The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY TAKE OF FlRM—During the last
week or ten days, according to the Cork papers, the
harbours of Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, Ballycotton,
Ardmore, and Courtmasherry, had more fish of the
Most Valuable kinds for the market than within the
same period in human recollection, showing that fish
of almost every description is in vast abundance more
than usually close to the land, and that it only requires
the means of taking and conveying it to market, or
curing it, to ensure the fishermen on the southorn coast
a most abundant harvest. The moans, however, for
oatchlnKthe fish are of the most primitive and slovenly
description, and no efforts are making to effect an im-
provement in them.

A correspondent of the Belfast NCWB Letter describes
an extraordinary contest which took place on Sunday
In floslialand Chetah, county Tyrone. Two gentlemen
disputed &bent the tight to a seat, and began a regular
fight in the aisle. They were separated by the congre-
gaties. but they agreed to meet spin in the evening and
fight it out in the same plus, and the victor vu to
have the seat. From the social poaition of the parties
concerned and the unusual place where the quarrel had
begun and was to be finished, an immense excitement
quickly spread through the town and the adjacent
neighbourhood. The road about the church was
crowded with people of every denomination, and the
green and fence in front of the church were filled with
people, most al them women, not belonging to the con-
gregation. Mr. Little JiP., having received intelli-
gence of what had °welled, sent into Dungannon for a
party of pcdiee. They 00•1110 out to Cot'island jest ea
the people were collecting for evening service, and pre-
vented the unseemly disturbance.
Thomas Walsh, the associate of Bukhain in the
murder of Mr. Fitzgerald, paid the dread penalty of his
crime on Monday morning, in the county gaol at
Limerick. Up to a few days ego it was very generally
believed throughout the county that his life would be
spared, as it was thought that he had given vidnable
information to Government, which would enable the
authorities to trace out and bring to justice the secret
conspirators who employed the assassins. Bat Walsh
either had no snob information to give, or he obetinately
withheld it, and all doubt as to his fate was dispelled by
an order which was sent down last week to the effect
that the law should fake its coarse. Since his con-
demnation he has been constantly attended by the
Roman Catholic clergy, the Sisters of Mercy, and the
Christian Brothers, and is said to have paid great
attention to their exhortations.

A Maron'n Cgarn.e.—The Cork Corporation has
been agitated at its last-two meetings by • delicate
,subject of a kind not often discussed by gentlemen,
'though an object of great interest to ladies. This
. entrfeet was a cradle, 'arid it obtained the distinction of
being rocked by the Town Council from the fact that
lit was what is teohnieally called "The Mayor's Cradle."
It ii not to be ruppcsed that the Mayor of Cork for the
time being required snah an article for hie own personal
aeoennoodation pending the long discussions of the
civic magnates, which are sufficiently somniferous.
Hut li is ritual, under certain eircumstances,—that is,
When he is married and his wife has 'a baby—to pay
time Mayor a oompliment by presenting him with a
'pee. of plate, whieh Mammas the name, if not the form
:4zo, of a "cradle." The circumstances, have, it seems,
'arisen in Mr. Maguire's ease, and the object was
clisonesed before at a former meeting, and the annoy-
ance it occasioned indueed him not to say a single word.
It was brought .forward again at the mooting on Mon-
day, when he begged to decline the compliment, unless
they would fallow him to give away to charitable
institution& the atm of ZOO, which the council had
voted for the the purpose. this was objected to by
some-of the members, but afterr some disctiaelon the
permission Wee granted, and his worship stated that
wield devote it to the following objects :—£loo to
e Vincent Society; bath for the poor, VD; the
IA orth Inlirmary (which is deeply in debt, and the
accommodatiou of Which is very restricted indeed),
430 • Lying-in Hospital (which is still more deeply to
debt) the • the S_laters of Ckarity, for the poor, £W :
. time , 4 ,o, Mom, for the poor, £2O; the Holy
ifallOki sh. p9O El, .0 ~ entl the coil !Wad for Christ-
i's*, , These Wes Intake', MOO.

" A Sart ON 8.411 Tlitons."—;-The,stforilon of our
readers is recpleited to an istreitisethent which appears
in our paper to-day. hied "Fire-proof Bales at Half-
biee,," Item whibis ft trill be seen that • a Provincial
4isminarC6mpeay haling lately beoomed merged in a
London ogle% and having no further use for the Sated
and Deed Cheeta,, lying at the various branch odic,*
theyffilsave beseacettunedto the massafacturers,to be sold
theireost ; but the most important feature%
4114 pa;ties at a distance are requested not to remit the
"whey until the safe is received, when, if not found !n
sirrespecle hatldactory, it may be returned without
any coat silliktetei• to the person ordering it, and as they
Cr. sent lifatrineitree to any station, it may pre
Porth4lle attetton Of parties requiring one of those
meal Ihrikdalw

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