The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

We learn from Paris that the English Channel
Fleet is expected to revisit the port of Cherbourg,
and take up it. station there. Facilities will be
given to the °Siete and mews to visit the Exhibition.
Tue SOrg POMPADOUR& —The companies of this
regiment stationed at Weymouth arrived her, by
the first liaison Saturday week, to have the tweeds.
loaders served out to them, and to receive imam.
Lions in the neoessary drill for working this new
weapon. The companies returned to Weymouth in
Lb. afternoon.

Tws TIRPIIIILM, 19, paddle frigate, Capt. John E.
Conimerrell, v.c ; c.s ; tinder orders to mil from
Spithead for tbe Mediterranean, had steam up as
sun set on Wednesday se'nnight, with the Wes peter
hoisted as a signal for sailing. In consequence
however of a strong N. W. gale prevailing, it. did
not pail for hay destination until daylight on Mars-
morning. On Friday she put into Poirtla.id roads
for shelter, and did not @gain mil until Saturday
night, In the inesetime her captain visited some
of iler Majesty's ships in the mods, including the
training ship Eloscaesn.

PRIZINTATION OF A TIOITHIONIAL TO TM! Ray.
T. H. Game, a.a —We learn from • Staffordshire
paper that last week the Rey. T. R. Grega, curate
of Cradley, formerly curate at Portland wits presented
with • puree, orintainlns £7l. -b.. 3d., and • Bible, in
which was inscribed : —To the Rev. Thomas 'lnland
Gregg. curate of Cradley, Worcestershire. This
Holt Bible was promoted, to ether with • puree min-
mining £716, 3d.,and on the tth of Fsbruary, 1887.
by his pariebioners and other friends as • token of
their gratitude, love and esteem. J. H. Thompson,
incumbent; Henry Hipkise and J. R. Homer,
cbarvhwardane.

A CCIDINTAL DI•111 Or • Cosmic's.. —On Selmola,
week an Menai was held at the prism, before IP. C.
4tessall, Esq., coroner, on the body of John
McSilver, • convict, who was undergoing • sentence
of seven veers' penal servitude at that establishment.
George Wa/Itier, a convict, said on Thureday morein
he was working in the West Quarry with d
and others. Deceased was engaged in picking and
shovelling rtibbieli in front of • large stone. Three
or four minutes before the accident occurred deceased
said, "Suppose this stone should fall upon me;" but
as witness wee engaged at work he did not make any
answer. As witness's back was towards deceased be
sow a shadow and then beard • noise. He looked
round and sae deceased under the stone. With the
help of some other conviche the stone was removed,
lot when deceased was 'skim out be appeared to be
dead and was very black in the face. About three
minutes before the accident occurred the warder in
charge of the gang of men in which fleceased was
working, told him to be careful how he worked the
stone, as he was in a dangerous position, but the
man made no reply. Edgar Shaw Maker, the
principal medical ofhoer at the prison, mid he saw
deepened three minutes after he was brought into this
hospital, but be was then deed. He had toads •
post-mortem examination of the body, and the im-
mediate cause of death was the dislocation of the
Pelvis bones—The jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental death."