The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

LATEST PROVINCIAL MARKETS.

Waantriercit, Saturday Oat. 3135. to
M. Bast week, 38s. to 50s); new wheat, —s. to —9.
Pet week, —a. to —a) Barley, 28e. to 43e. (last week,
Ina. to 435.); Oats, 245. to 28e. (last week, 225. to 28e.
Boson, 44a. to 50s. (last week, 445. to 508.)111b. loaf. lid.
—There was • good supply. Wheat was in request for
nod, and former rates were sustained, but the attend-
ant* of dealers war, short. Barley met • moderate
dornaad, and realised last week's rates.
tiourgarrres, Friday.—Old wheat, EIO 10i. to
Ell 10,1. ; new, EIO lfis. to Ell 10s. per load. Malting
bariey, 36a. to 40s. ; grinding ditto, 20.. to 28.. Oats,
Ms. to ; beans, 40.. to 50s. malt 64a. to ilOs. per qr. :
Flour 31s. to 325. (hi. per saak.—Tbe demand for
wheat wee steady, at the full rotas of this day week.
Barley, oats, and beaus met • fair inquiry, at previous
mon.

At the principal provincial corn markets on Saturday
last there was a fair supply a both old and DOW wheat,
and prices fully maintained last cluotations. Malting
barley was firm, and in some PAM a turn in favour of
the seller. Oats about the same, and beaus everywhere
fully as dear.

WORCESTER HOP MARKET, Orr, R.

Since our hut report of the Worcester hop-market
there has been • material change in the trade. A fort-
night or three weeks ago, at the opening of the scow&
hops advanced in price. fetching 70a. per cwt., and up to
selessquently very large supplies were sent in, and
the price fell to S. but choice samples still keep up
their value. The quantity of bops that have arrived
during the past week has been very large, and the city
Is imptegnated with the odour of the Weer herb. AU
th• warehouses are fall, and every spare place is
damned with Mac The Guildhall is for the ocean=
converted into a hop warehouse, and hop weighed are
found at their vocation in the public streets, 1,170
nano d the pudic soaks last Saturday, and 3,065
sookift",,„, wog. '7OO, pigging is now pretty well coup
sad with it the led harvest of the egaisoltaried
C7his part of Us (sentry. In fruit (do last) la alai"
unapt in a few favound

allowed

HoNESTE AUDA X.

Mit. Brie!Lucas, the President of the United ;
States, has despatched General Scott, Lieut.-
General of the American army, to British
Columbia, for the purpose of settling the differ-
ences which have arisen from General Haniey's
seizure of the Island of San Juan. The selection
of an officer of so much experience and judgment
as General Scott for this delicate and important
minion, is regarded at Washington and New
York as a proof of the earnest desire of the
United States Government to bring the question
at issue to a pacific settlement. Mr. Buchanan,
as Secretary of State, negotiated the Treaty of
1846, and is therefore well acquainted with its
provisions and with the grounds upon which
Great Britain claims the Island of San Juan.
This treaty, which concluded by an amicable
compromise the controversy between Great
Britain and the United States in regard to the
territory west of the Rocky Mountains, provided
that the line of frontier should be continued
westward from a point already determined by a
previous treaty "along the 49th parallel of north
latitude to the middle of the channel which sepa-
rates the continent from the island of Vancouver,
and thence southerly through the middle of the
said channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific
Ocean." It further provided that "the naviga-
tion of the whole of the said channel and straits
south of the 49th parallel of north latitude
should remain free and open to both parties."
Now it appears that there are two channels be-
tween the American continent and Vancouver's
Island,—the one a broad estuary forming a por-
tion of the Straits of FlICa and now called the
Gulf of Georgia, and the other a narrow passage
called the Canal do Hare, separating the island
of San Juan from Vancouver's Island. A line
drawn through the middle of the former leaves
the Island of San Juan far within the limits of
what have hitherto been considered as British
waters; while the Canal de Hare lies far to the
westward of the mid-channel between Vancou-
ver's Island and the continent, and is not struck
anywhere by the 49th parallel of latitude. The
question at 1218110 is therefore whether the line
which the treaty intended to be continued
through the "middle of the channel" is to be
drawn through the narrow passage which sepa-
rates Vancouver's Island from San Juan, or
through the broad gulf which lies between it and
the continent. The American Commissioners
contend that the narrow passage was intended to
be the boundary, while the British Commission-
ers assert that the existence of such a passage
was unknown to the statesmen who negociated
the treaty of 1846, and that by giving to Great
Britain and the United States the free navigation
of the channel which was to be the boundary of
their respective territories, the treaty manifestly
referred to the broad gulf or estuary which
divides the empires. General Harney's seizure
of the island while this question was still under
discussion might easily have brought about a
collision with our small military force in British
Columbia and our more powerful naval squadron
in the Pacific; but Admiral Baynes, the com-
mander of the latter, though urged by Governor
Douglas to take active measures for the expul-
sion of the Americans, declined to resort to
hostilities without orders from the Home Go-
vernment. It is now hoped that on receiving
General Scott's report, Mr. Buchanan will dis-
avow the seizure of the ialand, and that all
; further disputes will be prevented by bringing
I the frontier question to a speedy settlement.
Telegraphic despatches in anticipation of the
Bombay and Calcutta mails reached town on
Friday. It is reported from Calcutta that 8,000
' of the disbanded Indian army have accepted the
bounty and consented to go to China. The
Nana and Begum are in Nepaul, Feroze Shah is
r .
rmu Central India, and disturbances seem imminent
I at Jeypore and on the coast of Kattywar.

Ties project of a Ptisb-office Savings Bank, sug-
gested by Mr. C. W. Sikes, of the Huddersfield
Banking Company, seems to promise a great and
most beneficial extension of the Savings Bank
system. The two great points which remain to
be attained are, first, the most perfect and un-
questionable security; secondly, complete and
universal facility, in every part of the country,
of paying in deposits and of drawing upon the
same. The money-order offices throughout the
kingdom offer at once the most desirable and
effective machinery for the purpose in view.
They are open every day from ten till four,
whereas the Savings Banks in towns are rarely
open more than two or three hours in the week,
the very limited time given to business occasion-
ing a great amount of inconvenience, and leading
in a large number of cases, no doubt, to the
diversion of the funds which otherwise would
have been frugally employed to very different
purposes. The main features of Mr. Sikes' ad-
mirable plan may be concisely given in his own
words, from which it will be seen that there is
no difficulty in paying in the money and taking
the receipt, the trouble &pensioned by the trans-
action being indeed little more than that in-
volved in money-order transactions. "I would
suggest," says Mr. Sikes, "that the commission,
when appointed, shall be authorized by the
Legislature to issue Savings Bank interest notes,
such notes or receipts to bear interest at the rate
of two and a half per cent per annum, and to be
obtainable through the Money-order department
of the Post-offices through the United Kingdom.
As the receipt of shillings and sixpences would
entail an immense amount of writing without
corresponding benefit', and those small sums
oome within the province of the Penny Savings
Banks which are so rapidly increasing, I propose
that the haterest:aotas shall be for exact pounds,

amending from one to thirty—the maximum
_ to be deposited in a Savings Bank in one
year; and if success should attend the experi-
ment, all other denominations of notes up to one
hundred and fifty pounds, the maximum
sum allowed to be deposited in Savings
Banks, could be subsequently added. A de-
positor would present his interest note and
endorse it. If not personally known, the usual
signature book testa his identity, and for the
note a temporary receipt is given to him. The
PosrmasTze from the interest being exactly a
halfpenny per pound per month, or sixpence a
year, and incomplete months excluded, reckons
it at a glance, marks it on the note, and trans-
mits it to London to the credit of his office. On
being duly advised from St. Martin's-le-Grand,
he pays the depositor his money, receiving back
his temporary receipt, and the transaction is
complete." The plan has been submitted for the
consideration of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, and we are glad to have reason to
believe that there is every probability that the
difficulty which has attended the complete deve-
lopment of the Savings' Bank system will be
overcome by this very simple plan. We may
add that centralization, in this instance is—apart
from the obvious advantages afforded over the
existing country banks—a positive boon to the
public, to that portion of the industrial classes,
at least, who are intelligent enough to perceive
the superiority of one great, well regulated, Go-
vernment Institution over more local deposi-
tories of all kinds, where the management is
often as little satisfactory as are the officious
interference and the CApionnOfie sometimes exer-
cised by persons in a stratum of society com-
monly understood to lie above the ordinary level
of the Savings Bank economist.

DORCHESTER PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
There was a good attendance at market to-day, and a
liberal supply of wheat on offer. Farmers endea-
voured to obtain an advance but failed, the demand
was steady at last week's prices. Barley was plenti-
ful, best samples realizing full rates, inferior ones
could not be placed except at a redaction of from Is.
to 2s. per qr. Oats as last week.

Tux EAST Dons= Houiens met for the first time
this season on Tuesday, the 27th ult., in Shroton
Fair Field. This has been the time and place usually
selected for inaugurating the foxhunting season, and
sportsmen attend rather to inspect the cattle and
hounds and form an opinion of the promise for the
future, than in expectation of sport. The working
condition of the hounds, and the general appoint-
ments, appeared to give great satisfaction, and from
opinions expressed in the field, we should judge the
expectations of future sport were considerably raised,
The day was fine, and the meet attracted a large
number of the gentry and farmers, and also a great
concourse of spectators, who crowded on the heights
of Hod and Hamilton hills, whence was to be
obtained the best view of a run. The bounds were
thrown into cover at the foot of Hamilton, when
they soon gave tongue. A fine dog fox afforded a
little bye-play but was shortly driven to earth, and
dug out, to the great gratification of the surround-
ing crowd. Another fox was soon a-foot, but did
not afford much sport. Foxes in this part of the
county are unusually numerous, and there is promise
of plenty of sport to the lovers of foxhunting.

CoN max Anos. —The Bishop of Salisbury will hold
a confirmation at All Saints Church at 11 o'clock, and
at St. Peter's Church at three p.m., tins clay, Tues-
day.

FRIENDLY Social-LTA—The Registrar of Friendly
Societies in England begs to call the particular atten-
tion of the officers and members to the following ab-
stract of the provisions of IS and 19 Vic. c. 63, s. 29,
24, and 13, which apply to all Friendly Societies.
" If any person shall give to any member of • Friendly
Society established under any Act relating thereto, or to
any person intending or applying to become a member of
such Society, a copy of any rules, or of any alterations
or amendments of the same, other than those respec-
tively which have been curdled with any Clerk of the
Peace or certified by the registrar, with a copy of his
certificate aptmded thereto, under colour that the same
are binding upon the members of such Society, or shall
make any alterations in or addition to any of the rules
or tables of such Society, after they shall have been re•
spectively enrolled or certified by the registrar, and shall
circulate the same, purporting that they have liven duly
enrolled or certified under any of the said Acts, when
they have not been so duly enrolled or certified, every
person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a
demeanor. 0.29. . .

" if any officer, member, or person whatsoever, by
false representation or imposition, than obtain possession
of any monies, securities, books, papers, or other effects
of any Society, or, having the same in hid possession,
shell withold or misapply the same, or shall wilfully ap-
ply any part of the same to purposes other than those
expressed or directed in the rules, he may, upon com-
plaint made by any person on behalf of such Society, be
summoned before two Justices, and if the Justices shall
determine the complaint to be proved, they shall ad-
judge and order him to deliver up all such monies, secu-
rities, books, papers, or other effects, or to repay the
amount of money applied improperly, and to pay, if they
think fit, • further sum of money not exceeding £2o,
together with costs not exceeding 204., and in default
the said Justices may order the said person so convicted
to be imprisoned in the Co 11111 l on Gaol or House of
Correction, with or without hard labour, for any tune
not exceeding three months. s. 24.
"Any trustee or other officer or person aiding or
abetting in the dissolution or determination of any
Society, or the division or appropriation of the funds
thereof, except in the way directed by the 13th section
of 18 and 19 Vic., c. 3, will, on conviction thereof by
two Justices, be committed to the Common Gaol or
House of Correction, there to be kept to bard labour for
any terns not exceeding three calendar months. s. 13.
CIRCUIT ItirsiiNinitNess.—The Bight Hon. Sir
J. T. Coleridge some days ago opened the autumnal
session of the Exeter Literary Society with a paper
on this interesting subject, from which we glean the
following :—Many tbings—railwaysespeeially—have
materilly changed the circuit since I first joined the
%Western Circuit. Then we assembled usually in
nearly our full number, at Winchester, and continued
together till the close iii Somersetshire. Our circuit
in respect of the country we travelled over, was very
interesting. Besides the character of the towns
themselves, and the beauty of the direct routes from
place to place, at every point there were off-lying
objects and places to which we wandered as time and
leisure allowed, in small parties. The Isle of Wight,
Weymouth, Lyme, Sidmouth, and Exmouth,
mouth by one route into Cornwall, or the Moor and
Tavistock by another—the north coast of the two
counties—the Quantock and Cheddar, all theme, in
turn, a circuiteer might hope to visit in the course of
this or that circuit. I have alluded to the expense.
"Our circuit" was a somewhat stately affair. The
judges did not post, but travelled with sober haste—
(a laugh)—drawn by their own four-in-hand. The
barristers posted or rode. It was a tacit rule not to
travel from place to place in any public conveyance.
The "leaders" always had their private carriages,
and some of them their saddle horses also. Our mess

was rather an expensive one, and we had our own
cellar of wine at each circuit town. This was under
the care of our "wine treasurer," and a van, with
four horses, attended us, under the superintendence
of our baggage master. These were our two circuit
officers--two of our own number upon whose arrange-
ments we depended much for our comforts, and to
whom we looked on our "grand day," which we
always kept at Dorchester, not merely for an
account of their own departments, but also fur the in-
troduction of new members, andansocount, generally
given with much point and humour, of prefermenta,
promotions, marriage, and any other incidents which
might have befallen any of the members since the
last circuit—" offences" these, as we called them,
always expiated by contributions to the "wine
fund. (Laughter.) The leader of the circuit was
the banister highest in rank. He was expected to
be a frequent attendant at the mess. To him appli-
cation was first made in disputed points of profes-
sional etiquette. and he was expected to watch over
the interests, character, and conduct of the circuit.
The judges, I have said, travelled with their own
four horses. I may mention also as a little circum-
stance now passing in oblivion that they travelled
with their own four wigs" also. (Laughter.) The
brown scratch for the morning when not in
court, the powdered dress-wig for dinner, the
tye-wig with the black coif when sitting on the
civil side of the court—the full bottomed one
which was never omitted for the crown side.
Those were (lays, you know, when gentle-
men in common life wore coats of every colour, hut
we always dined with thu judge in black. Some
judges indeed, were strict in their notions as to the
dress of the bar at other times. I remember once
when • party of us halted at Blandford, for luncheon,
on our way from Salisbury to Dorchester, at the
same inn at which their lordships were resting for
the same purpose. We strolled out while our repast
was being prepared, and met them. (Inc of our num-
ber hail a black silk handkerchief round his neck,
and • blue cloth cap with a gold lace band on his
head. (A laugh.) Wo observed that One of the
judges drew up at this. It chanced that a few
minutes after a recruiting party marched down the
street with drum and life, and at our luncheon the
butler appeared with a delliGle face to say, with his
lordship. oomplimenta to the gentlemen of the bar,
that as some of them seemed to have a military turn,
lie sent to say that there was a recruiting party in
the town, and they might like perhaps to take the
opportunity of enlisting. (Loud laughter.)
BOROUGH POIJCI, Monday, October 10.—(Before H.
Lock, Esq., Mayor, .1. Esser. and C. Curiae, Esqrs.)—
Jaws Bryant was summoned by Elisabeth Sod to show
cause why he should not be adjudged the putative
father of her child. Mr. C. Weston appeared for the
complainant and Mr. George Andrews fur the defence.
Evident* bsviiis bean heard, the Bench were of opinion
that the comp t did not satidectorily prime her
ease, sod diasuiiaal tbe sanumass.

COUNTT PETTY SEERIONB, Saturday, Oct. M.—(Bel ore
H. Williams. H. N. Middleton, and J. Iloyer, &qrs.
Clusrle, Brown, a labourer' of Portland, was brought
up on remand charged with stealing • straw hat, two
handkerchiefs, and other articles, the property of
Sylvester Norman. It appeared from the evidence that
the prisoner had been lodging with the prosecutor for
about five weeks, and during that time he had purchased
some of the articles in question (but not paid for them),
and some of the other articles he had been in the habit
of using. The Justices being of opinion that the pri-
soner had no felonious intent dismissed the case.

George Beale, • labourer of Rainpisham, was brought
up in custody charged with feloniously stealing three
wood fagots, the property of Mr. Edward Pi.pe. The
prisoner was caught in the fact by P.C. Fripp, and to-
day pleaded guilty. Mr. Pope strongly recommended
hiin to mercy, and he was sentenced to one day's im-
prisonment.
Thomas Hardy, a labourer of Osmington, was brought
up in custody charged with being drunk and disorderly.
Pleaded guilty. Fined ss. and costs.
QUARTER SEKSIONS.—The following prisoners are for
trial at these Sessions, commencing on Tuesday the 18th
instant :—llenry Dun.ster, expitsing his person at Bea-
minster ; Mary Jenkins, obtaining money by false pre-
' fences at Piddletown ; Sarah Seeley, stealing a veil and
other articles at 'Weymouth ; James Zebedee, George
Zebedee, George Kerley, and George Luckham, assault-
ing constables at Cranbonie ; Catherine Coombs, steal-
ing tobacco and other articles at Bridport ; Rosanna
Smith, burglary at Marshwood ; James Stacey, stealing
a smock frock at Stalbridge ; Henry Lance, embezzle-
ment at Illandford ; Abraham Roberts, stabbing, at
Leine Regis ; Robert Wilson, stealing • coat at Wey-
mouth ; 3emima Bow and Ann Bow, stealing jewellery
and other articles at Sherborne Anne Hill, stealing
pork at Beaminster. Oi. tail: William Collins, steal-
ing barley at Sherborne; Job Bow, stealing jewellery
and other articles at Sherborne.