The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

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A NOTILTT.—k smell -mede nest, aestsfmksi Ave
pretty speckled agog a the reed sparrow, Wes token oa
Wedoesday ',tarmacs on the Germ of Kr. EdwardJoses,
of gbdos, sear Wort&

Tag Nolen leaders, whims presence in Numbest':
has bum the mem of nazism to the police for Nome
time past, hare oommeneed a migration, and some of
Num hare already gone to Americo.

Tau November just closed boa boa one of the driest
for • great many yews. We behave that for ten roan
at lasat there has not been so mall • Wog rain daring
the some month.

Tin perfect quiet whieh has prevailed in all parts of
the Irish provinces sines Saturday has OTIS manifest
confidence to the Ir sh public and the bops ia expremed
that the winter may now pass over without any serious
trouble from nanianiwit.

A HOT PRIACHIL—IIaster Snore Prober., twelve
years old, preached two more sermons to Newport Os
!Sunday, at the Baptist temple. Tbe oonç.nUos woe
large. On Monday • t..-nmeting was be d, at obis*
Mirdser Probert Pm present, and rabssquantly dolivend
• lecture.

DURING the late plea, noble senior were rendered by
the bonito and weed of the Wat;onsl Lifeboat Institutions,
and we regret to Rad " that there is now a very sevore
pronoun on the funds of the inatitution. and that £1,230
of its funded capital Is to be sold out to meet these
heavy demands.

THI polling for South Leioesterehire took plea, on
Thursday, dm oandigates being Yr. Albert Pell PM.
wrestles), and Yr. T. T. Net, banker (Liberal). The
contest was an wan/nail, aloes one, and at the ankh,
wiatory lay with the liberal, who obtained 2302 rotas,
against 2263 reeorded in favour of hie Conservative
opponent.

NOTHIIQ UZI ECONOWT.—The Royal Oak and Priam
Cowart, • hen off Lisbon, and not more than fifty
miles from the port, were ordered by signals to "pro-
ceed to Gibraltar, complete coals, give leave, and rejoin
the admiral at Lisbon without unnecessary &ley." In
order to reach °Neater to obtain 300 toes of coals the
Royal Oak exp. nded 350 tow in addition, and the
Prince Consort 186. No ISM than £587 ss. was the wet
of that little arauesasest, or aiding the cost of the
voyage back, £776 Es.
8 AAAAAA APPLAILILICOB TN TEE RIATIIIII—Th• Lads
I emu., contain. the following wooderfal story :—" A
remarkable appearance was witoessed se Tuesday sight,
shortly efts, tan o'clo,k, at Douglas, 1.1. of Nail. •
portion of the sky ope ed and emitted a light that
Maminated the heavens as bright sa the fall moon. In
the open space appeared a gigantic Agars, like that of a
MAO, which waved its arm. slowly for • abort time.
Then the open spaces closed up, and the b were
afterwards mush darker than they were before this ex-
traordinary phenomenon. The weather berme very
stormy ale. hour@ sabeequently,"

A Ilaniox T ow 1 Taxa,Ara WiaL—A
Perrier pigeon, whirl bid been dispatched upon some
errand tie othir day, was flying over the Trowte,
GI w, when a string attached to one of the bird's
legs became entangled with the wire of • telegraph that
grosses the street there. The prisoner, In his efforts to
get free, flew round and mood the wire. fixing the bond
more Grimly at each revolution. As there was no other
mode of releasing the peer bird a gentleman shot it from
the upper window of • warehouse. In addition to a
dense crowd of human spectators .11 the pigeons of the
neighbourhood were attracted to the spot, and showed
unniistakesble manifestations of sympethy with their
feathered friend.

A FaithLe VOTER. —A noteworthy incident of the
election on Tuesday at Manehester, was the record and
&enplanes of • vote by • lady, at the Chorlton Town.
hall. It appears that, when a name is on the register,
the presiding officer has no alternative but to receive
the vote of the person who bears the name when It is
tendered, lithe voter answers in the affirmative the oaly
two questions that can be asked at the poll. The name
" Lily Maxwell" is registered (No. 12,326) as that of •
person entitled to vote for the parliamentary borough
of Manchester. Possibly the registrar may have sup-
posed it to he a masculine name. However that may
be, the rightful owner of the name presented herself on
Tureday, accompanied by two other ladiee, one of whom
was Min Becker, the secretary of the Women Suffrage
Society of Manchester, and voted for Mr. Jacob Biight
The ladies were mooned from the committee-room by •
large number of persona, including several members of
the All Saints' ward committee, and were much cheered
as they passed to and from the polL
EXTRAORDINAIT RED-TAPS:ISW —Wbilt Parliament
is struggling wish the Abyssinian difficulty, the ad-
ministrative departments on which we rely to surmount
it have got up a little war of their own in the Channel.
It seems that the Indian Government and our War.
office are at strife, each party displays a dogged determi-
nation, and hitherto no mediator has been fLund to
appease their noble rage. These august power, might
very well be left to fight out their differences wire it
not that their battles an fought through our sidm.
Whichever wine, it is the patient taxpayer who will
get all the knocks. The way the brumes, is done ix
this. A regiment returns from India, and the War.
°See appoints its quarters at Plymouth; as it has to
par up the Channer it would seem the most natural
thing In the world to land it at its plan of final destina-
tion. But the Indian Government insists that Ports-
mouth shall be the only port for the arrival and
departure of its noon, and accordingly to Portemonth
the men are carried past Plymouth, and then therm.
balked, and sent off to the latter port by special train
at an enormous and unnecessary cost. This thing has
not happened ommeionally or by accident, but is
systematic. Surely their ought to be somebody in the
Government capable of speaking with authority, and
telling the clerks ooneerned that there must be no more
of this nonsense.

RIOTING IN CHUBCR.—On Sunday morning. Novem-
ber 24, the church of All Sainte, Lambeth, which a
week before bad been reopened by the Rev. Dr. Lee,
will visited by a number of persons bent upon
moor...mg the !terries. The sermon was cut down to
air minutes by hissing, the free use of catolills, and
other demonstrations intended to intimidate and certain
to annoy the preacher. Subsequently, at the celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion, one of the ring-lea/hes
presented himself at the rail., and having received the
consecrated breed, in the shape of a wafer, pet it
ostentatiously into his pocket, saying something about
giving it to his dog. This bonsaie the signal for •
general disturbance, which extended from the obanoel
to the west end of the church, and in the course of
which the new stone font was oy,rftimed and broke.,
and crosses thrown down, while stleks were freely used
against those who attempted to restore order. An
endeavour was made to bring to itutio. come of the
actors in these disgraceful scenes; but with the usual
result. The real anthon of such disorders are as a
rule, too crafty to place themselves within the power
of the law, and for others there is • defense fund, kept
op by come persons of singularly constituted minds,
who see in attacks like them a service done to
Protestantism. A person vu charged before Mr.
Borithani, at Southwark prlice-oourt, on Monday, with
taking pert in these disturbance.; but although the
facts we have narrated were proved, the charge
was disiniseed upon • question of identity, as had
previously happened in the case of the riot. at St.
Matthias, Stoke Newington. There was some poultice
swearing on OGG side, and it was understood thal
witnesses were prepared to speak just as absolutely on
the other; but the calm perspicaeity of the magis-
trate rendered it unnecessary to call them: he dismissed
the woe.

HORRIBLY SIIIINATIONAL.-11r, Frank Back land writes
as follows respecting an Arab "entertainment" (!) now
given in London :—I have had the opportunity of being
present at one of the most extraordinary exhibitions
that have been brought before the London public- A
company of Arabi, who tall themselves Aissa-tionha.,
or the African Cousulsiosaires, Soaks-charmers, Fire.
eaters, sod Conjuror., held a private seance at the
Egyptimi-hall on Monday. They come out from the
Mega door beating toes-Lotus and marching round in •
mmt solemn to . They then It and, down by
mean§ of the tom-toms work themselyea up into a
'posies of frenzy. One, Kmida Ben Mustspha, takes
out from a box, five snakes, and holding them ins bunch
by the tail, teases them till they get angry. he then
please cies of the snakes near his tongue, and the besot
instantly seises it. The men thee walks round with the
wriaing sacks fastened Labia tongue by it. sharp teeth.
I and some naturalist friends, immediately upon seeing
the snakes taken from the box, determined that they
could not be poisonous snakes, the heads were too round
and not fist like poisonous Brakes. Towards the con-
clusion of the performance the head of one of them
snake, waa bitten off by an Arab, scd the body partially
devoured. I obiained what remained of the snake, and
it has been identified by Mr. Bartlett, of the Zoological
Gardens, who was present with me, as being a harmless
speaks. common in Frame and Germany. The Dint
trick is performed by Mahommed Ben Omar, who
advances with sharp steel skewers. He sits down on
the stage and deliberately thrusts two of these skewers
through the fleshy portion of hie tongue, and one
through the thick of each cheek. This makes some of
the audience feel rather queer, but determiiied to find
out if there was any trick I managed to examine the
man closely. The skewers I found were fairly run
through the fifth. and were firmly Axed in their
there wads very little blsotiog, and front this and other
facts which I observed I conclude that the Arab had
previously made permaneut holes through his tongue
end cheeks, and that really the operator did not suffer
more pain than does • lady when she pats in her Mr.
tinge after leaving them off for some time. We were
then treated to a sight of Mehonimed Ben All Data's,
who did his ben to commit suicide in public, both by
means of fire and sword; two men hold • sharp sword,
and the Arab bale:seed himself upon his bare in uses-
be centre of his body on the edge of Um naked sword,
I be then put the hilt of the sword upon the peened and
leaned against its bare point after the fashion of the
prints we see of old barb-rian generals getting out of
their difficulties when they have lost a battle. A hideous
, negro, tall, gaunt, and as black as night, one Faradji
Ben All, then came forward. The gas lights being
lowered, he amused himself with • pan of red-hot
eharcoal and a lighted caadle; passing the latter all
over his fibre and around his nook he doe. his best to
roast himself, holding the candle in one poeitioe for
nearly • minute; if be doet not really hurt himself, at
all event, he utters the moat hideous yells, se if in
agony, but I do not think he really can hunt bimaelf,
for I obrerved the hair did not caul up from the effect
of the Mune- He then pl wed large Pleats of lighted
cliarooal quite in the bask of his unonth, and ensued the
sparks and flames to true from between hin.teeth ; in
this attitade his *mammies was teeny diabolical. no
performances in this amateur torturroltamber were
concluded by El Hadj All Ben Zeds taking a deliberate
meal of five iron nails and six small stones, finishing off
by mune/him up a wine gins into towdrr. Theo come
the very worst and most horrible of all the performance
and thin luckily, perhaps, for some of the spectatcra,
so.le of who. were getting very white about the gills.
This WWI man Zerfa tam a loan skewer-like wmpon,
and we were told that he was going to goege his eye
out' almost to my horror he really began to do so. By
inserting the mid of the skewer 'above the upper eyelie
and twastillbit round, while he pressed it inwards, he
sumeeded in aiming the eye to protrude' in a manner
which I mold not attempt to d in worda. During
all these horrible scenes an Arab 'priest and musician,"
one AleEl•X•der Mohammed Boa RAJ El Ejekikene,
presided at the tambourine Altlgether, Ido not
recollect having seen an exhibition which combines so
many horrible sad Indy ssaiMissai *Ms to so shoos
I 19114 01 time.