The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

General Ntmo.

Tur Glowworm rays that in the Simla caurt-martlal
ran. the Duke of Cambridge haa decoded in favour of
Captain Jervis.

Ttis Mechanics' Institute st Nottingham wag
destroyed by fire on Thursday. The librat7 and
museum are sherd.

Am infant waa found in the ladies' ilrst-clam walling-
room at the !Stafford station on Friday meek. It was
t•kvn to the Stafford Union, and • b•nk-note for 000
was diseovered allied to • ',option of its dreu.
fame •Cot.nen. DAWKINS. it is reported, mill be
brought into the Ooldstream Guard., rice Liseteembinsi
the Sinn dither Harding, oh., obtains his promoti.a
by the retirement on half-pay of CAloall Strong.

THI RITRISISTATIOX or W BST OLOSCUTISISSIBIL
—The YorksAire Poo says that the Hon. C. P. F.
Berkeloy has eonsented to beerini• • e.ndhiste et
neat elestion for the representation of West Gloomier-
shire.

THS MACCUR4 F161114T. —During the past week
from 40,000 to 50,000 mockers' were eaught by the
Cornish b ..t., • very large prop..irtioo of which saivly
sm. slot to Landes. Priem varied from 325. to 3k
per six more.

A PAIL, AA return lensed on Friday estimates
lb. oninber of te.h occupiers of rated house In Ib.
cilia. and boroughs ef England end Wales, 'Deluding
compnund h..mo-holdvrs, at 1367,028; rated et and
under £6,616,4; total registered elector., 452,484.

THII winter general meeting of the National Ride
emaciation wu Arid on Wednesday afternoon at
Willies Rooms. London, under the presidency of the
Duke of Cimbridge. There was a good attendance.
'the GI ectsc.oria Antes that the volunteer review this
year will be bold at Dover.

Tan Doo TAX.—On Fritay the bill to repeal the
existing duty an dogs, and. new duty of &elm wag
printel by order of the House of Levis. Tbe duty
within the year ending the sth April next in &glut&
and Om 24th May in Scotland, it reduce 4 to 7t. anti
alterwtrde to be redueed to sa. a year on all dogs over
ail months old.

Lootrr. arra sr ms the pub-
lishing"( Ito banes of marriage betareon 13 iwin Murphy
end Charlotte Byelleld, servants to Ilea RAney, of
eitsketleld Hones. Thornbarv, il•rulordthirei on Sandill
seek, the mother of the intended bridegroom rose, and
holding up her handl, forbide th• marriage on the
ground that Edwin Murphy was her son
81. Moms Nowrinota.—The philanthropic, and
benevolent Helmet, baronet, Bir Moses Mostellore. bus
determined, eines his return Wit spring from the Holy
Land, to erect another hospice at Jernaelem for th•
residents of several poor Isrselitish families. It ia pro-
posed that the building shall be on • large soak, and bath
near to that which we. crested in 1859.

DL Lrvinowrogu.— We me glad to believe with Sir
Henry Rawlins** and others that the painful rumour
of the merder of D. LiMogstoo• ought not to be am
espied witlinut farther verification. and to learn that ou
the 6th of March, a 'ardor was received from a owelmal
man in practice in Zanzibar, datod the 7th of January,
1867, in whisk allusion wm easaallir made to Dr. Living-
stone, but dime wee no mention of hid death.

HARD WZATHIII, NASTra NOAH I—ln oonsequenc•
of the probable continuance of the present wren,
weather, and the prospect of lb. party being turned net
in tha cold, the Glovernm,mt Lave leaned the following
outfit to members • f their party :—One reversible over.
°oat ; one fanny jacket, with lateral ',tensions; on•
pair of brceebes, with • cumulative vet; one pair of
other men'. oboe.; and one tie of dace and a false
eollar.—Owl.

Tug Great Western Railway bee failed to obtain the
loan of o million stalling for which it is understood
appliaation was made to the Bunk of England and the
Chsnoellor of the Exchequer tier tog this week. The
result is • further depression of the comnenv's etock. A
month ago tit, shares were selling at 4950—0 n Friday
they fell to 391 401, the lotreot point they have yet
reached. The dividends on the original stook and
preferenee shares still remain unpaid.
Correa' CHINNITIL —ln building • chimney, put
qnanity of salt into the mortar with wh.ch the inter.
«mgt.. of bricks ore to bolsi& The effect will be that
there will never ho env accumulation of soot in that
ehinattey. The philosophy is thee slakd : The pelt in
the portion of mortar which is expoaed. absorbs moiety.e
every damp dew. Tlse soot thee beoomiNt damp falls
down the flrerlaoe. Oar readers ghoul I remeuther or
perrens this little piece of vAttable information.—Tet
Partner.

" A 000 D A 'Viet' Ell
The correctness of this proverb is pinned by porch...era
recommending any dirtied. of domestic consumption that
Ii troly cheap as well as good in quality. The perfect
pnrity and cheapness of Horniman's tea has secured its
present large aale and &Instant recommendation from
family to family. It is obtainable in most town, bat as
there are apurions imitalion., it is needful to see that
Horniman and Co.'s signature is on each paeset.
&low its liaacti.—The ordinary mail train which left
Milford at 5 p m. on Wednesday, and was duo at
Paddington at 4 35a.m. on Thursday, was brought to •
standstill at Stormy Junction (between Port Talbot and
Bridgeend illations) in con•eirence of the great quantity
of •nO • on the line, and the darn•ga done by the skim
to the telegraphy posts and wire., many of which were
quite buried. All midatanoe that could be obtained was
t•ilten adv•ntage of, hut the mails reached Paddington
five hones later that usual.

COURTING DRAWL —A few nights sines a drunken
man was fund lying across the mils on the Dorchester
I no near one of the railway gate. in the New Forest.
The gatekeeper, a very well-conducted man. called
Caine, about 50 years of age, attempted with another
mwt, to pet the drunken fellow nf the line. The man
fought •nit struggled violently, &eying that he wanted to
go by the train, and the gatekeeper had his collar-Ron*
Grokes, and recotved •ft internal Injury, front which he
will never recover. Jest u all three men struggled off
the line a train passed.
ATLARTIC TimeolAPllT.—The latest trinmph of the
Atlantis) cable Is ennoacovd in the New York even
Jed recoived :—" For the first time in the world the
eltoine oommercial intelligence has been published in
New York on the NON day. The cable despateh, which
we herewith publish, giving the closing quotations,
weld not bane left London before 4 o'clock p.m., sad
yet wee Twisted in New York at noon of the same day.
This gives a little less than one hoar for tranemiesion
between the two cities. This demmt.b arilt probably be
published in the earliest edlitions of the flan Franoiseo
papers, say at noon."

Tan Gaga? ILISTIMIL —The bad weather his owned
some dvlsy in the shipping of the new paddle shaft on
board Dm Oreat Eastern, end her sailing Is post-
poned from Wednesday neat to the following Saturday.
During Vie Dot few weeks there have been 1 000 setisans
at work simulianirously upon her. The "big ship" has
now 3,000 passenger bertha. In !umpiring the bed.
required for the several berths 27 000 yards of linen tick
have been used, together with 40 tons weight of coiled
hair and wool, sod sheets and pillow and &Aster clips
30,000 yards of linen, while 2,600 white counterpanes
have been ropplierl in eddition to those already in ass,
beside. 11,000 yards of towelling.

Ma. Foarrri ow Etzsoax.—At • Reform mestins at
Bradford, ou Tuesday reesiog, Mr. Forster, one of the
boronch representatives in Parlimnent, mid it wee
creditable to the Tory kaders the& as soon es they took
power they to mime extant realised it. reepousibilitire
but after oomplimentiog General Peel oo his politittl
honesty, he added that it was not creditable to the
preheat Government to hare undertaken lb. Reform
question, and not give it op on finding they did not
understand it and could not make op their minds on it.
He thsuitt that even if household suffrage were now
proposed it wculd probebly be acoompanied by neutral-
ising condidoes. and rather than *tempt an unvatisfaotory
measure it would be better to wait another year.

RUMPUS AND TAX ATloll.—Som, carious returns
obtained by Mr. ll'isren, were published on Friday
morning. ielating to revenue and taxation in England
•nd Scotland. It seems that the estim•ted annual
amount of reirenne to be derived from taxation in
England and Sootland, at the period of the union, in
1706, was for England and Wales, £5,664 038; for
Scotland, £151,500. These sums have increased up to
last rear for England and Wales by £44 153.995, and for
Reotl•nd ny £8,290,177. This is an increase over the
estimated amount of 779,5 in one case, and 5,490 In the
other. If the 658 member •of the House of Commons
were allotted according to the amount of taxation o in•
tributed be each division of the United HiOVIOFZI
the three last financial years, England and Wales would
have 519 members, instead of 500 ; Scotland 78, instead
of 53; and Ireland 61, instead of 105.

COLLISION ON TER BRISTOL AND SYRTIS RAILWAY.
—On Wednesday morning, about des o'clock, • goods
train was being 'fronted into the siding at the Tattoo
Station of the Bristol and Blister Railway, when the op
Wells goods train dashed into it, smashing the waggons
and rompletely blacking up both lines. Seventeen head
of cattle were in one truck, and the violence of ti •
oolliiiion threw the whole of them into a ditch, but
strange to !my, none of them sustained the \lightest in.
jary. The blocking up of the lines reused great
incionvenieoee, several trains having to be detained, and
It .14 not until 1111 o'clock that the down line was
sufficiently *tear to allow trains to pass over it. This
line was seed until two o'clock, when the up line was
freed of all obvtructions and the trail° resumed. The
driver of the Wells goods train was iojared, but not to
any serious extent.
DISOIIVRRY OT TRRASORZ AT Ffainsenoc. —On Sun-
day some men were walking along the seashore near
West El•rtlromol, and when inii•way between that place
at Seaton Carey, curiosity promoted them to turn over
with otachs wino) of the peat which they found deposited
sing the beach for •perords of • mile. In dwelt this
they diecovered several Goias, which were quite bleak,
but on robbing proved to be Spenish dollars. They
eontineed the march, and found a large number. Tim
tide at length stayed their further maroination, ani by
the time it again needed the DOI. 01 the diesovery hod
spread, sod hundreds locked to the shore. Through
the sight and sett dey the search was continued, and
ellesetber soma hundreds of Spanish dollars mil Nand,

which ars worth about 4a. V. each. Solna sold eosins
and rings were also found. It is boohooed tim tonsure
wow* froon • vessel, wldeli was formerly • *WA
slaver. and was wrvelord there In 1829.

Communal' EDUCATION.— Writing on an. comma-
oiry ou.ntioo scheme, Arebdea-on Denima insista that
an education rate would reproduce .11 th• ifity"ooffi of
oonsetence &lisped to attach to Church rates, but with-
tot any ..f thou justification. He 'mime that • t 'beech.
man ?flowed to piy such rate, to be applied in part
towards the teaching of • religion which he knows to
be untie.-, and with which, thereore, he has no concern,
tort., to persuade against it, suffers a grievance of mai
selentie c,rtaiiily not Ire, than ti at soffned by the
Nor confothoiet, who is r•quired to nes “Clinrell-eat-"
for church aid eiterohyatd. to both of which he has free
aeon; and of which, as • matter of fact, he contien•llt
mates one. The Archdeacon •fil rine that it to poseihle
in Oleo,, though it is itnposaible to combine in towns
respect for the denominational principle with an educa-
tion rat.; but neither in theory nor in practice is such
cimbination possible for country perishis.
BRADFORD Midianite, which has been erected by a
limited liability company, at a eon if shunt 1.10,000.
was opened on Wednesday ; the event being celebrated
by • public luncheon, at which Lord F. Cawood at,
N.,.' Mr. p0,..1„... r..and othor gentlomen mire prwnl
The foundation stone of the new bailding was laid by
Lord Palmerston is 1881. The proomerliage served to
bring out,, a striking manner the prosperity of the
woollen manatee/tom of the Meet Ri4ing of Yoikahire,
and mist-cosily tie importance to which Bradford ibelf
hat been raised hr that branch of indastey. The
worstA manufacture, of which Brsdiord I. the eosin,
hm increased in vsine from eight nit lions in 1883 to this-
! teen millions in liteel, and the impetus which it received
from the American wee noneins unchecked. Lord F.
Cavendish Alm remarked that the population f thg
to en hg.i ingregeel in one generation front 53000 1.
107,000 Mr. W. E. Forster affirmsl that not even
Manchester had benefited more by free trade than the
town which be rapresenta
Tan I•SYRItt OF THR ATLANTIC CAILIL —On Thurs-
day evening the American Chamber of Comments at
Liverpool enterained Sir Mut 'el Canning, Sr joy,.
Anaersoo, Mr, Cyrus W. Field, and Kr. Willoughby
Smith. The Mayor of Liverpool and the presidente
of I.lm chief commercial emanations of Liverpool and
Manchester were among the carats. The chair we,
othuided by Mr. Wiiiims Rotitbone, jun. In the
course of the evening the ch.itm•n prese,tisd Messrs.
rennin,. Anderson. Field awl smith, with solid cold
medals, sash weighing isp•arde of three-quarters of a
pound, de•igned and manufactured by Wynn, and
decidedly the finest sitiatie work of the kind ever pro-
duced in thi.eonntry. On one side the words " Atlan-
tie Telegraph Gab's" for a circle, below which Is the
Crest Eastern in fall mil on the oothn. Coder this
aro lb. arms and legend. of Great Britian and America.
On lb. muesli* side the name of the gentleman to whom
the medal b longs in ant in • scroll, below which are
the arms and legend of Liverpool.
Itaeusercrnon Men.—For several days in the sum•
river of 1829, a certain committee-room of th• litenee at
Commons, as well ai ail the passages leading to it. were
thronged by some of the strangest sad wiled helms that
have perhaps ever visited such respectable places.
cadaveroua, octet men, doomed in greasy mole-
skin or rusty black, •nd wearing wispa of dirty white
handkerchiefs ro-ind their Math necks. They had
the air of wicked sexton., or thievish grave-dignete;
there was • smpiction of degraded clergymen about them,
mingled with a daub of Whiteeh•pel orietermongee.
Their ghoulish fame were rendered horrible by
smirks of self-satisfied cunning. and their gym squinted
with sidelong suspicion, feet., and distrust rms., were
reourouction men, vampires who earned their breed in a
horrible way by digging op neelyinterred bodies in
the churchyards of London and It, euhurbs, and selling
them for dill...anion. They had been raked te.gether
from their fsvorvite house of call, The Fortune of War,
in fintitbasld. There were terrible rumour, that when
"colleen," ran short they had • way of "inching" dead
belie.. The most eminent of them was Icey, • Jew
who bongbt bodies of sextons, and sold dead people's
teeth to dentists. He was at last transported for a
highway robbery. The evidence of these ghouls will
best explain their hahits. One of them depothd
that in one year aline be hail sold 100 bodies.
The moot be had ever obtained bad been 23 in
four sichte. There were, he mid, about 50
resurrection men in London; but they were for the
most part petty thieves, who only call themselves
reaurreation men in order to account to the polies for
being shout at suspicious hour.. 'Lifter,' usually
went about in light carte, and the di/amity was to
bcfie the armed watchmen placed in every London
burial-groom!. and who fired on persons discovered
searching for bodies. They were frequently shot at, and
the trade became dangerous. TM rich were buried too
deep; their favourite game was wothitonse mbjecta,
who were rometimes laid three or four together. It
was a good living if • man "kept sober and acted with
jodgment." It was sometimes their "dodge" to pass
off as relatives of the dead and to claim workhouse
bodies.—Dietem "Aft Me Year Round."

TEI Pagan'? WICATHEU.—Sonie time no Sir J.
Herschel rrimmtnewled iterating who attend to the
"signs of the weather" and put feith in auy particular
weather-ad •se often renewed, to keep • note-tmok and
eel down. without Wm, all lb. instances in ennfirmation
or in contradi lion of the lame; sod be added that he
woolt he very alai to enlarge his ows experience by
the nhligieg eommeniention of snob mantoranda. —Good
Words. January, 1864 One .1 these poPular maxims
ban nonh remarkable fulfilment in the preennt return of
winter. Sir Thomas Rrowna, in hie V agar if' run,
quotes • Latin couplet as follnws

"Si SDI *Oen ifosett 111krii Purist.,
mit &ales ;NIA festam quem fait Kate."

That is, "Should the Ben shine out at the purifi.tion
or churching of the Virgin Mary there will be more
hot after the festival than there was before it." The
adage is thus parsphrased in the popular fieottiob
Thyflu :
"If Candlemas-day be dry and fair,
The half o' winter is to some and mair ;
If CAndlemsto-d se be wet and fool,
Ths half o' winter'a gene at Yule."
Now, last Candlemas-day (February 2) was • remarkably
tine fey in London, and, ism fir.. I two ascertoin, much
about the sante throughout the country. I noted it at
the time with the •isor of verification. In lat-rniany
throe ore too proverbial • • pi...salons on thin subject
The shenht rd would rather Dee the wolf enter bit stable
on 'endlemos-d•:- than the inn. 2. The kw's., peer tout
of his hole on Cindlew seals', and when he Ando
snow, walk+ abroad ; bog if he sees the min shining, he
drew. bank into his hole. It Am been dawned not
improbable that these notions—like dm fee lea) of
Candlemas itialf —are derived from Pagan tones, and
bane existed sines the infancy of our roes. Fotster. •
eery patient and aecerste oh weer, states that he has
"noticed this to he • eritical time of the y. or with res-
pect to the weather, and that, when mild and wet,
winger I. actually gone, •n 4 we may oalsolate on no
more frost, quoting another version of the provetb
"If Candlemzaday be (sir •nd bright,
Wicter wil have another flight;
But if C ndlemas day brings clonds sod rain,
Winter is gone and will not nine again."
Protably Candlemas-day was only the prominent day
seleeted tn Az the oharseteriorie of the period, 'intending
back to the 231 of January, by whieh time the utmost
rigour of frost is n-nally expended. followed by westerly
uteri., "mild and wst”—is a ontries where the amons
are more regular than in England. Fine and frosty
weather at the period would, therefor*, indiosie• con-
tinuance of wintry weather.