The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

REVIEW OF TWE CORN TRADE, AND LATEST
STATE OF THE ILIBXET.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)
BY RIPRE&S ,i ELECTRIC TEMIGRAPB.

Malm-Laltll, Monday, April 4.—Th, supply of
wheat fresh up this morniric was rather better than
of late, and the condition greatly improved.
Foreign was also in gnat abwid.„ A con-
"c, of business was done, hut witti-
est edema la prime, except for barley and oat*, wb"
were 6d. per quarter dearer, being rather short. Other
thisp were the same as last week.
lieraorourmt CAITLI MAZILIT, Monday, April
4—The supply of all Wads of stock Wig mode-
rat., sad the attendance of buyers was also not
numerous. Prioes were easler—is. 10d. betas the top
prim for best Boots, and fie. Bd. and fia. 10d. the top
rice for prime Southdowna Veal wee in greet request.
Pork was 2d. the stone dearer.

Dominic, Duke of Palladia, died on Saturday, at
Lisbon, after a lingering album
Intelligence hoe been received here from Vienna that
the Archduchess Hildegard*, a daughter of King
Ludwig of Bavaria, born June 10th, 1125, expired at
Dresden, on Saturday.
The Brazilian Government has accepted the media.
tics of Portugal in the dispute with Kneen&
DiaTH OF TEX COUNTRY OF GIJanALL.—The long
illness under which this lady has been suffering,
terminated in her death on Saturday afternoci=
family residence in Groavenoraquars. The
was y t daughter and co-heir of the Late Mr.
Willi:7l7lish, of Woodford, who by his saseessful
government contracts during the wars of Napoleon
achieved a colossal fortune. Site married in BM the
'mood Karl of Gluigall, who died in 1868, when the
family titles in default of male hese became extinct
A CHILD BURIED A hrvg.—At the Oxford Circuit,
on Saturday, before Mr. Baron Pigott, Hester Jordan,
servant, was charged under • recent eat with unlawfully
abandoning and exposing her child under the age of two
jean, whereby the child's life was endangered, at Had-
dington. near Cheltenham, on the sth of October. The
evidence revealed • sad rasa The prisoner, a modest-
looking young woman, had been many years living as •
respectable servant at Cheltenham. She wee Reduced,
and when near her eonfinement want into the work•
house. Here the child was born. In • few days from
Its birth the mother took it away and went into lodgings.
One day she went out into the country to visit •
friend. From thence aim went away with the child
In tbe evening and ant morning retuned without
IL Ste stopped at her friend's house daring the
day, and In the evening about eight o'clock went
out for • walk with another young girl. She had
gone away but • short time before her friend went out
Into his garden. Presently be beard • faint my like
the num of • cat. He marched among theklattz kidney
beans, but could see nothing. The m 7 was rep
and be got • lantern. In one spot be saw that the
earth bad been freshly turned. He scratched the mould
adds with his hand. An inch or two beneath the surface
he saw a piece of flannel. Suspecting the truth he ran
from the spot and made an alarm. lie met the prisoner
In the garden, and told her that be bad found buried
beneath the mould a child, whieb be believed to be bars.
She denied it. Together eh y then went to the spot, and
there, cold and stiff, and buried ix the mould, they found
the child. It was taken into the house, and the mother,
though in words she still denied her maternity, yet,
moved by the mother's love which yawned towards her
offspring, nursed the babe and warmed it before the
Are until it revived. Then she admitted that she was
the mother, and told the potholes& who came for her
that she had done the sot because she was destitute.
" Ederthody," she said, "had tensed their back upon
nae. My father had turned hie beg upon me. Bet I
shouldn't have left it there long. I could not have slept if
I had." She caressed the child, and behaved towards
It as • true mother. It died, however, at ten o'clock
on the morning after the night on which it had
been exposed, and the mother was sought to be made
amenable under the recent act. Her counsel remarked
that this case wu one of the oddest that had ever owns
under his notios, and appealed to the jury to disbelieve
the imputation that she enuitonly exposed her babe
with the intention of leaving it to perish. The surgeon
did not think that death was the remelt of the exposure,
though it might have been hastened by it Death
seemed to have been chicly ceased by eonvulaions to
which the child had been subject. The jury found the
prisoner Guilty of a misdemeanor, and sentence was
deferred. The poor girl seemed to suffer the greatest
anguish during the trial.
CH•NOS or AtiaeULT AGAIMIT.THI BAIL OF DUDLIT.
—At the Watley petty sessions, held on Saturday, the
Earl of Dudley was summoned for beating and emelt
Maria Ann White, at Waley Court on the 12th
last. There was a counter amnions issued by Earl
Dudley against Maria Ann White for an assault, 'but on I
the opening of the proceedings his lordship said his only
object in obtaining that summons had been to allow
bum to make • statement on oath if necessary. The
facia of the ease are then :—lt appeared that Mrs.
White is • married woman, living apart from her
husband, and with another man, named Southey. •
billiard marker. Southey claims a debt of £l,lOO, as
being due from the Hon. Dudley Ward, Sari Dudley's
brother, and had made application to the earl to pay it,
or mine part of it, as • debt of honour. Ms lordship,
however, repudiated any such obligation, and subse.
quently Mr.. White, under the nuns of Kra. Southey,
obtained an interview with his lordship, at With
Court, by sending in a card of Lady Shaftesbury's, and
premed the claim. on his lordship, who, however, still
resisted it. On the 12th of Marsh the again went to
Watley Court, woe shown Into Ins lordship's libesry,
and hie lordship turned her out. The ease was dia-
entweed, alter having lasted See boars.