The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

KB.. STAINEIPILD. N.Y., ON REFORIL

Ois Thursday night Mr. %sashid, MP. for Halifax,
addreesed his tosstiteseds. Rix Frauds Cramley
oreapied the chair. Mr. iitassfeld matured to malts
two prophesies. The Arai was that Reform mead no
longer be &lira Through hereditary oppositionit
the Conservativee the moderate bill al lest year was re-
jested. Now throe was a bin Wore the Hears which
wee tricky, delusive, sad micehievoas, but if liberals
were united it might issue from eommittes a large
simple and sailehatory mesieare. He thought that
Government would fall best upon Lord Grooversor's
anteedasent, which would void together an possible
limitations. He had no authority to say what would be
date, but Mr. Gladatcoe's earthling provision haring
beta defeated, he would not now propo.. the restristiv•
IDINIBUTIMI with which It bad bees . He thought
there was e oder mode of &snag with the ameenre la
committee. as faults might one by one be amended.
This taunt had been thrown out that Mr. Gladstone
I wished to adept a eta hard line; but this tew.b pre.
seeded from those who had always owned Islam
Now th• Tories bad only charmed their movietioss be-
sense they had their mats sad aides in lie
Hones. He had no Ist that Mr. Okdatorte, sodas se
the Impotent of the 'Alberti party, would mrt himself
a all restrictioas and oosesioas for earreptien, and
ttttiall would become a larger mint» than any party
had yet natured to submit. As for the Tory party,
who were caught in their owe snare, lot thorn at their
peril refuse to own to its manidetkat their own
tmeedod, purihad, and esiarged sassears el Reform—
(Arms). A vote of ocalidenoe we. primed in the boa.
gentleman.

SHOT-DRILL IN A MILITARY PRISON.
I feel some difficulty in conveying to the nalaitated,
Is men words, a clear notice of the manner sat=
of this punishment. Along the node woods.
shaped bloats, shout three lenses in depth. wore
arranged in rows, eight blocks innab row. le the
centre of mob block niers was • small nip, or hollow,
in which a thirty-two round shot can rest. At each
end of the sheds there wss • row of triple block.; that
1., blocks mad* with three asps is as to bold three
shots. Between each row or rank of Meeks and shot
there was a distehoe of fin peer Whim all were
properly formed up sod "droned the sealer warder
PiZlslang the front of his men, numbeeing them of
tite, giving each sight right or left wheel, Wing
each eight up to • row of blocks. All ranks Is position,
the eord "attention* was given, and every man swan
op ready for anion. All eyes were directed to the far
end of the shed. There soon one prisoner, selected by
the warder at that rod to give the time, had his right
band raised above his Iced, fingers extruded. After •
pause the prisoner with the uplifted hand beet slowly
over his block, the whole hundred and hooey prisoners
bonding with him. In this motion the knees and lege
must be kept perfectly close and straight, the bead ef
the body being wily from the haunches upward. Wboa
low enough, every man lifted his shot, riding Ills the
hollow of right hand, supported by the left Theo,
raising the body slowly, lep end kININI still kept close
and straight, be heed to the right-about, marehed five
noes to the next row of blocks, whin were sow empty.
When there, • panes was made while "Iwo" could be
counted, thee every cas bending together slowly over.
knees still straight and close, the shot was deposited la
the empty blocks as gently se if the blacks had been
made of glass. There most be no noise in laying down
the shot. A shot rattling upon the bine may eon a
man his tapper, or twisty lout boars' bread-and-water
—ibinp on very pleasing to contemplate when • man's
rations we already down to the eterviagpoial The
panes and paths layiog of the shot ere planned to in-
crease the severity of the punishment The shot
deposited, all rise slowly np, spin face-alieet, marob
lye pane back to the blocks they bad Jost emptied, and
Ind them again supplied with shot. Again they bend
over, &pin lift the shot, .pin fen to the right-about,
and marsh fin pears back to the blocks which • minute
before they had filled, bet now find empty, and which
they again fill. Three times this inovemeat is maned,
which leaves the triple-loaded Meeks se one sad of the
shed empty, and the triple row at the ether end loaded.
A pease is made. • prisoner at tie loaded mod mien
his hand, as the pinion in the ether hand had pre-
viously dose. We follow his signal, bead over with
him, and so on, over end over again. No soles wie
board, although • hundred and twenty soldion wen
marching to and he at their penstorial panishenent ;
so veins, except the voices of the warden. .
From eleven o'clock a.m., till half-pad twelve chink
non, was the fixed time for the performease of this
humane ezereles.—Life in • IR.y Prins, in the
Oonskill Afapesies.

• MAN EXHUMING THE BODY OF 818 'WM.
A workman named Naomi, aged 23, living in Lose-
roff. France. bad the wineries*, about three wenn
book, to lose his wife, to whom he was greatly attuned,
mid a few days after his pig was angrombed by the
death of his shill. From that moment the OAead
appeered to haft partially lout his reason. as he was
continually talking of his deceased partner, sod omen-
ing the belief that the had rely left him far a abaft time
aod would soon return. Three highto bask, after
spending a short time in a wine-shop, where acme drink
which he took had elfll farther unsettled his mint, he
returned home, took a epode, sod, preowned to the
esmetery, munietheed removing the earth from the
wombs'. grey.; alt., some boars' labour he thesseded
in bringing the sons to the Pubs" and then foram
off the lid took out the wpm, end carrying it home in
his arms plowed it in his bed, and this, after Whig a
Are, went sad informed three of hie thiglthosas that i is
wife bad refereed home. Them latter, sithough set
attaching any importathe to his words, immeeepasied
him borne, with the riew of indasiag him to retire to
rem, but were horrified to And the body has Hagman
had stated. Tbe unfortunate workman spike to Its. if
still living, sod endeavoured to oblina a reply by
sddreesing It in the most eadearing tonea. Medias it,
however, &St to his entreaties, he 'Bowed Mourn to be
persuaded to our., it back and place it in the eadlia,
which ha tothera to the grave ; ha she Ana in the
earth and went home to sleep. Oath, following day
nagnaa had Do recollection of what took piece us the
previous evening, bat said that he thought that he bad
rent his wife during the night. The authorities haft
not gifts orders for his arr.* but haft dinned that
he should be @trimly watched as weak is mind.