The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

Dorottobirt.

We understand that the Hon. Grantley Berkeley4s
new work, in two volumes, "Anecdotes of the Upper
Ten Thousand, their Legend' and their Lives," con•
taming some most extraordinary and authenticated
ghost stones of castles, halls, and manikins, is now in
Ike hands of the publisher, and will soon appear.
COMM ITTID TO TUI DOJO= COUNTY GAnL.
Hard Labour: Henry Foot, asmult at Blandford,
1 month; Joseph Neal, drunk, doi., at Weymouth,
7 days; William Tucker, misbehaviour Came Union,
1 month; Isaac Moss, Matthew Alesander, Samuel
Whitman, Henry Holmes, and William Allen, smolt
at Weymouth, 1 month; (leome Evans, damaging
trees at Stinsford, 7 day.; William Arthur, and
John Arthur, vagrancy at Come Abbas, 7 days;
William Wheeler Ames, aroma on oonstable,
at Blandford, 3 month.; James gyms., William
Pitman, and George Brett, stealing fowls at Way.
mouth, 2 mintha ; John Cos and James Perris, steal-
ing timber at Toiler Porcorum, 7 daya.
LOND SHArrnmear'n Casa. —ln the Chancery
Court, on Biturday, before the Lord Chancellor, the
vim of Waters v. the Earl of Shaftesbury came in
, This was an appeal by the Earl of Shefteabory
agaibet a degree of Vioe-Chatiallor Stuart, whi.
! directed that lb the taking of the accounts betwe. n
the Earl and the plaintiff. who had been his steward
and receiver, the plaintiff should be credite • with
upwards of £3,000 es profit made by him in tlie
execution of certain draiusge works On the earl's
estate. The appeal rests on the ground that the
plaintiff was not entitled to make any such profit
for himself. Counsel for the appellant, Mr. Bacon,
Sir. ft. Palmer and Mr. Static • for tbe respondent,
the Attorney-General, Mr. Jew), Mr. Roupell, and
Mr. John Chester. The case was not coucluded.

SOUTH lON Coyle-ma' *DOLT EDUCATION SOCIZTY.
—II will be remembered that at the annual meeting
of this society, recently held at Basingatoke, it was
resolved to memorialise the Provident of the Council
of Education, urging that it would he • great boon
to education generally, and to evening school. in
rural places in particular, if payments were made for
results only in such evening schools, however
obtained, or that schools arranged in groups under
an organising oer.ilicated waiter, should be accepted
as taught by such master, even though the latter
was present only one evening each Week ; and that
boys under twelve years of age, it bona gar in.
dastrially employed, he recognised as eligible for
such grants. The reply to this memorial recently
received by the lion. and Rey. S. Best, states that
the Lord President, althougn desirous of meeting as
far as possible 'be wishes of those interested in the
cause of education, is unable, after careful consi-
deration, to approve of the alterations suggested in
the manner of distributing the publi, grant..

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THE New Quesx's COOFSIL OF vox WrETIRN
Qat:arr.—Of the three Queen's Counsel who have
just been added to the Western Circuit, Marra C.
G. Prideaux, H. T. Cole, and T. K. Kingdoo, the
two former are well known in and intimately con-
nected with Bristol. The last named (Mr. Kingdon)
belongs, we believe, to an Exeter family. Mr.
Prideaut is • son of the late sword beater, and •
brother of Mr. G. F. Prideaux, the well-knowit
solicitor, and for many year. the indefatigable
secretary of the Dolphin Society. The learned
counsel succeeded as the leader of the bar at our
quarter session ou the retirement of Mr. Stone a year
or t*o since, and he has well earned the reputation
of being an energetic and able advocate. Mr.
Prideaux is • thorough Conservative and High
Churchman, and be is • d evotededm irer of Shaksmare.
It is difficult for him to make a speech, either in or out
of his professional character, without impressing into
his argument some illustration from the works of our
great dramatic bard, and oocavionally his quotations
ere very felicitoua Ile was called to the bar in 19341.
Mr. H. T. Cole is a solvio- law of Mr. Stone. for so
many years a number of the bar of lb. Western
Circuit, and who, from his large and suoceeidel
practice as counsel for prisoners charged with grave
°frames, WU once playfully designated "the rock of
felon& ' Mr. Cole was called to the bar in 1h42, and
his natural ability soon brought him into practice
He originally reported the proceedings of the Western
Circuit for the Morniny CAronicle (then in ire palmy
days); and with another barrister on the Oxford
Circuit, who performed • similar duty for the Times,
was the cause of • resolution being adopted on each
circuit to the effect that it was inconsistent with the
dignity of the bar to report for newspapers. The
ritual and its then powerful contempeeary, the
Morning Otronide, upon that occasion taught the
bar a useful lemon. It was said that it was of no
importance to the public to be informed what
Lierticuler counsel appeared In Any case, however
great the advantao,e might be to the advocate himself,
and, therefore, so long as the resolutions in questiob
remained unreseinded, the Toare and Morning
Chronicle in their reports of the Oxford and
Western Circaita, contented themselves by stating
that "the counsel for the plaintiff, " "the
counsel for the defendant," "the counsel for
the proriecutioe," or "the counsel for the
prisoner," did or said so arid so. This punish•
meet was too bard to be borne. Both circuits re-
minded the resolutions, and virtually admitting that
it wee not ihoonelatAnt with the dignity of a horrid( r
to report for a newspaper, the nam-i of counsel
engaged in cases again appeared as before in repor
It should be stated that the provincial prase, to a
large extent, followed the example of the Time.,
Morning Chronicle during the time the war was
waged between the press and the bar ; and iii. fir
to add that the resolutions were disapproved by the
most eminent members of both circuits. Of Mr.
Kingdon we can only state aid he was called to the
bar in 1838, sod ham for some time past bad a good
practice as junior counsel.