The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

HORRIBLE CRUELTY AT SEA.

Another appalling crime of violence as the high mu,
induced by the dendieb cruelty of • muter and mate in
the merobent aervies, has been tried at the Omani
Criminal Court. John Cranby, aged twenty-eight, was
tried for the mansleugitter of Henry» Wills. On the
15th September last, the prinotter was on board • ousel
called the Herefordshire, south of the Lk». An alter- '
cation took place between him and the thief mate,
Windus ; and as Cranby was going towards the door of
the foreoutle, Wand= made • rush at his; while the
assessed, who was the second mate, seized bin round
the waist. After • souffle on the dealt, the three men
fell ; Cranby being undermost. Will. regained his feet,
end kicked °ruby seven or night times on the bead
Windu &Meted him by the throat Cranby cried out;
is (lora wawa for some one to prevent him from being
'murdered I The steward interceded, and entreated the
melee not to "boot" his, "Booting" in the commenter
of the meraltant pervies, means kinking • man on the
bead. Suddenly, however, Craeby 'prang up, drew his
knife, and stabbed the sersod male in the stomach. He
also stabbed the Ant mats, Windus; but slightly. The
captain then rushed oa desk with • loaded »solver, and
threatened to shoot Cranby ; who at once eurrendered,
pad was placed in trona. The wounded man, Wills,
died the suns night. I the 001111111 of the evidence
given by the weer of the Herefordshim it transpired
that the captain was in the habil of kieklng and strik-
ing his men, and that, at all thank he wee a severe
tultmeeter. In defuse, Oranby declared that he had
been driven to his desperate deed by the aeastaat and
Intolerable cruelty with whisk he was treated. Be
stated that after the affray, he had been kept for three
months chained by the hands and lep, at times
szpoeed to the seorching rays of the sun; end that,
when be fried for water, the septa/a showed a revolver,

and threatened to blow out the braise of any one
who should relieve him. Hie head was swollen
from NA belts that he had received, and hii jaws
and ribs were sore from bruises,. Blood oosed from by
mouth; the rusty irons canoed wounds on his wrist.;
and for eight weeks he was not allor,cl to nonage his
linen. In oold latitudes he was esrefully placed where
the wet might drip upon him, with iee and snow around.
The motel° had often threetened to hong hini up by
the heels and set the dogs at him I John Ursaby was
found guilty of manslaughtar under exasperating or.
apln.taaOSS, and. being strongly recommended to mercy
by the jury. was senteuced by the court to one mot.th's
imprisonment. Is this alit Should there not be some-
thing else to follow the conviction of John Cretan for
mansleying ? Should not the mate who first " booted"
him, and the captain who tortured the poor fettered
wretch, render their 'amount to justice? We hare
two admirable and 11114dul PlXdealell for the protection of
women and children; who will start • society for the
proteetion of British merchant mariners against the
brutality of their officers?

THE LORDS AND THE IRISH CHURoFI SILL.

The Saturday Review says that if the majority, under
the rash gnidauce of Lord Derby, persist. in its intup
tion of throwing out the Irish Church Bal, the general
duty of the Government will be clear, althou.ch these
may be some difference of opinion aa to the course which
ought to be immediately adopted. Al a r.spon.ihip
stateaman, Mr. Gladstone i/ bound both to give tiled
to the decision of the lioness of COOIOIOI2. and of the
country, and to save the House of Lords, es fat u
PosUble, from the oonsequenoes of its own indiacretion.
Tim Spectator perceives that if the House of Iddrels
should really say "Tuali I" to the wishes of the nation,
as they /sem disposed to do,— it may be quite no-sbla
so to cue the political opportunity, that instead of it.
proving a terrible calamity, it may turn out one of the
greatest openings which any English statesman ever had
for making • real impression on the susceptible
imagination of the Iriah people, and at length con.
wincing them that England and Irelar i are no longer
foes, but firm and hearty friends. It appears to us
that if another session in the long vacation be made
necessary by the idle obstinaey of the L“rds, or tiara
superstitious belief that the country has suPeuly
changed it. mind, only because they wished to toink it
has changed its mind, the true oodrse would be to taro.
mon Parliament to meet for that extra session sot iss
London, kir its Disbira.

ANOTHER GENERAL ELECTION.
If the decision of the Upper House should be such so
it is ramoured it will be, says the Mooney Herald, its
effect, supposing the House of Commons does not rest
content with it, will be to necessitate another appeal to
the people. Were this appeal made to the people of
England only we might speak with mush confidenee of
ita probable result. But it will be made also to Soot-
laud and Ireland—the former confirmed in a dull sort of
acquire:macs with the Government scheme, the latter
sun of • Roman Catholic majority in its favour. In the
voters of the first of the three kingdoms will be the
chief hope of those who think, with ourselves, that the
destruction of the Irish Church will be a fatal thing for
&aloud —a blow at the very ground work of our
supremacy in the world. We wish therefore to
commend, once more, while there is yet time, to the
calm consideration if Engliamen, the orpiment' which
should induce them to vote against this bill and its
supporters. We do not appeal to thorn in a factious
way as Conaeratives or Liberals, we address them simply
as Englishmen and patriots. It is a blow at English
ascendancy in Ireland. It is • blow aimed at Pro-
testant ageendaocy in the United Kingdom. It
is a confiscation of Irish property for Imperial
uses. It is # frrfeiture of Protestant Church
property Lie the advantage of Romanist&
It is no secret that Romanism has been lately msking
prodigious strides in England. The Roman party is
straining every nerve in aid of the movement which is
now slowly sapping the foundetioes of our national
Chore& and preparing men's minds for diseenblishment
in England. It is the men of this party, among others,
who are busily spreading the whisper that, say what we
will, or do as we like, the severance of the Church
from the State is but a question of time ; that only give
the minds of men a little more time to ripeo, and they
will onept the neoessity of this 'overeat* as ooe of the
principles of progress, and fall back upon the Irish
Church Bills, a ready precedent for ashore. Should this
ever come to pass the Roman Church in England will
be the on/y Church that, has a visible head or a settled
°resonation. What is likely to cme of this must be
plsin to every thoughtful man. There are none so well
aware of it as the Romanian tb maelveg. We would
advise those who we recommending a compromise in
this Irish Church business to ponder well such trivia.
. pliant utterances se chore of Dr. Manning, in a sermon
preached ten days ago in the Oratory at Brompton.
" London," exclaimed the Romin Catholic Archbishop
of Vi'estmitister, "is now becoming more and more the
Rome of the world, the centre of Catholic influence, and
must be are long the seat of priestly dominion."