The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1859.

HONESTE AUDA X.

Tux great debate on the Reform Bill, after seven
nights' duration, terminated at 2 o'clock ou
Friday morning in the defeat of Ministers by a
majority of 39. No fewer than 621 members
voted on the occasion, the numbers being for the
second reading of the Bill 291, for Lord J.
Russell's resolution 330. The House immedi-
ately adjourned to Monday, on the motion of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the purpose
of giving the Government time to consider the
course to be adopted. A Cabinet Council was
held on Friday at noon, and the Earl of Derby
announced on Friday night, in the House of
Lords, that he had since then had an interview
with the Queen, but as he had not received per-
mission from Her Majesty to make any com-
noinication to Parliament with reference to the
advice which he and his colleagues had felt it
their duty to offer to her, he thought it would I
be conducive to the public good to postpone till •
Monday any statement of the course which they
intended to adopt.
In the House of Lords on Monday in answer
to the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Malmes-
bury said that when Lord Cowley undertook his
mission to Vienna he was allowed to act accord-
ing to his own discretion, and was not fettered
by any conditions ; but the result had been such
that a pacific solution of all the questions in
dispute might shortly be anticipated. On Tues-
day Lord Campbell moved the second reading of
the Juries in Civil Cases Bill, which provided
that the opinion of three-fourth of a jury should
be accepted as the verdict of the whole. The
Bill was opposed by Lord Lyndhurst, the Lord
Chancellor, and Lord Wensleydale, and sup-
ported by Earl Granville, Lord Cranworth, and
Lord Kingsdown. On a division, the Bill was
rejection by a majority of 23 to 7. On Thursday
the Railway Tickets Transfer Bill passed through
Committee ; the Manslaughter Bill, the object
of which is to allow persons accused of man-
slaughter to give bail for their appearance, was
read a second time ; and the Vexatious Indict-
ments Bill was read a third time and passed.
In the Commons on Monday the adjourned
debate on the Reform Bill was resumed, when
the amendment was supported by Mr. K James,
Mr. Ellice, Mr. J. Locke, Mr. Milnea and Sir
J. Graham; and opposed by Mr. Beaumont,
Lord Elcho, Colonel Smythe, Lord A. V. Tem-
pest, and Sir J. Pakington. The debate was
then adjourned to Tuesday, when the amend-
ment was supported by Mr. Moncrieff, Mr.
Westhead, Mr. Collier, Mr. 0. Stanley, Mr.
Mellor, and Mr. Fitzgerald ; and opposed by Mr.
Gladstone, Mr. R. Palmer, Major Edwards, Sir
J. Walsh, Mr. Macaulay, and Mr. Hardy. On
Wednesday the Trial by Jury Scotland Bill and
the Law Ascertainment Bill were read a second
time, and Lord J. Russell's Bankruptcy and
Insolvency Bill was referred to a select commit-
tee, on the understanding that the Government
' Bill on.the same subject will also be referred to
a committee. On Thursday the adjourned
debate on the Reform Bill was resumed, when
the amendment was supported by Sir It. Peel,
Mr. Slaney, Mr. Western, Mr. Gilpin, and Mr.
Roebuck, and opposed by Mr. Du Cane, Mr.
Gaskell, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Collins,
Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Wyvill, Mr. Hudson, Mr.
Grimm% Mr. Henley, and Mr. Disraeli. The
House then divided, when the second reading of
the Bill was negatived by :130 to 291, leaving
Ministers in a minority of 39. Lord .1. Russell's
resolution was then put as a substantive motion,
when Mr. Wylil moved to add to it certain words
in favour of the ballot. On a division this
motion was negatived by 328 to 98, and Lord J.
Russell's resolution was carried. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer then moved the adjournment
of the House to Monday, which was agreed to.
The Revenue Returns for the year and quarter
ended on Thursday last, show a decrease or
£2.404,229 on the year, and a decrease of
£819,712 on the quarter. This decrease in both
periods is caused by the reduction of the Income
Tax, which involves a loss of .£4,002,648 on the
year, and a loss of £907,601 on the quarter.
The year's account allows an increase on all the
other items of revenue, and especially on those
by which the commercial prosperity of the
country is usually estimated.. The account for
the quarter exhibits the remarkable fact of a
decrease of £64,000 on the Excise, which is
attributed to a failure of the anticipated increase
consequent on the augmented duty on Irish
spirits, and to the diminished consumption of
spirits both in England and Ireland.

THE opinion of the country has at length found
a very effective expression in the House of
Commons as to the value of Lord Dzitsv's
Reform Bill. Defeated by the weight and power
of overwhelming argument, and a majority of
thirty-nine, the Conservatives will be in no
hurry to try their hands again in the prosecu-
tion of so hazardous an experiment. While we
write, it is utterly uncertain what course the
Government will take consequent upon the
Ministerial crisis; but to our minds the seven
nights' debate has elicited enough to render it
perfectly hopeless that the Government of the
country can ever be successfully administered by
Lord DZILBY and his followers. All the ingeni-
ous sophistry and eloquent mystification of Mr.
'Daum.' will never conceal the fact from men's
eyes that his party are resolutely oppmed to
reform, in the sense in which the people now
understand that word—that is, an extension of
political power and influence amongst the

masses of the governed. The line which
divides the Conservative party from the Liberals
was never, perhaps, before more distinctly drawn.
Lord JOHN declares for progress, clearly and
unequivocally ; Lord DERBY halts, and suffers
defeat rather than advance. The guiding prin-
ciples of action on both sides arc well under-
stood throughout the country ; awl that growing
intelligence which fails to meet its due at the
hands of a Conservative Administration is yet
strong enough, by its reflection upon the Par-
liament, to surround that Administration with
difficulty and consternation, leading, as we feel
pursuaded, to the ultimate disruption of the
Conservatives as a compact and organized party.
Future struggles will have to take place between
different sections of the Liberals—the ground
lately sought to be maintained by Lord DERBY
and his followers being wholly abandoned.
Then will come a time, and somewhat speedily
too, when the Conservatives passing over that
now impassable gulf which divides them from
the Liberal cauip will be glad to range them-
selves in the line now under the leadership of
Lord JOHN Russzu.,—willing to concede to the
full extent those Liberal measures for which at
the present juncture he is contending, and which,
up to Thursday night, the Conservatives so reso-
lutely opposed. Yes; what will then be left of
the Conservatives as a party will be employed, as
the only hope of retaining vitality and useful-
ness, in stemming the possibly too-impetuous
tide of innovation, and in "soft silencing"
popular clamour. Certainly in this direction
the principle of true Conservatism will still be
recognized, but it will be a very different thing

to what it is at this moment, when we find it,
by most ingenious devices, actually diminishing
the franchise and opening the door to corrup-
tion, pretending all the while to give to the
people an extension of the suffrage and to pro-
tect them from the undue influence of wealth and
power.

DORCHESTER PITCHED UORS MARKET, Saturday.
—Our market was again largely supplied with
wheat; the demand ruled dull at barely last week's
rates. Barley and oats unaltered in value.

DORSET QUARTER SWOONS. —The civil business
of these sessions commences to-day (Tuesday), when
it promises to be unusually light, there
being but one notice on the paper, and that one
placed there by Sir John Lethbridge, purposing to
remove the County Lunatic Asylum to a fresh site.
On the following day there will be, we believe, only
two prisoners for trial.

SPICIAL SKRVICES FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.
—The following memorial, inscribed upon parch-
ment, and signed by about 220 work-people has been
presented to the Rev. James Fisher, in testimony of
their sense of the value and importance of these ser-
vices to those for whose benefit they were instituted,
and as as a simple but grateful acknowledgment of
the reverend gentleman's goodness in kindly pro-
viding for thew this additional means of grace
To the Rev. James Fisher, Rector of the Parish of
Dorcheatel lloty Trinity.
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Rev. Sir,
We, whose name* are hereto subscribed,
feel that we cannot allow the Special Service., designed
for us as working men and women, at which we have
been regular attendants, to close without conveying to
you our heart-felt gratitude and sincere thanks for these
additional means of grace afforded us through your kind
We are aware, reverend Sir, that this address in, in
itself, f no intrinsic value, yet we are induced the more
earnestly to present it, as we know efforts have been
made to detract from those services their real value.
We wish to prove that we, as working men and women,
appreciate any measure designed for our improvement,
1110 re especially when it is conducive to our spiritual
welfare. .

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For these reasons we cordially unite in recording our
thanks for your kind exertions, and we trust we shall
not be deemed intrusive or sycophantic in so doing.
We earnestly hope that on our part. as far as in us lies,
we shall by our lives and conduct prove that your labours
have not been in vain.
Our position in life precludes WI from addressing you,
Rev. Sir, in a classical style, yet we trust it will be
accepted as the language of hearts, as sincere in their
expressions as the more refined eloquence of rhetoric.
In conclusion we earnestly pray that your life may
long be preserved to forther the advancement of true
religion, and that when your earthly curse is run. and
time shall be no longer, you may receive your reward in
heaven and the crown of glory which shall never fade.

ACC KLEE Arios or MAltaW ESTW RD.—On and
after this day (Monday) the 4th of April, a bag will
be made up at the Dorchester Post (Mice every even-
ing except Sundays, at 7.10, for despatch to Bath by
the 7.25 p.m. Greet Wencni train. This will bring
Dorchester into direct connection with the up and
down mail trains on the Great Western line, and
will greatly accelerate the delivery of letters in por-
tions of Somerset, Devonshire, Cornwall, South
Wales, &c.

BOROUGH OvEnsenas.—The following have been
appointed overseers for parishes within this borough,
for the year ensuing :—All Saints, Mr. William
Steward and Mr. Henry Groves; St. Peter, Mr.
Richard James Howe and Mr. Charles Parsons;
Holy Trinity, Mr. Frederick W. Smith and Mr.
Robert Damen ; Fordington, Mr. Isaac Haim and
Mr. William Petta.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE Rev. A. B. HANDLEY,
CHRIST COURCH, FORDINGTON.—Mr. Hanky hav-
ing accepted the living of Alton Pancras, awl being
about to leave Forilington for his new parish, the
congregation of Christ Church awl other friends
entered into a subscription, which reached about one
hundred guineas. On Tuesday evening, March 22nd,
a beautiful silver inkstand with a purse of seventy
sovereigns to the Rev. A. B. Handley ; an de•
gant Davenport to Mrs. Hanky; a tasteful work
table to Miss Handley, and a pretty writing desk to
Miss Jane Handley, bearing appropriate inscriptions,
also a roll of the names of contributors engrossed on
vellum, were presented by a deputation from the
committee of management, consisting of the two
churchwardens of Christ Church and the chairman.

Doiteuz.srza UNIOY.—The following persons have
been appointed guardians Athelhampstone, George
James Wood; Bradford Peverell, John Azariali
Smith ; Broadmayne, John Samways ; Burlestone,
Rev. Henry Broadway Mile.; Charminster, John
Read ; Chilfroine, Edward Pope ; Compton Abbas,
Joseph Paul ; Compton Vallence, John Chick, jun. ;
Dewlish. Charles Kent ; Dorchester. All Saints, Wil-
liam Galpin ; Dorchester. Holy Trinity, Thomas
Patch and John Petty Aldridge ; Dorchester, Saint
Peter, John Francis Hodges and Francis Lock ;
Fordington, William ribule and Robert }Jayne ;
Frampton, William Groves ; Fmtne Vauchureli,
George Studley ; Kingston° Russell, Thomas
Samson; Knighton %Volt, Levi Groves; Littlebredy,
Thomas Spites; Longliredy, Joseph Symcs ; Maiden
Newton, Levi ; Piddlehinton, James
Lovelace ; Pidilletown, John Homer Saunders
and Richard (lenge ; Stalionl West, Joseph
Vaizsy ; Stmsford, Stephen Toghill Hanling. sem ;
Stratton, Thomas Willis; Tincleton. Edward Leigh
Kindenley ; Toiler Fratrum, Edward Whittle ;
Toiler Porcorum, Edward Pope ; Tolloiddle ,
Th as Airier Homer; Wannwell, William Iluby;
Whitcomb°. Arthur Leonard Cooper; Winterborn
Abbas, William Masifield ; Winterborne Came,
Josiah Hill; Winterborne Heringstone, no return;
Winterhorne Mouckton, Rev. Vyell Donnithonic
Vyvyan ; Winterborne St. Martin, Charles Hawkins;
Winterbonie Steepleton, Henry Groves; Woods-
ford, Joseph Warns; Wynford Eagle, William
Bridge.
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THE SINTERS SOPHIA AND ANNIE gave their en.
tertainment at thn Townhall on Tuesday last with
much success; the room was crowded, and the
audience were much pleased with the clever
"sketches from nature" given by these young ladies.
All the characters assumed by thesr talented artistes
were well portrayed, and this settled gloom and wil-
ful despondency of disposition on the tart of Miss
Dolorous, were tulmimbly sustained, and convulsed
the audience with laughter.
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Derrens, nvirr BE FULLY A DDRIDOIXD.—Much
difficulty is experienced in the delivery to their right
owners of letters imperfectly &damned ; and post-
masters have frequently incurred unjust censure
either for unintentionally delivering such letters to
wrong persons, or for declining the responsibility of
delivenng them at all, and sending them up to the
returned letter branch. It often happens that there
are several persons living in the same town whose
surname and Christian name or initial are exactly
alike, and sometimes not only is the name the same,
but the trade or profession, and even the street.
The address of every letter ought to be full and dis-
tinct ; but in the cases referred to it is obvious that
the correct delivery cannot be secured unless the
name, calling, street, anti number, of the person for
whom the letter is intended, be all given. An in-
inetruction has been issued to all Post-masters direct-
ing them to deliver letters imperfectly addressed
whenever they have no reasonable doubt as to the
persona for whom they are intended, but in other
cases to continue to send the letter to London to be
returned to the writer.
COMBITTRD TO DORCHILBTIIB GAOL.—George Noun-
sell and Charlotte Hounsell, burglary at Chilcombe,
Aaites. John Dennis, stealing a wheelbarrow at Gil.
lingham ; William Bowles, stealing iron at Gillingham,
Sessions. To hard labote : Thomas. Payne, stealing •
gander at Here Regis, 1 calendar month ; George White
and James Ball, stealing coal and a bag at Poole, 3
calendar months; Mary Ann Newberry vagrancy at
Chardstook, 2 calendar months • David Hussey and
Thotnaa Hussey, poaching at iroadwinsor, 14 days;
Job Sergeant and William Jackson, absconding from
the Unborn. Reformatory School, 1 calendar month;
Edward Hodder, damaging two watches at Lyme Regis,
14 days; John Gould, drunkenness at Dorchester, 7
days imprisonment.

COrNTY PrITT tirSslc s..—tiattirday (Before 11.
Williams, awl 11. N. Middleton, Emirs.
IVilliong Rood!, a labourer, of Chart tt itt ster, was
suinnioned by Superintetulaut Everitt. fur firing off a
FUR on the highway near West Ward hate. Fined 64.,
including costs.
tkoryr .11‘wg, a labourer, of Maiden Newton. was
anwilioned for being drunk awl disorderly, at Maiden
Newton. Fined f., awl 4s. GI. c-osta.
Oka CO pp. a labourer, of Maiden Newton, was auni.
inotied for a hitnilar offence. Fin,4l n.
John ante, of 'roller l'orcorniii, and Wilhelm Ifolln,
of itanwishain, were s 1111 l owned for a tee ulkilce, at
1 Erwin, Vanclinrch.7Disniii.e.l.

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Thomas Prprr, a labourer, of Broadsuayne, Was £lllO
monesi for A similar offence, at Browlinayne. Fined :AL ,
and coats 4s. lid.
John rums, of Winterborne St. Martin, was sum-
moned by Jonathan Bows's:swell, for olostrucling the
tunipike road, at I irimston, by leaving his cart on the
aisle of the road oppoaite the Royal Ys an. The
Bench adjourned the smmummunommm at the request of the
complainant to the liith of April, on Isis paying the
costs of the slay. Mr. 31511 field appeared for the
defendant, and Sir. Sy Is attend.' to watch the
ease on behalf of Mr. Pardy, the landlord of the
Royal Yeoman.

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l'hoistUS &WPM, 114i171111111 of Owerionigne, was
summoned by Superintendent Everitt for having in Ids
potaesaion one 140 A weight, and one pair of illegal
beams and wales. Fined 75.. inclmling costs.
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Francis Waldron. a bailiff, of Tolpudille, was smn-
inuned by Sarah Hyman to chew cause why he should
not contribute to the inaintename of her illigitiinate
child, of which she declared I to be the father.
Adjounied to the :10th April, on account of the illness of
complainant. Mr. M. C. Weston appeared for the
defendant.
Robert Lor cli, a labourer. of Maiden Newton. was
brought up in custody charged with stealing a quantity
of iron cslled "Clips," the property of his master, Mr.
Thomas Cox. Disniissed.
Edward Wright. a marina store dealer, of Fonlington,
MIN brought up in custody, charged with stealing four
rabbit traps, the property of a person unknown.
Admitted to bed in his own realnizance in £lO to
Wear on the 9th April. Mr. M eston appeared for
the defendant.