The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

DEATH OF NOTE.

MARL BIAUCHAMP —We regret to record the death
of this venerable nobleman, who expired at his seat, at
Mad:afield Court, Worcestershire, on Tuesday night.
The noble earl had been some time suffering from severe
lllneas,anil expired in him 79th year. His lordship married
in 1824 the second daughter of the second Earl of
St Gertrums who died in 1836; succeeded his brother
in the title in 1853 ; entered the army in 1803.; nerved
in the Peninsula with the 16th Dragoons, in 1808 and
and 1810, and again from February, 1814, to the end of
the war. including the capture of Oporto, the battle'
of Talavera, and pasene of the Coo; arras severely
wounded in Mamma's advance to the battle of Swam ;
appointed colonel of the 10th Hussies in 1843, and •
general in 1854; was deputy lieutenant of Worcester-
shire The deceased nobleman ia succeeded in his title
and estates by his eldest son, Viscount Elmley, )LP. for
West Worcestershire, and a vacancy, therefore, asurs
in the representation of that county. The late earl
represented Worcestershire for nearly • quarter of •
century, and on succeeding to the title, Viscount Elmley
was elected in his stead Of course, at this early hour,
nothing has been done with regard to the future repre-
sentation; but there is a rumour current that the Hon.
F. Lygon, the late earl's second eon, and now M.P.
for Teskeabury. will be proposed for West Worcester-
shire in the room of his brother, now Eed Beandiump.

The clergy of Notre-Dana des-Victoires, Paris, have
organimd a pilgrimage of their parishioners to Notre-
Dame-du-Vow, at Cherbourg, which is noticeable from
the fact that it is to be performed by mil. The Bishop
of the Cootance will officiate pontifically, and in the
intervals between the religions services the pilgrims
will visit the port and dockyard. The pilgrims were to
start on Saterday morning last, -paid Solidity at
Cherbourg, and return to Paris on Monday.
On Sunday evening the fine steamer Miriam, with
dates from Bermuda to the 24th of August. arrived in
the Mersey with a large cargo, one portion of which
consisted of NO bales of cotton, and a number of pee-
genera from the South. When the Miriam left Ber-
muda the blockade breakers Juno and Amid& were in
the harbour, having again snoomedully mu the blockade
of a Southern port. The trade between Wilmington
and Bermuda was rapidly increasing, and hardly • day
elapsed without one or two arrivals from and departures
for Wilmington. An immense stock of *ono° was
accumulating at Bermuda in eonsequence of some of the
" heavier" blockade runners preferring that port to
Nassau, the latter place being sow deemed rather
dangerous owing to the Federal cruisers. The eel,-
bested Sumter, otherwise Gibraltar, TIS the blockade
of Charleston on the morning of the 23rd eilt
The Louisville Journal records a singular pbeno-
swoon. It says that the Ohio river at that point has
been for some days dyed of the deepest green, and that
the surface of the water was overspread with • thin
mum of the same Dolour. It goes on to my that the
river "bas been in this remarkable condition for moversl
days, and we can find no otte who is at all capable of
giving • single reason for it. The matter perplexes the
oldest steamboat men, who declare that they never
beheld anything like it before. This mum is on the
water as far up the river as Cincinnati, we understand,
and perhaps above there, for we have no inSdligeese es
the subject above that point. The same is the ease
down the river for hundreds of miles. Sock • thug is
certainly a very mysterious phenomenon Isere, and we
do not know how to account for it. Great fears am
entertained that it will Produce eicksese In this neigh-
bourhood and along the river." The Journal galls foe
for an explanation of the phenomenon, which I so
doubt due to an unusual immerge of some of the lower
orders of vegetable growth, not in itself dangerous,
although it may indicate • stagnant condition of the
river, which would be likely to occasion sickness.
AN Hum AcrioN.—The Rev. C. W. Bingham
writes thus to the Times: Yesterday afternoon
(Sept. 3) a train arrived at the Reading statioo from
London, and the engine had actually reached the eastern
end of the platform, when an unhappy man, to all
ea scarcely if at all beneath the rank elsz.z.
Ittr,astepped off Its western end and stood
In the midst of the very line of rails upon which
train was coming The shrieks of the bystanders only
seemed to root him in his dreadful position; and •
glance towards the engine, proceeding in its inevitable
march, convinced myself at least that in two or three
more seconds he must needs be crushed to pieces. Of
them two or three seconds, however, an intrepid !savoy
porter took advantage. Perceiving that everything ehe
must fail, he hastily, but calmly, jumped down from
the platform. seised the kierson by his shoulders, and
almost seemed to bear him away with him up spinal
the carriages which were standing on the next line of
rails, and kept him there until, in another instant, the
engine had passed on, and the train lad cowed to move.
Whether the man thus mercifully preserved was
or mad, or bent on committing suicide. I know noith3l3l
of this I ern sure, that if ever one human being 111.44
another's life from destruction at the imminent and con-
scious risk of his own, this nameless porter did so, and
, I doubt whether the Humane Society • medal, or even
' the Victoria Cross, may not, perhaps, have bean some-
times bestowed for less hawk actions. I had hardly
time to recover my breath before our train started, but
I just heard the porter 'imply my to an inquirer, "
as near a touch ea ever I sea" I should he glad if this
brief r coed of his deed might Lied to its r.oagnlric. by
his employers, if not to a more subened achnow-
lodgment from others.
A LIAO= Meson IT A POLICaIiAL—Tbe town of
Bury was on Tuesday evening throve into • dale of
Intense excitement owing to a charge of murder.=
preferred against a poliee-conatable of that pleas,
Luke Charles, In February last, the body of a mama
was found in the Bohm demi, in the neighbourhood
of Pendleton. Early one morning, some woman's
clothes were seen lying on the bank of the Canals end
this induced a search with grapnel*, which resulted in
the body of a woman being brought up. The body did
not appear to have been in the water many hours. On
an examination being made there wee. bruise found on
one are., but it did not excite any suspicion at the
time, MA it might bare been sensed by the body rolling
on the gravel in the water. An Inquest was bald by
Mr Rutter, and., there was not the Plighted emblems
forthcoming, either as to um idestikedoe or the
manner in which she got into the waiter. an °Pm 'fertile"
of found drowsed wes retuned. The body was interred
in the cemetry, and the sloths§ were taken to the
workhouse. The prisoner left Bury in compsay with
his wife on the evening preseeding the day the body
was found, for the purpose of visiting his wife's eiders,
who resided in Pendletou. He was in plain sloths, at
the time, left limy about dusk. and rotated the same
night without his wife. Since then numerous Iniquities
bad been mad* of him about her, and to sone he did
die had gone to Ireland, and to eases that she had
gone to other places. It I. alsokrZtla that be bd.
sines his wife was Grst minding relations with
mother woman. The wife's eider Teddies In runs
became very uneasy shout bar *kerb themes
hearing of the diseovery of the body he the amnia
spirda her clothe., when she at met blentlied
as beloegrieg to the primmer" wife. The matter IMO
then eonsmunieded to the Bury polies, lb* prhemer
was approbsod•d, takes before the ergistrates
there cm Tends,. and remanded to Moseley. B.
now lino in the New &Hey. The superiuteedest of
the Bury polies came to Salford es Tseeeky„ for lifoe
pen., of obtaining tha clothes of !be dammed and
palm up the evidence. It is sot known yet whether
siss body will be exhumed or not, but we believe
ememeniestion has bean reads to the leardary of
8••••, with • view to °Mae the onedeite UMW* for
the eximemildoe.

Mated sad published ter the Prepeleler, by Cimuss
Weirsaun N Dorsheseer, Prisber. M
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