The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

tab) anti Crimt.

tT is reported that kfr. Baron Martin contemplate
realization.
Tones bobber' have been convicted at Wakefield of
baying diseased meat in their possession. One of them,
a num named Walker (who bad been condoned on •
previous 000uion under similar circumstaurs), was unt
to pr eon for one month ; another. named Brewer, who
bad been fined EIS for a similar offence, was committed
to pfiron for two months; &ad the third defendant.
named Smith, Hat flood CIO and eolith

TB. Jamaica Committed% announce that "in eons.-
quentrn of Mr. Eyre'e declining to come forward to slum
the responsibility of the °bergs upon which Colonel
Nelson and Lieutenant Brand have been oommitted by
Sir Thomas Henry to take their trial," in application
for. warrant against Mr. Eve will be made at Um next
petty mambas to be held at Market Drayton, in the
tielglaboarbood of which be is now living.

811104:1111/0 AIVAR—A botrible murder and suicide
occurred on Wednesday at Bermondsey. A honaeholder
named Cetford MIS summoned to serve as • Juror on an
inquest shoat to be held, and on his rehire, lifter die.
char ging that duty, found that his wife had murdered
her only eon, abe four years of sr, and then out bet
own throat. Both bad been dead for upwards of an
hoer. It MOW 11 that the woman was bullilm
TWI CONFZDZILATI STAPh. —lirkieChanwillor Wood
has elven lodgment in a ease in which the United
states of Alpert's were plaintiffs, and Messrs Trenholay
of Liverpool, defendants. The motion was brought to
mover monies which, it was ailected, the defendants held
on account of the eocallest Confederate States. The
defendant., besides denying their liability, demurred
that the plaintiff' must sue in the name of an Individual.
This was the question decided. The Vios-Clianeellor
held that the demurrer was good, but he gave the
plaintiffs leen to anemid their bill an payment of costs.
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MURDER IT Braalfarrost,—A poor boy. bearing the
prineely name of Cone, was the subject of an inquest
at Bromley, on Wednesday, having been starved its
death by his inhuman parents. Althoseb twelve pow
of age, the body, which showed extraordinary stomas-
Woo, weighed only 211 b.; end in addition Mills bel
deprived of food, evideagte •eas Siren hr neighbours CO
ft upset besting' and fil-treate:Pob The Jury rilurn.4
• verdict of wlfiel minder, and the ;rhe'ne" were com-
mitted for kW. os their removal to. web magi •
determined attempt to lynch them, sod the vi:wisus we.
tett rotigblp traded,
Wirg Minns: figniedrOg 9, I)IIIPEL—At the nePhf
Aisims on Friday, before Mr, lustie Lash, Edward
Wager. sled bd, fanner, was *barged with ths reorder
of his wife, timid W•fger, on the 24th of M•desdsiar,
1816, at Great Lespiose, Derbyshire. The prisoner
=not guilty in • somewhat defiant mann:r. The
orninsal for the pecetetttiou hay* opened the
case, • number of witnesses were examined in soPPonn•
Mr. fitephen made • powerful anneal to the Jury en
behalf of the aroused. lordship summed ,
up, awl
the jury Merited a verdict of ful Murder, with
• recommendation to mercy. Mr. Jostle Lashpuen94
pentium of dioitt, in tbs tmual farm. Prisoner left tbit
Oa laughing,

h.2lsl:riitnlonirinThuArstliminCoy .m—oVirorn;Clia "so"coini:
lut *1
matter of Overrid, Harney, and Co., that he should
rehear the case in whieb I; was sought to remove the
IMAM Of certain shareholders from t 6 list of oontribit-
toties. en the eroded of fele tepteeeetetiool.
RoDour in that ease, decided that whatever remedy the
shareholders might have as against the dineoson4 then
liability to the creditor Ira. unaffected. He "rook% net.
therefore, order their onuses to be removed from the
list. The rehearing was no. asked for oe the Ifreuvie
that news feces had been diaoovered by the afftiteeina•
The VienChanaillor held that this wee one made est,
sad diewired the weeks (width he mid We. Wholly
aniestillebte) with essta.

SetoWINN TSB "Cate IM OVINIOND AND
GURNEY'S CAIN —oo Friday, Si the chambers or Vice
Chancellor Malice, • seine occurred in the winding.up
wetter of ()venire' and Gurneys, when upwards of
"three hundred.' shareholders ware summoned to show
cause why the "call" made, and eot paid, should not
be enforced. Mr. Denton (Maynard and Denton) ap-
peared for the official liquidator'. The chief clerk (Mr.
Buckley) listened to various objections urged oath. pyrt
of some of the eontributorica, and wan engaged more
than two hours. The learned gentleman made orders in
as many as two hundred and ninetpirix applications
Payment was ordered to be made within four days,
otherwise the portion would be liable to be attached and
committed to prison for contempt of Court.
AN INILIXIBLE SCHOOLN•ITICII. —An action wee
henuglit by • echoolnisefer name! Kingston. at the
Northampton areises. on Tuesday, to recover payment
for • qiiiirter'• board and tuition for • boy nettle? Beards,
from his uncles. The boy was an orphan, and hod been
reinoved from the school without • quarter's notice, en
while the defendant, were willing to pay all tither
charges, they objected to paying for a quarter in lieu of
notice. They stated that the boy had been home for
the holidays. and being obliged by hi. friends to over-
stay his time, • letter was written to the plaintiff,
requesting him to wiener, the delay. Plaintiff', newer-
theleea, imposed • leek on the boy as 0 punishment for
not having returned to the oeilool on the expiration of
the holidays, and the defendants at once withdrew the
boy. The jury returned • verdict for the defendants,
on the ground that the unjust punishment justified the
removal, and the refusal of the defendants to pay the
quarter in lieu of notice.
A TTINTTSD Moines Or OR. PATTON LID AT A AAAAA ON.
—On Tuesday Captain Jones was brought before the
Neath bench of magistrates, charged with having on
Monday libel at Dr. Pritchard with intend to murder
him. rh. complainant is • surgeon praetiring at
riberevon, and whilst returning home on Friday from
fee Igargam Tin Works, el which he is part owner, the
prisoner gave him a letter, telling him it was to demand
money, and that he would welt till three o'clock fir
the prosecutor to consider it. The prosecutor told him
he owed him no money, but if he appealed to him by
way of charity be would give him some. On Saturday
the complainant strain saw the prisoner, apparently lying
in emit and avoided him. On the day in question the pro-
secutor was proceeding slang • narrow lane when he saw
the prisoner approaching him. The proweutor asked him
what he wanted? when he replied "I went my money
or your life," at the same time producing • pi-tol. The
prosecutor tried to avoid him, but soon felt that he was
wounded through the bat on the right side of ths temple,
but not dangerously. The prisoner ssid when (mkss
into orutody, that he wanted to we the prosecutor on
his way home, and that lie fired because Dr. Pritchard
tried to ride him down. The magistrates committed the
prisoner on the charge of shooting with intent to
murder.

CARR or P Nuntscr.—At an
Inquest held on Wednesday at the Devonport Town.
hall, before Hr. A. B. Bone, jun., the deputy coroner,
disclosures of parental neglect of the most fiagrant
ohsraeter were made. It seems that about three years
RRO Jane Ann Budword, daughter of • labourer in the
dockyard, and a pensioner in receipt of upwards of £3O
per annum, who was then little snore than three years
of age, met with an accident, from which she did not
recover for a oonsidereble period. The child afterypteds
from other canoes became confined to bed, and although
at firm • surgeon attended on her, her parents, about
twelve months since, mused his visits to be discon-
tinued. After that time the child was not heard of
until Sunday last, and probably would tot until its
death, had not Mr. Superintendent Lynn received cer-
tain information which induced him, accompanied Iyr
Dra. Lens. and Bennett, to proceed to Do, 3, Palace.
yard, Dookwell, whet, be discovered the child in en
almost indeseribable state, it being on a filthy straw
palliasse, the madame( which was completely 'stunted
with matter, which had ran from abscesses and wounds
covering almost every part of the body. On the few
articles of clothing which the child had on being re-
moved, swarms of vermin were found on her, they
having entered the wounds as far as the honey,
end in various places bad aecomnlated to
the thickness of a quarter of an Inch. The
hair was entirely covered with vermin and matter,
which remained on the head to the thickness of three.
quarter. of as Inch; in feet the poor child was found in
such a fearful state as to render her immediate removal
to the hospital n ; and, in splte of the prompt
attention of the medical staff, she died on the following
morning. The surgeon, after making R poet works; ex.
arnination of the body, attributed death to eshanstion ;
and the coroner having briefly explained the legal bear.
logs of the case, the jury unanimously remelted • verdict
of manslaughter. The husband and wife were oom•
mitted, on the coroner's inquisition, ta the Devon
amine on the above charges. On Saturday they were
tried before Mr. Justice Byles, and found guilty. His
lordship said he would take time to oonsider the muteness
he would pans oaths man. Tbe woman be sentenced to
ten years' penal servitude.