The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

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Ycovrt. Rifle Corp.. The members of the
Yeovil Rifle Corps continue their drill steadily.
The field they now drill in is situate in hack
Kingston. Sonic of the members practice the band.
hog of guns in contemplation of shortly receiving
the government rides. After drill the corps generally
marches to the Borough, where the men, are di..
missed. The band is being trained, and its public
performances are an xieuel y look forward to.
W RATH KR. —Prayers for tine weather were offered
up here on Sunday week. It is much to be hoped
that a change will soon take place in the weather,
or the consequence must be that crons of all kinds
will be most severely damaged, if not spoilt.
Fortunately the wheat crops are not so forward in
this neighbourhood as they were last year at this
time ; consequently the injuries sustained by these
crops from the unseasonable state of the weather are
not at present so great as might he expected.
Bonouon Poi.ice, Monday 25th.—(Be(ore Robt.
Tucker. Esq., (Mayor) and J. R. Mayo, Esq.)—
John (Mord, of Hardington, described as a navvie,
was brought up in custody charged w ith being
drunk and assaulting P.C. Penny, at 12.30 on
Saturday night, 23rd ult. P.C. Penny said at the
hour and night in question he was on duty. He
heard a person coming down Henford bill cursing
and swearing. He went to him and found it sas
the prisoner, whom he persuaded to go home
quietly ; but instead of taking the constable's
advice, the prisoner struck at him, and tried to
throw him down. Penny found he was drunk, sail
took hini into custody. The Bench tined prisoner
10s. including costs, which was immediately (mid.
W RUA.- 7he Weather (I ml 'raps. —Gross cutting
has been commenced by several in the neighbourh mod
of Wells, and should the present unsettled state of
the weather soon clear up, a good hay harvest may
be anticipated, as the grass crop is most abundant.
The wheat is very late, and looks altogether un-
healthy, and it is feared that under the most favour-
able eireunistances there will not be an average yield.
Peans and beans are at present looking very until'.
feresitly, particularly the former, which in many
cases appear to have lost their verdant appearance
for a sickly light yellow hue. Potatoes as yet ap-
pear to have suffered little, beyond lateness, from the
unfavourable weather. The excessive rains, how-
ever, will ultimately sow the seeds of disease in
the plant, and a sound crop of tubers cannot be
expected.

NV INCA NTON.—Poor Lam Medical Rel.!f.— A ques-
tion of considerable importance to the medical profes-
sion and to the public generally,is now being agitated
here with reference to the appointment of a district
medical officer. It appears that in one of the districts
of this union, for the last three or four years, the sick
Poor have been annually placed in charge of an officer
qualified by law to practice medicine only. This
year new rules and regulations have been issued by
the Poor Law Board, stating that after the !bet day
of if mob last "No person shall be qualified to be
appointed to the office of medical officer, unless he
shall be registered as directed by the Medical Act of
1658. and shall be qualified by law to practice both
medicine and surgery iu England and Wales." Not•
Withstanding this requirement the officer qualified to
practice medicine only, applied to be continued in

office, and a new candidate, also resident in the die- 1 WINcIIESTEL-71/4e A rehdecoonry of Wintite.err.
triet, and potscssing all the legal qualifications r,e,f-
-e—deTviaTioniniiii("trht7'l.'e:;l.liJ".' 'r.‘lll"6l,7radtuvatocalthebs):
mitred. applied fur the ullice. A large majority atter
the Guanhans are desirous of continuing, Ilochm.ter, has been conferred on the Rev. Caniti
the services of the candidme priifiing the 011 e I •i•!., rectorof Crawiey, and exaininingchap-
qualification only, awl the iniloi:lty for appointing I lsin id the Leril Ilishop of the Diocese.
the new candidate possessing The qin.,t ion is • roluotc,r Itifie roe), —The 11th
therefore fairly rail between the two candidates, Haiiii.shire Volunteers appeared in uniform for the
the mires:sant. and the palilie, and rt.ren.“l by the first iinie on Tnewlay evening. and marched froni
Guardians to the Poor Law Board for 1eg..1 decision. . the Townhall to their customary place of drill (Mr.
CREWKERN E.—Gram mut !!!!!! vers.iry 'l'!,e corps has attained a creditable state of
of this school, and the emno 11 examiesieni mil 111 S. ,!:i in the movements of an ordinary tiara 'e.
tribution of prizes toik .:11 Thu. ..lay last. The 410 evening they presented their instructors,
sermon nas preached by the Hey. If. C. Gazele), Ser„;ealit Newland and Assistant-Sergeant
rector of WaYford, who selected for his . text the wita a handsome lever wabl and silver-topped
:12nil verse of the xvii. chapter of the Acts of the I cane, on each of which a suitable incription was en•
Apostles. On the conclusien of the service, the graved, as a parting testimony of esteem. Sergeant
public examinatien took place in the school.rooni, l'hompson will instruct the corps in the use and
which was gracefully decorated with flowers. The practice of the rille.
report of the examiner, the Ilev. .1. 11. S. Eaton, The first meeting of the Tytherley Archery Club
fellow and tutor of Merton colloge, Oxford. was then took place on Friday week, and, owing to the
read by the clerk to the (coffees. It gave a very weather being fine, it was well attended. The
cheering account of the progress of the boys in the meeting was originally fixed for the previous TUCK-
various classes. It also bore testimony to the general day, but was postponed nu account :dr the inclement
order and molest good belitivniur of the state of the weather. 'l'l:e lion, secretaries are the
scholars. The prizes having been distributed, Rev. T. H. Tragett and B. IL Linme, Esq.
the Chairman congratulated the master on the sue- ANDOVER. —The A ere.+Nion of Queen rieoria.—
cext of the school, to which Dr. Penny briefly The anniversary of this auspicious event was cele-
replied. The dinner took place at the I leorge I iotel, lirated in this town on Wednesday by the hoisting
11. C. Hunk). .1., of Leigh Home, pi, 41'1111.4. of the At4.13,1..,.i iii O.!TwitCl, hut in consequimee
The natal fo.vis. the " Army alldi NaVy," the of a inimitsiler:itanilingli.Aween the ringers and the
" Warden oinl of the Seined," and vi:rious chi.rel.wardens, the church bells were hot rung.
other toasts, Mehl ling these .if Dr. Penny Rini Mrs. nut.- -A third attempt was male on the 2.lth
I'. tummy were ilraek, awl the company separated, tilt. to destroy the farm buildings adjoining the
expressing nowir plea:wire with the ilay's pr.:cue:hags. Queen Charlotte Inn, by fire, and the barn, wagon-
ItHilmWaTen.- NeErOW Boope ty. Tom f; rifrhs. sheds, stable, and the whole if the outbuildings were
—The gallant Tom 11rilliths, holder of the lloyal entirely consumed. liii believed to be the cowardly
Humane Society's Medal for saving eighteen lives, act of an incendiary, ss the Iniffilinge were on lire
had a narrow escape from death by drowning at the commencement in two different places, 50 or
on &Imlay night week. Ile was engaged on 60 yards apart. A mail. named Poore, a tarter, in
that evening piloting the Chard, of this port, up the the employ of Mr. :Mandl (the occupier of the pre-
river Parrett. About 111 o'clock, when the vessel mises), um arrested on the spot, en suspicion of
was wane distance down the stream, her " heel" being concerned in the outrage.
grounded. The tiller was thrown violently Mond
by the accident, and struck Toni a tremendous blow
on the ribs, hurling hint overboard. It was exceed:
ingly dark at the time, and neither the crew of the
Chard, nor the hauliers in the boats in advance,
could offer the pilot much aa-istance. For a moment
or two Griffiths remained nob r water, the stroke lie
had received having, to me an expressive vulgar
Phrase, "knocked the wind ont of him." He wain
recovered, however, aacended to the surface, and
answered the I 1 cries of the men on board the
Chant by requesting them to go ahead, promising
soon to fellow. He swam to shore, and overtook
the ship a mile nearer Bridgwater. Tow treats his
grave mishap with characteristic indifference, ileelar.
ing his greatest cause ter regret to be, that it damped
and spoiled an unopened twe-ounce package a
t Mace., he happened to have in his pocket at the
time of his unceremonious iininersi tttt .

WRECK OF THE "MALABAR."

The Jlalabur, with the two A iiiliawiadors of France and
England, Baron tiros and Lord Elgin, on board, bar
1,:olaC down in the harbour of tlalle. The lives of all on
im.r4 :ma the nails were aavial, but beyond this the
calamity went* to have been complete.
The following account of the disaster reaches us from
Galle

At noon on Sunday the 10th of May, Lord Elgin and
Heron Gros landed, from the Simla, under salutes from
the hattery, on A visit to Sir Henry Ward, who bad
arrived from Colombo to receive them. Some 2110 yards
within the moorings of the Simla lay the Malabar, on
hosed which beat they were next day to embark for China.
Both vessels were announced to start at noon, but so
great was the swell that the specie and cargo could only
be transhipped with much difficulty. The Helaine!'
departure was therefore postponed until 2 p.m.
The worn ing of Tuerolay broke dark, murky, and threat-
ening. Heavy muses of cloud were drifting up from the
south-west, and soon after day-light the squalls became
most violent, accompanied by a deluge of rain. Only
those who have witnessed tlci first burst of the . .11'0011
can form an idea of As terrible force. The wind hl we
in frightful gusts and in bouquets of aquans. Then
comes • lull. The tempest takes breath--reeufer poor
minix ouster. After each of these intervals the 9110115
increase in intensity, and the rain ilesoinds as though
the whole heavens were opened into one sluice. The
thunder bellows, real after peel, and the lightning is
blindingly vivid. Such a morning WU that of the 22m1,
when the Simla and Malabar lay aide by site in the
open roadstead facetiously called Gallo harbour.

The Malabar had now received all her passengers.
Several lighters, with cargo from the Simla, still re-
mained tumbling and bumping alongside, and it was
clear that we could not start brfore three or four
o'clock. The fires were lighted at half-Nest on-, lint
the attain was not hurried. Meanwhile the win:ills in-
creased in violence and fropiency. and a very heavy
I.IVCII rolled into the (my. In order to explain the acci-
dent whkh produced such disastrous results I must
give you • aketch of the so-called harbour of (hilly.
Calle liarbour t., formed by a bar Or inlet, about three
ini;es wide at tlie mouth and aiaint a mile snit a half
deep. The_ anchorage is fringed with reefs and rocks on
every side. south, e ist, and west are enormous
boulders or more clangenias hidden reefs. Nome are
reveale.l by the break of the swell. while I.then i are ti.lll
to sixteen feet ler water, and give no eign of ir
existence. TO the south-west angle of, and about tilt
yard* beyond, the anchorage-ground lies the Beluvaka
or Hospital Reef. It is 700 teething and IMO Wille, the
depth of water varying from four feet in the centre
to eighteen on the tail. The rocks are corsl, sharp and
pointed. It Was 00 this reef we struck. The pumos
are aouniled, and give three feet and a half of water
in the after cottomrtment. Five minutes later and
live feet are announced. Our position is most critical,
not a boat alongside, not one of the ship's boats read.-
for launching. Before Us is the hay with its rusting
swell ; at 404 yards distance, the fort, with the
sea dits'ing over the rocks which jut into the water,
and breaking in tremendous spray right against the
parapet wall. The wind still -keeps f the north ;
if it does not shift, hut a few minutes and all will be
over. Hold on by the anchor -let it drag hut six feet
and the engine compartment will be smashed to Mmes.
Let those heavy engines descend with all their weight
on these pointed rocks and our vessel must split in two.
A double danger then awaits us. We shall be blown
Lite the air by collapse of the boilers, or down we shall
g.uusuuuong the sharks and the breakers.
. _

- The at;liiir holds. The squall abates, the wind goes
hack to the south. She swings clear of the reef. But
bow commences a new peril. The after compartments
are filling fast, and she is visibly settling by the stern.
There is seven feet of nester in the hold. Unless steam
be got up, down she must go. stern first, in a very few
minutes. A panic seizes some—happily but a few—of
the iossengers. .A rush is male to the boats. If they
be launched the Lascar crew will refuse to work, and mm
the general rush they wi'l he sunk or stove in. Quietly
sestet! on the poop, Lord Elgin is conversing with his
usual tranquillity. Some few days before our arrival
he remarked to me that Galls was ass unpropitious
lace furl ,an there he first heard the news of the
Indian mutiny in 1857. " Atoll 01,11.4" was my reply ;
but in the vety height of the crash, amid the howling
wind and the hissing sea. he asks if 1 reiminber what lie
told ins about 1415. Baron Gros nobly seconds his
culloague. He is cool and collected as though walking
on the Boulevards; and England and France were
never more worthily represented than by their two
Ambassadors, who net an example to every one.
A ru 1111 l ur is spread that the captain is going out to
sea. In truth, that was his first idea. The vessel is
provided with powerful pumps, which con only be
worked when the engines are going. There is no room
in the harbour to steer ahead. anil the captain trusts lie
can keep her afloat outside with the pumps, and so SAVO
ship and cargo. All hope is XOOll tmstroyeul h.y the
Larful rapidity with which the water rises. The chief
engineer rushes on deck. " In the name of God, captain,
don't proceed to sea ; we are in a sinking state. Beach
hr at once !" But the rumour gains ground, and some
of the passengers pesler Lord Elgin wills vain requests
—" Will not your Lordship order the boat to he
lowered?' " Will you not protest against going to sear'
" Will you not speak to the captain?" Lord Elgin
steadily refuses to interfere with the csptain in the dis-
charge of I.IK duty, but sends Colonel Creslock with a
itur.siige—" Lord Elgin presents his compliments, and
wishes to know if you are oing to sea?" "Going to
sea?--we are going "towng !'
. .

t Still the cry Ili, heave at the anchor r " Cheerily,
wen, cheerily !" They work with a will, and, God he
thanked ! at the first revolution of the engines the
acre. drives her

At length we reached the Nand. Let go the anchors.
She swing*, and the order is given to go astern ; but at
the first revolution the engines are brought up standing.
The broken hawser is 1.01111.1 the screw ! Had it twisted
the other woe we could never have gone ahead. We
veer cable ani.l she is quietly beached on the sand, stern
first. It is high tide. A little longer and the water is
in the engine•rismi.

The ship's boats are now lowered. So great is the
swell that to lie alongside is • work of danger. There
are some twenty vessels in port, but two only send boats.
The first (English) is swamped in the he ivy surf. The
other (Frew+) gets under tb. la.hler and fills, hut the
men are active, and quickly bale her out. Both have
their skippers on hoard. Let their names be recorded
for they well deserve it. The Englishman is Peter
Upton, commanding the hark Waverley, id Newcastle.
The Frenchman i 4 Cli. Messemaccher, tl.pitaine in Long
I.OIM, and his ship is the Paul Auguste. of Dunkirk.
!tut we must return to the wreck, when, all is prepared
fir saving the woolen.
Daring the whole scenc, midst the wildest exciteinent
the lobes behave most ruddy. No shriek is heard, and,
though a few team are shed, there is neither confusion
nor 41.111ay. Ti, get them into the boats is no easy
matter, but happily it is concluded without accident,
one boat receiving them on the starboard, another on
the port quarter. We pull for the jetty, where On.
ambassadors but, sorely shorn of their glory, but hay.
ing shown. under the most trying circumstances, a rare
camomile of courage and stedfsstness.
And now we begin to look shout us and ascertain our
loss. Except the few things which were taken oil shore
the previous night, all is in the hold, 111111 cannot be
macheil. Both Lord Elgin soil Baron Gros have lost
their creilmitisl.s, their instructions, and sll their more
important papers. Li.' Elgin's Orders of the Thistle
Mill the Bath lie ••• full tat! five." Huron Gros is
odium a very considerable MOO lie took out in specie fir
the exiamses of Ili* mission, and a large service of
Plate.
Reshles the bullion, the 311slabar had £lOO.OOO worth
of opiuni on board. The ve*cel itself, which is totally
destroyed, was worth 1:110,000.

ACCIDENT TO THE CoNNAUGHT &MYER.— Accounts
reached Dublin oil Wednesday morning. announcing
that, owing to an explok. am hoard tLel'atinaught, One
of the new steamers destined to ply between I:Away
and America, she Was imaide to proceed on her first
voyage Tuesday. This leas been at severe disappoint-
went to all mirties interested. The mails, however,
will he despatched by the Parana, which fortunately
was in harbour, coaled, and ready for sea. The iiijury
sustsined ley the Connaught is believed to be uf a trifiiug
character.

Tint LivitnPool. PoistiNiNG CaMrs.—An inroent ot
the body of Mrs. Anne James, who in alleged to hove
by antimony, administered to her by
Thomas Wiled low, wan opened un Tomelay, before SD.
F. Curry, the borough coroner. The proceedings were
merely formal, tUlli ..her the jury had viewed the body
the inquent was adjourned till Friday. The corotier
remarked that the cane, v far as he could gat:ier from
the newspaper reporta and from private 110111124,1, wane
which could only be paralleled by the 1110110111ble in,ol
Palmer, and thoae of Dove and Smethurst, of still more
recent occurrence. tie had to doebt that the jnry would
baudow on it that amount of considerate attention which
no important a ease demanded ; for himself, lie should he
prepared to give it every attention in his powor, 1101 he
emiddermi it would be dia.reditable if a cane of audit vital
interevt to the public well.beilg did not receive an airy-
fall and SIJI suctanisful an inquiry 1111 had been beatowed on
the cases to which he had alluded in Staffurdabire. in
Yorkshire, and in London. The inquest was then
adjourned.

ATROCIOUS MURDEIt AND SUICIDE.

Some particulars of a determined suicide in Hyde
Park appeared in the journshi to.. or t!imi days ago, in
which a Frenchman. had comiuitted telf4l,truction by
discharging first two pistols at ilk head, but, failing in
his object, had afterwards cut his throat.
It appesrs that about ten days ago the man, whose
name is Antonio Illiemog, who MIAS about 35 years of
age and a tailor by trade, accompraded by Ilk x ife. a
young woman of 24, name I all
W0111:611, and very good lookint, took a top il,.r at the
11011 M, 3lr. coostioner. Oztord.,treet, tile
.ss. a ..erek. Nothing particular ti:ciirred till
iisturd tot, en which afternoon the man went out, it
is bet evel, to Iwo the volunteer review, and while he
!vii!s. absent tl e murdered woman WAS Wen by Mr.
. . . . . .

Rolland cleaning the stair:. About 9 o'clock at night
the in m returno.l, and having asked for a bottle of
ginger-beer. drank it, and wishing the persons in the
" lught." wont upstairs, nothit,g snore being
seen or Won" of him. It may be here stated that Mr.
!holland only occupies the lower part of the house, the
two interveinng doors being empty.
01. Wednesday, nothing having been seen of the
woman or her husband, Mr. Rolland became rather
uneasy iegar ling them, and was about trying to open the
dour of the room occupi44l by than, •when at that
t a constable and a 'auk-keeper arrived, bringing
news that the man had committed suicide, as above
stated, a letter found on hint loathing to his identifica-
tion. The room door we then burg!. open by the con.
staille, awl :it t f I fat t, presented itself,
for on the d•tor W. 14 the tautly of Ihe wife, stark nakeil,
heatlloat. A ~.ftrell ri•flUt 1 111 r 111111, whi la wos
covered with bites', led to the iii,.oyery of the litol ui
the murdered woman, it having be it thrown in a
cupboard, having previtte.lr been a rali•ed ill a towel,
evidently for the 'turista. of being 4. ttiveyed away. On
an examination of the body, it was found that. attempts
bath beeit made to sever the lug,olell 111111111 d the lour-
tiered WOlll3ll froin her July. There wore several knives
found about the rUOIII, and the place seemed in the
greatest disorder, :mine work of the man's being strewn
about in an unfinished sts4l.4. .

There seems to be very little doubt that the ir.otive of
the man for destroyise; his-victim WAY jealoasy, as it is
otated that he haul told a brother a abort tone oince that
he could otand it no longer, mud on an examination of
his holy on his breast was found pricked in ink,
" Death to an unfaithful woman ;" alit on his arm a
portrait of the Emperor Napoleon, which is stated to be
• good likeness.
_

The laaly of the wan was taken to hfount.-street
Work hout,e, toot that of the .vOllll.ll to St. Jana.%
Workhouse, Polanti-atrvet, where they await the
inquests.