The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

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Captaii; Of the corps and to the colonel of the
" solemnly protecting" against the performance, and urg-
ing them to stop it. The reply of the captain is that he
does not feel justified in interfering with any performance
of individual members of the corps, who, being off parade,
Ire beyond his control.

HPATH OP THE Pft-lIHER.—We regret to state that
Lord Palmerston is again suffering from his old enemy
the gout. The malady has attacked his lordship in the
hand, mid is of such a stubborn nature as to necessitate
his remaining a close prisoner at Cambridge House.
The Eleven of England were to play at Sydney,
Ballarat, and Castlemaine in Pnbrnary, and about the
26th ultimo commence their journey hone. It
is said that as they cannot have a benefit match they
will receive a monetary teatiinonial, which has been
headed by the governor, Sir H. Barkly, with 100
guineas. _ .

Two females died from starvation and exposure at about
seven o'clock on Wednesday in the street, within a
hundred yards of each other, in Whitechapel, London.
PRETENDED CONFESSION OF THE ROAD MURDER.—
On Friday evening a person of respectable appearance
is reported to nave committed suicide by jumping from
Waterloo-bridge. Shortly before 9 o'clock the man
passed from the Middlesex side through the turnstile.
On reaching the recess he jumped hastily on the
parapet, and leaped into the water. Three persons,
who s‘ere at the time near the spot, raised an alarm,
but the man had disappeared. In the recess was found
a common cloth cap, and in it a letter, of which the
following is a copy, verbatim et literatim :—" To the
Govenor of Nuget.—Dear Sir,—l beg of you to read my
reched life which I ave this nite, Friday, put a end to.
remits yonr onner will reember of the Road murder
wich took place about Al 3 months Back. So I rite to
you Sir to itiforinc you that I was one wo don this awful
murder wicli I hope to be forgiyin. About 4 years ago
I took to gambling and got in det ended t,o go away in
the country where I done the fearful deed, and then
coin to London which I aye lived in misery. I ave
nothing to say for mot I don this awful deed for, for I
was quite a stranger to the ole family. I ave nothing
f urther to my, as my feelings will not allow me to say any
moor only that the way I ave put a end to my life is I ave
fling myself of the Waterloo Bridge. Yours respect-
fully, WIL MOOR. I have no freinds. But a uncul
who is in Frence who this I would fane map from him."
On the outside was the following superscription:—"To
the Govenor of Nuget. The proofe of the Road
Murder. To be given to a Pleats Man. I have
thrown myself of the bridge." The body has not yet
been recovered. The police attach no importance to
he alleged confession.—Obserrer.
RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILWAT VAN.—A
remarkable example was on Tuesday afforded of the com-
bination of power and celerity to be witnessed in the
great workshops that turn oat the wonderful machinery
of locomotion with which, within a few years, the
world has become familiar. Mr. John Aelibury, the
famous carriage builder, at Openshaw, near Manchester,
had invited a number of friends and Competent inspectors
to visit his extensive works, not only to view the many
interesting operations of manufacture that are being
constantly repeated there, but specially to observe the
progress and completion, within twelve hours, of a large
covered railway waggon, built of East India Moulmein
teak, and of which the construction (even as to each of
its various elements except the springs) actually began
on Tuesday morning, at a quarter-past seven o'clock,
from the timber in the log state and the cast iron in
the "pig," end was finished in every detail by thirty-
five minutes after six the same evening. At 7,15 a. in.
the saw mill commenced operations, and all the timber
required for the wagon was cut from the logs and deals
in forty-three minutes. Simultaneously, In the metal
department, the forge had begun its business with the
pig-iron. The planing, tennoning, mortising, and
boring of the timber began at 7.24 a.m., and ended at
10.10, or in two hears forty-six minutes. The whole
of the wrought-iron required, vie., the axles, the tire
bars, the round, square, and flat iron, was finished in
the forge at one o'clock. All four wheels of the
carriage were entirely of wrought-iron, and wheels of
this description often take about twice as long in pre-
paration as the common ones. As fast as the pieces
were finished in the forge they Were taken in the
smiths' shop were the work began at 10.30. and came
to an end at 2.45. The screwing of the bolts and nuts
was begun at 10.45, and ended at one. The beginning
of the turning-work took place at 11.50 in the fore-
noon, and everything in this department was finished
at 6.16 p.m. The body of the carriage was varnished,
and the vehicle was quite complete, as before said at
6.35, or in eleven hours and twenty minutes from the
commencement. The workmanship is pronounced to
be in every respect unexceptionable. The body of the
carriage is 16 feet long, by 8 feet in width.

TEM AGRICULTURAL PREBB.--It seems the farmers
are no less alive than other classes of the community to
the advantages of a cheap newspaper. It is only twelve
months since the first penny farmers' paper—Thorley's
Ayrieultural Gleaner, was begun, and now we observe
that it halt taken up a new abode at 145, Fleet Street,
London. This is made necessary, we arc informed, by
the very great increase of its circulation and the conse-
quent necessity of having a eentral publishing office.

A WOMAN IN MAN'S CLOTHING FOR SIX YKARB.
On Thursday a woman dressed as a inan was charged
before the Manchester city magistrates with annoying
the landlady of a lodging-house in that city, by creating
a disturbance and threatening to beat another woman
named Sarah Jone' s with whom the prisoner had been
living as husband. The prisoner's 01,318 is Ann ki'Gaul,
alia4 Ann Hughes, aims John Jones. It appeared that
she bad dressed as a. inan and passed as one for the last
six years, in order to earn 24. 6d. a day at man's work,
instead of Is. a day at woman's. Ou one occasion the
prisoner had slept four nights with the lodging-house
keeper's son, owing to shortness of room in the "esta-
blishment," without the sex being discovered. For a
time also she had worked as bankaman in • oolliery.
Her own account was that she came from Gilmosa, and
that she had no clothes but those she stood in. She
was discharged on promising net to repeat the annoy-
ance to the landlady, but had to be kept in the dock
awhile to protect her from being mobbed outside the
court.

PRESENT OF AN ELEPHANT TO THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
—A letter from Java states that among the animals to
he brought to Europe by the Prussian vessel of war, the
Elbe, now on a voyage to the East, is a young elephant,
which is to be presented to the Crown Princess of
Prussia, by Sir Robert Schomburgh, Her Majesty's
consul at Fangkok, in Siam. The animal is extra-
ordinarily time, and lathe pet of the whole crew. In
hsrbour and in good weather be is allowed to ramble
about the deck, on which oecasions the men indulge in
eserciee in equestrian style by mounting his back. He
has also been taught many tricks, /*that when he arrives
at the Zoological Gardens at Berlin he is likely to be
the lion of the season. The Elbe will also bring a great
number of other animals for the 881110 gardens.

Tea PMINCE or WALE.—Mesera Masi, Elliott, &Co.
have receiveo the following telegram, dated Alexandria,
27th :—The Prince of Wales leaven for Jaffa and the
Holy Land on Friday. The Viceroy ill. No political
news.