The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY $, PC.9.

HONESTE A UDA X.

PARLIAMENT was opened OH Thursday by the
QUEEN in person. The Speech from the Throne
commenced by referring to the general prosperity
and contentment of the country as evidenced by
the decrease of pauperism and crime. It ac-
knowledged the valour of the troops in India
and the skill of their commanders, and expressed
a hope that at no distant period Her MAJESTY
will be able to announce the complete pacifica-
tion of that great Empire. It stated that Her
MAJESTY continues to receive assurances of
friendly feelings from all foreign Powers, and
that it is the object of her unceasing solicitude
to cultivate and confirm those feelings, to main-
tain involate the faith of public Treaties, and to
contribute, as far as her influence can extend, to
the preservation of the general peace. It
referred briefly to the Convention for the organi-
zation of the Danubian Principalities, to the
Treaty of Commerce concluded with Russia, and
to the treaties entered into with China and
Japan. It mentioned with satisfaction that the
Emeziwa of the FRENCH has abolished the sys-
tem of Negro Emigration from the East Coast of
Africa, against which Her Majesty's Govern-
ment " has never ceased to address its most
earnest but friendly representations." It is
stated that forbearance had been carried to its
utmost limits with regard to the wrongs and
indignities inflicted upon British subjects in
Mexico, and that orders have now been given to
the naval forces on that station to demand, and
if necessary to enforce, due reparation. It

announced that the universal introduction of
steam power into naval warfare will render
necessary the " reconstruction " of the British
Navy, and expressed the conviction that Parlia-
ment will cheerfully vote whatever sums may be
necessary for an object of such vital importance
as the maintenance of the maritime power of the
country. With regard to the measures of the
Session, the Speech mentioned in detail various
measures of law reform which it is intended to
introduce, including Bills for assimilating and
amending the bankruptcy and insolvency laws,
the consolidation of the criminal law, the trans-
fer of real estates, and the registration of titles.
It then announced that attention will be called
to 'the state of the laws which regulate the
representation of the people in Parliament," and
concluded by expressing a hope that Parliament
will give to this great subject a degree of calm
and impartial consideration proportioned to the
magnitude of the interests involved ; and that
their counsels may be so guided as to insure the
stability of the Throne, the maintenance and
improvement of our institutions, and the general
welfare and happiness of the people.
The Address in answer to the Speech was
agreed to in both Houses without opposition.
The debate to which it led was remarkable for
the unanimity expressed by Lord DERBY and
Mr. DisasEti On behalf of the Government, as
well as by Lord PALMERSTON, Lord GRANVILLE
and Lord JOHN Room'. on the part of the
Opposition, in condom • g the present attitude
of Sardinia, and in reprobating the idea of war
between France and Austria for the possession
of Italy. Lord Dintav, at the same time,
ensured the House that Her Majesty's Guyer:l-
I ment had done all in their power by friendly
advice and urgent remonstrances to prevent so
terrible • calamity; but if war should break out
they are bound by no secret treaties or under-
standings, but are ready to take the course which
their duty and the honour of the country may
appear to require. With regard to the Reform
Bill, Mr. DISRAELI stated that in consequence of
the large amount of regular business which must
be first disposed of, it is not the intention of the
Government to introduce their measure before
Easter. Lord PALMERSTON alluded to the posi-
tion which the Government had given to the
Bill by reserving it for the last paragraph of the
Speech: and Lord JOHN RI:SMELL called upon
them not to allow any routine business to stand
in its way, but to place the Bill upon the table
without delay.

The marriage of the Princess CLOTILDE of
Savoy and Prince NAPOLEON took place on
Sunday morning at Turin, and the married
couple soon afterwards left the capital for Paris,
where they arrived on Thursday afternoon.
The, lonian Parliament have unanimously
adopted an address to the QUEEN, praying her
Majesty to lay before the Great Powers their
desire for union with Greece. In accordance
with the announcement made last week, Mr.
GLADNTONK has been recalled, and Sir HENRY
STORES, who distinguished himself by his mili-
tary and administrative talents in the Kaffir
war and as commandant at Scutari, has been
appointed to succeed him as Lord High Com-
missioner.

THE tone of the debate in the House of Com-
mons on the Address can by no means be repre-
sented as of a satisfactory character in respect of
the maintenance of peace. We now learn that
the Government have found it necessary to
address the most earnest representations to
France, to Austria; and Sardinia on the pre-
sent threatening aspect of affairs, and have
pushed their friendly office' to the farthest
point in order to a pacific termination of the
present difficulties., Notwithstanding an un-
usual amount of mystification in the Ministerial
speeches generally, this solemn interposition
with the powers just named comas out clearly

enough. The Govenunent have most anxiously
endeavoured, and still hope, to preserve peace.
But it is observable, that beyond the bare ex-
pression of hope—that plaything equally of
young and old—there is no ground whatever to
believe that the efforts upon which Lord DERRY'S
Government have been relying will be attended
with ultimate success. There is not a single fact
stated authoritatively upon which such a conclu-
sion can be made to rest. The Government tells
us plainly that they see the coining storm and
that they have endeavoured to avert its terrible
consequences. They have endeavoured to do
this, and they hope for the best. Now, in our
view, this situation of matters is not at all re-
assuring. But if the country were disposed to
content themselves with vague and unsubstan-
tial hopes, such pleasant dreams would be some-
what marred, if not wholly dispelled, by the ad-
missions of Mr. DISRAELI. Those admissions are
made in terms which are well understood and are
unmistakeable; and Mr. DISRAELI is too great a
master of language and too skillful a tactitian to
use strong and definite terms hastily or with an
erroneous application. He said distinctly that
the state of affairs was "critical," and subse-
quently that the preservation of peace was not
altogether "hopeless." He then goes on to
give all the hope he call, but furnishes a good
foundation for none whatever. Men who cannot
justly be designated alarmists may reasonably
feel uneasiness and apprehension. Indeed, the
design of deferring the introduction of the long-
expected Reform Bill until an advanced period
of the session, looks to us like a bad augury
touching the peace of Europe. The Govern-
ment are doubtless aware that the attention of
Parliament must very shortly be engrossed with
the momentous question of peace or war ; ia
which case the Legislature could not employ
itself effectually upon a measure of such 'magni-
tude and importance as a reform of the represen-
tation of the country; and the Government may
therefore be unwilling to unveil their intentions
upon so great a change in the British constitu-
tion until Parliament finds itself in a fitting
temper, and with time on hand, to deal 'properly
with so important a matter. In fact, this is the
only valid excuse which the Government Call be
conscious of having for delaying Reform, a ques-
tion which, now Parliament has met, absorbs the
attention of the whole country. To say that
they have a measure prepared, and that it will
be produced "at no very distant day," when all
the world is on the tip-too of expectation, is so
whimsical a proceeding as seems to be wholly
unjustifiable, and one which, we ourselves should
think, cannot be satisfactorily explained by a
reference to the reluctance and the fears of the
Cabinet in respect of their promised Reform.
That question we all know is one very
uncongenial to the Tory tastes, and the
Government know full well how trouble-
some it must prove to them, if it does
not have a disastrous issue. But then being
pledged, and being confessedly prepared to per-
form the pledge, the Government can hardly be
suspected of so much puerile fear and weakness
as to seek relief and comfort in procrastination.
There is, we much fear, a weightier reason for
delaying the Reform bill than the fear of a
Ministerial defeat ; although, from obviously
prudent motives, that true MOOR is partly
concealed. We say partly, because when a
Cabinet Minister like Mr. DISRAELI tells the
House of Commons and the country that the
state of affairs with regard to peace is "critical,"
but not quite " hopeless," we do, as it seems to
us, get a glimpse of contingencies of such a
character as would in their effect materially
retard the progress of domestic legislation. Then,
it is by no means certain that the grave ques-
tions arising out of our foreign relations are
such as the DERRY Administration can safely
take their stand upon. Though repudiating in-
tervention, and earnestly crying for peace, there
is yet a manifest disposition on the part of
Government to oppose France in the steps con-
templated to be taken by her in Italy; and
this course necessarily supposes a disruption of
the Anglo-French alliance, and an union to some
extent with Austria. Should an unnecessarily
belligerent spirit display itself on the part of
the British Cabinet, that moment the Cabinet
will find itself standing upon a tottering f d-
ation. The country is just now recovering a
healthy tone in commercial prosperity and con-
tentment, and we know these blessings to be
the genial offsprings of peace. War, without
a very intelligible and a very sufficient cause
indeed would, beyond all doubt, be solemnly
deprecated by the people of England; and the
head of any Government who should put the
peace of this country in peril by an unwise
interference with the settlement of foreign coun-
tries, and of new modes of governing them, would
assuredly be hurled f power with a repu-
tation so damaged, mid a want of confidence so
universal and intense, as to place recovery
beyond his reach for many a year, and probably
for ever.

Doutims-noc lirii,iCOßN NIA iir.i. Saturday.
-Our market was again well supplied with wheat,
311 d PleleetA samples were readily taken at last
week's rates, but inferior ones could not be placed,
except at a reduction of from la to 2s. per quarter.
Barley met a fair demand at last week's priem
limns and oats nominal.

The newly-appointed High Sheriff, James
Feßowes, Esq., has appointed the Rev. A. G. S.
Shirley, of Stiusford, to be his chaplain; Thorium
Coombs, Esq., of Dorchester, Cutler Sheriff; arid
George James Andrews, Esq., County ('lerk. We
understand that Mr. C. Tassel', of I)orchester, has
the order for the Sheriff's liveries, hats, &e.
THE 01. D BOROUGH CONSTABLE-s.—At the sugges-
tnm of the late :slayer, William Manliehl, Esq., •
subscription has been entered into fir the purpose of
:iffortling some pecuniary assistance to the old
borough constables superseded by the new police
force. The sum collected amounted to a:55
which has been apportioned, £2.1 to Charles Bart-
lett, £25 to James Hooper, and Vi IS.. fid.
to
Frederick Vatcher, in whose mulles the respective
sums have been deposited by the Mayor in the Dor-
chester Savings' Bank.
We understand that the Wesleyan Reformers of
this circuit are about, to open a place of worship at
Charininster, • piece of ground. centrally situated in
that parish, having been purchased, on the site of
which a chapel anil Sabbath school-room, from the
designs of Mr. G. D. l'ocklington, architect, of
Sherborne, will be erected.
It is officially announced that the directors of the
Grost Western Railway Company will recommend a
dividend on the ordinary dock at the rate of 2 per
cent. per annum.
FEBRUARY CIRcCIT Or THE COUNTY COURT.--
IMrchester, Tuesday, Feb. S. ; Bridport, Wtsbiesilay,
Feb. 9; Weymouth. Thursday, Fel). 10 ; Fording-
bridge, Saturday, Feb. 12 ; Blandford, Monday,
Feb. 14' Poole, Tutsslay Feb. IS; Christchurch.
Wednesday, Feb. 16 ; Andover, Thursday, Feb. 17 ;
Slatesbury, Monday. Feb. 21; Wincanton. Tuts-
day, Feb. 22 ; Salisbury, Wednesday, Feb. 23.
COUNTY COURTS' STATISTHIL —CirCßit 56, for
the year ended 31st of December, IS5s. E.lvfard
Everett, Esq., Judge; 8.4e)6 causes were entered
(for the recovery of £17,k54), of which 2,067 were
tried ; 2,060 were by the Judge. and seven
only with juries ; 1,94.5 were in favour of the
plaintiffs, and 93 of the defendants ; 4.399 of the
causes entered were settled by the parties out of
court.
Minas TO FARMERS IN PURCHASING NIANUREs.
--We observe front the .Vark baler ErprexA anal
other papers that the system of adulterating manures
is still extensively practised. and sufficiently ac-
counts for the many low-priced articles offered in the
market. The following rules, if well observed,
would often save considerable lass and disappoint-
nient to agriculturists :-
Ist. Never to purchase of any but respectable and
responsible parties, and to avoid those whose reputation
has once been taroks,.
2nd. In all cases to take samples of the manures
sent, an that if the effect is doubtful the samples should
he submitted to analysis. Unless the t perfect con-
fhlenie is felt this analysis should be taken in the first
place by some eminent chemist.
3. Ti encourage respectable and well-known local
manufacturers in preference to those at a distance, for
all unnecessary/spans° in carriage is lost to mine one,
and possibly to the farmer.
4. To deal as much as possible with the manufacturers
themselves. _ .

lIIITTNO TO DOICHICSTIM Labnir.
el MOOS Allen. stealing a coat at Weymouth, 1 calendar
mouth ; *kakis Butler, stealing ;runs, lie., at Brill-
port, II calendar months ; James Sliumonds, stealing a
slop at Bradford Peverill, 2 calendar months.—Farther
E.rainntalisa.--nasan Harris, stealing puree and Bs.

lit tiii%ii rnoM IinINENT nv W. C.
MAtitr.thr, Esl.--1 In Friday evening Lit Mr.
Maereaily gave one of his readings from the poets
with the view to the formation of eilue.itional ehmses
in the lEirchester W. irking Men's Mutual Improve.
meta S.wiety. There was lint a tolerable attendance
in the ripiin, the lei I state of the weather no doulit
preventing the arrival of many persons who would
idherwise have been pleas:al to attend. The public
are well acquainted with the course and nature of
thew, real li4l. and frequent notices have cell nettle
of them in the Express, particularly of the reading
given at Weymouth last year in furtherance of the
objects of the Avociated Institutes of I )01-set aunt
Somerset. A detailed report if the entertainment
on Friday last is therefore unnecessary here, more
particularly WI the subjects chosen for this (MR.4131011
were, with 0,3 exception if Stern's " Lefevre," pre-
cisely the saute, including the introductory remarks,
vi those selected at Weymouth rind other places.
It may therefore lie sufficient to say that the reading
wasilelivereil with Mr. Nlacready's initial distinctness,
energy, ant power, and if anythtig he was rather in
better voice than when we lasi hurl AllletlgAt
the sprinkling of fashionalile eellipallY present were
If. It. Sheridan, Esq.. NI. P., and sone lailies of his
family. John Fl. yer, 1.1,„ ant timer. The receipts
we underNtan.l fell shortof the anticipatedsuin by .t:111,
1:20 instead if .C3ll having been taken for tickets.
It had been arranged that half the proceeds were ti
livlieVOtell to the A,.. duet Institutes ;mil half to
the D irchester Working Men's Mutual Improve-
ment Society ; lint Mr. Nlacready, in consideration
of the smallneve of the receipts, generously declined
the moiety to be paid to the Associated Institutes
and requested the Dorchester society ti appropriate
the whole. Mr. Sheridan kindly presented the
society with a cheque for /A The reading was,
generally speaking. very attentively listened to, and
Mr. Nlacreaily's power of imparting to the :nimbi of his
auditory the pathetic, the grand, the beautiful, and
the sublime imagery of his authors seemed to ini•et
with a pretty fur share iif comprehension mid appre•
riation, tie ugh some case. of unsuecowful counter.
felts were certainly here and there discoverable. and
in instances, too. where social position wuuih,l be
taken as a guarantee for a higher order of intellect
;tail discernment.

St Ii inquest W 3.4 held oil Saturday Last
lief. ire 11es Symonds, Esl.. coroner, and a respecta•
ble jury, on the liody of William Littk, jun., dairy-
man, of 1'..u.i.1 [louse Dairy, in the parish of Come,
who had put au end to his existence early the same
morning by cutting his throat. It appeared that the
unfortunate deceased was about 40 years if age, and
that for several weeks pant he was observed to lie
in a moody and depreased state of mind. (/n
Saturday moniing, about 5 o'clock, his wife
(to whom he had been married only four months),
complained of a little hea.dache, and shortly
afterwards deceased got up, and being unable to
get a light in the bed-room owing to the matches
being damp, lie went downstairs and' lighted a
candle. Not long after Dna, Mr. William Little,
father of decemed, got up, and found the candle
burning in the window. The old man then went
into the dairy-house and found that the milk hail
not been Animus', which was a part if the deceased's
usual work ; he looked about for his son and
imagined him to be in the barton or in the meadow.
A boy who WWI occupied near his master remarked
that the young Ilium hail not called him as usual,
• whereupon the ill man desired the lad to go into
the barton anti try to fin.l him ; but lie returned
shortly afterwanls without success. The old man
himself then I.siked about. examining the harton
(11.1 other plaecs, and directing his eyes towards the
hayricks Ins attention was attracted by something by
the nide of a rick, awl on appniaching it he found his
son lying on the ground with a frightful gash in the
throat. Ile called the boy, and together they car-
ried the Issly into the house. Mr. Coles, surgeon, of
Cerne, was imintslaately /Wilt for, and that gentle•
man attended with tin. utmost promptitude. Ile
pronounced the unfortunate Mall tOP be dead, and
said that from the nature of the wound death most
have been instantaneous. 'The poor fellow had
assisted on the previous day in killing a pig, and
the instrument of his own destruction was the knife
meal in slaughtering the animal. The jury found
:1 verdict that decease.' destroyed himself in a tit
of temporary insanity. It may lie proper to add to
the statement of tine melancholy case. in respect of
the low and .li:spooling state ..f mind which had
Latterly come over the deceased, that he was under
medical treatment for some internal affection —a sup.
posed distiase .1 the Imam and WiliCil, it is affirmed
un the authority of his toe- heal attendant. was of a
nature ti produce dejevtion and melancholy ; and
which, in this caae, it is possible led to the pre•Wllt
CALLIIIiii.II,4 result. The deceased was a 111211 of re-
markably steady and frugal habits, entirely tlllilli
hirrasseil in pecuniary !natters, and WM indeed NCII
.iff fir a man in his position of life ; he was much
attached to his wife, and she to him ; and their
union was one of perfect contentment and happi•
[less. Therefore. no CallsC whatever can be assigned
ir the dreadful act beyond a sudden aberration of
mind proceeding probably from the ilis inter with
which he was afflicted. We understand the lioily is
to be interred this ihay ("Tuesday) in Charminster
chunffiyanl, where rest the remains of the mother if
the deceased. The .1.1 event has plunged the family
into the deepest grief, for the deceased was much
lieloved by thou and respected by all who knew
him.

PETTY SessIONS, Fob. 71.--(llefore If. Frainp-
itt. 11. Williams, and W. 1,. 'Henning, Es'lrs.)-411'hon.1
Charles, a labourer of Preston and Sutton P tz. Wa.
.41111111 one. by Sulwrinteinlent Everitt for being itrunk
suet asleep on the turnpike road at Preaton. Fined Is.,
and -Is. lA. costs.
Daiwa Fse and Squalid Sprorkliti, two labourers of
Stratton. were summoned for taking nine trout from a
stream of water running through the common meadow
at Stratton, wherein the Rev. John Itobert ire and
others hail the private right of fishing.—The defence
was that their ;inflater. Mr. It -nodal]. had given th-in per-
mission to take any fish that might be left in the drains
after the water had been drawn back in the main
stream. Mr. Randall attentleit, n.i.h atabal that, he gave
Fox permission to take the fish, otherwise they womb'
; he conaidered the farmers bail a right to take the
fish found—under the circumatances —in this- common
meadow. Mr. Symonds, who appeared for the cam-
plainants, contended that they huh no such right. Fined
Ix. each, anti CMOS.
Bilrtifit and .4 (fent poo-7r, two labnnrera of
Toiler Porc , were summoned by Superinten lent
Everitt for being drunk and incapable at Tiller Pon
cornm. Fined Tic each, awl code 4s. 1;1. each.
fleer,i 0014.,111, a labourer if Maiden Newton, was
summoned for creating a disturbance, awl fighting in a
beerhouse kept by a Mr. Butler, at Maiden Newton.
(inhered to enter into his own teCOL:1111:111Cra in I:11h hi
keep the peace for I calendar month, and pay the
expenses.
Javicv Sion niontLi, a labourer of Fordington, Wan
brought up in cueto.ly —miller remand —cliarge,l with
stealing • hlop, the property of .10.epli Chat, a servant
in the employ of Mr. Thornhill, of Itrailfonl Peverell.
The prisoner w.mM ,emit t 43 Mr. Thorithill'a with barrel
or oysters, and stole the slop fr..imi the stable ; lie plea,leil
guilty, and was 'sentenced to 2 calendar months' hard
labour.