The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-15 00:00:00

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Corr.—His Honor,
Judge held his court here on Wednesday.
There were 6 plaints entered; the only one of
public interest was: Slade v. The Gregg IVeeterh
Railway Company.—Mr. Whittle sought to recover
£2l as the value of • bailor& which was alleged to
have beau killed through the Company's negligence.
The ome was tried by • jury, and was one which
appeared to involve the liability of the Company in
their business of common carriers, and was ably
argued by Mr. Andrews for Mr. Whittle, and by
Mr. JUGS% of London, on behalf of the Company.
Several witnesses were examined whose testimony
was wernewkat orinhoting as to the sort of track
41m-beeele woe ;poi into, sod the manner off fasten•
Jag them in, and by wham. The cause wris heard
ned argued at greet end ultimately his
Honor summed up, obsbuthat the only questioe'
MA appeared trf 'Km to I,.SW, whether or not
the truck te which the WS was pre wet g goo&
proper, add aufliciant 00111. If it was, the verdict
be litie the defsedente, but if the jury were
mairtled it was net; thee they must give i verdict
isr the plaintiff for £is, the utmost which the law
•DOW• 4 for neat tattle, as the Company had not
attempted to seek for a reduction of the damages
olaimed.—The Pay haring mooched for a short
time. retuned a verdict for the plsiutiff for £l5
41187
The court rose at 8 o'clock.
VlMllllBoUltNE.—Yonao hiss'a MUTUAL

71-uinila—y evening, to
eannestion with We mecatiatioa, a nniire oa the
0' History of tbo various parts, called Zook" of the
was danced at the Down Chapel, by Mr. '
14. h., of Bristol. to a respeetable and
sdieniint **diatom. The Rev. It. Thatcher, of
Framptbra, occupied the chair. The masterly style
j.t.tich Use sulijeot will treated elicited the re•
plaudits of the audience, who accorded to
Wairintni *quer and reverend president votes of
which than gentlemen duly acknowledged.
,r. OriLth kindly allowed to be handed round for
•iin • valuable collection of copies (with
hieeog) of ancient manuscript portions of the
Holyres, In • variety of Oriental and Euro-
pe.. languages.
WEYMOUTH.—Tai BURG= Ltrr.—The re-
vision of the burgess list took place on Monday.
Lea. illustration of the interest taken in municipal
matters in the town, we may mention the whole of
the proceedings did not occupy more than an hoar
and • holt. They would not have occupied ten
minutes but for n "few was in search of roger."
roues lirrstuosnes.—On Tuesday last JoAii
Bong and Jeremiah Lye., were charged before
the Mayor, Alderman Ayling, and It. Gran, Esq.,
with stealing four yards of cloth, the property of
Peter Keating, licensed hawker. Mr. Timid ap-
peared for the defendants. The 'defendants were
at the Crown tap on Monday night, and prosecutor
went in to lay the cloth upon the table. Asia
usual on such occasions the prosecutor had a great
deal to talk about, and the defendant's were just
ready for a spree. Rowey took the cloth in the
of some others, out by way of a "lark," and
presence
next morning Bent it to the defendant by
,Lyons, when prosecutor gave them both into
Custody. As it was quite evident there was
no felonious intention, the magistrates dismissed
• the ease on the defendants' discharging the costs.
Wsstirtsx Missiors --The annual meeting of
the Weymouth Auxiliary of the Wesleyan
Missions took place in the Wesleyan Chapel
on Tuesday evening last. The proceedings having
been opened by singing and prayer, W. Eliot, Esq.,
was celled upon to preside. The chairman having
Introduced the business of the meeting by offering
some very appropriate remark', the local secretary
reed the report, and the meeting was subsequently
&Wrested by the Rev. J. Bind, Baptist minister, the
Rev. G. Hobill, Supt. of the Portland circuit, the
Rev. Dr. Osborne, one of the General Secretariesat
the Mindon-house, who attended as a deputations,
the Rev. It. Cooke, Supt. of the Weymouth deceit,
and other ministers. The proceedings were of •
highly interesting character, and the address of the
deputation, in the description he gave of some of
tho most important operations of missionary labour,
was particularly gratifying. The society had sent
out six inissionanos to the South of China, and they
wore now labouring with great success. Although
the North of China was more healthy than the
South, yet as that part was more fully provided for
-by Missionaries from other religious bodice, the
Wesleyan" did not intend- to go there, but one of
their southern missionaries had been mint for to the
North by the Shield King, as ho was termed, and it
was to be hoped that his labours there would be
most successful; as being engaged in preaching the
under the sanction of that chief, he would
gospel an opportunity of labouring among a class of
people; al seeing the oountry and obtaining an
insight into the peculiar manners and habits
of the people he would not otherwise
possess. During the last few years, the
society had turned its attention to the raising op
of native missionaries and educating them fa the
work, and they had now in Ceylon, Western Akin%
India, Ike., no less than 46 native missionaries, and
211 born in thaw countries of European parents. For
the education of native minionance the society set
apart £l6OO a-year, and there were still greater call*
from the mission fund for this particular department
of the work. Both in Africa and in India the
labours of the missionaries had met with a define of
encouragement, which a few years ago could scarcely
have been expected, especially in the latter country,
where large multitudes attended their presching ; and
their eagerness for religious tracts and books
distil-
buted by the missionaries was extreme. In Polynesia,
too, their missions bad been eminently successful.
The ferocious cannibals of those islands had
embraced the Gospel, end last year they per.
chased £l5O worth of bibles and testaments.
Neither the Fejeeans nor natives of the Friendly
Isles had any money, but they had mission*
ary meetings; and last year they gave towards
the missionary cause to the &tumult of £3,000.
Though they had no money, they had coil
and towards those collections they gave duct=
, pigs, cocoa nun, tortoise shells, dm. Aro, and conse-
quently, as might be expected, their collections were
often very noisy ones. The rev, gentlemen was
listened to with great interest, and after votes of
thanks had been proposed to the collectors, and to
the chairman for his kindness in taking the chair, the
inge terminated by the singing of the Dino.
=eed, and the Rey. R. Cooke pronouncing the &m-
-antles.