The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

enteral VlAns.

Morning=At Tanga TO Mlanna. COMORO/ AID
BRIGHT. —The Sow POWntire Bulfelie says that two trees
crowing in the Bin iree Grove, 300 feet high, and 60
feet in eirconifertiner, have been named after Jobe
Bright and Richard Cobden. The trees were formally
ebriatened, and two oblong tablets of white California.
marble, some 8 by 18 inches in sue each, bearing the
names respeetively,in deep black lettere, of John Bright
and Richerd Cohden, have heen affixed to the trees,
futened to not 'hes in the bark with suet copper screws,
high enough above the earth to be out of harm's way.and
yet he easily read. They will last longer than any
ordinary structure of brass or stone, while the living
columns that bear them, whose verdant catitals are
ier than any monumental pi,lar on earth, will keep
fresh for centuries on this ecept the memory of A merica's
deferiders in a foreign land.
Do•Tn OF Seue.—The world knows what it has
lost in the tried soldier, the bold explorer, and the
sagacious discoverer, hut to • Stile special world
niarer to hien, hi. death is tee closing of a friendly eye
—the extinction of • Gunny mil a. In the beet nose
of the word, lie was very amiable. The charm of his
sweet temper and kindly ways fell on all who rune into
friendly intercourse with him- and it wag • sincere and
fundamental amiability: (alining the precept of •
modern sage, who said, 'The beet way to mike people
like you is to appear to like them, and the beet way to
appear to like them is r ally to like them." By the
friendly hearth, in fact, he had so mush good-humour,
docility, end pliability about trifles., that people who
saw no more of him might have formed the utterly mis-
taken notion that he wait infirm of purpose, and wanting
in the hardnese of character neceleary for great achieve-
ments. And so he realised that fine old idea of true
chivalry, in which the hero lath. field became • lamb
at home. Children, the most sure judges of true good-
ness of nature, were delhghted with him, fie to* to
them, not with the patroni-ing air of people doing the
benevolent, but as one of themselves. be Quineey, in
one of the most spiritual of his seam speaks of "the
sperm.] child" that dwells in line natures—the remnant
of the simplicity and candour of childhood surviving
through the saved, and strength of manhood and its
contest, with the world. No man had more of this
than Speke. In • group of children he took and cam-
munioated enjoyment; and their sports were actually
sport to the hunter of the tiger and hippopotami'.
Even while the-e reminiscences are peening through the
mind, a little group, with sub hied voices, are reselling
his kindly romps, and especially that ocessioe when an
illtutrions table was spread for him in vain, because it
was • gala-day, and he could not drag himself from the
genuine enjoyment he felt in the sports of • group of
children who wore making the long pirates and hiding.
hales of a quaint old bouse ring with their shouts and
their laughter. This genial assimilation with young
folks and their enjoyments was • very pleasing feature,
but it venous of many that went together to form the
noble simplicity of his nature. The was shown power.
fully in the way in which be bore his honours. Both
when he returned triumphant, and when he issued the
wondroun narrative of his difficulties and their con-
quest, the greet lionising world we, rotriog at his heels,
demanding him as It, prey, bat he heeded it not. He
did not, like vulgar repudiators of popularity, let it
overtake him that he .night conspicuously repel it; but
he kept quiet at his work and among his friends, avoid-
ing all occasions of notoriety. To this line of conduct
he made one chsrestuistio exception. Like many
Englishmen who become famotte, he had • little world
of hie own in his own unnty of Somerset, where his
*mini position was possibly an object of as much real
pride and satisfaction as kin wide fame. He belonged '
to on cold country family of wor•hipful repute for many
centuries. So when one of the Spoken of Julians
bossism famous over the world, hie fame was pert of the
Property of the district, in which its inhabitent, must
partake; and in his kindly nature he submitted with
t,e best gnu to the ovation offered bien is his nom,
district, knowing that to evade it would be a sore
mortification to old friends and good neighbours.—
Blackwood.

RaritesrJrraTioN OF Sooreaeffron.—Tbe executive
of the Southampton Liberal A.orciaten have ignored
Mr Digby Seymour, the Liberal member forth. borough,
and have pared • resolution to the effect that two
other gentlemen will be in routines@ to solieit the
Jeffries. of the electors at the next election. Mr.
Dien Seymour. however, ha. announced him intention
of contesting the borough. Me Cobden, M.P., accom-
panied by Charles Seely, Req., It P., has recently visited
the town. Rumour worts that the visit was of
political nature, and that one of the gentlemen hula
Irish to represent the town in Parliament next musion.
VACANT ClSOncti Pnirsaisirry.—The rectory of
West Grimoteed, with Plaitford Chuck, sneezed, in
the county of Wilt. and diolime of Salisbury, has just ,
become vaunt by the dentin of the Rey. William
Edward Brandon, clerk, M.A., who was ally inatituted
thereto some too inootha mines. The living la in the
gift of the Earl of Ilobester, and is of the vales of about
1450 per anutun.—Popnletion 499.
Tag ROYAL 4OTIILIJOIC—The Taws of Thursday
contains the following explanatious of the Lora regard-
ing the Royal Sovereign, which have given rise to
extraordinary report. during the lad law days :—We
are informed tb t the Royal Sovereign we. newer
~,,,ended for 5 seagoing 'hip. She ie • dealing battery
for harbour defence, capable of being neat to any port
in the Channel ; but not adapted to Genies with a
squadron. She haa no twists. and her decks are too low
for • sea-going ship of her tonnage. To try her, them-
fore, with the shipe of the Channel squadron would
hare been of no practical Jima She was sent to Port-
land as a convenient place for trying her turrets and
gene, and her behaviour in a moderate seaway. After
these trials hod been in progress for some time, the
destruction of her hawse-ph» by an accidental *hot left
her with only one anchor, and for the safety of the
ship it WM neocorary to bring her beck to • dockyard.
Captain Osborn then sent up • lot of defects and
alteration., which were ordered to be carefully
examined, and, as they would require a considerable
lime to make rod, no •dvantage would be gained by
keeping the ahtp in oommiesion with • large number
of officers and men, with the winter approurhing. It
was, therefore, deeerinimed to attach the ship to the
Eircellent as a tender, keeping Captain Osborn, the
first lieutenant, and • sufficient number of non on
board to carry on the further experieneote with the
turret.. and guns that might be duiroble, and also to
hews the suistanoe of Captain Key and the officers and
men of the Excellent in earrying out those experiments."
Out, CUT INGUloini —The /hue ies Courier
mentions the suscoorial ...Homan°e of an old sod
clever me:ladling trick, of white an Rut LothLn fanner
was tb• victim to the tone of £36 10a. It seems that
be came to Dumfrks for the purpose of pure/haling •
horse, and, at his hotel. made the seqUaintanoe of a
stringer who happened to breakfast with him. During
the day he met this individual in the market, who pee-
fused much joy at meeting with the fanner, as he
wished his help to pushes, mom* settle. He had, be
said, made as offer forams settle, which a gentleman's
Lad steward was selling, and for which he wonted ess.
The owner, however, had told the steward that he was
not to sell them to him, an he was affronted at the prise
he had offered. Ceder thews circumstances the fanner
ins reqessted to buy the cattle at £ll6, and to wee to I
• certain publie-boume and the mousy would be paid. I
The Rant Lothian man readily did so, and proceeded to
the pnbilie-houom with the steward, where the farmer
paid the £344, and got 10e. bask. They were moon joined ,
L y the man, who began benteriag the Lad steward
thet he was to get the cattle after all. Tb• steward
and farmer thee left for the latter to get delivery of the
cattle. When they had gooe a little way the land
stewerd maid that the farmer had better go back nod ask
his friend what mark Iv. winked put on the cattle.
This tne fernier did, bet hie friend had left the room.
On causiag down to the steward the hr., round that
be also ha disappeared. However, the estale Jerald not
so readily vanish, and be proceeded to the lad in charge
of them, and asked where biz mister was, The lad
pointed to • person entirely strange to the farmer; and,
on making inquiry, the fanner found that the eattle did
net below to the party who pretended to eall them, and
that he had been swindled out of kW 10:.
ROYAL YAW/mi.-71m ceremony of what is termed
drumming out," took plate at Chatham on Friday
morning, at the Royal Karina flan-soks, in eeeordence
with as order from the Admiralty. The prisoner, John
Welt, ffiti company, was brought before the officers and
men on parade from the military prison, Fort Clarets's
TIN oselaace of Um court-martial haring been reed over
to him by Adjutant Way, that he he di/misted with dia-
ries from the carp', the prisoner's buttons and facing.
were out off, and he was turned out at the main got*
with ignominy, Immediately &Heyward, be threw off
tbso rossalaissi port of his jacket into Ike road.
olf PaSPOlsta Damian Or Denrisain TO
TIC Owing Pumas oar kolosa.—lf lug Ohneliee of
Dams& has been soarsorhat rahrleaste is ammo*
•

he has great reason to te himself upon hire
income as a father. 'ocirriradsdaughters will, iu all
homan probability, be Queen of Ragland, and now
.aother of those Dania° roma ii betrothed to the Crown
Prince of Russia. The thunder of one hendred and on.
has announced the fact to the eitiseris of W. Peters-
burg, and the 'biotai telegraph has announced it to-
Surope. The throes of Greece. • prospective ekes, of
the coronas of Ragland and Massie, .regent prises tub.
reaped be one comparatively poor of royal family.
H•VDWIIITIMO Or TUX ROYAL Faulty. The taighest
circlet of English society euitivate peornaogki„ with
etre mid sumer. The Queen's hand•writimig is h antdial
—flowing, and elegant and feminine. niece Albeit)"
biographer comperre the Prince to Goethe, ' • ho would
t•ke inordinate pekoe, seen in writ's% • /short note, that
Ii shoal/ be edmirablr written. He did not uni-er.tand
kite merit of mooed-beet, bet everything that en to be
done, must be done perfectly. The Prince Con 14/1 ttm k
the greatest interest in the oalige.pby 0Iii• childres.
and few young people write more elogaritlyjend it ti.i
same time won distinctly, than the prine„,
prineeeses of England.
A curious *sae In connection with the pekhe.he
act was decided by the Wratisinater
The keeper of the refrohm oo
eot rmeael
the Victoria Railway Station was summoned for having
his rooms open, and selling liquor in the prohibited
hour. of Sunday. Hie defence °as that the persona he
supplied were travellers sa they went off by the neg.
train. Mr. Arnold decided. and he stated that Mr.
Self., his wile orue, concurred with him, that no prewar
could be held to he a traveller within the meaning of
the act until he had begun to travel, and as intendiag.
pa...niters by • ti-sin had not done so, the Ir. epee of the:
refreehment rooms waa redly of a breach of the law in
serving them with refreshments. As the eerie was cow
of great important*, however. he granted sone to be*
aogaed in the superior courts. On Therolay, Mr.
Child, solicitor to the Liesneed Victuallers' Protection.
Society, waited upon Mr. Arnold, and, referring to his •
decision of the previous day against Mr. Henry Asher,
proprietor of the refriohroent.rooms at the Vietoria-
Suction. begged to call hie attention to the het name •
of the Refreshment Rouses Act, passed int session, to.
which it was expressly provided that nothing thereln.
contained should apply to persons "arriving at or
departing from" • railway ststioa. This clause reforn.d
to Iken-ed vier nailern sod every other clan of refresh-
meet houses, mid he (Mr. Chiid)had thought it his duty
to point it out.—Mr. Arnold said that his attention had
certainly not been called to this donor before be gave
his decision against Mr. Fisher.—Mr. Child observed
that he had pointed it out to Mr. Self., before whom
the esse had been h. ard. —Mr. Arnold mil his mileage*
had not mentioned that to him. -Mr. Child observed
that he would leave the matter for a few days for the
magistrates' further consideration. —N, Arnold
acquiesced, and begged Mr. Child to coosider Cho
decision he had before pronounced as not having bass
Oren.
AN AMEN? B•inow.— An ancient barrow wee;
opened • few days ago near Whiteebereb. in Hatt& IL
..puened eighty f,et in circumference and four feet its
height., and wee composed of chalk, nibble, sod flints.
A small crushed urn, four skeleton., three, those or
adult., and the other of • girl twelve years old, and a.
etwill sun-baked urn filled with calcined tropes and
• gates, and nine small rudelyohlpped flint arrow heeds
were found in the harrow.

CnatlClLLOaltatT Olt BaXOOll,-111r. Archibald Jobs.
Stephens. Q C., LLD., has been appointed Ctionoellor
of the Ditto.° of Bangor.
TgUtoaern FeON 1,01113011 TO Nrw Yoga, rig,
RUSSEL—The scheme of uniting the San Francisco tele-
graphic system with Europe, tris he Ramat) territory
In North Americo, Behring's Straits, and Rosales
Tartary, is now being carried out by tha Western Mika
Telegraph Company in conjunction with the Russian
gO warn go.ot. An expedition I. now fitting out under
Captain Bulkley, of the United States army, for gar-
'eying the intrude* route on the Aw.rlo.o (tontines{
Lad platting the whole extent of the line ender contrast
for the eesoing year. It is expected that by the middle
of 1866 the hoe will he in operation between London,
St, Petersburg, San Frandsen, and New York.
FiCaatlTT OF SIAMEe. —There is no use in disgaising
the feet that Our shle.bodied seaman have evinced el
late • dislike to the Royal Navy. At this moment dm
Achilles is abort of its oompleuient ; and he Victoria—
the future flog ship of the blediterranean --cannot be
put in communion for the simple reason tee,i there en,
Domes to pat into her. The Warrior, although in an
efficient state, I. to be paid off, an that her crew may be
drafted into other shim, or rather such portions of It
on which the Admiralty have • elsini.—ctromp wed Navy
Gazette.

A REDOWSID RELIGIOUS ODOM—no Praneiamin
Order, which his been en successfully re-estabbehedl
In Femme, end winch increaesi in number every year„
now reckon. 200:40 men and 300,000 sisters, including
the Tertiares. It possesses 252 provinces and 26.000,
*invent', of which flee ere in P•lestine and 30 in Turkey.
It bee given to the church seven Popes and 3,000'
bishops Mon than SO ernp.rons and empresees, kings
and queers, Lae* been admitted into the order, which.
has, moreover, the glory of having furnished 300 mints
or beatified persons, among whorn were 1,700 martyrs.—
Le Maude.
A Loo Lose CHILD. —A few day' Mass • visitor sit
Bt. Andrews, N. 8., was so much struck with the
portrait of • child eshibited In the studio of Mr.
Downie that he bought it He iaquired tb• llama of
the child, and learned, to his great joy, that it was his
osly eon, who had been surreptitionely carried of from
Australia about dell years since, when only eleven
months old, and of whom be bad been for year, la
seareb,but of whore existent:* be had been kept in doubt.
The father has ordered • large slumber of simples of the
portrait of his which will be forw•rded to the
various police etationeia this kingdom and on the Conti•
flint, • Life reward beisg offered for the recovery of
the child if now living.
REPOS! Or GUNPOWDER. —From an official doctrines&
jest issued, it appears that in eight mouths ended the
31st August the declared value of gunpowder exported
was E 295.299.

Bocrerr.—A meeting was held'
at Devonport on Monday, at which it was etated than
£13.000 will be oeiteemry to liquidate the that
will be incurred by the visit it the Royal Agricultural'
Society to Plymouth, in 1865. Of this sun shock
£3,000 has already been rabeeribed, including a ecatri-
button of 100 guineas by the Prince of Wales.
EABTOQOAKIS.-11r. Thomas Dance, of Birmingham,
say.—" By theory, earthquakes ary due on the In, 2nd,
Erd. 6th, 7th, 14th, 16th, 18th. 2oth rut, 23rd, 25th,
and 314 of october, 1864, and probably on the Bib,
11th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and Wth of the mate month,
sensed by the motion of the fourth, fifth, and sixth
Emmet of 1864, at present undiscovered."
TON Tint-in's Onomni.—ln the East Riding ot York-
shire there dwells a man of property, who from some
muse or other is in a degree emulation the character
butnortali-ed by Dickens In one M Ma cha10t0,.......
bars ot "All the Year Rouixl." He lives in • large old
Digagion, into which DO feet are allowed to escresch.
His food is left for him in ebed: and lan Yeeer'smope
are out in the tield yet ; the hay rotting in mein,
uncut; and the rye gran standing in one 6eld Ansi
Mt. in height.

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FATI.I7III AT LITZRPOOL —MIMS °ROMS Wright
and Company, general merchants, of Liverpool, have
susoanded payment. Their liabilities are estimated
variously at from £60,000 to £lOO,OOO.
THZ ADDRESS 701 PRAM IR A YWCA RIOS /HIP
PEOPIJI or GILT BILITAIS TO THZ PIOIPLO o TRH
Damn arena —This address WU forwarded, with.,
an explanatory note, to tb• Governor of New York by
Sir Henry De Houghton, in the mail steamer on asters
day theist inst. There are 350,000 riga/our s appended
to it. Tbe list comprises the imams of nobility, clergy,
rntry, mayors and town coancils, head, of colksam ac 4
public offices leading mertlanta, members of the
learned professions, Lc. The signatures cover some
700 yards of caesium, and are arranged in foer parallel
columns, which if taken consecutively would extend
beyond • nil* and • half In length. Th. °mi../ a
large number of the Catholic clergy of Ireland en
appended toil.. same.

Tee Paorositu if tatoitt•L To vim Lan Num
ElNCLatit —A meeting of working men bag heen held
at Edinburgh for the purpose of taking steps to in-
angtirate a penny anbecrintion towards the propoerrd
monument to the late VW. Catherioe Sinclair Th•
following resolutions went agreed to :—"That
filiocdair baring by her public spirit, kindly feeling, and
patriotic effort done much to promote the aomfort and
advantage to the operative classes in this city, this
meeting resolve to take active steps in order to mime •
.bongipcinn in behalf of the minsorial proposed to he
erected hers." "In order to carry out tb. wishes and
yowl of the working claims in Edinburgh towards the
memory of the Wm lamented Kiss Catherine flindair,
they hereby resolve to an. every exertion in Omar power.
with the sesistaarm of the committee, to motribete
their humble mote for the purpose intended, leaving the
arrangement to the committee."

Ca•aat OF PFILJOBY UIDII ftwoutas Cracesi.
RA/WIS.—On Wednesday, the litighton magistrates
were engaged in investigating • curious charge of per-
jury brought soloist • Mr. 11. Ilowbrey, sactioneer sad
estate agent of dirt town, by Mr. T'harscroft, anietaat
overseer, and registrar of birth., deals, and marriages.
of the am* place. The alleged peijury arose as
follows :—Mr. Thence& had to pay Cl to Mr. Mow.
bray, and drew (ae he tboarbiaeheque for Mo. emoted
I.is bankers. liabeeques he &Dowered that he
bad made out • cheque foe , sad demeaded the 84
extra from Mr. Moreheity. The latter alleged that he
ran NW ooFirtitell &sage to the former ma receiving
the cheque, but as Ms* ease heiag brought tato the
county court he ass ordered to pay or repay, the 14.
Being wrath at this, be went about eseasisg Mr. Thorn.
croft of perjury, who retaliated by brut's, the
present &win litotb parties appear to be highly re.
apeetable. The magistrates, &her • sitting of an
bourn, decided ea eoutteittiog Mr. Mowbray for trial,
but admitted hies to bell, himself la rum Gad tire
sureties is ilO eash.
The introdoatioe of trommeditisa thateogesmod a large
sale from their distinctive advantages being valued In
the public frequently attracts • host of imitators. To
eseleavour to pug off inferior snide' sea alertly =,
the trade-mark, labels, paints, he, of Messrs. B
man, the well-knows original Importers of the Pun
Tea; therefore purchasers should not fail to noires that
the sigtutturp—" flognician and Co, Learlear—is a.
nob novae gasket. Their lei, bombe reliable psi
quality, has for • quarter of a entury been is=
favour throughout Qsdoes, proving that afl ' require good tea, and peeler sterling vial* to mere
appointee. Masan. enigmas' agents aseslier abseil
two thousand ; these is this locality are adverelesd he
our columns.

MaIITAL Samoa, oa Gaut. Assuan ahem gas Iba
blacked Hair white. TIM sober, lhowover, is an ban.
stored with aerkaiaky, by Herring's Magnetie Brushes
he. Dr. Raman sap. "I regu4 Mesa as I. as
perhiet bream hitherto made. as respeele their
umehaakel eimeirsoliee. sea *Mr megeetisal
action." nay are THE remedy for Grey tisk
Neuralgia. Rheumatism, is.
N.B. —Cosaterfeite ars=zutie.
Nme. a Bminghallatreet.

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