The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-08-17 00:00:00

THE QUEENS SPEECH.

My Lords and 0 CIIatIPICII,
We are commanded by her Majesty to dispense with
your further attendance in Parliament.
Ifer Majesty announces to you with pleasure tnat she
continues to receive from al foreign Powers tin.
strongest assurances of their friendly disposition, and
that her confidence in the preservation of peace has
been continued and confirmed during tt present' year.
The negociations in which her Majesty MA engaged
with the United States of North Alieries have by
mutual consent been srepended ; and her Mejraty
earnestly hopes that this delay may tend to maintain
the relations between the two countries on • durable
basis of friendship.
Her Ilsjesty bas• lively satidaction in acknowledging
the untiring zeal and assiduity with which you have
Prosecuted the arduout labours id the year.
In the act for putting an end to the Establishment of
the Irish Cburili, you carefully kept in view the several
considerations, which, at the opening of the session,
were commended to your notice.
It it the hope tf her Msjel.ty that this important
measure may he reafter be rernetubered as a conclusive
proof of the paramount anxiety of Parliament to pay
reasonable regard, in legislating for each of the three
Kirigdurns, to the special circumstanees by which it
may be distinguithed, end to deal on prineiph• of im-
partial justice with all interests and all porti.nis of the
nation.
Her Mtjeety firmly trust. that the act may promote
the work of peruse in Ireland, and may help to unite all
ciao,, of its people in that fraternal concord with
their English Slid Scottitb felloworubjeets, which mutt
ever feria the chief retiree of strength to her extended
empire.
Her Majesty has observed with pleasure your general
and cordial readier:se to unite in the removal, through
the Aoessed Rates Act, of • pretdical grievanse which
was widely felt.
her Majesty congratulates you on having brought
your protracted labours on the subject• of bankruptcy
rind of imprisonment for debt to a legislative conclusion.
which is regarded with just svtisfaction by the trading
avows and by the general public.
The law which you have framed for the better govern-
ment of endowed 'retool. it England will render the
large resources of throe esteblithirenta more acce-sible
to the oomniunity, and more efficient for their ini•
portent purpose.
It may reasonably be expected that the act for the
supervision of habitual crinlioskiwill contribute further
to the security of life rin.l property.
The measure which has been passed with respect te.
the metagious diseases of animals will, as her Majesty
believes, add confidence and safety to the impartaot
trades of breeding and feeding cattle at home, without
• uneennuily impeding .the freedom of import front
abroad.
It, the repeal of the tax on Era insurasee, you have
• met a long cherished with of the cominuetty ; and in
I the removal of the duty on corn, her. Neje*" eggs new

evidence of your desire to extend industry mai com-
merce, anti to enlarge to the uttermost those expellee of
food which our insular position in a peculiar degree both.
encourages and requires.
her Majesty trusts that the measure for the otrelmse
and management of the electric telegraphs by the State
may be found to facilitate the great commercia :and
social object of rapid, en.y. and certain oommunication,
and may prove no tom, rib), sequel to that systeii of
cheap postage which has passed with much advsstge
into so many countries of the civilised world,

(knifemen of the House of Commons,
We are commanded to state that her Majesty thanks
you for the liberal supplies which you have granted for
the service of the year. and for the measures by which
you have enabled bra at once to liquidate the charge of
the Abyminian Expedition.
M, Lords and Gellt FMCS,
Her Msjesty reflects with pleasure that, in returning
to your several homes, you may contemplate with
thankfulnem the fruit of your exertions in the passing
of many important laws, • portion of whi.di we have
tow had it in command to notice.

Durieg the recess you will continue to gather that
practical kuowladge and experience which tone the
solid basis of legislative aptitude; and her Majesty in-
vokes the blessing of the Almighty alike upon your
reccut and your future labours for the public weak

A DIAD CHILD DIADOVAIIII) IC A Cirriluz—On
Thursday night an inquest wee held in Charlee-terreize,
Victoria Park. London on the body of a newly-born
male child, the illegitimate offspring of Elizabeth Clark,
19 years of age, • servant. On lb. 30th ultimo the
naked and dead body of the baby WA found in the
cistein of the house in whir& Clark was servant. Dr.
Smart said the child had been born alive. On the left
aide of the head there wan the mark of • blow, but it
might have been produced by a fall. The MIAS of death
was exhaustion arising from the blow and loss of Wood.
The accused said that she fainted after the child wag
born, and knew nothing about what occurred afterward".
The jury returned a verdict "That whether the injury
to the head and the loss of blood were canoed accidentally-
or not there was not sufficient evidence to show." The
police than arrested the accused on the eharge of con-
cealment of birth.

-.6-1;R-0-i-0i-61-ILO MUM:MIL—At the Leeds Assizes,
Ann Harrison, a girl of 15, wee indicted on • charge of
the wilful murder of her child at Thrybergh, in May
last. The prisoner, who was in service, had sdmitted,
after certain disclosures had been made, that the child
was born on her chamber floor, that it was not alive,
that shortly after birth the restos of her mistress came
up stairs, and, fearing discovery, she wrapped the body
in • skirt, and hid it under the hod, and that afterwards
she sunk it in the pond where it had boss found. An
examination of the body was made by • medical gentle-
man, who gave his opinion that the child had been born
alive, and that there were injuries sufficient to sense
death, which must hews been inflicted during If. In
crom-exunioation the evidence of witness wee weakened
considerably, and the counsel for the prosecution
abeadooed the cow for wilful murder, as they. wee net
eatisfaetery testimony to show separate existence. The
jar, thereupon, by his lordship's &nation, found the
prisoner guilty of conoselmeot of birth, and sentsisce of
three months' imprisonment was pronouneed.
HORKIBLI Boutin or As I • Mary Pullin,
HI, a mangle woman, Edward Pullin, 59, • bricklayer,
and Maria Pullin, 62, his wife, were charged at Bow-
street polite-court, London, on Wedneeday, with beiing
concerned in concealing the birth of • child to which
fiery Pullin gave birth on the sth instant. —A detective
dammed that on Tuesday afternoon be went to 37,
Great Wild•street, and saw the three prisoners. Mai
asked Mary Pullin what was done with the child, and
she said Well, to tell you the truth, I delivered my.
self and burnt the child."—Annie Frederick, who lived
in the sanie house aa the prisoners, 37, Great Wild-
street, stated that on Thursday last she was proceeding
into the kitchen and met Wm Pullin taming up-stairs.
Mrs. Pullin said her neioe was very ill. Witness asked
if she should go for &doctor, and Mrs. Pullin said " No,
my hu.band won't have anyone In the room but him-
self. Ito always delivers her." The following Setae-
day Mrs. Pullin came into the shop of the witness, and
said " It's aU over." Witness 'baked what was done
with the child. The prisoner replied," lam afraid to
tell, because lam so dreadfully ill-used. My hothead
took it with him at Mx o'clock in the morning."—Mary
Ann Stephens, another married woman lodging in the
1 mune house, said she asked Mrs. Pullin what was dose
with the child, and she replied, "My husband is very
good at opening the sewers. He would put the eigli
churn, and no one would know anything 'about it.
Three or four times it is.. been the same The man
' was adjourned.