The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

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LITERARY AND Sasnyrine IggYITUTIMa.—Zi
Req. (member of the College of Lectures),
lecture at the institute on Monday evening, on
"Bcf"jetl f good, bad, and indifferent" The attendance
Wee very small, sanaidering that there WY the siker.
tion of a professional from whom something good might
be anticipated. Mr. Loyal treated his theme in an easy
manner' giriall amongst other specimens of conversa-
tion, very amusing ermashes of wit, scandal,
k.
Ile hit off the inobbidoneu of those who traekle to
titled men with coneiderable humour, narrating among
other funtiy &needling that of the st•tionqauter who
knocked Lord Palmerston's cigar out of his mouth for
smoking on the platform and afterwards went four
miles to beg his parion. when he was told by the great
statesman that Int he respected him for having done
his duty, but now be saw he was only a snob. The
peculiarities of lovers' conduct were also dwelt upon,
and baehelore ideas emulated, one being that marriage
MN simply an arrstrtement for "Jiving half of you
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'mold not have been much butelitod, if at aIL
Tag PULPIT MID res ELECTIONL—On Sunday
morning the R 4". R. EL Ashton. when presetting
from the text "Lone not the world" 1 John it, 15,
made the following reference to the circumstances of
the present time. After dwelling on the meaning and
force of the Apoetl.'s injonetion and on the incompt-
tibility of Ines towards the Father—the Christian a
fine duty—with love of the world, the pnacher went
on t speak of wariout means by which the love of the
world may be destroyed. Among the means specified
was that of working for the good of others. The
Chiistian should cherish the conviction that he is not
his own; he should lay himself out for tie good of others,
It. should seek to Ind some sphere in which be may
labour for the instruction of the ignorant, for the relief
of the poor, fur the rai.ing of the fallen, and for the
good of his count,!, The notion has long
prevailed that pottiest life Is a sphere into
which the Chruten must barfly enter. The
oonsmnense has been that political and municipal
er.ittwa have toe often been left in the hands
of men hewing little in 0001111 On with the prin•
eiples of Cariati•nitr. It'is high time that this idea was
abiindomd and that Christian men entered into Shia as
*ell as other depaitmenta of public life, carrying with
them the principles and the spirit of Chriat. end Peeking
to give • higher tone to all trans srtions in the political
world. Let no one. tiarefine, with • tales spirituality,
soy of Christian men who try religiously to perk an their
Ott Sr their cotr.try, " How worldly they are l" L-t
as have done with all mush notions They or. worldly.
! I. Pleat, who aistain from these dates, who shut
tnesoselvee spin that own narr ow circles, and who thus
cherish in their souls, itutsad of Oh glorions spirit uf
! Christianity, the spirit of pare selfishness, which is the
true spirit of the world.
COUNTY Cozy—There were about 80 eeelle in which
the preliminary steps bad been taken for the Collet on
Saturday last; but so many were uttled out of Court,
that only about 25, and 8 judgment mammon's.,
remained. The registrar, O. Andrews, Ysq., disposed
of about 20 of these, and there was little of .intemt in
the remainder—Puma v. G. Sampson was • claim for
£5 4a. 3d., £2 Is. 3J. for rent of • house and slaughter-
house, and £3 3s. for • calf. Defend•nt said he paid
his rent when it was doe, and left when hie time was
up; but plaintiff urged that defendoot occupied the
premise. a month after that, and this °Retied the
occupation into another quarter, defendant having paid
him on the Bth of July fur rent due the 13th of Jane
when the quarter ended. On bring pressed by his
Honour, defendant who at first said he believed he paid
in June and left et the time, admitted that it was in
July. The claim for the calf was undisputed, and on
the other hand, plaiotiff admitted a set off of 7s. for
some beef and sheep's heads.—Judgment for £5 4s. 3d.
deducting the 7s. for the set-off.—Ordered to be paid at
10a. per month —Moore e. Rogere,—Claim for £5 15s.
for two peertertop taunters, which plaintiff, a plumber.
had obtained from London for the Swan Inn, Broadway.
—Mr. Tigard appeared for defendant, and Mr. Howard
was to have eon hooted plaintiff's case, bat that gentle-
man did not appear.—Mr. 'lizard expressed his willing.
news to wait until Mr. Howard CAPIO ; but his Honour
decided to proceed. It appeared that Mrs. Rogers
wished to have something better than allied counter-top,
and applied to plaintiff about it, who, as she deposed,
said it would cost about 15e. ; but on their being
obtained from Mears. Taylor and Bona, they were charged
at £5 154.—Mr. W. COMINiUt thought the job was worth
about ; but Mr. Michael Thurman, of Weymouth,
and Mr. W. Durden, of Doichester, and Mr. Levi
Bartlett, valued it et oboist said that the
wood work was inlaid with mahogany to prevent it
warping, but the witnesses for the defence said it
appeared to be all deal, exempt that Mr. Bartlett
admitted there was a little suahogan7 for • key to the
work. It was said that Messrs. Taylor s might be a dear
b“use, to which plaintiff answered that it was • first
class one.—His Honour gave a verdict for £4 10.., with
costa—Beals v. Baken—Plaint.ff claimed £2 On. 21.
for house rent, and defendant admitted owing El. and
stated that be was to have an allowance of his rent on
oondition that he should go out before his notice wee
up, in order to accommodate Mr. Beale who wanted the
house for his son.—Mr. Beale admitted that defendant
went out before his time for their accommodation; but
said that he had allowed 1.1 Ss. for a grate left in the
house. His Honour said then plaintiff had value for
his money. He believed defendant had made out his
eam, and gave judgment for El only.—Defendant asked
for his meta; but, at he had made no tender of the
money, these were refased.—Ordered to be paid in
instalments if 60. per month.—Two or three poor
quarrymen and others were adjudged to 14 days'
imprisonment on judgment summonses, for not paying
up their instalments ; bat his Honour ordered the
warrants to he respired for • month.—Henry Gough,
late accountant. beer retailer And grocer, of Melooenhe
Regis, • bankrupt, came tip fur his discharge. Hi.
debts amounted to £9B is. 8.1.. wets nil.—Bankruot,
in •nswer to his Honour, said he had been eery ill, and
had to resign his rituatoce, as collector of gas accounts,
and mall not get another.—Bankrupt was unnopposed
and was allowed to pass.

IleitooOß Perri SESSIONS. Tuesday—Before the
Mayor (J. lizard. Keil and J. Ayling, Req.
The owe of Charles 'Vivian, who had been charged •
fortnight ago with insulting Jupp, a lanes-corporal,
was brought up for disposal, and plaintiff attended.
The Meyer said that on the last °cession the
magis'retes were divided in opinion upon this case; bat
he had sines mid over the evidence, and had be been
here at that time he should ha.. been in favour of •
conviction, for he had no hesitation in saying that the
e• I lone. on that side was much stronger then that for
the defence. But the magistrate who held the
contrary opinion was not present, at.d when gentlemen
are bitting judicially. the benefit of the doubt should
always be given to the *reused. Pitman was now is
Dorchester poi. and mold not be brought up. There-
fore, giving as mud the doubt in favour of the accused,
the summon. smell fall to the ground. —Com disiniwe
Matthew B Adall was summoned by Superintendent
Lidbury, for not eating the sums be wee ordered to
pay towards the tapped of his two eons,
Albert and George, now (*Mined in Milborne
Reformatory. There were ten weeks' arrears
due, at Is. per week. Bendel!, being asked by
the Bench, said he had no meant of paying.—The
Mayor said them was no course but for the msgistratm
to carry nut the law, whioh was to eenMnoe hire totes
days' hard labour in each case. lb, punishment to be
comeentive.—Buperintsodent Lidbury said that previous
to summoning Bendail he had roe-iced • let•er front the
governor of the reformatorymy ins that he mast press for
payment every fourteen dept.—Defendant, who said he
had no good. to di.train on, was removed in custody.
Friday—Before the Mayor, J. Timrd, Req., sad J.
Aylirg, Esq.
WiNidet Thresher, greengrocer, end a friend of his,
C. Those.:, were summoned for threetening the life of
Edgar Cox, on the 11th inst., and called on to show
why they should uot find sureties to keep the pewee--
Mr. R.. N. Howard, who appeared for defendants, said
he only came there as it had been tePtestated to him
that he might be the mewls of settling the matter.
The parties had bad a dispute, and ore thing had led to
another. He was willing that hia clients should be
bound over, if Mr. Cox would sleep one hoar sealer for
It,—lt was intimated that eight witnesses were
summoned ; but only the complainant WM beard.-11r.
E. Coo said be was in the London Hotel at 10 o'clock
on the night in question, when Thomas and Thresher
came in, end the latter sat down almost on him, and
hustled him, saying, in • threatening tone, that he had
something to settle with bins; but witness said that a
pablie MOM was not the place to do so, and asked him
to Dome to • private place. Thresher said he would
spoil his frontispiece, he would watch over him as long
as be lived, and smash hire, and called him a Mae,
vagabond, and thief, for he wanted to rob a man of his
goods; bat that he Imdbeen disappointed. The witness
being evidently reading from a kind of brief, Mr.
Howard objelseed, and ths Bench decided that he could
not nee it, on whir& Mr. Cox produced • memorandum
written about the time, which he referred to. He con-
tinued that Thresher wrung his fists in his face, and
abrosed his lip. Continuing his language he said he
would have his knife into him, seised him by the
collar, polled him oat of the chair, and threatened his
life. Thomas interfered in a similar. manner, Malmot to
the same extent ; but wrung his fists in his fees. The
affair lasted a leng time, and they ultimately left, and
said they should wait in the bar. Witness, in conse-
quence of their threate, was afraid to leave, and he
was in danger of his life. —Croeseexamined : He had
known Mr. Thresher as a tradesman for many years.
and there wat no ill will between them, and Mr.
Thomas he bad never seen him tills day or two before.
band, Neither of the defendants had made any threats
to him line& —Mr. Howard, while considering the idea
of giving lingual° used in such a dispute such &meaning
as Mr. Cox bed attached to it, monstrous, intimated again
that his 'Bente ware willing to be bound over to keep
the peace, bat he sueseasid that • nominal amennt
would be suffloient.—The Bench bound over the defend-
ants in £29 each, and to find one surety in £2O, for
their keeping the peace for three months.