souse her down
4b`her waist, to her neck, to her mouth ; so,
ng as her throat is allowed free utterance she
,Will be reatiff, abusive, Obstreperous • shis •
knows that she may be threatened, dipped,'
soaked, but; in compassion to her sex, not
'drowned. Now the next move lies with the
'ffmperor of the French. What will he dd I life
lias long diaappointed the' hopes of Etircipe,
Apparently without remorse or regret. He has
Mndoubtedly his own views of political maturity;
-he waits to pluck the pear till long after it has
ibeen calling on him with incessant vehemence
to do so, but he plucks it at last. And even in
this interminable Boman question, he may soon
feel himself strongenough to issue an event instead
Of awaiting one. He may withdraw his troops.
from Rothe, in which case the Sardinians will
,proliably occupy the military vacuum , and the
,paly, uncertain contingency will be the Pope.
Mammy take refuge with a foreign power, lake
Slimily Or Austria, miss may stay at home and
ignore, as far, as poriede,the political Italian
power. But whets* stepeolle Itoinan 'Pontiff
may consider necessarz tax... ' ait event taking
place,' it is most desirable t at, the "crisis'
Should speedily be brought shoot. The use
l'irhich the Pope makes of his political power to
Ihelter the ex-Kin #of NAples and his band of
mnipirators is a disgrace to the civilizatioh of
Europe ;—the iniquity is so great and so ffen,
.sive that every lover of order and good govern-
ment must desire to see it swept away.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN VIARICET, Saturday,
February ht.—We had a large attendance, but
r,tbusiness was dull, Wheat sold at late rates. For.
rbarley there was no demand, and prices were leapt
isbquently lower. Oats and other corn • dulk
Itade.
MESSRS. BARER AND ENSOR'S REPOSITORY SALI4'
Saturday, February ht.—There was a good show of
meat on offer, and fat beasts fetched full priced.
Fat sheep were the turn dearer. Calves sold welL
COMMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER GAOL.—
Aasizes : Henry Fry, stealing money etc., at Howe,
George Wareham, embezzlement at Stourp•ine.—
Hard Labour William Staple, misbehaviour at
Beatuinster Union, 6 weeks; Ed win Cood, leaving
childien Beaminster, 3
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