The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 18.*

HONRSTE AUDA X.

Ties EMPEROR of the FREICCH, at the official
reception of the diplomatic body at the Tuile-
ries on New Year's Day, addressed some words
to the Austrian Ambassador which have caused
a profound sensation in every Cabinet and Court
in Europe. His Mantsvv, according to the
official version, expressed his regret that his rela-
tions with the Austrian Government were not
as good as formerly, but requested the Ambas-
sador to inform the EMPEROR that his personal
sentiments for him had not changed. This brief
speech was immediately transmitted by the
foreign Ambassors to their respective Courts;
and as the journals of Monday published an
exaggerated account of the EMPEROR'S remarks,
the French Foreign Office was besieged by the
members of the different legations for the pur-
pose of obtaining an authoritative statement of
what His MAJESTY really uttered. The Bourse,
at the same time, was the scene of a panic which
has since spread to our own Stock Exchange,
and to those of the great continental capital+.
So great in fact has been the excitement during
the whole week, that the French Government
deemed it necessary to publish a paragraph in
the Moniteur of Wednesday, declaring that there
is nothing in their diplomatic affairs to autho-
rize the fears which the late alarming rumours
have tended to create. This declaration will no
doubt allay a good deal of the anxiety excited
by the Emecaint's speech ; but it will not re-
move the apprehensions which have long been
entertained in regard to the future relations of
France and Austria on the Italian question. It
is well known that a coldness has for some time
existed between France and Austria on the sub-
ject of Italy, and that the late revolution in
Servia has tended still further to show that the
Policy of Austria is at direct variance with that
of Fiume. Austria is said to have been urged
by France to use her influence with the Pore
with a view to the introduction of reforms in
his dominion.; and, in order to secure her co-
operation to that end, France has offered to
withdraw her troops from Rome on condition
that Austria shall evacuate Bologna and the
other places which she holds in the north of the
Papal States. These propositions have been
declined, and the result is that the disaffection
which has always existed towards Austria in the
Papal Legations has spread through her own
Lombard provinces, which are now in such a state
of excitement that the slightest accident would
be sufficient to produce an insurrection. It
remains to be seen what effect the EXPE-
Rotes speech will have upon the Italians in
their present state of exasperated feelings. It
has long been believed in Lombardy that Russia
will avail herself of any opportunity to pooiht,
Austria for her " ingratitude" to the Emperor
NICHOLAS; and Sardinia has already manifested
so openly her sympathy with the disaffected that
there is no doubt of her readiness to join
either Power in an attack on Austria. There is,
therefore, abundant reason for the belief that if
the late events were intended to indicate the
future course of the Italian policy of France, a
European war would ho only a question of
time.

The Overland Mail has arrived with news
from Bombay to the 9th December. Lord
Ci.voz arrived at Lucknow oil the 28th No-
vember, after having gained a decisive victory_
near Futtehpore over &time Msnooo Sisai
and a body of 7,000 rebels, who were driven out
of the jungle and pursued for four miles with
enormous loss. On the 21st November General
GRANT re-crossed the Goomtee in the face of a
considerable body of rebels, who disputed the
passage, but were repulsed with great slaughter
and the loss of six of their guns. TANTIA
TOPER continues to elude his pursuers, and is
said to have entered Guzerat. The amnesty is
gradually thinning the ranks of the rebels; and
there is good reason for believing that the whole
country will be restored to peace without much
additional bloodshed.

The revenue returns for the year and quarter,
which ended on Friday, show an increase in
every branch of revenue except the Income-tax,
in which there isa decrease of £7,546,899 on the
year, and a decrease of £261,437 on the quarter.
The year's account, in consequence of this reduc-
tion in the Income-tax, shows a net decrease of
£4,103,347, while the quarter's account shows an
increase of X 1,125,496.

OUR readers will find from our report of the
Quarter Sessions business that the inelancholy
discussion about the County Lunatic Asylum was
resumed as usual; and we are sorry to say that
it took place without any abatement of the usual
features of obscuration and difficulty, and with-
out the slightest possible progress being made
towards a practical result. Would anybody out
of Dorsetshire believe that a Bench of Magis-
trates having fully recognized the imperative arid
pressing obligations of a most important duty,
have nevertheless consumed ten long years and
wasted their energies in the most confused and
futile efforts to discharge that duty 1 The simple
question which has so long puzzled the Dorset.
shire Court of Quarter Sessions which has
proved so severe and painful a test to the
talents and ingenuity of the magistrates of this
c.iiinty—is, simply, how to provide additional
accommodation for an increasing number of
pauper lunatics ; and the solution of this
question, easy as it may appear to ordinary
minds, has furnished a most fertile souice
of discussion during no fewer than forty
sittings of the Court, and produced at the same
time an exhibition of abortiveuesa and imbecility
unparalleled, and an example of "confusion
worse confounded" actually unprecedented.
During all this time, indeed, the Court has
done infinitely worse than nothing. There are
multifarious resolutions now standing amongst

the solemn records of the Court—standing as
the deliberate emanations of the judgment and
intellect of the Bench—standing, unrescinded,
as the weighty rules and guides appertaining to
some definite course of action with regard to this
question—resolutions moved, debated, carried,
which have not only long lost every vestige of
practicability by reason of the most violent and
fatal clashing one with the other, but by the
rashness and inherent absurdity now discoverable
in these sundry resolutions individually. So in-
convenient ani alarming has this recorded accu-
mulation of error and confusion become, that
the learned Chairman of Quarter Sessions him-
self was seriously disposed to appoint a com-
mittee for the purpose of reviewing this heap of
by-gone and inorerative resolutions of the Court
. —to purge the mu te-book from what has now
become not only utterly valueless but offeusive
to the eyes of the Court which had
deposited it there. Avery pleasant occu-
pation truly ! but one, we fear, that will
contribute little to the character and dignity
of the Bench. There is a singular and fatal
perversity which dominates most injuriously over
the Bench in this matter of the Lunatic Asylum.
,By whom it is begot, bow it is fostered,
I it is not very easy to see ; but that there !
are certain secret springs and motives of
action, which, notwithstanding their various
and altered tendencies, still silently tind
sympathy and encouragement in the minds
of a large majority oldie Bench, no one who has
watched these discussi 111 l a as we have done, from
their inauspicious commencement under the ono,
redoubtable but now defunct leadership of the
Rev. J. A. TEMPLER, down to the present ad-
verse times, will for a moment think of question-
ing. From the nature of the whole case, this
must be so. Had there been a real, honest
desire to do what the county required by the
best means possible—had there been but an
ordinary amount of intelligence and singleness
of view brought to bear upon the business in
hand, it is impossible to conceive that such a ,
thineas the necessary additional buildings for
poor lunatic patients should have sufficed to en-
cumber the records of the Court with all man-
ner of contradictory and impossible resolutions,
to perplex a whole Bench of Magistrates for a
period of ten years uninterruptedly, and to
leave them at the end of that time not one jot
nearer to the attainment of the long and ear-
nestly-needed requirements of the county, whose
affairs they undertake, as a self-imposed duty,
to administer. As the matter stands now, Mr.
FLOYER, the chairman of the asylum visitors,
has got the sanction of the Court to advertise
for a fresh batch of plans and estimates ; and
he was bold enough to express a confident
expectation (which raised what we may call an
involuntary smile amongst seine of the magis-
trates) that at the next session he would posi-
tively be able to go to work in earnest. Mr.
Funrsa has himself, avowedly, no distinct per-
ceptions as to a proper plan fur the additional
buildings; and, besides his oft-expressed ina-
bility to see his way in such a matter, he does
not think it the "duty" of the magistrates to
propound to architects anything like what it is
he really wants them to provide him with, if
even his own mind were at all informed upon
the point. As the most practical and efficient
means to the end in view, he insisted upon
throwing open the competition of plans to all
the world, believing fully that the one thin;
needed would certainly turn up amongst the
mass, upon which one, of course, his known
acuteness would immediately seize, and which
would be forthwith carried out with his
usual precn and firmness. So plain and com-
mon-sense a view as that taken by the Earl
of SHAFTESBURY and Mr. GORDON—that the vast
influx of plans would rather tend to "bewilder"
Mr. FLoYER than to fix his choice, was of
course unworthy of any serious consideration
from a gentleman of Mr. FLOYER'S calibre ; and .
the competion for plans is to be thrown open to
architects from all parts, and of all classes and .
all degrees of ability, instead of being confined,
as was suggested. to some four or five gentlemen
of known reputation and experience in the
building and arrangement of lunatic asylums.
Then, the representation of the positive unfitness
of the present site at Forston for an asylum,
strongly urged years ago, and insisted upon last
week with renewed earnestness, by Lord SHAF-
TEMBURY—IthnseIf the Chairman of the Commis-
' 'limier' in Lunacy—fared no hotter at tho hands
of Mr. FLOM, Lord SHAFTESBURY'S strong
remonstrance being met by a feeble and some-
what captious opposition from that gentleman,
and by an almost total silence from the Bench
at large. Lord Sit srmaseay declared his deli-
berate belief that the large stuns of money pro-
posed to be laid out in ad,ling to the present build-
ing on its present most objectionable site would
be thrown away ; that " public opinion" would
be brought to bear so strongly against it, that in
four or five years, notwithstanding an enormous
outlay had been incurred, an entirely new
asylum would have to be built elsewhere. We,
like Lord Sissrresminv, have a very great re-
spect for public opinion ; but it is questionable
whether in Dometshire the force of public
opinion can be rendered operative, through the
public organs, with that degree of power and
salutary effect which his Lordship seems to con-
template. seeing that the local fountains of jus-
ce are intimately associated with newspaper
-tindertakings, whose natural tendency it is to
swamp the legitimate and independent expm-
sion of opinion—ao far as the public business and
the character and conduct of the magistrates of
this county are concerned. So we go on ;
so this fatal question of the asylum "drags
its slow length along ;" and if the Rev.
HARRY FARR YEATMAN PAH see any immediate
prospect of a certain recovery from the " sick-
ness " under which he said the Bench were
labouring, as the result of "hope deferred," we
much fear that there is no man out of the Court,
with any knowledge of this subject. who can
participate with the reverend Chairman in this
pleasing assurance—who c.in share his confi-
dence in this apeedy and wonderful restoration
to magisterial health and vigour.

DoRCII TATER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—The supply of wheat at market to-day was hut
mslerate, and farmers commenced asking an advance
of from 33. to 44. per quarter over last week, which
chocked businms ; towards the clow of the market a
limited quantity was placed at from Is. to 2s. ad-
vance. Barley of line quality is getting scam and
command high rates, inferior is with ditiiculty dig-
p .sial of except at low figures. Oats and beaus as
Lust.

CRYSTAL PALACE POULTRY Snow.—One of the
largest and best a these exhibitions, fur the success
a which the management at Norwood has achieved
such well-deserved celebrity, opened to the public
,R Saturday last, and will lie c maimed till Wednes-
day inclusive. The feathered display this year un-
questionably leaves all prey shows of the kind far
behind it. It is not alone in number, though, as
there are upwanls of 3,009 Idris of various sorts,
there is no lack on that some, but the excellence of
the ihiferent kinds was never so fully displayed both
4+l 4. form and plumage. The County of Dorset may
4ell lie proud of thc 'monition it maintains in the
poultry world ; for, at this iio.uienee display at the
Crystal Palace. we find the laurels auardel to the
usually successful and well-known exhibitors, demos
Crane. Ks+, Mrs. Henry Foams, and %V..Manlielil,
jun., Esq., with a competition never equalled.
For those who take an interest in the cultivation of
our breeds of domestic poultry this show is especially
interesting, as exemplifying the highest aegis* of
excellence to whids each variety is capable of being
reared.

An excellent sermon was preached on Sunday
morning last at St. Peter's Church. in behalf of the
choir, by the Rev. V. Donnethorin Vysyan. rector
Manchton, when the sum of 1:111 Os. IL was col-

Sir R. I'. I ilyn, Bart., has ',relented .Cl,OOO to the
County Lunatic Asylum.

17510,1 CONTIt tCrS. —COntraCtil for the supply of
the Dorchester Union have been taken at the follow-
ing prices :—Bread, from 31d. to 4iil. per 41b. loaf;
beef, 41. per Ili; suet, 31,1. per lb; choose, 344. per
cwt. ; and butter, le. Uid. per pound.

I)(DWIIESTED WATY.I2 WO'llol. —The week before
last we laid before our readers a short statement
showing the efficient and satisfactory manner in
which the engine--osie of two contracted for by the
practical and able machinists of this town, Nlessrs.
\Vitaer aid I lo's'sy_sli j,s work, and also the
cheering prospect which was then developed of an
abundwit amply of water for all the purposes of the
town. We ere happy to say that a visit to the
works (ruin Mr. the engineer of the
Bimini of Health, yesterday week, fully continue the
is:dist:let felt as to the working and sower 4.1 the
engines and pinups, toetlisir with the abundant
supply and excellent quality of the water raised.
One of the engines alone, of twelve-horse power,
being worked with a pressure of ffillbs to the square
inch, pumped 15,0(N) gallons per hour at an elevation
of 150 feet. To show the superior quality of the
work, it may lie stated that there was no viliratien
whatever at the turning of the crank, as was proved
by the placing of a polity-piece in the best positi) ...
as a test, where it remained usiinuvwi for two hours
during the working of the engine. It is consolatory
to the nitepayets ti find that they have not in this
quarter to lament the occurrence of any " unforeseen
einnunstanee over whieh the parties concerned lcul
no control."-- -as Mr. Bishop said with regard to the
alleged cause of the blowing up of the sewer at the
bottom of Mill street, and which will necessitate a
renewal of loatis and a further unlooked-for eXpeut.lo-
lure of about £4110;--it ai least :wowing to hind that
all which depended iipoa skill awl workmanship at
the waterworks has gone well, and shot complete
success has crowned the &Torts sif Huse engaged iii
the constructionofa most iniportaut part of the
sanit.wy works of the town.
Cosvinuariwis.• -The Ili ,hop of S disliury will
hold confirmations in the f plaesis iii Dorset•
, shire, between Mardi 15th and April 7th, for the
neighbouring parialies: --Shaftesbury, Elsinore I :reel'.
(4111110 mm Stower Provost, Siitton Waldron, Ml.
bury Iwerne Minster, St.surpailw, Darweston, I Mic-
ron' Fitzpaine, Woollansl, Stur 11l i l (ster Newtoo,
Stallseidge. Holwell, Sherborne, Sherborne Sehool,
Bradford' Abbas. Ityine lutrinsica, Leigh, Evershet.
Cattistock, Nlaiden Newton, Frampton, Rockland
Newton, Pidilletrenthide, Nlillionie St. Andrew,
Tinkleton, Tolptiddle, Here Regis, Winterbourne
Whitchurch, Hilton, Tarrant Keynstone. Illandford,
'farnint Pluiperne, awl Pentridge.
(lii :Monday afttinioiiii. as the Marchioness of West-
minster and liar slaughter, tin. Lady Theodora I :nos-
venor, were proceeding in their carriage up Fore-
gate-street, Chester, the fore part of the vehicle
broke from the carriage. leaving Islay IVestiiiiiister,
and I.lily Th in the body part. The horse
procetsled with the box ori "ffiekey " on which the
servants were s:Ated ; but they soon released them-
selves from their dangerous posit' .
S SLISDURY DIOCESAN eIIURVII BUILDING
SOCIETY.--The first quarterly meeting (of the general
1111 l uittec of this association for the year 1%59 was
held at the Hoard Homo, in the Iliac, on Tuesday
last. the Hight Itev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury
in this chair. The inembers of the committee lore-
sent were the Very lice. the Dean, the Archdeacon
of Sarum, the Ike. the Sainte:in, E. Eyre, I•lsq.,
the Itev. Prebendary Smart, the Rev. Prebendary
Lear, the Rev. It. Payne, the Rev. Prebendary
Lowther, (Secretary). and the Diocesan Architect,
1. 11. Wyatt, Esq. 'there were eleven CAWS on the
list of applieations fir the consideration of the coin-
:nth:see, viz., Wambrook, Dorset B iv.tssn, Wilts ;
I !onilm Keynes, I iorset : Itiircombe, Wilts ; Corfe
Castle, Dorset ; Itridport, Dorset ; Swanage, I) inset ;
A ,sk‘.,esseull, 1 toms. ; t tare, Wilts; Liverstoek,
Wilt,; and Chitterne St. Nl:iry aml All Saints,
Wilts. Wainlinsik Was the first else ti have twit
eonsidered :it was an applicat. fnun the nee. 11.
11. A. Smith, the curate and patron of the parish,
Ewald towards parti illy rebuilding and enlar.eng the
church, whereby the ace ononslation would lie Id•
creased from 9.1 sittings to 15N, at a cost of £759, of
whim-h J:2511 has been raised. No plans, however,
having bean sent in, the ease could not be proceeded
with. With reference to Bay(lon church, which
stoml nex(, the committee viitssl a grant of £4l).
The work contemplated is the enlargement ss the
north aisle, with the view of inereasing the number
of sittings from 151 to 225, 0: which 9:; are to lie
free. The population of the parish is XII. and the
esti:flat sl exit:ll4e of the enlar niment is £4119,
of which has been raised. Comb.: Keynes was an
applikag' for aid towards rebuilding the church,
lint as the preliminaries were not rewly, nothing
could be done. Tb i erection cif a north aisle to the
parish church of Itincombe Was next brought for-
ward. 'flue population of the parish is :Jima -1110,
and the present accommodation in the church is for
151 persons. A nc. aisle, as 11. 41.104: h. W44441.t
iii cre354.44: the number of sittings to 191 (92 free), and
the oeit wul I be lint of whie'l ttih.s has
already h. ccii sabred:Jed : a grant of •.:510 was (her,
fore made. With reganl te the ineargenieni, sf s'orfs:
C:astle church no grant could be made, inasmuch as
the case 344 Hot regularly brought before the ineci.•
nig. The works, however. were approved by the
It einl, awl will be cotinderol at a futiii•e peri(sll.
The proposed etilirgement will cost ..:2,0110, hut of
this amount £l.2odlias been provided. When c 1111 l •
pleted, the church, instead sit seating -134 persons,
oust of a poptilation of 1,9:9, will in:cornea...late
519, and will consain 273 free ((Whigs. The nast
ease was that of Ilridlisirb Some =short time c. 4.5 the
Kant site i a gr %et towards the eraction of a new
church for an outl dng this
I' ui 'hi uiuuee thea, however, a s of plans .if a less
expensive charaeier have been oh.ained, wits the
view to their being sulistituted for those privionsly
approved Ily the Association. The view p: tits were
accordingly sanctioned, lint as the former ones
would have involved an outlay or •:;t. hiss, whilst ill.,
. .

present can he execute.' for ..1.11111, the e 'tt
f.:lt it their duty to reduce th grail already voted
to .C 125 being ,23 hei.. Af.e.; appioviog *new
revised phuis with regard to Swanage cluireh, awl
continuing the grant already made to carrying them
ont, the following sums were ordered to lie p 6.1 : --
Towards tlic eextion of Askerswell church. :75 ;
the like at Uwe, £ll4O ; Anil the like at Lavenst.s.k.
s:I50. The only remaining business was the recep•
ti!!!! of tha Diowsan Architect's report with retard
to the Mate of the churches at rhitierne All Saints
awl I'llitterne St. Mary, awl this having been done
the meeting separated.
The following g oitlemen have liewi licensed by
the Right Rev. the Bishop of Salisbury :--11 hi
the Ist instant, the Rev. Itielianl l'rat, clerk, 8.A..
ti the clinscy of Illickhorn Wemon, Dorset. ila
the 4th instant, the It.w. .1 dm Bolton. clerk. 8.A.,
to the curacy if Swyre, Dorset. Oil the Ntll In-
stant, the Right Rev. the Lit! Bishop of Salisbury
collated the Roe. Nathaniel Bowl, rector of St •golv-
eitili-Tyneleam. Dorset, to the Prebend of Hurst-
borne awl Burleete, anciently founded in the eatlic•
dr.d church of Sarum, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Francis Dyson. clerk, an 1 belonging to his
Lordship's donation or collation iii full right: of his
Bishoprack, awl on the maw day he was installed.
OicaTT PETTY SEasioNE.—(Hcfore 11. Frampton, 11.
N. Middleton, and 11. t". EsArs.)
Joints Riggs, an old offender, labourer, of Piddletown,
was charged with taking a nate on of lewd 4 )rtord.
at Piildletown. Fined K 5 and costs, and in default
col 1111 l itted 'for three caleieler ths' hard labour.
Mr. Weston appeared for the plainant.
Maria AOll ',fel. and Jane eliiroril,
biome w 1111 l en of Forilineon, were summoned for damag-
ing underwmil„ the property of Jaine, Fellows, KN.' at
kingaton. Case dismissed. Mr. Weston appeared fur
tie. defendants.
Joarph Chrish,ohrr, Joules Clerialvher,
J Mantis
”Itit Baku% and J.1n1,11 Matt 14,
were charged by Superintendent Everitt with being
drunk and incapable at Upwey and Broadway. Fined
rei. each.
Jisatea Willa, and Reld,en Nr,tfe, were charged with
try,p*.ing in ~much of coneys on lands of R. B. Sheri-
dan, Esq., at Maiden Newton. Dismissed.