The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

STATISTICS.

NIWSPAPIE STATIBTIOII.—From the Newspaper Prete
Directory for 1862 we extract the following on the
present position of the newspaper press .—" There are
now published in the United Kingdom 1165 news-
papers, distributed as follows :—Regland 845; Wales,
33; Scotland, 139; Ireland, 134 ; British
.14.
Of these there are 43 daily pspers published in
1 in Wales, 91n Scotland, 16 in Ireland, and=lso.
British isles. On reference to preceding editions et
this useful directory, we find the folio interesting
faits, namely, that in 1821 there were publlhs4 letbe
United Kingdom 267 journals; 1831, 296; in 1841, 412'
and in 1851, 563 ; but in 1862 there are now established
and circulated 1165 papers, showing that an extraor-
dinary impulse has been given to every description el
newspaper enterprise. The magazines now in course el
publication, including the quarterly reviews. number
516, of which no less than 213 are of • deadedly
religious character. Among these the Church of Bar
land has its special organs, and the Wesleyans, Primi-
tive Methodiste, Baptiste, Independents, and other
Christians communities, are fully represented in this
branch of literature."

Tbe Registrar General continues to report a higb
rate of mortality for the metropolis. The number of
deaths last week was 1492. which, though lower by 71
than the deaths in the previous week. was 78 above the
usual ten years' average. It will thus be seen that the
increase stands just midway between the wee point and
the other. The births are above the average—or 2020
against an average of 1969.

HOHEIBLII CRIMILTT TO A HOZBII. —At the Edgware
petty sessions on Wednesday, Charles Antall was
brought up on a warrant obtaiaed against him by the
Royal Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
It appeared that the prisoner was employed by • small
farmer to mirtgravel to the grounds of the newly built
church at Harrow. He had under his charge two
horses and • cart, one of the horses being the mare in
question, which was in the shafts; and on arriving at
the spot where he was to unload, the ground being
soft, the wheels of the cart sunk, and the cart got set
fast ; and, notwithstanding the application of a heavy
cart-whip very freely used by the prisoner, the h2C
wers quite incapable of drawing the esti out, wh
upon the prisoner toot • large clasp-knife out his
pocket, and opened the blade, and stabbed the mare
several times in its side. The persons who witnessed
this indignantly remonstrated with the prisoner, when
he (the prisoner) made use of a cruel threat in reply,
and he then went to the other side of the mare, and
plunged the knife into its abdomen. The poor animal
at each blow reeled, and was only prevented from
falling by the shafts of the cart. ne blood streamed
from its side, and pools of blood were left in the road.
The horses were suqueutly taken home by the pri-
soner, when his master, cliseevering the frightful in-
juries the horse had remised, immediately discharged
the prisoner from his service. The mare has been in a
state of great suffering ever sinoe, and but alight hopes
are entertained of its recovery. The value of the
animal was previously estimated at £3O. The Chair-
man, Mr. E. W. Cox, recorder of Exeter, said that in
all his experience of various courts of justice, he had
never met with such a brutal and barbarous ease as
the present. In addition to the public wrong he had
committed, he had also inflicted a grievous injury on
the owner of the unfortunate animal. He should not
be doing his duty as the exponent of the feelings of the
Bench if he did not state that the Bench were unani-
mous in their opinion that the prisoner Amid be seat
for the full term of imprisonment with hard labour—
via., three calendar months ; and further, that he
should pay to the owner the aunt of £5, or,in default, at
the expiration of the previous sentence, be further im-
prisoned for one month with hard labour.

The Empress of the Bean, an Auxtralian vessel, it
reported to have been burnt at Port Philip Reads. The
pasengere, fortunately, and the gold With which the
was laden, were laved.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN NOIRTHUNREELLND.—A
correspondent at North Shields writes as follow', under
date of Friday night :—A messenger has arrived in this
town and "assed on to Sunderland with the appallin
amount of another frightful accident that has occurred
but • few miles from Hartley. Miner". Mouses,' and
Dixon hare recently reeouomenoed the extensivOron-
works at Bedlington. Thisaternoon, about ten minutes
to four, Mr. Nounsey, Mr. Dixon, and Mrs. Nouneey,
who belong(' to Sunderland, and *sesta' ladies, had gone
to the mills to see the woikinen saw iron. While
viewing the process, Mrs. !lounges got her dress en-
tangled among the machinery, was in a moment drawn
under the spindle by the whirling of the maehinery, the
spindle only standing six inches from the ground, "he
was drawn up to her breast, and her limbs and the
lower part of her body were literally crushed to atoms,
and life was immediately extinct, her death was OD
instantaneous that she had not time even to scream.
The poor lady has left 4 children.

POLITICAL ABITHIIII77O. Muter Jonathan : "Guess
I'm in Compound Addition end Long Division !"
Muter Louis: 'Ah ! I'm just beginning Reduction:—
Amok

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County Express, Church-street, Dorchester, Tue.-
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