The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

Central Nelms.

EXCURSIONISTS FROM ST. PICTERBIIOIIO.—A letter
from St. Petersburg of the 14th says :—" Bills are
posted up here announcing excursions to the Exhibition
of London, some by land and some by water ;so as to be
adapted to all tastes. One of the most fashionable of
those speculators promises to the public thirty days
of uninterrupted pleasure at Berlin, Paris, and London,
with all the comfort, possible, for 2,000 f. His
programme is most attractive and complete, and even
the pieces are mentioned to be played at the theatres ,
on certain days. For instance. at Paris on the 13th June,
the perfortnance is to be the "Couut thy' and the 1
%toils de Measine,' and on the 13th 'Robert is Diable.'
As an additional pleasure this gentleman promises the
company the society of a police-officer, appointed by
the superior administration of the capital, in order to
cause to be respected everywhere both the engagements
entered into, and the character and honour of the Russian
nation.'"
THE 31URDRRER be remembered that
George Clark, a joiner,, was convicted at the Newcastle-
on-Tyne Spring Assizes of the murder of Mr. Mark
Frater, • tax-collector, in the erect of that town and
that he was sentenced to...death by Mr. J lake ;
but, in consequence of the eccentric conduct of the
prisoner on his trial, and subsequent examinations
made by medical gentlAsmen, it will also be recollected
the sentence of death was subsequently respited by the
Home Office. There has since been considerably
difficulty with regard to the disposal of the convict
through the Newcastle borough justice refusing to sign
a certificate that Clark was iinsane, though the two
medical men appointed by them to examine the convict
made • report to them to that effect. The difficulty
has been got over, however, by a private intimation
which has been sent to the governor of Newcastle Gaol,
to the effect that the Queen has commuted the sentence
on Clark to that of penal servitude for life.
BILIOBTON (SATURDAY AND atlexhit.)—The following
extract from a newspaper correspondent's letter gives a
pretty good idea of the bustle and anxiety which
prevailed in Brighton during Saturday and Sunday
As for the town, it will be easier for the public to
ialagine than for one to describe the excitement of
Brighton in the premonitory agony of a volunteer
review. Ever since I arrived here, I found the streets
almost impassable, the hotels hotly besieged, and the
keepers of lodging-houses standing at the doors enjoying
the cruel luxury of turning away whole regiments of
carpet-bags, with the information that they (the lodging.
house keepers) were "quite fulL" The shopkeepers
pronounce it to be better than "the season," and libel
Brighton shopkeeper admits that anything is better
than "time season," you may take it for granted that it
is something very superlative indeed. The corporation,
• wholly invisible, but dreadfully potent Vehomericht,
about which nobody here seems to know anything
except its mysterious power. has published all sorts of
ukases to strangers, to townspeople, to volunteers, to
regulars, to cabmen, and to innkeepers. Every
one says that the regulations so promulgated
are absurd, but nobody ventures to resist them.
" The corporation" has ordered it, and my impression
is that instant death, aggravated by the most cruel
tortures, would be the infallible result of the slightest
attempt at grumbling or disobedience. Happily there
is no prohibition against promenading Kings-road and
the adjacent sea lines, and consequently they are
literally alive with gallant volunteers and fair ladies
who have come out to see them. Such of time former
—and they are hundreds, if not thousands—who were
wise enough to get d3wn, have done very well. The
"Civil Service" engaged an entire hotel, the host under.
taking to frank them until Tuesday morning at a
guinea a bead, a very reasonable tariff considering the
retail prices demanded in the same quarters. The cele-
brated "Mutton's" is beseiged from morning until night
with., much vigour as if it were the No. 10 Island in the
Mississippi, but I am happy to say with much better
success. The Volunteers must by this time have
stormed and sacked it over and over again, and the pro-
prietor have "sacked" • good deal of volanteer money,
• reciprocity of good offices which was no doubt agreeable
to both parties. The " people " crowd about the
Volunteers u "they march through the town," and
congratulate themselves that the intruders have "no
billets," the local "brigade" appeal to them to have
their shoes "shined," thereby showing that in Brighton
the aesthetic is the dominant idea, as a London shoe.
black asks only to "clean" your shoes, and the fisher-
men tempt them with extraordinary dogfish and
wenn...4 sigss to take home as souvenirs of their
visit to 'Brighton.
A. " STRANGE STORT."—The following story, which
reads like an extract from the " Castle of Udolpho,"
appears in the London correspondence of Saunders :
Really, what with Mr. Hume, Mr. Forster, and Sir
Bulwer Lytton'a "Strange Story," London society
sena just name inflicted with a general phantom-mania.
The last new phase of the malady lea ghost story, which
has lately obtained extensive currency in what are
called the " upper circles," and which claims for its
believers two counsel learned in the law, and the Lord
High Chancellor himself I don't pretend to vouch
that the story can pretend to the " ghost" of in founda-
tion for its existence ; I werely testify that it is being
talked of by " everybody," and that the first question
asked at most tables is, " Have you heard of Lord
Westbury's ghost ?" The story runs thus :—Lord
Westbury lately purchased Flackwood House, an old
m tuition near Basingstoke, the property of Lord Bolton.
Snatching a spare day or two to obtain a more minute
inspection of hisinvestment, betook with him tweed the
gentlemen belonging to his official establishment, both
tnembers of the learned profession. On separating for
the night the bedroom destined for one of them, a Mr.
R—, was found to be on the opposite side of the ball
to those of the other gentlemen; he therefore shook
bands and said " Good night" in the ball, leaving the
others talking there. He had not been asleep before
he "felt" himself awoke; but could neither hear nor
perceive anything. By degrees, however, he became
conscious of something luminous on the side of the room
opposite his bed which gradually assumed the appearance
of • woman clothed in gray. He at first thought it was
an optical illusion ; next, that his companions were
playing him some phoephoria trick, and then turning
, around he composed himself to sleep again. Further
on the night he was awoke again, and then at once he
saw the same figure brilliantly conspicuous on the wall.
Whilst he was gazing at it it seemed to leave the wall
and advance into time middle of the apartment. He
immediately jumped out of bed, rushed to it, and of
course found—nothing. He was so impressed with the
power of the delnvion that he found it impossible to
seek any more sleep, and as the day was beginning to
breek, he dressed and wade his way to time grounds,
where he walked about some, pondering over the
illusion so forcibly produced upon him. On his return
to his room he wrote out an exact account of what he
thought he had seen, it being then quite clear to Shim
that it was no trick played by others, but simply an
hallucination of his own brain. At the breakfast-table,
however, he began to fancy that he had been cleverly
imposed on by his friends, as they commenced at once
bantering him on his " night's rest,"" broken sleep,"
and so forth. Wishing to detect them, if possible.
he pretended unconsciousness, and utter ignorance of
their meaning, when, to his horror, one of them ex-
claimed, "Come, come, don't think we didn't see one
of the women in gray follow you int) your room last
night !" He rushed upstairs, produced his written
amount, which he gave them to read, and the conster-
nation became general. On inquiry, of bourse, they
found the legend of • murder done in days of yore ; and
the Lord Chancellor is supposed to be exceedingly vexed
at an incident which has decidedly shut up one room
in his house for ever, if not, in all probability, tabooed
the mansion altogether. This much do the • upper ten.
thousand" aver—bow truly is quite another question.
A HUSBAND STEALING RIB WIER'S BIBLE.—At the
Town Hall, Leeds, on Tuesday, a nailmaker, named
John Pills, residing in Eastfield-street. Bank, was
charged by his wife with stealing a large Bible, which •
young man had presented to her some years ago. The
magistrates informed the woman that what was hers
was her husband's, and what was his was his own, end
he could not be punished for removing his own property.
The prosecutrix seemed perfectly amazed at the
decision.
HOLLOWAT'a CONTHINT AND PlLLS.—Changeahle weather.—
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general state of public haelth. Affections of the throat and
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congestion, Inflammation, ulceration, bronchitis, hoarseness
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rubbed twiee a day over the throat and chest, to effect an
immediate and marked improvement in all the symptoms of
disease and quickly produoe • radical cure. Both Ointment
and Pills are devoid of danger, being compounds of the finest
balsams intimately allied by nature and accurately eomblned
by art.
IMPORTANT TO ALL WHO Sure—From Mr. E. Page, Director
of the Choir and Organist of Bt. Marie's Catholic Church,
Newport, Monmouthshire.—" Having suffered much from
relaxation of the throat, I have often being obliged to resort I
to various preparations; but since 1 have bad the good fortune
to try Dr. cx's Putemoirte Wants, I am now but seldom
obliged to use them, for the extraordinary good effects they
have produced are most surprising. Even when the throat
appears to be completely exhausted, and the voice to be nearly
gone, two or three (at meet four) w 11, in the short space of
half an hour or so, complete`yr estore its flexibility and power,
and they do not act as • mere temporary exciting remedy, nor
do they leave any lassitude after."
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