The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNY EXPRFSS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1859,

chaps, well go mit." The six men then walked
down togthe cross walks, and turned in the direction
of Knighton. I and Leler followed them for a con•
sideralile dist:thee, mut Worliy said, "I wish you
gooil inuniing chaps ; if you fellow us any further
you imist take what follows." Upon this, the num
who was captured by 'alder (mid who hail a gun in
his haul) said "If you come a 'ltep further, I'll put
a charge of shot into you." I should know that
111311 akin'. I w.ei in thu v.iinlemy of the men a
sufficient time to oliserve all their features, one of
tli, party limit slim as they were leaving the wood.
i Tu. sditv. th- 2:itli. I weot to Mr. William
Spong, a t. i•keeper on Ow Sal:slimy Railway,
and r identified orhy amongst a himilred others.
While at a public house at Bradford I saw John
Bartlett pass the window, and I at onec recognized
hi in as hieing one of the pirty. I saw Silas 4 ;ray at
Thornton!, and immediately identified him. I saw
James ',quell in a railway hut at Bradford. on Mon-
day, and knew him immediately. On the night of the
I sth, two men had guns ; Ina none of the prisoners
hail any. rnewex: iiii ined.--Nucer saw the pri•
goners Worliy and Bartlett before that night. feeler .
went down to the railway before Inc. but lie could not
see upon the line any uf the men who were present
. that night. The path in which the alfair took place
was very wide, and lie had an ample opportnnity of
looking at them.-- Frederick !aster, assistant to the
last witness, said, on going towards the spot from
whence the firing proceeded lie saw a man with •
' gun. Ile immediately collared lion, and on their
' wrestling together his nose bled a good deal, which
pis:vented him from identifying any of the prisoners
excepting Win by. 'f lie remainder of his eviitence was
in corroboration of the previous witness. —Superiii•
Lavinia Lewis deposed that from information he
received he apprehended Warily and Bartlett on
Monday week. to Bartlett's house lie found a spian•
tity et nets, a gun, and three partridges, rolled up
in a pair a leatheni gaiters. On the same night, he
said, I went to a hut 011 the railway at Brain'. mil, in
which I saw the primmer Loynell, who was ill in
bed. I searched the room and found a gun, powder,
and idea, acme rabbit and other nets, ite. I did not
take him in custody that nights. he was so ill • but
on the following day when 1 went for hien, found
him under the last. On calling onr to him he said,
Veil, master, I be guilty or the crime." Hray
WllOl a 11111.0119111011 011 the 23t1i. at Thom
fn!. fie said he knew nothing of the aftair with
which Ito was charged. This being the Ca,113 for the
prosecutiori, Mr. Fear said dist this case was one
inainlv ;in a questi.in ;if identity. He had
two wallow% to call for the defence, but lie should
reserve their defence for a future usxasion.,. awl
st iinigly urged upon the Bench to admit the pri•
4.,ncre to lied. Time court having been cleared, the
ILmell consulted, and on the readmission of the
public the 'weeniers were severally asked why they
.hm old nit lie oinnuitted for trial for the offence,
when they all declared themselves "nit uilty,"
1, ;veil! (lensing that hu bad confessed himself guilty
when appreliciiilett. The prisoners wuru then fully
committed to Like their trial at the ensuing Spring
Anises.— After the disposal of the shove case,
()forge /Mew, of Bradford ,tbbas, was brought up
in custody of PAI. Bennett chargesl with leaving Ins
two children chargeable to the parish. Mr. Caddy,
the overseer of Brsdford, had observed the prisoner
auving the crawlt waiting to hear the result of the
poaching case, and hu immediately applied for a war•
rant to apprehend loiu 011 the above charge, and he
was forthwith taken by the officer. The Bench
inquired of Mr. Caddy whether the parish ;if Brad.
ford would incur the expense of sending him for
trial to the sessions as a rogue and a vagabond,
when, in addition to the sentence imU1.4.41 Upoll hllll,
he would be publicly whipped at Bradford ! Mr.
I 'ailily did not wish to act upon his own responsi-
bility. As he hail been twice before convicted, and
was in the receipt of good wages, the Bench com•
mined him to prison for three calendar mouths,
with hard labour.

tv 4 ',or itT PH Arrive. —On the e,t3blinti•
went of the Bristol County Court, the Court of I
science and the Court of Requests, which pieviously
existed, were merged in the new tribunal for dm
exivery of small debts. In the former court person,
not pose:swim any legal education, and known as !
"a;poitg," acre permitted to practice. and Mr.
!Winer, the first appointed judge of the Bristol
Comity Court, allowed these purism' to continue to ,
I appear as advocates. Sir &Alley Wilmot, who
; succeeded Mr. Palmer, finding that the allowance of
I agents to appear as ailitiVite* cause.' great iliwiatis.
I Lima both profession and the public. re.
quested the advice of Lord Chancellor Cranworth ji
I the water, but his Lordship declined to interfere.
l'hereupon Sir Kerldley Wilmot issued an onler re.
stricting the appowance of ageuta to actions for debt
ler Lift. This limitation, however, was not found
to work so desirably ar had been expected, and the
profession to a groat extent declined to come in
competition with the agents. In consult:mime of this
state of things. the learned judge (Sir Larldley Wil•
t), a short time since requested the opinion of the
attomeys of Bristol upon the subjact. A special
meetiag of the Bristol Law Association was ac-
conlingly held on Saturday week, at which the
following resolution was adopted :--" That his
Honour, the Judge of the Bristol County Court, bar.
tug desired an expression of opinion on the part of
the profession whether the limitation of the employ•
went of nonprofessional agents in the conduct of
eases in court shall be confined to proceedings for "
the recovery of debts not exceeding 4415., or to those '
under £5, this meeting. saving all consideration of '
principle involve.' in the employment of non•pro- '
fessional agents in legal matters, is of opinion that '
inasmuch aa the present recognised agents have been
allowed to practice in the Court for a considerable
period, it is not expedient any object should be
Iseult to the practice of such present recognized
agenta in atom of debt only limier Xri." l'lna re.
solution Wag presentol to his llonour by Mr. L. U.
Bigg, at the sitting of the County Court held on
Tuesday last.. A long diecwision ensued, in the
course of which it appeared that the Bristol Law
Anasiation at present coasistoed only of about 441
members, in .et of whom were not practitioners in
the County Court, and that the resolution put in by
Mr. Higg was adopted at a nieeting of "illy 12 mem
hers, including the chairman. and that upon a diii
si.lll the resolution was carried by a majonty of 7 to
4. It was contended on the part of the minority,
mid
;those members of the linitialinon who Mil not
belong to the Bristol Law Association that agents
had no right whatever to practise in the County
Court, and that their iubuission had been detrimental
to the interests of the public and the legal profession.
Ultimately, his Honour decided on restricting agents
for the future to CALSCA ler aus. in which during the
course of the past year it appeared that there hail
been upwards of 10,1 am plaints heard. During the
same time there were 1,517 cases, between £2 and
.c 5 in 770 of which agents appeared.

Wr.ms. —Colonel Vellontl, the Ilovernment in. for not less than throe rival projects are heing
spector, invectisl the line fnen taastonlniry to Wells pressed beforo Parlimilent, the *initial capital uf
,fin Nlontlay, and. We behove, he tirtmounced it to would summit L... 009.11010. Ist.. The Cowes
; be in ellimmiit work in.{ ortler. Wu untlerstaiol it will , and Newport, for which N 1 r. I. W. litoeirt is
be opened for Waite in the course of two ur three *dicker, with a capital if t3o.91011; length. 4!, mks.
I eeks.
2:1.1., Ityil • t • Vcatis..r. by :4401..wii mi I Sham k•
hii, NI r. Fisher, of It.iselsoiels, solieitor. Cspital
length. 11 ile.. Isl.. btle if Wight,
frmii llple to Nem irwt, itiml
Nie.min. Hearn and Itru., Itylle. an.l Mr. I..tsrant.
rowes, solicit..m. I 'apital I 1...1,MM; length. 1%1
Mile.. Estmli 114'1111111.1.1t1,1 the r misite 811111 ..r P., per
cent. in 1b..", mpvetive mtplial• with the aec..not•
ant general, mei a stir: Om I.:wham:sit:try condi.... is
anticipated. The prom.'ters mut
port scheme have by far the nowt local support, and
are backs:4 by 11. tt. Ward, Esq., of Vowed, and it
is slid they have specially reit sl Mr. .1. It. 111.1 re
Scott, on. "(the 'easter* of the parliamentary
lilt, as their c..iiiisel. Perhaps, they antl their rival,
believe it will rtspiire much elomeiwe to persuade
the committees sit the Humus or Parliament that
railway* in the island are needed at all.

a less sum than Is ()aid by • traveller for a night's
lodging at a common " iniimper's.ledge," or a work.
ins mechanic for a place to lay his head in London,
or other blew ()Lice., but for which shilling per week
(les.. than 2d. pus di, in) the farmer's labourer obtains
a deem,' iltvellinglionse, garden, and appurtenructes,
which, with the land he gets in his master's field
inipplies himself Alla family with vegetables
the year through ; the wheat usually gleaned in the
fields by his wife and children keeps the family in
on an average, three months. I(,...iip,.(ing
coals, your rev. correspondent has overshot the
mark, not being, perhaps, aware that the labourers
4,1,1,,(11 pay more than the depAt pr ice, which
throe& t the country is not more than 1.. per
cwt., having the advantage of its being brought
home in their master's waggons on their return (nen
market at little or no expense. The rev. gentleman
is equally at fault toucliiii,g the labourer's inability to
patriiiii.e the butcher, or feed pigs ; whereas, in niy
parish (which, from the description your corresponu.
cut gives of his locality. I am inclined to suppeeie it
to be no great distance from my own, consequently
but little difference in the circumstaiims of the
labouring-clam), there is soiree a cottager that has not,
this winter, killed his fat pig, averaging something
like IA awe each. Wiltshire is famed for its bacon,
and I assure you, Sir, the cottmers here pride thein•
selves, and justly no, in having a good fat pig in
their sties; and my astonishment is that the clergy-
man should be ignorant of it, as I think it probable
that, when making his pastoral visits, his olfactory
nervisi would make bun sensible of the whereabout
of the pier man's grunter's dwelling place. On
passing through the villages in this neighbourhood
you would not see a shoeliaei child or a slipshod
woman, but all decently clad in suitable and sub.
stantial clothing. Enter their cottages, and you
find them decently kept and suitably furnished—
none of those distressing and heartrending scenes so
vividly depicted in your journal under the head of
" The Homeless P.n.." By the press, parsons, atul
ilemagogues the English farmer, more particularly
us of the western comities, have been held up as the
most hanl-hearteil oppressive race of tale, but
were the true position of ourselves and workissiple
better known, I Satter myself that even you, Sir,
would think that we, like a mrtain nameless gentle.
moan, are not quite so black as painted.