The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

overstocked, and farmers find but little difficulty in
getting their land tilled ; of course, they have to pay
higher wages, as labouring men earn nearly double now
what they did formerly."
Derum•stst Uslig or POINONING.--LIMKRICK, Wed-
nesdav, May 30.—Between moven and eight o'clock. this
maiming the inhabitants of litungret-street and adjoin-
ing neighbourhood were terribly alarmed by a revert
that a family, five in 'lumber, consisting of the mother
and four children, who resided in as underground cellar,
had been found dead in their beds, through poisoning or
suffocation from the effects of an escape of gas. It
appears that the head of the family, a man nettled Tom
Censors, is • night watchman, and this morning, on
returning home, lie knocked as usual at the cellar dour,
but received no answer ; he knocked again and again
without effect, until a man mimed Sidliven, who lived
in the shop overlieed. exclaimed they were dead, else
they would have heard him, and getting a crowbar he
forced the passage, and on entering the cellar the stench
of gas was almost unbearable, but lie and the huabatel
rushed to the beds, and there beheld the mother and
children in an apparently lifelong state, quite prostrate
and inanimate. Horror stricken by the spectacle, awsiat-
mice was called in, and medical aid sent for to the city
infirmary. Dr. Bottrke, resident apothecary, was in
the set of hurryiag to the scene, whither he had been
summoned by Head Constable Moody, but on his way
met the sufferers, who were being conveyed on ears to
Barrington's Hospital, and on entering the institution it
was found that one child, • girl aged two years, was
dead, and the remainder in such • lethargic state of
ineeasibility and stupor, that it was unknown how pooh
they to would cease to exist, especially the mother,
from whom the vital spark bail almost fled. The proper
remedies were alaniduonsly applied by Dr. Bourke and Dr.
titelston, ou• of the leading physicians of the hospital,
who was quickly at the melancholy scene ; the most
energetic measures were reverted to for some time,
until at length the three children evinoed symptoms of
returning &enmities'. The medical gentlemen named
continued their operations for over three hours, until at
length the children were pronounced out of danger; but
tip to the time I write (4 o'clock) the mother continues
insensible, without hope of recovery. This occurrence
can only be accounted for by an escape of gas from •
pipe which ran through the cellar, communicating with
the metre in the shop above, but, the street having been
dug up, an escape Walt dimaivered seven feet from the
gas metre. No doubt, • searching examination will
take place upon the °erasion of the coroner's inquest,
which will be held to-niorrow.—DnUin Freeman.

EMIGRATION.— Tile Clunmel Chrouick is becoming
alarmed at the apparently never-ending Bight of the
population from the southern counties :—'The disas-
trout system of emigration which is now going on in
ditreient parts of the country threatens to lead to very
serious consequences, and to force on the Legislature the
necessity of devising some means to stem its rapid tide.
As we recently announced, the 'rage' would seem to be
general, intense, and absorbing. Scarcely a day passes
hut the traits are crowded with intending emigrants, and
these, too, of the wealthier classes of the peasantry. On
Friday morning ten more families left thin locality, with
• view to try their fortunes in the 'Far West,' and be-
fore the close of the week we learn that other families

fruin our neighbourhood will be also on their way over
the pathless deep. We understand thst crowds of emi-
grants are also leaving the district of Thurles for America.
On Saturday last 12 fsmiliei; left there to swell the
mighty exodus of this season."