The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

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THE FIGHT FOE THE LIGHT WEIGHT CHALITIOHBHIP.
—This event, between Hawkes and Lead, came off last
Tuesday, near Woking. It continued for 40 minutess
being apparently all in favour of Hawkes, when the
police apneared, and a move was made five miles
further off. On the second ring being formed, Hawke@
who left hand had Ir-en severely injured, derlined to
combat, and Lead therefore retains the championship.

M. R. B. LONG, who now represents Chippenhans,
has issued an address to the electors, as a candidate for
the seat his father will shortly vacate, on the seine Con-
servative principles that his father supported.
THE TOAD alleged to have been found recently in •
"perfectly compact and sound block of the magnesia's
lime-stone," 25 feet from the surface, at Hartlepool, con.
tinuea alive and vigorouq, It is said that, with the ex-
ception of some clumsy difference in his hind feet and •
brighter skin, this permian toad differs little from him
congeners of the present day.
MR. FARNALL has commenced an inquiry at St. Panora•
Workhouse into the treatment which two pauper in.
mates of the house had roceived from the master, in
consequence of letters written by the paupers themselves
complaining that they have been confined for a month
in an offensively-smelling and unhealthy ward, without
being allowed any exercise whatever.
Tun PRINCESS asousn.—The ladies of the ROSA=
capital have subscribed a considerable sum for a large
crucifix of lapis lazuli adorned with erections stones,
which is to be made and sent to the Princess Dagmar,
with an address of oondolence. At Moscow, a Bible,
bmind in gold, is being prepared for the same purpose.
Much sympathy with the Princess Daginar is felt in Bt.
Petersburg. . .

A seams ACCIDENT took place on Monday on the
South-Western Railway near to the Vauxhall Station.
A passenger train coming into the station was by some
unfortunate mistake turned on tl a siding where it
came in violent collision with a goods train standing
there. No lives were lost, but many of the passengers
were seriously injured, and the engine and several of
the carriages were much shattered.
TEE omnibus doing duty between Paris and the imbues
of:Creteil arrived at the latter destination a few evenings
ago under the actual guidance of a corpse, the driver
having died at as early stage of the transit. He still
retained his grasp of the reins, but along the whole
route a strange rigidity and oscillation of the body
attracted notice from the bystanders. The vehicle with
its passengers drew up at the appointed halt, when the
dead man was lowered from his seat on the box, cold
and stiff. . .

THE COUNTESS OP DALKEITH, aocompanied by her
youthful family, attended by their nurse, was out
for a drive in London on Monday, when the pole of
the carriage broke, which caused the horses to take
fright, and they ran with great speed into Flyde Park,
against the iron railings. By the shook the countesa
and family and nurse were thrown out of the barouche
with great violence. The coachman and footman were
also thrown into the footway. Fortunately her lady-
ship and family, though much shaken and bruised, were
not seriously hurt; neither were the coachman and
footman seriously injured 'ay their fall. One of the
horses will have to be killed, on account of the injuries
received,

Tait QUKEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace OR
Monday. The invitations comprised almost all that is
eminent in rank, station, or diplomatic influence now
in the metropolis. The Queen wore a black silk dream,
with train, trimmed with crape and jet; a Mary Queen
of Scots cap, with long veil, the cap ornamented with
large pearls. Her Majesty wore four rows of large
pearls round the neck and pearl brooches, the ribbon
and the star of the Order of the Garter, the Victoria
and Albert Order, and the Order of Louise of Prussia.
.In the course of the evening Her Majesty returned to
Windsor. Her Majesty's carriage had scarcely left the
platform when a wall fell at the coal depot, precipitat•
tag 100 tons of coal into the road, which injured two
men, and one of them, Captain Newberry, is likely to
lose his life.
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THE Vim. JOEIN SiNcLent, M.A., archdeacon of
Middlesex, held • visitation of the clergy of that part
of the London diocese which is under his jurisdiction
on Monday, at St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden. The
main topic of the archdeacon s address was the recent
theological decisions of the Committee of Privy Council;
the principles laid down in these oases, he said, would
justify the most infidel propositions in Hume's Essays if
they had been put forth by • clergyman of the Church.
He was, therefore, in favour of a change in the Court,
but he was afraid, after the recent decisions, there
must also be a change in the law. But if the law would
not allow infidels to be driven out of the Church, let
them keep their emoluments, but cease to take part in
.the celebration of services in which they did not believe.
. .

AN INFANTILI PILFERICS. —A. cnriOtis incident oc-
cnrred a few days since before the Oorrectional Tribunal
of Nontron (Dordogne). A young woman, carrying a
child about 11 months old in her arms, was placed at
the bar charged with having stolen a sum of mt. in gold
from a hidine de Vocecour. In her defence the prisoner
stated that having gone to that lady's on business she
happened to be lett a moment alone in the kitchen; and
her baby unknown to her took three 10f. pieces off a
table behind her, and hell them till she returned home.
She had but just discovered the fact and was preparing
to go back with the money when the commissary of
police came and arrested her for the theft. This defence
was thought most impossible, owing to the child's age,
but the president, in order to test its possibility, ordered
one of the ushers to lay three gold pieces on the ledge
of the dock within the baby's reach. The moment the
little thing saw the money it clutched the pieces firmly
and attempted to put them in its month. This experi-
ment satisfied the tribunal that the woman had toll the
truth, and she was in oonsequence acquitted of the
charge. . . . . . .

The following is an extract from the Second Edition
(page 188) of the Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. G.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. : ' It is no
sinall defect in this compilation (speaking of the
Pharmscopo3ia) that we have no purgative mass but
what contains aloes; yet we know that hcemorrhoidal
persona cannot bear aloes except it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, whir chiefly consists of aloes,
saammony, and oolocynth, which I think are formed
into a sort of compound extract, the 'aridity of which,
is obviated, I 'aspect, by an alkaline process, and by a
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for its
• patent medicine. I look at it us an article of
i.e.. and domeatie eonvenienee, and do not heel.
to say it is the best made pill in the kingdom; a
lulu purge, a muoons purge, and a hydrogogue
combined, and their effects properly controlled by
oat and oorrigent. That it does not commonly
liostuorrhoids, like most idoetio pilhi, I attribl
Jitsbeing thoroughly soluble, 80 that no nildinol,
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