The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

Iftisrellancotto.

The inquest held on the bodies of the 16 sufferers
by the Walker Colliery explosion was held on Thurs-
day. After hearing • number Of witnesses the jury
rettirned a verdict to the effect that the explosion was
purely actiidental.
Marseilles has been visited by • violent hurricane,
which has done damage to the docks, driven several
ships against the quays, thrown down seven houses, and
caused the deaths of many persors.
Mr. Whithers, the manager of the Newport (Isle of
Wight) branch of the London and County Bank, died
suddenly on Wednesday.
A serious poaching affray took plane last week at
Nottingham. Nine watchers came upon nine poachers
and a serious struggle was the result, during which one
of the poachers struck a keeper with a bill hook.
Eventually four of the poachers were captured, and
hate since been committed for trial
Recent advices ftein Madeira state that the number
of visitors this season is much smaller than has ever
before been known' and several of the hotel and board-
ing-hones keepers talk of leaving the island.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that Com-
mander Maury has arrived from Charleston, on an
important mission from the Southern Confederacy.
Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., was lately present
att he Leeds Mechanics' Institution, and made a speech
on educational and other matters. He touched inciden-
tally on the American war.
A few days ago Captain reach, of Idlecott House,
and some friends, killed in one day's sport in that
gentlenianss covers at Idlecott, 96 hares, 331 pheasants,
1 woodcock, 192 rabbits, and 1 wild fowl—total, 627.
Birmaighorn Post.
At a meeting in Liverpool on Wednesday on the
distress, Mr. Arnold Baruchson suggested that gentle-
men engaged in the provision and other trade should
contribute food instead of money. He would willingly
give ten tierces of beef of 1001 b. each, and ten barrels of
pork containing fifty pieces of 41b. each. By these
means he could give a few pomimen a Sunday dinner of
meat if they didn't get it on any other day.
The rivers Earn and Ruthven are at present swarming
with fish, and the spawning bedsore at present quite
fall. The ova have been safely lodged. The fish are
in fine order, and have not been so numerous• for
upwards of thirty years. The watchers are very
viligent, and no cases of poaching have occurred this
year.— Aotsman.
The Bank of England forgery east was further gone
into at the Mansion House on Thursday. Additional
evidence was adduced against all the prisoners charged
with being concerned in the affair, and finally they
were committed for trial. Application was made that
Brewer, the man who had been engaged in the mills at
Laverstoke, should be admitted to bail, but the appli-
cation was refused.

At a meeting of the Middlesex magistrates on Tburs-
dayMajor Lyon'ealled attention to the dangerous amuse-
ments which are provided at some of the music-halls.
He wished that some care should be taken by the
magistrates in granting music licenses—first, that the
means of egress from the halls in the case of fire were
ample, and next that some restrictions should be put
upon the dangerous amusements which were provided.
After some discussion the subject was referred to a
committee of the magistrates.
Mr. Windham, of Felbrigg Hall, is about to site for a
divorce.

It is said there will be a creation of nobility to a
rather large extent on the marriage of the Prince of
Wales, and that the Prince of Walea will himself be
made a field•marshal.

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The election of the new Archbishop of Canierbury
was formally confirmed at the Church of St. Mary-
le-Bow, Cheapside, London, on Wednesday.
A memorial to the late Prince Consort was raised
hy the Queen on Wednesday. It was a young oak,
henceforth to be called the Prince Consort's Oak, which
Her Majesty planted near the Flemish farm at Windsor
at the spot where his late Royal Highness left off shoot-
ing on his last visit to the park.
It is said that a Mr. Paton disbursed for the late
Lord Primate of Ireland upwards of £45,000 for benevo-
lent purposes.
Frederick Carini, a well known trapeze performer at
the London Eldorado, has committed suicide by
downing himself in the Thames, It is said that some-
time since he met with au accident, and it is supposed
it alfected his brain.
The police of Ribehester have not yet received any
clue of the murderer of Mrs. Ann Walne, notwithstand-
ing the reward of £lOO. The victim in thia case, it
will be remembered, *as an old woman of 80 years of
age, and the Murder *as of an especially revolting
character.
On Tuesday iiyoung woman employed on the estate
of Captain Smith Barry, had one of her arms almost
torn off by some agricultural machinery with whioli she
camelin contact. I string of flesh, merely, keeps the
arm together.

We understand that the statement in the French
journals that Prince Alfred is about to visit Corfu is
incorrect. It was never intended that the Prince should
do sti.

Large quantities of a Canadian weed called &atter:4ls
have been sent from Ottowa, in Canada, to England.
in order to have its qualities tested as a substitute for
cotton.

It is stated that Mr. W. F. Windham has sold the
Felbrigg Hall estate to a member of the peerage for
£135,000. The incumbrances upon the property amount
to £llO,OOO. Mr. Windham has still the Hepworth
estate, which is strictly entailed.
According to letters from Toulon orders have been
received there to equip several vessels immediately
in order to reinforce the French squadron in the Greek
*etch:
The Pivset of Thursday evening publishes news. from
Greece stating that two more English vessels were
expected at the Firma, on the arrival of which the
English squadron at that port would consist of 12 large
vessels.

The Emigration Commissioners chartered on Thurs-
day the ship Clara, of 939 tons, the property of Messrs.
Teich° and Smith, of London, to convey emigrants to
Melbourne, Victoria, at £l3 17s. per statute adult.
The vesael is to be ready to receive her passengers about
the 00tb. of janital7 next, at liirkennead,
The Bank retarn indicates that the lxiaitldn of that
establishment is, on the whole, satisfactory, considering
the late exports of specie. An increase in the reserve
of notes is presented of £254,035, the total being
£8,849,745, while the bullion has only decreased
£145,578, the aggregate being £15,018,993. The private
securities have increased £158,742, the gross amount
standing £19,320,593. A large increase has occurred
in the private deposjtaA which are new £14,378,780, an
augmentation Of £312,1513.
Mr. Gladstone has declined an invitation from the
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to dine with its
members, excusing himself on account of the demand
of public business upon his time and attention.
The Army and Navy Gazette says that a court of
inquiry, composed of the senior officers—Colonels Lam-
bert, Wynyard, Hon. It. Carson, and Bruce, of the
Grenadier Guards, has been sitting for some days, to
report upon some of the proceedings, which, under the
designation of " Turf Scandals," have acquired such an
unfortunate notoriety.
One bfithe agentd of the National Temperanee League
has recently formed bands of hope in several large paro-
chial schools in London, and another agent lectured •
few days ago to about one hundred student, of the
British and Foreign Schools Society, at the Training
Institution, Borough-road. Henry Edmund Gurney,
Feq., the treasurer of the society, presided, and a
highly favourable impression was produced.
It is stated that the Duke of Somerset has granted
to Mr. Whitworth the condition he asked for —a
trial of his guns, and the ordnance of the two great
artillerists will no* be fairly pitted in official but
friendly fight.
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The 'coaon crisis is being felt at Vienna. The greater
part of the machines nave stopped working, and thou-
sands of workmen are, at the beginning of the winter,
without work. The municipal council has voted 10,001
florins in aid of them.

The Neva was covered with a thin coating of ice on
on the Otis tilt., and in sonsequence thp bridges of boats
were removed. A steamer which had left for Crotistadt
in the morning was stopped at five miles from the
capital by blocks of ice.
M. Koestner, archivist of the city of Hanover, who
is now in his 90th year, lately celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of his wedding with his venerable partner,
now eighty-four years of age, by giving a dinner to his
children, grandchildren, and friends. M. Koestner is
the son of that Charlotte whom 0-oaths immortalised
in his " Werther,"