The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-02-20 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WERE.

We hardly know whether to recognise a seam-
tional event or not in the defeat in the House of
Lords of a vote of censure against tho Govern-
ment by a majority of only oiv. Time was
when such a vote of the Upper House would
have overthrown • Ministry, as a similar vote
on • question of confidence would do now in
the other Rouse; but the capacity of deposing
Governments is no longer the Lords. And Lord
Hatherley told their lordships so very plainly,
when he stated, that let the vote go as it might,
the Ministry would go on its course until chocked
by an adverse vote of the Oommous.
In strong contrast with this almost successful
vote of censure was the vote in the Lower House
, on Friday evening on the second reading of the
Ballot Bill, which was carried by a vote of 2 to
1 in a comparatively small House. The Ballot
is now a foregone conclusion, and the manner
in which its principle has again been confirmed
by the elective chamber may be taken as • sign
of the straigth of the Government in that
amembly. But the Bill has still to run a rough
gauntlet in committee. The clauses against
personation are, it is Wel, particularly loose ; and
, Mr. Goldney Mute that the Bill puts too much
power
neatli,n the hands of the returning officers. Sir
Beach says • doh candidate may even
corrupt the returning offioers, assuming of course
that any of them are open to bribes; and that a
Parliamentary agent may organise a wholesale
system of bribery under its protection upon the
principle of payment by results. But it seems
to be assumed by most of the speakers that the
Conservatives have nothing to fear from the
working of the Bill. Had we had the Ballot,
Mr. Powell said on the Yorkshire hustings, the
Tory majority in the recent election for the West
Wang, inatosid of being 44 would have been
400 or 500, perhaps thousands; and Mr. Btao-
poole, an Irish Liberal, is, according to his own
confession, supporting the Bill because it will
" increase the influence of property," and place
the Conservatives in power! However, men
like Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Walter suspect that
the Ballot, if paned, mite bring in Its train
manhood suffrage, the disfranchisement of small
boroughs, and the enfranchisement of the county
householders.

It is Mr. Fawcett's intention to attempt to
introduce into the Ballot Hill f thi• soma a
clamp, Linn LLI rouuer canuuratoa no longer
liable for the necessary expenses of elections.
The Advertiser suggest. that the highly import-
ant post of Viceroy of India be tilled by Royalty
In the person of the Duke of Edinburgh. Let
him go out in Royal state. and it will (in our
contemporary's opinion) have an excellent °treat
upon the barbaric mind. funded by able
ciouncillors, his prestige and Influence will be
greater than that of any poor. Why should we
not utilise our Princes of the Blood Royal I The
Duke of Edinburgh has travelled and seen the
world. tie is shrewd, observant, and full of
spirit. We cannot but imagine that such an
appointment would be most grateful to himself,
most acceptable to the loyal subjeots of our
Indian empire, and most salutary in its impression
on that portion of the native mind which la die-
contented and disturbed. We should like t 0...
Prince Arthur Viceroy of our North American
provinces—a matter which we may recur to
hereafter, At present, before a choice is hastily
made, the Advertiser ventures to name the Duke
of Edinburgh as the fittest Viceroy of India of
whom we can possibly think; and if he goes, he
might take out with him a regiment of our
Household Cavalry, the sight of which would
produce an amazing effect upon the natives, and
add greatly to the pomp of his appearance.
In the meantime half-a-dozen names are
mentioned as possible 1111000M1OrS of the late Lord
Mayo. The appointment is worth £.10,000 a
year, independently of • handsome sumptuary
allowanoe, and it is generally held for five years.
This ii the third Indian appointment that is
now in the gift of the Government, for Lord
Nas term of service as Lieutenant-Governor
of Madras Is almost run out, and Mr. Fitzjamas
Stephen, the legal member of the Legislative
Assembly, b returning Dome. The salaries of
these posts are £lO,OOO and £B,OOO a year, and
yet the first was refused ;by Lord Morley, and
the second by Mr. Winterbotham, M.P., for
Stroud.

There can be no doubt about it. "In England
we are too apt to assume that fluency of state-
ment and &WI in debate are solid guarantees for
practical 'statesmanship and administrative
talent. Long ago Lord Macaulay pointed out
that oratory had well nigh made a Ohaneellor of
the Exchequer of Sheridan,' who could not work
• sum in long division." The thought falla
naturally In an estimate of the late Lord Mayo,
whom qualified as • debater did not give him
pre-eminenoe ; but who, contrary to • prevailing
opinion, formed almost exclusively upon Parlia-
mentary Reports, possessed excellent qualifica-
tions for the post of Goveinoi-General of India.
Our common sin, however, is not under-estimat-
ing statesmen for want of talking power, but
over-estimating them for the possession of it.
It is always tho best talkers to the front.
It is expected that the thanksgiving day,
Tuesday, February 27—will he made a London
bank holiday, not • national holiday, though it
will be generally observed. We hear no mere of
opposition to a thanksgiving service in Lent.
" In everything give thanks," lathe admonition
that corrects the objection. In the due
observance of times and seasons, quite a con-
troversy has been raised upon the suspension by
authority of theatrical performances on Ash
Wednesday. Wherein is the consistency that
stops the ordinary play, and sanctions "Great
Variety Night—Entire Change of Performance
for this Night only, dramatic roadinps, operatic
music, songs, and tumbling 7
The Scottish National Sducation League starts
with a programme more decided and uncom-
proircdsing probably than the Sill will be when it
fin.i y becomes an Act. 'I he League demands
.' • compulsory and undenominstional system of
instruction, and one free from the blemishes
which have operated so injuriously in the work-
ing of the English Act of 1870." What with an
agitation of this kind in Scotland, and One for
denominational education in Ireland, while
England is the scene of • contest between two
opposite parties, the Government 'oust find this
palmation filiation an embarrassing one. The
800tOh Bill will doubtless rye us some notion
of what their general policy will be, and it will
afford an opportunity for the educational parties
to try their strength, besides being in ascii' im-
portant to England and Ireland as • preoedent
It legislation in their meas. We shall have some
=fighting over this question before we finally
oa • uniform system for the whole United
if ever we do.
Ithlt Treat of the week in France is the return
of M. Rouhar, the chief of the Imperialists, for
Conics. M. Thieve has not yet used the power
raga% the Assembly put in ills hands to revoke
the Commercial Treaty; buL the English Govern-
ment have refused to acquiesce in the Mixed
to bra &all& musfolubututsu enticing Irsuoh

I lit,
Weather Stale of Weather.'
lob. •
11 48 44 II audy, rein
13 40 44 111 Cloudy, nth
14 48 41 81 Cloudy, Am
16 48 40 IkNE Gloomy
16 46 88 21 Ss W Gloomy, fine
17 51 45 W Cloudy, Mining rain
18 6O 38 SW Cloudy, rein

Carthease Faa.—Ttio enamel blriug fair took
pled at Dorchester on Tuesday, when she number of
shepherds, larded% and carters "on off.r " was
shorter than weal, and hiring did not mace at all brisk.
Farmers who had get anag like a ado to offar •
Wormer' can readily gel moo by an advertisement in
the Telerrais, end they lid it • mach more satiate..
tory way then attending fair • but those who are
either reputed "nigger drlvers,4 or "bad at paying,"
must some to the fair and take from the men then
disengaged, and with all their disabilities disk upon
them. That Is shoat how the fair Adds now' ani,
for our paid. we appraised it will be sometime before
indifferent loaders and indifferent men are on mann
as to render the far o'ossiod. By raid-day, however,
the fine weather had brought to the tows wends et
dandy folks, on that the atmodassi at the pleasure
fair was grads at any rate then lase year. Is
Is the ithollief one Midas: is the year, and
we hope be will long be able to enjoy it. Of dune
some of his elms will podia is goads too mush
liquor before the day is out, which is to be regretted:
but, the fad is, ladders are generous to a halt, and
when one stands treat for "did add/atom* sake,"
the other will not be osthise, and it Is In this pledging
" eternal friendship" that the sadhief is dons.
Perhaps. if they had holiday every Saturday they
would go home Not as steady as their masters; so let
us be rosiest to their yearly saturnalia. and hope that
education and the temperatee advordes will "improve"
drunkenness out of the sonata. In the far geld
throe added were held. Mr. lam sold 60 head a
cattle. Fat beast were 12s 6d to lds lid a soon; fat
bulls, £l7 120 sash' sows sad eaves 14111 10i to
£22 ss, and a quick triad; fat heifers. 121 to ad per
eaves, BS to £3 16s sae. Yearling Hereford
£l5 to £l5 10, doh. Devon yearliag bulls 161
to rands, la the hoses far there were a few
very good cart horses, which folded dirsordiaary
priors, say EU sash.
Mande Perri ildedge, Koaday.—i3efore the
IL.yor (Li. Dames, lisq.), .1. Bishop, imp, B. Dana,
Ed., and G. Came, lisg.
Waldo' Neolnary, a boy mod 13, whams parent
reside In Peale-Lag was ehagpd with stralig a grid-
thy of daffold rope, the property of Mr. B. Heber,
budder. —Mr. Weida &Reared for the prisoner.
father, the hods being ghosted la him pronantar's)
yard. Shad November last he bad soloed aeosiderable
geastitl of roes, and the ropes now prodded were his
property, white had base played with others la an out-
house in his yard.
Croeuccamined Ooeld swear to the ropes by the
way in which the ends were tied. Hs tied them him.
sell. lilt November he believed it was. The cathode In
which the ropes win kept was not looked, bat the gate
leading to the yard was; so that dyed whoa in the
yard would have doses to the outhouse. The key of
the gate was hang up leaded it, so that a perdu outside
could read over, take the key, aid thereby gabs
estrange to the yard.
Chador Ostler, 12 years of age, said last Wednesday
he saw the boy Newbury sear Kr. Hades yard, and
he asked him to take some rope to Kr. Haresse's, the
arid at ore dealer, wad he did. Hr. Herman said
he thought the property wasaot coats by hearsay, and
be tali 'him the boy who seat him with it lived in
Peas-law, sod tie thou told me to go and tell the boy
hisasal to did He (lateen) balalaika adage there
before, sad had money ier thus.
Orom-examisods He did ad tell Mr. Harman that a
boy salad lf.itshell slat him with it. He did not
ksow what the beg oordelaed 1411 the primmer told
. . . . . .

Mr. Humus &posed to tbe Lail wit's=
the ropes prodaeod to ilia, sad be told blai he &WIZ
detoln th. Übe aseerialawl bow SWIPED obtained.
Its selosequatly gars Ids repo to P.C. P
Oreeweraninedi : Ile bad net told Ilse isTlosees
lathier tbat °Ala Sold Ida a boy aimed Mlitabell had
seas hum . . .

Poonoroy !woks to apwookanding Von Owner,
whoa be said right, I don't know saynkW about
IL" 110 rionnind Mu rope proclaimed tram Mc
II aroma.

. Wotan &rimed thiss there yea not saleleat
srlsleam to beim home the theft; bitherto the boy
had boom an a:What aisametw, mid he hoped the
magistrates would not email him toe tdal, and
thsraby brawl him as a leLsa to, ever.
After • seasaltatloa, the Mayer said the magistratis
had resolved I. dimes the ores; at Me or.. time
hi trastad that It Todd hs • wanting so it. madam es
to hls maduot In Ms fats,. ; Mr, hives ha was brought
before them &gala, Ise would be omersly dealt with.
Comm Parrr fisaitors. Batarday.—Belon B.
Thornton, G. Worry, and L !area Warn
Join TO,, was charged with beim drank at Puddletowa. on
the 7th rabruary.—P.O. Bishop proved the oami.—Diamiamed
with • reprimand.
Mau Smith a. Game Jamer.—TlM was All adfliallon sate,
but it m. diorama for want of oorrehoratlr. alarms

00IaITT Coosiabursday.—Beiore T. K. P. Lefroy,
adff•J
smog v. Lake.—PIMMIS keeps • general shop at
Weide. Newton, sad this plaint mem out of • disputed
semen! and • setoff. Mr Weston for defendant,
objeelled to items te the MOIRA Oi Si 4o 74; and the
plaintiff disputed that pert al the eleim l. reel In the
es4-eff. The trot item 66.ndaet °Nested towns Is 614
for °arrante sad reline, whisk the WM said were
immeshed with paean, sad spoilt the pulling; Him
3s 44 for • spring of pork that proved bad as boiling,
sad the assistants in the shop dlreetsd her to bury it.
lir Hoot.. plaintiff's shoputen, said he had not heard
them complaints before. Senegal items charged galena
deeded having, sad others were paid for at the time.
loaf arm sous, mid Am La" and she reenrued it.
September 24 wee °barged a bottle at peek la
(laughter). Kr Hood a:plats:od it wee "Spanish Peet,"
sad that they had Gilbey's money. Ma Weston said
September 24 wm ea Sudsy. Hes Hood mid the had
sever heard of buy &sane to the weant till new. as
to the rent, plaintiff alleged the eharge should be Is
per week Instead of the 1. 64 slalomed, sad that six
months mare time woo shaming than &amid be. After
a very long investiption. his Hamm diseostaind both
claim and set-off, sad gave plaintiff jiidgmest tor the
balance £B3. 44, whisk, It seemid, wadi pretty sear lbs
sum arrived at betweee the parties.
Haorpt Winssr, of .ft4Sn& v. J. Chereldll.—Nr
Wastoe applied out behalf ci defendant for an adjourn-
meat to astable him to plead • set-off, sad also the
statute of lizoltstioao The Jed's mid he did not con-
sider the letter plea NAHUM to any iadulgenes, and
would not grant the adjoernment ; for the set-off he
:maid bring a arms action. The Maim was 636 17s 24
groccrisn, and principal sad interest of • note of hand
for 630. Plaintiff said the note wee drove by Mr
Marley, of Germ, and he (libuley) 11129111 " John
Ohm:shill" at the fool in pecell, and it was alleged
plaintiff wrote over it, and evidently the Names had
been tumid by tomebody.
Defendant deeded taking the bill (dated November,
1864) to plaintiff, sad miming the mosey.
The Judge: Don't be se quick; your manner is that
of • man who bee screwed up his °mirage as to whet he
will swear there is sash • *lag as an indistemnt for
Our,. Yes are new In • very pesiell• position.
you take that note to Winstrat say time
Defendant I Never.
Did you ever resolve 120 from him 2-16% sever.
Then this Is all a falwiesidas A Ile ? The note aad
the MO ere • lie sever received the 81.11.30 Answer my geestion, /11 the nets fir pro.
budag to be Awed by Eise td be whole thing • Sel—
-1 noon signed 'nth • le my llis.
Is it • lie to say you POOt—I never readved

-1.14 d you ever barrow say maaay al Ida I—Vaa bat
that I baire
la It i Us that this sob WM aver slimed by you !
Yes.

Have you ever nom OS solo Wore 7—Never, WU
DOW.

d you ever have say *.Lk wait Marla goat tt ?
No'

T. Judge inquired who lb Maria was. Yid ige
POVo. who was gamed at the owe, eekt
Attare picric at tine, sad added hi knew nothing
of this staoeitetioa.jjeaggeoled to hie Bosom that
dideadaat readwai Ye maker *met 11!!1?o7.
Kb Roam to bohoiloal s UN Fes mg
wow from Woke 1-210.