The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-07 00:00:00

THE DORfIET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTIJR4.L GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1867.

THE FENIAN TRIALS: PURER AND
DORAN TO BE HUNG, BEHEADED AND
QUARTERED.

Two of the Walkil& in the Fenian insurrection, via.,
om as Burke, sod Patrick Doran, bay, how to joy the
penal:y 'which attaehni to the r misdeed.. being found
guilty of cempssing the death of the Queen Great
Interest we. taken in these mess, from the fact of
aopr wen giving °sides's*. " Geo-Imi" Berke, the
pr,neipai of them, ameared to be about 35 years of age.
lie has black hair and large b ark whiskera. His itim•
pinion is .1.110. • his forehe id not large, not high, but
I reninent, herbs, large •rinkl • when he runes his
oy s, which are sunk under heavy brows, his cheeks
being Ilsw, and his nose large. The expression of his
fess is gr lye, determined, and not very prepogeassine.
Altogether he does not give the ides of the general of
an army in which promotion depends on personal
appearance or brains. Doran, another approver, Is a
younger man, and presents a mild, r type of humanity,
with thin features, dark brown I ii i ~ sandy beard, arid
apparently a very nervous temperament, Both seemed
to be suffering from the hardships of the field awl (wen
confinement in geol. The informer Massey is the most
gentlemanly looking person who hat yet appeared in
connection with the recent Fenian movement. He
stated that he is the son of Godfrey Massey ,• that he
served in the C•iuna as • private in the Transport
Corps : that he went to America, and became an Misr
In the Confederate army; that he joined the Pettis'
brotherhood in A InerMa, and used all his inffuenee to
bring about an Insurrection in Ireland; that he receive!
I:550 in wild. Horeb money, from Colonel Kelly, on
leaving New York, for carrying on the rebellion ; that
he loot 20 th•ntre. in Dublin, to whom he gave orders
for toe general non: on the sth of March; that be viiited
various distrht. for the purpose of organising the war'
that the nomericel strength ia Dublin wa• 14,000 men,
will 3,000 stand at arms, and in Cork WPM, with
I,WIO weapon, and he was about to meet the
esocentrated forges at Liinariek Junction when
arrested, and determines.? with hi. whole heart to estab-
lish the Irish Republic, and that when in prison
he was persuaded by his wife to give informa-
tion to the Govenimsnt --Croydon, who had been •
lieutenant in the Federal army. state I, in his evidence,
that be gave information to the authorities because he
chid not think the Fenian tanee worth while ihedding •
drop of blood for. It tem he who apprised the magis-
trates of the projected rAtack on Cheeter,—Breke and
Doran were proved to 'nave been aotively engaged In
organising the outbi,neo, and to have „lieu
„it in
divers overt acts. d'ease•y, after his exacelnatioe, was
seined with • sudden Anew, and bad he he attendedby
two medical men. Burks was islesitAlled as having
been in comniand nt flellyhunt, in Tipperary, whore
the military we, • Sred on,—The case for the crown
being closed. Mr, Butt submitted that Burke was
eutitled to re, eocuittal, as no overt act wail peeved
against bins . the county Dublin, and the counts for Wry •
ing war sheets! therefore be struck out. The mud
overruled the application. Mr. Butt then
addressed the jury on behalf of Burka
He admit led there was • tresesable conspiracy, but
held the': his about had not 'aeon sonnected in any of
the Oda et the movements. The crime of treasou was
to be 'sooderuned, but it wag not to be forgotten that
Wasisington, the most revered of men, had been slid-
Messed as a traitor, and that the illustrious men who
'WM William 111. had founded English liberty were
I' 'bola Having criticised severely the evidence of the
'isaforiners, be concluded by admitting that Fenianiscu
had its emissaries, its treasury, and its munitions of war
u Ireland, sod from San Francisco to New York. In
this there win something for statesmen to consider, and
he thought their time could be profitably employed in
devising :immures which world bring health, wealth,
and prosperty to this oubappy country—Mr. S. L.
Anderson. acting Crown skater, was examined touch.
ing the absent informatics of Massey to which isonnwd
had referred. He stated that as soon as he found it had
been referred to in Court, and an application might
formally be made for it, he sent it off to Lord Naas, to
London. —Mr. Macelonogh, ut c., argued stsiiim allowing
evidence of the document, on the ground of public
policy.—Mr. Butt rejoined that if the document was in
the hands of the Queen, they were entitled to have it.
It was sworn before a magistrate of the county of
Dublin. He looked upon it as a matter of vital moment
In • censtituti anal point of view. He would not believe
to the end of his life that, where the issue was life and
death, those prisoners bad not been tried by • Star
Chamber proomdfag —he mid that deliberately—if the
document were not produced. He wished to know
what autlmrity there was in the Constitution for the
proceeding. fle would arraign the Lord Lieutenant if
be :L ifLoi.d Naas was a party to it he bad com-
mitted a crime. The Solicitor. General observed that
:be document was written by • gentleman in the oriel!.
donee of the Secret iry of State.—Pltimataly, the Lord
Chief Justice, the other meusbers of the Court concur-
ring, ruled that as Burke'. Paine was not mentioned in
it; as it was made by a man who bad come from
America, and might contain statements it would be
impolitic for the State to disease ; and &lithe Attorney.
General distinctly il. dined to produce it for tearoom of
public policy, evidence respecting it was not admissible.
—Mr. Dow.e, thc., addressed the jury for Burke,
impugning of the evidence of Massey, and objecting to
the manner in which his iuformation had been taken.—
Mr. O'Loghlen followed for the prisoner., and the
SollicitorsGenaral replied.—The Lord Chief Justice °otos
meneed his charge to the iury at Isalf.past ten o'clock
on Wednesday morning, in the case of General Burke
and Patrick Doran, and concluded at ten minutes to
three, when the jury retired. At mix o'clock they
returned with a verdict of "Guilty" against both the
prisoners, accompanied by a reoommondation of Doran
to favourable conaideration, inasmuch as it did not
appear from the evidence that he was either so long or
so actively enzseed as the other prisnuer in promoting '
the object of the treasonable temspiracy. The three
judges then retired for a few I:dilutes. During their
absence, solemn agonise reigned in the court. When
they returned, Mr. Smartt sa.,d "Thomas F. Burke
and Patrick Doran, you were heretofore at this Special
Commission indicted for the crime of Isigb treason, and
arraigned on that charge, lord on that ameignment you
put yourselves on God emd emir omntry, and that
country has found you guilty. 'What have you tory why
sentence of death and execution should not he pro.
flounced upon you aeon rdiag to Law!' —Burke addressed
the Court in a clear, arm, powerful voice, and in most
imeresive language. lie solemnly denied the states
meets of some Of th • witnesses, aod said —"it: is not
my desire now to give utterance to one word, fully
conscions of my honour as a man, which hos been
impugned—ielif oonscious that I can go into usy ~,,,
with e name sell character ansullied. 1 Oen only say
that parties 'ewe attracted by • desire either for their
own aggren'aineeneist or to save their paltry miserable
souls, and tee, have pandered to the appetites—if I
might so *peak —of justice, and my life shall pay the
forfeit. Folly convinced and satisfied with the
rigbto mynas of my every act in connexion with this,
the tate revolutionary movement in Ireland, 1 have
not Ming to recall—nothing that I would undo- nothing
that I feel that the blush of shame should mantle my
brow, for my conduct and caret r, both here 114 a private
person, ass Stiffen. and in America, if eon like, es •
ooldier. Even in this, my hour of trial, I feel the
ionstionanes of having lived an honest man, and I will
die proudly, believing that if I have given my little aid
to give freedom or liberty to the land of my birth, I
have done only that which every Irishman and every
man whose soul throb. with the feeling of liberty
should do. My lords, I should scarcely—l feel I should
not mention the Dania of Measev,-1 feel I should not
pollute my lips with the narne of that traitor, whose
illegitimacy has teen proven here—a man whose name
is not known, and who I deny point blank ever wore
the star of a colonel in the l'onlederate army. Him I
shall let rest. I shall pass him by, wishing him, in the
words of the poet, 'May the gra.s wither from his feet,
the wood deny him shelter, the earth a home, the
ashen a grave, the sun lila light, and heaven his God.'
Let Mammy remember time from this day forth he carries
with him, as my able and eloquent counsel, Mr. Dowse,
has stated, a !serpent that will gnaw his conscience; he
will carry it about with him in his breast, s bring hell,
from which he can never be separated. 1, my lords,
have no desire for the name of a martyr. I ask not the
death of • martyr: bat if it is the will of that Almighty
and Omnipotent God that devotion for the land shall
be tested on the scaffold, I am willing there to die in
defence of the rights of man to free government—the
right, of an oppresed people to throw off the yoke of
thraldom. I am an Irishman by birth, an Ameriean by
adoptien, my nature a lover of freedom, and an enemy
to that Power that holds my native land in the bonds
of tyranny. It has been se often admitted that the
oppraesed have the right to throw off the yoke of
opeeesion, even by English statesmen, that I deem it
unnoessary to advert to that fact in a British court of
justice. Ireland's children ere not, eeeee were, and
°°"f will h" '4,bmiosive or willing slaves, and so long a.
England'. LIE sorers one ineh of soil just so long will
they, believing it to be • theism right—es long will they
conspire, imagine, and devise means to hurl it from
power, and erect its its stead the glorious structure of
melf.government. Before I go any further I have one
important duty that I wish to dispose of. To my
learned, talented, and eloquent counsel I offer them
that poor it. the thank,, the sincere and heartfelt
thanks, of an honest man. I offer them, too, in the
name of America, the thanks of the Irish people. I
know that I hi re—without • friend, without • relative
In face, 3,000 miles away from my family—l know that
I am not forgotten there. The greet and generous
Irish heart of America to-day feels for, to-day
sympathizes with, and does not forget the man who is
willing to tread the scaffold—aye, defiantly, proudly
conscious of no wrong—in defense of American prin.
eiple, in defence of liberty. I now to Messrs- Butt,
Dowse, and O'Loghlen, and Mn. Onion and the other
noel, and to my very able solicitor, Mr. Lawless,
counsel,
to them, individnally and collectively, my SiD4efe
and heartfelt thanks. I shall now, my lords, a, n,,
doubt you will sagged to me the propriety of doing.
WM my attention to the world beyond the grave I
Mall now look only to that home whets borrows are at
an end, where joy is eternal. I shall holm and Pray
that freedom may yet dawn on this poor downstrodden
country. It,. my hope, it is my prayer, and the last
r
words I shall utter will be a prayer to God •
forgiveness, and a prayer for poor old Ireland.'
He again solemnly declared as a man—aye, as • dying
man—that many statements had been made which
were false from beennong to end, and he proceeded :
" Is this lasses? 14 this right! Is this manly' I am
'Min" "ay.' transgressed the laws to suffer tbe
punishment, but I am opposed to this getout of trumps
tog up a am to throw away the life of • human being.
True. I ask for no mere,. With my pretest emaciated
frame, my constitution somewhat osettored, it is better
that my life should be brought to no end than to &nig
out a miserable existence in the preen per, of Portland.
Thos it is, my Lord, I accept the "edict. Of 004114.4
my serptenes of it is unosessaty. I no, wutieged with
It, and now 1 shin alone. True it is there are many
feelings which agitate me at this moment. In fact these
few disconnected remarks can give no idea of what 1
desire to say to the Court. I have ties to bind me to
life and society as strong as any main in this mutt
have a family I love as much as any man in this court,
but I can remember the blessing received from an aged
mother's lips as I left her for tbe last time. She std.
speaking as the Spartan mother did, 'Go, my boy;
return either with your shield, or on it.' This console.
This (lyre in. heart. I submit to me doom,
and I hope that God will forgive me my past sins, j
hope, too, that inasmuch as be has for MO years pre-
owned Ireland, notwithstanding all the tyranny to
it
w," she has been subjected, a separate and distinct
nationality, Ho will also assist her to retrieve ter fallen
fortunes, and to arise in her beauty and might, the
sister of Columbia, the peer of any nation in the world."
The womb had a thrilling effect, and beonght team to

many eyes.—Tbe prisoner Doran mid : My lords, I
have not got much to say. I could not follow In the
saute stein of eloquence that my country men here has
expressed himself, but also sigh him am *assigned to
early grave—cut off in the vigour of manhood, by false-
hood sworn there—fslim as God is true. Butt forgive
them all now, as I hope God will forj,iire me." The
Chief Justice prowouneed the sentence. The prisoners,
he avid, had been found guilty, and the verdict wee
quite warrasted by the e.idence. They had eciumitted
high treason -the greatest of mimeo, and one week's
success might have caused loam of life which Co one
could estimate. The judges had no power to alter the
aerations, of the law, and be wanted Doran not to
calculate on mercy. Burke wee a ringleader throughout
the conspiracy. He was taken red-handed in rebellion,
and had forfeited his life. All the indulgence that we
hare in Our power to grant we do grant, and that is, to
postpone the day as long as we can for the awful
penalty of the law which you ate doomed to suffer, in
ord. r to •fford tu each of you time for prayer and
repentance, and seskieg mercy from your Mauer—from
the Saviour who is •Iniighty to alive. Nothing now
remains for mo but to perform the sad duty impAed on
me by the law, and that duty iv to pronounce the
sentence nf the law. The senteneo is (his Lordship
here assumed the black cap) that you and each of you
shall be taken from the place where you now stand to
the place when, you castle, and on Wednesday, the 29th
I.v of this month, you be taken on a hurdle front that
place to the place of execution, and that there you and
each of you be hanged by the neck until you
be dead ; and that aftti verde the head of each of you
'hail he Rewired from his body, and the body of each of
you divided into four quarters, and dirpueed of as Her
Majesty and her advisers shall think fit; and may the
Lord God Almighty have mercy on your adata" The
prisonrrs were then removed. apparently little im-
premed with the solemnity of :he borne which hail just
taken place. Rorke maintained a quiet indifference.
Hoth men walked firmly from the dock. The Chief
Justice was somewhat affect. d dories the delivery of
the sentence, particularly when he assumed the black
cap, and fixed the day for the execution. Every
person in court was more or lees concerned for the
unhappy men whose treaaou had brought upon the,.
00 Aire a penalty. The prisoners were immediately
removed to Kilmainham gaol.

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THE MAGISTRATE AND THE GAMEKEEPER.
At the Weikel's= Petty fieseion, bald on Tuesday,
before Ileum H. G. Awdry, Wadhant Loeke, William
Spoke, and C. J. T. Coolly. • labourer nulled George
Hunt was, at the instance of the Revenue authorities,
semmoued for killing a hare without a license, on lend
belonging to Mr. R. L. Lopes., of flandridga-perk,
Melksham. The case was proved by the keeper, who
found • hare in a trap, and watebed by it for four
hours, till he raw defendant oome along sod take the
hare and the trap and woo walking off with them. The
keeper then stepped from his hiding-pleas, and captured
the man. A fine of LS wag intlioted.—Mr. Wadham
Locke, arldresing the keeper, then said Now, keeper,
I want to say • word to you. I consider you to be •
man totally destitute of eonunon charity and humanity,
to watch for four hours by the side of that trap con.
mining a bare with Its lep broken, and therefore
'offering torture., and not to have the common feeling
to knock it on the bead and put it out of it. misery.
This is not the first time Mr. Lope.' gamekeepers have
come here under similar dreumstances and told tb•
IMMO We of cruelty. Now, I promise you, if you ever
onme here again and give • statement of cruelty similar
to the one you have to-day—and remember you have
convicted you/self oat of your own mouth—l shall
pro,ecuto you myself for cruelty to animal., and will
110 my utmost to send you to gaol. Now, mind what I
say to you (general applause in court). Mr. Awdry (to
gamekeeper, who appeared dumb-foundered): You didn't
put that trapdown yourself did you? Keeper : No, no,
sir. Mr. Awdry: I quite concur in what Mr. Locke
has said ; your empinct has been most inhuman.

RINOULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
An accident occurred on Mood.,' evening near
Larbert, on the Scottish Central sectiou of the Cale-
donian Itailway, which is highly siguilleaet of the perils
of the modern highway. A train of 52 trucks sod
guard's van, conveying cattle from Perth to Edinburgh
market, and dressed most for London, broke in two
while croseing Carron Viaduct, which spans a ravine
from ISO to 60 or 70 feet deep, precipitating lb* latter
half into • deep and swollen stream. The guard,
named Eason, jumped off before the fatal plow of the
train; but he was still more severely injured Oen his
companions—namely, Heating and Cartwright, who
where in charge of the cattle, both of whom fell with
the guard's van. Twentycix vehicles in all went down
into the abyss—namely, three close vans for dreamed
meat, which went immersed In the Canon, and 22
trucks of cattle and sheep and the guard's van, which
fell upon a lade of the river and the bit of meadow '
between. The scene pretended was frightful, the cattle
being either dead or dying, and nearly all being crushed
and mangled. The living animals were in one or two
bigamies extricated with little injury, hulls most canes
the butcher's knife was applied even before they were
got net. The cattle seemed to have suffered still more
severely than the sheep, and where death had not
ensued from bodily injury, it took place in many cease
from drowning, suffocation, or oold. The detached
portion of tbe train also included light waggons, mostly
allel with sheep, which remained on the lino One of
these, the nearest to those which went down, was totted
In • half suspended state, the ironwork having bent to
clasp the broken memory of the parapet wall. About
500 yards of the up (.outh going) line was torn up, and
the telegraph wires for nearly • mile were broken down.
The parepet well wax stripped away to the extent of 08
yards. The trucks precipitated from the bridge were
completely smashed, and the eight which remained on
the line acre also eonsi,lerably injured. The accident
is attributed to the breaking of an axle in the truck
which was the twentieth in the line which formed the
train. The noise of the fall was heard at • considerable
distsnee, and is described as • "dead mash." About
300 sheep were rescued alive, Including those taken
from the trucks which remained above, and about an
equal number were taken out deed or were immedletely
slaughtered. About 100 sides of meat were taken from
the vans that had fallen into the Carron. The lons to
plant, viaduct, way, and stock is estimated at £15,000.

A CRY FOR CHURCH REFORM.
The relations of the Church of England to the state
are ilklefined her Convocation is an impracticable
trays-Sic of an ancient institution, no longer cohering
with our political system; her election of bishops is a
myth ; her patroness is capable of being used for the
most selfish and sordid purpose.; her forinulariae are
inconsistent; her system allows of almost diametrically
opposite theological schools nebristing within her pale.
Yet all these, and many other inoontistenciee, would do
her no harm so long as they existed only in theory, so
long as in her practical working she exhibited
uniformity and unanimity. If the love of God, and of
the souls of men, only animated all her members so
much as to make the ant of a vestment, or the colour of
• preaehing robe • matter of indifference, even In that
little ant of charity and peace there would be the
element of mush strength in her conflict with outside
opponents. While the clergy give their beet energise
to their noels., and not only lead them tog/eon sutures
but screen them from the howling winds of controversy
and division, and make them feel that their Church is
a haven of red, this tha lay members are a tower of
strength, and enemies flui no hold in disaffection with-
in the CAMP. Alas! how far are we from possessing
and exhibiting these simple yet vital elements of
Internal power and confidence ! Dimensions and
quarrels shout what ought to be trifles now mark our
Church out to the world as • body incapable of self-
oontrol or self-government, and it is represented with.
out as "a thing of shreds and patches" as having a
rottenest which is incapable of repair, and as there-
fore, I-eing reedy to fall and vanish away. How can
Ibis state of things be met Only by the removal of
the muss of offence, by bringing shoot • real
uniformity, by treating our Gatlin' and Old flaming as
the political noes were treated in 1832. Our church
needs reform,—Reforin in her formularies in her
relations to the maws; of the people, in her patronage ;
especially in her allow-use of traitorous ofneers and
servants in the midst of her, in her passive toleration of
those at her altars who are the priests and ministers of
the Church of Rome. We are glad to have for this
opinion the support of • vast body of thoughtful and
influential laymen.—The Clerical /sunset

RLSPONSIBILMES OF CRUIUDiIWARDENS.
Mr. Charles Saunders, the judge of the Temple Cloud
County Court has ruled in the eases of Glover and
Fear v. the Churchwarden. of Chew Magna, that
money at command or no money, church-rate granted
or church-rate refused by the parishonens, the church-
warden is the person who is legally responsible for the
salaries of clerks, sextons, beadles, et hoe genus owns,
and who must, if nerd be, dip into his own puree in
order to discharge them. The sexton of the pariah of
Chew Magas, • Kr. Benjamin Gower, and the sexton of
the church of Bishop's Sutton, which is some way
ecoleeiastically connected with that parish, Neverally
sued the churchwardens each for a year's salary. The
plaintiffs bad die:barged, they said, all the duties of
their respective offices, had obeyed the behesta of Titers
and curates, yielded implicit submission to the wills of
the several churchwardens, and had becomingly doffed
their hats to the member. of the vestry; but they had
neither of them received their usual annual allowanoe
of ten pounds in the one case and all pounds in the
other. This, no doubt, was very hard upon them.
Sextons have months and stomachs as well as ordinary
mortals, and some of them have wives and families
dependent upon them for their sustenance. Aooording
to Mr. Clover, moreover, who has held the sexton's
, office for 35 years, people have of late perversely left
off dying at the orthodox rate in the village of Chew
Magna, whereby his monetary supplies have been
denuded of their normal proportion.; for, on the
learned judge inquiring of him whether after

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The parents had told the meet.°
And the sexton had tolled the ben,
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he was not employed from time to time in • way that
entitled him to receive burial fees, he replied in the
affirmative, but added with • lachrymose expression,
"Very little now." Under these eireurostencea, it was
submitted that the sextons must he paid. On the part
of the ithurshwardens, it wee contended that their ease
was yet harder than that of the sextons. They had
nothing to go to but an empty coffer. The inhthitants
GI the parish hail refused them a ohurch-rate, and so
fats. the duty of expenditure went they were almost
in as bad a position as the Israelites of old when
compelled by their Egyptain taskmasters to make
bricks without straw. The Judge, in ocnimquenoe of a
technical point (touching some promedinp now pending
in the geolesiastioal Cowie) did not give his judgment;
but as regards the liability if the churchwardens his
ruling mut clear and distinct. The churchwardens
were, he said, the representative* of the vestry for
receiving and paying money, and the duty was east
upon them of getting the money "somewhat or other."
And, he added, emphatically, "the fact of irate having
liem refused was "no answer to the oath" Hare, thee,
we have hardship No 2. hit was hard—as no one
meld reasonably deny that it wee—for the sextons after
giving their year's serviese to the pariah to bare their
, imeed stipends withheld ; is it not, .0 uk. equally hard
that the churchwardens, who, according to Hz.
Pria'n"tt's well-known text-book on ohurchwardens'
law are elected upon compulsion, and would Inc.,
Ponlltton, for refixed to hold the alias, should be forced
to unbutton the strings of their purses and Album,
at whatever inconvenience to their owe permed etheee,
for objects in which they have themselves no lAyber
thermal than bare the reel of the eburebirell rosiel".
of the with ?—hrietel Dray Pal.

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The usual monthly meeting of the Council of this
Society was held at Dourah'e Railway Dotal, Tsunton,
on Tuesday Pact, under the Foomadouoy of J. Tremsyne,
El•
The following programme of the arrangements for the
forthcoming snow at Salisbury. in June next, was
brought itir by the secretary, nod confirmed :
Monday, 10th denr, admisaioa 2, 6d.—Open judging
art 10 a.m. Implement department open at 10 IL UL
Arts department open at 10 ear- Sheep shearing in
the yard at II a.m. The exhibition to be opened ba the
President and the Officers of the Society, assisted by the
Worshipful the Mayor end Town Council of the city of
New Sarum, the Bishop of the Diocese, the Cathedral
I/ignitaries, the llealLers of Parliament for the city of
New Skflllll and the two division. of the county of
Wilts, and tie Members of the Local Coniniittee. at 1
o'clock. Lnneboon in the Pavilion at 2 o'clock.
Tickets for ladies and gentlemen Ito be paid for on
entering the L.-et) 2.„ 6d. each, exelamiee of wine. I(o.iforticultural department open at 1 o'clock. Bond of
the Grenadier Guards at 1 ir clock. Yard closed at 6
P..
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Tuesday, 11th June, admission 2s. 51.—The sheep.
hones, pigs, poultry, implement., arts, and horticul-
tural departments open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Field
implemetts of Tarim'. kinds at work at intervals from
10 to 3. Baud of the Grenadier Guards at II cm.
Reception of Members by the Bishop of !Salisbury at the
Palace at 8 p
Wednesday, 12th June, admission 2.. 81.—The
e
sheep Manes, pigs, Poultry, implements, arta, sad
hortiultu
ral department 3 open lion' 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Bend of the Grenadier Guards at 11 a.m. Performance
of concerted pieces by the Bands of the Grenadier
Guards and Royal Marine. at 3.3(1 p.m. The shoeing of
horses, at portable forges, at 1) a.m. Field implementa
of various kinds to work at intervals from 10 to :I.
Annual meeting of members of the society in the
Council Tent at 12 (noon). Conversations at the
Council Chamber by invitation of Dr. Lush, Mayor of
Salisbury, at 8 p.m.; Paper to be read by Mr. F. P.
Bquarey.
Thursday, 13th June, admission Is. —The sheep,
horses, pigs, poultry, implement., arts", and horticul-
tural departments open from j 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Royal
Marine Band at It a.m. Excursion to Lady Herbert's
farm buildings and Wilton House, under the direction
of Mr. Review's. Members to meet at the Council
Tent at 1 o'clock. Reception of membenby the Bishop
of Salisbury, at the Palma, at 8 P.m.
Friday, 14th Julie, admission 11.—The sheep, hones,
poultry, Impiements, arta, and bovticultnral
department, open at 9 cm. Royal Marine Band at
11 a.m. The horses (excepting in edam 47) will remain
in the yard until 3 p.m. No poultry to be removed
without special order until after 3 p.m. Horticultural
tent dosed at 3 p.m. Poultry tent closed at
Yard closed at 5 p.m.
On Monday the hones will be openly indeed; on
Tuesday and following days they will be paraded in the
circle, for at least 30 minutes, at 12 and 4 o'clock
(weather permitting).
In consequence of the decision of the Committee of
Privy Council, no horned cattle can be shown at the
meeting of this or any other agricultural society during
the summer of this year.

WILTSHIRE PROTEST AGA:NST RITUALISM.
On Saturday a meeting of the Manninster Lay ANDO-
oiation " fo• upholding the print:dies of the Church of
&rebind as donned by her Articles at the Reformation,"
was held at the Town.halL Twod the °cunt, members
were present, and there was • harp and very influential
attendance, chiefly consisting of Le principal farmers
of the neighbourhood and yeomenand tradeausen. The
proceedings were of a very unaninous character.
Mr. J. IIATIt2tHILL woo voted ti the chair. Ile said
in no port of the diocese was Protestant feeling more
strongly or more healtMly rooted than in the county of
Wilts —(hur, bear). That there was a large and in.
auntiel party in the Church that longed moot etrongly
for union with Home could not fora single moment he
doubted; and, while they did not mean to eaves' any
one feeling or opinion against R.,111•136111 as each, all
they met for that day was to say that such persons had
no Moines* in their Chutch—(loadapplaue).
Mr. T. F. Guam, M.P. for /tooth Wilts, considered
that the question on which they were met was one
vohieh had to do with men's courroon come ; and that
layman who possessed that won as able to judge
of them matters as thou who had studied at the univer-
sities. The doctrines of the Church of Ragland had one
source, and one only— the Bible—)hear),—and if they
found confession aid absolution in that book they were
bound to believe them; bat they did not find them
there—(imer, hear). A high authority in that diocem
bad ...id that the clergy rightly claimed to themselves
all the power and authority assumed by the clergy of the
Greek and Latin Churches: If that were no, as men
of common sense, they could see no difference between
that and Romaniam, which claimed the right to
extort oonfeesion, to ref.., ot to grant absolution,
and also the powar to perform the miracle of tranaub
stantiation. Ifs knew Our latter power was claimed by
many of the Ritualist party, but that an Protestants
they denied. If this was ones admitted they lay them-
selves open to the entire thraldom of the olergy. The
proper way to look at the question was this—supposing
they found in that diocese and their immediate localities
ministers of religion trying to introduce thewe practices;
If, u he believed, all present did, they wished to con-
tinue Protestants and worship Ood in parity and
simplicity, end could sot get such a service in their own
parish, they would be induced to go to neighbouring
church.,; hence would an., a feeling that the clergy-
men who had made them chess to their own
and were reed ring tithes from them, were not deservinghe
eis'n:i
of them, and then would spring up an agitation for the
abolition of tithes, as there had about church-rates.
Saab • step he did not think any well-wisher to the
Church would desire to see; but if clergymen of the
Church of Rorland ceased to be Protestant, and became
Roman ectholic, p• ople would begin to think they
could do withont them. The wealthy could go to other
churches, hut farmers would not like to go, and the
poor amid not go; and so they would become in.
do ctrinated with these practices, and begin to regard it
as a matter of indifferenoe whether they were Protes-
tants or Gomanists, and then they would lose the Pro-
testantiam of their Church. Having amounted for the
absence of Lord henry Thyme and Mr. Denby Seymour,
the honourable member moved the following resolution :
"That the Protestant laymen of the county of Wilts
have watched with deep anxiety the increasing intro-
duction into the churches of our land of ornaments' and
Ritualistic practises almost identical with those of the
Church of Rome. These ornaments and practices were
Herded by our forefathers ao inconsistent with, and
reoupaut to, the scriptural simplicity of patine
worship. We have heard, too, with no less alarm, the
assertion of sacerdotal claims and doctrines essentially
at variance with the principles and teaching of the
Reformed Church of Ragland. These opinions have
been openly professed, and especially in our own
diocese, by men who, at their ordination, pledged them-
selves to maintain the pure docitrines of Gospel truth.
Impelled by these convictions, we hereby publicly and
solemnly protest against such Ritualistic novelties, such
piestly claims, and such unscriptural doctrines, ea
tending to nniermine the Protestant foundations of the
Established Church. and endanger within these realms
the very existent* of the Reformation itself."
Captain Ginger iseconded the motion.

liTier-g•Tro-n-,ollibi-n-nrsligioni-, s-u-ppo--rted the remota-
tion. He urged Lis bearers to be hearty in their
resistance of Ritualism, and in their support of the
association, and stated that in his own parish he had
been driven sway from °bur& for 17 years • it was
Impossible for a Pro.estaat to attend it, for Ilsey had
had incense, the elevation of the elements, repeated
crossings and **loured vestments-(cries of "shausen.
The tithes of the parish were £3OO, of which be paid
BM, and be employed all the people there; sod the
only way in which be could give them a service wee by
reading the Litany in the schoolroom on Sunday even-
ings-(cheers). He bad been obliged to do this for •
number of years - (applause).
The resolution, on being put, was carried unani-
mously.
Mr. 0. Baoww, of Archery, moved the presenta-
tion of • memorial to the Bishop of Salisbury against
Ritualism.

Mr. Kira, of Ever[Ugh, in seconding the motion,
gave some amount of the doings in his perish, and
stated that it had been resolved by the ratepayen that
so long aa Kiteslistie services were continued in the
church they would pay no rates—(hear, hear, and ap
phone).
Mr. LONG, M.P. for North Wilts (who was received
with considerable cheering), supported the resolution.
He strongly urged that the association should be taken
up energetically by the laity. The ritualista not only
boasted that they were • section of the Church of
England, but the living, growing, veritable Church of
England. This was the challenge. Wu it true or
(else? They believed it to be false—(hear, hear); they
were there to say that though in some districts many
men of influence, considertble ability, of eminenoe. and
of wealth, were devoted to Ritualist doctrines and
practices. yet they (the meeting) assented they were
not the Church of England. and please God they never
should be—(applanse). In his part of the diocese,
between the clergyman and his conueliation their
minted the mo.t kind and harmonious fcelloc. Could
thou who were seeking to introduce innovations say as
ranch of their parishes? He would appeal to each
clergy, and asked them if they were wise? Had they
not conseerated their whole lives to greater things than
the burning of incense, the wearing of drawee, and
genuflexions, ceremonial, ornamental, yed flowers, which
their whole soul seemed bound up in? Were they un-
coneeious that souls were drooping around them like
leave.. autumn Aa4 while they wanton they did
their influence was as little is that of the table before
him—(loud applause). He could not believe that ming
the mass of clergymen these doctrines had obtained say
firm and permanent hold. But aa the wind blew and
carried it on with one rash and then another, sad al
fashion sot in and people followed It without asking
the reason why, so unless a strong and vigorous and
emphatic protest were made amongst the laymen of the
Church, he believed a groat number of clergymen would
be led away and induced to go ways which in cool blood
they would be very far from following— (hear, hear)
In conclusion the hon. member addressed a word of
advice to churchwardens, telling them that so long as
they helped that office they were bound to uphold the
simple character of the worship, and above all the
simplicity of the communion table No matter who
desired a change, they should remember that to their
custody and guardian we that irensmunion was
entrusted for others, and, above all, for the poor, for
they would chiefly suffer by those changes. Let (rhumb
wardens therefore see to it that the communion table
remained a communion table, and that there should not
be added an under-altar or euper.altar, or anything of
the kied—(cbserel.
The resolution, on being put, was also unanimously
adopted.
0. the motion of Mr. J. C. Yuma, seconded by
W•allIM (of Warminster), Mr. Stratton and
Oautain Gibney were appointed a committee to draw
up the petition.
Voss of thanks tote. chairman and to Lord Bath for
the use of the room concluded the reseeding&

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF • YOUNG A BLIND CARRIER.
WOMAN. I A stranger pawing through Ciodalming oft any day,
A very sad tragedy ban lately been enacted at Book- was Sunday, at shout nOOO, could not fall to he stem&
hurrt-hilL A young man, named Frederick Alexander with the appearance of a cberry-loooking old saes, wile
Watkins, aged 20, son of • watchmaker in basin's@ at • number of parcels and bundles hung about him in all
°event-garden, London, has seedy nisrdered • girl of , sorts of impossible ways, and • small twisted brag hem
W 17, named 'ird& Griggs, with show he kept company , slung from hie nee. On closer inspection you would
foe two year., and seduced about 12 months ego. He ' perceive that this little hale old man, posting along st
allowed her LT 10s. • week when the child was born. • rapid rate, with a stoat stick in his band, but making
He bad lately been jealous of her. He gave himself up so uncommon use el it, is blind, although an sitter
to the polio, at Epping station, and the girl was found ordinary intelligence lightens up the features and takes
grievously wounded and drenched with blood. Her away that painful and melanchsly look which often
life being deepened of, her depositions were taken the accompanies blindness in thou, who are the subject
tcirl
folios lug day. She mid—" On the night of tbe that greatest of deprivations. That is old
occurrence I met the prisoner outside my father's Manien, who for upwards of twenty years has sated as
hewn, and I said that I was going on the Freehold to carrier between Hambledon and Godsimine. During
Mrs. Grafton's. He asked me it I erJuld walk: with the whole of that period he has bees totally blind. Hs
him, and I said—' Yes.' When we got to Ike house, he is now considerably over seventy years of age, and yet
persuaded me to go • little farther down, and I went he daily trudges between theme plases, which ass four
towards a back lane, away from all the houses. While miles apart, calling wherever he is required, sod de-
ws were walking along, he charged ma with speaking charging the responsible duties of his vocation with un-
to other young men, and I said that I did not. He erring accuracy. The road which be traversed is
then asked me to get into a field over a pilling, and I exceedingly intricate, being chiefiy paths soros
did so, lie struck me on the head two or three time. commons, and otherwise involved, and he &en has to
with something. He then took out • dagger, and make divergence, to the reeidenees of persons living off
struck roe on the back, head, breast, and hands with it the main track. Bat old George never stumbles. •
several times. 1 then fell on the ground, and be ran blast from las little horn makes known his approash ;
away. I was lying on the ground for some time when and whether as the cottage of the humble or the mummies
I heard the clock at Buckhurst Hill strike ten. I tried of the rich, there are few more welcome visitants, for
to get op, but I could not. I lay there for a long be is • great importer of news and gamin, and newer
time, and then I felt nay strength returning. I crawled arrives empty-banded. During the severe snow storm
along the ground, through s fence, into another field, of last winter, when the paths which be traversed were
and there I was lying for mime time, 1 got up then, and completely obliterated, and it would have palsied the
was making nip way home when the policeman found keenest-sighted individual to have made the journey,
me." While the girl was speaking the prisoner George 'garden never missed a day, and it M believed
remained silent, but when abe had concluded, he said, never wandered out of his road an inch. Indeed, the
"May I speak to herr The Magistiates gave their old fellow's other perceptive faculties are wonderfully
consent, and he walked over to the bed and kneed the acute, and 'he inhabitants of Goddening declare that he
girl. He said "Good.bye, Tilley, goodbye;" but knows every one of them as batman's, even though they
the girl made no reply. He then burst out crying, ,do not speak—• belied which gains strength flan the
The prisoner has been visited by bis brother, and he feet that be salutes them by nnWe and nay" am- 14 h
gave a full account of his walk through Epping Forest said that be makes fewer mistakes than any other sorrier
after his attack upon the girl, and said, "'When I was in or out of the town, and there is no one who is mote
turning away I heard her cry, and I thonght of nature, implicitly relied on for the performance of Mom
ing totem., but then I thoughttlat the crying would soon numerous little commissions so often entrusted by the
stop, and I ran on. I had sense enough not to 10 along &inseam 01 • aill&P to the canhaa nha "an" la"'
the road for fear I might meet some one, so I ran Old George anion steeliest health, and is repotted ,
across the fields. When I got to the forest I felt as if I nner to have mired a day since nearly • quarter of • I
was walking in my sleep, and I was startled several censure ago, be first entered on his career ea sorrier.—
time., for everything I asw as! was walking along Wag Same ?Minn
looked like a policeman. When I got to High Beach I
lay down on the gross under some trees, Just before I
was going to sleep! took &packet of oxalic acid out of
my pocket. I put the end of it into my mouth, and
bit it. It began to boil in my mouth, and then I took
h another bite, but that boiled. I tried a third bite, and
then! thought. 'this is worse than being hanged. I
then went to sleep for about three hours, and when I
got to Epping it was two o'clock." Prisoner asked the
prison warden why they had taken away his handker-
chief, and when he was told ''for fear you should hang
yourself," he mid, " I would rather leave the banging
of me to others." Lest Wednesday the prisoner was
"barged before the magistratereat Waltham Abbey with
!rutting and wounding Matilda Grigp, aired 17, with
intent to murder her. He was defended by Mr.
Abrams, solicitor, of Bow-nreet. The only witness
ere Vindel IwltlMealr.leidninmn'to atsteuntendlatilßudackGriush''rittin.
the morning of the 24th inst. at hall-past See o'clock,
and I went to her father's house. She was covered
with blood, and on washing it away I found a number
of wounds. There were 130 n the body, some extend-
ing across the upper part of the back from shoulder to
shoulder, and others on the breast. There were also
two wounds on the head. I should my that the wounds
on the head were ceased by some blunt instrument.
Those on the body were caused by a pointed instru-
ment. I found her weak, but she is progressing very
favourably now. I think she will be able to attend
by next Tuesday if there is no relapse. Oat of a wound
in the back I took this (the brass sheath protector of
the dagger). It was covered with blood. Such an
instrument would have caused the wounds I examined.
Two of the wounds I consider dangerous. The pierce of
lead (whit& weighed about 111 x) produced would cause
the injuries on the bead. The prisoner was remand'',
bail being refused,

A QUEER CUSTOMER TO HAVE TO DEAL
WITH.

Mr. Flowers, the polies magistrate, the other day
made • remark on • case, strongly reminding one of
Mr. Shandy's oelebrated questions as to the white bear.
A drunken man had chased some women, shooting out
that he was the devil, and Mr. Flowers, on bearing the
evidence, observed that it would have been • very
fortunate thing if it had been the devil, so that the
police might have caught him. Assuming that in this
event the police would have been equal to the occasion,
mid that the enemy of mankind would have been
triumCbafitly 000veVed to the station•honee, one cannot
help wondering what the magistrate would have done
with him next morning. The foresight of our legis-
Wore has not contemplated such • contingency, and
there is no statute in that elm made end provided.
Could Mr. Flowers have sentenced the prisoner even to
the mild punishment of • small fine with the alternative
of • few dare imprisonment whilst was passed on the
drunken fellow who personated him? Might it not
have been argued for the devil that, being what he wee,
he was doing • MIZViOII to society in honestly and
publicly proclaiming himself in his true character? And
besides, even suppose( the difficulty of the sentence
overcome, how would the prison authorities have
dealt with their new 'tenant, and would he not be
likely to find more mope for mischief in gaol than out of
it? In fact, there is no end to the series of perplexing
questions which might be asked on the subject; and,
on the whole, one is tempted to think that Mr. Flowers
was rather rash in wishing he had bad the devil in the
dock.—Pall Mail Cloacae.

SINGULAR 13NOOUNTER BETWEEN AN
EAGLE AND A FOX.

A Strathmore correspondent of the Noreen.% Ensign
records • singular fight between an eagle and a fox on a
hill celled Benalskie. The ugh, wu devouring the
emcees of • mountain bare, when a fox sprang from a
bush of heather and seised the intruder (which had come
to rob ban of his prey)by the wing. A well-contested
struggle ensued, in which the bird made a desperate
attempt to defend itself with its claws, and suoueded in
extrioating itself from He enemy's grasp; but before it
had time to escape Haymard *Mud it again by the breast
and seemed more determined than ever. The eagle
made another attempt to overpower its antagonist by
striking him with Ito wings, but that would not compel
him to quit his hold. at length the eagle attempted to
take wing, but Heynard was not to be chested in this
manner. At Lunhe eagle succeeded in raising the fox
from terra firma, and in a few minutes be was =s-
peeded by his own jaws between heaven and earth.
He was now placed in an unfavourable position for
fighting; but his courage did not seem to forsake him,
as be firmly kept his hold, and seemed to make several
attempts to bring the eagle down; but, alas I he soon
found the strong wings of the eagle were capable of
raking him above the clouds. There we. now no way
of escape unless the bird would alight somewhere. The
eagle made a straight ascent, and souseded in rising to
• imosiderable height in the air. The two combatants
were still strughog, and in • few minutes • disengage-
ment appeared to have taken place. Haynard, from
some came or other, was obliged to quit his grasp, and
he was now descending much quicker than he hail gone
up. In a few seconds he was dashed to the earth,
where he Icy straggling in the agonies of death. The
eagle made its mope in a southern direction. It
appeared weak from exhaustion and the lose of blood.
but, notwithatand , managed to fly until at last it
was obscured talks

LADY OVERSEERS.

The following singular letter from "A Lady Over-
seer appears in the Timm :—" I de bops you will
swain your powerful pen in favour Ole. unfortunate
lady parish officers. I was overseer of the poor all last
year, and, with every ratepayer trying to force me to
continue in this unpleasant office, have just been let off
by favour of the magistrates, to whom I appealed in
vain in 1866. This is a most unpins/at 08100 where
there is no amistant-overmer, and nearly 1,000 inhabi-
tants. I reside in the midland mantic*, where, if a
widow or a single woman choose, for amusement and
ciesupation to farm • little of her own land. and does so
sueoesafally, everything is done and said to annoy her
and force bar to let her farm and leave tile pima. In
my ease • Dew rite was made, and my rates and those
of my tenant nearly doubled. Then I was put on as
overseer oaly to annoy me. They persecute us in •
manner you would hardly credit, and I think for this
reason tenant liirmers start with borrowed
money—rent money, as they term it—of country
attorneys and land surveyors, who get a high per-
centage, and can at any time distrain on their stock,
and generally pt LSO or eIOO for potting them ir.to •
faros, whieh is placed ln • beak as their own money, to
satisfy the owners. In our rich feeding pastures, and
wheel and barley lands yielding from five to ten
' quarters an acre, they soon, if provident, pay off their
debts and make fortunes, bet naturally enough hate
and dread us who end out the secrets of the prison.
house and spoil their craft. If we are not to have voles,
this is • time when women may hope to he freed from
these ; and as our laws, so unjust to us, give
us none of the advantages of freeholders, surely it
would be poetical justice to let us off all or half our
rates and tones, especially income-Liz, and bachelors
might pay double, as they very properly used to do."

ROMANCE OF THE EEL: RETURN OF A
Lon HUSBAND.

A singular arid romantic ineident bee occurred at
Sunderland, on the return of • man who for four years
had been given up, and in the meantime his wife had
again married. It appears that upwaris of four years
ago • seaman named rife sailed in • Senderised ship
named the Serahs, for Australia. rds lilt behind him
a wife, to whom he had been married three years, and
• child. On the vessel's snivel in Australia eh' was
sold, and after that all tram was lost of Fife by his wife
In ikuiderland. After three years' silenee, during which
she mourned bar husband as dead, Mrs. Fife was
induced to listen to another suitor, and at Whitsuntide,
1866, she married ;mother sailor, with whom sbe had
lived happily ever since. little dreaming that her Stet
husband was alive, and would return to claim her.
But so it was, Fife, on his return in Australia, had gone
to the diggings, where he remained, and, for some
reason hest known to himself, he had never coin-
maniested with his wife and child. From tho diggings
he returned to one of the seaports, and had the
command of a vessel which sailed from Australia to
other ports. In this trade he continued for nearly
three years, until be began to think of returning to I
England, and landed at Bristol last week. Still keep
log his arrival secret, be proseedied to Snoderland,
Intending to surprise his wife, and before visiting bet he
made some inquiries of the police to ascertain if she
was still living. At one o'cloek on Sunday norning he
knocked at the door of his fathar-indlaw, • bill-poster,
named Scott, where his wife was staying, end the
surprise of his redden appearance and unimpeded return,
may easily be conceived. His wife at find doubted the
reality of the return, but soon was oonvineed that it
was in the flesh, and a Deena of rejoicing followed.
The long separated couple have again become united,
but the difficulty will be to meet the claims of the
second husband. Fortunately he is from home, having
sailed only • few days previously on • voyage to New
York.