The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-08-20 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF A WOMAN.

Thuniday morning Selina Wedge wee executed at
Bodmin Gaol for the murder of her child at 'rum:co-
ke. The representatives of the Press being retuned
admission to the prison,some difficulty was experienced
in obtaining any information but the scene appears to
have been an unusually painful one, all the officials.
including the chaplain and under-sheriff, being con-
siderably affected. There had been no one hanged in
Ms gaol for 16 years, and down to as late as eaves
o'clock Thursday morning it was universally billiard
that • reprieve would as rive. At that hour, however,
• communication was received by the Clerk of the
Peace stating that the Home Secretary could Oa NO
his way clear to interfere with the doe WWl' Of the
law.

The chaplain remained with the convict iron.
quarter put sees until the drop fell. She
mobbed greatly and as she mounted the stew she was
heard to say, "Lord deliver me from this Womble
wodd." Maiwood. the execatioaer, gave • &eV cle

AFFAIRS IN THE EAST.
A correspondent telegraphs from Pesth that un-
favourable tidings were on Friday received from the
frontier, of frorzegovina, to the effect that the English
company of the 32nd Regiment, which had left Stolen
on a reconnoitring expedition on Tueeday, had been
attacked at Lubinje. and, after a desperate struggle
with the insurgents. had been obliged to fall back, one
lieutenant and thirty men only escaping.
The Duke of Wfirtemherg a divison, according to
advice, received at Belgrade from Bosnia, only
succeeded in forcing the insurgent poeitions between
Travnik and &reject) eta, three day.' fighting, In
which very heavy low' was sustained by the Austrians.
The insurgents continue to coucet.trate in the Austrian
front an•l rear as fast as they are dispersed. CJIIII.
munication with the 13th Division was reported on
Wetlne-day to be interrupted.
Intelligence has been telegraphed by the Commander-
in-Chief of the Austrian army of occupation, giving an
account of an interview he has had with the Turkish
general of division, Hafis Pasha, who went to him
from Serajevo with • deputation of the leading
Inhabitants, and begged him, on several grounds, to
I stay the advance of the Atrttrian troops, especially as
no information on the subj-ct had been issued by the
1 Porte to the inhabitants of the territory to be occupied.
General Philippovich told them that the • ccupation
waslbeing effected as the result of a unanim• tu4 decisi•
of the Great Powers assented to by the Porte, and he
called npon them to make these facts as widely and
authoritatively know as possible.

THE HISTORY OF THE PAST PARLIAMENT.
Over the Esatern Qaestion Parliament has allowed
itself to he hoodwinked at every tarn. Its prerogatives
hays leen trampled tinder foot in order to revive the
nloolete prerOalltiVer of the Crown. Secret treaties have
been made and warlike steps have been taken with un-
paralleled ahameleearsees, became the ivernment knew
that whatever itch.. to do would I. moot nted after-
wants by its d vie followers. Even the sped II function
of the House of Cotutoons, the cant; of the national
finance., has been PO Pet at defiance that the only wonder
lathe Colonel th uzl t it worth while, during the piot
two or three weeks, to sulmit to it its sopplemen'arr
estimates and its schemes of mini-terial Hamming at AK
instead of di charging it. "faithful Commons' in time to
get the Brat ahot at the groom. The groat discredit that
falls upon Parliament for what it has done and for what
it has tailed to do during the put Session falls, of course,
lepreally on the Goveinment and the Miniarerialials.
tut the Liberals cannot he excused. It waa Hoer dia-
o reanimation chiefly that caused them to be no feebly
in presented in the present Pa: liamen t, and the aamo urse
of diaorganimlion has hung over their representatives
en 'sr since the last gmeral election, and prevented them
fr orn doing anything like at much good work as, even
wi th their scanty numbers, they might have dens this
Se sem. Will they think over their ahortcomings dunng
Lb o recess, and be prepared to am that better work is
dm is while the Beer and Bible Parliament huts, and that,
Irk One•Or the next general election comes, it gives a eery
mu eh better treount of the political intelligent', of the
natz'on...../fessisiner.

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88.88. awl Wedge died without • struggle, graining TI ASTERN QUESTION..
tightly in her hand • pocket-handkerchief witich she ( Late* )
carried with her. The Bosnian insurgents are becoming more daring.
After her condemnation she received • letter from On Friday they attacked the Austrians 01/1f Doboj.
the man Weetwood, whom she at one time charged and, although they were repulsed, it was at the cost
with having instigated her to the crime. awl who Waa of great loss to the Austrians. The insurgents are
a witness at her trial, begging for forgiveness. When m„,, fortifying one of the twns in their posseasions
this communication VIAS rod to her, her reply, was General Philippovich I. mewed to have said that he
"Yes, be need. forgiveness for 11111nv things, ' or would require • hun lred an I fifty thousand men to
words to that effect. It was also said that +he has accomplish the work 'insigne,' him Three Austrian
made a statement to the chaphin which the rev. reAments, containing a number of Serviaes, which
gentleman re oinks ,f,e, much lime .rtance illative intends formed a part of the army of occupation, became
forwarding it to the Home Secretary. 'Fhat W alge mutinous, and every tenth man taken by lot was shot.
should have been executel in spite Id the many appeals This did not 4op the disaffection, and after some
that have been made for reprievehucmatod a profound more executions the regiment was sent back to Austria
sensation all through the county. las pnhnera. - The Berrien Goverment Ins issued
•--.. off dant assistance being rendered

stringent regulations ag _
to the Bosnian. ; nevertheless, through private hands
In Berrie, it is believed that ammunition is still
received, coming from ports in the Agron. Rein-
forcements are being hastened to Bosnia from all patt
of the Austrian Empire ; and strong fords have been
assigned to protect the Hungarian, Berrien, and
other frontiers. Thousands of Chiristian insuryouts
are reported to be flocking to the standard of the old
leander Perko Paulorich in Hersegovina, in con-
sequence of the torero measure, taken by General
Philipporich. The announcement made East week,
on the authority of n Vienna psper, that a Convention
had been signed on behalf of Austria and the Porte,
was premature. It is still under negotiation, and the
outline of the probable arrangement is given
another column.