The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-18 00:00:00

A CHATTER FROM A ROMANCE.

The following is from "Fifty Years of My Life," by the.
Hari of Albemarle, now in his Teth year. At the C
when Lord Charles Somerset was Governor, Lord Al -
inane, on his return from St. Helena, met with this extra-
ordinary medical doctor, no one at the time suspecting
the doctor to be • woman. He says : • There was at
this time at the Cape • person whose eccentricities
attracted universal attention—Dr. James Bury, doff-
surn to the garrison, and the Governor medical
adr. Lord Charles described him to me as the most
skilful of physicians, and the most wayward of man. He
had lately been in professional attendance upon the
Governor: who was somewhat fanciful about his health;
but the kaculapius, taking umbrage at something said or
done, had left his patient to prescribe for himself. I had
hoard so much of this capricious, yet privileged gentle-
man, that I had a great curiosity to see him. I shortly
afterwards sat next him at dinner at one of the
regaentel messes. In this learned Pundit I beheld a
beardless lad, apparently of my (MD age, with an
unmistakeably Scotch type of countenance—reddish hair,
high cheek bones. There was a certain effeminacy in
his manner, which he seemed to be always striving to
overcome. His style of conversation was greatly superior
to that one usually beard at a insertable in those days of
non-competitive examination. A mystery attached to
Barry's whole professional career, which extended over
more than half a century. While at the Cape he fought
• duel, and was considered to be of a most quarrelsome
disposition. He was frequestly guilt, Of flagrant breaches
of illeclpliao, and oa mon than one occasion was sent
home under arrest, but somehow or other his offences
were always condoned at head-quarters. In Hart's
A anus! 4 nap Lag for the year HMS the name of James
Barry, M.D., stands at the bead of the list of insPecters-
general of hospital In July of the same year, the Timm
one day announced the death of Dr. Barry, and the next
day it was officially reported to the Hone Guards that the
doctor was a woroan. It is singular that neither the
landlady of her lodging, nor the black servant who had
lived with her for years, had the slightest suspicion of her
sex. The late Mrs. Ward, daughter of Colonel Tidy, from
whom I had these particulars, teld me further that she
believed the doctor to have been the legitimate grand-
daughter of • Scotch earl, whom name I do not now give,
as I am unable to substantiate the correctness of my
friend's surmise, and that the sefilistasi James Barry
adopted the medical profession from attachment to an
army-surgeon who has not been many year dead."

Tug election exposes. of Mr. Stanley Leighton, the sec.
meek' candidate for Shrewsbury. were published on
Wednesday, and they amount to £11,711 17e. 10d.
IT is pretty cartes the total emigration from Ireland
the year will be the smallest in any year since 1851. Lest
year it wee only 51,4.
flOgag Tatum IT iLECTLICTI7.-14. George 14t70:icl
farmer, of Whittington, neer Sheffield, ham been convi
In the penalty of et and costs, by the Sheffield
stipendiary, for cruelty to a mare, which he was taming
by electricity et • public shorting ground. Horse taming
by electricity In liceitakim has, it is said, been f NOY
practised of lain and the prosecution therefore excited
considerable Interest.
heroes Tu. —Nothing is more annoying to • lover of
Tea than to find that he rmits**. for good Tea at a fair
price turns out little better than rubh—much of the
Tea sold is largely adulterated, and la most unwholesome
—to avoid dieeppointauent by only that guaranteed to be
gum, such as .1061111011, JOstoson It Co's Pure Tea in Packets
—full particulars advertised in another column.
• I Hares sr Calltrtham —By the Australian mad • -
lan have arrived of the wreck of a schooner caflisi the
Emma, which left Port Walcot ten years ego for Fremantle.
It was wrecked sear North-Wert Cape and the presenters
landed at night. Having no miens of defence they were
mane taken WFOOFn by the natives. All of them were
htfQ end eatoo, swami women being amongst the ship-
wrecked party. The facts have just been ascertained
from the natives, the narrator haying been one of those
en/aft in the cannibal fort.
GUI OF MIC.Z.-1114 4gvigajgvraj 0.111•04 records
that the Teviotdale district is at present suffering from a
most extraordinary MUM of mice. Though AU is the
first notice which has appeared in print, it has been maim
on for moths is soma& it la supposed that the Indis-
criminate slaughter of hawks and other birds of prey has
disturbed the bassos of nature, and allowed the mice to
mightily to.. overwheiskin an extent that the conse-
quences to the hem= ere likely to be serious. Our
contemporary undemilends *et the Doke of Succiesch's
heed hamper bee gives elders that in the meantime the
hawks do, are to be posserred—a moody that will of
cowl% take effect in time, but comet roooup the farmers
for present lose
"Ati, =sr Ur= Ram even Arrza."—A few weeks
Owe a young lady end her lover made an appeal to Mr.
Balmly, to Woolwich Pollee Oret. for protection against
the lady. mother, and for his uollotance to get them
married ; the mother bevies vowed that she would kill her
daughter rather than elm should marry the MAP she had
chosen. The mother had followed the young couple to the
court, and the magetrate by reasoning with the parties
separately ip his privets room, managed to reconcile their
dUfatame.iad sent them away tjsether In the eider
lady's carriage. with Itylwr Prospect of„ajEgy sequel. It
• is satisfactory to slots that the were married
at Chariton Church lost , and the mother
gave the bride away.
Fors. —firtt.sryic Ins oit rawno Simms —A certain
method of cure has bees dhoorered for this dietressing
~,,,momm by, *mem, who is desirous that all sufferers
may beings from this ',originate' discovery ; it is never
knows to fall, sad will core the meat boteleat Fail aIIOF
all other memos have been triad. Fall particulars will be
mat bY Yost to may roma free of
Hydecharga—Addrem
maisawle. word Ilerress, Prig. Looks.