The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-16 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

On the motion for a-djO-u-1-1-1-Meitt till Monday,
Mr. Layard, who abstained from putting a question,
of which lie had given notice, on the subject of contracts
for the delivery of agricultural produce and the cultiva-
tion of indigo in Bengal (owing to the absence of Sir
C. Wood through indisposition), took occasion to advert
to the alarming state of the indigo districts and the ex-
citement amongst the ryots.
Mr. Bai!lie, in asking for copies of the correspondence
with tte Government of Prussia and Deninark relative
to the affairs of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein,
reviewed the question, which, he observed, did not
affect moldy the two Powers immediately concerned,
but involved the interests, political and commercial, of
Europe, and especially of England, and, under these
circumstances, he WAS anxious to learn what had been
the policy of Her Majesty's Government.
Sir H. Verney made further inquiries upon the same
subject, accompanying them by remarks as to what ha
regarded as the true policy of Denmark.
Lord J. Russell replied at considerable length to the
inquiries of Mr. Millie and Sir H. Verney, explaining
the incidents connected with the armed intervention of
the German Bond in 11t51, and the common constitu-
tion for the general affairs of the Danish monarchy
which was to guarantee the rights to be secured to the
Duchies and to Lauenburg, and detailing tile subetance
of the communications that had taken place between the
parties at issue and Her Majesty's Government, and the
propositions made by the latter, in accordance with the
views of the Government& of France, Russia, and
Swedeu. Ile stated how the question at present stood,
acknowledging that there was considerable danger if no
amicable arrangement could be arrived at, indicating
the elements of the danger, and assuring the llouse
that Her Majesty's Government would continue to IMO
their induence to adjust the differences, in the interests
of peace, as friends of both parties.
Other questions, respecting arterial drainage and out-
falls, the eviction of 2SO persons from the townland of
Derrybaugh, in the county of Donegal, Ireland, and the
alleged withholding of sailors' pay, were answered by
Mr. Clive, Mr. Cardwell, and Lord C. Paget.
The motion for adjournment WAS then agreed to.
Mr. L. King obtained leave to bring in • Bill to
afford facilities for performing Divine service by minis-
ters of the Church of England and Ireland.
The Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Act Ainenditent Bill
passed the committee, and the Industrial Schools' Bill
was committed pro forma.
The Annoyance Jurors (Westminster) Bill was read a
second time. . .

The Post-office Savings-banks Bill was read a third
time, after an explanation by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and passed.
The Charitable Uses Bill was read • second time,

The adjourned debate, on going into • Committee of
Supply was then resumed.
Mr. Long&ld proceeded to address the House in sup-
port of Sir J. Trelawny's resolution regarding the
transactions in New Zealand.
Mr. Lowe considered the question as a simple one,
and cited the declaration of Wirimu Kingi as evi-
dence of the case set up on his behalf —that,
confident in his power, he defied the English Goveru-
meat. It was no question of law or right, but an
effort to met aside the Queen's authority by force.
Mr. Adderley remarked upon the difficulty of discuss-
ing native rights in the House of Commons, and urged
that these questions could be more advantageously con-
sidered in the colonial Parliament, the members of which
were better acquainted with them, and were interested
in the welfare of the natives.
Mr. Kinnaird observed that the Governor had ad-
mitted that the question was a doubtful one ' • lie re-
gretted that nothing like a word of conciliation had fallen
from the Govertunent. . . . _

Colonel Dunne bore testimony to the character of
Governor Brown.
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Ilr. Dunlop thought • prospect should be hold out
to the natives of • tribunal that would do them
justice.
Upon a division, the *nondment was negatived by 38
to Zi.
The House then went into • Committee of Supply in
the Navy Estimates, when certain votes were agreed to,
after disiussion.
The remaining business having been disposed of, the
House adjourned, at 9 o'clock, till Monday.

TEFL STRIKE IN TER COTTON DISTRICTB.—Large
meet op of the operatives on strike are held almost
daily at Ashton and other towns of that neighbourhood.
A formal resolution has been adopted, to continue the
strike for another week at all events. On Wednesday
next the hands expect to hear from the masters what
standard list of prices they may agree upon at their
adjourned conference in Manchester, to be held on
Tuesday. It is very doubtful whether the terms then
proposed will be accepted by the men, unless wool.
panied by something like a guarantee to raise the rates
again when trade revives. Much distress is being
being borne in silence, both by the weasen and the
smaller shopkeepers, whose customers they are. The
men propose an arbitration, which the masters reject as
"dictation."

Legal.

THE CASE OF LOUD KIN6STON.

On the re-essetahling of the court on Fr:day
nunninz,

Mr. ri:gby Srymour stated that he 111(1 Sten Dr. Kci-
mour. the physioian alluded to yesterdsy, aud Dr. Sey-
mour had so nuigid to stm the noble lord this morning at
10 o'clock.

Mr. r. TI eon outwitted th:it a decidon in the
came might bo fooilitated if the Master with one of (ho
cosiest I on either side should have no interview with
Lon' Kingot ((((( and put to his lordship • series; of ques-
tions( sotiong,t which he would propose to ask, " Why
do you desire a jury?' and "Do you think the pro.
prietor of the hotel at Cheqer a respectable person r
The Master did not think the first lucation would be
appropriate, Lord King...ton having expressed no desire
to have a jury, but, on (ha contrary, having diAitictly
atated that lie hail no ouch

Mr. M. Chambers could not SOO the object of the other
question, fur an answer in the affirmative would he in
itself a proof of lunacy, the earl having before con-
stantly inaintaine.l a contrary opinion.
Mr. Digby Seymour then left the court for the
purpose of hearing Dr. Seymour's report of his interview
with Lord. Kingston, and upon his return announced
that after grave and anxious consideration he had
decided upon a course which would relieve the court
from further trouble in the case. He askr,l yesterday
for an adjouninient with the object of sending a
telegram to Ireland, awl of endeavouring to ascertain
fur his own satisfaction—both by sc.:Mg Lord Kingston.
and consulting a physician, whose impartial judgment
might guide bun in the very delicate and painful position
in which 1w WAS placed—what course he should adopt.
Dr. Seymour had seen Lord Kingston, and the result
which he wished to communicate to the court was that
that, although lie was not prepared to say, but rather the
contrary, that the deluai ~,, a operating in the noble
lord's mind were not followed by lucid intervals, upon
the whole he considered I of unimumi mind. That
being so his duty to the roble lord would not permit
him to subject him further to the excitement which
these proceedings produced, every moment of which
exaggerated the malady under which the noble lord was
suffering.
Mr. Id. Chambers expresaA his gratification at the
course which his learned friend hail adopted, which
would save the family of the noble hod from fovilsvi
pain on account of these proceedings, and he joined in
the trust that his lordship would be restored to associa-
tions which his mental incapacity had separated him
(ruin, and again merit the testimony that had been borne
by all his friends to his former high sense of honour and
strict gentlemanly bearing.
The Master said his duty now became • very plain
but melancholy one. Whatever speculative or theoreti-
cal difficulties might exist as to divining what was im-
plied by the terms of unsound mind, these cases resolved
themselves into questions of a preeminently practical
character. The question to be decided clearly WM can
the person any longer be instructed with free action
without danger to himself, and whether that degree of
mental disrorder existed was a matter of evidence before
judicial action could be taken for the purpose of protec-
tion for the unfortunate individual against himself and
others whi might ho disposed to take advantage of the
grievous condition to which lie had been reduced, and
protection to third parties—to the public--against dan-
gerous acts which lie could not resist committing, and
for which he was not legally responsible. That
was the whole question. Had they satisfactory
evidence bringing the case up to this line ?
If so, from that moment the law stepped
in for the protection both of the lunatic and the public.
He was of opinion—and lie thought everyone who
had been in the court during the proceedings in this
case, and the public, before whom the proceedings bad
been truly and accurately brought from day to day,
must be of opinion also—that that line had been reached
and even far surpassed, lie begged to acknowledge
publicly the great obligations lie was under, and the
very pair.ful and heavy responsibility lie had felt in dis-
chargiug the twofold duties of judge and jury in this
very delicate matter, to the learned counsel on both
sides for the Mintier and discretion they had displayed,
and also for the sincerity and frankness with which the
GUM had been conducted, lie thought the noble lord
had been represented in a most becoming manner by the
counsel ; the ends of public justice had, in his opinion,
been attained, and there was nothing left for him to do
but to pronounce "Hubert Henry Earl of Kingston,
of Mitchelstown Castle, of Mitchelstown, in the county
of Cork, to be a person of unsound mind, not comps.
tent for the control of himself, his lands, hereditainenta,
or possessions."
The inquiry was then declared to be closed,

THE ARCHBISHOP Or YORK ON " EdSISTN AND
HRVIEWS."—IIis Grace the Archbishop of York has
made the following reply to an address which has been
transmitted to him by a large body of his clergy :
"At a reason when some of our brethren in the ministry
have been engaged, to our gnat sorrow and surprise, in
a work calculated to undermine the foundation of the
Christian faith, it is a great satisfaction to mo to
receive the assurance of your unabated attachment to
the doctrine and discipline of our Church, and the
renewal of your promise to endeavour to banish all
erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's holy
Word. That your 1130TBISCIVIC should have ly.,.en shocked
at such a spectacle as the attempt to disseminate
principles siibverdve of our belief in the Divine origin
of Christianity and the inspiration of the Bible, by those
1 who held places of trust and influence in the Church
of England, is most natural, and in these, your feeling,
I entirely participate. You will not wonder, then,
that when I discovered in the volume of &mugs and
argumentx which were wont fd. ho Oh., wear,o
of the avowed adversaries of our religion use,l. and
'their use contenanced by clergymen of our Church,
when I read the denial of the inspiration of Holy
Scripture, of the credibility of the miracles, and of the
existence of the prophecies of the Messiah's coming, in
its pages ; when I mut with the declaration that the
Bible is to subjected to each man's reason and conscience
as it supreme interpreter, so that it can no longer be
the rule of faith and the guide of conscience ; and,
lastly, when I found in it a fresh claim of right to sign
the Articles and assent to the Liturgy under a non-
natural interpretation of them, I should have considered
silence culpable, awl have felt it my bounden duty to
concur in the declaration lately signed by the Arch-
bishops and Bishops of the Church of England,
for which you tender inc your united thanks.
That the common sense and common honesty
of the people of England will also condemn
such conduct on the part of ministers of
our churches, I entertain no doubt, and I feel
equally confident that before long the several articles in
that volume will meet with their due refutation,
especially as there are so very few of the arguments
adverse to the truths of the Bible and the doctrines it
contains which have not, long since, received their full
answer. I trust that it will please our Heavenly Father
to overrule for good this unexpected assault upon the
truths of revelation, and such will certainly be its issue
as regards ourselves if it lead each of us once more to
prove the foundations on which our faith rests, and to
cleave with firmer hold than over to the substance of
our belief ; if it urge us to preach the doctrines of the
Gospel with increased fervour and devotiot, for the sake
of that adorable Saviour, on whom this volume would
leave the stigma of claiming to have worked miracles
which He never wrought, and of being the subject of
prophecies which never foretold His advent."

•
GENEALOGY OF A DISAGREEABLE FABlLT.—Expired
on the sth inst. the Income.tax, the seventh holder of
the title and estates. The first made its appearance in
1842, and lasted for three years, taking from us 7d. out
of every sovereign. It was succeeded in 1815 by
another of three yeas-n, which again was followed in
1848 by a third; an. attempt by Lord J. Russell's
Government on this occasion to raise the tribute to Is.
NM very soon disposed of ; 1851 gave us a one year's
tax, Mr. Hume beating the same Government on the
question of the number of its dsys ; and 1852, in
prospect of a dissolution of Parliament, brought •
successor of only the same brief existence. In 1853
came Mr. Gladstone's grand and comprehensive creation,
the longest-lived Income-tax of the series, extended also
to Ireland and (but at a lower rate) to incomes of £lOO.
a-year, the rate to be 7d. for two fears, Cal. for two
more, sd. for three more, and then to cease. This tax
saw many vicissitudes of fortune it, the course of its
seven years' existence; its rent-roll was doubled for a
while, then had 21. more added to it temporarily, and
finally, when at its lowest ebb of T 5.1. and almost
ia esircmis, it was raised to 9,1. It Caine to its end in
April, 1850, and • temporary tax—a new rate—was
granted for one year. That period expired on the sth,
and the fetidly is at this moment extinct; but its
custom is to continue itself by posthumous heirs,
and another is "expected" immediately. The property,
however, was originally granted on the understanding
that it was to be taken only for a time ; and since
1442 Income-tax has got hold of £l4O, 000, 000. of the
public money.
Tile SYetat.—There is no need to describe the indig-
nation and disgust with which the nine hours' strike ef
the builders in London is regarded at such a time as
this. That men earning an easy competence, in their
own rank of life, by ten boors' healthful labour should
refuse prosperity at the bidding of had leaders on hy-
pocritical pretences, excites but one feeling everywhere.
The misfortune of it is that theis proeperity will turn to
hunger and misery, and they will come upon the
charity of the country, or have to learn to live on half
their present wages, hee.iume the/ have opened the way
for foreign workmen to come in and divide the work
amid the pay. Public opinion has become more, and not
less, pronounced against the servile victims of the nine
hours' strike and their leaders ; and it is no small
relief to all real friends of the working classes to perceive
that a large number of the men were disposed to resist
the dictation of their self-appointed leaders, and to
embrace the offer of their employers—earning by the
hour so much in five days of the week all to be able to
leave work at 1 o'clock on Saturdays. It Is to be
hoped that they will have the spirit to stand to this
rational aetUeinent.

HIMIWAY ROBBERY AND MORDER.—On Wednesday
afternoon an inquest was held at the Bull's-head, Bark-
house-lane, Coseley, before Mr. W. H. Philip', deputy-
coroner for 9ie Wolverhampton district, respecting the
death of an aged man, named Walter Piper, a boatman,
who had died near that house the day before from
injuries he had received in the same district from high-
waymen. The deceased was • single man, and lodged
with George Wootton, • shoemaker. He left home on
the morning of the 'eith of March last, saying he was
going with • boat for his master to Birchills, near
Walsall. His master was Samuel Wilcox, of Dark-
house-lane. The deceased was accustomed to go to
Bilston.market, about one mile away, every Monday.
On the evening of the 25141 of March, at about 9 o'clock,
• witness heard that the deceased had been injured
and robbed. He found him in the house of • neigh-
bour, bleeding from • severe wound in the forehead;
the skull was driven in. Witness took him home and
sent for a surgeon, but lie did not come. The next
morning he sent for another surgeon, who came, and
the deceased received surgical aid up to the time of his
death. Before he became ivaensible he said that he
was coming through the Blue-button Leasowe, a field
not far from his lodgings, when two men sprang out of
the hedge close by the pathway, one of whom elutchei
him by the throat and the other dragged him out of the
footpath and under the hedge, where he rifled his
pockets of • braes tobacco-box containing 3s. 6d., a bag,
11b. of bacon, 11b. of cheese, two loaves of bread, and
, some meat. He was a very quiet man, and witness
never knew him to quarrel with anyone. His friends
lived at Higley. After several witnesses had been
examined, the inquest was adjourned.