The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

Omura' Nelms,

Arreltrteti Aluenxit Atao -- Early on Mein
day wonting week, a wiedeorter tinned Aivahaiii Ash.
worth, living at Halifax, attempted to murder hie wife
In a alinsking unmoor, and efterwerde dentroyed liiievtf
by milting his throat. The iinfortiniebe limb had been
Il for some time out tillable to work, awl this hail
preyed on hie mind so nitwit thot ho twice threatened to
IRO all end to his existence, but. ottorwonle pgruilatled
hie wife nut to divulge weakiires. Out Huntley
morning week, between 4 Mali 11 unhook, the poor
WIMIlla Was awakened by her Mathew% mating her across
the abdomen with a rum. She succeeded In snooping
from him, acreaming cut, " Menhir l" owl her oriels
hronglit a minimum' to the houae. Ha found her in a
Irtmlfitl state, with her bowel* protruding, mid bleeding
profiteely. When opmetioned by the ollioer elm um.
claimed "Oh Lord have moray on me I" and pointed to
the bed, where her husband was nutting hie throat.
The constable "riveted the left hand, and with tile
auth struck the ramie out of his right hand, but he Was
too late. Medical aid was promptly obtained, but the
wretched man was found to be .mite dead, and his wife
in • state edinitting of but little hopes of her surviving
the dreadful injuries inflicted upon her.
Tile Stamm BURTON bieitnau.—The Inquiry into
this 011,44 was reimined by the Led Riding inagletrates
at Beverley, on Saturday, when the three 'Amman
lately In custody at Hull were brought from that town
to he confined with the el: other prisoners in the oounty
gaol. The following I. a liat of the ',engine who have
alreoly been apprehended :—Wllliena Markham, 23,
labourer, (+ruby, near Brigg, Lincolnshire ; Joseph
Flayforth, 20, labourer, Market Weighton ; Michael
M'Grath, 21, labourer, Market Weighton ; Thomas
Jolimion, 27, labourer, Burton-on-Humber ; Charles
Franklin, 30, labourer, Meg ; George Smith, 27,
tabourer, Beverley ; Woodhouse Manahan, Newport,
Lincoln ; Edward Thompson, labourer ; and TllOllll4
HOLMOII, labourer. As soon as the eau was called on
the chairman of the bench, Mr. It. Wylie, said he wished
to "tate publicly on behalf of those magistrates and him-
self who had hitherto inquired into this mem, that
although the evidence had hitherto been taken in open
court, they were advised, on the pert f the prosecution,
that it would not be consistent with the ends of justice'
that the investigation should be further continued in
puling. They were, therefore, under the necessity of
requiring all persons to leave the court eaeept those
who were concerned in the hearing, and others materially
Interested In the mutter. Mr. Pigttingell, of Hull, who
smeared on behalf of Pleyforth and Mlirath, applied to
be present during the inquiry, urging the Arum' claims
hula clients, had to his services if the attorney fur the pro.
munition (Me. Earnaliew) was to be present. The magie.
tratea, after a private ooneultation which lasted twenty
minutes, said they had wine to the conolueion that it
would interfere with the ends of "Mice if they were to
allow Mr. Pettingell to be present, or to eacalude the
attorney for the pruseoution. They were sorry that they
were obliged an to act, fur they had no desire to do any•
thing that could be amid to be unequal or un•
fair, but they felt tliel with a due regard to the Intereets
of jostles they lied no altornetive in the wetter. The
court W 44 then cleared, and the immiry WS/ 00Stili01141
in private. Oeddee, one of the itnaler-lueper" who was
wounded In the affray of the Might of the 10th ult. lit
which the head•kesper, Jos, wee killed, was in attend.
woe, lint In every weak condition, Robinson, another
wounded man, is still unable to be moved, A large
number of witnesses were in attendance, but they were
Glumly watched by the pollee, It la surrently rut.
mourtil that otis of this prisoners has sonfesofid. The
tirir;liial moons linpliaated in the monks IN Ala at

IMPOATID L.aouinna 11,1011 APISH:IA.—Tits letter of
the Emperor Napoleon decisring his determination to
revolt, the pennission he Ina given for the importation
of negro*. I. hired labourers into the French salon's, is
' one of the most sstisfealory iota of his rule, though It
wee, doubtless, in no small degree prompted by the
fume of public opinion throughout/oral*. The velem
se originally attempted to be carried out, was nothing
inure nor less than the slave trade in Marilee, Nobody
Whine Milt the rsvage upon Ow csbast of Afrlos Gan lie
Maimed to cooking. ills IMP,u fruerluni fur foreign hr•
vice, unless by the groseest deseption or positive troer•
Mon, Even supposing thst the change would prove of
positive advantage to him, and would really tend to
elevate hie emailition, yet Its lies not the understanding
to approalate it, and trould never understendingly be a
party to such II bargain. Agein, were It partible to in•
duce the blink mati by fair moons to millgraite and serve
fur hire, there Ii no reason to believe that tile ofigigtP
merits with him would be faithfully aryl, end that In
due Ohne he would be restored to lii. native shorea Hi.
term of Gavial would Anally resolve Itself Into A not
dltion of isapetuel bondage. The orlginstors of the late
attempts, dolibtleee, well understand all this, end their
wily oldest In the inussipsiit has Isetni to Nap 'tauten.
tlally all the fruits of a slave trams without exposing
themeelves to tile penalties witloli this miss of all °Nil.
lead nations have donotineed against Its direst prosiou•
Coo. At one Ono, the satiation and active support
which the Wrshali itiliperur apparently semi the scheme
threetened to insure its locums, slid thus virtually
break up the isitlted front which het beim so long 'nein.
tallied by the nation. Against African transportation,
Now that the *smolt &warns yields, all risk of this
dleappeers, The stigma of &II Clirlitondoip still rimming
upon tlis foreign slave !ride, under whatever guise
eerriorl on,

Tog Wang or 011INOLINII.—A correspondent of the
num says I—Your piper of touley records the detail of
the mond of the two Wiles who were so dreadfully
burnt in ooneequenee of their drosses eatolting lire at
Million Hill, litafrortleldre. Thie morning toy wife
wee in Imminent danger of perishing by a similar oily.
Standing by the parlour fire the bottom of her
dreee Ignited, anti before it was peroelved 10 Ititti Timbal
her weiet. Provideutially, 1 wee in the room, and
Initently laid her on the fluor, and (I hardly know how)
outmoded in "mothering the 6411104. but not balm her
hind emit were and one em were burnt, and title was the oat of
a few monde only. Had I been even in the Adjoining
room, the calamity would have boon NATIO, if 110 t
Mundy, Mir, the oonsoottenees of the printout vulutulnoue
etyle ur 'mole attire are beaming painfully appitrent,
When will title tiongervie style of dross he dune away
with? I eay nothing ebout expellee, for I alit eury thet
none of our "es would for a moment plum filet in the
soil.. egainet the itvelthu ant life to say nothing of the
permit.] appearance, of our wives, daughters, slaters,
relatives, and friends, I *unreal I hero never itien a
lady in full dm', (morning or evening) slim the eon-
ouotion of the present tuition without feeling very un•
oomfortable whenever they epproitahed a dre the en'
Unitive proportion' nem to invite ignition, and, with
the distending steel nage beneath, the flutersl idle ig
completo. Pray, fir, in the interests of the fair sea,
du roles your powerful voloo againd title &matrons
tyranny of fashion. We have a whole whiter before
us, and biasing hearth, will be (Ito order of the duty for
month' to opine. May we be able to enjoy them lit
comfort and without fear.

BL ASIC•PINIP MUSKS. —Tile Medical Moos says !
The melancholy accident by which the Ladles Lucy and
Charlotte Bridgeman and lllea Plunkett hove been such
fearful sufferers tuchee a lesson which must not be neg.
looted. The light fabrics manufactured for ladles'
dreams must be made blue-proof. Nothing an be
more simple. The most delicate white cambric bander.
chief, or fleecy puss, or the fined law may, by elinple
soaking In a weak solution of chloride of sine, be so
protected from blase that if held in the Um of a candle
they :nay be reduced to tinder without bluing.
breezes so prepared might be burnt by accident without
the other germents worn by the lady being injured.
When poor Clara Wellatu was burnt we inculcated the
same aioral ; and now the dresses of utage danouni are
prepared in the way we rut:oil:mended. Why are dancing
ladles of rank to be exposed to danger from which their
dancing listen by profession are protected? The hint
may he put to a profitable use by Mlle enterprising
manufacturer.