The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

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ML nillatlT'll VIBIT TO lIIIMINONAM.—Io addition
to the publio mooting *unveiled hy the Meyor, whereat
Mr. Bright will attdrois his emintitnents, it hao boon dm
Wriulued to invite the lien, gentleman too nubile dinner,
to take piece In the Townliell, on the 9911 i. A number
of distinguished men will he invited to ingot him, en that
the otetasion will be nue of inure than orallnary into.
root,
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POUTIM.—The ripenlib ship the Bella Carmen, bound
to Mattille front 11110110, with a rich our, MIMI lately at
tucked near the latter Dime by two pirate vestoele, the
crews of witioli, asolated by about fifty Chine.. who
were on board AM pmeenpre, were driven mat of the
Rollo Carmen after a deeperate light, the Captain, Don
Ramon Poem, and eleven of his crew being wounded,
The ohip we. Oblliptl to return to Memo, where the
wounded monad every attention.
DIM Ido.ixTvse Srooliontsue.—The Royal peek het%
commenced bunting la the vicinity of the Ureat l'ark
ond Forint, 11101 meets being at the Kennel getterolly on
Tundaya and Fridays. DUrllll the loot week they have
boon capturing several fine red deer in the Gnat Park,
for the purpose of sending them to Swittley for the
next vetoes hunting season. The meets will continue
to be at the Royal Kennel until the comnieneeinent of
the regular hunting in November, Both horses and
bounds are In the finest oondition, and Devil, the
veteran huntemen, all juvenile as ever.
Cowen Lout, Nouns WALIM.—TIIIII lake situated
obout ten mine from Bangor, has been ntosti carefully
preserved froin the net for the last 'JO years by the Hon.
Colonel Pennant, M.P., who last week, permitted it to
he dragged In order to ascertain whether it was etooked
with large fish, Eight haul. were mode, from thirty to
fifty deign of fish, NO:oll weighing SOL e&ah, being
taken at each draw, all of which wore thrown back into
the lake. Ills believed that had the hauls taken plan
at night with a dons net some of the ten pounders that
hove been seen playing with the anglers' fine would
have been captured.
To RIDIIII Or " ROCILICT."—The Cesarewitch etekes,
run fur at Newmarket on Tuesday, was cleverly won by
Lambert', Rocket, under the Jookeyship of a lad named
Custanoe, a native of Puterboro', and one of the moat
promising light weights of the day, having already had
the good fortune to win eleven evente. He IS a son of the
late George Costliness, one of the Gnat Northern otnni-
bus drivers, and is indebted in a great measure fur his
skilful style of riding to the exoellent training he re-
ceived from Sam, Batten, the well-known horse breaker,
After the race the 114 did not forget his widowed
mother, but sent her a CIO note through a friend whom
he rueognised on the worse,
Ills PSNXY I'IiBIODIOALII.—Lord Brougham referr-
ing at the meeting of the Association for the promotion
of bold Seienoe to thepenny periodicals now existing—
the London Journal, Caarell's Family Paper, Family
Hpald, Welcome Owe!, and others—deolared that they
did a vest amount of good in educating and improving
th. !minds of the working-classes:. Hs said : The tales
omeposed for the working men's hours of relaxation are
of a kind that addreu themselves both to the under.
'tending and the heart—at ones giving lesions of in.
stnotion and fostering the kindly affections. Nor can
anything be more grounding than the charges that have
been brought against them.
APPREHENDICD LOBS Or A BRIO Or WAIL—We re.
gret very much to state that considerable apprehensions
are entertained relative to the safety of the 12-gun brig
Seepho, Commander Fairfax Moresby, which vessel left
the Cape of Good Rope for Australia on the Bth of
January, shunt which nothing lull been heard of her.
Ware inclined to hope that the Sappho may have got
die:nested in & hurricane, and have made for some of the
End India or Seychelle Islands, front which no intelli-
gens* could reach. We understand that orders were
despatched to Sir Frederick Grey in August to send a
steer to follow in the presumed track of the Sappho
in ,
m
opes of gaining some information, the result of
wh h search cannot yet be known.

SIDIJOSION AND SUICIDII.--On Tuesday evening last
Mr. Payne held an inquiry At the White Hart Tavern,
Giliapur-street, on the body of Maria Drew, aged 28,
who committed suicide under the following painful oir-
ounistanees .—F.lisa Drew said that .he lived with her
eisto in service, at Mr. Jeffrey's, dentist, of Oiltspur•
street. Deceased wee to have been married on Friday to
a men named Biggs, a paoking•oase maker, but he de-
ceived her. On Friday night she twice attempted to
throw herself out of the window, but witness prevented
her. At six in the morning, however, on going into the
kitchen she found that her sister had drowned herself
in the cistern. Biggs had seduced deceased. After
headng further evidence, the inquest was adjourned.
The moan Bigp, it was stated, had gone to work at Wool.
wich.

TIE COUNT! COORTIL—The Lord Chime°llor is re-
arra•ging the districts of the County Courts under a re-
oent,Aot of Parliament (214 and 22nd of Victoria, cap.
74). , His lordship has obtained a good deal of informa-
tion 'lon the subject, and the re-arrangements are shortly
expeloted to be promulgated. The number of judges
I. liniited to 60, and by the Aot the Lord Chancellor is
authorized to alter and re-distribute the districts, and
may appoint two persona to be judges of one or more
districts. It would confer • benefit if his Lordship
would order two courts to be held in a month for the
hearing of 'insolvents. The general practice is to hold
them once a month ; in some places there is even a two
months' interval, and hence imprisonment for debt in
country places becomes • severe punishment.
ILLEGAL SEIZURE ET TEN LIVERPOOL HEALTH
COMEITTEE.—At the Liverpool Police Court on Thurs-
day ltst, Mr. Clark, produce broker, appeared to corn-
plain of an act of one of the officer* of the Health Com-
mittee, by which a Ire :ivantity of damaged rice has
that the ned was not itll'entcr iorond:10 was
principally used for cattle, and cotton stiffening. Mr.
Mansfield said that the *action of the Act of Parliament
only applied to corn, bread, flour, kn., and it Was the
first time he had ever heard rice called 'corn." The
seizure was absolutely illegal, and he had no doubt what-
ever bat that Mr. Clark could recover compensation for
any loan sustained. The damaged rioe Was principally
need in the manufacturing districts for atiffinting calico
and cotton.

ELZOPION OP New MCIIIIIOIB OF PARLIAXENT.—In
the forthcoming elections ounauquent on the appoint-
manta to the new Indian Council, an Act of Parliament
passed in the late session repeating votera will be en•
forced fur the find time. Ity the Act in queation
and 22nd of Viotoria, cap. 87), it is declared that it ahall
be lawful for any candidate or Ida agent to provide con.
voyanoe for any voter fur the purpose of polling at an
election and nut otherwiae " but it shall not be lawful to
pay any money or give any valuable coninduration to a
voter for or In reaped of hue travelling expellee+ fur ouch
male, provided alwaya 011111 a full, true, and partiottlar
amount of all payineuta made fur such ammoniac,
signed by the candidate or hia agent, shall be delivered
to the election auditor, with the name' and addressee of
the persona to whom suoli payment* have been iiilAe,
and the amount of such mount shall be included in the
pnoral amount of the @apeman to be inourred at any
election to be made out and kept by such eleotion
auditor." .

MOS. OUTRAGI ON A CLIIROTKA)I.—" A lento.
amorist' Vioar," writing to the rims of Soturdoy
say. :—" I mu a clergyman of a nervous temperouloni,
upwordo of TO yoars of age, I live on the borders of
ilefordoldre and Buoka, in a very beautiful part of the
country my porloh is small, my house gond, my intone
Approaching to RITO A yeAr. Judge of my (Mingo when
I road thio morning in your advertising columns the
following 1— For sole, the next presentotion tea living
iii moat beautiful part of the country, on the border's of
Oxfordshire and Soaks. Them is • superior poreonago
hours' slid grounds, and the loonies amount. to sbunt
8170 per annum. Popillotion small, Insumbent
ypars of oge and a bid life. Apply to Afr, V.
Hewitt analioneor, Hart.street, Bloomsbury.
*quirt,l What right, 'sir, has any auelloneor to soy
that my life is s boil one, either morally or phyoleally
Is there no matron agoinet ouch brutality 7 Truoting
that 1017 survive Hr. V. H. Hewitt, I am, So."

DWITRUSTIUN OP A OOTTON•MILL SY illllll,—On
Visinewtoy morning, at a taw oilman put 4 o'olook,
torrillo erg broke out in the inaohania chop altaolied to
the extensive works of Misers Mohola. Milne anti
ihotlicro, aottonspinners, at ?mob, shout two muse
from Gory. The alarm was immediately given, ond the
olivine belonging to Hours &Mifflin and Grundy, of
Linmiteil, was moodily 9n the spot and brought Into
ploy, The ervengines of Monti. immix and NVolker,
of kfours Openahow, of Pinhole, and the engine
ototionoti at linty.hridp, followed In rapid suocomolon,
and were Iminedlotoly bronglit hit° cotive operation,
ond were well supplied with water from the neighbour.
In, lodge.. Notwithstanding the etrenuous exertions
that were made the fire still continued to spraini until
the whole of the prat:Moos used for ootton.spintiing end
logwood.grinding wore i Mile of damso, Towards 0
o'olook the lire was subdued, but not until the premises
before mentioned were in ruins—the roof, nmehinery,
and floors forming a oh wile mom of smouldering rubbleh,
Th. Games could be distinctly on from Bury, and
wooed greet alarm, The tuition of ohs lire I. traeod to
the friotion of some of the shafts, sa some of the men
were working all night. Ti,. lose has been variously
estimated from 81,400 to 89,500 but the aotual damage
cannot of course be estnnated at present. Messrs.
Milne were hunted In the Welt of England-oMo°, on
which the losi will fall.

FATAL AFFRAY WITH A G .—On Bator.
day, afternoon week, sbont 5 o'clock, much excitement
was produced in Newark by the report that a labourer
named Charles Braithwaite had been shot dead by
Georg. Weeley, an under-keeper in the employ of Mr.
James Thorpe, of Bearonfleld-houre, near that town. It
appear' that the keeper was walking up Cliff Nook-lane,
when he loot the deceased carrying a gun, which he re•
quired him to give up. The deceased refused, and a
fesrful Amato ensued, both falling into a ditch five
feet deep. Shortly afterwards the keeper called to a
man who was passing, and mid, "Poor Braithwaite has
shot himself ;" otter which the keeper went for "mist.
anus. The gunstock was broken into several Mews,
and the barrel, as well as the clothes of the keeper, was
covered with blood. During the evening the keeper
gave himself into custody, and on Monday An inquest
was opened before the borough coroner, at the Newark
Arnis Inn, where the body of the deceased had been
taken. The above facts were stated by the accused,
who added that during the struggle the dammed struak
him on the month, when the gun went off and shot the
deceased; but he could not amount for its being so much
injured. The surgeon who had examined the deceased
stated that the head and body were very much bruised,
but that the actual cause of death was the gunshot
wound. After sitting seven hours the jury adjourned to
Thursday. The excitement in the neighbourhood whit*
lush an event le in Malt calculated to create has been
Increased by the prooudinp of the county magistrates In
different game oases which have recently been brought
before them. The deceased was idiot through the heart,
but lie had also a very serious wound on the head, and
the latter, in the opinion of many persons who hare
seen it, is such as would likely to have aimed death if
no other injury had Men sustained. It la also very
singular that the stock of the gun should have been
broken into pieces supposing the deceased shot him.
self, and that the various fragments of it and the gun
barrel were found at Matthaei' of several yards from each
other. The spot where the otruule muned was j
within the boundary of the borough of Newark, so that,
much to the satisfaction of the inhabitants, the judicial
Inquiry will not be held before the county magiothatee.
We may add that the lane is a public highway, and that
the keeper, therefore, had not the slightest right to dc.
mind the gun from the deuesed wiilU be was pubs
glom it.

JP:l!rit4vliaatir, of
Aiwa of the militery Morn department
flutenagese dialarglsh,taonf tathemrer:
e
of Weolwicit Arsenal, and brother of the Queen's
munsellor of that name, were abducted front their hoot,
on Batley night week under extraordinary eirouinsten-
me, Mr. Bacon and his family, who Mired to reel
about 11 &utak, Inhabit a aomilletsched villa overlook•
log the Pluinetead-road Nati MIO Kora Amelia', but
which ii otherwise somewhat isolated. On rising the
following morning al 1, Mrs, Bean entered the little
girls' room, adjoining her own, when she wee alarmed to
find that they were Absent. Inquiries were promptly
set OS foot, and a hue and eay wee relied throughout
the neighbourhood by SISSON of the pollee,. but up to
Wednewley night no range lied been obtained at the
net children, nor hai the slighter Inforinetion been
gleaned ea to the OSUMI or insane of their departure, It
Fe, however, recollected that the youngest child it.
marked that *lie had spoken to a yellow-faxed stogy
women In front of the house, whence it ia presumed that
the little creaturee niay, by seine mimeountable Warta.
thin, have yielded to the persnation* of the gipsy, and
have been Wilma to aucentipany her.
LORI) WADY AND Loin dimltlt BUeset.l..-8000e of
one contemporaries who 'Lonnie to be more than or-
dinarily well informed, hove **Gently been enlightening
the piddle as to negotiation,' on politiml subjects mid
to be iti progress between Lord Derby end Lord John
Rowell, One of them is even able to stet, the praise
overtures mid, by Lord Derby, the advice and
opinion', of the Duke of Bedford, who it scenic, has
been oonsulted, and the ultimate answer given by Lord
John, We regret to be nbliged to dispel the delusion of
our oontomporery, supported by such circumstantial
details but we have the highest authority for stating
Hint there is note shadow of foundetion for the report,
and that since the prorogation of Parliament there has
not been, personally or in writing, directly or through
any intermediate channel, any communication whatever
between the two statesmen referred to bearing in the
reunited degree upon public affairs. It is quite true
that Lord and Lady John Rural' and the Earl of
Carlisle' who are now attending the meeting at Liver-
pool of the Sorel Science Assignation, have meepted
an invitation to pass next Saturday and Sunday at
Knowsley, but this visit is of personal and private
friendship only, and haa not the slightest referent* to
any political question.—Moreitm Herald.
Ramis nu CHANCIRY.—At the commencement of
the ensuing Mielmelame tern anew Act on the Court of
Chancery will come into operation, and a. the Lord
Chaneelior has been engaged in the revision of the
Chancery ordsregenerally, it is anticipated that at about
the mum time several new order, will be leaned. The
Ant in question (21a and 22nd of Victoria, cap. 27) is
entitled, "An Act to Amend the Course of Procedure
in the High Court of Chancery, the Court of Chancery
in Ireland, and the Court of Chanoery of the County
Palatine of Lanoester." It I. to be cited as "The
Chancery Amendment Act, 1858." The first portion
empowers the Court of Chancery to award damages or an
injunction or breech of a contract or agreement for a
wrongful act. The clamps may be assessed, or a toes-
Con of fact arising in any suit may be tried by a jury be-
fore the Court itself, either before a special or common
jury, and the Court may make orders on the 'abject,
and enforce the attendance of jurymen as at common
law. All questions of hot and any question as to the
amount of damages to be tried by • jury before the
Court itself are tole reduced to writing, Damages may
be assessed or questions of fact tried Before the Court '
without • jury, and damages may be assessed by • jury
before any judge of common law at .firiei Pries, or be-
fore the iheriff of any county or city,
ESCAPS OF TWO CONVICTS FROM CMATHAM.—On
TIMITSday official information was received by the polio
at Chatham of the cameo of two convicts from the con-
vict establishtnent at St. Mary's. The convicts, whose
names are Edward Thompson and Patrick Salmon, both
of whole are desperate characters, are ander sentences of
penal servitude for felony, and wore employed, with a
number of other convicts, on board the Thunderbolt,
16, floating battery, lying off Chatham Dockyard.
About three o'clock in the afternoon, just before the ,
men were mustered for returning to the convict prison
for the night, the two convicts contrived to slip over the
side of the ship without attracting the Attention of the
guard over thetn. They Men, it is supposed, seized one
of the boats and rowed to the opposite shore of the Med-
way, landing in Cockham-wood. Here they were seen
by several persons, who, however, were too much fright-
ened to attempt to capture them. Imniediately the
convicts were mimed several warders were despatched to
scour the woods and the country to endeavour to recap-
ture them, but without enemas. The following is the
official description Edward Thompson—height,
4 feet 11 inches ; hair, brown; eyes, grey ; complexion,
fresh i age, 16; triode, seaman and nailmaker ; scar on
the right cheek. Patrick Salmon—height, 5 feet 3
inches; hair, brown; epee, white brown; complexion, ,
fresh ; age, 17 ; mark of a cut over the left eyebrow."
Both men had on the convict clothes when they effected
their escape. A reward of £5 each has been offered for
their apprehension.
A LOST BALLOONIST.—A Toronto paper lately con-
tained an account of a fearful accident to Mr. Thurston,
an aronaut, who was carried off by his balloon after its
descent, and after the basket and netting had been re-
moved and the balloon had become inverted, he himself
holding on to the uninliated portion, seated on a valve-
board. The Detroit Tribune of September 22 says, "All
hope Of ever finding poor Thurston alive is blotted out,
and we can only bemoan him as lost. Mr. Bannister,
his companion, returned this afternoon, and can bring
only the worst tidings. The balloon he identified, and
sent the silk of which it was composed to this city Wed-
nettle, night. He himself remained to search for his
friend. To-day he comes back despairingly. He states
that the balloon valve on which Thundon sat is torn out
from the silk of the balloon three-quarters of the way
a..ateating mteeeteete site* She weight of the Un-
fortunate man was too pent for the etrength of the
tides and that the silk gave way, when lie must have
dropped off. MS only remaining chance would be to
cling to the smooth material of which the balloon was
made, and he could not have sustained himself in that
tanner. When he fell we cum only conjecture, but
that it must have been within an hour
after he started seems highly probable. The
ill-fated
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balloon was seen for nearly two hours with a glass, but
it most be re n
appeared t
not his
greatropa d b ° tmiii
tlOl tilers
visible and be it would have been utterly linotteelble to tele
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ANOTHRA FATAL GUN ACOIDNNT.—A few days ago
()mond Yotenger Tupper, of between 19 end 13 years of
age, wound son of Mr. Rotary Tupper, joint of the Mord
Omit of Guernsey, wee aosideutelly killed by the die.
charge of his gun when engaged in ellooting on his
father'e lends it Olio COWL At about lialf.past throe
o'oloek In the afternoon the dilettanti returned home
from epilogs, and, having laid down his book., took his
gun, and, as wee his general °Thom, went out into the
fields adjoining the house, When the time it which he
should hive returned had arrived, without the deemed
noshing his appearanee, some eurpriso wee errand by
hie ebienee, is he way remerkebly punetual in las
habit*, This feeling soon Worsened into Anxiety, and in
consegionee it About half.past live, Mr. Tic per, anom•
!tented by hie nob:Oman, went In south alit, missing
youth, They hid not proceeded for when they saw the
ilimeasod sitting astride of II dwarf well which rune
through tics grounds, end on approtehing they found
that he wee Mines, Tho 06111111 of the calamity wra it
ono" 'olden', tics u e deesed's gun, whieh Moe found to
have ben discherpd end had the hammer on the
nipple, WU lying it the foot of the will, end the poor
Ymilli, *he woe bethed In blmel, was found to here re.
aired ite content' in the nook. At the ir.oucett It wee
slated MIA the well on which the doomed woe found
WM lower by two or three feet on the one side then on
the olliet, end It was suppoied that the unfortunete
youth, hoeing got on the top from the higher elde, in.
tending 40 drop on the lower, had let his gutt fill before
him, and that, in felling, II lad gone off gni shot Mtn is
he woe silting on the will, A, verdict of auldontally
shot wail returned,
TIM 0101 IT OF 01PINIIRAL MARONAO.—TIio Osselfe
rie Odenme publithes the following strange story, which
weeoominanleeted by its oorreepondentiroin fJohlents,
end which, it Apeman is at present the subject of gone.
rid 0011V1111611011 in tlial city 1—" It is vely well known
thet underneath the Fort Empergur Primo° ,Is near the
Oologne.reed, the tnonuinmit of the Trineh Republioan,
filming gerogeti, whip fell it Altotikirelien, had been
Greeted I the body of the Ogneral hiving been buried it
ooblents, pn Mount lit. Plerte, where may now be Nand
1116 principal part of the obove.mentioned fort, The
monument of the Genera, whieh wag 0 truninted
pyramid, hod been removed when the building of the
fortideations of Cloblents Mil onininonood, It woe,
however, nabsequently reoonstructed at the plies where
It now retains -by the engross order of the late King
itrederlak Williem 111, M. de "Weinberg, who in his
Rheinhuther Antionerine gives a very detailed biography
of Maroon, In melting mention of this monumeot elates
, that several persons hod alleged that they had nen the
General on different 00011110 M at night long after his
death, mounted upon a white home, end enveloped in a
*leek of the same eolointfthe French Cheneurs), riding
towards Mount it. Pierre. It is 'lined that a soldier
who was on duty at this mount at midnight has just seen
this white spectre, mounted upon a grey horse. Not
reoeiving any answer to his demand, the soldier fired
three times at the object, A patrol having oome to the
spot in oonsequenoe of those shots found the sentinel
extended upon the ground in a state of unconsciousness,
end In a frightful paroxysm of fever. He wail trans•
ported to the hospital, where he beacons dangeronly ill,
and throughout his delirium lie could speak of nothing
but the aforesaid apparition."
ATTIMPTIX MURDIth OF A POLION CONNTABLII AT
DtoetinsB.--Bcorooly hat the excitement caused by
Blewit's apprehension and °min:ninel for trial for the
murder of Clark, the polioeman, in 1846, subsided, whoa
this neighbourhood is again etartled and thrown into ng
small excitement by another etteropt at murder, and,
strings to relate, the attempt wee made within • tqw
yards of the soene of the former tragedy. The facts/of
the case are ma follow :—On Sunday evening Cole n
and another aonsteble of the K division left the in
station, Dagenham, about 10 o'clock, arid had ;iron ed
on their wey together until they arrived at the ur-
I
want-way : here they parted, Coleman oontinui his
beat towards ltushgreen, in the direction of Itoinfo ; he
Iced proceeded only e. short distance when he , wird
Tolosa, but paned on, taking no notice ; he h not,
however, gone far when he was pounced upon three
men, who jumped from their aonoeali nt in
the ditch, and he was immediately struck , by two
il
of the men, who felled him to the gromoi, one of
the ruffians exclaiming, "Let's Clark him " Colluding to
the murder of poor Clark.) Coleman tried to, get away,
but woe overpowered, and snhjeoted to most inlet treat-
ment, the vlUaina striking him in every part 0 his body,
kieking him about the head and face, junipieg upon his
body, and dimity drugging him to spend hole, into which
they throw him, leaving hint almost deed. TA the °undid
Colennon'e outlaw end lamp were token from him, And his
uniform almoot destroyed, the poor fellow nianaged to
nowt from the spot into which he hod been thrown
(there being fortunately no wetor in the pond at the
time) and alter great difficulty unneeded in Numbing
the station, in an almost dying date, from the injuries
he had received, end we regret to add he is still
lying in a very pm:odious Hate, meat doubts being en-
tertoined of his recovery. CoGnnia is a young and
promising ofilesr. 96 Mr' of age, and hos only been in
this puha' about three inoathe. It I. difficult to con-
jecture the each. of this outrage ; but it ill known that a
few weeks since Coleman opprehonded a num at Dunn.
ham foe stealing ours trom his master, Mn, Harris, fur
which lie woeeonvioted, and guapicion falls upon hie eon.
federates, although no one at unbent has been taken
tab° dudiodS I but ills hoped the of this
reardarou moult ms i speedll: be crigttre
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NATIVE' Or THE GOLD COMM.—The netivee stand
in 411011111100 M mantel to the overpowering wealth of
the 1101 MM in which they live, beneath the blue of the
fierce troploal Inn, and through forte in whiah the
very tree. are gorgeonsly clothed with orchids beeped
chant in brilliant tailbone. He bean on his heed an
Iferthen vessel of pelm oil, or carries two or three (milk
of mild-duet, the result of hie own industry in wathing
the egliti after the rains. Hie ado article of clothingo
ie
Manclieeter remit, or length of ohookered aotton,
girded round his loins. !tut he knows the value of hie
own inereliendise__, and of !het for which he intends to
exalienge It. He is a bird by no means to be caught
with °half. He will not change his paha oil for a
bunch of feathers, nor his gold for a otring of bee& I
neither does he affect any article of European clothing,
nor hanker after any produce of European civilisation.
lie wants rum—the lining, ammo American runi—and
he knows to A eMMItOOII6II-how much he ought to get of
it, He went* from Ohne to time a new ninth also a
cloth Of blanket to throw over his slieultlare on State
occasions, and a muuket to make a row with and fire off
when lie keeps custom. But he wants no food, became
the ionise springs up for him elnioet without cultivation,
end his woolen pound it between two stones, and mid
water to mike a paste which he sill. Itankee and on
this lie gorgen hiui,e.lf with great relish. Sometimes hie
soul lusteth for meat, and then the black snails of the
forest, as big as a fist, furnish hint with a soup of which
polo& MI le also an essential Ingredient. The provident
house-wife thruerle these snails on a bit of grail and driee
them In the inn, thief loving her lord and muter front
the toll of patting out his hand to take them. The long
blaelt•lialred monkey Mao provides him with a bounteous
repent. Pity the oorrowe of a European travelling through
the Well MO partaking of the hoopitelity (he will have
to pay liendsonirly for it) of a native, when ass delicacy
reserved for him, there Is fished op out of the big pot of
soup a bleak howl with the lips drawn back, and the
white teeth grinning, and each a painful resemblance of
tits faces around him !het for a moment he wonders
which of the younger members of the family has been
sacrificed to the exlpnolem of the occasion. But lie is
reesoured, and discovers !het he is not eating MAE, but
monkey. The native of the Gold Coast Ilse no desire
to buy a home, nor to build a house, or to live lit a
house. He does not wish to add field to field, or to
lecke a name in the land. His chief and only desire
in life seeing to be to eat when he is hungry, to drink
whenever he nail, and to sleep In the Interim. He ham
no anxiety for himself, and certainly none for his off-
spring, who have neither to be educated nor clothed i
nor 11Au he any misgiving about their future prospects.
They run about In the bush If lie lives inland, or he
turn. them Into the sea if lie lives on the meet. You
niey watch them in any number and of all ages, from 9
to 12, diving and ducking under the waves, waiting for
a big one I and then, on the crest of It, you as. lb* ttle
shining bleak bodies tossed over and over and ronn and
round GU, earemning with pleasure, they are washed up
on the sand, like • tangle of bleak seaweed. Tbea
slowly, and with much noise, they unravel themselves and
crew' beak to the water, and oontinue this sport the
whole day long, with the exception of the time occupied
in consuming huge lumps of imikee brought to them
by the mothers. The paternal domain is, for the most
part, a circular hut, under the mud-floor of whieb the
ancestors of the family hare been buried for many gene-
rations.
DEATH OF A VETZEAN.—Ther• died in this town on
Monday Oct, 4, Abraham Bold, formerly sergeant in the
7th Fusileers, a veteran soldier, who had men 'much
rough service, and had been in as many perilous encoun-
ters and had as many heir-breadth escapes as rarely fall
to the lot of even a soldier. Early in life he enlisted in
the 7th Fusileere, when he first served in Nova Scotia
end Canada, and afterwards went through the Penineu.
lar campaign under the Duke of Wellington. When in
the army in Spain his °ended was snob as soon to acquire
notice and distinction. He there learned to read and
write, and became so proficient that he was in conse-
quence promoted to be sergeant, and had to make the
various official returns in connection with his regimiret.
He was next made sergeant in charge of the baggage,
and while in this riosition he often came in contact With
the Duke of Wellington. He loved to tell tales of the
Duke's industry in writing despatches to so late as three
o'clock in the morning, after which the Duke would put
out his lamp, retire to rest, and be up with the earliest.
With the Prince of Orange Bold said lie was an especial
favourite, the Prince frequently selecting him as • guide
in visiting the prisoners, and would often familiarly tap
him on the shoulder and say, in broken Englinh, "Come,
Sergeant Bold, let us &Rend to the prisoners." At the
final assault of Badajos the Company to which Bold be-
longed went to the attack 50 strong, and at the
muster-roll on the following morning only three of that
company were alive to answer to the call. Bold himself
had received a ball in his breast, which he carried to his
grave, and another ball had entered his abdomen, but
afterwards came away. At the bettle of Salamanca he
formed one of another company of 50, of whom only 8
or ten survived to tell of the terrific slaughter in w h
they had been engaged. Bold was present in 13 of is
Peninsular battles mentioned in history, and
that he had besides taken part in about a bun
skirmiohes. He landed at Ostend the night ore
the battle of Waterloo, and marched with the
victorious allies to Paris, and well remembered
that they entered that city to the tune of The
Downfall of Paris." This concluded his xperi-
once as a soldier. Soon after he returned to gland,
and received • retiring pension of • shilling r day.
Being a native of Dow-green, near Dewsbury, e COMO
into this locality, and in • short time obtain employ-
ment in Huddersfield at his old and more pa 1 occu-
pation of weaving, and subsequently he o Med the
appointment 2 veers of
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the same discipline and credit that he had cl. barged his
duties in Gm ermy. Time exoellenoe of his °undue, was
Audi PA to endear hlin to all with whom chine into
contact. The punctuality ()thin appears at the door
of the bank at 10 o'clock in the worni became pro-
verhial, and the estimation In which
was held was
proved by the foot that about • year ag he received ft
retiring pen m pension from the Bank. Who the Penineular
medals were granted in 11GS lie wro4 to Sir Edwerd
Blekeny, his colonel, specifying 11. (fo tting two) of the
battled in which Its lied been engeged re ,and the ply of
the onlonel commenced, " My palest and trusty old
friend," proving thet Bold was esteemed as smoothing
npny_ a s
more than en ordinary soldier by his former commander.
Bold received the model with the following 11 clasps :
BUIIIIOO, Alboura, Culded Rodrigo, Bedajos, Selemanee,
Vittoria, Pyrenees, Mealier, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse.
There WM only one other soldier in the West Riding
who oould bout the enmesh:in of the same number of
clasps, and he would have been thrown into the ehede
lied Bold at the time of his application mentioned the two
other battles in which he was engaged. Bold had five
brothers, who all enlisted in tho army, and, all, after
going through perils by land and sea, and battles oft,
lived to return to their native land and end their day.
in ream. Nothing delighted Bold inure in hie later days
then to get a few eompanlons around hint In the even-
ing, to whom be would 14MOUM the story of his life. At
such time. his eye sparkled with ell the vigour of youth,
and hie simple yet amen delineation of the dangers he
had oneountered was sure to gain the undivided attention
of his hearers A mightier conqueror than any whom
he had it has now laid lain low, and his upirlt ha*
boon gathered to thus of his °outranking In arms who
had gone before,—Howlelav%chl Clrenleis.