The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

; oust of the arbitration, J 5.506 ; Mr. Roe's

coeds ind personal ex lenses, A'6,500; 'expenses of
Messrs J. F. Furguson and Co. for opposing two bills
in Parliament, C 5,000 ; costs of indemnity bills, £4000;
costs of Mr. Itee's solicitor, £.1,000; the costs of the
special respondents, £12,000. The total amount of
costs is I:41,000. The award, however, is subject to
the approval of Mr. Cardwell, Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, and the unhappy defendants cry aloud
unto him to mitigate their distress.
SHIPWRECKED FISHERMIN AND MAMMA' ROYAL
Buravouter Soeterr.—ln these days for wonderful in-
ventions mankind seems to have gained • certain im-
munity from danger, or to have been put in possession
of such precautionary signals that in many perilous ex-
peditions our safety seems to depend upon our own
prudence. We are at no loss to understand the value
of • guide to ditect us across the avalanche or the glacier,
or of a good pilot to steer us between such projections
as the fabulous Scylla and Charybdis represent. We
have faith in the engineer to whom the entire deta;ls of
of his locomotive are as familiar as da7 and night, and
we entrust ourselves to his guardianship equally on the
ocean as on the raiL We consult a barometsr as the
oracle of our stmnspliere, and believe in ita omens as the
presage for wet weather or fine. Aeronauts have made
their profusion • new meant to enlighten neon the
properties of mists, clouds, rain, and the graduating
temperature heat or cold in proportion to the distance
from the earth at which • meuurement is taken. But
It seems to have been reserved to Admiral Fitzroy to
contrive an enenometer as the index of an approaching
storm, and thereby to warn the mariner of its Advent.
With the aid of the telegraphic wire the note of caution
is comer unieeted to every seaport town, so that doubtless
many a disaster at sea hes been and will be avoided by
the premonitory signals which this invention has
enabled us to convey. We must nevertheless bear in
mind that the wind and the storm are as capricious in
their movement-I as they are inexplicable in their origin.
By means of this new invention whole fixta of fishing
boat, may be detained on shore till the storm has passed,
the vessel that Ims sought &temporary port may remain in
safety if the omens are unfavourable for them to put out
to see. Hundredo of valuable lives may thus be saved,
but of what avail is the anenorneter to aailors or mariners
when the storm has overtaken them? Intelligence is
hourly reaching an of the damages which our shipping
haa sustained in the late disastrous gale; of lamentable
wreck.; of the lots of see captains and whole crews of
sailors amid the resistless violence of a storm prognosti-
cated on land. But of what avail could the warning be
to those whom no human Land could help or save?
Many have found a premature grave in those very waters
on which they earned their bread, but they have left
widows and orphans behind them. They themselves
have ceased for ever to be a charge to any one on earth.
Many were shipwrecked and cut ashore penniless and
destitute, but life with all its privations is a treasure
for which no struggle or difficulty is too severe. When
autumn hes passed, and winter is st hand, stub gales as
these are not uncommon, and when they have worked
theirpurpou, piteous and mournful are the consequences
they entail on many • previously happy and contented
home. The public journals have but too faithfully re-
added numerous instances of these sad facts which have
occurred within the last fortnight, and pointed to the
Shipwrecked Mariner,' Society as • channel of hope and
auceour for many a dismembered family, and many •
homeless outcast, made so by the Mural and the wreck
, The value of this society is perhaps overlooked at other
seasons of the year, but only to enhance its importance
when the winter's gale claims its victims for an angry
sea. There is no inatitution in this or any other country
which deserves more fervent support, because its done-
tOos are Dever bestowed except in cases of actual desti-
' lotion and bereavement. It matters not on what coast
a shipwrecked sailor or mariner is cast ashore, this
society finds the means to clothe him and pay his ex-
penises home, wherever that home may be. The widows
of the lest are provided for, and the homes of the deso-
late are mulched from its exchequer. When we are
entering on the winter season, and the late
fearful utie has given an illustration of the mentalism
to which that perticuler class of men are subjected, it
would be well if all philanthropist. (and in that category
who can be excluded!) to beer in mind the claims of the
Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, which at the present
moment is in need of much maistence. The value of
the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society cannot be more
truthfully illustrated than by the fact that during the
last year 11,000 persons were relieved through means of
its invaluable agency on every pert of the coast.
EXTNAORDINLRY CONFILMON. —At the Manchester
policemourt, on Tuesday, a respeetable-looking wan,
named Joseph Nash, was brought up charged under the
fonowingeztreordinery circumstances :—Superintendent
Anderson, of the C division, stated that on Monday
forenoon the prisoner came to the station and requested
to see him, and made the following statement i—On one
night, about August, 1851.1 resolved to destroy my shop,
In Brick-lane, Spitalfields, by fire. The stock wee
insured for £lOO in the Bun Office. My partner, Mr.
Bateman, was away. The upper part of the house was
unoccupied. I closed the shop myself. I returned
about twelve o'clock, and set Are to the goods in sever.
places, and then again left. While away I beard my
boas* and five others had been destroyed by the are.
When I returned I met my partner, and we jointly
claimed the insurance, £lOO, which was eventually paid.
I Inve bad eeveral situations since this event, but have
never done any good; this occurrence has always been
hearing on my mind. Superintendent Anderson raid he
had telegraphed to the Superintendent of the London
Fire Brigade, and had ascertained that the fire
described did actually take place; and he Ind also found
that other statements the prisoner bad made to him
were correct. The primmer had told him that a sub-
scription had been got up en his and his partner's behalf
at the time, which Matsment was also true. Mr. Ellison,
madegulag the prisoner, uid : You have heard the
witosee's statement, what have you to say? The pri-
soner mournfully replied: Nothing, sir; but that is all
true, every word of it. In reply to Hr. Ellimn the
supenutendent said that from what the prisoner had
told him be believed he had recently some from Bir-
mingham : and as he had several receipts on him for
making blacking, ge., he thought he must have beets
lately getting his living London-roast
He at present
resided in a street off
-road. The priumer wee
remanded (sea week for further inquiries.
MEAD= HT • EAMES OF OM MOTOWN Alto Two
BRoTHIBB.--SINTINOKOF DIL&TH.— The Court Et Ardzes
of the Don,., sitting at Valence, in Trans., was Let
week engaged during two days in trying,, farmer, named
Glardati, seed 25, charged with baring, on the 17th of
A4-uiA last, at Lons-Leetang, murdered his mother, a
widow, and his two brothers, Jean, aged 27, and Felix,
aged 17. The prisoner was also charged with setting fire ,
to their dwelling-house in ordsr to destroy all traces of

his Grime. It appeared from the indictment that in
April, 1862, the prisoner purchased • house and some
land for 6,100 f., at llellegarde-Fousaieux, about two
leagues from his native plum, and not having sufficient
funds to pay even the first instalment, sold to al ela all
his right to a share in the family property for 2.0011., but
the brother reocived only 1,1001., the other 900 f, being
left as a security for his share of a yearly sum to be paid
to the mother u long as she lived. The prisoner soon
after wanted his brother to let Lim base the 900 t, but
meeting with a refuml, he raised funds by forging bills
in his brother's name for above that sum. In the night
of the 17th of August last, shortly before these forged
bills fell duo, the premises of the widow Gardan were
observed to be on fire, and when the neighboura hastened
to the spot, they. found the bodies of the widow and the
youngest son lying dead in the kitchen, both having
been shot through the Lead. The premises were entirely
destroyed, and the body of the eldest son wog found
among the ruins nearly carbonised, but • fracture of the
skull showed that lie too had been murdered. The
prisoner was at once suspected and arrested. When
interrogated, he declared that he had no doubt that
Felix had murdered his mother and brother, arid then
committed suicide. A post-inorress examination of the
mother's body, however, clearly showed that the prisoner
was the murderer, for the wadding of the charge which
was found in the wound exactly corresponded with the
leaf of a song book in the prisoner's poesession, and two
recently discharged pistols were discovered on his pre.
Other evidence was likewise produced which
left no doubt of Lis guilt. The jury accordingly brought
in • verdict of guilty without extenuating circumstances,
and the Court condemned him to death, at the samo
time ordering the execution to take place at Valence.—

Gatignani. _
It/PORTANT RAILWAY Qu --At the Southwark
police-court on Wednesday, Mr. Henry Anderson, of
the !lollies, Elliot-vale, Blackheath, was summoned
before Mr. Combs by the South-Eastern Rainey
Company, for that' be, being a passenger in • tint-
elan carriage of the London and Greenwich Railway
Company, did unlawfully refuse to show his ticket when
required so to do by a aermat of the oompany having
charge of the train."— Mr. J. Freeland, the solicitor to
the company, attended to prosecute the complaint; and
Mr. Lewis, jun., for the defendant.—Mr. Freelaud, in
opening the case, said that the defendant took his seat
in a first-class carriage at the Greenwich terminus on
the 26th of last month, and before the train started he
refused ta show his ticket when demanded by the
inspector and guard at the station. The question he
had to bring before his worship was rather • ticklish
one. At the time the ticket was demanded the train
had not started; therefore, it would be for his worships
to decide whether the defendant had rendered himself
liable to the penalties of the bye-lawn as they now stood.
—Mr. Lewis, on the part of the defendant, considered
that no infringement of the railway laws had been com-
mitted, as the bye-law in questioispeeified that pasiengen
must show their tickets to the guard of the train, and
that must mean after it had atarted, as mention was
made of the fare. In the present instance the train had
not started, therefore there was no liability.-- Mr.
Comb., after maturely conaiderieg the evident* and
the question before him, said that he was of a decided
opinion that the bye-law meant the guard in charge,
and the witness Head could not be considered to be that
person. The guard in charge mentioned in the bye-law
decidedly meant the guard who goes and comes with
the trains. Under these circumstances be must dismissa
the summons. He should advise the company to have
the bye-law in question altered as soon as possible, as
it would be the means of saving considerable oonfusion.
—Mr. Freeland said it was the intention of the com-
pany to have the bye-law altered as soon as this case
was disposed of.
DARING Gatterme ROBBERT AT ROCHDALE.— On
Wednesday, at the Rochdale police-court, two no-
torious characters, named Joseph M'Dermott and
Jonathan Brierley, were brought up, charged with
stealing a valuable gold watch, the property of Mr.
Edward Wild, maltster. of Sowerby Bridge. On Mon-
day Mr. Wild visited Rochdale, for the purpose of trans.
acting business. At half-past six in the evening he
was making his way to the railway-station, so to return
home, when both the prisoners met him. M'Derniott
seized him by the throat, while Brierley took his gold
watch out of his pocket, and threw Mr. Wild into the
middle of the street, and both of them then ran away.
A boy, named l'atrick O'Brian, who was standing eight
or nine yards off at the time, saw all that transpired,
and assisted Mr. Wild to rise from off the ground.
Blood oozed from his mouth in consequence of the
pressure on his throat. The police, from the descrip-
tion given, knew the prisoners, and were soon on the
alert. The prisoners were not apprehended until
Tuesday, but the watch has not been found yet. The
prisoners were remanded until Friday.
An interesting discovery was made a few days since
by • shepherd in • woosl recently cleared near Etain
(Meuse). It is a coin of Philip of Memsdon, father of
Alexander the Great, and therefore more than 2000
years old. It is in gold, and weighs eight grains. On
one side is • head of Apollo crowned with laurel, and
on the other, • personae. drawn in a car drawn by two
horses. Iklow is a kind of vase on which is the word
" Philippe" in Greek characters. Before the Roman
invuion Greek coins were current among the Gauls.—
Grateueni.
FEARFUL COLLIMION ON THE NOIITII-EARTERN RAIL-
WAY, AM) E XTRAORDI :4 ART &ICA rz.--Sus nentrow,
Weanc.i.y. —An accident occurred last evening near
the l'allion station of the North-Eastern Railway, in-
volving one of the most extraordinary escapes from
fatal results it has ever been the duty of a journalist to
record. It appears thatbetween half-past six and seven
o'clock Mr—lames Laing, the eminent shipbuilder, re-
. siding in Fawcett-street, with Mrs. Laing, were proceed-
ing in their close carriage to Pillion Hall, the residence
of Mr. C. M. Webster, to a dinner party. The carriage
was drawn by two valuable grey horses, driven by the
coachman, and on the box was Mr. laing's butler. To
reach Mr. Webster's mansion from the town the carriage
had to crow; the North-Eastern Railway, at the Pallion
Station, on a level. In passing through the first gate,
; the wheel of the carriage caught &poet, and it slurred
i to one side on to the railway. While endeavours were
! being mule to extricate, it Mr. Laing fancied he saw •
I light approaching on the line of railway from Sunder-
land. He immediately opened the carriage door, gut
out, and dragged Mrs. Laing after him. In a moment
afterwards an engine and tender, without anything at-
tached, running from the south dock, came up with
frightful velocity, and struck the horses and
0110 of the hones was cut to fragments on the spot, ihs
other was carried for • quarter of • mile up the line on
I the buffers of the engine, as far as Pallion-grove, and
was there found dead. The carriage was smashed to
atoms. The escape of Mr. and Mrs. Laing and their
. servants was miraculous. The two former were close
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to the outaide of the up line of rails, and so near that
Mrs. Laing fancied the engine grazed her arm, but
neither were injured. The coachman and butler after-
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wards found themselves lying on the platform of the up
side, whither they hail been thrown from the carriage,
but were unable to give the slightest information of
how they escaped. They were much shaken, but for-
tunately only slightly injured.—Leeds Mercury.
A clergyman named Birch has been brought up at a
London polioe-court for a most ferocious and disgusting
libel on a gentleman named Tyler. residing at Slough.
The defendant was the tutor to Mr. Tayler`s sons but
souse misunderstanding about scholastic matters having
occurred, the connection ceased, end it was then that
the Roe. Thomiui Richardson Birch penned a letter.
which he signed with his own name, and whose parallel
for vulgarity, blackguardisin, filthiness, and abuse it
would be difficult to find. The only reasonable defence
to the charge can be that the complainant was not in
his right tenths when he wrote the letter. The inquiry
is adjourned.
The Galway Packet Company are very much to be
pitied. Misfortune, or had management, pursues them
like an evil genius. The first of their steamers that
carried the mails from New York across the Atlantis
broke down half-way, or else, said the hopeful men of
Galway, she would hive beaten the Cunard boat hollow.
This was only about • month since. On Monday the
second of their steamers, with the mails from Liverpool,
and about MO passengers, had to call at Galway. In
the middle of the bay, which is at all times difficult to
navigate, there is a particularly dangerous spot, called
the Black Rock; and, as the Town Commissioner, have
the most exalted expectations of Galway blooming the
great emporium for the traffic of the Atlantic, they have
taken precautions to render the harbour as safe as pos-
sible, and to this end have erected at the Bluth Rock
"a small pole, with a little black ball on the top." 11
mast be confessed that, even on a very dark night, this
object must have been visible to all—at least the oom-
inhaionen must have thought so. But though among
the officer' and crew of the Galway steamer there were
several who had navigated the bay from their infancy,
the Anglia was doomed to go on to the Black Rook, and
go she did with such • vengeance that she cannot journey
across the Atlantic, and her mails and passengers have
to await the next steamer. There are only two authorised
pilots in the town; and they must both have been
engaged, as the captain of the Anglia waited their
arrival in vain for several hours. On Tuesday tbe vessel
was high and dry on the Black Rock.
Tee LORD LIKUTINART 07 I.IILAND JOID LORD
LZITRIM. —His Excellency, seeing that the license of
King, the tenant of the NAM Hotel, had not been
renewed by the magistrates, on account of the insult he
had received there from Lord Leitriin, wrote from
England to the authorities in Ireland expressing his
concern at seeing such an announcement, and stating
that King did not on that occasion commit the slightest
act of illegality, but had saved his Excellency the annoy-
ance of being denied admittance, by sending a timely
message. His Excellency hoped that the magistrates
might be induced to reconsider any decision injurious to
him to which they might have oome. Mr. Scully, It
in reply, stated that the only reason why the licenses of
King and others were not renewed was that they should
' be signed by two magistrates, and there was only one on
the bench when they were brought forward. He adds
that King obtained a renewal of his license at Clonbary
petty sessions on the 3rd instant. —Dublin Delay
Exprens.

It was reported a short time ago that • 1:11110 nanted
Mantis, • shoemaker, had died from starvation, and that
the parish authorities of Shoreditch were to blame for
their neglect of his case. The inquiry into his death, by
the coroner, was resumed on Monday, when it transpired
that he had been repeatedly offered admission to the
workhouse, and at often refused; and that he was then
allowed out-door relief. The authorities were, therefore,
exonerated from all blame.
RXPORT.—Mr. White, in his Report
to Parliament on the employment of children in Match
Manufactories (just published), alluding to Bryant and
says " There is nothing unpleasant or objec-
tionable here; the factory is remarkable for the ex-
cellence of its arrangement, both for the health and
comfort of the workpeople." This is very important
testimony, as in the same Report the Commissioner
speaks of the dreadful disease (necrosis, decay of the
lower jaw-bone) prevalent amongrt those engaged in
the manufacture of ordinary mm era.
Bryant and May's Patent Safety Match ignites only
on the box, thus affording to life and property the most
effectual protection iron flre.
HOLIOWAVS 010,1111 ST US mul.—Rlieumation and Gout.
—The a purifying and eoothing remedies demand the earnest
attention of all persons liable to rheureatken, rout ditties'
or other punful dentine* of she mus L-lea nerve., or Joints.
The Ointment should be applied after the sleeted parts hues
been patiently fomented with warm water, when the unguent
should be delleemtly rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless
the Motion should came pain. Holloway's PUls ehould be
simulianeousiL taken, to reduce inflammation and to portly
the blood. This treatment abates the 00111001, and isseene
the frequeacy. el gout, riseumaUwa, and aft pearsodic
Piwisew, whisli spring from hereditary predispositlou, or from
any accidental weeknens of anneettatian. The Ohstessat 'backs
he 100111 MLitt', the PUla restore the vital powers.