The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

SMITS! Yew..

Ting Ahypician expedition is reverted," mays the
,:eartts, "to heys swallowed up the
amount of the tt,P ea., *etiolate% and it is
la tiered that dee will he little or nothing to retain
the Eor at the close of the financial year,
find that the Channel tquedron ham
',earned home trite • formidable list of defecta, ao that
0
7 ..w. which h,.• been es ved from the demand made
opon it. byoer fiend Theodore will be regained to be
adwirel Warden's ships.*
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Tag ooviiiimenr AND Tat HAILIAS COITUS ACT.
—The eonservatire Purim% the itintrical sop,
;. to &uncial imPresaion :—" • have reason to
th.,t,. in Ii Slent..,of any further occurrence,
calculated to alarm the paid% mind, parliament ciii be
immediately strowned for the purpose of suspending
the Babe.. Gexpas Act in England. The happy
whinb fonoserl in Indeed 00 th• speedy exodus
of the Irish-Am, ins, rendered Dowse sexy by the
wieption of this ema•e, lead us to hope that no opposi-
tion iIl be off,redt. similiar proposal for &inland.
Armin. BY • SoLDIMIU TO DIOWS
sol.lier of the 17th II irtlefit, named Harrington, was in
n ,tote ef drinkenneel In Kdkenny, C few day. ago.
shoutnx, "Harrah forth. Green," and " Ireland and
rippany.,' constable Bray. of John•street station, at
°see pros:ailed with six of the polio, of that station to
arrest him. The sol !I. r plunged into the river. The
moment he rose ti the sUrf•Oe the polke succeeded in
esinning him. and with difficulty deigned the Wsis UP
the bank. They earned him to the military barracks,
where he remains under restraint and surveillanee.—
/C,lfeiterr Moderator. _

Tat ORS* COLLIERY.- After • lapse of more than
twelve month, there is row some prospect of the outcry
being gradually cleared, and the remains of the men and
boy., of which there will be rather more thnn 260,
brought to light. A niunbar of men have donne the
lost few days been able to go down with airproof dreams,
and put up sheeting at certain distances so uto have
the air brought down to the places where operations are
gig conducted with *elate lamps. The bottom has
- cleared, and some 31or 40 yards of the south level
to. On Friday the men come Zeroes the carcase
ti Ae • •m, an I had the very unpleasant task
o that it ..uld he wet to the top to be
•co .1 for ',wine time past have
re • . .re is every iodleation that
- so that the object
•
•
bodies with • view
proceeded with as

aol.7loll.—The inquest
. •.ed been adopted by •
blr. and Mr.. Cooper, at Bethnal Green, under cirentn.

• ISO to a aussamon that they made •
aglow of 'as eossetions, was resumed and concluded
on Thomas, seitheal eridenee showed that the cause
of death wan Ula...ooStien aril*/ from inflammation of
the lungs, but there were signs of neglect. The jury
retorned the following verdict:—" That the desseased ,
child (unknown) was found dead from suffocation from '
influnmation of the lung. from natural amide ;end the
jury desire to say that thy (topsider that the attention
of the logialature should be drawn to the system of
adoption of children for money, with • view to the
devising of 1110411/ for the bettor protection of the
interests and lives of children so dieposed of, either by
jragtetratios or oahereric, ea may be deemed fit."
SCPP.BIII3 Antall? To 111.011 Up • WIIATINCI SHED
AT Botton.—On Saturdey morning a diasovery was
glade at the weaving shed of Mr. Geo. Hodgkinson,
liricigemanctreet, Bolton, iy the engine tenter, John
Anderton, about seven oiclock, who was engaged in
firing up, when he found, 'avenge% the coals MI old tin
canister, einntedning smear is of Ma of very warm gun.
ipoeder, such as is ordinarily used for blasting purposes.
Who placed the can there has not yet been discovered,
but it ie generally supposed that it was the work of •
-wduld-be incendiary. Mr. I lodikinsoiri received • load
of coals the previous day, and it is just possible that
the canister might have been amongst them, and so
here bean brought on to the premises. The police are
making inquiries into the matter for the purpoes of
discovering to whom the canister belonged in the test
instance, by which means tid y hope to obtain some clue
as to the author of the intended out-age.
/08810NARIte WANT= AT Hons.—At the Stafford'
shire WIZ., during the hearing of • case of an .howl-
gable character, the chief witnesses were two young
girls, shout 14 years old, and were employed in canal
boats, In crosactamination they both said they could
neither read nor -rite; they had never been at school,
church, or chapel ; and they had
Bible. Mr. Juetise Keating. in his summing up to the
jury, thus remarked open the subject ;-•-•• 1 cannot help
eioticing the most deplorable •tate of matters shown by
'the evidence of these girls. We call ourselves a Chriatian
people, amid pride ourselves up,n brings civilised n•tion.
These two girls have said that they could neither read
nor write ; that they bad never in their lives been at
school, church, or chapel; that they bad n heard of
the Bible ; and, as the learned counsel had suggested, in
•11 probability they had never heard of a Divine Being.
We send out missionaries to the heathen, brit what
availe all this when we see :oda • state of things at
Loins r

IntOO Lenten a.- The frequent recurrence of
socidents iu connection with this highly.dangerons ex-
plosive imperatively calls for !etiolation to prevent its
am in industrial undertakings, and inasmuch as, prim-
tinily considered, it has no eilcantag. • and many dis.
advantages in comparisoe with gunpowder, in use
should be imineliaiely Prohibited. It In true that a
similar weight of the nitro-glycerine poetesses eight or
ten times the exploave force of gunpowder; hut at
this cora force is indivisible, and is not required for
the work to be done, it is valueless in • commercial
sense. It mount further be theaidered that nitro-glrceriae
.(sn I- the name remarks will apply to the other new
esphalve—dynamtne—lameted by Mr. Nobel) end lie
WOOOkirs are highly poisonous, which is not the ease
with gunpowder. Again, gunpowder always retain.
one character, and is never more dengerous that orlp-n
first wide. careless manufacture resulting only in • lens
dangerous compound. Nitro-glycerine, on the other
bond, even when more carefully made, is more
dangerous than gunpowder, and thy want of care in
manufacture, or even a slight change of temperature
alter it is manufactured, makes it still mon dangerous.
It congeals (and may then be exploded by sanely
nen them breaking • crystal) at • much higher
bemperathre than water freezes, and the sufgestion that
it min then be rendered later be warming it before the
lire should be adopted with as mush caution as • pro-
prosition to •' keep your powder dry" by storing it in •
well-heated fernace.—Miersig Joisenal.
Bogy Palmeri TN Friday evening
a lengthened inquiry t iok place at the Mansion.holue,
Newbury, before Mr. Joseph Bunny, coroner for that
town, and the facts elicited showed that the system of
baby fanning, now exciting math public attention, is
adopted cot only In the metropolis and other large
°entree of population, but also in the tuna districts
of this ootints7. The inquaat was on the body of an
Illegitimate male child, aged seven months, who
died suddenly • few deys ak,o at the houn of •
lin. Hamblin, living in Newbury, where illegitinost•
children have been received for some year.. past.
Owing to the nature of the ease the coroner determined
upon instituting • marching inquiry, and accord-
ingly every person who could five information as to
the treatment the child bad received Was summoned to
give evidence. Harsh Ann Fryen, • fashionably attired
young woman, who formerly lived in Newbury, but now
resides with her friends in Gloucestershire, admitted
that she gave birth to the child, and on recovering from
her confinement left it in the charge of • Mrs. Box, at
Speen, near Newbury. This woman, who bas now three
curse children ender her care, kept the child until Nov.,
when Miss Fryers gave authority for the removal of the
child to the house of Hrs. Hamblin, where it died.
It transpired that during the past year this woman
bad received four illegitimate children to nurse,
sod three of them had died; the parish doctor
attended one of the infants, and all the children were
buried in the Newbury Cemetery. The oorooer said it
appeared to him to be • very improper state of things
that the ratepayers of the borough should be called
upon to beer the emit of melicsal attendance upon
illegitimate children whom mothers lived in other
parts of the country. Miss Fryers took her de-
parture from Newbury about a month ago, and sines
that time had not wen the child, or heard from Hrs.
Hamblin respecting it. The coroner said one would
supper.e that a mother would be anxious about
her offspring, whether illegitimate or legitimate. Dr.
Ligert wood made • post-mortem examination, and Mrs.
Hamblin's daughter gave evidence that she fed the
deceased five times during the day and night, using
arrow-root and oatmeal for its food. The coroner
observed that the ',stem of receiving illegitimate chil-
dren in this way was a most vi. ions OW. and the
mortality among the infasts at Mrs. Herublin's had
beee reth ateet. The jury returned a verdict that the
• child was occasioned by convulsions
fling, and they also expressed their opinion
given to the edict was improper.
I two Is LOW anxious to
trunnion of war,
• ey appropratelY
Tans' resources,
devising the
a meaner

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~..••••••••• "v.", r•-.1,-,toy MAU cermanen... tc5c..,,,1 I
by the remedies of Professor Holloway.
Pain for a time is • boon to sufferin, 1.•
but it is a. infinite bleseing to eradicate
and restore priatine vigour to • dil..
sysiem. Holloway's medicaments uproot d
and develop into renewed activity "the vital spark
germ of health. Thousands who, in their atter pit.
arid dvecerstion, have vainly tried other medicin•
that amid poieibly be saggeated for their maladies', have
at "Oh found in Profemor Holloway's pills and
ointment " their pearl of great !Pries," their "hidden
tressure," wad their " mYstery solved" to their great
eet.slitetion• Tones who mice tried them invariably
oho( to them, not only as a never failing remedy,
but as a saleguaid or prophylactic against Jima,l in
any I°na for it is by strengthening the °oust:fiction
end maintaining ths of all the organs
of the body, and the purity of the blood, that
the entire frame Weems.. invulnerable to the
theft. of disease. If the humsn body may be sailed
"a harp of a thousand strings,.
Holloway, remedies
may be said to be the means of kospios it porpeltudly
In tune, or of metering it to its peistros sooored and
harmony when marred by diteme. But what sspiiiishes
us is the wonderful ineusgement and organisation of
th• moral e.tail.shment in London—the focus wane.
the rays of health emanate to the utmost lassoids of the
sertb—keeping them medicines perpetaliy is tics bond
and within the teach of every community 'tinting....
my ea ry eommunity throoshont the entire universe
Time übiquitous rentedus, culled originolly, as we he we
heat assured, from lb. •ewitahle productions of the
sod, iind sPI r compounded, are salve
or passive,
.sooording ti the ezirneise of the ease
the Pills eonlaining Milieu well ao detergent properties,
develop the one or It • other requirement, as th..
moil toms demand; Um Ointment, being en " expellee*"
is II sea bealiog application, aste in • similar mariner;
and tha. bah of Horn assist nature to out off the
1101111111011 enemy—disease. We my they nada& natant,
I.r it eon never be too forcibly insulated that the
wisest, the serest, the most infallible mods of mediaal
treatment must be bawd on the principle of essiatinr
and lambing nature to shake off 111118.1141, nod to
strengthen the constitution in the peewee of fvewv.fry,
wish& are the two great objects sed meoninlishments of
Solheway's Pills sad °dames& —Jiffy foam

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DIIIOOVIIIT Or EL A*llllo Illarratai..—The Glasgow
telegram in the Post says that 400 yards of bleating
rope wee found on Sunday night in en ash pit neer one
of the largest geouraerers in ilia oily. Blasting rope is
powder surrounded by guttirpfn oho, and is an explosive
agent Dinah used by miners for blasting purposes.
THI Lancashire Cotton Fusin* Committee bare
decided to divide the surplus fund rentaising in their
bands, anionniiug to nearly £lO,OOO, rateably among a
given namber of the principal towns in Leacashire in
which the famine was roost severely experienced, to go
In aid of poblie infirmaries and duo/merles, taking
population ea the bads of the apportionment, and they
Intend to apply forthwith to the Coact of Glimmer, for
Ito venation to the scheme.

MANORS/Tilt ffuLlTl—cm.--A banquet to celebrate the
return of Mr. Junto Bright for Manchester took place
at Rochdale, after which • public meeting was held in
the theatie to permit an sddrem of oongratuletiou to
the hon. member from his fellow.townsmen. Mr.
John Bright wee present, and delivered • lengthy
address, in the warm of which he taunted the Tories
for the humiliating position they lisd placed themselves
in at the bidding of Lord Darby, and said that their
chief had adopted his views and paae.d • bill as
democratic, as regarded the borough suffrage, ea lilt
had been taken from the people's charter.
NITIVTIRIOUR GOCUlninet iii LOWDulll.—The sties'
800 of the police was &meted soon after midn,ght on
Sunday to a scut& on the drawbridge over the easel
leading to London Docks, and on their spore eh some
men hurried •way. Drags were brought out, and the
body of • young woman wan brought to the sulfate,
but it had evidently been in the water some time. OD
renewing the operations the body of a man dead, but
still warm, with marks of violence upon bun, was
dragged up, end it is conjectured that he had juvt been
throws over the railings of the drawbridge into the
canal.

THI CAOIIIIIOIP Tin FULNDALII COLLIIIT EIPLOBIIII.
—The inquiry into tha muse of the Ferndale eollierp
exploeion, by whirl% 178 lives were lock haa been eon-
eluded. It has laated over eleven days, during which 40
witnesses were examined. The Jury returned a verdict
to the effect that the damaged met their deaths by the
exploeion of the Bth of November, and they believe that
the catastrophe took plaice, first. in eon...quango of a
great accuroulation of gas in eertain workings of the
colliery, which they attribute to neglect ; end moon4ly,
that the gas was fired by one or more of the wilier,
earelensiv taking off the tops of their lauips and working
with naked lights.

How to olOw Ilisn.wron.—The process of culture is
simple and amp. Select the ripest berries, do—those
of a pale yellow tint, and rub them on the rand...ice of
a broach of a moderately young apple or poplar tree.
The glutinous juice will make the seed firmly adhere to
the bark, and by being placed on the underside of the
branch ills less likely to be Wien by birds. The
branch aeleeted for the operation should be young,
vigorous, and free from dry epidermis. During the
following summer each seed will throw out two dome-
like members, which attach it firmly to the bark. In
this state it remains until the next April, when the
first pair of leaves commence development.
IF an article of low quality, that cannot be judged of
by lie outward appearance, is passed off as • good
marketable commodity, it is a mere decryption. Tea is
• notaqle instance of this, aa the Chinese—to hide the
brosnness of tsateleam withered leaves—have long
coloured the surface of the leaf, expressly to mislead the
English consumer ; oonsequently the tea without any
mineral powder on the leaf, imported by Horniman
and Co., London, has, from its reliable good quality,
became a general favourite; it le extensively sold
throughout the kingdom, by some 2,280 agents. The
flavour of these teas is exquisite ;the leaf of the green
Is the natural dark olive, being quite free from the
wand injurious mineral powder; this green. with
Hernintan's strong pore block, makes • most delicious
mixture, it. flavour, strength and chimps/es, is porta:4ly
astonishing ; the pries is radioed eight penes per pound.
The popularity these teas have so long enjoyed, has
induced many to imitate the packets, labels, ;
purchasers should nodes that such genuine pockets in
signed, Horniman and Co., London, original importer,
of the pare tea.
ENGLI.II Faeuxung.—Considerable excitement was
caused at Limington, H 112141. by the discovery, on the
Townhall door, on Monday moriiing, of • threateniug
notice to the members of the local besraL We
hoped, after the deeision in the Court of Queen's Bench,
on the Vert of November lad, that the quarrel id at
an mai. With regard to the more respectable opponents
of the Local Government Act, we believe the matter is
at •ti end, but there is evidently a strong feeling left on
the part of many of the smaller rate-payers, some of
whom, according to the notice, intend resorting to Greek
bre and gunpowder to convince the members of the local
board of their error. We append • copy of the notice,
tensility out, of course, the objectionable expressions,
and slightly modifying the orthocraphy "To the
Local Board —of Lyenington. Itognee,—This is to
inform you that we will have no Load in this
town. We will give you • little Feenisbm first. Be
assured, that if you don't stop your tricks, we will
stop you. If fair words nor foul won't stop you we will
try what Greek fire and gunpowder will do. We will
burn vvvvv Local house in ten minutes. We will
not be ruled by such • set of rogues as you. We are
quite ready for you. Go on, you imps of the We
will meet you. We won't deceive you, you black —."

LORD MACAULAY'S ANICDOTS OF THUSLOW.--I
remember his (Lord Mecianisy) oime describing to us the
character and myinp of Lord Tharlow ; and he told a
story of that large-eye-brewed personage which I never
heard b. fore, and each of you ought to give me half-s.
crown at least, if I /agree to tell you. A, the h•lf crowns
forthcoming? (We nodded anent). Well, thane were
days when we had not the infliction of railways, and
when bnrioters, oven on the Northern circuit. travelled
in poetchaises. It fell to the 11°Itte eery saintly good
to men, have to travel with floe/ who was Welt
Attorney-General. A journey the North was •
serious thing in thom time; and my Haney friend
dreaded tbe long journey with the blustering Attorney-
General, who be was sore would utter many naughty
words before they arrived at York. They had hardly
left London before the good man remarked, "We shall
have a long journey, Mr. Attorney, and so I thought I
would bring some books to amuse us. I daresay it is •
long time since you have reed Milton's ' Paradise Lost.'
Shall I read some of it to you? It will remind us of our
younger days." (In them days men read great works;
for there were not so many books of rubbishing
to which the reeding energies of the present day are
directed). "Oh. by all meaner said Thurlow. "I have
not read • word of Milton for years." The good man
began to read out his Milton: presently he came to the
pump where Satan exclaims, "Better to reign in hell
than gene in Heaven." Upon which Thurlow
exclaimed. "A d—d fine fellow, and I hope he may
win." My saintly friend in horror shut up his ,
" ParadieekLest," and felt that it would be no good
reading to the Attorney-General, if be woe to be inter-
rupted by Inch wicked expressions of sentiment
Macmillan's llepasice.
A Ctino'nege's Bow sear DT me Bear/mg.—A
distressing•fatality occurred at Penn Fields, near to
Wolverhampton, on Saturday afternoon. Penn Fields is
about two miles from Wolverhampton, on the road to
Stosrbridge, and it comprises sills residences
The curate of Mt. Phillip's Church there is the Rev. W.
Gay, who has a family of three eons and • daughter.
Under the instruction of their father the boys have base
made familiar with fire-arms—both pistols and fowling
pieces. Often their father is with them when they are
out shooting. On Saturday afternoon they were alone
In • meadow near to their father's grounds, the boy, of
some thirteen or fourteen years, named Herbert, baying
with him • small fowling-piece, with which he and an
elder brother, emouthanted by the third, who is aged
about ten and named Henry, were firing at small birds.
The piece was loaded with a full charge of small shot,
and the cep was upon the nipple when they desired to
go through a bodge. Taught nipple,
careful under such
circumstances Herbert, before commencing to cross the
hedge, lifted the hammer to take of the cap. Whilst
he was in the act of drawing the hammer back it slipped,
and fell upon. the cap with sufficient force to explode it
and fire the inn. At this moment the youngest boy,
Henry, happened to be in front of the piece, and the whole
of the charge entered his bowel. at shout the right
pole. The principle artery at about that part of the
system, it is thought, must also haysbeen riven, for
the blood flowed from the wound with • copiousners
otherwise inexplicable, and the poor little fellow was
dead before be could be got into the home.
Herbert was immediately seised with a paroxysm of
grief most distreesing to witness. Dr. Flpeckman was
sent for by th- boys` parents, who were both at home,
and he was soon there, preceded, however, by Mr. Best,
surgeon, of Billiton, who happened to be in the
locality. Henry was beyond all human aid, and the
surgeons had to give attention to Herbert, whose grief '
brought on illness which required the presence of Dr.
Spackmen up to • late boor on Saturday night. Mr.
Gay has been the curate to the Rev. W. Dalton, the
incumbent of St. Phillip's Peon Fields, several years,
and the many virtues of his family have made this.
greatly beloved. The sympathe with them in their deep
affliction is therefore intense. 'The boy Herbert is well.
known throughout Senn Fields to have been mese
generous and kindhearted.
MIZIP.—The A./Crain, Poet says that people have be..
ordered to go to bed at • fixed hour m persistently by
the meddling of law-givers, from the days of the curfew
until now, that they shut themselves up in their bed-
rooms during certain hours, whether sleepy or not, and
however much their services may be required elsewhere,
he ordinary Englishman, and still more the ordinary
•lish woman, oon.iders that there is absolutely some-
-4 diseredirable in being out of bed after twelve
k at night. One of the aillimt of our many silly
nth tell us that all healthyaleep is obtained before
'ht. Physician., as usual, do their utmost
rain popular prejudice, and have got hold of •
. ' theory that • kind of fever seta in about that
• is extremely injorioss to health and
hey calmly refine to take amount., how-
ever, • . .otorions fact that motors and statesmen,
the most r .orpi and exciting part of whose work is per-
formed entirely by eight, an among the longest lived
of civilised being,. Clergymen has also something to
say on this subject. Not long ago a popular prember
astounded the travelled portion of his oingregation by
the unexpected sunouneement that all the nights and
days upon earth bed been arranged in such manner as to
allow • sufficient amount of darkness for sleep and
repose, jut as if sleep and repos, had anything what-
ever to do with darknees, or as if they soeld not be
quite as well enjoyed by daylight, and if not, whether
it is sot the easiest thing in the world to create
artificial dolmen by the simple process of closing the
shatter.? Nature certainly had nothing to do with
this queer °leant &Won ; for in same parts of tb.
world it is inner dark for many months together; mid
the inhabitants of thi. region must be constituted very
cliflarently to what they ere if they could remain awoke
for so long a time. The simplest and most reasonable
rul • for health appears to be to take lion SO average
from seven to eight hours' sleep in the 911; but when or
how it is token signifies very little. Nervous persons
often Ind it difficult t sleep by night, though they can
thensher calmly and easily enough by day. The large
‘4 people affected with hypochondria sre apt
to he wised by horrors when I-ft in solitude and dark-
eyes. Circumstances often quite uncionneoted with
41.1"0--Inieb an ,nginty, erstehieg, attendee°, anon
the eielg—reedoe ohs p by night inthoesible ; aid Kr.
Diekens tells in, in one of the most thoughtful of bis
essays, that he eared himself alas obstinate fit of simp-
les ono by rising in the OA idled the night and walking
till he felt tired. The with to that sleep is entirely in-
volentary. We Cannot ...mid is any more thee we
can ardor banger and thirst to ecotone to our whims.

A Nova WIT-Nome—ln 81tropablre a new vocation
bee bran assigned to an animal hitherto amounted to he
sufiletently well worked. A person advertises in • Moil
Paper, "Wanted immediately, in ass to stickle a baby."
ARMING TH. MITIIuPOLITAII POLICL —The neessedty
of arming at heat Nome portion of the metropolitan
police at the present crisis seems determined upon, as on
Thursday, in isomplienee with an order from &Amid.
yard, • certain number of men from welt division were
ordered to assemble at given stations for instruction in
the see of size-44,6er revolvers.

ANOTHER COLLIRRT CATANTRO— PHI IS reported from
Waks. Betweeo nine and ten o'clock on Friday morn-
ing the ventilation of Bwilfa Colliery, Aberdare, was
(1.-etro)ed through the woodwork at the bottom of the
pit taking fire. Ten men were in the pit at the time,
and of these five were suffocated.

FATAL ACCIDINT AT RTDI PIR/L—A distressing
accident, moulting in the death by drowning of a child
at Hyde Pier, occurred on Christmas evening. A lady,
with • child in her arms, west down the pier with the
Intention of embarking on board his. Prince of Wales
steamer, then alongside the pier, and nearly ready to
start for Portsmouth. It wiss dark et the time, and
the unfortunate woman tni.tesol the steps, and fell with
her child into the ma. After conaideothle exertion on
the pert of the captain and crew of the steamer, the
lade was got on board, but the child was drowned.
Darraoartoo 07 GRAIN "aro Saver Luis From
—A limo( • destructive character broke out on Tuesday
night at Eloag's mills. near Slateford. The premises,
which are nittisted is • hollow by the aids of the water
of Leith, are very extensive. The Gni was discovered
between eight end nine o'clocik by Mr. Craig, the
occupier, who had been attracted from Its house by •
strong smell of burning. He observed dames Meting
from the top of the grain and &noir mills, and bn-
mediately tolled for issistenee. The local applisooes
for extinguishing the flames were promptly put into
requisition, and • mounted mesonger was deepatchioi to
Edinburgh. (In the arrival of the firemen from the city
the progress of the Berate was arrested, and much
valuable property consequently preserved, bet the
buildings in which the are originated were burnt to the
ground. No estimate of the demure sustained by the
fire eon as yet be formed, hat it must be very con-
siderable. The grain and snuff mills have been entirely
diatroyed, the machinery in the Mee mills has been
very mach damaged, and a large quantity of grain, rice,
beans, and barley, with which the mill was stocked, haa
been completely communed. The premises are, it Is
said, partially insured. It is suspected that the Ilre
originated in the careless use of a lamp.

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PRI 131.110 AT Tin CATTLI 8110W.—Fanners have
been • little astonished this year at seeing • new com-
petitor for public notice at the cattle show. Occupying
not a very dignilied "lace, in a corner among the pip,
In exhibited a noble eland. The poor beast stares at
the people, and the people stare at him. The eland is
somewhat unacquainted with the well•to-do sapeot of
the Britiah farmer, and the latter, I am sorry to find,
seemed for the most part nonNtiainted with the aspect
of the eland. I stood quietly by the side of the noble
domain (made of boards and iron bars), and heaved •
sigh for the progress of zoology, when 1 heard the many
" shots" (as we need to say at school) that the
enlightened British public took at the name of this
unfortunate representative of the most noble of African
antelopes. I then recolleeted the following passage in
" Wild Sports of the World," "The Bechuans scold,
If thee chose, hold • rattle show, compared to which
the Baker-street cattle show would be but • skin
market." Who would not be • Beckman& ? I look
open the eland as • real triumph of acolinattleatioe, and
the public are under deep obliptiqns to Lord Hill for
his persevering attempts for many years poet to
establish this animal in England. Thee 1 tendency
of our age is to grow only those things that are
practically useful, and the first question many may ask
will be "Was tht eland good for food r "Yes," say I.
"How do you know that r says Uzi reader. "Beaune,"
I answer, "I have partaken of • haunch of eland, and
should elands become abundant, the day of venison. as
the king of haunches, is gone." In January, 1860, 1
had the honour of forming one of • large party assembled
at the Albion Tavern, under the presidency of Professor
Owen, to report on the qualities of eland meat; and •
letter in the 7intss about this date will be found, in
which the learned professor testifies to the extreme
excellence of the eland helmet.. A. eaten in tke desert,
eland is described thus:—" The lean is sweet-aeented,
tender, and mellow: aid the fat delicious," as eaten at
the Albion, tb• same description will apply, and a
chieftain by his fire-side, in the great liCalahati desert,
clan serve • steak far superior to the everlasting rump-
steak of English dinner tables—Frank Buckland.—
Lead and Water.

LANOCIAGO AGAINST THE Qol2ll.—The
cans of Michael Piety, coal loader, employed at the
Imperial ths.works, charged at Bow-street sith uttering
"sedition., wicked, and malicious words" ooneerning
her Majesty the Queen, bee not been fonnd, on exami-
nation, to bear the character at first attnbuted to it.
The words imputed to the defendant were most violent
and treasonable, and that be used them was privet
beyond doubt. They were such as no Englishman
could, would, or should tolerate, and such as ought to
draw attention to him as a man who by his calling
might be supposed to be in • position to do great 06.
chief. When the ease came on for a second hearing
facts and eircumstanees were elicited which, in the
opinion both of the magistrate and the counsel for the
Crown, extenuated its character. The treasonable
words were spoken at a nubile-house, and th• landlord
who heard them thought it hie duty to give information
to the Government. The prisoner pleaded that he was
drunk at the time when he wax alleged to have trans.
tressed, while the landlord dee'ared that he was sober;
but on Thuisday several witnesses declared that not
only wee Polity very drunk at the time, but that some
of his fellow-workmen bad been teasing him about his
being Irish, and "getting him in for the fen of the
noise.' Ti turOmor appears", Om, glalty 6.1 ererk.d
for three-and-twenty years is London, during seventeen
of whieh he was in the employment of the Imperial
Ousessorks. The witnesses spinet him admitted that
balsa quiet inoffensive man while sober, and in smut
he stated that he had not meant what 16 said, that he
sineerely regretted it, and that he would take care and
never so offend again. After this evident* Mr. Poland,
who represented the Crown, declined to pram far • com-
mittal. and Sir Thomas Henry thought he had exercised
• " wise discretion." With the greatest respect for an
upright and impartial magistrate, we venture to think
Sir Thcia Henry might have eone a little further, and
castigated the disposition which could excite an ignorant
drunken man, to use had language, "forth. fun of the
thing," and then turn round upon him and make hies
answerable for what he had been stimulated to sey. We
may hope that there are not many homes in London
where "fun" of this kind is encouraged. The magi.
trate, satisfied that no jury would convict under such
circumstance', simply held Malty to bail to be of good
behaviour for two months. The lemon. it may be hoped,
will pot be throws away epee him.