The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZEIVE, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1861

that country, and forwarding the first docu-
ments from that body, expresses the most hope-
ful anticipations in connection with their labours.
In Turin, the Select Committee appointed to
regulate the dispatch of articles, comprises the
names of some of the most eminent noblemen,
merchants, and manufacturers. The Roman
authorities, as might be expected, decline any
official participation in the matter, though we
may safely assume that the Eternal City will be
represented by individual exhibitors. The
Governments of two other countries—Turkey
and Morocco—also decline to contribute to the
Exhibition, the latter assigning arthe reason
the pressure put upon the manufacturing claims
by the necessity of paying the indemnity to Spain.
In the case of Turkey, it is obvious that the
state of affairs in that country at the present
time will prevent that Government from bestow-
ing attention on anything beyond their imme-
diate concerns. From the United States again
we can expect little or nothing. But, as com-
pensating for these deficiencies, it is satisfactory
to find other countries complaining only of want
of adequate space in which to display their con-
tributions—Belgium, for instance, desiring about
twice as much as can conveniently be allotted to
that country, From these facts it is evident
that, so far from less interest being excited by
the repetition of the experiment male iii 1851,
which had the additional attraction of novelty to
recommend it, the nations of Europe are deter-
mined in their endeavours to surpass their
achievements on that occasion. With regard to
our own artists and manufacturers, it is evident
that they must not rest content with the improve-
ments they fia4e already effected, if they wish
to hold a worthy place beside other European
countries, but exert themselves till their produc-
tions stand on a level, as they bid fair to do,
both in utility And beauty, with the best of
those of the other nations of the world.

withdrawn; but as the complainant had admitted
such was the case, in addition to which defendant
stated he was also to have the county court businists,
which complainant had denied only in a qualified
sense, be thought there were such doubts raised as
to a partnership account between them, that the
Bench might well give the defendant the benefit
of the doubt they must necessarily entertain,
and dismiss the misc.—The Bench said the case
would now be dismissed.—The Clerk stated that
Mr. Fear had incurred an experts° of .Z 1 2s. 6d.,
which he must pay. —Mr. Ensor trusted this case
would teach defendant to abstain from that cursed
drink which was the elfin of so many, and which had
so nearly ruined him. It had been said that a man
who could not abstain without taking the pledge,
reduced himself below brute beasts, because they did
know when they had drunk enough; but he had
far better resolve to take the pledge if he could not
act upon the principle of moderation otherwise.—
Monday. July lath, before the Mayor, and M.
Devenish, and R. Davis, Esqrs. Elizabeth Brown,
residing at Fordington, was charged with assaulting
Fanny UMW, and the said Fanny Lucas was
charged with assaulting Elizabeth Brown. This was
• cress-summons—Mr. Weston for Lucas, and Mr.
Weekes for Prown.—The Bench, after hearing the
evidence for and against, ordered Elizabeth Brown
to pay • penalty of £2, including coats. —,Edo-ord
Satchel!, of Charminster, WAs c.inlnitted fm sev,n
days for being drunk and disorderly in the
streets. --Joacidt Williams, a Toulon, was
charged with being drunk and disorderly
in the streets at haltpast 2 Sonday morning.—
Fined ss. and 4s. 6 I. ciots.—Thuntae Dew/and, inn-
keeper, was summoned at the instance of Supt.
Underwood, of the county police, for having in his
possession 2 earthenware quart measures less than
the required etandard.—Fined 205., and Ss. costs.—
William MarsA and Charles Bowles, shopkeepers,
were likewise charged by Supt. Underwood for
having in their possession defective stales. The
former was fined 10s., and Ss. 6d. costs, and the
latter 10s, and 10s. 6d. ousts.
COIMIITTLD TO TIM DOMMIATU GAOL—William
Barry, assault at Portland, 4 weeks hard labour; James
Warren. daniaging property at Wareham, 2 calendar
montha' hard labour; Thomas Warren. ditto, 1 calendar
month bard labour; John (7liarles Forward, leaving
family chargeable at aerborne, 1 calendar mouth hard
lahogr ; Joseph Waging, vagrancy at Illandford, 14
days' hard labour; William Hart, assault on his wife
at-Shillingetone, 3 calendar months' hard labour, and
then to enter into his own recognisance for 6 mouths;
John Parker, vagrancy at Stalbridge, 14 days' hard
labour; Robert Hackney, George Lovell, and John
Paton, diaobedience of thc otters of their captain, of
the British ship Young England, at Portland, 4 weeks'
hard labour ; Charles Whittle, idle apprentice at Weys
mouth, 1 month hard labour; George Stichley, poltehs
ing at Chaldron Herring, 4 months' hard labour ; jetties
Coward, assault on police at Sixpenny Handley, 1
month bard labour; Charles Sergeant, poaching at
Pentridge, 1 month hard labour; Ann Crocker, steal-
ing 'potatoes at Dorchester, 1 month bard labour;
Matthew Bartlett, leaving service at Woodlands, 1
month hard labour; John Moore, striking the Master-
at-Arms of H.M.S. Colossus, 2S ilayie hard labour;
Emma Bushrod, robbing gaiden at West Knighton, 1
calendar month bard labour; Ann Maria Hayward and
Hainalette Davis, vagrancy at Wimborne Minater, 6
weeks' bard labour; Mary Ann Sainwaya, stealing wear-
ing apparel at Dorchester, 2 calendar months hard
labour ; Toni Christopher, stealing wood at Piddle-
town, 2 calender months' bard labour; John Seally,
stealing 11b. of bacon at Ilartinstown, 3 calendar
n.onthe hard labour. —Prisoners fir 'riot at the Sumnter
Assi:es.—Entily Gough, concealing birth at (idling-
ham ; Mary Ann Hitchcock, ditto at Bruadwinaor ;
Joseph Walker, cutting and wounding at Portland.—
On Crabb and Charles Crabb, man-
slaughter at Shipton Gorge.

from Portland to the port of London, which was
shipped by the defendant, and consigned to a person
named Williamson, who lived at Dalston. When
the plaintiff came to look after Williamson lie
found he had left his residence without paying
his rent. He therefore applied to the defendant as
the shipper of the stone, for payment of the freight.
The vessel had been detained nine days,and part of the
sum claimed was tor demurrage. The plaintiff con-
, tended that the defendant was liable. The defence
was that the defendant was not liable, but that the
consignee was the person who ought to have paid the
plaintiff, as the defendant hail told the plaintiff that
he had an order to ship a cargo of stone for Mr.
C. Williamson, of London, for Hermitage-wharf.
Plaintiff asked what the freight was. Defendant
said, "7s. a ton." Plaintiff asked when it could be
shipped. Defendant replied, "Next morning."
Plaintiff said he would take it, and the next day he
coinmenceil loading. In the course of the day
plaintiff came to defendant and said that other cap-
tains had 7s. 6d. a ton. Defendant said that 7s.
was the customary freight, but had he named it
yesterday he would have mentioned it in his letter
to Mr. Williamson. Plaintiff said "Never mind;
I will do the hest I can when I see him in London.'
The rest of the stone was put on board, and the
vessel sailed. The custom viva for the consignor to
1.3! tile I! leg: C. if eta 1,11.11! to 1.1111"11
AV! but could out find
Williamson. A witness who WAS called
stated that he new nothing of the case;
that he hail been kept from -his business on a
fortuer trial of tins cause two ,lays, and had now
been detained here two days, and the only
remuneration he had had from the respectable
lawyer was Is. Evidence was given to show that
it was always the custom for the shipowner to re-
ceive the freight from the consignee. No instance
for 30 years had been knowa of a consigner hemg
called upon to pay the freight. The stone was sold
at the quarry's month, and from that moment it
was at the nsk of the consignee— The Chief Justice,
in summing up, observed that prima facie, the con.
signer was bable, unless there was a special or
implied contract, or a custom that the consignee
should pay the freight. The shipowner, by law, had
a double protection. Ile had a lien on the goods,
said could also enforce a claim on the shipper of the
goods, who originally employed him. Of course this
law would be subject to any contract ; but if there
was no such contract, there was then a particular
usage or custom in the trade. The question of
demurrage would he left to the Court above.—The
jury returned • verdict for the plaintiff --Damages,
Ga. —Comma, agreed that the verdict should be
for .C4O, and the question fur the demurrage should
not be mooted.

The National Eifle Association may be con-
gratulated on the complete success of their second
meeting. Seldom has any public enterprise at-
tained such general popularity and produced
such great effects in so short a time. The accu-
racy of eye and firmness of hand which has been
acquired during the brief period the volunteer
movement has been established, prove the Mate
sportsman-like qualities of Englishmen. The
average shots, notwithstanding the boisterous
state of the weather on some of the days, shows
• marked improvement during the past twelve
months, and we now know that at long ranges,
especially, this country has better shots than our
neighbours. The Swiss, whom we equalled at
our first meeting, are now wholly surpassed;
and it may be questioned whethereven America,
where parties are trained to the use of the rifle
from infancy, could compete with our marksmen
at 800 yards and upwards.
One of those sacrifices to the demon of gam-
bling, which occurs periodically, has just been
consummated at Paris. M. Mires, the Jew,
has run the accustomed career to the accustomed
end. From the most lowly station in life he
rose suddenly in the financial firmament of
France. and became the equal of princes,
the honoured guest of historic personages, and
the adored of lowly petitioners. Like the comet
that lately visited UP, be was unknown one day,
and the next, crowds at the corner of every street
were looking for him. All at once he became
banker, speculator, administrator, and mono-
polist of all the profitable speculations through-
out half of Europe, and the people worshipped
him as though be were a God. In the very
height of his career, came first the whisper,
next the outspoken doubt, subsequently the
general murmur, and afterwards loud voices
shouting indignation. Then came the crisis.
Commercial bills to the amount of thirty-seven
millions of francs were protested in one day
in Marseilles alone. All the Greeks of the
Levant who were flying aloft upon the Mire
paper came down like a flock of wounded ducks;
dividends were in peril, the credit of the East
was disorganised, and the great financier was
cast into prison. After the lapse of sonic
months came the trial, and finally on Thursday
last the judger' condemned him to pay a flue of
3,000 f., and to be imprisoned for 5 years. It is
said that when Mire heard the sentence he
started to his feet, raised his hands aloft, and
rushed away to his cell.

The strange and terrible story respecting
Baron Vidil, which appears in our columns to-
day, reads more like a romance than a reality.
Indeed the tale may be said to pass the bounds
•,,f fiction, and to island apart by itself, like the
Praatin tragedy of modern times, or the Borgia
poisonings of the middle ages. What novelist of
the present day would take for his theme the
attempt of a father to murder his own son, the
son being grown tip to years of maturity, and the
cause of the•outrage against him the desire to
obtain an inheritance to which he was entitled?
What writers of fiction, moreover, would place
the scene of his tragedy just beyond the sub-
urbs of London, in a rural lane, along which
llbourers were passing at the moment of the
occurrence, the time being the very middle of
• summer's (lay? We should reject as improba-
ble, almost as absurd, such a mulo-dramatic
incident, and close the book with disgust. If
too, the author had introduced the hero to us
as a nobleman, conuected to this country by
the ties of marriage, possessed of a handsome
exterior and pleasing manners, reputed wealthy,
moving in the very first society, member of a
fashionable club, and received as the cherished
guest of Royalty itself, should not we have
looked upon the work as the product of a vulgar
intellect, intended only for the gratification of
minds as morbid and diseased as his own. The
whole story, as it has been given to the world,
one can scarcely help thinking, seems more like
lunacy than a cool attempt to murder. Bad
the Baron accomplished his purpose, he might
rest aaeurei that his detection would be certain
before the lapse of 24 hours. This result must
have been as obvious even to the most reckless
and desperate of assassans, that it is almost
impossible to believe but that there existed some
other motive to the crime than the mere enjoy-
ment of his son's fortune. •

BORCIIESTIR PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday,
July 13. Attendance limited, with only a small
show of aamiiles. The general tone of the trade was
quiet, and the prices of all grain remained the same
as last week. Farmers generally were wishful to
get home, and the market closed earlier than usual.
blesses. BAKER AND ENaolt'S REPOSITORY SALE,
Saturday, July 13th.—The quantity of stock offered
for sale was not so large as usual, but of very supe-
rior quality, and for which there walla good demand,
the attendance of buyers from far and near being
large. Some very good fat beasts were sold at
about 14s. per score. Sheep in good demand, at
full prises. Stock lambs did not sell so well as
might have been expected, judging from the pros-
pects of the trade for the future. A large quantity
of cider found plenty of customers.
REGISTIR ! REGISTSR! I REGISTER ! !!—Such was
the advice given by the late Sir. R. Peel; and as the
time is nearly op when all who are not on the
county lists, bliould make their claim, we urgently
press upon those of our friends who have not given
in their names, to do so at once, at any rate before
the 20th of the present month. The claim must be
made out in proper tom, addressed to the overseers
of the parish where the property is situate; and
those who have changed their abode or qualification
ought to make a fresh claim. Parties having claims
should also be on the look out, and see that their
names are on the overseers' lists alliseil to church
and chapel doors. Borough voters not put on the lists
may makes claim on or before the 23rd of August.
LoNDON AND Sol:TII WEsTEItS RAILwAY. —We
are informed that the directors of this company are
increasing the accommodation for the public. by
Laying down a double line between Wool and Won.
borne, and that they contemplate laying a double
line of rails throughout the Southampton and Dor-
chester line. They are also erecting • commodious
waiting-room at the Poole station.
CUSEKING News. —A comuiunication from the
Admiralty has been received by George Ridout, in
the employ of Mr. Bollen. wine merchant, of this
town, to the effect that the sum of £lOO will shortly
be handed over to him, being the amount if prise•
money and wages his son, Mark Ridout, was entitled
to at the time of his decesee, which event took place
a short time since on board one of H.M.S. of the
line, where he had been for • considerable period in
the capacity of an able-bodied seaman.
Exceesios TO Losnos.—The Great Western
Railway Company, with their accustomed liberality,
have announced an excursion to London from Wey•
mouth and intermediate places, on Monday, July 22,
returning the Saturday following (thus allowing four
clear days in Town) at the following low rates:—
First class, 12..; closed carriages, fie.
At the Borough Petty Sessions held on Saturday,
July 13, helot., J. Etisor sod R. Davis, Dales.,
Jolig Darid Ireeke. surrendered to his bail on the
charge preferred against him by Mr. Fear, solicitor,
of embezzlement. Mr. Fear now said that
after much consideration, out of pity to
defendant's is ifs wad children, and having bad the
assurance of defendant himself that he had no frau-
dulent intentions, and believing that defendant had
acted as he hal from want of discretion, anti perhaps,
from habits a intemperance, he wasiliaposeil, with the
permission if the Bench, to withdraw the charge. He
trusted that the present ease would have • good
effect and teach him a lesan that u ould never be
effaced from Ilia memory. —The Cli.rk said that were
it not fur the circumstance that defendant WAS to
have the benefit of all sessional business, he could
sot recommeuil the Beach to allow the coos to be

sent away to make an impression on him. Ile was
saucy, insubordinate, and unmanageable. lie stayed
out of the shop an hour when sent on err:olds ;
and when sent out with circulars, in April last, fur
the chow-room, he had 2a. 641. given him extra. The
boy returned, saying he hail delivered the eirculant :
they were afterwards found in a bundle in his box
Upstairs. He had taken extra pains with King, and
endeavoured to instruct Il i 11l riverdionrs, but the boy
invariably refitsed instruction. and customers would
not be served by him. Thu boy lived at the /1111110
table as he did, and was made thoroughly comb,' t•
able.—Mrs. Aplin corroborated this, as did Huffy
, French, an assistant in the shop.- -Mr. Parr having
replied.—The Judge in summing uorewarked on the
idle character of the boy, who well merited a sound
whipping. With regard to Mr. Alain, he appeared
to be a thoroughly respectable man, and had done his
best with no hail all apprentice. lie hail, however,
cahlmearinlsytdte i
iiscihazineitlif Ir whichiiinl ho
legtallyden
;afotiildanantot
manigyhetlhaiamves
in respect of losses through misconduct generally,
that would have to form a sepdrate future matter
hereafter. Ile hoped, however, that an arrangement
would take place, as it was clear the apprentice and
master would never agree. The covenant had,
however, been broken by the defendant, and, there-
fore, he must Owl a verdict against him for two
, month's I.is,rd i.l belging 10111 "If MaY
Wl,' ty of the ilischar,:ep to the present time, £2 hits.
—The Lase excited much interest, and the Court was
crowded daring the hearing.
PETIT SILMI4Ii),IN, Friday, July 12.—(Before C. J.
Parke, Esq., (chairman), Major Portman, RSV. C. J.
Glyn. D Belton. and faptain Mimeo.
William Pope and James Pope, of Charlton Marshall,
father and eon, were charged upon the indignation of
Superintendent ilaynton, the former with having no
name on his wagon, and the latter with cruelly
using his horse, at the parish of Sturininster Marshall.
Both cases were clearly proved by Sergeant Pittb•ld.
I 'the Betide inflicted a penalty of El upon e.ae.h, inclu-
ding costs.
Matthew Bartlett, of Frogham, Banta, was summoned
by Mr. Simon Boddie of Wo_dlands, for leaving his
service without notice, dna wii all his wages. De-
fendant agreed to serve till Mielielinas, at Gs. per
week, and 15s. for harvese—Defendant said he coal
not agree with the carter.—Upon the suggestion of the
Bench, Mr. Ituddle agreed to take him back again,
upon his paying the costs, but his father would not
agree, and said his son should go to priiem fig • month.
There was, therefore, no alternative, and he was com-
mitted for one itionth's hard labour, there being no wages
to forfeit.
maw, Coward, tiff younger, of Handley, was brought
up on a warrant, charged with Assaulting P.C. John
Short, at Handley, in the execution of his duty,on 22n4
February last, defendant having absconded since. It
appeared that on the night in question there was a
disturbance, amid the coustoble attempted to dis-
perse the crowd. Defendant refused to move away,
and the constable attempted to force him on, when de-
fendant collared him and threw him down, and after-
wards got a large stick and threw it at the constable's
head.—The Bench said the police must be protected in
the execution of their duty. and fined defendant F. 5, mid
in defeat he was committed to one iumith's hard Labour.

William' Hinter, of Edinendshum, was summoned by
Jesse liaskett. (Jr beating nis son with • whip. It
peered defendant was greatiy annoyed by Hillier and
other boys, and received much impudence from him, and
gave him • few cuts wjth the whip.--The Bench reproved
cumplsinatit for bringing up such a trumpery charge
against a rsspeetaflo man, and told him he ought to
learn his eOll better manners, and fined defendant 6d.,
and costs.