The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

"Can .3ohn Panning Sprits, Dial Stpt,
15t, 1864, agtb 37."

There were not less than 2,00-0 persons present, end
after the chief mourners had left the morel edifice,
there was a general desire manifested to 109 the/
great man's tomb. The church bells of Taunton and
llminater tolled mournfully throughout Use day, and
at the leer place bunnies was entirely =speeded,
and the shutter* were closed or the blinds drawn
in token of respect. The Speke family haw
inherited the estate at Jordan' for several centuries,
and are highly esteemed for their affability, their
kindness to those around them, and their efforts
to promote the welfare of those living on the eriate.
The arrangements of the funeral, which were under
the direction of Mr. 8. Palmer, draper, of Ihninater,
were simple and unpretending, and were in accor-
dance with the retiring nature of =ogre= discoverer
during his lifetime. Of Captain Bpeks himself but
few will yield to him the palm of bane one of the
Crand interesting modern traveller& His
y and love of enterprise are charecterisnai
over which all who inherit the English spirit of
adventure will huger with delight, and his amount
of hair-breadth escapes from imminent dangers will
be read with wonder and admiration for many a.year
to come. At twenty be was a =bate= allow in
the Indian army, fighting the battles of his country
in the famous brigade of Sir Coln Campbell, and
fter he had proved himself a good moldier and height
gallantly at Chillianwellah and at Ousenit, be 1110111.
mowed, while still little more than twenty, Ms
hunting excursions on the Himalayas and in the
Thibet, where he first =owed his ardent love of
adventure. He was versed in botany and geology,
and was an enthusiastic collector of specimene
of natural history, his chief object beet ecinaresi.t thee
time to add to tbecollection ofbie father in
An intrepid youth, anxious to enrich his paternal
home with specimens of the animals, pleats, and
11 minerals of far-Off nada, be went on =col-
' looting, and mapping the country, and up
those stores of knosiltdr whichsfterwardiEr:3
of each immense =his to him in Africa. he
was five-and-twenty be conceived the idea of az-
ploring Central Africa, more, however, from a love
deport and a desire to add more " spearmint." to
the goodly collection of natural curiosities be had
already made, than from any profound desire to aid
the geopapbers in filling up the_ greet blank apses
in the map of Africa, From first to leg, indeed.
the boyish love of adventure never left bias. He
was an English sportsman, who book the Hamby=
and the interior of Africa for his hunting-gromed,
but while thus engaged he had the intehgenes to
observe many other matters besides, among wink
was the achievement on which his fame chieffy reels
—the discovery of the decree of the Nile. Far
away in the solitudes of Central Africa the secret of
Old Nil= had been well kept for many a century,
and it remained for a Somerset man, in the reiga of
Queen Victoria, to clear away the darkneue and
reveal the great mystery. He was a brave man, an
enterprising and adventurous traveller, and a
brilliant pioneer of geographical discovery; and be
influence will be felt, along with that of other
eminent Englishmen who have premed= him, in
moulding the national character, and consolidating
in it those lofty qualities which are the attributes of
a superior race.

DIA= Or Ma. C. A. ISAUNDSIII, 01 TEI 011112
WialTll KAILWAT.-0a TUNAS) 11101'n12, Mani the
resumption of business at the general eel of the
Great Western Railway Company, and in indeed at all
pest railway stations in the metropolis, a painful
feeling prevailed consequent upon the info:matt:a being
received el the lamented death of Mr. Charles Alevsse.
der Saunders, who for many years held the importeat
conjoint port of seerelary and general euperiatemisen
of the Great Western system of railways. The meien-
choly event took phonon Mosidayjibe 19th teat., at the
residence of the deceased gentleman, Weethouree Loriess,
Harrow.read, where be has been cealleed hem
indisposition for MUNI time past. Mr. C. A. liatutelegv;
who wee in his fitith year, it will be remembered by al
connected with ti,e roils's,' world, was appointed se
secretary and general imperil] tende nt of the OrsetWastern
line almost at the commencement of it. operations, and
from that period up to little more than • year ago be
continued to perform his laborious and onerous
duties, not only to the satisfaction of the share.
holders (with, as of coarse in all large undertakings,
few small exceptions), bet also to the mehlemse
and gentlemen who have from time to time
awed as chairmen end seembero al the board of
direction. Mr. Saunders was not only naerealled as
• eternal superintendent of the working of • large line
of railway, but was • most invaluable auxiliary to the
directors and engineers in ads :sing and in.truisting
counsel in the harry proceeding before the committees
of both houses of parliament in &slim with the
multifarious memos which were brought forward in
aver 7 swim, either in the interest of the under-
taking, or oompetiag ecisamee, which, if allowed to
pass, must have materially elected their properly.
Almost the last work of marmite& of this eitereater
was the great fight for the amalgamation of the
West Midland and the South Wales limes with the
Great Western Company, which was, after a severe
it pared in the nonce before last. The share-
gle' holders then 'snorted to the directors that a policy of
1" real" should be adopted, and nose appresiuued it MOM
! than Mr. Saunders, who, with al• "WWI liPto kilns
felt the meatal and bodily *aces of the peat exertions
he lied wade beginning to tell. The eceseguseee was
that as the soulgannited undertaking bad IMF
I ammo& each • vast magnitude it was desisted that
I Mr. Saunders should retire on a handsome
still giving his advice to the board with the iatentie
ultimately taking his leas as • director; and aloe that
the cases of meretary and general se pininteadent shield
be bessedeeth held la parataly. Thb woe serried out,
and Mr. G. F. Saunders, we of the vel
appointed as secretary. The deceased was
esteemed by all with whom he easel. beeinses war
test, sad ids loos will he felt ist hie Inge trellentiut 66
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