The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

THE WAY OP DEATH.

, A GrrupkAN PAINS* ACCTDENTALLT 810 T—Mr.
John omlintoe, yeoman, of Herron 'lite., neer
Clitheroe, wall found on Saturday shot dead in • field
on his own farm. The deceased gentleman left his
house on Friday afternoon, with a gun, to have a few
hones' shooting of small birds, and ea he did not re-
turn about the expected time, it Ilse thought be had
gone further than usual, or was detained by some
friends. Some of the servants, hating ed in
search of him, fornd his lifeless body re egiinat a
will, the head and fate Pearfally eersted by shot. It
In reptioeed that thc deceased, when standing by the
wall, Ina incidentally caught the trigger of his gun
with hiti foot or trott.ers, and that the charge wjAh-
In tbe weapon was lodged in his face and head. Mr.
Tomlinson was about 42 yelyi old
. H 011,1341 lacLann.—A murder has
been perpetrated within • short distanee of Ca' stle•
' pollard, on the estate of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Longford It appears that at an advanced hour on Friday
I night, the Zird alt., amen named M'Cord, parnekeeper
to his lordship, went to the police barrack end gave
information that his wife had been murdered. The
police immediately repaired to hit dwellios.house, and
found the body of the unfortunate woman lying on the
bed ,in • bedroom on the second floor, bathed in her
own blood, and cluite deed, one of her brestate having
been literally shot or On wonting the house • doable
barrelled gun belonging to Il'Cord was found below the
stairs, bearing evidence of having been recently dis-
charged. M'Cord denies all knowledge of the awful
tragedy; but state* that, while absent from the house
he beard the report of filverms. From the poeition of
the room and the wound indicted on the murdered
women, it would appear probsble that the ehot which
terminated her existence was tired from below, it
hating taken effect in the lower region of the breast,
and completely torn it from the body, in such • way
aa could hardly be passible unless the victim were in a
standing position when fired at. —Delehe Mail.

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1111C110111 IN LIIICESTIMAIIIMIL —A horrible murder
was perpetrated on Sunday, January 25th, in Leicesser-
shire. Mr. Flatten, fanner at Ashby-lodge, near Ashby
Folville, with his family and servants left home in the
afternoon for cherub. Two farm labourers only re-
mained at home— William Harvey, aged 22, and
Thomas Boswell. aged 16. On the return of the
fomily they found the body of Harvey lying on a bench,
and his brains were literally ordered about. On the
bench were a number of letters In his handwriting. and
apes lay near, as though it had ctropped from his hand
on receiving the fatal shot, for a gun, reeently dis-
charged, was found in the kitchen. Bidwell was
missing, and the inference was that he, while Harvey
was in the ad of writing, advanced noiselessly behind
him and discharged the gun. the shot entering the
desemed's ear. Death most have been inetantaneous.
About 9 o'clock in the evening Boswell was taken into
custody near Highcroes-street. in Leicester. The
Prisoner has hitherto bornto• very respectable character.
The cause of the crime seem. to have been jealousy, be
and the dectemed being both !suitors of a maidservant
in the employment of Mr. Flavell. The polioe have
discover= that a watch belonging to the murdered mac
was pledged by the prisoner in Leicester.
THE 111101IDEll IN LA II BETH. —Ol3 Thursday Mr.
William Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, and a
highly respectable jury assembled at the house of Mr.
Abbot, the Angel Inn, L•nibeth-walk, for the purpose
of inquiring into the cirewnetances attending th• death
of Catherine Hagan, aged 390, 40, who it erns alleged
bad died from strangulation by bee hueband, James
Edward Hagar', at No. 1, St. Alban't.buildtugs, Cbina-
tern= Lambeth. Ellen Wallies repeated the evidence
, given =fere the =wideste at the Lambeth Police.
I mud. She added that the deeemed, after her husband
had stated that he had been spending the night with
• strange girl, struck hire • blow in the face, and the
two then commenced lighting. The deceased threw a
chair at her husband. Had it not been for that ehe
bad no doubt the wrangling between the two would
have ended, hat that seemed to give the husband great
provocatiom—Tbotna. Hagan, a Ire= wither, and son
of the deceased, not 12 years .4 age, gave his evidence
in • very clear and distinct manner. H. deposed that
he saw his lather strike his mother, and she struck him,
and than took up • chair asst aimed it at him. He saw
his mother path his head through • window, and he
then pulled her hair. His mother had Its sometimes
after drinking. Mr. John Coffey Constable, M.R.C.8..
laid he had wades peve worm= examination, and cams 1
to the modneion that the deceased died from violence. 1
The jury, after eonsulting, relented • verdict of
tt Wad murder" against James Hagan, and the
coroner made out his warrant for eounnittal to Mende.
A dense crowd meembied in front of the house during
the whaled:De the peomedinge lasted.
The bodies of two lee children, one full grown, •nd
the other about g 1•11 months old, were lately found in
the Trent, near Nottingham, tied together by a piatair
of aveitig. They were at owe =ken to the Pit
=diem It is oddest the =Wien am ibe of
different eseelben, win are 40,bihst acipelerligei is
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train anti Commerce.

Rll.wAt C•triat.. —4 If the £Y,327,:535 of railway
capital relied at the close of 1801. the 11 great casm-
reales eontribated its following : Caledonian,
£9,330,779 ; Eastern Counties, £12,662,039; Great
Northern. £11,901,127; Great Western, K 28,181,474 •
Laticaaliire and Yorkshire, £19,272,706; London anj
North-Western. £i7,6tt,249; London and South.
Western, £12,315,190; London, Brighton, and South
Corot, £10.147,785 Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln-
shire, EW/W2, „TV. Midland, 01,791,074: North-
Eastern, 1.12,681,322 ; and South -Eaotefn, £12,425.530.
Those who feel an interest in the subject rimy advan-
tageously compare these figures with those indicated in
the reporta now being presented by the directors.
They will then are how rapid and unceasing is the
growth of the capital accounts of these great under-
takings.
ADV•ICI Or Tat Hatt OF DISCOUNT.—The
editor of the Times city article writing on Wednesday
syealog nays —The Stink of England to-day have
adopted another advance a 1 per gent, in their rate of
discount, namely, from 4 per gent, at Which it was
fixed on the 15th inst., to 5 per cent. Although • fur-
ther upward moveinent sou considered imminent, the
announcement created surprise, since it was not in any
cue expected until after the weekly court to-morrow.
It appear., believer: that the applications for discount
this morning were on an eittiMrdinary scale, chiefly,
perhaps, from a deaire to provide largely in entities-
non of a fresh movement, end that the directors,
wisely acting upon the indications thus afforded of the
extent of the actual and proapective demand, met it at
ones by a corresponding increase in their tenon The
advance from 2 per cent, which was the rate on the
:ffith of October last, to 5 per cent, is the most rapid
Gat has occurred at any period except in times of
actual panic; as In 1847 and 1857 but lees than two
years back there das • *harp mOtement ip the lioness
of four months from 411 to 8 per eett. The last date
at which the rate was as high as that now fixed we. in
August, 1861, and the Bank bullion was then about
one million below its present amount. It mast be un-
certain whether even now the drain will be checked.
Tbe traniactiond of the empire see no large And tbe
facilities afforded by the !various joint-stock banks no
great, that it is impossible, when oyertrading is in pro-
gress, to eonjecture to what extent it has been carried
until the conclusive sign appears in ths continuous
diminution of the Bank bullion. An fares the Eastern
trade is concerned the rate of discount now attained
mast operate heavily on the long bills connected with
it, and cause the honks to hesitate with regard to ex-
tensions or inconsiderate renewals of credit; but it is
evident that the madness with which the public have
surrendered themselves to the company mongers can-
not entityly be cared by any means short of the dismay
that is pralneed when one or two of each concerns
break up and involve all their subscribers In common
ruin. For this there has yet been no tirne. Two
or these yeats must elapse from the late of starting
before apecniatiire managers and directors; even with
the most dolling abilitiel, esti to get through
• million of capital; but, if the public were Capable of
receiving • warning, they would in • majority of the
recent schemes take advantage of the present state of
affairs to insist upon stopping their ventures and get•
ling back their deposits before further mischief can be
incurred. Of course the "promoters" in each ease will
retain all their gains; but if shareholders could make
up their minds to overlook that loss and close
their risks, many families would be saved who will
otherwise, before 1801, !Ind themselves reduced to
poverty.
Allgutc•N WAR 11.11 T. The statement from
Amelia& that General der bat announced st a public
meeting of his enthusiastic admirers that the interest
of the national debt, even if the total should be
£1,200,000.000, instead of £400,000,000, as at present
can be easily paid by a tax of sd, per lb. on the future
!supplies of cotton to be raised by free labour in the sub-
jugated South, furnishes another example that there is
no country of the world where the people at large seem
no pitiably ignorant of even the rudimentary principles
of financial *Menne as in the United States. The charm
of the idea to General Butler and his bearers evidently
consisted in the supposition that this tax would fall upon
the Manufacturer. cif " Fronts/ and langlandi" and that
thus the burden of American liabilities could be Charac-
teristically and adroitly thrown upon innocent
shoulder& Be seem, to have been entirely unaware
not only that cotton can be cultivated throughout a
snore varied range almost than any other article, and
that it free labour solely ia to be employed America
may be immediately distanced in the competition, but
also of the fact that the industry of France and Eng.
land will he directed to cotton manufactures only no
long as they yield an ample profit. If the Asset-means
cease Co buy English goods, and find that, by having
cotton at home at half the price at which they will sell
it to foreigners, they can manufacture goods for thou-
selves and all the rest of the world, Europe will direct
herself to other branches of workmanship, and cease to
import their cotton, in which case, under the proposed
system of General Butler, it will become an anxious
question for the United States' bondholder as to the
mean. to which he is to loot, for the payment of his
dividends. Some titnii back Mr. Seward gave the emu!,
lance that there could be 130 doubt about the fulare pay-
ment of the national debt, provided the restoration of
the Union •hould be regarded. at certain. General
Butler now nays the securilf is perfect ptovided the
South be ailbjuirated, that the slaves are set free, or
exterminated, or exported, that free labour be intro.
duced : that cotton can be grown by this means in its
former abundance at Cad. per lb., and that France and
. England, unable to proems, a bale elsewhere, shaU be
found happy to pay • tax of 100 percent. upon it, and
to take on these ternas the same quantity as of old.
Those who conaider every one of these contingencies
certain to come to pass cannot do better than to bus
and hold United States' Government securitin ; those
who base any doubt upon the point had better, per-
haps, alter such distinct intimations, base their calcula-
tions for osmium mainly on the value of the paper on
which the bonds are. printed.
Ishia C.:cirrus at 814.—Acaotding to the
most recent seasounte from India., it appears that then,
are at present at sea, en route from the Fad Indies to
England. upwards of 180,000 bales of cotton, which,
when compared with the same period last year, show
an increase of 50,000 b•les. With the exception of
50,0(v bales which -come to London, the remaining
120,000 bales go to Liverpool. The quantity going to
the Continent is very small indeed. The arrivals of
Egyptian cotton into Liverpool during the It few days
have been very large, nearly 6,000 bales having gone
into that port.