The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00

Central /*Ws.

Mr. Tidd Pratt eontr;dicts the statement that he has
decided ." that the Rev. H. J. Fletcher mild not be
criminally prosecuted ;" and " that neither of the
managers or trustees of the Preston Bavinp Bank, nor
any individual member of them, is liable." He has no
power, he °Nerves, to make any such decision.
We regret to see in the North China Herald a notice
of the death of the oldest missionary in China, Dr.
Bridgman. He left America in 1829 and landed in
China in 1830, when Dr. Morrison was the only Protes-
tant missionary in that vast empire. He died on the
2nd fgovember, at the age of 60.
At a meeting of the Society of Arts on Wednesday
night, Mt, Bodkin, who ooeupied the chair, made a
feeling allusion to the loss which the society and the
country had sustained by the death of the Prince
Consort.

INGENIOUS SETTLEMENT OP THE TUSOAROMA AND'
NASHVILLE DIPFICULTI.—It is said that the Tuscarora
and Nashville difficulty has been settled in a very inge-
nious manner. The latter vessel has been sold, and
now belotigs to an English owner, the crew being about
to join another Confederate vessel—not the Sumpter,
but the Palmetto—which is lying quietly at no great
distance front English waters. More vessels than the
Nashville are " sold " by this adroit proceeding.

FIIIOHTENEO TO DEATH. —.A 'honking occurrence has
taken plane in Queenstown. young woman, with the
idea of arousing or frightening a child of • sailor, about
eighteen months old, entrusted to her to nurse, put on
a mask and a red petidelmat over her head. The appear-
ance so frightened the infant that it was seized with
convulsions, and shortly afterwards died.

Holders ef Bank-of-Elegance Notes will do well to
dispose of them. The Bank of England have interfered
in the case of a merchant who had some china plates
ornamented with a fac•simile of a Bank of England note.
The merchant was only too glad to give them up, for
under a recent Act of Parliament persons possessing
any fictitious representation purporting to be a Bank
note, is liable to penal servitude.
The London mortality, whioh, for several-weeks past,
has been unusually low, has suddenly made a remark-
able rebound upwards. During the last week 17 persons
died daily in excess of the number that would have died
if the estimated rate of mortality had existed. The
number of deaths was 1,561, the estimated number on
the ten years' average is only 1,440. But it ought to be
observed that this stem of deaths occurs chiefly among
the aged—the men and women who have seen their
threescore and ten or their fourscore years. In the list,
however, we are sorry to see two cases that are distinctly
stated to have "died from want."
A CURIOSITY IN Corrox.—ln the now museum in
Kew Gardens there is • specimen of cotton, 600 hanks,
weighing only a pound (spun so fine); they measure
more than 500,000 yards, or 250 miles in length. Mul-
lins are made in India of so fine and delicate a texture
as to be termed "woven air."
MONSTER DRILL SHED AT BIBIENHEAD.—The Ist
Cheshire Volunteer Engineers have erected a monster
drill-shed at Birkenhead, capable of containing about
5,000 persons, On Monday evening the inaugural cere-
mony took place, when upwards of 4,000 person., in-
cluding some of the leading families in and around
Birkenhead, were present. Mr. John Laird, M.P., pre-
sided. The building lias been constructed from a design
by Captain Fowke, R.E., the designer of the Exhibition
Building of 1862.
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SOMNIMBOLIELY EITILIORDINART.—A 13100 remark-
able case of this kind took place at Plumpton one night
last week, the somnambulist being a boy about nine or
ten years of age, the only son of Mr. James Hesket.
He was sleeping in a room by himself, and some time
during the night he got up, went to a large window,
and from it jumped to the ground, a distance of thirteen
feet. The window was directly above the front door,
from which led • number of steps, and by the side of
the door stood an iron scraper, so that it was almost •
miracle he was not killed on the spot. He, however,
sustained little injury save a cut or two upon his face;
but the moat remarkable fact was that this tremendous
fall failed to awaken him, lor he proceeded from the
door across three of his father's fields, over a fence into
a turnip field. He then retraced his steps home again,
and paid a nocturnal visit to his donkey. Here he
seems to have awakened, and Blade the best of his way
to the door again, and called loudly for admittance.
His father, hearing the aoise, went to the window, and
WU surprised to see a figure dressed in white standing
at the door (for the young gentleman had omitted to
dress himself before he went out). He Raked who was
there. "Me" was Master Heaket's reply. "Who is
me?" again demanded the father. "Me,' was a second
time his son's answer. "Well, but who is me r asked
Mr. Hesket. " Why, me; it's Johnny Hellcat." No
doubt this annorinceuient .wowld rather surprise the
nastily parent. He-soon admitted his son, who was
sent back to the warmer regions he had an uncere-
moniously quitted, and the next morning they traced
the road he had taken in his moonlight rambles by the
blood which had flowed from his nose and the cuts he
bad received in leaping from the window.—Carlisle
Journal.

INTERESTING MEMORIAL OP WILBERFORCE, THZ
PHILANTPROPIST.—A very handsome stone Neat has
within the last few days been placed in Holwood.park,
Keaton, Kent. by permission of Lord Cranworth (late
Lord Chancellor), as a memorial to Mr. Wilberforce,
the great champion of negro emancipation. The seat is
of Forest of bean stone, and has been erected at the
coat of Earl Stanhope. The object of the memorial will
be gathered from the following inscription engraved
upon it, and which is taken from Mr. Wilberforoe's
diary, 1781 —'At: length, I well remember, after a
conversation with Mr. Pitt in the open air, at the root
of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent
to the Vale of Reston, I resolved to give notice on • fit
oceiurion in the House of Commons, of my intention to
bring forward the abolition of the slave trade." The
seat is placed at the foot of the old oak beneath which
this memorable conversation took place' and is intended
for the use of the public. Lord and Lady Crenworth,
the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Hon. G. Stanhope,
and other distinguished individuals, were present at
the completion, and took the greatest interest in the
memorial.
The New Rzooftors OF LIVERPOOL.—Mr. J. B.
Aspinall, the gentleman who has been chosen to fill the
office of recorder of Liverpool, vacant by the death of
Mr. Gilbert Henderson, was on Saturday formally in-
ducted into his adios at St. George's Hall, before the
businessof the sessions commenoed. Mr. A.apinall was
accompanied upon the bench by the Mayor (Mr. R.
Hutchison), and by several members of the corporation,
as well as by many of his own private friends. The
bar mustered very strong upon the occasion, and the
attendance of soncitors was also very numerous. After
Mr. Aspinall had taken the oath of allegiance, &A., the
mayor addressed him in a brief speech, during which he
congratulated him as a fellow townsman upon the dis-
tinguished and honourable position to which he had
been chosen. Mr. M'Oubrey, on behalf of the bar, also
congratulated Mr. Aspinall upon his appointment, and
said that he would yeceive the hearty co-operation and
assiatanoe of the body he represented.

TON BAYER& -This once universally popular
champion of the P.R. seems to be particularly unfortu-
nate in coming Into collision with municipal authorities
since he left the roped arena for that of the circus.
In Liverpool, during the past few days, some excite.
meat has been caused owing to the authorities refusing
to allow Sayers to erect his circus in Dale-street, after
he had made arrangements for doing so with the
secretary of the proposed hotel company, and had
actually gone to the expense of about MO in clearing
the ground, fze. It appears that the hotel company had
agreed to 7urchue the ground from the corporation
but had not paid no the whole of the deposit due, con-
sequently the police and other corporation officers
would not let Sayers stay on the ground. Tom tried to
persuade the mayor and town clerk to alter their
decision, but they refused to dose, offering, however, a
site in the West Derby Road, which is rather an out of
of the way place. This is the second time Sayers has
been stopped from erecting his °irons, as it may be
remembered the Oxford College authorities refused to
let the students patronize him, owing to his having
inadvertently forgotten to ask their permission to erect
his circus.

SIR JOHN RARDON A PIAOKFUL BOBJMOH—FIe hardly
ever opened his mouth but to say "What you please,
sir ;"—"At your service ;"—" Your humble servant ;
or some gentle expression to the same effect. It is
scarcely credible that with this unlimited complaisance
he should draw a blow upon himself ; yet it so happened
that one of his own countrymen was brute enough to
strike him. As it was done before many witnesses,
Lord Mensal heard of it; and thinking that if poor Sir
John took no notice of it he would suffer daily insults of
the same kind, out of pure good nature resolved to spirit
him up, at least to some show of resentment, intending
to make up their matter afterwards in as honourable
a manner as be could for the poor patient. Be
represented to him very warmly that no gentleman
could take a box on the ear. Sir John answered with
great calmness, " I know that, but this was not a box
on the ear, it was only a slap of the face."—MentoriS,
ee., of Lady Mary Mots/aye.
The defalcations in the Bilston Savings Bank turn
out to be quite • eurloaity in the annals of crime.
Nothing could be simpler than the mode in which the
money was abstracted. The books of the depositors
were kept with scrupulous accuracy, but in making up
the totals Mr. Fletcher was in the habit of returning
£lOO less than he had taken, and of charging £lOO
more than bad paid away. The curious thing was,
that these false accounts were usually signed by a
manager, who could evidently haws never stumped up
the oolumpe. Mr. Tidd Pratt, who bad gone over the
books, sad gave the explanations, added that the gum-
tion was still under examination whether the managers
could not be made liable.

,
Hno,oWAT'll PIMA ARE OlRTlONT.—Detarmlnatlon of Bloop
to the [lead, Flturhings, Palpitation, and Shortness of Breath
are cured by these mod regulations of the heart's impale.
Under Hot oway's grand specifics the current of blood through-
out the body becomes steady and unchanged by the pasemg
thought—hence the suffusion of the head and cheeks la avoided
and nervous embarrassment prevented. They, in like manner
remove excessive sensibility so often the opponent to the ease
and grave inherent In the healthful and strong nerved frame,
and eradicate the doubts of the nervous. In intellects declining
from intense study, free living, or over anxiety, no equal
remedy Is attainable. Without exaggeration, they give
muscular energy to the paralysed and ease to the pained.
Fort CLIARLNO TEI VOICII AND =NG THII HEART ATE
Lrpoe, Inalleine is equal to Pr. PULKoNIO WATlnta
Front Mr. Thomas, Druggist, Fowey.— 1 from experience
can vouch for their eMmey in clearing the rodeo and casing
the action of the lungs. Their sedative qualities in dims's'
of the heart are also great, without irritation or the symptom'
{dent to the use of cilium, and other usual remedial."

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SUFFERERS.

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