The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-27 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TVESDAY, APRIL 27, 1869.

A SHIFUZAD named Mimed has just died it ViUses-
Mostroyer Hants-Illaree) at the age a 104. limiest.
Han Ka.lgnTY rli2 Qui= and the vicious wasters
4 the Royal Family now at Osborne ere expected to
stay is IL. Isle of Fright till about Saturday week, and
then return to Windsor Castle. Her lLajeaty, it is ex-
pected, will go to Scotland in May.
ill Admiralty order was received at Chatham Doak.
yard on Wednesday, announcing that any of the hired
workmen at that establishment with one year's service
wishing to proceed to Canada will be conveyed out by
the simmer riling on the 27th inst.
ImPostruse TO POBLICAXIL—Ii beerbouse-keeper.
sorcying on business in one of the vinous of Suffolk,
ha Seed by the local magistrates for permitting
Playing at skittles for beer, immaided to the Court of
lloren's Bench. The Chief Justice and Justices Mellor,
Lush, and Hayes on Wednesday held that playing at
skittles for beer was gaming within the meaning of the
statute, and affirmed the conviction.
£OOl Liir ADMINISTIUTION.-113 reply to a deputa-
tion of metropolitan guardians on Wedne.day, Mr.
Gosehen strongly condemned the system of administra-
Hoe which is now pursued by the parochial bodies, and
intimated that it woald be the duty of the Poor-law
Board to take every opportunity of improving the exist-
ing mode of local government.
A OMB STABBItIi BY His 880T1122.—A few days
ago two children of • gentleman residing at Evansburg.
Pennsylvania, were playing together in • room by
themselves. One of the born, aged niee years, got on a
chair, from which the younger, a lad of dye years,
ordered him off. Refusing to get down, the mooed
little fellow strut* his brother an upward blow in the
abdomen with • sharp knife, inflicting a wound from
which be died within two boors.
TFI Rev. BINJLION Brum—The name of this
gentleman, whose mysterious dimappearenee excited such
emend interest and almost consternation throughout
the kingdom some two years ago, cannot have been for-
gotten by the British public. We understand that he
is likely to appear in another and more pleasing character
rosy soon, as a bridegroom, be being engaged to be
married to a fair cousin, • daughter of a Wiltshire
eqnirs.—Brista Times and Mirror.
CAPTORS OF • BWINDL22.—An individual of elderly
appearance has been staying at the railway hotel in
Andover, enjoying himself without regard to expense,
and telling people that he was Benjamin Higgs. On
Wednesday afternoon the local superintendent of police
received a telegram Mating that the paymaster of the
Plymouth Doayard (a Mr. Jeffrey) had run away,
ta.g with him about E 750, which he had received on
Friday Put to pay the wages of the dockyard men: The
geetleman at the hotel answered Me description in
every partienlar, and was forthwith taken into custody.
He admitted that be was the person wanted without
hesitation.
fitteLL-Pox ii Bligtl.—ln the House of Commons on
Thursday in reply to Lord R. Montage, Mr. W. E.
Forster Meted that it was true a cargo a steep affected
with small-pox had been landed at Harwich, sod
another in London, but it was detected, and not only
had the sheep been slaughtered, but all that had come
iato contact with them. The officisls had done all Mat
was requisite. In reply to a further question, Mr.
Forster said that it was not thought necessary to pro-
hibit the importation of sheep from the countries from
which these had come, inasmuch as the existing promo.
Roos had proved amply sufficient.
TZ2 Sammy CABL—It is probably well known that
suit has been instituted by Miss Saudis for the pur-
pose of obtaining a decree declaring that she has been
improperly excluded from the Association of Sisters of
Mercy at HulL The Weekly Register, a Roman
Catholic newspaper, pablished two or three articles,
abusing the plaintiff for having instituted the suit, and
imputing to her that she was instigated by the
enemies of her religion, and that it was a determined
*theme to injure Catholicism in HulL " out of pure
malice and revenge." On Thursday, Vice-Chaneellor
Mains was asked to commit the proprietor of the
paper, but counsel having promised that the offence
should not be repeated, and that all costa shou'd be
paid, these terms were accepted. There was another
motion to commit Mr. Hunt, the publisher of the Mali
Advertiser, for haring reprinted the articles complained
of, and be was ordered to pay the costs up to a certain
date. . _ .

INTOSTAZT TO ONEDITOILS. —Apropos of St. Joseph,
the following letter is a true and bona fide extract from i
a pamphlet published under the petronue of the
Bishop of Malines, and entitled " The Roes Tree of St. I
Joseph." Sister Jouphine writes thus to • friend : j
" A person owed me • considerable sum of money. 1
After repeated applications for payment, and many 1
refunds and postponements, I rewired to plus the I
holy image of St. Joseph before the disputed little
account, feeling sure that he would take up the ease (me
doenzat pas veil n'eaftf ton ojiiire); and glory be to
this illostrioas saint, at the end of a few days I got ay
money."_ This ii, no doubt, putting religion to • very
pracqul use, whale it still shows an excessive faith.
Suety this I, treating "this illustrious saint" like a '
good.natured attorney, who would be "sure to take up" I
a good case. True it is, • mere mundane practitioner
would have made the defendant up the coats; and of '
this we hear nothing in the case of "Sister Josephine,
appearing by her best friend, tenni
Primo hieratic AND ExPr.trnnTag.—A parliamentary
aocount was published on Wednesday of the gross income
end expenditure of the country during the year ending
on the 31st March last, together with the balances in the
Exchequer at the commencement and at the termination
of the year, and the amount of funded and unfunded
debt greeted or redeemed during the year. The total
income was £72,591,991 12s. 8.1., and there wee an
Guess of expenditure amounting to £2,905,824 104. ld.
The inuree side of the balance sheet shows that the
Customsduties yielded £22,424,000; excise, £20,462,000;
stamps, £8218,000; land and amused taxes, £3,494,000;
property tax, £8,618,000; Post-offloe E 4,660,000;
Crown leads (net), 6390,000; the miscellaneous receipts
were 63,355,991 1.25. 84. On the credit side the charge
for Interest and management of the nation.' debt was
rn,454,09t 14s. 4d., and this amount was increased by
the payment of terminable annuities, interest on
Exchequer bills and bonds, and bank &drawee,
to 12'3,618,325 150. 34. The charges on the Con-
solidated Fund amounted to £1,887,286 4s. 9d. ; and on
the nippily services (army, navy, sled adminstration,
U..) to £46,467,994 2s. 94. There is also an item of
6625000 on account of fortilications.
Too SPANISH °INST. —A Spanish ipey woman,
named Soler, has just been triad at Bordeaux for ex-
torting • sum of 1400 f. from the wife of a farmer named
Dentist, in the neighbourhood of that town. The cue
through** light a strange state of ignorance among the
rural populations; an obstacle having arisen to the
marriage of • daughter of the woman Darriet, the
mother unsuited the moused, who pretended that the
impediment would not be removed until a death had
taken place, and which might be that of the girl's
father, if the gipsy's Instructions were not implicitly
followed; these, of course, consisted Is paying the ,
prisoner different IRMA of money for +arms ; the
woman Darriet was compelled to borrow right and left
to satisfy the rapacity of Soler, until, being at the sod
of her resources, she disclosed the imposition to her
husband, who had the prisoner arrested. Among the
articles produced in court, and with which the &ceased
pretended to work her miracles, were cards with
sahallatie Beans, philtres containing powder of oaths.
rides, bones, pulverised glass, and • book entitled,
" Drub) de lus gloriously melte" San Cypriey Santa
Jastinia." The daughter of Mdote. Darriet had also
ivied • paper to memo the death of the father of the
young man to whom she was to be married, as ho had
refused to give his consent. This docurneut, written in
red leak, wee found ea Soler, who wee now 000dstazied
to 15 Tomtits' imprisonment.

010101 8. Twrroggix, a notorious criminal, who
was to have been banged in Philedelphia on the Bth
inst., for the =ardor of lin. Hill, his mother-in-law,
(simulated suicide in his sell the previous night by
taking a solution of cyanide of poteesium. A bottle
containing this preparation was found in • boot in the
prisoner's cell, but by what means it came into the
prisoner's possession does not appear.
HORRIBLE &mamma ay Bge.—A peculiarly touch-
ing narrative of the foundering of • sloop suid the loss
of the captain's wife and live children, near Belfast
Lough, is reported, Captain Watson, who vu *WOW
of the sloop Nally, of Belfast, sailed from Ayr, with kis
wife and whole household on board, depending only
upon his two FOOS fit and 19 years of( respectively) to
assiet him in working the vessel. On Friday their un-
pretentious craft was overtaken by • heavy storm, she
sprang • leak, and in • short time foundered, the mas-
ter's wife and four of the children going down with her.
The captain himself =waged to get into a small punt
that was onboard, and after great diflioulty he suroseded
in getting his youngest son into the boat with him; but
they loot their oars, and drifted about from ten at
night till the afternoon of the next day. From the
exposure to which they were subjected the boy became
delirious by morming, and died just about two boars
before • vessel was &Wonted by the signal of distress,
end picked up the solitary and sadly bereaved survivor.
The unfortunate man was brought to Greenook sad
taken to the poorhouse, where he now remains in • very
destitute oondition.

A BRUTaL Burnett. —A man named John Roberts,
generally known as "Sheffield Jack," and who wog said
to be "the bead master of all the dash thieves in Liver-
pool," was charged at the Liverpool police-court on
Thursday, with haying committed • violent sagas& on •
come named Janet A Abuts. It appeased from the
evidence, that about 12 weeks ago the prisoner became
acquainted with the prosecutnx, who was working in
some bleach fields in Glasgow. Five weeks ago he
persuaded her to come to Liverpool, and to par her
expenses the young woman had to pledge some of her
clothe'. On arriving here the prisoner took her to an
improper house, described as "one of the worst dens in
the town." When they had been in town two as 7%
the prisoner sent the prosecutor ou to the streets Users
money for his support. Two or three days ago he beat
her beanie she was not able to go oat, and on Tuesday
she was suffering from the effects of his violence, when
he went home, at ball-past ten o'clock. and found her
making hie tea. He got hold of her by the hair of her
head, pulled her down, and then kicked her about the I
sides and face. The poor woman got upon her kneed, and
begged for mercy, but the primmer replied, " give
you mercy," end again knocked her down. A woman
who was in the house, then bathed the blood front the
proseseutrix's hue, and while she we. doing so the
prisoner again struck the proseentrix on the fore,
knocking her down. He then took bold of bee and
threw her out of the door, but she was fortunately
caught by a policenonstable, who was posing the door.
The constable took the woman to the dispensary, whore
her injuries, which were of • dangerous nature, were
dressed. Sbe was in • very bad state, and while uoder
examination fainted twice. The prisoner was after-
wards taken into custody. In answer to the charge,
he said he was very sorry for what be bad done; but
he did not remember anythinx of what had taken
place, as be was drunk at the time. He was remanded
for • week. The prosecutrix was ordered to be taken
bath to the infirmary.
CslllinD Orr ST THE 111DIMMIL--General Custer, •
dashing revelry other of the United States array, has
recently managed to rescue two of his countrywomen
from the Indians. It was a long abase, and it led the
pursuers into Texas before the Indian camp was
sighted. The two ladles who had been carried of were
young—one 18 and the other 24. They belonged to
!HEMS respeatthle families and were taken espies in
Kansas. The story of their treatment by their captors,
says General Custer in his report, 'is a mental of such
barbarous cruelties and enormous indignities, that it is
!surprising bow civilised beings could endure them and
still survive." The Indians declined to release tbem,
but the general managed to cut off three of the leading
Cheyenne shiers and gave notice that he would hang
them to a tree if the Was were not in lila camp by •
certain hour. The limb of the tree was chosen and the
cord got ready, when • null party of warriors were
seen coming towards the camp with the women.
General Custer does not state that the chiefs were
liberated, but we can readily credit his story about the
joy and gratitude of the unfortunate ladles on finding
themselves once more in a place of safety. The 19th
Kansas Cavalry had mucked 300 miles to the succour
of their friends, and generally they were obliged to
content themselves with a very short supply of food.
A filkfill 8101 M.—A few years egothere lived in this
vicinity (Rattlesnake Mountain) an eccentric thereat's.,
who conceived the brillant project of sending to market
a large and fine assortment of these amiable reptiles,
and realising • profit on them. They were crested and
placed here for some good reason, he argued; and why
not to sell? Accordingly, his wife smiling upon the
enterprise, he commenced forming • sollection. This
worthy pair lived alone together in • solitary log.house,
favourably situaMd for the execution of their precious
scheme. The ground all round them was fertile is
crawling things. The old man procured • dry-goods
box and placed it in his garret—which, by the way,
was separated from the lower room of the house only by
• flooring of ?use boards. It was a box capable of
accommodating same two or three hundred makes, f3r
he meant business : large Bale/ and small profits was his
idea. He had • smaller box for field operations.
Carrying this between them, and armed with • pair of
tongs, the good man and his dame would go out of a
morning to the hedges, and perhaps bring in • dozen
lusty mtlers, to be transferred to the big box in the
garret when they came home to dinner. In this way
they lied eccumulated near two hundred specimens
when one night • rather unpleasant circumstance'
occurred. The snake-collector was awakened by his
wife, who had been previously awakened by strange and
alarming noises. Every minute or two there came a
dull, heavy thump on the floor of their sleeping chamber
which was parlour, kitehen, bedroom, all in one. "I
do believe,, "said the wife, " them'ere creatures have
got out of the box, and are dr-opine down through the
cracks in the garret boards !" The husband listened
with the sensation of • speculator whose stock was
falling in an unusually diesgoseable manner. Thump
thump lit was raining rattlesnakes ; and how to stop
the shower? There was great danger in putting • toot
out of bed, for the room was dark, and the floor WU
by this time alive with them. But our dealer In live
stock was • man of nerve d knew his cattle. He told
the story very coolly afte; saidwards :—" A bite from one of
'em was death. of course. But I didn't think there wee
much chum o' gettin' bit 'thont I stepped on 'em.
I set my foot down tarty softly on the door till I found
a clear apace, than I started for the hearth, shorn' my
feet along on the lime. and 'hula' the menhirs out of
my way, gently, ye know—might careful not to hetet
'em—till I got to the fireplace and raked the coals out
of the ashes and light a lamp. Then we could see 'em,
and an interesdn' sight they was I Floor sequirmin'
with 'em, and they beginnin to set their rattles to
bussin'—musie I tell ye But me and my old woman
set he work with the tongs, and in half an hoar had 'em
all back in the box again r The growing uneasiness
of the "creature," and the trouble of feeding them,
rather precipitated the good man's plans, and a few days
after this adventure he might have been seen going
down the river on • raft, seated on a box, ohalk-merked
" Glas Handl With Cair.* Not the least astonishing
put of the story is, that he actually sold his collection
ra showmen and speculators, and mine home with money
in bis pocket —"A Carpet-bagger in Nisiaryfosees," se
the Attealie ifouthiy.

Ton Rau oft FINGAL!, was found deed is his bed as
Thursday morning.
LORD JUITIOS GIORTRLL Isom was os Wednesday
installed as Chancellor of the University of idinharigh,
in the prepense of a numerate and distinguished
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mem—
LonnlidhcrAlle,moof.
young man highly connected. was *barged with forging
and uttering • cheque for £3OO. He wee remanded for
• week. ebfeYd.ti:lone clerks, undathenami7umaedithllelianixt:nreorn Dilautigyoer •
evenATing, a man named Meant.',Day'sCoeno.ert•heell, Birmi
when
onpsdWonnadAingnit
tha high trapeze, missed his bold and felon the foot-
lights. Be was injured ',rarely in the back and limbs.
There was • net provided, but he fell beyond it. The
accident caused great consternation to the audience.
A aturtg, yet eery ideful, suggestion, has been put
forth by Mr. A. W. Edwards, of Upper Thames-street,
London, and entered at Stationers' Hall. It consists
in printing at the back of railway return tickets the
hours of departure of the return trains from the station
to which the tickets are issued. Every holder of •
return ticket would thus terry in his pocket information
which in numerous Instances would save him the
trouble of inquiry or reference.
An Irish paper says that collections took plus in the
obapels of the diocese of Meath on Saturday last for
' the purpose of defraying the earnses of the defendents
in the Saone and Star case. Many, almost all the
sontribators, subscribed on the express understanding
that none of the funds were to be devoted towards pay•
ing the plaintiff", oosts, but for the express purpose I
of re-establishing the Sisters of Mercy In the Hall
convent." In the parish over which the Rev. Mr.
Matthews, Mies Surin's unite, presides, there was no
collection. A large sum is said to have been eon-
tributed.
A DoMMITIC servant, Emma Deader, aged 23 years
has drowned herself in the Regent's Canal. London,
through love. Her body was /Recovered by • police-
man, who took her out by means of the drags. In her
pocket was • card, on whisk she had written of a young
man of her acquaintance, and of whom she was very
fond, "Yon are the sense of this. I die broken-
hearted." No evidence confirming this statement was
forthcoming at the inquest held on the body ou Wednes-
day night, and the jary retuned • verdict of " Suicide
while of unsound mind."
HOLLOwAT'S Pau,. Foyer, influmm—For the
subjugation of disease and the preservation of health,
It is all important to maintain the purity of the blood,
and to keep It, channels clear, that ao foulness nor
obstructions shall impede the life-sustaining current.
By these mesas are Holloway's pills all powerful in
restoring and protecting the humeri frame, sad freeing
it from fevers, influenza, •ougeetiene, inflammations,
neuralgic and gouty pains, in short, from the many
dangerous maladies arming from bad blood. A pure
einnitatioe is good isecurity for life and health; when
it is right the nerves are in excellent condiVon, and on
the order, harmony, and oompleteneu of these two
systems, depend the perfection of life, energy, health,
and hap em.
Two Rtacem.—On Tuesday the wife of Nets Reeves,
• collier, living at *WM eloped with • coloured man
named Wilkinson. The husband and • lodger worked
on the night shift, and the first intimation the former
had of the affair was when be returned home and found
the house denuded of the bed clothing and his children
dripped to the skin by their unfeeling mother. A war.
rent is 'sheen issued for Wilkinson's apprehension, but
no clue has as yet been obtained to the whereabouts of
the runaways. Wilkinson is also married, and • few
months ago he was charged before the magistrates with
having neglected his wife and family.
A TRAGICAL STORY come* from (pukes when the
53rd regiment is quartered. On the night of the 3rd
alt, a number of ladies and gentlemen' were enjoying
themeless on the "skating rink." Among them was
• young ensign named Fred. Charles Whitaker, in Isom
mny with his frilled Dr. Hadley, of the same regiment
Suddenly, and without apparent cause, a young man
named Challoner, the son of • highly-respected and
esteemed citizen of Quebec, stepped before Whitaker,
and drawing • revolver from his pocket, shot him twice
in the head. The first ball grazed Whitaker's face; the
second entered his shall; sad though he still Lingered
in • state of nueonsoimanese when the mail left, there
is no prospect of his recovery. Challoner has memo-
, dered, and is the object of universal sympathy. Quebec
papers affirm that the day before the occurrenos his
sister had made a depositiou before the Judge of
Sessions, charging Whitaker with having taken adTan.
Mae of her while she was in • state of partial insensi-
bility, caused by the administration of chloroform.
He is also amused of having brought affliction to the
door of another respectable family in London, Ontario;
the father of the victim in this ems having come to
Quebec but a few weeks sge to rehire his daughter
from a den of infamy. The papers add that the wbole
regiment is denounced in Quebec for its immorality.
The OWN'S Massager.
SCALrLio • WOMAN.—At the Wolverhampton pcdios-
mart on Monday Thomas Durham, an Irishman, was
charged with having mused grievous bodily harm to •
woman. named Tunny Churn. On Saturday night the
prisoner wu drinking with • number of people in the
re, Horreley Fields. He at length became
intoxicated, and between 10 and 11 o'clock he was
turned out of the home in consequence of his disorderly ,
conduct. When he got into the street he breams more
abusive' and he was heard to say be would let the
English see what the Irish could do. He then stopped
some woman, and commenced to quarrel with her. Mrs.
Churn was passing down the Argot on her nu from the
market, and seeing how the prisoner was &busing the
woman, addressed him, and said be ought to be ashamed
of himself. Immediately upon this the prisoner turned
on Mrs. Churn, and catching hold of her bonnet, pulled
her heed bask, and ran some sharp instrument almost
entirely round her head, making a wound 22in. long,
extending from the beck of one ear round the head to
the beck of the other car, and leaving only a few inches
of skin by which the scalp was held on the head. The
poor woman vu at onse conveyed to her home, in
Wardetreet, where she now lies in • very dangeroas
state. Prisoner was remanded for • week. _

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Paunagrui, Ansoaraios COP/21T.—During the
post year, the Prudential Life Assurance Company,
says the Post Magatiose and hurstrance Mowilor,
has distanced all its rivals, in the peat race in which
they are engaged. In the precedmg year osen the
new premium income amounted to the unexampled
sum of £51819. That *leo, was regarded as an amount
of new business that would never again be relished, in
any one year, in the annals of Life Assumes.. Dom
panies. It would seem, however, from the report pre-
sented at the Prudentia/ annual meeting, held on the
lad inst., that in 1867 the Company's principal 'rickey,
Ns. Henry Harben, was simply trying the Prssdentiof
neee4,—tAdag • quiet canter over the ground. The
real running, the gallop, eommeneed at the beginning
of the past year; and in rimming the winning poet, at
the end of it, the number written op at the grand stand
on Ludgate Hill was £87,748 ; being 133,000 in adrenal
of the uew premium income in 1867; and, we believe
more than double of what had been previously obtained
In a single year by any other Life Assurance eompany
in this kingdom. The Iniustor's Guardian adds t`m*
In the balance sheet submitted by the Directors at the
annual meeting on the 2nd inst., the remarkable feature
Is presented of a full, complete, and clew exposition of
the various securities in which the funds of the elm..
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piny are invested. A debtor and creditor scoos;t-Tis
also appended. By this plan of courting publicity for
their proeeedings, and the system of weekly audits
adopted by them dating the last ten years, the directors
here placed this sompany beyond the risk of internal
freed, and far above the elanderons sollgalt7 whisk
now bow* the leawroase world.

BALM has just resented gam%
eat from the cempeaies in vibe 6 ."1-• g
MaBOUM was insured. ltsiagt,4•474
Tgg Lords of the admiralty 6,,
of the Australis& Meat Comeau., atlon"ie ibehotot
cmpply of 900,001 is of Australian p, .dsr ttis
necimegn Don Demean PAtllltil
—W Penises, at the Nate Jame, Imno.-,-tritzeta
artists In whisk IL Meyer, of the Pairie-'.
as • Jew pedlar • fiord sharper, and oh'olnt team*
nlotheeman. M. Mere shamed IL P --7,n4"1 elf
combat. It same off on Retards,. The, e—a.neriel
two owe 6.plege, mad at the sewed gm NI-"lnalw
resolved • ballet in the stomach, &mak hit
entreated. sod his °sedition is very oritiool. "t ism
A WAHAZAJAH AT A 11111510 NARY Mum
Maharajah Dhuleep Singh presided
in fleeter Hall on behalf of Its Christi*.
Egypt. His Highness, in opening the ps
britfly adverted to the blemiegs which he
Hoped eines his adoption of the Christian foul.
the strong indueenseet thus bald oat to hi L
.
Fast.
the beet of his power in the work of Christa.o.i4..thsto
A MUST COMTAIIT.— WO enjoy 7q V:-
-
of whom 0517 23 are in service, cad way
We pay 127 -Admirals,
ea, and only six in harbour. There are only 61r:
Rearorolw'
.1;
afloat out of 725 who •re paid; and so on, aa to Loot?
and other officers. Not only does the (Immeshes, thi;
patiently, but the numerous recipiffote of the pshlio
money are mustering • strong oppogiu,
gentle pruning measures ventured by Mr. caN,Zien
Mr. 'Awe, and Mr. Better. —The Qatea's AftsstiPpr,
Tao Pors's Bcm-cap.—lf the Pert( Moniker y
Ice believed, thine are other, than ex-queen (adieu
who think that virtue may reside in cut-off chthin
according to the quality of the person who bid wore qg
Among the swarm of deputations who welt.-. 1 on hy
Holiness at Rome on his recent birthday will. to,ooto
was an English nobleman of the eccentric elm.. emom
Parisian journalists are specially fond of depleting. Thio
liberal gentleman, says the Petit Mostirear, preeetted
his Hot ease with • skull-cup filled with eovtreigns. At
the end of the Wad wan • diamond of item..., ealty.
Having presented his magnificent offering. the English.
moo added, with the usual phlegm of his nation, that
he gave the present on condition of getting the Pope's
skull-cap in return. " Pius IX. smiled, and rinsing tb.
bell he ordered the menet to bring him another
When brought he took off the one he wore and gave
It to the Englishman, who put it into ilia pocket
and retired, saying that he was never so pleated la Li
lOC
FATAL QOAIIRT ACCIDENT. —A dreadful catsup-phe
eiesurred on Wednesday evening at the Delabole Slate
quarries, situated on the north oust of Cornwall, end
. about four miles from nature'. It appears that part
of the machinery used for hoisting slate and diteir fell
to the bottom of the vinery, • Mebane* of 2.10(1. Gerry.
lug with it the ground upon whieb tbe machinery stood.
Scores of men were working in the bottom of the pit
at the time of the accident took place, no less that 12
of whom were buried in the ruins. Assistance was
immediately rendered, and after some time eight were
dug oat, all alive but six of the poor fellows were
frightfully injured. The others are =proud to be
IrMed. One man was etiraculoudy saved by falling into
the cavity of • rock, where he was ((tend by • body of
explorer.. A little girl who was standing dose to the
machinery at the time it fell was burled from top to
bottom, bat, strange to say she escaped unhurt. tip to
• late hoar on Wednesday evening the following bad
been dug out of the rubbish dead: Thome Courts,
Thomas aid William Henry Langdon, two brothers,
aged respectively six and nine years, who had oome with
tea to thine brother. Their father was killed some
years ego, in the SUDO works. William Landgon, grand.
fether to the boye—thit old man some time since was
discharged from the pit, and hod only begged himself on
again last week—William Toms, Joseph Heiken, and
Thomas Avery. William Frost was taken oat alive
bat died white his comrades were taking bile to bi
home. The scene at the pit was most heartrending—
paresis weeping over their children and children over
their parents. Toe much cannot be said in praise of
some of the men who risked their own lives to save
thole of their fellow sufferers--especially of a workman
by the name of James Lellow, and two companions, who
worked with • will amid the falling of large stones arid
rubbish, and thus succeeded in saving at least one life.
A lame number of emu were again at work by day.
break on Thursday, and not laboured long before they
heard some groaning beneath their feet. They went to
work more heartily than ever in the direction from
which the bound proceeded, and in the course of an
hour they came near enough to bear the man speak,
and to recognize him as William Rose. A message
was at epee sent to his broten.hearted wife, informing
her that her husband was still dive, and it was hopa
not mush injured. A long time paned before Rose
could be reached. It is now ascertained that no leas
than 16 persons have lost their lives. These inciude 1.3
men, two boys, and one woman. One man is reported
to be dying through the effects of the injuries which he
received. Four bodies have not as yet been reeeeerel
It is estimated that the quantity of rock which fell the
whole distance of 250 feet mounted to no loss than 10
tons. An inquest on the bodies was opened on Friday
before the county coroner, but after taking some formal
evidence the inquiry was adjourned until next Monday.

BIRTHS.

April 14, ea Duke-street, Bath, the wife of Lie.•
-el Chanutel, sth Fusiliers, of a daughter. '

April 19, at Privett Parsonage', Hantkihe wife the
Rev. & W. HOIMIK ole son.
April 20, at the Hampehir• Bank, Parties, the wife
of Jolui Snelling, of &daughter.
April 20, at Nawbridge barrasks, Ireland, the .if of
Sergeant James Jardine. R.H. A., of neon.
MARRI AGM.

April 17, at Bt. Mary's church, Ideloombe Regis, by
the Rev. H. Deshon, Mr. Henry Cooke, !Gassman Of
MIL 51st regiment, to Annie, daughter of Mr. Ambrom
White, of Portland.
April2l, at the parish church, Portamootb, Walls=
Dar 6 Welch, Captain and Adjutant Royal Maria.
irtillary, to Alia& Sarah, 'snood daughter of Cliers::er
Van Doa Bergh, Consul, Holland-botw, s.rithsea,
Hants.

Ta 22, at the Abbey Church, Sberborne, by the
Rec. William Hector Lyon. Mr. Francis Henry
Bartlett, yeoman. of Bindle Dairy Farm, Forilicebridge,
to Kim Letitia Vincent. of the former place.
.

DEATHS.

April 17, at Ootornerata:roed;Meleombe Regis, after
a sbort illness, Jane Elizabeth, youngest daughter /
Thomas and Jane Talbott, aged one year and alight
months.

A 17171 20, it Sidesouth, Devon, in the S6th year of his
age, John Moors, Esq.
April 21. at Chatham barraeirs, Robert Shirley,
Lieutenant 2nd queen's Royal Regiment, second ion of
BIT. A. G. 8. Shirley, of Sirinsford.
April 21, at Kensington, Bath, in her 720,1 year.
Emily, second surviving daughter of the late Sr Robert
Behar, of Montagu-Owe, Ititasel•square. London.
April2l. at Swami*, Henry Jame', the beloved
child of Yr. H. Tabor, of Castle-street, Salisbury, aged
3 years.
April 21, it Shaftesbury, William Burridge,
apd 72.
April n. at Mappowder, William Charles Bieknell,
lieutenant U. N.. ehief officer at the coast guard station,
Swann., aged 37 years.

Purr= sad Published, at Churetpatreet, Dorchester,
by ALTLID Arita% of the Parish a/ Peediocun, far
aell and co-proprietor,
Toads?, April 27.

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