The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

;TTF, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1865.

etnnal idetoo.

THE Soots' Science Congress will hold its Fittings in
tneliester In 1 366.

Mb DICKRNS, still in P.rie, has qui'o recovered from
his sunstroke,

Fr is stated that Mr. Denison, the speaker, is to retire.
and to be made Lord Ossington.

IiDLLE. PATTI is engagel for tsn rnpre4entations at
Homburg during the 8,-aaJti of 1886, at 5,000 frauei a
night.

SIR GF.ORGR GREY hut appointed Professor Mayon to
the choir of Rhetoric in Edinburgh University, vacant
by t e death of Professor A)toun.
A 1, ‘o named B +ere, at Whitechspel, thinking he
hal lost his week's wag from his tron•ers pocket,
hanged him-elf. After his de.th the money was found
to have slipped within the trouser lining.

GEORGE Plum; who i charged with having oltvied
the death of hie wife, it) London, by ill-treatind her
when she wee %offering from Wows, has been committed
for trial, and refiteed bail.

MACE AND lisotte.—J. Auckland (a backer of Rooke)
and G. klartir. have staked • "sov." each for these two
tuna to Eght at catch-weight, within lex months, Mace,
the chsuipion, staking WO to Rooke's £lOl

Il addit'on to the Irish conatabulary, to whioh on
polio., for:e in this nonntry is equal in efficiency. 8 inn
18,000 regular soldi, ri are po,to I, by troops' and com-
p mien, in all parts of Ireland.

g ExcommuNICATION of' FREIONABONS. —The official
Giomsdie 1i Anna announces that it is authorised to
declare that the Pope, in him la s allocution, spoke, es t
all times, front the promptings of his own conscisnce,
with full independenoe.

A DM:MUM joiner, named Shepherd, while waiting
at Ilidleborough station, drove shout an engine,
knocking down some hire° gates and It tting off the
steam, He was taken into custody for hi, dstigerous
prank.

A YOUNG Parisian girl immerliatoly afMr her marriage
went to sleep, and did not wake up for forty day..
Nothing would rouse her, and the bridegroom was In•
oansolable. She has again gone to s eep for another
fifty dsys.

Trig death has been announced, at the advanced age
of 1, of Chance Richardson, LL.D. The deceased,
who expired on the 6th inst., was the author of "A
New Dictioary of the English Language," and other
philological works.

Pawrgrnore are no plentiful that they appear in the
streets of our towns and cisie.. One was caugl,t alive
in the principal streets of Exeter on Thursday. On
Wednesday • onvey of 16 or 17 spreared in New Park-
atrcet, Deviz,s, and eight or nine of them were caught.

A wax was attacked the other morning on the Black-
friars temporary bridge by a oat, which Feized him by
the leg, and held him so tenaciously that it required the
united strength of three men to release him. PtlBB re.
eeived summary justice, being thrown at once into the
river.

AN extraordinary general meeting of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company on Thursday, authorised an increase
of capital to an amount not exceeding £2,000,000 by the
issue of 160,000 new shares of £5 each; such new shares
to he entitled to a preferential dividend at the rate of
£l2 per cent, per annum.

TEI6 Roman correspondent of s Paris contemporary
tats that "it is positively intendei" to establish
another Roman C,tholic see its the diocese of York, in
which case Archbishop Manning, who has just
reoe,vad the pennies, will receive the title of Primate
of England.

WlLLiaw GlLLarr, fileiniker, Sheffield, in jest put
• kalfmrown in his month, aod aocidentally swallowed
it. He did not suffer much at first, but after three
weeks grew very ill, on Sunday vomited much, and
finally died from hemorrhage. The doctor said Chi
death was caused by the half-crown.

A COLLISION on the Great Western line, near Kidder-
minster, on WedneAday, remlted in damages to the
extent of £3,000 or £1.000; foitunately, ne lives were
lost, although some persons were injured. A goods
train came in contact with some trucks which had
escaped on the line unknown.

MR. DISRAELI addresiing the members of the Amer
511001 and Che.ham Agricultural Association pointed
out difficulties in the way of panting leases of farms
Afterwards he insisted upon the advantsges of offering
rewards to labourers for long service, and also pointed
out tl,e desirability of providing decent cottage accom-
modation for the labourers.

KING PEPPLE, of Bonny, who visited this country a
few yearn since, has aent hie eldeat daughter, Miss A.
Papple, to this oountry for the purpose of being
edueated. She is • real African in colour, yet her
features are rather pleasing, and bear but slight resent•
blance to the general physiuue of the natives of Bonny
and other parts of the West African coast.

MANY sea-monsters have lately been Wen at the en-
trance of the Channel, their presence accounting for
the almost total diaeppearanee of pilchards and mackrel
from the coast. On saturday, in the neighbourhood of
Onewant (Flnistere), there were seen five sharks, also
several whales, dolphins, and porpoises. One of the
sharks was caught by a line thrown from the Eurydice,
but the monster broke away and escaped.

TEM breaking up of the long long summer we have
had bas been ushered in by some severe storms, and at
Shields, a few nights ago, a ship struck the bar, and
went down with all bands on board, before help could
be obtains]. Other losses have followed almost as
tragic It is, however, gratifying to find that the life-
boats of the National Association have done much to
prevent that loss of life whioli, but for their assistance,
could not have been averted.

Ms. C. F: Hsu, the Artie explorer, who, moved
entirely by humanity, organised two expeditions in ,
search of Sir John Franklin, believes that he has dis-
covered traces of the adventurers, He has the art of
winning the confident* of the natives, and he writes on
the 10th of December, MK from Igloo, to give story
related to him by natives whom he trusts. According
to these, Captain Crosier (who succeeded Sir John
Franklin) with three Ten, left the two ships walled up
In ice, and succeeded in reaching encampment of
Innuits on Boothia Felix Peninsula, lived With theni
for many months, kindly treated by the Innuits, but at
length went away eobthward. When discovered by the
natives the three sailors were "fat," for they had lived
on human flesh; while Crosier, who rejected it, was
almost dead from hunger and exhaustion, a trait, not
only of character, but of class feeling which no Innuit
Is likely to invent. It does not appear from the letter
that Mr. Hall intends to follow on the track of the
party thus wonderfully preserved, but we may be
certain from his character that all human energy can do
to restore them to civilisation will be done.

Tug SIIXNANDo&a.— A supplement to the Gazelle
has been published which eontains the correspondence
between Mr Adams, the United States minister, and
Earl Russell, Secretary of State for Poreign Affairs, in
reference to depredations committed upon the com-
merce of the United States by the vessel formerly known
as the Sea King, but now called the Shenandoah. The
correspondence involves a great deal of international
law. It is, however, chiefly noticeable for the fact that
the Engli.h Government refuses wholly to submit the
(mentions in dispute to arbitration. Earl Russell pro-
poses instead that any oneitions agreed upon by the,
two countries shall be referred to a commission. This
proposition Mr. Adams does not appear to think will be
approved by his Government. The correspondence wee
commented upon on Fridsy by several of the Londoi
papers. The Times thinks the commission proposed it
F.Ar Russell will probably be ultimately accepted. The
Daily New is of opinion that the claims for reparation
ought to be met by • direct negative, but hopes that
the good sense of modern statesmen may before long Hod
a solution for difficulties which may be serious but are
surely not insuperable. The Daily Tleperaph says the
country will be perfectly content to take the laws to
which America herself adhered fifteen years ago. If it
was clear in 1630 lust Portugal could not claim oun-
pensation for injuries done to her commerce by cruisers
fitted out from the United States, it mast be equally
clear in 1865 that England eaonot be liable for injuries
' committed beyond her jurisdiction by either of the
parties in the late Transatlantic war. The Morning
Post think, the proposed commission will most probably
b 3 declined.

Sourrauta nue rote Baotou : A CHILD Irma TWO
guns. —A Mrs. Farr, of Spitalfields, recently attended
before Mr. Ellison, the sitting magistrate at Worship.
street police oourt, London, and 8.0 that a very din.
Ongoing case had lately been brought under her notice
ea a lady visitor in her neighbourhood, and, es the had
,the particulars of it reduced to writing, she wished to
hand them in, in the hope that the magistrate, on read-
ing them, would be willing to render the family she
interceded for some assistance from the poor-box, or that
Use public press would take notice of her application.
The applicant's letter said, "The wife of John Barlow,
spoor hawker of corkscrews, living at 34i, Bacon-street,
Spitalfields, has a baby five weeks old, which is a deep
affliction to his poor family, it having been born with a
: second head attached to the first in such a manner that
the smallest roughness or sudden movement would
canoe its immediate death. The poor mother is unable
to lay it down without fear, and is unable to dress it with-
out vsistanee from another parses. She hap four other
children, aged 9,6, 3, and 14 years old, and formerly
, worked with her mother, aged 63 at blue shirts, reoeiv-
ing 2d. each. Now all this must be laid aside, her
whole time being occupied with the care of this afflicted
child, whose sufferings daily increase from the weight of
the seriond head. Several respectable persons bear
testimony of the parents being sober, industrious, quiet,
and cleanly. Any oentributions fee their help would be
most gratefully reoeived, and might be well intrusted to
the care of Mr. Reeves, schoolmaster at the Ragged
School, Bacon-street." The applicant added that the
child was continually screaming, and scarcely ever out
of the arms of its mother, so that she was prevented
from attending to the rest of the family or doing any-
Ale. She and some friends of hers had done all they
.meld for the poor woman, bat other awiistanee was
most urgently needed. Mr. Ellieon asked the applicant
If she could herself confirm the accuracy of the repro-
ide in the note she had handed in, and she
she could. The magistrates then asked
, was acquainted with the applicant herself,
, replied that he had known her and her
or, abontlit years, and knew them to be two of
respectable and humane pingo°. in that neigh-
The father of the children he believed had
but war now 'triable to perform

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Tug Priam) and Pr noes of Wale: interid to via t
t e ~eat of the 1441 I of Derby, on the 30th of
Ojobr, itad Live' p ol oa tie 31s .
Till CcitlaY.A.t Viritplime (Ladle preparation.' are
being made for the receptio., of tier Majesty the llawen
awl the tariona umiulaara of the Royal family on their
return from Latino which ie expected to take plac
at the i lipie of t lid or the beginning of next month.
The alteralons in the Val.lyuk atti billiard rooms are
nearly couipleted.