The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-29 00:00:00

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TONIC Sot FA AsBomArtoB.—This society, which
has been projected for the purpose of cultivating • taste
for mush, among the maeses—and teaching it upon the
simplest of plans--gave its second annual juvenile con-
cert at the Crystal Palace on Thursday, and produced.
the largest company of the season, their being 29,571
persons present, of whom only 3,348 held season
tiokets. 'The orchestra consisted of 3,600 children and
600 tenors and bassee—and assuredly_ nothing has yet
gone better in the Crystal Palace. The precision with
which the music was executed was most extraordinary,
and the encores extremely numerous—the sacred and
the miscellaneous songs being equally well delivered.
Half an hour after the concert the fountains were
played, and no person seemed to take so great a delight
In them as the juvenile performers of the day. The
gardens are now in beautiful order, and the evening
al fresco concerts are well deserving of support,
TITS QUEEN'S VISIT TO PARIS.—A medal has been
struck at the Paris Mint in pursuance of a vote of the
-Municipal Council of Boulogne, to commemorate the
landing of Her Majesty at that port, August 18, 1855,
on the occasion of her visit to Paris. On one side is the
head of the Emperor Napoleon the 111., and on the
other an emblematical design, with the inscription—
" Reception of the Queen of England by the Emperor
of the French at Boulogne, 18th and 27th of August,
1855." Her Majesty and the Emperor have been
pleased to accept specimens of the medal in gold, silver,
and bronze, and it is understood that the town of
Boulogne intends presenting copies in the latter metals
to the high officials who were present on the occasion.
The medal is about two inches and a half in diameter,
and is extremely handsome and well executed.

THE ADELPHI AEOFIES AND THE THAMEB.—Loud
complaints are proceeding day after day from the in-
habitants of the Adelphi, who are seriously effected by
the present pestilential condition of the Thames—as
much, perhaps, as any class of persons residing on the
banks of the river. For some weeks past the river be-
tween Waterloo and Westminster bridges has been in a
most filthy state, arising out of the enormous Amount of
sewage and decayed matter of all sorts which find their
way into the water through that worse than plague spot,
the dark Adelphi arches. Some months ago the inhabi-
tants of the Adelphi-terrace prosecuted a man who
systematically brought his filth to the wharves beneath,
and there packed it off in barges tp poison people some-
Where else. Trite for a whilelQppe4h the nuisance a
conviction having been obtatne Thin* seems to be •
little doubt in the tainds or me who reside in the
neighbourhood, and who are subject to the pescilential
atmosphere which the vast amount of filth conveyed
through the dark arches every night engenders, thet
very much of the horrible condition of the Thames be-
tween the two bridges owes its origin to the foul trade
which is carried on in these cholera-breeding, subter-
rumen passeges. The parochial authorities of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields have for a long time past done
their best to remedy the evils complained of by sending
large quantities of water down the arches, and this,
though en advantage, is one which does not of course at
all affect the river, and there is no check at present to the
vast quantity of putrid matter which is every night
thrown into its waters.

IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—At the Ber-
wick County Court last week, a Mr. G.A. Grey sued the
North-Eastern Railway Company for £3 33., being his
charge for • loss sustained by him in being detained on
his journey to the south through the of defendants'
conveyance. It appeared that on tne Bth of April
plaintiff left his home to proceed to Comhill station by
defendants' train to Tweedmouth where he proposed
joining the express train intending to go to the south.
The train should have left Comhill at 10. 30. a. m., in
terms of defendants' time table, and arrive at Tweed.
mouth at 11. 10, the express leaving at 11. 25. The
train, however, did not leave Cornhill till 11. 40, and
did not reach Tweedmouth till a period too late for
plaintiff to obtain the express, in consequence of which
his numerous arriumments of conveyances and business
were all frustrated, and though he proceeded South by
a later train he could not succeed in his object. In the
defence it was stated that the company did not guaran-
tee to passengers that they would be forwarded to join
any particular train on another line. The delay had
been occasioned by an accident which had occurred on
the North British line, about a mile north of Galashiels.
Here the axel-tree of the engine had broken, and though
the servants had telegraphed to Galashiels for another
engine they could not obtain it early enough to enable
them to keep their time. The delay of half-an-hour on
the Kelso line would lose the express to a passenger.
The Judge did not think that an accident on the North
British line was a sufficient excuse for the non-despatch
of the train on the North Eastern line. He therefore
gave judgment for the plaintiff.
A MATRIMONIAL SQUABBLE. —The attorney of Mrs.
Marchmont, the wife of the Rev. Henry Marchniont, of
10, Percy-place, Clapham road, whose client had
charged her husband, before the Hon. G. C. Norton, at
Lambeth police court, with assaulting lier, has applied
for and obtained the minutes of evidence taken on that
occasion, when the rev, defendant was held in heavy
sureties to be of good behaviour to his wife. It will be
recollected, from what transpired in the course of the
investigation, that Mrs. Marchinont, prior to her mar-
riage in the month of October last, had been the widow
of Mr. Luckett, formerly and for some years the pro-
prietor of the Cock Tavern, the well-known soup house
In Threadneedle-street, City, whore he had amassed the
enormous fortune of £50,000, every shilling of which lie
left to his widow for her sole use and benefit, and to
dispose of it as she thought proper. At her marriage
with the Rev. Mr. Marohmont, then an independent
minister at Islington, in Oatollltr It, Mrs. Luckett re-
served to herself- the entire oontrol over her £50,000;
and thii circumstance gave rise after her marriage to
serious misunderstandings between her and her line.
band ; the latter feeling ninth jealousy at her seeing her
attorney, as he suspected her intention of willing away
her property to her own friends, and away from a family
he had by a former wife. Mrs. Marchmont, in the
course of her evidence, stated that her husband (re-
quently importuned her to give him £25,000, or half
her property, and it was quite clear that the parties
lived anything but happy .r comfortable together. The
object in obtaining the notes of evidence is for the pur-
pose of going to the Divorce Court, to obtain a judicial
separation ; and where there are such ample means at
command, and a determined disposition on the part of
Mrs. sfarahmont to press matters to the utmost, the
lawyers, before they have dons with it, will have a
tolerable slice of the R 50,000.

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FIRS AT PRIM WHARY. —Betweon 7 and 8 o'clock
Monday morning a fire, involving the destruction of
property even to a greater amount than the one that
took place on Saturday night at Limehouse, broke out
on Fresh-wharf, Lower Thames-street, adjoining Lon-
don-bridge. The premises covered an immense space of
ground, on which stood a greet number of lofty ware-
houses, containing in the whole property valued at more
than £1,000,000 sterling. That part of the premises in
which the misfortune commenced was on the north aide,
nearest Thamesatreet, and formed a block of three ware-
houses about 300 feet in width, and nearly 80 feet high,
each having six stories. The fire commenced from some
unexplained cause in the middle floor of the centre
warehouse. A good supply of water wee obtained from
the land side of the premises, on which the engines were
made to play. The flames continued their ravages
until they reached the upper floor, and although the
water from the floats kept falling in torrent., the tire•
men could not prevent the roof from being destroyed,
It quickly fell in and enabled the firemen to throw
about 2,800 gallons of water per minute from each of
the floating-engines. The property known to be des-
troyed must he enormous. It was stated that one house
alone had £25,000 worth of silk in the building. By 12
o'clock at noon all further extension of the danger
seemed over, and some of the engines had actually been
sent home, when vast bodies of smoke were seen to issue
from the six.atory warehouse at the southeastern end of
the wharf, adjoining the centre one in which the MI
commenced. This 'building, in addition to what was
stored In the other warehouses, contained a eatly col-
lection of drugs, ohyinioals, inclia.rubber,oorks,
pimento, cloves, aunts, indigo, and geode of almost
every description. The goods in this place alone, to say
nothing of those destroyed in the middle warehouse,
must amount to many thousand pounds, The moment
the smoke was perceived the two floating engines,
under the direction of ?dr. Braidwood, were brought to
bear upon this part of the premises. During the after-
noon the various floors of the upper warehouse
London-bridge had been "pricked" by the firemen—
vie., large holes made to let the water out, and when
that was done some thousand tons weight fell to the
ground floor, clearly showing that, although the fire
had not entered Mils particular part of the building, at
least not to any material extent, the damage done to
almost everything in the TIM Yr...water must be very
anima. The building was insured in the Royal Sc.
change and London fire-offices, and the oontents were
not insured for a single penny.

DIATH PROM C 1101,41114.-011, Tuesday Mr, Baker, the
coroner for Middle's:, held an Inquest at the St. Meth'.
rine Doak Hotel, commit. the entrance to the dock, on
the body of Richard Billingsly, aged 119, a watertnan,
who died under as ottthlt of Asiatic' cholera, Ti.
deceased lived In Farthinualley, a narrow court leading
out of 'Upper East Smithfield. Ha woe In the habit of
working on the river from Irongate•mtairs, near the I
Tower, and lived *regular and sober life. film* the
warm weather set in he complained of a general debility
and a great nausee, arising, as he 'Sated, from inhalling
the poisonoue air of the Th4nisc He also suffered from
Manhole, On retiring from work on Thursday even.
Ing he eompleined of the humming chinch of the river,
whieh had much affected him, He took to his had, and
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SEA PENCIBLES.—The number of men enrolled a
"See Fencibles" in February, 1810, when the force was
disbanded, amounted to 2.1,433 of whom 584 were sta-
tioned in Scotland, 11,812 in Ireland, 3,486 on the west
coast of England, 4,561 on the south coast, and 3,042 on
the east coast. The force was directed to be raised by
an order in Council, dated 14th of March, 1798.
A STURGEON CAUGHT IN A FLOOD DRAIN, NEAR
DONCASTEB.—On Monday week, some men succeeded
in capturing • fine sturgeon, measuring seven feet in
length, and weighing about eight stones, in • flood
drain, about half a mile below the Corporation Flour
Mills, in Doncaster. It is fourteen years since a fish of
this kind was captured with harpoons, and so furious
were its struggles, that it broke the handle of one of
these instruments.
DOWNING-BTREIT PUBLIC OFFICER EXTENSION—On
Tuesday morning the first really practical step EOwsnsit
the improvement of the public offices in and about-
Downing-street, under the act obtained for that purpose
in the last session of Parliament was taken, and before
the close of the present week the whole of the ground
on which the new offices are to stand will be cleared..
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ness were carried on. It is the intention of the Govern-
ment to commence the erection of the new offices on as
early a day as possible after the ground is cleared, all
their preliminary arrangements having been satisfactorily
arranged.