The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

BIRTHS. I cheat° of Bushell, who was about to leave.
Marcia ia, at Maiden Newtoe, the WA of G Mr. A. J.
Hatcher of a eon. f home for the benefit of his health. He did
March 30, at 118, Eaton-square, the wife of Evelyn duty in the church on Sunday, and while in
Chita) Shirley, Esq., 11 P., of a daughter, the parish, he was requested fiy the Rev. It.
March 21, at Seeboreugli House, nerr Crewkerne, S
C Crook, the rural dean, to produce hitt
the wife of Juhn Studley, Req., of a daughter. I
March 24, at Maiden Newton, the wife of Mr. G i letters of orders, the Bishop of Salisbury nay.
Gale, painter, of • daughter, lug an objection to unlicensed clergymen olli-
March 25, at Burton Bradatock, the wife of Mr. J.
Turner, of a son, elating in his diocese for Inure than three
March 27, at East Street, Bridport, the wife of Mr. Sundays without inquiry. The prisoner et,
John Roper, currier, of a son, cussed himself by saying his letters of orders
March 23. at Allendale, Wimborne Minster, the wife had been lost with his luggage at Reading.
of Thomaa Rawlins, Esq., of a son.
I On the 10th November last he celebrated
MARRIAGES. the marriage in question. The rural dean
March 20, at Frame, Somerset, by the Rev. S.
ManningH , Mr, Janie.
ucker, of Chelsea, London, to was importunate, and the prisoner promised
Clara, daughter ad the late Mr. John Samways, of to go to Salisbury, to have an interview
ne Mroadmay, Dorset. with the bishop. A day or two afterwards he
March 25, at St. Mary's Church, Melcombe Regis, by
the Rev. R. J. Lyon, M.A., Mr. William Gregory, left Bushell ostensibly for the purpose, and
chemist, 76, St. Thomasetreet, Melcombe Regie, to did not return. Ile was afterwards appre-
Mary Hoeder Dukes, eldest daughter of the late Mr. 'tended at Deacon's Reading Rooms, London,
George Kendall, fornerly of the Golden Lion Hotel, St.
Mary-street, in the same parish. and connnitted for trial, but after his commit-
March 26, at St Mary's Church, Weymouth, by the tal, he was removed to Brecon, in Wales,
Rev. R. J. Lion, Mr. H. Wsrland, of Dorchester, to
under a writ of habeas corpus, and tried and
Elisabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Dodson,
Weymouth. convicted there of a similar offence. The
March 26, at the Independent Chapel, Sherborne, celebration of marriage by a persion not in
the Rev. F. Beckley, Mr. John Kidd. of Sherbonie, to
Jane, daughter of the late Mr. William Brown, of holy orders is a felony, and Mr. Baron Martin
Frome. sentenced him to ten years penal servitude—
blarch26, at Kingston Church, by the Rev. William a punialunent which lie richly deserved.
Urquhart, misted by the Rev. John George Gifford, . i
John Wynter James Gifford, Esq., Captain 21st A very nfluential and numerously attended
Fusileers, eldest son of the Rev. .1. G. Gifford, to meetiug of the electors of South Lancashire
Margaret Hamilton, daughter of the late Rev. Frederic was held at Newton on Wednesday. The
Uniuhart, rector of West Knighton with Broadwayne. . j
DEATHS. obect was, to invite Mr. (Hailstone to come
March 20, at
forward as the candidate for the new seat,
Mlle Musbury, near A xminster„ Elise
betli, wife of Mr. James Row, aged 55 years. should the House of Commons agree to allot
March 21, at Lyme, at the residence of her, father, it. The proposition was supported by the
Mary,second daughter of Mr. Simeon Alining, of Lumber-
leading men of the county, and received with
land Cottage, Channouth Road, aged 26 years.
March 21, Crewkenie, Henry Edward, second son of great enthusiasm. Mr. Earl, of Liverpool,
tits Ear. T. Boys Ferris, rector of Guiseley, Yorkshire, I moved ;—" That the positiou occupied by the
mod 11 years.
March 22, suddenly, at his residenee, Walworth, Right lion. W. E. Gladstone as one of the
Surrey,Thomas Liversdale Fish, Req. of Walworth, and first statesmen and oratoru..Df Europe—the
Knowle Cottage, Sidniouth, Devon, In the 80th year of extensive knowledge whi e possesses of
his age. the commercial wants o tie country—the
Much n, at Maiden Newton, Mr. Wm. Forst, tailor,
aged 72 years. important part he has always taken in its
March 22, at Yeovil, Mr. Emanuel Forth, gunsmith, eg• I fiscal • 'elation, and the popular opinions Ire
saw 44 Tama
March 22, at No. 23, Bath-street, Weymouth, after basexpressedin itafureignpolicy,recomme.nded
• protracted illness, borne with Christian fortitude and hint. 88 a representative of the views and in-
rsagaation, Emma, the beloved wife of Mr. C. G.
terests of South Lancashire in the House of
Wallace, of Gersten, near Liverpool.
March 24, at Swymaged 46, Leah, the beloved wife Continents." Mr. Clieethitin, who has with.
of Mr. J. Barrett, Muster of the National School. drawn his claims to the seat, seconded the
March 25, at his residence, Lyme Regis, Lisle Fullet,
Esq., aged years.
propoisition and threw himself heartily into
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At Longffeet, Poole suddenly, of heart disease,Maria, the movement. The requisition to Mr.
wile of Mr. William Jenkins, marble mason, aged 60, Gladstone is being very numerously signed.
much regretted by her relatives and friends.
March 23, at Wimbome, Mr. William &Ailey, late Lord Palmerston having accepted the
of Wateombe Farm, aged 71. office of Her Majesty's Governor of Walmer
March 23, at Market-street, Poole, Ann, the wife of Castle and Lord -Warden of the Cinque
Mr. Thomas Bayley, aged 27.
March 24, at Weymouth, Susanna Priscilla Ruler, Ports, his seat in parliament necessarily
widow of the late . 1). Barker Feel., aged 49. became vacant. Accordingly, on Friday week,
T. Mr. Brand moved for a writ for a fresh
election at Tiverton. and the writ was return-
able on Thursday last. On that day Lord
Palmerston made his appearance at the Town-
hall, escorted thither by the volunteers,
amidst the cheers of the populace and the
waving of handkerchiefs by the ladies. The
re-election of the Prime Minister was duly
moved and seconded. Of course his lordship
was unanimously returned. After thanking
the free and independent electors of Tiverton
for the honor they had again conferred on
him, his lordship expiated on last year's bad
summer; the unexampled severity of this
year's winter; threw out a neat compliment
to free trade; adverted to the satisfactory
progress of the Bankruptcy mid Insolvency
Bill ; expressed hopes that European peace
might be maintained; lauded the strength
and efficiency of the British army and of our
" noble bands of volunteers ;" eulogised Lord
John Russell's Italian policy; glanced at
the advances made by Austria tonards con-
stitutionalism, and the emancipation of
Russian serfs; and wound uli,by reference to
the unhappy disputes between our American
cousins respecting the dissolution of the union
between the North and the South, and
expressed a hope that the world would be
saved from the :Aiding spectacle of seeing
brother armed•againtit brother, and parents
against their children. The proceedings
would have ended here, but for Mr. Rowcliffe,
who was determined not to have his eyes
tilled with the diamond dust the Premier had
so liberally scattered abroad, and consequently
begged to ask his lordship a question or tao
on home matters—the Reform Bill, and the
subject of economy and retrenchment. There
were only two honest members in the
house, be said, the majority being elected
through bribery, intimidation, and nomi-
nation boroughs. Even the mouth of
Mr. Milner Gibson, in whom he once had
confidence, had been stopped with a big plum.
Lord Palmerston.a reply was eminently cha-
racteristic of the man. In a few sentences,
in which jocularity was miled with satire, he
literally cut Mr. Rowcliffe into mincemeat.
The failure of last year's Reform Bill he
showed, was no fault of his, it having been
opposed by members on both sides the How,
while it was unsupported by the people
out of doors. Amid the cheers and laughter
of the crowd he succeeded in proving that
his opponent was ignorant, silly, and impu-
dent, and advised him if he intended to try
his band at legislation, to go a long way from
home if he expected to get returned as mem-
ber of parliament, le appealed to the
volunteers present, to know whether they
would wish to see the army reduced, and cle-
verly defended the increase of the navy by a
telling allusion to the iron fleets of our
neighbours across the Channel—where was
retrenchniiut to begin? Was it to be by
withholding the grant for educating the
poorer classes? lie told his interrogater
that in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed
man was king, and opined that he would like
to be sovereign in the land of ignorance. The
populace were jocularly dieposed, and called
on Mr. Rowcliffe to put a few more questions,
but thie 4 declined, and Lord Palmerston
retired elaWsith victory, and was escorted
by the voluutetim and the populace to the
railway station, and took his departure for
Torquay amidst the most deafening cheers.
At the present moment there are strikes at
Manchester, Ashton, Stalybridge, Hyde,
Oldham, Clitheroe, Newton, Glossop, Bator
Dudley, Bath, Loudon, and other tor
Power-loom weavers, spinners, piercers,
masons, bricklayers, carpenters, joiners, plas-
terers, nailer., and other workers of the great
hive of industry have turned out in thoq-
sand. and have reduced themselves to idle-
ness and their hapless families to starvation.
in some places the amount of wages is com-
plained of as being too small. In others the
employment of women in fiietoriee is objected
to, because they perform work at a lower
price than men will accept; and in others the
hours of labour are objected to as being too
lung. On both sides the disputanta are °heti-
. nate ; the masters are exasperated at the
atuppage of their trade and the consequent
losuf
.profit on their capital, and the men,
actuated by, a spirit of revenge, are urged on
by piiid proforasional demagogues, to resist
what they are. pfensed to term the tyranny of
their masters. likapecting the Lancashire
strikes, no reliable information has yet been
_,put fartiv; but with regard- to the building
trades, the tyranny ia.i2videutly on the part of
the men. The points at issue are simply
these i--rthe skilled operatives of 1859-60
were paid at. the rate of ss. Gil. jier,day, or
335. per week, for working ten hours per day
for live days, and eight hours on the Saturday..
Not satisfied with these terms, the men struck
iu it body to obtain the same amount of money
for working nine hours per day for five days,
and eight hours on Saturday as before. The
masters did not object to limit the hours of
labour, but they did object to give ten hours'
pay for nine hours' work. The consequence
with, as is well known, much pecuniary loss on
the part of the masters', and an incalculable
amount of privation on the part of the men
and their families dependent on them. This
year the men have renewed their old demand.
The master-builders have met the aggression
by a very decisive proceeding. Some of the
principal firms amongst them, Sir Morton
Peto,
_Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, Mr. Smith,
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and iiesers Axford, expressed their determi-
nation to ignore the term of toil hitherto