The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-22 00:00:00

THE DWARF AND THZ GIANTS.

Zailtsbirt.
WILTS BUiliglß ABBIZ
The eommission for bolding these assess was opened
on Friday, at the Council-house,bribery, by Bir
ntsroy Kelly, Lord Chief Berea of the Italie:mar. Mr.
Yitsjamee liMphens, Q.C., toting asßoyel Comosiseiomer
in the place of Mr. Jestlet Lush, arrived on &Mardi)
morslog. Both courts were opened on &sturdily morn-
big. The Lord Chief Baron presidod in the Crows
Court, and heard the following miss, the °sly oes et
interem.

_TUN YUMA& OT • 00M1110.101131 111 LUTACT.

WS;u:wlleirs•-; In:lodiatied"-for asard.rlug Kr.
Let sides, manahniense la Maw, os the illat May
lon. Kr. Read sad Mr. P. Golding preseeuted, and
Mr. Barnhill defended. The prisoner had been a
patient is Fiebertesboose Asylum, Salisbury, for up-
wards of 21 years, and had also Mon a patient is Bed-
ford County Asylum for about dr years previously to
his edmbeion into Fisherson Aysitun, meter a warrant
of the Seerenry of theta, in December, 1852. The
prisoner pleaded not guilty. The only witness marnined
wan Dr. Oorbin Flunk, one of the proprietors of th•
asylum, who mid that be had known the prisoner ewer
Mee hi hemline • paeans in the asylum, and that dar-
ing the whole time of his molisement he suffered from
&roan mania, and esuddersd hiss to he at pissist of
unsound Mod and 'Meowing under defujiosa. His
lordship, when mother witness was about to be ea.
Llano& interPoosd. end put it to the jury 11, after the
direct endorsee whisk had been submitted by • single
witness as to the mensal incapacity of the primate, it
was a.os.rytopisoss4fartb.r with the ems. TM
jory, after • eery brid eoluenhatioa returned • medial
of net guilty, on the ground of isemity, as 4 Ms lord-
ship ordered tin primate to be ooslined dazing het
Molsety's pleasure
In the emend court, (Isidore Mr. Titsjame a atephes,
q.c) there wee Dot • single Mt OW, and Ctri limped
tlasunissioser presented to try primness. Tt • badness
was meouried on fistarday, bat the liars ad judges
remained in Salisbury, and atlisseisd divine =wises at
the Oarbedrai.

At Glasgow Small Debt Omni, Thosnu Whiteley,
exhibitor of the O'Neil family, sued Frederiok Quay,
• dwarf of about 3i feet high, for the payment of £l2,
as damages for desartieg his establishment. The
dwarf, whom diminutive appearance attracted moth
ourioalty, whU• his eau minute provoked sonsiderable
laughter, pleaded. "I didn't agree to show myself as •
germ/ in that agreement. I we. mil, to snake myself
geserally useful. It does not my anything shoat me
exhibiting the giant ladies."
111. Lordship : Oh, I me, plaintiff, that you wanted
to maks this eons atoll to the brui• ladlea—(lan.ghtor).
This Sheriff finding nothing la the agreement binding
the dwarf to show off the ladles. dismissed the aid..:
whereepea the little fellow hopped from the bar, with
his hat In one hand, while he kissed the other three
several times to the judge, with • " thank yoe, your
woroUp ;" and was poly prevailed eoutinubm his
eilsoes by being aught by a tall, stout woman,
evidently his wife, who bid him In the folio of her
down, exolabning—" Don't, Freddy r Freddy then
beams of necessity Ulan%

THE NEW COURTS OF JUSTICE.
The tender by Meseta Sall end Soso for the Gan-
eknotion of the new Law Courts has bees seneeted by
the Government This oontrana deed Is being prepared.
and after It Is idoed the works are to be oestmastoed
with as little delay as possible. The pretreat amnia
I. about £710,000, and It has been &aided to Puma.
the maaonry In Portland atone, sad the tittle's.
ceilings, &a, in oak.

The Gilboa Onardions purpose gain into the bekety
barium. Th. Bawd pays nearly £e,ooo • you for
breed, and It Ii vain:toted Lbw to bake the bread et the
union • oaring of between £3OU aol £41.10 • year would
be I lated.

The Qaoto has gracdously eves bar aosostoatod
boasty to lira Ternoway, of Look, who on Monday.
30th Joao, bad three akindran at ono birtL
I!2:Logitt's resieutt at 840kt-on-Treat, Bawd Lab,
6P.4 for Desboot atea Ø. soludqui wields
by prvie acid.

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DEMOS OF TEI GLLDSTONI
SantaSttsbin. Duke of St Album preelded it • halberd at
Nottingham oa Wednesday sigitt, to eelobrato.the
Bath Tows Oottnail having again applied to the Lads °pasture of n Liberal *lab. Howard/ of 800 allsollld.
ef the Treasury for permission te barow £12.000 to •1 Right Boa. R. Lowe, IL P., being &dolma la
onsplets tho water works la hand, my lads have Londos as a witness on tbe Zaasibar mM liestreet,
deollned to grant the request The Town Ooseeil. Don- tsiagreohed lib regret, and said lar dedrod to impress
! aqaently, will have to apply for another £5l .1 Portia- "op them that tusks is victory, *ad Willa 04. 004 he
obtaloed by mutual oossastoo and forbeessaos.
mduftOringovert.ls th:lrasPubl.rokirnes:ankoot. tat
sibtellodeltnali,habeswubehimirb eat
and two deaths have amnia. the day, Lord Melbas:lm whose represestatia, Dad
ino.boloatliwir.l.r....i.aag.idtand
jadiro.,
beittproposiwbaresubmat Tp.......losi.derQeses
se"
Yeovil District Hospital has net at been omitted, Cowper, si• weleosio on this eceasioo ; sad her Illeide
although the building bee beeo oompleted more. than • sa of as near hsvirur forgotilies the Platy and
year sad • half. • poor fellow, who met with an pes'ispiss of her great teachee—(heer.)
seeklont last week, had to be takiis to the Yeatinan Th. Bow. Caerem•of propoerd "Her Majesty's
Hospital at Slarboraill—a elrearree of See ligla—likw Minieters"—(oheers.) To. tioestry would wen beret.
ton o'clock at eight decide witiols party woo to take the wiebets—those who
The restoration of Heidi church, Ltagport, is pro- had mad. lA. semi. which he bad enumerstod, or they
0•414•1161°•11. Thom I. very Utile Probsisitill of Ow who had blocked evetything sad never mode • ato.
r•-opening teeing place this year, The Marquis of Iletarbrosne, replying, iteld—Oast
• few days ago • nsaa nand Christopher Bowling, your .yes upon the oeoditioa of fads country Seep
whilst mowing in Frog-laae, was Mang by a Imo on ona yams se, and sampan it with tbs oondttloo of the
of his Angers. His band bemuse very much mottos, wintry as the pa..., moment. The retreapret will
and in • short time his body was so inuolo adorned show you large bodies of your fellow -eountryineo &bow
that he had to be taken home la • oert. lately dliquailled from all polities.' pow*: and
_privilege
Some floe speclinea of anoint temeisted pavement on &spoons of their religious actinism : the H9gUe of
hove been dammemad now the rules of Mueheinel Commons not even protesting to apresent the people
Abbey, about two miles from Lmigport. of ti.. totuttry, but repreasting particular and close
Th 6 Wt•oaate• roe.,.'. lure for Thursdays 0%0 28*61 sorporstions, and, in some am% motet), Individuals
of Aortal. load riell-governmect falling Into the bands of a leer
• new cemetery is being provided at Orewkerm at eloms corporations : thu wet egaiglas of the people
• cost—for WO, building. and Prelirolnal7 000tractod sad cramped by all seem of artidoial nutria.
of /3,500. bone upon their insoulasitures aid their owntnerc•--•
The Waitangi are shout to build • new ilibsPel is system which was opposed to the intereete of all slam.
Crowbar:a, aed bat/dui to tbe energies of the country. If you see
Both tlis Wees Tare and lod•Pendeuts axe mlulthilf all Mese thing. now rumored; it pea use these atoms-
their schools at Somerton. lies and those abuses swept away; and if you Mises by
Ma restoration of St. Nicholas shurob, Henstriddlis whose exertions, by whose suarsims and in the lace of
I. steadily Prooswilog- £2,748 has sirsedY 16•6 it whose oppoel' ion these great reforms hare been stooom-
leaded towards the costa. plithed, I think bo would la greatly 'terror who would
seek to detach you from your allegisoce so tbri Liberal
minas. I maintain, in spite of tete failure of the ('al
amity Hal of the primal seeishon, that if, 11111 there Is
every probability of its being the me., the indicators
Bill— that gnat meteors of law rotas sn—ie pawed, and
if the Rating Liability Bill, one of am. maseros which
in the opinion of the Government Sr n And to pave
the way for the due oossideratino of tue question of
local taxation and load eelf•goeerriss sot—l say that if
them two inessures be pealed Gams -h the pretreat me.
lon, I est no reams why the pressio a session should not
be ormaidered to hold • worthy Masa area to the Par-
liament which tat pwasod the Irish Coach Act the
Irish Lend Act, the Munition Act, sad the Ballot
Ara —lasers.) We are told that our remedial 14%14.-
111*n for Ireland has failed. Oa the a gantry, I assert,
without far of soctradionoo that o ever was Ireland
In • greater state of material prose erity than ohs
ajoys at presint—(near, Dear)—and if you look to
her moral 000dition you have but to re ad to. reports
which are wooing over every day from the anis • now
In progress, whet inles alter juice de Glares that the
oondition of the nointry was never a satialaitore ;
tbst crime, and especially agrarian crime, has almost
disappeared. We hear that the financeel policy of the
Goeernment ham not been • 11100•11. A ,Out lassos I
do Dot pretend to be an authority; be; I know that it
to • foot +high requires no sornment, as It comes
home to the =led and the poetst of every ma., that
this Governmest has managed so to control the expeo-
&Lure of this great country that, in EOM of CAI
advancing price of labour sad many other egimmodlUes
—spite of the loesesuot sails which are mods on
Government for new merriest—it has so limited the
inpendlture of the seuntry that the ooantry has reoeived
the whole basalt of the ineressityr prosperity, and
therefore, of the increasing avian*. Twenty millions
of debt have hero paid off by the present Government •
ton millloas worth of telegraphs bars been purchased:
which might otherwise have gone to the oltiootion of
the Noboru! Debt; and, in spite of this ditainunoo of
debt—in spite of ear extraordinary ezpenditua—what
I may cell capital expenditure' annual taxation, to the
antosat of nearly ten millions has bees remitted, and
the reams* Is as Soarbblng end as prosperous se ever
—(ibbers). There are some who wish us to believe that
this period of prosperity IA over, that we are now enter.
leg upon • state of dealraing revenue; but, gentlemen
lam told that this is not lb.saes, bat that th:
quarterly returns to the ead of Jane In this year, if
simpered wish the returns of Jana 1872, oboe its
Woman's*/ aottiety in almost teary branch of trade—
(sheers). lam told that, to far from the saticiptp
boas of the Chaariellor of the Exiaisquer being
falsified, there Is every probability that the Alabama in-
demnity will be paid off In the course of lire
=t year without having racoons to borrowing.
Mg to the rejestou of the Irish Cl:doorway Bill,
the reeiguation of toe Governmeot, and he resumption
of CAM, the tilde earl rid we were aware the% we
should have some anaoysitees to submit to, and may
dill/allies enoounter. I cannot say we hare beat
&abed. We did not 'stead and we don't intend to
go further than that. We do not intend to gaff r
hurnitiation—icheere). Ws do not mato to he •
Government upon tuff .ranoe. So long se we believe
that we possess the confidienoe of • majority of the
House of Commons, wo shall ooatinue as we have dose;
but let the majority show any signs that it has lost its
woofiditme in Mr. Gladstone and the Government, I
sin promise you we shall not b* back ward in responding
to the Manua.= so gives to us. And, gentlemsn
further let me say that, whatever may be our diffioulds:
—whatever may be the crippled power which we may
ham to pass Our ZIOSSUIVII—WO Mall not be iodusie,
for the Purpose of eooolliating any action of our old
sdharents, however vigorous or powerful, eltesr to
tetrads.* mosanna or to alter our meesures against
our own opinions, or in °opal** to the policy which
we have hitherto pursued. TOu mity that remissly
shrank from appealing to the country have an right to
urge as to dboolve. On what ground Is the Conserve-.
tire party going to challesge ? He defied anyone
to es the slight•st glintinariag of the Comirvative
polisy (iota Mr. Dieriteles swab's, and eald—wbat wo
want to know is whether ths oosntry is for tbeiVglisas
in it. history during fifty years (otos to stand ;
and if It is not going to stand stilt, what is the erec-
tion in which Mr. Dimrsali and him friends are going to
Ised the eountsy.

King Omar has been will received oa his visit to the
northern provlosess of Norway.
The Bahia seditery amassers' are this year to be
on • Miner male than before, and sooS new VIM tried.
A aopy of Kr. F. G. Reath." Dominoes of Pasoan§
Ilfe " bee been grasioady acieopted by her If siesty.
1311 young men ware drowned in the Tames. on
Marais, night soy the upsetting of a aliment* boat.
In Ayrshire, several 9C4110C111 ware struck by light-
ning daring the thuaderstarnt on Monday.
film of the speakers at the Gliagew Orange demons-
tration gave Its name as Dr. Oroehyeteklis.
Irelend Ism for the drat time won the Naito ChaDenge
Weld at Wimbledon.

-tam fitorosaut, a loaf gootleons, has oditroond
the of 13)dmia, Cornwall. Ho fa a thoootah

The—inbUeher and proprietor of the Listrpool Loader
has bees ooeualttod for trial for a criminal libel on tato
dhootore of
.the Ll.Terpool Civil &Mae Aasoeiation.
. .

—Th• Damao polletieea have rewind to reeivrin a
body, aa the laoteased pay aboy recently applied for boa
boos refined.
_ . .

Thi—Loccort Atka that so moss of Aged* 'helots
have yet bees reportod In any official beslilk roam of
Me Milted Kingdom.
The Zama hean • report from Paris that the
impress Ragouts's doctors recamoned her So spend
senora months to the monotalus of Seotland.
During an otter bunt In Amish.% Kr. Gallon of
Nioweralis, fell over • precdpice into the river Lic;ga,
aad was drowned.

The Southport oorraepoodent of Vs* Manchester
Gloria. whoa WA a distinct *book of earthquake was
fit fa that town on Wedeaday night
Kr. Jobs Jaffrey, .LP., and p-oprleter el the
Bngham Pon. bee been solented for oominatlos for
the repromatation of West ataffordahiro us Went.
The Natal Government have enameled with the
Caton Company Co being Dented alarm from Z insiber
at de par bead.
• gardener, aimed Mirk, aged 41, was Weed by the
ern by • ttger, toNandan'a sestegerbt. it Neweeetle,
sod died hem his wooed&
. . _ .

rbe astable* at Inatiewern• against the playing of the
band on the pier en &today evenings he. been SWOONS-

A young lady, the daughter of Captain Wllliants,
of Beacombe Haney was drowned ia the limey cm
Thursday, sear delesaabe, while bathing.
At Cavan maims, • blind as named Smith was
senteneed to be Imaged for It. will al murder of •
farmer named Lynch. Prisoner asked that his body
should be Orin over to his frianda.

The Oatette oonteins a notice front the Loral Govern-
ment Board aajoining pm:motions against the Intro.
duatioo of °hoists by vowels arriving tram foreign
porta
The Load Mayor of Loodon, Sir Sidney Water:low,
Ii to to mad* • baronet, and the two Sheriffs knight.,
for the manner in which they received the Shalt of
Ponds. . _

•
The lase of the "Qty of Waal:deers" ow attributed
to steel stowed Is the won hair aeries the °am-
peres. ne sourt hie suspended the oeptels'r
sertilionte for one year.
sulawairsAteent Nmetmcnosi:tlthee.
omibeinsel...rges, a;
wsodslhod ryshindwretiursadjilwobtrnir eddr.bl
of 151
was mirthful to • .1 45 had to pey £5OO.
The ewe the eu.tigeremoits°l to the Wish while
In England amounted to oohs C 40.000, of whit& the
State will be irked to rtyl9.ooo.lotvine lbs reateinder
to be plaid by Her Nuiseil.
fit,Azt orthrtwark.
solosanooessi...se.sfab.abrwhltmeroaerh'ease.l4l7.76.btek r. ,br
h.„ bsdroeth iale ...night, sod she wonld not go down
to hire.
Cliennewt,ls FZIUMIS, doling • •101112 Weir, the
lightegag streak the steeple of • chapel, just u four
purer, ore erionbled teener to ring tbe belle, in
' ardor to drive sway the terrible rintor. TWO of time
were Med osi the met
The NM of Wiseheeter ban just declined to sow
lino two setter nine peen of age, wirer father
slier= is wee rears Is favour of tits Bishop eoafinning
then that for gorse time they hays promised sere-
intealal confeedon.
At the Royal Agriealtural Society's Show at Gan,
for y•arling Devoe heifers, above owe sod exord-
ia( two years .14—let prim, Kr. John Atrial' Smith,
of Reedited Penwell, Dorehester, Picture, red, ly. 9w.
2w. ld. old, bred by exhibitor; a Duke of York, d.
Picture, A of d. Augnekte (178).
La sopliettion wee made on Tarettaz, to the Vice-
Ohaseelleir, far es lajesoltion, lag the Rey.
Wow*. Igoe f" Brother Ignatius rota lapwing
Yews upon • young man, *he had left his bouts,
end joined the "Brother," at Li•Otholly. Th•
yeetiee father had applied for the young moo,
min with a refuel. TM Ykes•ChrosUor granted Mt
injosedee, and ordered " Brother Iptatee to clued
with the lad, at the wart.
The Won Commitem appointed by the Home of
Lords to *airs shoot our hares a* sway think that the
beet melts are likely le arrow from Wyse* enter-
prise. They are of °fades that say tax operating es •
diesouragereat on a farmed keeping hones, whether
broken or Dot should he sholleho4, or at Meet erseider-
ally saallied, sad that the Amine lloonee ehould be
altogether dose away with. They propose that
Government dwell ere pdaso st oplootiaral doom
to slam Plied mai.