The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

AND PREZ PARISH CHURCHES.
been requested to publish the following eor-
-1:—" Bast Brent, April 1, 1866.—" My
beg to thank you for your letter of March
enclosures.—l have always contended
$ area of a r ' church, where there is
Is held • the ordinary for the
at in the pariah and
. allotment of sittings
who are the officers of the
_ as, may make from time to time
scoommodation.—l have diaboursged
- shape, with doors, because a door
of mansion from that which is •
as, nevertheless, unable
resolutions pirsed at Bristol,
first resolution appeared
I thought it inadvisable
to limit it, as is done
was, however, rather
cc. I believe that,
as representing the
there Is nothing to
' I should have

AsoaDE•cos
—We have be
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dear 84,-1
31, with its
that the whole pariah
no faculty pew, in trust by
uth of ail the parishioners resident
coming to chunk, subject to snob
as the obtirchwardens,
ordinary for this purpose,
for the general sow
pews, of whatever
represents • power
common right.—l was,
to assent to the (subjoined)
Ottober 14, 1864. The
to me too indiscriminate, and I
to pest it and then proceed
by Resolution 2. My objection,
to the form than to the substance.
cielthe two resolutions together a
principl. of the usosiation, ti
I could ; only that
f:4444„, instead o. parishioner'
Flonor coming to church, or
hwardens his desire to come.
clutch is not large enough for
iderire es come, the churchwardens
es& boosehold as far se they can, taking
be equally accommodated in point of room,
tame as further church-room la provided in the
have mach pleasure in saying that I
".tto let my name be added to the Rat of
• .0u the ensuing free church conference.
Afijlly, a. A. Durthorr„ Archdeacon of
April 5, 186.5.—" My dear Sir,—
:greatly obliged by your letter. Your
•eanse of free churches will be of great.

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(Res. 2), 'every
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the parish.
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well as help to show that thaws 'Principles of Chirch
•end State whist*, you hive ever consistently upheld age
.eompatible with the equal right of all the parishioners
in' windows geriskie• te join in the services of their
pariah ebircS.—" The fundamental principles of our
parochial constitution are-I.Tbat all the parishioners
are equallyitable to be tared by the vestry for Church
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TH2 PRTTCHAED CABI. It is saii that the report on
the chemical analysis, at Edinburgh, of the body of
Mrs. Taylor, is much more likely to strengthen than
to dispel the suspicions which have gathered around
Dr. Pritchard.
_ _

THE BLACKHEATH TUNNEL AOCIDENT. —J ohm Jones,
the signalman through whose mistake a lamentable
railway oollision took place in the Blackheath Tunnel
in December last, was tried at the Central Criminal
Court. on Wednesday, and acquitted, the Judge and
jury being of opinion that the evidence was not sufficient
to establish the charge of criminal negligence. The
man's mistake, in fact, arose from over anxiety to
preserve, as mach as possible, the regularity of the
trains.
ROBBERY FROM TEI BANK OF ENGLAND. —A pottier
of the Bank of England, named Samuelsou, was arrested
on Wednesday, on a charge of stealing a note case,
containing £750. The case was stolen from the desk of
a dividend clerk at the bank in October last, and the
efforts then made to tram the thief were ineffectual.
A few days ego, however, two of the notes for £lO each
were cashed at Hull, and on a detective being com-
missioned to investigate the matter, it was discovered
that Samuelson was the culprit. On being arrested, the
remainder of the stolen notes were found in his pos-
session. He is committed for trial.
SVOCEBSTUL SWINDLING. —A SPORIOOB BON 07 THE
LORD PROVOST 07 EDINBURGH. —The Glasgow Mail
has the following rather astoniithing instance of suc-
cessful swindling which oacured at Hamilton last week.
A smart young man of 18 to 20 years of age, styling
himself the Right Honourable William Lawson, Req.,
Second Lieutenant, Royal Navy, Castle Fluntly, and
stating that he was • son of the Lord Provost of &din.
burgh, called upon one of our J.P.s on Tuesday, with
whom he soon got into friendly and confidental cow
versation, resulting in the loan of L'2„ We understand
that £lO would have been freely given by the deluded
justice but for the shrewdness of his better half. As it
was, however, our hero managed something more in the
shape of cab-hire, having got his host to send for a cab
to take him to the barracks, where he was to dine with
Major Maxwell and officers of the Hussars. The cab
duly delivered the "right hon." gentleman at the
barracks; but indeed of asking for the major, who, we
believe, is at head-quarters, he got hold of the serpent
major and others, and passed a jolly night, drinking
wine, Ste., and noceeded in getting a gold ring, a silver
watch and gold chain, and about £2 of money, to save
him from changing • £lO note. When be took the ring
he promised the donor one in retuni with his crest upon
it, and also said he was going to present a silver jug to
the officers. He left the barracks, on Wednesday fore-
noon, and was to have returned shortly after; but it is
supposed be walked to the train for Glasgow, leaving
his victims, we doubt not, somewhat regretful for their
simplisity in being duped. The only thing he possessed
to ape the style of a naval officer was a pair of brass
buttons in hit cap, the distinctive badge of the service
being wanting. The police have reoeived notice of the
Incident. Another of the stories by which he imposed
inpon those he visited was,, that be was to join the
-Miack Prince, at Greenock, in a fortnight.
Prinztorri, the Italian, who has been already found
guilty cif the murder of Harrington, and afterwards
'pardoned, was again put upon his trial at the Central
Oriininal Court on Wednesday, for stabbing the potman
'of the public-house, Rebbeck. In this case his victim
was fortunately alive to give evidence, and he swore
positively and distinctly that the prisoner was the man
who stabbed him. The principal feature of interest in
the proceedings on Thursday was an attempt made by
the counsel for the prisoner to discredit the testimony
of the policemen engaged in getting up the ease, by
showing that they kept back part of the evidence in
their possession at Pelizsioni's first trial, with a view to
procure • conviction against him. On Saturday the
jug returned a verdict of "Not Guilty."
THE CITY BO EGLARITIL —On Wednesday, at the
Central Criminal Court, David Roberts, silk weaver;
William Henry Jeffrey, carpenter, but nicknamed
"Velvet Ned ; Thome, Brewert:m, confectioner;
Martha Jeffery, married ; Thomas Caseley, sign-writer;
Ann Caseley, married; and Louisa Brewerton, married,
were given in charge to the jury on an indictment
charging them with breaking and entering the piemises
of dir. John Walker, Cornhill, and stealing therein 280
witches, 100 pins, 150 chains, 100 brooches. 100 rings,
100 lockets, 50 seals, and SO keys, of the value of
£6,800, his property. They were all defended except
Caseley, the 'Counsellor Kelly" of the Judge and Jury
Club, who made • rambling incoherent "peach in his
own defence. The robbery of the Messrs. Walker's
shop was alone gone into, and the evidenee adduced
Kunst the prisoners must be familiar to the public,.
The female priestlier" were discharged from the dock, as
:it was proved they were all married women, and the
presumption of law was applied in their favour that
they acted under the coercion of their husband'. Th,
male prisoners were all found guilty. Three of t'
risoners who were on Wednesday convicted of
at Joe' " with a fourth man r

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CROBEI-BBILEDING IN HORSES. —Mr. W. C. Spooner,
in one of the most interesting and important articles of
the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal just published,
contends for a modification in our stud system of
relying entirely on the male parent for the superior
qualities of horse-flesh. He says that the influence of
the male or female parent in not capricious; but yet
not always alike: in the majority of instances the male
parent governs the size and externalahape of the offspring
(particularly in the back and hind-quarters), whilst the
female influences the constitutiou, the nervous system,
and often the head and fore-quarters—the case being,
however, occasionally reversed. He instances that,
owing to the superior influenoe of the male parent, the
effect of the first cross in sheep was very considerable,
bringing greater else, often longer wool, earlier maturity,
and a propensity to fatten; or, in other oases, superior
quality of mutton. "Many persons who go thus far,"
he adds, "are deterred from going any farther by the
very numerous failures which result from pairing
together animals of the first cross, and consider that
pure breeds only should be perpetuated ; I adduced,
however, various examples to show that crossing might
be carried much farther, even to the extent of establish-
ing altogether a new breed, possessing qualifications
which, although derived from them, yet neither of the
parent breeds alone exhibited. I instanced the cases of
the Improved Hampshire, the New Oxfordshire, and
the Shropshire, and more particularly the flocks of Mr.
Humphreys, as affording suocessful illustrations of the
practice. Special reference was made to Mr. Humphreys,
who. starting with two of Mr. Jonas Webb's best prise
Southdown rams, kept steadily to sires of his own stock,
occasionally purchasing fresh Hampshire ewes, until in
the course of 20 years he had established a first-rate
breed, all of which were descended on one side from Mr.
Jonas Webb's Southdowna, This example, as well as
that of Mr. itawlence, of Wilton, who now
erstreely ranks second to Mr. Humphreys, seems to
show that the use of males and females pot.
wring a similar amount of breeding is much
more to be depended on than the system pursued by
Gibers who cross with the Sussex when their sheep are
getting too strong or coarse, and with the old Hampshire
when they are getting too smalL I now further
propose to inquire whether this system, which bit° sue-
Geode' with sheep, is one altogether to be condemned
with horses; always assuming that cross-breeding, to
be successful, must be undertaken with a distinct and
defined object, and assigning the highest praise and the
Grit rank to those who msinuain intact the purity of
oar beet established breeds. An opinion is very
oonenonly entertained that there are only two pure
breeds of horses in this country (ponies excepted), viz.,
the thorough-bred and the heavy cart-horse,—all the
rest being but modifications of three races in various
degrees. It is, however, probable, that long before
either of these extremes were known among us there
existed a native breed of a very useful kind, pure
examples of which are now scarcely to be met with.
The pack-home with his drooping hindquarters, good
shoulders, strong fore-legs, and sure action, existed in
England for centuries before the Barb and the Arab
were imported for the chase or the race-course by the
atissrts, or the Introduction of carriage' had led to the
use of Flanders mares brought from the neighbouring
continent; these heavy horses, with their high action,
Plow but sure and staunch, being naturally much prised
for helping the ponderous coach out of the deep ruts of
the high roads or along the miry lanes. The heaviest
of the race were greatly in demand not only for tilling
the strong lands but for drawing the cumbrous road-
waggon before even the six-mile-an-hour luggage-van
was introduoed all a novelty and an innovation. I have
before me one of Morland's striking sketches, which
reminds me forcibly of my boyish days, when the slow
but sure approach of one of these ponderous vehicles
with its eight or twelve ton load, heralded perhaps by a
cloud of dust ever stirred up by the heavy feet of the
ten or twelve massive animals that moved it onward at
the rate of some two miles an hour, never failed to
command attention. It was a sight to behold these
leviathans settle into their work after a short respite
in the midst of • steep bill; the burly waggoner,
too heavy to walk, and scorning to ride in his waggon,
was mounted on one of those strong sure-footed ponies,
usually white or pie-bald, which have long since diem,'
peered. A crack from his long whip would send in tei
the collar with a 20-horse power the ten hairy-legged
but powerful brutes whose toned banks were rendered
still broader in appearance by the absence of tails, for
each horse was docked close to the stump, under the
absurd idea that their strength would thereby be
increased. It is difficult to imagine that this waggonj
which seemed to the people of the day to be one of the
institutions of the country, was itself formerly looked;
on as • newfangled novelty, which superseded the °now
universal, now well-nigh forgotten pack-horse. There
are but few specimens remaining of the pure pack-h9rAe
breed, which has been quite neglected and overlookeeby
agricultural societies; and, consequently, whilsti the
- 'have for a while proved valuable for breeding
' hunters with the thorough-bred horse, the
.ve been gelded and used up. This eriginal or
. race has no doubt been modified OWiti.erably in
Recording to the fertility of the soil chi which It
it be raised; being sometimes developed into the
strong upstanding harness-horse, and at others dwind-
ling down to the plain but useful galleway, as seen in
many remote districts, and particularly in the little
horses used in the Irish cars. Tile Nash pony and the
Clydeedale cart-horse, the latter enlarged by rich
paaturage and perhaps a ora probably represent the
opposite extremes of the rame,breed."

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