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

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THE BISHOP OP Ssclitatme.—The amounts of the
Bishop's health in the beginning of last week were not
very cheering, but his lordship has rallied wonderfully,
and each successive account, down to that received at
the Palace on Saturday morning, lms been very
favourable indeed.

HINOCLAH ACCIDENT AT TIOWBIUDGL -Az inqocot
DEA been held at the Three Horse Shoes Inn, before the
coroner, on the body of Christiana Hanley, sged eighty-
xis, who met with her death under the following
circumstances. The old lady woo sitting at her dinner
table, and bearing a knock at the door, and thinking it
was the doctor, she rose hastily from her chair, assisting
herself by placing her band upon an arm chair, the
chair slipped away, and she fell down, dislocating her
hip bons. She lingered for some time, but died from
the shock to the system. Verdict, " Accidental death."
PAIITJHAL LETT= Or TOO BISHOP Or SALDIHOHT.
—The Bishop has Maned • pastoral letter asking his
clergy to make oollectiona on behalf af the Diocesan
Church Building Society. The postcript, which is a
lithographed fac-simile of the Bishop's band-writing is
ss folloarls i—The above statement entirely expresses
my °pit ions and wishes, though I have been obliged from
the pressure of sickness to ask another to draw it up. But
I cannot allow this request, which I may have much
reason to think may be the last public one I may be
allowed to make to my clergy, to go forth, without
reminding them that I am seeking their semitanes in
behalf of an, obieet, which must be amongst thou
deareit to • Christian's heart, the worship of God in
His Church on earth. I would also at the same time
thank them for the prayers, which I have the great
comfort of believing are being offered up for me by them
and their congregations, to the end that I may bear
my sickness patiently, and that the sufferinp of my
body may by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
made to minister to my soul's rest and peace.

LONDON bas a sensation preacher in the person of
Ned Wright, a converted burglar. His language is so
striking end effective that Mr. Spurgeon stands no
phanoe against him with the female portion of the
audience. He haa lately been preaching at the Mid-
night Mission houses in London, and with such effect
that many women fell insensible, and had to be
removed on stretchers. At least, so says the New Yost
Herold.

Possums, GRANT has delighted " progressive"
lathes in Aureries by appointing three post•mistresses.
One of them receives the very important ofßoe at the
capital of Virginia as the reward of her services to
&dent troops during the war, the being a Richmond
lady. On the other hand, Secretary Boutwell is turn.
Mg out large number. of female clerk, in his depart-
ment. where they were appointed at the solicitation of
corgis's-men, on the ground of "incompetence."
A LLEOLD WITS kleaorg. —At the Cierkenwell
rolice-eourt, London, on Thursday, a law clerk, aged
61 years of age, was charged with ARO murder of his
wife. It appeared that he had called in some neigh.
boors, saying him wife had fallen down. She was
found in an insensible state, never rallied, and died
without speaking. The posi-moitiem examination showed
the cause of death to be a hectors of the skull,

might have been atom dby • blow or a hill. leidenee
was given ea to prisoner's ordinary violent conduct
towards his wile, mid the cue was then rsonaded.