The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

PILFERINGS FROM PINCH.

Awe Nirre.—Tfie Early Italian Style.—An Organ
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grinder at five o'clock in the morning.
Hong Is the usual day for such sppli-
cations, Mr. Home applied to the ecclesiastical
authoritios of the city for • Hoene* to deal in spirita.
Limos. refused.
THE ROTAL Bogy—Mr. Punch thinks that the most
appropriate title for the little Prince would be " Duke
,if Cornwall," see,ng that be must neoemarily remain so
long •mi nor ( ner).
InTgageritia Paottima.—Given—any two servent-
girls in a neighbourhood gossiping—to find—the conver-
sation lasting sixty seconds without the occurrence of
the following sentence--" Sow: she to see, ser
Excege eon Lane Horse.—" He was se wild as hewn.
good-natured, and such • lot of good spirits that, not
Ming able to exhaust them all in one night, he was
forcibly driven to encroach upon the neat morning to
enable him properly to get through them."—Extract
from an Mips/Asked Irish Norel.
EdCLIMISSTICAL.—On the occasion Of Dr. Penbryn
Stanley's taking his stall for (we h-ape) several motions
in Westminster Abbey, the learned and reverend gentle-
man had to hear certain formal addresses, and make
the answers common to these ceremonies. One novel
question was, we hear, pnt ; it is supposed to have
been framed by Dr. C. Wordsworth, with a view to
test the depth of the new dignitary's research. It was
as follows :—Q. What were the first two specimens of
fruit in Paradise? Dr. Stanley promptly replied, My
dear Canon, the Serpent was the first Meddler : Adam
and Eve the first Pair. After this the Canon wentoff.
ATROCIOUS OUTR.IOII ON MATIIIIL—The French
police have been guilty of a diabolic attempt. They
have sought to throw into the house of M. Marsini
paper shells filled with poisonous charges. Luckily
these missiles struck against the column of an English
printing-house, and exploded without harm to the
intended victim, bat with damaging effect upon theme,
soil-atom. We believe that their extradition has been
demanded by the British Government

A JACOBITE RHYME REVIVED.
BY • MODDLID ISTDDIXT Or THZ 141MPAPIIM.
Blows Holstein's rightful King, the Stein's (Wender.
Bless,—there's no harm in blessing lb. Pretender.
Which the Pretender ii, and which the King,
Blest if I know; that's quite another thing,

A WELCOME TO THE BABY PRINCE.
BY ?lit POET LAURIATI
Twinkle, twinkle, little Star,
That's precisely what you are,
Star of England's hopes, and mine,
Destined on her throne to shine.
Pretty little Royal boy,
Father's pride and mother's Joy,
How I long to see thee coddle,
And to kiss thy pinky noddle!
Haply if thy praise I sing,
Old England's small but future Ring I
Pa and Ma will ask me down
To Frogmore, nigh to Windsor town.
Therefore, hail ! auspicious child I
Who upon our land has smiled
And let thy parents read my rhymes
A hundred thousand million times I

.e.! SHOCKING WIRERS AT bEDOLIT.—A horrible dis-
covery was made at Sedgley, at a place near Dudley, on
Wednesday. In • place known as Duck-lane there
is a well, from which • great number of people fetch
their hard water. The well is built round to the height
of 3 feet 6 inches, and had a atone on the top, with a
hole sufficiently large to admit a bucket, and the people
using the well have to "sling" for ti eir own water.
On Wednesday a woman nested Harley saidentallv
dropped her bucket, and was engaged some time
in dragging for it. Afrer • time the drag caught some-
thing, and, pulling it out of the water, she poraeivel
that it was a very heavy bundle, and on pulling it
near to the top she was so startled by seeing two feet
of a child hanging out that she let it fall, and sum-
moned come of the neighbours. A Mrs. Britton re.
dragged the well, and the bundle was brought out.
The bundle was found to contain a female child. A
brick was fastened tightly under the chin. The child
appeared to be about ten days old. There is no clue
to the person who placed it there. It had possibly
been in the water two days. It now awaits the
coroner's inquiry. There is no doubt that the child
had been murdered, and then placed in the well.
THI SPRING ASSIZES, 1864.—0 n Thursday morning
the learned judges of the Courts of Common Law,
viz, Quern's Bench, Common Pleas, and Fachei
suer, met at Westminster Hall, for the first
time since the recent alterations instituted by
the Lord Chancellor, for the purpose of choosing
their different circuits, which are as follows :
The Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Justice
Crompton have chosen the Norfolk circuit the Lord
Chief Justice Erle and Lord Chief Baron Pollock. the
Home; Mr. Justice Byles and Mr. Justice Blackburn,
the Midland; lie. Baron Martin and Mr. Baron Bram-
well, the Western ; Mr. Justice Keating and Mr.
' Baron Pigott, the Oxford; Mr. Justice Willes and Mr.
Justice Slice, the Northern; Mr. Baron Channell, the
North Wales: and Mr. Justice Williams, the South
Wales. Mr. Justice Mellor will remain at Judges'
Chambers for the purpose of attending to the London
business.

BHAKEHPIAIIi TEICINTEN ART, BTROTEOHD-OE-AVON.
—On Wednesday, the 20th inst., Mr. Flower, the
Mayor of Stratford-upon Avon, announced to the com-
mittee that a meeting had been held in Worcester, at
which it was unanimos-17 resolved that the town
should have • local committee to co-operate with the
committee of Stratford-upon-Avon, in order to wield
them in carrying out their determination of cele-
bratinF the tercentenary of Shakeepeare. He also called
attention of the committee to the article in the Titan
of January 20, in which it is card:—" Stratford is the
locality with which Shakespeare's name is chiefly asso-
ciated. We of the metropolis are bound to remember
this, and most not be selfish. The country towns have
often assisted London, and it would be • graceful thing
for London now to assist • small country town—Shakes-
peare's town. All thingi conspire to this end." It
was resolved that • rilmod for the medal after the
design approved of, and • badge with Shakespeare's
crest and motto, offered for the unction of the com-
mittee, by two Coventry manufacturers, be accepted.
It was further resolved that the choice of a site for the
monumental memorial at Stratford-on-Aeon, be re-
ferred to the committee of taste. It was also determined
that the committee of taste should consist of gentlemen
of reputed judgment, and that the Earl of Carlisle;
and the Duke of Northumberland be consulted on this
subject. It was also resolved that Mr. Tennyson, Mr.
James Ferguason, F.I6LS., and Mr. C. Buxton, M.P.,
be requested to join the committee of taste. The
following gentlemen have been added to the list of Vine-
Presidents :—Robert Bell, Esq., FAS., ke. the Earl
of Coventry; Sir Francis Crossley, Bart, ; Lord
Dufferin ; Lord Feveriham ; George Godwin, Esq. ;
the Mayor of Halifax; Colonel J. Sidney North, M.P.;
James Wyld, Esq., M.P. ; Theodore Martin, E.g.;
John Powell, Foal., UP.; H. Padmore, Esq., MP.;
the Mayor of Tainwotth ; the Mayor of Woroester ;
Gore Langton, gee:, Ml'.; and Lord Newport, M.P.
PROJERTID NEW RAILWAY OVER THE Psturstars.—ln
the sitting of the Spanish Cortes of the 12th inst.,
Senor Carriguiri brought in • bill for the construction
of a I .ile•sy from Pampeluna to Erg-, with prolonga-
tion over the Pyrenees to Bayonne, in France. The
hon. deputy stated that careful surveys of the projected
line had been made, and that there were no extra-
ordinary engineering difficulties in the way of its execu-
tion. He solied not for a subvention, or guarantee of
interest, on the part of the government, but only an
ordinary conces-ion. The propoaition was referred to
• committee, and is likely to be reported upon in a
favourable sense. This newly-projected railway, it may
be intere-fing to state, is to pa..• over the celebrated
valley of Roncesvalles—in French, Romer:tux —where
the rear-guard of Charlemagne's army, under Roland,
was defeated and destroyed in 778. There is to be a
etation at this place; and the great Roland, the model
of the knight of all ages, will at last receive • monu-
ment, in the shape of • railway porter's lodge.—
Raiiseay Newt
Tut SITE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITIGN BUILDING OF
1882 —The scaffolding for the removal of this building
has now reached the top of the Eastern dome, and the
entire structure will, we believe, rapidly disappear. It
is confidently expected that its removal to the Alexandra
Park, Hornsey, will be acoomplished by July next. It
is intended, we hear, to level the site of tie Exhibition
building, to now the same with gm., and neatly to rail
in the whole; leaving to Parliament, ins future session,
to decide what public edifice shall be erected in the
centre of this noble plot of lend at South Kensington,
now the property of the nation.
Ts. Aitmerreoxo litiea, by oonetant improvement,
are now perfection. The name is the aim with Herring's
Magnetic Brushes, which are now so perfected, that
failure with them is all but impossible. They are the
true remedy for Grey Hair, Neuralgia, and Nervous
Headache.