The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-18 00:00:00

Vorsetishirt.

WITIIOU'IR POLICE. Tnewlay. Present The
yn)or (P. Dodson. Eini.,)J. Ayling, Esq., and E. Daily,
Thom" Brat, a sailor, was charged with being
drunk and disobeying the orilens of Captain W. Smith,
master of the Vivid, of Weymouth. Prosecutor statial
that prisoner SSW bound to scree him for three years,
'nil had two MI/WM longer to fulfil hi. time of
• On the Vivid coming into Weymouth Roads lie
giVC the prisoner permiwi ;;;; to go &allure. directing him
To he down at the laud by 4on Monday idterioc,u. lie
rad make his appcarillie until 64 we,,ii half •pic 4
when he WIIA drUlik numl ti•ry threatening
• -.mild .10 for the 'note'' iili lie got ..ti la,sr.l. Pro.
wrimir (lull put liim satore, mid gave I; i iii hi charge iif
time police. nu' 114.0.1rati v w ere at first intiineil to
Amish the prixotier by giving him *VW( II dope hard
it the Mny.,r stiggiated to Captain Smith
whillicr it would not be adviaalile, an the Hien hint SO
.I.ort a time to lIITVV. to tike bins hark to the ship, on
his promising to himself totter for the future,
captain Smith agreed to dos.. mid the prisoner wan
doiiiiimal ins pitting the I iota •f
iewhatis Ci. IIN %%4,1 charged w.th deserting from the
Vii vi. (Cattalo Smith), On the Ifil:It September Inst,
)ir. enneareil for tloi prisoner. Prost,
cuter deposed that coition wmi en apprioittee on hoard
I'' ship, mail wet humid iS Mm rcli Iwit year. When the
was In the river Ttrie, hint September, he
&wool, taking all hia clothes, and being El In Ids
if.roarculneid delit, which lie foul paid him in advanw.
Ile hail seen nothing of Ii i ttt omev, but hearing he was
in Weymouth he calmed him to he taken into custody.
Mr. liwayard oltiretion to the ch.irge. MI the
ground a Ike notenturea not being Maned by the ph.
..ner's killer. This was overiule.l by the Magistrates,
who dwitled that the parent's sigmdure was not re.mi.
oe. Mr. Himont 'No WWI it wax neceaeary that the
signature of the apprenti.e almuld be !mired, The
Mater eki not °enabler this taiint at all material : but
es 'Mr. Mustard signifying his intention to prow the
noun, at he repirst the parrnt. the Mi.giatretea
allowed a oiliness to be hem for. snit Captain .1. Pear.,
no, brought, who proved having wen the indent•ires
,igned. The Mayor then rervimmendcd the iimwcutor
to reteive the apprentice again, as lie did not consider
his stay in Dorchester moil would be beneficial in a
will point of view. Captain Smith said the prisoner
had conducted liii,ieehl NO improperly that lenity would
lie of no iservicy, and he feared he would only repeat his
niic (induct if he was forgiven. Prisoner MU then
.ale,,ead to tote month's imprisonment with hard
talenT.

TIIX PDXTLAND LANDO/I.ll%—A' the scene of the
its extensive displacement of isdl iii Portland will
in ell probability become one of the future o lions'
ef the island, it may not he uninteresting to offer seme
more enlarged details of the occurrence, than we
sere enabled to give when cussorily 0 tic is, it,
short time since. The locale of the l'ertland land-
slip is directly behind Cheeil, and therefore the
ronfiest means for the visitor to reach the spot will
be through that village, and thence by the new road
to the cliffs. The Landslip at Portland is acarcely
inferior in magnitude to the celelirated (mu which
occurred SOIDC years since at Lyme Regis, a space of
at least thirty acre. haying heel' rellloVeli from its
original place. From geulagical inveatisationa of the
strata of Poetised, it is computed that the layers con-
taining the various ilrecriptions of stone are about
one hundred and sixty feet in thickness, resting on
• substratum of " Kinimeridge" clay, of groat thick•
no 4, nearly horizontal in it. stratification, and on a
level with the sea, whose incessant action from the
West Bay is continually disintegrating and under-
mining the clay bed which constitutes the founilat.
of the superincumbent strata of stone. which naturally
aplit off in the direction of the numennis veins and
gullies, and, sinking, found a new foundation. The
recent landslip ix so far different from ordinary
occurrences of the kind that only a comparatively
small part of the iecarpinent of stone has been
effected. The chile:llomM thew:tole of the event aro
of considerable height, and previous to the " elip,"
he existed an "ui dvrelitf of about eighty acres
in extent, and sloping gradually from the Isaac of the
upper precipice tow ar Is the sea. This bank was
...omposeil Kiiiimerolge clay, with occaeienal strata
of Purbeck oolite, lie sortie-, being with the
,hlwis from the quarliee "shot" over the cliffs by the
workmen. A small stream of water, probably a
hielsoak. Howell through "no part. This undereliff
suddenly subsided on the morning of the 2fitll of
December, not, however, in an unliniken masa, but
iii several detached portions, with but a few yards
distance between each liseure in the land. A more
uninterrupted displacement is however observable
in one ilirectimi. where a garden on the south-
western elope of the *miler dor has eh:nil:ea to an
n of ale ut forty.tiec degrees eow„cii, the
nortlzeast, and notwithstanding this ieverse of posj.
tin, the stone pillars of the gate mid the stone fence
still remain entire. A remarkable feature bee MI.
eurred in the ilidurbance of the 'flo clay bed,
• liwli lute is en ru and in some met:mei-a
foreed upward, forming a rile
.11 .eie „r sect..
rid feet, intercepting • part of the l'eldfle Beach
!eleven itself and the cliffs, no.l ila sssss ides lock the
rill of water, and forming a miniature lake, which
will no dould nt a future fierioil he an importaid
agent in nifeliiying the in sent features of the ills-
lodged meow. It appellee that the cliff itself has been
nimparatively hut little affected. although large
Worm see visible at a short ilietance froin the edge,
suit one portion, funaerly the situ of a hose crane,
has wheeled two or three feet. show Mg that the
%hole rock, to the depth Of at lean MN Inlniivregl
and sixty feet, must hare sunk at that spot, for the
crane WAS imbedded in the solid stone, l'he irxur-
rence ht's neeesei fated e nalenmuhilulabourius repa.i ins
the damage occamioned to the n ails and tramways. a
portion of which shortly after the slip projected
several feet from the edge of the cliff, while thv der
previous to the accident it was securely fine.' in
Ivy,'
.1 irniff, and hearing the burden of wagons
loaded with an immense weield of stone. The ileino•
lition of the edge of the cliff has ale, destroyed a
large portion of the road. awl rendered necessary the
formation of • new road further removed from the
elan brink. The cause of the dislodgement is with-
out doubt to be attolinted to the 'agency of water,
and very probably the imintemipted rain the slay
previous hail no small share in precipitating, if not
entirely et-vomiting, the dislodgement. The site of
the occurrence being so easily attainable we have no
fleubt it will be extensively visited, especially as it
may be reached within • quarter of an hour after
lesvilig the steamers, almost constantly running from
Weymouth.