The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

J. DEM TOO, of Weymouth, gave his wriebrehed I
Wien " Lot there be Light," at the Bridport Literary
Institute, oe Tuesday evening.
Ws are %formed that the cue "Edwards v Edwards
and Theobeld," I. which ethmin Comeundrixt !
Ild.ords, of the let Dorset (Britiport) Pifies, is so ,
mach n'terested, wee Sully settled on 'Need. before '
the Judge Advocaat; by the decree win being declared
absolute.
THu 1111XWORAL CONTWIT AT 1311DP011i—Tbe
approath of tho denim stragglo has made &Mamie this ,
borough exesedingly sad both parties sloths,
themeistme minutiae to whs. Mr. Miteholl edam/eel '
the elation oe Wideman, and said he was sati.fied
that he thud ho returned by an overwholming '
majority I Thies were, however, be said • eertain !
number of dm rotors who could not melts op their
minds, sad that the proportion of them undecided ones ,
wed gel% as laze among Om old as among
tin new oaten. He was going away for four '
or five days became be required rest. He
should take no notice of the peroonalities which lad
both Indulged in. As to hisfufsire coarse in Parlittmot t
be should oartainty vote to tun Kr. Gismo I out of
esee. mad plant Mr. Gladstone at the head of affairs.
Tea Primo MinUter bad moistly appointel an %venom.
Gown' of India • mari who knaw nothing stall mope
about Irish factions, and was considered in the House
• man of no ability. Turning to tho Irish Chun* the
ben. gentlemaa said he comidered the thymuse ehould
be applied to reducing tho poor-mini--bit would num
be a party to devotine them to religious earning. Be
thought the diantablishownt of the Irish church *null
reitdm bli• Church of Reiland tooth nears, but he
thought the revenues of the church of this country
shoed he snore equally distributed. He woeld vole
for doing sway with the ratepaying slummed L 648010,13
Bal. During lb. threat weeke be had been here be bad
seen enotail to enable him to my the. ballot is
Be would support an melioration of tho present
edmisistration of tho poor law, but be rem aired them
that if farther indulging* was ellowed the retie would
b. 1.....eeed, and this the hartterorking poor would
wiper. He did not think Bridport would bo drama-
°bleed, for there Were 39 smaller boroughs to go Int.
Tbe queation of education must be deelt with gradually
and must not hi eompottery.—On Thursday Mr.
Goldsmid delivered an address from the Grethonod
hotel to • numerous and eympathnie suliones. The
learned gontlornati reseived a cordial (reeting, and he i
spoke as follows! —O•ottomen, electors of Bridport,
and, I hops I may say, good friends—l don't think I
should have token the liberty of eking you wain to ,
we, an i boor as. efter so short an interval, and in your
dieur hoer, trbieh I know is warmly more than you
require, if I did not feel bound, in Jodie. to myself. is ,
tentes, In those who have word with me, in iodise to
thole who support ice, in faat, I may say, in unite to I
the whole boron/6, to answer some extraordinary
anthemente which I heard on Wednesday frm the Bull '
hotel. I was told that tiro gentleman I ton opposing
here was outdo of coming in by an oeorwhelming
easjorite--(ifouicel ribeerimg end ores of "No, no").
That majority is "overwhelming" it is quite true; it
has overwhelmed ms, and it hes overwhelmed the
gentlemen who act will me—with astordelment I—
fleughter)—for we keep books as well as the other side,
and by SO possible process short of magic, or some
other "blank art," tea we unetretand how theb a result
could he obtained—(spplauso). How could Mr. Mitchell
have got the "overwhelming rosjority" about which he
eedeaveared to speak so complacently—bot in the I
effort to do which be entirely (ado& tr be told you,
evidently with no great pleasure, that there are as many
sodid antharrat the old voters who know him so
well as amongst the new one., who probably think they
know him quit* well mough—(laughter, applause, and
a votes "Hr's goat to find tile watch"). 1 leave you to
judge, therefore, whether this "overwhelming ro•Frity"
wires mywhore intone In tho imagination of the boo.
gentlemen, who wanted • little chance of air sod had •
good reason for seeking it—(applause). Ooe of the
gentkmen I Gummed the other day told me that
the other party bad asked him to vote for Mr. 1
Mitchell, saying that I had no chance, for they had
• majority of two to one I My informant re- '
plied, "I am • merci!ul men, so I must gith my vote
to help the other poor creature in his difficulty I—
(lnughter)—it Gaol make any cliff, ream to you, whothor
you have • majority of 500 or 501, so I won't let the
other madden, after being here so long, make quite so
uneomfortablo • figure as to must do according to your
witoulation—(leagliter and applause). lam not at all
areid—fapplaust lam by no means ieelined to do
what the bon, gentleman and his supporters would be f
eery gin' for me to do—turn my back on this good
borough ; I don't intend to do so for a good man years
unless you eon get a bother man than I am to represent
you; to sub an event I should tidal you
Cod mod, and trust that my anesessor would I
do as much for you as I shall idols yonr member. I
as 1 font rosnident I shall be'—frippleuee). But lam not
going to tell you I shell been an 'overwhelming 1
majority." I am petfeetly well aware that vested
Intorosta and old emaciation' have great claim., not easy
to riverwiene, though one is on the sidis of rieht, truth,
and poke. lam quite aware that in many boroughs i
It would be impoesible to withstand throe influence., but !
I have euth &good opinion of the retools of Bridport thet '
I believe they are tired of being In the hand, of a few, I
and are anxious to hove a free borough and to vindt
oath the ch.ractor of the working classes of this country
—(applatist)—tha y are anxious to show that this
borough, which nod. r the old system was the
property of half a dozen families at the most In now the
property of between 1,900 and 1,100 free' tritium. of
England, to whom those Heim have been roatorsd which
thew ancestors enjoyed before the Reform Bill of 1832. '
You were also told that if the ballot was adopted here
now the result .onld be thrt•io. Bolt wood, but not
in the way the bon. gentleman meant. I say fearlessly
and utheritatingly that I hive not th• smallest doubt
on e.rh tb.t if the ballot were made Vs legal mode of
voting betwron this time and the g day I should
Tully have an" oweraholmint mejuidt7"—(eppr.two_
not on paper, not In the brains of • few ryouphaets, and
bangers.on, and men who lie, by the degradation of
their townsfolk, but in the hearts and by the • ices of
the electors of Bridport—(ariplanne)--and gist is where
I want to have a groat majority—(theer-). I want
mites on tho polling-day, thriorrins from the uncontrolled
—and, I will Hay, uneontrullahle—will of the free
men of Bridpert. men who are determined to be free In
the highest senor, of the word, i.e., to Inert:tot their
privatises according to their ronsei-nees, unior
Adenoid hi hopes and undetorred by fo.r•—(applausel.
After swathing on the irish Chareh, the ie.rosi gentle-
man observed that they were told by Mr. WWI ill that
Bei iport is thirty ninth on the list of Melt boroughs,
and that probthly thorn having two members will bath
on. taboo sway bettors there is any disfresettemeot
whew'''. But, he regulated then of Mr. Bd/ht's
statement "that the .m.ll boroughs were yet to be got
rid of," and silted whet it meant ?—(oriao of "
"The large populations" Mr. Bright rad
• would still demand their fair share of pditieei power."
That "(air share of pottiest power" war swallowing up
Bridport alivo—tlaughter and applause). Was that
nu or nott--(enplaseel. Were they propared to be
twallovrod op alive?—(" No, no"). Bet it wee re,,,t.
does Mr. Goldsmid stupors he could prevent it' Prthart
not; hot if an independent borough like this sent •
member t't Paoli...est to strengthen its these of the
party opposed to dirfmnithirement, and to reist the
party best on Aiefranthisement—r:t d d what it was In
the power of one borough to do. Both elect r might
meto bj,i, Why do 'oil ask as. for my v to, that
ma% win you the election " But it mi,ht. The
aleetioo might turn on the vote of the very platinum
Who so spoke; and who was to my that the quest on of
4ti.frutemeteit BeLdport iuuongst tie small boroughs
might not turn upon • division in which his voies, emelt
end feeble of itself, but strong as represent,o, the.,
might not dead* the matter in (ether of their retain.
log those rights which had been headed down to them
for your hundred years—(cheers). Consenting educates
As was glsd to find Mr. Mitchell agreed with him. As
In the poor law question, the bun. gentleman accused
trim of not having wondered the at m. which would be
laid upon the ratemors, if out-door relief was given
to such as came to grief. hie contention was this
—lf they refused out-dooi relief to • poor man, who,
by some temporary man. was pr vented getting
eaficient wages to keep his family for • time, they
destroyed hi. sense of self.respret and drive him to
sill his household gods at such • wrath' that ho
meld never replace them—(bear, he.r)--and go to the
anion, where be was seperated from his wit* and
children,. and having nothing left to straight for,
. .

toserrAi hopelessly ehargeabre on the poo-7rateg--:
(applense)—whrrrca, if temporary relief was given
him, the man felt that be bad loot notbiog—he bad not
degraded himself—b. had only rewehred that help which
his ratepeyiog in better times bad entitled him to; and,
by that assistence, he might be enabled in a low weeks
or months, to regain his former position and become
agate a ratepayer himself —(oheers). How then bad he
for otten the ratepayer"? It wee true be took a
different view of it from Its boa. opponent, Immo he
(Kr. Goldmold) felt that it we most important not to
snake poverty a muss sad • slims, .m 4.. inesative to
both—tapplaam). Kr. Mitebell 41114eaveered to show
that the Coaservatives wore see the 'deeds of Ka
working slams, bat be was Wised logo hook to iks
Cora Laws. Kr. Goldsmid adverted Is the
policy el wrote/Alen whit* thwaprecelledi and
which eziwed is the minds of lb • egrisaltarel peva,
tint that the repeal 4A the Caw Laws awned brtag rada
upon them. and emoteoded that the Coosa vets,.
believed they sated for the good of Ms oonstry, avi he
"id it," the ee-eline I U wish scald not now tniee
toward • skull* mowers in which he Cneervatimes
had taot proved tbeansalves to be tmse friendo of the
people, and which the Liberals thenicivas bad not
opp aed for thrld ott, esltab ii.tavasis as m anise neen.
or large maiployers of laboar—(applanesi. He soma n led
them metiers to t ter • eitsid.rat,on, awl in .onulus on
k • maid, ttet be ebool4 so tr. the el.k the gr.
emilltraoe— (Amer.); his trust was in thi, to
ea• . eleeteere of tide boroush, ia thelr desire to be free,
eat It mit dmermiestmn to vindicate WI, h a• to,
"d to &low serid.ort ti be a wept from the • est 11
✓oll el V•tt IJ•htad Entiom—fate-r4 H. w icc.
vines I tbs. t.mw Dew electors teottlil net ill tettottanee
"nib I. diet.tee el their tonneeierte-s, that tbg, could
weary. the ditty for wohich be, mare eaea•reble to
themadv• e. their somiir., a 4 the r God. narerdies. of
sae lelleemee, r•vad4.• 01 &orb ails ib-ir ngni
~.tigbows sat e mvicts.a. (Tie harmed
t•
ywa, wivadmmw hut • mar Midi voile; of

WIXDORIFS.

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AWOWOM lialtharoar Pacing. —William SOMA
wee broteilis woe, J. T. Deshash 110%. tth TthwallY
We Alm' with Marin kis Mathes whilst in the
anion. • ggaadad guilty, mid was matthered toot.
months' hard labour.
HUSIIMID Thompson. a'irago of
Holt, we hrowght hisf.lirtrat T. Beckett. Foq., oa
Mooday, shorged with thronterthill lift I her husload
nod for naming • baile into hie Mat --the mid she was
50157 (Ii what oho lad desk .04was humid over
;."71•• P the pram for 12
Tat Atli of Novensber, moo insth am oethusisiti.
Huth la town and thither/. Pththd vsty
io Winetheth Li.. yew. ne pollee,4l Hug, were
gory vigilant and, hoisting • solitary tahmrel that
Mooed away-1, Mr. Kilis's Add to the delight of about
a doom youngsters, sod • few widths and 'rather.,
nothing morn then usual disturbed the tranquility of
the night.
Divtatarat, Porrr Simone, Friday, Nov. 6th,—
Won Bev. OISZT J. Glyn (Chairman), Sir S. A.
Orsothisd, Bart., mad the Key. J. Aasa,...
rita Booth Area caeca C.mments rsdiicting on
the sideathistration of Pietroe at thia Benoit bonier been
mad*, Mom. the Soprintendent of the Walborn°
illviMoo did not take out summons.. wits' all
both,, who wore informed against for gelling bread
otherwise than by weight, a latter was read from the
Chid Constable, who swot that easth individual rime
woo reported to him (the Chief Comiath), end sum-
mon... we,. also out by his dirsotion toreind Omits
who had datfrathod the porehmsr by not dolling the
breed as ta. Am directs, is., he ditheied Pruethaiftes
spinet times osly wham bread wog found delloiout le
weight.
°adulate Of Fleaspois is Stara of Game—Cormilus
CAtorritt was cka-pd on the information of liiirry
Toothy with trespassing In march of game on lands
over which the Hon. Grahtley Berkeley has the right of
s.zbheort. On the twee being salad on Mr. Berkeley
thi to Mr. Austen adjudicating in thin or any
ogee with which be (Mr. Berkeley) had anything
to do, as he said he felt that if a dsoisiou were mos to
by vats there would not ha a dus administratioa of
Natio. if Me. Austen set on the bench in his Me. He
thei not pot this to the oosh,but to Mr. Austen himself.
MC Aust.* as Ant thathout to accede to Mn. Berkeley's
demand, sod said be heels bathing whatever of the
ems shout to he tried. He therefore smoldered Mr.
Berkeley's objeotioas unjost. After cooforriag with
his brother withistraiiii, Mr. Austen requested that •
copy of that objoatioo should be given hits in writing,
and stied that he should forward it immediately to
the Sowsithry of Mate. He then withdrew nods, I
pretest.—Mr. Mooro who appeared foe the allefintant
..id before the abuse was gone into he should roost
tyrannously oppom Mr. Berkeley sondecting his own Mae
and ousuiniag his own witthowis.—Harry Toovey was
then sworn. Ma stated that on Sunday, lot November,
he saw three men on the aide of • hill called Hamme-
l:all, and one on the toe. He watched thew Me" time
by the lid of • glow, and they were beating about in
saarab at game. The defoodant who was on the
top of the hill aftorweris crossed down
. towards • bog, where he went to him, and asked
' him what he wee doing there. D fondant replied
he was out for • stroll. To his question sot, what he
had in Lie pocket., defend int replied 'it in nothing to
you,' and when he attempted t . we by mooring him by
his shirtfnant, &Nathan{ gays him • slap in the lime.
Witness then south d.fundaot with • Mirth, and pueh-
log his coat wide saw SORIe MIMI nets In his pockets
Defendant then got away by a sharp twi t round, by
which his thirt was torn. After followii,g him some
distance, witness returned to the Ogee all -re he had
Arst men hint, and fossil marks whore some one bad
been ferretting. -After being cross-ex *mined by Mr.
! Wore, Mr. Berkeley was about to ask Um oitness a
question, •hen he was interrupted by defendant's
solicitor, who denied be had any right, not be ng •
lawyer, to doss, and threatened, U it. porsiatod, to ham
' him toil—Mr Berkeley said he did not oars for Mr.
! Moore's ohjeotions: be had • right to ask • qa•si ion.
Till* Bench mid that Yr. Berkeley bad siweys bee,
allowed to question his witomms in that court, and
they did not see any reason why he should not do so on
I that occasion—Mr. Berkeley having asked ono or two
ripmetiong, Kr. Moor. submitted throw was no omo.
I Nothing was found on his theist • he had neither guns
dicks, nor dog; and the mere foil of his walking mono
I a heath, where numbers sip. opts walked, was no proof
that be was trospaseng In search of game. If tlo•
1 Bends, however, corwidered there was a oath he should
ask for an wijoarnissat, for the purpose of having the
attendance of a young woos* who was on the spot, and
hbe premised to Wand up to the melons evening, but
was sot or...M.—The Bosch, after some tonaidention,
and sgainet the protest of Yr. Berkeley granted the
, adjournment, and • charge of assault arising out of the
mese web preferred by Mr. Beekeloy's keeper, wag also
adjourned.
Home Trainee.— 'Mao Habgood and William Cobb
were charged with trwipms in rearni of genie on lands
belonging to Mrs. Bankes„ over which Sir Z Greathod
; has the rtght of shoot's'. Mr. Grotthed retired during
the bearing of this mos.—T• case WM proved byJemss
Frampton, keeper, and Habgool, baying been peenioude
coovisted, was Said 20a. iscluding mats, sad Cobh 1111.
Inol ad' ng mite.
iCharles Bartlett, who did not appear, was summined
for trespaming (in company with two other. on whom
,1 @ammonias bad not been moved) Oil lands at Morley.—
The °fame was proved by Thomas Newman, and
Bartlett being an old offender, was howl 40a. inolading
oasts; in default two mete& imprlionmeo,.
George alias Broskr Allen was Sind 40a. ineluding
scoter for dr acksonex and riotous conduct and redstart(
tee polies •t Loth Ham, on he ALA Weber.
Jorta Oilbert. of Portsmouth, woo snonsofed on the
application of Georgina Wyett, tm shoe mom, krt. —it
i latter produreed by the applieant fully sattalled the
magi.trates be was liable, and he was ordered to nsy
Is. 6,1. per week for the child's maiotrioanos, and 27..
I soso.

Costive Pe Tranisentea. —Jamas Galpin, aged 14, of
Kumboll, was brought up lo custody ti,nrsed with
steeling two rioireraivts, the property of his ernidorr,
James John.on, dairyman to Nr. Pope, of Peraph:ll,
near Wimborne. The boy oonfee.ed his crime, and
when in the dock cried bitterly. When discovered he
had aborit el of the mooey left, haring spent the rem
I. buying cakes and lather expensies toys, out, of which
was • meerschaum pipe, worth 4s. ad.—le consideration
that the boy had been in dm lock-op • meet, and had
no education, the B.nsh Aud Itoi 20a, incluoing cosh;
at the same time airing directions that • mendable
should aricompriny the iromenior thoei of toe trades-
men of Wooborne who had eOl.l the toys to the boy,
requiring them to return the money, sad melee back
the toys.
Draper v. Commander Thomas thU. k lf.—This was
se applicatioo torus order at ejecd,oent —The defendant
who WIN represented by Mr. Moors dhputed the terms
of Om tenancy, and asrmats obj-etions to the reline of
the Court were male by his *denier, all of which the
Beech set ands, and ord.red possession of the cottage
.1 mated by the defendant to be given up within 21 days.,