The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

enteral liebm.

MR. TOWNRIIND, M.P., AND THS STASI. Mr. J.
Townsend (who li, strictly speaking, still one of the
members for Greenwich) is performing during the pre-
sent week at the Theatre Royal, Margate. Mr. Town.
send attraoted crowded houses last weak at Gravesend,
where he delivered • farewell addreu on Friday night.
After leaving Margate Mr. Townsend will proceed to the
north of England, where he has theatrioal engagements
until Chrittinas.
BUDDIN DICATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAOR. A
stout, corpulent gentleman, whose name and 'voidance
have not at present transpired, left London on Friday
morning, by the 7.30 train for the north, by the London
and North• Western Railway, vies Trent Valley. At that
time he appeared in expellent health, and from the data-
ment of a fellow•pusenger was agreeable and comment.
oative. No change was obeervalale in hbi demeanour
until the train arrived within three miles of Atherstone,
when hie head was observed to drop on one Nide, and he
wee almost immediately • oorpse.

LONDON AND NORTH•WICATIRN RAILWAY. - Mr.
Cawkwell, truffle manager of the Lanouhlre and York-
shire Railway, hu accepted the poet of general manager
on the London and North-Western, resigned by Captain
Huish. About six months ago, Mr. Cawkwell wise
offered a similar position on the Midland line, but was
induced to remain where he was by the liberality of his
own board. It is said the Lancashire and Yorkshire
directors have offered him £l,OOO • year rather than
lose his services. Rumour fixes the salary on the
London and North-Western at £2,000 a year, with a per.
mintage on the increase of traffic.

ILLNISS Or THII BISHOP Or NORWIOH.—The Bishop
of Norwich has been indisposed during the lest few days,
having unfortunately ruptured a small blood vessel.
Him Lordship was engaged to preside on Tuesday at the
anniversary meeting of the Norfolk branch of the
Church Musionary Society ; but to the regret of those
present he was unable to attend. Mr. H. R. Upcher,
who was appointed chairman of the meeting, read •
letter from the Bishop, in which he stated that his
medioal attendant counselled complete repose for several
days, and that he felt it his duty to abide by the
advice. Sinee his appointment to the see of Norwich,
in April, 1887, the right rev, prelate has devoted him.
self zealously to the affairs of the diocese, and has
secured general respect.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The accounts from
Valentia leave little doubt that the submarine cable hu
received an injury of the most serious nature. The ex.
perimenta made by the directors reduce a belief that the
fracture or fractures—for it is thc ught there may be two
—exist • distance of about 270 miles from the shore.
For about 240 miles the depth is only 410 fathoms, and
within that range the mischief could easily be repaired,
but • sudden descent then occurs to 1518 fathoms,
where it is extremely doubtful if anything could be done.
It is wondered probable that the damage has been 'us.
tamed at this abrupt point, where • submarine rnoun•
taintrange divides the depths of the Atlantic from the
oomparatively shallow water leading from the Irish
°oast.

NUT-CRACKING EXTRAORDINARY.—A denizen of the
smoke-covered district i few miles south of Newcastle,
having heard that his landlord, with whom he was par-
ticularly desirous to ingratiate himself, bad egiect pre-
dilection for 'lute, on his lest rent-day presented himself
at the hall with dirge bag of those delicate oomestiblee,
of which he bashfully requested the squire's aoceptanee.
The good-huinoured landlord (se who would not be good-
humoured on receiving his runt.?) smilingly aseepted
the gift ; but, opening the treasure, " Why, -how is this,
ALL -8.," said he, "I find they Cr. only kernels—you
must have been at a great deal of trouble in breaking
them r " Ay, ay, Bin," replied the farmer, "aw war-
rant ye they mead utah Jaws wark, and t'wife's jaws
wark, and t'hairns jaws wark afore we gat 'sin all
creaked."

DSSTINQUIIUID BIIUOGLZRIL—A eorrespondent of
the Independance Beige writes from Ostend :—" On
Saturday last, on the arrival of the Heavier from lom
don, the Custom liouse °Mors, while examining the
luggage of the passengers, ooneeived some suspicions of
the amplitude of a crinoline worn by the Countess D
—, who was accompanied by Major
K--, both Russian subjeota, and who landed at
Ostend. The officers thought it their duty to repeat an
examination made in the first instance with a delicacy
which the position of the passengers justified. This led
to the discovery of a great quantity of ailku, necker-
chiefs, and other articles of dross, amounting to the
value of about £l2O. A proem verbal has been drawn up
against the noble delinquents."

SINGULAR EzcouNTXll.—The other day a singular In•
oldent oecurrod in a barn near ',mulish, Arran. On
passing it our attention was directed to the strange be.
havlour of • duck that was swimming on the surface.
On closer examination we found that the bird had got
hold of part of the entraihi of a herring, or some other
Sib, whieb had been thrown into the stream by some of
the quid wives of the place, and as the duck was endea-
vouring to swallow the savoury morsel it experienced
the truth of the trite but true saying, " there's many •
slip, &0.," for an eel of extraordinary else, rising to the
surface of the water, seized the mese of fish, as it was
being gobbled by the duck, and a singular struggle imme-
diately ensued for the possession of the prize, which
ended in the denizen of the deep being victorious; not,
however, without its having twice pulled its feathered
rival completely under water.

CITY OF LONDON RIGIBTB ATION. —Last week Mr. T.
Y. 51'Christie, the revising barrister for the City of Lon-
don, according to annual custom, commenced the revi-
sion of the electoral list for the whole city, which
usually takes a week, sitting for that purpose in the
Court of Common Pleas, at Guildhall, The ceremony,
which at one time had some interest, has now degene-
rated into • niers form, wholly destitute of public im-
portance. For years past the register of the con-
stituenoy has undergone so rigid a scrutiny at the handl'
of professional men employed in the interest of the two
great political parties, and espenially of the Liberals BO
called, who may be almost said to have made it the
business of their lives to watch and purge it, that its
purity may be pronounced complete, and the occupation
of those who have made it so gone while the last
lingering restage of significance that attached to the re-
vising barrister's court has been lost in the near pro-
spect of a coming Reform Bill.
EXTRAORDI NARY 000 RR EMMY—The Dumfries Stand-
ard has the following :—On Tuesday last • son of Mr.
M'Kie, one of the parochial teachers in the parish of
Buittle, a boy six years of age, became sick after eating
• quantity of fruit, and vomited an eel fully 15 inches
long and proportionately thick. This took place in his
father's house, and in presence of several members of the
family. A respectable townsman woe present at the
time, and while the boy was suffocating, blood coning
from his mouth and nostrils, observed something moving
too and fro in the child's mouth, and, seizing it, he pulled
out an eel, which, as stated above, was upwards of 15
inches long. The boy's mother states that about two
years ago she can remember the child explaining that it
had swallowed a little eel that had been swimming about
in its pannikin. The boy enjoyed ordinary health, and
complained of no unusual sensation in his stomach. His
mother observed that hie appetite was rather ravenous,
and that he was subject to startling in his sleep, and
restless when awake.
HAVILOOK AT !CULL! ANFORI. General Havelock
who had just had his horse shot under him, now ap-
peared, boldly riding • hack, the only man who dared
raise his head, so close and thick was the fire that rained
upon us. He instantly, with clear and firm tone, gave
the order, "The line will advance." Hardly were the
words spoken, when a feeling of confidence inspired every
breast, and displaced the overwhelming weight of uncer-
tainty and doubt engendered by inaction. Up sprung
our thin line, not amounting to 800 strong; their quick
pace sooellerated by the double, they bounded onward.
At the word "Forward," the space between the hostile
line was so inconsiderable that a general melte seemed
inevitable the odds being fearful against us. But to
this act of intrepidity iu our general his troops worthily
responded. Their ardour and enthusiastic daring
had mounted to that height almost resembling frenzy ;
acknowledging no obstacle, and overleaping every harrier,
their inipetuority was Irresistible. Hurrah I Well done,
brave 64th I Away ! away I across the plain, like the
shifting time' of a panorama, the cowardly rebels
disappeared.

THII New INDIAN DIPARTMENT.—At a meeting of
the Indian Council on Wednesday Lord Stanley eub•
witted to the Council his scheme for the revision and
arrangement of the whole establishment of oflioere and
servants in the departments at Leadenhallatreet and the
Board of Control, which he vu empowered by the re-
cent Act of Parliament to draw up as Secretary of
State. The following is a list of the principal Office' in
the new establishment, and the names of the gentlemen
who have been appointed secretaries I—Revenue, Mr.
Pridsaux • Judicial, Mr. Hawkins Political, Mr.
Key.; Railway and Telegraph, Mr. Danvers ; Public
Works, Mr. Thornton • Public) or General, Mr. Hour.
(linen. Military Deartanant.—Secretary, not yet
known; Aulstant-Secretary, Mr. &de. Marine and
Transport Departtnent.--Superintendent, Kr. Plowden ;
Aceountanti•Cleneral, Mr. Friend; Auditor, Mr. &tidos;
Cashier' Mr. Duninnure; Inspeetor-General of Stores,
General Bonner; Agent to Administrator-General,
Mr. Clarke; Statistical Depaitment and Keeper of
Records, Mr. Hornidge • Mist Clerk, Mr. Onalow.
Ofiloors of Conimittees.-2Eleoretary to Finance, Home,
and Public Works Committees, Mr. Denver.; Secretary
to Revenue and Judicial, Mr. Prideaux ; Secretary to
Political and Military, Mr. Fade.
THN JOINTED ST/CAMEL—The jointed aorewoolller
Connector of London, proceeded to Hartlepool, where
she took in a °arr.._ of eoals. She left Hartlepool
on the morning of Wednesday, the Bth inst., and at 12
p.m. the next day was abreast of Orfordneu, the
weather being calm to Huntlefoot, a fair wind thence
to Flamborough Head, light variable winds across the
deeps to Cromer, and head wind of increasing violence
thence to Orfordneas. Deducting four hours spent in
cleaning out her furnace and tubes, her running time
was 32 hours, which, considering that she had only a
single 10-horse engine to propel -her three sections of
110 feet in length may be deemed • very fair perform-
ance, and augurs well for the attainment of very high
speed by full powered jointed steamers. As she rounded
Orfordness she was fairly caught close on • timelier,
with • strong S.S.W. wind, and • very quick sea run-
ning against a spring flood-tide, the night being of
pitchy darkness. For some time her position was one of
peril, but her light draught and narrow displacement
enabled her engine to force her against wind and sea off
the lee shore; and when she obtained sufficient offing
she wore round, receiving the full shock of the heavy
beam sees without her joints sustaining the slightest
injury, and returned to Lowestoft. As soon as the
weather moderated elle proceeded to London, and de-
livered her coals above all the bridges at • wharf in
Vauxhall. We understand that the Jointed Ship Corn.
pony are actively proceeding with arrangements for
laying on • line of jointed screw colliers in the London
coal trade, and have received support to large extent in
Hartlepool. It is stated that estimates made by cam.
petent persons show, that owing to the great saving of
time by transferring the engine and crew section from
one vessel to another at both ends of the route, the
facility of carrying on an immense cargo and dietri but.
log it in sections to all waterside premises on the
Thames, coals can be carried from the northern coal
ports of England at a oost for transit of only 2s. per ton,
which even at the present very low freights would leave
• wide margin to handsome profit*, and defy all railway
competition. We trust that Newcastle will not be
behind other porta in availing itself of the peculiar ad-
vj4itage of this bold and suceseelnl innovation in steam
—Awl** iftfir swop.
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rwe I°. °: Buy Thomas :dna si Abi Tuue 41:Taisti4a"nndlipitilrow°o"W:LeliAl IdonMAeardolin
s man named George Wheaton. The three men were
ato tAut uulll7.
employed at the Pontymoile Ironworks, near Newport.
On leaving work in the morning they went toe publio-
hones on the banks of the Monmouthshire Canal, where
e_quarrel arose between Leonard and another man, but
Wheaton interfered and prevented a fight. Neither
Leonard nor Williams approved the interference, and
upon leaving the house the latter exclaimed, " Let's
kill the —." Both attempted to seise Wheaton, who
ran away end jumped over a wall. He wee pursued,
however, and dragged beak by the hair of his heed, the
wall being broken down in the struggle, The two then
threw Wheaton into the canal, walked in after him, and,
while holding him under water, swore the same fate to
any one who should render assistanee. When Wheaton
became still and insensible they left him, and he was
got out of the canal by several men and laid upon the
bank. A number of women then applied various rode-
retiree, but it was upwards of 20 minutes before the
unfortunate man returned to consciousness. Leonard
subsequently absconded, but Williams was apprehended,
and on Monday committed to the assizes upon • charge
of attempting to murder, ball in £4OO being accepted for
his eppearanoe.
DESTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY VIADUCT BY FIRE.—
On Wednesday a fire broke out mysteriously on one of
the extensive wooden railway viaducts on the 'front
Valley Railway, near Stafford, which has completely
destroyed the erection and interrupted the traffic on the
line. The viaduct was about 150 yards in length, and
crossed the river Pink and the canal at one sweep.
This was found to be on fire early on Wednesday morn-
ing by the driver of the mail train from Tamworth.
The fire appeared to come from beneath the viaduct.
A strong wind blew at the time, and the allllllsl rapidly
extended. The viaduct, having been built of timber,
which had undergone a chyinicial process to prevent rot,
wee very inflammable, and the whole structure was won
in • blase. lii, calculated that there were 40,000 feet
of timber in the structure, which was erected at • cost of
£B,OOO. The fire, when at its height, lighted up the
country for miles round, and roared with awful violence,
causing the greatest consternation. The whole was re-
duced to ashes in about four hours, leaving tke iron
rails alone suspended across the chasm. As to the
cause of the tire nothing can be ascertained with any
certainty. It might have been caused by the dropping
of a lighted cinder, but the driver of the mad train
representa that when he first saw the flames they were
beneath the flooring of the way.

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER ON THE CONFER.
810NAL.—The Bishop of Winchester has oommenoed his
annual visitation and delivered his charge. He dealt
with some importan, subject vitally affecting the church
and it. prosperity. He alluded to church-rates, and
gave his adhesion to the belief that • measure for their
adjustment was neoeseary. "something must be done,"
he said ; but the extent of the reform to which tile
Right RSV. Prelate would go is very limited. Be
thought "that any measure to be safe ought to be
founded in principle on the present state of the law,
whatever modifications or exceptions might be made"—
which is exactly that measure of amelioration that Non-
conformists will not submit to. The bishop also referred
to other reforms in the church ; but declared that he
felt bound to resist the revision of the Prayer-Book, and
the translation of the scriptures "for popular purposes."
And this led him to allude to the practice of oonfeision
the Anglican communion. It had been the custom he
said, to draw from the Prayer-Book authority for prise-
Roes "which were in antagonism to the whole spirit of
our liturgical services." He went on to say :—" The
enslanguage of the forularies gave no unction to private
confusion, m
while by the homilies it was exprusly con.
damned. He believed that the practice was attended
with the greatest danger, and that it bad been perverted
to the vilest purposes, and that it was repugnant to the
spirit of the Gospel as it was to the manly common sense
and Independent mind of the greet mess of the English
rolpsl ewo. all Tithe might
ot depend
substitution
nthoirwoonnitrieari;
to a priest for conversion of the heart to God, and they
would never endure to see the weaker members of their
families subject to a process which would destroy the
moral sense, and render them captive to the will of a
spiritual director."

CAPTORS OF • DRIERTER.—A fellow who deserted
to the enemy from the English ranks when before Bebea.
topol, and by his treichery caused the slaughter of •
number of his comrades, use just been captured, and
awaits the sentence of • court martial. On the 22nd of
March, 1856, the 7th Regiment of Fusileers wore per-
forming trench duty, when two of the men, private
Thomas Tole, and • companion named Moore, left the
lines, under pretence of searching for fuel, and, instead
of returning, went over to the enemy. The treacherous
information they gave of the position of the company
they had deserted from proved • guide to the Russians,
who, making • determined attack upon them the same
night, killed Captain the Hon. Cavendish BrOWII and 30
men. Tole was not given up with the exchange of pri-
soners at the end of the war, but matte Bt. Peteriburgh.
Desiring, subsequently, to return to England, he eon
-
Weed to obtain a passport, and has been for some time
in New York. More recently he took up his quarters at
Old Mount-street, Manchester. B..veral months so
Mr. Leary, superintendent of the B division, had him
taken into custody on suspicion of being guilty of this
heinous and disgraceful offence, but the evidence failed
to prove his desertion. Lister correspondenoe with the
commanding oftioer. however, led to the production of
witnesses who could speak inure positively, and on Mon-
day Tole was again placed before the city magistrate,
when two of his former comrades in the sane company,
to whom he was personally known, gave evidence re-
garding his going over to the enemy, and he was ordered
to be delivered over to the military authorities. Tole in •
native of Ireland, and 24 year. of age. A man of the
same regiment, named Dennis Cleary, who was wounded,
and has since received his discharge, is now a police-
officer in the B division. Tule states that his companion
Moore died in two dap' after they joined the Residua.
MYSTERIOUS DICATH AT CAMBERWELL.- During the
past few days considerable excitement has prevailed
throughout the districts of Camberwell and Peckham in
consequence of the discovery of • man lying in a garden,
near two pools of blood, with his throat out almost from
ear to ear. At the inquest, Thome Connor deposed
that he was a dealer in fish, and resided at No. 6, Ear-
street, Deptford. On Friday evening week he went toe
supper in Charlotte-street, New Kent-road. He got
there between 7 and 8 o'clock, and he left the place in
from eight to ten minutes afterwards, by a way called
Roll's-road, running parallel with the Kent-road. He
arrived at the Wilber near the New-road, Rotherhithe,
when a man came up and said that he had heard a
groaning noise under the hedge. In consequence of
what he said he went with him • distance of 20 or 30
yards, and lie then also heard the groaning noble spoicen
of by the man. He looked through • quiokset hedge
and saw what appeared to be • white jacket on the
ground. The man who was with him, and whom he
did not know, said 'Let's jump over." Witness got
over the fence, and he saw that the object his attention
had been called to was • man lying on his right side,
with his bead on his right um, and blood on his sleeves
and jacket. He raised his head, and found his throat
was cut. Mr. T. Watkins Hooper, surgeon, of No. 1,
Maisemore-plaoe, Park-road, New Peckham, said that on
Friday week, about 20 minutes past 8 o'clock, the
deceased was brought to his surgery, the last witness
being one of the persons bringing him. He found him
to be alive, but quite policies., and his face blanched.
There was blood about his jacket and shirt, which had
flowed from an incised wound in the throat. The
wound was in length six or seven inches, and had been
done by • sharp instrument. He died in a few minutes.
The situation of the wound was in such a part that he
could have inflicted it himself by using a razor or other
sharp instrument. The inquiry was adjourned till this
week, in consequence of the want of identity and for
further evidence.

THE BODY FOUND NEAR LLANDUDNO. —This my'.
tery has not yet been solved. From the state of decom-
position of the floe, to., recognition was not easy; and
so far as is known, the initials marked on the clothing,
" E.R.," have not led to any identification. We under.
stand that it may mislead to speak of the corpse as that
of a lady. It was that of a woman of lower social posi-
tion, dressed in her best attire. Several stories are rife
respecting the matter, one of which, it true, would seem
to point at foul play. A person has stated that on a
particular day in August—the Bth, we think—he was
walking along the footpath round Ortne'e Head, when
he noticed a couple seated on the very verge of the rook
above what is sometimes called the Smuggler's Cave.
The woman, answering the description of the corium,
was seated with her feet hanging over the cliff, and the
informant describes her companion as an exceedingly ill.
looking fellow, one whoce appearance he did not at all
like. It has been suggested that the woman being
enceinte, the fellow bad pushed her over the cliff, 111
the least aus_ploious way of getting rid of her. A steamer,
named the Wasp, has for sonic tune been running from
Liverpool to Llandudno at 10 a.m. and returning at 4
a.m., daily, and ionic oup of her people—the steward
It was sald—reuieuibered such • couple on board, on the
riZefrom Liverpool, in the morning of an early da7
gust. We believe the police are making Inveitt-
Rations as to this story. Another and more probable
hypothesis is, that the body is that of • female pass anger,
or wife of • captain, who has been drowned in the wreck
of tome vessel, and drifted to the place where It was
found, There was nothing found in the deceased'.
pocket but • pair of gloves.—Afutickrater Guardian.

DISTROVTION Or Two WHALING SHIPS IN THZ
Ics.—These serious loam in Davis's Straits were made
known on Saturday, at Lloyd's, by their agent at Ler-
wick. The volatile were the bark Heroine, 387 tons
register, belonging to the Dundee and Union Whaling
Fishing Company; and the bark Eclipse, 283 tons, one
of the fleet of the Peterhead and Lerwick Whale and
Seal Fishing Company, and both appeared to have been
wreaked at the seine time, the crews, numbering nearly
150 individual., experiencing a very nurow escape,
Captain Simpson, muter of the Heroine, in his depoil-
tion before the Admiralty Reoeiver of Wrecks at Ler-
wick, thus details the loss of the ship :—" We sailed
from Dundee on the 17th of March laat, and succeeded
In reaching Davis's Straits in the following month, and
oominenoed fishing in May. We caught one whale,
which produced 12 tons of oil and one ton of whalebone.
On the 13th of July, when in lat. 75 30, long. (h 0 30W.,
to the southward of the centre of the straits, the ice
came down tut, and, finding it closing upon us, we cut
a dock in the fast ice for the ship to ride in safety; but
on the following day a large quantity of drifting ice
mine pressing down on the open side of the dock, soon
broke it in, and *rushed on to the vessel in as to 'nip'
her in several places, causing her to leak extensively.
The pumps were set to work, but the crew were unable
to keep pace with the leak; n less than an hour there
were 12 feet of water in her hold, and soon afterwards
she heeled over on her broadside, and quickly disap-
peered. All hands were fortunate in escaping from the
vessel on to the fast hoe just as the vessel went down.
They remained on the ice till the next day, when they
reached several whaling shipa, and their wants were pro-
vided for. The crew, however, lost everything they
kk=d; there was not even time to save their clothes."
of the Eclipse took place in lat. 7030 N., long.
00 30 W. on the same day 113th of July). They hadbeen flohinin Melville Bey, but were unsuceee4up in
catching whales, and were opining down to the south.
ward, when the ice broke in upon a dock where the
&lbws was wined, and occasioned ha almost Imme-
diate destruction. The crew reached the ice in misty
and wham picked up by other whaling boats in 24 hour;
afterwards. The officers and crew were afterwards
shipped on board the Danish schooner Neptunu of
Copenhagen, whioh reached lambic on Monday week.
Both ships were fully insured at Lloyd'e,

A SHARK AT THE WRITHAPIDIA—LarI week a largo
pa iy visited the Whielands, and one of the gentlemen
miring been induced to take a bath in the open NA, on
his return two juveniles followed his example. The,
had not been long In the water before they were joined
by an unwelcome visitor from the ocean, evidently in.
tent on making one or the other his victim. Faun-
nately, however, in ooneequenee of the slight depth of
the water, the voracious intruder grounded before he
reached them. On the boys becoming oonsolote of
their dangerous position, they milled for assistance, and
the gentleman rushed immediately to their rescue'
having effected which, he turned his attention to the
finny monster, which was in an almost helpless condi.
don. Being • very powerful man, he succeeded in its
capture, when, to his utter astonishment, he found it to
be a shark 0 feet in length. He was enabled to secure it
Igrasping its tall, which wss slightly raised, and drag.
rig it towards the shore II each successive wave rolled
0. The carcase wee taken to Milbrook, where it re.
malted two days for the inspection of the curious. Thor
circumstance should render parsons emotions in bathing
at the Whitsands, or similarly exposed places.—Pt.
mouth Journal.
WITOHORAM—Einms Brasier, aged 22, the daughter
of a labourer in Bast Thorpe, Eases, has lately mood
much annoyance to her neighbours, by making use of
foul, abusive language, under the pretence that she had
been bewitched by an old woman named Mole, who is
said to be of irreproachable character ; also the poor
old woman had been accused by the Brasier family of
working marvellous spells upon their live stook, such am
causing one of their fAgs to climb a cherry tree and
help iteelf to the fruit from the top bought Roc:moss
was had by the girl's parents to a cunning men, named
Burrell, but her cue bellied his skill. Application woo
next made to • witch doctor, named Murrell, who
took to effect • cure, and promised to pay • visit to Bre
"old witch," Mrs. Mole, and put an end to her wildio
arts. Nees of the expected visit of the witch doctor
!pried far and wide, and some 900 people coUeeted near
Mrs. Mole's cottage, to witness the supernatural powers
of the Hadleigh Wizard. Drunkeness and riotous con.
duct were the characteristics of the meeting i and to
protect the old woman from actual violence the rector
was obliged to mount guard at the cottage door. Valli-
mately two policemen made their appearance, and the
crowd dispersed. The young woman was afterwards
apprehended for threatening the life of her neighbour,
and bound over to keep the peace.
INAUGURATION OE THE NEWTON MONOVENT.—The
Inauguration of the statue of Sir Item Newton was ode,
brsted at Grantham, on Tuesday, with great pomp and
ceremony, and in the midst of • vast concourse of per-
sone, including men of science from all pare of the
country. The statue stands on a WTI specs of ground
(long considered a disgrace to the town) at the eolith end
of Highetreet. When it was resolved by the town to
erect the statue, the secretory of • committee appointed
to carry out the scheme waited upon Lord Brougham,
who at once entered most heartily into the matter, end
promised to do all he could to promote Its success. The
project having also received the sanction of the Royal
Society, the usual means were adopted to bring it before
the public, with a view of obtaining mabseriptiona. Her
Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort were gra.
aionaly pleased to sanction the nadertakieg by Guy
patronage, and to send • subscription of ElOO, A cone
mittes, consisting of the Earl of Harrowby, r (Arne
Eerie Welby, Bart., Major-General the Hen. lir EA.
ward Cut, Sir Charles Eastlake, and Bohai littepbensce,
Req., M.P., WAS appointed to sided ao.raeise to aunts
the work, and their choke eventually fell upon It,
Thud. The likeness of Sir Isms is.eopied from • meek
of his-face taken after death, and from the portrait bust
by Boubilliu. It represents him in the costunie of the
period, and in the gown of • Elastic of Arts, in the act
of lecturing. The figure is nearly thirteen feet high,
weighing upwards of two tons, and about half the quan-
tity of the material of which it is (composed wee pre
-
suited, in the shape of old gun_ metal, by Her Majessy.o
Government. The figure stands upon a pedestal a Ac.
glue marble, designed by Mr. Thud, and eat by Kr.
Roprs, of Park Hill. The bight of the pedestal and
figure is 27 feet aid Its oat is £1,630, of which MO
sue contributed by the Inhabitants of Grantham and
neighbourhood. The inauguration of the statue was
distinguished by the presence of Lord Brougham and •
great company of literary and scientific men, and by all
civic ceremony. Lord Brougham delivered • learned
and eloquent oration, in which he passed in review the
many and wonderful discoveries of Newton, whom he
eulogised as the most surpricing genius the world ever
knew.

GRAND NATIONAL DAHLIA Selow.—This show, open
to all exhibitors, was inaugurated on Thursday last, at
St. James's Hall. Eighty growers from every comity
in England, exhibited, and at least 900 varieties of Ike
dahlia were shown. Priam, amounting to a hundred
guineas, were awarded. There were four camas to
growers for sale four to amateurs and three to all
growers. The flowers were exhibited on stands painted
green, similar to those adopted by the Palace
Company, and known as the metropolitan dahlia stands.
The blooms were shown in rows of 64), 94, 12, and 8.
The most successful exhibitor was Mr. Cherie' Turner,
who carried off the first prises in three out of the four
classes to growers for sale, and in the three classes open
to all growers. In wandering round the room, where
the cut blooms were placed for inspection, we were
struck by the decorations, one of which was • Prince of
Wolee's feather on • royal crown, resting on • crimson
cushion with golden teasels, millpond entirely
of white, yellow, red, and purple dahlias, and
the other was a lugs vase-like looking candelabrum,
composed of dahlias of all colours. Besides dahlias there
were other flowers brought together on the occasion.
At the upper end were some beautiful holyhocke, and
roses of various hues, the last, of exquisite perfume,
exhibited by Messrs. A. Paull and Son, of Obeshunt, He
Hertfordelare. An agreeable variety was also given to
the exhibition by a number of splendid bouquets of
natural flowers, dried by some chemical proem, which
rendered them durable for years without their losing
the original beauty of their colours, shown by M. Theo-
dore Hermann, of Walthanstow, in Essex. Nor should
we forget the self.aatine fountains for the preservation
of ferns, • ve7 pretty collection, by K. Edmond
Poupin, of Pans. Mr. Underhill, of Edgbaston, near
Birmingham, exhibited the second fruiting this year of
their very fine strawberries, the "Sir Harry ; and
Messrs. Spray and Campbell, of the Queen's graperies
, and nursery, at Brighton, showed a magnificent dahlia
petunia in a garden pot. A specimen of a double sun-
' flower, named the Golden Nugget, commanded admira-
tion for its size, symmetry, and colour.

_ . _
MR. BRIGHT ON BUIGRLTION.—Mx. Bright was in-
vited to • meeting of the Glasgow Council of Trades
Delegates on the rubject of emigration. He declined the
Invitation, in •letter containing the following passages:—
"I have read your resolutions, and I am not surprised
that great numbers of the working men are anxious to
emigrate. If I were younger and in their position, I
should strain every nerve to enable me to And • home
in the United States or in one of the British colonies.
What I have long told the working men is this : Here you
have no political power, for the arrangements of the re-
form bill purposely excluded you. Here you are mixed
up with the wretched confusion of European politics,
and your sweat is pawned by the crimes of past genera-
tions. So thoroughly are you involved in European im-
plications that in any year you may have your taxes
raised, and the demand for your labour destroyed, in
pursuit of some phantom in which your rulers persuade
you that you are interested; and your own want of in.
formation unfortunately renders you easy victims to the
delusions practised upon you. Not eve year' ago you
rejoiced in peace, and there was • growing proaperity
evident in every part of the country. Siam that time
we have morilioed 40.000 English lives and have spent
£100,000,000 sterling in one short war. You were con-
stinting parties to that war; your comrades shed their
blood in ita worthless contests, and you have paid • por-
tion of your day's labour and day's wages ever since to de-
fray the cost of it, and your voice, so far at it was heard
at all, was in favour of the war. What is gained by it?
Who has pined except the mill &try class, and the eaters of
taxes To working men these wars with Russia, with
Persia, with China, bring only taxes, want of employ-
ment, precarious and diminished wages, and that pres-
sure upon the means of living which urges them to look
to emigration as a remedy, until great changes take place
in public opinion and in the law' and policy of this
country. If you emigrate you may reach • country
where land is accessible to you, where there are no great
hereditary proprietors, as in Scotland, who dare out
rage heaven and mankind by keeping 20,000, or 80,000, or
100,000 sores of land depopulated that • handful of men
may enjoy the pleasures of the chase. You may flee to
• land where laws of primogeniture and eatail are un-
koawn, or known only to be abhorred, and where the
soil is left free to the Industry and enterprise of the
whole people. You may find a home where sash destrue-
tive delusions as the 'balance of power' are unheard of,
and where the toil of the nation of which you become •
part is not absorbed to the amount of fifty millions
sterling a year to pay for wars that ars past, and for
preparations for wars that are to come. You may be-
come part of some youthful and growing people, with
whom a feudal proprietorship of land, national debt,
great armaments, oppressive taxes, and • sham repre-
sentation, are but traditions of a melancholy put, to
be studied only as the rooks to be avoided in its new and
more prosperous career. . . . . . I feel assured
that, with the past and present policy of England,
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determined by his industry and his econelny to provide
the means of conveying himself and hie family to
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BANKRUPTS.
(From the Loodois Owens of Tuesday.)
Edwerd Thomas Clover, Bull's Head Court, Nes-gate
Street, stationer.
Henry Milner Cockburn, Tottenham Court Road,
tobwmonist.
Edwin Logsdon, Ilitchen, Hertfordshire, carriage
builder.
Francia Evans Bailey, Birmingham, eating.houn keeper.
Henry Nutt flodhey, Birminghem, tin plate worker.
Jame Ford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, butcher.
John Hargreaves, Bradford and Sutton, Yorkshire, mod
merchant.
Mary Gowland and George Gowland, Liverpool, chrono-
meter manufacturers.
Rowland Parkinson, Blackburn, Lancashire, innkeeper.
(From the Londoo Osaeue of Friday).
George Murray Grant, elteapside, trunk marinfacturer.
William Habgood, Southampion, ironmonger.
George Goddard, Berwick-meet, Oiford-street, and
Little Newport-street, hominoid victualler.
Charles William Wilbraham, Clartarbouswlane, ware-
houeemen.
James Flowers, Cheltenhem, grocer.
Joseph Redman, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff menu'
lecturer.
William Barrett, Halifax, plumber.
Stephen Constantine GsWU, Liverpool, insurance
broker.

The lengthened inveetigstion respecting the death of
Lavinia Ann lorannis, daughter of one of the Stepney
Union medical omo.rs vbkh has extended ova live
days, is now brought to a aim, The father .id step-
mother of the deceased girl ware exaniined at
obi, length, when th:olidunaninionaly retusnediG7t:
diet Suit " the d died from the eS'ecta of
stryehnla ; but how or whom atholnistered then ern
no evi4enoe to altow."