The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-02 00:00:00

A Bin= STEAMER SEIZED AT SALSAWA—RaI-
nave has seised theßritish schoonerOotrott, from Saint
Marc, with a cargo of coffee and cotton, and carried
her into Port-au.l'rnce •J • prise, twa. reported
that the United States Consul at Aux Cayes has been
roughly handled by the revolutionists, but the story
is not credited. An attack was about to be moderns
the port of Again. President &brave hoe ordered
his steamer to attack the port in front, while he will
personally superintend the landing of forces in tlis
rear of the place. The women and children have
all left the town and taken refuge in the ships in
the harbour. There wail a fight at Aux Cayse at
Christmas, in which the citizen:le and troops defeated
the picquirts.
Pirirruint Ilanursaninacr.--A considerable re-
duction of expenditure, under the heading of dock-
yard police, may be Imported in the forthcoming
naval estimates. In consequence of the early clos-
ing of the dockyards at Woolwich and Deptford, it
I, understood that the metropolitan police will be
withdrawn from the various Government establish-
ment. throughout the kingdom, and that the place
of this no MMUS body will be filled by draughts from
the royal marines. Further retrenchment at Sheer-
ness Dockyard is announced. The offices of oasis-
tant.nunter.attendant, mutant-master-shipwright,
and chief inspector of machinery are to be abolished.
By the suppression of these posts a saving of £1460
a year will lie *ducted.

The statement that the Church Aisociation In-
tends to pay its own costs in the action, Martins.
Haclionochic, is said to be • hoax.—Gfete.
ZOONOMY IN TUE CIVIL SENVIC/L—The Aforefar
Star understands that Mr. Ayrton, as Secretary to
the Treasury, has suspended the consideration of all
memorials praying for an increase of salary from Um
Dovernment employes in the Civil Service.
Tins STEAMER 11I5SISO BOATS.
—The captain of the sailing vessel Hibernia, who as-
rim! at Liverpool on Saturday from royal, reports
himself and crow were taken of the Hibernia by the
Cuthberta ; that the Cuthberte was afterwards aban.
doned ; and that the crews of both ships, ',timber-
ing thirty•nine men in all, were taken on board the
America. This shows that tha steamer Hibernia's
boats are still missing.
MTISTRRIOUB DEATH AT SOLITHPORT.—On Satur-
day evening an inquest was held at Routliport on the
body of Hamilton Morrow, who met his death under
the following circumstances :—On Wednesday night
he went to the Victoria Hotel and engaged • bed.
After he had retired he called for some mods water,
and when the waiter appeared the deceased was in
bed. Nothing more was soon of him until one
o'clock a.m. when he was found lying on the Sags
outside the hotel, having fallen or thrown himself
from hi, bedroom window. He was yet alive, bat
was so dreadfully injured that he died in the course
of an hour or so. Drink is supposed to have led to
this mishap, but there was no evidence to show
whether deceased had fallen or jumped from the
window.—An open verdict was returned.

THE WAX'S OP TUE SOMA AT TTNIXOUTIL—
DIAGRAMFUL SCENBL—The steamehlp Scotia, be-
longing to Glasgow, went sailors on the Tynemunth
rocks, and was expected to become a total wreck.
The spars and other portions of the vessel, together
with a large quantity of the cargo, consisting of
casks of paraffin oil' whisky, brandy, rte., were
strewn along the coaat for nearly a mile. A force
of policemen were appointed to assist the cosstgoarii
in watching the cargo but owing to the length of
the coast to be guarded, a number of men had in
the darkness of the night got at the cults of whisky
and brandy, tapped them, and got completely drunk.
Several were found lying incapeble on the rocks by
the police, and had it not been for them they must
have been drowned. The village of Tynemouth was
on Saturday completely filled with drunken men. A
number of men were apprehended, and taken be-
fore the magistrates and fined.

EmaszzuguThorr AND FORCIE7dT BY • DIRDY
MAN.—lnformation having been received at the
Liverpool police establishment to the effect that
Thomas Cobley Woolib, a clerk in the employment
of Messrs. Thomas Charleton and Co., timber leaders,
in Derby, had absconded from that town and had
embezzled money to the extent of about FAO, be-
sides, it ill believed, having committed forgery to
an amount which makes his delinquencies up to
about £3OO, a look out for him was had in Liverpool.
Inspector Fearn, of Derby, had succeeded in tracing
Woolilt to Manchester, and thence to Liverpool.
The case in Liverpool was put into the hands of Mr.
James Graham, of the detective department, and in
his hands the inquiry prospered. On Saturday, from
inquiries be had made, Graham and Fern visited
• house in Tosteth Park, where they met the deli n•
2eurer: and took him into custody. He was enam-
el once to Derby.

FATAL ACCIDENT LM NORTH-STREET, LEEDS.—
A well in Northatreet, at the point where the alter-
ations for the extension of liriggste are being carried
on, fell on Sunday afternoon fait, from some unex-
plained cause and knocked down two young boys,
named Hargnaves, who were playing close to it.
When extricated, one of the children, named Joseph,
aged six years, son of John Wm. Hargreaves, resid-
ing in Byron-street, was found to be quite dead ;
whilst has brother, Albert, aged three years, was so
severely crushed that his immediate removal to the
Infirmary was necessary. The little fellow's arm
was discovered to be broken, and he ie otherwise
very seriously injured. A number of hih-lts taken
from the demolished buildings in the vicinity had
been piled against the wall; bat no Idea of its want
of security was entertained. . The accident took
place near to Garland's shop, where another
fatal ocxmrrence of a somewhat similar character
happened a few weeks ago.

WRECK OF • MAIL STILUIIIat —Early on Saar.
day morning, the royal mail steamship Prince Al-
fred, of Fleetwood, belonging to the North Lancs.
shire Navigation Company, was totally wrecked on
Maughold Head, Isle of Man. The Prince Alfred
left Fleetwood on Friday night for Belfast with the
mails about 120 passengers, and a full cargo of
general merchandise. She entered the channel all
right, and sailed on at her usual speed, but was
eventually caught in a dense fog. The indications
of the compote were, however, attended to; and it
was expected that the vessel would proceed safely.
Early in the morning, however, the Prince Alfred
came violently into collision with a rock on Nang-
hold Head—s point about lb miles out of hot re-
gular course. She had a quantity of iron on boned,
and it is thought that this must have affected her
compass..li and consequently thrown the captain
out of his right room. When the collision happened
the vessel was running at full speed, neither the
captain nor anyone on deck having the remotest
idea that there was any danger before them. All
on board were rescued. A portion of the cargo on
the upper decks was also secured, but the bulk of
what the vessel carried in her hold could not be got
out. The Prince Alfred went down in the course
of the morning, the water in which she sank being
about 20 fathoms deep.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT 01 • YOUNG LADY.
—AN i 'TILER SPEKE CASE. few weeks ago, a mu-
nition was created in the family of a wen-known
and much respected Irish nobleman, who resided in
• town mansion in one of the fashionable squares of
the Irish metropolis, by the sudden and unexpected
disappearance from the family circle of the sister of
his Lorship's wife, who resided with them eisfessalc.
The young lady was about 110 years of age, ponied
of • largo inheritance in her own right, and is, more-
over, described ae very beautiful and highly accom-
plished. Some time ago the young lady was sud-
denly and unaccountably missed from her residence.
Every means was adopted for the purpose of dis-
covering why she had gone away, and where she
had gone away to; but all search proved fruitless.
After diligent inquiries, his Lordship discovered
that the fair fugitive had been seen on board of
one of the steamboats which ply between Dublin
and Liverpool, and, moreover, that she had no
companion in her flight. Her Diable brother-in-
law then put himself in communication with a
einni-ollicial professional in Liverpool. The in-
genuity and experience of the "cunning counsellor"
were baffled in this case, and no trace of the anxious-
ly inquired for fair one could be obtained. The
noble Lord left Liverpool disappointed at the failure
of his self-imposed mission, but gave instructions to
his professional ally to keep a sharp and attentive
look-out for the young lady, who had taken with
her about £1,700 in bank-notes and cash. A photo-
graphic likeness was left with the professional in-
quirer. In course of the Christmas holidays the
costodier of the likenees in question had occasion to
be in a mixed company at Birkenhead, and there
end then several of the party produced photographic
likenesses of their relatives and friends. Amongst
others, the confidential inquirer produced the
"counterfeit resemblance" of the lady referred to.
This, like the others, was handed round, when •
lady present nonce recognised it as the portrait
of • lady whom she had lately travelled along with
from Liverpool to Glasgow in a steam-boat and at
such a date, naming a time which closely cor-
responded with the period at which the fugitive had
left the Irish metropolis. The deputed inquirer re-
solved to profit by this and he at once proceeded to
Glasgow, where he made out that the object of his
search had arrived in that city, but after a brief
stay there had gone on by rail to Edinburgh. To the
Scottish metropolis the investigation was now trans-
ferred, and there, after throe days' anxious search,
his labours were crowned with success. The lady
Knight for he discovered located in a respectable
family in one of the most fashionable parts of the
New 'Town of that city, living in a quiet retired
manner, occupying her days chiefly in sketching the
remarkable features of the city, or in rambling about
among the scenery by which it is surrounded. The
members of the family in which she resided con-
cluded she was • poetess and artist. Her discoverer,
being satisfied that she was the lady "wanted," tele-
graphed to Dublin, to her noble relatives and her
brother-in-law arrived in Edinburgh soon afterwards.
The meeting between the parties was quiet and un-
emotional. The lady did not go into hysterics,
scream, or faint; and the nobleman did sot rave nor
objurgate- The lady was the first to break silence,
which she did by quietly saying, "Well, my Lord,
how are you all at homer' In course of the conver-
sation which ensued, the young lady informed his
Lordship that in adopting the course she had pur-
sued she had only desired to create • sensation
to that occasioned by the mysterious disappear-
awe of the Kn. Mr. Spoke, and that it was from
reading of him that she first took up the idea of
travelling. It appeared that she had only vent
about Li $0 of the moon she had taken, which was
her own, and the fait she heeded over to her °obi*
itinourie, whoa she, on the following day, roma.
Plbstad Wthilgia. whore both arrived la ahoy,