The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GPLZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1876.

•AN AL" FAILZWILL OF THI Rev. J. BISHOP.-011 Sunday
voroet etitintq ciiireoo. the Rcv. J. Bishop, one of the circuit ministers of the
Wesleyan oonnexion, preached for the last time in the
Wesleyan Chapel, South-street, previous to his
TVZSDAY. AUGUST 16, 187& removal to Mldsomer Norton, to which place he has
been appointed in accordance with the rules of the
Methodist Society. In the mornhis the rev. gentle.
NOTES OF THE WEEK. man selected as his text Hebrews xiii., 8, on which he
founded a practical and profitable discourse, dwelling
From the Finance Accounts, it appears that on the changeableness and decay which characterised
in the year ending on the 31st March last all nature, and pointing to the unchangeableness of
£'2,602 19s. lid, was remitted to the Chancellor God, who was the same yesterday, to-day, and for
of the Exchequer as "Conscience Money." ever. The preacher's evening sermon was founded on
Malachi iii., 16 and 17. During Mr. Bishop's stay
, I,i,fereialteuhr.asi,imfa‘ollleomanly friends 'n is n sphere
The verdict of the jury in the Bravo case
with ' and
' good 'she: for his
" Wilful Murder, but that there is not sufficient I future mk„em. IT% wip',i,
evidence to fix it upon any person or persons" succeeds the rev, gentleman on this circuit.
3-ents?lefig-tni'tel)7lsettled who
—is odd and Irish-looking, but will surprise no DORCHLSTIR Gas Awn Coax COMFANT. —The annual
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one. The jury were shut up to one of two con- general meeting of shareholders was held on Tuesday
elusions —murder or suicide. Suicide was last, Mr. Henry Lock, Chairman of the Directors,
practically out of the question in view of Mr. ridingBasc,..mbPerernid—lnessis. T. Saunders, W. Sjadont
Bravo's solemn declaration that he had taken E. Burnett, 'AT. R. \Patches., W. Parinfter. W. Tiller.
nothing but laudanum, persisted in notwith- T. C. W. Saunders. A. H. Lock, A. Brown, Cs.
standing the repeated warning that, if he did Maher, and Win. Osmond (manager). The report
not confess, some innocent person would be and balance-sheet were received and adopted, a
charged with his death. Mr. Bravo must have dividend of ott'heloar cent. ralaZilllcattdntihne tlienn9cenli
been poisoned by some person or persons un- gas ts, private eemairarBers from ria. to 4s. 7,1. the price
known; and it is not a comfortable reflection cubic feet, and of the public lamps from I:3 :is. to £3,
for society in general that a man can be poisoned, met with the hearty approval of the shareholders
with such a clumsy poison too, and his mur- present. The retiring directors and auditors were
derers remain unknown. However, the Balliam re-elected. Mr. John Golpin was elected to fill the
vacancy o the Board caused by the death of the late
Mystery must, for the present, be put on the 3lr. T. ('combs, and the meeting ended with the
shelf with other mysteries, grateful thanks of the shareholders to the Directors
and the Manager (Mr. Osmond).
Commrrno TO THIL DORSIT COUNTY PRISON.
William Cleol, breach of the peace and leaving
family chargeable at Bridport, 3 calendar months
imprisonment and 1 calendar month hard labour.
Hard Labour : Henry Munden, poaching at Nether.
bury 1 calendar month ; James Davy, drunk and
riotous at Hook, 3 weeks ; and George Scott, mis-
behaviour in Blandford Union, 14 dayi c Is.prism'
meat : William Martin Stickland, breach of the peace
at Broadstone, 3 calendar months.
Tea WIIATIIKR.—Tbe following in our meteorological
report:
Date.l

The Doily News of Wednesday last, in an
account of an inquest on the body of a newly-
born male child that had been decapitated, and
whose remains were forwarded, through the
Parcels Delivery Company, to an undertaker
for interment, gives the following :—" He then
moved the wadding, and finding blood called in
Police-constable Pierce, who conveyed Mr now« 1
to the Arbour Square station." This is surely
too hard on the poor child, who probably
beyond making an inconvenient appearance had
done nothing to deserve so opprobrious an
epithet as "rascal." No doubt the sentence
should read, "who conveyed the parcel," &c.

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Those who find the salt of life in the details
of the Bravo case may with advantage turn
their attention to the summary given of it in
Le Firs.° of last Monday, by that journal's
English correspondent, who signs himself "T.
Johnson." There they will find much new and
curious information ; amongst it this :
" Quatro medecins avaient t 4 inanthis :—Mme
Bravo alors en appelle un cinquilaine, le docteur
Gully—et l'enquete va rifv‘ler sur Sir William
Gully d'aranges particularit4s."

BOROIO3II POLICE. Ayesterday) Monday. —Before Mr.
Alderman Curme, W. Alderman Gallup, Mr. J. F
fudges. and Mr. M. Deveniali.

BRAWLING ax THE writtrr.
Thomas Della, and William HenryCo:, two respectably
dressed young men, were charged by the police with
drunk and riotous conduct.--P.C. Reyland about 20
minutes past lion the 29th of last month was on duty in
High Frit-street and saw the defendant (Dellar) fighting
on the pavement with another man. A large crowd of
people had collected. Ile requested him to " move on,
but he refused, and amid sundry oaths expressed his utter
contempt for the representatives of the law, whom he
referred to as "bobbies." Ile was very drunk and falling
all over the place. The man Cox was in his company,
and when he told them to go home they did so shouting
and hallo:tins. —Defendants had nothing to say in their
defence, except that they were interfered with, but they
admitted they had had a glass or two of beer—Fined ss.
each and costa, the Bench telling them their behaviour
to the police bad aggravated their offence.

From the report of the Commissioners in
Lunacy which has lust been issued it appears that
the total number of lunatics, idiots, and persons
of unsound mind in England and Wales, on the
Ist January last was 84,910, an increase of 1,123
upon that of the previous year. The total
number on the Ist of January last, consisted of
7,509 private patients and 57,407 paupers. As
compared with the numbers on the Ist of
January, 187.7 these figures show an increase
of 119 of the iormer, 1,004 of the latter class;
but it is worthy of remark that the total increase
of the past year over the proceeding one
has been less than in any other year of the
series commencing in 1859.
There is great jubilation. The Prince of
Wales has actually got something left out of
the money granted him to go on his Indian
holiday. Friday night, in the House, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer said that very full
accounts of the expenses of the Prince of Wales'
visit to India had been sent in, and had been
carefully audited both by Sir William Anderson
and himself. The manner in which they had
been kept and the economy which had been
shown reflected great credit on Sir Bartle Frere
and Colonel Ellis. There were still some small
accounts outstanding; but there was a surplus
of the Vote still unspent. There would be no
occasion to ask for a further Vote ; on the con-
trary, there would be a surplus of some
hundred pounds. This announcement was re-
ceived with liiitd cheers fnon both sides.

Three pounds seventeen! That is the price
of a hero in these latter days, the amount sub-
scribed for the widow and children of John
Chiddy, who sacraficed his life the other day to
prevent the accident to the' Flying Dutchman."
Is heroism, then, so cheap? Is the supply so
much greater than the demand Or is it that
we cannot recognise heroism in a muddy vesture
of fustain and in connection with anything so
prosaic as a railway? John Chiddy was a
quarryman on the Bristol and Exeter Railway.
He saw a large block of stone on the line just
before the train was due at a speed of fifty
miles an hour. He removed it in time to save
the train, but was himself caught in the act and
killed on the spot. An appeal to the public in
behalf of the family was answered by £.l 17s.
The railway company who had profited to the
extent of thousands by Chidd/'s bravery have
done nothing for him. Lord Elcho appealed to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but there are
no funds available for such purposes. On the
same day, we paid 1:29,101 in commutation of a
pension granted two centuries ago to a Dutch
soldier of fortune who had come to England to
be killed. The nation has paid half a million
in recognition of the Duke of Schonberg's
services in being killed at the Battle of Boyne,
and John Chiddy's family is put off with £3 17s.
It is not oven in accordance with the dictates of
an enlightened selfishness; and it is to be
hoped that this is not the ultimate and final
measure of our admiration for heroism in
humble life.

A great surprise for the British public has
been reserved to the end of the Session. Mr.
Disraeli has stood for the last time on the floor
of the House of Commons, and will be at once
raised to the Peerage by the title of Earl of
Beaconsfield. After having been for thirty
years the foremost figure in the Conservative
l'arty of England, and during the greater part
of that time it. acknowledged leader in the
Lower Howie, he achieves what we may conceive
to be among the chief objects of his ambition,
and takes his seat among the hereditary legis-
lators of his country. No envy will follow him,
and only faction will find a word of disapproval.
Among ennobled politicians there are few who
can be considered to have a higher title to the
honour, whether as regards versatility of genius
or length of service, unfailing courage or per-
sistent zeal in defence of Party or friends. His
presence will add to the stren,gth of the Govern-
ment, already great in the Upper House ; but
on what member of the Lower will his mantle
fall as he ascends 1 It is easy to nominate a
leader, but it is difficult, as was shown nearly
thirty years apo, to give him the authority
which shall really lead the House. Sir Stafford
Northcote, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Cross are able men
in their Departments, but their capacities for a
more eatended power and more important
relationa with the House and the country have
' yet to be proved.

The Mordaunt divorce case, after seven years
litigation and the creation of more public excite-
ment than has over been elicited by a trial of
that description, has now finally endixl. All
the property settled upon "her Ladyship" is
to revert to "Sir Charles" buthe will allow her
1:300 a year, until she should marry again—
should she ever recover. The lady's father is
to have the custody of the child, and her
" costa " are allowed. That is Viscount Cole,
will have to pay them.

if the reader is fond of the sugar-candy-and-
agony style of love tale, we can safely recommend
him or her to the pages of the Lirerpoo/
Hero are the concluding lines of a heart rend-
ing romance contained in its last number :- -
There she stood, with white arms outstretched, and
her glorious bosom panting, and her beautiful lips
apart, and her eyes lustrous with emotion, and her
satin cheeks may with chaste blushes. Helen !
Charles! And she was in his acme; and his liTs were
meeting hers. And then the old lady left them
together.
It may be wondered why weglve this extract, but
to us it appears there isa moral lesson contained
in the words, "and then the old lady left them
together," which it behoves every British
matron to lay to heart.

Mr. Onslow is said to have received the following
letter from Sydney, New South Wales: -
"I know Arthur Orton well. and I say I can find him,
but I 111111 it have the means, I cannot afford to lose time
and money. 111 am furnished with A:100 I can procure
the 1111111, and having found him, I can do anything with
him, lie has been under great obligation* to me. and I
know to much about him. I have no time to write
more, the mail is just closing.—l am_, yours faithfully,
" WILLIAM DEAKIN."

Mr. William Deakin i 4 a well.W1;;;;—s—ollatOr. of
Sainlliurst, Sydney. Now, then, is the time for the
fritndi of the Dartmoor convict to make good their
protestations. Surely they have got enough out of
the public to be able to spend a paltry hundred to
find Arthur Orion. But will they do it? Not
exactly! Should there be such a man outside prison
walla, like Othello, they would find their occupation
gone.

DOIUMBOTIZ.
THE Mayor and Geneoration attended Divine
service at Fordington relish Choral on Sunday.
The semen was prenehed by the Rm. G. A. Monk.

working on the road near Mr. Topes tarot on the Wey-
mouth road, they agreeing with defendant to have 3d.
per yard for " filling the s" 4 shwa 3.1. a yard for
putting chalk on the top of the road. Defendant promised
to " settle" for it as soon as the work was done. They
completed the job, and defendant said he was satisfied.
Witness received 3.5. 61. per day whilst so employed.—lbot
Coombs said he and Ilorlick went on ti 'yank on the 314
of May, anal Critchell pine on ten days after. Witness I
and llorlick agreed to have 3s. lid, per day ft the first
two days. After this defendant made an agreement with
them to till the carts at 31. a yard. Critchell then joined
them (CoomP and liorlick). 31, per yard was also to
be paid by Thorne for putting the chalk on. Thorne said
when they had finished the work he was satisfied.
Defendant had promised to give them a penny a yard
extra en account of their work lacing harder in taking the
chalk anit of the pit. When they asked him to settle he
said he was not sure the cork was finished.-11orlick,
' re-called, said they claimed Ili 154. 61. front defrud-mt,
and said an account read by the Chairman of their claim
was correct.—Defendant sail he could not dispute the
measurement, as the work had never Pen measured at
all. Ile said be agreed with defendants to pay for it
when Mr. Jesty had measured the work. —The Clerk told
defendant the complainants had nothing to do with his
agreenient with Mr. JPty, there was a special agreement
with him and liorlick. —Charles Critchell was called, and
deposed to Thorne agreeing with hint to pay him 3.1. a
yard for filling, and when they had finished they would
be paid for the whole; iii the meantime Thorne wa uld
" sub" them 3, Cri. • day. They were also to have :kl. a
yard for the "chalking."—Mr. Thorne was then sworn.
He said lie agreed with them t.m gi- c them n 31. a yard for
soil and chalk, the work to be measure., by Mr. Jesty.
Its denied telling them that he was satisfied, or that he
had measured the land, anal that it would come te the
number of yards they had said.—The MSC W. at this
point adjourned till next Saturday, the I 'hail-man telling
them that they must get their rase in nitwit better form
than they had brought it there that lap.

humanity. I ask you to put that in writing and send it to
your Government But they had done nothing of the kind.
When newspaper correspoadenta were spoken of in a
slighting manner it seemed to be forgotten that the
correspondents of the leading journals now were not ill-
educated partisans, but cosmopolitans, free from
prejudice and partiality, and desiring only to ascertain
the truth; and it was • fact that the information received
by the Press was rapidly supplementing that which the
Foreign Office could supply. The Turks considered they
were being backed up by the English Government, and
though he did not express any opinion on the refusal of
our Government to sign the Borlin Memorandum, he
maintained that that refusal had a most extra-
ordinary effect in Constantinople in creating a belief in
the Turks that we were against their backs. If Her
Majesty's Government wanted to she their sense of
the atrocities that had been committed and to show
that they were in earnest, they should recall Sir Henry
Elliot from Constantinople—(cheen)—because the Govern-
ment had not been properly informed of what was going
on, and because he had not been able to control the
Turkish Government He wished now to say a few
words as to the future. This was an impotent moment,
when the Recess was coming on and the House would
not meet again for six months. Ile was in favour of a
spirited foreign policy, but the spirit be wished to per-
vade our policy was a spirit of freedom on behalf of
oppressed nationalities. The influence of England had
always in the long run been exercised in that direction.
Much bad been said of the integrity of Turkey. He
trusted that the time would never come when the integrity
of Turkey would be regarded not as the means to an end,
but as the end itself. Many persous looked upon the
integrity of Turkey as a golden calf to be worshipped, and
not as a means to an end—that end being to prevent any
other Power from obtaining a dangerous preponderance
in the East. The time was, however, rapidly approaching
when there would be many other means to that end. Let
the House remember how completely the aspect of
Europe had changed since the Crimean War. Germany
had become • great Power. Italy had become united.
Austria had become far stronger because her Provinces
were reconciled to each other. There were thus three
Powers—where there were none before—to curb the
ambition of Russia. The condition of Russia had also
entirely changed, for she had now • peaceable Emperor,
and the country was not anxiou. for war. The Crimean
War was as much caused by the refusal of the Emperor
Nicholas to give up the Hungarian refugees as by the
question of the Holy Places. Russia had now ceased to
assume her former aggressive attitude, and it wsi desir-
able to seise the present moment. Another Emperor
might succeed to the throne animated by different feel-
ings, and England ought to be ready to co-operate with
Russia or any other Powers iu order that these Provinces
should as early and as peaceably as possible receive an
autonomy and a Government of their own. (Cheers.)
This Turkish policy of sitting upon the safety vain might
be worthy of the captain of a Mississippi steamer, but not
of a civilised State. The ruling Turk had not, in fact,
changed since the time when the streets of Alexandria
were strewn with the books of the Alexandria library.
and when the Caliph Omar exclaimed, "If these books
are in favour of the Koran they are unnecessary, and if
they are contrary to the Koran they are mischievous, and
so burn them all." The Turk had not changed in his
views of the Koran from that day to this. He was not
speaking of some half-dozen Europeanised Turks at Con-
stantinople, but of the nation at large. The ordinary
Turk looked a grave, honest man, bathe was as benighted
as ever he was. The Bulgarian population, on the other
hand, had during the last 20 years made enormous strides.
Schools had been established in almost every village, and
it was the jealousy of the Turk which had been the cause
of half the atrocities that had been committed, and which
had been directed principally against the priests and
schoolmasters. England was strong enough to do what
was right and just, and if Russia was to be fought let us
light her openly, and not over the prostrate bodies of
these Bulgarians- (Hear, hear.) lie could not think that
the Government were zeally opposed to the emancipation
of these subject races, but he would remind hon, gentle-
men opposite that the Conservative party were kept omit
of office for many years by their ill-diaguisetl hostility to
Italian emancipation. (Murmurs.) Well, be would not
say their hostility, but their lukewanunese He ventured
to say that if the country thought that Her Majesty's
Government or the party which followed them were
really indifferent to the aspiration of these subject races,
the same feeling would be excited and they would suffer
from the same cause. (Cheers.)
Among the hon. members who took part in the debate
which followed were Sir H. Wolf, who defended the Prime
Minister from the charge of levity, and said that though
Sir 11. Elliott had been remiss he slid not deserve censure.
. . . .

THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
The half-yearly general meeting of the Isindon and
South-Western Railway Company was hell Thursday
at the Waterloo-bridge Station, the Hon. IL IL
Dutton, the chairman, presiding. The chairman
spoke of the lamentable accident on Monday night.
The matter, he said was now under ~,,, and
till the result of the inquiry was made known it would
be unfair to those concerned in it to make any further
obeervations. In moving the adoption of the report
he said he thought the shareholders would find it
satisfactory in every way. The great commercial
depression of the year had greatly affected all railway
companies. With regard to the traffic, during the
past six months they had carried 10,500,000 passen-
gers without accident The goods and mineral traffic
had considerably increased. The increase in the
good traffic was £16,927 to £211,227, and in minerals,
Including coals, 1:11,459 to 1.76,605. There hat been
a falling off in both the first and second class passenger
traffic, both in numbers and money; but the third
class had increased by 782,579 passengers and an
increase of 1.27,4 X); and, after deducting the loss on
the first and second classes, they showed an increase
In the passenger traffic of £8,606. The increased
receipts from passengers, parcels, and mails amounted
to £12,872, and for goods, minerals, and live stock to '
C 28,209. The decrease of £ll5 in the ',team packet
traffic arose from the floods in France during the
autumn. With regard to the 1...mai% e department,
the increase in wages in the half-year liad been
1:8,667, and in materials £8,256, a total of 1:16,926 ;
but the decrease in coal of £3,579 reduced the increase
to £12,317, as compared with the corresponding half.
year of 1875. /le then alluded to what lie sabl had
been one of the most important features in the history
of the railway since its existence—the ,pening, after
considerable difficulties and delays, on the litho( May
last, of the Western Extension. They received
assurances on all sides that the company would receive
a fair share ..f support. The result of the working, to
the present, had been satisfactory. By purcluising
the Somerset and Dorset Line they had saved
£36,000 a year .if traffic which went over their line,
and this should be set against the debit to which he
referred. The report was then unanimously adopted,
and the dividend at the rate of IA 17.1. per cent. per
annum on the ordinary stock was declared payable,
less Income Tax, on the lot of September. Resolutions
were then passed sanctioning the 'aiming by mortgage
bonds or debenture stock of the company of an addi-
tional Korn of I:50,000 authorized by the Company's
Act of 1875 to be 80 raised, and the ereati and dis-
posal .if the share capital or stock authorised by the
Sommet and Dorset Railway Leasing Act, IS/6, and
by the Company's (Exeter and Crediton and North
i)evon) Act, 1876, respectively, to be created.

Sir WILLIAII HARCOURT, who travelled through the
papers with extreme minuteness, with the viewof proving
that the Turks had carried on these massacres with the
deliberate intention of exterminating the Pmtwilit's, and
that both the Ambassador and the Govemment at home
knew all about it during the months of May and June.
This slaughter might have been prevented if Lord Derby
had written in May what be wrote in Auguat. As to the
Levant Herald. it was contradicted by Mr. Raring's report.
Sir William concluded an exhaustive review of the trans-
actions by a highly elaborated philippic against Turkey
and the Turks, and with a eulogium on the moderation of
Russia, offering at the same time 001110 suggestions aa to
our future policy which were under.tood to recommend
a union of England and Russia to drive out the Turk.
And Mr. DNRAF.I.I, who commented on the unprece-
dented nature of this debate, and twitted Mr. Ashley with
having chosen the doubtful privilege of the Appropriation
Bill to insinuate an offensive opinion against the Govern.
ment and a distant Ambassador. instead of moving •
direct vote of censure. Ile denied altogether that the
Government had no knowledge of the atrocities in Bulgaria
until they had learnt them from the newspapers. It was
stated by the newspaper on which Mr. Forster relied that
12.000 Bulgarians were slain, 10.igsi impri.oned, that 1,000
girls had been sold in open market, that girls had been
burnt, and that cartloa4 of heads had been carried about,
de. All these statements were fabrications ; there
had been no open sale of women and no burning
of women, and neither Mr. Forater nor his
journal had ever produced the slightest evidence of them.
After bantering Sir W. Ilarc.oirt on the " Ilerodian
eloquence " of his speech, and the evidently long consi-
deration which he had Fiven to the subject, and ridiculing
the statesmanship of his suggestions for the settlement of
the Turkish difficulty. Mr. DISRAELI went on to give •
direct contradiction to the assertion that we were peen.
Hari), responsible for what occurred in Turkey, or that the
Turks were our special portege.. The state of affairs
required more care and management, and those who sup-
posed that England was acting from blind superstition, or
from want of sympathy with the aspirations of Eastern
Europe. were mistaken. The duty of the Government,
however, was to maintain the Empire of England, and
they would never agree to any step which would assail the
existence of that Empire.

MANAGE.
SIIIrmRECKED FISHERMEN AND MtRINER.4. SOCIETY;
The above society have awarded the sum of LI IM. to
Thomas Weeks, fteherman. of Swanage, hie host having
been damaged by collision.