The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

(retinal Netos.

ALCOIIOL FllOll COAL GAS.—A method of extracting
alcohol from coal gas has been discovered at St. Quentin
by a young chemist named Cotelle. The report.of this
discovery created a sensation among the manufacturers
of the north, and large arms are said to have been offered
by various parties to the inventor for his patent. One
company is said to have offered a very large sum for the
patent, but no reason is given why the inventor did
not accept so advantageous an offer. The Progress de
Oise asserts as a matter of fact that s joint-siock
company was formed with wonderful rapidity, with a
capital of 400,0001, to carry out the patent. The inven-
tor announces that he can sell his alcohol at 26f the
hectolitre, while the most inferior spirit produced from
other articles is ceiling for 751 the hectolitre.
SUDDEN BOEPAILTUSB Or THR TUSCARORA FROM
KISQSTOWN.—On Tuesday afternoon a telegram was
received on board the Tuscarora, in Kingstown
Harbour, directing the captain to sail immediately.
captain ptitin had, just before the receipt of this telegram,
gone up by railway to Dublin, and messengers were at
once despatched after him by First Lieutenant Jonea
Meanwhile preparations were made for sailing, steam
was got up, and at five o'clock the Tuscarora merely
awaited the return of the captain on board to take her
departure. It is stated that thirty of the craw have
left the vessel since her arrival In Kingstown Harbour.
She has, however, received several recruita from Dublin
and other parts of Ireland. The Tuscarora sails under
sealed orders.

THII Corrow FANINE.—We learn from a Manchester
contemporary that on Tuesday there was a demonstra-
tion at Manchester against the labour test. The men
employed on the farm belonging to ,the Manchester
Guardians, at Crumpall, marched down, four abreast,
past the workhouse, where they were joined by a
number of oakum-pickers, and the whole procession
numbering about 600, marched through several of the
streets, breaking up into small parties in Stevenson
-
square for discussion. The men conducted themselves
peaceably, and no disturbance occurred. A public
ifleeting was held in the square in the evening, at which
upwards of 1,000 were present, anti several speeches
were made strongly condemnatory of the test, as
unfitting the operative.' for resuming their former
employment. The Act of Parliament, it was said,
provided that suitable work should be given, but
was it suitable work for factory operatives to
labour in the open air in all weathers? Resolutions In
aceerdance with this sentiment were unanimously
adopted, and the proceedings wore closed in an orderly
manlier with a vote of thanks to the chairman. The
number of men wholly out of employment in Manellee•
tor pow amounts to 11,583.

44,e4d

A WHOLESOME PENALTY. Last week in a train
running from Petersburg to Vienna, a boy apparently
under 10 years of age, travelling with • grown-up
person, lit • cigar, and happened to be smoking it
when the guard came round to collect the tickets. AN
the boy was only a half-price one, the guard remarked
that the directors considered all smokers as men, and
required the boy to pay full price. The elder traveller
wu accordingly obliged to pay the other half of the
price fur his young companion.
RELIC Of THE BATZLIC OP WORCESTEIL—A
branch railway is being made in the city of Worcester,
connecting the Wait Midland line with the Severn
Quay, and in the ',rogues of the work the excevators
have alighted upon the relic of the battle of Woresater
—Cromwell's "Crowning mercy," as he called it. In
digging out the foundations for piers to support some
railway arches the workmen came upon the skeletons
of two men lying 'erratic' with each other, and near
them an old cannon ball. The spot where these remains
were found would be outside the old city wall. On
being exposed to the air the bones crumbled to dust.
Formerly, a wide ditch ran across this pittae—a portion
of the Worcester Racecourse. A few days ago some
Roman coins were found near the principal station of
112 same railway. _

INTZRZSTINO MARRIAGE—On Thursday a marriage
was to be performed at the psrish clinrch, Brighton,
uniting a lady and gentleman of colour, whose preview'
history would doubtless give to the ceremony a peculiar
I interest. The lady, supposed to be an African
chieftain's daughter, Was presented, when about the-
age of five years, to the late Captain Frederick Forbes,
R.N., who officially visited the King of Dahomey,
with a few to aid the suppression of the slave trade in
the interior of Africa, and in his book giving an amount
of the mission he thus describes the little girl:." I
have only to add a few particulars about my extra-
ordinary present—' the African child.' In a former
portion of these journals, I have ineutioned the Okeadon
war; one of the captives of this dreadful slave-hunt Wa6
this Interesting girl. It is usual to reserve the best
born for the high behests of royalty, and the immola-
tion on the tombs of the deceased nobility. For one of
these ends she had been detained at court for two
Years; proving, by her not having been sold to the
slave-dealers, that she was of a good family. So extra-
ordinary a present would have been at lead a burden,
bad I not the conviction that, in consideration of the
nature of the service! had performed, the Government
would consider her as the property of the Crown. To
refuse, would have been to have signed her death.
warrant which, probably, would have been carried into
execution forth with. Immediately on arriving. I applied
through the Secretary of the Admiralty, and received
for answer that her Majesty was graciously pleased to
arrange for the education and subset:meet fate of the
child. Of her own history she has only a confined
idea. Her parents were decapitated ' • her brothers and
eiders, she knows not what their fate might have been.
For her age, supposed to be eight years, she is a perfect
genius; she now speaks English well, and has • great
talent for music. She has won tho affections, with but
few exceptions of all Who have known her, by her docile
and amiable conduct, which nothing can exeeed. She
is far in advance of any white child of her age In apt-
ness of learning, and strength of mind and affection;
and with her, being an excellent specimen of the negro
race, might be tented the capability of the intellect of
the black, it being generally and erroneously surnamed
that after a certain age the intellect becomes impaired
and the pursuit of knowledge impossible—that though
the negro child may be clover, the adult will be dull
and stupid. Her head 'is considered PO excellent •
phrenological specimen, and illustrating such high
intellect, that M. Pistrucci, the medallist to the Mint,
has undertaken to takes bust of her, intending to pre-
sent • cast to the author. Her mind has received a
moral and religious impression, and she was baptised,
according to the rites of the Protestant Church, Sarah
Forbes Bonetta." Her Most Gracious Majesty has pro-
vided the means for completing, the education
of Mies Sarah Forbes Bonetta, whose know-
ledge and accomplishments make her an ornament
for any society, and prove most satisfactorily that the
African mind la capable of the highest intellestual
attainments. Her Majesty has taken a great interest
in her marriage, and given it her fall sanction. At
the same time, she has, besides presents from the
Royal family, herself provided the whole of the outfit,
Iso. Mr. James Davis, the bridegroom, was originally
a slave taken by one of our cruisers, and educated in
the schools of the Church Missionary Society at Sierra
Leone, and showing himself to possess great talents,
and capable of profiting by education, was with the
sanction of the Admiralty placed in an official capacity
upon one of her Majesty's ships, under the care of
Captain Cooke, R.N., and proved himself so useful and ,
willing as to gain the good wishes and opinions of both
officers and men. Ho afterwards commenced eradint
on his own aocount, and is now a proaperoas anal
influential merchant, at Lagoa. Mier gerhes-Boneelaa
has been for some years residing with Maas Welsh,
Brighton, that lady having been aelected by tip',
Queen to superintenaent the completion' of ter educa-
tion.

A Tann SOHICIIIAN.—A writer and dretighteman
named Caboehe, well known as a prominent member of
the "I3oheinians" of Paris, has just expifed. The
following anecdote is related of Lim :7 !.kle IMP
returning from Versailles, when he leard thit Fieschi
had fired at the King, and the idea occurred to him
that it would be a good speculation to eat the portrait
of the aoruipirator, and, not to lose time, lie drew the
face oi an ill-looking man sitting opposite him in the
carriage in which they were travelling,. A printseller
published the portraTt, which was purdheied eagerly in
Paris, and even by the very person whe had unknow-
ingly sat for the likeness. The dash of a pencil pro-
duced to the artist several thousand francs."
Tat LIVIMPOOL hiaGISTaATICB AND SIM idatNNIND
STsrmit.—The Liverpool magistrates, on Tuesday,
tm -held a special E,,5 for the purpose-of autgelithi The
heads of a local bill for the amendment of the existing
law. The chief features of the recommendation adopted
are one uniform license for tLe sale of intoxicating
liquors (none excepted), and the opening of the trade
to all persons of good character and paying an annual
rent of £3O. The committee of magistrates also pro-
pose that upon every license granted according to the
terms of the recommendation there shall be charged, in
addition to the existing rates and duties payable to the
Government, an annual fee of £lO, together with a
charge of ss. in the pound on the annual value up to
£OO of the house licensed, the promedato be exclusively
applied to the maintenance of the borough police.
The licensed houses will also be required in close at ten
p.m. on the Sabbath. The magistrates have not
interfered with the Wino Act, but the rules relating to
transfers, Ise., are very stringent.
"A SAFE ON Sara Tatm&"--The attention of our
readers is requested to an advertisement which appears
in oulpaper to-day, headed "Fire-proof f3afee at Half.
Price," from which it will be seen that • Provino al
Insurance Company having lately become merged in a
London office, and having no further use for the Safes
and Deed Chests, lying at the various branch offices,
they have been returned to the tuanufactumrs, to be
sold for half their coot; but the most important feature
is that parties at • distance are requested not to remit
the money until the safe is received, when, if not
found in all respects satisfactory, it may be returned
without any cost whatever to the person ordering it,
and as they are sent carriage free to any 'teflon, it may
prove worth the attention of parties requiring one of
those useful article,.

There is a growing objection amongst the consumers
of tea, to the Chinese piactice of colouring it, especially
since the official information given on the subject be-
fore the Parliamentary Committee on Food Adultera-
tions, disclosed the fact, that the mineral 'facing' used
on the leaf comes off on infubion, and is imbibed when
the tea is drank. The public will, therefore, be pleased
to learn that many additional cargoesof pure unooloured
tea have recently come in, per Empress of India, and
other ships. Purchasers will do well to bear in mind
that pure tea is a doll olive- not bluish—pure black
is serer instensely dark. Horniman a Co., London,
devote their entire attention to this important article,
and to meet public roluirementa for strong, delioiom4
and wholesome tea, Import it without any artificial
colour on the surface; they supply it in packets through
2,280 Agents.