The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

Central Neb3o.

A RICH HARVEST OF Figs.—Br is reported that the
expenses of prosecuting the director' of the Royal
British Bank, the whole of which will fall entirely upon
the country, will considerably exceed £20,000. Sir F.
Thesiger, it I. said gets 1,000 guineas with his brief, and
refreshers of 100 guineas each day. The other counsel for
the Crown are treated with corresponding liberality.
Sir F. Kelly, the leading counsel for the Hon. Mr.
Stapleton had 500 guineas with his bed, and refreshers
of 50 githieas • day ; his two juniors had their briefs
marked with 250 and 100 guineas respectively, and re•
freshers in proportion.
InoOgn•Tax.—The association for effecting • more
equitable adjustment of the charge on incomes held a
meeting at the London Tavern on Monday evening,
when a petition to Parliament, setting forth the manifest
injustioe of imposing a uniform rate of charge on all
classes of income, without reference to the source
whence those incomes were derived, whether permanent
or precarious, and praying that in any future enactment
the amount payable under schedules D and E (D relating
to the tax on trades and professions, and E to employes
and other offices) should not exceed one half the amount
payable on property (funded and realized) under sche-
dules A, B, and C, was agreed to.
LITTLe BARAIL—Died, at Madron, on Monday, MI
Sarah Roberts, aged 90 years. Deceased • local celebrity,
known generally as ' Little Sarah,?, is supposed to
have been the smallest woman In P,ngland, and was only
2feet 10 inches high. Dwarfs, ass rule, are deficient in
intellect, but, "Little Sarah" was quite an exception ;
she was an intelligent woman, and, possessed of an ex-
traordinary memory, could relate the time and manner
of every looal circumstance that had transpired from her
childhood to near the end of her long life.
MEETINGS ON THE CONSPIRACY HILL Al MAN.
CHESTER AND BURY.—MestIT were held at Bury, on
Monday night, and at Mane ester (of Chartists), on
Wednesday night, when resolutions against the
Cot.spirsey to Murder Bill were agreed to. A letter
from Mr. R. N. Philips. M.P., was read at the former
meeting (Bury), in which he regrets the coming into
office of men from whom there is no prospect of getting
any liberal measures, but, though he regrets the result,
he considers that he discharged his duty in voting with
Mr. Milner Gibson.

—;fIITC-1/1.0.1:16-11-11:\ N IMPLIOATZD IN ORSINI'S PLOT.—
Thomas Allmon, who is charged with being accessory
to the "murder of divers persons in Paris," and fur
whose apprehension • reward of £2OO is offeror!, is des-
cribed as follows :—" Age about 60, height six ft., com-
plexion fair, eyes gray, hair thin, light, and turing gray,
little or no whiskers, strong made, stoops u if round
shouldered, speaks quiche ; drew, dark brown dress coat,
drab trousers, and black hat," It is said that Albion
was alway esteemed a warmhearted and crotchety man t
lie was a friend and associate of the late Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, whose " Table Talk" ha edited. He was also
an intimate friend of Robert Owen. Coleridge dined
every Sunday for years with Allsop.
MURDICII IN Tilt HATIOLBICKT.—The police have
aimed bills, giving a description of • man charged with
the murder of a woman named Rhea Tobin. The house
in which the murder was committed is No. 8, Arundel.
court, at the top of the Haymarket, on the right hand.
On Thursday morning, about half-past two o'clock, the
deceased woman was accompanied to her lodging in the
house by a man. She had in her possession a large
amount of money, a gold watch and chain, besides other
property. About half-past 8 o'clock the man was seen
to leave the house in a hurried manner, but no particular
notice was taken of it. About half-past eight some of
the inmates knocked at the woman's door, and receiving
no answer went in. On looking in the bed, they were
horrified at discovering her dead. From the general
state of the bed there had very evidently been a des-
perate struggle. The unfortunate woman was found
lying on her face with her hands behind her. Her
money and Binkets were all gone. The police called in
the aid of Mr. Tother, surgeon, Charles's-st., St. James's,
who pronounced life to have been extinct for some
hours; and from the general appearanee of the body he
stated that death had resulted from strangulation or
suffocation. The following description of the murderer
has been issued :—A German, about 30 years of age,
five feet, six or seven inches high ; speaks German and
French fluently. He was dressed in a dark grey paletot
ooat, wide sleeves, grey trousers, and strong Wellington
boots. Telegraphic masques have been despatched to
the various railway stations and outports, but no clue
to the murderer has yet been obtained, although an
active search is being made by the detective police.
Time LIVIATRAII.—Very little has been done in the
way of actual progress since the vessel was floated off
her cradles, and she still remains moored stem and
stern in the centre of the river, • little below the old
building yard. But though, nothing worth speaking of,
in the way of work, has been done about the Leviathan
herself, a very great deal has been perfected, and we
believe the arrangements are being made for her final
completion for sea. The total cost of completing her
fittings, patting on board stores, and making her in
all respects ready for sea will not exceed £120,000' and
the time required to do this will oertainly not ex-
tend beyond the month of July. The company being
obliged to give up possession of the yard at Miilwall
may occasion hindrances that will probably delay her
completion till the time stated. It has been decided to
subdivide what remains to be done about the vessel
among several contractor*. No less than 10 anchors
are now required to hold the monster vessel at her pre.
sent moorings—five at the stem and five at the stern,
and each with length of cable attached varying from 40
to 160 fathoms, TllO incite are at present being made
at bfillwall in pieces. There are to be six masts in all,
three square-rigged and three rigged with fore and aft
sails. All these masts will be composed of plates of
wrought iron one inch in thickness, and rivetted to-
gather in the came manner as the sides of the ship, or a
steam-boiler of the strongest description. They will
vary in height from 180 to 170 feel from the keel to the
Musk, each will be three feel four inches diameter at the
desk, and each will vary from 00 to 40 tons, szolusive
of yards or rigging. Mach inset rule in a liquor, column
of plate Iron whloh reaches direst from the keel to the
upper desk, and is emitted and built Into all of the no•
mules dealt through willed It pone, In 041. slit
ever Nanning neesuary to ent away the meals, at the
ban of them all, at about three feet above the desk,
will be Axed a curious apparatus, whieh, working by
moon of a powerful screw, It made to compress two
sldeo of the inset together In oink a manner as to coin.
plenty crush them in, and let the mast fall over the shle
Immediately. As, however, all the MUIR will be stayed
by the Una Blending rigging, whleli in the ease of the
Leviathan will be all -of wire rope and of the most
manly* kind, other preeautiono have to be token in
order to get rid of the main when neaten/my. Ts dint
Olio, then, all the shroud. and stop ace !intend 'Ohs
ends through iron rings In ouch a 101111111 r that as far as
any stollen of strength or skill is inneurned a single
MR would be oufnelent to coal loon all the fastenings of
each mast In Ave ininuttio, though until the rings are
opened the sides might be torn from the eitip before they
would yield an inoli. All the main and topmast yards
of the opiare.rlgiod unit will 11110 be of iron
The mato yard will be 130 feet long, or about 40 feet
longer than the mainyard of our rivet line.of.battle
ships, about four times the otrongth of any ninnyard
yet tionstruated, and bimetal tons lighter than tilt was
made of wood, be Is usually the OSA. The oniony are
shout to remove their plant and materially a yard on the
Murry side of the river, We believe no attempt will be
made to draw out any of the many hundred Oleo driven
Into the earth fur one purpose or another during the
launch, In one portion of the yard the men are em.
played night and day In turning the monstrous Internal.
dine shaft for the paddle engines, This shaft was mode '
at Oh/MOW' and in the rough weighed some 34 tons.
This is ihe third that has been forged for the paddle.
engine' of the Levlothan. In both the former one*,
when the monufanure was almost oompleted, suah flaws
were disoovend in their sentence as made them worth.
len. There are not many lathe' In the kingdoin of suf.
intent sim and stnngth to turn a shaft of this kind,
since apart from its own weight, it has counterbalancing
names of iron to relieve the strain on the lathe in turn.
ing it round, which brlnp up the whole mass to about
atone. This is turned slowly at about one revolution
per minute, the Gutters, of which, then are two, one at
each side shaving of long thin stripe of the cold metal
attic. rate of about one hundred-weight per hour. The
great vessel when she wenn cleaning will have to be
gridironed, as the screw colliers are—that la, run
wound on rows of piles laid along the river's side for
the purpose, and the tide of course will leave her dry
at cosh low water. A mot has been chow for this
camel:nit:l Toe IserseLebeettvirisentANTiootchfaii, le and Birken-
I as often as she needs repairs Or . will
be
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PROSECUTION FOR LIBEL ON TEL EMPEROR OF THE.
FRENCH.—At the Bow-street Police-court, on Monday,.
Mr. Bodkin, counsel to the Treasury, attended to con-
duct a proaecution against Edward Truelove, • well.
dressed, middle-aged man, described as • bookseller,.
who was charged with having "unlawfully written and
published • false, malicious, scandalous, and seditious
libel of and concerning His Majesty the Emperor of the
French, with the view to incite divers persons to Amami-
nate his said Majesty." Mr. Bodkin appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh ler the defence. Defer,
dant, according to the evidence, had published a pam-
phlet in eight pages, entitled " liwasay /s it Juvi.
?law 7" by W. E. Adams.—Edwarti Truelove, 240.
Strand. They were ld. each. Defend& ai was admitted
to bail in two sureties of £4O and his owe recognizance

EnTEIOO.
AN ADVENTURE DI A RAILWAY CARRYA9W- After
I had taken my seat one morning at Pe:lsmMa in an
empty carriage, I was joined, just as "he brain was
moving off, by a strange-looking young man, witli, re.
workably long flowing hair. He was, of course, •litga,
hurried, but lie seemed besides to be ao disturbed andl
wild that I was quite alarmed for fear of his not Whir
right in his mind, nor did his subsequent conduct at alt.
reassure me. Our train was an express, .nd he inquired..
eagerly, at once, which was the first stet ion whereat we
were advertised to stop. I consulted my Braddiate,
and fur...jibed him with the required information. It
was Reading. The young man looked at his watch.
" Madam." said he, "I have bat half an hour between
me and, it may be, ruin. Excuse, therefore, my abrupt-
ness. You have, I perceive, • pair of scissors in your
workbag. Oblige me, if you. please, by cutting off all
my hair." "Sir,' said I, " it is impossible." "Madam,'
be urged, and a look of severe determination crossed his
features, " I am • desperate man. Beware how you
refuse me what I ask. Cat my hair off—short, close to
the roots—immediately, and here is a newspaper to hold
the ambrosial curls." I thought he was mad, of course;
and believing that it would be dangerous to thwart him,
I cut off all his hair to the last lock. "Now Madain,"'
said he, unlocking a small portmanteau, "you will far-
ther oblige me by looking out of the window, as I un,
about to change my clothes." Of court* I looked:
out of the window for a very considerable time,,
and when he observed, "Madam, I need no
longer put you to any inconvenience," I did nob.
recognise the young man in the least. Instead of his
former rather gay costume, he was attired in black, and
wore a gray wig and silver spectacles; he looked like a
respectable divine of the Church of England, of about,
64 years of age; to complete that character, he held a
volume of sermons in his hand, which—they appeared
so to absorb him—might have been his own. "I do not
wish to threaten you, young lady, he resumed, '' and I"
think, besides, that I can trust your kind face. Will.
you promise me not to reveal this metamorphosis until
your journey's end "I will," said I, most cer.
thinly." At Reading the guard and a person in plain
clothes looked into our carriage. "You have the
ticket, my love," said the young man, blandly, emi
looking at me as though he were my father. "Never
mind, Sir, we don't want them," said the official, as he
withdrew his companion. "I shall now leave you,
Madam," observed my fellow-traveller, as soon as the
coma was clear' "by your kind and courageous conduct
you have saved any life, and whist), even your own."
In another minute he was gone, and the train WU in
motion. Not till the next morning did I learn from
The Timm newspaper that the gentleman on whom I
had operated as haircutter had committed a forgery to
an enormous amount in London • few hours before I
met him, and that he had been tracked into an express
train from Paddington, but that—although the telegraph
had been put in motion and described him accurately—
at Reeding, when the train was searched he was nowhere
to be found.—Howahold Words.