The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

enteral Naos.

THII MACKAY GagAT °ult.—This gun wee swain
tested on the Crosby Bands, DOSr Liverpool, on Wed•
nesilay. the 18th inst., with great sneoess. The ahnts
'awed twice through a section of the side of the iron-
plated rain Agincourt ; and on being tested for twig.
with s charge of 30112. of powder, made the firat crew, at
O distance of 4,501 yards, which is, we underatand,
satisfactory Frau( of the value of the gen.
Tag Hit! CIOP.—Tha hay crop in the south of
England is likely to he &magnificent one. A great dee]
of grass is now at to cut.
CIIANSIL Phgwr.—The squadron under thew:Na-
m-end of Rear• Admiral Decree, at present at DiaaaPart,
will, it is reported, be ready for sea in a few days.
Eiger, 71, Beg ship, was taken into the be.,, at
Key ham, on Wednesday, the 18th inst., preparatory 1,
being docked, to h.,. licr bottom cleaned and vale. s ion•
maimed. Prince Consort, 35. iron-clad, Captain Wales,
was taken into chick at Heilman on Wednesiey.
Warrior, 40, iron-clad, Captain the Hon. A. A.
Cochrane, was placed in the Queen's Dock, and Defence,
16, ateattpram, in No. 1 Dock, oath. same day. Black
Prince, 41, iron-clad, Captain Wainwngtit, is in No. 2
Dock.

Win, AND LAND sttampt is
making to eAahli.h • 'beep and lamb fair at Monfort',
in the south-esot of Hampshire, forth. OOD•OnienO. Of
Om farmers of as ostensive neighbourhood round about
that port.

A great choral festival of 5 000 voines will be held at
the Crystal Palace on Wednesday, the 15th June, under
the direction of Hr. G. W. Martin. Twelve hund•ed
teaehers of schools and conductors of choral societies
enema d for a preliminary rehearsal on Satur-
day, the 14th instant, at Exeter Hall, when
the choruses, chorales, pert songs, ka, forming
the festival programme, were rehearsed in • most satis•
faciory manner. Some of the part-eorp are for four
trebles and will be sung by • thousand trebles to a pai
It has beau ascertained that in no part of the won l t has
no large a choir been brought t -.gather under one con.
ductor. _ .

OUST!' CI:LTC', —At the ordinary meeting of the
members of the Society of Arta, held on Wednesday
evening, the 18th inst., at the society's rooms, John-
street, Adelphi, Mr. W. Hawes in the their, • paper
on the oboes subject was read by Mr. J. Lowe, who
spoke of the antiquity of oyster culture, which was
earned on by the ancient Romans. It was now mu- Is
to be regretted that this agreeable and nutritious article
of food was rapidly becoming rarer and rarer, sod it
seemed not improbable that if some measures were not
taken it would gradually disappear. Fifteen years ago
the attention of It. French Academy of Sciences was
drawn to this, and sic years since an eminent Frond)
piscicultarist, M. Caste, reported on the failure of some
oyster fisheries to the government, and under his aus-
pices many of them had been materially restored, and
oyster " parka," as tiny were celled, Lad been est.b.
lished. The author described the mode in which these
were formed, and the beat kind of apparatus for
collecting and preserving the spat or spawn. For large
operations large fermium of branches, bound together
with • thin chain of galvanised iron, and sunk by means
of • heavy stone, were recommended. Os these the
terett would colt:oresboiv 0.
ilian abun..rdanerioe..d.p For
ted titheebeiretrinkrr.
spun
meet, in the author's opinion, being the collecting tile
invented by Dr. Kemmerer, which *paid be used plain
or mvered with cement on tit. Weer side, with shells
embedded in the cement, or small faggots suspended
there by means of gal emitted wire. The groat Li vantages
of these tiles appeared to be that they were cheap,
easily replaered and managed. They might be arranged
in the manlier beat sailed to the peculiarities of the
looality,and they offered to the spawn • fit reeling-place
to fix Smelt upon and attain maturity. He urged that
this method of culture aught be applied to other shell
6.6 besides the oyster, particularly testis pearl oyeter,the
fisberim for which were failing, especially in Ceylon,• and,
in «inclusion, pointed out how the processed employed
by French cultivators might he applied to the fisheries in
this country, and maimed various objections that bed
been advanced as to their non-applicability to English
oyster-beds. There were upon the Irish coast miles of
shore which might be thus cultivated, end on the shores
of England, and especially in the moat,' of our great
rivers, and on the east coast northward from the mouth
of the Thames, there were large tract+ equally suitable.
Already several enterprises of this kind had been
undertaken, and • company had been formed which had
bemired the use of • portion of the oyster layinin on
the forethore to the west of the pier at Southeed. Hens
they had laid down about 1,500 bushels of fallgrown
oysters, which had been spread over about lye three of
sone, in such a way as to leave room for the placing of
50.000 of Kemmerer's collecting tiles. The paper
elicited an interesting discussion, in the courm of
which Mr. Ffennel said that arguments had been pet
forth against taking nommen-di of dui shores for oyster
culture, as it would deprive many of the poor of the
coast of their livelihood ; but he urged that the shorn
were already impoverished, and their cultivation by
private individuals would have precisely the contrary
effect, by employing thousands of pereons who were at
present able to obtain only • Pointy living
Tag TAXATIOS or connection with
the labour, of the eon-mitt** of parliament now lineal-
gating the taxation of Ireland, • return was on Wed-
nesday published, showing "The amount of the debt
dam by Ireland on the lit of January, 1801; of the
amount authorised by parliament to be borrowed on
Irish account the total amount raised, and the rate at
which it was borrowed; and the total amount of
stock issued in each year from the lot of January,
1801, to the let of January. 1817, respectively, and of
the amount of such stock cancelled by authority of
parliament up to the same date." It eppeers that the
total amount of unfunded debt of In land in Irish
Treasury bills wee in the year 1801, £1.699 938 Ih- 2d.
The Irish debt created from that year to 1816, payable
in England, WWI —Aronost raised, 110,096 010 16. 9d. ;
amount of stock of each kind created, £14.0 7,760, and
amount of tenninahl• annuities granted, in addition to
stock 'reeled, £135,729 3.. 4d. In the mime perioi the
the Irish debt created, payahle in England, was as
follows—Amount raised, £15,807,692 te Id. ; amount
of stock of each kind created, £18,950782 is. liM. ;
and moment of Gepital debt incurred on such loan,
£731,826 Its. bd. In • recapitnlaton table the total
amount rsied is shown to be £76 637,965 ss. 5,1. ,• the
total Irish debt created, 5113.109,704 7s. sd. ; sad the
total Irish debt redeemed, 1.16 270,855.
hums NATIO,•L EDLICATIoII. —A parliamentary
issued on Wednesday, the 18th, containing
r•aic copy ;77 of the resolutions of the E.lneetion Committee
of the Oeueral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
Ireland, relative to the recent changes introduced into
the nationsl system of education." Tbereturn, which
was wooed for by Sir Hugh Cairns, givesthe five reasons
of the Presbyterian committee for their protest against
the granting of pupil teachers to school, other than
model schools_ The reasons are—let, that the efficiency
of model schools would be iinpaired by the proposed
rexulation; 2nd, that other achools should not be brought
into competition with the model schools ; 3edly, it is not
desirable to encourage Heide to model school.; 4thly,
that the other schools in question are unfitted to be
training institutions ; and 51h1y that the committee
regard the prop.mad thanes as • derided Mee to wank the
introduetioa of a purely denominational system; and in
the language of the neoluuons of the Gemini Assembly
under which they set, the committee " deprecate all at-
tem tits to obtain separate grants for educational purposes,
as calculated to break clothe system of united education,
and to deprive the children of Presbyterian parents,
residiag in districts in which they limn small minority,
of all education, secular as sell as religions, excerpt on
terms opposed to conseientiotas conviction.
MOAN DISOOVIJULII AT POMPLIL —Some intern
discoveries have been made at Pompeii in • house tact
was being built at the time of the catastrophe. This
house contained • large deposit of Egyptian marble, now
brought to light, and valued e. 150,000(. On the ground
floor the retuning or • magnitoent bed have been found;
the woodwork is burnt away, but the broom ornaments
' are in perfect preservation, consisting of • lion's claws
which formed the legs, and geese's heads which adorned
the top. This bed is now to be constructed according
to its original design. The blocks of myth, are to he
used for plinths to the most valuable stratum of the
Ino4ollll. . . . . .

A Mutate PAIALLIIL.—k remarkable circernatencie
in connection with the late dood at Shedlild (says tbe
Leeds Mercury) has just come to our knowledge. At
the time lb* inundation took place • living infant is a
muffin lasted from Sheffield to Mailborough, which is
about foor miles distant from Donoarter. The little thing
fell into Use hands of a clereyir.an's wife., who treated it
kindly, and ham ainoe then brought it op, no one having
owned it.
Mr. Peter Cunningham in a communication to the
Suii.fer soya: Tile following very interesting entry—re-
lating to one of the most esuineut of our Anglo-Solon
kings—ban never before been oubli•bed, nor referred to,
nor over imagined to exist. 1 fonnd it (some seven
years back) in the accounts of the Paymaster of Works
sod Buildings, belonging to the Crown, during tbe reign
of King James IL —" Paid to Mathew Stakes, tots
luxe coffin be trim made to enclose the body ef St.
Edward the Confessor, and setting it spin its plane, in
lb* year 1688—E6 2a. Bd. And to William Backe
cksnsith. for large hinges and rivetta, and 2 croseeharn
for the said .on— *2 17a 7d."

FRUIT PIUMMOLNII Is Decort.—Tbe country generally,
and North sod East Devoe in particular. is looking
remarkably well just now. The late fine growing
elsoteere no just when they were wanted. If no un-
usually severe frosts some on, the proepeot for fruit of
every kind is a most exc.-Dent one. It is long same
each s splendid display of apple blossom Las Wee seen:
the trees, and even whole orchards, sr* one mare of
bloom. Pean are likely to be abundant, sad are set,
some of the young fruit elready measuring two inch.*
round. Cherries, too, are forward, some being an inch
and & half round. There is every prospect of plenty of
garden fruit.
THZ &ea ;grim Soma Paorirroa Iv LONDOII.
Trete isor Backlit recently lectured in London on
Lyourgus. and astonished the rtiid freqeseters of the
Soya' lostitutiou not • little Lyourgus did not
promise much fun. but the professor kept the &Wienee
in roars of laughter. He said ruch odd things, used
such strange gestures, buried his face in his bar da every
now and then started up euddenly, banged his paper.
and mated from one of the platforms to the o ber, ,
generally pointing his Anger at Professor Owen, and
asking him if he wasn't right. The lecture was very
interesting; items about the constitution of the Spartan
government, which the professor contends, to the fain
of Grote, war purely an oligarchy. But yet be swore
by Grote: " Ladle. and gentl, men, it has been said
suirleas rem Maims damseari, but, for my part. I
rbiert to be damned with any man; I would rather be
saved with Grote" This tart of thing was suite new
to the *soma of the Royal Institution. Again, in the
middle of the lecture, be said. "Well, now, look
there; I said I should not detain yon more than at,
hour, and I have actually got through the find half of
my lecture in thirty minute. : never d.d such a clever
thing in my life " Then, whipping up his watch and
banging it down a;ain, be arld.d, looking at the
an nce, "I don't know if you ere pleered with nil
Ireton, but I so tremendoesly {launt! with it myself."
Hotaowars Pume—lrurned Tongue, Tainted Ii ,—)f
personal diodrantaree can be more assaying than there
disgeesabis ahem oe, which ale quickly mooredby
rib. Their powerful cleansing
aeon f " diguntion,ead take away I Itrinratteme
=the eartitesioa from climate, Lia.M,
fa▪ ir wassm. a Neslatid COUTY of this MAW:
We elleet • eamplele drove throughout the system, and
mime to the wennest Wad that essa sad itrength which
he thought bed Is kr war.•kw/ bad he bra a wasp"
So both. An amine scam of ibis Nisi" osiiinte4
lerecammeaded to ell hie, I'M et eme." who indeed ma
reedy print out the origin or poet of their morbid sensattoat

In Parliament, Mr. Bernal Osborne and Sir Harry
Vg.Dey stand alone in their antagonism to Denmark
A deputation of Englishmen proposes to wait on the
Marquis de BOi.ll,
and give hint • mpectful invitation
to vis• England on the sth November next.
The Jig's, is. ambassadors are getting expensive to
France Their travelling expenses fur two months
have cost e 12,000.
'the Conference sits at • large round table strewed
site ahplianc• s, and with • line view of sherry, port,
=dor* claret, and hock at the back, is that all
countries are viciously represented
As a cabman was erring through the streets of
Bristol, he accidentally ran over • boy, whom he picked
up and drove to the infirmary. On his way thither
singularly enough he drove over a second boy, and took
him also to the Maims y
OBLIGINU —VERT —The following dialogue is reoom•
mended to the attention of married couples about to
travel • —"My der, are you comfortable in th•t
corner '!" '' Quite, thank you, dear." "Sure there is
plenty of room for your feet "Quit. sure, love."
" And no cold air from the window by your ear!"
"Quite certain, dirling." "Then, my dear, I'll change
places with you."
1101(.,LITIoX or THE RISIDENCI Or THE CILIIIRATID
RICHAND BAITZIL—Aniong the many houses now
undergoing demolition for the purpou• of the Metropo-
litan weat and poultry Market and Metropolitan rail-
way extension, is that in which once resided, and where
died, the eminent Nonoonformist minister, Richard
Baxter, on the Bth of December, 1691. The dwelling
now in course of demolition has stood for many rears,
and though it has been frequentiy repaired, the major
portion remained until the pment time on the canter.
aide of Charterhows-lane, near to the Chsriarbotnia.

SHOCKING OCCUaIItaCZ AT RANalturToll.—On Wed•
nesday, the 18th Met, an inquiry was opened at Rams-
bottom, before Mr. llearden, coroner, as to the muse
of the death of Eliza Hitching', vile of Abraham
Hitching., in custody. After mveral witnesses had
been enamtned, the inquiry was adjourned for • week.
The prisoner, Abraham Hitching., ins maker-up, and
Lately in the employ of Messrs. Athten, Ranothottoon,
and on Saturday night, when his wife and her sister
returned home, he was in the house, and refused to let
them enter; upon which they went into the next house,
and won after prisoner came in for his wife, the deceased,
and pullet her out id the house, aml in the struggle the
fell, and immediately expired. A poe-mortem exemina-
Won has been made. Ti,. *Bair has mused coasisierable
incitement in this usually quiet village.
D•It,SG ATTEMPT TO IIUIDKIL • W011•N AT Can.
I TINFIKLD.-0a Tbutaday an Irishman, who gave his
name as Thomas Brown, was brought spat the Chester'
deli Borough Police-court, charged with attempting to
murder a respectably -leered girl, named Elizabeth John-
m.o. It appears that this parties formerly cohabited at
Runcorn, to Cheshire. They had words, and she loft
that town and arrived in Chesterfield about six weeks
ego, and obtained a situation at Mr. Thompson'e, the
proprietor of the Midland llotel. On Timed., night
the prisoner came from Runcorn to Chesterfield, and
ascertained the whereabouts of the female. He went
to the Midland Hotel, and called the girl into the
yard, and asked her to go back with bins to Runcorn.
Shs refused, and he s.id he would take her life, and then
destroy his own. She returned to the house, and
prisoner went to Jeep at the Plough beer-house, where
he made use of threats shoot the woman. On Wed-
nesday morning be went to the hotel again, and the
girl persisted in her intention not to go back. He then
errnt to Mr. Lees, the hair-dresser, and purchased a id:-
barreled revolver, and had the barrels well loaded with
large swan shot. He then went to the hotel and asked
for the woman, but in consequence of his movements
she bad been ordered to remain upstairs. He loitered
about for two hours, and ultimately Mr. Thompson,
who had espied the revolver in his pocket, told the girl
to come down stairs to speak to the man that he might
go. He said be only wanted to shake hands with her.
The woman came down stairs ; he put out hi. left band
to shake bands with her, and with his right hand was
In the act of drawing the revolver from his pocket, when
Mr. Thompson ',prang at him. A fearful struggle en-
sued between the two. The prisoner said be would
forfeit his We before he would glee up the pistoL It
sm, however, got from him, and the landlord gave him
into custody. He was searched, and about £2 in money
was found upon him, with powder, flask, shot, bullet'
moult, and a large clasp knife open. The Mayor
severely censured the conduct of the prisoner, and he
was ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for six
month.. Ile failed to do so, and he was thee eoinmitted
for that term. He said he wan. native of Belfast. The
cam haat caused ranch excitement.

UlaiLl Or • POLICIMAX.—On Wednesday, the 18th
ineant, a policeman in the Staffordshire force, II•lionnd
at Whitehall, di.d from the effects of injuries suefolned
at the hail& of Thous., Lockley *rd bre other men. all
of whom are in custody. 'Th. officer's name is Lyons.
He was attacked on Saturday, the 7th instant, at
midnight, while upon his beat in a low part of the
township, by four of the prisoner., whom be had ordered
home beearise they were drunk and riotous. He ap-
prehended two or three of bin arailaets, but their
comrades ripoued them. After the officer had been
Itinaian to the ground, and kicked by his ...Sant., be
was dragged aloog the rued by his btaff, which was at-
folded to his wrist with the customary leather thong.
Whilst being jolted sloes, with his head striking upon
the atom., he slipped the thong, and was Wm donned
of his only weapon. During the struggle, Thomas
Lockley's brother, who is one of the pnsoners, we.
wielding • large open-clasped knife, and a person who
attempted to take it from him had his bend cut. To-
wards the elm* of the Annuli., Thomas Laekley wee
heard to say, "Come bail and let us murder the
Afterwards he was seen to come up to the deceased as be
lay on the road, ai,d, Laying called out, "Stead mit
of the way, and let un settle the --," dub down upon
the left side of hie head, a little above tte ear, a broken
brisk. The officer then became insennible ; and he was
curried bLeding into the resioenos of • gentleman living
near. On Weulneaday deliriom set in, out after a
consultation among a number of surgeons it was deemed
desirable to take away soma/ bye pieces of the skull,
altogether of the size of • florin, and aleo some of the
brain. Convulsions came on on Sunday, but his
pulse was pretty strong. They were again apparent
on Tuesday. and all hope was lost la the evening
be became insensible. Hia shriek, of pain and groans,
which up to that time bad been heartrending, ceased,
and his life seemed to ebb softly away. He died on
Wednesday morning.

Dcwrarcvrica STORMS tw Yoaattning.—The higher
part of the picturesque valley of the Swale was visited
with a thunderstorm of unpar•lleled fury on Monday
the 16th lost , accomcanied with rain. From the great
volume of wah r which poured down the river it is
believed a waterspout must have fallen. The locality
of the storm is about 15 or 20 mil. a above Itiohniood,
in the neighbourhood of Hurst,bordering on Westmote-
land, where dense masses of dark clouds poured their
contents into the valley of the Swale, which was so
goad d in COrilleqUCOP as to roe in • few minutes to
the height of several fe h The Swale may be described
as • mountain torrent, and at no time a very gentle
stream, in time i.f good rushes with great impetuosity.
The sudden secession of water caused a great amount
of damage. Trees growing by the side of the stream
were washed away by the sco e, and ahi ep and pip,
which were either in or near the bed of the river, where
caught by the floe& and borne for • distance of several
miles. Great numbers of people bad aaaembled at
Richmond and other places along the course of the
river to notice the unusual spectacle, and trees and
animals were observed to float past with great rapidity.
Great quantities of earth were also carried down the
stream. Part of the rosd between litaniard Castle and
arkendide was washed away, and stones and wooden
bridges in the same locality were borne down by the
tide. Fortunately no Inas of life is reported, though
there were several narrow escapes.

NticeFeral CORIMPONDIINTE IN Nsw ZNALLND.—
Gentlemen who live at home at seas—who, over their
toffee or their wine, sip in critically the gossip or the
stirring narratives communicated by the correspondents
of the newspapers at the seat of war in New Zealand,
have little idea, probably, of the hardships undergone,
to as, nothing of the dangers encountered by the
writers in question. Some slight idea, however, of
what the prove correspondents have had to encounter
may be gathered from the following extract from •
private letter from "our own correspondent "—"Upi
to the present time I have not been able to procure •
horse. You are not allowed to purchase one from the
natives until the commissariat has refused it, and all
that Mil be obtained are snapped up by that depart-
ment. I applied to the Deputy Quartermaster-General,
and he said it was no use my getting one, no he could
not tat me draw forage while the colonels of regiments
had to trap on foot. Without. a horse the work is very
heavy, much heavier, lam afraid, than you have any
idea of. Since I have been liese, two of the Aackland
correapondenu have knceked up under it. In each
instanoe dysentery was fo.logred by fever, and in the
one the man became delirious and in the second Sui
supervened. Living now under blankets andnow under
canvas, sleeping on wet fern, and obtaining only the
roughest fare, are apt to try men ; and I know that the
fatigue experienced sometimes quite unfits me for
corresponding. For some time past now, all the kit the
cairreepoodents have had—stationery, clothes, blankets,
crockery utensils, km —has jut been what they could
carry with them. For a fortnight, too, owing to the
"light duty man," who used to devote a few hours •
day to them, being inn behind they had to cut their
own wood, draw eater, cook rations, ke., and it is
only by granting me • man as a pilf.ooa favour that
this dliaoreseble work has been avoicied."—Yelbostrae
Argots, March 24.
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received n ic
I?. IL—byA.
thbigehAc.ly
stied: palhoper.a..was
from Y. Legoyt, director of the office of statistics of
France, on the number of suicide. in Europe. From
this 'shorans work it appears that suicides increase in
• more rapid ratio than the population and mortality in
general in Bavaria, Denmark, Frank, Hanover, Meck
lenburg, Prussia, the kingdom of Saxony, and Sweden.
Suitsides ars moat frequent in Northern Glirmanv,and in
the varioua parte of Denmisk. Sweden and Norway,
though belonging to tbe same rsce, are rroportionally
inferior to Denmark in that respect. Contrary to a
gessrally adopted opinion, Fenglend stands nearly at the
bottom of the kale ; and no do Belgium, Austria, and
Spin. Franoe hid Is an intermediate position; she
could rank with tic three last.nameal countries, were
it portage to eliminate the suicides of Paris, which are
ape-seventh of the total member in France. Generally
for every 100 suicidee of men there are from 29 to 30 of
women. The number of suicides ineresoes with these.
of iodividuals, at leak until the age of 60. The number
of suicides is generally lowest in January, and Chariot
in July. As to the canoes, insanity and physical suffer.
lug are &boat Le active in producing suicide among men
aa among women; en to the rest, the latter yield more
to grief occasioned by moral CatlM• than men, who are
chiefly 'Melted by material affliction, such as lame of
property, bankruptcy, Bs. Drunkennem and debauchery
only form an insignificant item among the cense. Jai-
pelbar women to suicide. In Denmark, Spain, end
Saxony, the only countries when it has been possible
to obtain reliable information on the subject, married
People ars kaiit subject to commit suicide, sod widowers
on the contrary are mod liable to it; but suicides occur
meet frequently anion.; married people that hays been
divorced or separated. In Prussia, in the course of two
years, there were 163 suicides of Prot...stank per
million, 61 of Drake's, end only 47 of Catholice per
million of each. Suicides are mach more numerous in
capital cities than in the oonotry. The g-neral result
of all these investigati,ins shows • univerkl and rapid
inmate of sulcidea The author ii of opinion that this
in ateritsdabis to unlimited competition, to the kn.
moderato thirst alter wealth, to the progress al nubile
inidruelion which excites ambition, to politio&I agitation,
and to speculation.

SCIOIT SCITAZIANNANPARL6GL—A Bolas jawed
.hates that some workmate employed in inking • nal
SO Chamonix, hen discovered • siebberresen
in the Col du Chitelard, bolo. Foram, men MITZ
Not Ing, 5 Nei wide, an 6 feet high. Ig is eappenel
to bay* been out through the rook by the Bagena, ha
lii off the waters ol the Lee de Clidde.
Sewall° AoCIDINT WMI Piantartiann.—A6
Lockwood, • berm (aged Arne) ia tbe engin
Thome Halstead, woolatapler, wee earelemay alhosffoll
. perambulator when abe lost her hold of the said*
tad it conjs.:l We; the road. One of the deaden
rolling under the wheels of • out wee killed; the Mile
child was eniejer*A.
AN IikOPININT.—MAY •ND Win
evening, • pair of gay-hearted creatures, tie man toff
65 sod the woman 18, eloped from • portion ad Oa
county Clare. They arrived in ton eh Um bank
or. and ere the rarental.of ;tb• yens. wenn or gba
friends of the man had time to trace their wbeenbeak,,
they wore joined in holy wedlock at • llamas Ordiellia
and on the rood to • quiet waterlog-plass ea
al end the honeymoon.— &who+ Chreeixte. _
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Tut IN PAWL —A. story Is— going the
round d ch. lapses Oen some days sines, when shaking
ksspe. breLat njtie shuck
by a parasol .atrl.d
el 'e,,in;tbe Rae data Paix,bilyie
ine Japanese that Li proposed to accept it la_maaawa
for • *amain quantity of coral °mammal massW
purchase by bill visitors the prepaid was readily
accepted, and it la said that ba't the parasol, at the
embassy hare dace passed into.the bawls of Übe spew.
lane. jeweller.

A CHILLI POIOONfD IT BUTTIIICOPIL —As Mew*
was hold on Monday, the 16th Owl., at Dartfard. se Pe
body of a child named Sarah Slissbeth Boren.
aged six years. It appeared by the evident, it Oho
mother and father of the child, that ems • Is,, Were
death the deceased had complained of feej voty en.
will. and in great pain about the body and Ism. The
mother aftorwards discovered that the deoemed bed
, been eating buttercups from • field close by, sad NIA
for a powder from a chemist's; but as the deemead
vomited a greet deal, and promoted ovary appeases=
of baring been poisoned, she haataned off for Ile perish
surgeon, but that gentleman did not arrive at Urbana
till the child was dead. A port-ascrtem examination
had been made, which clearly proved the deemed bed
been poianned by eating buttercups.
NOVEL Carrells OF A IturaoCl.-05 Iterliy, •
roebuck waa captured in Dumbarton bastion, Wise
somewhat singular and amusing aroumailemes. The
animal first made its appearance on the reed is Ilhe
south side of ths harbour, and on being istercepied by
two men, plunged into the water and made Mantra Me
quay, heedless of the presence of those seapepfiell
thereon. Two men ha.tily procured • boat to esonee
the animal—the pou..awn of which was se greedily de-
, sired by one of the men that he deceitfully pelted elr
Ike boat as his comrade was stepping into it. Min
latter. be we ver, not to be ouldona,leaped Into the=
of
and after • oonsiderabla amount ladling
in capturinc the animal, and bringing it safely sebum
to the mortification of his fallow-hoetsman. It Is SOW
jestured that the animal bad mete frost Flulayeles, is
the opposite side of the Clyde.—Seetessem
PILOSTOCTS Of THE SHOOTING /MASON IN SCOTLAND.
—The pimp's.' of sportsmen for the miming sheeting
maim in Perthshire are at present very enceauregleg.
The weather has been all that could be desired slue
nest-building ooinnieneed, and during the lasts., weeks
especially, the sun has !shoe* out brilliantly every day.
On all the macro of the county there is a large Meek it
grower breeding, and • number of the more
nests were hatched a week ago. Nests gmersll7a
sauna were wall filled with eggs, bed
stet, that they found in numerosa awe Cap=
single neat. If the weather continua fa the
hatching season will soon be over, and the Irrottor
of the young broods pest danger from floods. The
'roue?, with few exception., appear to be Arms end
healthy. All other !hid, of gams on both bigb sod Ism
grounds are abundant, and In good modifies. Over.
eailaie are breeding in large numbeiv in all the wooded
Pertbahire.—&otastem

STAyluyic. 01 ROMAN CATHOLICS I 1/10LAITIA
The eeventh ordinary meeting of tbe mambas of the
Statistical Society was held on Tirade, it
St Jammee-square, Loudon, when a paper as the
abject wee read by Kr. G. W. Lander. The dame
most having referred to the etatesset of Oardlaml
Wiuman at the Catholic Cowart at Manses, MA
Catholieiern in England wee daily gaining posed ,• and
bie companion of the year 1830 with 1881, in osier to
show the large incresee of both priests sad chemises
in this country, proceeded by means of nenseroos tairtee,,
extracts from parliamentary papers, reports of the
census committee, the registrar general, do., to &eV
that the statements of the cardinal were out astaftst.
tinily correct, said that there was only • shifting at the
members of this ehurch from one plug to another. AB
the tables tended to show that the Roma& Clefts&
church.. and chapel, were found in the greatest numbers
Is the metropolis end in sertala counties were then
were large populations maned together ,• and that there
were also found the greatest number of Rows Catheae
pour schools, paupers, and offenders In closellsio%
the author stated that there wee not the stateUeet grease
for any real &tarsi as to the progress of the Roma Cattail
faith .Moog the English people, or that the
nation wu about to return to the control from
their ancestors released themselves centuries ago.
A VITAS •110/10 THu Poe? OFFICE CLEILL/A —We
Frank Buckland, in the Field, appeals to his friends
not to employ the poet as the medmm of conveying to
him specimens for eziunination. With, the last tern
days he has teceived no 1 es then three letters fr.ea the
Secretary of the Post Office on the subject. Mr. Huck.
land says )—" Upon one 00OSSOO I received a letter
enclo•inx • newly-born bull-dog puppy, with deformed
mouth, the bead projecting from oue end of the letter,
the tail from the other. Another, an odoriferous
canary bird ; another, '/ire (query) barnacle.;' a fourth,
• live viper; this was really piing up the agony, for
though the barnacles were by no means alive, nor yell
even lively, yet I regret to say the riper was alive sail
kicking. The correspondent rho sent this says. 'heed
you a snake, which I tilled to day.' to., to. My Mead
Ins mistaken, tube bed only half killed the viper, who
recovered himself when hid away among the letters is
the letter-bag, ant ultimately made bia gaagyagsad
said unwelcome exit from the box in which he was
packed at the General Post ofilee, scattering the clerks'
I understand, right and left, in the greatest aoatoales.
And well these gentlemen might scamper, for the eisso
tents of this letter was as fine • specimen of • *moose
brae as lever beheld, and I am most thankful be ellei
Cot bi,e anybody. When I received his remains, the
head was as flat as a viper's heed could be, end he rear
was dead. I won't therefore beg my trims& who semi
me objects for examination not to use the Pest-WIN
letter bags for this purpose, and not to seed them tee
stinking, for my little garden is alresely • perfect ester
eery, and toy boy tella me 'there is not a meant tool of
ground left in the garden to bury any of Um /Wig
things.' P.B.—When vipers (or dubious soaker) ass
scat, please be certain they are alive or dead, for dee,
the above was written I received a tin box on wkleit
was written Two dead vipers.' On opening the lid ei
the box I saw the coil of • •ipar protruding frost the
sawdust, and booked it out with my finger. Great was
my surprise to find the rascal move; I jerked him est
instantly cm the floor, before he had time to hits. It
was, however, • very narrow amps, for I should be
doused urry to have, dose of viper's poison this wefts
weather."

DIFITIOOTION OF • PLANTATION AND GAS' GOVICO
IT POLL —A bout 11 acres of a fir plantation and
icier, beloaging to Sir Robert 'l'. Gerard, el
Ganwood, Warrin‘ton, and situated on Bz”-Moss, In
the township of Inc., near W 4..,, were destreyed by
ire on &tardily the 14th, and deuesge to the extent
of several hundred pounds in tram aloes, inland epee
the proprietor. It is believed that the plantain'
wm wilfully set on fire by acme boatmen, or rather
that an intervening space at heather, between the mad
and the wood, veal fired with Om view of commusleate
ins the &rues to the cover. A reward of C5O has hem
effervi for information which will lard to the sisarin•
non of the persoes implicated. Sir Robert Gerard bee
net only suffered heavy loss in the &strata's se
trees, but the flames made sad havoc amongst the pass*
for when the fire was extinguished, and tho oast
entered, the charred underwood us. found in um
places to cover the roasted reresine of bares say
rskhito; and several phssoutte nests were found to had
suffered in the general raid. •
A TEMPTAD MURDER AT CnILTENHAIL— At th•
pohoe-court on Wednesday the 18th mat, before Mn,
W. C. L. Harferd and Colonel Newman, Joseph
Hooper was brought •p on the charge of cutting and
wouncl•ng Mary Ann Sysom. with intent to kill and
murder her, on Saturday night, the 7th inst. The
proeecutni, • mulatto (who hod her throat bound np,
and appeared in • very weak state), in &ewer is
questions put to her, said she was the wife of Richard
Sysom, but who had left her for some years. Bhe lived
at 29, rstanhope-stest. On the night in question she
went up the town with two persons maned Rim Barnett
and Mrs. Tapp. Th-y saw the prisooar standing with
other men and • girl near the Gas Work., Tlill girt
called out after her, and said she was to got. her OWII
man- She in reply told her that she did not want the
prisoner. The girl who was with the prisoner them
struck her in the mouth; witness then went to strike
her in return, but the
_priwiner prevented her. BM
then went to Mrs. Ta's house, in Stanhope-
street. The prisoner soon afterwsr& came up
with another man, named Morris. Prosecutrie
_w_it just inside the doorway, when the prisoner
the door. He shouted out something shoal
re=rerveami," which she believed referred to the girl
behest been with. Witness asked him not to come up
to insult her, when the prisoner said, "If you don't he
with me you shan't ho with anyone else." Witness
said, " Don't trouble youroelf,l shall go with who! bits,
and when I like, so good night." Asabitirae gni ng screws the
road the prisoner ram* behind her, pat tos arum round
her neck, and threw her down. At the time oho did eel
know what he was doing, but in • moment found he was
cutting her throat. She pat up her bend, and
hold of what she believed to be a knife. Wleinc&V
prisoner had cut ber throat he said, "There, tam
that ;if you won't he with me you shan't be with any.
one elm." He then got up and ran away. Bh• get up
and found her throat bleeding profusely. She went le
her door, but wa too weak to open it, and she them
went to 'rasp's house, and set down in a ebair. Snine
one put an apron round her neck. She did sot lime
her sense., but felt very weak. Mr. Hand same sad
dressed the wound, and she was taken to the Immaitey
She bad known the prisoner for seven years, ema
loved with him as mu and wife • she lied parted from
him throe times. She last parted front him on Marsh
hsh, Other wane/pet were examined, who eeeee•e_
rated in part the proaecutrix's evidence. Hr. David
house•surgeon at the General Hoeoital, was
examined. and said on Sunday morning, the Bth, about
three o'clock, he saw Spout in the emaulty wart Her
throat hat been eat ; it hel been dryad. Re had bey
put to bed, and the drawings removed. He foaled •
act on the chin three onartan of an inch loner Thom
was an ostensive wound lon one side of the West
to the other • it TM Ent down to the windpipe. Thera
was anotheAsep out down towards the ehwit. Teen Wen
cuts on the back of the left hand. BIN wand ..t s.
well for six weeks, bit was now out of thrum. P-0,
Stratton was examined, and deposed to ham
"ended the prison r near Conthwhill, En the 1011°5in
u"rajair 'Pb. primmer *dabbed le him Met be sem-
omitted the set, and expreated • hope Mel " BY•ara 1•08
dead, and then be shield b• haPIPY. Ti=m-..." ttlissiax.
were foaled ea his "115001" arra •
poessesiom This eoseistMer tbe "tor toruitirtmer
was eoeunitted for trial at the seat
of Gloacester.