The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

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TEN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERT.—Two very im-
portant acquisitions have lately been made to the
National Portrait Gallery. One is a small portrait of
Dams from the life, by Nowlb, and touched upon by
Sir Henry Raeburn. The seeond is a most effective
portrait of Sir James Mackintosh, by Sir Thomas
Lawrence.
DR. LIVINGSTONE AT Tat CATR.--On the 26th of
April • monster meeting was held at Cape Town, when
a box containing 800 guineas was presented to Dr.
Livingstone, the famous African traveller, through the
medium of the Governor of the colony. The doctor
returned thanks in a long and Interesting speech,
descriptive of the physical geography of the interior of
Africa, and detailing his plans of exploration and
settlement; 800 pergola were present at the meeting.

Tnt LATII W. PALMER AND RIB A.SBURANOT.III.
The Prince of Wales Anemones Company has, after
long efforts, got an order from the Master of the Rolls
for the delivering up end cancelling of the policy of
insurance obtained hy William Palmer, the murderer,
upon the life of his brother Walter for £13,000. An
attempt waa made by hia solicitor to adablish the validity
of thia policy against them...many. and apply it. promo&
first to the discharge of Walter Palmer's debts, and the
balance for the benefit of Ws mother. His mother, from
the outset, refumd to talcs any part In tbeae pro.d.

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TOL PLUMS OF WALLS AND NIS DISTINID BRIM
—To all present appeavenom our hitare monarch's
choice or • wife is positively limited be neatly seven
ladles of Royal blood—unleu, indeed, be rebook a con-
sort much older than himself. This will, doubtless,
appear Marbling to mine of our readers but ills
nevertheless true. The following list (compiled from
authentic somas by • correspondent who has taken
muck flailli in investigating this subjeat) manna the
only iodise of Royal blood who, se Protestants, are
eligible for the band of the Prince of Wales i-1. Prin-
cess Alexandria (daughter of Prince Albert of Prawn),
born February 1, 1542. 2. Primrose Anne, of Haar
Darmstadt, niece of the Grand Duke of Hesse, and of
the Empress or Russia, born May 25, 1513. 3. Primus
Anusta of Roletein•Oluokeburg, born February 27,
1444, 4, Dummies Wilhelmina of Wurtemburg, born
July 11, 11144. 5. Primus Alexandria (daughter of
Prime. mann) of Denmark, born Deesinber 1,1844,
4. Primes Mary of Itan-Altenburg, born June 25,
1444, V. mina Catherine of Oldenburg, sister of the
Game Msie Nicholas of Runs, born September 21,
1540, Witbost mularing man proplawy, we are dl..
posed to think that No. 5 will be considered ths most
elleble lady, Prince Christian being heir presumptive
le the mown of Denmark. The Prince of Wales was
bera la the int of Nerrember, 1841 when be attains
the sae of lithe Prime's Alexandria of Denmark will
be nearly U. This lb* really mesa to 'shan't all
treer74l6L His 1147111 RMhams marry early.--
0.11001.

THI POKALTY ON A KISS AT BRADTORD.—AI the
Wimit Riding Court, at Bradford, on Thursday, John
Barker, sohnolumeter, of Clayton, near that town, waii
charged with an assault upon are, Martha Brigp, an In.
Wresting looking young married woman. The oomplain•
ant warn • short Mins ago • widow, but has inanity
become married. The defendant who to sixty years of
la an executor under ths will of her late husband,
Being at her hones on the 17th ult., he took the liberty
to lay hands upon Mrs. Brim, and give her e kiss.
This was the charge of ass tult. The nagistratas isuposod
a fins of Li and ecioN les. Od.

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Ma. Hum Werriynn EMIL= ENOINIII.—Mr,
William Newton, of Nowassele-0n.'5,08, boa received
letter from Mr. George Miley, M.P., stating that the
monpenestion awarded by the Neapolitan Government
to the English enginoen Is now ready for payment, and
a hop. is exprsuod that the matter will settled as
hv 111,800
I.Ettetifru, ittePnrnaluTemcl twota:;us"Attees, one of
them local, and tips other the Secretary of the Treasury
for the thug being, as during the laid month not inuolt, if
tny iinproveincit he. taken plies in the our fellow'.
health, and It Is probable that he may have nothing else
to depend upon for support.
HOBllll Reny has ?ideated his pupils
hringbout th• country from the penalty attaohted to
he Mond of sunny. "Al to the pamphlet," he write.,
" width he. bun so widely eiroulttod hi London, with.
out my knowladge and oonunt, it was written by me
film yam ago, Immediately upon the disoovery of lily
dateut, and oontoins but a meagre and linperfeat
aription of it as now printing by me. II was printed
for private oirouletion in my waive den of Ohio, and,
bettor., is perfutly unknown in New York and the
ahoy eitlee of the United States, as I never gave lemons
m my system except in Ohio and Tel.., where I passed
t length of tints experiuteuting on wild hones, mules,
to. I do not believe that any book that over We.
written ean Utah this system so well and fully 111 an
hour'. lesson with personal obasrvallon."
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CORESSIIIOII UF WI,. YURDIIII.—On Monday morn•
Mg Mr. William Baker and the Jury who were moan-
milled to inquire into the eiroumstancie of the death of •
Nona" named Hoare, the wife of John Hoare, a labour-
ing num, realumbled at the Sherwood Arms,
Bow•oominon.lane, Bromley. It will be recollected
that the husband of the deceased wee seen by • police-
%lnstable in • field near Bydenham praying aloud, and
on being questioned by the officer he said he lied struck
his wife with • iaiker and killed her. As he afterwards
,uule • full oonfeesion, the bocii of his wife was ex-
humed, and it wee then found that her rite were frac-
tured. After the examinetion o several witnesses., the
jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Hoare.
Ma. W. R. BARBER'S 04111.—The committee have
adopted the following report:—" That your committee
have inquired carefully tato the allegations contained
la the petition of Mr. W. H. Berber, and find the seine
to be substantially proved. Your committee have not
entered upon the consideration of the question whether,
in the present or like OWN pecuniary oompenration
.hould be granted, the rule. and practice of the House
orecluding_them from making any grant of public
noney. Your committee cannot, however, forbear to
date that the facts presented to thiir notice in respect
o the conviction of Mr. Barber, to the sufferings lie
mdured during the time hie sentence was being carried
Jut in Norfolk blend, and to his subsequent exculpa-
-ion from the charge on which he wee convicted, are se
ecullar se to render his case exceptional, and your nom-
nittee desire to /sprees their opinion that Mr. Barber
me strong claims on the favourable oonaideration of the
Crown."
DIA= FROM GLANDERS.—The awful death of
Madame Palesikoff, one of the most charming among all
that bevy of charming Russian ladies who sometimes
;hidden the winters of Paris, lute created • terrible
;hook among the circle' dhow lately embellished by her
ireientie. The unhappy lady left Paris but • short
th mm ue ago on • suer tour to Germany. While step-
ping from the door of the Opera House at Berlin, to gam
•ier carriage, she lot fall one of her bracelets close to the
davement. Stooping to
,pick it up, she noticed at the
time, laughingly, that ' one of the horses belonging
toe carnage standing at hand had dropped hie head so
close to her facie that he had touched her and left • owlet
kite upon her cheek." In • few days the unfortunate
lady was taken ill with that mold horrible &arum glom-
len, and in • few days more breathed her laid, in spite
of the attendance of the first physioians of Berlin, and
every resource to be obtained by wealth or by the cease-
len vigilance of friends.
, MEMENTO OF BONGO PARK. -Lieutenant Glover,
one of the offieers muter the command of Captain Blakie,
of the West Coast expedition, has stinnliled upon •
veluable relic of Mango Park, and hal of course *toured
it, Peening through a native village near the scone of
Perk's melancholy death, an old man wooded the lieu-
tenant, and showed him • book which had for years
been in hie poueasion. It was a 'volume of logarithm.,
m
with Mango Park's name, and autographic noble and
emonuida. The possessor offered it -to Mr. Glover for
100,000 cowries. Inestimehle as the prise was, the
pries demanded was enormous, and it was Imposeible to
pity it. After *owe oolighleration the lieutenant took
I from his pocket a deep knife, and naked the native whet
li. thought of that? Thia was too tempting a bait to
he refused, the native joyfully book the knife, and the
Lieutenant still inure joyfully moored his valuable ine.
uento of the distinguished African traveller.
BROOKING A.OOIDONT TO INC Wire or A OATS.
utsercu.—Oum Wednesday afternoon, the wife of a gate-
keeper near the Knotting* station on the Lancashire
%lid Yorkshire Railway, met with &shocking and Matsu.
tansous death. The 11 a.m. Great Northern train from
London pawed Donowiter at 3.45 pm. an I when within
• iuli. it the Nnottingley Station the driver noticed
that the wife of a gatekeeper at a level 0,044114 same to
the door, and when he got a distance of thirty yards of
ills level crossing he was horrified to eel her areas the
line in pursuit of II pig that hod'by some means got upon
the way. The plc unfortunately. lie 1000 as lb lied
orodieditoth Inlet Of the railway, turned round and ran
towards time cottage, under the very wheel. of the engine.
Mae WOlllllll, indainie to see, %When gh she saw the engine,
which wee going a a rapid tete, close upon her, ran on
and wee knocked down and frightfully inotilated, death
being instantaneotts, No blame em he attegilied to those
who had charge of the train, al bulb driver and guard
on Awe seeing her run across turned off the 'Mani and
applied the breaks. Ti.. poor woman leaves a family of
eight young children.
BROOKING BUIOIDI UPON A BAMWAT.—Oit Thum.
day evening a determined act of self.destritotion woe
ooininitted bye man named James ht'Viciir, by throw.
Ins himself under a train noosing along the South-West.
ern Railway, It appears that about seven o'olook ci
the 6.30 down train wee poising along tlme mail line,
war Dunes-hill, Wandsworth, the Mewed wee tee to
'brow himself serum the rails, In front of the carriages,
the whole of which pulsed over hie legs and body, kill.
Ing him Instantaneously. The body was found to be In
frightfully mutilated state, and wee removed to the
II ilf.way public haute In Garrett-lane to await a core•
mere Intineat. The unfortunate deoemed was a resident
if Wandsworth, and had carried on the business of a
fano), printer upon the Freneh system. He figured In
the pollee *out a few weeks ago, whew lie gave a man
named Thompeon into owitotly for 'Sealing coins hloaks
teed in his basiness, A partnership Way sot up, but as
It WWI proved that the deoemed'a money bought theta, the
man wee discharged upon his giving up poseeselon of the
lortyerty. It was also stated that there war a lawsuit
seeding between him and a relative, which appeared to
meats upon his mind, and he had latterly taken to
drinking. Thursday he was wen in the town In a very
nervous oonilitlon, and appeared to have some di flloulty
le articulate hi. words. The dammed wee believed to be
unmarried.
[AMMON RIVORMATOST.—The annual meetingof this
refornietory for 'dull male criminals was held Wednes-
day, at Willis's Rooms—the Bari of Bhriftesbury in the
chair. The operations for the past year were stated
to have been se follow :—The number of applications for
admission hid been 182- Shied been too old, 29 too young,
and 9 ineliglide for medical reasons, 39 had been refused
for want of funds, and 5 for want of min, 4 had
married, and 20 had gone away of their own accord, 7
had left during the period of probetion, and 18 after
probation, 16 had been diainissed, 7 had absconded, A
had been cent to the hospital, 1 had died, and as 39 had
emigrated, 3 enlisted, and 12 found other einployinent,
?le had obtained honest work. On the 31st of March
isst 39 were left in the institution. There had been 543
applications from the re-opening of the reformatory in
February, 1856, to the 310 March, 1858; of these 81
had found honest employment. 231 had pained through
the institution; out of these 150 had left without ob-
taining employment, or had absconded, or been did.
missed, being 65 per cent., and the 81 who had emi-
grated or found employment were 35 per cent. The
expenses per bead, including emigration, had been £57.
The report went on to complain that not more than
one-third of those who entered the institution con-
formed to the ruler, or submitted to the reasonable
restraints neoeuary to fit them for • new life or a new
country, and concluded by an earnest appeal to the
public for the increased ineans of proinoting the objects
of the reformatory. The reoeipta from subscriptions,
donations, and tedlections, int+. ling £212 (for work done
by the inmates), amounted to £3,342 128. 61. ; and the
payments to £3.285 se. 8.1., leavings balance in hand of
£57 6t. 10d. The chairman, in addressing the meeting,
said that it wu the intention of the committee to pro-
ceed for the future on • modified system, and to reduce
the period of probation from 12 to 6 months. He made
an earnest coped l to the pnhlio for funds, as did the
treasurer, Mr. J. Carter Wool; the Rev. W. Hatch,
and Mr. Robert Hanbery, af.P., all of them regretting
the possibility of the 'loon of the reformatory being
cdoeed. The report Was adopted.
TRAIN STRUCK or LIGHT:URI:I.—The 4 o'clock train
left Birmingham for Wolverhampton, on the Stour-
valley line, on Thursday afternoon, amidst a heavy
'bower of rain and hail. After about 10 minutes the
train outstripped the storm, but when at Deepdelds, was
overtaken by it. and the train was struck by lightning.
The dash Wee followed by ereportofa moist unusual
aonnd, not that of the sudden exploeion which often
auompanies very near thunder-olape, but resembling
more the oraek of • hundred rides exploded dose to the
train. The report and the dash were almost
simiiul-
tauieone. The engine-driver and choker felt themselves
wrapped round in a she t blue flame, the stoker ex-
periencing a shook on the back of the head which for •
time rendered him unoonseious. At the same time the
fluid seemed to run through the entire train. Every
paean in the train felt the shook, those who were
owed the doors on the offwide more so than the rut,
the lightning having the appearance of miming
along the rail on that gide. One of the
paisenrirs (Mr. Benjamin Hickline, in the ooin•
minion of the peace for the borough of Wolverheinp-
ton) Wee struck upon the right arm and knocked to the
opposite aide of the firstalue carriage In which he was
riding. The guard (Henry kishaiiii wag standing up in
his von at the time, applying the break. He &pours to
have sustained the greeted shook, In an Instant the
whole mem was paralysed. On arriving at the
Weldon, however, at Deedflehlt, he wee en•bled to stag-
.r out of his van with the intention of attending to Ms
duties. The stetiononester there found him ruling ae
If drunk, with his hand to his heed and held hint up. If
he lmad not done so Bighorn would have fallen off the
platform upon the line. The atation-inuter helped him
book into his van, and put a porter with him to tulle
ehsww of the train. On 'birdying at Wolverhampton
the paid was assisted into the inspectors' office and
looms brandy and water wee admialiderwl to him. After
a while l/I1 WM enabled, with mine ilifilonity, to proud
home. At Wolverhampton Mr. Hlokline appeared to
be suffering oonaiderably from the shook whloh he had
experienced, and complained of the benumbed sensation
In his arm. It ia dreadful to contemplate the reetilte
that would have followed had both driver and stoker
booms tnearikaitiled sato mob droneutanaa.

Tee CONTTOTIONAL AT BBIOHTOW. A monitor
meeting of the inhabitant* nf Brighton, headed by Mr.
YAOI FOOkel, took plea last week in protest against the
confessional in the Church of England. A petition
against that Amish rite, forwarded to the Queen, has
boon duly acknowledged by Mr. Secretary Walpole,
Tile BripAton Protestant of Tuesday says I—" We this
dity, publish an off Mel ountinunication from Mr. Wal-
pole, Her Majesty's Sooretary of State for the Home
Department, to the Earl of Shaftesbury, announcing the
presentation to the Queen of the memorial reenacting the
inimptitotia system (married on, in the name of religion, by
pentane officiating in the established church. The worm
taken in this matter by the Proteaterts of Brighton is
the right one. It will be exceedittgly gratifying for then,
to learn that the petitions to the one.. of Parliament
and the suemorial to the Sovereign have all been pre-
lento , and that the petition to the Lords was booklet
by one very numerously signed from the metropolis, pre
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wonted by Lord Calthorto, Followed, u thew nommen
tionably will be, by others from the chief towne of
England and Scotland, the petitions and memorial+ will
have great weight. We learn that this petition to the
Lords was favourably received, it being a general opinion
among the Peers that some effectual remedy most be
found for the entenalve and prevailing mischief, and that
tilislwmeloirritilogrb:s:coeuleillidaeollpnroithpbeelisietanituynnitolf7sonoisairtitleallof7, taihnne".b:ifill,i,orttuaish,Dowusiouhod:
found effording eountenanos and support to men who are
engaged in betraying the Church' of England, and
atietopting to approalinete and conform her hoautifol
yet simple service and ritnal to that of the Apostau.
Ti, meows. taken by our Froteatint Ansoolntion an,
we think, well adapted to the purposes for which t
are intended, and may, by God's blessing, save our
country,"
TH. QUlZ'''. VISIT TO LTIDII.—On Wednesday
afternoon the Mayoral Leeds (Mr.?, Fairborn) made a
private communication to the Townmouncil with refer-
eiuti:miittohs lit
ovflessit of Her
vitt:jolty. It was stated that the
Royal visit will talcs
PlaNbtitt,wuee7tretbviiougeeityhaonfnuAuunguoiidit.
Her Majesty will probably arrive In Leeds on Monday,
the 30th of August. She will be accompanied by the
Prince Consort, but not by any other member of the
Royal family. They will ocnne down by the Great
Northern ifite to the antral elation, where it Is en
pouted they will arrive about seven o'dlook in the even-
Inc and having been received by the Mayor and cor-
poration, they will drive by the nearest route to Woods-
probably 'Jinx Quen's-street. and anneal
into Clarendon Road, Her Majeley having exprermid s
desire that the inhabitonts and visitors should have
every opportunity of seeing her on the 0001111i011 of her
vimmit, it is proposed that she shall leave Woodaley-houte
about ten o'clock ou the following morning, drive over
Woolhonse-mour, should it be decided to place the
Sabbath-school iguldreu there, and thence down Wood.
bowie-lane, Upperhatd-row, and Briggate, leaving Brig-
gate by Boar-lane, and proceeding along Wellington.
street to time jouotmon Weatactrimt, in front of the
Mayor's workshmo, returning up Weat-street and Fut.
parade, and approaching the 'Cown.hall from that point,
where it is scouted she will arrive about 12 o'clock.
Having entered the hall, bier Majesty will formally
open it, and the Corporation and other addresses will
then be presented, after which she will retire to time
Mayor's reception rooms awl partake of luncheon. The
Royal party will then return to their carriages, and
' drive to the Midland station, where a special train will
, be in mediums, and Her Majesty will then resume her
journey, proceeding northward, yid the Leeds Northern
branoli of the North-Eastern. It is expected Her
, Majesty will leave Leeds about 1 o'clock.