The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

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Icg-BOUND.—On the evening elate 24th ult. the at-
tention of some persons was attracted to an object in a
pond in a brickyard near Barnsley. On proceeding to
examine it they found a man up to the neck in Water,
with a Collar of ice round his neck, which kept him
fixed as in a vice. He was taken out quite insensible,
and prompt efforts were made to restore him, but four
hours elapsed before he redovered. He turned out to
to be a blacksmith from Silkstorie, and he had fallen
into the pond while returning home id a state of intoxi-
cation.

CRSAREAN OPER 'MON.—Last Friday Mr. James
Hawkins, surgeon, of Newport, performed the Cesarean
operation on a deformed woman, whose height was only
between three and four feet, named Matilda Elizabeth
Tanner, residing at No. 11, East-Street, Daneswell.
Chloroform was sdirdnistered, and the patient was per-
fect ntiOonscions of the operation, which was most suc-
cessfully performed. The child, s line little girl,
exhibited the power of its longs the moment of its
extraordinary birth; and with Its mother is doing
remarkably well. There were other medical men pre-
sent at the time, who were much gratified at the success
of Mr. Hawkins.

THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC BUTT, M.P.—The
committee reassembled on Wednesday at 12 o'clock to
consider their report. The deliberation was carried on
With closed doors, and, upon its termination at a quarter
put 4 o'clock, the pUblic having been admitted, the
Chairman (sir J. Oraham) intimated to the representa-
tires of the press that, in the opinion of the committee,
as the House was not then sitting, it would not be re-
spectful to the House to furnish to the puMio journals
the form of resolutions not yet reported to the House.
Under the circumstances of the case, however, there
could be no objection to its going forth to the public
that the report of the committee was tantamount to an
acquittal of Mr. Putt from the charges brought
against him by the petitioner. The proceedings then
terminated.

POLICE TELEGRAPEI.—The Police Committee of the
city of London have resolved, as a preliminary arrange-
ment, to unite a few of its stations by an electric tele-
graph, according to the plan submitted by Mr. Water-
low, and upon the over-house system, as oonstructed by
Mr. 0. Rowland between Messrs. Waterlow and ffon's
establishments in Birchin-lane and London-wall, con-
trary to the opinions expressed at the time, some seven
months since, the wire then seised has not been in the
least affected by its exposure to the smoke, or by any
of those atmospheric influences which it was supposed
would have impaired wires suspended over large towns.
The great advantages of this system are its economy,
its &dainty, and the facility with which it can be re-
paired in case of accident or injury.

PENAL SERV/TDE MENTENCEN—A. letter from the
Home-office Fives the proportions of sentences of penal
servitude which "may be remitted In ease of good con-
duct" on the part of persona condemned to that punish-
ment. In a sentence of three years, one-sixth, or six
months; four years, one-fifth; five years, the same; six
years and up to 12, one-fourth ; and 15 years and up-
wards, one-third; so that a person sentenced to 15 years
may, bi good conduct, be liberated at the expiration of
ten. Under this provision, therefore, Robson, whose
two sentences being concurrent make one of 20 years,
may by good conduct be set at liberty on the expiration
of 13 years and four months. Sentences for life will be
dealt with according to the special circumstances of each
case, but in some instances the crimes may be of 80
aggravated • nature as to exempt the criminal from the
operation of the ordinary rule.

THZ NSW PASSPORT REGULATIONS.—The new regu-
lations for issuing passports have been officially pub-
lished by the Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex, and a
copy forwarded to every justice of the county, with a
circular by Mr. A. G. Maude, the deputy, stating that
he has been requested, in reference to the same subject,
to transmit to the Home-office, for communication to
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
the signature and also the impression of t,le seal of each
acting justice of the county. In order to collect these
signatures and seals a book has been prepared and lies
at the Sessions-house, and the justices are requested to
attend between the hours of 10 and 5 to sign the book
and impress their seals. This will be used subsequently
as a book of reference at the Foreign-office when an
application for a passport is sent in recommended by a
Middlesex justice.

TFIE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OP PRUSSIA'S
LAST SUNDAY IN ENGLAND.—The Bishop of London
preached before the Court, in the private chapel of
Buckingham Palace, on Sunday morning, 30th January,
by command of the Queen. His Lordship selected
as his text, Ecclesiastes, chapter 1., verse 1.—
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity."
The prelate is stated to have delivered a most eloquent
and impressive sermon, in the course of which his lord-
ship said :--" Let no one think that the Bible would
not be marred if the book of Eoclesiaste, had dropped
out of it. All life is vanity apart from God." In this
book "the worldly man who knows life beet allows and
proves this by Ins own worldly maxims." And his
lordship went on to say in conclusion :—" On the other
hand there is no vanity, no emptiness in life, for him
who is one of Christ's redeemed, riches are not vanity
for him who uses them as in the sight of God, and well
employs the many opportunities they give to do good and
make men more like their Saviour. Honour is not
vanity, for him who is saved from rooting in it, or being
inflated by it, or who receives it as a precious trust to be
used with thankfulness, because it increases Christian
usefulness. Knowledge is not vanity for him whose
heart is brought to know more of God and Christ, and
his own soul, and the prospects of the souls around him.
Nor are the joys of domestic life vanity, if that life be
sanctified by a consciousness of dependence on the Lord
Jesus Christ,—they cheer, they raise, they purify the
soul--if sanctified by prayers and the felt presence of
the Spirit of God; they make us more like Him who
loved pure domestic joys while he staid on earth, and
intended our earthly homes to be types of the redeemed
souls' real home in heaven. There is no sentence of
vanity written on the public or private life of a real
Christian. The joyfulness of youth, the vigour of ma-
ture age, the calmness of decline, all are instinct with
ever growing freshness of real life for him who, by the
blessing of the spirit, is able to sanctify them all by con-
tinued reference to God manifested as man's Redeemer
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And when old age or death
approaches, the real Christian will look hack with no re-
gret, but only with a joyful feeling of thankfulness on his
early days past, while he feels certain that he will soon
be united with all dear Christian friends of old times, in
a land where there shall be no parting. Such a blessing
is it in life and in death to trust the Lord Jesus Christ,
who saves our life from being vanity."
THE NEW PASSPORT SYSTEM.—On Wednesday, at
the Guildhall Police Court, London, Victor Durand and
Pars Martini, Italians, were charged with stealing
boots. After evidence in support of the charge had
been given, Scott, a city detective officer, said Martini
had been in custody with two other foreigners, and was
convicted of a similar boot robbery at Gravesend on the
day that the Prince and Princess of Prussia were there.
A dagger in • sheath was found upon Martini then, and
on the present occasion a large oluspknife, with a dagger-
shaped blade, was found upon him. A passport was
found upon Durand; but Martini said he came through
Franoe, and on applying at Boulogne for a passport he
received only a letter to the authorities with permission
to come to England. Alderman Humphrey said the
French were very particular in requiring recommend-
ations as to character before granting passports to per-
sons going to France, and he certainly thought they
ought to be more particular with persons leaving that
country. Mr. Molinari, the interpreter, said that it was
usually the case that the authorities were not so strict
with persona leaving France. Alderman Humphrey
said so it seemed in this ease, for the prisoners were just
the class of persons who, with suoh weapons about
them, were most likely to become assassins, and yet the
authorities appeared to have rellixed their passport re-
gulations to facilitate the departure of inch characters—
glad, no doubt, to get rid of them. The French autho-
rities sent these Italians over here in shoals, and then
accused the English of harbouring assassins. The pri-
soners were then committed to prison for three months
with hard labour. Alderman Humphrey, in reference
to the new passport regulation, said the form lately
issued by the Foreign-office was of little use, inasmuch
as the name only of • person applying for a passport was
required to be mentioned, so that the recommendation
might be transferred to the most violent person who
might get the passport. This he discovered • few days
ago, when • younx lady, a governess in a French family
at Paris' who came over here with • passport signed b 7
Lord Cowley, and countersigned by the French authori-
ties, applied for • recommendation, her French passport
having been refused. He therefore required her signa-
ture, so that it might be compared with that upon the
passport when granted at the Foreign-office.

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Haddington, on the farm of the late Mr. Seward, now
occupied by his widow. Soon after 6 o'clock a.m. Mr.
Harrison (Mrs. Seward's manager), accompanied by one
of the farm lads, went to a field which should have con-
tained 37 fine hoggets ; but they found them in a sad
plight, and two dogs among them. Most of the sheep
were more or less bitten; four were so mtich mangled
that they soon died, and the other two are not likely to
recover. One sheep has been found in a ditch with his
side skinned, and the flesh ripped and devoured till the
entrails protruded, but it was still alive. The appear.
ince of the dogs showed clearly enough the kind of
sport they had been engaged in. Mr. Harrison gave
chase to one dog, and ordered the lad to capture the
other. The former managed to reach his home, the
house of a labouring man, where Mr. Harrison secured
him, and as 80041 as convenient taught him the high
price of mutton. The other 'lo g made for the next field,
through which the river Witham flows, and there,
though from fatigue he could hardly make a trot of it,
he was allowed to escape, for the boy in chase was panic-
struck at seeing immersed in the water 43 ewes, good
sheep, and withing a week of their lambing time. The
night was frosty and the river sheeted with ice. The ut-
most exertions were made by Mr. Harrison and others
who BOOD came to his help. It was found that the ewes
had been worried even more severely than the hoggets ;
some of them were terribly torn and wounded, and one
had more than a square foot of skin stripped off one
place. With worrying, drowning, and perishing 23
were taken out of the water dead, one has since died,
and seven Or eight MOM are injured beyond the hopes of
their recovery. Several others have died since the above
was written.

LIVINOIPPONT'S AFRICAN EXPIIMPNOIto—thI
POOL, March 4.—The steamer Pearl, Captain: ilea ing-
field, arrived in the Mersey yesterday, having on( be Ird
the Rev. Dr. Livingstone, his wife, son, and broth 3r,
and the gentlemen who are about to accompany has to
the south-west coast of Africa. to-day the great Wawa 1-
ler spent most of his time in the shMbnilding-yarica a f
Mr. Laird, superintending the arrangements for the sllis
parture of the expedition, including the shipment atlas
little steam launch, constructed of steel plates, by Mkt.
Laird, for the navigation and exploration of the Zambeil
river, The large number of scientific instruments, anal
board
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to-morrow,
all probability, sail direct 'from this port for its desti,
nation on Saturday. Dr. Livingstone, his wife, and eonl
aarendextrectedexpedthitbeionplwinedl, °MIL.
have been tie guests of Mr. Croafield until now, but to--
morrow they will be entertained by Mr. John Laird,.
under whose roof they will remain till the time of de-
parture has arrived. Mr. John Laird is brother to Mr.
Macgregor, whose name is known in connexion with the
"Fleiad Expedition" up the river Niger, on the western
coast of Africa.
THE LONDHILL COLLIEET EXPLOSION.—It will be
remembered that a dreadful explosion occurred in the
Lundhill Colliery, near Barnsley, on the 19th of Feb-
ruary, 1867, which caused the death of nearly 200 men
and boys, and that a subscription was entered into for
the purpose of relieving the widows, orphans, and other
persons who were plunged into poverty by the deaths
of the sufferers by the explosion. On Monday week
the first annual meeting of the subscribeis was held at
Barnsley. A report was presented from the elmmittee,
which stated that the amount received WAS £8,256 (ex-
clusive of subscriptions received by the Sheffield com-
mittee,) Of this sum, £2,172 had been expended,
leaving a balance undisposed of £6,354 4e. M. The
committee in 61 instances had paid small sums, amount-
ing to £129 it., to near relatives of the deceased who •
left no widows or children; £1,850 13s. in weekly pay-
ments to widows and orphans; £3O to six widows who.
have married again creditably; £3O 19s. 6d. in educe-
ting children. The number of widows originally was
00 of these six married again, leaving 84 on the
books. At the time of the accident there were 210
children; 20 have been born since that time, and 10
have died, leaving 220 still receiving relief. The report
was adopted. A committee was &ma-Anted for the pur-
pose of deciding upon the best mode of laying out the
money subscribed at Sheffield, and it was agreed that a
resolution recommending the establishmult of a Per-
manent fund for the relief of sufferers by colliery explo-
sions should be prepared and published, so as to draw
the attention of colliery proprietors to the B.lltiaat,