The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-22 00:00:00

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THE ATLANTIC TELEGIAPH.—On Monday last, •
deputation waited upon Lord Palmerston, to lay before
him the plans of the route of the intended line of
telegraph to America, rid the Faroe Islands, Iceland,
and Greenland, and to aak the government to dispatch
two or more vessels to make soundings and otherwise to
survey the intended route. Lord Palmerston said
before he could grant what the deputation required he
must perfectly understand in what form they would
require government assistance. He should therefore he
glad if he could be informed in writing what ships would
I be necessary, and the time they would probably be
occupied. The matter should then receive his attention.
pletia'srlND CRUELTY TO A CHILD.— At the Derby
Police Court, on Wednesday, Janie* Thacker, a cabman
and his wife, were charged with certain acts of cruelty
to Mary Thacker. aged six years, daughter of the male
defendant by • former marriage. The chief constable
visited the defendants' house, when he found the child
tied up with • rope to the baek ull a their, and crying.
tristeies be found a small quantity of filthy bay and
straw in a bask room, and the child said they made
her lie on it regularly. In the front room was a bed, I
in which the defendant and his wife slept, and also two
children that belonged to the female defendant. The
child said she had nothing but bread given her, whilst
the other two children had bread and dripping and
coffee tregularly. Mr. Hilton added that the male
defendant admitted he first tied the child up, but that
after he had gone the female defendant had fastened the
rope much tighter. The other two children, who are by
the present wife, are properly cared for, and Rent to
school, whilst the complainant in this case was kept
locked Up at home. The female defendant—l am sorry
I went to work without releasing her. Mr. Pegg—You
are a cruel, brutal woman. Mr. Hilton--The neighbours
inform me that the child has been so starved that she
has been in the habit of picking up food out of swill
tuba. The defendants were remanded until Wednesday.
Several women gave evidence as to the brutal manner
in which the child had been treated. The bench COlO-
- both prisoners to ail months' imprisonment,
each with hard labour.
11.010TAL or WNSTSTNHTER SCHOOL.—A meeting of
" old Westminster*" was held on Wednesday to Con-
sider whether it would not be judicious to remove the
school. The number of scholars shows a decline. Thirty
or fo.ty years ago there were 300 or 400 boys ; now the
school dors not coutain more than 150. This is purely
to be attributed, it is said, by the advocates for the
removal, to the indisposition of parents to send their
children to • school no longer on the outskirts but in
the heart of • great town. Opposed to this is the
opinion of those who think that to change the site of
the school would be to violate the Milli° Foci, and
destroy those associations connected With the position of
the PCllOOIon classic ground under the shade of the Abbey.
This was the question which the meeting assembled to
discuss. The Dean of Westminster, the Dean of Christ
Church. the Dean of Trinity, the Head master of West-
minster. and the Bishop of St. Asaph, expressed theme-
selves favourable to the removal. Sir David Dundee and
• Lord Broughton were opposed Wit, and begged fur time to
I consider the matter. Sir JUDOS Graham also pleaded
• for delay, and the result was that the meeting was ad.
jonrned till Wednesday, the 13th of June. Lord Ebnry
r proposed that the school should be recast into • middle-
class day school; but this suggestion was unfavourably
received.