The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The East Dorset Hounds—Tuesday (this day),
Chetterwood ; Thursday, November 7, Cashmoor
Inn--at half-past ten.
Mr. Radelylre's Hounds—Thursday, November 7,
Basin Hill, near Dewlish -at eleven.
Lord Poltimore's Hounds—Wedneeday, Bradford
Plantation; Friday, November 8, Traveller's
Rest; Saturday, 9th, Coker Wood —at
eleven.
The Blackmoor Vale Foxhounds -- Wednesday,
Compton Castle; Friday, November Stb, Ven ;
Saturday, 9th, Clifton Wood—at eleven.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Cox PetalLsoio is the motto that onghtio be
doptiod by the newly-elected TOM Councilmen

of Weymouth ; professedly, they all go into the
Council Chamber unbiassed by party feeling,
and with an holiest rind independent determine.
tiou to do their duty towards the town. Such
was the profession of Mr. Hibbs when he entered
the Council ; but we put it to the rca.l,rs of um
own or any other journal that gives a faithful
record of the Town Council proceedings, wliether
he has ever been anythieg, either in Ilia speaking
or his voting, but the " echo" of his political
chief. Such also were the professioes of the
Tory denlidates last yell% They denounced tkie
mere supposition of being " party" men, Wit
have they on any occasion opposed the men
" wot pulls the strings as makes the puppets
dance r In their business transactions, and in
their affairs of private life, the newly-elected
members may be irreproachable ; and in all pro-
bability the promisee they made and the profes-
sions they gave utterance to ou Saturday at the
Town Hall were not intended to deceive. Rut
they are really tied hand and foot to the faction
that secured their return by the aid of "golden"
considerations. The supposition that they are
free and independent is a delusion as great as
that of the maniac who fancied that he was
monarch of the universe ; that the cell iii which
he was confined was a stately palace ; the fetters
by which he was bound priceless jeiar, and his
keepers Lords in waiting They did not obtaiu
their seats by unpurchased votes ; and the
party that secured their election did so from
party motives. They acre perty men, and
they bad confidence in them that they would do
party work. Nor do we anticipate that such
confidence will be found to have been misplaced.
We know that it has become very fashionable to
say that politics have nothing to do with those
questions which come before the Town Council,
inasmuch as the questions are mercantile and
local. We admit this; still it is well known that
there is a bias given to most of the matters under
consideration, according to the stand-point from
which the action is taken. The stand-point of
those who are of liberal opinions differs very
largely from the stand-point of the other party.
The one is progressive ; the other retrogressive.
We tell Mr. Thomas and his newly-elected col-
leagues plainly, that so long as they remain
political partizans of those aho HOW hold the
reins of local government, they must vote and
act in the Council chamber as their rulers may
dictate. It is by the privelege of their chiefs
they must vote.
The annual dinner of the City of Worcester
Conservative Society was held on Wednesday
last, and Sir John Pakingtoe, who has been
''starring" it pretty strongly in the provinces
during the present antme-i, was among this
guests. Sir John took great encouragement to
himself, and gave great encouragement to his
friends around him, from the present prospects
of the Conservative party, end the progress
Conservative opinion is making all over the
country. But how about the Plymouth election I
Will not the return of a Liberal in the room of a
Tory for that borough be a somewhat hard nut
to crack for the prophets of a Conservative re-
action 1 Sir John is not sure that Conservative
principles are not those of a majority of the
present House of Commons. Lord Palwerstoir,
he says, is a Conservative at bottom, only
fortune has given him for the time being strange
allies. But the hon. baronet cannot trust his
lordship's principles, and for this rason—his
lordship cennot trust them himself. Sir John is
of opinion that but for the strong party spirit
that exists, the Conservative party would be
Stronger. This is very different from the
opinion expressed by Major Beresford the other
day, when alluding to this subject. Bub
if party spirit runs high Among the Liberals,
does it not run equally high among the Conser-
vatives I If we are to judge of the matter by
their accredited organs, we should say that
there are amongst the Conservatives those who
are by no means lacking in inieharitahleness
towards their political opponents. As a matter
of course the hon. baronet thinks Conservatism
the salt of the political world, and it is because
there was a deficiency of that element in America
that its present es ils have fallen upon it —the
root of the American War being, not slavery as
some suppose, nor the tariff as others imagine,
but democracy. This is giving an entirely new
phase to the war in America.
A Paris correspondent of the hideprndenee
Beige learns from a reliable source that the joint
expedition to Mexico by France, England, and
Spain, has other objects in view Plan those which
nominally and ostensibly it is designed to
A time must come, says the correspondent re-
ferred to, when the cotton blockade can be no
longer tolerated, and the furthest period allotted
for the game now being played by the North and
the South is fixixl for January 1862. If the
South be not beaten into submission by that
time, its independeuce will be recognised by
France and England, and in these circumstances
a force in the neighbourhood of Mexico 'might
have Be uses. Whatever may be the views and
intentions of France, it is by no means likely
that the Government of England have become
parties to such a compact as that implied in the
above. The time may indeed come, and we
think must, when England will recognise
the independence of the South, just as she has
recognised the independence of Italy, hut the
period of such recognition has not yet been
fixed.

The Board of Trade returns of the past month
show, in a more complete manner than any pre-
vious ones, the disastrous effects of the American
war upon the commerce of this country. It ap-
pears that the falling off of our export business
in consequenee of the cessation of our transat-
lantic trade in the month of September of the
present year, as compared with that of the
corresponding month of the preceding year, is
nearly two millions and a half sterling, or about
18 per cent. Nor is this the extent of the evil.
The high price of cotton is telling on the sale of
our cotton manufactures to all quarters, and this
is particularly remarkable when we compare the
exports of this class. As compared with the
corresponding period last year, the exports of
cotton goods to all parts of the world were :
September, 1860, £4,256,800; September, 1861,
£2,846,953. Our importations of cotton, how-
ever, are greater than our most sanguine specu-
lators seemed at one time to think. During the
month of September they were nearly 150,000
owts. in excess of the corresponding month last
year. This increase is accounted for by the
more than usually large supply from India. 'lle
supply from other countries is also gradually in-
creasing, aml as the consumption is diminished
through the high price of the raw material, there
is some reason to hope that the coming winter
may be passed through with less difficulty than
was at first anticipated, even should matters got
worse on the other side of the Atlantic than they
are at present.
The electors of Plymouth have broken the
bonds that formerly tied them to the Conserva-
tive party, and have sent the Liberal candidate
to Parliament, backed by a majority of 200
vetes over his opponent. Every condition of
the fight was in favour of the Conservatives. The
seat was vacated by a Conservative, who used
every endeavour to secure the seat for a candi-
date of his own choice. The magistrates of the
neighbourhood generally, and the beershop
keepers were on theirside,yet they signally failed-.
" It is not that an accident lamed their horse; it
is not by a neck or a nose that the victory was
achieved. The running was perfectly fair from
one end of the course to the other, and the
Liberals cantered their horse past to the winning
post, with the humiliated favourite toiling on
several lengths behind. Compensation is thus
afforded to the country for the lost vote in South
Lancashire, and a very sharp answer is returned
to all that has been said of the "Conservative
reaction." _ _

Ths first investiture of the pew order of the

"Star of India," was held at Windsor on Friday,
and several individuals, eminent for their social
stations, and the noble deeds they have done in
trying circumstances, were invested with the
badge of honour. These were the Prince Con-
sort, the Prince of Wales, General Gough, Lords
Harris and Clyde, Maharajah Dhuleep Singh,
Sir John Lawrence, and Sir George Pollock, and
other names well known in the history of the
Indian Mutiny :—Clark, Outram, and Rose ;
Tayinat All Khan, Sokunder Begun, and Yount'
All Khan; Scindiab, Holkar, tho Guicowar ;
Rumbeer Singh, and Narindur Singh have been
nominated for investure. Several of these men
have won names as bright as any star with which
royalty can decorate them, and the Star of
India" will not suffer in their keeping. The
highest panegyric we can pronounce on them is
that they deserve the honour, and they will no
doubt appreciate it all the more highly that they
share it along with the husband of the Queen, and
the future King of England.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN M•RICIT, Saturday,
Noy. 2.—We bad a good attendance at market to-
day, and a fair amount of business was transacted at
prices the same as on Saturday last; but our remarks
must be understood to apply only to retail quanti-
ties—sales of heavy lots could not be made.
MFASKS. BAKER AND MOOR'S ItZPOBITORY SALE,
Saturday, Nov. 2.—Supplies not very large. Beef
told freely at higher rata*, Mutton was a dull trade,

being niiistly of an inferiiv gullity. Fat pigs sAil
haish• A ber of horses
_were allt) li.poiel f.
t7,Elitiits A CCIIMNT. -:011 Sturdy last an accident
of a 'lathe serious nature happened to a boy, nameil
.nyre, inpluyeil in Mr. I lalpiti's ironfoutulry. It
Apr ars thst in lowering a machine the chains aaVe
mi'r the isiiir Isiy, who WaY beneath, hail his
Inlac"t 01.0 I.ylii ,Ii machine. Tie was
umivtii.il to the hospital, where every 4trittion was
!ail him.

Meal" !PAL Ir:LErriox.-Thu election of four
Town Lames:demon to till the vacancies 4.1 the retiring
member., who effered the:melee. for re-eleetien, took
(awe on Friday. Is enneequence of the Mayor
beileg mie of the raiellidives. he app anted Mr. .1.
Emor to aet a his deputy to receive the voting
tap re, and that gentlemen sat with the asseaeors,
Mr. Gregory and - Mr. Durden, (the latter having
1"e" aPP"ifiteel off the previous day in the nem' of
Mr. Luke ( ;mere, deceased.) At the eloao of the poll,
the• numbers street thee: Dr. A I.lrielge 236 ; J•
2.12 ; M. Devenieh, 21a ; J. `F. Ileelges 217,
F. Bennett 42 ; and R. Daneon, Fordingtan,
I. It "as entire-44"ml that Mr. Damon dot
not tam:thin the aet of being put in . nomi-
nation, and Mr. F. Bennett also declined to coine
forward at the present time. The four retiring
meinbere were elected. The whole of the proceed-
ings passed off in au amicable manner.
Naw TowN Coly.wiLSM:r. - The reelected
members of the Council attended at the council
chamber on Monday, and made the usual declaration
pre-smile-41 by the Municipal Act.
Cor:CrY Yarn' SasSIONN.-The Magistrates
presentat the County l'etty Sessions, Dorchester,
on Saturday, were H. Williams, Esq., Captain
Manning, and M. Wiffinius, EN. There were a
larger number of cases than usual for adjudication, ,
and although the magistrates sat till half-past, 5
o'clock, the linnse-breaking I ASO from Minickton was
ndjourned till the following Tuesday.
lloitoeuit PoLica, Munday.-Before the Mayor,
and R. Davis, J. linear, and J. Galpiti, Beira -Dr. '
Fox, of Weymouth. attended before the Bench and
stated that lie would ask leave to withdraw the pro•
emotion ageing Mrs. Fox, of Fordingten, awl
Churchill and his wife, charged with stealing several 1
articles frau a box belonging to his daughter. He
hail ascertained that defendant's statement was true, I
that Mrs. Fos did receive a letter and post-office
order, anti that a parcel lad also been sent for her
fruni London. Ile thought, therefore, Oust when she
received his daughter's box, she was under the. ine.
presaion that it was Ora parcel netentled fur her.
Although, therefore, after the mistake was found
out, the whole of the things were not returned to
the box, lie believed there was 11,, felonious intent.
He considered, however, that there was, to say the
least, great carelessness at the King's Arun in giving
op a box toMrs. Fox, of Fordingten, when it was
addressed to Miss Fox, at Weymouth.-The Mayor
rmitably addressed the prisoners, and they were dis-
charged.—Feunk Cleat was charged by a person
named Acourt, a carter in the employ of Mr. Samuel
Penny, of Weymouth, with cutting the Hap of his
wagon tilt, and also with &moulting
Andrews attended for the defendant •-The complain-
ant said that on Saturday, 26th of October, ho was
returning from Piddletown, and on arriving at Grey's
bridge, defendant asked for a ride. He told hinitffie
would have allowed him to ride had he come civilly,
Ind as he came with such "check" he would not.
He then went inland defendant took hold of the tilt,
which he told him to let get, or he would strike him
with the whip. Ile bad a dog iii the wagon which
growled. On arriving opposite the Exhibition Hotel
he heard the prisoner eating the flap of the tilt
behind. lie then laid hold of him, end placed his
whip round his neck till assistance came, when de-
fendaut struck him. Defendant afterwards laid hold
of boo, and said he would take him to the police.
station. Hu gave the dile:admit into cus-
tody, and on his being searched a knife was found
in his pocket -The defence seal that defendant was
co g down the street when the complainant laid
hold of him, and that he was not the person who had
asked for a ride at Grey's bridge.-The lanich thought
the identity had been clearly proved, and defendant
was lined 20s. for the offence, los. damage, and the
coste, to be paid forthwith.. The Bench also com-
mended Acnurt for apprehending the defendant,
it hen he found him damaging his masters's property.
- -Herbert 0(1.64 and George Critchell were br,,ugbt
up, charged by Mr. Greven, pork butcher, High
East•street, with ate-cling a Hitch of pork from his
prenities.- Mr. Weston appeare.l fur the prosecution,
and Nlr. Andrews for Curtis-The prosecutor said
lie bad recently lust smite pork from his smoking.
house. A haul and a Hitch were put in his enloking-
house, at the back of his dwelling-house, ore.Wedues-
day, tel he missed them e,ii Friday morning. He
informed the police of the robbery. lle knew the
four pieces of pork produced by P.C. Cousins. It
was no portion of the pork lie missed on Friday
morning. It was 1011IC he received from Mr.
Beunett on the 25th October, about four o'clock in
the afternoon. Roberts carried them to the smoking-
houses, and prosecuter hung them up. There was
no im 'king then. The tires were relighted on Mon-
day an wiling. The pork produced hal not been
inked. and must have been taken between
the Frilay evening and the following Mon-
day morning. He knew the pork by the mode of
its being cut. All butchers cut their pork differently.
When the pork was brought to him it was in One
piece. The pea•meal dusted over it was to make
the smoke stick to it. Cross-examined : He did not
know exactly how many sides lie had of his own
hanging in the smoking-house. He kept no book to
register what lie put in or took out.- P.C. Cousins
said, in consequence of information he received, he
searched the house of the prisoner Curtis on Friday
last. and found in the shop on the shelf, the port-
manteau, buckled up, the four pieces of pork, all of ,
which he now produced. Curtis keeps a second-hand
shop, but there was not much in it when he went
there. Curtis was not at home, The portinantoau
and pork had been in his possession ever since.-
William Roberts said he was in the employ of Mr.
Frederick Bennett, pork butcher and grocer. On
Friday, the 2.5 th ult., he took twu middles of pork
to be smoked. The pork produced is part of one of
the middles lie took dictum that day.-Mr. Weston
said this was as far as he could carry the case at pre-
sent, (nit as this was not the pork originally searched
for, he asked for a remand in the hope that other
facts would be brought light.-Mr. Andrews ad-
mitted that there had been sufficient evidence given
to call on the defendant to show cause bow he became,
posseereel of the meat, and to deal with the case.-Mr.
Weston said he should apply fors remand, but he cer-
tainly should oppose tail being taken, or it might fens.
trate the ends of justice. Mr. A nel rews considered the
defendaiit would be fully entitled to bail, and that ho
should offer such as the Bench would not refuse.-
The Bench thought there was sufficient to remand
him, but there being no evidence against Cradle!),
they bad no power of dealing with him.- Mr.
Weston said then he would go on with it.-P.C.
Cousins, re-examined, raid he apprehended Curtis at
the (treat Western Railway Station on Friday night
about a quarter before 10 o'clock, on the charge of
leaving stolen meet in his house. Prisoner said he
bought it, and that be gave Bd. per pound font a few
days ago. On craning from the station, Curtis asked
him what meat it was, and he told him it was souse
stolen from Mr. (troves's at the bottom of the town,
adding, "Utmost I buy meat only of Mr. Groves?
I often buy of other people." He afterwards said he
bought of Critchell, in consequence of which that
person was apprehended. This morning Curtis and
enteliell were together in the statinn house. The
superintendent told him to put Critchell into the
cell, and on his (witness's) return ho said to Curtis,
" that's the man, isn't it !' and Curtis said, "Yes,
that's the man I bought the pork of; he came into
my shop a week to-day, about eight in the morning,
to be ',Laved ; while lie was being shaved, he said
he bad a bit of meat that would just suit his family.
It was some he had left after harvest. He wanted
Oil . per lb. for it. I told him it was too much, I
would
,eive him M. per lb., and he maid "I should
have it." Critchell denied having sold the pork to
Curtis, and the Town Clerk told him he had better say
nothing about it.- Mr. Andrews Baia the evidence in
the case before Boon was now closed, as against his
client, and lie called on the Bench to dispose of that
once, either by a conimittal or dismissal. lie held
'bat his client had given a reasonable account how
he became poesmsed of the pork. The magistrates re-
tired, on and their return, the Mayor add, the Bench
had decided upon remanding both pnsouers till the
following day at 4 o'clock.
CoMWITTED To TIM DORCOLATSIt GAOL. -
Further gxamination : James Williams and Mary
Ann Williams, housebreaking at Martinstown.
Hard Labour: William Gillingham, assault on
police at Weymouth, 2 calendar mouths; James
Ilorlock, misbehaviour at Dorchester Union, 21
days; Daniel Keeley, leaving service at Bread-
winsor, 1 calendar month; Thomas Rockett,
vagrancy at West Chickerell, 4 days; Robert
Stevens, stealing fence at Litton Cheney, 14 days;
Rebecca Pearce, stealing table cloth, bedding &c.,
at Weymouth, 3 calendar mouths; George Wright,
stealing brass bowl at Bbusdford, 1 calendar mouth ;
Impruonmeut: George King, assault at Lyme
Regis, 14 days; William Legg, absent without leave,
H.M.S. Colossus, 42 days; Jeremiah Connor, the
same offence, 61 days.