The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-18 00:00:00

AFFLICTED WITH (DIS)TEMPER.

A trivial case, involving only a sum of Se. 6.1., bait in-
volving also very strange behaviour on the part of the
local magistrates, has caused great indignation among the
farmers in the neighbourhood of Crockarnwell. in Devon-
shire, anal they have memorialised the Home Secretary in
vain for satisfaction. The immediate victim was • sham;
drover, who, when driving his dock along a turnpike-
had the misfortune to come in the way of the carriage 0
one of the magistrates, a Mr. tlarke. Mr. Clarke was
ezemsing a young horse, and he might have been
forgiven if. under the circumstances, he had vented • few
oaths at the sheep or et•an at the drover. Sheep are ver
provoking animals to pass with 'a restive horse. Stilc
sheep must be moved occasionally, and tints is no way o
moving them but by the public road, anal Mr. I larke was
not AO be excuse.' fnr granting his cnichinan a summons
against the unfortunate drover, and afterwards taking up
the summons himself, and pressing his brother magis-
trate+ for a verdict against the man. It is • trivial case,
but it raises the question of the amount of silliness that
should disqualify a man from holding a judicial position.
There was no charge of drunkenness or insolence against
the drover, and no attempt to substantiate the charge of
carelessness. Simply the sheep had got in Mr. liarkes
way, and this was the mode of relieving his temper. The
farmers are naturally indignant, because if flock+ of sheep
on the highway are to be judged an obstruction and a
nuisance, they may SA well give up the sheep trade, anal,
busy as Mr. Cross must be, they have reason on their side
when they petition for an ellquirY.

WF,SLEYAN LAY RICPRIISENTATION.
The Wesleyan Committee on Lay Representation met
on Friday. It agreed that all the following ministers
should be members of the mixed conference : I. Any
assistant secretary of the conference not • member of the
Legal Hundred ; 2. All chairmen of districts not members
of the Hundred. It Was proposed that the niinisterial
general treasurers and secretaries, not being members of
the hundred, of the committees next hereinafter named,
should be members of the mixed conference—that is to
say, of the committee of privileges, missions (foreign),
schools' fund, children's fund, chapel fund, extension of
Methodism, some missions, auxiliary fund, theological
institutioeut, education. A vote was taken as to whether
the ministerial treasurers and secretaries (general), not
being members of the Legal Hundred, of the committees
already named, committee of PriV ilea% 13161i01114 dc.,
should be members of the mixed conference, and it was
decided that they should not. The Rev. G. Giver then
prowled that if in any year any department would not
be represented by members of the Leal Hundred, provi-
sion should be made for ministerial representation of
such departments by the ministerial Conference, and it
was seconded by the Rev. J. Mason. The Rev. G.
, Diver's resolution was put to the vote and carried. It
was agreed that the remaining ministerial members of
the ('onference, when coniposol if ministers and lay
represeutatives, should be elected at the annual district
meetings by the ordained ministers, in such propor-
tions as may be allotted to each district by the Confer.
once when composed as last aforesaid. Provided always
that it shall be competent for the Conference, when I
composed of ministers only, to make any ether regu-
lations for the selection of the nuniber of 220 ministers
at its sole discretion. The following resolution WM
also agreed : —No layman shall be eligible as • repre-
sentative unless he shall have been a member of society
of five years' continuous standing at the time of his
nomination, and shall also be an holder of oflice in the
society, either as • trustee, local poacher, circuit, society,
or poor steward, or member of some district committee.
The following resolution was also adopted :—"That one-
fourth of the lay representations shall from time to time
have been representatives to the preceding Conference,
and shall be elected by such Conference when conference
composed of ministers and lay representatives, or, in the
case of the Conference of prn, at the annual Conference
I of ItCe, and that the 1-ty representatives shall be elected
I in Is manner to lie agreed upon." The question of the
I mode of electing the lay representatives was further
I considered. It was a question, according to sonic of the
I speakers, whether they should have circuit or district
I representation. It "as moved and seconded that one
representative front each district meeting be elected by
the ordained ministers and lay members of such district
rueeting. Mr. I)ingley moved an amendment to the
effect that the remaining lay representatives shall be
elected by the niinisters and laymen jointly in the
district meetings, according to the numbers allocated;
also that the composition of the lay part of the district
meeting be re-constituted, so that two members of the
quarterly meeting be elected by the quarterly meeting to
be representatives to the district meeting, and that at
least one of the two shall be • circuit steward. The
meeting finally adopted the following amendment, pro-
posed by the Ret. C. Diver :—"Each circuit to be repre-
sented In the district meeting by two members of the
quarterly meeting, of whom at least one shall be •
circuit steward. From the list of persons so nominated
the district meeting as so constituted shall elect
the allocated number of representatives by the
combined rota of ministers and laymen. The ministerial
members of the district meeting shall elect the allocated
number of ministers who shall attend the Conference.
From the list of ministers so elected the District Com-
mittee shall choose by • combined vote the number alio-
rated to represent the district in the conference while the
laymen are present. N.D. That until the proposed recon-
stitution of the district meetings can to carried out in
consistency with our existing laws, any election of district
representatives shall be taken by the combined votes of
ni inisters ILO laymen in the district meetings as at present
constituted.

EXPLOSION ON BOARD TIIUNDEILEIL
TIMM-ME PERSONS KILLED.

A shocking calamity took place at Portaruouth on
Friday afternoon on board the iron anuourplated turret
ship Thunilerer, Captain J. C. Wilson. This floating
castle, an improved turret ship, which bus Sir William
Armstrong's hydraulic apparatus fitted to the :Piton guns
in one of her turrets, has been recently brought forward
with all dispatch for commission, and Wednesday lest '
was appointed for her to make a trial of her engines on
the measured mile in Stokes Bay. near Portsmouth. She
bail made one run. A speed of nearly 15 knots was
realised, when a feed pipe becoming choked the trial
hail to be postponed. It was to have been resumed and
completed on Friday, and everything was in readiness
tor the perms-a when a terrific explosion took place, by
which more than 91/ lives have been sacrificed. The ship
left her anchorage at Spithead a few minutes before one
o'clock, steam having been getting up for some time pre.
viuusly. Everything appeared to be going well when, at
about ten minutes past one o'clock, the engines were
handed over to the contractor, the ship then nearing the
measured mile. He had scarcely reached the bridge
from the engine-room when a tremendous explosion took
Place. KOllle thought one of the 3S-ton guns had been
tired. Those on deck felt it heave as if the ship had
taken ground. Immediately afterwards there was an
immense ascent of ste-aui and smoke, which reached, it
was estimated, twice the height of the ship's toasts. '
Even among the engineers the most contradictory
guesses werehazarded—it was • boiler that had burnt; it
was the main steain.pipe that had been carried away; it
was the superheater that had exploded. In fact, the
steam below and in the engine and stoke-boles was so
intense that it was impiesible to venture near the seat of
the explosion. Mr. Weeks, one of the engineers belong-
ing to the Air, who exhibited wonderful nerve and
presence of mind throughout the whole trying circum-
stances, believing that one of the cylinders had burst,
stopped both engines, griped his way to the stop-yalves,
which he closed, and then rushed upon deck and called
upon the dockyard hands, in the name of God, to
volunteer to go below for the purpose of bringing out the
dead and dying from the stole-holes. But the bravest
held back from rushing through the scalding steam to
the dark and tortuous regions below. Perhaps it was
better that they did not make the attempt, for, being
strangers to the *hip, they would in all probability have
lost themselves in the stream or have fallen headlong
through some open hatchway or aperture. Mr. John
Oliver, however, followed by Mr. Bencke and Mr.
Stephens, members of his staff, and a number of gallant
engine-room artificers and bluejackets promptly responded
to the appeal. They fought their way into the engine-
room, whither the devoted stokers had crawled in their
agony.
Thome, Slade, the chief engineer, was found under the
after slide dead, with his scalp torn away, and Mr. Wing-
field, an engineer officer, was discovered under the smoke-
b.., with his head frightfully disfigured. The injured
stokers, who were found lying about the engine room,
were promptly brought upon deck, and attended by the
only medical officer who was on duty at the time, aided
by a number of volunteers, who covered the unfortunate
men with engine oil as they were brought up.
We must draw • veil over the agonising sights which
presented themselves at this moment, as man after man,
blackened with coaldust and with the flesh hanging from
their limbs—many being absolutely naked—were carried
in sails, and other extemporized stretchers and placed,
writhing with pain on the superstructure floor. But still
further and worse horrors remained behind. While this
was going on there were dying in unspeakable tortures in
the stokeholes pso- fellows, whom it was for the moment
impossible to reach for the stream. The stokers,
in the after-hole, in fact, though preserved (nun
mutilation, were boiled alive. The safety valves
were opened as soon as passible, though their
position was not readily found by strangers to the
machinery and ship, and the first instinct on the part of
the engineers in charge was to start the engines in order
to facilitate the exhaustion of the steam. But formid-
able difficulties here presented themselves. No many
sufferers had fallen under the links of the port engine
that it could not be started without crushing theta, and
as the steam steering gear had been dislocated and carried
away by the force of the explosion, the ship was at the
nioment entirely unmanageable, and to have started the
starboard engine would have, in her present crippled con-
dition, have certainly run the ship ashore. This was a
risk, however, which Captain Waddficive, in the interests
of hiunanity, very properly refused to recognise, and the
starboard engine was set to work to exhaust the steam
before the manual steering-gear had been connected.
After the connexion had been made the steam was soon
exhausted, and the dead bodies-15 in number—were
brought from the stokehole' in a frightful state of meths-
Uon, tenderly deposited on the floor of the superstructure,
and covered with flags.
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George rrockfonl, the leading stoker of the Thunderer,
succumbed last night, making the total number of
deaths 35.

The Queen has approved of the appuintmentlof Mr. .1.
T. Ingham, magistrate of Use Hammersmith and Wands-
worth police courts, as chief magistrate of tho 'police
courts of the metropolis in the room of Sir Themes Henry,
deceased. Her Majesty has also signified her approval of
the appointment of Mr. A. de Rutzen, stipendary
magistrate for Merthyr Tydvil, as a magistrate of the
police courts of the metropolis.
TRADE Ourason —At Manchester, Edwin air* Jew.
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came out on strike—Atkins and Ainsworth being amongst
ththeeimr.o.Tho,co.psod nh.pwringdingoththube:.
actions were watched by men picketed. On the night
of April S Thompson and two other operatives employed
by the firm were
they were attacked by a number of men with stones,
knocked down, and severely kicked. Thompson was left
dead on the spot, while his companions escaped. The
three prisoners were identified as having taken part in
the assault, and the evidence was strengthened by the
of
onopemanmpvlliwil.seuiivolalugh7:llidtteofingeoufrnd:A;a:bdce.
jwect:l;erimn—thalTherarniwueryll sentencedreuruea
Birchv erditoct
13
years, Ainsworth to 10 years, and Atkins to seven years'
eresiaatrontotasoun:exlipv=ing
icoantinior:orhipipbareibtec
of a good deal of opposition from the most eminent
medical men. Medicine is, they maintain, "an experi-
mental art altogether," and, said an eminent witness
before the Royal Commission, " if we are Prevented from
Performing experiments on other living animals, it will
necessarily follow that our practice a mede wW
astt even to a larger extent than It does now, of •
series of move or leas painful cFperitnentif on our patients."
There is, however, one painful experiment on MAU
which has long been very prevalent which science has
now rendered unnecessary; it is the administration of
RJRIIOOIIB and drastic aperient draughts and pills. **l
look won the introduction of Hunyadi Janos Water,'
say) Or. Silver, M.D., M.A., Professor of Clinical
Medicine in Charing Cross Hospital, "as being as great
an &drool°a on any peerlessly know as the use of time..
was an improvement on the use of Glauber or Epsom
Salts in their simple form." The use of this palatable and
valuable natural mineral water has become so universal
l.ho f..;owineat that Professor Von &instal, says "1
use no other," and Virchow Bomberger and Friedreic.h,
the leading Physicians of Berlin, Vienna and liamburgh,
fully inflow his opinion. Its Introduction into general use
in this country will constitute • one of the greatest
advances in domestic medicine, and is endorsed and
applauded by the most =bust 111Yeteians and the whole
medical mem of the countrr•

ffIRTIIL
July 3, at Itoly Trinity Vicarage, 'tourism...pulls, the
wife of the Rev. V. F. Eliot of . we.
July 8, at Ragbas, the wife of Mr. .1. 1104.4, of a .on
July 8, at Woodsford, the wife of Mr. Cherie. Squil., of
• "tighter.
July 11, the wife of John M. I.u.di, Will. and Newt
Bank, Dorchester, of a .I.iiiahtcr.
July 11, at Watercondie. Dorrhe.tcr, the OIIC of Mr. T.
lawman Saunders, of a darirthter.
July 11, at Pease-lame. Ihrrchrater, the Wit. of fit
Green of • dauhter,
July 11, at N allege Farm. Dumpier, near ht;ina,tok''.
Hank, the wife of Mr. D. Taylor (I.dc
Dorset), of a son.
July 13, at West Walks, Dorchester, the airy of Nil
Old, of • son.
July Ili, at Shirley Cotta4e, Wed. Walk., IkrthrAer,
the wife of Mr. S. Barnes. of a ilatir,hter.

MARRIAGg'.4.

July 6, at Si. Peter's swa
Church. Bayti•r, hv the K.,
John -Robbins, D.D., vicar, assisted by the Rev. T. Nortoo•
curate of St. Saviour's Walthanistow, Stephen Whde.
elder son of Stephen Bennett, Esq., of Wareham. Ihtr-e,l
to Rose Moresby, of 82, Kensington, Park-rowl,
youngest daughter of the late Abel learrad, aid
daughter of the late Captain H. Hume Spen e. IL•
July 6, at St. Mary'.. Church, Bridwrt, hy the lee t.
W. May, vicar of Allington_,. Mr. Janie. Blaine), ',hood
'muter' of Allinxt°l2. to Kate, second datizhter .4 Mr.
T. Knight, tailor, tr., West-street. Brid port.
July 11, at the pariah church, Littlebredy, by 01' It.'''
H. Valentine, Henry
_Boatswain, of South Perrot l'arro.
near Crewketne. to Edith Hodges Legg, only chill ot Mr.
John Legg, Littlebredy.
July 12., at St. Mary Magdalene.. Paddington. by tb'
Rev. B. MiclieU, D.D., Principal of Hertford College;
itzford, assisted by the Rev. G. Johnston, Vms,
Harlington, Beds., Cecil Mark. son of Major l'ulford
Stafford, to Minnie Florence Newt‘m daughter ol the
late Newton John Lane, Req.. of Elmhurst Hall. Sull.Qtd"
shire, and The Firs, Bournemouth.
July 12, at tit. James's Church, Poole, by the Ere. -1-
A. Lawson. Rector, assisted by the Rev. J&IIICA
and the Rev. I'. F. Eliot., of Bournenl outh, licztuald
Aldridge, Req. so/icitor, Poole, nel eon of 1- 1'•
Aldridt.,Faki.; OLD., Shirley House, Dorche,ter.
JaSai6 LW daughter of the late T. Wanhill, Eat, •I• •
of Poole

DEATHS.
July 8, at North Cadbury, Somerset, Jane Itu,ri,
her Nth year.
July 1., at Ituddendleld, Yorkshire, Mr. T. B' hives.
J.P., of Fernside, Parkstone, Poole, aged .:•,.
July A, at West-street, Bridport, the infant .on ot Br
F. Thorne, hairdresser, aged 8 months.
July 8, at the residence of his mother, Gavecdut-
tjelwlnt, Bath. the Rev. Edward Headland, rod°, d
prondw•YA Dorset, late Fellow of Conville and Olio
CoZttad. , UasnbrWse,_ younger son of the late Edward
Efg.. of Portlequare, London, ag
ed 1.5.
ituJulY 8, at High-street, Poole, Mr. Richard Miller, a/PI
-14 a, ry
a.l, at Wiroborne, of rheumatic fever, Mr. W
oucear. J.
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