The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-07 00:00:00

THE 1117TRIAL5. BILL

The Rev. S. Fellows writes:—" In ISOII the churchyard
of the parish of Fulham St. Mary Magdalene, Norfolk,
was eluded by order of council. A burial board was
formed, and two cemeteries made, One consecrated, the
other not. The Dissenters insisted on having a burial
ground of their own one was provided. Up to the present
time not a single person has been buried in the unconsecr-
ated ground. The population is lOW (one thousand and
seven), and half, if not more, are Dissenters, who, when
they die, are buried in the consecrated ground, with the
service of the Church of England."

TILE OXFORD EIGHT.
With no fewer than six, or possibly seven, says the
Daily News of the victorious crew of 1875 at their disposal
it must be confessed that Oxford have had this year more
than their customary share of good luck in the formation
of a representative Eight. At present the crew averages
almost exactly 12at 0111, per man, hut as actual training
will not commence until the first day of Lent, there is yet
ample time for "mortifying the fle‘h" awl reducing the
wei,hts still f.irther, though it is quite probable that one
or two of the crew will' train up." As might have been
expected, the majority of the men who rowed last year
appear to have filled out and heroine more " set," which
of course ought to tell in their favour in a severe rare: but
we have no hesitation in saying tha taken all, round,
their form is not up to the mark of 1875.

GREAT JEWEL ROBBERIES.
On Monday night a daring robbery was committed at
Tower House, Shooter's-hill, the seat of Lord Tevahani.
The family dine at eight o'clock, and consequently most
of the servant 4 would be engaged in the lower part of the
house at that hour. About that time an entrance was
effected through a secondfloor window into one of the
bedrooms by means of a ladder which had been taken
from sonic buildings 200 yards distant. Upon the robbery
being detected it was found that nearly CLOW worth of
jewellery and plate had been carried away.
On the same afternoon • quantity of plate was stolen
from the house of a gentleman at Wickham, about a mile
distant from Lord Teynham's residence.
The residence of the Earl of Egmont, at Banstead was
entered by thieves between eight and nine o'clock on
Moniav evening, and £1,01.10 worth of jewellery stolen
from the Countess's bed room.

Eight hundred pounds, worth of jewellery, the property
of an English firm, has been stolen from a leading hotel
in Dublin,. to whose porter it was entrusted for delivery at
a Dublin Jeweller's by the representative of the firm, who
was stopping at the hotel The porter is missing.

A SENSATIONAL DEFENCE BY MR. BEECHER.
When the mail left, the Advisory Council was dallier.
sting twer the Beecher trouble, but had not arrived at a
definite resolution. It held three long and exciting
sittings on the 18th inst. in the presence of a dense crowd
of spectators. Mr. Beecher at the morning sitting of the
council made, one of the isiost emphatic and earnest
addresses he has ever delivered in the wall, of Plymouth
Church. At the beginning he spoke calmly and firmly,
with a touch of .4slness in his voice. Afterwards, in an
outburst ,4 feeling, he exclaimed, " If there is any man
on earth that hits anything to say to my detriment, I sin
here, and now challenge him to say it, Igo further than
that. If there be any angel of God more prescient and
omniscient, I challenge him to say aught I go beyond that,
and, in the name of our Cotninon Redeemer, and before
Mini who jedge you and me, I challenge the truth from
God himself." The effect of this startling and powerful
outburst was very great; the spectators and timid of the
members of the council were electrified and awed.