The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

ehe late Si. filanfta, Stn., esq.

There is • word we 13 ate to speak, a thought I
we dread to think of—a thing at which we shud-
der. our writers give it hard names, our painters
sombre colours, and we reserve the saddest types I
as emblems to represent it. That word, and
thought, and thing ; as natural as the
fall of ripening and as certain as the
1 setting sun. Be so natural and so certain, what
maker us shun it When Meths's biographer
remarked to him that death was a terrible evil,
the quick perception of the man replied, "act so,
for it is comeson." He spoke • splendid truth;
bemuse it is the lot of all—bemuse by that one
gateway God has decreed that all that live shall
peas to the eternal. We know and may proclaim
that it is good. Over that gateway, common
to everyone around ea, there is written for none
the awful sentence of hopelessness. Pride may
will through it to be bumbled; bigotry to
learn God; avarice to be weaned to wealth of
which it never dreamed; crime to be purified,
and surely to be punished; and the
in spirit to their deserved reward.
tint, because all must peas it. all
may pass hopefully, the Infinite Love has
not pronounced one great sentence of terror
upon every soul that it has made. Always,
indeed, death most be repugnant to the instincts
of our physical nature. We should not preset m
our existences, and thee work out our anat. d
labours, if we saw the loveliness of the Woe of
that Valley of the Shadow, instead of its gloourr
game. Hut as we me only the latter, ems it
through faith, the realm of mortality is still
subjected to an absolute fear. If the sun oi
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To what a height mi;ht not a people rise. which
should grasp the full meaning of chrtstianity,
and leave the life of fear for the life of lore?
With what an assured calm should we
not regard the ratting away of our
most endowed ones, reposing in Him who gave
and took, to give again,
and yet more graciously
than before Death itself is no great physical
agony, and as science helps nature it will more
and more occur as the painless dissolution of site
in any but the severest, it has little to daunt
the sinking swum Medical authoriies have
long assented to the observations of Pliny, that
many deaths were comparatively painless, and
some, even, unaccompanied with an absolute
pleasure, which leaves on the pallid visage a last
and beautiful spilt,. The thought of death—
the c'oeing of the eyes as if in sleep, the with-
drawing of the senses from this outward world—
is solemn, is pathetic, is disquieting ; but not
horrible but to the guilty. What is horrible is
what we have added to these things—not ft om the
lessons we have learned from the Inspired Word.
To the end of time we must grieve, of
course, to go for we have all friends we would
newer part with, pursuits we would never relin-
quish, sins we have never repented of as we could
wish. But being to go, and to let go, shall we
own the universal goodness of God in life, and
disown it in death Shall we render ghastly,
what is not worse than a thing against our will,
forgetful that we are children, and He is
Father?
We have been lid into this train of thought
by the death of one who stood in immediate
relationship—that of father—to the proprietor
of this journal. William Manfield, sen., Esq.,
was born October 10th, 1796, and died, in the
67th year of his age, on Saturday last, July the
1103. In his lest momenta he was resigned and
peaceful. and it was not known that he had
ceased to live till it was ascertained that he had
ceased to breathe. The deceased, who was nephew
of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, was
for many years known in Dorset and
the adjoining counties as a solicitor of
rare ability. Be was the !senior partner of the firm
of Idanfield and Andrews till about siz years since,
when declining health induced him to relin-
quish the profession of which be had
long been one of its brightest ornaments, to
spend the remainder of his days in that pesos and
quietude which was always to be found within
the limits of his family circle. Among
the Tarim, offices he was celled upon to fill was
that of chief magistrate of the borough of Dorchester,
and no better proof could be given as to the ability
with which he acquitted himself than that of the
Town Council unanimously wishing him to occupy
that high position a wood time. ibis, however.
he refused to do, finding that fading health and
strength would prevent his discharging the various
dais", pertaining to that office with the seal and
ability which had ever characterised all his under-
takings. Up to the time of his death, however, he
retained the office of senior alderman of his native
town; and as great an interest did he cm-
Onus to feel for its prosperity, that although
exceedingly feeble, be attended the last meeting
of the Town Council, and took part in its dehato.
His thorough knowledge of all public matters made
him a most valuable member of the Corporation, and
the vacant seat at the Council Board which his
death has mimed, will not be easily refilled. His
bones', honourablcand rtraiehtforward conduct in all
the affairs of life gamed him the approval of All such as
loved to walk by the golden rule of "doing as
you wonld have others do to you;" while as an ad-
viser be might ever be relied on; as a friend he was
most sincere; and as • landlord ever kind and in-
dulgent. To say that he had no faults would be to
assert that he was more than mortal, but his failings
were those of the heed not of the heart. Beloved
in life, he will be truly lamented in death by a large
circle of friends; but though the heart be lacerated
in parting, they will nevar cams to think and talk
of him, bolding to the memory of his good deeds is
the pledge which weans to us • reunion in the
"blessed future."

On Thursday last two celebrities dads their
appearance in Basinghall Court of Bankruptcy.
The illustrious Colonel Petrie Wangh—who
might have stood for the original of Dickens's
"Montague Trigg," and who having begun with
nothing, determined to disprove the old saying
of Penni., "(jut of nothing, nothing can come,"
and so became possessed of large sums of money
belonging to other people —i,es one of the heroes
on the unillustrious stage. The colonel wanted
his discharge from custody, but the commissioner
“couldn't see it." and the gallant and ingenbus
officer wasonropelled to return tobis prison tospend
these hot days in durance vile. The other hero was
one who possessed a name even more famous than
that of Colonel Petrie Wanglt This was none
other than Emmanuel Chules Lou a Prince
Godny, the grandson of the celebrated Godoy,
"Prince of Peace," to whom the weak-minded
Charles IV. of Spain surrendered all but the
name of regal power. The deecendan'a of the
man who ruled a kingdom is now detained in a
sponging house, and has sued for an adjudica-
tion in bankruptcy.
The Glasgow murder case has again been
largely discussed in the Glasgow papers. It
appears that Mrs. M'Lachlan—having so far pros-
pered in her "fourth statement" respecting the
murder of Jeanie Macpherson, that the Home-
office had ordered an inquiry before Mr. Young—
was being inconveniently questioned one day by
her agent, Mr. Dixon. when it seems to have
occurred to her that she might treat her own
lawyer with more confidence than hitherto. She
parried his question, answered hesitatingly, was
excited, and, at last, after more hesitation, said
abruptly, with an hysterical laugh—" Well, I
may just well tell yo—that the auld man
(meaning ailing) wasn't there at a'." Mr.
Dixon, i usd of taking the hint, urged on her
flatly ti .:, therefore, she was the murderess.
She meant to admit that indirectly: urged to
admit it directly, she did so in her own way by
the ready invention of a circumstantial lie that
set up • now theory, on which, although sho
alone was the murderess,she was entirely guiltless
in the act, which she but very dimly remembered,
and whit* was committed under circumstances
invented by her with the usual minuteness—
she was under the influence of laudanum.
"She bad no remembrance of any quarrel
or any except • confused recollection of
Jessie crying "Jessie! Jessie! What are you
doing And that she, Mrs. M'lAchlan, was
creeping about in the dark on her h aids and
knees somewhere—she did not know where. ,
After that she had no recollection whatever,
till she found the body in the morning." But
the effect of her confidence, even with all this
softening detail, proved unsatisfactory. Mr.
Dixon talked of doubting whether he could
continue to set for her, and she at once
retracted everything she had said ; begged
that he would tell nobody, not even the
other agents, and she, he says, was advised
by him, that "so long as her fate was in
suspense she ought to keep her own counsel."
From that time Mr. Dixon had no doubt what-
ever of her guilt; but now that her life is spared
and her imprisonment for life certain, he has
spoken out; and the murderess has been urged.
on the faith of it, to do justice to the Flemings.
She, however, refuses to do this, and positively
denies that she ever made any such statement
to Mr. Dixon.

DORCHESTER. PITCHED CORN MARL!?,
Saturday. July IL—Attendance small, and but
very little business transacted, at barely last week's
quotation,.
Ma. Resoles RIPMIITORY SALL Saturday. July 11.—
F tlasaiit and sheep in inialerata supply. Trade not quite
so brioli as at previous salsa, in consaitsenea of the very
',arm but genial "reviler. Beef realise4 10s. Bd. to
Its. 6.1. per acne.; mutton. 7.1. to 70. per lb.;
barrenars from £lO to £l4. S ono very prune fat heifers
from the celebrated herds of Mr. Grove.. of Bowood.
and Mr. Bridge, were disposed of at from Ell to 123
each.

Tits Wsteuts.—The reeding of the therssometer
at Dorchester for the put week is as follows:

State of
Westbar.

Fine.
Gloomy, fine.
Fine, cloudy.
Finn
Fine.

cloudy.

Rain, fair.
Rain.
FURL
Rain.
Gloomy.
Overcoat min.
Stormy.

Calcium Oa Thursday • rosteh took plain
between eleven member' of the Dorchester Cricket
nub and • like number of the B Battery of Hovel
Horse Artillery, on the pound of the former. The
ground was in firm-rate trim, and the weather all that
miubl be desired, although iestremely warm. The Dor-
cheater. Club proved the winners, beating their opponent.
by 46 rune. Mr. Yeereley, of dm Antelope Hotel, catered
on the 0011•Si011. Tne following the snore :

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