The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

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Tall Drvolos COURT.—As many sel9/3 MU lire for
bearing in the Divorce Court in the preemie tem.

Mas. Yrixdirros (or Mi. Longworth) his raised a
new action in the Edinburgh Court of Session for the
purpose of setting aside the judgments in !he former
litigations in the Sootch wart in the House of [ord...
The point upon which she relies is that the Scotch
courta had no jurisdiction to pronoun*e their lodgment,
Major Yelverton haying never had a Scotch domicile.

Tes PoLICS BS PUBLIC PRCIIICUTOBB —The justices
of the Winchester Court of Quarter Sessions eomplain
that in the arse of the Allen murder, as in other mow
the reeponsibility of eating as yobbo prosecutor fell
upon the superintendent of pollee, end the ez peseta bad
to be paid out of the police rotas. The Esther of the
murdered girl Bee unable to proseente, used the Home
Office declined doing so. Several other looonrenioberu
molting from soot a state of !things were pointed out
in the course of the discussion.

Teo Be. Augur's Rrroac Paoccourroc—The pro-
ceeiings in the St. Alban's ritual case were resumed on
Thursday in the Court of Arches. Mr. Coleridge pro-
ceeded with the case on the part of the prosecutor.
He laid down four propositions, on which he
founded his &moment. 1 He contended that all the
various arts which were charged in the articles against
Mr. Mat konochie ware either proved or were admitted
to have been done. 2. That the various sofa so provei
were esch and all unlawful. 3. That they were
unlawful because they were matters prohibited by the
law, or were unrecognised by the law. 4. That in these
matters the absence of authority woe the presence of
prohibition. Dr. Seamy filliwed briefly on the same
side. On Friday morning Mr. W. 14. James. QC..
opened the ow on the part of Mr. Meakonoehle, end
raised a new point in objection to the charges. He
contended that as this was • criminal charge the
avermenta were not net forth with sufficiency. As to
the charges themselves, hie position wss that everything
not expressly or by neoessary implication prohibited
that was ev.r lawfal in the rhumb of England ie not •
priteetwit chinch. Mr. hitlollol, Q.C., followed. He
maintained that. as Mr. Mackonochie had performed the
servicee honestly, and not in a wilful ot- obstinate
manner, he should have been cited before the Bishop,
or proceeded against in a civil suit He submitted that
there was a diserep.ney between the citation or decree,
which was fatal to the whole proceedings.

JUTIBIILi IMMORAL/TT IS LONDON. —At Southwark
pollee-court, Alfred William 17paell, quite a lad.
apparently about fourteen years of age, was summoned
before Mr. Burcham by Charlotte Bull, • child in
appearance, to show canoe why he shroild not eontribute
towards the support of her illegitimate offspring, of
which he was reputed to be the father.—Mr. Henry
Allen, the prosecuting officer of the Associate Institute
for Enforcing the Law. fra the Protection of Women
and Children, watched the cue on behalf of the
society. The complainant who bad • poor, unhealthy-
looking, diminutive infant in her arms, said she was
formerly a servant in the same house where the prisoner
worked, and she left there and went to live with him,
the remit of which was the birth of the infant in her
arms. —Mr. Bambara Pray bow old are you ?—Com-
plainant I an. 17 years of age next month.—Mr.
Bonham: How long have you known the defendant ?
Complainant : We have kept company three years, and
we lived together as man and wife five month's.—Mr.
Borah= : How old is the defendant?—Defendant : I
am joirt seventeen years of ago—Mr. Bonham : And
how do you net your livelihood?—Defendant : I am a
coach painter by trade, but I cannot get work more
than four or five months in the year. While I had
work I gave the complainant money, and she was
satisfied. I have no means now at my disposal. Mx.
Burcbam (to the complainant)—Do you do anything
for • living ?—Complaioant : ho out to service, and
my mother takes rare of the baby.—Defendant: I live
with my parents, sir; but I own myself to be the father
of the chill—Mr. Sureham said that all the time be
had been on the bench he
of juvenile depravity and immorality, RAO whatever
the parents of these children could be thinking of he
could not surmise. However, the defendant must pay
Es. • week and costa.

SINGOLAR PROCEEDINGS IN AN IRISH COURT OE
fitticauss. -AS Antrim quarter wesslons, on the 4th
inst., before Mr. H. Otway, Q.C., chairman of the
count!, William Hughes was indicted for having, on
the 27th Nov. last, at Randetown, msaulted Patrick
Delaney, • sheriff, officer, and rescued from his poem*.
lion a number of articles.—The case having been beer-d,
the jury =tiled. After abut 20 minutes oonsultation
they returned into court. and the foreman banded to
the clerk the issue paper cmtaining the verdict. —Clerk
of the Conrt Gentlemen, you •av that William Hughes
is not goilt• of rescuing goods, And not guilty of coommon
assault ?—Foreman : Yea—His Worship (with Bur-
prise) : What's that you say ? —Foreman : There were
discrepant, es in the evidence which—His Worship:
Tut, tut, nonsense! You may retire. Stop (opening a
large law book)! I don't know how to deal with that
verdict. It is • perverse yerdict.--(Tne jury were then
moving is if to leave the box.]— te is 'Worship (with
much emphasis): Don't go away, gentlemen. —(To the
foreman) : What new matter came before yonr consi-
deration after you re'ired„ th•t made you return that
verdict? Did you consider all the evidence 2—Fore-
man : Yes, we did.--His Worship Well 2—Foreman :
When we looked at the evidence given before the magi,-
tn tea, and the evidence submitted yesterday by the
, man Delany, we found that discrepencies existed.--
His Worshop : Did you consider Cassidy's ',ideates?—
, porrissan Yes, we da.—His Worship: I have power,
I when I find a jury have, through miatskitig the evidence
I or perthelity, returned • verdict repugnant to justice, to
order the jury to retire again and reconsider the verdiet,
I and to amend it. That is my constitutional privilege
I and power. I do not know whether I shall elerCiall
that power or not. It is certainly • very great stretch
of authority in the court. There join question at all of
my right--no question of my power. At the same time
I think I will not exercise my power in this caws. I will
allow you to go gentlemen. I will allow the verdict
you have returned to be recorded, but I may tell you I
never received a verdict from • jury in my life with
which I was so thoroughly diesatirfied. (To the ac-
cused): Stand up. sir I The jury—I eau hardly call
them so—the twelve men who were sworn to try your
=se have =quitted you. Ido not believes more guilty
man ever stood in the dock than you. However, I will
take the verdict—s verdict which may have done more
to hinder the administration of justice in this eourt, and
limit the value of it. jurisdiction, than any verdict that
was ever given. I have told you I will take the verdict,
believing you, notwithstanding that the jury have =-
quitted you, as guilty • man as ever stood in that dock,
and also fearing that the result of this case may be
more prejudicial to the very men who have thought fit
to acquit you. You are discharged. I believe the
verdict to be partial, perverse., sod repugnant to justice,
—(To the jury): Go away, gentlemen, you certainly
never shall be on • jury again, if I 01111 help it.—The
jury then left the box, apgarently crest-fallen by the
force of his worship's =gawks. —Hie Worship said he
would communicate with the Attorney-General regard.
ing the manner in which Mr. Robinson, the clerk of the
petty sessions, had performed his duty.—DesUfa Beesuag
Mad.

A EIeSIR 111 TEM MANCHeirts Powcs-cOultr.—
Charles Forest., a remanded prisoner, was brought
before Mr. Fowl.r and other magistrates at the cite
police-court at Manchester, charged with stealing a
regulation rifle. The prisoner was not originally arrested
as a Feniso, bat for stealing the riga of a volunteer, at
whose house he had had • night's lodging. Several
other charges of theft were also made 'ain't him.
While the evidence was being taken the prisoner fre-
quently turned round and looked op to the gallery
(which was erowdvd), and continued to make eigna to
persons srliqm he appeared to identify. The diver in
charge of the dock 'beaked the prisoner from time to
time, and eventually Mr. Fowler called upon the officer
in charge of the gallery to arrest any nen= whom he
saw "telegraphing" to the prisoner. Upon bearing this
remark the prisoner sat down in the dock, and coolly
scowled tulienly at the magistrate. Inspector Garner,
having bad previous experience of the prisoner, at once
rushed ovvr the front of the dock, and an exciting scene
took piece. The prisoner envied violently with the
officer, and blasphemed in • strong American meant,
and in the moat awful terms. The strugrle still con-
tinuing—Mr. Fowler: Gently, Garner; don't time more
violence than.is necesaary.—Prisioner (to Garner): Get
out of the desk. you —; you've no bushier here.
!won't tolerate your conduct any longer. You
dogs, you've aimed me every way since I've been here.
I'll knock one of their heads off in • minute, the
'eternal wretches. Who the are you ?—Here the
prisoner, who was evidently a man of clesper•te ehnea,cter
and great strength, ettempted to does with the in.
specter, but Garner was too quick for him.—Mr. Fowler
the prisoner): Prisoner, look her.; you've bean
behaving very improperly all the time the come haa been
going on, and if you do not rennin quiet, I must take
the oath in your abeenoe.—Priconer Then, let the
wretches treat me better, the infernal dogs. Who's
going to be humbugged by you (to Inspector Garner
agail.)?-11r. Fowler: Let him stand up, Garner • if he
assault,. an offi •er in the dock, you know what 'to do
with. hen. The prisoner again broke out swearing
hornbly, and waa about to clime again with the in-
spector, when Mr. Fowler: Let him be removed. To
the, prisoner—You are remanded, beeente you are not in
• right ,ratue of mind to conduit your nue properly.
The prisoner was then forcibly taken to the cells below
the court, yelling and struggling with much •mlenott.
As he was being dragged out of the dock he ezelMmed,
"I'll shoot you—the whole --lot r There was con-
siderable commotion in the gallery while this scene wad
going on. At the conclusion of the other business the ,
Prisoner ass again placed in th• dock, for this purpose
of concluding the evidence sanest bin. H. was now
perfectly quiet. At the aonclueon of the evidence, he
Pleaded guilty. Mr. Fowler, after ueertalning that
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