The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 18G6.

SZLECTIONS FROM SATURDAr3 MARK grlik
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W4auliggree,-The market wee well atteoded, sad
tbs bast qualities of wheat realised 665. to 67a. and
aseendary 60, to 61e. The demand for barley use fairly
&skive. The hest barleys were folly as dear, but
secondary and inferior sold at a little leas money.
D1V01113H174.-The inquiry for all descriptions of
grain at the Exeter corn-exchange ruled dull, at a
deities of from late 2a. per qr. White wheat,
se. lid.; red ditto, Ti. 91. to is. 1044. per 62b.; barley,
fa mal s. 70. to 54. 104 d. ; grinding. 4a, 64. to 4s.
94. ;an cote, 30 to 3.. 64. per bushel. Flour. superfine,
50e.; fine, 48s. to 495.; and second., 465. to 475. per sack.
1/1111111111118. -The Southampton oorn..excliangs was
'bat moderately attended, and business in all dmeriptions
of grain was very sluggish indeed. Flour was is. per
seek cheaper, but there was very little offering. Prices
may he quoted as follow :- Wheat, good new and old,
Ma to 64.. ; inferior, 48e. to 133.. ; barley, malting, 46e.
to 53..; grinding, 34e, to 38..; oat., heavy white and
bleak (white very searee), 29e. to 345,. iftferior, 24a. to
; pia; 42a. to 44*.; beans, old, I6s. to Mn.; new,
to 48.,; and melt, Ms. to 68a. per qr. Flour, 46a.
80 47.. per mak.
111aDI110. -In the corn-exchange there was • fair
supply of wheat, trade dull, and prices declined about
Is, from last week. White wheat, best sorts, realised
from 68e. to 73..; intermediate, Malt° 6k; and
inferior, 64a. to ; red wheat, bast, Cola. to ;
intermediate, 61s. to 64a ; and inferior, lge. to 80e.
Barley detained from is. to 2s, on the cmrrencies of the
previous week. There was • good inquiry for code, and
prima were much the sac,. ea last week. Fine Polands
were quoted at 26a. to 305.; Waterloo, 23e. to 26..;
mid Tartary, 13.. to 20s. Fine old beans were quoted
1M Ms. 56..; and sew 435. to 46..; peas 41s. to 46..
The trade in dour bas been firm, hotucholds relisiog 55.
per soak, and mooed& 81a
lammasaramaa. - The supplies of wheat to our
markets have been only moderate, but more than equal
to Me demand, which is imetive, as is usually the ease
towards the close of the you. Frit:snare more favourable
to the purchaser by Is. to 2s. the qr. Ma to Ms.
being the general figure for good useful wheata. Flour
hes also receded about Is, the sae, 45e. 46e. and 47e.
being the quotations of beet esectedt Al potatoes are
selling at lb. to 15e, the sack of 12 score, and tread at
Ted. to Bd. th• 41b loaf, it la • very dear ammo. lie
barley trade is rather quieter, but prier are ant mate-
rially lower, beet making 465, to ftr. ; and stabled and
grinding, 344. to 41,. Spring earn has a steady but or I
active sale, at about recent rates, oats making 234. to 30r.
beans, 48a. 14605. ; peas., 40s. to 80e. the qr.
TEI CAT= MADE.
DIIIOIIIIBIII -11/4lr inquiry for fatllbeaste,!at late
rates; but sheep a dull sale, at rather reduced rates.
Beet beef, 124. to lb. 64. per eoorsilwethers, 744. to
8.1; and ewes, 74. to 714. per lb. Butchers calves, 744.
ditto. Cows and calves, £l2 to £l9.
WILTIIIII/1. -Bad is in good demand, prime making
lb. to 13a, per wore. Mutton also a fair trade,
at Bd. to 9d. per lb. Barton pigs a slow sale, at 9e. to
9a. 341. per seers.
Sounarreitras.-Beef sells steadily from the farms
at 12s. to 12a. 61. the score for beet, and 10s. upwards
for smondary and inferior. Sheep are also sauce at
markets, and in fast there is but little demand for store
animals now. The mutton trade rules steady, prices
varying from 84. to 94., and tor very prime quality
94.1. per lb. For lawn pigs the demand is quiet, sad
prices do not exceed %Lithe score; small porkers make
10a. and 10s. 64. Bay Is firto, with • fair sale,

EXTENSIVE ftsizonn or Diplom Paoroeures.—
At the Hull Police Court on Friday, Gustave Heinen-
stein was brought up on elwarrant charged with being son
corned In the importation of 1.300 indecent PhotegrsPbs,
contrary to the 233 d sect, of the Customs Consolidation
Act. Mr. Pretty, of her lisjesty's Customs, supported
the charge. The case ohotographe was sent to Hull
by the Leopold. }UMW steamer. The pbo
were concealed in a false bottom . above being =Pala
tools. The forwarding agents denied any knowledge of
the contents of the case. The defendant was remanded
till Thursday.

Susumu= or WOOD Tan Fonona.—On Thursday
evening George Wood, timber merchant and ship builder,
Sunderland, who is charged with having committed
intensive forgeries, mirrendered himself to • farmer in
the neighbourhood of Appleby, Westmoreland, in • per-
fectly exhausted and almost nude condition. Re was
in a deplorable condition, with bat • fiannel shirt and
pair of drawers to protect him from the fury of the
storm which was then raging in one of the wildest
districts of the North. Mr. Breekentield, after famish.
lag Wood with apparel and refreehnient, conveyed him
to the polies station at Appleby, between seven and
eight o'clock. He wail so weak that he had to be lilted
from the cart and conveyed into • room, and • doctor
was sent for to administer to his wants. He Is now in •
prostrate condition, unable forth. present to be removed
to Sunderland. The amount of his forgeries disoovered
tip to the meant is £B,OOO, bat most of the bills ar•
still miming, and it is believed when the six various
bills fall due the extent of his frauds will be much in-
creased. One banking firm in Sunderland, not at first
mentioned, are said to he heave sufferers, and a gentle-
man, who has done private discounting for Wood, has
also been swindled.

ROMAN CATHOLIC MUTING AT Sr. HALL.
On Thursday evening there was • meeting at St.
James's Hall, Londo,n to hear Archbishop Manning, an
English nobleman, and Irish member, and one or two
priests and gentlemen deliver addresses upon the
threatened loss of the Pope's temporal dominion. The
immediate purpose of the meeting was to promote the
, Confraternity of St. Peter, with • view to the eolleotion
' of more pence for the nraintenance of the Papal position
at Rome. The receipts of the Confraternity thin con-
nected with a title so old and so familiar to controversial
ears, have amounted to £1074 during the present year,
and it appears to be the usual rate of payment. Besides
this, however, /ZOO ham been sent by • Protestant
gentleman, who prudently witholds his name. But it
is difficult to He what relation the whole su.n of £15711
is supposed to have to an emergency which, by every
estimate, la critical and tremendous. Horsey, however,
be it little or much, will do something; whereas tbii
arguments employed really went for nothing, end
would not carry • single reasonable being one
yard towards the conclusion for which the
meeting had been assembled- Strange to say,
memory, and imagination itaeU, sometimes truer than
reason when that remain had been trifled with, led the
Archbishop over and over again to the very opposite
goal from that be had started for. Forty-flire Pontiffs,
he said, had Bed from Rome or never been there. Wes
this to show that its possession was necessary to tie
existence of the Church, or that its loss was only a
temporary Inconvenience, possibly a permanent gain?
But why fear? Why meet? Why subscribe? Sir
George %e'er lays the Pope will still have Rome, for
it is besmear/ that he should, and the Almighty will
take ems that what is necessary shall be dom.

PUBLIC AYPOINTIOINTB.
Tneedaaad.—Poote County Court.
Subscription Contort at the Townball,
Dorchester, under the direction of lb. T.
__Robinson.

Collingiourn—Duals (Wilts), Peters'sld, and Ring-
wood (Hants) Fain.
Wednesday, it—Auction of household fornlturs at the
Corn Exchange, Dorchester, by Nr, Bryet.
Wimborne County Court.
Combs St. Nicholas (Romanist) Fair.
Thursday, 13.—Auation of household furniture, at lid-
dlethreathide, by Frederick Foot.
Friday, 14.—Auction of Dairy Utensils, Pip,House-
hold Goods, ,at Burton Brsdatuck, by
Mr. Rumor.
Saturday, 15.—Malmesbury (Wilts) Fair.
Monday, 17.--85aftesbury County Court.
Tanday, l&—Wincanten County Court.

December 4, at Hatehlande, Netherbery, Shoeing
Kiddie. Bei., of paralysis, aged Si years.
December 5, Gertrude Mary, the infant daughter of
Mr. Herbert Timm New.street, Sali•burY•
December 5 andford, Mr. Henry Day, aged 67
years. Deemed was a member of the Town Colwell,
and much respected.
December 5, at Charlton Marshall, George Albert,
sou of Mr. FF. Bilis, aged 3 years.
December 5, at White's Plate, Poole, after •
lingering illness, Isaac Steele, aged 60.
December 6, at Halter worth, Komery, deeply regretted
by many frienda, Charles Beeves, surseyor of the
Metropolitan Police and Couuty Courts, Guildford.
street, and Whitehall.
December 7. at Hope Tavern, Weymouth, Mrs.
Brinsley, aged 81.
Al Wareham, Jane, relict of the lute Mr. Leonard
Snow Green, in her 83rd year.
At Bournemouth, in the 7th year of her age, Julia
Catherine, only daughter of Edward Brydges Hardisty,
R.q*

case waa stopped. This is altogether erroneous.
At the conclusion of the evidence for the defence,
plaintiff's agent rose to exercise his right of
reply; but the Judge did not require it, as he
had already made up his mind upon the point
of law, which be deemed sufficient to rule the
case. The fact is that both the person alluded
to and his superior narrowly escaped being
subpiened for the defence, and thus being called
upon to produce documents and accounts known
to be in their possession ; which, however
"hard" may ho the swearing, Amu the case
shall be resumed on a wider hone, and the
actual prosecutor and prosecuted shall have
chauged places, as well as removed the venue of
the action, will be found to place a different
face upon the matter. But, on reflection, it was
considered that as the real question of liability
could not, perhaps, have been reached in a case
with Mrs. Dunn, owing to the extreme ignor-
ance prevailing, even amongst lawyers, on the
subject of newspaper law and custom, it was,
ow the whole, better not to seek at that stage to
develop the full came of hardship and oppression
which has still to be brought to light. The
learned Judge, recording to our opponents,
told the defendant that he would not take the
law from him. Dot he might, without dis-
paragement to his legal abilities, have listened
to what a person, practically conversant with it
for the last quarter of &century, had to say upon the
subject; for, with the exception of the authorities
of Somerset House, and such men as Mr. Cox, the
Recorder of He's:on, who is • newspaper pro-
prietor, we scarcely know of half-a-dozen gen-
tlemen in the legal profession who have paid
any attention to the law of newspaper liability,
or know anything about it. What the defen-
dant was about to state to the learned judge 1
when thus prevented was not so much matter of
law as matter of fact. Ile did indeed state it,
but without having the effect given it, to which,
with all due submisio it is entitled. This was
the "fact" that although the then Editor of that
paper, the Chron4c/4, went through the empty form
ofdeclarationreqMred to satisfy the Government,
he did so with the assurance held out to him
that there was no responsibility whatever
attached, and that the Publisher, who was in
addition required to find security, whilst he (the
Editor) was not, was the sole party responsible
to the public. The fact that the publisher's
name alone was held forth to the public as con-
cerned with the "imamate of the paper, was
also proved at the trial. These were the grounds
then of the non-liability of the Editor even
where he happened to be registered "as" pro-
prietor; Ist, that this form is merely required
for Government purposes at Somerset House,
and is not available to the public ; and, 2nd,
that the name of the printer and publisher
alone appearing upon a paper, renders him the
liable to be placed at the bar or sued
or bel or other liabilities, as the learned
Judge suggested. In • question with Mrs.
Dunn this was, however, a point which could
only have been properly argued in a superior
court, either on the removal of the case by
certiorari, or, as the amount admitted of it, by
appeal. Knowing, however, the difficulty of
obtaining from • common law judge • due appre-
ciation of the distinction betwixt newspaper
registration at the Stamp Office and insurance I
and other companies' registration of officers by
and through whom they may sue and be sued,
the defendant yielded to the advice of counsel
and submitted in the first instance to an adverse
verdict, thankful for the conciliatory observa-
tion of the Judge at the close (carefully sup-
pressed in our opponent's paper), that of course
he had his remedy, both in law and equity.
Or OCIIIIIME Us ELL

81100110 817173CRITTION Conctorr..—We beg to
remind our renders that Mr. J. Robingoa'a wood
subscription concert will take plain this evening.
" Oberon is Fairy land," " Glorious Apollo," "The
Ferias," "Wind. Whistle Cold," and "Sleep gentle
Lady." fern the principal glees in the programme.
Mr. F. Holland (whom name was unfortunately
omitted in the notioe of the last mooed), will sing
" My Matilda Jane," and "Bother the Flies ;" we
only hope lie will give "Naughty Master Wattle" as
cos of his encores, he wig it so well and with such
inimitable gravity of faro at the former concert—
be waggon.) equal to any prof...gimlet comic singer.
Mr. C. Curtis'. is to favour us with two pretty songs,
"Come to the Casement. Alice.," and "4s English-
man am I." Mr. J. Robinson is to perform a duot
with Mr. Stagg, pianoforte and harmooium ; we
hope Mr. Robinson will also give • solo on the laat
instrument, upon which be is a proficient and taste.
ful player. Mr. Stagg will give a cornet and Mr.
Carroll a darionette solo. Altogether the pro-
gramme promises well, and we wish Mr. Robinson
and his choir all mama —L. IF.

Juno/ Evuerr's Law.—At our county oourt
last Tueriay, Wm following colloquy took plaoe
between Judge Everett and Mr. W. Wallace Fyfe,
newspaper editor for 25 years, touching the law of
newspaper libel. His Honour "A man returns
himself as 'registered proprietor' to the stamp office,
yet says bus not the proprietor he mat be mad l"
—Editor " It is a common thing for editors to do."
—His Honour t "So it is, but it makes you liable
for the debts of the newspaper immediately."—
Editor: "I was the 'registered proprietor' for Govern-
ment purposes only."—His Honour (violently):
" Stuff : You get an action for libel, and then see
who would be reeponsible."—Editor : "The pub-
lisher Midways responsible in cases of libel."—lf is
Honour (screaming fiercely) : "I don't take the law
from you, sir.' As • matter of fat the publisher of
a newspaper is the person liable in actions for libel,
and he enters into sureties before commencing his
publication for that purpose, and the public have
ample evidence of this in the rant actions for libel
tried in London vie.. Dr. Runt.,.. The Publisher
Pall Mall Gazelle; Mr. Doulton, st. r. for Lambeth
v. The Publisher of the Daily Tekgraph, ko., to.
It is to be hoped for the sake of suitors at the court,
I that His Honour's law on other points is better than
that he has expressed in regard to newspaper liability.
EARL,' CLOsnia A awl elects. —A series of agree-
able weekly entertainments in connection with the
gaily Closing Association was most pleasantly and
succesefully inaugurated last Friday evening, at the
Holy Trinity Infant School Room, which has
kindly been placed at the disposal of the trustees
for these assemblies. Lang before eight o'clock the
large and handsome room was filled, and ultimately
there was no standing.plaoe unoccupied. The Rev.
J. Fisher, rector, presided, and in a few hearty,
kindly words expressed the sympathy he bad long
felt with the tradesmen's assistants in their desire to
bring about the early closing movement, and his
gratification at the result of their efforts. The main
objection urged agaList early closing, he remarked,
was that the aesietants would not use well the extra
time allowed them : that was an uncharitable and
grave suspicion, and he was glad to find by the
presence of so large a body of them on that occasion,
that they were disposed to use the opportunity early
dogleg gave them for taking advantage of such means
of recreation and instruction as the Dories of the
meetings the committee had arranged would afford.
—(applause.) Some members of All Saint's choir,
under the direction of Mr. J. Robinson, then ang
"The march of the men of Harlech," and in the
course of the evening they also gave
"Ye gentlemen of England," and " Home sweet
home," which pleasantly diversified the Proceed-
ings, and afforded great satisfaction to the audience,
who vigorously applauded them. The Rev. A.
Strong, K.A., rector of St. Paul's, Chippenhasn, then
delivered an interesting lecture on "A trip to the
Channel Islands and Brittany." He presented a
mass of facts chronological, historical, eoclesilogical,
and a la guide book, with legendary lore, and the
results of personal observation and investiga-
tion, which gave to his auditors much of the pleasure
of his trip without the expense, the difficulties, and
annoyances inseparable from such a journey. It was
most curious to note the sentiments of the audience
as indicated by the plaudits with which they intet•
rupted the lecture at various points. Let us
chronicle just a few of them. First, as to
railway management and the Naonal Debt: the
lecturer told how in France the railways were eon.
eructed by contract with the Government, and the
terms were that in • certain number of years the '
railways should resert to the Government for the
benefit of the weary, whereby, he said, it was
hoped to liquidate their National Debt: • hearty
outburst of applause testified to the approval of the
audience -generally speaking of coarse—to such
a mode of dealing with railways, if, haply, so excel-
lent a result could be obtained. It must be said,
however, that no sign of approval was made when
Mr. Skoog related the rules in regard to railway
travelling in that country. &mond, appreciation of
the grotesque: Mr. Strong told • curious legend
how • gallant knight leaving his beautiful wife in the
castle, sallied forth one more, attended only by an
esquire, to slay a dragon which had appeared in •
certain marsh, and use most voracious, for after
biking for his dinner • tough old villager he always
made a dessert off two or three maidens. The
knight slew the dragon, and being tired after his
arduous task, laid him down to sleep, whereupon his
esquire cut off his head, and went beck to the castle
to tell the knight's wife how the dragon had slain
her lord, and that he with his latest breath thought
of her, and expressed a wish that she should marry
him, the esquire, what, she did. At this point in
the story there was genera laughter and applause,
provoked, we suppose, by the ludicrous history.
Mr. Strong concluded : Conscience rendered the
esquire miserable for the alma he had committed,
and at length he was constrained to confess, and he
expiated hie offeeces on the scaffold. Third, patriot-
ism: Notwithstanding the pleasure of his trip, the
lecturer rejoiced when he again returned to England,
the land of liberty and Protestant:Lien, and the
audience cheered right heartily. Fourth, Protes-
tantism: The lecturer vividly depicted the massacre
of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's-day, and the
long years of persecution which they suffered, rivett-
ing the attention of his auditors, and when
he showed that Christianity was preached in
this kingdom by Bishop Sampson of Pembroke-
shire, that our umlesiastioal system than ob-
tained, and the Church was • missionary Church
sending the gospel to the Channel Islands and
Brittany early in the sixth century, so that we were
not indebted to Rome for • knowledge of the gospel
through St. Augustine, the applause was warm and
prolonged. At the clam of the lecture, Dr. Aldridge
propped • vote of thanks to the lecturer and to the
rector, and they both briefly replied. The National
anthem wee then sung by the choir and the audience
and the meeting ended • few minutes before ten
o'clock. We understand that future entertainments
will be 'chased with vocal and instrumental music,;
by local members of the magical profestion '
and amateurs, including Messrs. F. W. and Boyton
Smith, Mr. J. Robinson, Mr. T. Patch, and members
of the All Saints' choir, and that the Rev. J. Fisher
has obtained the promises of several gentlemen to
deliver short lectures on interesting subjects.