The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-14 00:00:00

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Tor Rtoterrn.—Connty electori (not already on the
register) to be entitled to vote at the next election mast
send in claims to the overseers of their respective
parishes on or before the 20t1i inst.; and all claimants
under the new occupation franchise of £l2 must, on or
before the 20th inst., pay all poor rates made on or
before the sth of January.
Two ERTATZS, yin., W Blackney and Clitney and (2)
Monk wood. in the willies of Stoke Abbott and Marsh.
wood, oontaining about 326 acres, were sold last week
at the Auction Mart, London, by Messrs. Driver—
Blaekney and Glitoey for £11,960, to W. Colfox, Esq.,
of Bridporli, and Monkwood to Joseph Studley, Esq.,
of Broadwinsor, for £4.300. The property belonged to
W. C. Lambert, Eq., of Misterton.
Tag VuLONTIIit ENC•i. PM UT. —We Understand that
a novelty will be introdueed during the 1868 encamp.
went of the volunteer., at Swanage, via., the publication
daily of "the Swaracipe Spicier, a journal of the camp
and of the volunteers," to be written, printed, and sold
within the lines of the encampment I The project has
received the sanction of Colonel Hansel. It has been
originated by the author of the Election Burlesque of
1865 (? 1866), and will no doubt, under his guidance,
prove a success. Any suggestions or contribution, for
the Spider will be gladly received at 27. St. Mary-street,
Weymouth. J. H. Calcraft, Esq., has kindly intimated
that at Rempstone hall, on Monday, the 27th instant,
there will he bread and cheese and ale provided for all
volunteers re roan for the camp.
Doss Sumatra Asanse.—The oommission for bold.
ing these arise will be opened at the Shirehall neat
Saturday afternoon. The judges on this circuit are
Mr. Baron Channell, and Mr. Justice Mellor. The
following ornoners are for trial Welman,
disputing crime at Dewlish ; George Jacobs, anon at
Chalbury ; William Mo'CuUnsbarsiarlY at MaPPerten ;
Job Hussey, rape at Bradford Abbe.; George Ivamy,
wilful murder at Poole; George Bridi_e, damaging
machinery at Kinson. —Os Boil: Wan= Kest; bigamy
at Weymouth. The souses in the law court will include
The Corporation of Dorchester e. Mr. W. MaeBeld and
Mr. J. t Bow, being the long-disputed question;
Payne e. The Corporation of Weymouth, litigation
arising out of the pile pier; and the several times
adjourned Broadway road case.
IDroclnsir Arrournterre.—The Bishop of Salisbury
has instituted the Rev. Montagu nankin, clerk, M.A.,
to the Rectory of Maiden Newton, void by the death
of the Hon. and Bev. Prebendary Scott, clerk, the last
incumbent there, on the presentation of the Right Hon.
the Earl of Hamster, the patron. The Bishop has
licensed the Rev. John Hcaegood, Serb, M.A. to the
Okeford Martina, Dorset. The Bishop bas
recentlyC of
appointed the following gentlemen to be his
Chaplains :—The Rev. Prebendary Eddrep, clerk, M.A.,
Vicar of Brembill ; the How. George Lloyd I=
S erif, 11.4 cif ~ Vicar Tolpuddle ; the Rev. R
Francis Wilson, clerk, LA., Insimbst of Rownhams ;
and the Rev. Brook Edward Bridges, Sark, M.A.
Vicar of Haynes. His lordship has also appointed the
Rev. John Parr, clerk, LA., Incumbent of St. Peter,
Parkatone, to be Rural Dean of the second portion of
the Deanery of Whitohurch, in the plies of the Rev.
Alfred Wilkinson, radioed.
Donn GOMM HOSPITAL, —The late dimension se
to whether one or two surgeons should be elected no
this Institution really seems to indicate that • good deal
of pony feeling exists in the old town of Dorehester.
It appears to us, after • *ireful perusal of the debate,
that the arguments adduced in favour of the ppoint.
meat of two surgeons are solid and prastleaL The reel
question to be desided was not what was for the benefit
of the surgeon or snoops to be Salted, but what was
really for the welfare of the par patients who applied
for relief at the institution. Thls, wiFt to lia7, was
lost sight of by more than one at the late
meeting. It is gratifying, however, And that all the
Governors spoke in high terms of both the candidates
whoa" merits were brought before them. By-the-bye, it
Is worthy of notice that the report of the proceeding' in
the Dorset County Exprtall is a model in its way. The
reporter seems to have been animated with the desire
not only to give to his readers the actual words that
were uttered, but a kind of tableau vivant of the
speakers, and we must admit that 131 a effort was
snocosslaL —TAs Lancet.

Loan Slurries Oar an HIS net= finwalip.—kt
, length the cam spinet Yr. /lobar' Short Waters has
, come to an end, by the withdrawal of the prosecution.
Hs surrendered to she him trial at the Central Criminal
Court, on Wednesday, before Lord Chief Juges &rill.
Kr. Giffard, Q.C., intimated that he did not intend to
offer any evidence. —Mr. F. H. Lewis said he appeared
for me. 'Waters, and begged to say that he was entirely
Innocent of the charge of embezzlement ; and if the
aaaa had been gone into, be would have been prepared
to meet it. He produced a! paper, which was reed by
the clerk. It was signed by Lord Portman in behalf of
the prisoner, and by Yr. Stephens, Q C., in When of
Lard shartathery, sad stated that Lord Portman, baring
submitted to Lord Shaftesbury that Kr. Waters waa in
bad health, and was entirely in want of lands, had
solicited the noble earl not to prosecute him, and that
Lord Shaftesbury had agreed thereto. It mho stated
that all legal proceedings on either side should termutate,
and that there should be an end of all transactions
between them.—The Lord Chief Justice said there was
no application made to him, but an intimation was made
that no evidence was to be offered, and the grounds for
so acting were stated in the paper which had been read, ,
from white it appeared that there had been woosedinge
In Chancery for the investigation of oertaM accounts
between Lord Shaftesbury and the defendant, and it
also appeared that the amounts were of a very Initiate I
obareeter. in them ollearesleeerse le vie very Minh

for the court to pronouns@ an opinion as to the right
course to pursue' and without knowing mutt more of
the cue than he did, it wee impossible for him to do No.
He must aoespi the statement that bad bvsn agreed
Upon, and whir% wu signed by gentlemen in high poll.
tiwo, who bad, no doubt, no themselves acquainted
with all the facts. His duty was not to pronounce as
opinion one way or another, and be bad not the means
of doing no. Under these eireemstanoes he oould not
my whether the prosecution was right or wrong; he
mild not MY, no far an the papers appeared to him, that
Lord Shaftesbury ought to pursue the prosecution with
referenoe to the accounts, So far as be (the learned
judge) knew, the defendant might be guilty or innocent,
but the prosecution must take their own isonrse.—Mr.
Oiff trd shoo informed the Jury that no evidence wee
offered, and • verdict of not guilty having been returned,
the defendant was diseharged•