The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

3ottings L':.l the raap.

TIME.

It seems but the other day when all minds :were
occupied with the approach of Christmas. Friends whit
bad not met for some time were anticipating the
pleasure of each other's society—children were looking
forward to the joyous meeting with parents, and parer&
with children —holidays —journies—porties—were all
anxiously anteipated. To many the four or five preced-
ing weeks seemed scerisely to pan quickly enough.
But it is now Jantuuy 19th, 1864, ne arty three weeks
on in the new year. Christmas has come and goes.
Friend., parents, children, have met and parted.
Holidays, jouruies, and parties are over ; and here are
we posting away at a great speed to • repetition ot
similar expectations and enjoyment. should we la
spored to the end of the year. And where now ixthe
tune, and the events, *hat have occurred mace
December let, 19631 They are nowhere, except in
memory. When looking forward time seems long, and
re.
passing events which incur anxious suspense or trouble
often make it seem longer; but how very dre
iffent
when looking upon time that is past; This Alai
incidents of our lives for years past can readily pm:*
through
the
mthiendeixnp thoustt
of axld peopla fewsee°nds.who how
frequent ,
re.alled the "thee. 6,ore Yeare and ten" or beyond that,
"It seems but the other day tleul was a child time NM
goes." If,therefore,time past lusher all but short,may we
not look forward to, say six year, hence, and feel to
ourselves that, should we be spare& we shall live to
look back upon it as though it were but no many hours.
We may alai carry out this thought in reference to the
cloge of our lives, however long that may be, low
short then, in reality, is time' And how short than*
pleasures in the actual enjoyment, which are frequently
long anticipated; and although we are often oppressed
with calamities and troubles which make the moment,
pass wearily, yet in reality those momenta are speeding.
with like swiftness, and our troubles also. Time is
indeed short—swiftly passing. We ...item my this; but
do we realise it to ourselves, and act aa though we be-
lieved it? Let the remembrance of the shortness of time
kid to the endeavour to crowd it as full as possible with
useful and good deeds—to leas trilling and more energetic
improvement of ourselves and circumstances ; and above
all, to the active pursuit of that preparation which will It
us to spend in happiness that existence where we shall
U.. without time. For time itself-6,000 years—is bat
as all island, appearing a little while, and then for ever
sinking beneath the waters of the vast ocean of
eternity. It is as • candle glimmering in the dark
night, which quickly consumes and expires, and the
still darkness again reigns as though no light had ever
broken its gloom. There will, assuredly, he a period in
our existence when we shall be able to look back and
see no traces of time, except as we have been connected
with. Amami MAT,

Extonlog or WRIGHT. —The efforts made by
numerous philanthropist, and working men, aided by
nearly the whole press, have proved fruitless, and cgs
Tuesday morning the wretched man Wright paid the
last earthly penalty of his crime by being ignommously
hung at Horsemonger-lane gaol. About 1,000 or 5,000'
persons witnessed the spectacle. There was swearing
and preaching, drunkenness and quarrelling, laughing
and shrieking, in fact the crowd was what it ever is, a
mass of blackguardion. At last the clergyman, the
condemned man, and the executioner appeared, when
the excitement became more intense. The criminal
bowed two or three times to the crowd, and, watching
his opportunity, Calcraft slipped the cap over the
wretched man's head. With the fatal cap covering the
wretched man's head be bowed again to the howling,
shrieking crowd, when the fatal bolt was withdrawn
but not until after spine clumsy and fbungling attempts;
on the part of Calcraft, in attaching the rope to the
beam. Wright struggled for about two minutes, and
I then all was silent and sta. It is useless to deny that's
feeling of diasatiefaction pervade the public mind,
especially in eonneotioa with the ease of Townley, when
one law for the rich and another one for the poor is the
prevailing idea.
RUMOURED TRANSLATION OF TER RISSIOI. Or
BaleToL To —lt is recently reported in alerted
circle, that the Right Rev. Dr. C. J. Ellioott, Bishop
of Gloucester and Bristol, will be translated to the
lishopric of Ely, rendered vacant by the death of the
Right Rev. Dr. Tharton. The appointment is a very
important one, inasmuch as the Bishop of Ray, besides
his ordinary episcopal influent*, has the patronage ci
the mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge, and the
selection of one of two for the mastership of fit. Peter's,.
11. has also • right of nominating fellows at Bt. John's
and Jesus. —Star.

A Wuxi!' Buorizazu II FIST.—On Thursday. Mr.
William Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, held an
inquest at the Crown public-bonne, Lambeth, on the
body of • female about 45, who pared by the name of
Mary Ann Willson. George Belcher said that he was a
labourer, and was in the employment of Messrs.
Bennett, hay and straw salesmen, at Belvidere-road,
Lambeth. He bad known the &maned—although
ordered by the night watchman not to do so—to got
into the wharf in order to sleep on the hay and straw,
In order to reach the hay she would crawl under the
waggons and carts as they passed into the pretend& On
Monday night witness had placed seven triune of hay
upon • heap in the yard, and the next morning. nima
ascending • ladder to reach the Mores, be found the
woman. She was dead. The body was jammed from the
lowe dart of the body to the shoulders, and above her
sbouliern were three or four inches of soft bay. William
Trampleasure, son of the manager of the wharf, said
that he knew the deceased, who would, when she could
det an opportunity, sleep among the hay and straw.
She had for years done the same. The watchman had
repeatedly turned her out, and forbade her to come
spin. On Monday night be maw her in the Belvidere
road, when she asked him for • penny. He, however,
refused to give her one, That was between ten and
half-past ten o'clock. She then appeared sober. He
wee tertein that she did not ask permission to go int°
the yard. If she had he should not have allowed it.
Mrs. Hale, the sextonees, said that she had laid the
body out, and found no mark of violence upon it. She
had a wallet tied round her, containing brood and
!neat, and a penny in • glove. The summoning officer,
in answer to the coroner, said there were no app.u•
aeon of the deceased having been ill used. Verdict,
" Accidental Death."

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