The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

VITLI

lIATIL—A fair supply of carcases at 10-du's market,
with about the usual demand. Beef kohl at 44. acl, to
6s. per stone of Sib.; mutton. 4s. 84. to 51. 2d. • lamb
a.. td. toe.. ; veal, 4. 84- to 611. ; pork, 4a. to tis;
BRISTOL. —A good reMy of beef at Ibis Week of
England agricultural prOdisos stores to-day, which odd
freely at front 4s. 44. to 4.. fit per stone of 81b. The
supply of mutton wee sot equal to the demand, and
prices ranged from 4,. hI. to fie. per stone of Bib.
NORWICH. —Ono. more the market was • blank as
regards sheep and cattle. The rinderpest hae almost
entirely disappeared front Norfolk, sod there is scarcely
any disease in cheep, so that there is • growing opinion
that the time has arrived for moue relaxation of the
stringent orders which hue prevailed for men, months
=The supply of pip to-day was oonsiderable ; the
sees trans's:sled was effected at about former rates.
goggetenrregiss.—The only large fairilheld this week
has been that at Backwell, anally an important one,
but this per it was entirely oonfined to horses. There
, was a large attendance, and a good supply of cart borers
and oolts. The demand was active, and a fair amount
of business wan done. PriONI of beef an fires. Rest
, qualities made 12s. 64. to 111 a. hi. the more, with a god
demand. Mutton is • steady trade, with hut little
alteration in prime, which are generally from Bid. to 94.
the lb. Bacon pigs are a fair trade, at 10s. Od to
10e. 94. the 'core. In store cattle. fair private trade la
doing at very high prices
Wit.rsular.-11though it ia notieeable that at shoed
fairs prices have • dowaward tendency, yet at private
salsa, which are rather numerous just now, very high
rates are obtained. Full mouthed ewes are generally
;making 44e. to MM. the bead; four•tooth ewes, 461. to
57e. ; two-tooth, 505. to 59a, and prime lots 65e. to
661.; while lamb@ range from 30s. to 41a. Them are
prices of ordinary Socks mild on change of farms. Young
stock also sell well, general prices being £lO to £l7,
according to age and forwardnesa. The beef trade is
firm, at late ratite-125. OM. to 13e. ed. Matto. is folly
as dear, and bacon pp have • good sale. The root
mops promise abunt winter keep, to my nothing of
Use vast quantity of barley which mast housed for feed.
log purposes.

and obituary appear elsewhere in our co-
lumns, Scotland's great decorator, the late
Mr. D. R. Hay, that under our grey skies
statues ought to be gilt or coloured ; and
when Mr. Handyside Ritchie's much abused
statue of the Queen was first set down. oppo-
site Holyrood House, we believe that it had
a covering of gilding; but in that situation
it received not a fair trial and has been re-
moved somewhere else out of the reach of the
iconoclastic rabble who in scarcely any otln.r
country save ours, indulge themselves in
chipping off as relics and keepsakes the
noses, toes, and ringers, of sculptured images.
In a better position and on a loftier pedestal
this trial of gilding might, however, have
succeeded. We remember even a Dorset
farmer of the upper rank passing us in front
of the Royal Hotel, at Leamington, when the
Royal Agricultural Society met at Warwick,
with the remark that the gilded railings recalled
to his mind a glimpse of Paris; and who that
has ever climbed the height of Montmartre,
or even the solemn asxnt of Pere la Chaise,
does not remember the effect of the gilded
Mercury with his winged caduceus
floating as it were in the invisible air over
the dark column of the Bastile. This effect
at sunset when the gilt figure alone is seen
in the rich level rays of the sinking sun is
most remarkable; and it at once attests the
value of the suggestion in favour of the free
use of gilding in public ornament. In pro-
cess of time our public resorts will every-
where, as taste and civilisation continue their
rapid strides, demand adornment. The last
stages of luxury and refinement may be omi-
nous of a nation's fall, but they may just as
probably in the present age of the world be
significant of its spirit and resources. There
can be no doubt that we are in point of wealth
as well entitled to be lavish in public deco-
ration as any nation on the face of the earth;
but are we not behind most others in that
respect? and with taste and enlightenment
second to none, are we not surpassed by many
in these outward manifestations of national
pride ? The public buildings, parks, gardens,
fountains, and even statues of the last few
years are, however, tokens of an advance and
an improvement amongst us, which we think
may deserve encouragement not less for a
certain amount of employment afforded by
all such public works, than for the generosity
they foster in the giver and the elevation of
mind they impart to the mere spectator.

Shoehorns, 29 (he wax also thirteenth in competition
III.); Dirienienth, El, Private Par-ons, Dorch. ster,
29 (be wee fifteenth In competition 111 ); twentieth, £l,
Corporal Ridout, Blandford, 29.
11.—Twenty pounds in money prints. open to Tobin-
teen of all classes in the county, at 200 and 800 yai de.
Five rounds at each. Thine were 69 competitors as
against 68 last year; the average score wax 2042. as
against 25 in 1865. First Cia, sergeant Good, Bei Iport,
29 (he stood tenth in competition I.); second, £4,
Private Monekton. Blandford, 29; third. £2, CorP•••1
It. at. Wimborne. 27 (he was fourteenth in competition
I.); fourth, El 10.., Corporal Churchill. Wareham, 26 :
lift), El 10.., Private C. Criekunty, Weymouth, 26;
eisth, CI, Private Siubhings, Aberborne, 26; xevsntli,
Cl, Private Wareham, Poole, 25; eighth, 4:11. C irporal
Chick, Dorchester, ; ninth, £l, Prisate Jeffrey, Dor-
chester, 24; tenth, Private Dart, Dorchester. 24.
lll.—The silver goblet, presented by Lieutenant.
Colonel Weasel, Lientenant•Colotiel StegrarPs prise of
CIOI Major Templees prise of £5, and Major Kinder.
4.7 • Prim of £5. Open to volunkeni of all classes in
the battalion. Five rounds each at 500 and 600 yards.
There were 70 competitors. and the scores averaged 1710
First, Lieutenant-Colonel's goblet. Corporal Gnien•
lag, Dorchester, 27 (he was fifth in competition
I.); second, el, Major Templer, Bridport, 26;
third, £4. Private Charrington, Wareham, 24;
fourth, £2, Private Candy, Wareham, 21; fifth, £2,
Colour•Sergerset Lee, Weymouth, 21; eixth, £2,
Sergeant Roberta, Weymouth, 21; seventh, el 10..,
Sergeant Cherlre, Weymouth, 21; eighth, rt 10...
Private Wl...them, Bridport, 93; ninth, £l, Sergeant
Drew, Wareham, ; tenth, XI, Private Godwin,
Dorchester, 20; eleeenth, £l, Lieutenant Johns,
Blandford, 18; twelfth, £l, Corporal Roberson,
Dorehest,r, 18.
- - -

IV.—Ten pounds in money to be competed for by
elllcient volunteers of the battalion, who have not
won a prise value Cl. Five rounds each at
150 and 200 yards. There more 17 campy.
. . .

titors. First prise, C 3; Private Mulford, Dorebesicr,
; secood, 1:2, Corporal Moore, Blaodford, 23; third,
el 10s., Private Ras, Blsadford, 22; fourth, El 101.,
Private Kent, Wareham, 21; fifth, CI, Ensign Pope,
Winiboroe, 20; sixth, £l, Privets) Tutu, Etherborne,
20.

THE Gable 11CPOIS the Gulf of BL Lawrence has been
sueonsfolly oompletad.
A. RELIC OP TILAPALO•II.—The death is announced
of B. Maria, the hue survivor of the French fleet at
Trafalgar. Be was than surgeon on board the
Formidable.
DI. PPIIIIT JP about to follow up his oslitbrated
Eireuicoa" by another volome, which will rhortly
' appear. entitled, " Cannot Rome Give Authoritative
&planation, which the English Church Can Aceeptf"

V.--The purse of ten pounds presented by the Earl of
Eldon, to be competed for by the sergeant instructors of
the battalion. Five rounds each at 21.0 and 5/10 yards
with long Kneads. Seven eompeted Ist, £7, Sergeant
Instructor Stroud, Shaftesbury, 26 ; 2nd, LI, Sergeant
Instructor Bing, Weymouth, 21; Sod, El, Sergeant
Instructor Anketell, Wareham, 19.
Vl.—Twenty pounds in money, to be comneted for by
nonewmusiarioned °Metre iind privaten of the Q.O. Y.C.
Three rounds each at 100 and 200 yards, mitt regi-
mental carbine.. There were 22 entries as against 33
lost year. The first prize of £7 was won be Private
W. Roger.. Blandford troop, with 17 points; second,
EA, by Private Chamen, Blandford troop, 14; third, Cd,
Private Norton, Blandford troop, 13; fourth, 12,
Private Wears, Vale troop, 13; fifth, El, Private
Bescombe, Dorchester troop, 12; El, Private
Snorer, Vale troop, 10; seventh, El, Setgeant Douriny,
llelbory troop, &
. _

Nuotow EIiCAPI PIOM B/1110 Bunco Auvx.—A
man employed in a packer's Soo in the suburbs of
Brusrels, believed to have expired after a short illness,
had a narrow escape of being buried alive the other
day. Fortunately, the coffin was of light deal, and be
was .Me to burst open the lid whilst being carried to
the grave. He was taken to a neighbouring wine-shop
instead, and sufficiently recovered to walk home, and
has sines resumed his work.

Two agricultural societim, who offer ploughing prizes
own to all England, held their annual meeting on Fri-
day—one, the Royal Bucks Aasociation at Aylesbury,
the other, the Rerungton and District Labourers A smith,
ton, near Boston. At both these matehes, after keen
competition, the champion prise fell to Ransome's
ploughmen, Barker and Dale. At the Aylesbury =Mb
• ten-guinea lacer cup. Owen by Baron Rothschild, was
won by Mr. Read's ploughman, using one of Itansome's
Newcastle ploughs.

VlL—Fitteen periods in money, and five pounds pre.
iented by B. P. Quadri. Ecri.. to be eumpotel for by
members of lb. Dorset Volunteer Artillery Corp..
Five rounds each„ at 200 and 300 yards. There were
30 competitors. First, £7, Gunner Talbot, Portland,
24; second, £5 (given by B. P. Guidry, Eaq.),
Gunner Trump, Briduort, 22 ; third, £2, Gunner
Fowler, Lyme Regis, 21; fourth, £2, Gunner Morey,
Bridport, 21; filth. El, Lieut. leieg, Bridport, 20;
El, G Pitaeld, Bridport, 19; seventh, El,
Gunner Knot., Lyme Regia, IS; eighth, El, Gunner
B. G. Pewee, Portland, 18.

WET AND STORMY Avrtmx has
given rise to numerous speculations for the
saving of the crops, attended with painful surmises
respecting the prices of grain. If the season
were not exceptional, our farmers might perhaps
be alarmed in to the belief that nothing short of acres
of covered homesteads,such as they have in Poland
and some parts of Russia, had become indispens-
able. As it is, some writers absolutely go the
length of recommending that the heads of corn
should be rippled oft with a revolving comb, as
the harvest is usually reaped in Australia, and
the saving of the straw made an after considera-
tion, if saved at all, as in Australia it is not, and
indeed they have nothing there for hay but oats.
which they of course cut green. Mr. Rivers, of ,
Sawbridgeworth, suggests the more rational pro-
cess of building hollow or double ricks ventilated
by chimneys constructed of hurdles, which have
this additional recommendation that they coat no
more trouble in erection than the solid ricks,
although they dry the corn while the others rot
it if wet, or nano° it to grow in the rick if green.
and thus render the produce fit only to be ground
up for pigs. Recurring to the remunerative
prospects of the farmer, as touched upon In out
last, we now find prevalent in the market an
opinion that as America cannot grow this year
yet above one half her own corn supplies, and
more particularly as she, as well as Canada, has
had a season unpropitious as our own, she will
become a competitor for the surplus corn produce
of Russia, and help to keep down importation
and maintain prices. One reviving symptom of
agricultural prosperity has be di witnessed in Mr.
Strafford's succesful sales of shorthorns in the
north at Yardley. With the skill that more
expressly pertains to him, the editor of the Herd
Book divided Mr. Graham's shorthorns into their
respective tribes of Charmers, Foggathorpes,
Fillets, Bracelets, and Fantails, according to
pedigree, realizing £2OOO on the sale of 30 head
of cattle— one, Lady Wildeyes 2d, bringing
£l2O 15a., and the first cow sold at 80 guineas,
having been since resold for £lO5. Verily, these
are "footprints" which a "shipwrecked brother,
seeing, may take heart again"; and, notwith-
standing its strange and mysterious reappearance
at sundry points and isolated places, we may
shortly hope that the Cattle Plague will be as if
it had never been.

f uoner

Teeing are few places more unhealthy than Olas-
tonbury, if what we read in a letter to • contempo-
rary be trustworthy. In that town there have been
twenty deaths during the past mouth, that being
about in proportiots of eighty per thouaand per annum
The impurity of the water supplied is mentioned as
the chief source whence this excessive mortality
arises ; and to remedy so serious an evil, another
correspondeat (Mr. Thomas Hawkins) very generously
effers to place a thousand pounds at the chapiatal of
the authorities.

WE (San Jay Gazette) have good reasons for antic&
paling that the revenue returns for the quarter which
will terminate next Sunday will show an increases of
more than half • million, as mowed with thou of the
corresponding quarter of 1865. The become tau will
show • diminution, but it will not be as large as we
might have expected. In stamps we shall also find •
falling off. The customs will, however, exhibit • sub.
'tutu' increase, probably not far short of • quarter of a
million. The excise will, no doubt, also show en in°
crease. The item of miscellaneous will, too, be much
more than usually prolific.
Ac awful cue of destitution *wooled the attention
of the Middlesex coroner on Friday evening. It was
that of • poor old woman, aged uventy.sis, who, it was
au:severed, had been obliged, through want and
through • repugnance to seeking the usistanoe provided
by law, to positively starve herself to death. Only for
the kindness of a manageress of • threepenee-a•night
lodginkkouse, the friendless unfortunate would no
doubt have been allowed to die in the streets. As it
was, she had the protection of the workhouse which the
poor woman seemed to have so much repugnance to
during life. The clothes she had on her were only
valued at a shilling.

Tee arrokilaTill.—We do not believe that the Church
of England, as a whole, is as yet unfaithful, bat she is
brought into contempt by a dangerous sect, which has
waned insolent within her pale. No one can be surprised
'at the sarcastic gratitude with which Dr. Manning
speaks of the labours of the Ultra-Ritu•listic section of
the English clergy. He warn once one of them; he pro-
bably remained long either doubtful or hypocritically
concealing the rest bent of his religion and of his teach.
ing. Dr. Manning cannot consider the Vitra-Ritualistic
section of the clergy otherwise than as men who are
groping there way along the path he has persued to its
' •ppropriate terminus, or as a collection of presumptuous
and fantastic Papal mimics at heart. It is very probable
that the Ritualists number persons of both deacriptions in
their ranks; for the former Dr. Manning most feel a de-
preciatory but hopeful compassion; for the latter unmiti-
gated contempt. His speech *as probably actuated by the
desire to promacle • division between those whom he con-
siders his disciples, and others, whom be acorns as
oiensivv, though not to him useless caricatures of him.
self.—Th. a Press.

EXTRAoItDINABY MISTAKII OF A GIRARD JURY.—
The vend jury empanelled at the sitting of the Central
Criininal Court last week appear to hare made a serious
mistake, and one which, it not unprecedented, is
certainly not frequent. They Agreed to ignore the bill
against • certain prisoner named John Creek, and the
foreman was surprised to finil by the newspapers that
that prisoner was tried, convicted, and eent•noed to ten
years penal servitude. On nicking a statement to that
effect on Frida) in court, Mr. Justice Wilke directed
the bill to be referred to, and it was found to be dis-
tinctly marked, "• true bill," hilted of "no true bill."
As the prnoeedings woe all regular and formal, the
Court had no power to reverse them; and the only
thing that could be done would be to memorialiet the
Home Secretary. As, however, grand juries are always
instructed by the judges that their du#ies are merely
to see if there be primal facie • sufficient ease to warrant
prisoners being put upon trial, it is evident that in this
care to ignore the bill was an error, since the petit jury
whited by the Judge and learned counsel on both sides
found that the evidence was sufficient to prove the
prisoner's guilt.

ICOILOISM. —A person named Cook, of Baton Rapids,
somewhere in Michigan, appears to have • worse opinion
still of the negro than Sir Samuel Baker has. John
Taylor, an octoroon, attempted to murder • whole
family of white persons, and was in consequence lodged
in gaol at Mum, Michigan. Shortly after, forty armed
men marched into Mason and informed the sheriff that
they desired to obtain pouesvion of the negro. The
sheriff declined to comply vrith their demand, where-
upon the gang broke in the door of the gaol and brought
out the negro. Souse of them wished to shoot him on
the spot, but, " out of respect to the citizens of Meson
and the sheriff." the captain of the pug said they would
extmete him elsewhere. Arrived at "a thorn
apple tree," half • mile from Meson. some one
felled for • minister to pray for the negro, but no minis-
ter appeared. Then there was a call (creme professing
Christian to offer op • prayer' and still no response came
front the crowd. At length Cook came forward and
said he would "prey for the nigger." His prayer
consisted of a petition that "if the nigger went to heaven
he might be put among the nigger' there," but Cook
espreseed • hope that the negro "would go to hell,
where all nigger' ought to go." This oombination of
blaspheme and cruelty gives one some idea of what
misonegroism may he capable of. It is worthy of notiee,
however, that Cook assumed without hesitation that the
negro eras possessed of • soul to be saved or lost.
Tee Eiearrion or Hanseolew.—A letter from St.
Petersburg, dated the Ifith, in the Nowt, gives detail.
of the esuution of Harakneow —"I: have this instant
returned from the °escallop of the would-be regicide.
A pollee in the papers yesterday informed the public
that the execution would take place this morning at
seven, in the great square of Smolensk, at the end of
Yawl' Ostrof. I was there at half-put ex. There
was already a crowd of perhaps more thanlso,ooo. Many
Wri we standing in the neighbouring streets. In
the Drillsre
of the spurs • gallows was erected, and not
far from it • pillory with • platform about the height of
• man. At a few minutes before seven the cart arrived,
escorted by • piequet of calvary, with the condemned
seated on • raised bench, Ike that everyone could see him.
He was dressed in black, and had his bock to the horses.
On his breast was a !able with the words ' Harakozow,
regicide.' His arms were tied behind his beck,
and he was livid. Getting out of the cart he
stumbled, but the executioner's usistante sus-
tained him. After • few steps he seemed
to recover himself, and walked firmly to the pillory.
The crowd was attentive and silent. I heard some
peasants and workmen say, 'The wretch has deserved
it. May God pardon him but he ought to die.' A
condemned
Inhedfiersanate,thinei.sulltv:Liformin, approached
distinct
..thde
audible voice. Karakosow listened attentively ; his
heed was at first bent down to the left in • listening
attitude, and then fell over to the right as if he eould
hardly sustain it. When the reading of the sentence
was concluded, • priest sdiraneed to the criminal with •
cruciax in his hands. Karakosow kissed the cross very
devoutly, fell down on his knew, and received the bene-
diction et the priest. lie then bowed to the people in
every direction. Several voices were hued to say,
'Ma, God pardon him.' The two executioners thee
bandaged his eyes and covered hint with • shroud, which
they had some little difficulty in putting on. He was
then conducted from the pillory to the gallows. The
lord was placed round his neck, and at • signal frotu
the head of the pother he was launched into eternity.
His death was Matantenevu. At half-put seven the
body was taken down and pivoted in a black coffin. The
crowd dispersed calm, silent. end reflecting.

CALENDAR.

Sept 2ct. —Teesday..—Harvest Moon.

28. Wedondsy. Archbishop of
Carthage. sod Martyr. 258.
27. —Thursday.—Nizlit bog 126. 9m.
28.—Pridey. —Sheri& to be sworn in.
29. Setordsy.—St. llicha•l and All Ansel&
30.—S.Dday.—l8Cl. Sunday after Triolty.—lforo.
lug, Lessons: Ezekiel zz., At. Mark W.;
Evening', Ezekiel sziv., I Car. az.
Oct. I, —lloodai.—Cambridge term begins.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 186,

said there appeared to have been a complaint
against the house since the adjournmeet of the
licensing meeting, and, as the present landlord was
about to be removed, the Bench aped it would be
conducted more respectably for the future. Looking
at the case in that light, the magistrates agreed 10
renew the license, but they were determined to set
their faces resolutely against the encouragement of
prostitution at public-houses sod beerlionses in the
tnwr, of which there was a great deal too much, sod
they would put it down by the strong arm of the
law.
EARTH CLOSIITA —Mr. Hawkeeley writes te the
road in advocacy of the earth closet. It is Verily
the letter of a great engineer; nor if it contemplates,
as it appears to do the awe of large towns, is it
the letter of • pratic!al man. Greet towns can only
be waited clean. and the disposal of their drainage
water over low-lying land in their neighbourhood is
the obvious remedy of any possible nuisance in their
.sae. Water is the only carrier which can be
depended on for a perfectly sweet and clean result
where there is a great number of houses, and • dense
population, and • considerable distance to be
traversed. It is very different in the lase of villages,
or even small towns and still more with single houses
or large institution' in the country. Although even
here we imagine nothing can equal the cleanliness
of the water closet, yet the earth closet is undoubt-
edly perfectly wholesome, and especially is it econo-
mical. The whole subject was well discussed in a
late volume of the Royal Agricultural Society, by
the inventor of the earth system—The Rev. H.
Motile, of Fordington, Dorsetshire, whose practical
interest in the welfare of hie parishioners has led to
several other useful contrivances for do- ,
meatio comfort and economy. The earth I
closet provides for the farm or garden • I
most useful manure. Mr. James, of Halton, I
Weston Turville, near Tring, speaks confidently on
this point, from his experience of it on Baron
Rothschild's trate. In the earthabeds there excre-
mentitious matter is to be seen on its removal from
the closet", and dry ready for the drill, in every
stage perfectly inodorosia, even when subjected to the
fiercest summer heat. The deedornation may be
effected either by the application of • shovelful of
garden earth every day, or by Mr. Motile's very
effective apparatus, which illianjeneral use in the
cottages there, and which is d to be cheap, self.
acting, and not liable to get out of repair. Mr. James
even sees no reason why the system should not be
adopted by towns, "for the earth may be taken at
long intervals and stored like coals, while tbe cess-
pools might remain unemptied for three, six, or
twelve months, without causing the smallest annoy-
ance." Mr. Faithorn, medical officer of the
Cheddar° district of the Aniersham Union, thus
reports on Mr. James's experience :—" I inspected
the earth 'beds and saw the proems in every stage.
I put my nostrils into clops contact with ail which
had been taken from the closets this morning.
and I took °proms which had been out no more than a
fortnight, without soiling my hands, and, lastly, I
have come away with a email parcel of the dried
sod in my pocket, having during the whole investi-
gation met with nothing in the smallest degree
disagreeable. I have no hesitation in saying that any
gentleman who follows the example of Baron Rota-
child in adapting this process to cottages will confer
the greatest violable boon upon the poor, and I shall
myself have no hesitation in recommending not
only the process itself, but the little machine
invented by Mr. Moule, to any one seeking my
advice. In small towns, at least, it must be
of easy and inexpensive application, while the
benefit to health will be great indeed." It is
certainly for the interest of cultivators, whether
they be cottager. or farmers, that Mr. /Joule's sub.
stitutim for the present wasteful neglect of house
refuse in hamlets, villages, and separate dwelling-
houses be generally adopted; and we are glad to
give currency to the reports of Mr. James and Mr.
Faithhorn, notwithstanding the inapplicability of
the plan to large towns, whom drainage is already
an accomplished fact, and whose consequent pollution
of the rivets running through them may be remedied
in another way—one quite as much fa the %neut.
tural interest.—Agriculreral Gazette.
DIVISIONAL PETTY Sessions. Saturday. Before
H. Williams, Ent. (chairman), )(Nor Kindereley,
Major Astell, and H. C. Goodden Eiq.—Jemes
Danford was summoned by P.C. Caltle for selling
beer without • licence on Saturday, the ISth
August, at Rainpisham. The constable saw two
men go into Dunford's hones and heard them ask his
wife for a quart of beer, when defendant's wife said
" I don't know you." Afterwards she let them
have • quart of beer. They then had some bread
and cheese. Witness then heard them reckon with
, the landlady for the beer and bread and cheese, and
settle for it with • 2.. piece. The constable then
asked her if she had license to sell beer, and she
replied in the negative. Defendant said there was
nothing on his premises but ginger-beer, and called
the two men who testified to that fact. The con-
stable positively swore it was beer. The magis-
trates said they were bound to convict. He was
ordered to pay £5 and costa, and allowed • week for
payment; in default oes month's imprisonment.—
Mr. Weston made application for limas for a house
called the Wellington, at Charlestown, in the parish
of Chickerell, which he said was both expreasly
for • public-house, and situate in a very in-
creasing neighbourhood, and there is no public.
house nearer than Weymouth or Chiokerell.
The highest cleuaoter was Oven of the appli-
cant and his wife. Prior to their coming
to reside at Charlestown, they lived at Stndland,
and he presented • memorial influentially signed,
speaking to the good character of the applicant.
Several letters were put in signed by the inhabitants
of Chickerell and Cbarlestown. tooting that the
license might be granted.—Mr. Symonds submitted
with great confidence that it was like other applica-
tions that were made for haws in that neighbour-
hood, and said there was no neassity for • public
house between Weymouth and Chickerell.
The application was refused.—George Hallett,
• married man, of Powerstock, was charged
with assaulting • domestic servant named
Elizabeth Diumot, of Wynford Eagle, on the 6th
September. Mr. Weston for defendant. Proseoutric
is in the service of Mr. Walbridge, and on the after-
noon of the 6th was returning from Luker's farm,
where she had been gathering apples for her master.
It was about half-past two o'clock. Hallett came
along, and followed her through a cow-Isaac, and
just afore she came to the stile to get into the lace,
he asked her where she had been, and she told him.
They got over the stile, and he then said "he would
make work with her," and threw her down. She
screamed as load as she could hellos, and be
put his hand over her month. She got away
from him, but be caught her and threw her on
the ground again, when the screamed • second time.
She managed to get up, and he then wanted to make
it up with her, and would not let her go till she
promised to say nothing about it. He wanted her
to give him an apple, but she refused.—Eleory
Billing spoke to hearing somebody call out, but he
dad not know whether • man or woman. He after-
wards saw proesontrix and • man going in a different
direction. He asked her if she head anybody
hallos, and she said yes. He said "do you know
who it was," she replied "1 do know who the son of
,• • bitch was." It seems proaeontrix did not tell at the
I house what had occurred tall five o'clock. In cross-
examination it was elicited that defendant had kissed
her several times, but the prosecutnz remarked if
she was willing it was different." Defendant's
sister was called on his behalf. and spoke to seeing
her brother and proseentrix kissing each other many
times, and only so far beck as hay-making.—Mr.
Weston, in defence, urged that they were romping
together and fell, when proseoutrix balloted, and he
intimated that the prosecution had been made at the
instigation of Mr. Walbridge because the defendant
had given him some trouble as a labourer. The
Beach oonsidered defendant guilty, but that he had
been led on to it by • certain amount of laity on
the girl's part, but that was no excuse for his &swath-
ing her. He was fined 10a, including costs.