The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCIDATEIt, TI.I)24DAY, JANUARY 25, MAC

NONENT N A111)4 X.

THE A(0/fling ,Puai of Friday last announeed that
the Ktrot of NAPLIC4 died on Thursday morning,
No confirmation of this report has been obtained
from any other quarter ; but if it be true, hie
MaJcirrv's death must have boon very sudden,
as the telegram announcing his illness ORA
received only Iff hours before this intelligence is
said to have reached Parisi. The latest despatch
received by the other daily papers state. that the
is "seriously ill," and if this serious
has really terminated in death, his MAJtaTY has
been struck down, at the early age of 411, at the
moment when his Court is busy with prepa-
rations for the marriage of his eldest son, and
while the bride elect is pursuing her journey
front Bavaria to Naples, which she will in that
case enter not as Crown Princess but as Queen.
A few day, before his illness the late KINII
signed a decree establishing Councils of War fur
the trial of persons noting against the internal
tranquillity of the State, and taken in the fact ;
and at the seine time his proviona decree grant.
ilig pardon to MO:KW, 144Traf11111141, autul the
other political prisoners was modified by a
Ministerial onlinatiou directing that the Kismet%
should be omit out of the kimplipm and *impelled
to take up their residenue in the Unikel States,
I' it ito and his friends protested against this
ordmancu si thu ground that it converted the
pardon illt1) II sentence of trannoortntion ; but
this K at rejected the appeal, and t In,'. is no
doubt that the order will be earned into effect
iiiilvsa the Chows+ has succuudull to the
throne, null lins been eilvisol ti inningurate
neLussi,in by all net lif mercy which will mitninte
tue solifuriiro of thew inifortimate prisoner'.
The war pink; which unused ass 1111101 allaluty
lut week has onleddeli. The report. received
from the Profeete of Departmenta and from the
Ambittsadara at foreign "tuna are 4414 to have
satisfied the Frunah floversintent that war would
be unpopular hi Prance 44 well 44 in other
onuntries, and the leading organs of the iloverie,
mint have received instructions to annotinue
that there will be no war. At the seine time the
preparatimis lit the arousals are still continued,
and it hi eonlidently believed hut Yrimuli military
and naval eludes that hostilities will take idaue
in the spring,
A(0111101 from Corfu stole that the lonian
Deputies have beim willed together by Mr, I I 1411.
4711114, 41111 that the (magnums lie. resulted IN a
I demand by the Lleinitien of a revision of the
treaties of iNlft, with a view to the annexation
of the islands to (Immo i and lii a refusal to
examine any reforms that may be asibmitted to
them until their demands have bean taken into
winsiduration,

The Bombay mil liss arrived with news from
thud presbleney to the Mil Dasember, The
guess's Proeisiiistion continue§ to protium psi,
revolts, awl tbe subiligation of the distorleol
tlistriuts is progressing rapidly, A large Islay of
rebels was defeated at films In thole by lirims.
utter Tmuil. oil tliu Ist Despoils% sod INAitri,
KHAN, 11110 of their leaders, 1111101M111001,
motored himself with u ormololgroiltle number of
his adherents, Mir It, NAP'lot on the 17th
Detsonber defeated aml puipmed with grest
slaughter fur it miles us party of the rebel fogl.
tires from Dims lllltlar the 00111111111111 of
SHAH, who was attempting to tilted Junction
with TANTIA TOPPI in COllOllll

MN. lINIMIT'N neforM Dal deals rather
roughly with the representation of the boroughs
in lb orsetshire. Four of thent, vbs., Dorchester,
Wnrehani, Bridport, and Lyme, are to be
relieved altogether of the duty of returning
mottilters to Parliament ; two others, vie., l'oole
and M'eyinoutli, are henceforth to be content
with (Inc member each, instead of two ; and
only one borough, vii., Shaftesbury, is Recruit
to retain its ancient dignity of standing in slate
goo. Shaftesbury must feel singularly happy in
this exemption from the painful operation of the
pruning-knife of the notable Reformer. The eye
of a much greater nein than Mr. Bright, however,
was, only four or five years ago, cast upon the
bonnigh constituencies of this county ; and he
wan of opinion that while Lyme, with it. hand-
ful oftooptilation, should be wholly disfranchised,
each of thu other boroughs returning two
members should lose one of them. That was
Lord John Roseau's deliberate proposition in
Ditt4. Another scheme for the adjustment of
the representation appeared in the Times of
Saturday huit, volunteered, as it appears, by "a
correspondent." This does not seem to require
Any further remark, save that what we may
perhaps call the Time,' Reform Bill, deals with
our local etnistitumicies with a slightly modifying
severity—Dorchurter, for instance, being gra•
timidly permitted to retain one member, while
unltiokly Brillport, with a larger population by
several hundreds, is to have both its member.
ruthlessly lopped off. If we could regard either
of these refonuing processes II Anything
but absolute myths, it would be a curium
invootigntion to search into the grounds
of the preference for certain boroughs
equally developed In both of these schema'.
It is to be feared that from some cause
or other there Is undue hilluenee—there
favour and affection—sown even In the pure soil
upon which the representative system of England
and Wales is henceforth to he planted, end iii
which that now system Is to deeply It* rooW

and flourish with unalloyed excellence ! But, hap-
pily, they are only imaginary reforms that now
flit before our eyes; in a very few weeks we shall
have to deal with the real thing. Lord DERBY
has the infinite advantage of having his oppo-
nent's whole case in his hands, supposing any
real embodiment of the opinion of the country,
RS SUCh, to be (mind in it. Mr. BRIGHT has
addressed with acclamation very large meetings
in some of the largest towns in Engliuid, but it
is impossible to say with how much earnestnetu
and unanimity his own opinions and those of his
I numerous audiences may be supported by the
country at large. The fact that Lord DERev'm
Cabinet was well known to have the matter iii
hand, will go far to account for that apparent
apathy which has been occasionally so severely
censured by some ardent reformers ; because
business men would be naturally indisposed to
any violent agitation for the security of a
measure, emanating from the people, in the face
of a long-promised and now forthcoming Reform
at the hands of Her MAJKSTY'S Ministen.
Thus it appears to us this seeming indifference to
Reform will in all probability give way when
the (lovernment :hall havu declared themselves ;
and the attention of the nation being then
regularly and powerfully directed to the subject,
the entire country may be expected to give the
propositions of Lord Dimity's Cabinet the most
earnest consideration, and to sot in one direction
or another in the matter of Reform with
promptitude and decision, and with a desire to
bring this question to some satisfactory and
practical issue.

I.IOIIVIIIKTICII PITCH ru CORN M HK y, Kalif •
ilay.—Our market wiui but ouslerately ujupliuut with
wheat bfitlay ; notwithstanding, the trAile rubel dull,
at former rake. Harley in gum' 141111
me lamt week. Beane and eate, trtule inactive.
11014VIIKATKK KAVINON BANK. Frolil the general
eteteinciit of the footle of this, institution, which
will lie found 11l our advertising it will he
11001 that Oa ainiiiint received of ilepoisitfire within
the year tooling Nov. 211, INI4, wa. £9 1:141 lin ;
while ihtluiuuuiu paid ileprisitors in wanly, liuuuluuhiuu
interest. during the Janis period, WU I 1,744 Is. A 4.
the balance an. on the 20th Nov. Moot being
£7u./411 lie, I 111. The her of ileisesitorm is
2,154 Anil the amount of their elciplaitA £73,011 140.
20 charitable societiee, 4:1,3101 4. 1111. ; II frienilly
societies, £1,10:1 IN., 24. A 'silence of £2,11111 is
invested with the Corunfissioners for the Itieloution
I/ f the Net i I Debt, on the maparate eurphie fund
recount ; A surplus of £217 IN. HMI, being reserved
to meat current espouses. The mix of interest is
iier cent.

PPTTY Mirtestoxis, Saturday, January 21.
(llefore ii. William., 11. ri, Middleton, and W, L.
'homing, Eels.) --John ,00./yr, a shopkeelar of Wilter•
borne If iiiikton, was summoned by Supt. Everitt for
haring Iss lila powassision ala light aright". Fined lib.
and os, M. soda. ----Thomas llogflet. John Mbvii RIO
John De rom, three navvies working on ilia Briilport
Railway, were summoned for 004,44411 m on lands id
Lord Wriforil in 'march of conies at Wriford F,agle.
The defendants diii not appear, and were flinol Ilk,
each, and costs, and In default .1110 calendar motif Wm hart
labour each,--Thomaa lltillrll was alai/ charged with
*mulling Nahum Jackson, the gameheoper. Fined 10s.
and iota, and In default to he further inspriouneil
calendar month. --Joseph Churi/01l MA hichnril
were ettinimmeil by Superintendent Everitt
for being drunk and Agliting at bisitaleiry oii Clirbit•
tells night, Churchill fined to. awl 4a. lil, costa,
II imsford diem seed. lii,., lf.nri, Ifrekell, a M 4111311
belonging to 11.M.5. lying in Portland Roads,
was brought up under remand charged with attempting
to commit suicide by hanging hinowlf with a neckerchief
1,, a twain in an outhouse at Wyke 11egia while in a
partial state of Intosication. It appeared from the
evidence of the surg-on that the prisoner was
limier 0.. effrete drink at the time he committed Ow
act, but was perfectly LIM* lIIIW 111111 lurnvji, bet'll under
thu itmeoetoms ~f the chaplain for aeverid days pout lie
Wax reprimanded and sliwipargessl. &Win, a
labourer, wax brought up in cuatody charged with
running away from the pariah Kverahot about two
years ago leaving Ida two children chargeable in that
piriali. Committed fur two calendar months' hard
labour.

(.wwltyya rii D,lnciirstr. it It tot,. -Asakee : Martel
111.1,,,n, stealing Aver watall, at 11e1,11.10, mod
hulue, Daniel rherrolt, imnalting at l'wele *Men,
iittu calendar in 111 Wflhisin Thomas Vlnwent, drunk
NI, hoard thu 21 dap; ; Vranela
I ireettilig, laments wale° at Ford A libry, nno °standar
; .101111 nary, Mary Koine, I harp iierrar,l,
and William Hinton, refisaing u prowstvol in sea in the
,thip Dale, lying in Portland °meta, 1.111V114111111.111,11
ruse), ; .18.1iit !hiving, drank and dlaorderly Oil Itosnl the
2/I ,laye ; lt,,hart having family
alearigabla at I:earshot, tw,, ealandar unwiths