The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-23 00:00:00

_LATEST GENERAL INTELLIGENCE..

The Blackburn murderer Fish. writes to
his wife. who resides at Blackburn. He eats and
Bleeps well, and possesses good health.
The daily admissions to the United States Cen-
tennial Exhibition amount to 18,000, though the
weather has hitherto been unpropitious.
The lioetused grocer, and vintners of Dublin have
determined to raise a large sum to oppose the Sunday
closing movement in Ireland.
The death is announced from Rheims of M. Eugene
Roederer. the head of the celebrated champagne firm
of Louis Roederer.

Thirty two pence' were charged at the Mansion
House with pocket-picking mid other offences, in the
crowd which assembled near the Guildhall to see the
Prince and Princess of Wales.
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-o-n--13,7.-a.-y-aiht, Dr. NV-Ilion, a prominent surgeon
at Devonport, died suddenly from the effects of blood
asoalduring an operation performed last week.
eldZ brother died from • precisely similar cause
three Teem ago.
In Luton, Bedfordshire, which has recently been
incorporated by royal charter, the first election of •
Town Council took ohms on Saturday, and passed ar
very quietly. On Thursday next the Council will
meet to elect a Mayor and Aldermen.
The infant child of Prince and Princess Christian
died on Saturday morning, at 7.30, at Cumberland-
=The young Prince woe in good health on
Friday, and hie death was somewhat sudden from
convulsions. The Princess is progressing favourably.
At Greenock • large sugar store belonging to the
Harbour Corporation was consumed by fire on Sunday
afternoon. The store contained about 2,000 tons of
raw sugar, which was also destroyed. The total
damage, which is estimated at £5OOOOl. covered by
Insurance.

—The Queen arrived at Balmoral on Saturday after-
noon. Her Majesty was deeply grieved to hear of
the death of the infant son of the Prince and Princess
Christian. The Court wears mourning for one week
from Tuesday.
It I. officially announced from Salonics that the
rimers] of the murdered Commis took place with groat
pump, amid the most perfect order. The Official
Gazetk of the German Empire says that, up to the
present, there is no reliable ex=n of the real
of the assassination of the
CAUTe Vanguard accident is not yet to be allowed to
rest. In a few days Mr. Seeley will bring under the
notice of the House of Commons the loss of the
Vanguard, and move that the explanations of the
Vint Lori and the papers presented to Parliament do
not show that sufficient inquiry has been made into
the subject, or that the responsibility for the calamity
hao been fully ascertained.
The Army end Novi' Ga.:elk says that General Sir
William Cocirington, G.C.8., is to command the 2nd
Army Corp' when it is mobilised at Aldershot in
July, and that General the Hon. Sir Augustus
Spencer, G.C.8., is to be placed at the head of the
Mb Army Corps at Salisbury.
The annual dinner of the Newspaper Noes Fund
took place on Saturday, Lord O'Hagan presiding, in
the absence, throuh indisposition, of the Lord Chid
Justice Cockburn. Lord- Houghton, Lord
Elgin.
Limit Cameron, Mr Archibald Forbes, the Beircd
Dysart, and others were among the speaker.. Sub-
scriptions amounting to nearly twelve hundred pounds
were announced.

TERMINATION OF. MORN THAN "THIRTY

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YEARS" LITIGATION.
On Thursday, at the Judicial Committee, jment
was given, after six days' argument, in an appeal from
Bengal, "Ranee Khujoorunima v. Ranee onahana
Jehaa," and in which property to nearly Eso,ooo was
Involved. There had been litigation in the matter
upwards of thirty years, and several of the original
liquidators bad died. The fint suit was in 1842, and
lasted till 1858, when a compromise was effected. The
second suit was In 1880 to set aside the compromise,
and the "exasperated litigation," as it warn termed,
had continued. The judgment in this case was given
by the Calcutta High Court in favour of the plaintiff,
the present respondent A rajah bad five wives, and
the appellant urged that be had only one wife and
four concubines. The contention was whether the
respondent had succeeded as the child of a married
woman, or whether her grandmother was only a
" temporary wife," there being three kinds of mar.
Awe among Mohammedans. Mr. Carrie, _44.c and
Mr. D. were for the appellant; Mr. Leith,
M.P., and Mr. Doyue, for the respondent, the
thintiff in the second suit. Sir Robert Collier gave
Judgment, and, after lucidly reviewing the facts and
xba-law applicable, said their lotps could hardly
advise Her Majesty to affirm the judgment of the
High Cloud., and to dismiss the appeal with costa.
The judgment will put an end to a litigation which
has lasted more than thirty years.

THE LENNIE MURDERERS.
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troz..-„ ii-ey.b—;v: bee; under sentence
cif have made statements that are tantamount
to a full confession of their guilt. They have been
constantly visited by the Rev. Mr. Maintain, the
pastor of the Greek Church in London-wall, and
they appear to have conducted themselves, with
the exception perhaps of the prisoner Preach Peter,
who has all along exhibited • dogged and sulks
demeanour, in • manner becoming the fearful position
In which they are placed. It is the opinion of Dr.
llelmothus that they are sincerely penitent for their
crime., and feel that they deserve the punishment
fixed by the law. Althon6 all the primps' appear
to bare been born in Turkey they profess the
Christian religion in accordance with the rites of the
Greek Church. and they have regularly attended
Divine service in the thapel of Newritte, although
they demand that they should be visited by the
Greek Archimandate, which was psinclisili On
account of some of them not being able to converse
fluently in Eastlake. There appeal; to be very little
doubt frOCII the statement+ of the prisoners that It
was their intention to have killed the steward and
also the boy at the time the other murders were com-
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1 the men on board wen able to navigate the
mask and Qv/ were therefore reluctantly compelled
to place confides°, in the steward. An appesl hee
am made to the Secretary of State on bqhalf of Joe
itathattocon th• grounds that he anal wader tat.of the other prisoners, and that he was
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