... The commission for holding these assizes was opened on Tuesday afternoon last, at the Shirehall, Dorchester, before the Lord Chief Baron Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. Justice Byles. It will be remembered that, by a recent decision in the Court of Quarter Sessions, the ancient custom of escorting the judges into the town by a retinue of javelin-men and heralds is abolished, and that duty was on the ...

... Local News. DORCHESTER. Dorset Protestant Meeting.—Our report of the Proceedings at the Shirehall on Thursday last, will be °und in page 14. Dorset Hunt Ball. —This fashionable assembly of -e nobility and gentry of the county is fixed to take Pace at the Town Hall this (Thursday) evening. Dorset County Hospital.—The following is the report for Feb. 21,1867:— In-patients admitted, discharged, 4 ...