The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-27 00:00:00

DORCH ESTER.

The Dorchester Farmers' Club commences ite winter
session nest Saturday evening.

blesicurAL—Tbe retiring Councillors for tkis borough
at the ensuing election arc ilessro. G. J. Andraws, M.
Devenish, It. Steele, sod W. Slade.
Tug Hertfori Agricultural Soeiety have awarded a
prise to Mr Henry Sarum architect and surveyor, of
this town. for • pair of cottages for agrioultursl
labourers.

LoSDoN CITT iiISSION.—The annual meeting was held
at ths Guildhall, on klunddLy evening, when the Bev. F.
Tyrrell gave interesting ili•tsilv of the mission work.
The collection amounted to Ui J.

linitcursTatt 26T11 OCTOBR• FAIR.- A much larger
nansber of I. hoep were penned than usual at tbis fair,
but trade was excessively dull, not half on offer were
sold, and those wbiab changed bands aid in at priors
unprecedentedly low, and much less than at late fairs.

Tug eminent Reading seedsmen, Messrs. Sutton,
offer three speciai prises for Sutton's Champion Swede.,
at the Royil Berkshire Rout show, on the 2dth Nov. ;
and sorely, with all our clever Dorset agricultariets,
one or two of them ought to come into this 'sleety.
CHURCH ARBOCIATION.—The Rev. E. W. Pears. M.A.,
Is announoed to give • lecture on "The Priest upon his
throne, and his counterfeit,,' this (Tuesday) evening, at
the Guildhall. The rev gentleman will doubtlesirgive,
u heretofore, • trenchant enpobure of the vagaries of
those clergymen who are iluing their best to make the
ehurch ridiculous, in the eyes of all thoughts' persona

CONCIRT.—The first concert for the mason by the
Dorcherter Chore' Society was given co Thursday lest,
and, we are gratified to record, with a success which
augurs well for them which are to follow, notwithstani•
ing that us this, their opening night, they were deprived,
thiwigh illness, of the stryi,es of Mr. R. Parmiter,
whose effort. to entertain the audience on former
oecisAions have been so signally suocessfuL We eon-
g lute the conductor, Mr. J. Robinson. on the
marked improvement to be observed in the glePeingiog
and, indeed in the performances generslly. Of the
concerted pieces, " Tbe May Fly," and "Murk the
Merry Elves," were particularly worthy of commend-
ation, and elisited hearty spplause. Master Rum•ey,
who bus a charmingly sweet voice, sung "Beautiful
Spirit of Love," very nicely, and was unsnimously
encored. The duet, "Slowly and softly music should
flow," in which be also took part with Master Andrews,
was re-demanded ; these youths give grist promise a
future excellence. Mr. Emott and Mr. [layman were
well received in the several wags they gave, set Mr.
Holland, on whom lay the whole burden of the comic
songs, meetly promoted the hiliarity and good humour
which have resulted from his efforts at other concerts,
An improvised song touching the election at Dorchester
provoked much merriment. Altogether, the concert
spewed to be much tnjoyed by the large audience
assembled.

TOR RFTFuneral-Ms OF TOE BOROUGH. Until
within the last few dap, it seemed that Dorchester was
not going to experience any contest at tbe ensuing
election, but • gentleman has been found to come for.
ward in the Liberal interest, and he is now vigorously
canvassing the borough. The new candidate is Mr.
Francis Somerville Mead, of London, and it seems that
he is first eousin to C. W. Digby, Eel., of Studland, in
this Gooney. For several years Mr. /lead was in
the East India Company's service, and of late, we
believe, he has been connected with railways, dock, and
other Important induateral enterprise' in thia country.
Of course, the appearance of a new 'spirant to the
honour of reprmenting our ancient borough has leel to a
strict *mewing of the relative merits of the two
andidates, and a close comparison of the political
eprincipise professed by them. It may be well, therefore,
if we briefly inlicate the more salient results of such
an examination ; and, in doing this, it is
our desire to exercise rigid impartiality, for we have
neither party nor private interest to serve, being
thoroughly and in all respects independent. We seek
alone the good of our fine old borough,and hope, for Its
sake, and for the sake of our 'common country, that
the beat man of the two candidate' may be chosen. In
considering the merit" of Colonel Start, we cannot
overlook the fact that he Is a Dorset man, the worthy
con of • worthy father, ;whole name is bonoareVand
revered throughout the °minty, and that for twelve
Fran be has served the borough in Parliament.
His hrother—Mr. Gerard Start —has • good deal of pro-
perty in the borough ; the hon. member himself, we
are sorry to believe,none at all; and, the feet of even •
candidate's brother having local property, is invatiably
associated at election time. with something like
coercion on the tenants. It is only fair, however, te
say that so farce we have ever learner!, no attempt at
undue influents° has been rued ; and, further, we think
that it would not be very eueoesefel, for—and we hope
nobody will tell Mr. Sturt we have wild so—the occu-
piers of that property invariably pay, we believe, the
xtreme value of it. Elected as • Oeueervative he has
oyally supported that party in crone% divisiom, but
'upon many important measures he loss &weeded party
ties, and taken the independent muse his jecant
indicated, although it lad him to vote against the Cos-
servelives ; izt lift be has given no end of trouble I

the Party "whip," and must bays been in that ofdelal's
estimation, a great manse to two other members
from this county—Mr. R.Brooks and Mr. Treeby, who
could always be relied on. Flogging in the army, Colonel
Stunt has aways opposed, greatly to the annoyance of
"the powers that be;" and the bon. member is stil
' dead against the barbarous practice. We are the more
anxious to aaylithis, because through oar error in the
last division in the House on this subject, we reported
the lion. member as pairing for dogging, and, although
we corrected the statement next week, an
erroneous impreassion on the subject seems still to
linger in the minds of some. He has also supported a
reduction of the tea duty against his party; and, it
will be remembered that be voted in favour of Mr.
Gladstone's church-rates abolition bilL Colonel Start
may, therefore, fairly say, that be has voted "without
subservience to either great Party in the state." He
Is also entitled to credit for willing and suooeadul efforts,
as a member of Parliament, to 'drones the interests as
be best might of Dorchester boys and men.
Thus au& for Colonel Start, and we hope we have
treated him fairly and justly. Hat, he will oppose Mr.
Gladstone'e proposal to disestablish the Irish church,
ordering that the establishment shoeld be reformrff.
Mr. Head, on the other hand, whose personal qualifica-
tions, so far as we know of them, we have before
indicated, believes that the diseetablishment of the Irish
church would bone injury to true religion and has become
necessary. This is the touchstone of party at the present
time. Mr. Head would alsosupportthelinancial rolicy of
Mr. Gladstone. which has been so peculiarly suecessful in
former year& The hon. candidate advanced • local
reason, when •ddreesing the electors on Friday night,
for returning him, viz., the result it would have in the
debuts which is sure to arise in the new Parliament as
to the futther disfranehisement of small boroughs..
We refer our readers to the fall report of the
epeech in another column, on this point, for
it is 000 deserving consideration ; as is also
the further obvious reason hinted at—that if
the Liberals come into power they might be less
anxious to disfranehise • small borough 'Morning •
supporter than an opponent. Go general politics there
seems to be but little difference between the two can-
didates, gave respecting the Irish church; and
personally, although the Colonel has the advantage of
being a tried Dorset man, there is no doubt Mr. Head,
notwithstanding that ne is a stranger is a gentleman,
and would prove a useful member of Parliament. We
trust that the electors will not act rashly in this matter,
bat will consider calmly and discreetly who to likely
to be the best man for their local interests and for the
genera good of tbe country, and, having done that,
will seek to plain him at the head of the polL

BOLOUG El PETTY SESSION& Monday.—Before G.
Carole, Esq., (mayor), and J. Bishop, Esq.
Sicaliw2 a Jneket.—Tolu Shiner and Ann Taylor, were
charged, on remand from Tuesday, with stealing •
jacket, value Is. 6d, belonging to Caroline Henry,
hawker. It seemed the jacket was left in the market
room at the George Inn, on Monday afternoon, when
the prisoners were there, and on the next day Shiner
was found wearing It. He said the woman Taylor had
given it to him, saying it belonged to her late husband.
The woman bad the jacket at the White Horse on
Monday night, when the male prisoner was with her.—
Each sentenced to a month's hard labour.
A (leap Loin of At utim—Jane Brown, • native of
Manchester, was brought up for stealing a lion of mutton
belonging to Mr. Harry Read, of the George Inn. It
steins the mutton was hung up mar the back door, and
the risoner stole it, and sold it to Mr'. Blandamer,
of the Crown Inn, for Is.- -The Bench asked Mrs.
Blandamer to give some amount of her part of, the
transaction, remarking that her conduct had been any-
thing but creditable or satisfactory. Mrs. Blandarner
said that the prisoner came into her shop, and, after
asking the price of the fish in the window, offered her
the mutton, saying that it was just 41b., and that she
bad given 84. a pound for it, but, being unable to
cook it, and being unwilling to see it spoil, she would
sell it to her (Blandamer) foe 2s. She refused, when
defendant still pressed her, and at hut threw it down
and told her to give her • shilling for it, which she did.
—The Bench strongly censured Mrs. Blandamer for her
conduct, and said that if she again appeared, under
similar circumstances, they would feel it their duty to
deal with her as • wilful receiver of stolen goods.—
Prisoner pleaded guilty, and WAS sentenced to two
month's hard labonr.

.I.*l bat on Me Pa ice.-ILuk Crate, of Fordington,
was charged with cresting 'disturbance early on Sunday
morning in Cuckold's-row, and assaulting P.C.
Mitchell, and Ann, his wife, was charged with attempt-
ing to rescue him from costody.—Mark was sentenced
two month's hard labour, and his wife was discharged
Our Boys. —Charles INorriii, a Yonlington lad, was
snmmoued by Mrs. Duckley, for malting use of abusive
and profane language towards her on the 16th inst.
—The Bench gave him a csation, and discharged bun
on payiag the costs.

DIVISIONAL PATTY SAMMONS. —Saturday : Before H.
Esq., (Chairman), It. 0. F. Steward, It.
W. Williams. and C. Bo Astell, Ewpw.
Usituieret Possession of Cane at Osesisgton.—Thomas
Hibbs and William Hibbs, of Osinington, were charged
with unlawfuLly having game in their posseosion, and
Thome. Hibbs was further charged with asetulUng the
police officer in the raw:intim' of his duty. Mr. It N.
Howard appeared for the defendants. From the
evidence of the pelt*. officer it appeared that having
received information, he went to the Plough Inn at
osmington, where he found the two defendants, who
had to waggon and three horses outside. He called them
out, when be searched the waggon, and found a basket
oontaining three partridges and one rabbit. The r.bhit
and one of the birds were apparently stale, whiltt the
other two were atill warm and bleeding, as if ju it shod.
He told the 1A.11441%14 they had wine by the game en.
lawfully, and he should take it.. When he took the
basket out if the waggon the defendants seised it, and
Thomas owe round behind him, bent oue of hit thumb
hack, trampled on his feet, and otherwise endeavouiel
to make him looae his hold of the basket. 'When he
first went to them they said they had not got any genie
it all. Cross-examined by hr. Howard: Ile did
not nee the iron before meeting them at the
Plough Inn. He did not see them come off
any lands whatever. He received his information
at Osmington, bat he had not brought forward
the person from whom it was derived. He did not
think it neoesaary to do so.—For the defence Hr.
Howano contended that there wee no ease against the
two men, as no ono had seen them oome oft any land
belonging to any gentleman in the neighbourhood, and
lie was of decided opinion that the person wise furnished
the policeman with his information ought to have
appeared to give evidence. His clients were wholly on.
•INOUI Of the presence of the bathet in the waggon.—
The Bench,however,oonsidered the *barge fully proved,
and fined both defendants 204. sod coats each for
poaching, cud Thomas Hibbs a further 204. for the
assault on the constable. - -

l'ortrhiwg through Wattfi—Charles Foot, of Dewlish,
was charged with taking • rabbit on lands belonging to
Sir John Michel. He pleaded guilty but stated that belied
• wife and five children, and had not been able to obtain
employment for some months. He had, previona to his
being discharged,,been is Biz John's employ between 17
and 18 years. Taking these cireamstances into
consideration, and an this was his first offence, the
Bench discharged him with • caution as to his future
oondnct. . _ .

" Artr Id" for wood at Pamecknowle.—Rebecca
Darby and Ann Con were charged with stealiug dead
fence, the property of Mr. Symonds, at Puncknowle.—
Chaffey saw the defendants robbing the (owe
around Mr. Symonde's property. He took it away
from them, when they said they had picked it up in
Mr. Coca field. He had received several oomplaints
from farmers respecting the alarming rate at whisk
their fenoes disappeared. In defence both women ssid
they were not in the habit of "going avield" for wood,
as they could pick up plenty around their own dwellings.
—Ordered to pay Is. each.
The Begun of °airs!, " StenwiNg."—George Morris,
Thomas Christopher, and Frederick Cross, were charged
with trespassing in pursuit of game on land in the
occupation of Mr. Saunders, at aluston, on Tuesday,
October M. Cross only appeared. It appeared the
three defendants were observed getting into • sold near
lluston Cope', after which Cross was men to creep up
by the side of the hedge to watch ; but upon discovering
there were others on the alert, he signalled to his
companions and they all decamped, leaving on the
ground 15 wires set. William Wells followed them to
the road and asked to see what Cross had in his basket.
when Cross replied that if he dared too It he would
knock his -- eye out.—ln defence Cross entered into
details of • " snagging" excursion, on which be said he
was engaged when stopped by Wells, but some point' of
the story being extremely contradictory, the magistrates
could not adopt it, and fined all three it and costa.
. . . . _

Nord Mode of 'Re:naafis; a Defertire Pair of Scales.
—Edmund Stevens. dniryinao, of fibbotsbury, was
charged by Supt. Underwood with having a pair of
scales, with which he weighed butter for sale,
lox. Clime., against the purehaser.—Defendant ad-
mitted that the scales were ineorreet, but said he
regulated them by placing 2id. worth a coppers mu,
piece of tin in them. and then they were oorrect.—
Defendant was informed that be most keep just wales
for his use, and, on promising to obtain them imme-
diately, be was fined only fie. and the costa were
remitted. _ . .

Strayung Calfteal Rompiskam.—Peter Davis, baker,
of Hagopian= mos charged by P.O. Use. with allowing
a hone and cow to stray on the highway oath, night
of the Ist and the morning of the 2nd October. The
constable found the cow straying about half pelt 11
on the evening end with the misistance of two other,
drove back the cow and on his return about one o'clock
be found the horse was also on the road which he also
drove to the defendant's house who admitted that the
animals were his. When he told the defendant about
it he wan very abusive, and said he should Dot go to
Dorchester, but if he was fined a sovereign he did not
core as be should turn the animals out again, and by
that means make the money up. He could swear that
defecd•nt made use of thou words.—llefendant's sister
appeared, and in the most helmsman terms sought to
justify her brother's conduct, as • last resource enquired
of the bench whether it was lawful to serve two
summonses on one at night, and upon being answered in
the affirmative, seemed to be greatly discommoded.
Fined 10s. and oats.