The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1859.

HONEST]: AUDAX.

Tux urgent representations which were ad-
dressed last week by the French Government to
that of Sardinia against the acceptance of the
Regency of Central Italy by the Prince de Ca-
rignan, have led to results for which the French
Government were unprepared, and has added
another complication to the Italian question by
creating a difference which may hereafter as-
sume a more serious character between France
and Sardinia. On Sunday evening, on the
arrival of the deputies at Turin, charged by the
Assemblies at the Romagna, Tuscany, Modena,
and Parma, to offer the Regency to the Prince
de Cardigan, his Royal Highness told them that
"weighty representations, reasons of political
propriety, and the approaching Congress deterred
him, much to his regret, from responding to
their appeal, and accepting the charge offered to
him," but at the same time be thought he should
do a service by designating the Chevalier
Buoncompagni as the person who ought to be
entrusted with the Regency of Central Italy.
The deputies readily assented to this transfer
of their offer, and the Chevalier Buoncompagni,
on being summoned by the Prince to undertake
the Regency, expressed his willingness to accept
the honour and responsibility of the office. The
States of Parma Modena, and the Romagna
have since tendered their thanks to the Prince
de Carignan, and have informed his Royal High-
ness that they have accepted with gratitude the
regency of the Chevalier Buoncompagni. On
the arrival of this news in Paris, the French
Government, regarding the transaction as the
act of the Sardinian Government, called upon
the Cabinet of Turin to annul the appointment
of M. Buoncompagni, inasmuch as it prejudged
the questions about to be brought before the
Congress, and encroached upon the powers of
that Assembly. The latest news from Turin
informs us that the departure of Chevalier
Buoncompagni has been postponed, and that '
General Garibaldi has resigned his office as one
of the Generals of the army of Central Italy,
and is about to retire to the island of Sardinia.
Accounts fron Bologna state that Signor Farini,
who holds the chief power in the Romagna until
the arrival of the Regent, has signalised the
approaching close of his dictatorship by sum-
marily abolishing the Inquisition as "incom-
patible with modern civilisation," and by issuing
a decree by which the church and religious
establishments of all kinds are incapacitated from
acquiring real property either by gift or legacy
without a previous authorisation by a sovereign
reacript to that effect.
A circular has been addressed by the French
Government to the Powers which signed the
Treaty of Vienna and to the three principal
Powers of Italy, inviting them to send Plenipo-
tentiaries to the Congress. If these invitations
be accepted the Powers represented at the Con-
gress will be France, Great Britain, Austria,
Russia, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Sweden,
Sardinia, Home, and Napes.

Tim angry feeling entertained in Irance among
all classes and all parties against this country is
not only in no way abating, but is day by day
increasing in virulence and intensity. There
can be no mistake whatever as to the fact; but
why this should be, or whence this state of
things arises, it is by no means easy to define in
a clear and satisfactory manner. But a govern-
ment which makes war for an "idea," may hold
its reasons for engaging in hostilities with a
mighbouring power as something not necessarily
more substantial than "airy nothings" which
flit through disordered brains, and often through
:sound minds. The talk is of war, and war with
this country. The tone of angry menace, and the
note of preparation resounds throughout France.
The commonest instinct of our country points to
the readiest and best means of defence. We
must increase the number of our ships and the
fortifications of our coastal, and add to the num-
ber and efficiency of our men. Our regular
laud forces must be put in order, and an
auxiliary force must be created—for the pur-
pose of affording adequate•upport to the soldiers
of the line. All this quiet, but steady and
oxpenaive augmentation of our power by land
and sea, is the inevitable necessity of our posi-
tion—exposed in itself, and now rendered peril-
ous by the acrimonious and hostile temperament
of the French, openly avowed, and wholly
unrelieved by any more peaceable manifestation
on the part of an all-powerful Government.
The tone of those respectable and influential
papers even, whose moderation and justice
operated so lately as • wholesome check to the
violence of passion, is now infected with blind
hatred against us; and the exceptions are very
rare indeed where courage and sense enough are
found to expose the folly and the wickedness of
the restless and domineering spirit of the French.
Where the Press, as in France, subsists at the
will of the Minister of the Interior, familiarity
with submission degenerates into something
worse; and where it is penal to give offence,
the temptation is great to please. Accordingly, it
is not at all unreasonable to assume that the
loud outcry against England finds favour in the
eyes of the Government of France, and the Go-
vernment of France is Livoixos 111., our w-
eaned faithful ally ! "With our powerful
neighbour we are not only at peace, but, nomi-
nally at least, on terms of cordial friendship and
close alliance, while every instrument that can
work on public opinion is being employed to
raise a violent spirit of animosity against us.
The clergy denounce us, the press libels us, with
an inconsiderate fury which breaks down under
the weight of its own exaggerations and its own
ignorance. The nation at large has accustomed
itself to look upon a war with its present ally as
a by no means remote event, and the army is
taught to look forward to the day when the pil-
lage of a country, rich beyond any former pre.

cadent shall reward its valour and glut its ava-
rice. Whence, we ask, has arisen this sudden
fury? What provocation have we given to
account for the strange phenomenon that a
nation but lately devoted to the happy arts of
peace should suddenly turn its ploughshare into a
sword, and give the loudest and plainest intima-
tion of its desire to plunge that sword into our
breast?" The closest examination into our
political relations with France, as they bear
I -upon the affairs of Italy, or upon any other
juncture of circumstances, immediately or re-
motely connected with that country, fail alto-
gether to disclose the faintest suspicion—the
slightest shadow of offence to France. The
temper of that country is, then, inexplicable on
any other ground but the delirium of revenge
for defeats sustained a great many years
ago, or a dangerous and growing appe-
tite for a satiety of military glory.
"Thus," says the Times, at the conclusion of one
of its admirable articles on this momentous sub-
ject, "without any serious question at issue be-
tween the two Governments, with the most sin-
cere wish on our part to maintain the most
friendly relations, do we find ourselves involved
in a course of expensive preparation which
already inflicts upon both countries many of the
burdens and evils of war. M. DUPIN may say
that we are menacing France, but he well knows
that the desperate madness and wickedness of
attacking her was never for a moment thought
of in this country. It is in the power of the
EMPEROR of the FRENCH alone to put an end to
a state of things which is becoming day by day
more serious, and which makes it a leas
danger to peace to speak out plainly than to
carry on the fiction of an alliance, one party to
which appears to be arming for the attack and
the other for the defence. It is in the power
of the EMPEROR to allay all this trouble and sus-
picion. and if he does not do so we may not un-
reasonably draw the most gloomy inferences from
his silence." Now it is just possible that we
may not wait to be attacked. We have no sinis-
ter views against France, no wish or intention
whatever to do her harm ; but at the same time
a case has been supposed, and that too by a
candid and sensible Frenchman, which might
precipitate other steps than those of resistance
on our own shores, and which illustrates the
burthen of Punch's famous song. —M. Michel
Chevalier, a writer in the Journal des Dibats, is
not afraid to tell his countrymen this :—"There is
a case in which England might pass from the de-
fensive to the offensive attitude with that vigour
which belongs to her temperament, and which is
well enough described by the self-conferred name
of John Bull; and that is, supposing any one of
the Great Powers of Europe should provoke or
threaten her. It would be the same if, without
seeing herself to be the object of open
attacks, she conceived that there was on
the part of any one of the Great Powers
a premeditated plan of keeping her in an
incessant state of alarm. We might then
expect to see England, irritated by degrees, at
length displaying her anger in a remarkable man-
ner." Would that there were more writers of the
same stamp, to impress upon the French people
the certain and terrible mischief they draw upon
themselves in the event of a war between the
two countries; so that instead of lending them-
selves to the fostering of groundless jealousies, and
the perpetuation and aggravation of the worst
passions of man's nature, a good understanding
might on the contrary be gradually brought
about, to the advancement of peace and civiliza-
tion throughout the world.

It will be some satisfection to the friends of
peace to learn that the latest news from France
brings intelligence that the remonstrances of
the British Press against the ill founded and
outrageous feelings of the French people—
stimulated as they have been by the reckless
and auJacious conduct of the French Press
—have at length received a check from the
EMPKILOR himself. It is stated that his Majesty
has directed his Minister of the Interior to send
to the Prefect of each department a confidential
circular, in which attention is drawn to the
violent and exaggerated language of the French
Press with regard to England—to the fact that
such language, being found in journals which
cordially support the Imperial Government
tends to identify that Government with attacks
upon an allied and friendly Power, and that it
is desirable for the dignity of the Imperial
Government and the maintenance of peace that
the Prefects should use their influence to put an
end to the practice.

DORCHENRER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—Our market was moderately supplied with all
kinds of grain today, but farmers asking advanced
rates checked business, the trade ruled slow, at barely
last week's prices.

THE CATTISTOCIL KENN El-R.—The house and pre-
mises constituting these kennels were submitted to
public auction, by Mr. T. M. Park, at the King's
Arms Hotel on the 10th inst., but were not disposed
Ties BARON OF BEr.r.—The annual baron dinner
is announced to take place at the King's Arms Hotel
on Thursday next, when a numerous gathering of
the tradesmen of the town is expected, under the
presidency of Thomas Coombs, Exq.
DORMET COUNTY HOSPITAL.—MiIIO Churchill, of
Colliten House, whose decease it was our duty to
record some time back, haa iienerously bequeathed
the sum of £2OO for the benefit of this admirable in-
stitution.

A sermon on behalf of the County Hospital will
be preached in the parish church of St. Peter's. on
Sunday next, the 27th instant, at morning service.
To ma BINEVOLENT. -We are requested to
draw attention to an advertisement in our advertis-
ing columns of this day, signed by Mr. Robert
Hazel, in which that gentleman makes an appeal
for contributions in behalf of the widow and II
children left destitute, owing to a fatal accident
which unfortunately befell Joseph Damon, a carter
in the employ of Mr. Symes, of Nether Ceme, the
particulars of which are given in the subjoined
paragraph.

A SILKIER or ACCIDISTB. —At two o'clock on
Wednesday morning last, a mason named William
Sibley, residing in Fordington, was brought to the
Dorset County Hospital with both bones of his right
leg fractured. He stated that in returning from
work at Galton he stumbled over a large stone in
the road, but there is reason for supposing he was
intoxicated at the time. Every attention was paid
to his case, and he is now progressing favourably.
The same morning, at nine o'clock, John Goddard,
machine man, in the employ of Mr. Symes, Nether
Came was admitted with severe injuries to one of
his hand.. He was cleaning out a COM crusher, when
a revolution of the machine cut or fractured four of his
fingers, which it was found necessary partially to am-
putate. At four o'clock in the afternoon, Joseph Da-
men, a carter in the employ of the same gentleman,
was brought to the Hospital in a very precarious
state. He had been returning to Nether Cerne with
a load of coals, when it appears that he lay down on
the top of the waggon with his legs hanging over
the head, the horses being driven by his son, a lad
between 12 and 13 years of age. Close to Godinan-
nuinstonc he attempted to get up, but overbalanced
himself and fell under the wheels, which passed over
Ins body, crushing five ribs on the right side and
three on the left, besides seriously rupturing the
liver. He continued insensible from the time of his
admission, and we regret to add that about fourteen
hours afterwards the caw terminated fatally.—A
few days before, Charles Moreton, sergeant in the
militia, was admitted into the Hospital with the
" spill" bone of his right leg fractured, which was
occasioned in his jumping over a stile.

LORD SHAFTESBURY AND THE BAKERS.-011 Fri-
day last a deputation from the London Journeymen
Bakers' Association waited on the Earl of Shaftes-
bury, at his residence in Grosvenor.square, with a
view of enlisting his lordship's aid in the movement
for the reduction of the hours of labour and the
abolition of night work. Lord Shaftesbury in reply
to the deputation said, he thought they had doue
wisely in rejecting the idea of a strike, which was
always unsuccessful against capital. He recom-
mended them to keep their cause before the public,
and to call a public meeting requesting the attend-
ance of the employers, and they could then fairly
state their case. They had enormous grievances to
redress, but did not require either a strike or an Act
of Parliament. The deputation having thanked his
lordship then retired. The proposed meeting will
be held in Exeter-hall, and it is anticipated that
Lord Shaftesbury will preside on the occasion.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
FOR THE COUNTY OF DORSET.—Dormet Regiment of
Militia.—Captain Edward Atkyns Wood to be
Major, vice Henning, resigned.

Mrsictret EtEr-rms.—The election of two
burgesses to fill the vacancies occasioned in the
Town Council of this borough by the appointment
of two of their body, Messrs. Curme and Coombs,
to the post of Aldermen, took place on Monday
(Yesterday). The following candidates were duly
nominated on Thursday according to the provision
of the recent Act of Parliament :- Mr. John Good,
by Mr. William Manfield ; Mr. Thomas Bascombe,
Jun., by Mr. Henry Edwards ; Mr. Henry
Edwards, by Mr. Henry Edwards; Mr. Richard
Groves, by Mr. Joseph Morgan and Mr. James
Drake; Mr. Robert Davis, by Mr. John Thomas
Ensor ; Mr. Thomas Saunders, by Mr. John Thomas
Ensor ; Mr. John Petty Aldridge, by Mr. Frederick
Bennett ; Mr. Robert Davis, by Mr. Thomas
Robinson ; Mt. James Frond, by Mr. Montague
Charles Weston. Of these Mr. Thomas Saunders
and Mr. Thomas Bascombe retired, leaving the con-
test between Mr. Good, Mr. Frond, Mr. Davis, and
Mr. Aldridge. A very active canvas, especially
on behalf of Messrs. Aldridge and Frond, had been
carried on for some days past, and the progress. of
the election was looked forward to with unusual in-
terest,—something very like excitement being actu-
ally felt in this quiet little town, threatening for
once to break the dull monotony which usually
hangsstood
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fore, was the disappointment when it was
found during the first hour of polling that the
votes were recorded secretly— that is, the
voting papers were handed in, the name of the
voter was recorded, and the voting paper silently
filed, face downwards—no question put to the voter,
and no means whatever being available for ascer-
taining how the election was proceedink—who was
winning, who losing. Many and indignant were
the protests against this secret mode of taking the
votes, among them were those of Messrs. Joni;
GALEN, LOCK, BISHOP, and MASON, who
are members of the Council; and between three
and four in the afternoon Alderman Masilsw en-
tered the room and objected strongly to the election—
as the mode of taking the votes was, he said, new to
to him. Mr. 3IANFIELD then formally applied to
the Mayor to be permitted to investigate the papers
before his Worship declared the result of the poll ;
to this the Mayon replied that he certainly should
not permit the investigation to be made. The Tows
CLEM( said that if the objectors would read the Act
they would finil that this mode of receiving the 'alien'
was within the law. Mr. MANVIELD expressed an
opinion that it was legal, but the practice was con-
trary to the mode of proceedingsiulopted for the last
four and twenty years, and evidently =ISM the
greatest dissatisfaction out of doors. Mr. Wtsros
said the same kind of thing was only done at Wey-
mouth by Mr. Welsford, who avowed himself a strong
political partizan. Mr. Alamos said he would be very
happy to assist to make a case—if that were pos-
sible—to go before the Court of Queen's Bench; and
he asked the Mayor why he adopted a different plan
to that which had been succesfully carried on for so
many years. The Mayor declined to give
his reasons; and Mr. WESTON declared that
the Mayor's refusal was not courteous, at all
events ; and added, that he really thought
if the Mayor's time were to come over
again he would act differently. In the moist of the
discussion the Town Sergeant announced that it
was four o'clock. Mr. NIANYIF.LD then said that lie
thought he could point out a valid and fatal
objection to the proceeding of this election, and
then asked the Mayor if he would make him
acquainted with the numbers polled anytime before
his Worship made his declaration of the poll, in
order that he might address the Mayor as to the
defective nature of these proceeding, so that he
(the Mayor) might be in a position, if he then raw
tit, to begin de nom. and let them vote in the usual
way. He apprehended it would be no use to address
his Worshsp after he had declared the state of the
poll, whereas his (Mr. Manhelit's) statement. being
heard before the official declaration, might possibli
avoid expensive and unpleasant proceedings in
another place. The MAYOR said he would decline
doing what Mr. MANFIE.I.I, wished, and would not
consent to tix the precise hour for declaring the poll.
Mr. MANYIsen raid be made no secret Of the fact,
that if the numbers suited him he would not object ;
to which Mr. WESTON declared that that was a rea-
son why Mr. Manfield should make his statement
now befere he was put in possession of the numbers
The Citicii said that, as to persons knowing
how the burgesses had voted, any burgess could
examine the papers at his office at any time on the
payment of a fee of one shilling. The room was
then cleared, and the business of the examination of
the voting papers by the Mayor and the Assessors
proceeded with, which it was thought would occupy
about three hours Then it was necessary for the
Mayor and his assistants to dine ; as to the time
required for which more agreeable occupation no
estimate was made; and a large number of anxious
electors left the room, about half-past four, wholly
ignorant as to what hour of the night, or following
morning, they might look to know upon whom had
fallen the honour of representing them at the
Council Board.

STATE OF THE POLL
Mr. ALDRIDGE
FltoGD
DAVIS
GOOD
Edwards, 3; Groves, 2; Saunders, I.

The following is the !timber polktt in the different

l'arighes:

A LURK: K. FROVD. DA VIS. GOOD.
Holy Trinity 53 ... 41 ... 44
tit. Peter's
All Saints'
Fordingten

216 207 191 1:1s

THEATRICALs.-It, will he Veen that the pieces
advertised to be played by the officers at the Town-
ball on Friday next have been unavoidably changed
for those which we announce in our present impres-
sion ; but we have no doubt that the entertainment
will be found equally attractive and plowing.
DEATH Or MR. OLIVE/I.—Mr. Oliver, mauypears
landlord of the King's Arms Hotel, in this town,
died in the Almshouse, known as Napier's Mite, on
Sunday evening last. Accumulating misfortunes had
weighed heavily upon him during the last few years,
and had at last driven him to seek an asylum in
this local refuge for the deserving pour, of which he
became an inmate only a few weeks ago.

PENNY SAVINGS BANK.—The Rev. James Fisher,
rector of Holy Trinity, has publieheil a statement
setting forth the business done by this bank during
the first year of its existence. From this statement
it appears that there have been 298 depositors, 144
of whom have become fundowners in their own name
in the General Savings Bank while the amount de-
posited has been £l4B 4.. 44d.

WORKING NIZN'S DICTUAL IMPROVEMENT
SOCIrrY.-At the Townhall, on Monday week, H.
M. Moule, Esq., delivered a highly interesting lec-
ture, in connection with the Above society, upon
"The House of Commons." The Rev. W. Barnes
presided. and there was a large and respectable atten-
dance, Mr. Moulc being a favourite lecturer with
his fellow townsmen. After a few observations
from the chairman, the lecturer rose and began his
remarks by maintaining the practical utility of
studying the history of the House of Commons.
The chief drawback to the subject was its vast size,
and he had resolved therefore to confine himself to
two periods only. He would speak, first, of the
present time, giving some details of the life and
practice of the House, as existing now; and
secondly, he would revert to the period of the
Great Reform Bill (IKII-1532), when the principle of
representation was finally established as against that
of exclusive tion. This subject occupied
a speech of nearly two hours' duration. The chief
details enumerated in the first half of the lecture
related to the telegraphic apparatus in the Octagon
hall, the appearance and arrangement of the House
itself, the leading memlwrs on the Ministerial and
Opposition benches, the presenting of petitions, the
progress of a bill through the Commons, the going
into Committee of Supply, the lighting of the
House, and the reporting system. The lecturer then
gave an account of the state of Parlianient and of the
country during the twenty months between Novena
her, ISM, and June, 15.12, describing the many
features of national magnanimity and self-control
which adorned that great period, and drawing the
character of Lord Grey in warm colours. Ile con-
cluded by exhorting the members of the Working
Men's Society to an enlarged and enlightened self-
improvement (an improvement in families as well
as individuals), and by stating it as his belief that a
life spent in the permit of this object was a truly
patrotic life, and was the surest means of paving
the way for whatever political advancement may be
expected in years to come. .Ir. Nloule was received
throughout with great applause, and after resuming
his seat, a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to
him on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by
the ex-Mayor, for the instruction and entertainment
which he had aff,,riled. In expressing his acknow-
ledgements, Mr. Motile informs,' the society that he
had experienced great kindnesa and courtesy from
It. B. Sheridan, Esq., M. l'., for the borough, in the
loan of books for the purpose of preparing his
lecture.

BOROUGH POLICE, Saturday. Before Matthew
Devenish, F.sei., Mayor, and John Ensor,
°arm:ft, of iordington, was brought up in custody of
Mr. Superintendent Pouncy, charged with being drunk
and disorderly, and assaulting the police in the execu•
tion of their duty. It appeared that between 12 and 1
o'clock in the morning the pri.ner created a great dis-
turbance opposite the residence of the Key. M. Colson,
and proceeding up the hill, renewed the 1.41110 kind
conduct near the dwelling of the Rev. Henry Moule.
Police Constable Keech, having in vain called upon the
man to desist, at length took him in custody, when the
prisoner became very violent, seized the police constable
by the collar, and kicked him in a savage manner. In
the struggle both fell to the ground. Police Sergeant
Barrett fortunately came to the assistance of his brother
officer, and with much difficulty they succeeded in
taking him to the lockup. The prisoner was tined ES,
and, in default, committed to gaol fur fourteen days.
. _

MONDAY.—Wfore John thdpin, John Ensor. and
John Hodges, Ea in.—Richard Prolix and Amu Prosse
were summoned f r ashiating in the rescue of a prisoner
on the night of Satuiday week, The male defendant

was fined £l, and the female 10s. The Bench remarked
that they were determined to punish with the utmost
severity all persons convicted of assaulting the police in
the execution of their duty.
A iiyaarna E/LOis. was summoned by BethiaMoolll for
Musing her wane days ago. Defendant did not appear,
and a warrant was ordered to be taken out by Mr.
Superintendent Pouncy for his apprehension.

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COMMITTED TO DoItcIIESTER GAOL.
Robert Hall. burglarly at Wionbortie Minster.—Sessions.
—John Louring, stealing flour at Symondshury.—To
Hord Labour.—Jane Watts, leaving children chargeable
at Corscombe, 1 calendar month ; Alfred Cole, poach-
ing at Winfrith Newburgh, 3 calendar months • John
Jones, assault at Weymouth, 14 days; John Bartlett,
drunk, H.M.S. Blenheim. 14 days ; James John•
son and John Listman, absenting themselves from
H.M.S. Royal Albert, 18 days, 10 days solitary; Robert
Scott, William McKenzie, and Edward Chamberlain,
absenting themselves from H. MS. Royal Albert, 8 days,
10 days solitary; Daniel Sullivan, disobedience of
orders on board H.M.S. Aboukir, 28 days; Peter Whit-
taker, accessary to theft on board H.M.S. Aboukir, 28
slays; Mary Nelson and Elizabeth Hulloed, not main-
taining their two bastard children at Beeminster, 1
calendar month ; John Creade. stealing shoes, table
cloth, &c., at Weymouth, 2 month"; William Garrett,
assault on police at Dorchester, 14 days.