The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-28 00:00:00

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The mortality In New York exceeds that of London
by nearly 100 per cent.
The trial of Mr. T. W. Capron, for an assault on Mr.
Mowbray Morris, of the Tones, has been postponed tin
the next !Middlesex &mime. . .

The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier are said to be
about to quit Seville, and to reside out of Spain.
The Board of Trade have issued • notice to the effect
that, on and after the let of January next, the fees for
depositions of shipmasters taken by receivers under tbe
Merchant Shipping Act will be abolished.
" Harvey's Sauce" was before the Rolls Court last
week. The result was a perpetual injunction to op.
Marshall to cease from selling it, the plaintiff Lazenby,
having established an exclusive right to the popular eon.
diluent. .

In the case of Scully v. Ingram steps have been taken
on the part of the defendant to obtain • new trial, s
motion for which will be made in the ensuing term in
January next.
A meeting of the electors of Rochdale was held on
Wednesday evening week, at which it was formally re-
solved to invite Mr. Cobden to stand for the representa-
tion of that borough ; and • requisition to that gentle.
man obtained nearly 2118 signatures on the spot.
, The Royal Hoapital for Incurables, at Putney, him,
received, by the will of the late Mr. Richard &Jabber-
field, the munificent bequest of £1,500.
A correspondent of the Times proposes to the Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Glasgow merchants to secure
Sarawak by chartering themselves as "The Borneo
Company, limited," after the fashion of the East India
and Hudson's Bay Companies.
The costly silver epergne presented by the city of
Cologne to Prince and Princess Frederick William of
Prussia as a marriage-gift has been stolen. Thieves, ii
yet undiscovered, have succeeded in abstracting it from
the so-called " Ancient Throne-room" of the Royal
sehloss. The original cost of the article was nearly
E 5,000.
M. Ballogh, a Hungarian, asserts that he has managed
to square the circle, and he has just sent copies of his
work on the subject, which contains numerous diagrams,
to the Academies of Science in Vienna and Paris, and
to the beads of the Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford. . . .

A number of gentlemen have organked themselves
into a Geologiods' Association, having for its; apecial
purposes the providing meam". of intercommunication
and help. It is proposed to bold regular meetings ;
to form a inwieum of typical specimens ; 11111 d to
communivate information.
Madame Anna Bishop appeared on Monday night,
the 13th inst., at Exeter Hall. Her reception was moat
enthusiastic.
Rossini, says the Courrier de Paris, having returned
to Paris for the winter, gave • grand =Steal party •
few nights ago, at which four original pieces of his coin.
position were executed. All these produotions excited
the greatest admiration.

A MASTER MURDERED BY MS SLAVE.—OR the 10th
of last September Mr. Thomas Handl-le, an unmarried
man, whose family oonsiated of himself and a few slum,
to whom report says he was exceedingly severe in his
threatening* and chastisements, went to one of hie
fields where he lubd a tobacco barn and where his &lave
Horace was at work. He took with Lim his rifle,
which he sat down by the fence, and called Horace to
suet him ito carry some tobacco into the barn. Hence
displeased him about something, for which he threatened
to shoot him. The aim seeing the rifle standing against
seised it, and as hie muter was going into the
btl,,ierif,ewith
his armful of tobacco he fired at him ; the ball
entered his buck, paused through his body, struck an
object in front of him, and fell to time ground, where it
was found a few day. after. After receiving the shot he
walked in the direction of a creek • the slave followed
him with a handspike, and struck him a severe blow on
the back of the head, then dragged him to the creek,
threw into in, lie being still alive, and piled on him •
quanity of brushwood and immensely large rocks.
Here he was found by his neighbour., when in the Collßis
of a day or two they had become alarmed on acconnt of
his absence, and turned out in search of him. Home
having acted strangely and told conflicting tales about his
master's disappearance, suspicion fell upon him, he was
pinioned and taken to prison ; on his way there he con-
fessed the whole. Dining his trial, which baok pima
few weeks afterwards, lie was defended by able counsel,
but the evidence against him, in addition to his con-
fession of the crime, which the Court would not admit,
was so strange and (*inclusive that he wee found Guilty,
and sentence of death passed upon him. But, not-
withstanding his guilt and the horrid nature of his
crime, there was considerable sympathy manifested for
him n by many in this community, as up to the time of
the murder lie had maintained a good character, and it
wu generally believed that he was provoked to the
oominission of the crime by the treatment he had
received from his master. The only plea he offered
when on trial wax, that he did it in self-defence, hie
master having threatened to shoot him. He wita evi-
dently driven to desperation, and had become entirely
reckless of his own life. He said, when first put in
gaol, that he wished they would take and hang him at
once ; but during the interval between his trial end
execution he calmed down, and, under the instruction
of several ministers who visited him daily, he became
evidently a sincere penitent, and it is believed he
Implieity trusted in the infinite merit of the Saviour for
pardon and salvation. For some time before his execu-
tion lie professed to be very happy in religion, and pre-
pared and even anxious for death. A few hours before
he suffered he received the sacraments of baptism and
the Lord's Sniper, after which the fear of death
appeared entirely removed. When the officers went in
to take him out of the prison he sat down and assisted
in taking off his irons, smiled a time or two at some
remarks made Suring the operation, went out, got into
the wagon, took his sent on his coffin, of which he
teemed to take no notice, shook hands with 1 of
his acquaintances, and passed on through the immense
crowd, surrounded by a guard of 100 armed men,
attended with fife and drum, appearing as free from
fear or perturbation of mind as any one there. After
turning an angle of the road which brought the gallows
in view, his eyes were fixed on it for a few seconds, tint
afterward he seemed to take no further notice of it. He
said to one of time three clergymen who rode in the
wagon with him, that he felt prepared for death,
and lied no desire to live any longer. On arri-
ving at time gallows lie wended the rather difficult
ladder to the platform and took hi is seat without mani-
festing the least trepidstion, or the least effort to keep
from manifesting it. The shwaff having made fast the
rope to the crow-beam, one of time ministers arose and
gave out the hymn in the Methodist hymn-book com-
mencing
Pau a few swiftly-fleeting years."

After the singing of it he lulled on all to unite in prayer.
At the oboes another minister arose, hi Horace had
requested him to do, and delivered his dying exhortation
to his fellowdiervants, many of whom were present ;
and oleo begged the forgivenese of the relative& and
Mende of hie master, hewed them that he Wee truly
sorry for what he he done, and that he died without
feeling the least enmity iii hie heart against any one.
After this, prayer was pin offered by the third minister
present et the close of which the sheriff arose and
tied s while liandkeroldef over the face of the criminal
Ann bade him arise, He promptly obeyed, shook band.
with the ministers, end sold he hoped they would meet
him in heaven, After the noose we. adjusted round hie
neck he told the ehrriff he did not think hie ems were
tied tight enough to ',resent !din from getting his heads
to hie Iliroet end et the suggestion en elll
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lade, during which lie stood epparently perfectly 1.
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The elirrifffs moisten, approoehod him, end Well
lvi to make Emir other alteretion, when the drop fell
mid like most athore et life's terminus, In cli uneepeetal
moment he Wee 141111011114 into eternity, There we. e
*light twitching of Ike thumbs and a strewing up of the
alioulderc, bulb § few inoinente the pliyeigiene pro'
nommed him dew', Hit hotly wee telseh to en upper
room of the flioirhottec, where it Wee d1e0,,1e4, lie
Wei valued Ai 1,100, which IMP will he halo to the
hire 14 lilt hooter c Wale mil of the phhilt DT.
T lie !iieepolha is only tine of quite ft nunlkeiof inn ere
while I hero Win 11111114131*d or alleinple4 thie Ipte
wills n the heat few quintile hy elefoea— raelienehlini
floonly (Kontholoy) tiorreepondenee of the New riorla