The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

2lrmg ant Nabg.

The demand recently made by the War Department
upon Woolwich Arsenal for the supply of guns to rein-
foroe the west defences has been promptly responded to,
as upwards of 1,000 68-pounders, and other heavy siege
guns have already been despatched from Woolwich to
131 harness, Seaford, Eaetboume, Portsmouth, RevonpoM,
Dover, and the various towns on the English coast the
whole of which are fully equipped and are furnished
with applianoes for projecting red-shot and other 'lns-
ides of the moat desteuctive oondition. This formidable
array of coast defence does not include the large number
of 18-pound battery guns, dm. which have likewise been
supplied to the above named ;tenons.

;rim Commander-in• Chief at Shuman on the Bth Ind,
inspected the Colouus, 80 gunk the Itc:yal George, 102
run, the Emerald, 51 guns, and the &out, 21 guns, all
advanced screw steam-gigue, an Admiralty order having
been reoeived to report what time would be required to
get them ready for foreign service. . _

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The war authorities have ntoently effected several
improvements in the transport of the numerous reinforce.
siesta which have recently been despatched from this
country to India. One of these improvements consists
in sending several steady and experienced stiff-sergeants
on board each of the vessels. This plan has been found
necessary, as the draughts embarked for India consist,
for the meet part, of ve7 young soldiers, and the non-
commissioned officers, it Is expected, will be of great use
in maintaining proper order and discipline, and in per-
forming the staff duties generally, during the voyage.
All the staff sergeants so selected will receive 2s. 6d.
per day, exclusive of their pensions, as long as their ser-
vices are required. After the troops they accompany
have disembarked in India, they will return to this
country by the first available vessel, for the purpose of
attending other draughts out.

The Unitai Service- Gazette tell. us that" The colonel
of. very crack regiment of cavalry has for the last 18
months been in the habit of messing the officers; in fact,
performing all the duties of. messwan, not forgetting the
prolltii which Judging from the expenses, must have been
oonsideraide. Things went on very well until the 12th of
August drew near, when, In! an evil day wee dawning for
the gallant medallion. Bight officers sent an application
for leave to shoot in Scotland. They were all called into
the orderly-room one day they stables, and requested to
subeeribe their names to a document, to the effect that
they, the undersigned, authorised the colonel to pur-
chase articles for the MINS to the amount of £4 each, to
charged to the mew accounts. Six out of the eight
.4.4 the paper without a word • but two refused,
Lisatisents 1:10-r and 8---4;and, in °consequence,
their limes wee refused; and the former of thew officers,

in every plucky manner, at onoe reported the whole
oirowinstataoes of this disreputable transaction to the
Major-Genoral Commanding the cavalry, and the re-
sult has been that a court of Inquiry 1100 w investigating
the whole affair"
One COAST DUMMER.— Upwaria of 1,000
poundere and other heavy ;liege guns have been dia•
patelied from Woolwioh to Sheens'', Seaford, But
bourne, Portsmouth, Gevonport, Dover, and other
towns on the English rout ; the guns being fully
equipped and furnished with applianeee for projecting
red. hot eliot and other destnsotive adagios. This
formidable array of pond dotage, does not include SI
large number of 18. pound battery gone, ke., which here
likewise been supplied to the above nained stations,
MALLNT'N lidssmovi AfLONTAL—The experiments
with this gun have proved uusuocrasful, awl after several
Irish the Government have ordered the loading appal,
etas and all the material' employed in the experiments
to be removed. Upwards of £40,000 he. i"o" 'Pe" in
the oonstruotion of the two mortar. and their oonsingent
expellees. The nikin cause of failure 'violin from the
peculiarity of their uonatruallon (In segments), rendered
neoeseary for purpone of transport. It is found impugn
sible to noun the segments composing the barrel with
sufficient Armen and solidity it withstand the shook of
the explonion of the lieery allele required.
A FAUSIDAN SQUADRON AT YAntinurn.- Prop
plan equadron, consisting of two frigates and the
Royal pieta, under the °minuend of his Royal High.
nee. Prinee Adelbert of Prolate, brou'llit up In Vermouth
Roads, on Wednewlay lest. The orfolk Artillery,
et preeent eesenibled for training at that Om, under
Lieutenant•Culonel Aethq, commendant, In eonipliinent
to his Royal Highness, hoisted the Pruealan eneign on
the south bettery, end fired a Royal seinte, wide!" MAI
returned from the Ilstship flylog the Ingligh ensign et
the fore. Prins. ronioliwarsburg londerhausen, Copt.
Boewall, and the °diners of the eqnsolron were elder.
leined al dinner by Lleuletientißoluitel /alley and the
Aura of the Norfolk Artillery. On the denature of
the squadron on the following morning the its huh
gain flre4 a Royal 'elute, which wee returned by the
guns of the Norfolk Artillery. The squadron Is bound
for !best,

Central Netts.
YALU/ or LAND IN lIINT.—TD• Acne. setae,
which itrelehee for HMI uillea between Klima end
Ostiterbory, inoluding four minima end ententling over
Nem parishes, lice Juill teen sold for E 190,000, Ind-tiding
limber, to Mr. Meekninon, M.P.
!Oat Holm It arLOlllOlO, -• A Very destrustive
boiler eiploeion mimed on Illaturdey morning week at
the woollen Oath manufactory of Mr, W. Almond, At
Mumma, near Lee& Four persona were killed and
several other" were eerlintely injured, The explosion
muffed just before the niill commenced to work,
Tote Nnusou MonuMent—The Howie of Ooinmone
having voted the sum of 01,000 for the completion of the
lions Intended to adorn the four °omen of the Nelson
column, It ham been determined by Lord John Mariners
to Minot the elteoololl of them to Mr Edwin Landow',
the Frost painter of animals, The Bone are to be lio
feet long by 9 feet high,
EIITKAORDISAST TIMMY Or LIM —About the end
of July, Mr, Joseph sharp, of Great Dalby, near Melton
Mowbray, lost a oouple of cheep which could nowhere be
tread. On the 90th ult., a youth aocidentally found
thuu wedged in a drain, utterly unable to Wriest, them•
selves, and where it was inipoulble they could have pro.
cured any food whatever for the month during which
they had been lout. He obtained inisistanoe to remove
the animal% and they are now rapidly recovering the
snots of their long fast.

DILIXIIING FOU-NTAINS,—A director of the Midland
Railway hu greeted, at his own expenso, a inerble drink.
Mg fountain on the Leicester station. These fountains
are beooming very general, but it is stated that wherever
they have been put up drunkeneu has decreased. At
the conduit on the Market-hill there is a single ladle to
enable thirsty souls to obtain a dreught, and it is truly
astonishing to observe how much it is used. Why should
there not be more 'tattoos to supply water both to man
and beast

RIPRESINTATION OP aRRENWICR.—AII active ()an-
vil/ is said to be going on among the employis of the
dookyard in Deptford and Woolwich in favour of •
Conservative and Government candidate in the person
of Sir Richard Saunders Dundee who was superinten-
dent of Deptford Dockyard in 1851 and 1852, and when
there achieved an unusual amount of popularity among
all classes. In 1855 he was appointed Commander of
the Baltic Fleet, and wee created K.C.B. at the close of
the Russian war. Sir Richard it at present one of the
Lords of the Admiralty.
FORGETFUL FARMERIL—The Dumfries Courier state.
that on the other Sunday, while some persons were
paring to church near a farm in the parish of Dryefes-
dale, they were surprised to observe the farmer at work,
mowing grass on a meadow, while two of his sons were
engaged with • horse working among turnips in a field
adjacent. On being asked the cause of their working on
Sunday the farmer and his sons declared that they had
not been keeping a reckoning of the days of the week,
and were not aware that it was the Sabbath Day, their
farm not being within "sound of the church-going bell."
On learning the mistake that had been made, the scythe
was thrown down and the horses unyoked while labour
was suspended till another day.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT TYNEMOUTH.—The young
gentleman who died on Saturday at Tynemouth from
dislocation of the vertebras of the neok while bathing
was not Mr. Stephen Hanks, but his cousin, Mr.
Dickens. The accident that caused his death, as des-
cribed by him to the medical man before he died, was
very singular. He had been taken • short distance into
the sea in • machine, and after undressing, instead of
dropping from the ladder into the water, sprang from
the floor. Finding that he was alighting in shallow
water, he put out his hands to prevent falling on his
face, and at the moment he alighted on the ground he
gave his head a sudden jerk back, which caused the
accident terminating in his death.

SECRET BAPTISM OP A JEWISH CHUM—The forcible
abduction by the Roman Inquisition of a Jewish child
six years old, at Bologne, under the pretence of its hav-
ing been, two years ago, secretly baptised by its Catholic
nurse, has crested • most painful sensation throughout
the Jewish world. Twenty-one Sardinian congregations
have addressed a joint and moot pathetic appeal to the
London Jewish Board of Deputies, soliciting its inter-
ference in behalf of the heart-broken family. The
Board met on Monday last, when it was unanimously
resolved to respond to the appeal. A sub-committee of
eight was appointed, with Sir Moses Montefiore at its
head, to which full power was given to take all neces-
sary steps required by the emergenoy. The sub-com-
mittee resolved to put itself in connuuniestion with the
Israelitish Central Conshitories of Franoe a.ul Holland,
to appeal to the press of England, to endeavour to enlist
the synipathy of the generous English Government in
the cause ; and, if needs there be, to send a deputation
to the Pope.
STRANGE DEATH. —The Fife Jaunted reports the
death of is boy, who, with several associates, amused
himself In digging holes in the ground, which one of
their number entered while the others covered him up,
and the buried boy, by previous arrangement, made a
noise for the purpose of knowing who could be heard at
the greeteet distance, and for this end the others left the
place of burial, and they also strove smug themselves to
see who would remain longest in their subterraneous et-
oavations. On Friday these youths had been engaged In
their pranks when the boy Brown was interred, and the
others had left for the re sun stated above. At this
juncture, Mrs. Brown, who was returning from Leven
across the " arrived, and perceiving the feet of •
boy projecting from the ground, she of oourse immedl.
ately extricated him, when to her horror and grief she
saw it was her own boy, and to add to her sorrow her
eon was quite dead. His own spade was lying near, and
his mouth had been covered with • handkerchief to pre-
vent it being filled with sand and dirt.
THE BOYNR-HILL CONTESSIONAL.—The Bishop of
Oxford has issued a commission addressed to three
laymen and two clergymen of his diocese, to inquire into
the statemente &Hedged against the Rev. Richard
Temple West, M.A., of Christchurch, Oxford, and
curate of Boyne-hill, in reference to his praetioe of con-
fession, an brought out in • ease which has lately been
eoprominently before the public, and to report to his
Lordship whether there is primd facie ground for in-
'Muting further proceedings. The commissioners are
Dr. Robert Philhulore, Chancellor of the Diocese; the
Ven. James Randall, M.A., Archdeacon of Berkshire;
the Rev. J. Austen Leigh, M.A., via: of Bray (the
parish In which Mr. Gresley's district is situate) ; Mr.
Charles Sawyer, of Heywood-lodge ; and Mr. J. Rib-
beet, of Braywick.lorlire ; the two latter being county
magistrates All these gentlemen hold High Church
views, particularly Dr. Phillimore, Archdeacon Ran-
dall, and Mr. Leigh, who are commonly classed among
the ultra-Tractarian party. The GAUAI 14 days' notice
has been served upon Mr. West.
HARTRST-ROMIS. —An attempt has been made in
Worcestershire to celebrate the ingathering of the har-
vest In • similar manner to that adopted at East Brent.
Mr. W. Dowdeowell of Pall Court, near Tewkesbury,
formerly M.P. for that borough, decided this year on
making the attempt in his parish (Bushley), and on
Thursday week the clergy, farmers, resident gentry, and
labourers of the parish mustered in the parish church
of Bushley in such large numbers that the accommo-
dation in the church was insufficient. Divine service
was performed by the Rev. Charles Allen, incumbent,
and at its close there was a sermon by the Ven. Arch-
deeoon Thorpe, who took for his text Isaiah 9,v. 3.,
"They joy before Thee, according to the joy in harvest,
and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil." After
service the farmers and labourers dined together at the
schoolhouse, which was decorated in a most tasteful
manner with lowers and evergreens. It should be
mentioned that floral deeoratious were also exhibited in
the church, and sheaves of wheat were placed on each
aide of the altar. At the dinner the chair was taken by
Mr. Dowdeawell, and Archdeacon Thorpe and Mr.
0. Ricardo, M.P., were present amongst the guests,
together with some ladies. Mr. Dowdeswell end the
Archdeacon addressed the assembly of fannerspoind
labourers after dinner, and subsequently the latter in-
dulged in totemic and pipes, the younger portion en-
joying a dance until the close of the day.
SMALLPDX AVOIDABLE.—Not only does the interest-
ing report of Dr. Greenhow to the Board of Health es-
tablish the fact that the loathsome and disgusting disease
of smallpox Is preventible, but every official p•per that
falls into our hands testifies to the expediency, nay, the
necessity of enforcing among the lower orders of the
people the beneficent practice of vaccination. Dr.
Greenhow shows that sniallpox in nine years from 1848
to 1856, killed 41,290 persons, or 4,587 a year. As
some prejudice exists, even among professedly "edu-
cated" persons, ageinst the efficacy of Dr. Jenner's
immortal "patent," so to speak, for the prevention of
the pestilence, we shall do well to quote the evidenoe of
the report before us. Is is to the effect that "there is
no difference of opinion among competent persons as to
the almost entire preventibility of the deaths from small-
pox." The medical statistics of all 'countries where
rumination is general prove as much, in defiance of the
most obstinate sceptics, and the vast mejority of those
who fall victims to the foul disease in England are per-
sons non-vaccinated or badly vaccinated. Dr. Green-
how adds, in emphatic italics, "It is certain that if
elimination were universally performed in the best
known manner deaths by smallpox would de among the
rarest entries in the register." The very large continu-
ance of smallpox in England is a painful fact, and it lean
establiehed fad that thii is due to the non-practice or
the inefileient practice of vaocination. The inference to
be drawn from thole data is Infilokintly obvious.

MILITIA RIOT.—A riot marred on Thursday week at
Great Yarmouth between II party of the Fermanagh
Militia, now stationed in that town, and a number of
the townspeople, Some of the latter were more or lea*
injured, end the affair Tim oonsidered so serious that
the megistratee held a epecial investigation on Friday
afternoon. Several persons attended, who bore proofs
of having suffered in the siJlc. After hearing evident»
and discussing the matter, the magistrates directed
their clerk to address a letter to the unumandirig Alum
of the regiment, euggesting the expediency of adopting
such regulations as would prevent another collision.
AODIDINT IN HYDN PARK, —On Thursday, as
Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, wee taking an airing in
Hyde Park, the box of the open barouche In which the
duohem was riding suddenly separated from the body of
the carriage, and precipitated the coachman and foot.
titan on to the horses, whioli Immediately took fright,
dashing themselves against the iron railing!' separating
the walk from the drive, and oecasioning the greatest
possible alarm for the safety of the duchess and her
servant', Happily her grata soaped any more eerions
inconvenience than the fright arising from the aleaster,
and the servants were not seriously hurt, One of the
horses broke HI log, and wee destroyed on the spot,
A lioxitoirY or LADllll,—The latest intelligence
from VlOlOl.lll contains a M 40101104 return of no little
Interest to ladies, By the last Marne of the regletrar•
general of the colony we pensive that the nunierioal
preponderance of ices over women amounted to the
astounding sum of 134,000 In a population of 470,000,
In other words there were only about 1011,000 wonms NO
110/1,0110 men, and this proportion was booming more
unfavourable, as the goldbehle still setiod ace magnet to
the adult inale labour of the world, Now, these 154,000
unhappy bachelors *enlist windy of men earning nearly
the best wairee In the world, An NON of land gen be
puroliaiest for 110 e„ and what more obvious to the well.
tell workmen than thel the only things neeeseary to I
reasonable amount of earthly felicity are a cottage, a
garden, and a wife! Are stationed Moseys uninteresting
to fair readers?
PIINIINNT TO Till 001111411011111 OF INV PIMA
?We Mils gage or Till Hones ot Ousrulta....llr, Alf
Neer, the milveramilli to the Poninoular and Orient
Oompeny, In Southampton, has Just designed and 111111111•
factored I very elegant present le Mr, Lane, of the
Pere steanithlp, from the member' of the House of
Omnintme who visited Cherbourg in that resell. This
piece of art Is designed for an iitrtne i the bus Is a
cruet frame, and the stand repreeento the wives of the
sea, In bright and frosted curer , The stem represents
rook work, on which Is an elegant shell with 'pray
dripping from It, This alien Is to hold flowers. The
epergne Is surmounted by a dgure of a /MIN! 'importing
a flag, On one olds of Hie flag the colours of hit
Peninsular and Oriental Oeinpeny are enamelled, en
on the other is the following Inscription u—' Presents
to Mr, 11, Lane, of the Peninsular and Oriental Cunt.
pany's ship Pert by the members of the House of
Otoinniuns, with their hat wishes and thanks on peeasion
of their vlsit to the Cherbourg/fr.. in August, ISM,"
Smoot...A Detts,—An Mired was held on Tueeday
at the New Inn, Moesley•roo , Newton, near Hyde, on
the body of a man named Wlll6lll Wright, a Mortar, at
Newton, known by the sobriquet of '' Billy Motion,"
who died on Saturday from the effects of Injury re•
aired under the following oireumstanoes —A warrant
being out against him for neglect of his wife and family,
he was lurking about, and on the night of Sunday week
he had been sleeping on a large haystack In Newton,
when he fell down a hole left in the middle of the stack
for ventilation (made by rioting a bag of hay upright and
drawing it up the aperture as the hay is stacked.)
Finding himself ineepable of climbing up the funnel.
shaped aperture, for want of air the poor fellow hemline
so weak and ezhensted that he wee only able vary slowly
to incite his way horliontally through the staelf , b
punting out hay with his hands, and drawing it behin
Olin, This occupied him from the time of his fall till
Wednesday—nearly three days—and when he crawled
out he with great difficulty crept to the 'tape of a house
in Newton, and said he had come to die there. He wits
taken into the house, but gradually sank and died ; and
on Friday night he wee removed to the workhouse. A
verdict of Accidental Death was returned.

CAPTURE 07 A BURGLAR.—In • det•Ohixi cottage at
Twickenham, within almost a stone's throw of the
church, has resided for some time an elderly maiden
lady in very delicate health, whose establishment son-
slits merely of a cook and housemaid. Lest Tuesday,
however, there was only the housemaid and her sick
mistress in the house. At about half-past 9 in the
evening, the housemaid, whose name is Ann Retford,
and who is a remarkably fine, handsome young woman,
22 years of age, went into her mistress's bed room to
Inquire if anything was wanted before retiring to rest.
On opening the door she was startled by seeing a lad,
not more than 18, standing over her mistress as she lay
in bed, apparently in the act of striking her with a
bludgeon. Without hesitating she immediately rushed
upon him and seised him, closing with him so rapidly
that he was unable to use hie bludgeon. A desperate
and long-protracted struggle ensued, the poor invalid
lady awaiting the issue in intense anxiety. At length
the brave girl succeeded in completely overpowering her
antagonist, and kneeling upon him as lie lay upon his
back on the floor, she held him down and called to her
mistress to bring her • piece of cord, with which she
firmly secured the hands of her captive, who was then
locked up, in spite of his entreaties for mercy, in a
strong cupboard, and shortly afterwards was delivered
up to the police, to whom he was well known. The
lady states that she was asleep, when he awoke her,
and, raising his stick, demanded her keys. She was
dreadfully frightened, and was on the point of deliver-
ing them up when her servant entered the room. The
maid afterwards received • handsome present from her
mistress. _ _

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RAILWAY COLLISION.-011 Monday an excursion
train, containing between seven hundred and eight hun-
dred of the scholars, teachers, and friends of the Chor-
ley National Schools, on its return from Southport, at
about 0 p.m., was detained at the Loatook Junction, on
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, about four miles
from Bolton, to allow an ordinary passenger train to pre-
cede it, and for this purpose was shunted on to the
Bolton and Preston branch of the main line, but, un-
fortunately, not far enough to clear that line, the guard's
van at the rear partly overhanging it. When the pas-
senger train came up the engine dashed into the van,
breaking it to pieces, the guard being pitched out a dis-
tance of 12 yards, and the passengers in the carriage
next to the break being all violently shaken, and eight
or ten of them severely bruised. The excursion train
did not arrive at Chorley until midnight, when the rela-
tives of the passengers were assembled in great conster-
nation, a report of the accident having previously reached
them. The wounded persons were promptly attenped to,
and it WM found that there were no serious cases of
injury.
MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON AND THE WORKMEN AT
SONDERLAND•BRIDGE.— fhe workmen employed at Sun-
derland bridge presented Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P.,
and hit brother engineers with an address on the occa-
sion of his visit to Sunderland in company with the
members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
so follows :—Gentlemen,—We, the workmen employed
upon Sunderland-bridge, beg to welcome the engi-
neers of England, whose works have made this country
of ours famed over the habitable globe. This bridge,
when completed, we trust will be both an ornament to
the borough of Sunderland and a luting monument of
the skill of practleal engineering. We also trust our
labours, so far as they have progressed, will meet with
your approbation, and are proud of this opportunity be-
ing afforded us of testifying our admiration of the
eminent men who compose the Institute of hfeohanical
Engineers." Mr. Stephenson, in reply, said,—"There
are no members of society for whom I have • higher re-
spect than for industrious and intelligent workmen. It
is to them that the engineer is indebted for the full and
efficient realisation of his conceptions, which, however,
good they may be, must largely depend upon the skill
of the workmen for their 11110001111. The progress made
in the higher branches of engineering during the last
thirty years may lie attributed in a great degree to the
improved skill and intelligence of the workmen. The
rAvanoe of meehanioal science, and its application to use-
ful purposes, must always go hand-In-hand with time
skill and also with the comfort of the working classes.
I cannot refer to a better example in proof of tide than
the bridge upon which we are now standing. The altera-
tions and improvements which you are so admirably
carrying on could not have been executed at the time
when the original bridge was designed. If the engineer,
therefore, had even designed the bridge as it is now in-
tended to be nude, his mental labour would have been
Vaitland useless, for there was not suffioient skilled
labour in the country to realise sushi em idea. I merely
take this bridge as an appropriate example on the pre-
sent occasion, because it is • work you are now carrying
out under my own direction ; but it is only nuessary to
look around, and we meet everywhere with engineering
works to which the remarks I have just made apply in
the strictest manner, and reflection on such subjeota
teaches us to feel that skilled labour is the great fulcrum
upon which all our social progress depends, and that the
sueoess of this progress Ii Just in proportion to the akin
of tho labour brought to bear upon the greet works so
thickly Nattered throughout our country."