The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

Central

D6/.7H 07 A Fin(Aix BLAcicsmirm.—On Thursday
evening, the let instant, the news of the death of Miss
Hinman arrived at Melton. The cause of death was
brain fever. The young woman has for some,. time
followed the employment of a blacksmith, and has
worked at the forge and the shoeing. Frequently she
might be seen with her leather apron on mounted on the
back of a horse, taking it home after she had been shoe.
lug it. No doubt she will be much missed, as she was
thought to be very clever; many patronised the place as
a novelty.

GOVERNMILIPT EIIIGHATION.—Her Majesty's Emigra-
tion Commissioners chartered, on the Bth inst., the Con-
way, 1,148 tons, to sail from Liverpool for Melbonse,
Victoria, at £l4 4a. 3d. per statute adult, to be ready
for passengers on such day as the commissioners may Si
upon, between the 22nd and 31st of May. They have
also given notice of their intention to receive tender,
next Thursday, the 15th inst., for a ship to eroceed to
Sydney, New South Wales, to be ready to seal coy day
the commissioners may fix upon between the 24th and
31st of May.

THR LOSB Or THR Av. - A suggestion has been made
to the Postmaster-General to employ " cork buoys' in
the transport of letter-boxes and bags, as well co in the
carriage of specie and valuable merchandise, since the
melancholy loss of the Ava. A cubic foot of cork it is
well-known, will support Mb. weight ; while a box of
the same material (cheap and plentiful enough), measur-
ing two feet square and three feet deep, is capable of sup-
porting 7501 b. In the event of a shipwreck, and the
vessel going to pieces, there will then be some chance
of recovering the valuables, mails, &c.—A telegram was
received on Saturday morning by the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company reporting that,
when the Candi& passed Ceylon, nearly the whole of the
specie and mails had been recovered froin the wreck of
the Ave.

THZ CALAIIIII7 IS GILBEBT-BTRIET.—Mr. And Mrs.
Smith, and eight of their children were on Wednesday
last interred in the large burialground at Woking, the
body of the eldest son Richard, who was killed by jump-
ing from the window, being reserved for inspection by
sd the jury at the adjourned inquest on Tueay this day).
The bodies were removed from St. Giles's Workhouse
to the station of the London Necropolis in the West-
minster-road, and conveyed thence by train to the plate
of interment at Woking. Their remains were fol-
lowed to their graves by several of their relatives and
friends, who were painfully affected by such an un-
paralleled domestic affliction. The father and mother,
with the youngest child, were deposited in one grave,
and the remainder in three additional graves on either
side. The service was performed by the Rev. H.
Roberts. Nothing further has transpired to throw any
light upon this melancholy catastrophe. Conjectures
are sufiloietly numerous, and there are many conflicting
statements as to the condition of the house in which
the fire originated. There will, doubtless, be a strict
Investigation on this latter point, in which the whole
neighbourhood is especially interested.

Tex LEVIATHAN.—Mond,sy afternoon, during one of
the most severe of the sharp north-easterly squalls which
swept up the river with considerable violence, the moor-
ings of the great ship were subjected to a most severe
strain—a strain under which some of those on the port
boeitt last gave way, and for • time exposed the vessel
to a'airtain amount of peril. It seems, however, that
the mooring chains, strong as they were, were not able
to resist the immense strain exerted by the wind on
Monday upon the vessel's side—a pressure which in the
case of some of the squalls must have amounted to at
least 500 tons noon the whole surface. Under this great
strain one of the mooring chains on the port-bow parted
about 20 feet below the hawsebole, and threw such an
unfair weight upon the others that • second stein-chain
broke, and allowed the vessel's bows to swing in towards
the Deptford shore. Mr. Protract, the chief officer, who
has oharge of the vessel, immediately took every pre-
caution to secure her safety, and his skill and tad
enabled him at once to repair the mishap. Beyond
these facts there is not the least ground for the rumours
which have been circulated as to her having broken
adrift, and done herself and everything else in the river
an immense amount of damage. She neither injured
herself nor anything else.
THIS Posv-Orrice.—The annual report of the Post.
office, issued on Tuesday, shows that the number of post-
offices in the United Kingdom has been increased by
235, making the total 11,101. The number of companies
that give the Post-office the unrestricted use of all their
trains is now 12, comprising the Cak.donian, East Lan-
cashire, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Lancashire and York-
shire, London and North-Western, Manchester, Shef-
field and Lincolnshire, Midland, Newcastle and
Carlisle, North British, Preston and Wyre, Stockton
and Darlington, and Taff Vale. The Brighton Company
on their main line also adopt • similar policy. In the
United States the average cost per mile for the postal
use of railways is only 514., being little more than half
the payment in this country. The number of letters
delivered in the United Kingdom last year was
504,000,000, showing an increase of about 5 per amt.
In England the annual proportion is 21 to each person, in
Scotland it is 16, and in Ireland only 7. The increase
since the introduction of the penny system has been six-
fold. The number of newspapers delivered in 1857 was
about 71,000,000, showing no alteration. Of these about
75 per cent, bore the impressed or newspaper stamp.
The number of money-order offices is now 2,233 being
an increase of 138. The aggregate of orders issued dur-
ing the year was 6,380,702 for a total of £12,180,272, on
which the commission amounted to £106,862, leaving a
profit of £14,175. The sixpenny rate of postage has now
been extended to every colony, and measures adopted
by the Peninsular and Oriental Company have enabled
a weekly oommunioation to be established with India.
The gross revenue of the Poet-office for 1857 was
£3,035,713, presenting an increase of £167,759, or
nearly 6 per cent., while the expenditure, according to
eorreotesi computations, increased only 24 per cent.
The net revenue properly appertaining to the year was
£1,322,237, or £127,849 in excess of 1856, showing anim-
provement of 10 per sent. The number of persons em-
ployed was 23,731., of whom 3,200 belong to tie London
district.

WRECK OF AN EMIGRLNT Sul?.—The American
barque Petre Captain Samuel Osborne, from Havre for
New York, With emigrants to the number of 217, French
and German, and • general cargo, got ashore on Sunday
morning, at about half .past 2, on the shoals off the har-
bour of Chichester, or " Chichester Pool," wind at the
time blowing fresh and weather thick. On striking, the
captain adopted the usual measures of backing sail, Ise.,
with the view of easing her off, but to no purpose, as
she took the shoal at high tide and struck heavily, and
the fall left her more embedded in the strand. On the
vessel being discovered in her perilous position by the
Cosstguard at East Wittering, under the command of
Lieutenant Wollaston, IN., every assistance was ren-
dered by that officer and his crew. At about 3 p.m. a
boat manned by 12 hands was deamitched by the cap-
Min to the Chevalier Pappalardo, United States' Consul,
at Portsmouth, informing him of the disaster, and ask-
ing amiatance. The Consul immediately embarked and
returned in the boat to the wreck, distant about 12
mile from Portsmouth, through • rough sea. On board-
ing the barque he found the emigrant, in • state of
great alarm for their lives and property, although all
had been done by the captain that he could to calm
their fears and inspire confidence. M. Pappalardo
at once gave such directions as were necessary, and en-
gaged a gang of men to man the pumps and endeavour
to keep her free from water, the crew being exhausted.
A steamer had been sent to the assistance of the ship in
the course of Sunday from Portsmouth, by the French
Consul (Chevalier Vandenbergh), • report having been
made to him that in was a French ship, but the power
of the steamer was found too limited to admit of her
assistance being effective In moving the wreck, and the
returned. On Tuesday, at daybreak, the wind blowing
• gale from the east-south-east, fearing that she would
become a total loss, Consul Pappalardo, acting in Ml-
junction with the captain, deemed it expedient no
longer to delay attempting to landing the passengers.
Amordingly, he personally superintended the hoisting
over the side all hands, by means of a barrel and a
"whip," the women and children bring attended to
first. A heavy surf was beating on this beach, but
another gang of Coastguartimen and others by ropes
helped to drag the boats to land, and these =shined
efforts were so successful that all were landed, to the
number of TAO souls, without an accident of any kind,
the Consul and the captain being the last to quit the
wreck. They then saw all berthed in • building engaged
for them by the Consul, and comfortably sidelined and
otherwise provided for. The Consul then ed per
express train to Portsmouth, and appliesi to the naval
authorities for a powerful steaming to extricate the ship
from her perilous position, and lighters end hands to
save as much as possible of the *ergo, should It be found
impraothable to float her. The tug, he., was promptly
sent, but this • Aetna but littla hope for the stranda
vessel, as the wind bah freshened gni., end the Wes are
dead neap. &whir,
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