The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

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VICTORIA PREM.--We understand that Her Majesty
has graciously signified to Miss Emily Faitldea her
apt Id of the establishment of the Victoria Press at 9,
Great Coraiii•street, for the employment of female cow-
adding. that all such useful and practical steps
for opening new branches of industry to educate women
must meet with her entire appnohation.
PROROGATION OF PA KU AM EN T. -- It is now under-
derstood that the prorogation of Parliament will take
jolace on Saturday, the 2iti. r Monday, the 27th inst.
According to the law the session cannot terminate until
ten days after the Appropriation Bill is introduced, awl
that Bill cannot make its appearance until after all the
supplies have been carried.
AN. lIILE .SDT.- Miss Cornelia Barbour, a daughter
of the Hon. J. Barbour, of Virginia, formerly Gio‘eruur
of that State, and a member of President J.q. Ailatus's
Cabinet, has resolved to emancipate her numerous slaves
and locate them in a free State, where they can enjoy
liberty and (if they will) acquire property.
A Iltorant Ess.cuTioN IN P ANIS. ---TIIC execution
of Merlinge, the soldier of the let Regiment of the Grow
there of the Imperial Guard, who was some time back
condemned to death for shooting his sergeant, took place
on Friday ruing, at 8 o'clock on the Polygon of Vin-
cennes. By the direction of the Miaixter of War about
10,000 men of the various corps ,if the army of Paris
were collected under the orders of General Sowitiii or
the place of execution, the whole of the prisoner's regii
went being present. On 3lcrliiigr's informed at
midnight that he was to ale in the morn-
ing, he evinced no emotion, merely observing,
"God is good ; he will forgive me !" He conversed for
some time with two ecclesiastics who were iii attendance,
and then passed nearly three hours in writing letters to
his relatives. On arriving at the Polygon, lie took off
his coat and knelt down, 1n,,, ,if the clergyiaien placing a
handkerchief over his eyes, Four sergeants, four corpo-
rals, and four privates, the se JJ )) r* of the lit Grenadiers
were then ordered out to form the platoon of execution,
and the Colonel informed them that they were called on
to perform not only an act of military duty, but an act
of humanity, and should unhesitatingly take the t :
accurate aim they could. They were theu marched to
within 12 paces of the kneeling prisoner, and ordered to
fire. Death must have been instantaneous, as the whole
of the balls struck him, and two of them in the head.
The troops then filed off past the body, and returned to
their quarters. The deceased was buried in the mite-
try of Vincennes.
PRINCE LUCIEN BOS•PARTE. —This member of the
Bonaparte family, who has attained an honourable
position in connexion with scientific pursuits, has
recently visited Norfolk for the purpose of taking
" rubbings" of the monumental braces in some of the
churches The Prince, it will be remembered, has also
devoted much attention to the peculiarities of the pro-
vincial dialects of England, in which country he it a
permanent resident.
roLON lAL PROG ROM AN D OLD Cot NTRT I M PULSES.

—We have alwaya traced with pleaaure the *papa.
thene feeling that hat exited between our .iwn ttttt ther
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country and the more juvenile portion of its family, the
Coloniee, inure especially thou of the Western Hellas-
phere ; as the progeny invariably ituitates the example
of its parent., an do we find it with our foster.children
north of the American frontier, only with this differ-
ence, that they appear of late years to have almost
" stepped into their parent's shoes' prematurely, and,
letting go the leading strings, fearlessly walked alone.
This is evincible in various ways, to. wit : the almost
miniultaneous advance in evtry branch of science and

art, and the judicious &aldose to their own purposes of
the best ana most sterling inventions and discoveries
that ~we their origin to Old Eng Lind itself. In nothing
has this been more prominently exemplified than in the
adoption almost as " with one voice" of the remedies
of Professor Holloway, the pills for the internal,
and the ointment for the external diseases of
the body ; no sooner were they ushered before the
world from their local point of origin, 244, Strand, than
they became with uhi.nilllity the household nueditines of
Canada and the British Provinces, and being especially
adapted to the nettler's wants, being the physician of
the backwoodsman, in regions where the medical prac-
titioner and the medical chest were unknown, they
naturally became the only beacon tires of health for the
sick and suffering in their new home in the far off west.
We learn from statistice in the possession of Thomas
Holloway, that the first settlers sent out to the Grant
River by the New England Company in 18:i2.-3 were
required to provide themselves with a household medi-
cine of their own choice. This, we need y searcel I
was scam made, and Holloway's two peerless but simple
remedies became the never-neglected items in the early
emigrant's store. As coniniumcat. across the Allivitie
became more open and fre plea, no sails were set for
America without some portion of the e.trgo conts. g a
goodly supply of these healing medicaments, and we
unilenstand that it is their unprecedented demand in
British America that led to the establishment of • deptit
for furnishing that market at New York, as being the
most convenient spot for transmimiun and supply. Suc-
cess say we to this noble enterprise, which, simple in
itself, is benign in its influences, end has become giant
in it. operations. The name of Holloway will be known
in aft. r ages as the watchword of health, when Aber-
nethy, Harvey, Jenner, and Astley Cooper are for-
gotten.—Adrt.
A FATAL SAIXTIL—On Tuesday
Hampshire. Wilt, at Ports-
mouth, New apshire. Miss Ann aria Martin,
daughter of Mr. Thomas Martin, died from the singular
effects of a wound received on Saturday, when a salute
was Ered from the yacht Zinga. Expecting a display of
fireworks from the Zinga, as sha was coming large
numbers of people had gathered on the whari. A
salute from a two pound cannon was fired on board the
yacht. The wad VC ILI of waste cotton, and, of course,
was very dense ; and, although the muzzle of the gun
was judged to be depressed far below the wharf, yet,
being pointed towards the people, the wad struck Miss
Martin, broke several steel hoops in her skirt, and one
of than cut • fearful gash across the lower portion of
her body, allowing the intestines to protrude. She was
taken home as soon as possible, though the bystanders
had no idea of the nature of the tremble injury she had
received. To imine who crowded around her. and
annoyed her with questions where she was hurt, and
how much, she replied in great agony, "You do not
know how much I an. hurt. Take we home, that I may
die with my mother."

SMOKING IN RAILWAY CARRIACCII.—•ALTION Tym
ASSAULT.—At the Liverpool as :zea. on Thurwlay leg
Mr. an agent and accountant of. Manchester:
brought an action against a cotton n Inner named
Morris (residing at Helalen-bridge). to recover
for dump.
a sr.
committed t
d i,:.ninz
iar: Wanlwa
racatrri%sf: on the
13thiii‘z
(by
Lancashire and Yorkshire) from Manchester to North.
amnion. lie wan in a bevotid class car
iri.tga.and as fee
as Eastwood was alone. There Morris got n, and en
entering called the guard to give hint a light to his
cigar. Mr. Collinge objected to snioking, u he ens
very unwell, and threatened to report the guard.
Morris thin struck Collinge several blows with the fist,
injuring him considerably, and camaing an attack of
palpitation of the heart. The defence wu that the
assault was not no serious as described. Verdict for the
plaintiff—damages,
STATZ or CHINK IN LANCASHIRE.—At the opening
of the Liverpool Assizes on Thursday, during his charge
to the gran.l jury. Mr. Ilsrim Martin said that during
hie whole judicial experience he hail never teen se
heavy • calendar. Excepting treason, it embrace.' all
the mimes which were dealt with in courts of justice.
There were seven ciees of murder, collie of them of an
atrocious description ; eleven of manslaughter, several
of th .to being 011 the very verge of murder ; and 17 of
burglarly. It. fact, notwithstanding the example made
in the county s ~,,, e few years ago, the crime of burglary
had or increased that it would be necessary to put in
force the full ismer and severity of the law to repre.
it. Alluding to the reemt railway collision at Roby,
and to the iudictinent of Platt, the engine-driver, fee
manslaughter. the learned judge said that, after • care-
ful persual of the depositions, he was of opinion that
Platt did all lie really could to prevent the accident,
and that the jury therefore would throw out, the bill.