The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

D9RCIIIBTSR. TUESDAY. SEPTENBEIt 15. 1863.
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NOTES OF THE WEEK.

GPIZIUL FIRS IND MoDZILN W . Fort
Sumter Is in ruins, and the fall of Charleston is
possibly little more than smatter of days. Had
ten righteous men been found in Sodom and
Gomorrah, those cities of the plains would have
been spared, but Abraham Lincoln and hie
Cabinet know nought of mercy. Not with fire
and brimstone from b , bet with Greek fire,
the city of Charleston is being destroyed, with-
out allowing sufficient time for the women and
children, the non-combatants and foreigners to
quit it. Of this terrific and infernal implement
of warfare, which savages might hesitate to use
against each other, but which is employed in this
civil war to induce the South to re-enter the
bonds of Federal brotherhood, the New York
Daily News, which bee been the ablest advocate
of the war, says :

"Although. u an agent of destruction, it has no equal
civilization until now,by that tacit understanding among
Christian nations which respects the use of unnatural
weapons, has refrained from its employmenteeen in the
most bloody aml desperate campairia. It has been kft
for this administration, which claims to be waging war
in the name of philanthrophy, W conjure up this liquid
as a fit ally to their per,u.se of extermination." It
adds :

" If a fleet of iron clads should appear in New York
harbour, and at the midnight hour should throw their
deadly missiles bursting with liquid and unquenchable
fire into the heart of this metropolis, while standing
amid the ashes of our homes, and gazing upon the
crisped and burning bodies of our wiVill and children,
we could perhaps appreciate the sat&genes' of that style
of warfare."

Yet this the Puritans of New England tall us
is a war waged out of humanity to the slave.
Northern sympathisers in this country have lately
been almost moving heaven and earth to induce
Earl Rumell to seize two iron-clad vessels, built
at Liverpool, and supposed to be int uded for
the Confederate navy; will they utter a single
word by way of protest against President Lin-
coln's fiendish mode of warfare? Cruelty begets
cruelty, and even should the Federal* succeed
in overrunning and occupying the Southern ter-
ritory, their worst war will then commence, with
foes no longer open, but felt in every quarter
where advantage of surprise and ambuscade can
be seized; nay, worse, some of the horrors of
Napoleon brigandage may find a parallel on the
other side of the Atlantic. It is true that there
is no miesthood to bring things to that climax
of atrocity, but a riot in carnage has been intro-
duced by Lincoln and his satellites, which may
proceed step by step in retaliations and counter-
retaliations, to extremities of wickedness not now
to be imagined. The Americans are not na-
turally cruel, but they are graduating in •
school of blood, and • fiendish rivalry is sure to
spring up.
ARMING THZ State&—lf it be trio that the
Southern confederacy propose to enlist half it
million of nogroes into their army, the beet that
we can say of it it that the proposal is imprac-
ticable and monstrous. The whole adult male
population of the blacks is about 800,000. From
which number must be deducted some incapable
from old age and infirmities, and others whom
it would be imprudent to trust with arms. But
If • force of 500,000 could be raised, how would
they be officered? It cannot be contemplated to
put them under negro command, and to officer
thmi, with whites, at least 25,000 officers must
be withdrawn from the Confederate armies. There
are not so many to be had, oaths whole Southern
force does not exceed 200 000 men, and by all
accounts. the Southern forces are now either
under-offioerod or offioered in tho lower grades
by men very deficient in experience. But these
last would be peculiarly unfit to discipline and bold
together black troops, who would require the
constant attention and presence of whites to keep
them to their duty. Besides, the reported
Southern project would commit the fortunes of
the CoufederAcy to the hands of the blacks. The
arming of 500,000 slaves would, in effect, be
arming so many masters. We don't count much
on the fidelity of the slaves. We don't believe
that their attachment to their masters would
prove stronger than their immediate self interest,
inviting them to use their power to seize their
freedom and secure their fortunes. "You
shall have freedom and fifty acres of
land at the end of the Ivor if you serve us
faithfully," are said to be the conditions offered ;
but what would be the reply the half-million
blacks would give, were the number to be raised 1
Would it not be "we will take them at once,
and not run the chance of being shot in the
meanwhile." If the South is to be subjugated, it
would be by an act of medusas such as we have
been describing, giving the mastery of the situa-
tion to the slaves. As it is, the Confederate
armies may need recruiting, but assuming for a
moment what we do not believe, that they may
be filially unable to cope with the North, the
resources of a guerilla carfare would yet remain,
and a much greater difficulty than that of the
French in Spain would be that of the Federal
armies of occupation in the immense hostile
territory of the South. A hornet's neat would
be • paradise in comparison.
Patmems BK7°3'lE—William Wise, by Divine
Right and the help of Count Biamark, Sovereign
of all the Prussian, proposes an incredible thing,
—the Court of Berlin Is to have a great policy!
The dynastic bidding§ of Vienna for the lead in
Federal Unity are to be outdone by democratic
offers of national representation; the press is to
be ernaucipated, and a free Parliament celled;
and the army is to be mobilised until it shall
display • force of 360,000 men. He that lath
ears like an ass, let him set them. But who
else will believe I Manifestly not the recently
spurned and exasperated people of Prussia, who
lead in all the vapouringgs of their nusrulers, and
their late born claims to domestic and national
confidence, nothing but the spiteful incoherence
of sorely perplexed men. They will return again
to the legislature the majority who resisted so
wisely and so well, with so much tenacity, yet
with so much temper all the attempts of an in-
fatuated monarch and his imbecile ministers to
C.rive them from the path of the constitution.
In despair of breaking their resolute array, VOli
Bisinark and his colleagues dismissed them to
their homes; and the next day published an
edict, suspending the liberty of the press. The first
duty of the new Chamber will be to exact a strict
amount from those who authorised that act of
scandalous usurpation. Is it possible that the
ministers of King WilliSOl imagine they can
escape parliamentary trial and punishment by
userely reeciudiug their audacious decree 1 This

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would inasect tie to carry a step further the
(loupell doctrine of restitution, that when • man
has eaten and drunk all the profits of • forgery,
the best thing he can do is to turn King's evi-
dence upon himself and set up the true owners
in their lawful title. He, unhappy man, wal
oiatent to look the consequences of such a repa-
rative act of justice in the hob, and to submit,
in order to its completion to ignomr and inear-
aeration for life. Has Count Bismuth calculated
Correctly the consequence" of his self-condemna-
tion I We doubt it exCeedingly. We rather
fear that the old leaven onntintme to work in
the cabinet of Prussia, and that the speculation
is entertained there of getting out of all domestic
troubles sold difficulties by a bold stroke for the ,
headahip of Germany by an alliance with Russia
and France. if the Prussian people .re ambi-
tions to become chief among their united Gorman
brethren at some future day, they must, in the
first place, show that they are capable of ruling
themselves; and incapable of being brow beaten
by such men as the present King and his min-
isters. As far as they have gone in resistance
they have done welL But they have yet much
more to ; and above and before all other
things it is necessary that they should displace
and banish from office for ever the men who now
usurp the Government in their name.
Tits Roams Bouts Boom—A week Untie we
were told that the autocrat of all the ROSSISS was
about to turn tyranne into liberalism. The ruffian
lust of lawless oppression was to saddle and bridle
itself with the harness of Jaw. Annum-Mk Naafi
-
mace was to be white se light and pure us the mow.
Never had so grind a spectacle been presented to
the pss of vu men. Cruelty had laid an egg
and when the bird nipped the shell, the od.pring
would prove to be freedom. "A miracle? a
miracle was everywhere the cry. Poland was to
have a constitution; none of your slow-growing,
tap-rooted, old-fashioned peddoctions of the alluvial
soil of progress; but • grand colossal system, come
out of nothing, rooted to nothing, and capable of
being reduced by its maker to nothing as readily as
it had been formed. It was wondrous to see bow
grave politicians, with didatio pen in hand, gazed
wistfully at the Russian bubble as it rolled west-
wards. Nothing was ever seen so noble and
searing. Hs comprehensive moltede bespoke
the greatness of him whom; breath had blown it into
belie& How eouN anybody doubt the durability of
• structure so vast, and in its nature so emblematic
of resistlene swap? AU truly 'alight/rued friends of
Conservative order joined in thanksgiving to the
Imperial author of all Russian good, and worshipped
the bubble that the Czar Alexander bad set up. A
very little while, however, ha. elapsed, and already
the Muscovite wisp is gone. The Peers-
berg (Amalie declares that the Faris papers had no
authority for staling the Cur intended pureeing any
inch enlightened policy towards Poland. and that he
depends alone upon his powerful army to pacify the
country. If so, we pity him, for his powerful army
will never do it, especially If his ibilitery governors
continue to show such ferocity, or petty npaisfulness,
'as now to hang, and anon to box the ears of wealthy
proprietors who are supposed to have feeling towards
the insurrection, which even the invalids Buser
admits has taken larger proportions than ever. The
grand Duke Constantine, it appears, will Dot return
to Warsaw. He is now in Berlin, and will come to
England to reside for some time. He has, in fact,
"got leave to travel abroad," which in Bonin means
temporary banishment.
Tics ISJUSTICS Or THE LAW.—IS DI • principle
supposed to be embodied in English law, that justice
is uniform—that in every district in the country its
decisions are the same; that it yields nothing to
favour, but decides in strict accordance with the
merits pr demerits of each particular ease. We
have, of late, alluded to two or three cues in which
we thought the decision of oounty magistrates some-
what overstrained—if not the letter, at least the
spirit piths law, and we have now two oaths before
us—one in Shropshire and the other in Lancashire—
one serving as a perfect counterpart of the other,
and both illustrative of the law's injustios. A t the
Wellington Petty Seasions,,dlimpshire, a little boy
12 years of age, is charged with leaving his em-
ployer's berries without due notice. The boy's
defence is that he did not have proper food given
him, and that he was oompellod to work all day one
Sunday ; but how reasonable SOSTOT the boy's defence
might be in law and justice, with the Bench it had
no weight, and he was told he had rendered himself
liable to three months' imprisonment I but being
• mere boy, the Bench had no desire to wad him to
prison, and *auld therefore discharge him on the
payment of the expenses, 10s. The Court therefore
established the priociple that Sunday Work was
perfectly legal, and thee the master had an un-
doubted right to enforce it. But while this is •
principle recognised in Shropshire we have the
opposite established in Lancashire. In this county,
at the Atherton Petty Selliool4, fourteen individuals
are sentenced to pay Cs. each and costs for getting
the hay in on Sunday. Some of the culprits were
the owners of the produce, and the others were
neighbours who kindly lent their services to prevent
the crops from being impaired by further crooners
to the weather; bat they one and all refused to pay,
and the consequences was that distress warrants
were issued against five of the defendant& Two had
to yield a cow each, one a soli, another a chest of
drawers, and the fifth escaped the Queen's levy by
the saving disuse that be was poor, and had nothing
for the agents of the law to take away. The Act
under which those convictions were obtained is one
of the legacies which King Charles IL—that very
pions and moral prince—bequeathed to succeeding
generations, but one which we have no hesitation in
saying would be mitre honoured in the breech than
in the observance. Still many other acts have been
passed since legalising the sale of fish, newspapers,
and other callings on the sabbath, which will no
doubt quash these stupid convictions by rendering
the older Act obsolete; but we only call attention to
the contradiction of the two decisions to show the
anomalous state of English law, and how harshly
and severely it always premise upon those very
patios it is especially called upon to orolect
PROGRESS Or AnaillOAP EVENTS.—VGIIIMiDOUS
advises have been received from New York to the
4th instant, at which date affairs teemed to he
again taking • turn somewhat in favour of the
Confederates. In Kansas, after a severe battle,
Federal General Blunt sustained a defeat, with the
loss of 3,000 men. An engagement is also alleged
to have taken place at White Sulpha- Springs,
Virginia, where the Federals cant* to hare been
repulsed with coaaiderable lose-150 prisoner. and
• gnu being in the hands of the Confederates.
Affairs at Charleston are wholly unaltered. The
Federal& continue to besiege Fort Wagner, but DO
progress has been made. Fort Sumter, though
seriously injured, will DOE be abandoned. General
Besoregard is determined to bold it; this it is
supposed can be done by erecting temporary
fortifications. General Besuregard officially states
that General Gilmore's first domed for the surrender
of Fort Sumter bed Morris Island was not signed,
consequently it was returned unanswered, notwith-
standing which, four hours afterwards %tutors threw
shells into the city in the middle of the night
while the inhebitants were. sleeping. Beanregard
threatened retaliation if this act were repeated
without warning, and the dastardly goading which
is against all roles of civillised warfare harn been dis-
continued. General Lee is again_ in motion in
Northern Virginia, but it is difficult to understand
his intentions until his movements are farther
developed. The latest telegram states that
Confederate General Stuart had crossed the
Potomac into Maryland with the inten-
tion of making another raid. It would seem that
the Northerners are beginning to tire at the game of
soldiers when themselves are engaged th the play.
Seven men mostly sabstitutes for conscripta, have
been shot tie desertion from General Meade's army,
while at New Yu* the draft has oompletly failed.
Meetings have been held of drafted men for forming
organisations against the conscription, and a case is
being tried in the supreme court of that city to test
its constitutionality. In Ohio the draft has been
',speeded for, it is supposed, electioneering purposes.
Mr. Lincoln has published a manifesto to the New
York Republican State Convention. He is evidently
beginning to open his eyes to the truth, as he states
that • compromise embraciog the maintenance of the
Union is now impracticable. A compromise, to be
effective, must be made either by those controlling
the rebel army or with the people under its dominion,
and no offer of peace ban ever been made from the
South. Mr. Chase hes demanded, and obtained,
from the New York, Boston, and Philadelphia
tanks, another loan of ten millions of pounds sterling,
and from this, as well ea the generally unfavourable
character of events,ps:ocr has commenced in Wall-
street, which will probably be attended with very
serious malts.

DORC HEST Ett. —Prrr COILN MA alum Saturday, ,
Septionber 11—Wheat a dell trade, and in sow comas
IL lea wee taken. Supplies short. There was rood
elle for barley and oats at latei rates.
BALS 0180 W AND FAT STOCI.—We bee to acquaint
our readers with the fast tbat Mr. W. Dunning's annual
ale of outgoing mask of horned sheep, fat heeds, and
doss pigs, will take place atilt' farm, Friar Wadden, ow
Thareday, the 341 h of Soptaualier. The &missal. offered
for sale this year will he feud so lets inferior in quality
than the.. el former years, the sheep beim widl-bre
and the fat stork in prises eueditos.

ML SAINTE 81711wDAT EVENING Borrlts.-11/ztientli
Sunday after Trinity.—Precee aad Retpoessa, plain
shoed ; Palma, Radio • lleanilloat, Aldi4á, &ettla ;
Nese Manilas, Felice; "Gonad for Weems-
=&today ;" "Neat way Gad to This;"
Klieg Hyman. "God tab inadset earth and
beerie."—J,ll•l4llBoll. Otgaidat.
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Corium MenMa—A tee-ells( of the soanal, acting
$e • Loral Board of Health, nem held at Monday.
Presses The Mayor ; Aldermen User; Orianedlors
Froad, Nabs% Davis. Look Blade, sad In.
Th• benison broaght forward wee of a veryAltonitat
nature, end did not poetess any features el immoral
interest —The Ins bushman was to 0111111d14111 the Gee
Compsay's accoturh—Tho Mayor staled that a letter
had boo seat to the direstors of the sompeny coalSkoe•
lag of the lets period of the time of lightiag, end also
that 145 Lampe had not been lighted daring the you.
The reply of the directors to those eamplidate nes to
tin Ilaei that 90 Laps required repairing. Mike
escalated for their not Imes lighted, and tie 'mon-
BOW bad beim dishampd. TIM sisseat wymi •1411014

Cuiturrit's Mnreata.s.—A very pleseant two boars
amassment was afforded to those parties who
attended the Townhall on Friday evening, to hear
the performaaces of Collins' band of original Iristy's
minstrela, nine in number. The first part of the
concert was devoted to the singing of some beauti-
ful songs, amougat which may be noticed more
particularly, "'flu. day our mother died," and " Our
angel NaL" The *hole of the solos were very
effectively rendered, and the choruses beautifully
harmonized and musical, eliciting such strains as
Ste brit often heard at " nifger" ooncerts. The
second part was of a more varied character and con-
gaed of some capital dancing and instrumental solos.
one " darkey" drawing from the violoncello some of
the most enchanting strains we have ever beard;
whilst another enraptured the audience by his ability
on a common tin whistle. The entertainment was
interspersed by plenty of original wit and fun,
which almost convulsed the audience, which was
large, and the enteitainment is of that high order
which is seldom perpetrated by similar troupes
ailing themselves Clansty's minstrels, and therefore
cannot fail to please.
COUNITTgo To nig Dolan. COMITT GAOL
Sessiwee : Xtionms Ries, stealing clothes at Weymouth
WThiaiu Kawle and Philip Harding, assault with intent
to rob at Blandfore. —Assizes : Levi Barnes, assault
with intent to murder at Spettisbury.—Hard Lamar
David Powell. assault kg, at Weymouth, 7 days ; Mary
Ann Taylor, stealing potatoes at Wiuterbome
liteepleton. 7 days; William Pond, leaving aertnee at
Canford Magna, 14 days; James Biickland, leaving
service at hilton, 14 days; George Bird, vagrancy at
Dorchester, 1 ; Sarah Rosa% vagrancy at
V. coquth, 3 months; Joseph Garland, varaney at
Radiimle, 7 days ; John Smith, breaking windows at
Wareham, 9 months; George Evans, vagrancy at
Ceme Abbas, 14 days; Richard Gale, stealing stockings
at Poorstock, I month; William Gay, staling rahlrit
traps at Whitchurch Canoniooruin, 1 month; Wdliarn
Henry Waters, stealing from the person at Preston
and Batton Points, 3 months; James Haines and
Elisabeth Mitchell, steeling 3 wheat sheaves at
Gillingham, 14 days ; Charles Flood and William Trent,
stealing wood at Langton Matravers, 7 days; Im.
prioritising!: Thomas Hopkins, breach of the pesos at
Ilosterton, 3 months.
wsymocrru.—B...ty. —One night last week
the Bridge Inn, Meditate, kept by Mr. Rickard Stevens,
was broken into and some wearing •ppirel stolen. It
appeared that the burglar effea,ed an entrance through
• window, which had not been securely fastened, and
carried away his booty without being disturb.a. In-
formation was given to the county polio', and from
eircumstanoes which earns to their knowledge suspicion
fell on • tramp named Joseph Knight, • German, and
Supt. Underwood traced him to Poole, where he appre-
hended him, in • state of intoxication, at • public).
house. The Roman Catholic Chapel at Poole had been
broken into in the early part of the week, and the offer-
tory and other money stoles; end prisoner mai sus-
pected of lriing the burglar in this instance, as his boots:
tautly orwresoonct-d with the footmarks about the
window, eh entrance haviHg been effected by that means
Into the chaps'. is was taken before the Poole bench
of magistrates and committed for trial at the assizes.
Supt. Underwood then applied to the authorities at that
place for the prisoner for the purpose of bringing him
for trial before the Dorchester beneh of magistrates on
the charge of burglary at Radipole, but they refused to
give him up, so that he awaits his trial at the Poole
County Goal on the charge of breaking into the Catholic
Chigord there.
thiltalt TRIPS TO LOSOOON.—We would Call the
attention of our readers to the excursion trains to
London at the maid cheap fares, Se. and 125., both
on the Great. Western sad South-Western line of
rails. On Monday, September 21st, both Cow'
parries intend running a train to the metropolis, and
in order to meet the wants of the excursionists,
the return journey can be made on the South-
Western Railway, either on Friday. the 25th, or on
Saturday, the 3rd of October, leaving Waterloo at
1.45. p.m. The up train will leave Weymouth at
720. a.m., and DlorObeetet at 7.45. a.m. The
Great-Western Company's train will leave Wily-
, mouth at 7.30. a.m.. aid Dorcharter at 7.45. a.m.,
land the excursion ticket will be available either to
return at 230. p.m. on Saturday, the 26th, or on
Saturday, October 3rd.
PIMPERNE.--Aornancr.--We regret to state
that on Thursday, as the two Miss Matthews,
of Pimperne, were driving on the road from Bland-
ford to Wimborne, when near Captain Farquharsoe's
gardea,the horse suddenly took fright at a hawker's
van arming into the town, and starting off at full
speed when opposite Mr. Vincent's farm, upset the
vehicle. We are glad to date that the fair occupants,
though thrown out with considerable violence, were
not so seriously injured as might have been expected.
One of them, however, had her face very much cut,
and both were greatly alarmed. The borne very
soon freed itself from the vehicle, both of the trains
breaking in the middle, and galloped full ;speed op
White Lane. On its way home it jumped • gate
near Colonel Mansel's house, and cut its shoulder
very much. It would be well if the attention of the
legislature wen) called to the 'necessity of requiting
hawkers of goods, when on the public roads, to place
their commodities inside their vans. The way some
of them are adorned with brushes, baskets, rugs,
door-cloth, carpets, and other articles, is enough to
frighten even the most quiet animal which may
chance to meet than.

CORPS CASTLE—The annual licensing meeting
for this borough was held at the Townhall, on Friday
the 11th Met Magistrates present: W. 0. Ferrer,
and J. Mowlem, Emirs. Licenses were renewed to Mr.
C. W Desallioud, of the Greyhound Inn, and to Mr.
John Traverse, of the Ship Inn On Mr J.ln Miller,
of the 1...15t1e, applying for a renewal, Superintendent
Melee reported that improper language had been need
to Sergeant Galpin on his visiting applicant's house,
whereupon Mr. Miller complained that the visits of the
police were more frequent to his than to the other inns.
The Bench, in granting the application, requested Kr.
Millar to be more circumspect -in his behaviour to the
polka in (storm
CANFORD.—On Saturday last a cricket match was
played between the Canford Fmk Club and eleven
gentlemen selected by Mr. Medlroott, resulting in an
easy victory for the Canford gentlemen.
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BLANDFOILD.—The first of • Wilde of lectures
and meetings is imeneetion with the Blandford Total
Abstinence Society was held on Thursday evening, at
the Townhall, whea • vary able and interesting address
warn delivered by Hr. G. H. Fes, of the Watt of England
Temperance Leaden TM chair was taken by Mr. B.
leaden, supported by the members of the committee.
Tim chairman, in allading to the few who were present.
said it was no doubt owing to the attraetions outside—
the fair and the Blandfonf band. He could assure them
that it was the determination of the committer, on com-
mencing their winter course of meetings, to mare so
effort to put down the drinking mudoesa of the land.
For this purposs fortnightly meetings would be bald in
the Ragged Rascal, B•ch.lane, and lie most earnestly
invited the attendauce and support of those working
man who had joined the society, so that the carrying on
se
lON those =mit...tight not devolve on two or three.
Betl D DO could give • greater impetus to the
mune by their advocacy than the working class, for no..
were mare liable to be tempted to indulge in the we of
stress drinks. At their neat mooned he DOi only hoped
a hOtter audience would be premitt, but also that they
WOM he favoured with the performances Of the temps-
nuteeliand. ((Reers.) Withoettsking up anvinoreoltheir
num he would now eall on Mr. Fen. a ffendelnan aoudad
amongst them with the highest tettimmials, and out
which be WY Ono they weiM listen to with the greatest
attentioe.-14. Fe., is tutrodesing subject— 'lBetter
Leak still,*—mid there wee at ward More ex-
tensively used than that whisk formed part of his
subjeat—"Leek." Tbie subject was (mood on his
attrition by. sip is 'mat of • publiaoires, where two
working men are r,ese.soted sitting together, one with
• quart of bar to M lips, and as he Moat to drink be
Met to the other, "Better look to you." On relleritiou
be thought =hal a pity it was that men Amid be so
isfatented as to lit together drinking that widish it was
reasonable to suppose instead of bringing pod luck,
would only add to the evils they tadatot• It we"' he
kis endeavour to show, me the present measioe. the
applicalvility of these words to the temporaries moventeet.
It was hie Br= belief that the Bret &dynodes of the
temperestee refurmatirm had DO OkhOT bops
or msestatios WWII they oomatenced their
advoesey beyoed doled good to themselves, 11111
sop* drunkards. This was • pad work, a phis

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object. and in it they no for succeeded as to reclaim in •
cry short some of tone 1,000 of their fellow-creatures
from the evils of intemperance. But this was not aIL
The temperance reformation bas gone far beyond the
limitu find contenspl 4°l, or reasonably expected. A.
men began to study the subject it wei found that even
the muallest portion of atrong drink taken into the
apt.= was injurious. There so. a better lack still
in store for three early pioneers of the temperance cause, I
for though they expected and hoped to see homes I
iinproired, broksp-hearted wives made happy, and
children fed Rod *lathed. they little expected that I
within 12 years of the public adv.:4mq of their cause
20,000 men and women would be reclaimed. Bet I
further. Through the advocacy of this cause, sometbiug
higher, grander, and nobler was mooditilisbed. It was
found that of those who thus became teetotalleni, acid
who previously never uttered • prayer,or entered a place
of worship. 19 out of every 20 became altered characters.
They .not only learnt the true way to be happy in this
world, but were inducted to prepare for the inheritance
of a better. If there was no other argument to prove
that the temperance cause had the approval/ad blessing
of God this result was surely one. Bat there were other
and very great advantages resulting from the adoption
of the came of temperance. It induced those, whom
bumper' it was, to irquire Into the count of disowns,
insanity, psuperiam, and crime, which to snob an
alarming extent were prevalent in the country. And
1 this investigation was needs, not by a chairman, or
1 committee of teetotaller., but by men who need the
I drink, whom attention was Galled indirectly to the
, subject by teetotallers. Now it would be • waste of
time to prove that as a nation we are both rich and
benevolent. He would only refer to £20.000.0"0 freely
subscribed by this nation to give freedom to the slave
to the £lOO,OOO raised in this country to alleviate the
dilater in India, atd to large sums aubscribed on behalf
of the operatives in the North. Yet notwithstanding
this evidence, we have in ourcountry a ilillliOhi f pi:veers
to support, and it is the testimony—not of ter.: drillers
or temperance advocates—but of poor-law guardians and
overseers, that of this number 800.000 are drink-made
, pope?... Then as regards the inquiry as to the Wives
of crime. In retard to the answer as to this inquiry,
the teetotaler might find some satisfaction, for though
be must ever lament the committal of crime, yet as the
greater pat was traced to drink, the more his principles
were adopted and his pecitios followed he knew that
crime would decrease. Now in dila as in the former
OUR we were not dependent upon the opinions or belief
of teetotallers. The Judea of the land had apoken out
in no unmistakeable language retracting the cause.
When sentencing criminals brought before them at
Anises. eight out of the fifteen Wires have declared
that nine out of every ten of the crimes committed were
so committed under the influence of drink, and this was
confirmed by 44 of the chaplains of our gaols. We pride
and boast ourselves upon our knowledge, and the means
by which it is attsioed • but it is a lamentable fact that
in no country under heaven does insanity so much pre
rail as in our,. And we have it from the evidence of
Lord Shafted:any. 15 yesrs chairman, and 30 years in
the Lunacy Commission, that insanity is chiefly caused
by the use of strong drink.—His lordship sap —"I:
am fully persuaded by my own observation and inquiries
I have made,that 8-10tha of the insanity in this country
Is to be traced directly to strong drink." AU there
anillemen, not in any way connected with teetotal com-
mittees, have given the temperance advocates arguments
they could not otherwise bare obtained—arguments
which are incontrovertible. The temperance reforma-
tion has also improved the moral tone of emiety, for
whereas formerly it was considered something to be
boasted of when men sat add drank their wine Meioses,
at the prevent day the man wlio indulges is. held up to
morn and contempt. But still further. The tempe-
rance reformation has been instrumental in promoting
the cause of social science- Working-men are obis fly
interested in this, and many of them by becoming
teetotaller. have also become as profound philompbers us
to social science as members of Parliament. They
have found out that if the £45,000,000 silent in the manu-
facturing of the drinks in the kingdom, only £1,700.000
finds it. way into the labour market, inatrad of
£20,000,000,0m amount spent in labour for other articles,
so that the working classes by supp otitis the drinking
trade as a body rot themselves. But again, the tem-
perance movement has also led to many doscoveries in
Medial scienoe. The whole of the medical profession
25 years ago were of °pinion that these drinks were
necessary. They drank themselves and if any one went
to them complaining nf ill-health, they prescribed these
drinks no re.nediea Though they did not universally
believe that these were strengthening, yet they held
that they ...Fisted in giving warmth to the 'Mem, and
tone to tire stomach. But when their opinions were
put to the test by so many adopting total abstinence,
many of them began to inquire into the matter ; and
11 years ago 2,000 of the moat eminent of the medical
profession signed a declaration that the most perfect
heillirwas compatible with abatinence from intoxicating
drinks.—" The mod perfect health."—To want wort
than this reminded him of the sailor, whose captain
asked him which three things he would like best.—
mk,slapping hie thigh in true nautical faabion,replied :
Ist, AU the baccy in the world.-2nd, All the grog in
the world, and to the 3rd inquiry, -after scratching his
head and considerable thought—replied " a little more
b secy." This medical deolarstion,having 2 000 signatures,
had been proved by fact and experielice to he true, for
at the Present time there were 3,000,000 Pledged '
obtainers in the United Kingdom. But further, these
inveatigation. led to important discoveries s. te the
poperties of alcohoL Professor James Miller, of
Edinburgh, in a work he published • few year, ago,
says of alcoholic beverages " Tney are not
necessary as food, and Should not be used
as luxuries, because they are dangerous, but
are only necommy a. medicines." Them words
canoed a good deal of oontroversy, and the Professor
having had bin attention more fully directed to the
subject, issued another little work, which he called
" Nethonisni," which he (the lecturer) supposed be used
to please the ladies, as they could use the word without
opening their lips very wide, the same as they could
"crinoline," instead of the vulgar word "hoops." In
this work the learned gentleman qualified his former
statement—" There may be some two or three eircum.
stances in which they may be used as medicines." But
this opinion he did not hold Icing, for at a large meeting
of total abstainer., in the town of Cacti-le, about two
years and eight months after he wrote that work, and
where there were present a great number of the medical
faculty, the same Professor said, addressing the tee-
totallers, "Go on in your glorious work. We thought
and said you were fools, but we have proved that Lie-
beg's theory, that alcohol warms the mien is all 110,1,-
64, and that the teetotalers' belief is the truth. I love
my profession, bat I love truth more." Many years ago
Dr. Lees wrote a work on " Aleohol," in which he
maintained that that apirit was neither blood forming
DOT blood warming. This was disputed, and the ques-
tion was submitted to three of the highest medical peas-
titionen in France, who, after several experiments, gave
It as their united testimony that Dr. Lees was right.
Oh I some may my that rannot be right, for when I
have taken a glass of mirita I feel warmer all over. Now
to prove that the burning sensation produced by spirits
did not warm, he (the lecturer) advised them to get •
lip thermometer, and apply the end to the under part of
to. tongue, if they were is good health the mercury
would rise to a (retain height. Let them take
a glass of brandy, or any other spirit containing
alcohol, sad they would find that instead of the
mercury rising, it would fall. Yet notwithstand-
ing this evidence, and the result of there important
inquiries, the medical profession as a body ;and in the
way as the greatest barrier to the onward progress of
the temperance cause, and the only reason be could
assign was that they liked the drinks themselves ; for
one of their number of the highest authority had
stated that that man must be • fool who declared that
he had nothing in his surgery which would not act in
the same manner es alcohol incase of illness. But they
had hate, luck still, for the inquiry caused by the in•
vestigation of this subject had induced landholders to
shut up pubho-houses on their estates. finding that
both themselves and their tenantry were better without
than with them. Lord Palmerston lately purchased a
small estate adjoining his property at litomsey, and
when he found there were two public-honaes on it, he
ordered them to be dosed. We have said, continued
the lecturer, that poverty, insanity, and crime are
caused in a great measure by strong drink, and as a
proof that these would decrease, or greatly diminish,
he would just refer them to Satown, in Yorkshire, a
town nearly as large as Blandford, where they had no
poor rates, no police-rates, and no crime for the pest
10 years. There was not • public-houae in the place.
Schools flourished and the people were the most
thriving and happy in the kingdom. The lecturer
then urged upon all present to mast the cause to the
best of their ability, and after • vote of thanks was
Famed to him, the Doxology was sung, and the meeting
"Mmtlilowing specimen of advertising a hundred
years ago, is from the Salisbury Joanna of September
12, 1763 :—"This tat. acquaint any gentleman who may
have occasion, that John. Spinney, clock and nato
maker, at Blandford, In the county of Dorset, has an
exceeding good rhumb or turret clock now made, and
alms eight-day one in band, that ea' be finished soon.
Whoever may have an occasion for such, or any other
sort of clocks, shall have them on very reasonable
terms, and (if required) twelve months' trial for proof.
Relate be 'poke with at Woodbury Hill and Shroton
Pairs, and .1 all sorts of silver, brass, ironmongers'
and cutlers' goods, at the lowest prices; said gives (be
best prices for all sorts of of old metal. Whoever will
favour him with their orders will greatly oblip their
bumble servant, John Spinney."
REWARD.— A reward of 1:60 has been offered by the
pariah of Okeford Pitmans for the discovery and con-
viction of the person or persons who set fire to • straw
and barley stack on Sunday night last, the former of
which was completely destroyed.
At the Townhal. on Saturday last, before Lord
Portman and 0. P. Kassel, Req. —William Foot, was
charged with having oa the presto., night stolen •
a quantity of timber from • yard near the Dorset and
Somerset Railway, the property of the °Detractor,
Dads.—P.C. Thomas J. Legg stated tkist about 11
o'doclebe saw the primmer over in the amber-Vaal Be
picked up the pace of timber (note produced) and pat it
over the fence into the road. He then got over, sad
placing the timber on his shoulder, was walking away
with it, when P.C. Rant, who had hid himself under the
wall, went and stopped him.—P.C. Hunt corroborated
the evideoce of the preceding wittier', as to the own-
mileion of the theft ; When he took bum into custody
and charged him with the robbery, prisoner oilseed him
two sovereigns to ray nothing about it and let him go.—
Wittier went to the prisoner's boom, and found a
quantity of wood which he conveyed to the polio.-
station.—Kr. J. Whitehead mid that he had been to
the policoatatiat, where be identified • quantity of
timber as belonging to the contracters of the railway.—
The pine produced be mad swear to as their property.
Its ram was Is., acid the mine of the whole stolen
was ss. The prisoner, who elected to be tried by the
Beech, pleaded guilty.—His Lordship said that as he
prisoner had never adore bean cosvieted of felony be
woad only be tried for stealing the oos Pees prod:tad
In Omit for which he menteneed hint to be iramisoned
for 3 salaam months with bard labour.
WARIfHLIL CEARDORDOON PA= AND TSB
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION. It may net be generally
knows that Charbarough Park, Mar Wer•kalt•
the “" of Kir• J. S. V. ReieDrax, is intimately
associated with use of the most important sweats in the
ki*°7 cd our sosatry. In lb. grounds adjoiaiag it is a
small be soslhng above the dignity of a summer-
time., with the following inscription: "Under tbla
roof, in the year 16811,.. sel of patriot gentlemen of this
ohm actamisted the plan of the Glorious Revolution
with the isanierial King Wiliam to whom we owe oar
delivery bast the *pat race of the Maar* the
restorstios ot our liberties, sssouttl of our Pro Perth

witablisbmeni oi our national prosperity, honour and
wealth. Erg Hamlin I reinewiber this era sod consider
that your liberty ohMined by the •irtoes of your
ancestors mast be Malt:tallied by yourselves."
POOLE.. —Accivitxr. Mr. Topp, butcher, of
kfarkiit-street, met with an unfortunate accident on
Saturday. It app.lars he was enjoying himself with
enjoying
▪ mai pugilistic buoy." when through mum un-
toward mistake he fell, breaking his leg and dislo-
cating his ankle.
Tlitt WEATHER. —On Thursday afternoon one of
be mod violent thunderstorms for &great many years
over reel*. A terrific storm of rain and
rill7t.d ones poured down withont intermission for
nearly an hour.
lite ore creditably informed that our feint will
soon witnees the advent of a monster depot for an
extensive business in the "ready-made" machine
clothing. A company, already spoken of.

BA.CHILBOI A.T THI CATHOLIC CHURCH. —At the
Guildhall, on Friday, before J. GOOK, Esq.,
(chairmen). H. Harris, and W. L. C. Adey, &qrs.,
Joseph Knight, a Gentian watchmaker, but
apiewently from his anteoedenta $ professional
burglar, was brought up on remand, charged with
breaking into St Mary'. Catholic Church. '/vest
Quay-nwl, on the night of Monday the 7th inn,
and stealing therefrom certain gums of mousy to the
amount of 17e. The prisoner underwent a pre-
liminary examination on Wednesday, and was re-
manded at the request of Mr. Superintendent
Clifford, in order to obtain further evidence. In the
meanwhile Mr. Clifford must have atrociously exerted
himself to collect 00 large an amount of einem-
nantial evidence against the prisoner. In opening
the eharge Mr. Clifford said the evidence he would
Mann against the prisoner was exclusively circum-
stantial, and proceeded to call tbe witnesees.—The
Rev. J. A. Charles: I am the priest of St. Mary's
Catholic Church, Poole. I recollect the prisoner
coming to my door about a week ago. As non ea
the door was opened he jumped inside the peonage.
Hs told me he was a watchmaker, hut at present out
of work, and that he came from Falmouth. I felt
in my pocket for 2d. to give him, but having no
money shoat me, I went upstairs, leaving the
prisoner at the sitting room door, where he could Nee
a direct communication with the church. When I
returned I gave him the 9d . for which he thanked
me and retired. I retnemtwe the night of Monday,
the 7th inst. I went into the church at half-past
eleven, and stayed there six or seven minutes.
I noticed that the windows were closed, and
the front door bolted with both NAL The two
offertory boxes at the bottom of the church were
the mine as usual. lam certain that one of then
boxes contained money. I should presume that both
oontained money. On the night of the 7th I left a
shilling piece and 2d. in my sitting room. Whoever
was in the church could have free wont to my house.
The next morning I went to the church with the
clerk, and found the front door open. I found the
lids of the offertory boxes broken open and the con.
tents gone. I found the Is. 2d. in my sitting room
taken away, and 3s. 7d. from a drawer in the seine
room. The offertory money, amounting to 12e. Hid
was also gone. The coins were principally three-
penny and four-penny pines. I put the offertory
money there on -Sunday night, and went to bed at
half-past ten. When I examined the church on
Tuesday morning I found one of the windows broken.
There was an aperture sufficient to admit the body
of a we. A small Gothic window in the "lady
chapel" was also broker), but too small to afford
entrance. The font at the bottom of the church bad
been removed during the night. I don't know if
the prisoner attended service on the previous Sunday.
My writing desk was forced open. It contained
37 four-penny stamps and t wo penny stamps, but they
were not removed. The two drawers produced
were broken °pin. The foot-prints alongside
the church were, no doubt, made by the person
Who enected an entrance. I examined them
with Su-nerintendent Gifford, and found them to
have been made by the prisoner's boot. The ,
prisoner spoke very good English, although with
a foreign accent, when I gave him alms. —John
Whetten deposed : I am clerk of St. Mary's
Catholic Church. I called Vs. Charles on Tuesday
morning, and directed his attention to the church
door being open, and the broken windows. The
two drawers produced I found broken open. Wit-
num fully corroborated the testimony of the preceding
witoma —John Padley I am a joiner, and reside
near the Catholic Church. I sow prisoner on Mon-
day last, about eleven o'clock. He asked me for a
match. I told him I would get him one, but when
he got near my door he ran away. He spoke very
good English, and we nruferstood one soother. I
swear the prisoner is the person.—Samuel Hewlett,
publican, dowsed that the prisoner was in his house
on Monday night, when be had some beer. Prisoner
did not sleep there, but called in the morning, and
had more beer.—P.C. (later said he met the prisoner
on the Quay, at half-past five, on Tneeday morning.
Prisoner crowed the High.street and entered the
Strand. —Jason Searrett, landlord of the Coach
and Horns, deposed that the prisoner, accompanied
with a girl, named Susan Stickley, came into his
hone at 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Witness
drew them four half pints of brandy and pepper-
moot, insides noggins of gin and quarts of beer.
Prisoner treated them all to drink. Prisoner spent
about 7s. 6d., of which 3a. 6d. was in threepenny and
fourpeony pieces—Susan Stickley, a "nymph of the
pave," swore to the prisoner being is her company
during Tuesday. He gave her two sixpences, three
fourpenny pianos, and four threepennies. —Harriet
Woodman, wife of Mr. Woodman, clothier, High.
street, asid the prisoner came to her shop on Tues-
day morning and pnrcheeed a necktie and shirt
front, for which he paid in small coin. She identified
the tie produced as the one she sold him. —Mr.
Superintendent Gifford : On Tuesday morning, the
Bth, I received information that the Catholic Church,
West Quay Road, had been broken into I went
there and found a window broken, inside of which a
perpendicular iron bar which prevented entrance.
I found another window broken, and the Imod
casing cut away en as to admit the body of a man.
Saw marks on the wall, and also on the lead as if
made with the knife produced. Found the two
offertory boxes open in the church, and the
two drawers produced opened in the house.
I examined the front of the church with
Mr. Charles, and found footmarks, which I caned
to be preserved. Prisoner was brought to the station
in charge of P.C. Stone and Supt. Underwood, of the
county police. Looked at the prisoner's boot, and
had it off. I compared it with the impressions in
front of the church, and found them to exactly cor-
respond. Had no doubt but it was the prisoner's
boot produced which made the marks. The Rev.
Mr. Charles and Supt. Underwood saw the boot
compared with the impression. The necktie sold
by Mrs. Woodman was taken from the prisoner.
The knife taken from the prisoner exactly suited the
marks made on the hroken boxes, and I believe them
to be caused by the same. —Supt. Underwood, of
the Dorchester division of the county constabulary,
swore to apprehending the prisoner on another
charge, and to the (seta of the last witnesa —William
Mate deposed of meeting the prisoner on the Park-
stone-road and assisting him with some coppers,—
Tin prisoner was then asked if he had anything to
my to the charge, and refusing, was fully committed
to take his trial at the ensuing Dorset mixes, the
witnesses being severally bound to proisecute.-Bupt.
Gifford informed the bench that the prisoner was
wanted for sacrilege committed at Southampton,
and also for a burglary at Radipols.
wwrox.-011tEkT Kurt Pstg.—This great sheep
man, was held on Saturday last. The number of sheep
penned was upwards of 100,006, being about 15,000 lees
than that of 1661. Last year the falling-off WY about
45.000, but this was attributiable to the disease in sheep,
whin was then prevailing in North Wilts. Notwith-
standing that there was a oomparetively abort supply
there was a good attendee.* of dealers, and • clearance
wee pretty generally effected at prime, ranging from to.
to 8.. higher than throe of last year. The quotations
may be taken a. follow. :—Ewes, from 321 L to 46a ;
...then, 375. to 52..; limbs, 30.. to 35e, There were
POMO prime lots, however, which sold at higher prices.
The prise of • diver cup, value eli, gives by the Rol
of Pembroke. to the owner of the beet 100 ewes penned
for sale was awarded to Mr. W. B. Oanninr, of :Edon.
iltie.piendid lota animals was @oldie Mr. Kingsley. for
62., each, and some of which were again resold at £4 a
head. There were only two competitors for this prize.the
other exhibitor being Mr. W. R. &littler, of Bishop-
stone, who deo showed, fine lot of Owe, which were
purchased by Mr. Brake, of Rooney, for 61s. a hod.
Amongst this lot were some excellent two-tooth lOKS.,
as well as some for which Mr. Shinier gained s prise
at Worm/der. The prise of • silver sup, v.loe £5, given
by the Red of Pembroke, for the beet 100 wether
was won by A. Monism, R.q., of Foothill, the only
other competitor being Mr. Fetcher, of Frmant ; Mr.
Fiddler, of Teffout, tsetse withdrawn. They were
I much admired, and bete lots were afterwards mold at
49.. nab. Tb• lamb trade generally was about the
mine as at Britton fair, whilst ewes sold considerably
better than at that kW The judges were mew&
Sillene, of Compton ; T. H. Saunders, of Watereombe ;
and Cleerish, of Upton, near Andover. There au •
good show of horses, which sold at the price, realised
at Isis fain. There were also more beasts at this
fairs than formerly. Amongst the exhibitors of
plomente were Mr. Hest, of Shirley, who showed
Bentell's sowiller ; ploughs; droning machine; barley
screen, by Penney, which took the first prise at the
Show of the Royal Agriculturel Society, arid other
price screens; Howard's and Hornsby • pines, the
tomer of which took both prime at tine first All Ree-
fer ploughing nip potatoes, by which three sores a day
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heiogiog the coach to the surface, to be worked oat by
ute
proved Benton scarifier, oil cake Gruner, Mr.
Beeves, of Dalton, showed a liquid manure drill, corn
drills, and distributor, Ike. Menus. Tanker find Sons, of
the Waterloo Foundry' exhibited a four-bone power
engin, by Clayton aandffrattneworth, cern drill on au
Improved principle, patent orese-beoun iroa harrows,
winnowing machine, improved liquid masers out, con
aspersion, and other useful agrkialtaral imamate.
Mr. . Hayti/. of Wish an ford, had "K" and
harrows with improved bee.,,. Messrs, le,
Of
Cubans, exhibited some snobs sad sins, b
knossesffer, he. Yr. Wanes, of Maiden Nisertso,
showed • winnow* isadeiso with • eldflibli boa far
hiever.