The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-27 00:00:00

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DIPORTANT INVENTION.—The Weeern Morning NCIOD
'taus that Mr. Gale, electrician, of Plymouth, has
discovered • prooess by which powder can be rendered
lion-explosive, and its combustible properties restoredi
when required. The discovery posseimes every el, ment,
of an imp.otant and practical invention. The proem' ie
simple and effective. It cannot injure toe powder..
The cost ie very small, and it has the advantage of being
readily applied. In live minutes s barrel of powder
can be made non-explosive, and in another five minutes.
it can be restored to ire oii.cinal condition. We have
sees gunpowder *objected to this pr..oeu and stirred
with a red.hot pok-r without an explosion. If a shell
burst in a atm, filled with the prepared powder, it
would not fire it. The prom,* can be readily applied to
the largest or the smallest quantities, and it does net
require any cumbenome app..ratus. The invention will
some the Huious difficulty which has been felt as to the
storage of powder in time of peace, 11111111 ill war it will
avert the danger which now arises from the aerwwity of
fighting in the neighbourhood of an explosive nasteriaL

THREE London bankers of great wealth have died
within the last eouple of days, viz, Mr. Andrew
Drummond, Mr. Richard Thornton (of Lloyd's), and
Sir John Lubbock. Mr. Thornton is mid to have died
worth between two and three millions. He had
£800.009 in Consols. Mr. Drummond had been linger-
log some months. He leave. Moue seversl sons, and his'
two daughters are married to Mr. A. B. Cochrane,
fd.P., and the Earl of Scarborough.
BOILING AN INFANT.—FRIGHTIML BA1111•2117.
Every fresh case discloses some new horror in tlre Sad
growing crime of infanticide. On Tbaraday, Clbse
&sties found in the Exeter canal, about 100 feet trom
the Welcome Inn, the dead body of • male infant. Pt
was naked, but had upon it some ut,tatua marks of foul
treatment. The body was liai ded over to the care of
P.C. Peters, of the county constsbulary, and on Friday,'
an inquest was held thereon at the above inn, before R.
It Crosse, Esq., the county coroner. Mr. Mark ?arrant.,
surgeon, wits examined. It appeared that immedistelyr
on the child been found the officer called Mr. Pa-rant,
who attended and saw the child directly it was Mime
out of the water—an important fact, as it ultimately.
proved. The body WWI quite free from decomposition,.
although it had probably been in the water 49 hours..
The trunk, arms, and face were cowed with blisters.
From the appearance of the vesication it was evident
that it was not produced after death, but that it was
caused by the child being put in scalding water while
This indeed was the cause of death. Had the
surgeon not seen the body promptly, or until the next
day, when decomposition had rapidly net in, the true
nature of the blisters might not have been determined
with such positive certainty. As it was, the surgeon
had no doubt at all that the child was killed in the rod
way des ribed, and then thrown into the panel. On the
I day of the inquest Mr. Farrant Mtade a poet-martens ex-
amination of ihe body. Tbe umbilical cord was net
tied ; the lungs were fully expoided, old the child war
evidently born alive, and within a few bouts of its'
birth met with its pitifol fate. This atrocimui deed
outdoes, for its hard-I carted barbarity, all the horrid
cl lid murders this wicked sge has committed. There
is no clue to the murderer—no suspicion as to the
monster who done it. The veidct was " WHIM
murder" agaiiist some person or persons unknown,.
'l' ere is a horrible popular notion that if a child be
scalded to death in bot water and thee cast into the.
river, the mode of drath cannot be determined. The
Nets of this sad case prove the falacy of this bratal
Idea.

THE JZWELLERT Fonyontrite.—Sinee the realist loner
roberies in London, 15 of the principal firms in Cott:dial,
including jewellers and watchmakers. have joined
together in availing themselves of the services of
member' of the Corps of Commiseionaires for the
protection of their slope Led henries at nights and on
Sundays, and a number of picked men have been
assigned to that particular duty. Two go upon dory
at seven o'clock every evening, and remain until
night, when they are reieved by two fresh men, oho
keep watch and ward until six in the morning. At
uncertain times in the night a superior ofileer goes the.
round assigned to the men to see that they are wider
awake ; and as an additional guarantee for vigilance.
hell Mlj clocks, similar to those is use in the lobbies or
the Houses of Parlimeont, are about to be adopted to
show that the Commissionaires sppoiet,d d^tl
patrol their beat a given number of times during the
night. or any lapse in that respect. The district aa yet
ARRIVAL OF JAPANINI YOUTHS AT SOUTHAMPTON. umhr their supervision extends only from Hirable-Lan*
—SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. —Among the passengers to Gracrechurch street, but it comprehends an immense
by the Delhi, which arrived this morning with the and „vied mass of moveable property of gm" take.
Mediterranean mail, are nineteen Japanese youths, who The firms and others who aubecribe amoog t,emis.ives
come to this country to be educated. They are fine tor this purpom are the directors of the Metropolitan
intelligent looking young fellows. They are dreased in
and Provimial Bank Meows. Walker, watchmakers
En Ati English come, and can all s, est a little English.
w ;.„ and jeer : Mr. Alderman Carter, ehronometer
They are stopping at B.ron's Hotta bees, 11"4 wul maker and jeweller ; B rber and Smith, end Sari and
proceed to London to-night. Sons, silversmiths; Dodd Brothers, jewellers; Barraud
The following is an extract froth the Second Edition end Lund, and Mr. Webster, w Achrealn re ; Mr.
(page 188) of the Translation of the Pbartuacoposia of Steward, opticisa ; Mr. Luret and Mr. Pe.ree, reashrm,
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. (21, Mr. Phdips, of the Virginia tavern ; and Mr.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no col 6 proprietor. So far the experiment bee
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the given great satisfaction to ti immediately cencerneiL
Pharmacopoeia) that we have no purgative mass I. may be mentioned as a needs of the recent extensive
what contains aloes; yet we know that inemorrhnidal robberies, that the shop of Mr. Walker, in CornhM,
persons cannot bear aloes, except it be in the form of .here the greatest of them were oortunitied, is.noo all
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes thrAigh the night regttlarly).ighted with gas In the ill-
seammony, and oolnoynth, which I think are formed tenor, and exposed to the game of permits pegging.
into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which An ion grating meioses the whole front f the shop in
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline procees, and by a place of the ordinary abutters,. and an ire,' safe (net,
fourth ingredient (uaknown to me) of an STONtekio tools however, the one the thieves broke into, which by the
nature. I think no Wier and no worse of it for it. nay is about to me made a subject of litigation) contain-
beings Went medicine. I look at it as an article of ing all that is most co•tly on the premises indeed of
commerce and domestic convenience, and do not hen. being reflected in a mirror in a back-shop, as its mode.
tate to say this the best made pill in the kin don' • minor Was at the time nf the robbery, placed fa •
muscular purge a mucous eyrie, mid is by litiou ia the front where It is to be
purr combined: and their egootepropero Quatro' hY the wit nigh. uy tepee* riesiag.
a &rigout and eorrigent. That dada potiriatEtioely arrangement obtains or Sundwif*thifiegibollt
produce haemorrhoids, Mee most skate pills, to sac the Deimos publicity thus (IV the
to ite being thoroughly eolitlia, so that ao of the shop ore id day,is foamed 1110%
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