The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

DEATHS OF NOTE.

DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. C. CAULFIELD, DA).—
Intelligence has just been received in Engh nd of the
death of the above distinguished prelate. The melan-
choly event took place on the 14th of Sep-
tember at Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas,
of which he was first bishop, and was caused
by that fatal epidemic, yellow fever. Ills death has
oast • gloom over the whole of the colonists, by whom
be was greatly respected.
DEATH OP SIIt BENJAMIN BRODIE.—Sir Benjamin
Brodie died on Wednesday, at Lis seat, Broome Park,
Surrey. Although having retired from the practice of
his prolesalon for above two years, on amount of failing
eyesight, he had enjoyed good health until • neent
period. Sir Benjamin Brodie was born in 1783, and
married a daughter of Mr. Sergeant &lion. Lady
Brodie died last year. Sir Benjamin Brodie had been
President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Englandt
President of the Royal Society,and of the Royal Medical
and Chirurgical Society, and was the first president of
the General Medical Council, Surgeon to St. George's
Hospital, Surgeon to his Majesty George IV., and
Sergeant Surgeon to William IV., and her present
Majesty. Sir Benjamin Brodie was created • baronet
in 1834, and leaves two sons, Mr, Benjamin Collins
Brodie, Professar of Chemistry in the University of
Oxford, who married a daughter of Mr. Sergeant Thom-
son, and the Rev. William Brodie, who married Lady
Maria Waklegrave, daughter of the eighth Earl Waldo.
grave.

A GREAT PITT, INDERD.—The Emperor Napoleon Is
sometimes called the "Man of December." What •
pity it is for Italy that he doesn't obange himself into
the " Man of March l"—Pssn.
THR LATE SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART.—The marble
tablet to be erected in Arthuret Church, to the memory
of the late Sir James Graham, is of Grecian design, and
made of statuary marble from Carrara. The black
marble used in it is Irish black. It was removed to
Arthuret Church, from Mr. Pickering's studio, on
Tuesday, along with his brother's, the Rev. William
Graham, the late rector of Arthuret. His tablet is •
plain oval statuary slab, put on an oblong slab of bleak
marble. Sir James's tablet has the arms of the Grahams,
Stuarts, Callenders, and Maokenzies, below which, on •
ribbon, is the family motto, "Benson contents me;"
and on the other side Is a sprig of laurel and festoons
of drapery, and an inscription recording the name,
date of birth and death. Ac., of the deeeased. The
whole is surmounted with the Graham crest, two wings.
addoreed on a helmet—Cumber/and racquet.

TEE SUSSEX DOWNS—Sprinkled about their many
thousand acres of hill and dale, extending 63 miles Ia
length, with an average breadth of four miles and a-
kelt, are numerous old villages, nestling sometimes at
the bottom of great hollows, sometimes In quiet rt-
penes with trees about them, and an ancient church,
with gray-flint walls and red-tiled roof, where the
curious may find good store of ancestral brasses. Old
battle-fields, famous in history; remains of British and
Roman camps; ; barrows where the bones of rival chiefs
lie crumbling; ruins of Saxon monasteries, Normam
towers, and niedireval crosses; quaint towns hidden
among the hills, with hodelries such as Chaucer's
pilgrims might have put or at if they had gone that
way; priories converted into farmhouses, where the
moat yet lingers, though the stormy days of civil war
have passed; Elizabethan mansions, with wainscoted
ap,rtmente ; countless drowsy, picturesque, out-of-the-
way spots, where you may fancy yourself a Hip Van
Winkle gone to sleep backwards, and waking up in the
far-off Past, stud the Downs in all directions, and had
a human interest to inanimate nature. At the Wal-
lands, now cultivated ground, the Danes, under King
Magnus, were defeated, and their leader captured. The
little village of Beddingham is one of the places men-
tioned in King Alfred's will. Near Ringiner is • house
where Gilbert White used tepees much of his time, and
clove by is the pine grove mentioned in the Naturat
Buttery of Saborme. At flurstmonoeux, on the
Hastings road, is the old ruined castle of the Dooms,
one of whom, in the reign of Henry VIII., was
executed for killing the servant of a neighbonring
gentleman. In the vicinity of the little town of Lind-
field is a great rock poised by a smaller mass, like the
rocking atones of Cornwall; and near Uckfield are some
singular sand rocks, resembling those of Tunbriage
Wells. The Devil's Dyke, as all men know, is
famous for a legend whish ascribes its formation to
the Prince of Darkness, who, irritated by the ex-
traordinary piety of the people inhabiting the
Downs and the Weald, began digging a
'raid trench to let the sea in, but was put to flight by
an ancient lady exhibiting a candle in • sieve, which the
foolish old gentleman mistook for the sun miraculously
rising at midnight. —Dickens's AU the Year Rowed.