The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1861

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

the old law of imprisonment for debt es being
either childish or barbarous—childish to lock up

• lazy rogue for his own comfort and enjoyment
and call it a punishment—barbarous to incar-
cerate a person for life, simply for being unfortu-
nate. Knavery ought undoubtedly to be
punished, and fraud, where it can be clearly
proved, should be treated as a crime. But it
would be a grievous mistake to suppose that
dishonesty is the main source of debt. How
many are there whose fear of involving them-
selves has prevented their seizing an opportunity
which, if they had embraced, would have led on
to a fortune, but not embracing it, they have
got into the mire and found it impossible to
extricate themselves. To lock up these wretched
victims of circumstance in a gaol is only to
destroy their last hope, without in any way
beuefitting the chances of the creditor. The
deliverance comes well to them—it is salvation

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from a barbarous tyranny. The conduct of the
City of London Corporation is most praiseworthy
in this matter. Mr. Alderman Challis, as chair-

man of the gaol committee, informed the
registrars that every facility would be afforded
to further the objects of the court. A sum of
money had been set apart to defray any expenses
for fees or other contingencies, where the
prisoners themselves happened to be too poor to
meet them. The committee hail also a fund at
their disposal, out of which they would assist any
one who might be in danger of being cast
destitute on the world. Such philanthropy, we
hope, will find imitators in all parts of the country.
The Bankruptcy Act promises great benefit in
various respects, and the present Lord Chancellor
deserves the thanks of his countrymen, although
greatly disfigured by the Lords, for having per-
severed with his Bill until it was passed into law.
We are now told that the interception of our
supply of cotton from America, consequent on
the war now going on on tho other side of the
Atlantic, is • blessing rather than evil. This
certainly is a novel mode of consoling the
thousands of operatives who at the present
inclement season are thrown out of employment,
and yet it would appear from th• statements of
those well able to give an opinion on the subject,
that the statement is not altogether devoid of
truth. It is said that even if no American war
had intervened, and if the cotton crop had come
forward as usual, this year must have been one
of serious privation and of heavy loss in nearly
all the manufacturing districts. The enormous
production and the excessive exports of last year
had glutted several of our most important
markets. Goods sent out to those quarters,
especially to India, had become quite unsaleable
except at prices which left no profit, but con-
siderable loss. "Short time" in Lancashire and
Cheshire would have been inevitable to some
extent, even though the supply of cotton had
been as abundant as in ordinary years; only it
would have been forced upon the productors not
by inability to sell. But although the distress
may be more severely felt for a period by the
inability to purchase the raw material than it
might otherwise have been, the benefits that are
likely ultimately to result from the continuance
of the American blockade, will far outweigh the
mischief it will immediately inflict. And the
principal compensation will be this; that the
stimulus given to the growth of cotton all over
the world by a year or two of artificially high
prices, will tend to insure an ample supply in
future years at moderate prices, and that we
shall therefore ho leas dependent on one par-
ticular country, than we have hitherto been for
an article which to tens of thousands of our
countrymen is a "necessary of life." To attain
this position is therefore worth some little
temporary distress.
A circular addressed by Mr. Memminger from
the Southern Treasury of Richmond to the Loan
Commissioners, gives us, for the first time, an
insight into the pecuniary resources of the
Confederate States. The so-called "Cotton
Loan" is not • loan or subscription of Cotton at
all. It giver' the Government no right to any
specific bales whatever. It is only an engage-
ment on the part of the planter to subscribe, for
the use of the Government, a certain
sum of money out of the proceeds of certain
bales of cotton whets sold. The planter retains
the produce in his custody, has the exclusive
right of saying when he will sell, and at what
price he will dispose of it. The real state of the
case then is this—the Government bind the
most wealthy part of the population to give
them aid, not indeed now—for even the richest
planters have now little money, though much
cotton—but as soon as it is in their power.
What the Government therefore gain by the
promise of the future, is present credit.
And the credit it is receiving would ap?ear
to be enormous, as Mr. Memmiuger officially
informs us that " promissory notes have
supplanted all the other currency of
the country." Government are therefore carrying
on a war of existence upon credit, and as the
debts they incur would be repudiated by the
Northern States should they become the victors
in the struggle, we may be sure the Southerners
are really in earnest. The account which Mr.
Memminger gives of the pecuniary affairs of the
planters is not much better than that of the
Govermuent. The planters want a loan. As
they are to lend to the Government something
hereafter as soon as they have sold their cotton,
they ask the Government to lend them a little
now to carry them over the trying interval pre-
vious to its sale. The Government is issuing
countless promissiory notes, and the planters
would like, not unnaturally, to have some for
their own use. But upon this Mr. Memminger
is even amusingly stern. He is evidently not
deficient in that qualification so essential in a
Minister of finance—political economy. He says
he wants the notes for himself. He has a very
expensive war to carry on, and his resources are
tried to the utmost, and no portion of them can
be squandered. If he helped the planters, he
would issue so many notes that the whole cur-
rency would be depreciated, and so the Govern-
ment would have to pay in • medium which
became less and less efficient every day. He
recommends them to ask aid from the banks;
but if the banks had plenty of money to lend, it
is quite evident the planters need not have
petitioned Mr. Memminger.
The death of the King of Portugal is regarded
with feelings of regret throughout Europe.
Born in 1837, he had attained the age of only
five-and-twenty years, when a malignant fever
crrried him off. Yet seldom have we seen a
king who had given such pledges of so bright
and valuable a future as he had done. He had
not only studied and learned, but he had
travelled and observed as well. Some years
since he visited England, making a tour through
the manufacturing districts, and spending some
days at Manchester and Liverpool, studying
with intense interest the newest applications Of
science to marine and commercial purposes. He
might with truth be said to have been an en-
lightened, intelligent, and 4rogressive sovereign.
When he came to the possession of actual power,
he gave himself earnestly suit patiently to the
task of advancinir, by all the means within his
reach, the political and social position of his
country ; he was the promoter of the first effec-
tual step towards the suppression of the Por-
tuguese slave trade. His marriage in 1857 was
followed in less than two years by the death of
his queen, to whom he was affectionately
attached; and another year or two pass away
and the young king himself is gone, and his
successor summoned to the throne of Portugal
and proclaimed in the city of Lisbon. The now
king, his brother, was one of the guests of the
K.ng of Prussia, at the Coronation ceremonies;
subsequently he visited the Emperor of the
French, and only on Monday se'eunight left
London whither the death of his youngei brother
had recalled him, little expecting to hear on
on his way of the sudden death of the late king and
of his own accession to the throne. The new Mon-
arch is spoken of as being in an eminent degree
qualified both in mind and intellect to follow out
the same high and noble purposes that so greatly
distinguished his predecessor.

The great secret of France is now out. The
financial difficulties of the State—the deficient
harvest and increasing discontent of the people
in consequence—have at last obliged the
Emperor to call in the aid of M. Fould, ac-
knowledge the true state of the GISC and adopt
measures to relieve the financial pressure of the
country. In a letter to the Minister of State,
the E.nperor says, that in renouncing • right
which appertained equally to sovereigns, even
constitutional ones, who had preceded him, he
might do a useful thing, contributing to the
better administration of the finances. It must
be admitted that Napoleon has let go the
national purse strings very gracefully, but not a
moment too soon, when we find M. Fould, the
new Finance Minister, admitting that the deficit
amounts to 1,000,000,000 francs, equal in
amount to £40,000,000. Such a disclosure
surely must have made the French stare.
According to the Constitutionel, it caused • great
sensation on the Paris Bourse, and prices ad-
vanced 4 per cent. The appointment of M.
Fould, which amounts to the creation of an inde-
pendent financial power in the French Govern-
ment, is • gratifying one in all respects, as he
will raise a large loan foi present and passing
emergencies, and by curtailing the "extra-
ordinary" expenditure of the country, or, in
other words, reducing the Army and Navy of
France from • war to a peace footing, lessen the
taxation of the people. This is tantamount to
an abandonment of great political projects.
which have kept Europe so long unsettled. His
Majesty has at length shown himself amenable
to reason and the force of irrepressible facts, and
as • consequence, neighbouri-ig nations may be
relieved of • heavy pressure, and this oountry,
above perhaps ail others, must be benefitted
by the altered policy of France.
A general gaol delivery of poor debtors has
already commenced under the new Bankruptcy
Act, in most of the Metropolitan prison*, and
the remaining dens throughout the kingdom,
where pecuniary unfortunates are impounded,
are to be thrown open in due course, if the
registrars shall see good cause for doing so. On
Monday and Tuesday, sixteen prisoners, five of
whom were females, were released by Mr.
Registrar Hsslitt. Some of these had long been
within the walls of the prison, and had made the
pal their home, Vie have often looked VGA

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORE M•REET, Saturday,
Nov. 16:—We hail • very large attendance, and the
general tone of the trade was (considering the time
of dm year) very firm. Millers were hungry and
consequently compelled to purchase at the extreme
rates of last week, and in some instances at advanced
prices. The demand being entirely for immediate
consumption speaks well for the future. Malting
barley brought 385., and other sorts were wanted, and
a ready isle.
MISISRE. BAKER AND ERROR'S REPOSITORY SALE,
Saturday, Nov. 16.—There was a large supply of
excellent meet; indeed a great deal more than was
announced in our advertising columns. Buyers came
from London and elsewhere in good numbers, and
beasts were ia good request at very high prices.
Other things sold ,well, and the proceeds of the day
must have been satisfactory.
Ploi.v TRINITY CHURCH.—Os Sunday last, the
newly -elected Mayor (J Galpin, Esq., ) ith the Town
Council, attended divine service intim' above church.
Prayers were read by the Rev. A. Faulkner M.A.,
and a excellent and truly evangelical sermon preach-
ed by the respected rector, the Rev. J. Fisher, M.A.,
who took fur his test the 4th chapter of the 2nd
Epistle to the Corinthians, wen 6 :—"For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, bath
shined into our Weis, to give the light of she

D AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, lB6l

knouledge of the glory of God in the face of Jeou
Christ." At the einelusion of the service. th..
(7,iiporation returned in procession tu the Townhall,
preceded by the mace•bearero.

doubt whether the premises were flooded in conse-
quence of the alteration of the pavenwnt. There
was a great fall of rain on that occasion, and the
committee ii ere phiced in an unpleasant predicament,
for they aid Nit wi.h to admit their liability, as
many other claimants in the town might have
cove upon them. Mr. Nlaillichl : You most
either have admitted his claim, or you did an
injustice to the ratepayers by offering hiui the public
money you felt you had no right to offer. —The
Mayor said the claim was a moderate one, and Mr.
Bonen had evidently a very strong impremion that
he was entitled to compensation, aml, as a complaint
ha! been previously made, they were desirous to
compromise under the disagreeable circumstances.—
Mr. Cumo said they had this fact, that before the
alteration was made the water did not run into Mr.
Bolleu's house, and that since then it bad run in and
done considerable dainage.—Mr. Proud: And on
that occasion it also ran into Mr. Jacobs's premises.
lie might also as well ask for eompensation. —Mr.
Curme thought the two cases were not parallel. Mr.
Jacobs had been subject to this previously in violent
storms—Mr. Pouncy said that on the Sunday in the
beginning of June there were three cart loads of
mud mill slush taken out of Mr. Bullen's house.

&fore the alteration it accumulated on the p.vo
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meat. He had not heard of the water running in
the house since that time.—Mr. Carina thought that
as the water did not go into Mr. Dollen* house
before the alteration, it was pretty certain the work
done by the Board had been the cause of the damage,
and that the Board was accordingly liable.—Mr.
Nlantiell believed that works were going on in the
street at the time.—Mr. Devenish said such was not
the case. The road had been lately macadamised,
and the flints were being ground into dust, which
was the cause of to much muck being carried off with
the rain. Mr. Curse moved a resolution to
the effect that the Mayor, Mr. Hodges, and
Mr. Ensor be appointed a committee to enquire
auto the amount of the damage sustained by Mr.
Bollen, in consequence of the alteration made by
the Board, and report thereon accordingly.—Mr.
Hodges said the case had already been before the
committee, and they considered it to he a question
for the whole Council.—Mr. Lock said he hail a re-
solution placed in his hands, and he placed it before
the meeting, but not as expressing his opinion. It
was to the effect that the damage done on the pre-
mises of Mr. Bollen was by means over which the
Board had no control.—The Mayor said that it ap-
peared from Mr. Hodges's statement that there had
been two extraordinary flow' of water into Mr.
Billen's house. He certainly wished that an arrange-
ment could be made. If the damage done was in
consequence of the alteration by the Board,then they
ought undoubtedly to ackuowledge it, but he did
not think that a committee would be able to ascer-
tain more of the facts than they already knew. He
believed it was difficult for anyone to say whether
the overflow was caused by the alteration or whether
it was not, and it was hoped that, in consequence of
the doubt existing, that the sum first demanded, and
which they considered was moderate, would set the
matter at rest; and as he was an old and respectable
inhabitant, and fully believed he was entitled to the
suns, it was offered him. But be thought there was
as good ground to argue that the flooding was not
caused by the alteration as that it was, as he under. ,
stood the cellars at the lower part of the court were
also flooded, and the money was offered without pro-
judice to the Council, and without admitting their
liability to the demand. With regard to the two
other claims, it appeared that they had been sent in I
without any further damage having been committed; I
and as to the new door, they had heard nothing of
it till recently.—Mr. Mantield rose to second Mr.
Curme's motion, as lie held that the very fact of Mr.
Hodges being requested by the Board to arrange the
compensation to be paid to Mr. Bollen, was in fact.
on acknowledgement of their liability. He could
see the matter in no other light. The first time the
water flowed in Mr. Bollen made • complant, and
Mr. Devenish, eho was then Mayor, went to see him
respecting it, and, if he had been correctly iaformed,
some rather high words ensued. —Mr. Devenish :
That's wrong about the high words. I went to *se
him and told him I was very sorry for what had
happened. —Mr. blanfield supposed they got rather
warm then. Mr. Devenish: Not in the least.—Mr.
?dant-lola continued : the second time it flowed in was
in Jane, when the injury was so serious that Mr.
Bollen demanded compensation. The Board, stall
events, so far acknowleged their liability as to offer
him the amount claimed. Mr. Hodges said he did
not admit the Board's liability. —Mr. Lock thought
the offer was an acknowledgement. —Mr. Mantield
said the the majority of the Board were in favour of
the first claim being paid, and the offer of
payment was made. Sines that time another
injury had been done. Mr. Curme's motion
was simply to inquire what that sub-
sequent injury was, and the proper amount of com-
pensation, which he had no doubt could be proved,
should be paid. He considered that the Board was
bound to compensate for the injury that had been
done in consequence of the works carried out by
their servants. What the injury was since that
effected by the storm in June, he did not know, but
he sent in to know how many times the water had
run into Mr. Bolton's house and received in answer,
that it had flowed in four times. The principle he
hail ever advocated in that Board was justice should
be done to all parties, and he thought that in the
present instance Mr. Bollen was entitled to • proper
and fair recuunenition.—Mr. Lock questioned
whether the resolution as proposed by Mr. Curse
was not an ackuowledgment of liability on the part
of the Board to compensate Mr. Bollen, and conse-
quently an admission on their pert that the water
flowed into the house in consequence of the alters-
tion.—Mr. Ensor moved that Mr. Bollen should
have £2 12s. 6d. offered him in compensation of the
damage he had sustained, without admitting whether
the Board was liable or not —Mr. Hodges seconded
it —Mr. Bishop said if this claim was admitted, he
had been told of others who intended to come upon
them for damages sustained by the thunderstorm in
June. He was opposed to the resolution as it was
an admission of the liability of the Board to make
compensation, whereas it was questionable whether
the same would not have happened if no
alteration had been effected. Mr. Curse
altered the wrding of his resolution to the
effect that the committee should inquire whether
the damage done on Mr. Bonen'a premises vu
caused by the alteration, and if so, to what amount,
and to report to the Board.—Mr. Hodgis leaked if
Mr. Bollen would abide by the decision of the Com-
mittee? If not, he should withdraw his name from
it. —Mr. Curme's name was subsequently added in
the room of Mr. Hodgea's. After some further
discussion, Mr. Curme's motion was put, when
Messrs. Manfield, Curse. and Devenish voted for,
and Messrs. Ensor, Hodges, Bishop, Frond, Mason,
and Bennett against it. Mr. Lock did not vote. •-•
Mr. Curse said this vote was • denial of Mr.
Bollen's claim to compensation on account of the
damage he had sustained.—Mr. Bishop said he could
not vote for it as it admitted the liability of the
Board.—Mr. Manfield said there had unquestionably
been great damage sustained, but the Board, by
rejecting the resolution, said it was the work
of God, and that the Board was not liable.
Mr. Bollen would therefore have to come
before them in another character. The Mayor said
the committee had requested the Board to decide
the queation.—Mr. Bishop did not wish to put the
Board into the unpleasant situation with regard to
Mr. Bollen; at the same time if they admitted the
liability there would no knowing where the matter
would end.—Mr. Proud thought it was most de-
sirable that an arraigement should be come to, if
possible, with Mr. Bollen on the question. Perhaps
if tie., or three gentlemen would go to Mr. Bollen
and reason the matter with him, he could be brought
to reasonable terms.—Mr. Hodges moved that •
committee of two or three gentlemen be ap-
pointed to wait on Mr. Bollen, and offer him the
amount of his first claim as compensation for the
damage done, without prejudice, however, to the
Board, or an acknowledgnient of liability.—Mr.
Proud seconded the resolution.—Mr. Mantiold, Mr.
Bishop, and others, addressed the meeting on the
subject, and the question was put by the Mayor.—
Messrs. Hodges, Proud, Curiae, Devenish, Lock, and
Ensor voted for, and Messrs. Mason, Bishop, and
Bennett, against the motion. Some other business
was then considered, and the meeting terminated.

PREUNTATION OF PLAT/ TO SCROgiNT-?d•JOI
NIWYLAN ON 111121 MAKKIAOI.-00 Thursday even-
ing a valuable tea sod coffee service was presented
to Sergeant-Major Newman, of the 3rd Dorset Rifle
Volunteers, as a token of the respect and esteem in
which he was held by his brother officers and the
members of the corps, and as an earnest of their
good wishes on his marriage. The tea-pot,
bann, and cream ewer, were subscribed for by
officers and members of the corps, and a number of
friends in the neighbourhood. The teapot bore the
following inscription :

some silver service now haters them as a testi•
inoniai of the high esteem in which he was held as a
imighls.ur and inhabitant of the town, and also as .
being the wilier sergeant of the 3rd Dorset Volun-
teer Corps. This testononial hail ben snlisaidsed
by them as an earnest of their good will and sincere
desire for his happiness in that new estate which lie
hail so happily entered upon. (Applause.) He
knew that he was expressing the sentiments of the
corps, as well as of binisaf, when he said that he
war per:muted that the present satisfactory condition
dila corps, and the high repute to which they had
attained, was owing in a very great degree hi their
good fortune in haring his services as their Sergeant-
Major. lie RAI persuaded that the steady activity
and constant zeal he hail always displayed, his un•
flagging attendance at drill, no leas than the high
mural qualities with which he was imbued, had
most materially contributed to that regularity mid
high degree of respect-today for which their corps
was so prominently characterized. (Applause.) So
cinch fur the past, now with respect to the future.
There was an old saying "that it was well to be oft
with the first love before they were on with the
new." He knew he was right in saying that Sergeant-
Major Newman c mid not have done the work of
their corps so efficiently unless his heart and soul
had been in that work. He might therefore call
their c irps his first lore. Now what was to be the
consequence et bia taking on the new love ? He
hoped it would not induce him to part with the old,
but that on the contrary he, having paid all possible
care and attention to the one, he should still be as
zealously affected towards the other. But he would
warn the fair partner of his affections that volun•
teering was not all made up of silver tea-pots. She
would find that it soon lost its gilt and resolved
itself into simple duty. She would hold a large
share in her husband's affections, bat he
trusted that she would not persuade him on that
account to relinquish his old love. It must be the
constant sspenence of volunteer's wives that duty
would call for the absence of their husbands when
they desired their presence. He thought their
wives had not received the full weed of praise and
enconiutus for the sacrifices they made in this respect ,
in behalf of the volunteer movement. In conclu-
6m, he said it only remained for him, on the part of
to
might
bless him with it. (Cheers.)—Sergeant•Major
asthea corps,
Writ tPr""beir got or withimes, teat
testimoniall
God
Newman said it was utterly impossible for him ads-
qtuately to thank them for their kindness—a
:t2
kindness wholly unmerited by him, and con uently
such as lie could by no means have thtici .He
then feelingly alluded to the kindness r e had ever
received from the corps, the readiness with which
his efforts had been seconded by his comrades, and
his determinatioo still to do all that in him lay to
perform his duty to the corps. In conclusion he
thanked them all from the bottom of his heart for
the handsome silver service they had presented him,
and for their good wishes with which it was accom-
panied. Three times three cheers were then given
for Sergeant-Major Newman, three cheers for his
better half, three cheers for Captain Kindenley, three
cheers fur Lieutenant Coombs, three cheers for the •t •
Mayor, Mr, Hodges, who had sent to apologise fur
net being able to be present, and three cheers for
the present Mayor, when the proceedings ter-
minated.
SCURONING unt WRONG MAN.—At the County
Petty Sessions on Saturday, before H. Williams
and M Williams Esqrs., MajorStuset,Major-General
Michel, and Captain Kinderslcy, Thomas Read, of
Grove Buildings, was summoned by Superintendent
Underwood, for a breach of the Turnpike Act. Mr.
Weston appeared for the defendant. Superintendent
Underwood said that on the Bth October be was on
the Frampton road, on his way to Maiden Newton,
when he met the defendant and another man with a
steam thrashing machine. The steam was up, and
the chimney down, and steam was coming out,
which caused witde a' hone to shy and turn round,
causing the wheel of his trap to come in contact with
the shaft of the steam engine, and upsetting him in
the road. He afterwards saw Mr. Read, who told him
that his man had been greatly afraid that he would
he summoned, and requested that the summons
might be taken out against himself as the engine
belonged to him. He said the job he had just
finished took him longer than be expected, and
that he kept the steam up that he might not be
detained at the next place he went to.—Mr. Weston
now denied Mr. Read's liability to a conviction.
The horses drawing the steam engine belonged to
Mr. Cox, of Hyde, and the person driving them was
Mr. Cox's carter, and if any offence had been coin-
witted, it was Mr. Cox's carter who ought to be
summoned. —Charles Banger was then called. He
said that the hones belonged to Mr. Co: ; that he
was employed by him to fetch the engine to his
farm, and that Mr. Read had no authority or control
over him.- -The Beach dismissed the summons
against the defendant, and ordered a summons to he
issued against Banger.
UOMMITTID TO TUC DORCHISTER GAOL.—Sel4iOlll:
James Cornish, stealing (coin the person at 811ap•
wick. —Hard Labour: Albert Marsh, leaving his
service at Bradpole, 14 days ; William Clarke,
leaving family chargeable at Lyme Regis, 14 days;
John Trim, assault at Kingston Magna, 1 calendar
month; James Parsons, leaving his service at
Kingston Magna, 14 days; Henry White, assault at
Wimborne, 2 calendar months; Aaron Pitman,
poaching at Winterborne Stickland, 1 calendar
month; Emma Willis, stealing a gown, &a., at Up-
wey, 3 calendar months; hlaraget Brown, stealing
money at Portland, 6 calendar months; Walter
Clark, absent without leave H.M.S. Asia, 28 days;
William How let., Insolence Ac., H.M.S. Hero, 28
days ; Edward Auger, absent without leave
ti.hl.S.Trafalger, 42 days; Henry Seymour, desert.
Mg H.M.S. St. Vincent, 60 days ; Lewis Ferns.
deserting H.M.S. St. Vincent, 90 days; Arthur
Hyatt, stealing wearing apparel H.M.S. Hero, 28
days; John Lambert, absent without leave H. hl.B.
Asia, 28 days; James Holleman, deserting H.M.S.
Hero, 84 days; James Rimmingtou, deserting
H.M.S. St. Vincent, 90 days.
WEYMOUTEL— FATAL AccuirstoN THILONDON
AND S. W. MAMMAL—On Saturday last an inquest
was held at the Terminus Hotel, before Henry Lock,
Esq., deputy (serener, on the body of Charles Cox,
a luggage guard on the London and South-Western
Railway, who met his death by falling out of his
van, uuder the following circumstances :—John
Richard Arnold. chief clerk of the goods department
of the South-Western Railway at Weymouth, said 1
it was part of his duties to start the goods trains !
from the Weymouth station. He started a luggage
train on Friday at 12.35, under the charge of the
deceased. One passenger was in the van. The train
left the station all right, and he did not know that
anything hail occurred till the body was brought
back. The deceased was standing on the outside of
the van when the train started, which was his proper
place at the time of starting. Deceased was &porter,
but was acting as guard. Inspector Angus William
Morrisson, of the Great Western Railway police at
Weymouth, said on Friday last the driver of the
quarter-past one down train reported to him that he
had seen, a short distance up the line, what appeared
to be the body of a man. Witness immediately I
sent for Dr. Fox, and, on the arrival of that gentle-
man, they both rode to the spot indicated by the !
driver, when they found the deceased lying between
the narrow guage rails of the up line, under the '
bridge called "Skew Bridge," which runs under the
Dorchester-road. He examined the wall of the I
bridge, and found a mark on one of the stones as if
the deceased's feet bad scratched the wall. There
ware marks of blood near where the deceased was
lying, his cap being about a yard from the body.
Dr. John Fox, of Weymouth, said he accompanied
the last witness to the spot where the deceased was
lying. He examined the body, and found a wound
on the top of his head about three inches in length,
the skull extensively fractured, and some porth-n of
the bone driven into the brain. He was quite dead
whea picked up, and appeared as if he had been so
for some time, as the hands were getting cold. Death
must have been almost instantaneous; the loss of
blood was great. His opinion RAS that the deceased ,
met his death by felling out of the van, and being I
stunned, a part of the engine of the one o'clock up
Greet Western train had struck him on the hard, '
causing the extensive fracture of the skull he had
spoken of. William Norman, foreman to Mr. Rey-
nolds, builder, of Weymouth, said OD Friday he left
the Weymouth station in the 12.35 goods train of
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which deceased was in charge; he and the dices:Fred
were riding in the van. Deceased was standing on
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the guard. The train was not going very fast. On
missed
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not to be a guard in the train. He replied that
there ought to have been one, and that it was likely
he hail fallen out. William Ware, platform in-
spector at the Dorchester station of the London and
South•Weetern Railway, said that on Friday, on the
arrival of the goods train from Weymouth at 12.25,
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there did not appear to have been any negligence on
the part of the railway officials, the jury returned a
verdict of "Accidental Death."

OYYZYCY AGAINST THy RAILWAY ACT. —BeAjamin
Benge, a carpenter residing in Park-street, Wey-
mouth, was charged with misconduct, while travel-
ing in one of the South Western Railway Company's
carriages from Weymouth to Moreton, on the 7th
October last.—Henry John Eaton and, that on the
day in question he took a third-class ticket at Wey-
mouth, for Wareham, by the 6 p.m. train. The
weather was very sultry, the carriage was greatly
crowded, and the defendant put his head and
shoulders out of the window and prevented the free
circulation of the air. A large number of the pas-
seers asked him to sit down, but he took no notice
of them and still kept standing, and said he had
business there. At length a sailor went up to him
and and, "Now my man, do come away from the
window and sit down." The defendant Mill refused,
and the sailor then took him away to another part
of the carnage. On their way thither the defendant
bad a WI. Defendant then planed bimme/1 in a