The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

SALISBURY.

On the 29th inst. the Rev. John Leech Porter,
clerk, BA., was licensed by the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the curacy of Trow.
bridge, Wilts, and the Itev. Richard Pyper, clerk,
8.A., was licensed to the perpetual curacy of the
Chapelry District of Bratton, on the nomination of
the Vicar of Westbury, Wilts.

On the mune day the Rev. Rowland Willianis,
D. D., was instituted by the Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Salisbury, to the vicarage of Broad Chalk,
with the l'hapels of Bower Chalk and Alvediston,
void by the death of the Rev. Stephen Hernani
Hawtrey, clerk, the last ineunibent, on the presen-
tation of the Provost and scholars of the King'.
lege of Blessed 'Mary and St. Nicholas, of Canibridge.

SERVOT-4 nut Tile WORKING CLANAGA. —A series
of special services for the navvies and others of the
working class whom it is found so difficult to get to
church, was commeoced at the "Tailors Hall,'
Nlilforillitrest, in this city, on Sunday evening.
The building which will accommodate about 200, has
been licensed for Divine worship by the Lord Bishop
of Salisbury. The service consisted of the ordinary
evening prayers, with singing, and a sermon. The
latter was delivered by the Rev. A. Earle, the curate
it the parish, and was listened to with the deepest
attention by those present. It is satisfactory to add
that the building was crowded, and that there seams
every disposition on the part of those for whom they
are intended to avail themselves of these specisl
means of religious instruction.
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WEsTßCitY.—The Great Western Railway COM-
pany have recently discovered a very valuable trea-
sure in a piece of land belonging to them near their
station at Westbury, which they are turning to a
considerable profit. It is well known that a large
portion of the land in that locality contains • rich de-
posit of iron ore, and the Great Western Railway
Company having fortunately become poseemeft of an
extensive bed of this valuable mineral soil, an Wady
engaged in transferring it to Wales, where, we un-
derstand, it ineeta with a ready sale. It is said they
clear some thousands of pounds by these meam.
That the Westbury ore is of a superior description,
is imply proved by the splendid iron now being
made at the smelting furnaces Dear the station.
Should the Semi ore prove equally valuable—and it
is Pahl to be precisely similar —the huge furnaces
which will he in blast in that locality in the course
of the next six weeks, will, we anticipate —notwith•
stain I ing all the misgivings which have been expressed
- make a handsome return to those who have been
spirited enough to invest their capital in the under.
takiiig.
SWINXMX. —Singular Accident —A few mouths
-ince, Mr. W. Brown, spirit metehaiit, sif Swindien,
when returning home from Farringdon market in
company with Mr. Zenner, coal merchant, had the
misfortune to be thrown out of the gig, and to have
one of Isis legs broken ; and there having been some
difficulty in setting his leg. he has remained an iavalid
!upto • very recent period, On Saturday week Mr.
Brown had been VP Marlborough market, &nil in the
evening was returning h,,ie in a gig with Mr. Tim-
mer, and hail proceeded in safety as far as Oghourne,
when the home shied, and running up the embank-
ment by the side of the end, threw both Mr. Too.
user and Mr. Brown out of the gig. Mr. Toomer
escaped unhurt, but Mr. Brown's leg was broken in
the mine place as it was on the former occasion. It
is somewhat singular that Mr. Toomer should be
with Mr. Brown on each Occasion and escape unhurt,
whilst his companion had the misfortune to break
his leg each time. Mr. Brown WM at once removed
to Swindon and medical assistance procured.
WAKMINSTER.-1 'orioto, awl Important rase.—
At the last Warminster i ssuinty Court, application
was made to set aside the verdict of a jury at the
former court and enter a nonsuit.—lt appeared that
the defendant hail for two years cohabited with a
woman, awl allowed her to use his 'twine and pass as
lila wife, and the action was brought against him on
a promissory note for £l2. given by the woman to
the plaintiff four years before the cohabitation com-
menced, but still due. At the hearing the judge left.
two points to the jury—mt. were the parties mar-
ried ; and secondly, if not, had the defendant, by his
conduct in living with the woman as his wife, ren•
dem! himself liable? The jury found that the par.
tics were not married, but that the man wss liable to

pay.—Counsel appeared on both sides, and for the
defendant it WAS contended that the second question.
being one of law and not of fact, ought not to have
been submitted to the jury. The learned counsel
said lie hail searched in vain for ally case holding the
inail liable undo such circumstances, and he con'
tendril that that very fact was a strong argument in
the defendant's favour, SS Similar Cliewe must have
arisen, but no lawyer hail ever thought of contending
for such a liability. lie admitted that for necessaries
supplied during the cohabitation the man was liable,
but he cittil several cases showing that the liability
ceased with the cohabitation. The liability of a hus-
band for his wife's previous debts arose from the fact
of the law vesting in him all her property and her
awnings, and her exemption from liability to her
creditors. Therefore it was but just he should pay-
her debts. But in a cohabitation merely the man
could not touch any portion of the woman'. property,
and her creditors hail the same rights against her as
before cohabitation. The counsel for the plaintiff
supported the view taken by the jury, contending
that WS the man hatl held himself out to the world a*
the woman's husband, he could not be allowed to set
up his non•marriage. and that by keeping the woman
out of elnploynielit he thereby lessened her chances
iif paying her debts, and ought to be held liable.—
The judge intimated his concurrence in that view of
the matter. but took time to consider his judgment.
—Plaintiffs counsel, Mr. Greavm, instructed by Mr.
Bawling; ; defendant's counsel, Mr. T. W. Saunders,
instructed by Mr. Fussell.

ICNERAL or THE LATE Mit. HALLAM. The
sec.utled village church of Clevednn, on the Bristol
Channel, ponented on Friday week a memorable and
impressive scene. Uni that afternoon the remains of
the late Henry Hallam, the historian, were conveyed
from tier...lmi Court. the seat of Sir Arthur Halimn
Elton. NI.P., nephew of the deceased, to grave
which, through a mysterious inversion of the common
order of succe•sion, ha.l been already rendered classic
ground by the ashes of has two gifted sons. It is now
six-and-twenty years ago since the father, dismayed
and almost brokenhearted by the abrupt bereave-
'limit, carried t s the same secluded spot upon the
shore of the Atlantic sine whose name sill often and
or ages be repeated on both sides of that ocean in
answer to the question.—" Who is indicated by the
iirtiata 'A.H.H..' " on the title-page of the
lii Memoriam of Alfred Fennyeon I This was Arthur
Henry Hallam, who is remembered still, and who
will cease to he remembered only when their memory
shall altogether fail, by many of the now foremen
spirits of our time, among whom in his day lie was
ranked ungrudgingly as the forematt and ru.ot
ndsing. Ile died -in 1.13. near the completion of hisEird
year. Four years later, and an amiable daughter was
reunited to the brother who had been her playmate;
and three years afterwards a still udder neemeety
summoned the father to lay his wife Inside the ashes
of their children. Mrs. Bonsai was sister of the
late Sir Chiales, and aunt of Sir Arthur Hallam
Elton, the present Baronet, of Clevedon Court; and
it was her husband's exceeding and ugiform attach.
ment to this family, coupled, perhaps, with the
characteristic beauty and seclusion of the spot, which
led him to select the parish church of Clevedon as
the last resting-place for his own. For the next tea
years it might have seemed that the almost nor-
venous accomplishments of his surviving son Henry
Fitzunuriee Italians—no way less gifted than the
brother lie outlived —were destined to bring se
consolatiou for his bereavements as a parent not
inexperienced in litetary and intellectual eminence
might find in the achievements of his son. But this
hope also was ilootueel to an inscrutable disappoint-
ment ; and in IMO Henry Fitzmaurioe also died,
almost suddenly, upon the continent, at the age
of 26, and now rests in the same grave with
the °them Fur the last eight years of .
life which had been darkened by this astounding
sues:anion of bereavements, Mr. Hallam found not
only consolation but considerable cheerfulness in the
tender assiduities of his only surviving child, who
was married in 1831 to Colonel Cator, of Pickhurst,
in Kent, with whom be lived uninterruptedly
till
his death on Friday, the 21st of January, at the se
of 62. His mind remained lucid, and occasionalil
even vigorous, to the last, and he continued to awl
at times the society which the habits and circuit:
stances of his life hail rendered most congenial to
bran. But, while he cheered himself amid the idle:-
tionate homage which on all hands WM emulouslY
paid to him, it was unequivocally manifest to those
who bad amiss to his more sacred privacy that tie
, had sought and found his highest and enduring con-
solations elsewhere than in the associations, or tbe
achievements, or the expectations of this world. He
died in peace—the peace which this workl cannot
give,—a humble, meek, affectionate, and most Vene-
rable man. The funeral was strictly private. but
it accomplished that pious wish so teaching', ii.!*
pressed in the epitaph, written by himself, OVIfImE
elder son :