The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-03 00:00:00

NAPOLEON THE MAGNIFICENT.

" List of the sehearipMoas for the rsiist or the un-
employed workmen of tire Seirie-leferieste :
" The Emperor of lb. Floneb, .15,000 trams, 14,,
ke.—Moisiteitr."
lee Through our valleys lake so gay,
With work and mai so cheerful thee,
Are wandering, silent, slow, to-day,
A hundred thousand starving noes I
Bat, homey brothers, be eostont ;
Come, stile all those wail* Maeda
Napoleon tee liagnillemit
Preeests you trith Onsi Tbeseand Pound.!
Whist l—ore than two whole pewees head!
Why, Foold will break his boort, I fear—
Too roach from one poor whom" be mid,
"With bet three million prods I year!
"To rob himself he oseies contest,
This Here's bounty passes bounds"—
Napoleon the Magniteent
Subscribes, you as., One Thousand Pounds
Just think what soth a ern could buy!
A hunting bone --a masker's cost—
Smiles from an actress's bright eye—
A armator's impeetial vote !
What would yo More, ye discontent?
Shuns is ye, has. and whining bounds!
Napoleos Magnidoent
Has be not given One Thousand Pound.?
I. *pad, tree, the Mier day,
The banker, trader, workman, lord,
To food tbariatim pipes say,
ljnoosinted of ecivereigne poored
Bot thee to
svip seat
No troops : they so Papal grounds—
Napolemi the X lent
He dem—yet pip One Theorised Pounds!
To skip lise bop of the
To soothe the soaps of Us.
poor,
With sushi mission Franca isbiest,
Our Emperor nor sales it inn !
On Charity and Propels bent
His noir spirit knows no lours—
Napoisen lb. *apiarist
Has era as soot one Thourad Pounds 1
And when the tale of our distress
More late shall asset our diadem's eyes,
Thoy'll read this marvel of largesse
And start with rapture and surprise!
For History o'er her tablets bent
arras the died —Fame's trumpet scuds—
" Nepoleoe the Maguillesot
O&M starving Imam Or Thwart Praia r

A man named Itartin. aged 112
_years, was nor*
received into the hospital at Bayonne. It was
thoaght that his glows nookd bring the old woes
already long career to • also; bat in • how days he was
*pis is foot, and is hie way boon.
The Rev. W. J. IL Bassett. ',kW rtelne. &-
abaft to take pert in say tartlet* an ths 11111111111011 ad
the Primo of Wales's marriage, as that sent le to In
elaberatad in Lent. _

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RIMMULtaIa DITORCIL CAM

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• letter froth Dadra fire. 64 following eurkor I
tbtaZa—A WOrkir direr are wee bronest to • or-
fa the Consitharial Sisart here ow S•turday.
awitszet Cedg. • eative el Cork. lived r • Issevaat with .
an VOW or painter siumg Ware, in Leedom Watts
bad been married, ht 0. kb, wit." dirk in ray, 1643,
be n•rrisni hi liereanu= whom he bad
om soma &Mien,
all of wh did 406. • Unease. He did ia
ldb"e'bee. UK Irving willed to hi wile the wbae of
hi, PrtheglY, ronthating is WINO. whim* be ha 4
ibblia"l by big neufecielen. There wee Htiglition about
the validity at the will,wbieb; Win it,.ende•Lbt =
widow', father, hod a 45141 inn C. _ 111.."
produced a fineddragon tbisjat led. he.. - nd n insids
were Wyk; to amidst her nu moodily, living in Lon-
don vire striking proof, of meat. Although
wealthy, she lived with her adTliriC the moat equalid
aid Airy err The *Mr wee in • reditioa bel row
that of the lowest beam. All this tide her uonduct
Wired ,the risme of affirm $W "ulli buy
artic of no possible use id bet, Meows of the most
MMiSI roarer, and the lived with her child in rely
one apartment, which was in • ferfally filthy state.
She became extremely ire of being murdered,
and she was filled witharikagithat her husband's re-
' trier IMO purring her in London, with the design
of murdering or;li that cabmen and onsnituamen were
In • conspired 7 spinet ber, and abe had erected • build-
ing in the rear of her hear, contrary to the terms of
the lease, in which she hid and releded herself for pro.
tertian. She hid iron shatter at the windows of this
building, and bolts sad bars at the door, and she ex•
planar that the err* of the building was to protect
henelf from being murdered, that dm hared Persons
were coining over the will to murder her, these penon,
being the relatives of her Ire husband, Mr. Ware. In
1858 the weak WM to Cork and resided with her
brother, John Cody, ebe pare who origisally presented
• petition M Quarry for the purpose of t aving her
declared • lunatic. From that prod until the tone of
the ceremony which it was now sought to set &Ode. her
conduct was observed by the persona who now made
affidavits testifying to her state of mind. She espremed
henna then in tbe same silly wannest, and Was affected
by the tame feats. She wee afraid of being poisoned by
beir brother', wife, and proposed that the wife thould
leave the house, and take lodgings, which was done •
but, not content with that, she then insisted that she
should take lodgings hosed, and that the wife should
come home. She then went to lodge in a bore which
the afterwards potshard, and procured as a protector, a
large dog. whith she made sleep in the same room and
In this same bed with herself and the child, and she
thou appeared satisfied that she would be safe. At
this time, haying a large fortune at her disposal, she
red to give the child bunk-notes to play with, en
lines regard bad she for motley, and so totally
devoid *is abe of judgment and sound sense. Her
conduct to the child was mod extraordinary, for
she motioned to suckle it until after the wee mar-
ried again, and until it was six or seven years old,
although remonstrated with by • doctor oa the folly of
doing no. On one occasion abe bought £7O worth of
calicoes, wanting and using none of them, and she
entered into • contract for £l5O worth of dresses of all
kinds, including men's coats, Lat., and shoes, and other
articles which were utterly unsuited for herself or the
child. At other times she bought the moat absurd
quantities of bangs, bacon, pit's feet, beef, and mutton,
with which the room would be filled, and they would to
kept there until they were unfit for use. Al last the
dov her protector, wall gone, and the said she would
leave Cork, so the went to live at a pipe culled !Minna-
carragh, leer Cove, in the neighborhood of Cork.
There she was introduced to • sailor named O'Connell,
who had relatives in the town, and a scheme was con-
cocted to get her to marry him, which was accomplished
through
the agency of • priest named Fitthatnek, who
ra dispensation from the Bishop to marry the patties
a outlier-hour. Her dresses, jewellery, aid boxes
were then taken possession of by her hsuband's rela-
tives. and • sore of riot was carried on for several days
after tribe bore. Bdore her marriage she was remark-
ably temperate, but when abe came back on that day
there ore asserted the signs of punch or wine epee
her, and the rill mirror her hen of being murdered.
Alter a short lir 06 led from Bedinacarrsgb to Cork,
where the again established berpelf„ but eghtbithd the
lame imbecility. She thee west to London, sad lived
in the sore 4lialid state is before, and used to buy im-
mense quantities of fish, which was always eared. In
April, 1860, she returned to Ireland, and on the Zled
June, the intervening tirse having been occupied by her
relatives in an application in lunacy, the Chancellor
issued a writ de fanatic* inquireade to have the state
of her mind ascertained. She wee four to be • person
of unsound mind since 1857, by • jury in the city of
Dublin, who had her produced end examined. rm.
Watte appeared to be unable to comprehend religious
ideas, and no instance of bet ever attending a place of
J worship was 'town. Dat wee a remarkable fact, the
:nom to as she wts • man f'atholic. Her child was
neve tiptiiied, dr Cody bid it ~:vatisly brought
ilwaY an Wired, without her kboirledge, resat, or
permission. Counsel then referred to the affidavit+ of
Dr. O'Connor, Dr. Hanks (with whom the late Surgeon
Cusack bad been in consultation on the subject), Mr.
Davis. Jane Will., Her. Mr. Fitzpatrick, and some
1 others, as to the date of Mrs. Ware's mind before, at,
and after her marriage with John O'Connell, and as to
the circumstances under which it was brought about;
, and having quoted some snalogons ores in support of
, tit motion, be Opncludeel by atking Mt a diatolatlon of
the marriage. The affidavits in support of bit state-
ments baring been read, lodge Battsrsby, after a brief
' review of the clue, delivered judgment to the effect
that the marriage was null and void, one of the parties
not being of sound mind, and it having been effected
by fraud and circumventioa.