The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-18 00:00:00

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DEStRU CLION oF AN HOWL% BY PAIL A JOURNALIST SHOT BY A PRINCE.
At an et mt.
fit the Old Star and frarterWealiaoat:4ll,Yßicabarnoread.brocimieke oat
We hare
affair wl ich has red in the vicinity of Paris :
'ved the following account of • tragiP
the greate et °on/iteration ia the locality. Is a ',Awe_ Tooofey.__The Ceseingiumsel of this morn-
*bort time the dames shot. up into the air. and ere i . reports-"' the,. prinos purr Bonaparte ham shot
illuminati so was peen for miles round. Almost as "
L. Victor Noir, and publishes the following portion.
soon as tli e alarm had been raised in Richmond, it taro
.—Prince Nene Bonaparte reprosohe.l H. Rothe-
owrthtleecootii rivflagraeu itniellor., w4tlricitcrihi'nOlawilienSitt°iliatlitienctinagly vuilstalibdle.
an article .btyiiwterntwt.i,thn hhirionngeinurilite'isi jouhiukrnalPermisterUYSLin
in all the oeighbouring town., and the Brantford fire.
engine w ea soon on its way to the scone of the di.
Victorrt Noir and 11. Ulric Fonville went to the Prince
the art
aster. Aminance ass rendered hum all quarter,
signed
the instance of 31. e
referral'inittal Grommet, who had
e, ed ill to, which was published
very soon fourteen steam and manual
enginee in tie Mar., ilium.. When they 'ere ushered into
were at • work endeavouring to subdue the flames. A the .Ir.swiniz-rooni, the Prince ailed them whether
great cri rwd bad assembled, and while the firo was they were the j nriialiats sout by It. Rochefort. At
raging 1 3 it. hu-T, shrieks for help were beard within the moment M. Victor Noir struck the Prince vici-
the bull ling, rising high above the crackling sound lenity in the face, and M. ifonville, doubtlessly ex.
of tin b inning timber and the hubbub of the throng. pooling a blow, drew a revolver from his paletot- On
The 01,1 y known inmate of the establishment at theseeing so violent an assault, the Prince seised a
time w as the manager, Mr. levers, who had only Meal from a panoply decorating the saloon, and fired
been e surged there a.few weeks since, and was trite at H. Nuir, whom be wounded. H. Noir after reach-
a "re' 'ger in the beauty. It was impossible tie lug the bottom of the stairs dropped down dead.
rendes hi ai the least seestanoe, iuoonsequence of the The Minister of Justice ordered the immediate arrest
fury i d the flamed, sad in • few seconds the *broke of prim, Pierre Bousparte, and the Emperor has
died sway. There oan be no question that the poor acproved of thin step. The judicial investigation has
fei.ot r has suffered a borrinie death. Th• firemen already commenced.
root mood their exortiona and used every efrort__,tu The Official Julallai of this morning publishes •
get the fire under, but they were unsuocessfult ia.“ i decree convoking the Chamber of Investigation of
the entire building was burnt ti the ground.n• 1 the High Court of Justice to undertake the judicial
Oft .rin of the fire cannot aa yet be ascertained. It
Inquiry into the act of homicide imputed to Prince
ap ;ears that the How wu closed as usual for the
Pierre Bonaparte, The Official Journal confirms the
winter or:aaan, and the unfortunate meager was loft
~ re Ott that M. 011ivier had ordered the arrest of
In. el", rge to tithe care of the Place "d ,_,_,_Pr9lrlet'o'„“e Prince l'ierre Bonaparte, but the Prince had previ.
"Irtiltrite. AU of the old particles een"et"`"g "`"y outly giveu himself up to the Cortimiseary of Polies
room' 4, including the roSie-room._ was burnt.
at:Auteuil. His iligunem was immediateliii

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ly taken

THE HUDDEILSFIELD LIBEL CASE.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday,
Mr. Pope, Q.C. applied fore rule for a new trial .n
Use case Capon n Harper, which wee an action fur
libel against the proprietor of the theldselseid
C'Arveitie, trie I at the winter Manchester armee be-
fore Baron Martin, when a verdict waa rani ne ' for
the plaintiff with £l,OOO damages. The plaintiff was
• uew aro dor in rather • small way of bursinees,
and he was also a guardian of the poor. The libel in
question was embed's,' in a conimuuication ad :reseed
to the paper, giving currency to rumours afloat af-
fertiug the plaintire mural character. It wee a,-
I,•ged that the plainttlf had been dist:toren l by a
certain worm:Baran in • died aiusehod rus the work.
Lowe in company with one of the nurses, and that
thereupon the stonemason blackened his eyes. Upon
the pleadings this 144 was justified, and at the trial
the stonemason miscalled in support of the plea. His
reiterated his story, but it would seem that the
jury were very ranch disgusted with the manner in
which he gave his evidence, and perhaps it was that
whicii induced them to give such h ivy damag.s.
—The C. let Justice: What reason did he assign for
blackening the plaintirs eye•P—Mr. Pope: That
he was realms of the plaintirs familiarity suth
the nurse. There was no doubt that the plaintirs
eyes were blackened, but his explanation was that it
was done at the railway station by some one wh An he
did tot k ow. It appeared also that so fa from the
plaintirs new,papir business having boon injured by
the publication complained of, the sale of his piper
had been very much augmented while the matter
IRO bolero the public. Aud although there ICU, 1141110
evidence that durng the month of Ootob 'rand Nov.
the visitors to the library had somewhat dim nistied,
that might have been to consequence of a charge of
immorality rough t against lie p aiutiff iu toe mouth
of September. And it was also • fact that PIM., six
or 'even years ago the paint if iiad brought an action
against tome gentlemen fur expelling him from a
medical society, because of his insertion of oertaiu
disgusting sive tieements in a publication belonging
to Lim. Under such crrumstauces, therefore, and
no express mance being ;moved, it was impossible not
to see the us:lieges awarded were excessive.—The
Chief Justice : What "id Mr. Baron Martin say?—
Mr. Pipe: lio refused to interfere, leaving us ti our
reme I) by appeaL—The Chief Justioe : You may
take • rule, but upon the understanding that, al-
though the damages may Le excessive, the Court is
nevi.rtlieleari et optuion that the ones, was one caLing
for substantial di :it ie.

the Concicruerie.
Pathlb, Dec. 11.—D:fferent versions of the tragio
event at Auteuil anpear in the papers of this morn-
ing. The one written by Prince Pierre Bonaparte
is in conformity with the account of the affair whi Ii
appears in the Comatitationani, excepting that the
Prince says he took the revolver out of his pocket..
The ve.rsion given by the Murielliaise is that IL
Fonville and H. Noir called yesterday at one o'clock
on Prince Bonaparte, as the second of M. Pascal
(iron set to demand an explanation in reference to
certain articles which had appeared in the morning
papers. The Prinoe asked whether they mune boo
M. Rochefort, and the seconds replied that they
called about another matter. l'rinoe Rona-
; arty toqui..ad wtiotner g....wimen acting as
seconds uniertook the respon-ibility of M. Roche.
fort's acts, in reply to which they said, "We are re-
sponsible for our friend." Thereupon Prince Bona-
parte came forward, and without any provocat on
gave IL Noir a blow in the face with his left hand,
and at the same time drawing from his pocket • ten-
chambered resolver, discharged it at that gentleman
within arm*, length of where he was standing. IL
Noir immediately fell, and the Prince than made •
dash at M. Fouvil e, and fired at him. li. Fonville
then took from li. pocket • pistol to defend himself,
and the Priem seeing M. Fonville armed retired ,
some paces, and placed himself before the door,
aiming at H. Fonville. The latter, however, escaped
from the loom, but as he was going out received
au, tiler shot, which went throu4h his paletot.
The Mae says the origin of the quarrel WAS a
letter which the Prince had written, directed against
a writer in the iteroecAe, a journal published at
Rutia.
The following is • oop7 of the letter to M. Roche-
fort which led to the visit of Noir and his companion
to the Prince's residence
"Paha, January Oth.—Monsienr,—After having
insulted one after the other, every member of my
family, sparing neither women nor children, you now
employ the pen of one of your flunkies to insult me.
Nothing can be more natural; my turn was sure to
come. Only, I have perhaps oneadvantage over most
of those who bear my name. I am a Bonaparte—but
at the same time • private individual. I write tomtit
you if you consider yourself personally answerable
for the bespatterings of your inkstand. I confess I
have little hopes that you are, as I lee by the papers
that yonr constituent' have instructed you to refuse
all satisfaction, so as to preserve your valuable exist-
ence. Nevertheless, I make this attempt in the hope
that a slender remnant of the feelings of • French.
man will induce you to depart, so tar as I am con.
awned, from the measures of prudence and precau-
tion you have thought proper to take. If then, per.
chance, you consent to draw the bolts which render
your honourable person doubly inviolate, you will
find me neither in • palace nor in • castle. I live
, plainly enough, at No. all, Rue d'Autenil, and I pro-
mite that if you call you will find me at hi..e
Awaiting your answer, I still have the hoe. a
salute jou, Pighlut NapoLKON BONAPsJiTX.I.

TILE SEE I,Lt CAN e Archbishop of
Cant thin.) has preseuted to Mr. W. E. Gladstone the
names of Archdeacon Parry sal tho &yr. Charles
Sandford, Ceueor of Ch: t.t Church, sad an year.
our of his Grace's domoatto cusplatio, for the adios
cd gaff, airan.

The &a.., Milan, has been opened, with the Prince
Puniatowski's "Piero ,le Medici." The opera was
very ancceetfuL—Moneol Stamford.
The chief part of the collection of Italianpsietialre
belonging to Mr. Geyer.' has reeently been *amnion
view at the South Kenairw-tou Muocom.

Signor Timber:A is noir in lrid, when he has
been playing in Signor Verdi's " Aroldo."

A collection of the lyrical poems of Gnillem De
Cabeetanh, a renowned troubadour of the end of the
twelfth century, has just been edited by Dr. Frans
Duffer.

The Rev. Professor Maurice has a triple subject in
hand, namely, "Huai, Wycliffe, and Latimer."
The tenor, Nachbaur, has been engaged for ten
years at the Opera Royal, Manioh.—Musical Staxdard.

Th. project for • railway to 'fed° (Japan) is saM
to hare been revived, and the Japanese Government
are in treaty with • Belgian firm for the supply of the
necessary plant.

Hsrs Stockhausen, the baritone, has been enuaged
by the Directors of the /loyal Italian Open, Convent
Garden.

The aloe of director of the geological rarvey of
Ireland, vacant by the delth of Professor Jukes, has
been conferred on Yr. Edward Ilan, of the English
geological survey.

her Majesty's skip Cormorant is reported to have
be,n empoyed in watching the movements of Russian
forces In Saghalien.
An unfortunate clerk, name I Libaude, has lately
eau,e I ro ligious scandal at a Paris police office by
acrusing himself, with lamentable cries, of imaginary
crime.. Taken to the PaWs de Justice, be persisted
in a declaration that he had aided Tropprnann in the
perpetration of his horrible crimes, and it was not
until be was put in prison at Masts that he was
covered to be mad. Re is now in a lunatic asylum.
The paper, say this is the eleventh pei sou who hen
become deranged in Consequence of the Pantin Ata•
ders.

.• L'Africsaine" is being performed at the Hue,
and a II dlle Le Bel is spoken of as a capable "Relicia."
Herr Wagner's " Fliegender Hollander has been
givea at Rotterdam.
At the meeting of the Hampdeed vestry, on Friday
night, it was resolved to rate all owners of property
the rateable value of winch does not exceed £2O, in.
stud of the occupiers.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Tech was
safely delivered of • Prince at eleven o'clock on Sun.
day evening. Her Royal Highness and the infant
Prince are doing well.

TILE "SAURIIf D. STAIR" CASE —ln the Court
of gaven's Bench, on matey, the re-hearing upon
pointa of law of the convent scandal case should have
c..me ou. The Solicitor-General applied for its post-
ponement. Mr. Mellish, Q.C. (he said), who repre-
sented the convent authoritiee WWI too ill to appiar ;
some of the superiors were oat. of the country; and
the time was in every respect inoonvenieut. "I may
add," remarked Sir John Coleridge, "that there is
every chalice of the case going et if it were not al-
lowed to stand over." Teo court granted the appli-
cation as requested.
MOSS BEHIOUS 8111PPING CASUALTIES. We
learn from Plymouth that the snip King Lear, of
London, from Cardiff, with oasis for Haug Kong,
foundered at 10 a.m. on Friday thirty miles off the
Small.. Three.per•ons on board went down with her.
The mate and three seamen were rescued, and brought
to Plymouth. They had been 81 hours Boating on •
piece of saloon deck. A Wexford telegram states that
the Virgin Del Carmen, of Bilbao, from Liverpool to
Havana, had been in collision with • vessel off Cooney
May ligtatehi , and both foundered. The crew of the
Virgin DelOarmen were eased.

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It is stated to the German papers that Geneva
Grant intends to come to Europe in the month of June
of :he preeent year in order to visit the Sovereigns
of England, Prance, Prussia, and litusda.
There is • probability, says the Railway Tirses—ii
not an absolute certainty—that Mr. Hutchinson will
retire from the chair of the Midland at the February
meeting. Mr„ Price, the present deputy-chairman,
cou&lently spoken of as his successor.

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The Government having decided upon converting
illbank penitentiary building into a general mill.
laity prison, all soldiers whose term cd imprisonment
exceed 66 days will be forwarded henceforth to thai
destination, and the serious military prisons at dif.
&rent stations will be abolished.

PeatiODY'S WILL.—Ln the Court of Probate, I
on Tuesday, an application was made by Dr. Deane,
arising from proceedings that took place before
the Regi.trar in reference to the will of the UM
George Peabody. The conditions of the will were
that there should be two sets of executors. The
executors were authorised to act independently of
each other, but the testator hoped they would work
harmoniously together for the intereste of the estate.
The Ingleb executors were, after paying certain
properties, to hand over the residue to the American
trustees, and this was to be done on or before May,
1711. Whoa this was done the American executor,
were tot:l,y, half•yearly, osrtain legacies to certain,
parties named in the family trust. The difficulty
which ow arose was in the practice or the registry
with reference to trustee. acting in • foreign country.
According to • came decided by Dr. Lushington, the
exccu.ors were to be incorporated in the will; but
considerable difficulty arose therefrom. Lord Pen-
zance said the ere 'n•ors might be allowed to take
probate on bringing an affidavit to identify the deed,
wait the names of the executor,. Toe affi lava should
state that it related to the will of an American
(tat Sell who h•ki • domicile here.

Captain William W. Madden, who was recently
appwntad Grand Moister of the Orangemen of the
county Monaghan, received on Mondry an address
and presentation trom the memuers of that body.
The opportunity we. availed of for • display of en-
thusiastic sympathy with Captain Madden, and attic
close of the proceedings • resolution was adopted ex.
preening warm approval of the ()widow. of M. John
Madden in his mount correspondence with the Gov-
ernment. The writ of a persedeaJ, minoring Mr.
Madden's name from the magistraoy, we. refuived at
Cons. on Monday, and duly muscuted.
TUN llonniiitY AT TILE 110U51 OY TM& AULBRI-
OAN AllbaslADOlt.—At the Police Court, Liverpool,
on Weilueeday, two reapectabledw.king young men,
who gave the names of Edward Curtis Stasis and
Thomas Mortimer, were brought up on suspicion of
having been concerned in the robbery at the London
residence of Mr. Motley, the American ambassador,
when wont Z 2,004.1 wurtn of plate and jewellery WY
stwen. On Tuesday last the priopuers offered in
pledge, to • Mr. Cohen, a statue of Victory, which,
with it, frame or iitand, I. of solid silver, and of eon-
siderable value. Nut being astiafied with the account
they gave as to the possession of the article., Mr.
Cohen called in the pwico, and the young men, who
said they were natl. Ili of Loudon, were given into
custody. From inquiries the officers made they were
led to believe that the statue formed
tart of the pro-
ceed. of the robbery at Mr. Motley Immo% —ll.so
prisoners were remanded.
WujJl 110091.9 QUARRZL, extensive
robbery of silks, satins, and other valuable toads ham
taken place at the warehouse of Messrs. Lmtf and
Sons, Old Change, and its perpetrators were dig.
covered in • somewhat curious manner. A young
woman named Grantham went to the Albany Station
awl reported a robbery of jewellery, which she said
had taken place at her house, and that she suspected
• man Dao2. d "Willie Davies." Something occurred
which led the °floors to detain her, and she then
produced 64 pawnbrokers' dopiest«, representing •
total of Z 159 received on gou • pledged, whicsh all
tamed out to be stolen from Leaf and Sons'. Davies
wire salesman of the firm, tort a letter in his Mend.
writing was produced at the Mansion Howie, in which
he informed his eorreispottd.ou, wit gmines, wee
improving." Devise and Grantham, who it appeared,
had lived together as man and wife, but had quarrelled
were remanded by the Lord Mayor.

Nt'fil/tßriesfloe' BICTWEEN Two BROTIIIIIIB I
Ar Lert.itiNus,N.—A shocking affair occurred at
Leamington, at an early hour on Sunday morning,
between two brothers, named Thomas Jennings and
John Jennings. They reside in Satchwelhetreet, in
that town, and it appears that on Saturday night
they were drinking l.,gether at the Oak public-Louse,
Park-street, and th.• L.iiolou Tavern, Satohwelhstreet,
until a into hoar. Aouut twelve o'clock they were
going home, when Thomas said he was going to fight!
a young TODD named Bob Height. His brother shortly
afterwards saw the young man referred to, and at-
tempted to sew° the dispute without blows, Height
was willing to enter into a friendly arrangement,
but Thomas leaning persisted in demanding &fight,
in consequence of which Height, the two Jennings,
alld • party of nearly one hundred men, smile:tad to-
gether, and went to the Champion Hine to fight it
out. Arrived there, the iteeessary arrangements were
made, and Thomas Jennings and Height fought from
half to three-quarters of an hour, when the police
appeared, and the party fled in various directions.
The two Jennings ran away to Sllggy Barn, where, on
entering, they found Hemming, another of the party,
lying down. There had been no quarrel between the
brothers, and they appeared to be on the usual terms
of election and friendship. They had been resting
themselves about five or ten minutes, when Thomas
„L.eajage jumped up, and addremiog his brother, said,
yuu I =IA to settle you," at the same time
giviug him a severe kink in tho region of the stomach. John started to Lis feet, and, as ho MID rising
felt what he deecribed as a "job on his head with •
knife," his brother exclaiming at the time, "I'll
settle you." It appears that John then celled out
to Hemming for help, but he walked out of the barn,
Tiii:rg lie would have nothing to do with the matter,
he had left, Thomas Jennings said, "Daddy
(an alias Hemming is known by) is not gone for the police, is he ?" John said, "Of coaree not." Upon
tbat Thomas answered, "Then, you—, I will settle
you at ewe," and commenced a fresh attack, in the
mares of which John felt two other "john" on his I
heed with • knife. One of these knocked him down,
and be lay still for a minute or two, Thomas stand. •
big over him. He thee lumped up and made of
seress the gelds, Thomas following, but was not able
to catch him. He lost a great deal at blew from his
wounds. On coming into the town he met a police.
man, who took him to a eargeon's and had the wound
dressed. Homyi that the), had not had much drink that night, and that his brother, who wns not drank,
had ly threatened to do for him,
B Use sergeon who dressed the wonade, fa et
opinim that one of them was maned bi • =l;:ise.i.
rtrument. Ti. other two may hare bees
by a nail in a shoe. The right Ids of the head was
much bruised, and one of the wounds was an ineh
g mid to the bone. Thomas has bent
appreben OD tbecharge of wounding his brother
with intent to do grievous bodily berm Ha mid ha
Imply Waked hie brother.

MYSTEB.IOIIB DIBAPPLASawoIt.—At the Thames
I'o ice Court, on Tnaidaylssi,Mrs. B. Bailey, of Tarn
House, Dubcrooi, elt.rseetl7 begged the maglara Le.
Mr. Lusbingtoo, to aid her in recovering het lost .on
whose daappearance had been widely wiyertiaed
during tize last three week* as J. B. B." and for
whom discovery a reward of £lO had been ogergd.
He was last teen in the neighbourhood of t
Police Court, and she bad been advised that an ap.
Oration to a magistrate of the Court might lead to
Lie discovery. She could see no neciennty to oonosal
name any longer. It was John Bo9llliey
and he had mysteriously disappeared since his arri-
val on Saturday the 18th of Decemb i er, n the last
India Dock, Blackwell, on board the Dover Da tie,
'rum Melbourne. Inquiries hal been made in all
directions, and the detective polio* and private in-
quiry agenta had been engaged, but not the teeth
tram of him had been obtained. When he left the
ship, with other passengers, for breakfast, on the
morning uf the 1131.11 ult, he said his intended to tea
.nto the city. It was not known that he ever rcathed
the city, and she feared that Le had fallen into had
hands awl had been made away with. Mrs. Bailey
as Li her eon was 18 years of age, lit. llin. high, at
fair oumplezion, with dark hair aui dark eyes. Mr.
Liu hiugton iaid he had no doubt publicity would be
given to her application by the public partials, and
that was the best assistanoe which could be given to
her under the peculiar circumstances cat tie caw
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