The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-19 00:00:00

eentral Nebn.

A SIMPLE DisiNnter.urr.--Cut two or three good
sized onions in halves, and place them on a plate on the
floor; they absorb° noxious effluvia, &a., in the sick room
in an incredibly short space of time, and are greatly to
be preferred to perfumery for the same purpose. They
should be changed every six hours.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPIL—The Bill of this company, to
be laid before Parliament, proposes an increase of capital
by the creation of new shares, and the borrowing on
mortgage or bond, the original capital of £350,000, now
all paid up, being found, 'in consequence of circum-
stances beyond the control of the company," inadequate
for the purposes of the undertaking.
THE PROPER WAY TO PUNISH GAMBLERS.—A. Bill
to punish professional gamblers by whipping has passed
the South Carolina Legislature. It provid.es that, in
addition to the punishment already provided by law, the
guilty party shall receive not to exceed 39 lashes. The
papers do not state whether stook gamblers are included
beneficent provisions of this bill.
Ti WiLitt COLLIERIES.—An inquiry is shortly to
take place with respect to the employment of females in
mines and collieries in Wales, an illegal practice which
is said to lo much on the increase both north and south.
It is understood that in the district of Merthyr the law
is daily violated in regard to the employment of girls and
young women in the mine and coal levels. The Govern-
meat Inspector, Mr. H. Mackworth, has dons all in his
power to discourage the evil. The employment of
females on the tips and at the mouths of the pita has
been much denounced, as leadinc to rest demoralima-
tion, and a change in this respect is mush needed.

THE LATE CONVICT BrALE AND THE GAOL GUARDS
—SAD PREPARATION FOR DEATH.—A case of ins.
proper oonduct by one of the gaol guards towards
Beale, has been followed by the instant dismissal of the
former. Only three or four days prior to the execution,
Perry, • newly-appointed turnkey, was found in the
condemned cell, where he and the convict were laughing
over some rude figures of an indelicate nature which
the officer had sketched on Scale's slate. The guard
was, of course, immediately suspended, and the circum.
stance being reported to the Visiting Justices, he was
very properly discharged. The property belonging to
Beale (including his watch, carpet tarts, wearing apparel,
pistols, 81.10 remained in the hands of the constabulary
officials from the time of his apprehension at Daventry
until after the execution, when it was toimally taken
charge of by the Under Sheriff, Mr. Nicholette. We
understand Scale's wife has sent in • claim for these
articles, and his father also asserts his right to them;
under these circumstance t..e Sheriff detains the male.
factor's effects until the Secretary of State for the Home
department has decided upon the rival claims at Scale's
relatives,

THE Dottntit MEHIISH Neel BATH.—The young
man named Thomas Miller, who murdered Broder and
his Wife in October last, on the estate of Mr, Shrine,
at Wakeigh, near Bath, wan tried before Justice
Wines, at the recent assizes at Taunton , when, it will
be remembered, he was acquitted on the ground of in.
sanity, and the court ordered him to be kept in custody
during Her Majesty's pleasure. A day or two Since, a
communication was received from the office of Secretary
of State, Whitehall, ordering Miller's immediate re,
moval from the county gaol to the lunatic ward ol
Bethlehem Hospital. We believe the unfortunate
young man's health is much better, and that his mind
at present is more calm and .rational than before his
trial.

A CRINOLINE LIFX-PRESERVER.—IietWeeII two and
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon a girl 17 or 18 years
of age, fashionably attired, and who afterwards gave
her name as Martha Sheppard, leaped from the top of
the balustrade of the bridge over the Serpentine, in Hyde
Park, into the water. It appears that she had been
seen walking about the locality for a long time pre.
viously, and attracted the attention of police-constable
Atchouse, who was on duty in the park. About the
time mentioned she went on to the bridge, and walking
towards the centre mounted on the parapet. The con.
stable suspected her intention, and as he commenced
running towards her she leaped into the water. When
falling, • her dress, which had a large hooped crinoline
skirt underneath, expanded to its full dimensions, and
she came upon the water like a balloon, floating there
for several minutes. The constable procured • buoy
belonging to the Royal Humane Society, which he
threw out to her, and, seising it as she began to sink,
she was safely drawn to the side. Upon recovering the
power of speech, the first use she made of it was to
abuse the constable soundly for having rescued her,
adding that she wished she had been drowned before
any one saw her, as she had no desire to live. Having
sustained no material injury beyond • good ducking she
was removed to the nearest police station in the custody
of the constable. Her clothes are of • superior kind,
and among other female ornaments she had suspended
from her neck a gold watch and chain. She stated that
she was a lady's-maid out of a situation, and subsequent
inquiries ascertained in what family ebe bad last resided,
and that her present residence was in Hassan-street,
Soho. She declined to state what motive induced her to
jump into the water, as pecuniary distress had evidently
nothing to do with it.

Tan LIEVILTHAN.—ProbsbIy ere this meets the eye of
many of our readers the monster will be moved to her
appointed station within spring tide low water mark.
Before dinner time Tuesday nearly 20 feet was *mom-
plMhed in an almost oontinuous movement of short slips
of one and two inches at • time. After dinner further
progress was adjourned till high water at 11 o'clock
-Wednesday, when the remaining 15 feet to the bottom
of the launching ways was expected to be aocomplished.
It has however, been, definitely decided that she will
not be pushed further down towards the centre of the
river beyond the ways than she was on Friday, which
will enable her to float at the date first anticipsted, the
31st inst. At high tide Tuesday she had nearly eight feet
water under her keel, and for the first time Captain
Harrison, with Mr. Brunel's young son in his boat,
rowed round her amid the cheers of the workmen.
During the whole of Tuesday none of the hydraulic
proms registered more than 15 cwt. pressure to the
inch, and on many occasions when the Leviathan Blipped
the pressure was below even this moderate amount, In
fact, so mildly did she move that half the workmen at
the presses were quite unemployed; and in the warm
of Tuesday evening nearly WO were discharged. During
Wednesday only half the hydranlicswere used, and it was
anticipated that even this reduced number would move
her down in about an hour, so as to be finally hauled
off into the river by Trotnian's anchors. She will re-
main off the yard for some time hoisting in funnels, fix-
ing the fans of the propeller, &c, Thgnew main peddle.
shaft has arrived at the yard. It is • wonderful piece
of forging, being all in one piece, and weighing upwards
of 32 tons. Among the visitors to the yard on Tuesday
were the Duchene cl'Orleans the Comte de Paris, and
the Dun de Nemours and attendants. On Thursday, a
short time before the tide had reached Its highest, three
of the hydraulic machines aft and three forward were
set to work to move the vessel nearer down the ways.
She moved in quick short slips with the utmost cue, the
guises of the few hydraulic machines in use seldom
averaging more than 10 cwt. to the inch, and each slip
taking place at short intervals and with an almost total
absence of vibration. In a comparatively short time a
distance of 13 feet aft and 3 feet flinches forward was
accomplished, the after part showing such • tendency to
slide away on the least pressure that it was Impossible
to regulate the ship's movements with the same relative
accuracy as heretofore. De tide gave about 12 feet of
water under her fore aniPlift ; the anaotmt required to
float her being 14 feet 9 inches. It waa intended
yeaterclay (Monday) to push as far down the ways, or
even off' the ways as the hydraulic machines can send
her, and thus leave her to the certain action of the
great springs of the 31st inst.

THE LATE EARL 07 WINCHILBEA.—We have to
announce the deoease of the Earl of Winchilsea and
Nottingham, an event which happened on the Bth inst.,
at Haverholme Priory, near Bleaford, Lincolnshire, in
the 67th year of his age. The deceased peer, the Right
Hon. George William Finch-Hatton, tenth Earl of
Winchilsea and fifth Earl of Nottingham, Viscount
Maidstone, and Baron Pinch of Daventry in the Peerage
of Great Britain, and a baronet, was the elder of the
two sons of the late Mr. George Finch-Hatton, of East-
well-park, near Ashford, Kent, by the Lady Elizabeth
Mary Murray, eldest daughter of David, second Earl of
Mansfield, and was born at Kirby, Northamptonshire,
May 22, 1791. He succeeded to the estates and the
honours of the peerage on the death of his cousin,
George, ninth earljunmarried, August 2, 1826, and
from that time to the present was most steady in his
votes in support of the Conservative body in the House
of Peers. He was snore particularly noted as being
nearly the only English nobleman who was willing to
identify himself with the semi religious position of the
Orange party in the north of Ireland, and most of our
readers Iwill remember his invectives against O'Connell
and his incessant assaults on the College of Msynooth
and the system of education therein pursued, which he
was in the habit of denouncing in terms little short of
frantic, and for the entire overthrow of which be
laboured, if not wisely, at least most strenuously and
heartily. The duel which he fought with the late Duke
of Wellington on the occasion of the change which came
over the opinions of that statesman as to the necessity
of some concession to the claims of the Roman Catholic
body, and to the general clamour for their emancipa-
tion from political disabilities, operated to the disad-
vantage of Lord Winohilsea in the so-called religious
world-, and though he occasionally took the chair at some
of the May meetings, effectually
prevented him from
becoming a leader in that circle which has it. centre in
Exeter Hall. The late Earl of Winchilsea was • man
whom, in one sense, all must respect. His conduct WaS
consistent with itself from first to lark, and his motives
were pure and irreproachable ; and no temptations of
office, or power, or titles would ever have induced him
to compromise them in the slightest degree. In person
Lord Winchilsea was tall and stout • his face was round
and animated, with a pleasant and dignified expression;
his complexion was dark, his hair black, and the features
small and regular; and when the next debate on the
Maynooth question comes on in the lamer House there
will be many who will look about in vain forth, once
familiar features of the stanchest opponent of the ob-
noxious grant.

THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY' Smavrons.--Chi Sunday
evening the second of the Westminster Abbey services
for the working classes was performed in the nave of
the old building. The nave was densely crowded by an
attentive congregation, but it was not composed to any
great extent of working men in the common aomptation
of the term. Full choral service was performed, the
lessons being read by the Very Rev. Richard Clienevix
Trench, 8.D., the Dean of Westminster. The preacher
of the evening was the Rey. Lord John Thynne, one of
the canons of the Abbey and sub-Dean. He selected
for his text the second verse of the second chapter of the
Prophet Habakkuk,—"Write the vision and make it
plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it."
The clear voice of the preacher was heard perfectly
throughout the building, and not • word was lost upon
the congregation. He commenced his discourse by
stating that the Abbey had been thrown open for the
fourth time on a Sunday for the purpose of making
known the Gospel of peace to all xhoee who were
inclined to receive the message which the Lord who
came to redeem them had sent for their comfort and
enlightenment through life. It was the earnest hope
and desire of himself and the other ministers who were
to take part in the services that the message should be
freely accepted by those who had no opportunities of
attending church at other times. He then proceeded to
say that there were four great truths which it was meo.
tial for man to receive and believe :-1. That there was
within us a spirit called a soul, which was immortal,
and which, when the body perished, must return to God
who gave it. 2. That being unhappily corrupt by na-
ture, through the fall of our first parents, man has no
good will of his own, and was dependent upon God to
supply him with it. S. That man could not make satis-
faction and atonement for past sins, and that he could
be restored to favour and aeeeptanoe only through the
merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, who died for his
redemption; and 4. That having the means and the
opportunity of observing what the mill of God is it be-
came his duty to walk according to His commandments.
Having dilated upon these pointe, which contained, be
said, the fundamental truths of the Gospel, he con-
eluded an eminently practical sermon with an earnest
exhortation to his hearers to abandon sin and to lead s
religious life. The benediction was then pronounced,
and the congregation dispersed after listening to the
Hallelujah Chorus,

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