The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

Droolushire.

TORQUAY. —A riIitILOUS ADvarrimil. —Two
youngsters,from beach
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pulled over to the Great Rock, which lies near
Hope's Nose, soda little lees than a quarter of a mile
from the shore. The rock is a few acres in extent.
The boys landed there and amused themselves,
having secured their boat. The wind, however,
rose to • gale, and when they looked for the craft it
WAS drifting far beyond their rehab. The prospect
of passing the night on this bleak, dreary, iind in-
hospitable rock waster from inviting, and therefore,
young bee, stripping, plunged into the eddying tide,
which was lashed into fury by the storm, and, not-
withstanding the swift current which sweeps along
between the island and the main, succeeded in
reaching the shore, and crawled to a farm-house
near in a very exhausted state. No bold could live
upon the sea on Sunday night, and therefore it
was not until Monday morning that the other lad
was rescued.

DARTMOOR.—Arreurrtti OUTIIRRAY or CON-
vic-re.—For some weeks past the convicts at Dart-
moor prison have been manifesting symptoms of re-
newing their attempts of outbreak and insubordina-
tion. On Saturday evening, after the warders
had served each convict with his 'upper, and clean
linen for the ensuing day,— being thus supplied with
all their wants, they commenoed to about and hoot
at their windows, and use threats of defiance towards
the highest officials. All the prisoners located in A
and B Hall, No. 2 Prison, joined in one continued
about of defiance, and doggedly refused to close their
cell doors. Captain Best (the deputy governor), on
being acquainted with the disturbance, promptly
appeared on the scene, accompanied by • strong body
of warders, and • detachment of the Armed Civil
Guard, Captain Best ordered the warders to close
all the cell doors, on which the convicts commencing
whistling, and knocking against the doors
and partitions of their cella. Quietness and good
order were, however, ultimately restored. But on
Sunday afternoon, after having a most impressive
le-zturo from the prison chaplain, all the convicts
located in A Hall, No. 2 Priam, refused to enter
their cells and openly bade defiance to the warders,
demanding their regular exercise, and that their cell.
doors should be left open, otherwise they would not
return to their cells. The governor had given orders
that all the prisoners located in No. 2 Prison should
be deprived of their Sunday's exercise, and not be
allowed to assemble together on parade, also that
their cell-doors should be kept closed as a punish.
meat for their outrageous conduct on the previous
evening. The warders, with staves in their hands,
coura4einisly advanced on the infuriated convicts,
and drove them towards their cells. The some of
tumult that ensued baffles description. Shouting,
yelling, imprecations, and threats of vengeance were
uttered by the convicts if their demands were not
complied with. A detachment of the civil guard,
with fixed bayonets and loadedarms, was then drawn
up in frontof A Hall, No. 2 Prison,and all the available
officers that could be procured were despatched to aid
the warders in charge of No. 2 Prison; the warders
whose turn it was to be off duty for that day
were also called into the prison at 11.30 am, to act
as • reserve. The convicts, seeing such a formidable
and determined force, after giving full vent to their
lungs, succumbed to the warders, and returned to
their cells. Nine of the instigators, or rather ring-
leaders, were secured and removed to the refractory
cells, to await the decision of Captain Gambier, the
visiting director, who is expected to arrive at the
prison in • day or two. One of the ringleaders,
named Griffiths, has been sent back, on two different
occasions, to the penal claw at Pentonville Prison for
murderous assaults on the wardens at Dartmoor; so
that, after completing his penance at Pentonville, he
has been let loose at Dartmoor to carry out his
murderous designs, and was allowed full scope to in-
cite his companions in villany to acts of mutiny and
insubordination. Only last month five of the oon-
victs at Dartmoor underwent the punishment of the
lash for violently assaulting the warders.