The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

Drbonshire.

Exrrr.R.--Ju.vticeielire. --A great deal of re.
mark has been made on a judgment of the Exeter
Bench of Magistrates. John '1 entosi, a paper maker,
was ammonia! on Wednesday week, for leaving his
work on New Year's Day without the leave of his
waster, Mr. William Treinlett. The nien and the
master had had a dispute about the payment of
Christmas boxes, the result of which wiu that the
men thristened to leave their work, and they say
that the master said ,-" I will never iv it, and you
may all go directly and be ." The defendant left
his work. It appears that there was an agreement
in the shop, that either master or man might
discharge each other at a moment's notice on pay•
mut of • guinea. The master denied that lie had
told the men that "they might go," tc. His son
oorroborated his evidence. The men, on the other
hand, all swore positively, that he did. These are
the facts of the cue. The case of the master we.
Toasted by Mr. H. W. Hooper; his father, Mr. H.
Hooper, we. on the Bench, and took a very decided
view of it against the defendant. Ti' the surprise of
every body in enurt the Bench sentenced the dean.
ilatit to a mouth's imprisonment, awl hard labour.
The cue has inteital a great deal of remark, and a
petition is to be sent to the Secretary of State, on
the subject. The truster was very much shocked at
the sentence, mid malls an urgent intercession with
the Bench on behalf of the defendant. But Mr.
Hooper was inexorable, and the other =O.
trate, followed him. The man had been many
yearn lii hia employ, was very much respected, and
lii. whole affair wu one of heated dispute between
master and man, which a few kindly words might,
perhaps, have calmed down. But at the worst- - I
there was only a guinea in dispute between them. '
'rho man might bare left lawfully, without notice,
MI paying the guinea, and the sentence ought, it is
said, to have borne Nene relation to the shop at.
rangement for quitting. The magistrates present
were the Mayor, Mr. H. Hooper, Mr. Bastard, Mr.
Davies, and 241 r. Sheppard.

EXTRAORDINARY IPORIUL fiRMAINN. —There have
recently been discovered in one of the limestone
quarries at °ratan, near Plymouth, the teeth,
bones, and other remains of lions, tigers, elephanta,
rhinoceroses, horses, hyenas, and other animals.
This discovery has created quite a sensation in the
geological world. The extreme remoteness of the
age when these animals existed in Britain may be
judged from the fact that the cavern from which the
fossils were extracted is situate in the solid rock in
the cliff of a quarry which is 'shout 1,000 feet from
the edge of the sea. The cavern was 70 'feet above
the level of high water, and 3.3 feet below the emit.
face of the field above; it was 20 fuet long, lo feet
high, and about 10 feet wide. There wu no spur.
Lure or other indication of it. locality. Among the
contenta is the jaw of an animal of the home species
in stalagmite, exceedingly perfect. This is said to
be the first ever found mu stalagmite, and, if so,
establishes facts and giver's° to theories entirely new
in geology. The breakwater in the Soiled is com•
posed almost entirely of limestone worked from the
°triton quarries. The fossils are in the possession
of Mr. Joseph, nineralogist, of Plymouth.