The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-02 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday,
June 29.—The attendance was small, and the general
terra of the trade wretchedly dull; in fact, more
depressed than of late, if possible. English wheat
scarcely saleable, very superior samples being
nominally worth about ill per load. Barley being
as it were out of date, we cannot quote prices, the
sales being principally confined to Foreign. Not
much doing in other grain.
BOERS. BAKER AND E.:soles REPOSITORY SALE,
June 29.—Fat beef scarce, and nearly all sold at very
full prices. Good fresh barreners were knocked
down at high rates. Sheep, a large unm..er, and
many of superior quality, the best only in demand,
other sorts being dull of sale.
DIFECTITI DRAINACK stO•IN.—BOLLEN'S Boise I
AN I 'Fits SEWER.—Ott Wednesday night, Jane 26th,
the disgraceful negligence of the Durehester Local
Board of Health was the cause of again flooding the
residence of Mr. Bollen, who it seems has now no
alternative but to give up his ground•fioor entirely
for sewage
_purposes. How far being bored in this
way will add to this gentleman's health we cannot
say, but one thing is certain, his board-floor is
anything but healthy. To clear away the filth to
make room for more seems labour lost, so perhaps
the better plan would be to leave it as a kind of
pond, a sort of duck's paradise, and thus tarn the
ground-floor to some account by rearing a number
of ducklings, which would feed and du well open
the garbage an frequently deposited there.
AN Exestorive HoLioary. —Four of the Odd
Fellows residing at 10,rehester who took part in
the procession at Bridport on Friday last, lost their
regalia, which had cost them somewhere about 305.
each. After the proceedings were over they packrii
it up together in a small box, but where or how
they lost it they seem to have no recollection. They
have made inquiries, but to no purpose, and the
supposition is, that the box was stolen from the
Bridport railway station.
At the Borough Petty Sessions held on Monday,
July I. before the Mayor and M. Devenish, Esq.
Jobt °cock woe charged with drunkenness on
Sunday morning last. He had been twice before
convicted for similar offences, and he was fined se.
and costs.—Thorsas Riggs, of the Bull's Head,
Fordington, was charged with having his house
open for the sale of intoxicating liquors during pr 0-
hrbited hours on Sunday. The case was proved by
two men —William Norman and Edward Hyde,
who had a pint of beer each on the day iu question,
and paid the maid servant who served them On the
' occesion.—The defendant denied all knowledge of
their being supplied with beer, and said that if his
servant sold the beer she had kept the money: as she
had not paid him. The Bench remarked that if the
servant had kept the money she could be charged
• with embezzlement. He would be fined .C 2. including
COOK& —Mary Ape Samicap, who had served a
week'. imprisonment for stealing cabbages by the
; side of the Great Western Railway, was brought up
for stealing some stockings, two flannel petticoats,
said other articles of female wearing apparel from
amnion of Jane Frampton, laundress, residing at
Drove•buildings. The articles had been hung out
I to dry in the yard At the balk of Mrs. Framptou's
house, whence they were stolen 5 cr 6 weeks ago.
Superintendent Pouncy was informed of the robbery
at the time, but could get no clue to it till after
prisoner's committal for cabbage stealing.—Several
of the articles were found at the prisoner's lodikings,
and she had on two of the stockings while in prison.
Committed for 2 months' hard labour.
CRICKET BATA:H.-0o Thursday last, the Dor-
chester and Dunditch Cricket Clubs played a match
at Piddletown—tbe Dorchester club winning, with
three wickets to spare. The following is the score:
DORCHESTIR.
Longman, Ib w Churchill
Fipperd, b Hambro
Stephenson, b Phillips .
riturtots
Rev. A. Barker, b Churchill .... 0 b Herruigton
Allen. b Philips 0 b Churchill
Frank', c Phillips, 1, Phillips 6 not out
Williams. b Churchill ..... 13 b Churchill.
Dovesilsh, b Churchill
Dodge% b Churchill
PILMOOI, 00t Out b Churchill
Orieshs, b Phillip.
20 RU, vi, lb 423

the Imperial guard, rushing to the Marshal's
head-quarters to complain of his Aglae, who
insists upon dancing with medical students,
or to ask his advice as to how he shall satisfy
the claims of some infuriated hostess to whom
he is deeply indebted for glasses of absinthe or
halfpenny cigars ! Or, rather, imagine private
Smith of the Line, or Corporal Jones of the
Guards, gravely seeking the office of the Coin-
mander-in-Chief, and entreating the Duke of
Cambridge to exercise his influence with the
fair wuherwonian who persists in turning a
deaf ear to his suit, or to stave off the demands
of the tavern landlady for some old beer and
tobacco score at The Fortune of War!"
The Thames has been literally, and in an
awful sense, set on fire. The conflagration
which broke out in Tooley Street on Saturday
week, and' which is still burning, has been the
most extensive since the memorable fire of
1666. Warehouses, covering an area of five
acres, most of them but newly erected, and
from five to seven stories high, filled with mer-
chandise in every room, have fallen a sacrifice
to the devouring flames, at an collimated loss of
upwards of three millions sterling. Eye-
witnesses of the desolating scene inform us that
everyone was awe-struck by the spectacle of
that huge and fierce furnace—the volcano of
flame, which at night lit up the spires, bridges,
and public edifices of the metropolis with an
exceeding and unwonted beauty. Some have
dilated on the terrific roar of the flames; others
on the intense illumination of the river at high
water, when the glowing stream seemed con-
verted into some new element of fire. One
, narrator was most struck by the appearance of
, the fire as seen through Billingsgate Market,
which is exactly opposite to the conflagration.
As he stood in Lower Thames-street, at the
new Coal Exchange, itself a most beautiful
object in the river, seemed to him like open
furnace doors, from the brilliant white heat
warm light, the curved arches and entrances of
, Billingsgate Market opening on beyond them—
the flames of this fierce and devouring furnace
I being actually distant the breadth of the river
1 from these open doors. The Monument may be
oomparsl to a glorious pillar of fire, so brightly
was it illuminated. St. Paul's Cathedral was
seen under a light never contemplated by Sir
Christopher Wren, and dome, pillars, gallery,
ball, and cross, shone with resplendent beauty.
Some of the churches and spires nearer the con-
flagration were bathed in an awful glare that
I startled and arrested the steps of the most
1 heedless power-by. In the immediate vicinity of
t the catastrophe, the sight appalled even those
I
, who were most inured to the sight of blazing
I roofs and melting lead, of rafters crushed from
I floor to floor, of immense walls riven like the
1 ramparts of a tower by earthquake, of clouds of
I flame that mounted in the shape of hills, and
for hours sucked the water that was thrown
upon them by thousands of tons as though it
only exasperated their furious thirst. There
was everything, be it noted, in favour of the
fire. The contents of the warehouses first
lignited were of a light at inflammable
character—tea, cochineal, ginger, pepper, and
cayenne; the ship which earliest caught the
flames was laden with tallow; the next great
structure which fell into the jaws of the de-
vouring conflagration was full of tar and oil,
which blazed madly as the hose of the most
powerful engines in the metropolis flung upon
them heavy cataracts of water. Thus the fire
sprung from almost an inexhaustible reservoir
of combustible elements. But if the scene by
night was awfully grand, the morning brought
with it a scene of blackness and desolation
which lacked but one element of the horrible.
All day long a vast column of smoke and
steam rolled up to the summer sky, and spread
itself before the soft south wind a score of miles
to the north. The buildings, which a fortnight
since were the magazines of merchandise—
gigantic in proportion and solid in structure,
are now hardly traceable in outline. Roofs,
backs, fronts, have been burst or blown away.
From the piles in the river to the court-yard
in the street, the besom of destruction has
burnt right through. Nothing but partition
walls remain; and those so cracked and bent
that their downfall seems impending. Strange ,
beyond description is the wodly of shattered,
charred, or calcined materials scattered about.
Nothing has been too strong, nothing too pre-
cious, to fall a prey. Walls that an earth- ,
quake might have spared lay prostrate, and
yet almost compact as the roof of an arch.
Iron pillars have been torn down or twisted by
an unseen but relentless hand. The gigantic
cranes that were wont to lift enormous weights
seem to have been overturned like trees in a
storm. The wharves on which they stood
have crumbled into the river, or into indis-
tinguishable heaps of atone and timber. Bales
of cloth, sacks of grain, pockets of hops, all red-
dened by the cochineal that seems to have been
stored there in abundance, lie commingled with
broken glass and lumps of calcined matter that
defy recognition or analysis. So great is the ruin,
that even the most thoughtless gazer on the
scene feels conscious of a heavy calamity having
occurred—an irreparable loss. For something
more precious than all the store of home or
foreign products—brought from many climes,
destined to many uses—has perished. Human
life has paid the forfeit of this unexplained
disaster. Two or three, at least, suffered
sudden and violent death in their eagerness to
arrest the progress of destruction—Mr. Braid-
wood, the well-known superintendent of the
Fire Brigade, and Mr. Scott, partner in a firm
occupying some of the premises destroyed. Of
the former of these gentlemen, all who knew
him are agreed that he was a man better than
his word, more liberal than his promises, far
more in his heart than was borne out by his
speech, larger in deed than in statement—the
living illustration of an eloquence neither de-
scribed nor provided for in Blair's Rhetoric.
He fell at the holiest place on earth—the post
of duty. Endowed with patience, forbearance,
rich common sense, and a general sympathy
that endeared him to all, the Church to which
he belonged, and the numerous benevolent
societies of which he was an active promoter,
mourn his loss.
Lord Campbell, the late High Chancellor of
England has Ivan gathered to his fathers "like •
shock of corn fully ripe." Those who knew him
loved bins, resered him. His amiability to old
friends and acquaintances, his affability and
paternal kindness to the young, his learning,
shrewdness, perseverance, tact, and good sense,
were acknowledged by all. Some envied his rare
felicity in ualking in his old age in the same
political paths that he had deliberately adopted in
his youthful days, uuliko his contemporaries and
seniors, whose political opinions have known several
phases and revolutions. Although b 2 years of age,
be died in his harness, in the full vigour of his
meutal capacities.
Sir Richard Bethel' has been raised to the Wool-
sack by the title of Lord Westbury. In him we
have a Chancellor who is s jurist of • high and
philosophical order of intellect, equally at home in
the broadest and most subtle distinctions, in the
largest questions bf international law, and the
smallest technical points of practice. Ile is a law
refortuer of proved ability. a profound scholar, and
a thorough English gentleman. It being generally
agreed in law and parliamentary circles that he
would make the bust Lord Chancellor since Lord
Cottenham, his has Mg the Great Seal placed in his
hands will be received with satisfaction by the
country. The son of an English country physician
now takes the place of the son of the Scotch Presby-
terian clergyman, and like him agnate precedence
over the proudest dukes and earls in the English
peerage. Thu prize is • splendid one, and the gift
as honourable to the premier who bestows it as to
the great lawyer who accepts it. But, an able Chan.
cellor in the House of Lords cannot do all that a
Government requires. With a weak Attorney and
Solicitor-Geneial in the House of Commons, the
fate of the Government's best considered measures
would be a most unhappy ono; yet never were the
liberals so ill provided a ith recruits from West.
minister Hall as they are at the present time. Forte.
nately, however, the Government has secured the
services of Mr. Bounden l'almer as Attorney.
General, it being expected that he will shortly be
member for Wilton, from the representation of
I which Mr. Antrobus retires. Mr. Palmer, when iu
, Parliament before, had a most successful career.
' He belonged to what is called the Peelite party of
the House, and, as the principal members of this
party—Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Newcastle,
Lord Herbert, and Lord Westbury— belong to the
present Government, it would be by no means un-
natural or improper that the most eminent jurist of
that party should take office also. With two such
men as the new Lord Chancellor and the new
A itorney -General to advise them and prepare their
uitasures, tie lloccninient may Mtempt those com-
prehensive measures of Law lieforin phinb are 00
greatly needed.

DUNDITCH.
Hambre, b Franks
,I•voAlri= b Allen 3?
Churchill, b Williams
Hail, run out . • 2 b Franks
Daniel, c sod b Stephenson 1 c and b Alien .. 6
Toms, c Franks, b Stephenson
Calthrop, c Stephenson, b Franks 0 e Franks, b Stephen-
son
Brown. c Allen, b Franks
Roberta, b Franks 0 b Franks
Holman, Ib a b Frank.
Phil ip., b Stephenson
Harrington, not out ..... .
8.6 w 5

20 Ito I
Comurram TO Till DORCH RATZR GAOL. Ward '
LaboNr : Jane Pitcher, vagrancy at Dorchester,
14 days; John Grinter, leaving service at Whitchurch
Canonicorum, 1 calendar month; Henry James Rose,
spoiling grass and barley at Marnhull, 21 day.; Joseph
Lovell and Enoch Taylor, vagrancy at Weymouth, 1
calendar month ; Eliza Holland, assault at Weymouth,
1 calendar mouth ; Mary Rawlins, vagrancy at Wey•
mouth, 21 day.; Mary Marks, vagrancy at Dorchester,
3 calendar months; Charles Gillingham and James
Rockett, leaving sere cc at Whitehurch Canonicorum,
6 weeks; Mary Jeans, vagrancy at Weymouth, 14 days;
Edward Wdson, atealing fram the pen& at Wey-
I mouth, 6 calender montlas.—limprisoassatiti: Silas
Hurley, breach of the peace at Weymouth, 3 calendar
I months.

ND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAT, JULY2' 14°

tinge should be put down—one on the opposite side
of the road, and the other opposite the Aluishouseit.
This would take off the greater portion of the
water, and he believed their surveyor would tell
them that, were this done, the present grating would
carry off all the water that would than flow there tit
heavy rains. He was sure *at every member was
very sorry Mr. Bollen or anyone else should
.be
inconvenienced by the drainage.—The demand, with
all the other bills, was referred to the committee.

SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
The Surveyor reported that the suction pipe of ,
the pump had been lengthened, and that it worked
well. The supplemental sewer in Cornhill had been
finished according to contract, and the contractor ,
was now entitled to his money. Several houses in I
F.ast-stroet, among them, Nos. 1, 2)3, 32, 51, and I
52 were without iron shooting, and in wet weather
the drippings fell upon the passengers. It was ,
ordered that notices be given t..) the several parties
to put up the necessary shooting in front of their
I houses, and the Maroa mid it was intended to See '
to the shooting throughout the town. I
PRIVATE IMPROVEMENT EXTERRES.
Tho CLERK read the deed he bad drawn up in
respect to Mr. Eloson's improvement expenses. I
It appeared that Mr. Frnmon's hail
uogimu..l to on!, y out tbo ilel iiir uls 110:1,4:11 y
• for tin. upon whieb, after due notice, they
had been !arried out by .he board.—The Surveyor
certified that the works were necessary, that the
mist was t:42 lk*. 7t1., gild that the money had been
paid by Mr. Emson. —The Board ordered that the
amount should be refunded to Mr. Simon, out of
his rent, in yearly instalments extending over a
period of 7 years, together with 5 per cent. interest,
and LI Is. for preparing the deed.

-THE STREETS.

Mr. BrNrzrr called attention to the slippery state
of the pavement in High Eaststreet, and proposed
that the stoma should be scored. Several persons
had lately fallen down, in consequence of the
smooth surface of the stones.—The subject wu
referred to the surveyor to report thereon.—The
ineetuig then separated.

Lord C. Paget replied that the entrance of the
Channel Fleet into Belfast liitigh entirely depended
on the discretion of the admiral in command. The
orders given were that he should cruise along the
coast of the United Kingdom, but he had no instruc-
tions to visit any particular place.

SHROTOIC.
PRETERWINT.—Tbe Rev. Frederick Webster
Mammall, curate of Farnham, has been presented by
Lord Rivers, to the living of Shroton, recant by
the death of the Rev. George Augustus Saymer.
The living is a rectory, of the value of £372, with
residence.

LONGHADI.
MARRIAGE FE.FTIVITIE.I.—FfiabIy led yea a day
which will be long remembered by the inhabitants of
this quiet little village. The occasion was the
marriage of Capt. Alexander Waring Biddell, of
the 3fith Regiment. with Miss Gißlatt, sister of
Alfred Gilliatt, Es' q., of Elm Bank, Longham. At
an early hour it could be been that no ordinary
event, in the opinion of the milagers, was about to
take place, and as a compliment to the bridegroom,
who served in the Crimean war, the good will and
best wishes of the people was testified by the tiring
of eaion.o. ".v.r v r the word tips of ft liv:ty
wanting ; garlands of tb•wors anti evergrce..s. tri-
umphal arches, and almost every descripti..ll of Mice-
ration being resorted to to express the oongratulotions
of all classes to the worthy bride and bridegroom.
The bridal party, all a"(l gay, were conveyed
in gaily decked carriages to Hampreston church,
where the marriage service wss performed by the
Rev. T. Panty. The dresses of the bride and brides.
maids formed the chief topic for village gossip, and
excited considerable discussion among the fairer
portmn of the spectators. The fair bride was
attired in a white crystalline dregs, with a lioaiton
lace veil, and wore a wreath of orange blossoms
intertwined with lilies of the valley. The brides.
maids were Miss Jones, Miss Scrivener, the Misses
Clones (2) Miss Bidden, and Mile Glasbrook, who,
of course, attired in white tarlatan dream's, tulle
veils and wreaths composed of white roses, lilies of
the valley, and jessamine, looked exceedingly
captivating, and DO doubt excited the winning
smiles of many a gallant youth. At the conclusion
of the service, Nfeudelssolin's "Wedding March"
was performed on the organ in excellent style by
Mr. Morgan, and the bridal party returned to Elm
Bank, and sat down to a magnificent dcfrumwer.
fix
the after-part of the day the pa r people of the
village were bountifnily regaled with a substantial
dinner in the park, and the younger people sat down
to an excellent tea, the tables being presided over by
the ladies of the bridal party. Various amusements
contributed to the pleasure of the day, the
married and single gentleman playing a match at
cricket, the latter carrying off the palm.
Mtmic also added its charm to the enjoy.
ments of the day.—The happy pair left Elm
Bank in the evening for Lyndhurst