The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

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SOUTIIIAMPTON.—Esnignt lion to the rape of good
Hope.- On Tuesday the emigrants for Table-bay
were embarked at Southampton on board the ship
Anrifent, 216 souls, equal to 19114 statuteadults,
comprising 161 British and Irish emigrants, agricul-
tural labourers, domestic servants, and various treat% ;
aim", 74 I e rum' us, the latter chietly vine dressers and
wine makers. selected by the Hon. Mr. Field, the
Cape Emigration Commissioner.

THIS I'CNINSt'LAR NI4II-4.--The Peninsular and
Oriental Onupany's steamship Tagus, Captain W. B.
Hall, with mails from I.islion of the 17th inst.,
Oporto the lsth, and Vigo the 19th, in charge of
Lieutenant Simple, Admiralty agent, arrival
at Southampton at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. She brought
nine passengers, .e 1,455 in specie, 95 chest of onuiges,
2:1 boxes of eggs, 56 senins of almonds, 6 quarter.
Linda And 10 cases of wine, and 52 packages of
general merchmelise. On the outward in...ages the
Tagus had strong gaits (ruin S. W. and N. IV., with
a licavy sea, and along the Want moderate %. H.
winds; homewards, ACM'S tlie Bay of Bis-
cay, fresh gales from E., N. E. and S. E., with con-
fused sea. On the 17th, off I,alsin bar, the Tagus
spoke the English steamer Vasco de Game; and 011
the 21st. at 6 a.m., she paesi.4l the Ceylon, with the
outward India mails. The Royal Mail steamer Tyne,
with the outward Brazilian mails, arrived at Lisbon
at noon on the 14th, and sailed at 7 a.m. on the 15th.

EXTRAORDINART rnon Dorgit Cur,'.—On
Thursday afternoon, • little boy, about nine years of
age, son of the ar iiiii urer ser,;eant of the GOtli Rifles,
while playing on the edge of the cliff overbalanced him-
self and fell. Although the precipice in nearly feet
high, it has by different falls hot its perpendicular, or
rather at the depth of 10 feet from the aui iiiii it forms
an incline plane. The velocity of the hey'il fall was
thus broken, iuid, strange to say, no hones were either
broken or ihslocate.l, and the poor little follow escaped
with a alight scalp wound and bruises.
Tag V.icATlog J eIKIE.—.Iny person who has seen
the vacat judge at work must he pained to ace what
lie has to undergo ; I morning till 2 o'clock, or
thereabouts, he hears suinmouii not attended by countiel;
some of the solicitors awl their clerks, who are then
heard, may be competent to their duties, and aware of
the proper Manta to which they may approach in pro-
pounding their difilcultiee ; but however they may
assist tl.e judge, their numbers are legion, awl soine of
them bore him and waste public time, with their igno-
rance, vulgarity, and importunity. Worse than all, we
have many a time seen little office buys in jackets ritah-
ing into the room to ask for time to plead; two if these
small urchins are said to have fought in the august lure-
,mice of the late Hr. Justice 'Williams, who witileseed
the onset with calmness and resignation, remembering
how he himself had battled for hid clients in days
long gone by. At 2 o'clock come the counsel and
pleaders, too oftsii forgetful of the trials the judge has
undergone, and they frequently detain him to a late
hour in intricate arguments. Now, just let us consider
what this work is. If a judge is tr7ing a cause he has a
little respite while counsel are talking to the jury, and,
further, he enjoys the enornioussatiafaction of not having
to decide after all. He 'night just doze a little, perhaps
laugh a little. If a comic judge, and fond of popularity,
he may even amuse the jury and the bystanders by
forensic fun or well-preoedented joke, which, coming
from such a source, Is Nivea • certain amount of appre-
ciation. At cluunbers, on the other hand, there is no
respite. no Igvity, but the attention must be alive and
at full stretch during the whole time of the hearing of
each summons; if it is not, the jedge loess the thread
I and cannot decide.