The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
DOECKESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1839.

HONESTS AUD.4I.

A PRIVY Cooxcm was held at Windsor Castle
on Saturday, at which the new Ministers took '
the oaths, and received from Her Majesty their
seals of office. In the House of Commons on
NVednesday the writs for the seats vacated by the
new Administration on their acceptance of office
were ordered to be issued; and as no responsible
Minister can be in his place for some days to
come, both Houses have formally adjourned to
Thursday next. The Ministerial appointments
announced during the week include Mr. Fitzroy
as First Commissioner of Works; Mr. Cardwell,
Secretary for Ireland; the Earl of Carlisle, Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland; Mr. Wilson, as Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, with the rank
of a Privy Councillor; Mr. Brand and Mr.
Laing, Secretaries to the Treasury; the Earl of
Ripon, Under-Secretary for War; Mr. Thomas
Baring, Under-Secretary for India ; Mr. G.
Clive, Under-Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment ; Mr. Gilpin, Secretary to the Poor Law
Board ; Sir R. lictleAl, Att,amey-Gerieral ; Sir
H. Keating, Solicitor-GePeral ; Mr. Headlam,
Judge-Advocate Getiaral ; Mr. Moncreiff, Lord-
Advocate for Scotland; Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald,
Attorney-General for Ireland; Mr. Serjeant
Deasy, Solicitor-General for Ireland; Sir W.
Dunbar, Mr. Bagwell, Mr. Whitbread, and
Mr. lingessen, Lords of the Treasury; Mr.
Whitbread, Civil Lord of the Admiralty; the
Earl of St. German's, Lord Steward; Viscount
Sydney, Lord Chamberlain; the Marquis of
Aylesbury, Master of the Horse; the Earl of
Bessborough, Master of the Buckhounds ; Vis-
count Castlerosse, Vice-Chamberlain; Lord
Bury, Comptroller of the Household; and the
Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes.
Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. Vernon Smith are
to be raised to the peerage, the former by the
title of Lord Lknover, and the latter by that of
Lord Lyveden. Mr. Justice Erle has been
appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
in the room of Sir Alexander Cockburn, who
has succeeded Lord Campbell as Lord Chief
Justice of England, and Mr. Wylde is expected
to succeed Mr. Justice Erle as one of the Puisne
Judges of the Queen's Bauch.

"Gat Battle." "Victory of the Allied
Armies."—Such is the heading given in the late
editions of the evening papers of Saturday last
to most important telegrams received in Loudon
at a late hour. The nature and results of this
last engagement have been hourly looked for,
and they have proved to be such as not to dis
appoint expectation on these heads. A telegram
f-ore the EMPEROR to the Emrazas received in
Finis On Saturday says :—"The whole Austrian
"army formed the line of battle, which extended
"five leagues in length. We have taken all
"their positions, and captured many cannon,
"flags. and prisoners. The battle lasted from 4
"o'clock in the morning till 8 o'clock in the
"evening." The Patric alleges that the victo-
rious army has crossed the Mincio in pursuit of
the Austrians. The Prose says that a private
message from Berne has been spoken of, which
puts down the Austrian loss at the enormous
number of 35,000 hors de combat and 15,000
taken prisoners, together with 16 flags and
75 pieces of cannon captured. The collision
of these two immense armies is a matter
in all its details which can scarcely by
my power of language be comprehended. Ima•
gination, as the Times truly says, toils in vain
to realize the story of more than 300,000 men
engaged in mortal conflict over an area the front
of which extended twelve miles. Since the three
days of Leipaic, now six and forty years ago, so
peat a battle has never been fought in Europe
is that which only seventy hours since cumbered
the plains of Loiubardy with dead. After six-
teen hours of ti dining is Is and dense
smoke, and shrill death shrieks, and the rush of
wpiadrons shaking the earth, and the measured
tramp of many thousands marching to death,
and of the shouts of multitudes in strong excite-
ment, the turmoil sideides, and we are told that
upon one side alone 35,000 killed and wounded are
stretched upon the plain. No eye can take it all
iii, for it extends beyond human vision; no ear can
hear it all, for the boom of the cannon which
tears a chasm through the human mass at the
wing is inaudible at the centre ; a single groan
is lost in such a chaos of butchery as this ; we
arrive at the point where figures cease to have
power to increase our conceptions of magnitude,
and where the highest force of numeration can
go no further than to overwhelm us with a feel-
ing of the wickedness of ambition and the horrors
of war. The Austrian army when it arrived on
the eastern bank of the Mincio, retreating from
all points, gained the enclosure of its fortresses,
and coining within the co-operation of its
reserves, cannot be estimated at leas than
150,000 men. The French, increased by a con-
tinuous stream of reinforcements, rapidly pushed
up to the front, was probably not inferior in
numbers. In the course of the retreat and the
pursuit they had approached each other until
the pursuers having passed the Chico° and the
retiring forces having passed the Muni°, only
the latter river separated them. It MSS thought
throughout Europe that the Austrians had
reached their chosen battle-ground, and the
Continental authorities best taught in the stra-
tegies of the seat of war had confidently pre-
dicted that the line of the Mincio was the
appointed spot of the decisive battle. The
Austrians, however, with that fatal weakness of
purpose which seems to actuate them in all their
military movementa, and which causes them to
vacillate between precipitancy and timidity,
on Thursday night retraced their steps, recrossed
the Mincio in four enormous divisions, doubled
back upon their pursuers, and, as the Austrian
account states, came upon a superior body of
the enemy on the Chiese. If this be true,
nothing could be more suicidal in strategy than
for an inferior force to cross a great river in
order to seek out a superior enemy, and to
engage him with that river in the rear. This
inequality in force, however, was probably only
momentary, and this superior force of the
enemy, which turned out to be the main
body of the French army, was quickly confronted

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by the whole forie of the Austrians in Lom-
bardy, With the Emperor Faaxeis JOSEPH at
their head. Unfortunately for the Austrians it
happened that while their two wings were ticto-
nous their centre was broken. The French Exr-
PllllO6 directed his early efforts egatitlit this part
of his enemy's line, and the Austriaus gently say
'• The order of our centre could not be re-
stored." From th it liniment the battle seems
to have been lust. The Austri;tiis left beltiid
them, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, some
50,000 !ten, according to the first French
account, which we must of course receive with a
certain amount of margin, and which the last
statement in the Moniteur moderates in the
item of prisoners, but we accept it for the
moment in the absence of any counter-state-
ment on the Austrian side. They recrossed the
Mincio, which they had so unaccountably passed
upon this disastrous errand, and NAPOLEON 111.
slept in the room which had been occupied by
his brother Emperor on the morning of the
battle. The Austrians have most candidly
admitted their defeat. History, adds the Times,
scarcely records a bulletin in which a disaster
was more explicitly avowed. It is said that
they are prepared to resume the contest on the
other side of the Mincio, and to be again
defeated with the same stolid bravery and un-
teachable awkwardness which they have mani-
fested in all their previous operations.

DORCHWITER PITCH= CORN MARKET, &tardily.
—Our market was thinly attended to-day and a short
supply of wheat on offer. Farmers were not dis-
posed to realise except at an adviuwe of from 2s. to
3s. per qr. over last week, which checked business,
but a few samples were placed at from ls. to 2s.
advance.

Mwsixuca QU•RTIR SCSSIOYS.—These Sessions
will open this (Tuesday) afternoon at the Shirvhail,
when the financial and general business of the
county will be transacted. There is no special
motion to be brought forward. To-morrow (%Ved-
nesday) the Chairman wiU deliver his charge to the
Grand Jury, and the trial of prisoners will begin.
The calendar is light, and the cause list will not,
probably, be very burdensome.
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THE COUNTY CONNTABULARY.— On Saturday Mr.
Sergeant William Brown, who has been stationed
for some time at Milburn° St. Andrew, was appointed
by the chief constable of the Dorset County Con-
stabulary, Lieut.-Col. Cox, to be superintendent of
the Dorchester division, in the room of Mr. Superin-
tendent Robert
.Everitt, who has been promoted tr. a
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first-claas constableshi in the Sou:erect county
police. Both Mr. Everitt and Mr. BIOWD are
officers who have earned considerable credit and

respect by their watchfulness and careful attention
to duty, as well as by their civil bearing and general
courtesy. Mr. Everitt leaves Dorchester in the
course of next week, and will, we believe, take the
superintendence of the Ilminster division of the
Somerset Constabulary. Mr. Superintendent Brown
entered upon his new duties yesterday (Monday).

GENKRAL Hounar.—The shopkeepers and in-
habitants of the town generally adopted the sugges-
tein of his Worship the Mayor, and kept the Corona-
tion holiday yesterday, instead of this day (Tuesday),
when the Quarter Sessions will be held.

BRIDPORT FLORAL Firrx.—The Great Western
Railuay Company announce trips at single tures on
Thursday, from this town to Bndport and back, on
the occasion of a grand horticultural exhibition to be
held at Bridport.

Robert Davis, Esq., J.P., has been elected one of
the guardians of the Free School and Almshotwes
in Dorchester. to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the decease of William Bridge, Eisq.
Bahb's HIPPODROME. —The equestrian company
known as Bell's Hippodrome and Circus is announced
to enter the town this (Tuesday) forenoon, and to
give performances in the Alterman and evening.
The troupe are very highly spoken of hy the press
generally, and will no doubt draw good houses.
New postal regulations for newspapers appear in
Friday's Oazetle, making a charge ot one penny only
for not displaying the stamp on posting within pre-
scribed districts, instead of subjecting them to letter
postage as was previously the case. Papers for tb:
colonies, or foreign countries to which there is a book
poet, are no longer restricted to within 15 days of
their publication.
HOTIW•N'S ORGANOPIIONIC BAND.—We under-
stand that this talented company of musicians intend
giving two concerts at the TownhaU on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings in next week. The wonder-
ful performances of these accomplished gentlemen
have rendered their entertainment one of the most
popular of the day. A clever ventriloquist accom-
panies the band.
The Commander•in•Chief has conferred a good ser-
vice pension of £lOO upon Brevet-Colonel Great.
bed, U.B.
NEW RAILWAYS.—The following members of the
House of Commons form the Select Committee to whom
the undermentioned railway Bills are referred in
group. No. 2.—William Scholefield, Esq., M.P.,
(Birmingham), chairman ; Lord Nlontaisne, and W.
Graham, Esq., SIP., ( Herefordshire) ; Thomas
Baxley, Esq., M.P., (Manchester) ; Major Edwards,
M.P., (Beverley) ; Mount Stewart, E. Grant Duff,
Eaq.. M.P., (Elgin).—No I. Kingshridge and South
Devon Railway. 2. Swanage Railway and Pier. 3.
Stokes Bay Railway and Pier. 4. Bridport Hail.
way. 5. Cowes and Newport (Isle of Wight) Rail-
way. 6. Ringwood, Christchurch, and Bourne-
mouth Railway. 7. Berks and Hants Extension
Railway. S. Isle of Wight Railway (Eastern
Section.) The committee assemble on Tuesday
(this day) at 12 o'clock.
Bottom:in Pohicx Court, Towuhall. Tuesday, June
21. 1856.—(Before John Emir, Esq.)—KesiaA Moore, a
prostitute, was brought up in the custody of Sergeant
Barrett on a charge of using abusive language; The
officer stated that hearing a row at the Queen Own
public house at noon on Monday, he went thither and
found the landlady, Mrs. Cox, endeavouring to put de-
fendant out of doors. Mrs. Cue told Barrett that the
defendant had been abusing her. Defendant refused to
seaway on being turned out of the house, but continued
in the street abusing Mrs. Coo. The officer accordingly
to the delinquent into custody. Committed for 14
days' ii,ijiraonioeiit.
BOROUGH Poems C,ounr, Townliall, Saturday, June
23, 1840.—(Before Henry Lock, Esq., )layor.)—&l'A
Churchill, • prostitute of Fordington, who has several
times been in prison, was brought up on a charge of
vagrancy. P.C. Perry stated that he found the woman
drunk and asleep near Salisbury Terrace at 3 o'clock
this morning. She told his Worship that she wished to
be incarcerated for life. Cominitted fur 14 days.
CoUNTY PETTY SESNIONE, ShiTehEll, Saturday, June
25, 1650.—(Before If. Williams, IL N. Middleton. and
W. L. Henning, Esqrs.)---Henry Drew, carter, of Toiler
Porcorum was summoned for riding without reins.
Sergeant Tee stated that on the 7th inst. at Maiden
Newton defendant was riding on a waxen drawn by
three horses at length. and had neither reins nor person
to guide the team. Fined Is., including costa.
Joseph antra. sen., thatcher, was enininoned for
drunkenness, at Ramuisham. Defendant pleaded Guilty,
saying he was "entirely overtaken" on the day (18th
inst.) by herd work and • drop of cider. He "only had
sic pints" from four in the morning till eight in the
evening. P.C. Florence said he found the defendant
lying in the road at uiidnight. Fined Is., including
casts.
Luke Cheney was summoned for ruling without reins
on the public highway. P.C. Florence said that on the
20th, at Melbury Sandford, be saw defendant riding in
a wagon drawn by three horses. There was a boy
also in the wagon. Fined Is., including copes.
Wm. Burt, of Broalurayne, was summoned for •
aimilar offence. P.C. Wore-Isle deemed that on the 13th
inst. in West Knighton he met defendant riding without
reins on • wegon drown by two horses. The wagon
was loaded with bricks. Defendant declared that lie
did not get into the wagon with the intention to ride,
but had lust mounted in order to put some form straight
Fined Is.. including orate.
tines ffeed/ey. a little had of Toiler Porcorum. was
summoned for Felling bread without having weights and
scalm. P.C. Friuli said that on the 20th inst, he met
defendant who was driving a horse loaded with sacks of
bread. On asking if he had weights and scales defend-
ant replied that he knew nothing about them. De-
fendant was afterwards seen in Toiler Freiman deliver-
ing bread from door to door and still without scales and
weights. Defendant told the Bench that this was the
first time he had gone out with bread, and his muter,
Mr. Fookes, miller and baker, Toiler Purcorutn, had
forgotten to put weights into the sacks in which the
bread was. Fined Is., and costs 4.. 6d.
Thomas Layer was charged with drunkenness on the
10th, at Puneknowle. Defendant admitted that he was
"pretty well" drunk "he supposed." Fined Is., and
ousts 4.. 6d.
George Sous was summoned for • breach of the
Highway Act. Sergeant Tee said that on Wednesday
the 15th lie saw defendant riding on a cart drawn by
one horse in Froome Vauchurch. Defendant was fast
asleep, and had no reins. Fined Is.. including costs.
Sandi Samosa's v. Len i Cox.—Thia awl an affiliAtio..
CAW in which Mr. Lock appeared for the complainant
and Mr. Andrew. defended. Defendant is • fanner at
Uplyme, and complainant resides at Wynford Eagle.
The summons was dismissed.

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