The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-16 00:00:00

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Sir William Denison, the Governor of Victoria, has
been gored in the thigh by a red deer kept in the domain
of Government House. The wound was at first pro.
flounced dangerous; but when the last mail left the
patient was recovering.

A motion to present an address to the Emperor of the
French has been rejected in the Cambridge Town
Council, on account of the insulting military addresses
published in the Moniteur. The Canterbury Town
Council has followed the example.
James Other' the banker, father-in-law to General
Cavaignac has failed for five millions of francs.

The mouth of the Tees has for some weeks past been
literally filled with fish, chiefly sprats and herrings.
Prince Frederick William of Prussia has given Mr.
Ernest Rieck a commission to paint a large picture of
Windsor Castle, to be hung, probably, in the Princess's
new home.

A boy was injured by a tiger which escaped from the
van of a person named Ja.urach, in October last; in the
Court of Queen's Bench a jury have given the youth £6O
damages.
A B. Duterte, a French engineer, is said to have in-
vented a plan for greatly cheapening the cost of locomo-
tives in construction, and reducing the expenditure of
fuel in working by one-half.
A robbery, rivalling the late famous Ellesmere jewel
plunder, was recently perpetrated in Paris, the victim
being a Russian lady, the Countess Liuska, and the
jewels stolen being worth about 800,000 francs.
The opera of " Othello" was being performed at the
theatre at Nantes, when Othello, forgetting that the
dagger was sharp, stabbed Desdemona in the side so
energetically as to pass through her clothes and draw
blood profusely.

EXECUTION OF SATTLEII.—On Monday morning
Christian Settler, a Bavarian, convicted of the murder
of Thain, the detective officer, on board a steamer, on
the 22nd of November last, suffered the extreme penalty
of the law in front of Newgate. Great exertions were
made in influential puarters to have his sentence com-
muted, but unavailingly; and when all hope had disap-
peared, the culprit resigned himself in a penitent Chris-
tian spirit to die.
WILL OF A MILLIONAIRE.—The will of the late Mr.
Morrison, some time M.P. for the Inverness Burghs,
has just been administered to in Doctors'-commons. it
is among the longest upon record. Upon its production
were engaged conveyancers and barristers of eminence,
and during its progress to completion the testator
evinced much anxiety. The estate exceeding £4,000,099
is in such oases sworn to as of upper value. Basildon
-
park cost £126,000; the furniture there alone has been
valued at £'99,000. This mansion is to be the residence
of his widow, with an annuity of £lO,OOO a year. The
estate of Basildon is left to his son, Charles, as well as
the Islay estate in Scotland, which latter cost £452,000,
and from its extent and vastness may be termed &
principality, the owner being their styled • laird. This
is let to numerous tenants. Mr. Charles is also be-
queathed a round sum of £1,000,000, under the will.
Mr. Morrison was possessed of Fonthill Abbey, Hove.
park, Sussex ; a town residence, Upper Harley-street ;
shares amonting to £BO,OOO in the Victoria-docks, and
vast acquisitions in America..—Bunfiltire Journal.

TR& HEROISM OF DAILY LIFE.—He has seen niin
coming this many a year—it never came face to face
with him till to-day. I cannot tell how he may
brave it, though there was a time I could have answered
for he courage. "Jack Kellet's father could scarcely be
deficient in that quality," said Conway, whose flashing
eye showed that it was Jack's sister that was uppermost
in his mind as he spoke. "Oh !" said she sorrowfully,
" great as the heroism is that meets death on the field
of battle, it is nothing to the patient and enduring
bravery that confronts the daily ills of life--eonfronte
them nobly in humility, neither buoyed up by inordinate
hope, nor oast down by despondency, but manfully re-
solved to do one's best, and, come what may, to do it
without saorifice or self-respect. Thus meeting fate, Mid
with a temper that all the crosses of life have not made
irritable or simpectful, makes a man to my eyes %greater
hero than any of those who charge in forlorn hopes, or
single handed rush up the breach torn by grapeshot."
In VALUE or A Bo.—l have no objection what.
ever to being a bore. My experience of the world has
shown me that, upon the whole, a bore gets on much
better in it, and is much more respected and perma-
nently popular than what is called a clever man. A few
restless people, with an un-English appetite for perpe-
tual variety, have combined to set up the bore as a species
of bugbear to frighten themselves, and have rashly
imagined that the large majority of their fellow-creatures
could see clearly enough to look at the formidable crea-
ture with their eyes. Never did any small minority
make any greater mistake as to the real extent of its
influence ! English society has a placid enjoyment in
being bored. If any man tells ice that this is a para-
dox, I, in return, defy him to account, on a theory, for
three-fourths of the so-called recreations which are ac-
cepted as at once useful and amusing by the British
nation. Why are people always ready to give and to
go to parties? Why do they throng to certain lectures
and to certain plays? What takes them to public meet-
ings and to the Strangers' Gallery in the House of
Commons? Why are the debates reported in full in the
newspapers ? Why are people on certain social occa-
sions always ready to leave off talking together for the
sake of making speeches and listening to them? Why
is it that the few critics always discover the dulness of
heavy books, and the many readers never seem to be
able to find it out? What, in short, to put the whole
question into one sentence, is the secret of the notoriety
and success of half the public men and half the public
and private entertainments in this ootintry ? I answer,
the steady indwelling element of Boredom • firmly.
settled, long-established, widely-aocepted 'Boredom.
Let no young man, with an eye to getting on in the
world, rashly despise the Bore; he is the only indivi-
dual in this ootintry who is sure of his position and safe
with his public.

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ual;da
quarterly meeting
Most Excellent
w en Mr. Alder-
'
man Hussey salcl he had the honour to move that
the following address to Her Majesty, on the happy
occasion of the marriage of the Princess Royal and
Prince Frederick
William of
Prusaia, be adopted by
the Council :—To the Queen's o SALISBURY.
ut
Majesty. We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens
of the City of New Sarum in Council assembled,
humbly be! week, in
of the Town
Council took p I-Je on q
leave to offer to your Majesty our loyal
and dutif congratulations upon the marriage of
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal with a Prince
of a most illustrious House. Grateful as we are for
the many blessings which we enjoy under yeti,
Majesty's benign and enlightened rule, we feel in
common with ali your Majesty's faithful subjects the;
most lively satisfaction in an event which gives to,
your Majesty and to His Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, as we trust, unmingled joy; and we desire
to express to your Majesty and to your Royal Con.
sort our respectfnl gladness, and to add our hearty
prayer that every blessing may attend the illustrious
Prince Frederick William of Prussia and his Princess
in the lofty station which they are called to fill, that
your Majesty and your Royal Consort may attain in
happiness to length of days, and that your Majeety,,
benelicient reign may. be long continued to us
uninterrupted prosperity. The address was unani.
mously agreed to.
DEvizEs.--Jullien's concert came off in the Cora
Exchange on Wednesday week, when there were
more than 800 persons present. Much dissappoint-
ment was felt at Madame Grisi's absence, as no pre.
vious announcement had been given. The efforts of
Mrs. Henderson, however, who had been engaged
as her substitute, were warmly appreciated by the
audience.
BURBAGE.—A memorial window has lately been
erected in the church of this parish, to the memory
of four of the parishioners who fell in the late Crimean
campaign. The quatrefoil contains the words
"Crimea, 1855," and " The Battle is the Lord's." The
lower compartments contain the names of the four
soldiers, and the text, "Neither shall they learn
war any more." Instances of this kind, showing the
poorer members of our Church that they arc not for-
gotten in the memorials of our sacred edifices must
have a happy effect in binding the different ranks of
society together.
WARMINSTER.—Le.—G. Leech, Esq.' bar.
ranter, of Bristol, delivered a lecture at the Athe-
'ileum, on the 2nd inst., to a numerous and •
ble audience on "Life and Manners in thereZiettead
States."
THE EARL OF SUFFOLK'S PICTURES.—The whole
of these valuable pictures, stolen from Charlton.
house, Wilts, in October, 1856, are now again in the
possession of their owner, having just been disco-
vered in London by the detective force. The rob-
bery was committed by a man formerly a valet of
Lord Suffolk's, and since holding a situation in the
War-office. He was brought to Mahnesbury on Fri-
day, and on Satarday was remanded by Peter A.
Lovell, Esq., until Wednesday, when, as he con-
fesses his crime, he will no doubt be committed to
take his trial at the March County Assize&
MARLBOROUGH. Police. Before W. W. Lucy
(Mayor), and T. V. Stiles, Esqrs., at the Townhall,
February 3rd—AN ARTFUL THIEF WELL CAUGHT..-.
A well-dressed. man, giving the name of Witham
i
McCarthy was brought up n custody of Inspector
Bush, charged with stealing three half-crowns, five one
shilling pieces, and one sixpence, the monies of William
Scott, ostler, at the Sun public house. The prisoner
pleaded not guilty. Scott stated that the prisoner took
lodgings at his master's house on Friday, the 29th ult.,
and that about 11. o'clock they went to bed together and
slept in the same room. Before getting into bed he
counted his money in the presence of the prisoner, put
it in his purse, and placed it under his pillow. lathe
morning the prisoner got up soon after him and said he
must be off, as he was going to work for Mr. Norman,
of the Marsh, dyer, and should be late to his work.
After the prisoner had gone some time he took his purse
from his pocket, when he found that his silver had
all been taken mid four penny pieces substituted. He
made inquiry and found the prisoner was not gone to
work for Mr. Norman, as he had stated. He knew one
of the shillings by a mark on it, and he gave informa-
tion to Inspector Bush and described the man. In,-
spector Bush stated, from information he received, he
traced the prisoner to Chippenham, a distance of 19
miles, where he overtook him, and charged him with
the offence, when he denied all knowledge of it, and
resisted his apprehension, but he was overpowered, and
three half-crowns, five shillings, and a new pistol were
found in his possession. The prisoner strongly denied
the charge, and was very indignant to think that a
"respectable man," as he said he was, should be subject
to such treatment. Such remarks, however, had little
weight with the indefatigable Inspector, who conveyed
Isis prisoner to Marlborough, and found he bad changed
a sixpence at the Overton Bell public house on the road
to Chippenham. The money found on the prisoner was
now shown to Scott, when he at once indentified the
marked shilling, which he had had a long time. The
prisoner said he had nothing to say at present, and was
committed for trial at the Sessions- but, on second
thoughts, asked the Bench to allow him to alter his
plea and have it over at once. This being acceded to,
he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months'
hard labour. He then applied to have the four pena y-
pieces the prosecutor found in his purse returned to
him, which he said were his own money. This request
being complied with, he left apparently very well satis-
fied.

COUNTY COURT. —A Shoemaker's Remedy. 3rd
February.—(Before Joseph Grace Smith, Esq., Judge.)
—George Archer, of Andover, Hants, dealer v. Thomas
Jennings, of Wootton Rivers, a shoemaker, and beer-
house keeper, occupying a small portion of land there.
This action MIA brought to recover the sum of £3 6i.
the balance on the price of a horse, and expenses in-
curred at the defendant's request. It appeared the
plaintiff sold a horse to the defendant on the 3rd of
November, 1857, for £6, and the defendant paid the plain-
tiff £3 in part, leaving a balance of £3, and upon the
defendant's neglecting to pay it at the time agreed, viz.,
the 20th November, 1857, which was the last day of
service, took out a summons against him, for the
amount to be paid Ist of March, and on the same day
the plaintiff and defendant met, and talked the matter
over, and agreed to take the horse to Mr. Duck, a
vetinary surgeon of Marlborough, and have it examined,
The defendant being then satisfied as to its soundness,
went with plaintiff to the County Court office to have
the case withdrawn; and he also at the same time gave
the plaintiff a memorandum in writing to pay the
amount together with the expenses incurred by the
plaintiff, on the 24th December then next. Between
the signing of the memorandmn and the time when the
money was to be paid the defendant had the horse
killed to see what was the matter with him, and finding
it was "not exactly the thing," he refused to pay the
money, and on the 22nd ult., the plaintiff again put
him into Court for the amount, and the cause came on
for hearing this day, when the plaintiff, plaintiff's
brother-in-law, and Mr. Duck on the plaintiff's side.
and the defendant and his witnesses were present, but
upon the cause being called, the plaintiff stated his CAN r.
and handed the memorandum the defendant had signed
to the judge. His Honour directly he read the memo-
randum would not go into the case. Debt and costs to
by paid the first of March. The dead horse cost the de-
fendant about £lO.