The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

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ANDOVER.—The Lord Chancellor, on the nomina-
tion of the Marquis of Winchester. Lordliest, of
Hants, has been planed to pine Mr. Witt. the late
Lord Mayor, on the commission of the pesos for that
county. Mr. Cabin h•• long resided in the immediate
neighbourhood of Andover, for which borough he was
recently returned to Parliament.
SOUTHAMPTON.—Farah COLLIIIIOIII.—A frightful
collision occurred on Friday week, at the entrance
of the Southampton water, between the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamship Ceylon, and the brig
Ridesdale, causing the be. of three lives and serious
injury to two other persons. The Rideadale. Captain
Reader, which wee bound for the West ladies, laden
with railway iron, put into this port • few days IWO
leaky, and, having completed her repairs, left early Oft
Friday morning to proceed on her voyage, being towed
down the river by the stela:dug Aid, Captain Greenway,
which was lashed to her tide. Two of the fint-cLue
pilots belonging to the port were on board the brig, one
one of them. William Goodridge, a native of Wyke
Regis, near Weymouth, being in charge of her, and the
other, Nathaniel Roberton, going lowa to the Solent
to look out for • vessel. When they arrived unread
of Calshot Castle the Ceylon, Captain Evens, which
was just arrived from Alexandria, was rounding Calshot
from the Solent into the river, when who semi in
with the brig, cutting her in two amidships, and
abs sank in • few minutes. The bowsprit of the Ceylon
night the funnel of the Aid, earrrag it 11.41, and in
falling on the deck it struck the pilot Goodridge and
killed him on the spot. It erase somewhat hazy morn-
ing but the captains saw sock other's before
the collision took place. The collision in
sequence of of the Aid earboarding her helm, instead of
porting it as she ought to have done. As goon se the
collision took pine. meet of them on l"nrd the BM"-
dale jumped into the Aid, ends doing so, poor Good-
rich, met his death by the falling of the tag'. funnel.
The fireman of the Aid, named Frederick Gaston, wag
either knoeked overboard or pipped overboard, and has
not yet been found. Caeetaln Reader, who was on the
was knocked off and ana-
bridge of the tug at the time.
tainei • severe mansion of the ; rum, um
other pilot had • ocenpeeed fracture of one of hia lop
and he died about two bear, mbar its antpuentim. Tioo
Ceylon suffered no damage beyond the loss of her jib.
boom and a portion of the drone bead. Fortunately
the two by which the tug was Imbed to the brig
were broken, although they were respectively 6 inch
and 51 ineb hawsers, or the Aid must in all probability
also have gone down with the brig, and • numb pester
10. of we would have been the result- Greet peeeemee
of wind was Ekren, shown by the eaptala and en-
gineer of the Aid, who, hi the excitement of the mo-
ment took steps whish in all probability prevented an
explosion of the tug being added the home of
the accident. The Immediately prepped up the
eahty valve, and the engineer went below and drew the
dna, but for which es& it tebeeilig er••l4 prie•
hi* have menet.