The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-02 00:00:00

Saineoetsbire.

Wrxcerrotc—Charge of Bigamy.—On Saturday,
before R, Phelips, Esq., James Hazzard, a native of
Temple Coombe, was brought up in cuetody charged
with bigamy, having married at Bruton in 1852, and
again at Bristol in 1856. Superintendent Davies
having been put in possession of the particulars of
the case, proceeded to Bristol, where he succeeded in
apprehending the prisoner; he was employed as
porter at the Midland Terminus. Mr. Davies pro.
duced extracts from both registers where the mar.
riage ceremony wee performed, and called witnesses
to prove the prisoner was the mall named in them.
Committed for trial at the assizes.

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CASTLE CARY. —A very agreeable party, num-
bering betwem 60 and 70, met at a ball here on
Monday in honour of the royal nuptials. The liberal
catering of Mr. Harold gave full satisfaction, and a
most agreeable evening was passed.
S LAUGHTER OF SHEEP. —OR Thursday morning
about 100 sheep, belonging to Mr. Jennings, of Cole,
escaped from a field, and got upon the Wilts and
Dorchester Railway, just as the luggage train ap-
proached, and before it could be stopped it had
run into the flock and killed about twenty of the
animals.
THE MURDERER DEALS-_A cast of the head of
the wretched man was taken immediately after the
execution. The deceased was takeu dovnt a flight of
steps and placed in the chair in which he was
pinioned, stripped of his clothes and his head shaved.
Calcraft was desirous of possessing himself of the
clothes, for the purpose of selling them to Madame
Tussaud's modeller, but the authorities refused to
give them, and they were placed in the coffin.
\When Beale was pinioned, he had in his hand a
letter and a religious book, which he desired should
be given to his wife, as a dying gift. When the cap
was removed from Busies head, the features were
not distorted, and he appeared as pleasant as when in
life.

The Superintendents of Police for the county of
Somerset are now appointed Inspectors of Weights
and Measures, and will immediately commence in-
specting the same. All shopkeepers, publicans, dm.,
should examine their weights and measures, to see
that they are not deficient, before they receive a visit
from the officers.
THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. -To amuse "young
Taunton" the Russian gun was taken ftom its hiding
place on Monday, and, under the auspices of Mr. J.
Richards, who supplied the powder and kept it dry,
it was used in firing a Royal salute of 21, in the
French Weir fields, the gunners being two artillery-
men, stationed in the town on the recruiting service.
No accident happened. The shops were closed, and
business generally suspended.

LANOPORT. —To celebrate the Princess's wedding
day, a grand ball was given at our Townhall here by
six ladies, Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Parkes, Mn. Hyde, Mrs.
Quekett, Mrs. Parsons, and Mrs. Bagehot. Dancing
was continued till 4 o'clock, and nearly 100 ladies and
gentlemen were present. Summershayes' band at-
tended.

BRIDGWATER. —Aceidenis.---At an early hour On
Thursday morning, as Mr. T. E. Poole, surgeon, and
his family were returning from a party at Canning.
ton, his vehicle came in contact with a heap of atones,
and was overturned. No damage was sustained be-
yond a few slight bruises.—On Tuesday morning two
horses attached to a wagon belonging to Messrs.
Allen and Son, of Burnham, being left by those en-
trusted with the care of them, started towards the
Quay, and brought the vehicle in collision with the
door-post of York House. The post was smashed,
several panes of glass were broken, and other injury
done—On Tuesday morning a man named George
Spriggs, whilst at work at the Puritan Cement
Works, had occasion to wheel a barrow over a plank
that was thrown across a chasm, when his foot
slipped and he fell to the bottom, a considerable
depth. He was conveyed to the Bridgwater Infir-
mary, where it was ascertained he had sustained frac-
tures of the ribs and hip-bone, and other injuries.
Yeovil.. —Mr. Macready's Readings—On Thurs-
day evening, Mr. Macready gave a reading from the
works of some of the great English authors, includ-
ing Milton and Shakespeare, at the Townhall, in aid
of the fund for the establishment of educational
classes and the distribution of prizes among the
members of our local institutions, at a public
examination. Mr. Macready was introduced to the
meeting by the Rt. Worshipful the Mayor, and com-
menced his readings with some general remarks on
the necessity of improved means of education, draw-
ing a contrast between the United States and this
country in this respect, where education was much
more in advance; and not only so, but even in our
own Colonies more energetic and practical steps were
taken by those who took part in public affairs to for-
ward the cause of education. It was, however, a
subject for great congratulation that our Universities
were now following the example of the Society of
Arts, by the establishment of public examinations.
Mr. Macready observed, in reply to the excuse very
commonly made for leaving the work of education
undone, that it was the duty of the State to look to
the education of the people, and that the Govern-
ment should propound some national measures for
carrying out some general plan of operation, that the
Government were helpless in this day of religious
and political differences, and that the impediments
appeared to him to be almost insurmountable. Why
then, he asked, should we be like the rustic at the
stream waiting for that which might never come to
pass? or which, if it did come in the course of a few
Sessions, by the adoption of some system of national
education, would not prevent the deepest disap-
pointment to those who, in consequence of this delay,
lost for ever the opportunity for the cultivation of
their powers? Mr. Macready concluded his observa-
tions by recommending the fairer portion of his
audience to pay much greater attention to the art of
reading with distinctness and feeling instead of
bestowing so much time and attention upon the
cultivation of muaio. No one was fonder of that
science than himself, but at present there was a
musical mania, and how often was it the case that
persons without either a taste or ear for melody were
led up,to what he would call the 'sacrificial instru-
ment. We all know how many hours are daily
spent at the pianoforte, and how few hours in the
acquisition of more useful and intellectual knowledge.
After these preliminary observations, Mr. Macready
commenced his readings. The pieces he selected
were—Story of Lefevre ; Lord Ullin's Daughter;
Part of the 7th Book of Paradise Lost, (describing
the creation of the world) ; The 2nd Scene in the
ilrd Act of Shakespeare's Henry VIII., (describing
the fall of Cardinal Wolsey.) His delivery of Sternari
story of Lefevre, and Campbell's Lord Ullin'e
Daughter was perfect; and never did the "prose
poet Sterne find a better advocate. We think Mr.
Macready excels most others in his delivery. of the
pathetic. He closed his readings with the unrivalled
soliloquy of Wolsey in meditating over his fall and
the neglect of his former friends. At the end of the
various pieces the audience testified their approba.
Con by general applause, and at the final close the
Mayor, on behalf of himself and the company,
cordially thanked Mr. Macready for the great treat
he had adorded them, and expressed a hope that he
would long be spared to carry out the useful objects
to which he was devoting his time and his great
talents.